Chapter 369 "Methods"

   "Sell the replaced parts?"

  After listening to Lao Na's proposal on the phone, Fang Chang was stunned.

  What kind of behavior in northern Myanmar is this? ?

   "... That's right! Anyway, if you don't sell it, you'll find a place to bury it, what a waste! Think about it, after all, it's an organ of an awakened person, so the price is three times more expensive than a normal person, isn't it too much?"

  During the phone call, Irena vividly described the business plan he stole from a certain cutie.

  The square long index finger leaning on the sofa pressed the center of the eyebrows, and he thought for a while before speaking.

   "But... you have to consider matching for organ transplants, right?"

  Irena smiled and said.

   "I know, but the game is not reality. Even the bionic organs have been produced, so it can't be justified if it can't solve the rejection reaction?"

  Fang Chang: "..."

   What the hell?

   Putting it this way...

   Seems to make sense?

  He brings preconceived experiences into reality.

  However, this is a game world after all, and the setting is still in 2341.

   Farther into the future than 2077...

  Is it really not a problem if the organ matching is not done well?

   Resurrection once every three days.

  Earn him 20,000 to 30,000 silver coins at a time.

  What kind of business can make such money?

  The only limitation, I am afraid, is that there are not enough local tyrants in Boulder City.

  The more Fang Chang thought about it, the more interesting he felt, and decided to talk about it with the black market dealer who sold his bionic prosthetic body, and immediately said on the phone.

   "I'll ask about it."

  Irena said excitedly: "Okay! I'll let them freeze the kidney first!"

  The phone hangs up.

  Fang Chang got up from the sofa, left the Alliance Office in Boulder City without saying a word, and went to the residential area on the edge of the industrial area.

  Familiar alleys.

  The dummy hidden in the shadow of the window frightened the unlucky passers-by as always, but Fang Chang had long been accustomed to its tricks, and walked straight into the suspicious clinic without paying any attention.

  Opening the curtain and coming to the deepest room, Fang Chang saw the bald middle-aged doctor pacing back and forth, as if he was worrying about something.

  When she saw Fang Chang, Gracie's eyes lit up, and she immediately walked up to him with a different enthusiasm than before.

   "You came just in time! My friend."

   Fang Chang looked at him strangely.

"What's wrong?"

   "It's nothing, just to say hello," Gracie smiled shyly, glanced behind Fang Chang and asked, "Where's the little girl named Duo? Why didn't you come with you?"

   "It's working time now, she has her own work to do..." Looking at Gracie who obviously wanted to say something, Fang Chang asked bluntly, "Just tell me what you have to say."

  Seeing that someone had seen through her thoughts, Gracie stopped going around in circles, and said with a hey smile.

   "I have something unfeeling, please trouble you."

   Seeing that the task seemed to be triggered, Fang Chang asked.

   "What kind of unkind request."

   "Didn't the company's visiting group come to the northern suburbs recently? One of my big clients wants a bionic kidney produced by Ideal City, but suffers from lack of channels."

   Saying that, Gracie's eyes glowed eagerly.

   "Is there a way you can get that thing?"

   "The bionic prosthetic body of Ideal City...that thing is not cheap." Fang Chang remembered that he glanced at the price, and a kidney cost 600,000 silver coins.

  It is not worth it from the perspective of cost performance alone, and at least 50% of it is "brand premium".

   But Gracie didn't care, still looking at him eagerly.

   "I know, but aren't you a shelter resident? You don't have internal discounts?"

   "How could there be such a thing." Fang Chang rolled his eyes.

  The discounted price is okay.

  Dog planning is thankful for selling them without a markup!

  In order to deal with the problem of numerical expansion in the middle and late stages of the game and prevent the economic gap between players from being too large, planning this creature can be said to be exhaustive.

  But objectively speaking, this is not all bad.

  After all, if you don’t do these things, waiting until everyone’s warehouse has tens of millions of silver coins piled up will not make the game more fun, but will only make the silver coins completely lose their meaning.

   "Okay... Even if it's not cheap, you can make a price."

   "1 million silver coins." Fang Chang said without blushing.

   "1 million?!" Gracie's eyes widened instantly, and she looked at him in disbelief, "Are you kidding me?"

  Expecting his reaction like this, Fang Chang continued.

   "Don't get excited, I'm talking about silver coins, you only need to pay me 500,000 chips."

   Gracie calmed down.

  500,000 chips...

   It is not unacceptable to think of it this way.

   After all, a bionic liver produced by Boulder City costs 10,000 to 20,000 chips.

  The bionic liver produced by Ideal City...

   Across a large piece of wasteland and sent here, 50 times the price seems cheap.

  Even if there are 1 million chips, 80% of people will be interested.

  Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, and nodded without saying a word.

"make a deal!"

   "However, I have a condition. I will pay for the goods and deliver the goods. I will pay after seeing the goods!"

  The way he readily agreed made Fang Chang wonder whether the price he offered was too cheap?

  However, he is not good at breaking his promise.

   It’s a big deal, let’s raise the price next time.

   "No problem. By the way, I have another proposal here. I don't know if you are interested." Fang Chang asked.

   "What proposal?" Gracie asked, looking at him.

  Fang Chang had a smile on his face, explaining the purpose of his trip.

   "The bionic prosthetic body produced by Ideal City is expensive, and not everyone can afford it. I still have a batch of... uh, the organs of the awakened. I wonder if you are interested?"

   "The organs of the awakened one?" Gracie froze for a moment, looking at the man standing in front of him with a strange expression.

   "That's right, whether it's eyes, liver, kidney... or anything else, there are ways to get it. Although it's not as good as a bionic prosthetic body, it's absolutely natural."

   Gracie sighed and interrupted Fang Chang's speech.

   "That thing can't be sold at a price."

  Fang Chang frowned.

"Why?"

   Gracie said succinctly.

"Although it is not difficult to solve the rejection reaction, people who can afford bionic prostheses will not consider using living parts at all. Humans are a precise machine, but the parts on this machine do not serve the efficiency. "

   "And living organs, this thing is much easier to produce than bionic prosthetics. It is not troublesome to get a mentally castrated clone out and pick it up casually."

   Gracie made an astonishing statement in a normal tone.

   In fact, this is not a rare thing.

  What is forbidden in the Prosperous Era, can be done in the Wasteland Era. And cloning itself is not a complicated technology. Slave trading and organ trafficking have long formed a mature industrial chain in Boulder City.

  Fang Chang stared at this guy blankly.

  He suddenly found out.

  This game is not just for players.

  NPC is also enough punishment.

  Seeing that Fang Chang did not speak, Gracie paused and continued

   "...However, if you can get some kidneys with strong metabolic functions, or eyes with outstanding optical power, I can buy them. Maybe some mercenaries will be interested... But the price may disappoint you."

  Fang Chang asked immediately.

   "How much can you give?"

   "Words of the kidneys..."

  Graceby swipes two fingers.

   "2000 chips would be more reasonable."

   "2000?!" Fang Chang looked at him in surprise, his eyes suddenly alert, "You are not fooling me, are you?"

   Gracie laughed.

   "Mon? Then you can sell it to someone else and see if anyone is willing to take it."

  He is obviously not as enthusiastic about the parts of the awakened ones as before.

   Seeing that this guy didn't seem to be lying, Fang Chang didn't say much.

  The main reason is that besides this guy, he doesn't know anyone else who accepts this thing.

never mind.

   Mosquitoes are meat no matter how small they are.

   2000 chips can also be exchanged for 4000 silver coins, and exchanged for RMB can add 0 at least.

   You can earn 4,000 silver after being offline for three days.

   There should be good brothers in the physical system who are willing to cooperate.

   "I will help you get the bionic liver produced by Ideal City, as well as the organs of the awakened. You prepare the chips, and in a week, we will pay for it and deliver it."

   "No problem, by the way, how many awakened parts do you have?" Gracie asked in a crisp voice.

  Fang Chang smiled faintly.

   "I have as much as you want, this will be a long-term cooperation."

   Gracie was stunned, and stared at the guy in front of him dumbfounded, with an indescribably weird look in his eyes.

   I thought it was just one or two, so I didn't take it seriously, but I didn't expect this guy to say as many as he wanted.

   And plan to cooperate for a long time?

   Is this awakened leek growing out of the ground?

  Where can we get so many awakened ones? !

   "Then you prepare 20 kidneys for me first." Gracie said in a joking tone.

  He thought that the man in front of him would feel embarrassed, but he didn't expect the man in front of him to agree without saying a word.

"no problem."

   "It's only twenty, it's easy!"

  …

   "Isn't this too much punishment?"

  Browsing the forum through VM, Chu Guang showed a dumbfounding expression on his face.

   Good guy.

   These people have started begging for "parts" on the forums.

  Of course, it's a game part.

  Transactions that violate the laws and regulations of the user's location are also prohibited from discussion on the forum.

   "Master, do you want to remove the post? (°° A small window popped up from the top of the VM screen, and the message was sent by Xiao Qi.

  Chu Guang thought for a while and replied.

   "That's not necessary."

The brochures he sent to the players did not make similar regulations. Although he did not approve of them doing this business, they did not seem to do anything that would affect others, and it was impossible for people who could not distinguish between virtual and reality to take To be qualified for the beta test.

  For players who can be resurrected, at least they will not really lose anything. The only moral flaw is probably that there is no free donation.

  The shortage of active substances in the shelter has not been so short for a long time. Ten gnawers can provide one unit of active substances, and after level 10, it will only be doubled.

  However, although Chu Guang seldom directly interferes with the player's game progress, but focuses more on the formulation of the rules, he still takes some time to pay attention to what the players are doing.

   On the one hand, it is to satisfy one's own curiosity.

   On the one hand, it is to see if there are any loopholes in the rules, so that he can fill in the loopholes in time.

  He doesn't necessarily know what the NPCs are doing, but he can say that he knows what the players are doing.

  Even without going through the "back door" on the vm and many peripherals, he can still trace relevant clues from the posts on the official website.

  Although not every player knows how to browse the forum, few players with a strong sense of presence can resist going to the forum to "pretend".

   "Rather than dictating how they should play the game, I want to know what they will choose."

   Reached out and turned off the screen, Chu Guang cast his gaze forward, and they had reached their destination.

  The gate of Vault 101 is just ahead, and the huge gear-shaped gate is exactly the same as Vault 404.

  At this moment, following Chu Guang were 10 soldiers from the Guards Corps.

   There is also Horn, the mayor of Camp 101.

  However, Horn did not take him to the gate, but took him to a camp not far from the gate, and handed him a pair of glasses.

  The shape of these glasses is a bit like AR glasses, but the black lenses can't see through a little light.

   Chu Guang, who took the glasses, looked at him twice, then looked at the old man named Horn and asked.

   "Is it all right to wear these glasses?"

   Horn nodded respectfully.

   "Yes, Mr. Administrator."

  Chu Guang looked at Lu Bei who followed him every step of the way.

   "You go to the door and wait for me."

   Lu Bei was slightly taken aback, with a hesitant expression on his face.

   "But my lord..."

   Sit down on the chair next to him, Chu Guang didn't intend to explain.

"This is an order."

   Lu Bei was silent for a while, and finally gave a military salute, turned and walked out of the tent.

   followed him and left the room, Horn glanced at the boy and said softly.

   "Don't worry, it's just a VR glasses, we can't do anything that threatens the safety of your managers."

   Lu Bei didn't speak.

  He also feels that these people are less likely to do things that are not good for adults.

  He just couldn't believe it, the man who hadn't even seen his face - the manager of Vault 101.

   The same goes for the other soldier standing next to him.

  I saw the man sullenly and said in a stiff tone.

   "Better so."

  If something happens to the Master Manager, he swears that he will level this place.

   What about shelters?

   Can't open the door?

   Then blow up the whole tunnel and cover it with cement!

  …

  After the door is closed.

  Chu Guang fiddled with the glasses for a while, then put them on the bridge of his nose.

   Surprisingly, no images appeared on the black lenses.

  Instead, the moment he closed his eyes, colorful ripples spread from the center of his brows to the surroundings, pulling his five senses to integrate with the huge information.

   It was just a momentary trance. When Chu Guang opened his eyes again, he was already standing in a completely different world.

   Surrounded by birds and flowers, trees lined with shade, people walking on the road paved with red bricks, talking and laughing.

   A statue stood in the distance, but because his back was turned to him, he couldn't see the face of the statue.

  Here seems to be a park.

  Chu Guang stared blankly at everything in front of him, talking to himself like a dream.

"…This is."

   At this time, a voice came from behind him.

   "Welcome to Vault 101."

  Hearing these words, Chu Guang immediately turned his head and saw a strange man standing there.

  He is neither tall nor short, slightly thin, and his face belongs to the kind that cannot be found in the crowd, but there is a unique affinity in his smile.

  The most special thing is those eyes, like the deep ocean, as if they have the penetrating power to see everything.

  He is holding the hand of a girl who should be his daughter.

   But she only inherited his eye color, not his shiny black hair.

  Chu Guang suddenly felt that the girl looked familiar, but only a little bit.

   "Dad?" The girl looked up at the man next to her, and said crisply, "Is that your friend?"

   "I guess."

  The man patted the girl's hand lightly and said in a soft voice.

   "Go to your mother first and tell her that I will be there in a while."

  The girl nodded, let go of her father's hand in a sensible way, turned around and ran towards the crowd.

  Chu Guang watched her back disappear into the crowd, subconsciously frowned.

   "Is it okay to let the child go alone?"

   It seems that he heard something interesting, the man said with a smile.

   "Don't worry, there is no crime here."

  Chu Guang had a thoughtful expression on his face, and suddenly stamped his right foot.

  The tingling feeling from the soles of the feet, and the immobile red brick, everything seems real.

  However, he could still feel a little discord.

  Because if it was reality, with his strength, the floor tile under his feet should have been broken.

   "This is a virtual world?"

  A smile of appreciation appeared on the man's face.

   "As expected of you, I was thinking just now, but you will find out in a few seconds."

  Hearing this speech that seemed to have something to say, Chu Guang couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

   "You seem to know me?"

  The man nodded and said happily.

   "Hmm... It's been a few seconds, but it's great to see you."

  Chu Guang didn't understand what was good.

   And the man obviously didn't explain the meaning of his words, but just continued on his own.

   “Introduce yourself, you can call me… method, this is the most common byline I use in papers, and my friends always call me by that.”

method?

  Chu Guang frowned, and a trace of surprise suddenly appeared in his eyes.

etc…

   Could it be the "method" of the academy?

  He remembered that Yin Fang told himself a long time ago that the three founders of the college were principles, methods, and conclusions.

  In that lost virtual image, he had already seen Doctor Principle. In my impression, that person was an optimistic idealist, and then went to the northern part of the River Valley Province to participate in the formation of the post-war reconstruction committee...

   Good guy.

  He hasn't been to the Wandering Swamp yet, but he has already met the founders of the two colleges.

  However, what confuses Chu Guang the most is...

   "Why is the founder of the academy here?"

   "Academy... What a nostalgic name."

  The azure blue pupils seemed to be trapped in the memories of the past, but they were soon submerged in a faint smile.

   "However, I'm not that great. I didn't start the academy. It existed in the distant era of prosperity. I just spent a little time helping my friends rebuild it in the new world."

   "As for why I'm here..."

  Dr. Method paused for a moment, as if he was thinking about how to answer.

   "This question is a bit strange, but I can feel what you want to ask. Simply put, not all shelters were activated during the Three Years War, and some began to operate after the war ended."

   Chu Guang said thoughtfully.

   "That is to say...you came here after founding the academy?"

   "That's right, but it was a long time ago, and I'd almost forget it if you didn't tell me."

   Speaking of this, the man put on a cheerful tone.

   "Thank you very much for taking time out of your busy schedule to satisfy the curiosity of an insignificant person like me. My confusion was answered the moment I saw you."

   "My VM has been given to Horn, and he will give it to you later."

  Chu Guang looked at him silently, and suddenly spoke.

   "I am just the opposite of you. After seeing you, I am more confused."

  Dr. Method smiled gently, and said in a polite tone.

   "It's my honor to be able to answer your questions. You can ask me if you have any questions."

  Chu Guang smiled.

   "Really? Then there are too many things I want to ask, such as... who is our enemy?"

  He has been thinking about this question for more than a year, and he has been confused since he first woke up.

   "Enemies..." Dr. Method thought about this question for a while, "Two centuries ago, we did have some conflicts with our compatriots in Nanmen Er, but I don't think they are our enemies."

   Sure enough.

  A trace of understanding appeared in Chu Guang's eyes.

  The books collected from Vault 117 mention the method of "spacecraft jumping between massive celestial bodies". Obviously, the People's Federation of the Prosperous Era has mastered the FTL engine related technology.

  The psychic intervention technology preserved in Vault 117 also comes from the communication with the colony.

  All signs indicate that as early as the Prosperous Era, the People's Federation has already stepped into the world outside the solar system and completed at least one colony.

  Dr. Method's words supported part of the conjecture in his mind.

   What he didn't expect was that this war broke out between the mother star and the colony?

  He thought that extraterrestrial civilizations would be involved, such as over-expansion alerting the "Fallen Empire".

  However, what surprised Chu Guang the most was not these things, but the reaction of the man in front of him.

   Let war destroy an era.

  Chu Guang always felt that he seemed to be too calm.

   "...Even if your world becomes like this?"

  Dr. Method nodded and said in a normal tone.

"Yes, war is just the final showdown, and the seeds of contradictions and disagreements were planted long ago. It doesn't make any difference whether they germinate today or tomorrow. There are many complicated reasons for this, and it cannot be explained in a few words. Make it clear."

  “We have tried to stop it, including my beloved mentor, many people have made a lot of efforts during their lifetime.”

   "However, in the face of the wheel of history, the power of one or two people is really too small."

  "After realizing that everything is irreversible, the only thing we can do is to save as much fire as possible when everything is irreversible, and leave a little hope for future generations."

  “…or in other words, leave a little bit about the possibility of the future.”

  The voice was very soft, it was clearly in front of my eyes, but it felt like it was floating from far away.

  Looking at his "negative" attitude, Chu Guang couldn't help but said.

   "Haven't you thought about making a little change?"

  As if expecting Chu Guang to say that, Doctor Method smiled.

   "How do you know I didn't do anything?"

  (end of this chapter)