Chapter 671 Why do these monsters keep coming in waves?

  Chapter 671 Why do these monsters keep coming in waves?

  On the north bank of the Baiyue Strait, in the northwest section of French Fries Port, behind a trench as wide as one step is a three-meter-high earth wall, and in front is a fence wall made of sharpened wooden stakes.

  In the grass not far from the fence wall, corpses were lying in all directions.

  Most of them were left by alien species, and a few were players who were caught off guard.

  Looking at the corpses on the ground and the mud that was almost dyed red by blood, Irena, who turned off the safety of her rifle, suddenly said with a subtle expression.

  ”I always have an illusion.”

  The Elf King Fugui, who was standing aside, looked at him.

  ”What feeling?”

  Looking around at the dense rainforest and grass in front, Irena thought for a long time and said in an uncertain tone.

  ”…This land is like alive.”

  The blood-stained tree shadows and grass rustled and swayed, which was particularly dazzling under the scorching sun. In particular, the chirping of insects from the shadows was like the whisper of a monster, and the dense rainforest was the monster’s mouth…

  This was not the first time he had this feeling.

  He had this feeling when he first went out to find water…

  …

  Time went back to two hours ago.

  When it was still light, more than 20 diligent strength players went online early, carrying axes and chainsaws to open up the forest northwest of the camp.

  ”Brothers, work hard! Try to see the top of the mountain before dark!”

  ”Ahhh!”

  There is a relatively high hill on the northwest side of French Fries Port. Not only does it have a wide view, it can overlook the entire French Fries Port and the nearly ten-kilometer-long coastline.

  Not only that, the nearby area also has abundant fresh water resources and the “ruin mines” commonly seen in wastelands, which shows its strategic significance.

  If the high ground on the northwest side can be controlled, it will undoubtedly help the development of French Fries Port.

  Therefore, in order to facilitate the reclamation work, the French Fries Port Player Autonomous Committee unanimously decided to build a road leading to the highland to facilitate vehicle commuting.

  The work of clearing the roadblocks was contracted to a caravan named “Dog Out” registered in the Merchants Guild at a price of 100,000 silver coins.

  In “Wasteland OL”, the caravan system is equivalent to the corps system, which is equivalent to the guild organization of life professional players.

  After winning the bid, the head of the caravan immediately hired a group of power-based animals to rush into the northwest forest area.

  However, before the work was done for half an hour, more than 30 mutant spiders suddenly rushed out of the jungle and collided with the players who were working hard.

  Those spiders were as tall as a person, and their colorful faces were like butterfly wings. They could spray highly sticky silk threads to bind their prey and tear them apart with dagger-sized fangs.

  ”What the hell! What the hell is this?!”

  The player who first met the monster’s sight was almost scared to disconnect on the spot. Fortunately, he had a good mentality. He grabbed the axe and swung it. The heavy axe blade smashed the spider’s head, splashing liquid.

  ”Tsk!”

  The mutant spider let out a shrill cry and staggered back a few steps.

  The player was about to catch up to finish off the opponent, but before he took a step, he was covered in white silk threads shot from the side. He didn’t even see where the opponent was, and his side ribs were torn open by a huge force.

  Seeing the situation of his teammates, the player not far away from the man immediately threw away the axe, took off the assault rifle on his back, and shouted loudly while opening the safety.

  ”Engage!”

  In fact, if they were far enough away, a few dozen mutant spiders would never be a match for this group of players with strong martial arts ethics.

  However, the monsters in this game have always been unethical. They don’t even say hello when they appear.

  In addition, there were dense jungles and bushes nearby. Several power players who were swinging axes and chainsaws were hit in the face by the sticky silk threads almost as soon as they saw the shadows of the group of spiders, and lost their ability to resist on the spot.

  Fortunately, their location was not far from the camp wall, and the players who were active in the nearby area immediately supported them.

  The sound of gunfire overwhelmed the fighting in the jungle, and tracers penetrated the leaves and shells mixed with juice.

  Facing the strafing of hot weapons, the silk and fangs of the mutant spiders were still slightly inferior, and the battle situation quickly changed from a fair fight to a one-sided slaughter.

  After leaving behind more than a dozen corpses, the monsters probably realized that these two-legged animals were not easy to mess with, so they hurriedly retreated to the depths of the jungle.

  The players who won the battle counted the losses and spoils, untied the unlucky ones who were tied up by spider silk, and dragged the bodies of the dead players back to the camp, preparing to send them to the active substance extractor recycling point to synthesize the materials for clones.

  After the battlefield was cleaned up, everything seemed to be back to normal.

  The players in French Fries Port continued to do their own things, chopping trees, fishing, ash, and going out for adventures.

  However, just when everyone thought that today’s troubles were over, less than two hours later, more than a dozen mutant cheetahs with ugly faces and sparse hair came to the door to make trouble.

  These animals also came without any warning and pounced on people and bit them.

  The injured this time were still the “Dog Infested” caravan and the power-type animals hired by the caravan.

  Although the perception-type players they temporarily hired had a premonition of the threat in advance, they still had only a few seconds to prepare.

  Many people had just thrown away the woodcutters and chainsaws in their hands, and before they had time to pick up the rifles leaning against the side and load them, they saw more than a dozen monsters pounced on their faces.

  The combat effectiveness of this wave of mutant cheetahs is not comparable to that of the previous mutant spiders, and the casualties caused by this attack are much more serious than two hours ago.

  In just half a minute, nearly ten unlucky children were thrown to the ground and bitten to death. Only a few reacted quickly and retreated.

  Looking at the messy logging camp, the captain of the “dog-infested” caravan had a tearful expression on his face.

  ”This dog planner must have a grudge against me!”

  Irena patted his shoulder sympathetically.

  ”My condolences, brother.”

  He and the Elf King Fugui were just at the door just now. When they heard the gunshots, they went up to help with other players.

  Just like the previous round of attacks, this group of mutant cheetahs turned around and ran into the woods after leaving ten corpses.

  Irena always had a feeling that these alien species seemed to have made an appointment and took turns running to the door of their camp to deliver their heads.

  ”…Have you noticed that the aliens that attacked our camp in the past few days came in waves, and they were divided into groups according to their species.”

  Elf King Fugui said with a subtle expression.

  ”Fortunately, they came in waves. If they came in a large group, our camp might not be able to withstand it.”

  ”That may not be the case… Never mind, let’s collect the prey first.”

  Irena smiled, leaned down and picked up the mutant cheetah that had just been killed, looked at Elf King Fugui and called, “Come and help.”

  We can’t let the dead brothers die in vain.

  ”Okay!”

  Seeing that Lao Na had already started to clean up the battlefield, Elf King Fugui immediately threw the gun on his back, walked up and hugged the two hind legs of the mutant cheetah.

  The two of them returned to the camp with the prey in their arms and brought the dead cheetah to the slaughter point not far from the west gate of the camp.

  A player wearing a leather apron was scraping a boning knife on the grindstone. Looking at the sticky blood on his body, it was clear that this guy had not rested since morning.

  His name is Qingdeng Gujiu. I heard that he is a doctor in real life, but for some reason he became a butcher in the game, which is not related to him at all.

  Looking at his skillful movements, the Elf King Fugui couldn’t help but guess in his heart that this guy probably didn’t dare to say that he was a veterinarian.

  Moreover, this ID has both “Deng” and “Jiu”, which means he is an uncle born in the 70s or 80s. He must be an old veterinarian.

  Looking at the two people coming with the prey, Qingdeng Gujiu wiped his sweat, took a look and moved his chin towards the electronic scale beside him.

  ”Weigh it yourself.”

  ”Ok!”

  Irena threw the mutant cheetah on the scale, and the Elf King Fugui walked up and talked to the boss with a smile.

  ”Good business, brother.”

  Qingdeng Gujiu said with a grin.

  ”Well, just earning hard-earned money.”

  The Elf King Fugui asked curiously.

  ”Are you really a veterinarian?”

  ”Yes – bah, what a bullshit, what veterinarian, I’m a doctor!” He held back the words that were about to come out of his mouth, and glared at the guy fiercely. Elf King Fugui

  didn’t care, and continued with a smirk.

  ”Really? Then you get off work very early, don’t you ever work overtime?”

  Qingdeng Gujiu waved his hand.

  ”Well, overtime, bullshit, I quit a few days ago.”

  ”Quit?” Elf King Fugui was stunned, “Why?”

  Qingdeng Gujiu said with a grin.

  ”What’s the big deal? There are not many people in my small clinic. I only get a fixed salary every month. The boss is annoyed by me, and I think the boss is annoyed enough. It’s better to come here to work. Isn’t it nice to easily earn hundreds of thousands a month? When I have money, I’ll open a hospital myself!”

  ”666!” Elf King Fugui looked at this brother with admiration.

  He wouldn’t waste his money like this. Would

  n’t it be better to keep it in the bank?

  The two chatted for a while, and Irena, who had just weighed the prey, came over from the electronic scale and interrupted their banter with a smile.

  ”A total of 65 kilograms, boss, how much do you think is appropriate?”

  Qingdeng Gujiu calculated and said.

  ”I’ll pay a little, 217?”

  Before Lao Na could speak, the Elf King Fugui said with a smile.

  ”220 to make it an even number, we have to split it in half, which is exactly 110.”

  Qingdeng Gujiu said straightforwardly.

  ”Okay, deal!”

  While rolling up her sleeves and showing the VM, Irena couldn’t help but sigh in her heart, it seems that this guy really makes a lot of money as a butcher.

  He didn’t even bother to bargain.

  After transferring the money to Lao Na and Lao Wang, Qingdeng Gujiu dragged the prey on the scale to the back of the stall and temporarily threw it under the shed, intending to deal with it later. There were

  already a lot of prey piled under the not-so-spacious shed, most of which were dragged from the woods outside the west gate of the camp.

  The texture of the mutant cheetah meat is average, not much different from that of the mutant hyena. After slaughter, it is usually dried and salted to make salted meat jerky, which is sold to expedition teams that need dry food.

  It just so happens that this place is by the sea, and the last thing we lack is salt.

  Jerky meat doesn’t actually sell for much money, and the real selling price is the mutant cheetah skin. This thing is much more expensive than the deerskin of mutant elk. While there are not many of them on the market now, whether it is shipped back to the Alliance or sold in Silver Moon Bay, it can make a lot of money.

  In addition to mutant cheetahs, there are also mutant spiders.

  Although a certain intelligence player has proved with his life that the mutant spiders in this rainforest cannot be eaten, its silk glands and venom sacs are good things. The

  mutant spiders in Baiyue Province are much larger than those in River Valley Province, and the quality of the materials they drop is also much higher.

  Although more than a dozen players died among the survivors of French Fries Port in just one morning, it is still not a loss in general.

  In general.

  Looking at the string of numbers on the VM screen, the Elf King Fugui, who was walking towards the camp gate, suddenly muttered.

  ”Laona, who on earth is buying silver coins?”

  He had been curious about this question a long time ago.

  Although most players are part-timers when they first start playing this game, it won’t take long for them to become professional players like him who are online for an average of 16 hours a day.

  If it weren’t for the fact that the game character needs to sleep and the real world needs to eat and exercise, he might have moved directly into the world of “Wasteland OL”.

  It has nothing to do with addiction.

  It’s just that this world is too realistic.

  It’s like life has been restarted, and there is no death.

  But if you think about it carefully, there are still many strange things.

  For example, the mysterious operator of “Wasteland OL”, and the mysterious buyers of the “Silver Exchange” who list and purchase goods day and night.

  Because of a certain “unspeakable” tacit understanding maintained between the two parties, the closed beta players of “Wasteland OL” can meet their real life needs by just doing two tasks in the game. If they play for a little longer and follow the not-so-strict game rules, they can live comfortably in reality and even become unemployed.

  It feels like there are a group of people who are supporting them for nothing and wish they could spend all their time in Wasteland OL.

  He doesn’t dislike this feeling. After all, he enjoys this completely immersive gaming experience, and his material desires in reality have also decreased a lot.

  He just doesn’t quite understand it.

  What are these “big guys” hiding behind the scenes trying to achieve?

  ”Well, if someone is willing to buy it, then there must be a place to use it. Why do you bother about it?” Irena glanced at him and teased him with a funny look on her face.

  Elf King Fugui thought for a while and said with a wild imagination.

  ”I’m saying what if, now there are only tens of thousands of players in the game and no one can see the problem, but when the game is publicly tested, so many people will not go to work and will go to the game to make money, and society will be in chaos.”

  Irena: “Emmm… Is there a possibility that silver coins can be exchanged for something that makes people not need to work, or make some jobs no longer require so many people.”

  Elf King Fugui was stunned.

  ”What do you mean.”

  Irena said casually.

  ”It means literally, for example, in the past, brick-moving in Dawn City relied on power-type animals, but now a set of mining exoskeletons can allow an ordinary person to do the work of five people. Isn’t this enough to have four more people who don’t work? Whether they go to remove dust, build furniture, or lie in bed to get a minimum living allowance, aren’t they more comfortable than when five people move bricks together?”

  Of course, this algorithm only discusses the total amount of social wealth created by a unit of labor, and does not involve other issues such as the distribution method.

  The progress of productivity is only a necessary but not sufficient condition for the improvement of living standards. It is not impossible to have a high-tech and low-life like the Bugera Free State.

  But there is always one thing that is beyond doubt. Since someone is willing to pay them to play in the game, it must be that their game behavior of earning silver coins in “Wasteland OL” has created social value that matches the money.

  There have been rumors on the forum before that the items auctioned at the auction after each expansion pack are actually some black technologies.

  Some people have even made special observations.

  Shortly after each auction, there will be some small rumors in the industry or academia that a certain key technology has made a major breakthrough.

  After a while, when people came to their senses, many people had already used the results of those technological breakthroughs.

  He still remembered that when Wasteland OL was just launched, smartphones could only standby for one or two days at most. Later, from some day on, major mobile phone brands launched models with super long battery life of one week.

  Then there were new energy vehicles, and the battery life suddenly doubled. The market value of many battery and new energy vehicle companies also doubled.

  Elf King Fugui scratched the back of his head: “You mean… silver coins can buy miner exoskeletons in reality?”

  Irena made a helpless expression.

  ”I just gave an example, and I didn’t say it must be an exoskeleton. It could also be something more basic and radiating to various industries, such as technologies related to the three fields of energy, information, and materials.”

  When he said this, he couldn’t help but make a joke.

  ”Maybe one day reality will become like ‘Age of Prosperity’, where everyone can work for two days if they are happy to work, and they can fire their boss and go to the moon if they are unhappy. Are you still worried that no one will work after the public beta of this game? Who knows, by then, the Earth’s captain will wish that all of you guys who have nothing to do will go to work in the game!”

  Elf King Fugui: “Fuck, Age of Prosperity is just a game setting, and what the hell is the captain?”

  Irena rolled her eyes.

  ”So I said if, how come you don’t have any dreams at all!”

  Elf King Fugui frowned and thought for a while.

  ”But if it is as you said, there is really such a black technology that can make everyone not work, I feel that nuclear fusion must have been solved at least…”

  But the key is that these outrageous technologies do not exist on Earth.

  It can’t just appear out of thin air, right?

  Could it be that the operator of “Wasteland OL” researched it himself?

  Is there such an awesome organization in the world that promotes the scientific and technological progress of the entire civilization with its own strength?

  No –

  wait.

  If you think about it carefully, the company that runs Wasteland OL is really awesome.

  Not to mention the fully immersive game helmet they launched that allows people to live a second life in a dream, the fact that no one knows the specific name of this company is already amazing!

  Sometimes the Elf King Fugui even couldn’t help but wonder if their dear A Guang was abducted by aliens.

  ”…No matter what it is, there is no doubt that the technology must be very expensive. Maybe that’s why silver coins are so expensive.”

  Patting Lao Wang on the shoulder, Irena joked and continued.

  ”For a better tomorrow, for reality to enter the prosperous era as soon as possible, for Lao Wang to buy a bionic maid in reality as soon as possible… Let’s think about which ruins to go to today?”

  Compared to those distant things, this is a more realistic problem.

  The income from hunting is just enough to earn ammunition money for these “high-level players”. If they really want to get rich, they still have to start with the ruins of the pre-war era.

  Hearing Lao Na’s teasing, the Elf King Fugui came back to his senses from his daydreams, and then smiled and said.

  ”Ah, that’s easy, let’s wait a little longer and someone will come to issue the task.”

  Irena was stunned.

  ”Someone issued a task?”

  ”Well, I heard from Ye Shi that the scientific expedition team will come with the Niu Ma and open a branch here in French Fries Port. I remember that they set out the night before yesterday, and they should be here soon–”

  The Elf King Fugui looked up at the sky.

  Coincidentally, before he finished speaking, two silver-white figures appeared in his sight, floating under the clouds one after the other.

  His eyes suddenly lit up.

  ”Wow! They’re here!”

  And there are two ships? !

  Irena took out the VM and took a look. The grayed-out [Scientific Expedition Team] sub-option in the task interface became selectable again.

  He immediately clicked it and took a look. A line of eye-catching “regional tasks” suddenly caught his attention.

  [Task: Find the mother nest of Baiyue Province]

  [Publisher: Alliance Biological Research Institute]

  [Description: According to the clues obtained by the Alliance Biological Research Institute through the analysis of the original strain of Naguo, the mother nest of the mutant slime mold is suspected to exist or has existed in Baiyue Province, and the abnormal biological evolution of Baiyue Province may be related to this. ]

  [Requirement: Find it! ]

  [Reward: Provide any valuable clues to get staged task rewards. The player or team who finally finds the mother nest will unlock the limited title of “Jungle Conqueror” and can get a total of 10,000 contribution points and 1 million silver coins! ]

  When Irena saw the task reward column, she was stunned for half a minute until she heard a cry of surprise from the side.

  ”What the hell?! One million?!”

  The Elf King Fugui opened the task bar at some point and looked at the long string of numbers on the VM screen with his eyes wide open.

  Especially when he noticed that this task was extended from the sample of the Naguo strain they had collected before, the expression on his face suddenly became as uncomfortable as constipation.

  ”Fuck! This damn Fang Chang is too evil!”

  He remembered correctly, the sample seemed to have only sold for 10,000 silver coins! Deducting the loss of equipment, which was one point for every ten people, the average person only got a few hundred silver coins.

  This is a huge loss!

–

  (I wanted to set a timer… but my hand slipped and clicked out. TT)

  (End of this chapter)