Chapter 45: Honghe Town, a Town without Grain Production
Chapter 45: Red River Town, a Town That Doesn’t Produce Grain
What Chu Guang didn’t expect was that there were actually quite a few good things on the back of this ox.
For example, the five “Rider” revolver rifles placed on the top.
This thing has a caliber of 7mm, and there are two simple rifling in the barrel, which can keep the ballistic dispersion of the fired bullets basically stable within 50 meters.
In particular, this thing’s simple spring-type receiver structure is not only very convenient for maintenance, but also quite reliable in combat. Even if there are accidents such as jams and duds, there is no need to worry. Just gently turn the revolver to continue shooting. The barrel
can be removed and it can be used as a pistol, but the accuracy depends on fate.
Of course, what Chu Guang is most satisfied with is the firing rate of this thing.
Although it is a semi-automatic design, as long as the trigger is pulled fast enough, it is not a problem to fire six bullets in a short period of time to form a suppression effect!
It can be said to be quite humane.
Just when Chu Guang was thinking about whether to pick a rifle as “compensation”, his eyes suddenly fell on the sacks tied to both sides of the two-headed ox.
When he opened it, he saw that it was filled with coins.
These coins were brass and silver-white. I don’t know what material they were made of, but they didn’t rust. The brass coin looked a little smaller, and the silver-white one was a little bigger. The face values were 1 and 10, corresponding to the coin values.
”Pre-war currency? No…”
Chu Guang picked up a coin and turned it over. He quickly recognized the small words printed on it, which were a line of people’s words –
[Galaxy Video Game City]
Good stuff.
It turned out to be a game coin.
”Where did you get this thing?”
Chu Guang threw the coin back into the sack, looked up and down at the businessman surnamed Sun, and asked at the nervous expression on his face.
Hearing Chu Guang’s question, Sun Shiqi answered honestly.
”I found these coins in the basement of a game hall. I think I should be able to smelt some copper and steel, so I just packed them.”
Generally, caravans rarely stop to search, and usually trade with local scavengers. This is beneficial to both parties and can avoid potential conflicts.
But nothing is absolute. Just like poor mercenaries occasionally play the role of looters, merchants with limited funds will certainly take the risk of picking up garbage themselves.
For example, the merchant in front of him obviously hasn’t been in this business for a long time. Maybe the two-headed cow behind him was bought by him not long ago.
”Are there more?” Chu Guang asked.
Sun Shiqi was stunned and nodded subconsciously.
”It seems that there are two cabinets… There are probably four or five more sacks like this.”
”Very good, I want them all.”
Chu Guang unloaded the two sacks from the cow’s back and looked at Sun Shiqi and said.
”These two sacks and the coins inside are your compensation to us. Next time you come here, remember to bring the remaining coins. Let me think… For every 100 kilograms of coins, I will give you 4 kilograms of dried meat, how about it?”
100 kilograms, which is about the amount of a sack, can have about 30,000 to 40,000 coins.
Doing business requires a long-term approach. Chu Guang didn’t want to extort too much, so he chose these two sacks, which happened to be useful to him.
Moreover…
since he was going to let this man go, Chu Guang didn’t want to show his need for weapons too obviously.
Obviously, he didn’t expect that this man in front of him would be interested in these scraps. Sun Shiqi’s face was full of surprise, but he didn’t dare to show it too obviously, and nodded quickly.
”No problem! As long as you need it, I will definitely wear them all next time!”
He didn’t care about the man in front of him. What’s the use of these coins. Maybe it’s for sentiment? Or maybe it’s for other reasons? These old popsicles are hard to figure out.
He originally planned to drag these coins to Boulder City to sell them as copper and steel, but in fact, they can’t sell much chips.
If they can be used to open a market in a shelter, this deal is not a loss no matter how you think about it!
And reducing some of the weight in advance will make the road ahead easier for him.
In addition to the two sacks of coins, Chu Guang also kept the five revolvers he had taken a fancy to before, and bought the 200 rounds of 7mm bullets he carried.
In exchange, he provided a total of 50 kilograms of smoked meat and 10 kilograms of smoked fish to this businessman who came from afar.
Although there were many misunderstandings during the first contact between the two sides, in general, the result was satisfactory to both parties.
Chu Guang got what he wanted, and the businessman surnamed Sun also got the trading rights and food he needed.
It is difficult for the survivors living in Qingquan City to imagine the situation in Duhonghe Town. Although the two places are less than 100 kilometers apart, the ecological environment there is completely different.
According to the businessman surnamed Sun himself, there is a large-scale chemical industrial base and a landfill in the area.
Since these facilities were not maintained after the war, the inventory leaked, resulting in serious local soil pollution, especially excessive heavy metal content, large areas of desertification and compaction, which have not been completely repaired by nature even now.
Not only that, due to the fragility of the ecosystem, the local alien species are mainly scavengers and arthropods.
This extreme situation has resulted in the local survivors having almost no arable land to use and it is difficult to make a living by hunting. But
it is interesting that the landfill, which was protested by local people more than once before the war, has become the biggest wealth of local survivors in the two centuries after the end of the nuclear war.
There is nearly half a century of garbage buried there, and a large part of it has not been degraded in time.
In today’s wasteland era, the garbage buried there has formed another sense of “unnatural mineral deposits”, and has contributed to the prosperity of local mining, archaeology and trade.
”But what do you eat?” After listening to Sun Shiqi’s description, Chu Guang couldn’t help asking, “Do you rely on imports?”
The price of food must have risen to the sky!
”Of course it is impossible to rely on imports. Although there are no reindeer and hyenas, many mutant moles and mice can also be eaten. In addition, we will also catch some less dangerous insects and use them to make protein extracts to feed livestock, or make nutritional pastes… like this thing.”
While speaking, Sun Shiqi took out a sealed glass jar from the package on the back of the two-headed cow, which contained a black gelatinous substance.
It looks a bit like tortoise jelly.
When Chu Guang was flipping through the package before, he had seen this thing, but he didn’t understand what it was used for, so he ignored it.
Unexpectedly, it was food.
”What is this made of?”
Sun Shiqi said with a chuckle.
”Mutated cockroaches.”
Chu Guang: “…”
Shit!
He felt that he could no longer look directly at the Guiling Paste.
”Although it is the protein and oil extracted from the mutant cockroaches, after several processes such as boiling, filtering, drying, grinding, soaking, and collecting juice, this thing actually has nothing to do with cockroaches. It is full of protein… Do you want some?”
Chu Guang said with a straight face.
”No need.”
He would rather starve to death than eat this thing.
But…
according to this guy, the cost of this food seems to be very low?
Mutated cockroaches are very common everywhere, and the cockroaches in Qingquan City must have much less heavy metal content than those in Honghe Town.
When necessary, using this nutritional paste as emergency rations for players seems to be a good choice?
Chu Guang fell into a long thought about whether to be a person.
But at this moment, he suddenly thought of another thing.
”It sounds like you know a lot about insects?”
Sun Shiqi nodded immediately.
”Of course, we have to deal with those things every day.”
Chu Guang continued to ask.
”Then do you have any way to deal with leeches?”
”Leech?” Sun Shiqi was stunned, “You mean… that kind of mutant leech?”
”Yeah.”
Seeing Chu Guang nod, Sun Shiqi thought for a moment and looked a little embarrassed.
”That kind of thing… is quite rare in Honghe Town, maybe because there are more ants there.”
Chu Guang frowned and asked.
”Ants?”
Sun Shiqi nodded and continued.
”Well, we have a kind of alien called iron-backed ants there, which are about the size of a thumb and can grow to the size of a fist. This thing has a very hard shell and is corrosion-resistant. It eats almost everything. Most mollusks are no match for them.”
Chu Guang asked.
”Can you bring a few for me to see next time?”
Sun Shiqi said with a smile.
”No problem! Leave it to me!”
After the transaction was completed, the businessman surnamed Sun did not stay here for too long, but chose to continue on his way.
Chu Guang did not try to keep him, but only reminded him that there was a mutant camp near Street 76 and there were traces of predator activities in the north of the wetland park, and then wished him a safe journey.
The figure of the two-headed bull gradually disappeared in the woods.
The players who watched him leave were all talking about it.
”That guy just now was indeed a merchant!”
”Damn, it’s a good thing I didn’t beat him up.”
”It should be okay if I beat him up, and I can still keep all his things.”
”That’s true, but what if the merchant dies and doesn’t spawn anymore?”
”It’s unlikely that he won’t spawn anymore after he dies, but maybe there will be only one merchant in the expansion pack of Winter is Coming. And didn’t you hear the planner say that Wasteland OL claims to create an economic system that can fully and truly reflect the supply and demand relationship. If this is not a big deal, the right answer is to play the long game and catch the big fish!”
”…It seems to make some sense.”
Ignoring the players’ discussions, Chu Guang’s mind at this moment was completely on the two sacks of game coins.
He had a bold idea.
Since plastic chips can be used as general equivalents, why not metal currency?
There are at least 60,000 or 70,000 coins in these two sacks. It won’t be long before the merchant surnamed Sun can get him a large pile of them.
For a group of less than 500 people, these coins are enough!
The brass coins are treated as copper coins, and the silver coins are treated as silver coins, with a 10 to 1 ratio.
The original contribution points are incorporated into the new honor system and can be used to purchase identities, titles, and even private land.
At the same time, the mercenary, caravan, guild, and legion systems to be launched in the future will also be linked to contribution points. Only players who contribute enough are qualified to lead other players.
This will not only strengthen management, but also greatly restrict players who make trouble.
After all, the higher the value of a player’s account, the more they know how to cherish their hard-earned game qualifications, and the more they tend to invest more liver and spontaneously maintain order in the game.
Making trouble is fun.
And this is human nature.
After dragging two sacks weighing nearly 100 kilograms back to the shelter alone, Chu Guang then found an empty room without an activated incubator and leaned the sacks against the corner of the wall.
Then, he turned back to the resident hall, turned on the computer, logged into the official website, and started editing the title.
[Wasteland OL Closed Beta Server Alpha 0.3 Version Update Announcement: Major Adjustment of the Economic System! ]
As Chu Guang typed this line of words, he opened his document.
I copied a lot of wonderful ideas from the forum before.
Now I can use them…
(End of this chapter)
