Chapter 27 Winter is coming!

   "The leaves are turning yellow, the temperature is dropping, and an unprecedented crisis is approaching."

   "This year's winter will be harsher than previous years, and it will come earlier... There is not much time left for us to prepare."

   "From now on, we must seize every minute, even every second! Get ready for the cold wave before the situation gets completely bad!"

   "The mission panel has been updated, with a list of necessities, facilities that need to be completed, and corresponding rewards."

   "Remember, only in unity can we tide over difficulties together!"

   "Winter is coming."

   "This is the test of fate for all of us!"

  In the resident hall of the shelter, an inspiring voice echoed.

  Facing the high-spirited eyes of the players, Chu Guang delivered an impassioned speech, and officially opened the prologue of the first expansion pack since the game's beta test—"Winter is Coming".

  With the opening of a new chapter, the atmosphere of the outpost of Vault 404 is the same as that of the official website of the game, and it has become different from the past.

   It's not just the players.

  Even Chu Guang himself could feel the sense of urgency in the gradually cooling air.

   The supplies stored in the outpost were not abundant, but the population soared from 6 to 30, a full five-fold increase!

  Although the surge in population has brought more labor force, it also doubles the supply pressure on the outpost.

In order to feed the upcoming 30 mouths, Chu Guang has been heartbroken for the past two days. He has been busy from morning to night almost every day, and Ye Shi, who carries the gene sequence of the sensory system, is hunting around outside, just to stock up. A little food.

  For a while, the entire Linghu Wetland Park was confused by the two of them.

  But it is quite right, and the results are quite gratifying.

  In three days, the mutant hyena Chu Guang alone killed a dozen of them, and countless hares and squirrels were caught by traps.

  Although they are all mutants, they are still edible.

  Besides, Ye Shi, who was in charge of vigilance and tracking the enemy, also successfully advanced from LV0 to LV1, and Chu Guang also faintly felt that he was close to the edge of breakthrough.

   It's just that the manager's gene sequence is too special.

  Chu Guang hasn't figured out the secret of the upgrade yet, so he can only use physical examination equipment to confirm that the development progress of the gene sequence has indeed increased by a very small margin.

   On the other side, the performance of other players is also very good, and it can even be described as showing their own special abilities.

Lao Bai and Fang Chang used charcoal as a reducing agent to recover a small amount of iron **** from iron-containing waste such as rusted steel bars and auto parts through calcination, and added these iron slags to the cement kiln to combine with the crushed iron slag. Limestone and clay are mixed and calcined to make a more reliable cement clinker.

   This is physical work.

  Whether it is manpower to operate the blower or use a repaired two-wheeled cart to transport stones, it takes a lot of effort.

  But because of this, Lao Bai in the strength department was promoted again, his gene sequence was upgraded from LV1 to LV2, and his strength attribute also increased by a point.

  As for Fang Chang, who was on shift with him, he finally broke through the limit and advanced from LV0 to LV1.

  However, his increased attribute is not strength, but agility.

  It seems that although the development of gene sequences conforms to the law of "use it, lose it", but the growth of attributes is another matter.

   In addition, when it comes to upgrading, the most tragic thing is probably the wind.

   As of now, among the four beta testers, he is probably the only one whose genetic sequence level is still 0.

   These days he used the improved trap to catch a lot of fish, but he was still a little short of "experience points" from LV1.

  The "experience points" obtained by trapping and killing alien species do not seem to be as much as those obtained by killing alien species in frontal battles.

  Guang Feng was also puzzled by this.

  But unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any good solution so far.

  In addition to the four dog managers who were the first to experience the game, the two newcomers are also full of enthusiasm, and they have hardly been idle for a moment these days.

   For example, "WC really has mosquitoes".

   This guy is not in a hurry to upgrade, he is still doing carpentry work, occasionally helping Lao Bai and Fang Chang, or helping Fengfeng repair the damaged trap.

   Besides these jobs, he was busy with his own affairs.

  According to Mosquito himself, he seems to be planning to build a simple cabin with wood as his chemical laboratory and warehouse.

   These days, on the way to help carry the stones from the construction site, he picked up a lot of bottles and jars and put them next to the cabin.

  Although Chu Guang doubts the safety of this kind of log cabin, seeing how this guy enjoys it, he thinks it's better not to interfere too much with the players' choices.

  Compared to Brother Mosquito’s leisurely, “Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes” probably belongs to the model of the Liver Emperor.

  As the chef of the outpost, he is not only responsible for cooking, but also helps the manager deal with the prey that comes.

  This includes bloodletting, skinning, deboning, meat cutting, and most importantly, smoking.

  Since the salt in the outpost is not extravagant enough to be used for bacon, Brother Scrambled Egg adopts the most primitive method of smoking.

   That is, put nothing.

  He directly hung the cut meat on the steel rack, stuffed it into the cave dwelling made of clay and earth bricks, smoked it with charcoal fire, roasted it slowly over a low fire to dry the moisture in the meat, and sealed the opening of the cave with pine branches and leaves.

  The bacon made by this method is actually more like air-dried meat. Even without salt, it can be preserved for a period of time, and there is no need to wrap any tobacco leaves on the surface.

  Wait until the first ten days or the middle ten days of next month, it will almost be winter.

   At that time, wrap the dried meat in plastic bags or bark, throw it directly in the snow and bury it. It shouldn’t be a big problem to eat it until the beginning of next spring.

   It’s just relative. The bacon made by this method can only be said to be indescribable in terms of taste and flavor.

   In addition, the skins peeled off from the mutated hyenas, Brother Scrambled Egg did not waste them, but collected them to make leather.

  In fact, tanning is a rather complicated and cumbersome process, far more troublesome than making jerky.

  However, what the refuge currently needs is not the kind of smooth and smooth high-end fur, but only warm materials that can keep out the cold, and it can be said that there is no requirement for quality.

   Therefore, many unnecessary processes can be omitted.

  Before when Lao Bai burned plant ash, the filtered potash water was stored in the plastic bucket he picked up.

   "Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes" uses all the potash water as a tanning solution for tanning leather, which is used to soak the raw hides peeled off from the prey and washed.

   Wait until the leather is fully combined with the tannin, and then hang it on a simple tanning rack to dry, so that you can get a piece of leather that is of acceptable quality.

   "...Dear Master Manager, I must report to you that I am really overwhelmed here. I need help very much, even one!"

  Taking the freshly shot prey from Chu Guang's hand, Chaodan's eyes drifted unconsciously to Ye Shi.

  He always felt that this guy seemed to be idle, and he didn't seem to see this guy doing other things besides helping the manager get a prey.

  Not as good as…

  Come give yourself a hand.

  Ye could tell at a glance what this guy was planning, so he waved his hand and said.

   "Don't look at me, I'm very busy."

joke.

  Following the NPC to level up, where can I find such a good thing of gaining experience for nothing?

  He doesn't want to learn how to cook with this guy!

  Seeing Ye Shi's resistance, Chaodan couldn't help but rolled his eyes, and complained in his heart.

  You are busy with the hammer!

  Looking at the scrambled eggs complaining to him, Chu Guang spoke to comfort him.

"Ye Shi needs to help me search for prey, and his perception of danger is also very important, so I can't ask him to stay and help you. But I promise you, your problem will be solved soon. Our reinforcements have already On the way, they will soon reach the surface."

   "Okay, thanks...it would be great if that's the case."

   Scrambled Egg sighed, paused for a moment, and continued.

   "There is another thing. Although I tried leather, I can only do some simple processing. As for how to make them into clothes... I really can't do it."

  Chu Guang said with a smile.

   "Don't worry about this, there are talents who are good at this in the reinforcements that will arrive soon, and I will hand over the work of tanning and making warm clothes to that person."

   Not just tailors.

  Among the 24 new beta testers he selected, there are some talents from all walks of life.

  Although they are not necessarily experts in the industry, some are even students, but within the scope of their ability, they can still come in handy.

   Besides, there is also the tool of the Internet.

  Chu Guang is full of confidence in these energetic and motivated players. As long as they work hard enough, sooner or later they will be able to move into a big house.

  Stable batch!

  (end of this chapter)