In the evening.
The players returned to the sanatorium one after another. The chef, Brother Scrambled Egg, set up a big pot in the open space and began to cook the last meal of the day.
The recipe for tonight is salt-boiled lamb horn potatoes with bacon jerky.
Thanks to the discovery of the new NPC base, the players in the shelter finally had a meal other than fish soup.
This kind of lamb horn potatoes tastes pretty good. After boiling them in salt water and pouring some soy sauce on them, they taste a bit like KFC mashed potatoes.
It's just that it's a bit wasteful of soy sauce.
Just to make these 28 servings of mashed potatoes, almost one-fifth of a bottle of soy sauce was used, and that was in the case of saving.
On the other hand, the salt in the shelter seems to be insufficient, with only half a bag left.
If it continues to be consumed at this rate, it won't take a few days for everyone to live on plain soup and water again.
"Wow! This mashed potato is so good! Uncle Chaodan, can I have another bowl?" Teng Teng, squatting on the ground, holding a bowl in his hand, looked very satisfied.
"No more, one bowl per person." Chaodan rolled his eyes and said unhappily, not satisfied with the word uncle.
"Then will we still eat mashed potatoes tomorrow?" Teng Teng said pitifully.
"I can't afford it. There is not much soy sauce left. I have to save it. If you want to eat mashed potatoes, get up and order takeout." As he said this, Brother Chaodan sighed in his heart.
Cooking for these guys every day is really heartbreaking.
As a chef for so many years, he has never been so frugal for his boss. He almost wants to sprinkle one grain of salt as two.
On the other side, Ye Shi, who was sitting in the middle of the players, was holding a bowl and talking about what happened during the day in a vivid and exciting voice, even forgetting to eat.
Especially when he talked about the encounter with the creeper on the way back, he excitedly put down the bowl in his hand and picked up a branch to scratch the ground.
"When I was walking on the street, I felt a chill on my back and my whole body was suddenly alarmed! In a flash, I picked up my rifle and fired a burst of bullets."
Fang Chang, who was sitting next to him, couldn't listen any more and couldn't help but make fun of him.
"It's still a burst of bullets. If you don't know, you might think you have a Gatling gun in your hand."
Ye Shi coughed dryly.
"It's not important!"
"And then? And then? Keep talking. How did you guys screw that thing over?"
"That's right, don't interrupt!"
The players next to him didn't care much about these details. They were just listening to the food. They didn't care whether he was bragging or not. They all started to make a noise and continued.
"Don't panic, listen to me. It was so fast. The moment the creeper pounced on me, I slid..."
Seeing that everyone was so interested, Ye Shi quickly adjusted his state and started talking again. He continued to describe how he supported the manager who was entangled by the alien species, how he looted on the battlefield, including how he was ambushed by the bitch later, and how he tactically dropped the line and cooperated with his teammates to kill the enemy...
Fang Chang rolled his eyes and couldn't listen any more. He simply took the bowl and changed the place to eat. Out of sight, out of mind.
The meal was over.
The sun was about to set.
After carrying Xiao Qi down from the upstairs, Chu Guang led the players back to the shelter in batches, watching them lie in the incubator and log off safely.
Except for Garbage Jun who was still out playing in the wild, everyone was back.
However, Chu Guang was not very worried about it.
Through the player list, Chu Guang could confirm that this guy was still alive, but he had been offline two hours ago.
No matter how hard you work, you can't stay in the game for 24 hours. You always have to get up to eat, move your limbs, etc.
Besides, the clones in the game also need to rest. No one can stay awake for 24 hours, not even the lizard man.
According to the information disclosed on the official website.
There are more ways to log off than just lying back in the incubator and hibernating actively. Any behavior of losing consciousness can disconnect.
Including but not limited to hitting yourself on the back of the head with a club, or finding a place to lie down and take a nap.
However, this way of logging out is not very reliable.
First, it cannot be "saved", and second, it is not safe.
The clones synthesized quickly by the incubator do not have any mind.
In other words, without the connection of consciousness, these clones will hardly react to external stimuli except conditioned reflexes.
At this time, if a mutant rat or cockroach happens to pass by, it can eat people up one by one.
However, Garbage Man should have found a safe place to hide, at least it is quite safe for now.
Put Garbage Man's matter aside for now.
Chu Guang sat down in front of the computer in the resident hall and summarized the results of today's work as usual.
"The construction of the east wall is complete."
"In terms of resources, the building material inventory has 110 logs, one ton of charcoal, one ton of silicate cement, two piles of yellow mud bricks, and several hardened cement blocks. In terms of consumption, there are 240 logs and 800 kilograms of cement... The wood inventory has been declining for two consecutive days, but the cement is actually starting to be surplus."
It seems that we need to arrange a few lumberjacks.
Or, increase the logging requirements of players' daily tasks.
"The food inventory has 350 kilograms of green wheat and sheep's horn potatoes, 5 kilograms of bacon, and a small amount of berries and mushrooms. The consumption is about 5 kilograms of bacon jerky, 10 kilograms of sheep's horn potatoes, and 50 kilograms of bacon and 20 kilograms of smoked fish for trading... I have to start hunting again tomorrow."
"Then there is the fur inventory... In addition to the transaction consumption, the raw materials consumed 5 furs. Today, Teng Teng actually made 5 clothes? Not bad... Let me think, it should be 250 contribution points."
"By the way, there is also an increase in weapon inventory... We have to plan an arsenal in the future."
Finally, today's daily tasks earn 7 reward points.
I can happily open blind boxes again.
After summarizing the data, Chu Guang leaned back in his chair and stretched.
Just as he finished these tasks, the thirty activated culture chambers in the next room also completed the scanning of the clones in the chambers and the archiving of somatic cell sampling, and summarized the players' gene sequence development progress and panel data in a table.
Chu Guang took a simple look.
Perhaps because the jobs at the outpost at the current stage are mainly physical labor, and players with strength obviously upgrade faster in general.
For example, Lao Bai is now LV3.
In addition, Ye Shi, who had been following him out, also upgraded his gene sequence from LV1 to LV2, and his main attribute perception reached 9, becoming the player with the highest perception attribute in the entire outpost.
"Master!"
Looking at Xiao Qi rolling to the side of the table, Chu Guang moved his eyes away from the computer.
"What's wrong?"
"Why did you pick up a strange woman from outside?"
Chu Guang almost choked on this sentence.
Although there is nothing wrong with saying this, I always feel that it is not right.
"What are you talking about."
"Xiao Qi saw it on the roof, and he carried it back."
Chu Guang said impatiently.
"So what?"
Speaking in a flat electronic voice, Xiao Qi said aggrievedly.
"Nothing, I just want to remind you that compared to the clones whose actions can be restricted at any time, the natives in the wasteland are more difficult to control. You'd better not trust them too easily."
"You think too much. I have never completely trusted anyone, whether it is a player or a native here." Chu Guang said lightly.
"Yeah, then I'm relieved!"
The camera above Xiaoqi's head shook up and down, indicating a nod.
"By the way, you can always trust Xiaoqi. No matter what happens, Xiaoqi is your most loyal assistant!"
"Okay, got it."
"So perfunctory!"
Can't this guy be quiet for a while when charging?
Chu Guang restrained the urge to complain and continued to stare at the computer screen.
It has been more than ten minutes since the players went offline. As expected, it is now the busiest time for the official website forum.
It's time to peek at the screen again.
Humming a little tune for his own amusement, Chu Guang opened the official website backstage and first checked the number of reservations.
The number of young leeks with bowls has doubled from just over 100 to almost 300.
Now the threshold for game reservations has changed from filling in a form to filling in a form + answering questions.
Although they are all common sense questions, those who can read the questions patiently and fill in the blanks can at least screen out serious players.
Those who can pass can be said to be quite high-quality.
At the same time, the number of visits to the official website has also increased significantly compared to before, with an average daily visit of 1,000 people.
Although not everyone has registered an account, and not everyone has clicked on the reservation, it at least shows that Wasteland OL is becoming more and more well-known in the gaming circle.
It is obviously just a three-no website without even filing information. In addition to a lot of text settings and a few photos of construction sites, I didn't expect it to gather so many people.
Chu Guang couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
"There are still many bored people."
Just right.
Anyway, I'm idle, so why not come to the "game" to work for him.
Close the backend page and enter the forum.
Just as Chu Guang expected, all the offline players came here to report, and the forum was very lively at the moment.
Including Garbage Jun, who went offline two hours ago, who was also hanging out on the forum.
Garbage Picking Level 99: [Damn, I'm really exhausted today, but fortunately I still got some gains! There is a tire processing factory about 2 kilometers north of the abandoned construction site. There are people patrolling with dogs nearby. It seems to be a predator camp, but I'm not sure yet! I plan to get closer to take a look after it gets dark, and then show off on the forum after I confirm it. ]
{Kuangfeng: 666! }
{Lao Bai: Damn, I was wondering why I didn't see you when I went offline! Also, why can you go online during the day? ? ? }
{Garbage Picker Level 99: If you are an alien, you can do it too! No more bullshit, I will go online after a rest. (grin)}
{Night Ten: You are here for Versailles! }
{Quit Smoking: Let alone being able to go online during the day, I will die without regrets if I can go online and take a look! T.T}
{Crow Crow: I am still on resurrection CD, crying duck. }
{Garbage Picker Level 99: (grin)}
Except for Garbage Jun who was pretending to be cool, most of the players on the forum were enthusiastically discussing the new NPCs brought back by the administrator and the newly discovered survivor settlements.
Especially the latter.
The players were particularly interested.
At the top of a long list of posts, Chu Guang quickly found the analysis post written by "Lairifangchang".
This guy is good at summarizing as always. His posts are the most popular in the forum. If conditions did not allow, Chu Guang would have wanted to invite him to be the planner of this game.
[…I have to praise this Alpha 0.2 version update! It can be seen that the game officials are still quite sincere, and they are really conscientious! ]
[The content of this update is far more than just the optimization projects listed on the official website, including new camps, new monster models, larger maps, etc. The content is much richer than I imagined before! ]
[For example, the Brown Farm where we traded this time, as soon as I walked under the concrete wall, I was shocked by the official art design of the game. The immersive feeling is hard to describe in words. Whether it is the post-apocalyptic architectural style or the detailed texture of the clothes on different NPCs, you can see the traces of careful carving everywhere! Instead of using the original materials for skinning! ]
[In addition, there is also a test of the combat system. On the way back, we were attacked by a creeper and had a close call. Before this, I always thought that this kind of alien with ridiculous combat power only existed in the setting, but I didn't expect that it has been implemented in the current version! ]
[I have to say here that our manager is worthy of being a novice guide, and his combat power is ridiculous! The moment the creeper pounced, Ye Shi and I didn't react, and we were almost OB. It was all thanks to him that he was the only one who was outputting. He relied on a small water pipe to knock down the two-meter-high gnawer! It made my blood boil! ]
[In addition, for me personally, the most surprising thing is that a new NPC has joined our outpost! Her special identity may bring us more new gameplay, such as weapon modification, or even more side plots, etc. I think it's worth looking forward to! ]
[For more information about the Alpha0.2 version update, I will continue to update in the post, and interested friends can click to follow! ]
It's pretty good.
Oh, how embarrassing.
After reading the post from beginning to end, Chu Guang was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.
But to be honest, Chu Guang felt that he was indeed conscientious enough, at least he didn't cheat the players' wallets.
This kind of next-generation game that can liberate dreams and sleep, if Tencent or NetEase come to endorse it, you don't want to play it without charging you 1,800 yuan?
Don't even think about playing it, I'm afraid you have to become a member first if you want to move bricks!
What?
No money?
That's easy, you should have no objection to plastering with your hands, right?
After all, if not, how can we show the dignity of the RMB warrior who is laying walls with a plastering knife? Of course, you can also choose to watch two hours of ads to unlock the membership discount coupon.
At least Chu Guang can't do such an unethical thing.
In order to praise himself for having a conscience, Chu Guang gave Brother Fang's post a featured post.
Chu Guang casually closed the post. Just as he was thinking about what to do to pass the long night, Xiao Qi's resentful voice came from the side.
"Master."
"The woman you picked up has woken up."