Chapter 82: No. 0 Industrial Zone. Strengthening of the Lifestyle Profession?

In the evening, Chu Guang had a long, long dream.

He dreamed that he was playing a game called

The Sims

. In the game, he went to work and got off work every day without a single day off. Then, one day, a truck came out of nowhere and scared him awake.

"What the hell... I'm working even in my dreams. This is getting crazy."

Can’t I have better dreams?!

After waking up, Chu Guang subconsciously reached out and touched his chest, and found that his clothes were soaking wet.

"Is the heater on too high?"

Murmuring, he jumped off the bed and stretched his body. With his joints cracked, he felt very comfortable.

Wait.

Did I level up?

With this thought in his heart, Chu Guang immediately went to the residents' hall to find medical equipment and did a body scan for himself.

Sure enough, his genetic sequence rose a level, from LV7 to LV8!

[ID:

Chu Guang

]

[Genetic sequence:

Administrator

]

[Level:

LV7→LV8

]

[Attributes]

[Strength:

10

]

[Agility:

6

]

[Constitution:

8

]

[Perception:

7

]

[Intelligence:

6→7

]

"The previous few increases were all under the constitution attribute. Looks like I gained a mental enhancement this time.” Chu Guang moved his arms, and looked at the medical examination outcome thoughtfully.

"Sure enough, as I guessed, when commanding other clones to fight, my genetic sequence will also grow."

Of course, the attributes panel was only there for reference.

Compared to simply stacking up data, the key was to give full comparison to the advantages of his body's functions.

Just like when he faced the Creeper last time, although none of its four attributes other than intelligence was lower than his, it still died in his hands.

That was actually the best example.

"When the players' levels rise to around LV10, I can just treat where Shelter 117 is as a dungeon and let them farm the monsters there."

Also... I heard there’s an exoframe somewhere in there.

Chu Guang just lacked a suit of armor to match his Nitrogen-Powered Hammer.

By the time the armor and weapons were ready, he could be called a real humanoid tank. At that time, let alone a Creeper, even if the more powerful mutants stood before him, they would only be able to tickle him!

Thinking about it happily, Chu Guang went to the next room to wake Xia Yan. Ignoring her protest, he urged her to go out to work.

"Can't you let me sleep longer? Your stupid Weapon Shop has no business at all!" Standing on the elevator, Xia Yan arranged her messy red hair with her left hand, and complained in a low voice.

"We start the year with Spring and we start a day in the morning! If you don't work hard, how can I live a good life in the future? Don't worry, after this winter, you will have more free time." Chu Guang joked.

Looking at a strand of red hair standing up on the back of her head, he reached out and pressed it down for her twice. "You'd better go to the bathhouse to fetch some water. This strand of hair is very stubborn."

Her cowlick was quite strong. It seemed that she had enough nutrition recently.

Damnit, my obsessive-compulsive disorder...

Originally, Xia Yan was still a little sleepy. As soon as Chu Guang’s fingers touched her scalp, she stiffened like a cat whose tail was stomped on. She jumped to the side in fright, holding a cane alertly in the corner. She also yelled at the top of her lungs, "What are you doing?!"

Chu Guang shrugged, not bothering to explain himself.

Little Seven, who was watching quietly from the side, raised its camera and stared at Xia Yan, who was cowering in the corner.

Suddenly, it spoke abruptly, "According to Little Seven's analysis, the probability that the Master is interested in you is less than 0.3%. From the analysis of DNA data, any chromosome stored in Shelter 404’s gene bank is more attractive and has more reproductive value than yours."

Xia Yan's face instantly turned to the same color as her hair. Staring at the robot in the corner of the wall, she started to laugh like a maniac.

"Ha ha, ha ha ha haaaa!"

Did she lose her mind?

Chu Guang looked at Little Seven, dissatisfied

"Why is there still 0.3%?"

Does this robot think that a righteous person like me would go after this woman?

Little Seven tilted the camera and started to justify itself in its dumb voice, "Because Master is a young man. So, it's understandable that you may have a little interest. If there is no possibility at all, there may be some problems with your body."

Chu Guang stroked his chin. "... You have a valid point. I don't even know how to refute it."

Little Seven buzzed, "I know, right?"

Xia Yan didn't respond to their conversation. She just kept chuckling foolishly as if she was completely broken.

Chu Guang always felt that the look in her eyes when she looked at Little Seven was not quite right.

To be honest, the AI probably has been on standby for too long, and the hardware has aged or something. Sometimes, it was really not very bright. It didn’t know that it should just remain quiet sometimes.

But then again, Xia Yan has been in the mercenary business before, so why is her mental endurance so bad?

Can anyone become a mercenary in Boulder Town?

Chu Guang didn't know how to react anymore.

...

Since Chu Guang no longer restricted the login of the players, he no longer slept in the residents' hall, but lived in the empty room next to Xia Yan.

Every time he went to sleep, he would hand over the Shelter's permissions to Little Seven who was charging itself, and tell it to keep an eye on the players and warn them if they wanted to go through his stuff.

Old Luca also stood watch outside the shelter, so he wasn't worried that the players would do anything out of line.

The Active Matter Extractor never stopped the night before.

The bodies of six cannon fodder in the daytime, plus the twenty one in the evening, produced a total of 12.3 units of active matter. Counting the 4 units accumulated before and deducting the 1 unit deficit caused by Ya Ya, the active matter inventory had reached 15.3.

An extractor could only hold 25 units, and when it was full, it could only be taken out and packed in plastic bottles.

That actually made Chu Guang worry that the active matter would deteriorate when placed outside.

In short, the shelter was no longer lacking active matter anymore. As long as it was not a meaningless death, an appropriate battle loss was acceptable.

In addition to prohibiting players from going to 76th Street to actively provoke the mutants or harass neutral survivors in the south, Chu Guang's restrictions on the range of activities of these players were no longer as large as before.

After a while, perhaps the contribution points deduction penalty for death could be appropriately lowered.

When Chu Guang arrived on the surface, many players were already online. They were busy moving a bunch of materials in the industrial area.

At present, more than 40% of the orders in the industrial zone came from the Weapon Shop Owner, which included some parts needed to make receivers, copper shells, and gunpowder needed to make bullets, and so on.

Among the fifth batch of players who were new to the game this time, there were a few more new players with a metallurgy background, and they had chosen to be intelligence type players. Their development ideas were clear; they were going to be Lifestyle Profession players.

After repeated practice and improvement by the two players Bathroom Goer and Athlete Foot, the current steelmaking technology of the outpost has been greatly improved.

At present, those guys were thinking about how to make the acid Bessemer process invented in the mid-nineteenth century.

When pure oxygen couldn’t be produced on a large scale, Bessemer's Air Steelmaking method was a good choice.

Although it was difficult to extract the phosphorus from the ore, the raw materials they used were not phosphorus-containing ore. Instead, they used waste steel that did not contain phosphorus. Even the step of adding limestone for dephosphorization could be saved.

As for the problem of the air hole, it could also be solved by learning from the experience summarized by later generations, such as adding a deoxidizer after blasting it with air.

The key to everything was that, first of all, they needed a 1.2-meter-high furnace with tetravalent compounds such as silicon dioxide and zirconium dioxide as an acidic lining to prevent the furnace from being melted by molten iron.

That was a big test for the sintering process.

Those players didn't seem to find things difficult. Instead, they regarded it as a challenge.

Before, those players would brag about how much more competent they were compared to other players on the forum.

Now that they were finally in the game, it was time to show their real skills. Even if they were just keyboard warriors, they could only bite the bullet and do it.

The diligence of those players was impeccable, but the planning of the industrial area was really a little too messy.

The charcoal kilns that produced charcoal were next to the kilns that produced bricks, and steel-making furnaces were right after those two. There was no decent planning at all.

There was no way things would be allowed to go on like this.

It was common knowledge that if the first plot of the plan wasn’t developed properly, the subsequent planning would definitely grow chaotic.

In order not to be driven to death by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, and for the production safety of these players, Chu Guang found a wooden stake and a wooden board, walked to the south of the nursing home, and inserted the wooden stake in the ground. He hung the wooden board on it.

Then, he used a marker pen to write a line of words and when he was done, he took two steps back and admired it for a while.

[No. 0 Industrial Zone Regulations]

[1.

The area on the south side of the outpost is designated as an industrial zone.

]

[2.

In order to build new facilities, you will need to submit an application to the administrator or assistant, specifying the application project, business type, budget, and estimated area. If it is approved, you will be allowed to build on the approved plot of land.

]

[3.

Occupying roads, exceeding the planned area, or other illegal buildings will be cleared and removed.

]

"Good." Chu Guang nodded in satisfaction.

Anyway, the first regulation was a draft, so the fewer words the better.

Fewer words could make it easier to understand, and it was also convenient for him to manage. Lest players say that they didn't read it because there was too much content.

As time passed, the venue deposit, rent, management fees, taxes, etc. would be supplemented in the form of Industrial Zone Management Regulations. The current regulations were only there to prevent players from building randomly and blocking the road from the south gate to the resurrection point.

Before he left, the nearby players saw the newly erected sign and surrounded it.

"No. 0 Industrial Zone Regulations?"

"The area on the south side of the outpost is designated as an industrial zone... Damn?! Are Lifestyle Professions going to be strengthened?!"

"Strengthen my ass, you think you are going to be buffed? This announcement means that you can't build it randomly in the base in the future. You must apply first, then build later! Also, you need a proper plan of what you are going to do!”

"Huh? So we’re getting nerfed?"

"Does this mean that... Even if you haven't bought the land in the industrial zone, you can still get the right to use the land in the industrial zone by applying for approval? This part of the area does not occupy the private land area?"

"Holy shit, this is great!"

"This isn't nerfed at all! The Lifestyle Profession players will clearly benefit from this!"

"It's so cool!"

After finally deciphering the announcement of less than a hundred words, the Lifestyle Profession players who surrounded the NPC instantly became excited!