Mobile Shelter

Chapter 45 Expanding Space 1

Although the number of vehicles that were repaired and could be used normally was not large, with the intervention of the imperial court, the number of vehicles being repaired gradually increased.

These repaired and operational vehicles will be prioritized for supply to the troops.

Therefore, when mutated creatures invaded the coastal areas, the imperial court did not panic too much after confirming the invasion of those mutated marine creatures. Instead, it proceeded step by step to mobilize vehicles and dispatch personnel to provide support.

However, the larger and more advanced the vehicle, the higher the number of electrical devices inside.

That's why most of the cars on the streets now are small, traditional gasoline-powered vehicles.

These vehicles are not very useful for large-scale troop movements, but their efficiency is unquestionable when it comes to transporting a small number of important personnel.

Therefore, after the invasion of mutated marine organisms along the coast, the imperial court not only dispatched relevant personnel from the research institute to the front line, but also recruited many awakened individuals to accompany them.

Perhaps because both the Awakened Ones and the mutated marine creatures appeared suddenly, some people in the research institute felt that there might be some connection between the two.

In fact, it was influenced by some novels. The idea was to help ordinary people who had not yet awakened their superpowers by extracting a certain gene from mutated marine creatures, so that they could also awaken their superpowers.

This is also why the corpses of mutated marine creatures can be exchanged for merit points.

Although the proportion of awakened individuals is very low, the total number of people who have acquired superpowers across the entire Great Xia region is still quite significant.

Along with some awakened individuals who came to the research institute here, they also hoped to take this opportunity to find the most suitable way to improve their superpowers.

Of course, in the process of finding a solution, there may be some unknown dangers.

Those awakened individuals who had already joined the imperial court, for their own safety, happened to witness the invasion of mutated marine life along the coast.

They could use this as an excuse, under the pretext of enhancing the combat power of Awakened Ones, to have those Awakened Ones who had not yet joined the court use them as guinea pigs to test the safety of those methods for enhancing superpowers.

For example, there is an awakened individual in the research institute with a similar ability to Dong Qi. The ability he gained after awakening is spatial expansion.

The specific function of the superpower is to expand the original space. To put it simply, it can expand a backpack with an internal space of only one cubic meter to two cubic meters.

This ability cannot create new space out of thin air; it can only expand the space that already exists. Furthermore, the space expanded by this ability can only increase its internal volume by a maximum of fifty percent.

If this is the only ability one possesses, then this superpower can definitely be considered extremely powerful.

However, in order to maintain this expanded space, the external support structure needs to withstand a great deal of pressure.

After long-term testing by the research institute, it was determined that if the space were to be expanded by just one cubic meter, it would need to be encased in reinforced concrete of C50 grade or higher for at least one meter.

Simply put, it means that the interior space must be at least two cubic meters, the walls must be more than one meter thick, and the reinforced concrete used in the construction must be of grade C50 or higher.

Only then, under the influence of that superpower, can one permanently gain an extra cubic meter of space.

It's important to know that most ordinary buildings in cities use reinforced concrete of grade C35 or C40. Only high-rise buildings use C50 grade reinforced concrete during construction.

Theoretically speaking, the larger the internal space, the higher the requirement for the robustness of the materials supporting that space.

When this ability was discovered, some people tested it by directly expanding the space inside a building.

When we first started trying it out, we didn’t find any problems until we expanded the space inside the building by more than 100 cubic meters in one go.

The walls could not withstand the pressure generated by the expanded interior space. It was as if an explosive had been detonated inside the building, and in the blink of an eye, it collapsed into a pile of ruins.

After learning about Dong Qi's special ability and testing the strength of Dong Qi's car body multiple times, Peng Qi suddenly had a whimsical idea: to try expanding the interior space of Dong Qi's car.

This allows for a more intuitive test of the body strength of Dong Qi's signature car.

I'd also like to know if Dong Qi's abilities could be used to further upgrade the vehicle if other superpowers were used to modify it.

Alternatively, could upgrading the vehicle reduce or eliminate the negative impact of other supernatural abilities on it?

Of course, Peng Qi would never inform Dong Qi about any potential side effects that might occur during the process.

When Peng Qi heard that he wanted to use other people's superpowers to expand the interior space of his destined car.

Dong Qi agreed readily. After all, he had long felt that the interior space of the vehicle was too small and could not carry too many supplies. He was planning to incorporate storage bags to expand the interior space of his vehicle during his next promotion.

Now that he knows that the awakened individuals in the research institute possess the ability to expand space, this is like a pillow arriving when he's sleepy, and he wouldn't have any thought of refusing it at all.

Although when contacting the awakened one, Peng Qi pretended to tell Dong Qi that expanding the space would put some pressure on the vehicle body.

But the nonchalant tone made it sound like a hospital's pre-operative notification, a disclaimer of liability, and it failed to raise any suspicion among anyone.

Since most of the awakened individuals lived near this container warehouse, the awakened individual with spatial abilities arrived at the research institute's testing grounds quickly after being notified.

Seeing the cars parked in the test field, the Awakened One said with some helplessness, "Peng Qi, have you forgotten that this test has been done before? Not to mention ordinary civilian vehicles, even military armored vehicles cannot withstand the pressure generated by expanding the internal space."

As you should know, there's no place for my special abilities to be used here. So, since there's a special car going to Kyoto tomorrow, I'm letting you know in advance that I'll be going back to Kyoto with it.

Construction has already begun on a massive underground shelter over there; that's the only place where my powers can be used.

Dong Qi hadn't expected that the space-type awakened one who had just entered would reveal such important information in just a few casual words.

Based on the information revealed in what the other party just said, it seems that the imperial court has also noticed the crisis and has already begun preparations.

Ordinary shelters seem unlikely to withstand future disasters, so now is the time to do everything possible to upgrade your vehicle's tier as quickly as possible.