Chapter 82 Reappearance of Civilization

Rong Yi stared at the book. "Building your own base offers a high degree of freedom, but I still think it's better to follow the bases built by the natives. Stability is one aspect, but secondly, our time here is limited. Who knows if the base's development level will be one of the evaluation criteria after the players leave?"

If a player's presence brings prosperity, but their sudden departure causes chaos in the base's management, impacting future development and altering contribution values, then there will be no room for regret.

After all, the final reward is only distributed at the very end.

“So…” Wei Yanqing ran his thumb along the knuckle of his middle finger, “you want to hand it over to Wu Junzhi and the others.”

Rong Yi: "We have this plan, but there's no rush now. We'll wait until the overall situation becomes clearer."

She then took out the book about mutant plants, saying, "Why don't we mark the mutant plants we see first, and then organize them for Wu Junzhi later?"

While there are no plans to hand over everything, it's okay to disclose some of it.

Wei Yanqing thought that the players' joint search for Gu Letong would definitely arouse suspicion from the base management. "If we hand this over, the higher-ups at the base will definitely connect it to our search for Gu Letong, and they might give us their full support when we do missions in the future."

The people who benefit the most from the player's quests are the original inhabitants of this world. Even if the player leaves after a year, they can still use this knowledge to improve the human condition.

Rong Yi scratched his chin. "The people who created this instance are so kind, actually making players help the natives build their homes. I thought they didn't care about the natives at all, or about torturing the players."

However, Wei Yanqing did not respond. Rong Yi looked up at him curiously and found him with a half-smile. "Why are you smiling like that?"

"You're right, they wouldn't be that kind."

Rong Yi blinked a few times, "Then..." She silently turned on the live chat.

A barrage of comments flashed by.

[How can you talk like that? If no true god had created a copy, no one would have cared if the natives had all died out.]

People in this world should be grateful.

There were many comments praising the true God's benevolence, but Rong Yi couldn't find any useful information after reading them for a while, so he simply turned off the comments again.

"I thought these idiots would know something, but all they do is spout 'God this, God that,' it's disgusting." Rong Yi rolled his eyes soaring to the sky as he said the last two words.

[She even turned on the live chat, thinking we could give her information? Ha!]

[I told her she needed to learn a lesson. I've already informed the other players in the same instance about the reward they just received.]

【Me too】

[I also +1]

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Even if Rong Yi saw this content, he wouldn't be surprised by the audience's disgusting actions; he'd already gotten used to it.

Wei Yanqing chuckled, his right hand pressed against his lips. "The audience is just an audience. They can see what has already happened from a god-like perspective, but as for other things, they are just mortals. How can they expect to see the cause and effect?"

It has to be said that the two's sarcasm made the audience extremely unhappy. To most players, they are like gods and rarely sit on the sidelines like this. It's not only cold but also prickly.

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Side quest one is complete, but there's no hope for side quest three in the short term. It says to establish a safe passage, but what constitutes safety? Therefore, this quest needs to be tackled slowly.

That leaves only side quest two.

As the weather gets colder, players' health is excellent once they activate their talents, but Wei Yanqing still made rock sugar stewed pears.

Rong Yi sipped the sweet but not cloying pear soup with a spoon. "When we completed Gu Letong's mission, someone should have gone to the pharmaceutical company's warehouse, right?"

A whole day has passed, and besides, not every player chooses to complete the first side quest first.

"If there's no completion notification yet, I'll go check. If not, I'll just consider it a purchase of crystal cores."

After the last hunt for mental zombies, Gu Letong wanted to find some mental zombies and try absorbing these crystal cores. This was the first time he had seen an energy body with attributes in the dungeons he had experienced.

After finishing the pear, Rong Yi put the cup on the table. "Speaking of crystal cores, we've been busy with missions these past few days and haven't had a chance to collect them properly."

The last time Rong Yi harvested a large number of crystal cores was on the way to the base. Now, he only has less than three hundred crystal cores left.

There are two types of currency used within the base: points on the new identity card and crystal cores.

Given the significant role of crystal nuclei and the abundance of energy they contain, few people use this method for trading, except for valuable items such as cigarettes and alcohol.

Wei Yanqing stood up, his well-fitting functional clothes highlighting his broad shoulders and strong waist. "Mission Two is over. We're going to Jijiang City."

They never intended to stay in one place.

Baiquan City is an inland city, but Jijiang City, which is more than 120 kilometers away, is a coastal city. From the moment they discovered the mutated plants and animals, they became interested in what changes were happening in the ocean.

The distance happened to be within their driving range, so they discussed going to Jijiang City after completing Mission Two.

It was a little past nine in the morning, and the base had been busy for a long time. Every two or three meters on the city wall, someone was pulling up a rope with mixed cement tied to it.

The base faced power shortages and lacked various large-scale machinery, so construction could only rely on manpower.

Both men and women were busy and sweating profusely, their heads and shoulders steaming with sweat. Even the children were running around, tying buckets of cement to ropes.

A brother and sister sat in the corner. The brother carefully took a brown cake from the cloth, put it in a bowl, poured in hot water, and stirred it a few times until it became a paste. This was one of the common foods at the base: bean cake.

Soybean cake is made by pressing various bean powders together.

One point can buy two bean cakes. Rong Yi was somewhat moved by this scene. Most people in the base were prepared for the worst and few were willing to use the supplies they brought into the base. They mostly ate the steamed buns and bean cakes that they could buy with points.

After handing Gu Letong over to Wu Junzhi for placement yesterday, Wu Junzhi came over that evening with a bottle of red wine that was usually expensive, and expressed his gratitude. Of course, the main point was that they could be notified to participate in such rescue missions in the future, and he also recharged each of their identity cards with 3,000 points.

This number is not small. The base is currently under large-scale construction, and a large number of people are busy at the city wall every day. The daily wage is five points, and two points can buy a mixed grain bun the size of an adult man's fist.

There are even cheaper foods, like the bean cakes that the brother and sister ate. They were about the size of a palm and a finger thick. After soaking in water, a large bowl of them could fill you up, but the taste was nothing to worry about.

Three thousand points are equivalent to almost two years' salary for an ordinary person working hard. However, this was the first time Rong Yi had seen points. From the moment they entered the base, they had been using their own supplies, and they didn't need to buy anything from the base, let alone the supplies they had collected after entering this world.

So far, apart from the supplies collected during the mission, Rong Yi and Wei Yanqing have not sold anything else.

Wu Junzhi knew perfectly well that they had abundant supplies, but he still had to show some respect.

Rong Yi was quite satisfied with the base's attitude and gave them several sheets of paper containing information on the characteristics and medicinal value of the mutated plants and animals that could be found at present.

Wu Junzhi's eyes almost lit up at that moment.

(End of this chapter)