Chapter 41: The Developers Are So Nice!

In the evening...

The players returned to the nursing home one after another. Tomato Eggs, who was in charge, set up a cauldron in the open space and began to cook the last meal of the day.

The dish he was making was salt-boiled shofar potatoes with dried meat.

Thanks to the discovery of the new NPC stronghold, the shelter players finally had a meal other than fish soup.

Those shofar potatoes tasted pretty good and after they were boiled in salt water, Tomato Eggs simply poured some soy sauce over them. It tasted a bit like mashed potatoes from

KFC

.

All it cost to make was precious soy sauce.

Just making 28 servings of mashed potatoes used almost one-fifth of a bottle of soy sauce, and they even used it sparingly.

On the other hand, they didn’t seem to have enough salt any longer as only half a bag was left.

With their rate of consumption, it would only take them a few more days to use up all the salt.

"Wow! This mashed potato is too great! Uncle Tomato Eggs, can I have another bowl?" Teng Teng squatted on the side with her bowl in her hands as she revealed a look of satisfaction.

"No, one bowl per person." Not satisfied with how she called him,Tomato Eggs rolled his eyes and snapped.

"Then will we still have mashed potatoes tomorrow?" Teng Teng said pitifully.

"We can't afford it. There is not much soy sauce. I need to save as much as possible. If you want to eat mashed potatoes so badly, then order a takeaway in real life!" as Tomato Eggs spoke, he sighed in his heart.

It was such a difficult task to cook for these guys every day.

After working as a chef for so many years, he has never wanted to save ingredients for his boss so much.

On the other side, Night Ten sat in the middle of the players while holding a bowl and talked about what happened during the day excitedly. He even forgot to put food in his mouth!

He especially started talking more enthusiastically at the part when they encountered the Creeper on the way back, excitedly putting down the bowl in his hand before picking up a branch to start drawing on the ground.

"At that time, I was walking down the street. Then all of a sudden, I felt a chill on my back and immediately became restless! I picked up the gun and went pew pew pew..."

Ample Time, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help but sneer, "Pew pew pew my ass. You think you are shooting lasers or what?"

Night Ten coughed dryly.

"That’s not important!"

"What happened later? Carry on. How did you kill that thing?"

"Yes, yes, don't interrupt!"

The players next to him didn't pay much attention to these details. Whether he was bragging or not, the content itself was just too interesting, so they all clamored and asked him to continue.

"Calm down, everyone. When the Creeper pounced on me, I immediately slid..."

Seeing that everyone was so interested, Night Ten continued to describe how he supported the administrator who was fighting the Creeper, how he searched for drops, including how he was attacked, and how he tactically disconnected his device to cooperate with teammates to fight back...

Ample Time kept rolling his eyes when he heard his boasting. Unable to stand it anymore, he picked another place to eat his meal.

By the time they finished, the sun was setting.

Moving Little Seven from upstairs, Chu Guang brought the players back to the shelter in batches, watching them lie down in the nurturing cabins and exit the game safely.

Except for Garbage, who was still in the forest, everyone was back.

However, Chu Guang was not very worried about him.

Through the player list, Chu Guang could confirm that the guy was still alive, but had gone offline two hours ago.

No matter how hardcore a player he was, it was impossible for him to spend 24 hours a day in the game. He still needed to get up to eat, move his limbs, and so on in real life.

Moreover, the clones in the game also need to rest. No one could be awake for twenty-four hours straight, not even a lizardman!

According to the information disclosed on the official website...

Lying in the nurturing cabin was not the only way to go offline. As long as they lost their consciousness, they would be disconnected.

This included but was not limited to giving oneself a blow on the back of one's head, or finding a place to lie down and sleep.

However, that logout method was not very reliable.

Not only could their progress not be saved, but it was also unsafe for them to be out in the wasteland.

The clone synthesized by the nurturing cabin did not possess any sentience!

In other words, in the absence of conscious connection, these clones would hardly respond to external stimuli.

If a mutant mouse or cockroach happened to pass by, those clones would definitely be killed.

From the looks of it, Garbage should have found a safe place to hide himself and was still pretty much safe for the time being.

Put that aside for the time being...

Chu Guang sat down in front of the computer in the residents' lobby, and according to the usual practice, summarized the results of the day’s work.

"The construction of the east wall is completed."

"In terms of resources, the inventory for building materials includes one hundred and ten logs, one ton of charcoal, one ton of Portland cement, two piles of yellow mud bricks, and a few hardened cement blocks. If consumed, two hundred and forty logs and eight hundred kilograms of cement... The timber inventory has fallen for two consecutive days, but the cement inventory has actually begun to balance out..."

It seemed that a few loggers had to be arranged. Or, he could increase the logging requirements for players' daily tasks.

“The food inventory includes three hundred and fifty kilograms of green wheat and shofar potatoes, five kilograms of dried meat, and a small amount of berries and mushrooms. We’ve consumed about five kilograms of dried meat, ten kilograms of shofar potatoes, fifty kilograms of dried meat, and twenty kilograms of smoked fish for trading... Players have to continue hunting tomorrow."

"As for fur... In addition to the transaction consumption, the raw materials consumed 5 furs. Today, Teng Teng actually made five pieces of clothing? Not bad... Let me see, that should be two hundred and fifty contribution points."

"By the way, there is also an increase in weapon inventory... I will have to plan an arsenal in the future."

Finally, he managed to amass seven reward points for the day.

I can use them up on loot boxes again!

After summing up the data, Chu Guang leaned back on the chair and stretched.

As he finished these tasks, the 30 activated nurturing cabins had completed the scanning of the clones, the somatic cell sampling and archiving, and summarized the players' genetic sequence development progress and panel data on a table.

Chu Guang glanced at it briefly.

Perhaps it was because the jobs at the outposts at the current stage were dominated by manual labor, but players of the strength type generally leveled up faster.

For example, Old White was already LV3.

In addition, Night Ten, who had been going out with him, had also leveled up the genetic sequence from LV1 to LV2, and his main attribute perception increased to nine, making him the player with the highest perception in the entire outpost.

"Master!"

Seeing Little Seven moving to the table, Chu Guang looked away from the computer.

"What's wrong?"

"Why did you pick up a strange woman from outside?"

Chu Guang almost choked. Although Little Seven wasn’t wrong, he felt that there was something wrong with the way it said it.

"What are you talking about?"

"Little Seven saw it from the roof, you carried her back."

"So?" Chu Guang asked with some annoyance.

With no undulating electronic sound, Little Seven said aggrievedly.

"It's nothing, I just want to remind you that compared to clones, the native people in the wasteland are more difficult to control. It's better not to trust them too easily."

"You’re thinking too much, I have never completely trusted anyone, whether it's the players or the natives here." Chu Guang said lightly.

"Mhm mhm, then I can rest assured!" The camera on Little Seven's head shook up and down as it nodded.

"By the way, you can always trust Little Seven! No matter what happens, Little Seven is your most loyal assistant!"

"Okay, got it."

"Hmm... So perfunctory!"

Can't this robot stop talking for a while while charging?

Chu Guang resisted the urge to complain and continued to stare at the computer screen.

Ten minutes have passed since the players went offline. Not surprisingly, it would quickly turn into the liveliest time for the official forum.

It was a pleasant lurking session once again!

While humming a little song for self-entertainment, Chu Guang opened the backend system of the official website and checked the number of applications.

The number of applications had doubled, and now it had almost reached three hundred.

The threshold for applying for the closed alpha test has changed from filling in the form to filling in the form and answering several questions.

Although they were all common sense questions, if players could read the questions patiently and fill in the blanks, it could at least screen out players who were serious about playing.

Those who could pass could be said to be pretty good players.

At the same time, the number of visits to the official website had also increased a lot, with an average daily visit volume of a thousand.

Although not everyone had registered an account and not everyone had clicked to apply for the closed alpha test, at least it showed that Wasteland Online was becoming more and more well-known in the gaming circle.

Obviously it was a website that didn't even have information recorded. In addition to a lot of text settings, there were only a few photos of the construction site. But no one expected that so many people would be attracted to it.

Chu Guang couldn't help but sigh, "There are still too many bored people."

But that was not a bad thing.

Since they were idle anyway, it was better for them to work for him!

Closing the backend system of the website and entering the forum, everything went as expected. The players who went offline started to report everything they experienced and the forum came to life.

Including Garbage, who went offline two hours ago, everyone was posting on the forum.

Garbage: Damn, I was really exhausted today, but fortunately, I managed to gain something! There is a tire processing factory about 2 kilometers north of our construction site. Someone was patrolling nearby with a dog and we suspect it to be a marauder camp, but I'm not sure if it is! I plan to take a closer look when it gets dark and after confirmation, I’ll tell you guys what happened!

Gale: Brother Garbage is the man!

Old White: Damn, I was wondering why I didn't see you when I went offline! Also, why can you go online during the day?

Garbage: If you are mutants, you can too! That’s enough talk, I'll be online after a short break. (Baring teeth)

Night Ten: Huh... Showing off.

Quit_smoking: Not to mention being able to go online during the day, if I could go online and take a look at myself, I would die without regret! T T

Yaya: I'm still waiting for the respawning CD to finish. Crying.jpg.

Garbage: (baring teeth)

Except for Garbage, most of the players on the forum were discussing the new NPC brought back by the administrator and the newly discovered survivor settlement.

The players were particularly interested in the latter.

At the top of a long list of posts, Chu Guang quickly found an analysis post written by Ample Time.

That guy was as good at summarizing as always, and his posts were the most popular in the forum. If it weren't for the conditions, Chu Guang almost couldn't help but want him to become the game planner.

- ... I have to praise this alpha 0.2 version update! It can be seen that the developers worked really hard to make this game great!

- The content of this update is far more than just a few optimization items listed on the official website, including new camps, new monster models, larger maps, etc. It contains far more content than we expected!

- For example, we went to Brown Farm to trade some supplies and as soon as I walked under the concrete wall, I was shocked by the game's official art design. That kind of immersive feeling is difficult to describe in words, whether it is the post-apocalyptic architectural style or the detailed texture of the clothing on different NPCs. I can see traces of hard work everywhere! They don’t even try to hoodwink players like us using shitty graphics!

- In addition, we tested the combat system. On the way back, we were attacked by a Creeper, and had a frightening battle. Prior to this, I always thought that this kind of mutant only existed in future updates, but I didn't expect it to be revealed in the current version!

- I have to say that our Administrator is worthy of being a novice guide, and his combat skills are simply outrageous! The moment the Creeper leaped over, neither Night Ten nor I reacted; we could only watch from the side. He was the only one who was doing all the damage. I was very surprised that the two-meter-high Creeper was killed by him using a small metal water pipe!

- In addition, the most surprising thing is that a new NPC has joined our outpost! Her special status may bring us more new ways to play the game, such as weapon modification, even more side plots, etc... I think I can look forward to it!

- For more information about the alpha 0.2 version update, I will continue to update this post! Wasteland Survivors can bookmark the post for future updates!

He was working really hard...

It was so nice of him and Chu Guang nearly blushed in embarrassment for how much effort he was putting in.

After reading the post from the beginning to the end, Chu Guang was so happy that he almost couldn’t even close his mouth.

However, Chu Guang didn’t feel the slightest bit of guilt. After all, he didn’t take the players' money!

No matter what, it was supposed to be a next-generation game for them and there was no way they would be able to play something like that for free!

Actually, if the game was truly developed by a company back in their world, they would probably ask their players to apply for a membership before they even got a chance to enter the game!

Seeing that the player was praising him, Chu Guang was very happy and pinned Ample Time's post.

After he closed the post and just when he was thinking about what to do to pass the long night, Little Seven quipped uneasily beside him, "Master, the woman you brought back is awake..."