Chapter 660: Smart players can not only draw the cakes themselves, but even take the initiative to bake the cakes.
The ring island is the largest man-made island in the southern archipelago. It is located at the gateway to the Baiyue Strait from the southern sea. It has a total area of about 30 square kilometers, but the island reef area is less than half.
It looks like a donut when viewed from the sky.
It is said that this island once belonged to a wealthy man during the Age of Prosperity, and he planned to turn it into a maritime tourist attraction.
Unfortunately, the sand blowing boat responsible for the construction had just had time to circle the outline of the island with sand. The three-year war suddenly broke out, and the construction of the island was forced to stop abruptly.
After the war, the survivors of Baiyue Province managed to restart the island building project and used construction debris and remaining equipment along the coast to widen the outline of the island.
Without the support of the post-war reconstruction committee, they spent nearly thirty years, bit by bit, like Foolish Old Man moving mountains, completing the work that only took half a year before the war, and around the 50th year of the Wasteland Era
All moved to this artificial island.
The merchants of Silver Moon Bay call this settlement on the ring-shaped island the Pearl of the Southern Sea, while the locals themselves call it Seagull Harbor.
It is said that seagulls guided them to this sacred place away from alien invasion.
Fifty years later, around the 100th year of the Wasteland Era, the population and living standards here experienced explosive growth, from less than a hundred people at the beginning to more than 100,000 today.
It is recorded in the data of Silver Moon Bay that the main reason for this phenomenon is that merchants from Silver Moon Bay discovered this port and brought them abundant food.
However, Sisi feels that the real situation may not be that simple.
The merchants in Silver Moon Bay will not provide food to the people here for free. The people here must have something worthy of their trip.
Pearls, shells, fish in the deep sea, and garbage along the coast would not fetch much if they were just these. Combined with the clues from Vault 70, everything can be justified.
Around the year 100 of the Wasteland Era, Vault 70 was lifted from the blockade and brought the technology of the Era of Prosperity to the local fishermen.
The development of science and technology has not only improved the efficiency of fishing, but also greatly improved the habitable area and living standards of the island.
Just like the impact of Vault 404 on Dawn City.
Seagull Port, which has mastered advanced technology, quickly became the most dazzling pearl in the southern seas, attracting merchants from Silver Moon Bay and Borneo Province.
Merchants from the Camelback Kingdom brought abundant food here, and the turbulent Borneo Province provided abundant labor. At the same time, the technology of Seagull Port was introduced to the two places along the trade routes.
This is also the main reason why the production technology of the Camelback Kingdom located in a corner of the desert is relatively ahead of other kingdoms in the Luoxia Province.
Just relying on Bai Ge, a researcher from the academy, no matter how much black technology is installed in his head, it is obviously not enough to upgrade a conservative feudal kingdom to the level of the Enlightenment period.
Following the two speedboats closely, Sisi, who was driving the Rourou, quickly saw the island standing abruptly on the blue waves.
I saw ships of different sizes moored next to the pier, and white seagulls fluttering their wings above the port, a peaceful and peaceful scene.
This is not the first time they have arrived here.
The last time I passed by here was at the end of last year.
There was no federation at that time. Each island in this sea area was in charge of its own affairs. This situation of strict defense was unprecedented.
"What is that ship doing?" Rourou, standing on the edge of the ship's side, looked curiously at a flatbed cargo ship not far away, which was throwing spiny black metal balls into the sea.
Tails held up the telescope and watched intently. "Oh! Mine!"
Rourou glanced at her in surprise. "Really?"
Tails raised his eyebrows and looked at her.
"Hey! What are you talking about? Does the tail look like a joke?" Rourou looked to the side with a subtle expression.
Is not it?
But to be honest, that thing does look a lot like a mine.
Standing in the bridge, Sisi frowned slightly as she looked at the cargo ship that had been converted into a warship. From the quiet and peaceful sea breeze, she smelled an unusual smell.
Cargo ship docks at the port.
The man who had shouted to the ship earlier grabbed the ladder and climbed up to the deck with great agility. He looked at Si Si coming down the gangway next to the bridge and said.
"I'm the coast patrol officer here, Muda." "Ssi, the helmsman of the Meat Meat cargo ship."
Mu Da didn't waste any time and asked straight to the point. "Where is your captain?"
"This one." Sisi pointed at Rourou and replied truthfully.
The latter smiled honestly and raised his huge palm, looking shy and reserved. "Hi."
"Hi" It seemed that he had never seen a talking bear before. Mu Da was obviously stunned, but he still subconsciously said hello. Taking advantage of his daze, Si Si took over the conversation and asked.
"Is there a war going on here?"
"Yes." Mu Da's Adam's apple moved. Mu Da withdrew his gaze from Rourou, looked at Si Si who asked the question and nodded. Seeing that his guess was confirmed, Si Si continued to ask.
"Who is your enemy?"
Muta didn't shy away from anything and said bluntly, "Shelter No. 70."
Rourou and Taitail looked at each other, and suddenly and in unison, they quickly covered each other's mouths. Muda looked at the reaction of the man and the bear in surprise.
"This is my first time seeing a talking bear. Are you from the North Pole?" Sisi: "The North Pole?"
Mu Da gestured with his hands and explained.
"I've read in a book that polar bears look like this."
After breaking free of the fleshy bear's paw, Taili suddenly said with a serious face.
"No, our Rourou is actually an albino brown bear."
"Is that so?" The man was stunned for a moment, with a slightly apologetic look in his eyes when he looked at the talking bear. Rourou glared at Taitail and communicated with his eyes.
Don't add some weird characters to me—no, bear characters!" Tails stuck out his tongue in embarrassment.
what is the relationship?'
While the two were making jokes, Sisi had been observing the changes in the expression on the man's face.
She keenly caught the fleeting apology, a thoughtful expression appeared on her eyebrows, and she suddenly spoke.
"We want to purchase some supplies here. What procedures are required?" Mu Dayan said concisely.
"There are no formalities. We welcome merchant ships that come here to do business, but as you can see, this is a special period. Please understand that we have to inspect the goods on your ship."
"No problem, come with me."
After saying that, Sisi took him straight into the cabin.
Looking at Mu Da who followed Sisi towards the cabin, Sesame walked to the tail side with some worry and asked in a low voice, "Let him see the cabin.
Dragging his index finger on his chin, Taili thought seriously for a moment and said with certainty. "Well, Taili thinks there should be no problem."
Rourou glanced at her curiously. "What's the reason?" Tails smiled slyly. "Pirate's intuition!"
Rourou: "!"
This reason is too casual!
Following the woman named Si Si into the cabin, Mu Da kept carefully observing the surroundings and the mercenary-looking crew members.
When he reached the bottom of the gangway and followed Sisi through the hatch into the lower cargo hold, he was immediately shocked by the sight in front of him.
The spacious cargo hold was densely packed with people, and at a rough count there were at least several hundred people. Seeing the shock in his eyes, Sis stood aside and continued.
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Si continued.
"People from the Yue tribe in Borneo Province, have you heard about what happened there?" Mu Da shook his head and looked at her and asked.
"What's wrong with not being there?" Sisi lowered his voice and continued.
"The Xilan Empire is systematically purging the Yue people in Borneo Province, snatching their property, and reducing them to slaves. If we leave them alone, they may have been shackled and sold to slave traders, just like the wasteland
Like most of the unlucky wastelanders out there."
Mu Da stared at those people carefully and found no slave shackles or any obvious marks on them.
The people in the cabin were also looking at him cautiously.
It seemed that he felt that the man in front of him would decide the fate of his group, and his eyes couldn't help but pray.
Mu Da also couldn't bear it.
However, sympathy is sympathy, and he could not let a group of refugees destroy the order of Seagull Harbor just because of such pale reasons as sympathy.
After all, it is just a small island of less than 30 square kilometers, and there are already nearly 100,000 survivors living on the island. "We welcome tourists, but -"
Seeing what he was thinking, Sisi asked, "But you haven't considered accepting so many people, right?"
Mu Da nodded silently and continued after a moment.
"This will cause us trouble, and we don't have that much extra space to accommodate these people." I guessed what he would say.
Sisi sighed and continued with a look of helplessness.
"I understand. We don't expect you to take over this trouble. But can you turn a blind eye to the people on the ship and allow us to purchase some supplies at the port? Please, we really can't find anyone around here except you.
People who are willing to take us in."
Mu Da was silent for a long time, seeming to be hesitating, but in the end his conscience prevailed and he nodded slowly. "Okay, but you have to promise us that you can only allow ten or twenty people to leave this ship at most.
If you don't want to cause trouble."
A relieved smile appeared on Sisi's face, and he extended his right hand to thank you. "Thank you, I promise you."
"You're welcome."
After holding her hand and shaking it, Mu Da let go, took one last look at the people in the cabin, turned around and walked towards the gangway.
"Wasteland OL" official website forum, player communication section.
After logging off, he hurriedly took a shower. Sis casually rubbed his head with a towel, then sat in front of the computer with wet hair, and updated what happened during the game time in a serial post.
"Big news! The map of the southern sea area is suspected to be a major update! The Southern Islands Federation and the No. 70 shelter force on the seabed have been newly added. The two sides are currently at war for unknown reasons. Ships entering the sea area will be interrogated by federal ships."
"Currently, we have obtained a docking permit at Seagull Port and plan to try to stay there for a while to find the precise coordinates and entrance of Vault 70."
"The port has a backlog of unsold goods that were affected by the war, including pearls, shells, and salvaged items from the seabed. Currently, the port is in urgent need of strategic materials such as rubber, polymer fibers, glyceryl trinitrate, sugar, and grains.
The price ranges from 20% to 50% higher than the average market price last month. It is recommended that trade flow players buy seabed salvage locally and bring it back to Silver Moon Bay for sale. The White Bear Knights Bank provides gold camels, silver coins, and dinars with preferential exchange rates.
Exchange service!」
"Also, ask if there are any friends in Silver Moon Bay or Oasis No. 4? We need to replenish some dry food and 155,20 ammunition. If you can help transport it to the Baiyue Strait, we can provide generous rewards!"
Considering that the planned private message did not mention that relevant information could be disclosed, Sisi hesitated and did not update the activation code in the post.
The post was just updated, and dozens of replies quickly popped up.
"Me me me!" "Rich woman
OK, OK, me!"
"Wait a minute, how big a boat do you need?"
"Do you want mercenaries? We have a hundred strength animals!" "Can we go by land? I don't have a boat."
"Stupid! You can just rent one!"
This "Outing" post has been updated since last year.
At that time, the White Bear Knights were still in the Petra Fortress, and they had just come into contact with White Pigeon and his "Little Red".
At that time, Sisi discovered that the content updated in the post would be automatically collected into the official setting collection and added with the creator's tag.
Since then, she has been updating her posts with information collected along the way, including local customs, cultural customs, etc.
In particular, she wrote almost all the information about Borneo Province, several large settlements and major ports in the official website settings.
Because of this, the alliance created an extra trade route to Borneo out of thin air. Many professional players make a lot of money by using cheap industrial products produced by the alliance to buy two-headed cows, leather and spices.
Made a fortune.
Having tasted the benefits of ocean trade, many players in the trade stream have collected this post.
In addition to the post owner Si Si himself who regularly updates what he has seen during his travels, there will occasionally be other players who follow the recommended routes and add some clues to the ruins, side tasks and interesting things they have been to but did not find in the post.
NPC or monster lair, etc.
When she first posted this post, she didn't expect that it would attract so much attention and spread into a leafy canopy like the branches of a big tree.
Although the White Bear Knights are not a serious corps, they are just a caravan registered in the Merchant Guild, but unknowingly this strange team was born because of a joke about "riding meat and meat", and now it has also gained popularity on the forum.
A considerable influence.
Although there is still a big gap compared to the big guys like Fang Chang, Mole, and Quanshui who all respond to everything, but as a player in the T2 echelon, he is already quite powerful.
Debt-eyed: "Speaking of which, Aguang suddenly updated the map thousands of kilometers away. I always feel something is wrong." Irena: "+1, this guy didn't even make an announcement to mention it. It's really not like his style.
(Funny)" Elf King Fugui: "Is there a possibility that the next expansion pack is over there. (Funny)"
Buried in peace: "Damn it! A dog planner doesn't have martial ethics!" Ah Nie: "Your account is gone."
Buried in peace: "(embarrassing)"
Seeing the increasingly lively discussion on the screen, with people helping to make suggestions, Sisi couldn't help but have a happy smile on his face. It would be great if some players could be attracted to this area.
Cooperating with other players has a much higher success rate than exploring alone, especially when far away from the alliance. At this moment, a familiar ID suddenly popped up in the post.
Tails: "Oh! Since everyone is so interested in the world beyond the sea, why don't we build our own port here! (Smirk)"
The moment he saw this line of news, Si was stunned.
Before she could come to her senses, dozens of posts instantly appeared at the bottom of the post. Don't be ridiculous: "What the fuck?"
Makabazi: "Really or not?!"
Tails: "Oh! Of course it's true! Tails has said what he said, and it's hard to catch up! In order to show sincerity, the White Bear Knights will first invest five million silver coins!"
Roshan Big Momo: "(stimulating)" Quit smoking: "6666!"
Ye Shi: "Sounds interesting, our Niu Ma Group is following. (Funny)"
Fang Chang: "It's indeed interesting. The Baiyue Strait is right in the middle of the east and west coasts of Central Continent. It would be outrageous to have such a good location without a port. Well, Brother Ye Shi has already raised his hand, so let's vote five hundred first.
It’s time to give it a try.”
Ye Shi: "Fuck! Are you serious?! (Shocked)"
Mole on the run in the canyon: "Our Skeleton Group is also following us!! Five million!" Elf King Fugui: "Damn it, when did we become so rich!"
Mole on the run in the canyon: "Hey, Duan
I made a small profit from playing games on Dianyun, and I will distribute the dividends to my brothers in a few months." Tail: "!!!Are you guys serious? Is it possible to invest in Cr? We urgently need foreign exchange! QAQ"
Fang Chang: "There's a problem! Come on, I'm optimistic about you. (Squints and smiles)" Crow Crow: "Can I vote for half a million? 0"
Tail: "Oh! No problem! The more, the merrier! Tail will make a contract to invest in Roumei Port soon! (//////)" Teng Teng: "Uh, I also want to invest a little bit, but can you change the name?
It doesn’t sound good, it just feels weird. (blushing)”
Tails: "Hey! Is it weird? Σ(A＇)"
I don’t know which floor I started from, the post is completely crooked.
No one was discussing the gameplay of the new map anymore. They were all discussing the name of this future sea pearl and where the port was photographed on the map.
For the alliance's first overseas business, players burst out with extraordinary enthusiasm.
Seeing that so many people were interested, Fang Chang simply suggested purchasing a civilian inflatable airship from Shuguang City and airlifting a batch of materials and personnel to the southern sea.
This guy seems to be really optimistic about the future economic potential of this area.
Some players with a background in civil engineering even proposed with great interest that they planned to take this flight to the local area for on-the-spot investigation and take some photos for study.
A rough prototype of an overseas infrastructure project worth hundreds of millions of silver coins emerged in this buzzing atmosphere.
Seeing the amount of investment that had exceeded the 30 million silver coin mark and was still growing rapidly, Sisi, who was sitting in front of the computer, was completely stunned.
At first, she just planned to find an opportunity to make a small hole in the boat, and then use the excuse of repairing the boat to strand Xu Tuzhi at the port of the roundabout island. Or if it didn't work, she could wait for ten days and a half until they completed the task.
Go again.
Unexpectedly, her layout is still small.
This guy Ah Wei just took pictures of people’s homes! But--
This isn't necessarily a bad idea.
Although the Humpback Kingdom's colonization plan for Baiyue Province ended in failure, it does not mean that they will repeat the mistakes of those people.
At least in terms of biotechnology alone, the alliance's reserves are more than one rank higher than those of the Hump Kingdom!
Not to mention that with the current huge industrial capacity of the alliance, it is fully capable of supporting the construction of an overseas colonial port! The more Sisi thought about it, the more excited he became, and his eyes could not help but shine.
"Good guy, you can do it, Awei!"
At this moment, she didn't know that a certain dog planner in another world couldn't help but blurt out "good guy" after seeing this amazing idea.
Today's players are not only able to draw cakes for themselves, they have even learned to take the initiative to bake cakes for them. Is this considered as using a "14-day experience card" to buy a settlement for nothing?
This business is insanely profitable!--
(Thanks to the leader of "20hhhhhhhhhh" for the reward!!!)