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Is This Really A Game? - Chapter 33

Published at 19th of May 2023 06:00:22 AM


Chapter 33

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Dead, dead?!

Bunny was stupefied and didn't recover for a while. But when he came back to his senses, his first reaction was that this game can still kill people?

To be reasonable, this game doesn't take the initiative to die or give it for free, it is quite difficult to die once.

Not only Bunny couldn't understand, Lucius was also puzzled.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the third batch of players went online, they encountered a non-combat accidental layoff, which was at least half a month earlier than he expected...

The dead player's ID was [ Yaya ], the gene sequence of the 'perception system', and his talent was poisonous intuition.

Lucius remembered that he sent her out to collect berries and edible mushrooms in the morning, and then for some reason, this person ran to the nest of mutant leeches.

Through the player list, Lucius was able to confirm the approximate location of the player. When he explored all the way and found that the area where she was last active was the mutated leech nest, he immediately gave up the idea of ​​recovering the corpse.

Fortunately, the cubs of the mutated leech have degenerated mouthparts, and it is difficult to suck blood. At most, they can only eat rotten food. Occasionally, they will be gnawed by cockroaches and mice in the wasteland, or caught and beaten by hard-working players. However, adult mutated leeches are different.

This thing swallows the prey in one gulp, and the digestive juice with anesthetic effect will relax the prey's muscles within a minute, and lose consciousness within a few minutes.

Don't doubt it, I'm afraid I can't even find the bones now.

Anyway, it's time to log out.

Lucius took the players back to the refuge in batches, arranged them to lie back in the dormant cabin and log out, then returned to the surface alone, and came to the side of the active substance extractor.

A layer of dust fell on the cylindrical extraction furnace. Since he got it, Lucius has never used it because there is no electricity.

What's more disturbing is that the training cabin has a wireless charging port that is compatible with the shelter, but there is no such thing as a mission reward, and only a plug with positive and negative poles is left.

It was clear that the designers of the set hadn't intended for him to steal electricity from the Vault.

"Popo."

"What's wrong master?"

"You said... how to inject the synthetic substance generated by this thing into the cultivation cabin?" Lucius asked while rubbing his chin.

"It's very simple. The active substance storage tanks in the cultivation cabin can be disassembled. It should be enough to pour the active substance directly into it, right?"

Lucius nodded thoughtfully, then suddenly said.

"That is to say... it is also possible to remove the storage tanks on other training cabins?"

Popo paused.

"Uh, I don't know, Master, don't you want to steal..."

"Borrowed."

Lucius interrupted Popo's words, and said in an unquestionable way, "The generator can only be obtained at the end of the month. I can't wait until the end of the month to revive the dead players."

"Anyway, there are still 70 cans that have not been opened, and they are still left. It is better to use the active substances in them first."

Popo said in a low voice.

"But...what if it runs out."

Lucius said without hesitation.

"We'll think of a solution when the time comes, and we'll solve the immediate problem first."

There are always more solutions than problems.

Increased death penalty, or additional penalty for consecutive deaths, will always make these players restrain their curiosity a little.

In the future, if there are more players, just set up a 'novice village', and they will not be allowed to go out if they are less than level five. There are still many ways to avoid waste.

Lucius has not figured out until now, what is this player named Yaya thinking, let alone others, she is also a perception department.

After returning to the shelter for a while, he planned to chat with her as a planner.

However, the crux of the problem now is not how people died, but that the player who died was a newcomer and had no contribution points to deduct at all.

In other words, she couldn't afford the death penalty at all now. This is a little uncomfortable.

You can't say you owe it first.

So what do other players think, must they let themselves go?

"...Seems to place forced labor or punitive tasks in lieu of death penalties if they cannot be paid."

"Well, there is also the loss of favorability, and the extension of the CD of continuous death and resurrection."

There are always more solutions than difficulties.

Taking Popo back to the refuge, Lucius first summarized the statistics of today's work results on the computer file.

This is a habit he has acquired recently. With more and more players, the daily inventory changes are not a small number. As a manager, he must coordinate and plan every material.

Mobilize players to cut down trees when there is not enough wood, and mobilize everyone to go out hunting and gathering when food is not enough, so as to ensure that construction and production can proceed smoothly, and will not be stagnated due to a shortage of certain materials.

"Building materials inventory includes 84 logs, 500 kilograms of carbon, 500 kilograms of calcium carbonate cement, two stacks of yellow mud bricks, and some hardened cement blocks. If consumed... 220 logs, the production of cement on the day is basically consumed, and the inventory consumes an additional 200 kilograms .”

"Food inventory includes 50 kg of dried bacon, 10 kg of smoked fish... and 2 kg of edible roots, and a small amount of raspberry berries. About 10 kg of dried bacon is consumed, and fresh fish soup with pine nuts is stewed at night, so the stock is not used smoked fish."

"Maybe I should hire a warehouse keeper."

Still have to find a way to get a more accurate scale and measuring tools.

It took Lucius some time to allocate contribution points to each player's personal account according to the actual situation based on the statistical information provided by Popo.

The contribution points of newly joined players are mainly obtained by moving bricks. According to the calculation of 10 points of contribution per hour, they are basically distributed in the two numbers of 90 and 100.

Only Shuri, the current contribution point is still 0.

However, making clothes is a technical job, especially making clothes with unused materials, it will definitely take a while to explore.

Once she fully adapts to the tools and materials here, I believe her contribution points will soon snowball.

The rewards of the players have been distributed.

Lucius then turned on the system and confirmed the rewards for today's daily tasks.

【 Task: Cut ten trees, reward: 1 reward point. 】

【 Task: Kill a different species, reward: 3 reward points. 】

【 Task: Collect 1 ton of stones, reward: 1 reward point. 】

【 Task: Reserve 10 kg of food, 1 reward point. 】

A total of 6 bonus points.

In fact, the amount of work done by the players has far exceeded the requirements of the daily tasks, but there are only so many reward points that can be easily obtained every day.

Lucius counted the reward points he got a few days ago, and counting the points he got today, it added up to 17 points.

"Just take a gamble!"

After thinking about it for a while, Lucius who opened the 【 Manager Allowance 】 subpage, threw 10 points in the intermediate blind box, and the remaining 7 points were drawn in the primary blind box.

Soon the walls trembled.

As the alloy door opened, the rewards from the blind box rolled out along the conveyor belt.

【 Nano Therapeutic Needle: mainly used for non-fatal trauma, it can strengthen tissue repair ability in a short time to achieve the effect of accelerating wound healing. 】

"This thing should have been opened from an intermediate blind box."

The specific curative effect is not written, the side effects are unknown, and the active ingredients and mechanism of action are also not marked. Like the previous strengthening injection, it belongs to the three-no product.

Lucius was not injured yet, so he temporarily put the healing needles into the drawer of the computer desk, and then looked at other rewards.

Not surprisingly, five of the seven rewards are lollipops.

One of the orange-flavored ones is the same as the previous chocolate-flavored one. It has a 10-hour attribute improvement buff, but the addition is not strength, but physique.

As for the other two, they are a piece of chocolate with a net content of 200g, and a box of canned beef with a net content of 230g.

Emmm...

Chocolate should be fine, but is canned beef really okay?

If Lucius remembers correctly, canned food was invented during the Franco-Prussian War in 1800. Maybe this box of old cans is older than the old antiques in the museum in my original world...

"Forget it... when the time comes, find a player to try and see if you can eat it."

Lucius hesitated for a long time, and finally waited for the players to go online tomorrow, and decided to choose a player with a high degree of favorability to invite him to dinner.

No one should refuse such a good thing.

Confirm the reward.

Lucius went back to the computer and sat down. Instead of opening a group immediately, he opened the official website forum and looked for the player whose ID was [ Yaya ].

Originally, he thought it would take a lot of effort, but he didn't expect that as soon as he opened the forum, he saw this ID hanging on the homepage of the forum, and the post had been posted for more than a hundred floors.

"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow I beg the planner to be kind, I really didn't mean it, don't block my device!。⁠ .⁠·⁠´⁠¯⁠`⁠(⁠>⁠▂⁠





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