Doomsday: Humanity shrinks 100 times

Chapter 161 Emergency Situation
Lu Yuning had indeed considered the question raised by Chen Hong before.

There is only one way to do this, to add stretch to pants and clothes.

His current pants can only withstand the pull of his body after it has almost doubled in size. If he wants to improve on this basis, he can only remake the pants and add elastic connections.

Among the currently available materials, there is one that has super high elasticity, and that is the spider silk of the mutant.

Thinking of this, Lu Yuning nodded and said, "There should be some way. Let me modify your clothes. I wonder how much you can multiply now."

Chen Hong immediately looked overjoyed, then thought for a moment and said, "At least twice isn't the limit, but it's already the upper limit of my pants. If we use the limit of local multiplication, it should be at least four times my current body size."

Lu Yuning was extremely surprised. He silently compared it in his mind and looked upwards unconsciously. Although he just simulated it in his mind, he was already a little shocked.

However, he became a little curious: "Brother Chen, if your ability can be multiplied infinitely, wouldn't it be possible to restore it to its original size?"

Chen Hong smiled and said, "Maybe, but the greater the multiplication, the shorter the sustainability."

"Can't the spiritual attribute support it?"

"That's one aspect. However, after exceeding a certain size, my energy consumption becomes extremely high. Currently, if I maintain my doubled size for a long time, my food consumption will be ten times that of a normal person. This consumption growth isn't linear, but exponential. In other words, after tripling my size, my food consumption might not be twenty times, but a hundred times."

Lu Yuning was shocked. This was indeed a bit scary. He might have eaten up the food reserves of the seventeen people in Lingang for a month in just one meal. Based on this, if it grew to its previous normal size, the volume would be a million times larger than it is now, and the food consumption would be a bit crazy.

It seems that energy supply is the biggest problem that limits the strength of Chen Hong's supernatural powers.

If you force yourself to grow bigger without enough food, you may lose your vitality.

"I wonder if this situation will improve as your abilities evolve."

Lu Yuning briefly explained to Chen Hong the concepts of quantitative and qualitative changes in superpowers that he had previously speculated.

Chen Hong frowned and said, "I'm not sure about that. At least, there hasn't been much improvement so far. It might be that my ability hasn't undergone a qualitative change. After all, I don't always use my ability to the fullest."

Lu Yuning nodded, and the two of them stopped discussing.

However, the upper limit of Chen Hong's supernatural power is very high. He still knows that force can defeat skill. No matter how complicated the invention is, it may not be as effective as a punch from Chen Hong after he becomes bigger.

"Leave this clothing restriction issue to me. I have some ideas now. I'll tell Brother Chen once my experiment is successful," Lu Yuning said.

Chen Hong was naturally very grateful.

Lu Yuning planned to make a sample himself first to solve this problem. At present, he called Chen Hong over to upgrade the shelter's protective measures as soon as possible.

Since the plan has already been discussed, we can just start construction.

The first goal is to renovate the road leading to the square.

There are actually two ways to get to the square, but Lu Yuning has not explored the way to the other side yet.

Their activities have always been mainly along the riverside road.

However, according to Xu Qi, there was nothing special there, just grass on both sides of the road.

The entire park is oval in shape, and the river divides the park into two parts.

Halfway up the hill where they usually move around, there is a lawn area with a slightly higher altitude. Before Doomsday, this small hill was a camping site and is currently the base of Starfire.

It currently appears that their specific station location should be not far from their previous outpost.

This is where Lu Yuning and his team built the shelter at the beginning.

The small hill was surrounded by a road that turned right at the square. Xu Qi must have been to the other side of the area before, but he didn't find anything.

If there is time, Xu Qi should take him there to have a look.

Considering the location of the Spark and Renaissance bases, the probability of the enemy coming from another road is low, so the main focus is on transforming the road near the river bank.

It is said that the changes only require making the road narrower, while other parts can be paved with obstacles, such as plant walls with spider silk.

This will be the gate of the shelter from now on.

Under Chen Hong's explanation, everyone soon became busy in full swing.

The difficulty lies in making the trap, because it is still difficult for a human being less than two centimeters tall to trigger the trap.

The main consideration is weight, but the weight of a person after being shrunk is still considerable.

So we finally decided to trigger the early warning device by combining spider silk trip wires and trample traps.

The significance of the spider silk tripwire is that it is relatively difficult to detect, and the material must be made of mutated spider silk to ensure its toughness.

The trample trap has a wider coverage area and is more concealed. The combination of the two can effectively increase the probability of triggering.

Of course, there are some techniques for laying this thing. The height and position are very important, so only Chen Hong can guide it.

The construction of the trap went smoothly and everyone returned to the shelter.

After multiple tests, the trap has a decent chance of being triggered.

However, what was unexpected was that the trap triggered the warning for the first time just after it was set up.

Everyone naturally thought it was an accidental touch, and Chen Hong scratched his head in embarrassment.

After all, it took some time to deploy this trap, and it was triggered at the slightest disturbance, which is somewhat useless.

Just as everyone was about to check the trap, Zhang Xinyue's expression changed, and then she quickly said, "It wasn't an accidental trigger, someone is coming!"

Lu Yuning was stunned for a moment, then his expression changed and he quickly began to give orders.

Since Liu Rui and his companions went to explore the forest area, there were only seven people in the shelter including Chen Hong.

"Old Zou, get ready to go up to the sniper platform, Old Wu, come with me, and the rest of you go into the shelter, Brother Chen." Lu Yuning ordered quickly.

"I'll go with you," Chen Hong said with a serious expression.

Lu Yuning nodded to express his gratitude.

But then Zhang Xinyue's words brought everyone back: "It seems there are only two people and they don't look like they are in the same group."

After hearing what Zhang Xinyue said, Lu Yuning was stunned again. It seemed that the early warning device was really triggered by mistake?

However, the triggering object is still a person. I just don’t know what’s going on with these two people. Is this square so lively now? Two people just run over here casually.

Zhang Xinyue could detect the other party at this time. The two people were obviously five or six meters away. She just didn't know if there were other people behind them. Or maybe these two people were bait?

Lu Yuning thought about it and decided that he couldn't be careless about the current situation.

Thinking of the strength of the outsider leader before, he quickly said to everyone: "Let's follow the plan and see how things turn out."

(End of this chapter)