Doomsday: Humanity shrinks 100 times

Chapter 215: Bird's-eye View and Exploration Objectives

This was their second time here after Liu Rui informed Lu Yuning of his discovery.

Lu Yuning looked at the mysterious creature in front of him and asked, "How do we deal with this thing?"

Zhang Muyan said, "For now, we can only consume its energy regularly."

"Consume? Doesn't that mean we need to make a jump?"

Zhang Muyan shook his head and said, "Besides performing spatial jumps, this thing has two other abilities. One is that it can expend energy to explore the surrounding area, marking nearby jump locations. The other is that its own energy is actually the same as the energy used by psychics to control their powers. So within a certain range, as long as the jump tree has enough energy, the superpower can be used infinitely."

Lu Yuning was shocked. It seemed that the settlement built around the leap tree had great advantages and would definitely develop faster.

This thing is currently the only means of communication for the survivors. It seems like some kind of autonomous will is forcibly gathering the remaining humans together.

However, there is a problem. When the two settlements have the intention to teleport, they are both in an observable state, which means they can discover each other.

Therefore, there are two situations for the jump tree in this jump state. Either no one occupies it, or the other party has enough strength and is not worried about the invasion of other forces.

No matter what, we need to close this jump tree as soon as possible.

Zhang Muyan briefly explained how to use this thing. Lu Yuning walked forward and put his hand on the tree trunk. Then a very clear bird's-eye view appeared in his mind, showing the entire surrounding situation.

He controlled his consciousness, raised his eyes, and looked into the distance. Soon, in the northeast direction of the park, from a bird's-eye view, that is, in the upper left corner, he found the same space distortion phenomenon. This should be another jump tree.

In addition to this tree which is relatively close, two similar distorted spaces can be seen at the edge of the sight line.

At present, their jump tree is still in its juvenile stage, so the observation angle is relatively close. At the same time, because it cannot generate a stable spatial anchor point, it is in an undetectable state from the perspective of other jump trees.
However, there is an unstable space fault nearby, and people in the space jump state will fall out of this fault.

This is also the reason why the previous two groups of outsiders were accidentally teleported here.

Although the God's perspective is temporarily limited, in addition to the three closer jump trees, he can vaguely see another more obvious jump tree a little further away.

The main thing is that it is emitting a faint white beam of light, shooting straight into the sky. It is obvious without asking that this tree should be in a state where it can jump.

However, it is relatively far from the park. Judging from the map scale from a bird's-eye view, it should have exceeded the province where they are located.

This kind of tree that has activated the transition state is relatively easy to find, but the one that is in the energy depletion state is difficult to detect.

So what we know now is that there are three leap trees not far from the park, and they should all be under human control.

Lu Yuning silently memorized these places. The one in the upper left corner seemed to be the most suitable for exploration. From a bird's-eye view, this location was about ten kilometers away from the park. If one relied on the current walking speed, it would take more than ten days to get there.

It is not easy for humans outside to gather together on foot, so there is a high probability that there are survivors who survive independently like them. However, compared with the development speed of large settlements, these survivors will eventually be forgotten by history.

Regardless, the main mission was accomplished. The energy of the park's warp tree had been consumed. Lu Yuning had also roughly determined the situation nearby. The location of the nearest warp tree matched the direction of their initial target.

There are two things to do next. The first is the formal exploration, which includes the establishment of ports, the use of steam engines and the construction of mobile bases.

Secondly, considering the effect of this jump tree on the psychics, we must find a way to connect this place with the base.

Fortunately, this place is not far from the base, and perhaps we can establish a connection through the transportation ability of the symbiote.

Lu Yuning sorted out his thoughts for a moment, then said to everyone, "Let's go, we've explored enough here."

The group hurried back to the base.

After returning, the first thing Lu Yuning did was to draw the bird's-eye view map in detail based on his memory.

Judging from the map, the nearby jump tree is quite close to the river bank. If we go upstream along the river and stop at the shore, the distance to there should be less than two kilometers.

The first exploration point has basically been determined, but the specific location of the pharmacy and hardware store they had thought of before is still unclear, and they are not very familiar with the buildings nearby, so it would be better to have someone who is familiar with the area to serve as an exploration guide.

Thinking of this, Lu Yuning found Huanjing and briefly told him his needs.

Huan Jing was stunned for a moment, then said, "You've found the right person. I live nearby, but I've been a bit busy lately, so I'll draw a map of the area."

Lu Yuning also paused. It seemed that it was a bit of a waste to let her be the human resources manager. Huan Jing's ability was relatively strong. He had experienced it personally before. Her ability was most suitable for infiltration.

In addition, her ability is similar to that of a copy person. She can synchronize the five senses of Huan to the original body, so it is also very practical for exploration. It seems that we still have to find a way to release her ability in the future.

Lu Yuning kept this matter in mind and then nodded. Since the exploration plan had not yet started, at least the most important means of transportation had not yet been produced, there was no rush to make the map.

Afterwards, Lu Yuning found Zhang Muyan again and told him about the next key buildings. Zhang Muyan is currently in charge of the scientific research work of the base.

In the past, Lu Yuning had to think about these things on her own, or she and Zhang Xinyue had to scratch their heads together. Now that there are more talented people in the base, she just leaves it to them.

Lu Yuning talked about the needs for the water base.

First of all, in terms of power, we can only rely on steam engines, which is the most important development item at present.

In addition, the base needs a lighting system, so he wants to move the previous branch's simple power generation system to the water base.

The power depends on the kinetic energy generated by the steam engine.

However, this power supply system is still too simple. Since there is no power storage system, it can only be used as it is generated. Therefore, the purpose of their trip is to find a way to get some materials to improve the power storage capacity.

(End of this chapter)