On the tenth day of the Tide outbreak, many players began to notice that there were some strange NPCs wearing orange chemical protective suits and black gas masks on the battlefield moving around. Actually, they had been moving around for the past 2 days.

They usually worked in twos, using a stretcher to remove the corpses of mutants from the battlefield in batches of three or five, working from morning till sunset without communicating with other people.

The efficiency of those NPCs was very high. 2 people could transport 400 to 500 corpses out in a day. Clearly, they were experts.

Some attentive players even noticed that they actually had a KV-1 exoskeleton each.

Although it was the basic type without welded steel plates or mounted weapons, it would cost 800 silver coins in an NPC store, which was equivalent to 4 LD-47 rifles.

The players leaning against the concrete slope bunker looked curiously at the backs of those NPCs and whispered.

"What kind of shenanigan are developers pulling this time?"

"New profession! Corpse Remover?"

"Nice! Finally, there are people cleaning up these damn things."

"+1, it stinks!"

"Obviously the pain can be blocked, but the smell can’t be blocked. This is bullshit!"

Cleaning up the corpses of mutants was not easy.

With the imaginations of the players, they must have used all the methods that could be used.

At first everyone discussed the plan to use fire, but the actual situation was not as optimistic as imagined. Often the surface layer was burnt into coke, but the bodies underneath were still raw even after the fire was extinguished.

This game always failed to be realistic in strange places. 1 Molotov Cocktail was enough to kill 2 or 3 Crunchers, but 3 Molotov Cocktails were not enough to burn them to ash.

The water content of the fruiting bodies of Slime Mold was much higher than that of humans, and the water vapor itself would take away a lot of heat.

In addition, fats, grease analogs and the like were not so easy to ignite, often requiring a large amount of fuel to maintain the fire.

If it was difficult to understand, try taking a piece of meat straight from the refrigerator and cooking it. Let alone burning it to ash, it would take a long time to cook.

At present, the main way to deal with these corpses on the front line was to drag them outside the city for burial, but they could move the corpses far slower than they piled up.

The Tide’s main offensive would usually start from 6:00 in the evening to 6:00 in the morning of the next day, continuously attacking the players’ positions.

Counting the Creepers that the hunter team searched and killed in the ruins, each player could kill more than 30 creepers per day on average.

Obviously, the number of these mutants was far more than the original estimate of 100,000.

After all, the number of mutant players killed in a day was around 20,000 to 30,000, and the Tide had been going on for 10 days, but there was no sign of weakening.

Fortunately, due to factors such as the width of the battlefield, the huge number of mutants in the Tide couldn’t be fully spread out. If they had encountered so many mutants on the plains, it would have probably led to a difficult battle even if the number of players doubled.

According to the statistics posted by the players responsible for transporting ammunition to the front line, in the past 3 days, the daily consumption of ammunition had been around 100,000 rounds.

The weight of a full-power 7mm bullet was close to 25 grams, and 100,000 rounds was 2.5 tons of bullets.

In order to get enough materials for the ammunition production line, Chu Guang could only mobilize the newcomers to dig the ancestral graves of the Federation of People, while commanding the arms factory to open 2 new ammunition production lines to produce steel-cored steel-cased bullets.

Compared with copper-cased bullets, although steel-cased ammunition had many problems such as poor ductility, being non-reloadable, and possible rust, Chu Guang believed that all the shortcomings could be overshadowed by one advantage. It was cheap.

Anyway, the bullets would be quickly sent to the front line to be consumed, so it was unnecessary to consider the issue of preservation. The bullets produced on the assembly line did not need to be reloaded, and the recovered bullet casings would be sent directly to the steel factory to be melted.

From the eighth day onwards, the battle situation on the front line entered a stage of attrition.

Batch after batch of ammunition was transported to the front line, and batch after batch of corpses were dragged away from the front line. Most of them belonged to mutants, and a few belonged to players.

At first, those corpses were moved by newcomers, and dragged to the suburbs to be buried in the pits dug by the players , but recently a group of professional NPCs took over the work. However, although those corpses disappeared, there weren’t any new burial pits.

Some players who loved to pay attention to details were full of confusion and curiosity.

Where did the corpses of mutants go?

But the curiosity didn’t last long.

Some careful Lifestyle Profession players soon discovered that another NPC factory was opened after the Bucky’s Aluminum Factory in the southernmost part of the new industrial area called the Ditway Food Processing Factory.

The factory’s main products were nutrient cream and organic fertilizers, and it also supplied sulfur and phosphorous ash to fertilizer factories.

Those trucks coming down from the front lines all went there...

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Wasteland Online official website.

Mosquito immediately posted on the forum after discovering the new factory.

Mosquito: Breaking news! I found out where those mutant’s bodies went!

Quit Bullshit: Where did they go??

Makka Pakka: Hurry up! Don’t leave us hanging!

𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Battlefield Cheerleader: Exactly!

Seeing that everyone was getting angry, Mosquito, who originally wanted to let the topic ferment for a while before revealing the answer, did not dare to continue to keep them in suspense.

Mosquito: Ditway Food Processing Factory! It’s at the southernmost edge of the industrial zone. I saw with my own eyes that those trucks dragging corpses drove right into that factory!

Old White: Pfft… That name.

Quit Smoking: What the fuck?! I bought one yesterday! (Horrified)

Night Ten: Damn bro! You even bought it?!

Quit Smoking: Uh, it’s mainly because it’s cheap. 600 grams of nutrient cream is only 1 silver coin, and it can last for 2 meals. (Embarrassed)

Ample Time: Are you serious? (Lol)

Night Ten: I feel sorry for Brother Quit Smoking... You’re too thrifty. (Covering Face)

Sisi: Eep... Foodies are finally going after Crunchers?

Tail: Shocked! Is this a loss of morality, or a distortion of human nature!

Quit Smoking: Screw you all! Is it weird to save money to buy equipment? I just want to spend silver coins on more useful things. Do you guys never have a plan on how to spend money when you play games?

Gale: Depending on the situation, if you can get satisfaction from virtual food in the game, it means that the food is part of the experience provided by the game. Don’t you think it’s going too far if you sacrifice part of the game experience in order to become stronger? (Squinting eyes)

Tail: Oh! I think so too! (✪ω✪)

Irene: Let’s look at it reasonably. The Cruncher is the fruiting body of Slime Mold, right? Although it looks a bit like a mammal, it should be considered a mushroom in biology. So it should be okay to eat it. But what I don’t understand is why you can’t eat it directly, and it can be eaten as nutrient cream. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Elf Wang: Irena, what do you want to do? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Irene: Nothing, just curious. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Although curious about that taste, Irene was in Red River Town and had no chance to taste it.

However, there were quite a few players who were keen to court death. Out of curiosity, they took out a silver coin to buy 600 grams, and tried it for him.

It was not expensive anyway, and even if they didn’t like it, they wouldn’t lose much.

Some players who were willing to share their experiences even posted testimonials on the official website.

Objectively speaking, the taste of the nutrient cream made with the Mutated Slime Mold was not particularly novel. And because of the low salt and sugar content, it was almost tasteless.

If that was all, it would not be difficult for people to swallow it, but what really tormented them was its texture.

It always felt like a mouthful of phlegm stuck in their throat after swallowing.

Coupled with the green color, it fully suppressed everyone’s appetite.

Many players finally realized why some NPCs would rather starve to death than eat that.

It wasn’t really fit for normal human’s consumption!

After the testimonials were delivered, the topic on the forum quickly became how to make nutrient cream less difficult to swallow.

Tomato Eggs: If we can get a blender to blend it, the taste will probably be better.

Yaya: You can add a little more chocolate and sugar! (≖ᴗ≖)✧

Teng Teng: Wait... This will become very expensive, right?

Ample Time: +1, dumbass.

Originally, the characteristic of nutrient cream was that it was extremely cheap.

People who could afford chocolate would never buy something like nutrient cream.

The topic then quickly changed from how to make nutrient cream less unpalatable to how to make nutrient cream less unpalatable at the lowest cost.

At this time, a player majoring in chemical engineering suddenly appeared. How about adding some saccharine?

Sodium phthaloylsulfonylimide? It’s cheap enough, but it’s not very good for the body, right?

- There is a safe dosage, and it won’t be a problem if it is less than 5 milligram per kilogram of body weight... Besides, it’s already a post-apocalyptic world, what was the point of worrying about that?

- Boss, you’re incredible!

- No wonder capitalists are so evil.

- Don’t worry, all of them will be hanged eventually. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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