Chapter 13 "The Blue Angel"

  Chu Guang tightened the seal of the plastic bag and continued.

   "You should be thankful that you didn't continue to go inside. This kind of mushroom usually grows near the nest of mutant leeches."

  Ye Shi was taken aback.

   "Mutated leeches?"

  Chu Guang said casually.

   "Well, juvenile mutated leeches are only the size of a palm, and look no different from normal leeches except for their special mouthparts."

"However, once it enters adulthood, its size will rapidly increase to more than 1 meter, and the longest can even reach 3 meters. Its eating method will also change. It is said that it can even swallow a living person...Of course, I just listened to it explain."

  After listening to the manager's narration, Ye Shi felt a chill all over his body.

  He said that something was wrong when he was picking mushrooms, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. Looking at it this way, he turned out to have slipped before the gate of hell.

   "Can't you eat it?" Kuangfeng had a rather regretful expression on his face, looking at the mushrooms that Chu Guang had put away, he muttered, "I thought I could add BUFF."

"do not think too much."

  There are so many BUFFs.

   There is a sentence that Chu Guang did not say.

   Although this thing cannot be eaten, it is the main raw material for making radiation suppressants.

  Chu Guang didn't know the specific principle either, he also heard it from old Charlie on Beit Street.

  Blue umbrella mushroom contains a special polypeptide substance, which can effectively alleviate and heal the non-lethal damage caused by gamma rays.

  The caravan of Boulder City will buy this thing, and the price is not low. It is usually transported to Boulder City and sold to the factory there.

   It's just that this thing is really hard to get. Few scavengers are willing to risk their lives to search for the nests of mutated leeches in swamps, subways, and sewers.

  It is one thing that it is hard to find.

   It is another matter to find it and bring it back.

  Even if forced by life, no one wants to deal with these tentacles that eat people and don’t spit out their bones...

   Unexpectedly, there is a nest of mutated leeches nearby.

  Chu Guang was in a mixed mood.

  Happy that this blue mushroom can be sold for a lot of money, but worried that mutant leeches are not easy to deal with.

Sprinkle salt?

  Where can I get hundreds of kilograms of salt? It is better to sell the salt directly if there is so much salt.

  Set fire?

   These things usually live in humid areas, so it's really not that easy to light.

   "Do you remember the exact location of the sewer entrance?"

  Facing the manager's inquiry, Kuang Feng quickly took out the map and pointed to the marked location on it.

"right here."

  Chu Guang glanced at the location on the map, and silently wrote it down.

"I see."

  …

  The blue umbrella mushroom brought back by Kuangfeng and Yeshi is estimated to be 2 kilograms, and the general market can be exchanged for a little chips for every 50g.

  2000g is 40 chips!

   This is almost equivalent to all of Chu Guang's savings in the past five months.

   And this is the price offered by the recycling bin on Beit Street.

   The actual value of this thing is at least twice this figure!

  Chu Guang intends to sell all these mushrooms, and then use the bargaining chips to buy urgently needed supplies at the outpost.

   "The supplies at the outpost need to be replenished. I'll go out for a while. You stay here, remember not to go far."

   "At five o'clock in the afternoon, Xiaoqi will open the elevator for you on time and return to the shelter."

   "When I'm not around, Xiaoqi will count the results of your work, and you can ask about things you don't understand."

   As for the 2 kg blue umbrella mushroom, Chu Guang gave Kuang Feng and Ye Shi a total of 220 contribution points.

   Among them, 200 contribution points are due to the discovery of the mutant leech's nest, and the other 20 contribution points are from the blue umbrella mushroom.

   It’s not that he is stingy for only giving such a small amount, but because he is afraid of giving too much, so that these players will taste the sweetness, take the risk to pick this stuff, and accidentally die in it.

  Until he finds a generator that can power the "active substance extractor", he thinks it's better to be cautious.

   Green wheat porridge for lunch.

   When he said it was porridge, Chu Guang thought it was a bit like mung bean soup without sweetness.

   This thing has no taste at all, it is purely for filling the stomach.

  However, to Chu Guang's surprise, the four players devoured their food like hungry ghosts reincarnated.

  Is it so delicious?

  Chu Guang doubted his cooking skills.

   Am I actually good at cooking?

   It shouldn't be...

   A quick meal.

   Put away the pots and pans, Chu Guang extinguished the fire, and set off on the road alone. There were only four players left in the nursing home, and an AI robot hanging up upstairs.

  Fang Chang stared at the task board inserted in the entrance of the nursing home, lost in thought.

  Ye Shi asked from the side.

"What are you looking at."

   Fang Chang said.

   "Looking at the manager's attitude, this blue umbrella mushroom should not be useless, but the task rewards you with only 20 contribution points, which is equivalent to cutting down two trees... Do you think this is reasonable?"

  Ye Shi was taken aback.

"Any questions."

   Fang Chang said.

   "Of course there is. Normally, the rewards players get from missions should be directly related to the difficulty of missions. Not only have you unlocked new dungeons, but you have also collected high-value materials. Generally speaking, there are not only so many rewards."

  Guangfeng thought.

   "Then why do you think it is?"

  Fang Chang snapped his fingers.

"priority!"

   "Excellent, priority?" Ye Shi was stunned.

   "That's right." Fang Chang nodded, "Do you still remember what the manager said in the previous plot? The first priority now is survival!"

Have it?

   It seems there is.

  Ye Shi didn't listen too carefully. Most of the games he didn't read the plot, just Ctrl past. Although this game can't use Ctrl, it doesn't make any difference if you lose your mind for a few minutes.

  Fang Chang continued.

   "...so I guess that the missions on the mission board are not all missions. This game gives us a lot of autonomy. Quests can not only be issued by NPCs, but can also be triggered actively."

  Guang Feng frowned.

   "Reason?"

   "Didn't you already receive the reward?" Fang Chang said, "Although the generator was not found, the alien nest was found and valuable materials were collected."

   "So I judge that as long as our behavior meets the current needs of No. 404 shelter, we can get contribution points. And the value of the reward is positively related to the value created by our behavior!"

   "For example, building cesspit and toilets is a task issued by the manager after he adopts our opinions. Both Lao Bai and I have been rewarded with 200 contribution points."

  Old Bai nodded.

"it seems to be like this."

   "I probably understand what you mean," Kuang Feng touched his chin and said, "but completing the tasks on the task board, isn't it the same as getting contribution points?"

   And the points are not low.

   "This is the second point I want to talk about," Fang Chang showed a mysterious smile on his face, "Do you still remember the favorability setting that the planner and we talked about?"

   A hint of bewilderment appeared on Kuangfeng's face.

   "I see...I see what you mean."

  Ye Shi and Lao Bai are still at a loss.

   "What the **** do you understand?"

   "Speak clearly!"

  Fang Chang said slowly.

"To put it simply, completing the fixed tasks on the task board step by step, although we can obtain fixed guaranteed rewards, cannot demonstrate our abilities. In contrast, actively triggering tasks can better reflect our own abilities! Theoretically speaking, we should It can improve the management's evaluation of us."

  Of course, these speculations are based on the fact that Wasteland OL is a "completely real" immersive virtual reality game, and the behavior of managers is governed by program logic, not artificial settings.

  If his intelligence level is not as high as imagined, this inference is likely to be invalid.

   But at present, the intelligence level of the manager is quite high, and there is no problem with normal communication. He can't even help wondering whether this guy is played by a real person.

  After understanding Fang Chang's explanation, Lao Bai stroked the stubble on his chin and nodded.

   "This idea is a bit interesting, it's worth trying... Then what do you think we should do?"

"I'm still figuring out how to do it, but my intuition tells me that it is more important to accumulate more NPC favorability points before the second round of closed beta than to contribute points. test has a higher 'starting point' than other players."

   After a pause, Fang Chang snapped his fingers.

   "I propose to form a team!"

   "Team formation means..." Ye Shi wondered.

  Old Bai nodded.

"I have no opinion."

  Guang Feng also nodded.

   "I agree too."

  Ye Shi was stunned.

   "I have no objection, but can you explain to me the details of team formation?"

   Fang Chang explained patiently.

   "To put it simply, from now on we are a team, everyone shares information and helps each other. Then, what we have to do is to use our respective strengths."

  Fang Chang looked at Kuang Feng and Ye Shi, and continued.

"Guang Feng, Ye Shi, you scout along the lakeshore of the Wetland Park, pay attention to the distribution of alien species, activity trajectories, if you find areas that are suspected to be nests, mark them... But remember, don't get too close, especially to avoid fighting .We need a safe water point."

  Guangfeng nodded.

"OK."

   Then, Fang Chang looked at Lao Bai.

   "As for us, what we have to do now is to chop more wood."

   "I'll be offline in a while, I'll go to the Internet to check some information, and tomorrow I will find a way to use the wood I have stockpiled!"

  (end of this chapter)