Chapter 282 Even screenshots of the game cost money? !
Chapter 282 Even screenshots of the game cost money? !
Outpost, west gate.
In a wooden barn.
A huge monster was lying on the ground, its huge tail curled up into a ball, and its amber pupils lazily wandered around.
As long as the wastelanders who were born and raised on this continent, whether they were awakened or ordinary people, they would instinctively feel fear when they saw this guy, and they would spontaneously have a heartfelt admiration for the strong who could defeat and subdue this thing. As
one of the existences at the top of the food chain in the wasteland, the death claw is definitely a T1 or even T0 level existence in terms of strength, speed, stealth, or physique. It’s
really powerful to be able to restrain this thing with a few chains and a collar!
However…
this death claw has obviously been fed a little salty fish, and the fierceness in its eyes has obviously been replaced by laziness, and its temper is not as irritable as before it came here.
What’s the use of being fierce?
Most people here are not afraid of it.
Especially the human dressed as an iron lump.
Every time he feeds it, he exudes a strong aura, which makes it feel… fear from the bottom of its heart?
The IQ of the Death Claw is not high, but this is only compared to humans.
Compared with small animals such as hyenas, jackals, and brown bears, it is still smarter, and its mind can reach the level of primate cubs.
It is precisely because of this that the fear it feels is particularly obvious.
Whenever it shows unfriendly behavior or even just an expression, the feeling of having its brain frozen will make its limbs stiff and its whole body tremble.
On the other hand, if it behaves docilely and obediently enough, the man will feed it a few more mice or hyenas.
Over time, it has figured out a new way to survive.
Recently, the human has played some new tricks. Every time he feeds it, he will call it “Nico”. Although I don’t know what this call means, as long as it responds, the tin can that scares the lizard will happily reward it.
Who cares?
Maybe it’s the human’s name.
Neeko didn’t care much about things she couldn’t understand. For her, who had abandoned her wildness, eating and taking a nap were all she needed.
She crawled on the ground and closed her eyes, intending to take a nap before lunch.
However, at this moment, a group of noisy voices disturbed her sleep.
Neeko opened her eyes and saw a small bug followed by several blue jackets, walking towards her noisily.
As he walked forward, Trashman boasted to several friends in the cattle and horse group.
”… No bragging or understatement, I feel so strong now! Not to mention a mere death bug, I can kill the mother nest with one slap!”
Ye Shi suddenly said.
”Speaking of which, when is the Q period for lizards?”
Lao Bai thought for a while and said.
”It seems to be spring.”
Quitting asked curiously.
”Do you think that death claw will woo Trashman?”
Tomato Scrambled Eggs touched his chin and thought.
”Maybe, after all, this guy is cheating.”
Everyone was optimistic about this pair, only Trashman clicked his tongue.
”You guys have such dirty thoughts! You play games and do CPDD every day, can’t you be purer!”
Ye Shi said with a smirk.
”Okay, okay, I have a little brother, but I’m so tough when I talk.”
Being touched in the sore spot, Jun Lazi glared at him in anger.
”Get lost!”
Jun Lazi, who came here, certainly didn’t come here to seek a mate.
Although he has the body of a lizard, he is still a human in spirit. It’s a bit too heavy to be close to a reptile. What
’s more, it doesn’t have that thing.
The heterogeneous sequence, whether it is a lizard or a mouse, is “eunuch” without exception. Maybe it’s too curious, the operator simply didn’t build the model that should have on him.
But in Jun Lazi’s opinion, this is not an important thing.
It’s a game.
Being strong is enough, as for other things, it doesn’t matter!
How to prove your strength?
For lizards, the most direct way is of course to gain recognition from their own kind, especially females of the same kind.
Amber pupils looked over from the wooden shed.
Seeing that the beast noticed him, Junji held his breath, stared at it intently, and released his “aura”.
The two pairs of eyes, one big and one small, stared at each other for about half a minute.
Nicole, who was lying in the wooden shed, didn’t know if she understood what he meant. She snorted with a sneer and blew a few straws to Junji’s feet.
The huge tail changed the direction, and the amber pupils closed carelessly, no longer paying attention to it.
”Puff-hahahaha!”
Quitting couldn’t help but laughed out loud.
Although the others didn’t laugh, their faces also showed subtlety.
Junji’s face flushed and he defended himself.
”It may be sleepy.”
”Okay, okay, forget it, Junji,” Fang Chang patted his tail distressedly, “Let’s go to Yuanxi Town to brush materials, be good.”
With the help of taster Lao Na, Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes recently developed a method for processing monster meat.
Just sprinkle some buffalo grass powder when marinating to remove the unpleasant smell of blood, making monster meat less unpalatable.
Fry until both sides are golden brown and sprinkle some pine nuts and chopped yam stems. It is not only delicious, but also provides a BUFF bonus of “5% metabolism and 7% constitution”.
Because it tastes similar to beef and can provide a BUFF bonus, the hunter’s union has recently increased its demand for monster hunting.
Kuangfeng, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.
”I heard that female lizards will lift their tails when they are courting.”
Quitting: “Does that mean they don’t like it?”
Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes asked with interest.
”What about male lizards?”
Kuangfeng: “I remember they wagged their tails.”
The most educated person here is Professor Feng.
Ye Shi suddenly smiled slyly and looked at Trash.
”Brother, how about… let’s try it?”
Trash: “Go away!”
It would be embarrassing if it succeeded.
Wouldn’t it be even more embarrassing if it failed!
Although his attribute is only 3, he is not stupid!
Kuangfeng pinched his chin and thought, and suddenly spoke.
”By the way, there is actually something I have always been concerned about.”
He looked up information about lizards for several hours yesterday, but he couldn’t figure it out.
Being targeted by Professor Kuangfeng, Trash always has a bad feeling.
This guy is targeting him today…
”…What do you care about?”
”I remember before… didn’t you tell me that you had four points of intelligence? You hadn’t awakened at that time,” Kuangfeng asked in confusion, “Why did it become less after awakening?”
Quitting looked at Trash in surprise.
”There is such a thing?”
Trash coughed dryly and subtly moved his eyes away.
”Don’t worry about these details… Aren’t we going to Far Creek Town? Let’s go, or you’ll miss the bus if you’re late.”
”There are 9 attribute points from LV0 to LV9, and the intelligence hasn’t increased at all. I guess I’d be embarrassed to say it,” Fang Chang patted Kuangfeng’s shoulder and sighed, “Please understand.”
Garbage: “&@%￥!”
…
Three days have passed since the end of the wave.
The spore cloud gathered in the northern suburbs is receding at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the morale of the survivors in the northern suburbs has reached an unprecedented high.
This morale is not obvious in the players.
After all, in other games such as Azeroth, Skyrim, or Hyrule, they have saved the world countless times.
A city is too small for them.
The mother nest?
The evolution?
It’s just a main storyline BOSS of LV10~20.
However, for the survivors living in Qingquan City, especially in the northern suburbs, defeating the wave has a completely different meaning.
In the eyes of most survivors in Qingquan City, the wave is something that only Boulder City can deal with.
When the gray-green fog permeated, most people could only choose to avoid dangerous urban areas, or reduce travel, curl up at home and pray, praying that the wave would end soon.
Those blue jackets from Shelter 404 did what they had never dared to think of before, and even solved the wave faster than Boulder City!
Those arrogant people living in the wall?
No more than that!
…
In the outpost, at this moment, the lights are on and the scene is as lively as a festival.
Since the Spring Festival and the new version are coming soon, and the previous victory has not been celebrated properly, Chu Guang decided to celebrate the three things together and set the celebration on the first day of the B round test.
Cooking delicious food is a traditional reserved project of Shelter 404.
This celebration is no different.
The food that is recognized by players, NPCs, and managers can not only enter the exclusive chef’s hall of fame with their teammates, but also have the opportunity to see their own works in the NPC’s store and get rich activity points.
Many combat professional players went to Changjiu Farm early in the morning, where they lined up to wait for the bus to Yuanxi Town, eager to bring back some magical animals.
Life professional players were not idle either. Some went fishing, some went mushroom picking, and some went to catch frogs in the fields. The whole forum was full of rural atmosphere.
Especially now that the number of ear-hanging camera equipment has gradually increased, the number of shelters has reached 200, and Chu Guang has opened it to players for purchase.
As long as the contribution points reach the level of a medium citizen and pay 500 silver coins, you can unlock the “game screenshot” + “instant messaging” functions from the administrator assistant Xiaoqi.
After having the headset, you can not only communicate remotely with players in the VM friend list, but also synchronize “compliant” photos to the forum account.
Many cloud players on the forum also feasted their eyes and saw many magical animals that do not exist in reality.
In addition to players who catch food by themselves, some players have set their sights on the trading post of Changjiu Farm and those passing merchants.
Foreign merchants occasionally bring some specialties from neighboring provinces, such as dried lizards, canned fruits and sugar from Jinchuan Province in the south, or sawtooth tiger meat, yak milk and colorful mineral salt in the north.
These merchants are very satisfied with the goods of Changjiu Farm, especially those exquisitely crafted copper shell bullets. Often, only two or three magazines are needed to exchange them for a whole box of hundreds of kilograms of goods.
And those bullets are just mass-produced on the assembly line. The cost can scare these wastelanders to death.
In addition to food, players have not forgotten to change their hometowns for the New Year.
Especially the life professional players who are mainly active in the outpost area, they consciously posted festive paper-cuts on the buildings around the Quality Square.
Not only that, they also posted very creative couplets on the doors of NPC offices such as sanatoriums, weapon stores, warehouses, banks, hunter unions, etc.
Standing at the door of the weapon store, looking at the red paper hanging at the door, Boss Xia’s face was full of strange expressions.
”What’s written on it?” She looked at Chu Guang on the side and asked.
”The price of noodles has increased, the price of meat has increased, and the price of mushrooms has increased again and again. Thank God, the price of weapons has not increased. The banner reads: This version is conscientious… Haha, these people are quite interesting.”
Chu Guang couldn’t help laughing as he read it.
The antithesis is not neat.
But it is quite in the style of the players.
If these stupid netizens can really come up with a serious couplet, Chu Guang will find it strange.
”……?”
Xia Yan was confused, but Chu Guang read it out. These players were implying that the bad planner was giving out silver coins randomly.
But…
what does this have to do with me?
You are implying that A Guang, what does it have to do with me, Shu Guang?
As we all know, in order to take care of the experience of new players, any online game has a version catching-up mechanism, and “numerical expansion” is just one of the countless cards in the hands of the planner.
However, Chu Guang’s starting point for printing money is different from that of other game planners. He plans to print money based on the gross production value of players and NPCs to balance the income between different groups.
Thanks to the supercomputer with unknown computing power buried under the shelter, and the VM equipment produced in unlimited quantities by the black box.
Without these two black technologies and Xiaoqi’s help, it would not be easy to complete these tasks.
Chu Guang roughly calculated that at least 10% or even 20% of the labor force needs to be converted into administrative personnel to barely maintain the operation of this management system.
To describe it in the terms of simulation business games, due to the “future municipal” technology of Shelter No. 404, the manager only needs less than 150 grassroots administrative personnel with only secondary or even primary education to maintain the “smiles” of nearly 2,000 permanent residents and 1,500 players.
Who dares to say that Shelter No. 404 has no black technology?
The only difference between this black technology and controlled fusion is that it is not very obvious and a little less powerful.
Xiaoyu, who was standing aside, curiously recognized the words on the couplet.
Chu Guang looked at her and said with a smile.
”Come to think of it, don’t you have a Spring Festival?”
Xiaoyu shook her head like a windmill.
”No!”
Chu Guang vaguely remembered that Xiaoyu had told him before.
Beth Street only holds celebrations for the birthdays of the former mayor and his children, and most of the time, people in the town are asked to work for free and receive gifts, so no one likes celebrations.
To Xiaoyu, it seems like a dream that everyone can get together to celebrate the same happy thing like now.
”…At this time of year in previous years, there would be constant bangs in the south, sometimes all night long,” Xiaoyu tilted his head and thought for a while, then suddenly had an idea and said, “It’s like thunder!”
The south…should they be talking about
the area near the West Third Ring Road? It can’t be heard in Linghu Wetland Park, but if it’s on Beth Street, the sound of cannons should be heard from there.
Chu Guang asked curiously.
”How long will it usually last?”
”If it’s fast, it will be over in a week, if it’s slow, it may take a month,” Xiaoyu thought seriously for a while, nodded vigorously, and said affirmatively, “It should be later this year. Xiaoyu has never seen such a heavy fog in the northern suburbs!”
In the past few days, whenever she came out of the shelter, she wore a gas mask.
It made her feel suffocated.
It has never been so serious before.
Chu Guang nodded and said thoughtfully.
”It seems that the spread of spores is regional…”
…
Although the tide in the northern suburbs has receded ahead of time, there are still a lot of things waiting for Chu Guang to do.
Because the northern suburbs miraculously solved the crisis of the tide before the stone city, and Shu Yu, who was sent to the stone city by Chu Guang, was active, many merchants in the stone city were attracted recently, leading two-headed cows to the northern suburbs.
The northern gate of Qingquan City, which “faces the wilderness”, has never been so lively.
Especially when those merchants found out that the “artworks” in the Queen of the Night Bar were actually produced here, they all went crazy in an instant.
In addition to the three treasures of artwork, devil silk and spirit leaves that satisfy the curiosity of LSPs, there are many other good things here.
For example, Didiwei Nutrition Cream is almost sold out by the merchants in Boulder City!
The wholesale price is 299 silver coins per ton. According to the current exchange rate, it is less than 150 chips. Compared with the ex-factory price of 300 chips per ton of Weijia Trading Company, what is the difference between buying here and picking it up for free?
And not only is the price cheap, but the quality is also not bad at all.
At first, the factory manager Ditwei planned to form a caravan himself and take the goods to Boulder City to sell, but later found that this operation was completely unnecessary.
His cost has been reduced to around 140 silver coins per ton, and the orders that are pouring in are scheduled for three months later. He only needs to make every effort to produce and make more than double the profit, so why bother?
With that silver coin, it is better to invest in a few more hunting teams to sweep the buildings on the edge of the Fifth Ring Road. The income from scavenging can completely balance the expenses of ammunition.
Just do it!
Even Lister was jealous of such a lucrative profit.
KV-1 exoskeleton and solid hydrogen battery can make money, but the gross profit margin is really not as good as the inconspicuous stuff like nutrient paste.
Gangs in the slums at the entrance of Boulder City will buy this stuff, and farmers in the south will also buy it in large quantities.
200g can keep people from going hungry, and double the amount can make people full. It is perfect for feeding slaves and livestock.
In addition to the artworks and nutrient paste that are sold out, there are also mosquito gas masks, bicycles and helmets from the No. 81 Steel Plant, disinfectant water from the chemical plant, and some cheap and useful gadgets.
The LD-47 sickle assault rifle is not very popular among the merchants in Boulder City, but it does not prevent the mercenaries from loving it.
Low failure rate, easy maintenance, and powerful enough.
In addition to the biggest advantage of cheapness, it is enough for them to open their wallets, exchange chips for silver coins, and then use the silver coins to spend at Boss Xia.
Apart from the big guys who opened factories and got to eat meat, the most happy ones were undoubtedly the professional players on North Street.
Before, few of the mercenaries who followed Lister’s caravan from Boulder City spent money at their stalls.
However, recently, these mercenaries from Boulder City seemed to have suddenly become rich, and their spending was surprisingly generous.
Even when the price of ramen increased from 5 silver coins to 6 silver coins, some people paid for it.
The mushroom soup, which cost 4 silver coins a bowl, was widely praised. It was fragrant, refreshing and delicious. The most important thing was that the proprietress was beautiful and spoke nicely, so there was an endless stream of people queuing up.
These merchants and mercenaries who came from afar not only stimulated a wave of consumption, but also brought a lot of good things produced in Boulder City.
The goods sold by these merchants were varied, ranging from weapons to daily necessities.
In fact, as an old and large survivor settlement that completed industrialization a long time ago, Boulder City’s industrial capacity was much stronger than that of Shelter No. 404.
The local development model has largely borrowed from the ideal city of enterprises, which can be seen from the “ship worship” of the upper class in the inner city for the ideal city in all areas from culture to commodities.
The design concept of the KV-1 exoskeleton is modeled after the miner series, and the drone X-2 assault rifle is modeled after the Black Swan G9 assault rifle. They have imitated the “legacy heirs” on the East Coast in many areas.
The factories in Boulder City cannot produce metallic hydrogen, but they can produce second-level solid hydrogen. They cannot produce fusion engines to drive land fortresses, but they can make engines for boiling water compact and cheap.
Chu Guang admitted that there is a big gap between the survivor settlements in the northern suburbs and Boulder City in terms of population and industrial capacity. When the communication and understanding of each other between the two sides reach a certain level, friction is probably inevitable.
However, even if the relationship deteriorates to the point of a full-scale war, it will not happen overnight.
Even if the war breaks out tomorrow, it will not prevent him from fleecing them today.
In order to protect local industries and increase exports, Chu Guang had already adjusted the exchange rate of silver coins to chips from 1:2 to 2:1 when he let Lister in to set up a factory, and restricted the foreign exchange quotas of individuals and enterprises.
In this way, players will find that buying KV-1 exoskeletons from NPC stores will be much cheaper than buying imported goods in Boulder City.
Similarly, exporting products from the northern suburbs to Boulder City will also bring much more profit than simply dragging them to the market to sell them.
”I’ve never seen so many chips.”
The warehouse of the outpost.
Looking at the pile of colorful chips in the box, Old Charlie sighed heartfeltly.
Although they are both blue jackets from the shelter, he has lived in Qingquan City for so many years and has long been accustomed to the local life.
It is impossible to say that he doesn’t feel shocked at all when such a large pile of valuable things are placed in front of him.
Chu Guang smiled faintly and said.
”That old leech doesn’t have one?”
Charlie knew who Chu Guang was talking about and whispered.
”He’s just one of the average rich people.”
The chips in Boulder City have many denominations, the most common of which is white, which is also the most widely circulated currency outside of Boulder City.
In addition, there are 5-denomination red, 25-denomination green, and 100-denomination black.
Chips with larger denominations can generally only be seen in the inner city, but most people there use credit cards for transactions, and rarely put chips with a denomination greater than 100 in their pockets to show off.
They can’t be used as change, and few people can open them.
He has seen the former mayor’s vault. That person had three of the same boxes, but most of them were the cheapest white chips.
Unlike this box, even black chips can be seen.
Chu Guang asked with a smile.
”Is this money enough to become a rich man in Boulder City?”
Charlie thought about it and gave a rigorous answer.
”…I’ve only been there a few times, but if it’s the kind of luxurious life I understand, it should be more than enough.”
Chu Guang smiled and said nothing.
After a pause, he cleared his throat.
”I plan to set up a merchant guild and organize some caravans to trade with other survivor settlements. While expanding our sphere of influence, I also want to find something for my players… I mean the residents to do.”
Old Charlie nodded.
”That’s a good idea.”
Although the second half of the sentence sounded strange, he agreed with the first part.
At this stage of development in the northern suburbs, it is not enough to just expand the territory, and there are simply not that many people to open up those lands.
It’s not just an economic problem. Only by gaining enough regional influence can the northern suburbs obtain the population and resources for further development.
Chu Guang looked at Old Charlie and continued.
”You have probably the most experience and the places you have been to among the people I know.”
”This job.”
”I plan to let you do it!”
(End of this chapter)
