Global Game: AFK In The Zombie Apocalypse Game

Chapter 2956: Empty ShellEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

”Ah?”

Vionne was momentarily stunned, then glared angrily at Fang Heng, looking like he wanted to skin him alive.

He hadn’t expected Fang Heng to be so defiant.

Destroying all the ore rather than cooperating with the Federation?

Fine!

Then let it be mutual destruction?

Collete was a little worried. He thought Fang Heng might be too young and was acting out of spite toward the Federation. He quietly tried to persuade him, ”Hey, Fang Heng, the Cangbird are quite powerful. With our current strength, I’m afraid it will be hard to hold them off...”

”I understand. I have other things to deal with, I’ll be going now.” Fang Heng said, raising a hand to gesture to Wayne’s team. ”Let’s go.”

Collete watched as Fang Heng and the other players walked away, worry filling his heart.

Was Mr. Fang really planning to go head-on against Cangbird with force?

Young people do tend to act impulsively sometimes.

The experts sent by the Western District Federation were indeed unpleasant, but it wasn’t necessary to go for a scorched earth outcome.

”Collete, mind your stance. Don’t forget, you’re also part of the Federation, understand?”

Vionne noticed the concern on Collete’s face and grew even more displeased, sneering coldly.

He had seen with his own eyes how Fang Heng had transported tons of ore into the underground base.

With the spawns’ Tier 3 transition teleportation system, how much ore could they possibly convert?

Probably not even one percent!

The rest all belonged to the Federation!

Mutual destruction, huh?

Even if Fang Heng decided to stay and go down with the ship, so what?

By the time the fleet returned in half a month, they could just take all the ore from the underground base.

The fish might die, but the net certainly wouldn’t break.

Vionne was already considering how to liquidate the vast quantity of ore.

”Report! Headquarters just sent word — the ship has been activated and is estimated to arrive in 20 minutes. The superiors ordered us to cooperate with Captain Gisele to carry out the evacuation plan.”

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[Hint: The player has completed ship construction (giant-sized). Current completion: 73%. Current combat strength rating: Level 0 (no defensive facilities installed).]

[Hint: The player may name the ship.]

[Current overall ship status rating: G-]

Fang Heng stood in the main control room of the ship, a series of system prompts scrolling across his retinal display.

Three days ago, the ship had already passed verification by the spawn mainframe system and was recognized as a preliminarily constructed ship.

To be precise, it was just an empty shell — aside from the main ship area, research zone, rest area, and material storage zone, no other parts had been modified or detailed.

It was like a half-finished apartment — and a one-story one at that.

The ship’s weapon system hadn’t even been installed yet.

Fang Heng asked, ”Can we execute a transition?”

Li Zixuan looked exhausted.

She had spent the entire previous day inputting a manually memorized Star Map coordinate system and passed the verification, enabling the ship to use the Spawn Star Map navigation system.

Originally, Li Zixuan had only done this as a precaution, but unexpectedly, that ”what if” had come true.

”We can perform one emergency transition right now, but I need a bit more time. Give me another hour. Also, a forced transition will cause some damage to the ship, and repairs will be needed afterward.”

”Good work. Begin immediately.”

The second wave of attacks from the Cangbird mechanical army could begin at any moment. If it came to a fight, he could hold out for a while.

But it would put them in a very passive position.

The biggest issue was — what if the Cangbird attacked his ore supply line?

He was here to mine ore.

If he lost the ore, it would become a meaningless war of attrition.

No time to waste.

Better to just escape.

Find another world, keep mining ore, and continue upgrading the ship.

Li Zixuan said, ”We still have one problem to solve: the world we’re jumping to.”

Beside them, Arkley looked confused. He asked, ”Huh? What do you mean? We can’t just go back to our original world?”

”Impossible. We don’t know the dark code that corresponds to our world in the Star Map coordinate system.”

”If we try to input a random code and brute-force it, chances are it won’t work. A forced jump like that could land us in a temporal fluctuation, and we might get swallowed by space. Unless there’s no other option, I don’t recommend it.”

Fang Heng asked, ”Since the spawn Star Map system is connected, I see that other worlds have posted missions. Can we get temporary coordinates from those by accepting a mission?”

”In theory, yes. But alliance missions are assigned to ships and require a minimum ship level. Our ship’s strength is only Level 1. We can’t accept any missions. To level up, we’d need to install spawn weapons, raise our base rating, and participate in battles to increase combat levels...”

”Our ship isn’t fully constructed yet. It only has basic interstellar transition capabilities. It ranks extremely low in the spawn evaluation system.” Li Zixuan quickly tapped the console, shook her head, and said, ”I just checked. Currently, there are no interstellar missions we’re eligible for.”

Everyone fell silent.

Fang Heng asked, ”Is there any other way?”

Li Zixuan’s expression grew serious. She nodded. ”Fang Heng, we actually have one coordinate point.”

”One? You mean...?”

”That world — I believe Su Guantong mentioned it to you.”

Fang Heng’s heart skipped a beat. He immediately understood.

That one!

The world connected to the ancient humans that the Eastern Federation had been searching for.

According to Su Guantong, that world had been discovered by accident during a chain of missions. It was believed to be closely tied to human origins, and evidence suggested that a new academic inheritance system could be found there.

The Eastern Federation had gone to great lengths to place Li Zixuan inside the Western Federation. One of her key objectives was to find the spawn dark code that corresponded to that world’s true coordinates.

”I already verified it through the spawn network. That world exists. Its danger rating is D-level, and its resource level rating is G. We could use it to catch our breath.”

”Alright, let’s go there. How much time do you need?”

”About 90 minutes.”

”Okay. Do it.”

The whole ship sprang into action again.

The researchers still weren’t clear on what was happening outside — they only heard that there had been an alien attack, and thought the emergency jump had been ordered by the Western Federation.

Though a little confused, the urgency of the situation meant they didn’t ask questions. The researchers and engineers hurried to prepare for the jump.

After about half an hour, two players came rushing in to report: ”Mr. Fang, the external energy barrier has detected a strong spatial fluctuation.”

”Let’s go take a look.”