Lucius didn't pay much attention to what kind of expression Yaya stepped into the mutant leech's nest. However, 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, Lucius couldn't help but be surprised.
"So much?"
Yaya, who was panting heavily, nodded vigorously, and said with a smile.
"I went in three times! I was almost bitten, hehe."
Lucius: "..."
Three trips?!
This is too brave. Anyway, he didn't dare.
After weighing, a sack of mushrooms weighed 70 kilograms in total. This number far exceeded Lucius's expectations.
According to his original estimate, she could pick about forty or fifty kilograms if she died, but he didn't expect her to reach seventy 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 her fist excitedly.
"Yesss!"
"Get rich hahaha!"
Lucius: "..."
Although I am an NPC, can you find a place where no one is to be excited?
The thickness of a silver coin is less than 2 millimeters, and 50 pieces are bundled into a stack of about 9 to 10 centimeters, which is just a drop in the ocean compared to the small vault in the shelter.
After getting paid, Yaya hummed happily and left, while Lucius, who was standing at the door of the warehouse, rubbed his chin and thought in his heart.
Currently, the richest players are probably Badass Bunny and Tomorrow Seeker. Their strength and understanding of the game are almost top in 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 hunting income is not stable, they should have saved it in the past few days A lot of money.
For safety reasons, Lucius checks the players' lockers every day.
Not surprisingly, today The Cowboy Team should be able to save enough 200 silver coins to raise funds to buy the land closest to the resurrection point.
Apart from 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 players with the least deposits basically hold more than 10 silver coins.
"Perhaps the 'Banking' function should be updated."
In this way, not only can the storage space of the players be saved, but also the silver coins they have saved can be redistributed to them. The more Lucius thought about it, the more he felt it made sense, and 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, Lucius checked the inventory in the warehouse by the way.
Excluding the part consumed by the business transactions with Demonia Town, the remaining amount of bacon is close to 700 kilograms. After deducting the daily consumption, about 100 to 200 kilograms can be put into storage every day, and more than half of it is contributed by The Cowboy Team.
Today is already the 20th. If luck is not too bad, the inventory should be increased to 2,000 kilograms by the end of the month, and half of it should be replaced with grains and potatoes, at least about 5 tons.
Based on the consumption of 4 taels of meat and 7 taels of rice per person per day, 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 grain 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 if you think about it from another angle, maybe you won't need that much food? It's not necessary for everyone to be online when it's too cold, or 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 days.
It's just that the players may not be happy not to go to work for such a long time, it must be on the official website again.
However, Lucius has also thought up a countermeasure, and when the time comes, a word of server maintenance will be OK. Are there any unmaintained servers?
It makes sense. Looking at the ledger in his hand, Lucius was thinking about the future of the shelter, but at this moment, a player trotted in from outside.
"My lord, the natives are coming!"
Indigenous?
Lucius, who looked away from the ledger, was slightly stunned.
Gomu just left, so it's impossible to come back, right? Could it be someone else?
After returning the ledger to the player who was the warehouse manager, Lucius looked at the player who reported to him and asked.
"How many of them, and from what direction?"
"South! There are two men and a girl!"
South?
Hearing this direction, Lucius probably already guessed who is coming...
...
The 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 The Wetland Park seemed to be two years ago.
The scavengers on Beit Street mainly head 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 The Wetland Park, it is probably a blind spot that both scavenging and hunting will miss. There isn't much prey to hunt here, and there isn't much garbage to pick up here. Almost no survivors will visit here on purpose. 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 there.
Near the gate of the wall stood some shelter residents in blue coats.
The old man gained courage and yelled, "I'm here to see your manager."
No one 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.
Seem……
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.
With a big package on his back, Yugin 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 was obviously more hesitant.
"They don't seem to welcome us."
Yugin's expression was slightly awkward, 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? Couldn't it be... the stranger in the blue coat from before, didn't he understand everything?
Yuki glanced at his father and big brother, then at the wall in front of him, her big black eyes were full of curiosity. It was the first time she had left Beit Street, and had traveled so far.
Lucius...
Really here?
At this time, a familiar figure appeared at the door, and Yuki's eyes lit up when she saw the face clearly. 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, Lucius walked in front of the three and stopped. Looking at the old man at the head, before Lucius could say hello, the old man plopped without warning and knelt down on the ground, stunned everyone around him.
Lucius was also dumbfounded.
What is this for??
"Father?!"
Yugin was surprised, but before he could ask, his father grabbed his arm and knelt down.
Yuki looked confused. She didn't understand what her father and brother were doing, and she didn't know what to do with herself, so she tried to imitate her father and brother's actions.
"What are you doing... Get up quickly!" Lucius 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 say a word from his mouth.
"Thanks."
"You saved my 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 Yudeep, as the biggest son in the family, is also the strongest labor force of his family, and can be said to be the backbone of the entire family.
If something happened to Yudeep, their whole family would have to starve and suffer from cold. The old man understood very well. The stranger not only saved his son's life, but his whole family.
But Lucius didn't think too much about it, he didn't have to calculate everything, saving people was just a matter of convenience.
"It's difficult for you to do this... Anyway, get up first."
Now is not the time to be humble. You can't make people kneel all the time. As he said that, Lucius exerted a little strength in his hands, and helped the old man up from the ground.
Perhaps because of the embarrassment that Lucius 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 Lucius, and said sincerely.
"You are the benefactor of my family, I cannot let you waste your precious medicine."
"I have nothing else to give you. These furs are stripped from mutated hyenas and reindeer. There are seven of them in total... Excluding the tribute left to the mayor, this is all my property."
"I know these things are not enough to repay your kindness, but if I do nothing, I will feel uneasy."
"Please accept it!"
If I really accepted all the wealth of the poor, then I would really feel uneasy. Lucius couldn't laugh or cry for a while, he didn't accept it directly, nor did he refuse to accept it.
But at this moment, Lucius's heart suddenly 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 he 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 points of 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. Once sold and bought, it is actually 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 themselves, dig tree roots, catch mice and Hunt for rations.
But no matter what, the old leech was too much. Lucius has long disliked him!
Lucius reached out decisively to take all the furs, handed them to the player closest to him, and said, "Send it to the warehouse, and bring over 1 kilogram of coarse salt, and I will give you 5 copper coins as a reward."
5 Although there are a lot of copper coins, but how can this is more important than the plot which is only going to happen once?
The player looked reluctant.
Although he couldn't understand what the manager and these natives were chatting there, who hasn't seen one or two movies without subtitles these days?
But the manager had already stuffed things into his hands, and he didn't even have 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 with a heavy heart.
Soon, the player who ran back to the base before quickly trotted out carrying a black plastic bag.
Lucius 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 treat it as a gift!"
The old man was taken aback, 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 be done!"
"You are the benefactor of my 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 some grams, and if they are of good quality, they are flipped and sold.
Although the bag of salt that Lucius brought was coarse salt, its quality was much better than that sold in the grocery store under the old mayor's name. 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, Lucius 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 of coarse salt."
"How much do you have, how much will I charge!"
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Lucius didn't pay much attention to what kind of expression Yaya stepped into the mutant leech's nest. However, 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, Lucius couldn't help but be surprised.
"So much?"
Yaya, who was panting heavily, nodded vigorously, and said with a smile.
"I went in three times! I was almost bitten, hehe."
Lucius: "..."
Three trips?!
This is too brave. Anyway, he didn't dare.
After weighing, a sack of mushrooms weighed 70 kilograms in total. This number far exceeded Lucius's expectations.
According to his original estimate, she could pick about forty or fifty kilograms if she died, but he didn't expect her to reach seventy 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 her fist excitedly.
"Yesss!"
"Get rich hahaha!"
Lucius: "..."
Although I am an NPC, can you find a place where no one is to be excited?
The thickness of a silver coin is less than 2 millimeters, and 50 pieces are bundled into a stack of about 9 to 10 centimeters, which is just a drop in the ocean compared to the small vault in the shelter.
After getting paid, Yaya hummed happily and left, while Lucius, who was standing at the door of the warehouse, rubbed his chin and thought in his heart.
Currently, the richest players are probably Badass Bunny and Tomorrow Seeker. Their strength and understanding of the game are almost top in 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 hunting income is not stable, they should have saved it in the past few days A lot of money.
For safety reasons, Lucius checks the players' lockers every day.
Not surprisingly, today The Cowboy Team should be able to save enough 200 silver coins to raise funds to buy the land closest to the resurrection point.
Apart from 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 players with the least deposits basically hold more than 10 silver coins.
"Perhaps the 'Banking' function should be updated."
In this way, not only can the storage space of the players be saved, but also the silver coins they have saved can be redistributed to them. The more Lucius thought about it, the more he felt it made sense, and 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, Lucius checked the inventory in the warehouse by the way.
Excluding the part consumed by the business transactions with Demonia Town, the remaining amount of bacon is close to 700 kilograms. After deducting the daily consumption, about 100 to 200 kilograms can be put into storage every day, and more than half of it is contributed by The Cowboy Team.
Today is already the 20th. If luck is not too bad, the inventory should be increased to 2,000 kilograms by the end of the month, and half of it should be replaced with grains and potatoes, at least about 5 tons.
Based on the consumption of 4 taels of meat and 7 taels of rice per person per day, 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 grain 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 if you think about it from another angle, maybe you won't need that much food? It's not necessary for everyone to be online when it's too cold, or 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 days.
It's just that the players may not be happy not to go to work for such a long time, it must be on the official website again.
However, Lucius has also thought up a countermeasure, and when the time comes, a word of server maintenance will be OK. Are there any unmaintained servers?
It makes sense. Looking at the ledger in his hand, Lucius was thinking about the future of the shelter, but at this moment, a player trotted in from outside.
"My lord, the natives are coming!"
Indigenous?
Lucius, who looked away from the ledger, was slightly stunned.
Gomu just left, so it's impossible to come back, right? Could it be someone else?
After returning the ledger to the player who was the warehouse manager, Lucius looked at the player who reported to him and asked.
"How many of them, and from what direction?"
"South! There are two men and a girl!"
South?
Hearing this direction, Lucius probably already guessed who is coming...
...
The 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 The Wetland Park seemed to be two years ago.
The scavengers on Beit Street mainly head 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 The Wetland Park, it is probably a blind spot that both scavenging and hunting will miss. There isn't much prey to hunt here, and there isn't much garbage to pick up here. Almost no survivors will visit here on purpose. 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 there.
Near the gate of the wall stood some shelter residents in blue coats.
The old man gained courage and yelled, "I'm here to see your manager."
No one 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.
Seem……
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.
With a big package on his back, Yugin 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 was obviously more hesitant.
"They don't seem to welcome us."
Yugin's expression was slightly awkward, 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? Couldn't it be... the stranger in the blue coat from before, didn't he understand everything?
Yuki glanced at his father and big brother, then at the wall in front of him, her big black eyes were full of curiosity. It was the first time she had left Beit Street, and had traveled so far.
Lucius...
Really here?
At this time, a familiar figure appeared at the door, and Yuki's eyes lit up when she saw the face clearly. 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, Lucius walked in front of the three and stopped. Looking at the old man at the head, before Lucius could say hello, the old man plopped without warning and knelt down on the ground, stunned everyone around him.
Lucius was also dumbfounded.
What is this for??
"Father?!"
Yugin was surprised, but before he could ask, his father grabbed his arm and knelt down.
Yuki looked confused. She didn't understand what her father and brother were doing, and she didn't know what to do with herself, so she tried to imitate her father and brother's actions.
"What are you doing... Get up quickly!" Lucius 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 say a word from his mouth.
"Thanks."
"You saved my 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 Yudeep, as the biggest son in the family, is also the strongest labor force of his family, and can be said to be the backbone of the entire family.
If something happened to Yudeep, their whole family would have to starve and suffer from cold. The old man understood very well. The stranger not only saved his son's life, but his whole family.
But Lucius didn't think too much about it, he didn't have to calculate everything, saving people was just a matter of convenience.
"It's difficult for you to do this... Anyway, get up first."
Now is not the time to be humble. You can't make people kneel all the time. As he said that, Lucius exerted a little strength in his hands, and helped the old man up from the ground.
Perhaps because of the embarrassment that Lucius 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 Lucius, and said sincerely.
"You are the benefactor of my family, I cannot let you waste your precious medicine."
"I have nothing else to give you. These furs are stripped from mutated hyenas and reindeer. There are seven of them in total... Excluding the tribute left to the mayor, this is all my property."
"I know these things are not enough to repay your kindness, but if I do nothing, I will feel uneasy."
"Please accept it!"
If I really accepted all the wealth of the poor, then I would really feel uneasy. Lucius couldn't laugh or cry for a while, he didn't accept it directly, nor did he refuse to accept it.
But at this moment, Lucius's heart suddenly 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 he 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 points of 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. Once sold and bought, it is actually 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 themselves, dig tree roots, catch mice and Hunt for rations.
But no matter what, the old leech was too much. Lucius has long disliked him!
Lucius reached out decisively to take all the furs, handed them to the player closest to him, and said, "Send it to the warehouse, and bring over 1 kilogram of coarse salt, and I will give you 5 copper coins as a reward."
5 Although there are a lot of copper coins, but how can this is more important than the plot which is only going to happen once?
The player looked reluctant.
Although he couldn't understand what the manager and these natives were chatting there, who hasn't seen one or two movies without subtitles these days?
But the manager had already stuffed things into his hands, and he didn't even have 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 with a heavy heart.
Soon, the player who ran back to the base before quickly trotted out carrying a black plastic bag.
Lucius 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 treat it as a gift!"
The old man was taken aback, 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 be done!"
"You are the benefactor of my 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 some grams, and if they are of good quality, they are flipped and sold.
Although the bag of salt that Lucius brought was coarse salt, its quality was much better than that sold in the grocery store under the old mayor's name. 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, Lucius 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 of coarse salt."
"How much do you have, how much will I charge!"
......
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