After Lucius left, the hall on the second basement floor was full of shouts.
Crazy Bookworm: "Are there any newcomers in the perception department? We need a member in our team, the front row is the LV3 strength department, and the output is a combination of agility. When the perception department comes, just search for the enemy, don't worry about anything else, I will take you from the earth to the sky, and don't need to worry about leveling!"
Killing Chicken At Midnight: "Do you want to join a team with a strength department? Team up and cut down trees, and I will take you to level up to LV1 in one day!"
Night Commander: "Hey! Doesn't anyone want the intelligence department? I'm shaking and cold!"
Richest Elf King: "Brother, it's not that we don't want to bring it, but we don't know how to upgrade the intelligence department!"
Irena: "I can teach you to be funny."
The most sought-after newcomer was naturally the bear, but there was only one bear, and he was soon fooled into being a tank.
Then the most sought-after rookies are the perception system, which is the most profitable for the team, followed by the strength system, which is the easiest to level up, and the agility system and constitution system, which can be played in any position.
The worst system is still intelligence. In the current version, although life occupations are showing signs of rising, not all life occupations require intelligence.
It is true that the higher the intelligence attribute, there will be a small bonus to the learning speed of skills, but this bonus is not very obvious in the novice stage.
Life occupations such as moving bricks, plastering, digging, transporting stones, and burning cement actually require strength.
Just when the Intelligence department players were helpless, a girl with a height of 1.5 meters stood up and raised her little hand.
"This is Shuri Cottage, recruiting new apprentices who are willing to be tailors, intelligence department is the priority, hurry up and sign up!"
A group of freshmen from the intelligence department seem to have lit up a bright light in the gloomy world.
"Mom, I saw an angel!"
"Coach! I want to learn tailoring!"
"Woooooh, from today onwards, scissors and needles are my life!"
"Wait, can I sign up for the strength department? I suddenly feel that life occupations are also very interesting!"
"I think intuition is very important in making clothes, I am a sensory department!"
"Nonsense! A tailor must have agility! Do it fast, and fast is king!"
Not only players from the Department of Intelligence, but players from several other departments also ran over.
Later, not only the newcomers, but even the old players with VMs came to join in the fun, begging to hug the rich woman's thighs.
Shuri, who was overwhelmed by the crowd, couldn't laugh or cry for a while, and quickly waved his hands and said.
"Don't all come to me, I can only bring three people."
Tail standing on the edge of the crowd touched his chin and clicked his tongue.
"Damn it, the bear was robbed."
Sisi, who was standing beside him, sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Don't be disgusting, hurry up and find a thigh belt to take us."
"Thigh?"
An antenna seems to be erected above the head. Tail stretched his neck to look around, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he locked on a certain long leg that couldn't squeeze in at the edge of the square.
"Sisi, are you from the strength Department?"
"Um."
Tail right fist slammed into her palm, as she stared at Yaya in the distance, her eyes were piercing.
"That's her!"
Sisi gave Tail a suspicious look.
"... Can that guy do it?"
"Sure! Bigger than us combined!"
"...Are we talking about the same thing?"
"Big means power!"
Seeing Tail bouncing and trotting over, Sisi sighed.
"This guy is crazy."
...
Leaving the new things to the old players, Lucius spent his free time on training the captives rescued from the predator's dungeon.
A total of thirty prisoners were rescued.
Earlier, Lucius ordered the warehouse manager Luka to register their identities, and asked how everyone was captured and what they did before they were captured. Do you have any professional skills?
Beyond that, where do they come from? Are there any relatives in the wasteland? Is there anyone willing to redeem them back and so on.
These are necessary procedures. Lucius needs to decide their work based on their personal experiences.
Of course, if someone expresses that he wants to go home, he will also generously let him go. Although he will not give travel expenses, he will never hold him back.
Twisted melons are not sweet, and they may not quench their thirst. Besides, these slaves cannot be stronger, better able to fight, and able to work more than players.
What Lucius needs is loyalty from the heart. Only NPCs who are loyal enough can become his assistants and help him guide the players to play the game "Correctly".
Although the old Luka is illiterate and only learned some basic pinyin, the VM has a recording function, and it is also possible to convert the dictation recording into text for archiving.
"My lord."
Seeing Lucius walking towards the warehouse, old Luka, who was teaching the survivors to behave, came forward respectfully.
Lucius glanced at the survivors.
They wore ragged jackets and leather jackets that had been ripped off from the predators. Most of them were yellow and emaciated, malnourished, and skinny.
Lucius had placed them in camp at the brick kiln before, and recently moved them to the outpost, allowing them to build shacks between the wall at the south gate and the trench.
Every day, Luka would cook a pot of green wheat porridge for them, chop up 2 taels of raw meat and half kg of cabbage from the predators, and throw them in. For them, it was the ultimate delicacy.
This really qualifies as gourmet food. After all, when they were in the dungeon before, not to mention having clothes to wear, even fatter mice and cockroaches could be called delicious. Where can they get steaming hot food?
"Why are there only 25 left?" Lucius counted the number of people and found that there were fewer people, so he looked at Luka and asked.
Luka lowered his head and said.
"There are still 5 who didn't make it through... When they were sent back, many of them were seriously injured or even disabled. I found some herbs to bandage them, but they still didn't survive. Their bodies were sent to that furnace, please punish them, sir."
Lucius found that this old Luka and Sumeria were two extremes. One was sensible and made people feel distressed, while the other had to catch up with a whip before moving.
"No, you did the right thing," Lucius nodded, and continued, "Have you finished counting the identities of these survivors?"
Luka nodded and said.
"The statistics have been completed!"
The recordings were organized into data and uploaded to the computer. Popo retrieved the files and sent them to Lucius's VM after sorting them out.
Lucius's VM is different from the VMs of players and NPCs. His VM has the highest authority and can directly connect to the main server of Shelter No.404. Basically, there is a signal without going too far out of the outpost.
Looking at the roster and information on the VM, Lucius probably had an idea of the identities of these survivors.
Two of them were former slaves at Brown Farm, and two were hunters on Beit Street. Most of the rest came from the survivor community near the northern suburbs of Spring City, or simply wandered nearby.
"...Aries and Pisces?"
Tsk. What are these names?
But now Lucius couldn't figure it out, what would happen if the survivors on Beit Street used up all the zodiac signs and common animals names? If there are not enough people, can you still use numbers to make up?
Hearing Manager call their names, the two skinny survivors hurriedly stood up and spoke timidly.
"Yes, my lord."
"How did you get captured by the Bloody Hand clan?" Lucius stared at the two and asked curiously, "Your old leech—I mean the mayor, didn't pay the Bloody Hand clan protection money. "
The two looked blank.
"Protection fees……"
"No, I don't know."
"My lord, how could the mayor tell us this?"
"That's right... We were captured last month while hunting."
It seemed that the two children hadn't thought about why the predators of the Bloody Hand clan would let Beit Street go.
The force value of Brown Farm is not bad, and the materials are estimated to be bought for safety. As for the few guns on Beit Street and the broken walls that can't even guard against mice, it probably won't take a ten-man commander to take them down.
However, it seems that protection fee and ransom are two different concepts, which cannot guarantee their safety when picking up waste outside, and the mayor of Beit Street has no plan to redeem them.
Lucius stared at the two of them for a while, then spoke.
"Do you have any relatives in Beit Street?"
The two nodded repeatedly.
"Have."
"Very well, I will give you two choices now, one is to go back and reunite with your relatives, and the other is to stay and do things for me."
The two looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, looked at Lucius and said.
"My lord, I want to stay."
"Me, me too."
Lucius looked at them and smiled.
"Have you figured it out?"
The two nodded in unison.
"Thought it out!"
It is difficult to hunt prey in winter, and they know how much is left of the little food at home. If I go back now, it means I have an extra mouth to raise, and it is a mouth that can be eaten, which will only make the situation at home worse.
Here they have a place to live, a fire, and food, and they are already very satisfied. Even if you want to go back, you have to wait until next spring.
Lucius knew exactly what they were thinking, but he didn't take it to heart. Whether they go home with the benevolence of Shelter No.404 or stay here to help build the outpost, it will be useful to them.
Looking at Luka, Lucius continued to ask.
"Do you know any of these slaves from Brown Farm?"
Luka said respectfully.
"My lord, don't worry, I am your servant, no matter where they come from, I will treat them equally."
Lucius said with a smile.
"You just have to tell me if you have."
Luka nodded quickly.
"Those are both, I know their names, although I don't communicate much."
Lucius nodded and continued.
"Those two stay. You guide them to familiarize themselves with the position of warehouse manager. When they are qualified for the position of warehouse manager, the granary and warehouse will be handed over to them to manage."
"After this matter is done, I will arrange more important work for you."
Luka was overjoyed to be reused by his Master, but he still bowed his head respectfully and made a solemn promise.
"Yes, my lord! I promise to train them to be submissive for you. If they do anything wrong, I am willing to be punished together with them!"
The slaves in Brown Farm are very easy to train, they are the most obedient.
Looking at the remaining survivors, Lucius said after thinking for a moment.
"The rest asked them to pack up and go on the road with fuel, food and other supplies."
"Now that the snow has stopped, I need them to camp on the edge of the river on the northwest side. There is a brick kiln there, and I will arrange work there for them."
At that time, two survivors who are smarter will be selected as foremen, and a VM will be responsible for communicating with the players and leading other survivors to work.
The VM has a positioning function and is passively turned on. Lucius is not at all worried that they will lose their precious equipment, and it is a bit difficult to break this thing.
Luka nodded respectfully, and said in command.
"Yes!"
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After Lucius left, the hall on the second basement floor was full of shouts.
Crazy Bookworm: "Are there any newcomers in the perception department? We need a member in our team, the front row is the LV3 strength department, and the output is a combination of agility. When the perception department comes, just search for the enemy, don't worry about anything else, I will take you from the earth to the sky, and don't need to worry about leveling!"
Killing Chicken At Midnight: "Do you want to join a team with a strength department? Team up and cut down trees, and I will take you to level up to LV1 in one day!"
Night Commander: "Hey! Doesn't anyone want the intelligence department? I'm shaking and cold!"
Richest Elf King: "Brother, it's not that we don't want to bring it, but we don't know how to upgrade the intelligence department!"
Irena: "I can teach you to be funny."
The most sought-after newcomer was naturally the bear, but there was only one bear, and he was soon fooled into being a tank.
Then the most sought-after rookies are the perception system, which is the most profitable for the team, followed by the strength system, which is the easiest to level up, and the agility system and constitution system, which can be played in any position.
The worst system is still intelligence. In the current version, although life occupations are showing signs of rising, not all life occupations require intelligence.
It is true that the higher the intelligence attribute, there will be a small bonus to the learning speed of skills, but this bonus is not very obvious in the novice stage.
Life occupations such as moving bricks, plastering, digging, transporting stones, and burning cement actually require strength.
Just when the Intelligence department players were helpless, a girl with a height of 1.5 meters stood up and raised her little hand.
"This is Shuri Cottage, recruiting new apprentices who are willing to be tailors, intelligence department is the priority, hurry up and sign up!"
A group of freshmen from the intelligence department seem to have lit up a bright light in the gloomy world.
"Mom, I saw an angel!"
"Coach! I want to learn tailoring!"
"Woooooh, from today onwards, scissors and needles are my life!"
"Wait, can I sign up for the strength department? I suddenly feel that life occupations are also very interesting!"
"I think intuition is very important in making clothes, I am a sensory department!"
"Nonsense! A tailor must have agility! Do it fast, and fast is king!"
Not only players from the Department of Intelligence, but players from several other departments also ran over.
Later, not only the newcomers, but even the old players with VMs came to join in the fun, begging to hug the rich woman's thighs.
Shuri, who was overwhelmed by the crowd, couldn't laugh or cry for a while, and quickly waved his hands and said.
"Don't all come to me, I can only bring three people."
Tail standing on the edge of the crowd touched his chin and clicked his tongue.
"Damn it, the bear was robbed."
Sisi, who was standing beside him, sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Don't be disgusting, hurry up and find a thigh belt to take us."
"Thigh?"
An antenna seems to be erected above the head. Tail stretched his neck to look around, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he locked on a certain long leg that couldn't squeeze in at the edge of the square.
"Sisi, are you from the strength Department?"
"Um."
Tail right fist slammed into her palm, as she stared at Yaya in the distance, her eyes were piercing.
"That's her!"
Sisi gave Tail a suspicious look.
"... Can that guy do it?"
"Sure! Bigger than us combined!"
"...Are we talking about the same thing?"
"Big means power!"
Seeing Tail bouncing and trotting over, Sisi sighed.
"This guy is crazy."
...
Leaving the new things to the old players, Lucius spent his free time on training the captives rescued from the predator's dungeon.
A total of thirty prisoners were rescued.
Earlier, Lucius ordered the warehouse manager Luka to register their identities, and asked how everyone was captured and what they did before they were captured. Do you have any professional skills?
Beyond that, where do they come from? Are there any relatives in the wasteland? Is there anyone willing to redeem them back and so on.
These are necessary procedures. Lucius needs to decide their work based on their personal experiences.
Of course, if someone expresses that he wants to go home, he will also generously let him go. Although he will not give travel expenses, he will never hold him back.
Twisted melons are not sweet, and they may not quench their thirst. Besides, these slaves cannot be stronger, better able to fight, and able to work more than players.
What Lucius needs is loyalty from the heart. Only NPCs who are loyal enough can become his assistants and help him guide the players to play the game "Correctly".
Although the old Luka is illiterate and only learned some basic pinyin, the VM has a recording function, and it is also possible to convert the dictation recording into text for archiving.
"My lord."
Seeing Lucius walking towards the warehouse, old Luka, who was teaching the survivors to behave, came forward respectfully.
Lucius glanced at the survivors.
They wore ragged jackets and leather jackets that had been ripped off from the predators. Most of them were yellow and emaciated, malnourished, and skinny.
Lucius had placed them in camp at the brick kiln before, and recently moved them to the outpost, allowing them to build shacks between the wall at the south gate and the trench.
Every day, Luka would cook a pot of green wheat porridge for them, chop up 2 taels of raw meat and half kg of cabbage from the predators, and throw them in. For them, it was the ultimate delicacy.
This really qualifies as gourmet food. After all, when they were in the dungeon before, not to mention having clothes to wear, even fatter mice and cockroaches could be called delicious. Where can they get steaming hot food?
"Why are there only 25 left?" Lucius counted the number of people and found that there were fewer people, so he looked at Luka and asked.
Luka lowered his head and said.
"There are still 5 who didn't make it through... When they were sent back, many of them were seriously injured or even disabled. I found some herbs to bandage them, but they still didn't survive. Their bodies were sent to that furnace, please punish them, sir."
Lucius found that this old Luka and Sumeria were two extremes. One was sensible and made people feel distressed, while the other had to catch up with a whip before moving.
"No, you did the right thing," Lucius nodded, and continued, "Have you finished counting the identities of these survivors?"
Luka nodded and said.
"The statistics have been completed!"
The recordings were organized into data and uploaded to the computer. Popo retrieved the files and sent them to Lucius's VM after sorting them out.
Lucius's VM is different from the VMs of players and NPCs. His VM has the highest authority and can directly connect to the main server of Shelter No.404. Basically, there is a signal without going too far out of the outpost.
Looking at the roster and information on the VM, Lucius probably had an idea of the identities of these survivors.
Two of them were former slaves at Brown Farm, and two were hunters on Beit Street. Most of the rest came from the survivor community near the northern suburbs of Spring City, or simply wandered nearby.
"...Aries and Pisces?"
Tsk. What are these names?
But now Lucius couldn't figure it out, what would happen if the survivors on Beit Street used up all the zodiac signs and common animals names? If there are not enough people, can you still use numbers to make up?
Hearing Manager call their names, the two skinny survivors hurriedly stood up and spoke timidly.
"Yes, my lord."
"How did you get captured by the Bloody Hand clan?" Lucius stared at the two and asked curiously, "Your old leech—I mean the mayor, didn't pay the Bloody Hand clan protection money. "
The two looked blank.
"Protection fees……"
"No, I don't know."
"My lord, how could the mayor tell us this?"
"That's right... We were captured last month while hunting."
It seemed that the two children hadn't thought about why the predators of the Bloody Hand clan would let Beit Street go.
The force value of Brown Farm is not bad, and the materials are estimated to be bought for safety. As for the few guns on Beit Street and the broken walls that can't even guard against mice, it probably won't take a ten-man commander to take them down.
However, it seems that protection fee and ransom are two different concepts, which cannot guarantee their safety when picking up waste outside, and the mayor of Beit Street has no plan to redeem them.
Lucius stared at the two of them for a while, then spoke.
"Do you have any relatives in Beit Street?"
The two nodded repeatedly.
"Have."
"Very well, I will give you two choices now, one is to go back and reunite with your relatives, and the other is to stay and do things for me."
The two looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, looked at Lucius and said.
"My lord, I want to stay."
"Me, me too."
Lucius looked at them and smiled.
"Have you figured it out?"
The two nodded in unison.
"Thought it out!"
It is difficult to hunt prey in winter, and they know how much is left of the little food at home. If I go back now, it means I have an extra mouth to raise, and it is a mouth that can be eaten, which will only make the situation at home worse.
Here they have a place to live, a fire, and food, and they are already very satisfied. Even if you want to go back, you have to wait until next spring.
Lucius knew exactly what they were thinking, but he didn't take it to heart. Whether they go home with the benevolence of Shelter No.404 or stay here to help build the outpost, it will be useful to them.
Looking at Luka, Lucius continued to ask.
"Do you know any of these slaves from Brown Farm?"
Luka said respectfully.
"My lord, don't worry, I am your servant, no matter where they come from, I will treat them equally."
Lucius said with a smile.
"You just have to tell me if you have."
Luka nodded quickly.
"Those are both, I know their names, although I don't communicate much."
Lucius nodded and continued.
"Those two stay. You guide them to familiarize themselves with the position of warehouse manager. When they are qualified for the position of warehouse manager, the granary and warehouse will be handed over to them to manage."
"After this matter is done, I will arrange more important work for you."
Luka was overjoyed to be reused by his Master, but he still bowed his head respectfully and made a solemn promise.
"Yes, my lord! I promise to train them to be submissive for you. If they do anything wrong, I am willing to be punished together with them!"
The slaves in Brown Farm are very easy to train, they are the most obedient.
Looking at the remaining survivors, Lucius said after thinking for a moment.
"The rest asked them to pack up and go on the road with fuel, food and other supplies."
"Now that the snow has stopped, I need them to camp on the edge of the river on the northwest side. There is a brick kiln there, and I will arrange work there for them."
At that time, two survivors who are smarter will be selected as foremen, and a VM will be responsible for communicating with the players and leading other survivors to work.
The VM has a positioning function and is passively turned on. Lucius is not at all worried that they will lose their precious equipment, and it is a bit difficult to break this thing.
Luka nodded respectfully, and said in command.
"Yes!"
........
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