Chapter 33: First Blood

Someone died?!

Old White looked shocked and wasn’t able to react for a while.

When he came back to his senses, his first reaction was that people could actually die in the game!

To be honest, if the players didn’t go out to find trouble, it would be very difficult to die.

Old White was not the only one who couldn't understand. Chu Guang was also puzzled by her fate.

Who would have thought that the third batch of players would suffer a non-combat accidental casualty as soon as they went online? It was at least half a month earlier than Chu Guang had expected...

Yaya was the player who died, and she had a perception-type genetic sequence and Toxic Intuition talent.

Chu Guang remembered sending her out in the morning to collect berries and edible mushrooms. He didn't know what happened, and he concluded that Yaya probably ran into the mutant leeches’ nest.

Through the player list, Chu Guang was able to confirm the player's approximate location. When he checked her last area of ??activity, he found out that she was indeed in the mutant leech nest, so he immediately gave up the idea of ??retrieving the corpse.

The larvae of mutant leeches weren’t the worst. They had lost their mouths and it was difficult for them to suck blood. They would at most eat some rotten food. They would even be chewed on by cockroaches and mice on the wasteland, or be caught and beaten by hard-working players.

However, adult mutant leeches were different.

They could swallow their prey in one bite. The anesthetic digestive secretion would relax the prey’s muscles within a minute and their prey would lose consciousness within a few minutes.

Therefore, there was no doubt that Chu Guang would not even be able to find Yaya’s bones.

𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

In any case, it was time to log out.

Chu Guang brought the players back to the shelter in batches and watched them return to their cabins. The next moment, he returned to the surface and headed straight to the Active Matter Extractor.

There was a layer of dust on the cylindrical extraction furnace. Since he got his hands on it, he never tried using it as he didn’t have any electricity.

What was more frustrating was that even nurturing cabins in the shelter had wireless charging. However, the extractor he received from his mission reward needed to be plugged into an outlet!

Obviously, the designer did not intend to let him steal electricity from the shelter.

"Little Seven."

"What's the matter, Master?"

"How should we inject the active matter produced into the nurturing cabin?” Chu Guang asked, slowly rubbing his chin.

"It's very simple. The active matter storage tanks of the nurturing cabins can all be removed. You can just pour the active matter into them."

Chu Guang nodded thoughtfully, and then suddenly asked, "In other words... it would be okay to remove the storage tanks from the other nurturing cabins?"

Little Seven paused before stuttering, "Uh... I don't know... Hmm, Master, do you want to steal..."

"I’m not stealing. I’m borrowing." Chu Guang interrupted Little Seven and said resolutely, "I will have to wait until the end of the month to get the generator. But I can't wait until the end of the month to bring dead players back to life!"

"Anyway, there are still 70 chambers left. We’re not using them at the moment and we can use the active matter in them first.”

Little Seven whispered. "But... what if it runs out..."

Chu Guang didn’t hesitate and he muttered, "We will find a way when we come to that. But right now, we have to solve the immediate problem."

There were always more solutions than problems.

Increasing the penalty of dying or adding even more for consecutive deaths would always make those players curtail their curiosity.

In the future, if there were more players, he could build a "novice village" and would not let them head out if they hadn’t reached level five. There were still many ways to avoid wastage.

Chu Guang still couldn’t figure out what Yaya was thinking. It might be understandable for other players, but she was a perception type player.

When he got back to the shelter, he intended to chat with her using his identity as the game designer.

However, the crux of the problem now was not how the player died, but that the dead player was a newbie and had no contribution points to be deducted.

In other words, she couldn't afford the death penalty at all!

Things were getting a little troublesome.

He couldn’t just tell her that she could pay him back in the future.

What would other players think if they knew that they could do that?

"... It seems that forced labor or punitive tasks must be set up to replace the penalty of dying if they cannot pay up. Mhm, the NPC’s favorability must drop as well, and continuous death would extend the respawning CD timer."

Like he said. There were always more solutions than problems!

Returning to the shelter with Little Seven, Chu Guang first compiled statistics of the day’s work results on a computer file.

That was a habit he had developed recently.

With more and more players, the daily changes in inventory were not a small number.

As an administrator, he had to plan for everything.

Mobilizing players to chop down trees when there was not enough wood, and mobilizing everyone to go hunting and gathering when there was not enough food; no matter what it is, he had to ensure that construction and production could proceed smoothly without stagnating due to the shortage of a certain material.

"Building materials inventory income is 84 logs, 500 kilograms of carbon, 500 kilograms of calcium carbonate cement, two piles of yellow mud bricks, and a few hardened cement blocks. In terms of consumption... 220 logs and today's cement have been used up, plus an additional 200 kg from the inventory."

“That’s roughly it...”

"We managed to obtain an additional 50 kilograms of dried meat, 10 kilograms of smoked fish, along with 2 kilograms of edible fruits and a small amount of raspberries. About 10 kilograms of dried meat was consumed, and the dinner tonight was pine nut fish soup, so the smoked fish from the inventory was not used."

"Perhaps I should hire a warehouse clerk."

Moreover, Chu Guang also felt that he should figure out a way to get a more accurate scale and measuring tools.

Chu Guang took some time, and according to the statistical information provided by Little Seven, contribution points were allocated to each player's personal account according to their contributions.

The newly added player contribution points were mainly obtained by doing hard labor. According to the calculation of ten contribution points per hour, they basically gained ninety to a hundred points.

Only Teng Teng’s current contribution point was still a big fat zero.

Making clothes was inherently a technical job, especially making clothes with unused materials. She definitely needed more time to master it.

When she was fully accustomed to the tools and materials in the wasteland, Chu Guang believed that her contribution points would soon accumulate like a snowball rolling down a hill.

After the rewards were allocated, Chu Guang opened the system interface and confirmed his rewards.

[Mission:

Cut ten trees, reward: 1 reward point

]

[Mission:

Kill a mutant, reward: 3 reward points

]

[Mission:

Collect 1 ton of stone, reward: 1 reward point

]

[Mission:

Reserve 10 kg of food, 1 reward point

]

A total of 6 reward points were received.

In fact, the amount of work completed by the players had far exceeded the needs of the daily mission, but he could only obtain a set number of points a day!

Counting the reward points he accumulated over the past few days and those he just obtained, he discovered he had seventeen points in total.

"Maybe I should try my luck..."

After thinking about it, Chu Guang opened the Administrator Menu and used 10 points on the intermediate loot box, while the remaining 7 points were all used on basic loot boxes.

Soon the wall trembled.

As the alloy door opened, the reward from the loot box rolled out along the conveyor belt.

[Item:

Nano Healing Syringe

]

[Effect:

Mainly used for non-fatal wounds, it can strengthen the tissue repair ability in a short time to achieve the effect of accelerating wound healing.

]

"This should be from the intermediate loot box."

The specific healing effect was not stated, the side effects were unknown, and the active ingredients were also not marked. Like the strengthening syringe, no one could guarantee its quality.

Chu Guang was not injured at the moment, so he temporarily put the syringe into the drawer of the computer desk and looked at his other rewards.

Unsurprisingly, five of the seven rewards were lollipops.

Amongst them, an orange-flavored lollipop was like the previous chocolate-flavored lollipop, which had a ten hour attribute boost buff. Except this time, it didn’t increase strength, but constitution.

As for the other two rewards, they were a piece of chocolate with a net weight of two hundred grams and a box of canned beef with a net weight of two hundred and thirty grams.

Ermmm...

Chocolate should be edible, but was canned beef really okay?

If Chu Guang remembered correctly, canned food was invented during the Franco-Prussian War in 1800. Maybe the canned beef was older than the old antiques in the museum in that world...

"Forget it... When the players get online, I’ll just let them try it."

Chu Guang hesitated for a long time, and eventually decided to wait for the players to come online the next day. He would invite the player who had the highest degree of favorability to dinner.

No one should refuse such a good thing.

It was a reward after all.

Chu Guang returned to the computer and sat down. Instead of opening the chat group immediately, he opened the official website forum and looked for the player, Yaya.

Originally he thought that it would take a lot of effort, but he didn't expect that as soon as he opened the forum, he saw her ID on the forum's homepage, and the posts had more than a hundred replies.

- Uuuuuu, I'm sorry, I shouldn't take the risk! Please give me another chance! I really didn't mean it. Please don't block my device! QAQ

Block your device? It can’t be.

Chu Guang just finished reading the title and didn't understand what was going on. He didn't figure out what happened until he continued to read the entire post.

This player... She was really seeking death.