This Game is Too Real

   Chapter 27 Winter is coming!

   "The leaves are yellowing, the temperature is dropping, and an unprecedented crisis is looming."

   "This winter will be harsher than previous years, and it will come earlier... There is not much time left for us to prepare."

   "From now on, we must seize every minute, even every second! Prepare for the cold wave before the situation is completely bad!"

   "The task panel has been updated with a list of necessities, facilities that need to be completed, and corresponding rewards."

   "Remember, only by unity can we overcome the difficulties together!"

   "Winter is coming."

   "This is the test of fate for all of us!"

   The resident hall of the shelter, the uplifting voice echoed.

   Facing the high-spirited eyes of the players, Chu Guang delivered an impassioned speech, and officially opened the prologue of the first expansion since the game's beta test - "Winter is Coming".

   With the opening of a new chapter, the atmosphere of the outpost of Vault 404, just like the game's official website, began to change.

  Not just players.

   Even Chu Guang himself could feel the slightest sense of urgency from the gradually cold air.

   The materials stored in the outpost were originally not that abundant, but the population soared from 6 to 30, a full fivefold increase!

The    booming population brought more labor, but also multiplied the supply pressure on the outpost.

In order to feed the coming 30 mouths, Chu Guang has also been heartbroken for the past two days. Almost every day, he is busy from morning to night, and Ye Shi, who has a sensory gene sequence, is hunting around outside, just to stock up. A little ration.

   For a time, the entire Linghu Wetland Park was stunned by them.

   But quite right, the results are also quite gratifying.

   In three days, Chu Guang, the mutant hyena, killed more than a dozen of them, and there were countless hares and squirrels caught by traps.

  Although they are all mutants, they are also edible.

   In addition, Ye Shi, who was responsible for guarding and searching for enemies, also successfully advanced from LV0 to LV1, and Chu Guang also faintly felt that he was close to the edge of breakthrough.

   However, the gene sequence of the manager is too special.

  Chu Guang has not figured out the secret of upgrading for the time being. He can only use medical equipment to confirm that the development progress of gene sequences has indeed increased slightly.

   On the other hand, the performance of other players is also quite good, and it can even be described by their own magical powers.

Lao Bai and Fang Chang used charcoal as a reducing agent to recover a small amount of iron **** from rusted steel bars, auto parts and other iron-containing wastes by calcining, and added these iron **** to the cement kiln, which was mixed with the broken iron slag. Limestone and clay are mixed and calcined to make a more reliable cement clinker.

   This is a physical activity.

  Whether it is manpower to operate the blower or transporting stones with a repaired trolley, it takes a lot of effort.

   However, it is precisely because of this that the old white of the strength department has been promoted again. The genetic sequence has been upgraded from LV1 to LV2, and the strength attribute has also increased by a point.

   As for Fang Chang, who worked with him on shifts, he finally broke through the boundaries and was promoted from LV0 to LV1.

   However, his increased attribute is not strength, but agility.

   It seems that although the development of gene sequences conforms to the rule of "use it or lose it", the growth of attributes is another matter.

   In addition, when it comes to upgrading, the most tragic thing is probably the gust of wind.

   As of now, among the four beta test players, I am afraid he is the only one whose gene sequence level is still 0.

   He used the improved traps to catch a lot of fish these days, but he was still a little bit short of "experience points" from LV1.

   The "experience points" obtained by killing alien species through traps do not seem to be as much as killing alien species in frontal combat.

   was also very puzzled by this gust of wind.

   But unfortunately, there seems to be no good solution so far.

   In addition to the four dog management who were the first to experience the game, the two newly added Mengxin are also very motivated, and they have not been idle for almost a moment these days.

   For example, "WC really has mosquitoes".

   This guy is not in a hurry to upgrade, he is still doing carpentry work, occasionally helping Lao Bai and Fang Chang, or helping Gu Feng repair the damaged trap.

   In addition to these jobs, he was busy with his own business.

  According to Mosquito himself, he seems to be planning to build a simple log cabin out of wood to use as his chemical laboratory and warehouse.

   On the way to help carry the stones from the construction site these days, he picked up a lot of bottles and jars and put them next to the log cabin.

  Although Chu Guang doubted the safety of this kind of cabin, but seeing how this guy was enjoying it, he felt that it would be better not to interfere too much with the players’ choices.

  Compared to Brother Mosquito's leisurely style, "scrambled eggs with tomatoes" probably belongs to the model of liver emperors.

   As the chef of the outpost, he is not only responsible for cooking, but also has to help the manager to deal with the prey that is called.

   This includes bleeding, peeling, deboning, slicing, and most crucially, smoking.

   Since the salt in the outpost is not luxurious enough to be used for bacon, the scrambled egg brother uses the most primitive smoking method.

   That is, put nothing.

   He hung the cut meat directly on a steel rack, stuffed it into a cave made of clay and adobe, used charcoal fire to make smoke, roasted it slowly over a small fire, dried the moisture in the meat, and sealed the hole with pine branches and leaves.

  The bacon made by this method is actually more like air-dried meat. It can be stored for a period of time even without salt, and there is no need to wrap any tobacco leaves on the surface.

  Wait until the beginning or middle of next month, it is almost time for winter.

   When the time comes, wrap the jerky in plastic bags or bark, and bury it in the snow. It shouldn't be a big problem to eat it until next spring.

  On the contrary, the bacon made by this method can only be said to be indescribable in terms of texture and flavor.

   In addition, the scrambled egg brother did not waste the skins peeled from the mutant hyenas, but collected them to make leather.

  In fact, tanning is a rather complicated and tedious process, far more troublesome than making jerky.

   However, what the current shelter needs is not the kind of smooth and supple high-grade fur, but only the thermal insulation material that can keep out the cold, and it can be said that there is no requirement for quality.

   Therefore, many unnecessary processes can be omitted.

   When Lao Bai was burning plant ash before, the filtered potash water was kept in the plastic bucket he picked up.

   "Tomato Scrambled Eggs" utilizes all of this potash water as a tanning liquid for leather tanning, which is used to soak the raw hides that have been peeled and washed from the prey.

   Wait until the leather and tannin are fully combined, and then hang it on a simple-to-build tanning rack to dry, so that you can get a piece of leather of decent quality.

   "...Dear Manager, I have to report to you, I'm really overwhelmed here. I really need help, even one is fine!"

   took over the prey he had just shot from Chu Guang's hands, and scrambled eggs unconsciously drifted to Ye Shi's body.

   He always felt that this guy seemed to be very idle, and he didn't seem to see this guy doing anything other than helping the manager get a prey.

   Better than...

   Come and help yourself.

   Ye Eleven saw what this guy was thinking about, and quickly waved his hand and said.

   "Don't look at me, I'm very busy."

joke.

   Follow the NPC to level up, where can you find such a good thing for free experience?

   He doesn't want to learn to cook with this guy!

   Seeing Ye Shi's resistance, Scrambled Egg couldn't help but rolled his eyes and complained in his heart.

  You are busy with the hammer!

   Looking at the scrambled eggs complaining to him, Chu Guang spoke to comfort him.

"Ye Shi needs to help me search for prey, and his perception of danger is also critical, so I can't let him stay to help you. But I promise you that your problem will be solved soon. Our reinforcements have On the way, they will soon reach the surface."

   "Okay, thanks...if that's the case, that would be great."

   Scrambled Egg sighed, paused for a moment, and continued.

   "There is another thing, although I tried tanning, but I can only do some simple processing. As for how to make them into clothes... I really can't do that."

  Chu Guang said with a smile.

   "Don't worry about this, there are talents who are good at this in the reinforcements that will arrive soon. I will leave the work of tanning and making warm clothes to that person."

   is not just a tailor.

   Among the 24 newly added beta testers he selected, there are some talents from all walks of life.

   Although they are not necessarily experts in the industry, some are even students, but within the scope of their ability, they can still come in handy.

   Besides, there is a tool called the Internet.

  Chu Guang has full confidence in these energetic and energetic players. As long as they work hard enough, sooner or later they will be able to move into a big house by themselves.

   A stable batch!

   (end of this chapter)