Chapter 13 "Blue Angels"

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

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

   Ye Shi was stunned.

   "Mutant leech?"

  Chu Guang said casually.

   "Well, the mutant leech in its infancy is only the size of a slap. Except for its special mouthparts, it looks no different from a normal leech."

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

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

   He said that when he was picking mushrooms, he felt something was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong. Looking at it this way, it turns out that he slipped a corner before the gate of hell.

   "Can't you eat it?" The expression on Kuang Feng's face was rather regretful. Looking at the mushrooms that Chu Guang had put away, he muttered, "I thought I could add buff."

"do not think too much."

   How can there be so many BUFFs.

  There is a sentence that Chu Guang did not say.

   Although this thing is not edible, it is the main raw material for making radiation suppressants.

   The specific principle is not clear to Chu Guang, and he also heard it from old Charlie in Bette Street.

  The blue umbrella mushroom contains a special polypeptide substance that can effectively relieve and heal the non-lethal damage caused by gamma rays.

  The caravan of Boulder will buy this stuff, and the price is not low, usually it is shipped to Boulder and sold to the factory there.

   It's just that this thing is really difficult to get, and few scavengers are willing to risk their lives to go to swamps, subways, and sewers to search for mutant leeches' nests.

   Hard to find is one thing.

   Found it and brought it back, which is another matter.

   Even if it is forced by life, no one is willing to deal with these tentacles that eat people without spitting bones...

   I didn’t expect that there was a mutant leech nest just a short distance away.

  Chu Guang was in a mixed mood.

  The happy thing is that this blue umbrella mushroom can be sold for a lot of money, but the worry is that the mutant leech is not easy to deal with.

Sprinkle salt?

  Where can I get hundreds of kilograms of salt, it is better to sell salt directly if there is so much salt.

  Set fire?

  This thing usually lives in wet areas, it's really not that easy to light.

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

   Facing the manager's question, Gu Feng quickly took out the map and pointed to the marked location.

"right here."

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

"I see."

  …

   The blue umbrella mushrooms brought back by Gu Feng and Ye Shi are estimated to be 2 kilograms. Generally, every 50g in the market can be exchanged for a little chip.

  2000g is 40 chips!

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

   And that's the price from the recycling station on Bette Street.

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

  Chu Guang intends to sell all these mushrooms, and then use the exchanged chips to buy the materials urgently needed by the outpost.

   "The supplies at the outpost need to be replenished. I'll go out. 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 here, Xiaoqi will count the results of your work, and you can ask it if you don't understand."

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

   Among them, 200 contribution points are due to the discovery of mutant leech nests, and the other 20 contribution points are from blue umbrella mushrooms.

   It’s not that he was stingy by giving only this amount, but that he was afraid of giving too much, which would make these players taste the sweetness.

   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.

   said it was porridge, but Chu Guang felt that it was a bit like mung bean soup with no sweetness.

  This stuff has no taste at all, it's purely for filling.

   But to Chu Guang's surprise, the four players devoured it, like a starving ghost reincarnated.

   Is it so delicious?

  Chu Guang had doubts about his cooking skills.

   Am I actually good at cooking?

  Shouldn't be...

   finished the meal in a hurry.

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

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

   Ye Shi asked aside.

"What are you looking at."

   Fang Chang said.

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

   Ye Shi was stunned.

"Any questions."

   Fang Chang said.

   "Of course there is. Normally, the income a player gets from a quest should be positively related to the difficulty of the quest. Not only have you unlocked new dungeons, but you have also collected high-value materials. Normally, there is no such thing as a reward."

   The gust of wind thought.

   "Then why do you think it is."

   Fang Chang snapped his fingers.

"priority!"

   "Excellent, priority?" Ye Shi asked stunned.

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

Have it?

   seems to be there.

  Ye Shi didn't listen too carefully. In most games, he didn't watch the plot and just Ctrl over it. Although this game can't Ctrl, but it makes no difference if you are distracted for a few minutes.

   Fang Chang continued.

   "...So I guess that the tasks on the task board are not all tasks. This game gives us a lot of autonomy. Tasks can not only be released by NPCs, but also actively triggered."

   Gu Feng frowned.

   "Why?"

   "Didn't you already receive the reward?" Fang Chang said, "Although no generator was 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 Vault 404, we can get contribution points. And the value of the reward is positively related to the value created by our behavior!"

   "For example, the construction of cesspits and toilets is a task released by the manager after adopting our opinions. Lao Bai and I both received a reward of 200 contribution points."

   Lao Bai nodded.

"it seems to be like this."

   "I probably understand what you mean," Gu Feng said while rubbing his chin, "But don't you get Contribution Points for completing the tasks on the task board?"

   And the points are not low.

   "This is the second point I want to say," Fang Chang's face showed a mysterious smile, "Do you remember the favorability setting that the planner told us?"

   Gu Feng's face showed a hint of surprise.

   "So...I see what you mean."

   Ye Shi and Lao Bai are still confused.

   "What do you understand?"

   "Speak clearly!"

   Fang Chang said slowly.

"To put it simply, by completing the fixed tasks on the task board step by step, although we can obtain fixed guaranteed rewards, we cannot show our abilities. In contrast, proactively triggering tasks can better reflect our own abilities! In theory, 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 manager's behavior is governed by program logic and is not artificially set.

   If his intelligence is not as high as he imagined, this inference is likely to fail.

   But at present, the manager's intelligence is still quite high, and there is no problem with normal communication. He can't even help but wonder if this guy will be played by a real person.

   understood Fang Chang's explanation, Lao Bai stroked the stubble of his chin and nodded.

   "This idea is a bit interesting and 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 critical to accumulate more NPC favorability points before the second round of closed beta testing. Test has a higher 'starting point' than other players."

   After a pause, Fang Chang snapped his fingers.

   "I propose to form a team!"

   "The meaning of forming a team is..." Ye Shi wondered.

   Lao Bai nodded.

"I have no opinion."

   Gu Feng also nodded.

   "I agree too."

   Ye Shi was stunned.

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

   Fang Chang explained patiently.

   "Simply put, we are a team from now on, we share information and help each other. Then, what we have to do is to use our respective strengths."

   Fang Chang looked at Gu Feng and Ye Shi and continued.

"Gufeng, Ye Shi, you are investigating along the lakeshore of the wetland park, pay attention to observe the distribution of alien species, the trajectory of activity, and mark the area if you find a suspected nest... But remember, don't get too close, especially to avoid it. Fight. We need a safe water point."

   Gu Feng nodded.

"OK."

   Then, Fang Chang looked at Lao Bai.

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

   "Wait a while, I'll be offline, I'll go online to check some information, and I'll find a way to make use of the wood that I've hoarded tomorrow!"

   (end of this chapter)