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Ya Ya, who had just logged off, immediately rushed in.
"Big news!!! The piece of paper with 100CR written on it can actually be exchanged for money! Guess how much I got? (*≧▽≦)"
Ye Shi: "Huh? Speak of the devil and he will appear? (funny)"
Irena: "(funny)"
Ya Ya: "Hey! Don't interrupt me. Do you still want to know? (;｀O)o"
Si Si: "I guess 10 silver coins."
Fang Chang: "Go ahead."
Shao Niu Zi: "That's right! Don't keep me in suspense!"
Tail: "GKD! (｀)Ψ"
Ya Ya: "Hey, listen to me. I was selling mushroom soup when a sneaky NPC ran over, took out a piece of paper, and tried to take my pot away! Then, just when I didn't know what to do, the administrator suddenly appeared! By the way, the new armor of the administrator is so handsome. I wonder if I can buy that skin. ()"
Canyon Runaway Mole: "Fuck! You're getting to the point!"
Teng Teng: "??? (╯°Д°)╯︵┻━┻"
Ya Ya: "100! 100 silver coins! The administrator took the paper and gave me 100 silver coins! I was just about to say, don't rush me. QAQ"
The entire post was silent for a while.
Then, dozens of posts were posted instantly!
Lao Bai: "?!"
Kuang Feng: "..."
Ye Shi: "What the hell?"
Fang Chang: "100???"
Ya Ya: "Don't post on the screen, to be precise, it's actually 200... Because of the 100CR ticket yesterday, I also chased after the administrator and exchanged it. The administrator also praised me and said I was a good child, hehe. (=｀=)"
Yirena: "￥@#!"
Two pots of mushroom soup for 200 silver coins!
This luck can't be described as the emperor of Europe!
The plasmolysis that all the players on the forum envy, even the ticket to the early experience of the expansion pack is not attractive...
...
On the other side, the reception room of the outpost.
"Hiccup~ This wine is good, the fruity aroma of grapes mixed with the fragrance of oak, even in the enterprise... I'm afraid it's a rare treasure."
"You know this?"
"Of course, my father has a wine cellar with a lot of his collections. He goes there for a while every day, not drinking, just to feel the atmosphere. I suspect that if this goes on, the wine will turn into vinegar... Oh, I really want to go home."
There are several empty wine bottles on the table. Luo Hua is drunk, leaning on the chair and burping, mumbling non-stop.
Chu Guang responded perfunctorily, and took the time to glance at the VM, which lists the information that Xiaoqi helped him sort out.
[155. This person has a wealthy family and holds a middle-level position in the First Pioneer Corps. It is speculated that the crew of the Pioneer are all middle- and senior-level employees in the "Enterprise" and have a high status. ]
He exchanged this information for a table of barbecue, a pot of soup, and six bottles of wine.
If it were normal, Chu Guang would never eat so luxuriously.
But all these efforts are rewarded.
Chu Guang asked a lot of interesting things from the mouth of the head of the office.
First of all, the enterprise is located in Yunjian Province, the easternmost province of Zhongzhou Continent. It is the estuary of a large river and two tributaries. It is also the political, economic and cultural center before the prosperous era. It has four strategic areas, three urban circles, two industrial centers, and an ancient city group with a "long history".
As for the headquarters of the enterprise, it is located in the ruins of the industrial zone between Yunshi City and Yunxia City, above Shelter No. 6, a place called "Ideal City".
There are towering walls like dams, towers that touch the clouds, and aircrafts that shuttle between the streets, but they can't fly too far. People are crowded in a "city" of less than 500 square kilometers. Most people live underground without windows, and a few people can see the clouds outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.
As Chu Guang listened, he always felt that this "ideal city" had a bit of the flavor of a "city that never sleeps", and he didn't know how much truth this guy said.
In addition, unlike the information that Xia Yan heard from hearsay, the company's internal factions are not numerous and internal friction is serious, but they themselves are not the kind of organization that the mercenaries in the Stone City understand.
For example, the company does not have a ruler in the strict sense, but only a corporate board of directors with a strict organizational structure and clear division of power. The members of the corporate board of directors are mostly composed of the chairmen of the branch companies, and there are smaller subsidiaries under the branch companies, layer by layer.
Some of these branches produce steel, some produce cement, and some make guns, cannons, and drones, as well as sell clones or bionic partners. Silver Wing Group is just one of the companies with a relatively large "market value", but market value changes every day, so it is difficult to say who has the largest market value.
Ten years ago, the company did send an expeditionary force to the inland, but the target was not Qingquan City in the south of the Valley Province, but the Great Rift Valley in the north.
People always like to take credit for themselves. The same thing can evolve into more than three versions as long as it passes through the mouths of two people.
And most of the ones that are passed down in the end are not the final truth, just because this version is the most talked about, people are more willing to believe it.
However, according to Luo Hua, it is true that the expeditionary force did fail, because for a period of time, we often heard good news from the front line from various channels.
But suddenly one day, no one mentioned it anymore.
Except for those investors who bought "war bonds" and stood on the rooftop, many people never came back, and everything seemed to have happened.
In a sense, the "Pioneer" is also similar to the expeditionary force. In order to build this magnificent land fortress, Silver Wing Group also issued a considerable amount of "bonds" and most likely promised some benefits to the wealthy people who bought the bonds.
However, the second half is Chu Guang's speculation.
Perhaps his ideological realm is not enough. Chu Guang feels that if he lives in such an environment and has a large sum of money in his pocket, he will definitely not waste the money.
In addition, from Luo Hua, Chu Guang also learned that the purpose of their trip was to go to the west to find a place called Shelter No. 0.
Legend has it that it is the source of a grand plan, the founder of the prosperous era, the pioneer of the great route, and the immortal who has countless glories in one body have been buried here.
Some people regard it as the last hope.
"...Since you have such advanced technology, why do you pin your hopes on the existence of legends? You actually don't know where it is, right?" Chu Guang poured a glass of wine for Luo Hua and asked, "And from what I heard from your description, since you can build a fortress on the ruins, why... um, have you never thought about starting over?"
Luo Hua sighed and waved his hand with a drunken smell.
"I've heard too much of this kind of argument... My friend, how far have you been? The most you have traveled is probably from the north of Qingquan City to a place slightly closer to the Fifth Ring Road. It's not as simple as building a few houses as you think."
Chu Guang smiled and said.
"After all, I've only been out of the ground for a few months... I'm also curious about what this world has become."
"It's terrible," Luo Hua shook his head, "What's the most terrifying alien species you've seen? Gnawers? Crawlers? We call them slime mold parasites, so do you know where they come from? Have you seen their mother nest?"
Luo Hua continued.
"I've seen them all. I've even seen a mother nest as big as a skyscraper. The out-of-control slime mold and reinforced concrete merged into one, covering half of the city. The survivors there resisted, but failed, and then were swallowed up in large pieces... We were powerless and could only take dozens of poor survivors and put them by the lake fifty kilometers away."
Chu Guang's expression changed slightly.
He had heard that there seemed to be a mother nest in the city center of Qingquan City, and alien species such as gnawers would spread out from the city center every once in a while.
The survivors of Boulder City called it "the wave."
These were all told to him by Xia Yan.
"You just... leave the mother nest alone?"
"Don't worry about it," Luo Hua waved his hand, "You underestimate the power of nature. Everything on this planet will quickly decline after expanding to a certain limit. The same is true for those slime molds. In rare cases, they will mutate and run away. They are no longer afraid of the sun, and they will frantically devour the living things around them and reproduce rapidly using their flesh and blood. This sounds scary, but when they expand to a certain scale, they will soon return to where they came from... We call it the self-limitation of the expansion of mutant slime mold colonies."
Hearing this, Chu Guang's expression relaxed slightly.
That's right.
If they could expand endlessly, this planet would have been occupied by them long ago.
And from the perspective of energy balance, I'm afraid no ecosystem can accommodate such a terrifying creature.
After a pause, Luo Hua continued to chatter with a burp.
"These mutant slime molds are just one of the troubles. You know, there are not only gnawers in this world. Even the mutant cockroaches that have nothing to do with slime molds are annoying enough. By the way, there are mutants. I wonder if you have seen a 'super mutant' as tall as a three-story building? I suspect that thing is a human-shaped tumor. We used two tactical nuclear bombs to completely eliminate it... So you are really lucky. We only used five power armors to get rid of those dozens of mutants."
Chu Guang's Adam's apple moved.
He wanted to ask where these ghosts came from, but the question that was already on his lips changed his mouth and became the question he had been thinking about all the time.
"Who is our enemy?"
Hearing this question, Luo Hua smiled.
"We? Enemies? You mean... the Doomsday War? Haha, who knows what happened two centuries ago? I've seen many people who came back from cryostasis in the 22nd century. Some of them really wanted to take refuge, and some just thought it was fun to go to the future. Haha, anyway, they can't explain what happened. They thought they were standing on the scene of a variety show, shouting that they wanted to sue us."
As he spoke, Luo Hua's eyes became a little blurry, and his hand holding the wine glass kept shaking.
Chu Guang felt that he was drunk, so he poured him another glass... Anyway, this was his "official business", and there wasn't much left in this bottle.
"Those poor guys... burp, all we can do is hand them over to the survivors nearby. Maybe their knowledge can come in handy, but I feel it's bad enough."
Without refusing Chu Guang's offer to pour him a glass of wine, Luo Hua raised his head and took another sip. He burped so long that he couldn't even straighten his tongue this time.
"It is said that the answer is in Shelter 0. We are not the only ones looking for it. The academy, the legion... many people are looking for it, but we have not heard any results in all these years. Maybe it is not in the west at all, or as you said, maybe it does not exist at all. But who knows? Someone has to try."
As he spoke, Luo Hua fell headfirst on the table.
Seeing that he was about to put his head into the brazier next to him, Chu Guang reached out to help him and moved his head to the other side.
Luo Hua was still yelling.
"I want to write a biography. If we succeed, it will become the best-selling work in Ideal City."
"That may be a bit difficult. Your name is too difficult to pronounce. It is not conducive to word of mouth. If you change the 'First Pioneer Corps' to 'Knights Templar', and change the Pioneer to Zheng He, and then give your captain a more powerful name... For example, Luby Yanka, you go to the West to seek Buddhist scriptures, I bet this book will become the best-selling adult fairy tale on the East Coast."
Originally, Chu Guang was talking nonsense, but he didn't expect Luo Hua's eyes to light up after listening.
"Good idea"
The word "意" was only half bitten, and the young man suddenly thumped and completely died. And the wine glass in his hand also fell beside the brazier with a bang.
Chu Guang ignored the drunkard and stared at the VM screen.
Looking at the last line of information recorded on the screen, his eyebrows slightly raised.
"Legion and Academy..."
This world seems to be more vast than I imagined.
Great.
I can draw a new pie again.
...
The next morning.
At six o'clock, the hardworking little players went online on time and trotted all the way to the pool of the public toilet in the center of the camp.
After a simple wash, they continued to run to the open space in the center of the camp in groups of three or five, carrying lunch boxes.
However, when they arrived at the open space, they were stunned.
I saw about twenty NPCs in gray coats holding bowls in their hands, standing in line in front of the big pot.
Seeing those blue coats looking over, the crew of the Pioneer was somewhat embarrassed, smiled at their allies, waved friendly, and pointed at the bowls in their hands.
That expression seemed to say
"Don't panic, brother, we'll just eat and leave."
The players who were also holding bowls were stunned.
"Damn! These NPCs are getting more and more confident in eating for free!"
"The pot isn't even on yet, is that necessary?!"
"Huh? Where's Brother Chaodan? I saw him next to the faucet just now, how come he's gone?"
Not far away, Brother Chaodan was following Old Luca, holding a large basket of noodles in his hands. When he got to the iron pot, he put the basket heavily on the table.
There were other ingredients and condiments on the table.
Raising his arm to rub his forehead, Brother Chaodan put on sleeves and an apron, and knocked on the edge of the pot with a spoon.
"Plant meat, artificial starch synthetic noodles, and Mr. Chicken's chicken oil mushrooms... Let's try some high-tech ingredients today. I'll state in advance that I haven't tried it either. I'll try my best. If it doesn't taste good, I'll think about it next time."
Brother Chaodan originally planned to cook porridge for a quick meal. After all, the time in the morning is not as ample as in the evening, and they have to go to the new map to move bricks later.
But at this moment, his VM suddenly received a task to cook a pot of delicious food for the players in the camp.
What is delicious food that can make people happy?
Brother Chaodan was confused, but the three question marks in the task reward column and the expansion-exclusive label on the top of the head aroused his desire to win.
Hearing that Brother Chaodan was going to show off his skills, the players in the queue excitedly started to make a noise.
"Big brother is awesome!"
"Give me an extra egg!"
"Pass it down! Brother Chaodan, give us some food below!"
"Ugh, this can't be passed, pass it yourself!"
Although the surrounding Pioneer crew members didn't understand, seeing these blue jackets so excited, they also looked forward to it.
Brother Chaodan ignored it and devoted himself to the work in front of him.
After sticking some wild boar fat on the bottom of the pot to make the oil aroma burst out, he skillfully poured the plant meat marinated in "secret cooking wine" into the pot.
Slurp!
The aroma of meat spreads.
Stir-fry quickly, add soy sauce to color, sprinkle some salt and pepper to enhance the flavor, wait until the minced meat bubbles, and Brother Scrambled Eggs skillfully picks up a pot of boiling water, pours the boiling water into the iron pot, shakes the iron pot a few times, and then covers the pot to simmer.
The gurgling sound and the aroma are covered together.
The sauce here is ready, and the stewed chicken oil mushroom soup over there also smells fragrant.
The taste buds are constantly being aroused, and the NPCs in line are swallowing their saliva one by one, and the bowls are switched from left hand to right hand, and then from right hand to left hand, almost touching the patina.
Finally, the pot is opened.
Brother Scrambled Eggs put the noodles in a colander, shake it twice, and put it in the bowl handed to him, and evenly pour a spoonful of mushroom soup and a spoonful of meat sauce.
"4CR for one portion! Everyone has a portion, don't worry."
Old Luca took the money, handed the bowl of noodles to the smiling truck driver who thanked him repeatedly, and continued to shout enthusiastically to the gray coats lined up.
"Next!"