The heart is not as good as the action.
Lucius immediately found an ax and chopped off the joint of the Split Claw Crab's hind leg, which was almost as long as a baseball bat.
Not to mention, the crab legs look solid, thick and long, weigh at least 3 or 4 kg, enough to feed two or three people. The white crab meat dangles in the crab shell, looking as tender as tofu, full of high-quality protein and fat.
This big guy looks so ugly on the outside, and the mud all over his body looks like it can't be washed off, but he didn't expect the crab meat inside to look really good.
Just before lunch, Lucius randomly selected a passing player and asked him to call Yaya to the nursing home. Before Yaya could ask what was the matter with him, Lucius handed out the crab leg in his hand and showed her the crab meat.
"Can you eat it?"
Yaya was stunned, and nodded in a daze.
"Uh, it should be possible?"
Did not see green light. However, there is no way to rest assured.
Lucius, who has always acted cautiously, continued in an orderly tone.
"Have a taste."
That demeanor was like a gift. Just like the NPC standing next to the resurrection point in other games.
But the gifted players don't think so. Seeing that Manager was about to stuff the crab legs into his mouth, Yaya quickly stepped back and waved his hands, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
"Wait, wait a minute! This is a raw duck! At least let me eat it after it's cooked?" She didn't dislike the tough attitude of Manager, after all, he wasn't a real person.
F*ck! Why do you care about so much in the game? If you are told to eat, you will eat it, and if you open your mouth and take a bite, I will know everything i wanted to know.
I didn't expect this little player to be so particular. But Lucius thought about it for a while, and felt that what she said seemed to make sense. Freshwater crabs are different from deep-sea crabs. There are many parasites in the freshwater environment, so it is not advisable to eat them raw.
After all, being non-toxic doesn't mean you won't have diarrhea if you eat it, it just means you won't die after eating it for a while. This is like no matter how high your physique is, there is no need to pick up unclean things to eat, right?
Thinking of this, Lucius no longer insisted, but changed his mind and said, "I'll give you a task."
"What, what mission?"
Yaya's face was full of suspicion and vigilance, and he always felt that the word mission was full of conspiracy.
However, Lucius didn't bother to explain at all, he just stuffed the crab legs of this baseball bat into her hand.
"The content of the task is very simple. First, step 1, you go to cook this crab leg... This is 2 copper coins. Take it to the warehouse to buy some charcoal."
It seems that this task needs to be triggered step by step. Although I always feel that there are pitfalls, but as a player, Yaya still can't resist the temptation of the "Exclusive mission" in the end, holding the 2 copper coins "Mission props" given by Lucius, and ran away I went to the warehouse to buy charcoal.
Soon, Yaya came back with the charcoal he just bought.
I saw that she carefully found an airtight empty room on the first floor of the nursing home, squatted in the corner and surrounded it with stones in a small circle. Then put the charcoal on it, light the fire, hum a song and start grilling the crab legs.
While Yaya was roasting the crab legs, Lucius, who was standing at the door of the room waiting boredly, could not help but drift away from his thoughts.
In other words, why can scavengers eat cockroaches, but crabs can't?
Can it actually be eaten? It's just that no one has tried it. Puzzled, his gaze unconsciously drifted to Yaya's back.
Coincidentally, the shells of the crab legs on the fire were roasted and cracked, making a popping sound.
The sudden sound startled Yaya, who was concentrating on grilling crab legs, her neck and shoulders shrank back reflexively, but she didn't sense someone's malicious intentions.
Lucius walked into the room and looked at the crab leg in her hand. I saw that the mud blue crab shell was baked into a black wax red, and there was a small crack in the center of the shell.
Wisps of white water vapor and air bubbles drilled out from the cracks, wrapped in the scent that had been suffocated for a long time in the shell, instantly filled the whole room.
"Wow...it smells so good."
Yaya sniffed and swallowed greedily. By the way, this looks better than king crab. The point is that she has eaten king crab, but not this one!
"Is it ready okay?"
Hearing the urging behind him, Yaya came to her senses and realized that she was still on task, and quickly stood up holding the crab legs.
"Dear Master Manager, I have completed the task you assigned!"
"Very good."
Taking the roasted crab leg from Yaya's hand, Lucius waited for it to be less hot, broke it into two halves from the middle, and shared half with her.
"Eat it."
"Yes!"
Who would say no to cooked food?
Yaya obediently took the crab leg with both hands, stuffed it into her mouth, and carefully took a bite. When she found that it was not hot, she immediately wolfed it down, and then looked up at Manager expectantly.
Lucius didn't speak, but waited quietly for a while, and seeing that there was no toxic reaction, he took a sip of the portion in his hand. The aroma of crab meat spreads between the lips and teeth.
Although it has a bit of raw fishy smell, it does not affect the fresh, smooth and elastic taste at all. It also corresponds to the words, high-end ingredients often only need the simplest cooking methods.
One word to describe, delicious! Especially for Lucius who had eaten dried meat and dry food for too long, this mouthful of crab meat almost rekindled his desire for delicious food.
The only fly in the ointment is that when he took the crab legs just now, he found that the split-claw crab was actually a male and had no crab roe. It's a pity that I can only gnaw on crab legs.
"Good."
Lucius nodded after chewing slowly, and then took another bite expressionlessly. The second bite... Countless bites.
Not to mention. This stuff really gets better the more you eat it. It will be even more beautiful if you have some cooking wine to remove the fishy smell, and vinegar mixed with mashed garlic to enhance the aroma...
Yaya waited with staring eyes, holding half of a crab leg shell that was about to cool down in his hand, and waited for a long time without waiting for the next sentence.
Seeing that Manager had finished eating the crab legs in his hands, she finally couldn't help but asked in a low voice with a hint of urging tone.
"Dear Master Manager, may I ask... do you have any other orders?"
Lucius wiped his mouth and gave her the crab leg shell in his hand.
"It's gone, just find me a place that doesn't get in the way and throw it away."
Yaya looked at the crab leg shell in his hand, then at Manager, hesitated for a long time before choking out a word.
"What about... the reward?"
Lucius looked at her blankly.
"... What reward?"
Seeing Manager's expression of not remembering anything, Yaya became anxious immediately, and quickly reminded him.
"That's right, it's the task reward... isn't it the task of roasting crab legs? I've already finished it, right?"
Lucius was silent for a while, looked at her with a strange expression, and nodded slowly.
"Well, it's almost done."
Hearing these words, hope was rekindled on Yaya's face, and the light of hope was reflected in his eyes.
"That--"
Lucius: "... But didn't you eat it too?"
Yaya: "???"
What a hell! That's okay too?!
...
One cannot be too greedy. Isn't a lunch with a great manager, a delicacy more noble than king crab, enough of a reward?
No matter how the little player tried to talk, Lucius, who didn't want to talk, looked at her with that "I'm an NPC" expression.
He understands Popo a little bit now. Pretending to be unintelligent seems to be quite easy.
In the end, Yaya still failed to get the reward she expected from the respected lord Manager. Leave this sad place for her.
However, Yaya, who had a strong heart, was only sad for two seconds, and soon cheered up again. In fact, after rational analysis, there is no task without rewards, because it does not conform to the logic of game design!
Especially this kind of "Exclusive task" that the core NPC "Calls and invites" a certain player to do, and the task has not failed, and it is even more impossible that there will be no rewards at all.
The reward must have been paid! It's just not through money or contribution points, but in another way.
In an instant, Yaya thought of the content she had chatted with the planner in the text message on the station before, her eyes gradually became excited, and she whispered to herself.
"That's right, all NPCs have favorability, why did I forget such important information!"
If you don't give experience or money, what you give must be goodwill! Ah, why am I so stupid! She even asked the NPC for a reward!
Fortunately, the NPC didn't give it to you, so if you want to change the bad impression into silver coins, wouldn't you have to regret it to death!
Thinking of this, Yaya felt rejoicing. Fortunately, she didn't force it, and fortunately she forced it for a long time, and the NPC didn't let go.
The only pity is that the favorability level cannot be checked, it is said that it is a hidden weight value, and I don't know how much this task has added. But, isn't that how all the online game articles written with a tube in the back of the head are written like this?
The protagonist cooked a simple meal for the NPC, and the NPC did not pay for it, but only gave it a thumbs up. After a while, the protagonist and the readers forgot about it, and the NPC suddenly came out to give a sense of presence, and a big sword was slapped in the protagonist's pocket, and another unique secret book that was not passed on to men and women but only to you was slapped. The protagonist and readers clapped their thighs and praised.
Good guy, it turns out that meal was a foreshadowing! She must have read similar content in a novel, definitely! It's just that I've read so many that I can't remember which one it is for a while.
The more I think about it, the more possible it becomes.
Yaya, who was still a little depressed at first, couldn't close her mouth, and kept smirking, as if she had grasped the future.
Favorability.
He he he...
Hidden missions!
He He He...
Suddenly, the snow falling outside the house and the cool wind blowing past my ears and ankles didn't feel so cold anymore.
Shuri, holding a basket of furs, was coming out of the warehouse. Coincidentally, she saw Yaya passing by the door, and happened to be attracted by that silly smile, Shuri couldn't help but look at her more.
By the way... Is this guy really okay? That expression always feels like eating the wrong mushroom.
But Shuri only glanced at it twice, and stopped caring about that guy, humming a cheerful tune with great enthusiasm, and continued to the tailor booth not far from the warehouse.
This evening, the great and wise Manager will allocate the land for her to build a tailor's hut.
At that time, her identity will be Shuri's big boss from a young tailor Shuri!
Shuri has already thought about it. It doesn't matter whether she becomes a rich woman or not, the main thing is that she likes to make clothes. She wants to make those clothes printed with her carefully designed LOGO sell well throughout the wasteland!
At that time, not only the players, but even the NPCs in the game will wear clothes designed by her.
Totally realistic virtual reality game. It's so amazing! !
...
Afternoon.
The snow is falling more and more. In order to prevent the trenches from being buried by snow, Lucius ordered the players on duty at the gate to report to him as soon as possible if they found any waterlogging or snow accumulation in the trenches.
At the same time, in order to prevent predators from approaching in the heavy snow, he sent two players from the perception department and two agility department to form a team, starting from the north gate and east gate of the Wetland Park respectively, and carefully scouting along the main road. Once there is a situation, report back immediately.
After finishing these things, Lucius put on a buckskin coat and walked to the industrial area north of the nursing home.
I saw that he moved four logs, two were inserted at the door, and two were attached to the building of the nursing home. Two points and one line were used to measure a 5m-wide main road. The area of the entire outpost is actually not very large. Calculated by the wall, the length and width are only a little over a hundred meters.
The five-meter-wide main road is redundant, but for future planning, Lucius decided to widen the road around the "Resurrection point".
The main road was standardized, and then Lucius made a mark with branches at intervals along the main road like a grid, and at the same time marked the corresponding point on the sketch of the outpost, and used numbers to mark the area before the point. Afterwards, signs will be placed on the circled plots, corresponding to the grids drawn on the map.
"Tsk, I didn't expect surveying and mapping to be a technical job."
If I had known earlier, I would have found a physical education teacher to help. It happens that the area inside the wall is a little bigger than the playground.
I remember that when I was in school, there was no laser mapping device. The physical education teacher walked along the playground with a spoon and drew a straight line, which was straighter than the math teacher drew on the blackboard.
Looking at the late sky, Lucius shook the snow on the small notebook, returned to the nursing home, and summoned the life professionals who had previously been approved for industrial use.
In fact, there are not many relevant personnel. After all, counting Mosquito who submitted materials later, he only approved five projects in total.
However, there are far more players around than that. Most people come here to watch the excitement.
"The land is divided, the land is divided!"
"Land reform!"
"I hope my steel workshop is closer to the resurrection point."
"It's unrealistic. How can you fill such a large area next to the resurrection point? Don't even think about it!"
There was a lot of noise in my ears.
With a scrupulous seriousness on his face, Lucius, holding a small notebook in his hand, cleared his throat and announced his arrangement loudly.
"The approved industrial land has been marked on the map."
"Players whose declaration items have been approved, please come forward and claim them."
The heart is not as good as the action.
Lucius immediately found an ax and chopped off the joint of the Split Claw Crab's hind leg, which was almost as long as a baseball bat.
Not to mention, the crab legs look solid, thick and long, weigh at least 3 or 4 kg, enough to feed two or three people. The white crab meat dangles in the crab shell, looking as tender as tofu, full of high-quality protein and fat.
This big guy looks so ugly on the outside, and the mud all over his body looks like it can't be washed off, but he didn't expect the crab meat inside to look really good.
Just before lunch, Lucius randomly selected a passing player and asked him to call Yaya to the nursing home. Before Yaya could ask what was the matter with him, Lucius handed out the crab leg in his hand and showed her the crab meat.
"Can you eat it?"
Yaya was stunned, and nodded in a daze.
"Uh, it should be possible?"
Did not see green light. However, there is no way to rest assured.
Lucius, who has always acted cautiously, continued in an orderly tone.
"Have a taste."
That demeanor was like a gift. Just like the NPC standing next to the resurrection point in other games.
But the gifted players don't think so. Seeing that Manager was about to stuff the crab legs into his mouth, Yaya quickly stepped back and waved his hands, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
"Wait, wait a minute! This is a raw duck! At least let me eat it after it's cooked?" She didn't dislike the tough attitude of Manager, after all, he wasn't a real person.
F*ck! Why do you care about so much in the game? If you are told to eat, you will eat it, and if you open your mouth and take a bite, I will know everything i wanted to know.
I didn't expect this little player to be so particular. But Lucius thought about it for a while, and felt that what she said seemed to make sense. Freshwater crabs are different from deep-sea crabs. There are many parasites in the freshwater environment, so it is not advisable to eat them raw.
After all, being non-toxic doesn't mean you won't have diarrhea if you eat it, it just means you won't die after eating it for a while. This is like no matter how high your physique is, there is no need to pick up unclean things to eat, right?
Thinking of this, Lucius no longer insisted, but changed his mind and said, "I'll give you a task."
"What, what mission?"
Yaya's face was full of suspicion and vigilance, and he always felt that the word mission was full of conspiracy.
However, Lucius didn't bother to explain at all, he just stuffed the crab legs of this baseball bat into her hand.
"The content of the task is very simple. First, step 1, you go to cook this crab leg... This is 2 copper coins. Take it to the warehouse to buy some charcoal."
It seems that this task needs to be triggered step by step. Although I always feel that there are pitfalls, but as a player, Yaya still can't resist the temptation of the "Exclusive mission" in the end, holding the 2 copper coins "Mission props" given by Lucius, and ran away I went to the warehouse to buy charcoal.
Soon, Yaya came back with the charcoal he just bought.
I saw that she carefully found an airtight empty room on the first floor of the nursing home, squatted in the corner and surrounded it with stones in a small circle. Then put the charcoal on it, light the fire, hum a song and start grilling the crab legs.
While Yaya was roasting the crab legs, Lucius, who was standing at the door of the room waiting boredly, could not help but drift away from his thoughts.
In other words, why can scavengers eat cockroaches, but crabs can't?
Can it actually be eaten? It's just that no one has tried it. Puzzled, his gaze unconsciously drifted to Yaya's back.
Coincidentally, the shells of the crab legs on the fire were roasted and cracked, making a popping sound.
The sudden sound startled Yaya, who was concentrating on grilling crab legs, her neck and shoulders shrank back reflexively, but she didn't sense someone's malicious intentions.
Lucius walked into the room and looked at the crab leg in her hand. I saw that the mud blue crab shell was baked into a black wax red, and there was a small crack in the center of the shell.
Wisps of white water vapor and air bubbles drilled out from the cracks, wrapped in the scent that had been suffocated for a long time in the shell, instantly filled the whole room.
"Wow...it smells so good."
Yaya sniffed and swallowed greedily. By the way, this looks better than king crab. The point is that she has eaten king crab, but not this one!
"Is it ready okay?"
Hearing the urging behind him, Yaya came to her senses and realized that she was still on task, and quickly stood up holding the crab legs.
"Dear Master Manager, I have completed the task you assigned!"
"Very good."
Taking the roasted crab leg from Yaya's hand, Lucius waited for it to be less hot, broke it into two halves from the middle, and shared half with her.
"Eat it."
"Yes!"
Who would say no to cooked food?
Yaya obediently took the crab leg with both hands, stuffed it into her mouth, and carefully took a bite. When she found that it was not hot, she immediately wolfed it down, and then looked up at Manager expectantly.
Lucius didn't speak, but waited quietly for a while, and seeing that there was no toxic reaction, he took a sip of the portion in his hand. The aroma of crab meat spreads between the lips and teeth.
Although it has a bit of raw fishy smell, it does not affect the fresh, smooth and elastic taste at all. It also corresponds to the words, high-end ingredients often only need the simplest cooking methods.
One word to describe, delicious! Especially for Lucius who had eaten dried meat and dry food for too long, this mouthful of crab meat almost rekindled his desire for delicious food.
The only fly in the ointment is that when he took the crab legs just now, he found that the split-claw crab was actually a male and had no crab roe. It's a pity that I can only gnaw on crab legs.
"Good."
Lucius nodded after chewing slowly, and then took another bite expressionlessly. The second bite... Countless bites.
Not to mention. This stuff really gets better the more you eat it. It will be even more beautiful if you have some cooking wine to remove the fishy smell, and vinegar mixed with mashed garlic to enhance the aroma...
Yaya waited with staring eyes, holding half of a crab leg shell that was about to cool down in his hand, and waited for a long time without waiting for the next sentence.
Seeing that Manager had finished eating the crab legs in his hands, she finally couldn't help but asked in a low voice with a hint of urging tone.
"Dear Master Manager, may I ask... do you have any other orders?"
Lucius wiped his mouth and gave her the crab leg shell in his hand.
"It's gone, just find me a place that doesn't get in the way and throw it away."
Yaya looked at the crab leg shell in his hand, then at Manager, hesitated for a long time before choking out a word.
"What about... the reward?"
Lucius looked at her blankly.
"... What reward?"
Seeing Manager's expression of not remembering anything, Yaya became anxious immediately, and quickly reminded him.
"That's right, it's the task reward... isn't it the task of roasting crab legs? I've already finished it, right?"
Lucius was silent for a while, looked at her with a strange expression, and nodded slowly.
"Well, it's almost done."
Hearing these words, hope was rekindled on Yaya's face, and the light of hope was reflected in his eyes.
"That--"
Lucius: "... But didn't you eat it too?"
Yaya: "???"
What a hell! That's okay too?!
...
One cannot be too greedy. Isn't a lunch with a great manager, a delicacy more noble than king crab, enough of a reward?
No matter how the little player tried to talk, Lucius, who didn't want to talk, looked at her with that "I'm an NPC" expression.
He understands Popo a little bit now. Pretending to be unintelligent seems to be quite easy.
In the end, Yaya still failed to get the reward she expected from the respected lord Manager. Leave this sad place for her.
However, Yaya, who had a strong heart, was only sad for two seconds, and soon cheered up again. In fact, after rational analysis, there is no task without rewards, because it does not conform to the logic of game design!
Especially this kind of "Exclusive task" that the core NPC "Calls and invites" a certain player to do, and the task has not failed, and it is even more impossible that there will be no rewards at all.
The reward must have been paid! It's just not through money or contribution points, but in another way.
In an instant, Yaya thought of the content she had chatted with the planner in the text message on the station before, her eyes gradually became excited, and she whispered to herself.
"That's right, all NPCs have favorability, why did I forget such important information!"
If you don't give experience or money, what you give must be goodwill! Ah, why am I so stupid! She even asked the NPC for a reward!
Fortunately, the NPC didn't give it to you, so if you want to change the bad impression into silver coins, wouldn't you have to regret it to death!
Thinking of this, Yaya felt rejoicing. Fortunately, she didn't force it, and fortunately she forced it for a long time, and the NPC didn't let go.
The only pity is that the favorability level cannot be checked, it is said that it is a hidden weight value, and I don't know how much this task has added. But, isn't that how all the online game articles written with a tube in the back of the head are written like this?
The protagonist cooked a simple meal for the NPC, and the NPC did not pay for it, but only gave it a thumbs up. After a while, the protagonist and the readers forgot about it, and the NPC suddenly came out to give a sense of presence, and a big sword was slapped in the protagonist's pocket, and another unique secret book that was not passed on to men and women but only to you was slapped. The protagonist and readers clapped their thighs and praised.
Good guy, it turns out that meal was a foreshadowing! She must have read similar content in a novel, definitely! It's just that I've read so many that I can't remember which one it is for a while.
The more I think about it, the more possible it becomes.
Yaya, who was still a little depressed at first, couldn't close her mouth, and kept smirking, as if she had grasped the future.
Favorability.
He he he...
Hidden missions!
He He He...
Suddenly, the snow falling outside the house and the cool wind blowing past my ears and ankles didn't feel so cold anymore.
Shuri, holding a basket of furs, was coming out of the warehouse. Coincidentally, she saw Yaya passing by the door, and happened to be attracted by that silly smile, Shuri couldn't help but look at her more.
By the way... Is this guy really okay? That expression always feels like eating the wrong mushroom.
But Shuri only glanced at it twice, and stopped caring about that guy, humming a cheerful tune with great enthusiasm, and continued to the tailor booth not far from the warehouse.
This evening, the great and wise Manager will allocate the land for her to build a tailor's hut.
At that time, her identity will be Shuri's big boss from a young tailor Shuri!
Shuri has already thought about it. It doesn't matter whether she becomes a rich woman or not, the main thing is that she likes to make clothes. She wants to make those clothes printed with her carefully designed LOGO sell well throughout the wasteland!
At that time, not only the players, but even the NPCs in the game will wear clothes designed by her.
Totally realistic virtual reality game. It's so amazing! !
...
Afternoon.
The snow is falling more and more. In order to prevent the trenches from being buried by snow, Lucius ordered the players on duty at the gate to report to him as soon as possible if they found any waterlogging or snow accumulation in the trenches.
At the same time, in order to prevent predators from approaching in the heavy snow, he sent two players from the perception department and two agility department to form a team, starting from the north gate and east gate of the Wetland Park respectively, and carefully scouting along the main road. Once there is a situation, report back immediately.
After finishing these things, Lucius put on a buckskin coat and walked to the industrial area north of the nursing home.
I saw that he moved four logs, two were inserted at the door, and two were attached to the building of the nursing home. Two points and one line were used to measure a 5m-wide main road. The area of the entire outpost is actually not very large. Calculated by the wall, the length and width are only a little over a hundred meters.
The five-meter-wide main road is redundant, but for future planning, Lucius decided to widen the road around the "Resurrection point".
The main road was standardized, and then Lucius made a mark with branches at intervals along the main road like a grid, and at the same time marked the corresponding point on the sketch of the outpost, and used numbers to mark the area before the point. Afterwards, signs will be placed on the circled plots, corresponding to the grids drawn on the map.
"Tsk, I didn't expect surveying and mapping to be a technical job."
If I had known earlier, I would have found a physical education teacher to help. It happens that the area inside the wall is a little bigger than the playground.
I remember that when I was in school, there was no laser mapping device. The physical education teacher walked along the playground with a spoon and drew a straight line, which was straighter than the math teacher drew on the blackboard.
Looking at the late sky, Lucius shook the snow on the small notebook, returned to the nursing home, and summoned the life professionals who had previously been approved for industrial use.
In fact, there are not many relevant personnel. After all, counting Mosquito who submitted materials later, he only approved five projects in total.
However, there are far more players around than that. Most people come here to watch the excitement.
"The land is divided, the land is divided!"
"Land reform!"
"I hope my steel workshop is closer to the resurrection point."
"It's unrealistic. How can you fill such a large area next to the resurrection point? Don't even think about it!"
There was a lot of noise in my ears.
With a scrupulous seriousness on his face, Lucius, holding a small notebook in his hand, cleared his throat and announced his arrangement loudly.
"The approved industrial land has been marked on the map."
"Players whose declaration items have been approved, please come forward and claim them."
