XI. Live Broadcast
The first phase of the upgrade will complete the reinforcement and airtightness modification of the dwelling, ensuring it will not disintegrate in the vacuum of space. Players are encouraged to continue their efforts and collect supply pods.
[Warning! Players who fail to complete the first stage of upgrades within the new player protection period will be eliminated.]
Perhaps fearing that careless players might miss important information, a red warning box remains prominently displayed at the top of the game panel and cannot be closed.
After Pimin tried to turn it off without success, she just let it be.
How many steps are needed to transform an ordinary house into a spaceship capable of space travel?
The first step, of course, is to improve the airtightness of the dwelling. Next, the strength of the outer layer of the dwelling needs to be increased to ensure that it will not disintegrate in the vacuum of space. Then comes the air circulation system, followed by food and water. The power system is the least important.
In a sense, the inhabitants of the dungeon actually have an advantage in this game.
The harsh living environment necessitates that every household in the underground city have an air circulation system and a water circulation system. To prevent the precious air and water from escaping, each household has gone to great lengths to make their dwellings airtight. Regardless of the reliability of the materials, at least they have truly achieved a seal.
For players from the dungeon, once they complete the first stage of the upgrade, survival will no longer be a problem.
Of course, it's not difficult in one way, but it's not easy in another.
The reason is simple: this supply pod is just too difficult to capture.
Not only was it completely smooth, but it was also incredibly fast. The less-than-pleasant hard contact just now left Pi Min with a dull ache in her chest.
Since there was free labor available, she decided not to refuse the man's help anymore. To make better use of this free labor that came to her door, she even took the initiative to help him exchange for a salvage kit—a spacesuit, safety rope, and metal net.
Having learned from her previous experience, she was no longer foolish enough to continue using manpower. Instead, she went to the mall and exchanged for two small thrusters, which she then installed on their spacesuits.
She was right not to exchange for it before. The seemingly ordinary booster was priced at a whopping 5,000 points in the store. Two sets would cost her 10,000 points. If she hadn't robbed the man in front of her earlier, she would have had to sell at least half of her family's "human organs" to have any chance of exchanging for it.
As it turns out, the joy of paying players is unparalleled.
After the addition of a small thruster, the originally difficult salvage process, which was as arduous as ants carrying food, instantly became as easy as taking candy from a baby.
When the supply pod reached its closest point, the door was opened and a net was thrown over. After the net was caught, one person pulled and another pushed to get inside, close the door, enter the password, and open the blind box. It was as smooth as eating Dove chocolate.
According to Pi Min's observation, supply pods appear roughly every three hours. If you don't sleep and don't miss any supply pods during the seven-day newbie protection period, you can encounter about fifty of them. As long as you have a capture rate of half, you can complete the upgrade.
However, working without sleep is impossible. After deducting the supply capsules missed during sleep, the capture rate must reach at least 75% to ensure peace of mind.
It's easy to imagine that this will be a significant challenge for ordinary players who don't have enough points to exchange for salvaged equipment.
Pi Min initially thought that players with multiple residences had an advantage in upgrading their residences, since there's strength in numbers. However, after checking the forums, she learned that the number of supply bins required for upgrades varies depending on the size of the residence.
The most outrageous multi-person residence required a staggering 300 supply bays for its first-stage upgrade. Of course, the frequency of supply bays appearing near that residence was different from those on her side.
It remains to be seen whether the residents of that building can unite and work together. If they fail to organize successfully, the outcome could be dire.
After all, three monks have no water to drink.
While others were gloomy and depressed, Pi Min's situation was excellent.
After spending a lot of money, her success rate in salvaging items has reached an incredible 100%. What she's worried about now is that the types of items she gets from the supply pods are too limited, leaving her with no sense of surprise like opening blind boxes.
Who would have thought that she salvaged three supply depots, each filled with all sorts of food and beverages of various flavors and effects? If she hadn't participated in this game, she would never have known that the world's food and drink offerings were so diverse.
After being asked repeatedly, she finally couldn't help but ask the man beside her, "Can you control the types of supplies dropped from the supply pod?"
The man feigned ignorance with an air of nonchalance: "I don't understand what you're talking about."
You won't admit it?
Okay.
Looking at the unboxing results shared by other players on the forum, she felt that the limited variety wasn't unacceptable.
Nutrient solutions and compressed energy blocks are considered relatively good, but there were even unlucky ones who found fresh urine and cheese crawling with maggots.
If the opponent is a dungeon player, it's fine; you can pour the urine into the water recycling system and throw the cheese directly into the resource recycling bin. If the opponent is a surface city player, then you can only hope for the best.
More than a dozen hours had passed since the game started, and Pi Min felt her eyelids starting to droop involuntarily. She greeted the man, climbed into bed, and closed her eyes.
Her original intention was to get a good night's sleep and recharge. To her surprise, as she couldn't help but mentally review her gaming achievements for the day, a clear game panel appeared before her eyes.
It really is alien technology; I can even see the game interface with my eyes closed.
How did they do that? By bypassing the retina and directly connecting to brainwaves?
Pi Min was taken aback and became even more wary of the technology behind the game.
After a series of chaotic actions, she accidentally opened her own live stream.
To her surprise, more than ten hours later, people were still chatting enthusiastically in the live stream.
Compared to the power struggles and infighting in the multi-person apartment next door, I much prefer watching the cat and rabbit living together here.
【Warm and cozy? You didn't see what came before. If you knew that Rabbit almost knocked out Cat's teeth with a huge wrench, you definitely wouldn't have used that word in the live stream.】
Do you think the rabbit would have actually attacked if the cat hadn't begged for mercy?
[Impossible! Cats love bunnies, and bunnies love cats terribly! You single people just don't understand the dynamic between couples.]
Come on, come on, look! The cat's about to steal a kiss from the bunny again! Ahhh, it's so sweet!
...
Pi Min: ?!
Sensing a familiar presence slowly approaching, she suddenly opened her eyes and kicked the other person hard.
"You want to steal a kiss from me?"
The man who was about to launch a sneak attack was kicked by her and fell onto the bed with a thud, rubbing his chest and looking completely innocent.
"Don't listen to the nonsense those guys in the live stream are spouting!"
Pi Min didn't say anything, but just raised his chin and glared at him coldly.
Seeing that he had been seen through, the man could only resign himself to his fate: "Fine, I do want to kiss you, so what? It's not like we've never kissed before."
Pi Min closed her eyes, trying to suppress her anger, but her mind was flooded with images of the live stream that she hadn't had time to turn off.
[The bunny kicked the cat! So cute! It's so adorable how it looks when it's clearly angry but can't bring itself to kick hard. This is definitely true love!]
[Look, the bunny's face is all red. It's not like we haven't kissed before, hahaha...]
[We've been married for so long, is there anything our esteemed viewers can't watch?]
...
He was trying to suppress his anger, but the comments in the live stream only made him angrier.
"So, there's always an audience?"
The man in front of me nodded innocently: "Yes, there have been viewers ever since you stripped me naked. You destroyed my signal jammer yourself. Luckily, it wasn't a real person appearing on camera, or it would have been a huge problem."
No wonder the points for recycling those clothes were so high.
"Wait, why is the live stream so popular?"
Pi Min was shocked to discover that her live stream's popularity was approaching 9999, almost reaching 10,000.
Out of curiosity, she also checked out other players' live streams. Most players only had a handful of viewers, some even with zero viewers. In comparison, her viewership was clearly abnormal.
“Because…” the man scratched his head awkwardly, “you stripped me naked. Alien audiences also love this kind of love-hate relationship, forced love story.”
As if to confirm his words, as soon as he finished speaking, a special effect celebrating the live stream's popularity exceeding 10,000 people popped up in Pi Min's live stream room.
Flowers and ribbons flew everywhere, cheers and whistles rang out.
Not only that, the game system even popped up a reward notification.
[Warmest congratulations to the "Playing Naughty is Fun" livestream for surpassing 10,000 viewers! As the first player in this region to achieve this milestone, you are hereby awarded 1,000 points. We hope you will continue your efforts and reach even greater heights.]
Upon seeing the reward notification, Pi Min's eyes lit up instantly: "So, pleasing the audience through live streaming is another way to succeed in the game."
"You're only just realizing this?" the man said, both amused and exasperated.
Pi Min, who was initially annoyed by the privacy breach, became excited upon hearing the affirmative reply. She casually scrolled through the list and was even shocked to see the supply pod in the live stream's donation list.
"Since the exchange rate between popularity points and points is one to one, those who cannot obtain survival supplies by capturing supply pods can only pin their hopes on the popularity points in the live stream. Why didn't you say so earlier? You should have said so earlier! I almost missed my daily bedtime routine."
After saying that, she immediately started watching the live stream in the game system with great interest.
Unfortunately, he didn't last long before he became exhausted.
"Hey, what happened to all those 'borderline' guys from the internet?"
The man sat beside her, enjoying her disappointed expression, his face full of schadenfreude: "There are no more borderline handsome guys, only borderline dogs, borderline cats, and all sorts of borderline little animals."
He paused, then lowered his voice apologetically, "If you really want to see, I can wipe it clean for you right here."
Although somewhat disappointing, it's still watchable. Those former borderline streamers now all appear in animal form, including cats, dogs, foxes, and even giant pandas, all showing off their chubby bellies and wiggling their little bottoms on camera.
"So cute, hahaha..."
Immersed in the live stream, Pi Min didn't realize for a while that the man next to her seemed to have said something. After laughing, she looked up at him in confusion: "What were you just saying?"
"nothing."
No one can resist the joy of watching videos. For the next few minutes, Pi Min watched with a smile, occasionally posting comments like "Keep it up!" or "We believe in you!", thoroughly enjoying herself.
Throughout the entire process, the man kept his arms crossed, staring at her with a stern face. Seeing that she showed no intention of paying him any attention, he finally couldn't help but ask, "Is she really that pretty?"
"It looks great!" Pi Min said without looking up.
Only when he felt the increasingly icy air around him did he reluctantly raise his head.
When she looked up, she was almost frozen to death by the chill in the man's eyes. If looks could kill, the live broadcast screen floating in the air in front of her would probably have been stared through by the man by now.
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