Chapter 62 You Saved Our Family

   Chu Guang didn't pay much attention to what kind of expression Yaya stepped into the mutated leech nest.

  But when she appeared at the warehouse door carrying a large bag of mushrooms, her face was always filled with ashamed joy.

  Looking at the blue mushroom stuffed into a sack, Chu Guang couldn't help but be surprised.

"so much?"

   Panting heavily, Yaya nodded vigorously, and said with a smile.

   "I went in three times! Almost got bitten, eh."

  Chu Guang: "..."

  Three trips? !

  This is too brave.

   Anyway, he didn't dare.

   After weighing, a sack of mushrooms weighs 70 kilograms in total.

   This number far exceeded Chu Guang's expectations.

  According to his original estimate, he could pick about 40 to 50 kilograms, but he didn't expect her to reach 70 kilograms.

   "A total of 560 copper coins, equivalent to 56 silver coins. In addition, there are 700 contribution points..."

  Will I give too much?

never mind.

   After all, people risked their lives to make money.

  Hearing the number read out by the manager, Yaya jumped up excitedly and shook his fist excitedly.

   "Nice!"

   "Get rich hahaha!"

  Chu Guang: "..."

  Although I am an NPC, can you find a place where no one is excited?

  The thickness of a silver coin is less than 2 millimeters, and a stack of 50 pieces is about 9 to 10 centimeters, which is just a drop in the ocean compared to the small vault of the shelter.

   After receiving the reward, Yaya hummed happily and left, while Chu Guang, who was standing at the door of the warehouse, rubbed his chin and thought in his heart.

  The richest players at present are probably Lao Bai and Fang Chang. Their strength and understanding of the game are almost the first echelon of players.

During this period of time, they have been hunting, and they have almost figured out the areas with the highest prey activity nearby. Their daily income has risen from 52 silver coins to a maximum of 100. Even if the income from hunting is not stable, they should have saved it in the past few days A lot of money.

  For safety reasons, Chu Guang checks the players' lockers every day.

   Not surprisingly, today the cattle and horse team should be able to save enough 200 silver coins to raise funds to buy the land closest to the resurrection point.

  In addition to them, the deposits of other players are also rising steadily. Even if the purchase of wooden weapons, iron weapons, leather armor, winter coats, tools, and food will consume some, the player with the least deposit basically holds more than 10 silver coins.

   "Perhaps the 'banking' function should be updated."

   This will not only save the players' storage space, but also send them the silver coins they saved.

  The more Chu Guang thought about it, the more he felt it made sense, so he immediately took out the small notebook in his pocket and wrote it down.

   When there is a chance, this function must be arranged!

  …

   While storing the mushrooms in the warehouse, Chu Guang checked the inventory of the warehouse by the way.

  Excluding the part consumed by the business transactions with Honghe Town, the remaining amount of bacon is close to 700 kilograms. After deducting the daily consumption, it looks like 100 to 200 kilograms can be put into storage every day, and more than half of it is contributed by the cattle and horse team.

   Today is already the 20th.

  If luck is not too bad, the inventory should be increased to 2000 kg by the end of the month, half of which can be replaced with grains and potatoes, at least about 5 tons.

  Based on the daily consumption of 4 taels of meat and 7 taels of rice per person, 1,000 kilograms of air-dried meat is enough for 100 people to consume for 50 days, and 5 tons of grain is enough for 100 people to consume for 142 days.

Of course, these are all under ideal conditions. It is not surprising that there is a deviation of more than 20% between the actual situation and the theoretical estimate. After all, the amount of food is also related to the amount of exercise. If you do a lot of work, you will naturally be hungry quickly. When there is no work to do One meal a day is fine.

  “…If you want to increase the number of people in the beta test to 100, you must double the theoretically estimated food reserves. Especially meat…It would be great if you can hunt prey in winter, and it will be troublesome if you can’t hunt prey.”

   But thinking about it from another angle, maybe not so much food is needed?

   It's not necessary for everyone to be online when it's too cold, not even every day.

   And if it is in a dormant state, the materials consumed by the clone will be greatly reduced, and it can even go without food for up to 7 consecutive days.

   It’s just that the players may not be happy to not go to work for such a long time, and it must be on the official website again.

  However, Chu Guang has also thought up a countermeasure, and then one sentence of server maintenance will be OK.

  Is there any server that is not maintained?

   That makes sense.

  Looking at the ledger in his hand, Chu Guang was thinking about the future of the shelter, but at this moment, a player trotted in from outside.

   "Master Manager, there are natives coming!"

  Indigenous?

   Chu Guang, who looked away from the ledger, was slightly stunned.

  Sun Shiqi just walked away, so it's impossible to come back, right?

   Could it be someone else?

   Returning the ledger to the player who was the warehouse manager, Chu Guang looked at the player who reported to him and asked.

   "How many of them are there and from what direction?"

   "South! There are two men and a girl!"

  South?

  Hearing this direction, Chu Guang probably already guessed who is coming...

  …

  South Gate of the Outpost.

  The old man with wrinkles on his face and wearing a fur coat looked up at the concrete wall that was more than 100 meters wide, his muddy pupils were full of shock and surprise.

   The last time he came to Linghu Wetland Park seemed to be two years ago.

  The scavengers on Beit Street mainly explore south. Unless they are hunting, they seldom go north along the elevated road out of the city. After all, there may be plunderers who rob the passing caravan.

  As for Linghu Wetland Park, it is probably a blind spot that both scavenger and hunting will miss.

  There are not many prey to hunt here, and there is not much garbage to pick up here. Almost no survivors will visit here specially.

   Unexpectedly, someone built a survivor stronghold in this forest!

  Although the three-meter-high concrete wall looks a little short, it is brand new and strong. Compared with the patched and broken wall on Beit Street, the sense of security is not so high.

  Near the gate of the fence, there were some shelter residents in blue coats standing.

  The old man gained courage and yelled.

   "I'm here to see your managers."

   Nobody responded to him.

  Those people just looked at it like this, whispering to each other impolitely, but they couldn't tell whether their eyes were benevolent or malicious.

   it seems...

   More like pure curiosity?

   "...Are you sure it's here?"

  The old man looked at the second son next to him, with some hesitation in his eyes.

  Carrying a large package on his body, Yu Hu nodded vigorously in the face of his father's questioning eyes, and said in a firm tone.

   "This is it!"

  The expression on the old man's face became more hesitant.

   "They don't seem to welcome us."

  Yu Hu had a slightly awkward expression on his face, and he leaned close to his father and whispered.

   "Maybe it's not that they don't welcome us, they just... don't understand what we're saying."

  The old man froze for a moment.

Can't understand?

  Isn’t it possible... The stranger in the blue coat from before, didn’t he understand everything?

  Yu Xiaoyu glanced at his father and brother, then at the wall in front of him, his **** eyes were full of curiosity.

   This is the first time she has left Beit Street, and she has gone so far.

  Chu Guang...

   Really here?

  At this time, a familiar figure appeared at the door, and when he saw that face clearly, Xiaoyu's eyes lit up.

   However, there are too many strangers nearby.

  Hiding behind her brother, she only showed half of her face, looking around timidly and curiously.

   Surrounded by a group of blue coats, Chu Guang walked in front of the three and stopped.

  Looking at the old man at the head, before Chu Guang could say hello, the old man plopped without warning and knelt down on the ground, stunned everyone around him.

  Chu Guang was also dumbfounded.

  What is this for? ?

   "Dad?!"

  Yu Hu was surprised, but before he could ask, his father grabbed his arm and knelt down.

  Xiao Yu looked confused.

  She didn't understand what her father and brother were doing, and she didn't know what she should do, so she tried to imitate her father and brother's actions.

   "What are you doing... Get up quickly!" Chu Guang stepped forward to help the old man from the ground with a big face.

   But the old man refused to get up, just lowered his head, his Adam's apple moved for a long time, and it took him a long time to utter a word from his mouth.

"Thanks."

   "You saved our family!"

  He is already old, and he can work for two or three years at most before he can't do it anymore. In fact, this year is a bit reluctant.

   And his son Yu Xiong, as the eldest son of the Yu family, is also the strongest labor force of the Yu family, and can be said to be the pillar of the entire family.

  If something happens to Yu Xiong, their whole family will suffer from hunger and cold.

  The old man understood very well.

  The stranger not only saved his son's life, but also his whole family.

  But Chu Guang didn't think too much about it, he didn't have to calculate everything, and saving people was just a matter of convenience.

   "You're embarrassing me... Anyway, get up first."

  Now is not the time to be humble, you can't make people kneel all the time.

   As he spoke, Chu Guang exerted a little strength in his hands, and helped the old man up from the ground.

  Perhaps because of the embarrassment that Chu Guang said, the old man stopped kneeling after getting up, and reached out to take off the package on his second son's back.

   It was a package made of deerskin, with some animal furs folded inside, and it looked heavy.

  The old man held it in both hands, handed it to Chu Guang, and said sincerely.

   "You are the benefactor of our Yu family, we cannot let you waste precious medicine."

   "We have nothing else to give you. These furs are stripped from mutated hyenas and reindeer. There are seven in total... Excluding the tribute left to the mayor, this is all our property."

   "I know these things are not enough to repay your kindness, but if we do nothing, we will feel uneasy."

   "Please accept it!"

  If I really accept all the wealth of a penniless person, I will really feel uneasy.

  Chu Guang didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a while, he didn't accept it directly, and he didn't accept it.

  But at this moment, Chu Guang suddenly felt moved, thinking that even if the old man took these furs back, he would sell them to the old leeches in Beit Street, and then they would be brutally slaughtered.

  He remembered very clearly that there was a sign hanging at the door of Old Charlie's grocery store, which said that a mutant hyena skin was exchanged for 2 chips, and a reindeer skin was exchanged for 4 chips.

   Among the 7 skins, 4 belonged to mutated hyenas, and 3 belonged to mutated reindeer. According to the price of Beit Street, the old man could sell them for 20 chips at most.

  This kind of unequal transaction is already exploitative in itself, not to mention that these 20 chips can hardly be exchanged for anything good on Beit Street.

  For example, if you want to use chips to buy green wheat on Beit Street, you need a full 3 chips per kilogram. The price itself is almost three times that of Brown Farm!

  It is equivalent to 10 pieces of animal skins that can keep out the cold. If you sell them and buy them, you can still exchange them for less than 10 kilograms of grain.

   And it was before food prices went up.

  Is this reasonable?

   It must be so unreasonable!

Of course, the chips that these survivors exchanged for their furs were mainly for salt or other daily necessities, and relatively few grains were bought directly. After all, they can grow some croissants, dig tree roots, catch mice and Hunt for rations.

   But no matter how you say it, this old leech is too much.

  Chu Guang has long disliked him!

  So, Chu Guang reached out decisively to take all these furs, handed them to the player closest to him, and said.

   "Send it to the warehouse, and bring over 1 kg of coarse salt, and I will give you 5 copper coins as a reward."

  Although there are a lot of 5 copper coins, how can the plot be interesting?

  The player looked reluctant.

  Although he couldn't understand what the administrator and these natives were chattering over there, who hasn't seen two movies without subtitles these days?

  But the manager has already stuffed things into his hands, and he didn't give him a chance to refuse.

  Seeing that he is not moving and the plot is not going away, even if this little player is 10,000 reluctant, he can only run to the base.

   Didn't have to wait long.

  The player who ran back to the base before quickly trotted out carrying a black plastic bag.

  Chu Guang took the coarse salt from him and stuffed it into the old man's hand.

   "I've accepted the fur. The coarse salt is about one kilogram. You should just treat it as a gift!"

  The old man was stunned for a moment, saw the salt in the bag clearly, and immediately became anxious, and quickly pushed the bag of coarse salt back, refusing to accept it desperately.

   "How can that work!"

   "You are the benefactor of our Yu family, how can I accept your gift!"

  One kilogram of coarse salt!

  On Beit Street, 100 grams cost 2 chips, and 1 kilogram is 20 chips. Not to mention that when they weigh salt, they are always short of catties, and if they are of good quality, they are flipped and resold.

  The bag of salt that Chu Guang brought was coarse salt, but its quality was much better than that sold in the grocery store under the name of the old mayor.

   At least it looks translucent, the luster is not so cloudy, and the color is not so yellow!

   "You just keep it, this time I will take advantage of you."

   Pushing the plastic bag back involuntarily, Chu Guang looked at the old man and said with a smile.

   "Next time if you still have this kind of fur, you can bring it to me."

   "A piece of hyena skin is exchanged for 150g, and deerskin is exchanged for 300g."

   "How much do you have, how much will I charge!"

  (end of this chapter)