Chapter 70 Contradiction
Now another email came from a team leader, and the whole email expressed the hope that she, as the city lord, could solve the food problem.
Although Li Aoting was an early adopter and had gold coins, she was reluctant to purchase large quantities of supplies because she thought that she would need the money in many places in the future.
Even most of the supplies needed for the shops were collected by their city lord team themselves.
She would not even collect things like food, as there was food everywhere near the city-state, and a few plants could collect a lot of food. She thought it was useless to purchase it.
Now I understand that the city lord himself has no storage capacity, and if something really happens, it will be a huge crisis.
It's not just her city-state. Yao Bing'an and the others are in a similar situation. Now they are trying their best to appease the residents' panic and the professional players' dissatisfaction.
Because of this, the members of their own city lord team were not willing to go out to clear the wild, but instead followed the life-related players to collect food outside the city.
Fear can be spread. Everyone always feels that the world will become more dangerous after the game is updated, and the only way to ensure that you don’t go hungry is to have food on you.
Because of this, even though they knew that black scorpions had spawned in Pingjing Mountain, they were not willing to work together to fight them for the time being.
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Wu Yucheng.
Captain Xiang looked at the few stalls still selling things, but they were not food. Instead, some people with blacksmith and tailoring skills were selling items they made.
Although they were part of the city lord's team, they had already told Yao Bing'an that they would go out and collect staple food these days, and the clearing of the wilderness would be slow.
Cheng Yunshi went out of the city with her brother and Captain Xiang to collect food. It was still early morning and many people had already left the city, most of them were life-oriented players.
She was a little worried about the current situation. "Brother, let's go out and clear the fields after we gather enough food."
Cheng Yunhong touched his sister's head and said, "Well, but you also know that the more the better. After collecting them in the next two days, go out to clear the fields and get more meat for the winter."
After that, the team fell silent, and Captain Xiang didn't know what to say to encourage his teammates.
There are actually quite a few grain fields around Wu Yu City, but if thousands of people collect grain at the same time, it will definitely not be enough. Even though it is autumn now, the grain will be refreshed every day.
They went to a slightly farther location, where there was a field with few people. A team of people were scattered and collecting silently.
Cheng Yunshi was in the same area as her brother, and they could faintly hear the sound of an argument. This kind of quarrel had become too common in the past two days. There were only so many supplies, and there wasn't enough to go around with so many people.
Like Li Aoting, the city lord Yao Bing'an had never thought of purchasing grain for storage before, and now he had no persuasive power to calm the residents down.
After collecting data for a while, Cheng Yunshi found that the quarrel was getting louder and louder, and there were more and more people involved. She couldn't help but look up to see where the quarrel was happening.
The source of the quarrel was across a grain field from them. The quarreling parties were a group of life-oriented players, all of whom were quite old, while the opponents were professional players.
Cheng Yunshi recognized those people. They were all from the same city-state. Even if they were not members of the same team, they looked familiar.
"Brother, they are arguing over there. Is everything really okay?" Cheng Yunshi is usually very good at clearing the fields when she goes out, but she is a little uneasy about such a quarrel among the crowd.
Cheng Yunhong straightened up, watching the argument over there seem to be getting more intense, "Never mind, it was originally another team, we are just members of the city lord's team."
Getting involved in this matter will only cause dissatisfaction. Everyone is very irritable now and can explode at the slightest trigger.
Cheng Yunshi had no choice but to continue collecting with her brother, but she still paid attention to the situation over there.
After a while, a middle-aged woman was seen in the crowd of lifestyle players. She was very excited and went straight forward to attack a professional player.
She was shocked. How could they fight? The two types of players were not at the same starting point. Even a professional player without skills could easily defeat a life-type player.
The middle-aged woman raised her hand and placed a sword on the throat of the professional player she was about to attack. The two parties, who had been arguing fiercely, suddenly quieted down.
After a few seconds of silence, the scene became even more heated. The middle-aged woman pointed at the professional player and cursed, "What can people like you do with supernatural powers? You just bully ordinary people like us!"
The professional player pointing his sword at her frowned slightly. It was clearly the woman who was about to strike first, so what was wrong with him restraining her? "If you don't strike me, I can't strike you."
The old lady felt guilty about this, and then burst into tears, "You are the ones who are trying to steal our food. We ordinary people can't go out and fight monsters like you do, so we rely on this food to survive. You can get a lot of meat by killing monsters, but you are trying to steal this from us. Aren't you leaving us no way to survive?"
The more the aunt spoke, the louder she cried, as if she had suffered a great injustice. She was afraid that the other party's sword would cut her throat, so she didn't dare to sit down on the ground.
The man's frown deepened. "We also need food like rice. Eating meat alone is not enough. We have traded meat with you before, and the price was fair. Why can't we collect food now? You collected it all at once and are unwilling to sell it to us, so of course we have to do it ourselves."
He had tried eating only meat before, and then found a nutritional imbalance warning on his personal interface, as if even though their bodies had been transformed, some conditions remained the same as before, and balanced nutrition was needed to maintain the body's functioning.
What the man who pointed his sword at the middle-aged woman said made sense, but the two sides still started arguing, and neither of them gave in. The professional player later retracted his sword.
Finally, an old man stood up and said, "Okay, the world is getting better now. It's not easy for everyone right now. Let's make some concessions. We can't just eat rice all winter. We have to have meat. Young man, go back and I'll trade meat with you. You can have any other food you want."
The man just now nodded and said, "Thank you, sir." As long as you talk to him nicely, he won't be unreasonable and resort to violence.
The middle-aged woman was still unhappy. "If you want to switch, then switch. We may not be as good at killing monsters as these people, but if we find a few people working together, we can still kill a few of the common ones. We won't be short of meat!"
After hearing this, several professional players looked unhappy. There is indeed a chance of getting meat by killing ordinary monsters, but the chance is not as high as that of killing Brown Iron-level monsters, and the amount is only a few kilograms, which is nothing compared to the hundreds of kilograms of Brown Iron-level monsters.
The old man's face was not good either. "Don't be so ruthless. How can the meat you get from killing monsters compare to them? The food we have obtained in recent days is at least tens of thousands of pounds. The shelf life is so long that it can probably last you two or three winters."
The old man was telling the truth. The life-oriented players received too much staple food, far more than they needed. It was unrealistic to use it just to eat. In fact, they were deliberately hoarding it.
The old lady yelled at the top of her voice, "If you can't finish it, don't blame us. We have so many people in our family who need to eat. What's wrong with giving us more food?"
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