After the order was given, the survivors quickly dismantled their shacks and headed to the brick factory in the northwest.

Although they had come from there before, and now they had been tossed back, no one had any complaints about the manager's arrangement.

It's a lucky thing to get out of the marauder's dungeon alive, not to mention being able to dress and be well fed.

Seeing this battle, Fang Chang and Lao Bai, who were measuring the land in the brick kiln, stopped their work in a daze, walked in front of the manager and asked.

"Dear Administrator, may I ask who these people ......?"

Chu Guang said without hesitation.

"These people are all survivors who have been rescued by us, and in order to repay us for saving our lives, they are willing to support our construction!"

The faces of Fang Chang and Lao Bai suddenly appeared with joy.

Players are going to work on new quests, and they are worried that there is no one to do the coolies, and this labor can be said to solve their urgent needs.

"And how much do we need to pay them?"

In fact, they don't have to pay their salaries.

However, since the players took the initiative to ask for it, Chu Guang thought for a moment and said out of consideration for authenticity.

"1 silver coin per person per day, I will deduct this expenditure directly from your account, you just need to make sure that they don't go hungry and don't freeze to death."

"Also, pay attention to construction safety, I don't want to cause workers to be attrition due to poor working conditions. This will not only affect the prestige of our region, but will also delay production. ”

"In the event of casualties, 100 silver coins will be deducted from each as a pension."

Of course, this pension cannot be paid to NPCs, but is only a constraint at a set level.

Moreover, these aborigines are not uncommon with these metal pieces, and for them, such a gadget with no recycling value is better than giving a piece of meat.

As he spoke, Chu Guang sent the pre-edited task to Lao Bai through his VM.

Although it is a bit far from the outpost, it does not affect the point-to-point information transfer between the two VM devices.

After triggering the quest to hire NPC workers, the Niuma Brick Factory will automatically spend 23 credits per day from its account as the "wages" of these employees.

Compared to the player's daily salary of at least 10 credits, it can be said that it is very cheap to hire these NPCs to do the work.

As soon as Fang Chang and Lao Bai combined, they immediately happily agreed.

Of course, in order to prevent these players from being less than himself, Chu Guang immediately added a sentence later.

"The minimum food standard per person per day is one pound of barley, of course, this is only the minimum nutritional standard. If you want them to work harder, you can buy more meat and fish, or even go to the city to get some game for them. ”

Can feed NPCs!

Boy.

This game is not only a management element, but also a cultivation element.

Fang Chang and Lao Bai's eyes lit up, and they immediately swore an oath.

"Don't worry, manager, we'll feed the workers to the brim!"

"That's right! Even if I'm hungry myself, I won't let them go hungry! ”

Emmm……

It doesn't have to be that exaggerated.

Eating too much is not good for work, and outposts are examples of this.

However, Chu Guang didn't say anything.

The exploration itself is also part of the fun of the game.

These players will naturally find a suitable path, and they only need to grasp the general direction.

Manipulating everyone's life is neither realistic nor necessary.

……

The 23 survivors settled in the brick factory, changing their status from outcasts to bricklayers at the outpost.

They set up camp very quickly, and it took less than an hour to reproduce the shack they had made in front of the south gate.

Although it looks a little simple, there is nothing wrong with sheltering from the wind and rain.

For survivors in the wasteland, quickly building a shelter that can protect them from the wind and rain is almost a must-have talent.

But players are not very good at it.

Even the garbage gentleman who claims to be "picking up garbage level 99" has never picked up garbage in reality, and at most he has gone downstairs to take out the garbage.

Seeing that these survivors had built their shacks, Chu Guang found Zhao Rat and a survivor from outside Qingquan City, gave them a VM dedicated to NPCs, and appointed them as foremen, responsible for communicating with the players.

If other survivors have any opinions, report them to the player as soon as possible, and in special cases, you can use the "mission system" to ask the player for help.

However, the task rewards of different NPCs are all limited by fixed gears, and players cannot be given money at will.

This is similar to other MM games.

Chu Guang set a stall for the two foremen at a maximum of 2 silver coins, which could only be released once every 72 hours. The lowest grade is 5 copper coins, and the CD time is 24 hours.

If there are any difficulties in life, such as a shed leaking rain and need fuel, you can issue the lowest level of missions to the player. If someone is sick or injured, you can post a task with the highest level of reward.

Of course, Chu Guang didn't tell these NPCs the name of the "quest system" and its true meaning, but only told them in the abstract how to use these functions cautiously and ask for reasonable help from those "omnipotent" blue coats.

As with other NPCs, every time a quest is posted and a conversation is made with the player, a record is left in the VM.

Chu Guang would ask Luca to come over every once in a while, collect these data with VM, bring them back to the outpost for archiving, and review the data with the assistance of AI.

With only this data, Chu Guang can easily grasp what kind of communication and interaction the players and aborigines have had, and it is also easy to check whether these NPCs have released some tasks that "do not match their own personalities and identities".

If there is, Chu Guang will deal with that "BUG".

"There will definitely be loopholes in the rules that have just been implemented, and it just so happens that there are few people in the closed beta stage, so you can slowly try and make mistakes."

Looking at the distant back, Chu Guang touched his chin and thought.

“…… By the time it comes to the beta stage, it should be possible to form a relatively complete NPC and player interaction system. ”

Well.

It's me!

After arranging everything here, Chu Guang left satisfied.

……

6 p.m. wasteland time.

After Lao Bai went offline, he immediately went to the forum to open a post.

"Nicknamed Waiha! Niuma brick factory will be officially open from tomorrow! There are now opening big reward activities, and all orders placed tomorrow will be 9% off! What are gamers waiting for who need to build a house? Hurry up and place your order! ”

At this moment, it is 6 o'clock in the morning.

There are usually no people on the forums at this time, but the official website of "Wasteland Online" is the opposite, and it usually has the most people on this point.

Scrambled eggs with tomatoes: "What is your daily production capacity?" ”

Lao Bai: "Not much, not much, there is no problem with a daily output of one or two thousand yuan at present, and strive to achieve a daily output of tens of thousands before the end of the month!" (bared teeth)"

Scrambled eggs with tomatoes: "Awesome!!" ”

Professor Yang of the Thunder and Lightning Method: "Boss, give me a ton!" ”

Hurricane: "Our bricks are not sold by the ton, the specifications and sizes are fixed, they are all sold by the block, 100 standard bricks and 1 silver coin." ”

Night Ten: "Brother Feng is honest and honest, what kind of calf are you talking to Professor Yang, he doesn't even have the qualifications for the closed beta." (Funny)"

Ye Ao Nai me: "Laugh, 100 bricks for silver coins?" Please, take a pen and do the math. It takes hundreds of millions of bricks to build a house, to say the least, right? Not to mention, our family's two-story small bungalow cost 500 million yuan, and it costs millions of silver coins to build a house? I heard that you only have single digits of silver coins for a mission? Hehe, your game is quite realistic. ”

Irena: "Big brother, is your family's name called the Forbidden City?" And then you have to ask for a ticket when you go back? (Funny)"

Leave people under the knife: "Hahaha, take a bar, the Forbidden City is not used so much, it is only 80 million yuan." However, the specifications of that kind of slurry brick are much larger. ”

Irena: "I'll just say it casually. (Funny)"

The toilet with an area of 2.5*2m in the suite is 3 meters high, and the wall area is 27 square meters. 18cm wall 96 bricks, 2600 bricks are more than enough.

Even if most players choose to share a house, and build a larger and higher townhouse together, there will not be more than 5,000 bricks per person.

100 bricks and one silver coin, 50 silver coins per person, this price is still very reasonable.

In the later stage, the price of bricks may increase if the demand is large, but the increase and decrease are limited to 100%, unless the NPC warehouse in charge of the price adjusts the base value, it will rise to a maximum of 2 silver coins.

After all, if it is a little more expensive, everyone will run to think about building a house with wood, and the gain will outweigh the loss.

Brother Ye Ao is still the same, as unruly and unruly as his ID, he runs away after pretending to be forced, and no one ignores him.

After all, it's a version of the pet, and everyone doesn't care, and continues the topic just now.

Picking up garbage level 99: "Boss Bai, I'm a newcomer, can I get credit if I don't have money?" ”

Lao Bai: "No, brother, we are also part-time workers, and the majority of the shares are in the shelter collective." But it doesn't matter if you don't have money, welcome to come to the brick factory to play, we suddenly have a bunch of NPCs here, which is quite interesting. ”

Yashi: "Indeed, if you give them prey, they will not only say thank you to you, but they will immediately set up a large pot to stew the prey, and then give you the best leg meat and the first bowl of broth. These NPCs are like alive, hey, I've played so many games, but this one, the interaction between the player and the NPC is the most comfortable I've ever seen, and the details are the most awesome! ”

Picking up trash level 99: "? Is it so hanging? Wait, did you have NPCs there that we rescued from the Marauders? ”

Fang Chang: "Yes." ”

Construction site boy with bricks: "Cow batch!! The front and back are actually connected! ”

The mole in the canyon is on the run: "Envy cries!" We're still working on NPCs, and you're all starting to summon them! ”

Ward is angry who Levine: "Shady! I don't care, we have to have it in our steel mills! Or it's shady! (Crazy)"

WC really has mosquitoes: "Shady! Goblin Tech needs NPCs too! ”

Night Ten: "Go, go, do you want an NPC with a hammer to use as a human bomb?" I advise you to be a human being. ”

Fang Chang: "Ahem, it's actually not as exaggerated as you think, most of these NPCs can't interact, and they will say 'thank you', 'yes', 'obey', and 'bricklayer' or something." I took a closer look and found that only NPCs with VM devices were able to interact in the true sense of the word, and the rest didn't look very smart. ”

Canyon Fugitive Mole: "Well, that's pretty much what I thought, so it would make a little more sense." If all NPCs could interact, the game's servers would be awesome. ”

Now there are few people, just a cow and horse brick factory.

When the number of players comes up in the later stage, even if the ratio of NPCs to players is 1:10, it will be enough for this server to explode.

Tempest: "...... I think virtual reality technology alone is strong enough. ”

Canyon Fugitive Mole: "Let's not talk about that, have you tried to communicate with the NPC who can interact?" Did any special dialogue trigger? Or a hidden mission or something? ”

Fang Chang: "...... Hidden missions? ”

Canyon Fugitive Mole: "That's right! Normally, the kind of NPCs with a lot of text usually have hidden tasks to do, don't they? Aren't all those virtual reality online games written like this, haven't you all tried it? ”

Fang Chang was silent for a long time before replying to a post.

“…… Well, of course I tried, but it doesn't seem to mean to trigger the task? They just burn bricks, and the task given to us by the manager is to let them repair the brick kiln. ”

Canyon Fugitive Mole: "Hey, you guys still lack imagination! This kind of MM, not to mention the role of the foreman, even an old hen at the gate of the novice village, as long as the clucking sound is different from others, it may be a hidden boss! Forget it, it's useless to talk to you so much, I'll go online and try it myself in a while. ”

Fang Chang: "...... I warn, don't mess around, it's a big problem that affects the production of our brick factory! ”

Canyon on the run mole: "Hehe, no, no, I'm just going to talk to him!" Make sure you don't touch your NPCs! ”

Tail: "Oh, that sounds interesting, with a tail!" ”

Siss: "Oh, rush! ”

……

Ever since he was thrown into the dungeon by the marauders that day, Zhao Rat never thought that he would one day be able to come out of the dungeon alive.

To be honest, life now is like a dream for him.

Comfortable bedding, warm braziers, abundant food, only need to work 16 hours a day, and the rest of the time is their own.

Not only that, but those blue coats with great skills can occasionally catch a game or two and give them meat.

Truth be told, every time he took the game from the shelter dwellers, Zhao Rat felt flattered.

They've seen how ruthless these people are.

Even those marauders were like chickens in front of them, and they didn't dare to take a breath. It was the first time Zhao Rat had seen those fierce and vicious demons with such a frightened expression on their faces.

In his mind, the predator was already at the top of the food chain.

"Hey, what's your name?"

Hearing the shelter resident talking to him, Zhao Rat immediately stopped, glanced at the VM on his left arm skillfully, and said in an unstandard pronunciation.

"Hello, my name is Zhao Mouse, and I am the foreman here, how can I help you?"

These strange pinyin were taught to them by old Luca the other day. It is not difficult to learn the pronunciation of each phonetic transcription, but it is a little difficult to use.

Hearing him speak, the surrounding shelter residents instantly became excited.

"He can talk!"

"Sure enough, we can interact!"

"Dude, can you call out to Ollie? Please. ”

"Get out! Dude, don't listen to him. Do you have any unspeakable secrets? Tell us and we'll help you out! ”

Zhao Rat looked dazed.

His VM didn't respond, neither telling him what the people were talking about or how to answer.

He remained silent at the request of the Administrator, but the inhabitants of the Vault surrounded him relentlessly, babbling and babbling.

Zhao Rat was a little flustered.

He feared that by ignoring these people's actions, he would anger them and lead to death.

After all, this is an era when human life is thinner than paper.

He didn't think that his life was more precious than the people in front of him.

At this moment, Zhao Rat suddenly remembered another sentence that the manager had told him when he left.

If the Vault dwellers don't walk around him, press the gray circle button in the upper right corner of the screen and pronounce the line of pinyin that appears on the screen.

Not daring to hesitate, Zhao Rat immediately complied.

Swallowing his saliva, he said with a stiff expression.

"My worker brothers are starving, we need a fish, can you help us?"

Hearing this, the players gathered around were instantly excited, and they almost cheered.

"Oh oh! It's done! ”

"Is the key word 'mission'? Well, next time try using a different syntax and see if it triggers a similar effect. ”

"The quest requires fish, right? Okay! ”

"It shows up on my VM! I'll pick it up! How is the reward only 5 copper coins? ”

"Maybe part of it is favorability? Is a fish for 5 copper coins a loss? Which of you has ever sold fish? ”

"Whatever, I took the task, any fish can be, right? Let's go to the lake fisherman and steal one! ”

“gogogo！”

Zhao didn't know what he meant by what he said, and he didn't understand the players' answers, but it didn't take long for him to get a fish.

And this fish is not small, it is as long as an arm, and the vigorous tail of the fish keeps beating left and right, and the water splashes everywhere.

Zhao Rat swallowed again.

This time it's gluttonous.

But having said that, he still didn't forget the manager's teachings, and quickly pressed the green tick on the VM to read out the words displayed on the screen.

"On behalf of the workers, I thank you and have a great day, generous sir, this fish has been of great help!"

"We don't have any more trouble for you to help with, or can you come back tomorrow?"

Hearing this, the players around them left with a disappointed face.

That same evening.

Holding the steaming fish soup in his hand and eating with his co-workers, Zhao Rat thought about it for a long time and didn't understand what he said at that time to disappoint these blue coats like that.

But he didn't dare to ask more.

Those blue coats are big shots.

The only one who can control them is the manager who always carries a hammer on his back.

The Administrator has repeatedly ordered them not to reveal any clues about the mission system, and they are not to communicate with the Vault residents about this matter.

Where did Zhao Rat dare to disobey the order of that adult, he swore that he would not reveal a word even if he died.

Anyway, this fish stew is delicious, and when you cook it with a few pine cones and salt, it's delicious.

After doing this bowl of fish soup in their hands, everyone has more strength to work!