Chapter 76: Day 6 of the Fierce Sand Season (2) Daily Work at the Snack Shop…
Just after setting up the loan information, she lost 200,000 of the one million points she had redeemed. It seemed like other city lords were short of points. Yu Luowei was very satisfied. Since the city lord wouldn't buy the escape talisman, she was sure to earn these points. She closed the mall page with confidence.
Before returning, Yu Luowei assigned tasks to the runners. Besides helping with the grass seed purchases, they were also required to keep the city's internal communication channel updated. She checked back and saw everything was normal. Although several waves of monsters had arrived, no one was hurt because their primary target was plants. While some vegetation was occasionally damaged, everyone quickly repaired it.
Ma Tuan also wanted to stay outside to help drive away the monsters. However, since there were no pet-specific thermostats, he joined the other pets in temporarily helping to take care of the farmland and fish ponds in the city. The fish ponds were mainly used to prevent Chen Yu's pet, Daju, from stealing food.
Yu Luowei had nothing else to do, so she checked the water card reserve in the pipe outside the city wall. She'd already used up the second card, so it looked like she'd need at least two a day. She added three more cards to the card, packed up, and headed to the snack bar. It was almost five o'clock, so she decided to make some snacks to get used to the experience and shorten the wait for the citizens to eat.
After taking the city bus for about five minutes, Yu Luowei arrived at the commercial area planned by Lu Zhi and found the location of the snack bar. As the current "owner", Yu Luowei entered the kitchen of the snack bar directly from the back door.
Various kitchen utensils were neatly arranged, and several large refrigerators stood against the wall near the back door. Yu Luowei first opened the refrigerator to check the food reserves.
The only thing that was in the refrigerator next to the door was the ingredients needed to make a basic menu, but there weren't many. Fortunately, Yu Luowei had anticipated that the system wouldn't provide many ingredients, so she had already put some into her bracelet. She simply added some more right away.
After replenishing the ingredients, Yu Luowei made one portion of each item according to the system's menu and tasted it himself first.
The preparation here does not require much hands-on time. The ingredients are already processed when they are put into the refrigerator and then taken out. Just put them in the corresponding kitchen utensils and click them. There is no need to set the temperature. No matter what ingredients are used, they will be ready in one minute. After they are done, they will fly onto the chopping board by themselves. Yu Luowei only needs to assemble them.
Soon, the prepared snacks were laid out in a row on the table in front of Yu Luowei. Perhaps considering that everyone in the game world had reached at least level 3 by this point, the portions were generally larger than those in Yu Luowei's hometown. However, for Yu Luowei, who was already level 6, it was no problem to finish them all.
The snacks generally tasted worse than what Yu Luowei made herself, especially the fried chicken strips. The fried chicken strips here were made with real chicken, but maybe Yu Luowei was a bit like a wild boar and couldn't eat fine bran, she felt that they were not as delicious as the starchy chicken strips she had bought from roadside stalls.
But overall the taste is still good. The slight difference is probably due to the machine production. It seems that machines still cannot replace humans. Yu Luowei was making snacks while thinking about random things.
Because the air conditioning was always on in the snack bar, in order to prevent the snacks from getting cold, she temporarily placed them in the insulated box in the store. When the insulated box was almost full, it was dark and the snack bar welcomed the first wave of customers.
Because it was newly opened, there were still a lot of customers. They were shocked when they saw that the owner was the city lord. However, Yu Luowei had always been approachable, and her combat power had always been ranked first on the list, so no one bothered her and she was able to chat with them for a while.
There were quite a few tables in front of the restaurant, and the air conditioner was always on, so everyone chose to dine in. They chatted about gossip while eating. The kitchen wasn't far from the front hall, so Yu Luowei listened in while she cooked.
From their conversation, Yu Luowei learned that although today was the first day of the event, everyone was very enthusiastic about cooperation and the progress was good, but there were still many people injured.
However, few were injured by monsters; it was all due to the extreme weather. Furthermore, the constant temperature suits had energy limits: the lower the temperature, the more energy they consumed. Many people, sweating profusely from digging holes and planting trees, tried to lower the temperature, only to catch colds and fevers or simply run out of energy from the suits, leaving them exposed to 60-degree weather.
Fortunately, the sunscreen function was still in place, and others worked together to quickly carry them to the hospital, saving their lives. Furthermore, the outside temperature caused the food in the bracelet to spoil many times faster. Many people, hoping for a "bitter first, sweet later," brought in nearly spoiled food, only to find it inedible by the time they took it out at lunchtime.
Some people have been enduring until now, some have shared some food with others, but some people refused to believe it and thought the food had just gone bad. Not only did they insist on eating it, they also drank water from the water pipes on the city wall used to water the trees. As expected, they got diarrhea when it was almost dark.
Yu Luowei was a little shocked that someone would still eat spoiled food at this time. After finishing work at the snack bar at eight o'clock, Yu Luowei did not return to the base immediately, but went to the hospital where Zhao Linlang was.
Zhao Linlang and Yu Fan were busy treating the patients who had been brought in today, nearly a hundred in total. Those with colds were fine; they could buy medicine and go home on their own. The others, especially those whose thermostats had run out of energy, were still in a coma.
Zhao Linlang said that these people are now suffering from severe heatstroke. If their physical fitness had not improved after they leveled up in the game, they would not have been able to hold on until now.
The hospital wasn't getting enough ice, so Yu Luowei provided some and gave Zhao Linlang some points to buy medicine. She then chatted with the conscious patients for a while. After returning to base, she summarized some precautions and posted them on the city's social media channel, reminding everyone not to follow in her footsteps.
Yu Luowei also checked the progress of other cities. Her city was still relatively advanced. Furthermore, because water cards were limited before the start of the season, and now that the event had begun, watering trees required additional water cards. However, the limited-time event mall didn't sell water cards, so water cards became a major draw for many city lords.
Even without the promotion, water card consumption in the city has increased to three per day. Yu Luowei still has over forty water cards. After some thought, she put fifteen water cards on the shelves at the only two grocery stores that currently allow cross-regional transactions, charging ten times the original price.
Although there are no water cards in the limited-time event mall, it does have everything else you need. In addition to escape talismans and other tools, there are also various foods, low-level materials, and some more advanced automation tools. The only difference is that they are more expensive, the same price as escape talismans.
Of these items, only the Escape Talisman had a fixed quantity. At the start of the event, it was exactly the same as the number of citizens in North City. It hadn't decreased yet, and Yu Luowei was still a little happy. She had only worked half a day today, but she had already earned over 2,000 points, and that wasn't even before she drove away the monsters. Others must have accumulated 5,000 points, which also showed everyone's sense of belonging to North City.
In other more developed cities, some ambitious individuals would purchase escape tokens as soon as they accumulated 5,000 points, hoping to climb to the top of their district's personal leaderboards. After all, many people dreamed of becoming emperors, and here, the city lord and the emperor weren't much different. If they squeezed a little, they could achieve financial freedom in the game.
Therefore, the competition in the individual rankings of this event was much more intense than that of the city rankings. Now that the rankings had been updated, Yu Luowei had taken a look at the individual rankings of her district. The people currently at the top were familiar faces, the same ones who had previously exposed the inside story of the Golden City.
Currently, there are only two cities in their district, Beicheng and Fu Xiangming's A City. Because they inherited some of the previous progress after completing the collective task, A City is also level five. The two cities can accommodate a total of 10,000 people at most, and the competition for the individual rankings is still very fierce.
Yu Luowei didn't want to and had no way to compete with these people, but she hoped that these people simply wanted to build a city of their own, rather than wanting to replace Jin Yu and Bobby and continue to harm other ordinary people.
However, there are also some people who live with their families (elderly and children) who think that killing monsters is too dangerous and do not want to participate in the competition. They want to join the city. When Yu Luowei just came back today, he accepted some people from the housekeeper, and the entire city was completely filled.
Looking at the city map, she already met the requirements for level 6. Unfortunately, she had used up too many points today, including activity points, to buy materials, so she couldn't upgrade immediately. However, according to the smart butler, there were only a few people who wanted to join the city. After learning that this city was full, they quickly turned to City A, so a later upgrade wouldn't hurt.
During the event, the city was packed with people, so Yu Luowei couldn't go to the small pavilion to look for her animal friends. Without any treasure chests, she could only wait for the leaderboard rewards. After finishing her other tasks, Yu Luowei took Ma Tuan and prepared to go to the park together.
The plants the citizens had just planted, from tools to saplings, were all system-made. This guaranteed that as long as they were planted according to the instructions in the mall, they would not be damaged at night. Yu Luowei was also increasing the city's greenery appropriately every day. When he went out, he even felt that the city's temperature was not much different from the previous night.
I took out the handbook and looked at it. It wasn't an illusion. Although it was still high, the temperature was no higher than it was at the same time yesterday. Previously, simply increasing the greening ratio hadn't had this effect. It seemed to be a side effect of the event, which further stimulated the enthusiasm of citizens to participate.
The temperature in the park was lower and very comfortable. Even though it was almost ten o'clock, the lights were still on and the market was still in full swing.
Seeing Yu Luowei with the glutinous rice balls, many people showed deep envy for their pets or were moved by the panda's cuteness. However, everyone here was smart and knew that this was most likely Yu Luowei's "battle pet" and its level was definitely not low, so no one came over.
Yu Luowei was also happy and at ease. He went to the market and tried to find some treasures.
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