Chapter 10
"What should I do today?"
Another Christmas Eve passed. When Mingzhu woke up in the morning, he first greeted 184, then started to make breakfast and enjoy the start of the day.
"Host, you can lie down and have a good rest for a day."
184 sincerely offers suggestions. His host is really too busy.
It only takes a few days to build the Taoyuan Inn into a decent place, which is enough to start the long-term side quest of attracting refugees to join you.
"It's refugees, not 'displaced people,'" Mingzhu corrected, looking slightly troubled. "Are you qualified enough to start the long-term quest 'Attracting Refugees'? Then start it. It has no time limit, right?"
"Hmmmm!"
184 nodded frantically, "Then, host, please help me start the long-term task of 'attracting refugees to us'."
"Open it." Mingzhu said indifferently.
"By the way, host, didn't I give you two special identity cards? When do you plan to use them?"
"I had planned to use it after the three guests left. I was sleepy, so I went to sleep as soon as they left. Now I'm awake and feeling rested. I guess I won't be able to lie down and rest tonight."
184: "Then, host, just do your job!"
"I'll use the 'Special Identity Card' first."
The two "Fixed Identity Character Cards" are limited to identity, not gender. In other words, when used, the gender is random. It could be male, female, or neither.
184 explained seriously: "You should know that there were eunuchs in ancient times. Eunuchs were versatile, and many of them were good at cooking."
"Not good at patting dragon farts?"
"Almost!"
184 cheered and urged Mingzhu to use the 'Special Identity Card' quickly.
Mingzhu used it obediently.
Luckily, the first character card 'summoned' a girl holding a pipe, wearing silk and satin, who called herself Golden Abacus.
Her appearance is of standard Chinese style.
She has almond-shaped eyes, a slightly yellow complexion, and a petite figure. The way she glances at me with her pipe in hand gives me the air of someone who has the world under his control.
"Hello, Master. I'm Jin Suanpan. I'm good at calculating, drinking, and smoking."
"...You don't have to call me master." Mingzhu emphasized, "Just call me boss."
Master, what the hell!
Even if it is the end of the world, Mingzhu will never play the game of slave owners and slaves.
"Okay, boss." Jin Suanpan smiled brightly and said naturally, "I will take over the Taoyuan Inn. You only need to provide three meals a day and accommodation."
"...stay with me in the back house for the time being."
Jin Suanpan elegantly lifted the hem of her skirt, said thank you, and then began to work voluntarily as a shopkeeper.
Mingzhu then tore up the second character card. This was a specific chef. The moment the card was torn, a sturdy man in simple clothes, holding a large spoon, appeared.
"Master, Jin Dashao greets you."
Mingzhu: "...You don't have to call me master. Just call me boss, just like Jin Suanpan."
"Okay, boss."
Jin Dashao started working happily, but he was disappointed. The kitchen was not only simple and primitive, but there were also few dishes.
There was only some rice, millet, wild vegetables and mushrooms in the kitchen. Poor thing, there was not even any meat.
"It's so pitiful! Why are there so few supplies?"
Mingzhu nodded frantically: "Yes, why are there so few supplies? I still have a poultry house and a primary fish pond to build."
Jin Dashao's pupils were shocked. The strong man's body was obviously pretending to be a little cutie.
"...Boss, you can go out hunting."
Mingzhu: "Most of the animals outside have mutated."
A small number of plants also mutated, changing from being eaten to eating people.
"Over in City Z, I heard there are 'Wisteria King' and 'Wild Boar King' circling around. They've even learned how to keep humans in captivity for food."
This time his pupils were really shocked. Jin Dashao had just been summoned, and the humanity he was given gave him a new understanding of the dangers of this world.
"Oh my god, this is too dangerous, Boss. Let's just focus on self-sufficiency farming and not join in the hunting fun for now."
After hearing this, Jin Suanpan laughed directly and said, "Look, my dear brother, it was really a great loss to the chef world that you were not sent to the palace."
"Hey, you're disappointed I wasn't sent to the palace to learn cooking, aren't you, you money-grubbing abacus?"
Jin Dashao and Jin Suanpan started arguing, and this sudden change caught Mingzhu off guard.
[184,] Mingzhu asked in his mind. [Are they really NPCs? Are they really just data?]
[Yes, they are just NPCs formed by data.]
[Why is my personality like this?]
[It’s a standard setting, great, right?]
184 laughed so hard that even his cat eyes narrowed into slits. He was so happy.
"...184 is truly talented." Mingzhu smiled. "It seems it can become a mature system without my help."
"Host, you are doing well too. Without the help of the system, you have grown into a mature host."
Mingzhu laughed, then said he was going to start building the thatched hut. "If time allows, we'll also build a poultry house and a rudimentary fish pond today."
184: "The host will make the arrangements."
So Mingzhu made his own work plan.
First, a thatched garden was built, followed by three poultry houses and a primary fish pond.
The construction materials required for a thatched garden are: 500 units of wooden boards, 100 thatch seedlings, and 400 units of stones.
Poultry House: 100 units of wood, 50 units of stone, 200 units of weeds/thatch.
Primary fish pond: 50 units of wooden planks, 500 units of stone, 100 units of thatch.
There are more than enough materials to build a thatched garden. Mingzhu took a look at the many materials, and even thatch is needed to make a raincoat for traveling on rainy days. Mingzhu plans to build two thatched gardens specializing in the production of thatch.
As a result, there wasn't enough wood and stone to build the poultry shed and the rudimentary fish pond. Mingzhu chose to first construct two thatched gardens not far from the Taoyuan Inn. He entrusted the Taoyuan base to Jin Dashao and Jin Suanpan, and went out with 184 to continue collecting construction materials.
Yes, that's right. This time Mingzhu brought 184 with him.
This is what 184 strongly demands.
Before NPCs were recruited, 184 could only stay at Taoyuan Base to look after the house. Now that NPCs were recruited, 184 naturally strongly requested to go out and play with Mingzhu.
Even though Mingzhu repeatedly emphasized that he was not going out to have fun but to collect construction materials, 184 still insisted on going out with Mingzhu.
What else can Mingzhu do about this?
Mingzhu had been pampering 184 since his last life. After all, what could a cat do wrong? He just loved sticking to his host.
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