Chapter 17 Gu Yun, the Wanderer
[Wanderer Gu Yun visits. Do you agree to let Gu Yun stay at the White Moon Base for 12 hours?]
Jiang Baiyue turned and walked towards the base entrance. After she agreed, a tall woman walked in. This woman was clearly the homeless Gu Yun.
Gu Yun was carrying a black backpack and wearing a black leather jacket with bloodstains on it, clearly indicating that he had just been in a fight.
Jiang Baiyue didn't go up to greet them, worried that the NPCs knew her administrator identity and that she would be exposed if she went over.
At this moment, some people also noticed that more people had arrived at the base.
"It's already past 7 p.m., and people are still coming in. Who is this brave guy?"
"Hey, she went to the market, shall we go see what she's doing?"
"Beautiful lady, you're from outside. What's the situation outside at night?"
Some people, being cunning, stepped forward to ask for some information.
Gu Yun ignored them, her expression remained unchanged, as if she hadn't noticed the people around her staring at her.
Jiang Baiyue muttered to herself, "Why are all these NPCs so aloof? Luckily, I didn't go up and say hello, or it would have been awkward."
Soon Gu Yun arrived at the edge of the market and set up a table and chairs to start her stall.
She took something out, and everyone around her gasped. Jiang Baiyue couldn't help but gasp too!
Pharmaceutical equipment station!!
Water purifiers, rifles, pistols, textile machines...
Jiang Baiyue was going crazy. All of these were amazing things, especially the medicine-making station. She had a recipe for a blood-restoring medicine. It was like fate had arranged it.
She stepped forward, but unexpectedly, a force from behind pushed her away. When she saw it, a burly man was standing with his hands on the table, asking her a question.
How much is this pistol?
Gu Yun didn't even look up, flipping through a magazine in his hand, and slowly replied, "You can see the price by touching it. 500 coins, no bargaining."
hiss……
The onlookers gasped again; the price was too high, and many of them didn't even have 50 coins on them.
Jiang Baiyue subconsciously brought up the warehouse panel to check her coins.
Her current income from coins mainly comes from fighting zombies, room fees, mercenary bar taxes, workbench rentals, and selling water at the store. Although there seem to be many ways to earn coins, they are all relatively short-term.
During this time, she also spent a lot of coins building structures, so the total number of coins she has so far is less than 400.
Jiang Baiyue suddenly felt less angry at being pushed away. If a pistol was this expensive, a pharmaceutical counter would probably be even more so.
The burly man rubbed his chin, still unwilling to give up, and asked, "Can we trade it for materials?"
Gu Yun tapped his fingers in the air a few times, seemingly bringing up his game panel, and then said, "Exchange the pistol for 500 units of any basic materials."
Upon hearing this, the burly man sighed; the contents of his backpack combined didn't even amount to 800 portions.
He moved to the side to look at other items, becoming increasingly silent as he looked, his lips pressed tightly together, before walking away in silence.
Jiang Baiyue and a group of others took the opportunity to go forward and look at other items. Although they couldn't afford to buy them, they could at least check the prices.
Purchase 10,000 coins or 200 doses of intermediate-level healing potion from the medicine counter.
Jiang Baiyue trembled as she moved her hand away. Poverty caused her pain; it was truly something she could see but could not have!
Water purifier 8000 coins or 1800 portions of any material excluding weeds.
Jiang Baiyue felt as if her heart had been pierced by an arrow in an instant.
Undeterred, she looked at other items, only to find that the lowest price was 100 coins for a box of 20 bullets.
But this thing can't be used without a gun.
Gu Yun's stall attracted a large crowd, but the crowd dispersed quickly. Before long, the price of his goods spread throughout the entire base. Some people came to take a look out of curiosity, but left in silence after seeing what was there.
"It's too expensive. The rewards from killing monsters in this game are so stingy, but the prices of items sold by NPCs are ridiculously high."
"500 coins. Even if I kill 20 zombies a day, it would still take me 25 days to save up enough. This time, my room fee wasn't included."
"A kitchen knife costs 120 coins. Forget it, I'll just make a few more wooden axes on the workbench and use them as is."
Jiang Baiyue took out the roasted eggplant and ate it with chopsticks.
Gu Yunlai's timing was too inconvenient; she could only stay for 12 hours and would leave around 7 a.m. tomorrow.
Jiang Baiyue didn't even have time to collect the coins.
She was heartbroken and anxious. Once the homeless man left, she didn't know if the next person who came would still be selling medicine. She might miss him and never see him again.
After finishing the eggplant, Jiang Baiyue carefully collected the eggplant peels, intending to throw them away the next day.
She placed the farmland near the berry bushes next to the wooden house, then dug a hole with a hoe and buried two corn seeds in it.
After planting the seeds, she tore open two bags of fertilizer she had collected and carefully poured them onto two square plots of farmland.
This is different from real-world farming. One bag of fertilizer can only be used on one plot of farmland, and you don't have to worry about too much fertilizer killing the seeds.
[Fertilizer has been applied to the farmland, increasing seed growth rate by 5%]
After planting, Jiang Baiyue went to the mission hall to retrieve her workbench.
"Zilin, I'll need your help grinding bone meal tomorrow. I'll give you one coin for every 10 portions you grind. I'll also bring this grinder to the mission hall tomorrow. If anyone needs grinding, I'll charge two coins within 30 minutes."
"If the time exceeds 30 minutes, one coin will be collected every 10 minutes; if it is less than 10 minutes, it will still be counted as 10 minutes..."
Gu Zilin was holding two roasted corns in her hand. She held one up with her right hand and handed it to Jiang Baiyue: "Okay. Here you go, sister. Mom roasted them. They're delicious and sticky."
Gu Zilin is already 12 years old. Although she is still at an age where she is still naive, she can carry out the tasks that adults instruct her to do after being taught them only once.
Jiang Baiyue was also very relieved. They spent every day together, and she liked the little girl quite a bit. Sometimes when she picked berries outside, she would give Gu Zilin two or three.
After Gu Zilin handed over the water condensed from the rental workbench and condenser in her backpack to Jiang Baiyue, she went home.
Jiang Baiyue also returned to the wooden house, still trying to figure out how to collect enough coins to buy the medicine-making station.
She brought up the game panel and first looked through the messages in the chat area.
Day 3 of survival, 20:01:12 at night, temperature 14°C～15°C, zone 301, number of survivors 99513/100000.
"Darkness Under the Lamp: Today is the last day of the perks. I finally found the hunter's camp. I hope I can get a good night's sleep tonight."
"18342: The hunter's camp has nothing but tents, which isn't very good. It's only suitable for sleeping at night."
"King of Spades: We're hiring at our Aoyama base! Excellent benefits, DM us now!"
"Expert Talk: Under What Circumstances Does the Base Recruit?"
"King of Spades: That's right, the base is recruiting. Our boss has been granted the title of base administrator, and the Qingshan base is now under his control."
"Ball #7: ?? This base has an administrator?"
"No work, no work: The game is different now. There's a chance to get an identity card by defeating corpse sacs or boss monsters. But I estimate that you can only get it in the first three days, of course, this is just a guess."
"Love is a light: Is a player-managed base better than an unmanaged one? The base I visited yesterday was chaotic, with several groups of people fighting over a building. It was really messy."
"fofo: That's for sure. With more people, there are bound to be more problems. Everyone has their own ideas. There still needs to be someone who can make unified decisions, otherwise the base's development will definitely not be so smooth."
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