Chapter 75: Day 6 of the Fierce Sand Season (1) Exclusive Event Launched...
The city has reached level five. Su Tang alone in charge of the restaurant can no longer meet the needs of the citizens. After all, whether on Blue Star or in the game, everyone is tired of eating all kinds of fast food. In addition, the cooking skills of the senior chefs produced by the system are needless to say, so the restaurant has been in a state of rapid development.
Yu Luowei had just opened a snack bar and a bakery, which could fill the gap in this area. In addition, there was a special fish pond, identical to the one at Yu Luowei Base, only a larger version.
First, the fish pond was placed in the production area. It only needed to be monitored periodically after the fry were released, and the other intelligent housekeepers could take care of it temporarily. Yu Luowei then turned his attention to the other two buildings.
In comparison, operating a bakery is simpler because all the machines are already configured. You don't need to knead the dough or spread butter yourself like in the old days. It is more like a kitchen electronic game.
Snack Shops are a bit more complex, but they also follow the same mini-game mechanics. You don't need to bring your own recipes; the system provides some, similar to those for Shax Snacks. The more customers you serve, the higher your shop's level will be, unlocking more recipes. You can also bring your own recipes, but you'll need to make them yourself, unlike the snack shop's standard recipes, which can be made by just clicking on them.
Perhaps because they came from orange treasure chests, unlike red ones, these two buildings were simpler than the restaurant, but they required upgrades. However, finding the person in charge was much easier. Yu Luowei first posted a message in her friend group, and Aunt Su volunteered, wanting to try the bakery.
After discussing it with Su Tang and asking for her opinion, Yu Luowei agreed to Aunt Su. Now only the snack bar is left.
After looking at the recipes for the next level, which included beef burgers, pizza, French fries, and fried chicken strips, Yu Luowei was curious about this "electronic kitchen game" and decided to try it out herself in the store tomorrow. The store would open after 6 p.m.
After finishing the building, he collected the items he had unearthed. Perhaps because he had exchanged the treasure chest from the fox, he had also unearthed a dozen chicks. Yu Luowei temporarily kept them in his own animal enclosure, waiting to hand them over to Chen Yu tomorrow.
She has been busy with city construction most of the time recently, so when Yu Luowei heard the familiar system activity sound, she felt a little strange. She almost forgot that there should be normal activity.
Welcome everyone who made it to Day 6 of the Fierce Sand Season! This season's exclusive event has officially arrived!
Before announcing the rules of the event, you can take a look at the environment outside the base or outside the city. I believe you have already discovered that the outside has completely turned into a desert.
This event is closely related to the desert! There are two types of events: individual and city!
Individuals: For those who haven't joined a city or organization, different monsters will invade your city every day. Your job is to protect your base from the monsters. Killing monsters will earn you points. The highest score in the district activity rankings will be rewarded with a city-building order.
City (Organization) Regarding this event: This event requires the cooperation and mutual benefit of all city residents. The environment outside the city has been completely damaged, and citizens are required to work together to plant trees and restore the urban environment. Saplings and related tools can be purchased from the event-exclusive store using points.
At the same time, monsters will spawn outside the city from time to time. They will not attack the survivors, but will destroy the environment where the citizens are recovering. Therefore, everyone needs to pay attention to prevent the monsters from destroying the environment!
Surviving citizens who defeat monsters or plants will earn points, which can be used to purchase items in the limited-time mall. A new special item, the Escape Talisman, will also be available in the mall, usable only during the event. Upon using it, survivors will escape their current city, gain access to a base transfer, and participate in the individual event points leaderboard to compete for city-building orders.
There are only group rankings between cities (organizations). Rewards are given to all citizens based on the city (organization) rankings. Citizens (organization members) cannot participate in the personal points rankings.
Warm reminder: We hope that each city will actively restore its surrounding environment; individual survivors are advised to choose to join a city at the latest on the settlement day of this season.
This season's limited event has officially begun! The limited-time mall is now open! 】
As the city's lord, Yu Luowei first opened the limited-time mall. It had everything from saplings and grass seeds to shovels and other tools. There were even kettles, though no water. They also had sun-protective, temperature-controlled clothing, essential for going out in these harsh conditions. The prices were reasonable, but the promotion had just begun, so there were no points available.
After a closer look, Yu Luowei spotted a line of small text at the bottom of the mall. It stated that the city lord could redeem his points for event points and lend them to citizens for use, with a customizable interest rate. After a citizen earned event points, a portion would be deposited directly into the city lord's account. However, if the citizen used the borrowed points to purchase a city escape talisman (5,000 points), those points would not be returned, regardless of whether the citizen used them or not. Of course, the city lord could also see who had purchased the escape talisman.
Even with the risk of non-repayment, she still had to borrow what she needed, otherwise she wouldn't be able to buy even basic tools. Yu Luowei looked at her total points and redeemed 500,000 points. However, she limited each person to 500 points, enough to buy a thermostatic suit, some tools, and some saplings or grass seeds. Everyone could buy different tools separately and then collaborate. As for the interest rate, Yu Luowei set it at just 1%.
As soon as the settings were made, the points were significantly reduced. Everyone was already rubbing their hands, ready to go all out. Yu Luowei didn't rush out. In the current environment, planting trees requires a lot of water. Yu Luowei searched around and finally found an activity-only facility on the city map: the water pipe outside the city.
This thing requires plastic to build, a water card to activate, and additional water cards are required to use it. Not knowing how much this activity will cost, Yu Luowei recharged three water cards in addition to the activation, one per day.
After finishing this task, Yu Luowei bought tools and saplings, changed into constant temperature clothing, and left the base.
Outside the city wall, everyone was working in full swing. It took Yu Luowei less than half an hour to find and build the water pipe. Half a circle of saplings had already been erected outside the city wall, but it was impossible to tell what species they were.
Su Tang, Lin Zhixia, Lu Zhi, and the others were also in the crowd. Yu Luowei joined them, planting the saplings she had just bought with them. They chatted with each other from time to time, and from their conversations, Yu Luowei learned that only the older people like Grandma Lin and Aunt Su were left in the city at this time; everyone else had left.
Because the survivor's manual cannot be used outside the city, saplings cannot be purchased. Therefore, some "errand runners" have emerged among the citizens outside. Their base is close to the city gate, so they can go and come back quickly to buy saplings.
As the city lord, Yu Luowei's base was the farthest from the city gate. As the city grew larger, she didn't want to go out unless there was public transportation. Therefore, she asked a runner to help her buy saplings.
Before the errand boy returned, Yu Luowei called Lu Zhi over and mapped out the planting areas for the saplings and grass seeds. The area outside the city wall was already fully planted. Since everyone had few points at the beginning, they'd bought the cheapest saplings in the mall, so the layout was relatively neat. But as everyone's points increased, things wouldn't be the same anymore, so they still had to plan ahead.
Although Lu Zhi was not a professional in this field, he had some experience in planning cities with props. The areas planned for various plants were reasonable, and Yu Luowei was very satisfied.
After allocating some areas near the city gate and further out, Yu Luowei prepared to call Lu Zhi back to their original location. Lu Zhi was using props to mark out the final area and was about to get up when a sudden ripple in the sand arose. Everyone had been wearing clumsy, temperature-controlled suits to participate in the event in temperatures as high as 60 degrees Celsius, and the sudden wave nearly knocked Lu Zhi to the ground.
Yu Luowei quickly ran over and helped Lu Zhi up. The wave-like thing did not focus on Yu Luowei and Lu Zhi, but moved towards the circle of trees that had just been planted.
This must be the monster attack the system mentioned. Sure enough, they have no interest in humans. I don't know what kind of monster it is, but they are extremely fast. Without saying anything more, Yu Luowei quickly increased his speed to his limit and rushed towards the waves.
After all, this was the result of everyone's hard work for most of the day. By this time, many people had already taken the lead in attacking the waves. Under the attack of so many people, the waves' forward speed slowed down, revealing their true appearance: a group of blood-red scorpions.
Fortunately, everyone had experienced the baptism of insect plagues, so they were not too frightened when facing a large number of red scorpions, and it did not affect the speed of attack. Soon the crisis was completely resolved.
Yu Luowei hadn't even made a move yet. But seeing how experienced the citizens were, she was very pleased. According to her predictions about the game, there would soon be city defense battles like the Beast Plague, so naturally, the stronger the citizens, the better.
Soon, the errand boy who had bought the saplings returned. Before everyone could get back to work, Yu Luowei specially selected some citizens of higher status to join the patrol team to repel the disruptive monsters.
Everyone was very enthusiastic and efficient, so after planting all the saplings, Yu Luowei returned to his base along with the errand boy.
In the limited mall, since repayment is automatic, the borrowed points have almost been repaid. However, the system also launched a lending service, which allows you to lend your activity points to other city lords or citizens of the city. However, if these points are used to purchase the escape talisman, they will not be returned.
Yu Luowei had a lot of points on her hands, and the next city upgrade was still some distance away, so she took out one million points and invested them in this lending service. Of course, for other city lords, her interest rate was also raised to 10%.
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