Chapter 123 Mission: Liberate Bethe Street
Chapter 123 Mission: Liberate
the 3rd floor of the Bet Street Sanatorium.
Chu Guang smiled with satisfaction as he watched the cattle and horse team change into long weapons and hunter equipment and set off again.
Not bad.
These little players are getting better and better.
Thanks to their understanding, Chu Guang saved himself a lot of effort and was able to use the time for micro-management to do what the planner should do.
For example, play two more games to collect materials.
”…Speaking of which, the players of the Alpha 0.6 version should be online tomorrow.”
Many raw materials in the outpost are about to burst, and the life professional players are urgently needed to increase their efforts to catch up with the combat professional players.
Especially the cocoons of the devil moth, there are several small hills next to the warehouse. When the cattle and horse team takes down the first floor of the greenhouse ruins, I’m afraid they will have to pile up another one next to it. The
guaranteed income of 200 silver coins seems a bit too much.
But it doesn’t matter. Silver coins are just numbers to Chu Guang. After he has an electronic account, he can send as many as he wants.
The key is to enrich the store shelves and let players buy more things. Only in this way will the money sent out have meaning.
Otherwise, even if you pass a copy and get 1 billion in your account, what’s the use?
Give you 1 billion today, and give him 2 billion tomorrow. Will everyone be happy to buy potatoes with a dozen coins in the future?
I guess by then, the little pufferfish who think the task is too little will miss the good times when a sheep’s horn potato only cost a few copper coins.
Fortunately, even if these people are not very sober, their planning is sober, and this kind of thing is unlikely to happen.
In order to increase the production capacity of the outpost, most of the 50 players recruited in this version update were randomly selected from the user pool labeled “Life Career”.
As for how this label is added, it is naturally based on the questionnaire filled out by these users when booking the game.
For example, when answering the question “Which single-player game do you like to play the most?”, their answers frequently appeared in “Stardew Valley”, “Euro Truck Simulator”, “Rimworld”, “Don’t Starve”, “The Sims” and other leisure and elderly games.
This means that after entering Wasteland OL, they will be more inclined to choose the gameplay of life profession.
For example, production, transportation, farming, building houses, etc.
I believe that these creative little players should be able to use those raw materials to make something valuable.
Yeah.
By the way, the users of version 0.4 are completely different, because Chu Guang stole it from the user pool of the P Club game.
These people are not only proficient in the manufacturing process of seamless steel pipes, but also have in-depth research on the formula of gunpowder. In “Cities Skylines”, they use the natural disaster DLC to accurately clean up the elderly population, and in “Stellaris”, they use alien meat to make canned food.
It can be said that they are war criminals per capita.
”250 players are still not enough, there are still 250 incubators left.”
”It would be great if we could get more food.”
After the Blood Hand Clan’s stronghold was taken down, the reserve food in the outpost was theoretically enough for 300 people to survive until the end of winter.
However, there is a problem here. The actual consumption rate of food is often far beyond expectations.
If the seasonings were not expensive and the cooking conditions were limited, Chu Guang would bet that this group of players could eat five meals a day and eat until they burped.
In addition, there were nomads who came to seek refuge and survivors working in the brick factory, so Chu Guang didn’t dare to make a plan too rigid.
250 players were already a bit tight, and it would be safer to have food reserves at least twice the actual consumption.
”Speaking of which…should I go to Brown Farm to ask for some benefits?”
Looking at the warehouses of those looters, Brown Farm paid them a lot of protection fees.
After all, we solved such a big problem for the survivors in the northern suburbs of Qingquan City once and for all. It would be unreasonable not to give them some thanks, right?
It’s not good to just reach out, after all, it’s not appropriate for civilized people to do the work of bandits, so we have to think of a way to make them give it on their own initiative.
Chu Guang touched his chin and began to think about it.
But at this moment, Xiao Qi, who was squatting on the side and playing with a drone, suddenly raised the camera.
”Master, there are guests coming.”
…
Outside the south gate.
Braving the snow and wind, Yu Hu hurried towards the outpost.
When he arrived at the south gate, he happened to see Chu Guang standing at the gate. His eyes suddenly lit up, and he waved his fist holding the envelope and shouted from a distance.
”Brother Chu!”
Chu Guang asked Yu Hu, who was running over with an anxious look on his face.
”What’s wrong with you? You’re so anxious.”
Did something happen at home?
Yu Hu supported his knees with both hands and said breathlessly.
”Charlie… is the old housekeeper of the grocery store. He asked me to bring you a letter!”
To be honest, when Charlie handed him the letter and asked him to send it here, Yu Hu was so scared that his heart almost stopped.
After all, there are rules on Bet Street that you can’t do business with foreign caravans privately. If you are discovered, you will be severely punished!
Therefore, Yu Hu has been very careful and avoided old Charlie, but he didn’t expect to be discovered!
Whether Brother Chu was an outsider or not was another matter. What Yu Hu couldn’t understand was that Old Charlie neither blamed him nor reported him to the mayor or the guards, but handed him the envelope with the bloody handprint.
Yu Hu was illiterate and didn’t know what was written on the envelope, but he always had a bad feeling when he saw the bloody handprint.
So he didn’t dare to stay for a moment, and immediately rushed over from Beth Street with the letter and delivered it here.
”Come with me to the house and talk.”
He took Yu Hu to the reception room on the first floor of the sanatorium.
Chu Guang lit the brazier, sat down on the chair next to him, opened the envelope with the bloody handprint and glanced at it.
There were two letters inside.
One of them was written by the old mayor… oh no, it should be said that the old leech wrote it.
The content was probably to tell the plunderers of the Blood Hand Clan that there was a group of survivors in Linghu Wetland Park. Skipping those high-sounding reasons and respectful wording, the whole page of black and white words can be summed up in four words: killing with a borrowed knife.
The other one is in old Charlie’s handwriting.
And judging by the ink marks, it should have been written not long ago.
[
Dear Administrator, my name is Charlie, and I am a survivor living on Bette Street.
I believe you have read the other letter in the envelope, and you must be furious about the content of the letter.
No offense, I understand your feelings. In fact, I am the same as you. When I heard that our respected mayor colluded with the looters and tried to instigate them to attack our neighbors, I could hardly believe my ears and eyes.
I tried to persuade him and told him that this was not a good choice, but he was still stubborn and wanted to send this letter to the looters.
This behavior has broken the bottom line of morality. No matter what kind of contradiction it is, I think it cannot, at least should not, be allowed to be arbitrated by a group of villains who eat people without spitting out bones.
We have had enough of the tyrannical oppression, and the people of Bette Street are eager for civilization! As long as you are willing, we are willing to do everything we can to cooperate with your actions and drive the vampire out of his castle! Every hunter on Bette Street will thank you for your kindness!
]
Good guy.
This is handing a knife to yourself.
The charcoal in the brazier gave off a spark.
Chu Guang lowered the two letters in his hand slightly, looked at Yu Hu who was sitting on the opposite chair, thought for a moment and said.
”Do you know what the old butler wrote in this letter?”
Yu Hu was stunned and shook his head.
”The old butler didn’t tell me… He just said it was a very important matter, related to your safety.”
It’s okay if it’s related to our safety.
Chu Guang smiled. It
’s certain that the old leech didn’t know that the Blood Hand Clan was gone, otherwise he wouldn’t have come up with such a stupid idea to send a letter to the dead.
In fact, this is easy to understand. Beth Street is far away from the abandoned tire factory. Those scavengers will not explore north along the elevated road out of the city unless they have to. After all, they all know that it is not safe there. Who will take the initiative to approach the nest of those predators?
Now there is only one suspense-old Charlie said a few truths in the letter.
There are two possibilities.
One possibility is that Old Charlie first sent someone to deliver the letter, and only after discovering that the Blood Hand Clan’s stronghold had been destroyed did he deliver the old mayor’s letter to him.
Another possibility is that, as Old Charlie wrote in the letter, because the mayor’s actions broke his bottom line, he decided to stand on the side of justice and fight against the tyranny of the mayor together with the survivors of Bette Street.
In fact, it doesn’t matter which version of the story you believe. Reasons are never important. You can even make up one after everything is over.
Chu Guang’s heart moved slightly.
He suddenly thought of a brilliant idea.
Not only can he legitimately include Bette Street in his sphere of influence, but he can also let the people of Brown Farm take the initiative to send tribute to him.
”… Your mayor is really a piece of shit.”
Looking at Chu Guang’s suddenly serious face, Yu Hu, who was sitting opposite, was slightly stunned, and his expression became nervous.
”Mayor? Wasn’t this letter written by Old Charlie?”
”There are two letters in it, one is written by Old Charlie, and the other one… the one that was stuffed in there at the beginning, was written by your mayor to the Blood Hand Clan.”
”Written to the Blood Hand Clan?!”
Yu Hu’s eyes widened, and his mind was a little confused for a while.
He remembered that Brother Chu seemed to have said before that those predators would not bother them again. And he also saw Zhao Shu who was kidnapped by the predators here, and heard that Yang Ergou was also alive.
Why would the mayor write a letter to a dead person?
Wait, the mayor and those predators are still exchanging letters? !
The news was more explosive than the other.
Looking at Yu Hu who was in chaos, Chu Guang continued calmly.
”That’s right. And from the content of the letter, your mayor is also planning to instigate the predators of the Blood Hand Clan to come and rob us.”
”Instigate the predators to rob you?! How dare he–”
Chu Guang nodded.
”In fact, after we broke through the Blood Hand Clan’s stronghold, we did find some interesting things in their stronghold. All signs indicate that your mayor seems to have reached some kind of secret agreement with them. He was not simply blackmailed by the looters, but actively cooperated with those looters to reap the property that belongs to you… Do you understand what I mean?”
After listening to Chu Guang’s words, Yu Hu’s face was filled with incredible shock.
At this point, even if he was not smart enough, he understood.
But what he couldn’t figure out was why the mayor did this?
”I’m going to go back and tell the people in the town!”
Yu Hu stood up from his chair suddenly, his face full of anger, and his fists clenched.
”That bastard, he deceived all of us!”
”Don’t be impulsive,” Chu Guang stood up with him, “I’m glad you’re on my side, but you are Xiaoyu’s brother, I can’t watch you die in vain.”
”…die?”
”Do you think that if you just go back and shout, the other survivors on Beth Street will immediately believe what you say?”
Yu Hu blushed and said with a stiff neck.
”I… I can convince them!”
Chu Guang shook his head.
”Verbal persuasion is meaningless. Your mayor will convince them with guns.”
Yu Hu was eager to argue, but he couldn’t speak coherently. He
just hated himself for being so dumb. Chu Guang was not surprised by his reaction.
After all, if he was a thoughtful person, he would not have been sent by Old Charlie to deliver this letter.
”Am I just going to watch him and keep everyone in the dark?”
”Of course not.”
Chu Guang put his hand on Yu Hu’s shoulder and gave him a firm look.
”This is not just your business. The stupidity and shamelessness of that old leech has exceeded the bottom line of our tolerance.”
”I’ll go with you!”
At the same time, all the players carrying VMs near the outpost base received a task pop-up window at the same time –
[Task: Liberate Beth Street]
(End of this chapter)
