I can upgrade the shelter
Chapter 112 - 111: Upgrades After the Earthquake

Chapter 112: Chapter 111: Upgrades After the Earthquake

It’s an earthquake! Almost without thinking, Chen Xin had already figured out what happened.

However, the intensity of the earthquake was not high, and it didn’t last long, stopping after a brief shake.

Even so, Chen Xin didn’t dare to be complacent. He quickly pushed the two air conditioning outdoor units back inside the shelter and began checking the facilities inside for any damage.

Although the shelter was built to the highest standards and theoretically shouldn’t collapse even in a magnitude six earthquake, Chen Xin couldn’t discern the magnitude of the earthquake that just occurred.

Moreover, it’s better to be safe than sorry. If something went wrong and he didn’t notice, it could indeed be a life-threatening situation.

Fortunately, after a round of inspections, the quality of the shelter’s construction was indeed up to standard, with no cracks or other damages. Even when Chen Xin activated the system view, he didn’t find any areas needing repair.

"Woohoo, looks like the construction team wasn’t exaggerating; it really can withstand a magnitude six earthquake." As Chen Xin tidied up items that had been displaced or fallen, he also praised the construction team that helped build his shelter.

It didn’t take Chen Xin long to tidy up. After reorganizing everything, he had neither the mood nor the energy to fuss over the two air conditioning outdoor units he had just brought back.

However, when he stacked the two air conditioning outdoor units in the original garage space, Chen Xin glanced at the workshop he had converted from the garage and suddenly found it a bit small.

This was initially a space designed by Chen Xin for parking. Although he had now moved the car out, the space left was about one and a half car spaces.

While it’s more than enough for a workbench, adding more items would make it a bit cramped, especially since Chen Xin had just dragged two air conditioning outdoor units back, making the place feel crowded.

Looking at the cramped space, Chen Xin didn’t have the intention to upgrade the workshop but instead planned to upgrade the storage room.

Even if the workshop is upgraded, it’s towards improving manufacturing and processing capabilities. The space and area will increase, but not by much.

But what Chen Xin needed now was precisely a place to store things, from this perspective, upgrading the storage room was much more appropriate.

Especially since these two air conditioning outdoor units were only appetizers; he also requested supplies from the SWAT team.

Thinking of this, Chen Xin naturally went to the entrance of his storage room.

Chen Xin’s storage room was actually not large, with only ten square meters of space left during the design.

Against the walls of the room were six simple iron shelves filled with various foods Chen Xin initially stored, as well as supplies exchanged from the SWAT team and Mo Qingyan over the past few months.

Aside from these, the most space-consuming item was the freezer he got from Mo Qingyan’s house, holding the vegetables harvested this month and uneaten fish.

This place initially existed only as a food storage room, naturally not requiring a large space, just enough to hold all the food.

But after Chen Xin got the system, the storage room’s function was no longer limited to storing food. A considerable portion of the supplies he exchanged through Qin Lan from the SWAT team were also piled on the floor of the storage room, leaving him barely any room to step in.

This was with the cement piled outside in the public space’s corner.

"Looks like I need to do some categorization, one room for food, one for materials." Looking at the packed storage room, Chen Xin scratched his head.

Although he wasn’t the type who can’t bear to throw things away and loves to hoard like a hamster, he still felt a sense of pride and security seeing the packed storage room.

However, storing materials like this was not the best way, so Chen Xin planned to separate food and other materials and categorize the supplies.

But the prerequisite for this was expanding the storage room to at least separate it into two spaces.

"Cramped Storage Room"

"Upgrade Plan One: Expand storage space, add wall-mounted storage racks, extend food shelf life, requires 800 survival points for upgrade"

"Upgrade Plan Two: Expand storage space, separate material storage rooms, reduce aging probability for stored items, requires 1000 survival points for upgrade"

The upgrade cost wasn’t high, and as Chen Xin looked, both upgrade plans could expand the current storage room’s area by 50%. However, Plan One remains a single storage room, with added shelves on the walls for placing items, effectively increasing space utilization.

As for the second plan, it separates the original storage room into two rooms, one large and one small, with the smaller one inside for food storage and the larger one outside, for material storage.

Seeing that both plans were good and the material consumption wasn’t much, Chen Xin didn’t hesitate and simultaneously chose to upgrade both plans.

As supplies were consumed and green light flashed, the storage room in front of him didn’t look much different, but there was an additional door on the innermost wall, and a few rows of wall-mounted racks made with long boards appeared. The iron shelves previously against the wall had been moved to the middle of the room, neatly arranged, with two additional new shelves.

But this wasn’t the biggest change in the storage room. The food and freezer previously here had disappeared, replaced by the cement and other materials originally placed in the public space outside, all neatly stacked, while the reinforcement materials previously piled on the floor were now categorized and placed on the shelves.

"Does the upgrade include organizing the warehouse? That’s really saved me a lot of trouble." Seeing the organized supplies, Chen Xin nodded in satisfaction.

This indeed saved him a lot of work. After all, if he were to organize the warehouse alone, it would definitely be a huge project, not to mention the difficulty of just moving the dozen bags of cement and that heap of reinforcement materials.

Walking through the shelves to the innermost part of the storage room, he opened the newly added door, revealing a newly expanded space to Chen Xin.

The area was only about half the size of the outside material storage room, where Chen Xin had moved the freezer and food previously placed outside.

Feeling the temperature briefly, the food storage room was slightly cooler than the outside material storage room, but the lower temperature was more favorable for food storage, which Chen Xin was quite satisfied with.

After checking once to see all the food categorized and placed on shelves, he contentedly closed the door and exited the storage room.