Outpost, West Gate.

Inside a wooden barn.

A behemoth lay on the ground, its huge tail curled up in a ball, its amber pupils roaming around lazily.

As long as they are a wasteland native to this continent, whether they are awakened or ordinary people, they will instinctively feel fear when they see this thing, and they will naturally feel a heartfelt admiration for the strong man who can defeat and subdue this thing.

As one of the beings at the top of the food chain in the wasteland, Deathclaws are definitely T1 or even T0 in terms of strength, speed, stealth, and physique.

It's so strong to be able to tie this thing down with a few chains and a collar!

But......

The deathclaw had obviously been fed some salted fish, the ferocity in its eyes had obviously been replaced by laziness, and its temper was not as irritable as it had been before it had been here.

What's the use of being vicious?

Most people here aren't very afraid of it.

Especially the human who was dressed as an iron lump.

Every time you feed it, it will exude a powerful aura on its body, making it feel ...... from the heart Fear?

Deathclaw's IQ isn't high, but that's only relative to humans.

Compared to small animals such as hyenas, jackals, and brown bears, it is still smarter, and its mind can reach the level of primate cubs.

It is precisely for this reason that the feeling of fear is so obvious.

Whenever it behaves unkindly, or even just behaves, the feeling of its brain being frozen makes its limbs stiffen and tremble.

Conversely, if it behaves docile enough, the man will feed it a few more rats or hyenas.

Over time, it has figured out a new way to survive.

Recently, the human has played a new trick by calling it "Niko" every time it feeds it, and although it is not known what this call means, the tin can that scares the lizard will happily reward it if it shows a response.

Who cares?

Maybe it's the name of the human.

Niko doesn't really care about things that can't be understood, and for it, for it to abandon its wild nature, a full nap is all it needs.

Crawling on the ground, it closed its eyes, intending to take a nap before lunch.

However, at this moment, a group of noisy voices disturbed its sleep.

Niko opened her eyes, and saw a small bug followed by a couple of blue coats, noisily walking towards her.

As he walked forward, the garbage gentleman bragged to a few of his friends in the herd.

“…… Don't blow it, don't blow it, you don't know it anymore, you feel like you're a strong batch! Not to mention a mere dead worm, it's okay for Lao Tzu to slap the dead mother nest! ”

Night Ten suddenly spoke.

"Speaking of which, when does the lizard's Q period come?"

Lao Bai thought for a while and said.

"It's like spring."

Quit smoking and ask curiously.

"Do you think that dead claw will courtship the garbage king?"

Scrambled eggs with tomatoes touch his chin and think.

"I don't know, after all, this guy is all open."

Everyone was unanimously optimistic about this pair, only the garbage gentleman slurred his tongue.

"You people, what a dirty mind! Play a game every day CPDD, you can't be a little purer! ”

Night Ten said with a hippie smile.

"Yes, you can have a little brother, and you are very tough when you speak."

was poked in the sore spot, and the garbage gentleman glared at him in annoyance.

"Fuck off!"

Of course, the garbage gentleman who came here didn't come here for courtship.

Although he has the body of a lizard, he is still a human mentally, and he is still too heavy to stick to reptiles.

Not to mention that it doesn't have that either.

Xenomorph sequences, whether lizards or rats, are all "eunuchs" without exception. Maybe he thought it was too curious, and the operator simply didn't build the model that he should have.

However, in the eyes of Junjun, this is not a big deal.

Game.

Strong is enough, as for nothing else, it doesn't matter!

How to prove yourself strong?

For lizards, the most direct way is, of course, to gain the recognition of their kind, especially the females of their kind.

Amber pupils looked through the wooden shed.

Seeing that the beast noticed him, the garbage king held his breath and stared at it deadly, releasing his "aura".

Two pairs of eyes, one big and one small, stared at each other like this, and it took about half a minute.

Lying in the wooden shed, Niko didn't know if she understood what he meant, and let out a sneering snort, blowing up a few straws and landing at the garbage king's feet.

The huge tail shifted to a different steering wheel, and the amber pupils closed nonchalantly, ignoring it.

"Poof-hahahaha!"

I couldn't hold back when I quit smoking, and I laughed out loud.

Although the rest of the people did not smile, their faces also invariably floated with subtlety.

Junjun's face turned red and he defended himself.

"It could be sleepy."

"Okay, okay, forget the garbage king," Fang Chang patted his tail distressedly, "Let's go to Yuanxi Town to brush up on materials, be good." ”

With the help of taster Lao Na, she recently developed a method for making yokai meat with scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Just sprinkle some buffalo grass powder with some buffalo grass powder while marinating, and you can get rid of the unpleasant smell of blood and water, and make the monster meat less unpalatable.

Fry until golden brown on both sides, sprinkle some pine nut wine and chopped croissant potato stems, which is not only delicious in the world, but also provides a buff bonus of "5% metabolism and 7% constitution".

Since the texture is similar to beef, and it can provide buff bonuses, the demand for hunting monsters in the hunter guild has increased recently.

Tempest, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke.

"I've heard that female lizards raise their tails when they are courting."

Quit smoking: "That means you didn't like it?" ”

Scrambled eggs with tomatoes are interesting to ask.

"Where's the male lizard?"

Tempest: "I remember wagging its tail." ”

The most cultured person here is Professor Feng.

Ye Shi suddenly smiled and looked at the garbage king.

"Brother, or ...... Let's try? ”

Trash: "Get out!" ”

It was embarrassing to try.

Wouldn't it be even more embarrassing!

Although the attribute is only 3, he is not stupid!

Tempest pinched his chin and thought, and suddenly spoke.

"By the way, there's actually one thing I've always cared about."

Yesterday he looked up information about lizards for hours, but he didn't understand it.

Being targeted by Professor Tempest, Trash-kun always has a sense of foreboding.

This guy is kind of targeting him today......

“…… What do you care about? ”

"I remember before...... Didn't you tell me you had four intelligences? I haven't woken up yet," Tempest wondered, "Why did it become less after awakening?" ”

Quit Smoking looked at the garbage gentleman in surprise.

"And this?"

Trash-kun coughed dryly and subtly looked away.

"Don't worry about these details...... Aren't you going to Yuanxi Town? Let's go, you won't be able to catch the car if it's late. ”

"There are 9 attribute points from LV0 to LV9, and my intelligence hasn't increased at all, so I guess I'm embarrassed to talk about it," Fang Chang patted Hurricane's shoulder, sighed and said, "Understand." ”

Trash: "@%¥! ”

……

Three days have passed since the end of the wave.

The spore clouds that have gathered in the northern suburbs are fading at a rate visible to the naked eye, and the morale of the survivors in the northern suburbs is at an all-time high.

This morale is not evident in the players.

After all, in other games like Azeroth, Skyrim, or Hyrule, they've already saved the world countless times.

A city, too small for them.

Brood?

Evolutionary?

It's just a LV10~20 level main story boss.

However, for the survivors living in Qingquan City, especially in the northern suburbs, defeating the tide has a very different meaning.

In the eyes of the vast majority of the survivors of Clear Springs City, the wave is an existence that only Boulder City can deal with.

When the gray-green fog fills the air, the vast majority of people have no choice but to avoid dangerous urban areas, or cut back on travel, huddle at home and pray for the tide to end soon.

Those blue coats from Vault 404 have done things they once couldn't even think of, and they have even solved the wave faster than Boulder City!

The megalomaniacs who live in the walls?

That's it!

……

In the outpost, at this moment, it is full of lights, and it is lively like a festival.

Since the Spring Festival and the new version are coming soon, and the previous victory has not had time to celebrate, Chu Guang decided to celebrate three things together, and set the celebration on the first day of the B round of testing.

Culinary cuisine is a traditional preservation item of Vault 404.

It's the same with this celebration.

Players and NPCs will not only be able to enter the Chef's Hall of Fame with their teammates, but also have the opportunity to see their creations in the NPC's shop and earn a lot of event points.

Many combat pro players ran to the Long Farm early in the morning, where they waited in line for the shuttle bus to Yuanxi Town, and couldn't wait to return on the hour for the magical beasts.

Life professional players are not idle, some go fishing, some go to pick mushrooms, and some go to the fields to catch toads, and the whole forum is full of local flavor.

Especially now that the number of over-ear camera equipment is gradually rising, the number of shelters has reached 200, and Chu Guang has opened it for players to buy.

As long as the contribution points reach the average citizen and pay 500 silver coins, you can unlock the function of "game screenshots" + "instant messaging" from the manager assistant Xiaoqi.

Once you have a headset, you will not only be able to communicate with players in your VM's friends list remotely, but you will also be able to sync "compliant" photos to your forum account.

Many cloud players on the forum also feasted their eyes and saw a lot of magical animals that do not exist in reality.

In addition to the players who caught the ingredients themselves, others set their sights on the trading posts of the Long Farm, and the passing merchants.

Occasionally, exotic traders bring specialties from neighbouring provinces, such as dried lizards, canned fruit and sugar from the Nishikigawa province in the south, or sawtooth tiger meat, yak milk and colourful mineral salt from the north.

These traders were very pleased with the goods of the Long Farm, especially the finely crafted copper-shelled bullets, which often only needed two or three magazines to exchange for a whole box of hundreds of kilograms of goods.

And those bullets are just mass-produced on the assembly line, and the cost can scare these wastelanders to death.

In addition to the food, the players did not forget to change the New Year's skin for their hometown.

In particular, the life professional players who are mainly active in the outpost area have consciously pasted the buildings around the quality square with festive paper cuts.

Not only that, but they also put creative couplets on the doors of the sanitarium, weapon shop, warehouse, bank, hunter union, and other NPC offices.

Standing at the door of the weapon shop, looking at the red paper hanging at the door, Boss Xia's face was full of strange expressions.

"What's written on this?" She looked at Chu Guang on the side and asked.

"The noodles are up, the meat is up, the mushrooms are up and down, thank God it's good that the weapons aren't up, and the horizontal criticism: the version of conscience...... Haha, these guys are kind of interesting. ”

Reading and reading, Chu Guang couldn't help laughing.

The battle is not neat.

But it's also quite a player's style.

If these sand sculpture netizens could really come up with a serious couplet, Chu Guang would feel strange.

“……？”

Xia Yan was confused when he heard it, but Chu Guang read it out that these players were planning and issuing silver coins indiscriminately.

But......

What does this have to do with yourself?

What you have in mind is Ah Guang, what does it have to do with my dawn?

As we all know, in order to take care of the experience of new players, any online game has a version catch-up mechanism, and "numerical inflation" is just one of the countless cards in the mastermind's hand.

However, Chu Guang's starting point for printing money is different from the planning of other games, he prints money according to the gross domestic production of players and NPCs in a planned way to balance the income of different groups.

Thanks to the supercomputer with unknown computing power buried under the shelter, and the VM equipment that is produced in unlimited quantities in the black box.

If it weren't for these two black technologies and Xiaoqi's help, if you want to complete these jobs, it's really not something that can be done with a lip service.

Chu Guang roughly calculated that at least 10% or even 20% of the workforce would need to be converted into administrative staff to barely maintain the operation of this management system.

In the terminology of a business simulation game, thanks to Vault 404's "Civic of the Future" technology, managers need less than 150 low-level administrators with only a secondary or even elementary education to maintain the "smiley faces" of nearly 2,000 permanent residents and 1,500 players.

Who would dare to say that Vault 404 has no black technology?

The only thing that this black technology is a little worse than controllable fusion is that it is not very strong and the force is a little weaker.

The little fish standing on the side curiously recognized the words on the couplet.

Chu Guang looked at her and said with a smile.

"Speaking of which, don't you have a Spring Festival?"

The little fish shook its head into a small windmill.

"Nope!"

Chu Guang vaguely remembered what Xiao Yu had said to him before.

Bate Street only celebrates on the birthdays of the former mayor and his children, and most of them call the townspeople to do day jobs and receive gift money, so no one likes to celebrate.

To be able to gather and celebrate because of the same happy thing like now, it seems like a dream to Xiaoyu.

“…… At this time of year, the south would be banging all the time, sometimes all night," the little fish tilted his head and thought for a while, then said with an idea, "like thunder!" ”

South...... It should be near the West Third Ring Road?

You can't hear it in Linghu Wetland Park, but if you are on Bate Street, you should be able to hear the sound of artillery coming from there.

Chu Guang asked curiously.

"How long does it usually last?"

"If it's fast, it'll be over in a week, and if it's slow, it might take a month," After thinking seriously for a while, Xiao Yu nodded vigorously and said affirmatively, "It should be late this year, Xiao Yu has never seen such a big fog in the northern suburbs!" ”

The other day, whenever she came out of the shelter, she was wearing a gas mask.

But it suffocated her.

It's never been this serious before.

Chu Guang nodded and said thoughtfully.

"It seems that there is a regional ...... in the spread of spores"

……

Although the tide in the northern suburbs has receded ahead of schedule, there are still a lot of things waiting for Chu Guang to be busy.

Due to the miraculous solution of the wave crisis in front of the northern suburbs in the Megalith City, coupled with the active activities of the Shuyu sent to the Megalith City by Chu Guang, many merchants in the Megalith City have been attracted to the northern suburbs recently, leading the two oxen to the northern suburbs.

The north gate of Qingquan City, which is "facing the wilderness", has never been so lively.

Especially when the merchants found out that the "artwork" of the Queen of the Night Bar was actually produced here, they all went crazy in an instant.

In addition to the three treasures of artwork, devil silk and spirit leaf that satisfy the intellectual curiosity of LSPs, there are also many other good things here.

For example, Didiwe nutritional paste was almost bought out of stock by the merchants of Boulder City!

The wholesale price of a ton of 299 silver coins, according to the current exchange rate, is less than 150 chips, compared to the ex-factory price of 300 chips per ton of Weijia Commercial Bank, what is the difference between buying here and picking it up for nothing?

And not only is the price cheap, but the quality is not bad at all.

At first, the director of the factory, Dietway, planned to form a caravan on his own and haul the goods to Boulder City to sell, but later found that this operation was completely redundant.

His cost has been compressed to around 140 silver coins per ton, and the influx of orders has been lined up for three months, and he can more than double the profit just by putting all his effort into production, so he still toss a yarn?

With that silver coin, it is better to invest a few more hunting squads to sweep the buildings on the edge of the Fifth Ring Road, and the proceeds from scavenging can completely balance the expenditure of ammunition.

That's it!

With such a huge profit, even Liszt was red-eyed.

KV-1 exoskeleton and solid-state hydrogen battery make money, but the gross profit margin is really not as good as that of such an inconspicuous thing as nutritional paste.

The gangs in the slums at the gates of Boulder City will buy it, and the farmers in the south will buy it in large quantities.

200g can make people not hungry, double the amount can make people full, and it is perfect for feeding slaves and livestock.

In addition to the art and nutritional pastes that were sold out, there were also mosquito gas masks, bicycles and steel helmets from the No. 81 steel plant, disinfectant water from the chemical plant, and some cheap and useful gadgets.

The LD-47 Scythe Assault Rifle was not very popular with the merchants of Boulder City, but that didn't stop the mercenaries from falling in love with it.

Low failure rate, easy maintenance, and powerful enough.

Coupled with the biggest advantage of cheapness, it is enough for them to open their wallets, exchange their chips for silver coins, and then take the silver coins to Boss Xia to spend.

In addition to the meat-eating bigwigs who opened the factory, the coolest ones are undoubtedly those life professional players on North Street.

Few of the mercenaries who had come from Boulder City with Liszt's caravan had spent money on their stalls.

Recently, however, these mercenaries from Boulder City have suddenly become rich, and their generosity is surprising.

Even if the ramen has risen from 5 silver coins to 6 silver coins, some people have paid for it.

4 silver coins a bowl of mushroom soup is widely acclaimed, fragrant and greasy and delicious, the most important thing is that the proprietress is beautiful, speaks well, and the queue is endless.

These merchants and mercenaries who came from afar not only stimulated a wave of consumption, but also brought a lot of good things produced in Boulder City.

These merchants sold everything from weapons to household items.

In fact, Boulder City, as a large survivor colony that was industrialized a long time ago, has a much stronger industrial capacity than Vault 404.

The local development model is largely borrowed from the ideal city of enterprises, which can be seen from the "cargo worship" of the upper class society in the inner city to the ideal city in all fields from culture to commodities.

The KV-1 exoskeleton is modeled after the Miner series, and the Black Swan G9 assault rifle is modeled after the drone X-2 assault rifle, which in many areas is modeled after the "heirs" of the East Coast.

The Boulder factories can't produce metallic hydrogen, but they can produce second-stage solid hydrogen, and they can't produce the fusion engines that power the land-traveling fortresses, but they can make the engines that boil water compact and cheap.

Chu Guang admitted that there was a big gap between the survivor settlements in the northern suburbs and Boulder City, both in terms of population and industrial capacity, and that friction would be inevitable when the two sides had reached a certain level of communication and understanding of each other.

But even if relations deteriorate to the point of all-out war, it is not a matter of a day or two.

Even if the fight starts tomorrow, it will not prevent him from picking their wool today.

In order to protect the local industry and increase exports, Chu Guang had already adjusted the exchange rate of silver coins to chips from 1:2 to 2:1 when he let Liszt come in to set up a factory, and restricted the foreign exchange quota of individuals and enterprises.

As a result, players will find it much cheaper to buy the KV-1 exoskeleton from the NPC Shop than to go to Boulder City to buy imported goods.

In the same way, exporting products from the northern suburbs to Boulder City will be much more profitable than simply dragging them to the market and selling them.

"I've never seen so many chips."

Warehouses at the outpost.

Looking at the pile of colorful chips in the box, old Charlie let out a heartfelt sigh.

Although he is also a blue coat in the refuge, he has long been accustomed to the local life after living in Qingquan City for so many years.

With such a large amount of valuable things in front of him, it is impossible to say that there is no feeling of shock at all.

Chu Guang said with a faint smile.

"Didn't that old leech have it?"

Charlie knew who Chu Guang was talking about, and said softly.

"He's just the category of the average rich person."

Boulder has many denominations of chips, most commonly white, and is the most widely circulated currency outside of Boulder.

In addition to this, there is a 5-denomination bright red, a 25-denomination green, and a 100-denomination black.

No matter how large the denomination of chips is, they can generally only be seen in the inner city, but most of the people there trade with their cards, and rarely carry chips larger than 100 denominations in their pockets.

I can't make change, and few people can find it.

He'd seen the former mayor's vault, and there were three of the same chests, but most of them were the cheapest white chips.

It's not like in this box, even the black ones can be seen.

Chu Guang asked with a smile.

"Is that enough money to be a rich man in Boulder City?"

Zha thought about it and gave a rigorous answer.

“…… I've only been there a few times, but if it's the kind of luxury I understand, it should be more than enough. ”

Chu Guang smiled and didn't say anything.

After a pause, he cleared his throat.

"I'm going to form a guild of traders and organize caravans to trade with other survivor settlements, expanding our influence and serving my players...... I mean the residents are looking for something to do. ”

Old Charlie nodded.

"That's a good idea."

Although the second half of the sentence sounds strange, he agrees with the first part.

At this stage of the development of the northern suburbs, it is not enough to expand the territory of the territory, and there are not so many people to develop those lands.

It's not just an economic problem, only by gaining enough regional influence can the northern suburbs gain the population and resources for further development.

Chu Guang looked at Old Charlie and continued.

"You've seen and traveled the most places I've probably known."

"This job."

"I'm going to leave it to you!"