Chapter 300.2: If It's Not Possible, Think Of Yourself As The Missle!

As an army that could gather over 10,000 people in the wasteland, the strength of the Bonechewer Clan couldn’t be underestimated.

Especially when these people not only have taken over the equipment and commanders of the Army’s expedition force, but also have the support of the Torch.

The battle would not be easy.

Ma Ban paused and continued, “As for survivors... There should also be many of them. There are 4,000 to 5,000 that I know of, but in actuality, there should be more.”

“That many?” Chu Guang looked at him in surprise. “How did you manage to flee from the marauders with so many people?”

Ma Ban explained, “The West Continent City’s underground transportation networks are linked to underground commercial streets and residential areas. We were familiar with the terrain and used them to circumvent the marauders. Although the marauders had much stronger firepower, it only served to destroy the surface of our home, and the underground was still left under our control...”

It was then that Chu Guang recalled that the West Continent City was only a small city. They didn’t have dense housing areas there and neither a Hive that could release the Mutant Slime Mold.

In other words, there were no Crunchers there. Instead, there should be other mutants.

“Since you were able to avoid the marauders, why did you suddenly decide to leave?”

A pained expression surfaced on Ma Ban’s face, “Because of the rodent infestation... No one wanted to leave their homes, but there was a rodent outbreak. We had run out of food and our neighbors couldn’t afford to lend us more food, so we had to leave...”

A rodent outbreak?

Chu Guang’s expression became slightly off.

Motherf... Is that little shit hiding something from me?!

If he remembered correctly, he had told him to raid the marauder’s food storage; he never said anything about harassing the survivors there.

Of course, it was possible he was overthinking. It was easy for the accumulation of corpses to cause rat infestations, bug infestations, as well as plague. Even without Make Me, that fatass rat, there would be no small amount of rats and cockroaches within West Continent City.

There was a limit to the number of minions that players could gather. He shouldn’t blame all the bad things the rats did Make Me...

Well, that little asshole didn’t say anyone on the forum either so it should be fine.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of something. “You heard our broadcast?”

Previously when the New Alliance had just formed, he had people set up a broadcast to publicize the New Alliance’s Refugee Settlement Policy, although there had been no results...

There weren’t many survivor camps that possessed radios, and even if they did, it wasn’t possible for everyone to hear the broadcast. For example, the Old Leech’s castle had a radio, but he would never plug a loudspeaker for all the survivors to hear.

This was probably the first time ‘The Voice of the Alliance’ had drawn so many immigrants.

“Yes,” Ma Ban nodded. He said gratefully, “Your broadcast helped us make up our minds. Although at first, everyone suspected it was a smoke screen left by the marauders, we already didn’t have any other choice... Thank you for fulfilling your promise.”

“No need. When it comes to promises, I always keep my word.” Chu Guang paused, and followed up, “You know how to operate a radio?”

Ma Ban responded immediately. “A little.”

Chu Guang pressed on, “Are you literate?

Ma Ban nodded slowly. “I can read and write.”

This is amazing!

A pleased smile appeared on Chu Guang’s face as he nodded in approval. “Excellent!”

Right now Chu Guang was just in need of a capable local that could, in his stead, unite the West Continent City’s resistance members and cooperate with the New Alliance’s military in the operation that would take place the next month.

However, the matter of the Northern Expedition couldn’t be discussed with outsiders yet.

Chu Guang pondered for a while and decided to first test his abilities. “I will have the logistics staff contact you in a moment. Cooperate with them to complete the registration of the new residents.”

Ma Ban felt excitement coursing through his veins.

Good lord.

Am I being promoted?!

With a heart full of excitement, Ma Ban hurriedly nodded. “I will do my best to cooperate!”

Chu Guang stood up with a wide smile on his face. “

Mhm

, I look forward to your performance!”

......

[Landmark update]

[East Plantation (Specialty: Brain Fungus, Power Pills):

Mind Interference Tower has been reactivated. It is forbidden to hunt the Iron-Backed Ape within the 3-kilometer parameter of the Third Ecological Protection Park. Offenders will be fined 100 silver coins for each ape.

]

[Shelter 401:

Recommended monster for newbies: Cruncher, Wild Boar, Gray Monkey.

]

[Forbidden to hunt:

Iron-Backed Ape within the 3-kilometer parameter, offenders will be fined 100 silver coins.

]

[Alliance Movement]

[“The Home of Refugees” has received 397 refugees hailing from the West Continent City.]

[New Alliance has seized production equipment, Temperature-Adjustable Coat. It is now available for sale in the NPC store.]

𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

[The Northern Expedition shall be launched within 30 days! Our target, the West Continent!]

[Today’s meal recommendation:

Tomato scrambled eggs, Salt roasted wings.

]

Tail: Eh! Did the map update just as I left?!!!∑( ﾟДﾟノ)ノ

Sisi: Northern Expedition... So there’s gonna be another game expansion?

Falling Feather: I recently got a VM! This is so exciting!

Lightning Professor: Hahahaha, it’s going up it’s going up! (excited)

Quit Bullshit: What is it, what’s going up?

Lightning Professor: Silver coins! As everyone knows, whenever there’s a new map or a game expansion, the trading market of Game Coins will inflate! Temperature-Adjustable Coat, just hearing its name makes it sound impressive! And there will be a war soon, so the price of silver coins will definitely change. (smug)

Quit Bullshit: What the, and here I thought the water price had gone up, scared me into checking the announcement again. (swearing)

Makka Pakka: I’m relieved, this doesn’t affect my farming of crops!

Gale: I don’t know how to complain about this, but the Temperature-Adjustable Coat... is actually just the blue coat, right?

Irene: Got it, won’t have to worry about dropping clothes after dying anymore. So, think it’s gonna take over Teng Teng’s Hut? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Elf Wang: Stop buying Teng Teng’s stocks here! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Teng Teng: Wait a min, do you guys buy the clothes I make only because you don’t have another choice? QAQ

Night Ten: Ridiculous! The clothes Teng Teng makes are super pretty! Last time in Boulder Town, Ample Time stared at it for half a day. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Irene: I have a feeling you guys are talking about something strange, but I got no proof. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Teng Teng: (*・ω・)✄╰ひ╯

Ample Time: (too scared to make a sound.jpg)

Although it wasn’t an update announcement, it still caused a lot of discussion among players after it came out.

Blue coats were actually released for sale!

As one of the benefits available for new players, the coat, which could adapt and adjust its temperature and breathability according to the environment, could be said to be the sole black-tech item that players could access during their beginner phase.

Unless it was under extremely cold or extremely hot conditions, a single coat could entirely satisfy a rookie’s clothing necessity.

However, the coat had always been limited. On average, there were 3 sets per person. Players could not repair it if it was destroyed, and they could not purchase it again.

That was why most people couldn’t bring themselves to wear a blue coat to go outside and would always change clothes before a fight.

Before, when there wasn’t any cotton, everyone just wore animal skins. In fact, they looked more like marauders than marauders themselves!

As for the Mind Interference Tower, it was even more intriguing.

Looking at the settings’ description, it seemed to be able to impose a subconscious suggestion on mutants with specific mental frequencies, being able to transmit negative emotions to achieve the goal of driving them away. The lower the intelligence of a mutant, the stronger the effect; the higher the intelligence of mutants, the more they were able to understand emotions.

That was simply a godly weapon!

Since it could use terror to drive wild monsters away from safe zones, then wouldn’t it also be possible to gather them in a specific area through the use of pleasurable emotions?

Dude.

If the Mind Interference Tower was used in reverse, wouldn’t it be even more convenient to farm monsters in the future?!

Perhaps, it could even be possible to instill certain impure psychological suggestions in the mutants so that specific populations within the zones could accelerate their reproduction!

Aside from the 2 blaring news where blue coats were finally on sale and the Mind Interference Tower, the topic amongst players was still mainly focused on the Northern Expedition.

Anyone with eyes could see it. A game expansion was coming!

Spring Water Commander: AHAHAHA! I really fucking guessed it! The overhaul of the Corps System was really groundwork for a game expansion after all! (smug)

Darkest: Gg Gg, that’s amazing.

Escaping Mole: By the way, Old White, what Doctrine did you guys choose?

Old White: Light Infantry.

Escaping Mole: The hell, I thought you were going to go for Mobile Warfare? (surprised)

Ample Time: Your understanding of the version update isn’t enough. The Corps System only regulates the equipment provided by the Alliance, they don’t restrict personal equipment. In other words, we can use silver coins to buy rifles ourselves and pay for our own ammo.

Sideline Slacking: Shit, so what’s even the use of logistics points?

Ample Time: They’re useful, who said they weren’t! For example, by choosing the Special Operations branch under the Light Infantry doctrine, the expenses for Light Infantry equipment is -50%. So, what is the point of getting discounts? 25 logistics points can be exchanged for a Light Cavalry set containing a Type 5 exoskeleton! Although it can only be used during wartime or special missions, they don’t have a contribution level restriction, and the Alliance assumes responsibility for all consumption of the equipment.

Well, there was a cool down for the replenishment of the broken equipment, and the more high-end the equipment was, the longer the cooldown time. They still needed to cherish their equipment as much as possible.

If a player died, it was okay. They’d only wait 3 days anyways.

But if the equipment was broken, then the battle scores would drop.

In other words, a deduction of prize money.