Chapter 25 Not Enough Manpower

The cheers came from the cement kiln.

Chu Guang walked over and saw Fang Chang and Lao Bai piling a pile of light gray powder on the ground, adding water and sand to mix it into a paste-like mud.

A rough estimate shows that this batch of cement is only about 20 kilograms.

Since it is a trial firing, not much is fired in this batch. Judging from the volume of the cement kiln filling port, it should be no problem to process half a ton a day.

Although it is not as good as professional production equipment, it can be used barely.

"Dear manager!"

Noticing Chu Guang coming over here, the two players threw away their tools and excitedly greeted him.

"Cement!"

"We finally made silicate cement!"

This is really not easy.

In order to make the temperature in the cement kiln reach more than 1450 degrees, the two of them were working hard to rub the blower, adding charcoal into it one shovel after another, and they almost made a unicorn arm.

Especially Lao Bai, whose gene sequence is strength, and he is about to upgrade in the past three days!

"You did a great job."

Chu Guang looked at them approvingly and nodded.

"With these cements, we have made another big step forward in the first phase of the plan. The shelter will remember your contribution, and each of you will receive a 1,000 contribution point reward!"

The two players showed joy on their faces.

The hard work of the past few days was not in vain!

However, what they didn't know was that the NPC and dog planner standing in front of them had already started to think about how to recover the over-issued "currency" in their hands.

Inflation is not good if it is too fast, which will affect the life of the game.

How about...

Open a Gacha function?

1000 contribution points per draw?

Not impossible.

Just when Chu Guang was thinking about how to do it, Fang Chang and Lao Bai looked at each other and said respectfully to him.

"Mr. Manager, there is something I must report to you!"

"Speak."

"Now that the cement has been successfully fired, we need more manpower to start the construction of the outpost!"

Chu Guang looked at the two of them.

"How many people do you need?"

Lao Bai rushed to say.

"At least ten people! Of course, the more the better! The cement kiln needs manual blast calcination. Two people can operate a kiln in shifts, and we will build the second one soon. This requires four people! At least four people are needed to carry stones from the construction site, and the rest will repair the walls and houses, so at least eight or more are needed."

Chu Guang calculated in his mind.

That must be sixteen people?

The food stored in the outpost is only enough for seven people including himself for a week. The population has suddenly tripled, and I don't know if the logistics can handle it.

Chu Guang hesitated again and again, and finally made up his mind to take a gamble.

It is already the 9th.

Nearly one-third of September has passed. If we don't work harder, it will be difficult to complete the outpost before winter.

"Okay! I understand."

Nodding, looking at the two players, Chu Guang continued.

"I will apply for support from my superiors. In three days, a group of new members will wake up from hibernation and come to the surface to join our cause."

Hearing this, Lao Bai and Fang Chang's faces showed joy.

With the addition of new people, their infrastructure plan will be much easier than it is now!

Not only that, Fang Chang's guess was also verified.

The authority of this NPC is not just that of a simple NPC. It can even affect the progress of the game closed beta test.

This made Fang Chang think of the fantasy setting of online games in early online novels——

[The game runs on a supercomputer with unlimited computing power. The game company has formulated a world view framework, and the content is completely generated dynamically by AI. ]

Maybe Wasteland OL is like this!

Fang Chang became more and more excited as he thought about it.

He felt that he understood it again.

…

With carpenters and chefs, the working conditions and quality of life of players have been visibly improved.

With the help of [WC really has mosquitoes], Lao Bai and Fang Chang's construction team obtained molds for making mud bricks, and also helped Kuangfeng and Ye Shi improve the fishing traps.

Even using tree stumps, they made a wooden toilet for the toilet that did not cut the buttocks.

Now the toilet can finally be sat on.

However, not everyone likes this kind of toilet.

For example, Kuangfeng.

This guy seems to have a bit of a cleanliness obsession. Even in the game, he can't accept using a toilet that has been used by others. He stubbornly dug a pit next to the original toilet and inserted wood to cover it.

Thanks to this, the outpost now has a second toilet.

However, compared to these unworthy things, the most surprising thing is the fishing plan of this guy and Ye Shi.

With the help of the improved trap, the two finally caught the first fish before dusk.

And it's a big fish!

Looking at the appearance, it should be a catfish.

The reason why I say "should" is because the thick lips and head are really bizarrely large, with white spots scattered between the dark blue patterns, and coral-like red whiskers dotted on the tentacles.

Obviously, this is also a mutant after mutation.

Looking at the "big guy" struggling to escape in the trap, Kuangfeng and Yeshi were so excited that they almost cried, not caring at all how ugly this guy looked.

Three days!

Three whole days!

Finally, they caught one!

While the big birds hovering in the sky and the animals by the lake didn't notice, they quickly dragged the big guy from the lake to the shore with the trap and brutally beat it to death with steel bars.

Until it was completely dead, they tied its head and tail to the steel bars with ropes, carried it one in front and one behind, and brought the still twitching dead fish back to the outpost.

"Brother Chaodan, take a look, is this thing edible?"

"What the hell? What the hell is this."

Staring at the catfish that Kuangfeng and Yeshi threw on the ground, the [Tomato Scrambled Eggs] who was making the smoked fish rack almost popped his eyes out.

He has been cooking for half his life, but this is the first time he has seen such a big catfish.

The fish head alone can fill a basin.

If this thing is thrown into the lake, can other fish survive? ? ?

Catfish eat meat!

"It should be a catfish." Kuangfeng said.

"Nonsense, of course I know it's a catfish," Chaodan squatted down and turned over its lips to take a look, then pulled it and said with his tongue, "Wow... I'm afraid it must be over a hundred pounds!"

Ye Shi asked hurriedly.

"Can it be smoked?"

"Who the hell uses catfish to smoke fish..." Chaodan continued speechlessly, "This thing has a lot of fat and moisturizing mucus on the surface. It's quite troublesome to handle. I don't know if it can be dehydrated."

"What should I do?" Kuangfeng asked.

"I haven't tried it either, let's try it first..." Looking at the smoked fish rack he had spent half a day making, Chaodan fell silent.

A hundred pounds of fish would definitely be crushed if put on it.

It can only be redone...

...

At dusk.

Brother Chaodan took over the cooking instead of the manager and cooked a pot of fish head soup for the players, proving with practice that this thing is indeed edible.

And the taste is surprisingly good.

Although there was no tofu as a side dish, and no onion, ginger, garlic, or cooking wine to remove the fishy smell, Brother Chaodan still used his superb cooking skills and only salt and soy sauce as seasoning to make a pot of fish head soup that was fresh and not greasy.

The players ate it with tears in their eyes.

Brother Chaodan and Mosquito were surprised that there was a sense of taste in the game, and the other four players were moved that they finally had a bite of normal food.

Wow, it's not easy...

I logged off at 6pm that day, and it was exactly 6am in the morning in real life.

The closed beta players had just logged off from the game and hadn't had time to log on to the Penguin account when the news in the Niuma Club group exploded.

Quit smoking: [Fuck! Look at the official website! ]

What can I do with you: [You haven't given up yet...]

Keep someone alive: [What happened to the official website? ]

Quit smoking: [Major update to Alpha 0.2 version! The official website will release 24 closed beta qualifications again! The number of closed beta players will be expanded to 30 people! ! ! ]

Keep someone alive: [What the hell? ]

What can I do with you: [Haha, it's time to get leeks. Tell me, how much is it? I want to see if it's enough for the police station downstairs to file a case. (Picking nose)]

Quit smoking: [It should be free, I saw that the announcement did not mention charging! Haha, I don't believe it, I can't get a spot this time!!!]

Garbage picker 99th level: [You think too much, the number of reservations has exceeded 100. 24 additional places... the probability is one-fourth to one-fifth,]

Quit smoking: [Over 100? ! What the hell, how can there be so many people in our group? ? ?]

Garbage picker 99th level: [Uh, not all of them are from our group... I saw a lot of game groups discussing this game last night.]

Spare someone under the knife: [It's actually out of the circle. (Surprised)]

④Who knows: [Well, I just checked, the number of reservations is already 111.]

Quit smoking: [Fuck you!]