9pm.
Central city sub-base.
Shadow Guard 2, which hadn't had a rest for a long time, was turned off for an afternoon and felt much better.
"It seems that this shadow clone can't be used as an animal. It needs to rest occasionally..."
When he sat up, he found the small bag that Wu Ke had placed under his recliner.
When I opened it, I saw it was filled with crystals of various attributes, in different sizes and types.
"If you don't specify the properties of the crystal, you should be able to ask for more crystals."
Cheng Shaofeng had done this before.
In the central city, the only common currency is crystals, which are uniformly produced and distributed by the Human Alliance.
The reason why crystals can be circulated as currency is not because the Human Alliance has enough influence and credibility, but because this thing... has value in itself and is a necessity for the vast majority of extraordinary people to practice.
Just like gold on Earth.
There are still a large number of ordinary people in the cities below, so each of them has its own currency.
In the wasteland era where communication is so difficult, it is difficult to unify other currencies except for the crystals that have their own use value...
Cheng Shaofeng counted the crystals, there were almost 100,000!
"Wow! A bottle of medicine sold for 5,000 crystals? Outrageous!"
He originally thought that this single-use potion would only be accepted by the Chamber of Commerce if it could find a buyer who inherited the Vitality School to pay for it, but he felt that 2,000 crystals per bottle was good enough, and 40,000 crystals would be enough for him to open a small shop.
Unexpectedly, Wu Ke sold one bottle for 5,000 crystals.
"This kid Wu Ke... never lets me down."
When Red City and Shelter 303 were trading before, he used various equipment to get a large number of crystals for the base, a total of 300,000!
It is enough to upgrade Cheng Shaofeng's body to level 34.
He is now waiting for the living crystal from Red City to arrive so that he can reach level 40.
His level 40 is different from that of other players... His upgrade route is almost synchronized with the extraordinary people in this world, and level 40 is the 4th stage!
"I can't wait to see what my innate skills are..."
According to the knowledge he had acquired over the past few days, people like him who did not practice step by step according to the paths of the major inheritances were collectively called casual cultivators.
The awakened professions will be... all kinds of weird.
No one can predict.
"It's already so hard to upgrade from level 3 to level 4... After reaching level 4, won't it cost a sky-high price to upgrade the crystal?"
"Fortunately... According to the business plan given by Fatty Zhou, I should soon be able to earn enough crystals for the base and my use."
Cheng Shaofeng took a look at what the other players were doing.
"Huh? They haven't been killed yet?"
'God Rewards Hard Work' and 'Clown King' are still alive!
The base did not receive any signal of their resurrection.
Cheng Shaofeng turned on the camera function of their watches through the communication base station, and it was pitch black around them.
The two people's smart watches should be placed in a small box space with no light source.
"So strange... God Rewards the Hard-Working follows the plot of Infernal Affairs. He has sold me out, and the other party has a use for him, so it's normal that he didn't die. But the Joker... Didn't he take the script of swearing to die and never obey the agent? Why didn't he die?"
Cheng Shaofeng asked Zero to search the QQ group and official forum, but no news of the two people's recent speeches was found.
"Could it be... they are doing something new?"
Shaking his head, Cheng Shaofeng couldn't quite understand.
But these two players are fairly reliable, so they should be trustworthy...right
"The Clown King is fine. God will reward hard work... Is he having an affair with the female cultist guarding him?"
"Hiss~"
“It’s hard to say!”
Even though the initial body of 'God Rewards Hard Work' is not very handsome and is naturally a little fat, but when it comes to doing this... it's really a unique skill.
"After all, people's physiques cannot be generalized..."
I glanced at 'Only' on the map again. He was still wandering around the central city, near the Nie Nie Gang.
"This player... is too slow at work. His personal ability is average, and he uses his brain to play succubus."
Cheng Shaofeng shook his head. There was nothing he could do. After all, there were too few players in the central city at the moment. It would be great if there were any that could be useful.
"For the next operation, according to Fatty Zhou and Wu Ke's suggestions, it would be best to find more people to cooperate... I have to pull a group of people over."
"How about... getting some people with better overall qualities to help? It would be best if they can obey orders and have good execution ability."
"Wu Ke is a very reliable player, and the people in his group... should also be reliable, so let's bring them all over!"
The activities here are different from the front-line battlefields. They are business and operational work, which hardly requires combat, and level 1 players can also use them well.
Cheng Shaofeng took a look at the production progress of the Green Goblin Skateboard in the main base. After obtaining the key materials from the Colossus City Chamber of Commerce, it has been in production. It can be used as a means of transportation to help players quickly get to the central city.
"It takes 5,000 energy points to make a skateboard, and it has to be driven by energy crystals... All together, it uses up the crystal energy I upgraded."
“I’m worried!”
His crystal energy comes quickly and is used quickly.
Taking advantage of the lack of activity at night, Cheng Shaofeng made a general check on the player situation in the main base and branch bases, and then began to allocate personnel to the front battlefield and the central city.
Now there are about 100 new players entering this world every day, and the number of people in the base has risen to 2,700. Most of them are leveling up in the Huo Town sub-base, the Volcano sub-base, the Snow Mountain sub-base, and the Insect Mine sub-base.
Cheng Shaofeng seldom goes to the insect mine sub-base, because the monsters there are all mutated insects that reproduce and survive in a larger underground mine, and their numbers are extremely large!
But the level is very low!
Normally, low-level players would team up to kill the monsters, and the spoils would include several special items, such as inlays containing toxins and poison resistance, hidden weapons such as poison needles, and some materials whose functions were not yet known.
But the mutated bugs here are not the same as the Zerg in the southern battlefield. They are just a kind of... mutated creatures.
If Cheng Shaofeng wanted to kill these bugs, he only needed to send players to clean them up for a while, but he didn't do that because these bugs have a strong reproductive ability. If controlled well, they can continue to reproduce and provide a continuous supply of monsters for low-level players to spawn.
Establish a long-term monster-killing mechanism.
"As players level up, they keep going back and forth between the various sub-bases. These resources are enough for them to reach level 20 or above... However, there is too much experience in the front battlefield. There is no need to waste their time. Once they have a certain level, they can go directly to the front to gain experience."
Cheng Shaofeng waved his hand, selected 1,000 players above level 10, and issued the main task: support the front line.
"As long as it's a 'main quest', most players will choose to do it first."
Veteran player Cheng Shaofeng is fully confident of this.
"There are almost no upgrade resources in the central city... We just need to mobilize pure life players to come here, so as to avoid the players' personal expectations being contrary to their own and lack of enthusiasm for work."
Some players just want to brush and brush, and if you force them to do business, they will just go to jail, and passive resistance is inevitable.
"There are 40 people in the official diplomatic and trade department, all of whom have been transferred to the Central City branch base."
"There are many advanced things here, and their wisdom over the years has also created a lot of life skills... Let the life players come and learn."
"I remember... the people at Xiaoxiao Weapon Shop have been making good progress with new materials and new forgings recently. We should send some people here, as well as players from the planting base, to learn from them how to grow crops that produce crystal energy. Oh, and there's also the animal taming industry, which has a bright future. The skeleton rental business run by Xiaoxiao and his friends hasn't been doing well lately, so we'll have the person in charge come here to learn."
Cheng Shaofeng issued tasks to the relevant life players one after another and mobilized them to the central city.
Just as his main body was rapidly issuing tasks in Red City, Zero's fishing robot suddenly lit up.
"Master, there is a gray bird approaching quickly outside..."
"Huh? Bird? Damn it! Could it be that old Y-demon Lightning Bird? Damn, the bear you created was captured by the demon fox, don't look for me!"
The first thing he thought of was the video that the fox demon sent him, in which the lightning bird was having a great time with the mother bear.
It made a deep impression on him!
Moreover, all Cang Niao birds are chatterboxes, and they reveal their information when they talk to themselves. Cheng Shaofeng knows that this Lightning Cang Niao should be the ancestor of the Cang Niao mentioned by the Patrol Clan Leader Bai Yue and others, and it is the sacred beast of Duoyu Academy.
"How powerful is this thing? If you dare to mess with me, I'll send the video to your flock of birds!"
Zero: "Master, the energy fluctuations of the incoming bird are not strong. It has not yet reached the fourth level. It should not be the same bird as you guessed."
"oh?"
At the same time, the sound of footsteps was heard downstairs.
"Cang Niao? Where is the Cang Niao? Is it my grandma who came to see me?"
Bai Susu ran up holding a romance novel.
She strongly requested to live with Cheng Shaofeng's real body in the Hongcheng Administrative Center. Cheng Shaofeng couldn't persuade her, so he arranged a room downstairs and converted it into a bedroom for her.
"It shouldn't be your grandma's... It's already level 4."
The two watched a black dot rapidly approaching in the southern sky.
The speed of the gray bird is naturally fast!
Much cooler than the Green Goblin’s skateboard.
In less than a minute, we had already flown to the top of the administrative building, the tallest building in Hongcheng.
This grey bird looks small in size, with smooth feathers and delicate features. It doesn't look very old and is still a young bird.
"Is the Lord of the Scourge Base here? Is the Lord of the Scourge Base here?"
It shouted at the top of its voice, just like the loud speaker in the village!
"Xiao Bei? Here, here!"
Bai Susu obviously recognized the goshawk and called it down.
Xiao Bei Cang Niao glanced at Cheng Shaofeng and said, "You are the lord of the natural disaster base, right?"
"Yeah, you want to talk to me about something?"
Bai Susu: "Xiaobei, how is my grandma? Did she ask you to bring me something delicious?"
Xiao Bei shook his bird head in a very human way: "Sister Susu, something happened there. Grandma asked me to seek help from the Lord of the Natural Disaster Base!"
Bai Susu exclaimed: "Ah? What happened?"
"The Zerg destroyed the Arcane Energy Grid shield. The southern battlefield front... was completely lost! All major cities are under attack by the Zerg. The shamans are unable to take care of themselves, and our territory has also been invaded by the Zerg."
"Now... our home is being eaten by bugs. Grandma Baiyue and Grandma Yueru have been fighting for a whole day without a break, and the bugs are still coming... We are in urgent need of help!"
"Grandma said... the surrounding cities are suffering from severe attacks by the Zerg. No one can support the Ranger, and our inherited firepower is insufficient to hold out until the Human Alliance reinforcements arrive. Only the Scourge Base can save the Ranger!"
It's very anxious!
Since the magpies are flying creatures, they can definitely run away if they cannot win. The Zerg cannot catch up with them even if they run on the ground, so they will not be in danger of extinction. However, the jungle garden on which they have depended for hundreds of years of survival will be eaten up by the insects!
"What!? How could it be! When I came out, I was clearly... fine."
Bai Susu was so anxious that tears were about to fall.
Cheng Shaofeng patted her shoulder and said, "In fact... the last time we were attacked by Zerg in the wild, it was not a coincidence. It proved that the Zerg had destroyed part of the formation and could shuttle through underground..."
"Don't worry too much. At that time, your grandma had already reported to the person in charge of the southern front battlefield, and they must have been prepared... It shouldn't fall so quickly."
Xiao Bei looked at Cheng Shaofeng in surprise.
"You are worthy of being praised by grandma... You can analyze it without being there, amazing!"
"Your IQ is quite high even among our intelligent bird clan."
The fishing robot next to him suddenly spoke.
"Yes, my master has always been known for his intelligence, and the soldiers below often say so as well."
Cheng Shaofeng rolled his eyes.
You didn't see it when the players called me 'Bug Lord', right
"Ahem! Let's not talk about these useless things. So, what does Bai Yue want us to do?"
"Send out troops! Kill the insects!"
Cheng Shaofeng nodded: "Grandma Bai Yue is very kind to me... Yes, I will definitely go as she asks, but... What is the strength of the enemy we are facing? Can you give me a relatively specific situation so that I can assign soldiers?"
Xiaobei shook his bird's head with difficulty.
"Too many to count... Too many to count at all. Grandma Baiyue and Grandma Yueru have been fighting the fourth-order giant bugs and have no time to pay attention to the situation below. We only know... the bugs have been rushing towards us endlessly."
Cheng Shaofeng: "Okay, I understand... I will arrange for soldiers to go to Dali City immediately!"
Xiaobei cast a grateful look in his bird's head.
"If you can help us survive this disaster... our Cang Niao tribe will reward you handsomely!"
Cheng Shaofeng smiled and said, "By the way, who did your clan leader not let in last time? This time, can I stand... and enter the Cang Niao territory?"
Xiaobei was immediately embarrassed. She was also there last time...
"The clan leader... is old, and maybe... his eyesight is not very good, so he saw it wrongly."
“Hehe~”
It is very necessary to establish friendship with the bluebirds. This creature is very powerful and can help the Scourge Base do many things.
And... not counting the blue bird, the ranger gave him an almost complete inheritance, and now he is the number one auxiliary specialization. Players are deeply blessed by them, and they have to help them out of emotion and reason... aren't bugs experience
Cheng Shaofeng licked his lips.
"Players are slow to level up, so let's all go to the front lines and level up!"
"What insect mine sub-base? Take a break and go to the southern front to fight insects!"
He immediately issued an order to mobilize 1,000 players to support the southern battlefield.
At the same time, 100 high-level players at level 40 were transferred from the northern battlefield to the southern battlefield.
"Players have just reached level 40... so let's try it out with the Zerg."