A little over a week into the game, many players had begun to realize that surviving alone was difficult, and they flocked to shelters as they were established. Suddenly, the entrances to each shelter resembled a corporate interview.
At noon, Hu Hao and Miao Lin left the fifth shelter. Hu Hao sat on the curb and sighed dejectedly, "What should I do..."
After the apocalypse, the system assigned them attributes based on their original strengths. Both husband and wife excelled in cooking. Later, Miao Lin contracted a negative effect that caused her to continuously lose health, making her unable to leave the house and confined to her RV. Although Hu Hao occasionally encountered monsters while gathering resources daily, his combat attribute was only level 11.
Seeing that every shelter required a combat skill level of twenty or thirty, Hu Hao felt hopeless. Miao Lin sat down beside him, leaning on his shoulder, and soothed him softly, "It's okay, we'll see a few more. If things don't work out, we still have that RV for shelter. We might survive."
"I'm afraid that's not a solution." Hu Hao shook his head.
Miao Lin had never been much of a gamer, but he had played a lot. Analyzing the current situation, the system clearly encouraged players to establish their own factions. Once these factions were established, the scramble for resources would become even more brutal, and lone players would sooner or later become prey.
But even though he knew this, Hu Hao had no better solution now. He sighed again. He and Miao Lin supported each other and stood up. They opened the map and prepared to look for the next shelter.
Shelters currently recruiting were marked on the system map with green flags, while those already full were marked with red flags. Hu Hao casually zoomed in on the map and placed his finger on a green flag outside the city, and a recruitment message popped up immediately.
[Name: Get Rich Shelter]
[Owner: Ye Miao]
【Number of recruits: 29】
[Recruitment requirements: Any attribute ≥ level 20.]
"Ye Miao?!" The couple looked at each other, and Miao Lin was stunned: "Is it her?"
"I don't know." Hu Hao's eyes stopped at the line of recruitment requirements. Although he had a strong suspicion that the recruiter had made a mistake, he still decided to try his luck. "Let's go and take a look."
Shadowless sword!
In the rice fields outside the city, Ye Miao activated his skills, and the sword in his hand flew, so fast that it left an afterimage, and the sound of swishing was endless.
When the 10-second casting time was over, the surrounding monsters had fallen down, and a variety of drops jumped out. Ye Miao put them into his backpack one by one without any hesitation.
After collecting them, I looked at the total amount of gold coins and found that there were only more than 200 of them.
Ye Miao sighed and walked towards another group of monsters not far away.
The game's gold drop rate was incredibly stingy, so to quickly accumulate the 10,000 gold needed for the barrier stone, Ye Miao had to grind monsters. But monsters took time to spawn, and with her high combat stats, the monsters in the rice paddies were quickly wiped out. She had to wait a long time before a new wave of monsters appeared.
After a while of grinding and waiting, the whole day passed quickly. As the sun set, Ye Miao finally had more than 5,000 gold coins. The other slots in her backpack were also filled with various random drops. She checked the time and prepared to go back to the shelter.
On the way back, she clicked on the message bar to check the unread messages. The system prompted that the white card [Basic Bird Taming] she had consigned at the Sunset Bar had been sold. After deducting the 10% handling fee, she received 450 gold coins. However, perhaps because the price of [Fire from the Sky] was too high, no one was interested in it for a while.
Ye Miao curled her lips and decided to wait and see. If it still couldn't be sold tomorrow, she would consider lowering the price.
Then she discovered another problem - it had been a whole day, and there was no news about the application to join the shelter?
This was completely different from what she had expected. It was still early in the game, and there were still many survivors in T City, but only a dozen or so shelters. She had assumed her inbox would fill up with applications as soon as she sent out the recruitment message, but she hadn't expected such a huge gap between her ideal and reality.
However, when she arrived at the shelter, things turned upside down—it wasn't that there were no people, it was just that she couldn't apply online. She spent the day out killing monsters, and when she returned, she found the shelter was already full of players.
"Boss!!!" Hu Hao was the first to notice her. He pulled Miao Lin towards her in surprise. "It's really you. We...we..."
Ye Miao: "Come to sign up?"
"Yes, yes, yes," Hu Hao nodded repeatedly, and then opened the attribute panel to show her.
[Name: Hu Hao]
[Cooking: Level 22, Gathering: Level 13, Combat: Level 11, Planting: Level 7.]
[Health: 1200, Mana: 1500]
[Physical Strength: 800, Attack Power: 200, Agility: 300, Defense: 350]
He quickly pulled Miao Lin again, and Miao Lin came to her senses and quickly opened the attribute panel to show Ye Miao.
[Name: Miao Lin]
[Cooking: Level 29, Planting: Level 9, Gathering: Level 9, Combat: Level 2.]
[Health: 1000, Mana: 1700]
[Physical Strength: 500, Attack Power: 180, Agility: 280, Defense: 330]
"Not bad." Ye Miao smiled. Although there were many people signing up now, it would probably not be difficult to find members with better attributes than them, but after all, meeting someone is like meeting someone, and from the brief time they had spent together, this couple seemed to have good personalities.
"Approve the application." Ye Miao pressed the button, and the couple saw at the same time that the fence gate that originally showed "inaccessible" when touched turned blue and accessible, and thanked Ye Miao repeatedly.
"You guys go in and wait for me." Ye Miao said.
Through the conversation just now, the surrounding players have discovered that she is the owner of this shelter. They all gathered around her hesitantly, but most of them did not show their panels immediately.
Someone questioned: "I see your shelter has neither barrier stones nor defensive buildings. Is it safe?"
Ye Miao smiled and said, "If you're worried about safety, you can try another one."
A middle-aged woman with an intellectual temperament said, "My name is Fang Shuqin. I used to be the attending physician at a tertiary hospital. Now I don't know anything else. My only skill is Healing, which shows level 70. Can I join?"
"Healing skill at level 70?!" There was a burst of exclamations from all around.
Someone at this level should be allowed to join any shelter, but the obvious recruitment information made her find it directly here.
Ye Miao knew she had found a treasure. She checked the attributes on the panel and nodded immediately: "Yes! Please come in, sister!!!"
Fang Shuqin saw that this girl with twin ponytails was about the same age as her own child, but she called her sister. She laughed out loud: "Okay, thank you."
The next second, the fence gate turned blue for Fang Shuqin, and Fang Shuqin officially became a member of the get-rich-quick shelter.
After half an hour, the shelter, which could accommodate 30 people, already had 20 members. Ye Miao felt like a high-end antique dealer in the Panjiayuan Antique Market, frantically picking up bargains.
In addition to Fang Shuqin, who is level 70 in healing skills, she also "picked up" a chef with level 56 in cooking skills, who is said to be a professional student of the Xin Moufang Cooking School.
There is also a pair of cousins. The elder brother is Zhang Xu, who used to run a hardware store. During the process of running the store, he learned a lot of skills without a teacher. After the end of the world, he had level 36 forging and level 12 smelting. The younger brother Sun Chen was a top student since childhood. Later, he was admitted to a 985 university to study agriculture. When the end of the world came, he was busy with his graduation thesis. When he opened the panel, he saw that his planting skills were level 60 and his gathering skills were level 43.
Bringing this group of people into the shelter, Ye Miao felt a kind of satisfaction that was unique to collecting - look at how complete the skills of the people here are!
Although they are powerless, they all have their own strengths! If they have enough materials, they can rub everything with their hands!
Ye Miao therefore temporarily stopped recruiting and reserved the remaining ten places for future vacancies.
Those who failed to join the shelter returned home disappointed, some even cursing, "If you don't want to join, then don't join. What's the big deal? A shelter with no barrier stones or arrow towers, and no high-level players, I can't see it being wiped out in three days."
"That's right. I'm going to kill more monsters tomorrow and find a safe shelter instead of waiting here to die."
Ye Miao ignored the gossip and walked into the fence gate. He looked at the new members in front of him and said, "I will save money to buy the barrier stone as soon as possible. As for the place to live..."
Her gaze drifted towards her thatched cottage. "I don't have enough materials right now, so I can only build this for now. I can upgrade it later. I hope you don't mind."
"No problem, no problem!" Zhang Xu, who runs the hardware store, said immediately, touching his backpack. "How much is one?"
Um? !
Ye Miao was inspired and keenly grasped the business opportunity - that's right, the housing in the shelter doesn't have to be provided for free! This way, we can save money faster!
She quickly calculated in her mind that a 15-square-meter thatched hut would cost about 10 gold coins to build, so she quoted a price: "If you want to rent, the daily rent is 1 gold, and the monthly rent is 20. If you want to buy a house, it's 50 per room."
"Buy two rooms, one for me and my brother!" Zhang Xu stuffed the money in without saying a word.
"Okay." Ye Miao took the money, opened his backpack, took out the materials, found a suitable open space, and started building.
None of the 19 new members knew how to build, so they gathered around curiously and within five minutes were stunned—this was a thatched hut built for people to live in! How could she build it faster than with Lego blocks?!
Not only was it fast, but the structure was sound, and the joints were very stable. When it was finished, the thatch hanging down from the eaves was neatly arranged, and when I walked into the room, I saw that even the thatched bed was ready.
This 100 gold is really worth it!
Brothers Zhang Xu and Sun Chen were secretly happy.
Fang Shuqin stepped forward and said, "I want one too."
"Okay." Ye Miao readily agreed and immediately began to build after receiving the money. While she was busy, the other members also counted out their gold coins to prepare for buying houses, and those who were short of money tried to borrow money from others.
About two hours later, two rows of thatched houses had been neatly built on the original open space of the shelter, exuding an inexplicable atmosphere of prosperity.
The author has something to say:
Ye Miao: Selling! Selling! Freshly built thatched cottage! Well-designed layout, low common area! Next to Sanjia (Fang Shuqin)! First come, first served!
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