Chapter 7 If you want to be rich, you must first plant trees

No rules no standards.

  Especially for players who are keen to make troubles, they can't be soft-hearted.

  【Evacuation Shelter Resident Handbook Version 1.0. 】

  【1. The manager's order is above all else, and all residents of the shelter must obey it unconditionally. 】

  【2. For residents who violate the rules, the administrator will reserve the use of "forced dormancy" and "confinement" as the ultimate means. (Note: Forced hibernation is equivalent to forcibly kicking out of the game, and confinement means banning login permissions.)]

  【3. The manager has the final interpretation right of all the above terms. 】

   Violators will be kicked out of the game, which is no longer a power that ordinary NPCs have.

  Seeing the note at the end of the second article of the refuge resident manual, the players fully understand that the NPC in front of them is not just an NPC, but also has some authority of the GM, which can "ban" people who affect the game experience of other players.

  Now that there are few people, there are only three rules for the time being. If there is anything to be added later, Chu Guang will consider launching version 2.0, or even version 20.0.

  For example, regulate the rules of contact between players and players, players and "NPCs", and prohibited items in the game, etc.

  Half of the reason for conducting a closed beta before the A test is also for this reason.

  The space in the shelter is not very large. Twenty or so rooms look like a lot, but in fact each one is very small, filled to the brim with four training cabins.

  The previous manager seemed to be deeply afraid that he would not work and would sit here and eat nothing, so he moved the entire B1 floor clean, but there was nothing good left for him.

  Chu Guang didn't stay in the refuge for too long. After explaining the rules, he took the four of them and Xiao Qi to the elevator leading to the outside world.

  These four beta testers were fairly obedient, and gave him face as a manager, but their curiosity was a bit too strong.

  From the moment their feet were on the ground, they were like Grandma Liu who had entered the Grand View Garden, touching everything along the way.

   In the whole body, no cell can be idle!

   The elevator comes to a complete stop.

   Looking at the sun shining in front of the elevator through the incomplete window, the four players all exclaimed that they had never seen the world before.

   "Damn it..."

   "The light! The wall! This, this, this..."

   "This is too awesome!"

   "Sunlight passes through the gaps in the concrete ruins, and shines on the grass that has drilled out of the floor, and the dust visible to the naked eye floats in the beam... Every frame is art, and every second is the burning of funds!"

   "It's amazing! It's better that our Japanese brother is educated!"

   "Go away, call me Brother Fang!"

   "Good morning brother."

   "..."

   A group of guys who have never seen the world...

   Chu Guang thought it was a bit funny, but he could understand it, so he pretended not to hear anything, fulfilled his duties as an NPC, and led them outside the nursing home.

  Looking at the tools on the ground, Chu Guang turned to face them.

   "As you can see, the nuclear war has been over for two hundred years."

   "The place where we are now is located in the northern outskirts of Qingquan City, far away from the nuclear bomb crater. Unless there is a 'glowing rain' or a radioactive cloud visible to the naked eye, don't worry too much about the problem of excessive gamma."

"The sanctuary cannot shelter us forever, nor can our civilization hide under the ruins forever. Remember, we are the vanguard of returning to the surface, and there are thousands of people waiting for us behind us." Good news, there is no time to lose."

   "The first thing we have to do now is to repair the sanatorium under our feet and build an outpost on the ruins."

   “It will be our bridgehead back to the surface.”

   "I give you a task, pick up the ax on the ground, go outside and chop some wood and come back."

   "Before winter comes, we need to store enough fuel, and at the same time repair these broken walls around us."

   "Remember not to go too far, and don't act rashly when encountering alien species, withdraw immediately."

   "Action!"

  Chu Guang originally thought that he needed to spend some time talking.

   Unexpectedly, these players were more obedient than I imagined, and they simply picked up their axes and went out to work.

  The swift action seemed to be eager to finish speaking quickly, for fear of delaying his work.

   "Master, are these guys really okay?" Xiaoqi, who was at the side, expressed his concern. It always felt that the heads of these clones were not normal.

"That's why I asked you to come out too." Chu Guang looked up at the nursing home behind him, paused for a moment, and continued, "Go to the window on the third floor to the north and watch. If they encounter a situation or go too far, You remind me."

  As for himself, he has to check the rewards for completing the mission first.

   The wastebasket parked next to Chu Guang did not move.

   After a while, Xiao Qi whispered.

"…Owner."

"What's wrong?"

   "Well, I don't have jio."

  The moving wastebasket circled around Chu Guang's calf, showing how he moved. Only then did Chu Guang notice that this guy had been skating on four pairs of pulleys.

   "...All right, I'll carry you up."

Sighed.

  Chu Guang squatted down and carried it on his shoulder.

   Good guy.

   It's quite heavy.

  …

  Kaka—

  Duang!

  The thigh-thick tree fell slowly and hit the ground with a dull sound.

   "I don't think this is like a wasteland."

   "What's that like?"

   "It's more like a forest... I'm talking about "The Forest". I don't know if you have played it. It cuts down trees like this, and then builds houses."

   “Of course I’ve played with Black Artifact, and not only have I played, I’ve also built a house to the sky. But it’s much easier to build a house there, just click with the mouse, unlike here...fuck, the ax is quite heavy.”

"Speaking of the setting, I think it's quite real. I remember watching a documentary before. It talked about returning to Chernobyl. There was no human disturbance for forty years, and a new ecology evolved there. The system, the building is surrounded by vines, and the trees grow taller than the house... The setting of this game is two hundred years after the wasteland, but it is not impossible. I even feel that the situation in the city will be more exaggerated than here."

  Looking at the mess behind him, Lao Bai wiped his sweat and licked his tongue.

   "If this is put in reality, I'm afraid I will have to sit in prison."

   Been busy for two hours.

  Although the efficiency was not high, and the wooden blocks left behind were the same as those gnawed by dogs, they also cut down a dozen or so thigh-thick pine trees, and countless thinner ones.

   It's just that the manager didn't say how much they want, and no one can decide whether these are enough.

   "One thing to say, this game is too real... Whether it is the blunt feeling of the ax cutting on the tree, or the flying wood chips and the sunlight passing through the leaves, it reminds me of-"

   "All right, all right, stop talking nonsense."

  Interrupting Fang Chang's emotion, Ye Shi held an ax in his arm, looked at the scattered branches and autumn leaves on the ground, and panted.

   "Since you can cut down trees, building a house and farming shouldn't be a problem, right?"

  The body movement ability in the game is much stronger than the real body.

  Ye Shi in reality belongs to the kind whose body has been hollowed out by nine years of compulsory education, but in the wasteland, he can barely squeeze out two biceps.

  Of course, the happiest thing is Bai Ju Guo Gap—that is, Lao Bai.

  Although the character of this guy is not very good-looking, full of stubble, but his sleeves are full of muscles, and he looks powerful.

   "If you want to farm, I suggest that we can set a fire and turn the ash from the burnt plants into the soil. After the winter is over, the next spring will be a piece of fertile soil... Of course, the premise is that the game is really so real, otherwise it will be a waste of expression."

   "Speaking of it, I have been wondering why you see that Lao Bai's muscles are so strong that he looks like he has been trained. I can hardly hold an ax."

   The wind was panting heavily.

  His character is probably the one with the closest physical fitness to reality among all the people. After exercising for a while, he is already dead.

   "The attributes of each character must be different...Although I don't know how this thing is judged." The abbot touched the back of his head and thought for a moment, "But I have a guess."

   "What guess?"

  The three players are very interested in what he found.

  Anyone who has been in the Cow Horse Club for a while knows that this guy is a member of the strategy team for several stand-alone games, and he also has the most steam game inventory in the group.

  Whether it is FPS, RPG or SLG, there is no type that he does not play.

"You should have also noticed that we woke up from a silver-white jar. Considering the theme of this game, there are two possibilities in the setting. One, we slept from before the war to Now. Two, we're all clones."

   "Of course, I personally think that the latter setting is more convenient. After all, the problem of resurrection is also easy to explain in this way. A body can be resynthesized directly from the DNA stored in the cultivation cabin."

  Looking at the players looking at each other, Fang Chang continued.

   "I estimate that the attribute panel and level settings will be added later, and the difference in our physical fitness is probably the foreshadowing!"

"I'm still looking forward to the production team developing a set of unique game mechanisms, such as...combining DNA and occupational systems, distinguishing between strength players and agility players, and formulating different attribute growth curves. This will not only ensure freedom It can also enrich the gameplay.”

   "It's a pity that the characters are random. It would be great if I could decide the initial attributes myself."

   Talking dry, Fang Chang finally stopped.

   "Don't talk nonsense, I'll go offline later and I'll talk to Brother Guang."

   I remember Brother Guang said that he is the planner of this game. Talking to the planner directly about this issue is definitely better than discussing it here.

  At this time, Ye Shi, who was staring at the distance in a daze, suddenly spoke.

   "Tell me, how big is this map?"

"have no idea."

   "You said that if I keep walking in one direction..."

  Looking at Ye Shi who was eager to try, and Gu Feng resting aside with an axe, he hesitated and said.

   "The high probability is an air wall, or it may be a plot kill... But no matter what it is, I suggest you don't do it."

   "Did you forget? The administrator told us not to go too far from the nursing home."

   "Damn, he's just an NPC, you listen to him?"

   "But he can get us offline, and even confiscate our qualifications for the beta test." Kuang Feng reminded.

  Fang Chang also reminded me next to him.

"Yes, and I speculate that with the level of intelligence of the NPC in this game, there may be a hidden setting such as favorability. You can actually notice that its attitude towards each player is not exactly the same. There must be something in it. Hidden algorithmic logic."

   "It's worth it, don't try it, don't try it."

  Hearing this sentence, the most dishonest Ye Shi also became honest.

no way.

   These words are too lethal.

  Anyone with a discerning eye can see the value behind this game.

   Fully immersive virtual reality…

   Once this technology comes out, it will have a subversive impact on the entertainment methods—even lifestyles—of the entire modern society!

  Even if you don’t want to play games, who would mind having 12 to 8 hours more than others a day?

   According to Brother Guang in the group, the time spent in the game world is equivalent to sleeping in the real world.

   In other words, even if you stay here all night, it won't affect your work the next day!

   It's really hard to imagine that for such a game that is destined to become a sensation all over the world, the beta test was carried out in such a "sloppy" and even silent way.

   Doesn’t that company need to make money?

   But no matter how you say it, since this opportunity has come to them, no one is willing to give up easily.

  Just when Ye Shi gave up the urge to explore the border of the map and was about to continue cutting trees honestly, a strong premonition of crisis suddenly enveloped his whole body.

   Cold hands and feet.

  Cold sweat seeped from the back.

  He didn’t know where the sense of crisis came from, but he seemed to have foreseen his tragic death——

   His legs gave way, Ye Shi staggered backwards, but it was this stagger that allowed him to avoid the black shadow falling from the sky.

  Tear—!

  Sawdust splatter.

  The tree trunk next to him had three half-foot-wide scratches printed on it!

   "Squeeze—!"

   Howling like a ghost!

  The big bird swooped down and missed a single hit. With the reverse thrust of kicking the pine tree, it fluttered its wings to regain altitude and disappeared in the treetops.

  Looking at the fallen black feathers, Ye Shi, who was slumped on the ground, was dumbfounded, subconsciously rubbing his head.

   What the hell?

  (end of this chapter)