Chapter 39: Finally there is a new NPC?

  Chapter 39: Finally there is a new NPC?

  Actually there is no choice at all.

  Xia Yan knew very well that with only one leg left, it would be difficult for her to even walk out of this street, let alone return to Boulder City. Besides,

  what would happen if she went back?

  Although she had been a mercenary for a long time, she had basically not saved any money. A better neuron-linked bionic prosthesis would cost tens of thousands of chips, and a worse mechanical transmission prosthesis would cost thousands of chips.

  This price was almost the same as a chemically powered exoskeleton.

  Even if she sold herself

  , she couldn’t afford it. Either go with these people or wait to die here.

  The choice was not that difficult.

  Sitting on the edge of the shaking wooden cart, bouncing up and down with the piled-up sacks, Xia Yan sighed silently in her heart.

  Perhaps this journey would be her last bit of freedom.

  Apart from being captured and taken back to have children, she really couldn’t think of any use she could have for the man in front of her.

  A skill?

  A job?

  Haha.

  After thinking about it, I only have this body left, which is still a little valuable.

  I heard that it would hurt a lot, but I don’t know if it’s true…

  ”We’re here.”

  The voice from the front interrupted the non-existent imagination of at least 200,000 words.

  Coming back to his senses from the daydream, Xia Yan suddenly raised his head and found that he had been taken to a small forest by this group of people without knowing when.

  In the center of the jungle, there was an open space with scattered wooden stakes, and an unfinished concrete wall stood on the open space.

  Next to the concrete wall, there were kilns with green smoke, and behind them were the earth pits for smoking meat and smoked fish racks.

  The air was filled with the smell of barbecue, and there were clanging and banging sounds in my ears.

  Some people were hammering stones with hammers, some were operating bellows to blow air into the furnace, and some were carrying stones, building walls or cutting trees.

  This place was like a large construction site.

  Primitive and busy.

  These people…are they all his men?

  Looking at all this, Xia Yan’s pale face was full of surprise. She roughly counted and found that there were quite a few people here. There were more than a dozen people who could be seen, wearing the same blue uniform.

  And the moment she saw the clothes clearly, it took her less than a second to guess the identity of these people.

  Shelter residents!?

  I haven’t heard of a shelter nearby.

  But…

  what are they doing?

  Xia Yan was a little confused.

  Shelters are not uncommon in Qingquan City. Some have been opened many years ago, and many are still blocked until now, waiting for the unlocking period to arrive.

  Those shelters that are doing well can occasionally be regarded as a force, and those that are not doing well have basically become the food of mutants or aliens.

  Xia Yan remembered that there seemed to be a shelter not far from Boulder City, but the survivors living in it were relatively xenophobic, unwilling to contact outsiders, and quite cowardly. Not to mention building on the surface, they rarely come out of the shelter. By the way, is

  there any meaning in this kind of wall?

  It was indeed quite strong, and bullets should not be able to penetrate it, but no matter how strong the wall is, can it be stronger than the door of the shelter?

  That thing can’t even penetrate gamma rays.

  ”…Are you from the shelter?”

  ”Yes,” Chu Guang glanced at the wound on her leg and said, “I thought you fainted.”

  She was very honest and didn’t make any noise along the way.

  Chu Guang’s attention was basically scattered around, and he didn’t pay much attention to her. He thought that this person fainted due to excessive blood loss.

  Unexpectedly, he was still awake.

  ”I’m not that fragile.”

  Xia Yan raised her chin, her eyebrows and expression were as stiff as lead. She thought that this might make her look a little more courageous.

  At least not timid.

  Unfortunately, no one cared about her pretending to be tough, and no one even noticed it.

  ”I can see that,” Chu Guang said casually, withdrawing his gaze from the bloody broken leg, “Your wound healing speed is indeed a little faster than that of ordinary people.”

  Using the attribute template of Shelter No. 404, this guy’s physical fitness is at least 8 points, with an error of about ±1.

  If it were an ordinary person, even if he had not lost too much blood, he would have fainted from a high fever.

  However, this guy can still hold on, with only sweat on his forehead, a pale face, and a unclear consciousness.

  Of course, it may be due to “talent”.

  The survivors in the wasteland are more or less related to the word mutation, so it is not surprising that they have some abnormal characteristics in their bodies.

  Chu Guang looked at the two players and ordered.

  ”Send the food to ‘Tomato Scrambled Eggs’ and let him keep it properly.”

  A few days ago, Chu Guang told Brother Scrambled Eggs to build a granary that can store grains and meat.

  If nothing unexpected happens, it should have been built by now.

  Whether to dry and store, or just pile the whole bag in, I believe this cook is more professional and reliable than me.

  Since there are players here, Chu Guang is too lazy to worry about these trivial matters.

  Last time, he had a lot of trouble just to get some smoked meat. If he was asked to plan the granary, he was afraid that it would get moldy or eaten by rats before winter.

  Hearing the manager’s order, Fang Chang and Ye Shi nodded and took on the task.

  ”Yes!”

  ”Yes!”

  Chu Guang said nothing.

  He just stretched out his hand to pick up the female mercenary lying on the cart, and regardless of the latter’s exclamation, he carried her on his shoulder like a sack.

  Then, he stretched out his other hand, grabbed the backpack that Ye Shi licked from the other three mercenaries, and strode towards the direction of the sanatorium.

  Ye Shi and Fang Chang were watching from the side and admired it.

  This big bag of equipment plus a living person, the total weight must be at least 100 kilograms. He

  just carried it with two hands and walked away. This is too powerful!

  Watching the manager walking towards the sanatorium, Old White, who noticed the situation here, quietly approached.

  ”What happened? Who is the person our boss is holding?”

  ”Ask Fang Chang, he was the only one who finished the story, I just watched it in vain.” Ye Shi felt like a tool, either looting or being a hostage, and he looked depressed.

  Fang Chang made a helpless expression.

  ”Don’t look at me, this game doesn’t have subtitles, and I couldn’t understand what the NPCs were saying to each other during the story… Just think of her as a newly joined NPC.”

  I can guess roughly, but it’s a bit difficult to tell it in full, so I’d better wait for the official website to update.

  Lao Bai was stunned.

  ”Okay… But then again, why is she so badly injured?”

  ”Well, not to mention the serious injury, the person almost died,” Ye Shi sighed and said, “You don’t know what we encountered on the way back.”

  ”What did you encounter?”

  ”Crawler!”

  ”What the hell?” Lao Bai looked at Ye Shi in surprise, and asked quickly, “Did you encounter a crawler? What does that thing look like?”

  There is information about the crawler on the official website, but apart from a few abstract text descriptions, there is no description of its combat effectiveness.

  There is no illustration to refer to.

  Lao Bai only remembered that this thing seemed to belong to the same category as the Gnawer, both of which were symbionts born from fungal infection, and seemed to be related to biological weapons, and its ancestor could no longer be traced.

  He originally thought that this thing was probably a monster in the setting, and the game company might not have made a model yet.

  I didn’t expect that these two would actually meet!

  ”It looks weird and ugly, with four long arms. It’s about half a person’s height when lying down, and it’s probably two meters when standing up. This thing is not only ridiculously strong, but the key is that its movements are also damn fast! We fired a round with three guns, but none of them hit it. Later, it was the manager who was awesome. He swung the steel pipe and stabbed it to death in a few strokes.”

  Ye Shi described the situation vividly, although this abstract narrative style basically didn’t make anything clear.

  Lao Bai looked at Fang Chang for help, and the latter sighed.

  ”I can’t explain it clearly for a while, but basically it’s like what Ye Shi said, that creeper is a bit ridiculously strong.”

  ”I guess the new expansion pack not only updates the in-game activities, but also adds more alien species, new NPC camps, and related tasks. Let’s talk about this after I log off… The manager asked me to send the cart to Brother Chaodan, so I’m going to hand in a task first.”

  Although he really wanted to discuss his new discovery with Brother Fang, there were only three hours left before dark, and there was really no time to slack off.

  Lao Bai sighed and nodded.

  ”Okay, you go first… I’ll go figure out the blast furnace for steelmaking, and you can help me when you’re done!”

  ”Okay, see you later.”

  …

  On the other side, in the sanatorium.

  The players who were working on the scaffolding noticed the manager who had returned from outside.

  Of course, they also noticed the woman he was carrying on his shoulders.

  ”Oh my god, look, the manager is carrying someone on his shoulders!”

  ”Who is that person???”

  ”New NPC?”

  ”A girl!”

  ”Finally there’s a new NPC! Brothers, we’re one step closer to the internal test!”

  ”Oh oh oh!”

  Thinking of being one step closer to the internal test, the players were like chicken blood, moving bricks and plastering harder.

  Xia Yan, who was carried on Chu Guang’s shoulders, felt like a ball of fire on her cheeks. It was not only because of the posture, but also because of the sights that made her feel like a thorn in her back.

  She didn’t understand what those people were saying, but she didn’t need to understand. She

  could guess that it was nothing more than trash talk as disgusting as the disgusting eyes of these men.

  She could imagine that they were like hyenas in the wasteland, using this method to flatter and compliment the male leader, hoping to get a piece of bone or a mouthful of broth after he had enjoyed the prey.

  Obviously, she was the tender and delicious lamb.

  The more Xia Yan thought about it, the more terrified she became. She gritted her teeth and

  couldn’t help but chatter. Her eyes were wet and even dripped. She suddenly regretted it. Instead of being humiliated and thrown to the wolves to eat, it would be better to commit suicide and die with dignity.

  But her body didn’t listen to her.

  The elevator went down.

  Arrived.

  Chu Guang strode through the door of the shelter, passed the buffer room, walked into the resident hall, threw the package full of equipment aside, and then threw Xia Yan, who was on his shoulder, onto a chair.

  ”Hiss, be gentle…what are you going to do?”

  Xia Yan took a breath of cold air in pain and stared at Chu Guang who was approaching nervously.

  ”Be honest.”

  Not wanting to pay attention to her, Chu Guang casually opened the drawer and took out a silver-white metal round tube from it. He flicked off the plastic cover with his thumb and flicked it with his index finger out of habit.

  ”It shouldn’t hurt. Just bear with it.”

  (End of this chapter)