Chapter 270 The fortress merchant
Maya called Shana, mainly to discuss the work in the living area. After that, Maya brought up the issue about the oil consumption of bathing. This is another problem. Forbidding Shadow to take a bath, or having Shadow take a bath every two days is obviously not feasible, which will lead to differential treatment between the two bases. It won't work if we don't solve it. If we continue playing like this every day, both bases will run out of fuel before autumn comes.
Faced with a difficult problem, Shana called the cutie Lin Wu. After listening, Lin Wu said: "If we open a ward in Doomsday, the two female doctors can stay and work in Doomsday. If we open a production room, Su Shi can also transfer to Doomsday." Work until the end of the day. It’s just troublesome to sleep. After they come over, the others can do it with one car."
These three people are logistics personnel and have poor combat effectiveness. Xiaodao and others must stay at the sawmill to deal with the 5 that may happen at any time. Star siege.
Before Shana could respond, Peanut's voice came from the headset: "Businessman, there is a businessman in the business inn, help." He didn't have any fighting ability. Seeing that the businessman was heading towards the sawmill base with a group of zombies, he could only stand on one leg. Jump and run away.
Shana was extremely upset when she heard the alarm. She considered having someone stationed at the sawmill, but in the face of everyone eager to take a shower, she ultimately did not mention it. If it were Maya, Maya would either ask for a draw to keep someone, or she would stay on her own. There's no way you're going to dump an empty shell base over there.
The good news is that the businessman was still alive when Shana led the team back to the sawmill. The better news is that after successfully purchasing the infrastructure skill book from the merchant and learning it from Snow Egg, Shadow's daily oil production increased to 10 liters per day.
The bad news is that the pursued businessman sought protection from Peanut, but Peanut could not escape and died on the spot. Although Peanut can be resurrected, it also means that Shadow has lost another goon.
Based on comprehensive rankings based on survivability, combat ability, actual combat experience and attributes, Lin Wu, Maya and Xiaodao deserve to be in the T0 ranks. Cotton, Shanna and Peanut belong to the T1 team. Except for Su Shi, everyone else belongs to the T2 team.
Peanut's investigative skills are unique. The ability to quickly lock resources can greatly improve the efficiency of search work. His rapid fire skill is also a first-rate skill for wasting pistol bullets. Peanut's death had a huge impact on Shadow's strength.
This unexpected incident made the night more silent and less joyful. Lin Wu thought of the skill books and design drawings on the two bookcases in the nightmare safe house. There were several powerful cold weapon skills in them. Among them, the one that impressed Lin Wu most deeply was a design drawing of a flying spear.
As the name suggests, flying spears are throwing short spears, and can carry up to 12 short spears at a time. The short spear has a range of 12 meters, and loses its lethality beyond 12 meters. The biggest feature is 100% recycling. Aim and rate of fire are more emotional. After raising the short spear and entering the throwing state, there will be an aiming time, during which the shooter will see a yellow circle. When thrown at this time, the short spear may fly to any point in the yellow circle.
Keep throwing, and the circle will shrink until it finally becomes a point. The shooter can adjust the flight path with the hand holding the short spear. Simply put, the longer the preview time, the higher the throwing accuracy.
In addition, the short spear has 100% bone-crushing and 100% skull-crushing abilities. 100% skull-crushing means that a headshot will trigger execution. It can instantly kill all zombies except Big Mac and Blood Frenzy. Big Mac can also cause the same effect as Timberwolves. 100% broken bones means that after the target is shot, it will inevitably fracture and cause physical damage. For example, a broken leg bone makes it impossible to walk, or a broken rib triggers execution.
The higher the power star, the further the range. The higher the agility star, the faster the aiming speed.
Lin Wu connected with Shana: "Can it be drawn?"
Shana asked: "Purple border?"
Lin Wu: "Yes."
Shana: "Are there other colors?"
Lin Wu recalled: "Golden lion? I remember that the cover showed an indigenous man holding a short spear flying towards a lion that was rushing towards him. The tip of the short spear had special effects."
Shanna: "You should think simpler. Use the relationship between Maya and nightmares to put the design How about exchanging it?"
Lin Wu: "No, Maya, a fool, is not good at lying. She will reveal her secrets within a few words."
Shana was silent for a moment and asked: "Do you think it is suitable for Peanut, or do you want to give Peanut some compensation? Seek truth from facts. Generally speaking, Dashuang and Peanut have both strength and agility. The difference is that Dashuang is not dead yet and has not participated in the expedition to the abandoned capital. Her strength attribute is 17 and her agility attribute is 5. Without half a year, Peanut couldn't practice this attribute. "Flying spears are more suitable for big pairs than peanuts.
Lin Wu thought: "How to put it?"
Shana: "Maybe the person you want to help is me." As the deputy leader of the sawmill, she admitted that she should be responsible for Peanut's death.
Lin Wu thought carefully and replied: "Both."
Shana said: "As a deputy commander, I must ask myself to consider the overall situation. The two bases will eventually be merged together. Peanut's death is not necessarily a bad thing. You know what I mean, definitely not a good thing, but not necessarily a bad thing. For example, if Snow Egg is not dead, he will need a reset skill book if he wants to learn the infrastructure skill. The most difficult thing is to convince him to wash the sound insulation Technical skills. After Xuedan died, everything became easier."
Shana said: "This is just an example, we also need sound insulation technology."
Shana turned in a big circle, and it was hard for Lin Wu to get used to the straight line. Get the meaning. In the eyes of Shana and Maya, Peanut's abilities are good, but not outstanding enough. His death was a pity, but for Shadow, the loss was not that great.
Shana thanked Lin Wu for his thoughtfulness and said that she would take responsibility and work hard to do better. At the same time, please Lin Wu not to worry about the death of Peanut.
Lin Wu, who was a little confused, connected with the old man Shitou. After listening to this, Shitou said: "I used to have a legal expert who was relatively famous in the industry. Once, his lawyer's license was suspended because of his confidence and credulity in the defendant. The court revoked it. Normally, he should continue to work in this industry in other capacities. But he was arrogant and unwilling to be someone else's vassal, so he went to the business department instead. It took him one year to open Site A. Big Market was appointed by me as the regional manager of Area A. Then he started his own company, which in turn annexed our company's business in Area A. In just a few years, he transformed from a famous lawyer into a small financial crocodile.
Shitou said: "Why do you worry about other people's future? I know you don't like your companions to be sad, and you don't like the depressing atmosphere caused by the sadness of your companions. But Lin Wu, this is not your obligation and responsibility, and you don't have it. " The power to change the life trajectory of friends."
Shitou said: "I never take the initiative to help any friends, because I am not sure whether they need help. But I believe that when they need my help, they will definitely ask me for help. If Someone is willing to seek death instead of asking me for help, which shows that he does not regard me as a friend, so I do not need to help him."
Shitou asked: "Do you understand what I mean?"
Lin Wu: "I understand, even if I am full . Just hold on."
"That's right. But everyone has shortcomings, and you don't have to be too harsh on yourself."
Lin Wu said angrily, "Old guy."
Shitou didn't reply, but continued, "Don't impose the behavior you think is right. On others. As a person who needs help, it is always better to take something than to give it away." Taking something is something the other party takes the initiative to take, and it must be something the other party wants. To give is to give something to the other person. It is something you think the other person wants, but it may not be what the other person wants.
Is what Shitou said right or wrong? Lin Wu didn't know, but he reflected on his time in the past year. Over the past year, he has always implemented the principle of sending away, and it is undeniable that he has increased the strength of many people in the shadows. Thinking about it conversely, waiting for others to get it may not necessarily reduce the improvement of strength.
He thought of Huo Wu. When Huo Wu fell in love with him, he also brought him various items, rules and benefits for his own good. She never considered whether she wanted it or not. From a rational perspective, of course you should choose to accept it for your own future. But people are very complex, and they don’t just think about things rationally.
On the contrary, when you ask Huo Wu for help when you need it, you will not resent Huo Wu's giving behavior, but will thank Huo Wu for his help.
Okay, that's it.
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I got up early to do laundry, put the muddy clothes in the bucket, and connected the faucet near the stairs on the second floor. The color of the water turned yellow to the naked eye. Lin Wu admired himself so much that he could wear such dirty clothes without hesitation.
After flushing the water several times, the mud was finally cleaned up. Sit down, put on the washboard, put on the clothes, sprinkle with washing powder, rub, rub, and call it a day. "Either let me wash it, or I'll teach you how to wash it." Maya, who was also preparing to wash the clothes, watched for half a minute. When she noticed that Lin Wu was about to stop, she couldn't help but speak.
Lin Wu fumbled in his pocket and took out a stack of banknotes: "Take this." This was the ignition device he carried with him.
Maya was too lazy to pay attention to him, drove him aside, put down her clothes and started washing. Lin Wu was studying next to him. While watching, he asked: "The guards should also have washing machines, right?" Maya replied: "They only stay in the camp four months a year
. , other times you need to go out for training or perform tasks. Since the machine is simple to operate and the technology is completely overwhelming, the core content of the exercise is the soldier's will. It includes concentration, endurance, thinking and creativity, etc." Lin
Wu : "What does this have to do with washing machines?"
Maya said: "We need to simulate many scenarios for training, such as lack of energy, global power outages, etc. We use machines, but we are also learning to get away from machines. The Guards are not just protecting Dawn , the first core purpose is to protect human beings. If Dawn violates the basic rules one day, we are obliged to eliminate it."
Lin Wu said: "So you need to simulate the purpose of eliminating Dawn without using any electronic equipment. Maya
: "That's right."
Lin Wu asked: "Have you not considered surrendering?"
Maya was stunned for a long time, looked at Lin Wu and asked seriously: "Why do you have such an idea?" Lin
Wu said: "Shuguang fell, the guard The army destroyed Dawn, and then the people will destroy the Guards. Didn't you die miserably?"
Maya asked: "Do you have complete trust in Dawn?"
Lin Wu said: "No, Dawn has always taught us to question everything. . If I didn’t believe in Dawn, I wouldn’t be skeptical. If I believed in Dawn, I would question the purpose of your Guards to destroy Dawn. Besides, if Dawn wants to fall, let alone your Guards, all Blue Star humans will Even the above are not enough."
Maya did not answer this question. She could not explain too much to Lin Wu on this matter. When creating the Dawn, humans had already considered the consequences of the Dawn being left unchecked. Designers believe more in rule constraints than in moral constraints, nor do they believe that AI will always operate according to the rules.
On the surface, Dawn trains the Guards, and the Guards protect Dawn. In fact, Dawn requires the Guards to prioritize the execution of procedures restricting Dawn rather than Dawn's orders. If Dawn does not make this request, the Guards must destroy Dawn. This rule is the priority rule conveyed to the Guards by Dawn.
Maya had no interest in explaining to Lin Wu the strange relationship between the Guards and Dawn. Fortunately, Lin Wu had no interest in arguing with the Guards about Dawn.
After Maya finished, she stood aside and supervised Lin Wu as he finished washing the clothes. He nodded: "Not bad." After that, he went to dry the clothes.
"Wait." Lin Wu said: "Without the strength attribute, I can't twist the clothes."
Maya took the clothes and squeezed the water: "I don't have the agility attribute, so I can't go to the third floor."
It was said casually, but Lin Wu didn't expect it. She took the bucket of clothes and left: "Just think of it as tuition."
Maya watched Lin Wu go to the clothesline, turned on the headset and reminded: "Throw it away, hang it on the hanger, and then use the clips on the rope to fix it on both sides of the hanger. , to prevent the clothes from being blown away by the wind. Add a clip to the connection point of the hook and the rope."
Lin Wu hung up the clothes and made a gesture to check. Maya nodded: "It's done well."
Cotton said on the Doomsday Channel: "Breakfast is ready."
Da Shuang and Lin Wu responded and went to the kitchen to help. There were no NPCs, so they had to serve the food, pick up the bowls, and wash the chopsticks by themselves. Lin Wu always felt that Shitou's theory was unreliable, and was thinking about how to encourage Maya to agree to hire NPCs.
Today's breakfast is cabbage salad and bread. Considering Lin Wu's preference for meat, Mian Mian specially prepared a kelp meat soup that was composed of several slices of meat and kelp.
Halfway through breakfast, it was eight o'clock in the morning. The system broadcast: "The special NPC fortress merchant appeared in Zuoxian County. Use honor points to purchase precious props, items and firearms from the fortress merchant. The fortress merchant will leave Zuoxian County in 12 hours. , please hurry up."
"Oops." Lin Wu and Maya sighed at the same time, they forgot that the currency of the wandering merchants in the fortress was honor points, not the barter of the merchants in the store.
Currently, the Doomsday Fortress only has 100 honor points. Maya connected with Shana, and Shana told Maya that the Shadow Base only had 150 honor points.
What can 250 buy? I don't know. Shitou said by chance: "Maybe he is a fool to sell things?"
Lin Wu: "You..."
Shitou waited for three seconds: "Hey, talk back if you want to talk back. What does it mean to start?" He was already ready to receive the spray. I'm mentally prepared. If you don't spray, what do you mean?
Lin Wu sighed: "I don't want to quarrel with a fool." Someone else stole the line, which made him unhappy.
Maya: "The Doomsday Fortress is on the edge of Zuoxian County and is not within the scope of Zuoxian County. Lin Wu, you go to the logging camp now and use a drone to search for wandering businessmen. Shana, you draw a map of the area and use Sewer No. 99 to go to various locations. Use Lin Wu's drone to search for accessible locations."
Lin Wu said: "Get ready for the forest wolves. If we can't afford it, we'll rob it."
Xiao Dao: "I agree." A member of the Appearance Association, she was heartbroken when she saw Amanda. He feels pity, but when he sees a profiteer, he feels the intention to kill.
Ma Hun also agreed: "It's a waste of our energy. Even if the equipment doesn't explode, we have to kill him."
Maya: "During the mission, please keep the channel clean."
Lin Wu disconnected the headset: "You don't have to say this, right?"
Maya : "During the mission, please keep the channel clean." Said: "He is a rare businessman in a few months. I just hope that everyone can work seriously and efficiently. This is what you must do as the deputy commander." Lin Wu apologized: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't blame you
. ."
Maya said: "I have time to apologize, so why not hurry up."
Lin Wu put down the dishes and left: "Who, who, who, please trouble you." He was not sure who was washing the dishes today. But Maya is really infuriating when she takes it seriously.
(End of chapter)