This Game Is Too Realistic

After ending the call with Li De, Chu Guang felt that life was pretty tough.

His neighbor was traveling west for a great idea. But not only were their faces filled with the confidence and belief of civilized people, but they also had a lot of supplies that could allow them to eat three meals a day, and throw away three meals’ worth of food every day if they wanted to.

Meanwhile on his side, not only did he have to spend every penny carefully, but he also had to find a way to use the limited materials to make the players happy.

Even if his resources were limited, when he got some good stuff occasionally, he would also use them to boost the morale of his players.

However, despite doing his best to such an extent, there were still players on the forum discussing the bricks for building walls and analyzing how to prevent the middleman from earning the price difference.

How could he not be saddened by what they were doing?

The weak have no right to choose. In fact, Chu Guang was very clear that even if he had a shelter as a bargaining chip, he actually had very little room for negotiation with the people on the Pioneer.

Especially since Li De was much harder to fool than their Captain Lu, and he was far even more elusive, giving him no chance at all.

Whatever it was, Chu Guang had no other choices.

It was rare to meet a group of local tyrants who went out on an outing. Coincidentally, these people acknowledged the blue coats they were wearing. No matter how difficult it was to trick them, he still had to bite the bullet and do it.

After all, it was their fortune that they ran into friends… What if they were to run into enemies the next time?

Even if he couldn’t win then, he would be up for a huge battle.

If there was no accident, his workforce should be able to earn 1,200CR for the day. Plus the 600CR for the meal supplement, it would add up to 1,800CR, which could buy 6 assault rifles.

Chu Guang felt that those people were considerably kind. They said that the meal reimbursement was still set at 600CR a day. Even if his people only worked half a day.

After the cooperation was over, the weapon store would have some new equipment priced between 300 to 400 silver coins. There would be automatic rifles and submachine guns, as well as modified sights, just for those players who have risen to LV6 to LV8

For a better tomorrow and new releases…

Chu Guang hoped that his players would work hard!

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Before the call with Li De, Chu Guang found two players of the perception type and located the signal tower mentioned in the Guard’s Diary and the Bloodhand Diary near the mutant human’s camp. After a rough check, he noticed that although the parts were a bit old, they were not completely broken.

The backup power supply still had half its power left, so he pulled the switch back on without a second thought, and the signal tower immediately reactivated.

Looking at the full signal on the VM, a satisfied smile appeared on Chu Guang’s face.

The signal coverage had been expanded to reach 10 kilometers away, and the entire northern suburb of Clearspring City was covered.

His players no longer had to worry about the problem of bad signal.

As long as they were not buried under the ruins or traveled too far, he could grasp their situations anytime and anywhere, and issue missions he needed them to complete.

Very nice.

After finishing the call with Li De, Chu Guang then borrowed the office’s phone to get in touch with Luca.

Luca respectfully reported the day’s situation to him. "Sir, according to your instructions, I’ve purchased 100 kilograms of potatoes, 100 kilograms of corn, some salt, soy sauce, pepper, and other condiments with the 600CR meal supplement. However… Li De told me if we use their vehicles to send goods back, we will be charged 1CR per 100 kilograms..."

My goodness. He’s trying to get back at me!

Chu Guang smiled and said, "It’s fine, we don’t need their vehicles."

There were 10 caravans in the outpost and hundreds of strength type players. How difficult would it be to bring dozens of tons of cargo back?

Besides, players would change shifts every three days. When that happened, the players over there could just drag the supplies back.

As for the materials exchanged, they were mainly used as food for the players.

Although they brought some shofar potatoes, green wheat, and jerky with them when they went, they only had enough food for a few days; it wouldn’t last long. There would be players who would change shifts with them later, so there would be no need to bring dry rations over the next time.

Luca continued, "Sir, I found that starch seems to be cheaper here? 1CR can be exchanged for 1 kilogram, and it looks like it can be eaten directly."

Chu Guang sighed and said, "If you only eat carbohydrates, you will develop constipation. Starch cannot be considered food."

Old Luca didn’t quite understand it. In his view, as long as he could eat his fill, he didn’t mind what he needed to eat. But since his master said so, he naturally couldn’t talk back. "Yes... By the way, sir, I’ve noticed that people from the east seem to be very interested in what we eat, and even willing to pay for it."

"Oh?" Chu Guang asked with interest, "They bought food from us?"

Luca nodded. "Yes. I wasn’t sure how much I should sell them, and I didn’t want to cause trouble, so I gave them one portion for free. Should I charge them shofar potatoes and fish soup for 1CR each?"

Chu Guang said while rubbing his chin, "Try to estimate the cost of one serving... Don’t calculate the labor, only count the materials cost."

Luca answered, "It’s not expensive, shofar potatoes cost two or three copper coins, and fish soup is even cheaper. However… The fish we brought over is almost finished, and we will probably cook other dishes tomorrow.”

“If those people come back tomorrow, you can sell them 2CR and 4CR set meals. The 2CR set meal will consist of 200 grams of mashed potatoes, while the 4CR meal will come with a meat dish in addition to mashed potatoes... Forget it, I still can’t decide on the menu. You let the Lifestyle Profession players decide what they will be eating every day, and I will issue them a mission later. In any case, you just need to set the price according to the two standards I said."

Luca replied respectfully, "As ordered, sir."

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On the official website…

[Xiaoyu’s Kind Reminder: Because the administrator has repaired the antenna of the shelter, the signal coverage of the outpost has now expanded to ten kilometers.]

[Today’s recommended recipes: Meaty mashed potatoes, pine nuts stewed fish soup.]

Every time the players went offline, the forum would be very lively.

Ample Time: I’m back! Let’s start with the conclusion. The new area unlocked by the expansion pack is almost exactly the same as the one shown in the promotion video!

Sword Execution: Yes, I can testify! Other games will make you want to look for the similarities between the actual gameplay footage and the promotional video, but in this game, it will only make you look for the difference between the two... Anyway, I can’t find it! Do you know what it feels like to walk into the CGI?

Escaping Mole: Damn it! I haven’t seen it! I also want to play the new map. T.T

Old White: I gotta say that scavenging with high-tech is much more fun than scavenging with hands near the outpost. (Screaming)

Battlefield Cheerleader: Brother, can you tell me what the process over there is like?

Ample Time: Let me explain. We first followed the people from Pioneer to the operational camp they built for us, and moved into a two-story dormitory. And then Tomato Eggs prepared lunch for us, which is something that he hasn’t done for a long time. But that’s not important. The focus is on the afternoon! We followed the two exoframes to the abandoned town to the north!

Ample Time: That was probably a place similar to the urban-rural border, and the building density is lower than near our Linghu Wetland Park. It is dominated by a large number of single-family houses and a small number of high-rise buildings. We went about 800 meters deep into the city and came to an abandoned community hospital. This is a brand new map! We have never traveled this far before when we were scavenging!

- The floor in the hospital is covered with thick dust. I briefly explored the first floor and found that that place has been visited by other people, and it has been visited more than once. I’m not sure if there are other survivors nearby. Our worksite is in the basement level car park, where there is a large amount of car wreckage in good condition, as well as corpses of Crunchers.

- I guess there was a battle that broke out there in the past! Unfortunately, the battle was over when we arrived. Two people in exoframes were patrolling the parking lot with two robot dogs, and our job was to use the cutting machine they gave us to disassemble the valuable parts of the waste vehicles!

- The whole process is still quite compacted, and the construction efficiency is much simpler than dismantling the car with an axe and a saw! The disassembled doors, hoods, and other parts of a car were roughly compressed with a manual hydraulic press, and then dragged to the heavy truck parked at the entrance of the city. There were NPC engineers on the truck who operated more professional equipment to perform secondary hydraulic pressure on the garbage, and then loaded the compressed garbage blocks onto the truck.

- By the way, the NPC there will weigh the garbage, and then the collection amount will be displayed in the VM’s mission page. 100 kilograms of metal collected can be exchanged for 1 silver coin.

Elf Wang: Wait, isn’t that a bad deal? The outpost’s garbage collection mission is also the same. I remember it was 1 silver coin for 100 kilograms of scrap steel.

Old White: It’s different. To complete the garbage collection mission at the outpost, the garbage has to be picked up from outside the wetland park. And that alone will require you to travel at least 1 kilometers out. It will be even more troublesome if you need to go to the underground parking lot in the residential area. Not to mention the distance of transportation, there are often sneak attacks by Crunchers.

Ample Time: Yes, and we don’t have that kind of cutter in the outpost. It will take a lot of time to remove the doors and hoods. In addition, this mission also has event reward points, about 1 point every 100 kilograms.

Night Ten: Strength type players are buffed by epic level! By the way, I found an interesting thing. When Mosquito and I were squatting in the camp to eat lunch, an NPC ran over and exchanged instant noodles with us. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ °)

Washing Machine: Seriously?! They are that smart?

Neighbour Wang: What does NPC’s instant noodles taste like? Is it delicious?

Night Ten: Delicious my ass. Not only was it tasteless, but it also wasn’t filling. I was hungry not long after eating it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Mosquito: I actually feel bad for the NPCs on the Pioneer. They have such advanced technology, but they can’t eat a decent hot meal.

Irene: Do you guys only know how to eat or something? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Tomato Eggs: Brother Night Ten’s words actually reminded me... NPCs from Pioneer seemed to have come to buy food from me tonight, and I saw Luca take money from them. But I don’t know how much they paid him.

Eye Owe Money: !? So the buffed profession in this version turned out to be the chef?

Tomato Eggs: What are you talking about? That money wasn’t for me, alright.

Makka Pakka: But what’s the use of the paper they used? Can I buy something with it? I didn’t see any NPC stores that accept anything like it.

Night Ten: I don’t know. But it seems like Boss Yaya has one. I wonder if she has figured out how to use it. Why don’t you ask her? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Irene: You think that ass would tell you? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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