Chaotic ZZZ Chapter 21 (Patreon)

The rest of the gang was busy being 'productive'. While I was playing ultra-hard Satisfactory with not enough damned resources to get things going over in the Waifei Peninsula's mountains.

I did however, see Ben, Belebog's giant bear Thiren, leading his fellow other bear thirens to help lay out a well-compacted gravel road into the ditch I created with my pseudo-black hole up the mountain.

Sadly, I did not see the compact little Koleda, or the milkers of doom in Grace with her robot fetish

So we at least had a road after a couple of days of work that led up the mountain. By day four, with several power converters put up here that were running off of a tiny... Utterly harmless nuclear generator I created from harvesting several dozen smoke detectors.

Because there was nothing that screamed Murica, like making a possible nuke from taking apart a bunch of smoke detectors... It helped out of my four 'tinker' perks one of them was rightfully labeled.

[Tinker - Scraps][This tinker skillset allows you to build much more functional and useful technology out of scraps. You could probably build a working tank in a scrapyard, a phone out of a broken radio, a mech out of demolished cars, and can easily jury-rig existing technology out of subpar materials.]

Once I got a steady supply of power, it was just a matter of Nicole, Billy, and Anby gathering raw metal for me to convert into a precious metal. They would then take said precious metal to be sold, then we would take that money to buy more raw materials.

And by the midpoint of the following week. I WAS actually living the life of a Satisfactory player in the best way. After using Ether materials to create a micro 'hollow' inside of a containment field gave me a subspace inventory to hook up to a build projector.

Albeit the hollow based spatial inventory was... Very unstable, so all the while as the materials remained inside of it. The materials were eroded and broken down by excessive ether energy. 

So I coudn't move the demensional storage depot from where it was placed... Also the fact that it was the size of three storage cargo container's stacked atop one another and to the side also played a part in why this spatial storage system wasn't meant for moving around.

BUT with that spatial storage that was able to synch into the build projector gun that I was able to actually start building things en-mass.

The 'Build Gun' I built which was based on the afternamed build gun of Satisfactory did it's fantastic job by creating hardlight structures as a frame of reference, and then using the materials stored within the spatial depot, it would transport the matter within the hardlight outline to fit and form the structure I desired.

'This build gun is utterly fantastic... Besides a couple major issues, I can't use it more then a thousand meter's away from the spatial storage depot. And for right now, it's a pain in the ass to make the models for it to print what I want.' I mused to myself.

As for what I was currently building right now besides a new larger house for me and the Cunning Hares to live within... I was building up our future 'forces' as I didn't want a bunch of assholes from the TOPS to come play Cyberpunk-style corpo war's in my backyard.

The very first 'product' I was set to mass produce right now was something that was near and dear to my heart. A line of enhanced Droidekas. Because while their weaker blaster repeaters were 'nice' in canon Star Wars. 

Here in the wonderful world of Zenless Zone Zero, those blaster rounds could only deal with the weakest of Etherials. And I woudn't trust such blaster rounds to even be a nuisance to the high-level agents of TOPS Krampus units and other mercs they had on hand.

Loud clicking noises rang out as the slow-walking droidekas, armed with disruptor-based disintegrator rifles, walked into either the side storage units or into powered alcoves on the edges of the now walled-in lot as they came off of the factory floor.

"I need to see how well these disruptor rifles actually work on Etherals actually... For all I know, when they are shot the ether energy could turn into a violent mini black hole or some nonsense." I muttered while drawing a hand across my face as I realized I still needed to 'test' my products.

And in that vein. There was this lovely, annoying-ass mini hollow in my backyard I could get rid of with extreme violence!

I took out my phone, and with a loud ring tone rang out as I put it on speakerphone. "Jake whats up!" Belle's voice rang out as she picked up the phone making me raise an eyebrow.

As I didn't call Belle! I called Wise instead!?

"Belle, did you steal Wise's phone?" I asked with an annoyed sigh with Belle giggling evilly as she retorted.

"That butthead ate the last of the pudding cups you made that Anby dropped off. He deserves it! Plus he is busy in the shower and left his phone on the charger."

Belle then audibly cleared her throat before she said. "Anywhooo whatcha need Jake? Aren't like super busy over in the Waifei Peninsula or something? Or did you like need a ride back into the city because Nicole and Anby are in a Hollow on a commission?"

I raised an eyebrow as I didn't even know that the rest of the Cunning Hares WAS actually stuck in a hollow doing a mission currently. As I had been rather busy doing my own crap for the last week, obviously.

But still I shook my head and said. "Nah, I was looking to see if I could hire you guy's to help me crack open this Hollow in my backyard. I made a bunch of scary military droids/bots, and I need to both stress test them in a hollow. AND I want this damned hollow in my backyard gone." 

Belle was quiet for a long moment before she spoke a bit more slowly. "Actual Hollow Eradication? That's a big order Jake; even if that hollow isn't big at all, sure. But it will still have several hundred etherals as well a literal tone of ether crystals, to move. Are you sure we can even do it? Maybe you should look into some hired hands from the interknot as well?" 

I exhaled a bit heavily before I said thoughtfully. "The ether crystals aren't something I am worried about. I can destroy or remove them easily over time, And I am confident my droids can take care of the etherals, but I will try to get in contact with some of the local groups to see if they can help." 

Belle gave a noise of affirmation before saying in a hurry. "Ok! Oooh Wise is coming out of the shower byebye!" And with a loud click she hung up on me in a clear hurry leaving me just staring at my phone while shaking my head.

"Well... I don't think Spook Shack can really help me clear a hollow. Alice hasn't even joined up with them yet either. So I think Yunkai Summit and the Suiban Temple are my only local options I know of and can trust." I mused to myself as I looked out past the mountain and down towards the city of Failume Heights.