Chapter 45: The Town of Red River, which does not produce grain

What Chu Guang didn't expect was that there were a lot of good things on the back of this cow.

For example, the 5-shot "Rider" revolving rifle placed on top.

It has a 7mm caliber and two simple rifling wires in the barrel, which can keep the trajectory of the fired bullet basically stable for 50 meters.

In particular, the simple spring-loaded casing structure is not only very easy to maintain, but also quite reliable in battle, even if there is an accident such as jamming and duds, there is no need to worry, you only need to flick the wheel lightly to continue shooting.

The barrel can still be used as a pistol, but the accuracy depends on the situation.

Of course, what satisfied Chu Guang the most was the rate of fire of this thing.

Although it is a semi-automatic design, as long as the speed of pulling the trigger is fast enough, it is not a problem to shoot six bullets in a short period of time to form a suppressive effect!

It can be said that it is 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 the sides of the two-headed ox.

When I opened it, it was stuffed with a lot of coins.

These coins are brass-colored and silvery-white, and I don't know what material they used, but they didn't rust. The brass-colored coins look slightly smaller, the silver-white ones are slightly larger, and the denominations are 1 and 10, respectively, corresponding to the value of the coin.

"Pre-war currency? Not right......"

Picking up a coin, Chu Guang flipped it to the back, and quickly recognized the small words printed on it-

【Galaxy Game City】

Boy.

It's actually in-game currency.

"Where did you get this?"

Throwing the coin back into the sack, Chu Guang glanced up and down at the merchant surnamed Sun, and asked with a nervous expression on his face.

Hearing Chu Guang's inquiry, Sun Shiqi replied honestly.

"I found these coins in the basement of an arcade, and I thought I should be able to smelt some copper and steel, so I carried them."

Caravans rarely stop looting, and usually trade with local scavengers, which is beneficial to both parties and avoids potential conflicts.

But nothing feels like that, just as the poor mercenary occasionally makes a cameo appearance as a raider raiding a house, the cash-shy merchant will of course take the risk of picking up the trash himself.

For example, the businessman in front of him has obviously not been in this business for a long time, and he can't figure out that the two-headed cow behind him was bought by him not long ago.

"Is there anything else there?" Chu Guang asked.

Sun Shiqi was stunned and nodded subconsciously.

"It seems that there are two more cabinets...... There are probably four or five more sacks like this. ”

"Good, I'll take it all."

Chu Guang unloaded the two sacks from the cow's back, looked at Sun Shiqi and said.

"These two sacks and the coins in them are even if you compensate us. Next time I'm here, remember to bring all the remaining coins, I want to think about it...... For every hundred kilograms of coins, how about I give you four kilograms of air-dried meat? ”

One hundred kilograms, which is about the size of a sack, can have about 30,000 to 40,000 coins.

Doing business pays attention to the long stream, and Chu Guang didn't want to knock the bamboo too hard, so he picked these two sacks, and it just so happened that he was also useful for taking this thing.

And......

Since he planned to let this person go, Chu Guang didn't want to show the need for weapons too obviously.

Obviously, he didn't expect that the person in front of him was actually interested in these waste products, Sun Shiqi's face was full of surprise, but he didn't dare to show it too obviously, so he nodded and said quickly.

"No problem! I'll wear them all next time I need them as long as you need them! ”

He didn't care about the man in front of him, what was the use of taking these coins. Maybe it's for feelings? Maybe it's something else? These old popsicles are hard to figure out.

He had originally planned to drag these coins to Boulder City to be sold as copper and steel, but in fact, they couldn't sell much chips.

If you can use them to open a refuge market, this deal will not be a loss!

And if you lighten some weight in advance, the next road will be easier for him.

In addition to the two sacks of coins, Chu Guang, the five revolver rifles he had previously fancied, also kept them, and also bought the 200 rounds of 7mm ammunition he carried.

In exchange, he offered the merchant a total of 50 kilograms of bacon and 10 kilograms of smoked fish.

Although there were many misunderstandings in the initial contact between the two sides, on the whole, the results were satisfactory to both sides.

Chu Guang got what he wanted, and the merchant surnamed Sun also got the trading rights and grain he needed.

Survivors living in Qingquan City can hardly 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, there is a large chemical industry base and a landfill in the area.

Since these facilities were left unmaintained after the war, the stocks were leaked, so that the local soil was heavily polluted, especially with excessive levels of heavy metals, and widespread desertification and compaction, which have not yet been completely restored by nature.

Not only that, due to the fragility of the ecosystem, the local xenospecies are mainly scavengers and arthropods.

As a result of this extreme situation, the local survivors have little arable land to use and find it difficult to make a living by hunting.

Interestingly, however, the landfill, which had been protested by locals more than once before the war, became the greatest asset to the local survivors in the two centuries since the end of the nuclear war.

Nearly half a century of garbage is buried there, and a large part of it has not had time to degrade.

In today's wasteland, the garbage buried there has become another form of "unnatural deposit" and has contributed to a thriving mining, archaeology, and trade.

"But what do you eat?" After listening to Sun Shiqi's description, Chu Guang couldn't help but ask, "Is it all about imports?" ”

The price of food must not rise to the sky!

"Of course, it can't all be imported, and although there are no reindeer and hyenas, many mutant moles and rats can be eaten. In addition to this, we also catch some less dangerous insects and use them to make protein extracts, feed livestock, or make things like nutritional pastes...... It's like this thing. ”

As he spoke, Sun Shiqi took out a sealed glass jar from the package carried on the back of the two-headed cow, which contained a black and swarthy plastic substance.

It looks a bit like turtle jelly.

When he was rummaging through the package before, Chu Guang had seen this thing, but he didn't understand what it was for, so he didn't care about it.

I didn't expect it to be food.

"What is this made of?"

Sun Shiqi smiled and said.

"Mutant cockroaches."

Chu Guang: "......"

Day!

He felt like he could no longer look directly at the turtle jelly.

"Although it is the protein and oil extracted from the mutant cockroach, after several repeated processes such as boiling, filtering, drying, grinding, soaking, and collecting juice, this thing actually has nothing to do with cockroaches, and is full of protein...... Want to come a little? ”

Chu Guang said with a straight face.

"No need."

He would rather starve to death than accept eating such a thing.

But......

Listening to this guy, the cost of this food seems to be low?

Mutant cockroaches are very common everywhere, and the cockroaches in Qingquan City will definitely have much less heavy metal content than in Honghe Town.

When necessary, it seems like a good choice to use this nourishment as an emergency ration for players?

Regarding whether to be a person, Chu Guang fell into a long thought.

But at this moment, he suddenly thought of something else.

"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 then asked.

"Do you have a way to deal with leeches?"

"Leeches?" Sun Shiqi was stunned, "You mean...... That kind of mutant leech? ”

"Hmm."

Seeing Chu Guang nodding, Sun Shiqi thought for a moment, and his expression was a little embarrassed.

"That kind of thing...... It's quite rare in Red River Town, probably because there are more ants there. ”

Chu Guang frowned and asked.

"Ants?"

Sun Shiqi nodded and continued.

"Well, we have a xenomorph called the Ironback Ant, which is about the size of a thumb and can grow up to the size of a fist. The carapace is hard, corrosion-resistant, and eats almost anything, and most mollusks are no match for them. ”

Chu Guang asked.

"Can you bring me a few next time?"

Sun Shiqi said with a smile.

"No problem! Wrap it up on me! ”

After the deal was completed, the businessman, surnamed Sun, did not stay here for too long, but chose to continue on his way.

Chu Guang didn't keep him, but only reminded him that there was a mutant camp near 76th Street, and that there were traces of marauder activity in the northern direction of the wetland park, and then wished him a smooth journey.

The figure of the two-headed cow gradually disappeared into the woods.

The players who watched him leave were all talking.

"That guy was really a businessman just now!"

"Gan, it's good I didn't beat him."

"It should be okay to beat it, and you can keep all his things."

"That's true, but what if the merchant dies and doesn't brush it?"

"It's unlikely that you won't brush it if you're dead, but maybe the expansion pack for the coming winter is really possible that there is only such a businessman. And haven't you heard the planner, the wasteland OL claims to build an economic system that can completely and truly reflect the relationship between supply and demand. If this is not a big pie drawn, a long line to catch a big fish is the right solution! ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ It seems to make some sense. ”

Ignoring the players' discussions, Chu Guang's mind at this moment was completely on those two sacks of game coins.

He had a bold idea.

If plastic chips can be used as a general equivalent, why not metal money?

These two sacks of coins are sixty or seventy thousand, and it won't be long before the merchant surnamed Sun can get him a lot of them.

On the scale of less than five hundred people, these coins are more than enough!

Brass coins are considered copper coins, and silver-white coins are silver coins, which are worth 10 to 1.

The original contribution points are incorporated into the new honor system, which can be used to purchase status, titles, and even private land.

At the same time, the mercenary, caravan, guild, and clan systems that will be launched in the future will also be linked to contribution points. Only players who contribute enough are eligible to lead other players.

This not only strengthens the management, but also greatly restricts the players who are engaged in things.

After all, the higher the value of a player's account, the more they know how to cherish their hard-won gaming qualifications, and the more inclined they are to invest more liver and spontaneously maintain order in the game.

It's fun to do things.

And that's human nature.

Alone dragging two sacks weighing nearly a hundred kilograms back to the shelter, Chu Guang then found an empty room without the activation of the cultivation pod, and leaned the sack against the corner of the wall.

Then, he turned around and returned to the resident hall, turned on the computer, logged in to the official website backend, and began to edit the title.

[Wasteland OL Sealed Beta Server alpha0.3 Update Announcement: Major Economic System Adjustments! ] 】

While typing down this line, Chu Guang opened his document.

I copied a lot of brilliant ideas in the forum before.

Now it's ready to use......