Chapter 35 Please, let me come up and move the bricks!
The number of players has changed from single digits to double digits. Not only has productivity improved, but a lot of new problems have also arisen.
For example, online time.
Chu Guang found that he seemed to have overlooked one thing. Not everyone needs to go to work or go to school during the day.
Especially in the stand-alone game circle.
The most indispensable thing is probably the kind of guy who stays in the group 24 hours a day, making it difficult for people to figure out what he actually relies on for a living.
I peeked at the screen until midnight and forgot to turn off the computer.
Chu Guang, who was dozing off in a chair, was woken up by the beeping sound of the private chat pop-up window in the middle of the night.
Oh shit.
Who is it so late at night...
Woke up while rubbing his eyes, Chu Guang squinted his eyes and clicked on the private message, and found that it was from the "Trash Picking Level 99" of the Cow Horse Club.
Trash Picking Level 99: [Brother Guang! When will it be online at the earliest!]
Trash Picking Level 99: [I really can’t wait any longer, please, please let me go online to move bricks!]
Giao.
How come there are such people?
Chu Guang hadn’t fully woken up yet, so he pondered for a while before typing his reply.
光:【I was just catching up on my sleep...Don’t you even have to go to work during the day??】
Trash picking up level 99: [Hey, what are you doing for work? You can definitely make a lot of money in this game in the future! Why not seize the time to level up hehe! 】
Chu Guang: “……”
Is it really okay to say this in front of the planner?
never mind.
Just pretend you didn’t hear it.
光: [You’d better take your time, the date for the open beta hasn’t been announced yet. It’s possible that the closed beta will last for one or two years, and then the closed beta for three to five years. 】
Garbage Picking Level 99: [Not important! A company as big as yours doesn’t worry about bankruptcy, I worry about a hammer haha. 】
His thinking is very clear.
It is even clearer than the vast majority of players who have qualified for the closed beta.
Of the games currently on the market, it can be said that none of them can beat this game, they are all scum.
If nothing else, just being able to free up time at night is already invincible, okay?
Who would say no to eight extra hours in a day?
It doesn’t matter if you are a little tired during the closed beta stage, but you can’t be so tired all the time, and you can keep playing bricks until you can’t close the server? Only young paratroopers will regard the closed beta content as all the game content.
The garbage man sees further.
Although I don’t know when the public beta will be released, as long as it is open beta, the iron fire will definitely be gone!
You can earn money if you play early. Starting one day earlier than others means you have one more day's advantage than others, not to mention that the game itself is enough to make him addicted.
光:【...It's up to you.】
Trash Picking Level 99: [Look, planning brother, can you put me online, hehe. I promise, I will test whatever you ask me to test! 】
Light: [I don’t care what you do, just abide by the rules of the game. But... you have nothing to do if you go online so late, right? The game time and real time are synchronized, and it should still be late at night in the game at this time.]
This is also the reason why Chu Guang did not let the survivors work at night.
Even he might not dare to stay in the wild for one night.
Garbage Picking Level 99: [Because it is late at night! You may not know that my genetic sequence in the game is a heterogeneous species! Strictly speaking, night is my home field, and daytime is when I should sleep! Hehe
Planner, please let me go.】
光:【I’ll apply.】
Trash picking up level 99: [Brother Xie Guang!!!]
Chu Guang sighed, stood up from the chair, and smoothed the collar and buttons that were a bit messy.
I have never seen such active players.
However, what this guy said seems to make sense.
Strictly speaking, night is indeed the home of the alien species.
For the "garbage picker level 99" who is a lizard man, darkness does not necessarily mean danger, but may instead become a cover.
With an idea in mind, Chu Guang opened the player list and adjusted Brother Junk's equipment from [Locked] to [Enabled].
Almost at the same time as he was operating, the sound of the hatch opening was heard from the next room.
Good guy.
Is it so fast?
Looking at the lizard man walking from the room, Chu Guang suppressed his surprised expression, put his hands behind his back, and said to him seriously.
“Are you awake? You came just in time.”
“I just have a task to give you.”
Triggered the mission!?
Trash Picking Level 99 stood at attention and said energetically.
“Please give me your instructions, respected administrator.”
Chu Guang didn’t talk nonsense and went straight to the point.
“There is a mutant tribe on Street 76, directly opposite the east gate of the Wetland Park. During the day, we found traces of predator activity in the blocks along the elevated highway out of the city in the north. I suspect there is a predator stronghold in the north.”
“I need you to scout north along the elevated highway out of the city and search for all traces of survivor activity within a 3-kilometer linear radius. If you find a suspected survivor stronghold, mark it on the map and report back immediately.”
“Remember to hide yourself and avoid all unnecessary fighting.”
“In addition, if there is a suitable target, you can also do a hunting branch. The rewards are valid at any time.”
After listening to Chu Guang’s order, the two-meter-tall man immediately lowered his head respectfully.
“As ordered! Dear administrator!”
Finally got the permission to go online.
Trash Picking Level 99 didn’t waste a moment. After leaving the shelter, he got on the elevator to the surface and quickly disappeared into the night outside the sanatorium.
Chu Guang can sense the approximate position and distance of each player.
After confirming that Brother Garbage was not running around, but had followed his orders and headed north, Chu Guang returned to the shelter, closed the door, sat on the chair and continued to doze off.
…
The next day, it was just before six in the morning.
Except for Crow Crow, who was given away for free yesterday, who is still making clones again, other players have climbed out of the training cabin one after another.
As for the trash guy who went out earlier, he hasn’t come back yet.
However, Chu Guang was able to confirm through the player list that he was still alive, and that he was not too far from the Wetland Park.
“Dear manager, do you have any plans for today?” Lao Bai was the first to step forward and asked respectfully.
Although it is nonsense, he says it every day.
What plot can be triggered?
It doesn’t matter if it can’t be triggered, just use it to create a sense of presence in front of the manager.
Chu Guang also fulfilled his duties as an NPC as always and answered in a routine manner.
“Same as yesterday, the tasks are all written on the bulletin board. Other than that, you can do whatever you want. The outpost is now in urgent need of food and building materials...as well as defenses.”
One of the walls of the outpost has been repaired.
The remaining three walls should be completed in two days.
Chu Guang is more worried now that the commotion at the outpost is getting louder and louder, alarming the mutant tribe on 76th Street to the east.
The entire outpost now has three guns in total, two of which are small 5mm water pipes. It cannot be said that it is powerless to fight back against those green-skinned muscular guys, but it will definitely be beaten badly, and I guess I am the only one.
Can run away.
If you are caught by those beasts, it will really be a life worse than death. Usually, the spirit will be broken before the body...
Of course, if the players are captured, they will probably be forcibly disconnected. Even if you are curious about what happens next, you won’t be able to feel it.
The group of people came to the surface in batches, energetically preparing to start a new day's work.
“Where’s Mr. Garbage? Why didn’t you see him?” Ye Shi looked around and found that the big lizard was not among the crowd.
Chu Guang glanced at him and said.
“He has already set off early, and I have a special task for him.”
Hearing these words, the nearby players all showed envious expressions on their faces.
As expected, special professions are different.
They are still moving bricks, and this guy has already triggered an exclusive task.
Damn Europeans!
"Ye Shi, you and I will go on a long trip later...and Fang Chang, you will come too." Chu Guang thought for a long time and finally decided to bring someone with some brains.
Fang Chang looked flattered and decisively abandoned Lao Bai, who had a "hateful" look in his eyes, and trotted over.
Although I had agreed with Lao Bai before going online that we would study local methods of steelmaking together today, but steelmaking is not as fun as following Bo SS to do tasks.
Not to mention generous rewards.
Just the warm first-hand information was enough to tempt him!
“Good brother, wait for me to come back!”
“Get out and don’t come back.”
Without paying attention to the exchange between the two players, Chu Guang took off the two 5mm iron tube rifles on his back and threw them into the hands of Fang Chang and Ye Shi respectively.
At the same time, 20 rounds of ammunition were also distributed to them.
Don't expect these two rookies to be able to hit anyone with this shotgun without rifling. It would be good if they could fire two shots at critical moments to scare the opponent and support the scene.
What if you get hit?
Even if you are shot once, you will still gain blood.
Of course, it would be best if there was no fighting.
“The safety is on the right side of the trigger. Get familiar with the position, but don’t pick it with your hands unless I ask you to turn on the safety.”
Looking at the two players who were playing with the things in their hands excitedly, Chu Guang paused and continued.
“We will go to a nearby survivor base in a while to exchange some supplies needed by the outpost with the locals.”
“No matter what happens, you must obey my command and remember not to make any decisions without authorization, especially remember not to fire at will or perform hostile acts without authorization.”
“Remember, we represent Vault 404 as a whole.”
"understand?"
"Understood! Dear administrator," Fang Chang stood upright excitedly and gave a lame and non-standard military salute, "Your order is our mission!"
Ye Shi's reaction was a little slow, but his mind was still moving quickly, so he quickly imitated Fang Chang's movements and saluted.
“I am just like him!”
Chu Guang: “……”
Which novel did I learn this from?
It’s too embarrassing to read out!
However, as a manager, of course he cannot say this. His dominance over the players is, in a sense, positively related to the players' sense of involvement.
The more players identify with their identity as "vault dwellers", the more inclined they are to obey his orders rather than causing trouble.
“…Very good, very energetic!”
Chu Guang coughed slightly and looked seriously outside the nursing home.
“We need to carry 50 kilograms of dried bacon, 20 kilograms of smoked fish, 10 mutated hyena skins... and a pallet truck for transportation.”