This Game is Too Real

  Chapter 328 Cheers to the victory of the Alliance!

   "Let's toast to victory!"

   "Hahaha, cheers!"

   "Long Live the Alliance!!"

  Dawn City North Street, a road hotel next to the trading station.

   The sky outside has not completely darkened, and the lobby on the first floor filled with tables and chairs has already begun to be filled with the scent of beer foam and the noise of people.

The news of    victory seemed to have wings, and flew back from the front line to Dawn City, which is far in the northern suburbs of Qingquan City.

  Thanks to the broadcast in the square and the small screen hanging behind the bar, the drunkards sitting here were not the last to know the news.

  Whether they were traders or travelers, caravan guards and mercenaries, when they heard that the army of the New Alliance had defeated the Bone-biting Tribe on the frontal battlefield, everyone couldn’t help but applaud the manager in power armor in their hearts.

   The Bonebiter Tribe has long been a name that has made countless wastelanders talk about it.

   They spread from the central north to the south like a walking plague. Wherever they went, they were scorched. Hundreds of survivors' strongholds were wiped from the map, and no one could stop them.

   And now, they finally kicked on the iron plate, and their mouths full of teeth were punched out by the iron fist of the Alliance.

   "Twenty-seven tanks were wiped out in one battle! The Big Horned Deer is on top, how many soldiers did they mobilize?!"

   "I don't understand very well, that tank... hiccup, is it very powerful?" The drunken mercenary asked while lying on the bar while burping.

"Awesome? Haha, are you joking? That thing is a total monster, a fortress walking on land! It's not something that ordinary people can deal with! I'd rather face Deathclaw, at least my gun can bring me A little bit of security."

   The mercenary sitting next to him began to brag about what he saw when he worked for the people in the Great Rift Valley in the north, which attracted the attention of many people.

   This naturally includes Sun Shiqi sitting in the tavern.

  Three days ago, he shipped 6 tons of copper ingots, 2 tons of chromium, 1 ton of cobalt and nickel...and a lot of sulfur and phosphorus from Honghe Town.

   However, what surprised Sun Shiqi was that the copper mines and sulfur he was most optimistic about had almost lost the money he made from other commodities.

   It seems that Xinlian has really discovered a copper mine. Overnight, it has become a resource exporter from the second largest copper mine importer in the southern river valley province?

  Although they have not started exporting ore, they have apparently suspended bulk imports of copper ingots.

  , coupled with a rapid pullback in the price of platinum metal, which acts as an industrial catalyst, seems to herald the end of the war.

   Intuition told him that the market in Dawn City might be about to change.

According to past practice, the new alliance after the war will quickly convert part of the military production line to civilian use, and the production line of explosives will be changed to the production of fertilizer and soap, and the most prominent sign of the cycle switching is nitric acid, sulfuric acid, etc. Production capacity stops expanding.

   Not in a hurry to make the next order, these days Sun Shiqi would sit on the first floor of the Highway Town Hotel every night, ordering a plate of potato chips and a glass of beer.

   Even if he has purchased his own property in Dawn City.

   "Defeat the Bonebiter tribe on the frontal battlefield... It seems that there is nothing to stop the rise of the new alliance."

   Zhou Nan, who was sitting opposite Sun Shiqi, stared at the small screen on the bar, said with a feeling of emotion on his face.

   Hearing this sentence, Sun Shiqi laughed.

   "Isn't it inevitable?"

   Inevitably?

   Zhou Nan squinted at the guy.

  You are so bragging!

   When the new alliance just announced the Northern Expedition two months ago, you didn't say that!

   But it’s unavoidable.

   At that time, no one was optimistic that the new alliance could win, except for the blue jackets who were optimistic about themselves, and the residents who regarded the administrators as gods.

On one side are the barbarians with 30,000 troops who have inherited the equipment of the Legion Expeditionary Force and even the command system, and on the other side are the emerging survivor settlements with a total population of less than 5,000, less than a year of establishment, and only one crop of food in the fields. .

  No one could have imagined that the new alliance would actually win.

   And also won so thoroughly.

  An armored centurion composed of twenty-seven tanks, followed by a large group of anti-aircraft guns, was still in command of Dillon.

   With those small planes that swooped and dropped bombs, then what to win?

   However, these are all afterthoughts.

   For the sake of this drink, Zhou Nan didn't complain about this guy, but just took a sip of mellow beer silently.

   As for Sun Shiqi, he is still there chattering about the future.

   "...the future River Valley Province will be divided into three, with Boulder City in the south, the Great Rift Valley in the north, and the new Alliance will fill the void in the middle."

   "It's literally full of gold here! No, it's worth more than gold here!"

   Unlike most survivor settlements, the New Alliance has a strange obsession with the land.

   Obviously, the total resident population of the entire Dawn City is only five or six thousand, but they have already pushed the border to Xizhou City.

  Yes, the war is not over yet, these blue jackets have incorporated Hope Town in Xizhou City into the territory, and even provided food to the residents there.

   In Sun Shiqi's view, this is simply too strange.

   However, it was a good thing for him.

  If the new alliance is willing to open up the no-man’s land in the north and take in those displaced people and herdsmen, he will be happy to provide them with shovels or other tools.

   At this moment, Sun Shiqi suddenly thought of something, looked at his friend who was sitting opposite him and said.

   "I remember you said before, you are also from Hope Town, right?"

   Zhou Nan was stunned for a moment, then laughed.

"My friend, there are more survivors' settlements called Hope Town these days than people who have named themselves after spring, summer, autumn and winter, mountains and rivers. I really come from Hope Town... but it's Hope Town in Jinchuan Province. We don't have any bone-chewing tribes there, the only troublesome ones are mutants and countless mutant worms."

   In addition, there are cultists on the southern coast of Death, and pirates who cross the southern coastal provinces to the interior.

   But these are not really big problems.

   After all, life is like this every year, and the local people have already found a balance between chaos and death to survive.

   Speaking of this, Zhou Nan couldn't help but sigh.

   "...Anyway, thanks to the new alliance standing in the way, this time next year we would have had a headache to avoid the Bone-biting tribe heading south of Boulder City."

   "Indeed, thanks to them," Sun Shiqi also sighed with mixed feelings, looking at the beer bubbles in the glass, "Otherwise I'm afraid I'd still be a small business hawker..."

   It wasn't just him who had to be thankful for the victory.

   The traders, miners, and chambers of commerce in the entire Honghe Town owe the manager a thank you.

The reason why the   Snake Clan was unable to deal with Red River Town with all its strength was largely due to the restraint of the new alliance.

   Now that Xizhou City has been taken over by the new alliance, the Snake Clan has to end the siege of Honghe Town even if they don’t want to save their compatriots.

  The war is finally over.

   The two smiled and clinked glasses and sent their heartfelt blessings.

   "Cheers to the Great Alliance!"

   "Cheers to the wise manager!"

   "May he live long!"

  …

   Outside Highway Town Inn.

  In a corner of the market next door, an old man wrapped in a scarf and robe sat on a street corner and set up a stall. The faded old pipe was clouded with smoke, which made the wrinkled face feel a little more mysterious.

   In front of him was a camel-skin rug with some odd little pieces of wood on it.

  The mutant camel with two humps growing into one was lying on the side and taking a nap, and the crowded facial features looked very scary.

   However, in the wasteland, this alien species in appearance is rather common.

   "...Just 2 silver coins, write his name on the wooden sign, and the spirit of the sand sea will bless him for his safe return."

   Lifting half of his drooping eyelids, the old man glanced at the worried girl in front of the booth, and secretly thought that tomorrow's dinner was over.

   "...But is there no sand here?" the girl asked in a low voice.

   said the old man with all his might.

"Of course it doesn't matter. Long, long ago, the vast sand sea spread across the middle of the entire Central Continent, spreading for tens of thousands of kilometers. Including the plains under your feet, the nearby mountains and lakes, were once the territory of the spirit of the sand sea... At that time, it was possible to There is no big horned deer god, only the yellow sand in the sky can gallop on this land."

  Looking at the babbling old man, Shuangxue, who was standing in front of the booth, hesitated for a while, thinking that it was only two silver coins anyway, so he reached for his wallet.

   is different from the other residents who celebrated the victory.

   She is more worried about the safety of the manager.

   Since half a month ago, she has rarely seen the adult sitting in the library to work. Occasionally, documents or recycled books are sent from the trade union, and the little robot like a tree stump docks with her.

   Later, she learned from her colleagues that the manager went to the front line.

  Although there have been many good reports from the front line, the bullets do not have eyes after all. I heard that the commander named Dillon on the opposite side was killed by stray bullets on the battlefield.

   I hope he can pay more attention to his own safety...

   Looking at the little girl who took out her wallet, the old man's eyes were about to smile, but at this moment, a white arm stretched out from the side.

   "Hey...you don't really believe it, do you?" Shuanghe looked at her sister who had even taken out her wallet with a surprised expression, "Writing a name can keep you safe, how can there be such a good thing."

   Facing her sister's surprised eyes, Shuangxue blushed and whispered.

   "It's only two silver coins anyway..."

"This little girl, don't talk nonsense." Seeing that the boiled duck was about to fly, the old man glared at the woman who spoiled his business with a dissatisfied expression, "As the saying goes, it is better to believe it. You can't believe it, if there is an accident, don't blame me for not reminding you."

   Seeing that the old man threatened him, Shuanghe looked at him with a smile and said.

   "Don't do this with me. Our manager said that materialist warriors don't worship ghosts and gods. It is better to use money to support the people than to worship the gods."

   After saying that, she ignored the old man whose eyes were like light bulbs, and looked at the younger sister next to her.

   "If you have a sweetheart on the front line, instead of praying for his safety here, you might as well wait for him to triumph from the front line and buy a bouquet of flowers for others."

  Shuangxue's face was covered with red clouds, not because of her sister's words, but because more and more people were watching the fun.

   makes her feel embarrassed.

   reached out and pulled her sister's sleeve, she whispered.

   "Okay, okay, I know it's useless to do this, and you don't have to quarrel with others... I just don't buy it."

   After saying that, she pulled her sister's sleeve and trotted out of the crowd until she stopped at the other end of the market.

   stopped, before Shuangxue had time to catch her breath, her older sister who followed her poked her waist with great interest.

   "Be honest, who's name are you going to write just now, let me see which lucky guy it is."

   There was a blush on her face that she had just finished running, and Shuang Xue felt embarrassed for a long time, but in the end she couldn't stand her sister's repeated questions, and whispered.

   "...I told you not to laugh at me."

   The light of gossip flashed in his eyes, and Shuanghe, who had said something "materialist warriors don't believe in ghosts and gods" a second ago, immediately raised three fingers and said with an oath.

   "I Shuanghe swear to God! I will never laugh at my smart, lovely, beautiful and generous sister, and I will never tell a third person!"

  “…”

  Shuangxue gave her sister an angry look.

   hesitated for a moment, but she couldn't hide what was going on in her heart, and finally got close to her sister's ear and whispered the name she planned to write just now.

  Shuanghe was stunned after hearing this, and then stared at her with wide eyes.

   That expression was even more exaggerated than when he saw his sister pay the gods.

   "You haven't given up yet?"

  Shuangxue blushed.

   "You, you told me not to laugh at me."

   "How can I laugh at you..." Shuanghe sighed, shaking his head into a rattle, "No drama."

  Shuangxue looked at her sister with a complicated expression, and sighed softly after a while.

   "I didn't say that there must be a show... I just hope that he who is far on the front line can be safe, don't you want it?"

  Shuanghe nodded thoughtfully.

"really……"

   She couldn't imagine what Dawn City would be like without that adult, maybe this oasis wouldn't exist in the first place.

  Those blue jackets who are only loyal to the individual managers are expected to leave here, maybe go back underground, or go somewhere else.

  The refugees will definitely not stay in the collective dormitory and wait for a long-term resettlement, they will do everything possible to squeeze into the city next to them. Those prisoners of war will certainly not be honest, they will seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to break free from the shackles.

The various corps will probably continue to abide by their loyalty, and even inherit the "will" of the administrator of the Fuxing People's Federation, elect a military strongman to power, and use tougher means to suppress the chaos... However, this will often plant the seeds for greater chaos. .

   As for those traders who have no loyalty to speak of, they themselves do not belong here. They will do everything they can to extract all the value from the residents under the guise of the free market until the silver coins themselves are worthless.

  Working at the trading post, she knows too well what the virtues of those wastelanders are. Not only do they have flexible ethics and professional ethics, they even have flexible identities.

  Maybe in other places they were slave hunters or even bandits who robbed houses, but here, no matter what they were before, they only dared to obey the law honestly.

   This is nothing short of a miracle.

  Shuanghe, who had been thinking for a long time, nodded.

   "...if anything happens to him, everyone will be very sad."

   Hearing this, Shuangxue immediately reached out and covered her mouth like a little white rabbit whose tail had been stepped on.

   "Bah ah ah, what unlucky words did you say! Let Dad hear you, don't open your ass!"

   "Uh-huh! What's the matter, I didn't talk nonsense in front of Dad."

   broke free from his sister's little hands, Shuanghe said with a smile while dodging.

   "What's more, the manager said that if someone mentions his name behind his back, there is no need to make the atmosphere so serious. The name is originally for others."

   "Are you a parrot, the manager all day long... that's what you say." The red-faced Frost Snow said panting.

  She was doing paperwork in the trade union, so naturally she couldn't have better physical strength than her sister who worked at the trading post. After chasing and running for a while, she put her hands on her knees and was out of breath.

  Shuanghe stopped to look at her and blinked.

   "Huh? You won't be jealous, right? Don't worry, your sister is someone who lives a stable life, I won't daydream, my future husband only needs to—"

   "Ghosts, ghosts are jealous!!"

   Looking at the two sisters who were laughing and playing, Yaya, who was squatting on the doorstep of the Fujiteng Hut branch, put her hands on her cheeks and said with envy.

   "If only I had a sister too."

   or younger brother.

  Although it’s a pity that I can’t buy him a small dress to wear, it’s nice to have someone who plays games with me. For a person like her who stays at home all year round, it is too difficult to have someone to communicate with in reality.

   Damn...

   She actually started to envy the NPCs in the game!

   Fujiteng, who was sitting next to him drinking sparkling water, had a completely different emotion.

   "There are no familiar faces in Dawn City recently."

   In the past two months, most of the consumers in the store are NPCs.

  Although the business has no impact, she also designs a lot of ordinary clothes, but without those strange custom commissions, she always feels that her creativity and talents are useless.

   Compared to NPCs who dress conservatively, it is the players' weird brains that make her eyes brighter.

   Of course, it would be nice to be a little more serious.

   Yaoya comforted his friend and said.

   "After all, everyone is on the front line."

  Teng Teng gave her a sideways glance.

   "Speaking of which, you don't call yourself a professional combat player, why are you so idle?"

   She originally thought that Ya Ya would follow Tail and the others to the front line, but she didn't join the front line this time.

   It seems that the somersault she fell last time taught her a lesson.

   "Hmph, don't look at me as if I'm very idle," Yaoya smiled smugly, "I made a small fortune recently."

   "Oh?" After loosening the straw he was biting on, Fujito looked at Yaya curiously and asked, "What mission?"

   said proudly.

   "Didn't I find the turquoise pointed mushroom before, and then sent it to the medical laboratory in the shelter for testing, and the white-haired NPC lady found that it contained a substance similar to penicillin."

  Tengteng nodded and said suddenly.

   "When you say this, I seem to have a little impression... Later, it was updated in the official website illustrated book. It's called green mushroom and green pine mushroom? You found it."

"What is it, I found it! It's good to have a full server announcement!" Yaya protested in dissatisfaction, cleared her throat, and continued to say happily, "Anyway, I later received a hidden mission issued by the Refuge. , to collect 20 tons of green pine mushrooms for the survivors’ settlement in Xizhou City.”

   "20 tons?!" Fujito stared at her blankly, and said in surprise, "Is there so much?"

   Raven said with the corners of his mouth up.

"Of course there are ducks. Everyone thought that mushrooms were poisonous, and no one picked them. But with so many orders, I must have been too busy by myself. Fortunately, the lady from the Trade Union was very kind to help me register the company. For the formalities, we hired about ten aborigines, and finally the task was completed.”

   "Yes, yes, our crow has finally embarked on this road, and you can earn silver coins without picking mushrooms yourself." Fujito nodded in relief and said.

   Yaoya thought for a while and said.

   "emmm...that's what I said, but I really prefer the feeling of exploring alone rather than worrying about a lot of things."

   This game will always discover new things she hasn't seen before.

   As for silver coins, she didn't care that much.

   "Are you guys in Versailles?"

  Tengteng rolled her eyes at her, looked up at the sky, and stretched comfortably.

   "Everyone is working so hard, it seems that I have to work hard for the new version."

   Ravenly smiled and patted his girlfriend's shoulder.

"Don't be so fussy, playing games is not for being anything, the experience process is actually quite enjoyable. By the way, there will be a fireworks show celebrating victory in the square after a while, and it is said that there will be sand sugar sent from Luoxia Province. ."

   "White sugar?" Teng Teng wondered, "Isn't that kind of thing already there?"

   There was a time when sugar was cheaper than salt before trade routes were opened. After all, Brown Farm grows sugar beets, and with a little improvement in the process, pure sugar can be obtained. However, things like salt are mainly imported in inland areas.

   Ya Ya said with a smile.

   "No, it's the sand of the sand. Isn't Luoxia a desert, maybe it's a local specialty food. I also saw it on the forum... It is said that it was discovered by Xiaoyu."

While    was talking, fireworks had already risen into the sky.

   Suddenly it is time.

   Hearing that it was a snack that he had never seen before, Fujito immediately showed an expression of interest on his face and jumped up from the steps.

   "Go, take me to have a look."

   In the splendid fireworks, people living in the back sent their blessings to the front line in the distance.

  Sun Shiqi, who came out of the tavern drunk, looked up at the bright fireworks in the sky, was stunned for a few seconds, lowered his head and muttered softly.

   "The green one...should be copper sulfate."

   Zhou Nan, who was supporting each other with him, also whispered.

   "What a waste...Are these people rich enough to take the endless dynamite to fire?"

   "Looks like the war is really over."

  While the people of Dawn City were celebrating the great victory on the front line, the plunderers in Xizhou City were currently suffering from the fiery torment...

   (end of this chapter)