The towering huge walls make the Stone City a well-known paradise. Compared with the distant cloud province and ideal city, it seems to be within reach.
However.
This majesty does not benefit everyone here.
On the way to the main entrance of Giant Rock City, the first thing that caught your eye was a huge slum.
The ragged shack is like psoriasis, growing under the feet of the huge wall, and from a distance it looks like a stinky ditch that cannot be seen.
Most people living here have pale faces and thin skin, and sit in front of the door in a dress that they have been wearing for unknown amounts of time, or are preparing to go out to pick up scattered goods.
There is no garbage to pick up in the nearby area. If you want a good harvest, you can only go to higher floors or to further away places.
The sewage and excrement everywhere dyed the snow that should have been white into other colors. I believe the situation would be worse when the snow melted. It would be a miracle that there was no plague.
Fang Chang, who had never seen so many NPCs in this game, asked blankly at the scene in front of him.
How many people are there here?
Xu Shun asked his question again, and Qian Lai answered in an indifferent tone.
Ten thousand, twenty thousand, maybe one hundred thousand, anyway, there have never been few people here.It's meaningless for who would have put that effort into counting such things.
A surprised expression appeared on Xu Shun's face.
Tens of thousands?!
This is too exaggerated.
But Fang Chang, who was staring at the VM screen and watching the subtitles, was thinking about something completely different in his mind.
Tens of thousands of people?!
...What are so many people eating?!
Anyway, it's not farming.
It doesn't look like there is a place to farm here.
At the end of the slum is a tilted telephone pole with a few speakers wrapped around it, and several boring channels are played in turn.
A hundred meters further ahead is the main entrance of Giant Rock City.
There were clean cement roads, militias on duty, caravans ready to go, and poor people looking for living everywhere, many of them were even small children.
For the vast majority of people here, life only has two hopes.
One is attracted by caravans or merchants, and the other is to catch up with the factory to recruit workers.
If you can't count on both of these and can't let go of your only self-esteem to beg or sell your soul, you can only be a mercenary.
Catching up with the wave, you don’t even have to buy a gun by yourself.
Because he carried the goods transported from the outpost, Fang Chang and his group were soon targeted as merchants.
A little boy with slightly curly hair and dirty face followed Qian Lai and said in a sharp voice.
Sir, do you need a servant?I can count, do laundry, move things... I can still smell rats and cockroaches hidden in the gaps, and I can do any job.
He has good eyesight and can tell at a glance who is the most like a business person in this group.
However, with his ability, he was able to catch a lot of people in the entire slum.
unnecessary.
gentlemen
The boy also wanted to fight for it, but Qian Lai interrupted him impatiently.
I'll only say it once.
Looking at his unfriendly eyes and the pistol at his waist, the boy retreated a step back, not daring to get entangled, ran to the side, looking for the next target.
Xu Shun glanced at the boy's lost back and said nothing.
He is not a person with a lot of sympathy, and of course he will not naively think about helping his children or something.Once this kind of thing starts, the troubles that follow will never end.
Who can't be pity in this wasteland?
For him, the task assigned by the manager is the first priority, and everything else has to be aside.
but……
Looking at the towering huge wall, Xu Shun couldn't help but sigh.
The huge wall is very high, which makes people feel safe.
But it was indeed the northern suburbs ruled by the manager, which made him feel even more warm...
A street from the main entrance of Giant Rock City is the Far Wind Hotel, and the sign is hung from the magnificent gate.
However, the guests there seemed to have had a little conflict with the hotel.
In front of the hotel waiter, a man in an old leather jacket turned red with anger.
Next to him was a suitcase, which, judging from the scattered luggage, should have been thrown out of the door.
Behind him, there were still guests who were driven out like him.
Didn’t it be agreed that you only have one chip a day?
The hotel waiter took out his ears and said impatiently.
Yes, our manager said that, but it was winter and the price has risen now.We didn't stop you from renewing your room, didn't we?
Ten chips in one day?Are you robbers?Why is winter more expensive?!
Of course, it is to make room and entertain guests from afar. Why do you think winter is cheap?The hotel waiter sneered, "Okay, take your luggage and you can get out."
What if I say no?The man stared at him tightly.
What does that have to do with me?
The waiter yawned, and without even looking at him, he turned around and walked towards the main entrance.
When passing by the main entrance, he glanced at the security guard at the door.
Leave it to you.
The fully armed security guard nodded expressionlessly, stood there motionless, looking straight ahead, like a statue.
The ignored man looked annoyed and reached his hand to his waist.
However, just as his hand touched his waist, a gunshot rang out, and a blood hole was printed on the man's eyebrows and fell backwards in response.
The woman next to her screamed.
Several other guests quickly retreated back and packed their luggage and left here.
Seeing this scene throughout, Fang Chang looked at the militia at the city gate in surprise, but saw that they were too lazy to take a look at this side.
Xu Shun, who was walking beside him, asked him about his surprise.
Those people... don't care?
Qian Lei glanced at him strangely.
Who are you?You mean militia?
Xu Shun swallowed.
Um.
Qian Lai smiled and said.
The militia do not care about disputes outside the Giant Rock City, but only the piece of land at the door. Law enforcement has boundaries.With such a large wasteland, we can't manage every piece of land. Should we manage this street and the next street?This hotel has a good reputation. The boss is a nobleman from the inner city, and the manager is even more capable. He has a good relationship with several gangs in the slums.If you are in business, they will introduce you to customers…the commission is only 10% and only once.
He took out the rusty pocket watch and looked at the time, Qian Lai continued.
It's noon now, there are not many people. If it's evening, it will be more lively, but I don't recommend you have fun here.
Fun?
It's nothing, just forget it if you are not interested. If you are interested, you can go to the waiter at the door just now and he will introduce it to you.
……？
Xu Shun looked confused.
Qian Lai urged him and said.
Let's go, we should queue up at the city gate... By the way, are you ready for the tax on entering the city?
Xu Shun was stunned.
Tax to enter the city?Do you have to pay taxes when you go in?
The manager told him that if the goods were sold, the caravan would be given a share of the remaining money, and the remaining money could be used as their activity funds.
But those goods have not been sold yet, and he has no bargaining chips in his pocket.
I don't know if those people check in...
Qian Lai smiled and said: Of course, you can get 3 chips at a time, so most people will not go in and out at will.It’s okay if I didn’t take care of it, I’ll pay for you this time.
There are more opportunities to deal with in the future.
Judging from the boss' reaction that night and the manager's attitude afterwards, Qian Lai felt that he needed to have a good relationship with them.
This is a long-term investment.
The six chips are just a small amount for him and his boss.
It didn't work for a long time.
The main thing is to check whether there are dangerous goods in the goods.
It is worth noting that explosives with an equivalent amount of more than 300g are contraband, but bullets and rifles are not.
Perhaps because of the absolute confidence that they can kill the troublemakers at the first time, these militiamen seemed to care whether they would bring weapons in.
Think about it, too.
There are several barrels of heavy machine guns that can be seen on this huge wall. It is reasonable to arrange a few snipers or similar things in the invisible places.
However, when they checked Fang Chang, several militiamen unexpectedly looked at him and the bow eyes behind him, and after a few words, they added a stroke to a notebook full of words.
Of course, Fang Chang was doing the same thing, calmly writing on the notebook with a pen.
...The militia leader at the gate of Giant Rock City is very strong and can feel the dangerous aura. He is probably the awakened one, and he is not sure how many levels it is.
In addition, the awakened person will be registered when entering the survivor stronghold.
But judging from the reactions of people around you, ordinary awakened people should not be worthy of special treatment, and registration is just a routine matter.
The militia allowed the group to release them.
Looking at the towering giant door walking overhead, Xu Shun, carrying a bag, couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Finally arrived.
……
...We followed the caravan into the Giant Rock City, and the caravan leader paid the entry tax for us, with a total of 6 chips.
That night.
After going offline, Fang Chang immediately went to the official website to open a post and brought the first-hand information from Jushi City to the forum.
Not only are the players very curious about what the Dog Planner put in the new map, but even the planner himself is curious about what the situation is like in the Stone City.
To be honest.
Chu Guang had saved up his bargaining chips for five months, just to run there from Bet Street.
If he hadn't discovered Sanctuary 404, he might have already made screws there.
Since it is a serial post, Elder Fang is not typing very quickly. Chu Guang, who was sitting in front of the computer, clicked and looked at the poster's options, and temporarily filtered the comments of the sculpted netizens.
The situation inside the city is completely different from outside the city. The streets here have been renovated and the buildings are rebuilt on the ruins that have been knocked down. The higher the city goes, the higher it is, but they are not even higher than the huge wall.
Good hotels are expensive, cheap hotels and taverns are hidden in complex alleys, where conditions are not much better than the slums outside.But it is worth mentioning that the drainage system is built, so it doesn't smell too bad.
Perhaps the planning is hinting us that we should consider adding some municipal facilities to the surface bases?
Besides, in terms of clothing, the residents here mainly wear cotton and linen, and the weaving industry should be very developed.For citizens who have a job in the city, there is basically no problem with dressing, but one piece of clothing will last for a long time.Mercenaries prefer to choose leather clothes or body armor made of special materials, so even if they hide their guns, it is easy to distinguish them.
A few hospitals and schools are sporadically distributed in several communities on the edge of the inner city.People living there have completely different mental outlooks than those outside and have stronger consumption power.
There is also a wall in the city center, which is the inner city of Giant Rock City. More than ten pre-war tall buildings have been renovated to form the top of the pyramid of Giant Rock City.And the ruler who dominated all this was a man named Fang Ming.He rarely appears directly in front of the public and often shows himself as holographic images.Most people are full of awe of him, but a considerable number of people don't care.
It is worth mentioning that the materials in Giant Rock City are not scarce and their productivity is not low. Many technologies have even reached the field of science fiction, but most people are still living in a difficult situation.Especially for the uneducated lower class people, there are only two ways to get rich, either join the caravan or become a mercenary.
After solving the place where we settled, we and the caravans brought the Devil Bu and Spirit Leaf to the trading post.The commodities in the entire Stone City are traded there, with hundreds of stalls inside, like a market.The stall owners there were amazed at our weaving craftsmanship, and we had to give Ms. Tengteng a thumbs up here... But I could feel that they were obviously more interested in Spiritual Leaf.
In the end, 10 devil cloth sold for 5,000 chips, and the 100kg spiritual leaf also sold for 5,000 chips... This was the result of the bargaining. At the beginning, they only planned to give half of this number.The weight of the goods is actually not much different, but I personally feel that the latter is less difficult to obtain and is obviously more profitable.
After the transaction was completed, the guard NPC and I visited here and conducted a simple survey of the market. We found that the demand for rubber and biomass oil here is very stable, the purchase volume is surprisingly large, and the most important thing is the transparent price!The only disadvantage is that the price is not high, so it is a problem where to get so much rubber and oil.
In addition, cotton, flax, grains, materials such as steel, aluminum, and even precious metals such as silver and gold can be traded here.
The following is only for speculation!
Considering that the key points of the two professions of Merchant and Mercenary, the next version may open the gameplay of merchants and mercenaries.
If you plan to go to business, be sure to pay attention to the weak consumption capacity of the residents here, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to sell a very high premium for food!
But in contrast, the mercenaries have strong consumption capacity and clear needs.Cheap weapons, protective gear, auxiliary equipment, stress-releasing alcohol and even mental leaves, as well as medical gauze and dry food, can be sold here at a good price!
Maybe we should run a store in Boulder City?Our weapons are obviously oversupply!
Of course, if you have a brother from the power system who is interested, you can also go to the factory to make screws?However, the triggering method is unknown and the returns are very low, and the process seems to be extremely boring.
Unless you have never entered the factory in reality, it is highly recommended!
However.
This majesty does not benefit everyone here.
On the way to the main entrance of Giant Rock City, the first thing that caught your eye was a huge slum.
The ragged shack is like psoriasis, growing under the feet of the huge wall, and from a distance it looks like a stinky ditch that cannot be seen.
Most people living here have pale faces and thin skin, and sit in front of the door in a dress that they have been wearing for unknown amounts of time, or are preparing to go out to pick up scattered goods.
There is no garbage to pick up in the nearby area. If you want a good harvest, you can only go to higher floors or to further away places.
The sewage and excrement everywhere dyed the snow that should have been white into other colors. I believe the situation would be worse when the snow melted. It would be a miracle that there was no plague.
Fang Chang, who had never seen so many NPCs in this game, asked blankly at the scene in front of him.
How many people are there here?
Xu Shun asked his question again, and Qian Lai answered in an indifferent tone.
Ten thousand, twenty thousand, maybe one hundred thousand, anyway, there have never been few people here.It's meaningless for who would have put that effort into counting such things.
A surprised expression appeared on Xu Shun's face.
Tens of thousands?!
This is too exaggerated.
But Fang Chang, who was staring at the VM screen and watching the subtitles, was thinking about something completely different in his mind.
Tens of thousands of people?!
...What are so many people eating?!
Anyway, it's not farming.
It doesn't look like there is a place to farm here.
At the end of the slum is a tilted telephone pole with a few speakers wrapped around it, and several boring channels are played in turn.
A hundred meters further ahead is the main entrance of Giant Rock City.
There were clean cement roads, militias on duty, caravans ready to go, and poor people looking for living everywhere, many of them were even small children.
For the vast majority of people here, life only has two hopes.
One is attracted by caravans or merchants, and the other is to catch up with the factory to recruit workers.
If you can't count on both of these and can't let go of your only self-esteem to beg or sell your soul, you can only be a mercenary.
Catching up with the wave, you don’t even have to buy a gun by yourself.
Because he carried the goods transported from the outpost, Fang Chang and his group were soon targeted as merchants.
A little boy with slightly curly hair and dirty face followed Qian Lai and said in a sharp voice.
Sir, do you need a servant?I can count, do laundry, move things... I can still smell rats and cockroaches hidden in the gaps, and I can do any job.
He has good eyesight and can tell at a glance who is the most like a business person in this group.
However, with his ability, he was able to catch a lot of people in the entire slum.
unnecessary.
gentlemen
The boy also wanted to fight for it, but Qian Lai interrupted him impatiently.
I'll only say it once.
Looking at his unfriendly eyes and the pistol at his waist, the boy retreated a step back, not daring to get entangled, ran to the side, looking for the next target.
Xu Shun glanced at the boy's lost back and said nothing.
He is not a person with a lot of sympathy, and of course he will not naively think about helping his children or something.Once this kind of thing starts, the troubles that follow will never end.
Who can't be pity in this wasteland?
For him, the task assigned by the manager is the first priority, and everything else has to be aside.
but……
Looking at the towering huge wall, Xu Shun couldn't help but sigh.
The huge wall is very high, which makes people feel safe.
But it was indeed the northern suburbs ruled by the manager, which made him feel even more warm...
A street from the main entrance of Giant Rock City is the Far Wind Hotel, and the sign is hung from the magnificent gate.
However, the guests there seemed to have had a little conflict with the hotel.
In front of the hotel waiter, a man in an old leather jacket turned red with anger.
Next to him was a suitcase, which, judging from the scattered luggage, should have been thrown out of the door.
Behind him, there were still guests who were driven out like him.
Didn’t it be agreed that you only have one chip a day?
The hotel waiter took out his ears and said impatiently.
Yes, our manager said that, but it was winter and the price has risen now.We didn't stop you from renewing your room, didn't we?
Ten chips in one day?Are you robbers?Why is winter more expensive?!
Of course, it is to make room and entertain guests from afar. Why do you think winter is cheap?The hotel waiter sneered, "Okay, take your luggage and you can get out."
What if I say no?The man stared at him tightly.
What does that have to do with me?
The waiter yawned, and without even looking at him, he turned around and walked towards the main entrance.
When passing by the main entrance, he glanced at the security guard at the door.
Leave it to you.
The fully armed security guard nodded expressionlessly, stood there motionless, looking straight ahead, like a statue.
The ignored man looked annoyed and reached his hand to his waist.
However, just as his hand touched his waist, a gunshot rang out, and a blood hole was printed on the man's eyebrows and fell backwards in response.
The woman next to her screamed.
Several other guests quickly retreated back and packed their luggage and left here.
Seeing this scene throughout, Fang Chang looked at the militia at the city gate in surprise, but saw that they were too lazy to take a look at this side.
Xu Shun, who was walking beside him, asked him about his surprise.
Those people... don't care?
Qian Lei glanced at him strangely.
Who are you?You mean militia?
Xu Shun swallowed.
Um.
Qian Lai smiled and said.
The militia do not care about disputes outside the Giant Rock City, but only the piece of land at the door. Law enforcement has boundaries.With such a large wasteland, we can't manage every piece of land. Should we manage this street and the next street?This hotel has a good reputation. The boss is a nobleman from the inner city, and the manager is even more capable. He has a good relationship with several gangs in the slums.If you are in business, they will introduce you to customers…the commission is only 10% and only once.
He took out the rusty pocket watch and looked at the time, Qian Lai continued.
It's noon now, there are not many people. If it's evening, it will be more lively, but I don't recommend you have fun here.
Fun?
It's nothing, just forget it if you are not interested. If you are interested, you can go to the waiter at the door just now and he will introduce it to you.
……？
Xu Shun looked confused.
Qian Lai urged him and said.
Let's go, we should queue up at the city gate... By the way, are you ready for the tax on entering the city?
Xu Shun was stunned.
Tax to enter the city?Do you have to pay taxes when you go in?
The manager told him that if the goods were sold, the caravan would be given a share of the remaining money, and the remaining money could be used as their activity funds.
But those goods have not been sold yet, and he has no bargaining chips in his pocket.
I don't know if those people check in...
Qian Lai smiled and said: Of course, you can get 3 chips at a time, so most people will not go in and out at will.It’s okay if I didn’t take care of it, I’ll pay for you this time.
There are more opportunities to deal with in the future.
Judging from the boss' reaction that night and the manager's attitude afterwards, Qian Lai felt that he needed to have a good relationship with them.
This is a long-term investment.
The six chips are just a small amount for him and his boss.
It didn't work for a long time.
The main thing is to check whether there are dangerous goods in the goods.
It is worth noting that explosives with an equivalent amount of more than 300g are contraband, but bullets and rifles are not.
Perhaps because of the absolute confidence that they can kill the troublemakers at the first time, these militiamen seemed to care whether they would bring weapons in.
Think about it, too.
There are several barrels of heavy machine guns that can be seen on this huge wall. It is reasonable to arrange a few snipers or similar things in the invisible places.
However, when they checked Fang Chang, several militiamen unexpectedly looked at him and the bow eyes behind him, and after a few words, they added a stroke to a notebook full of words.
Of course, Fang Chang was doing the same thing, calmly writing on the notebook with a pen.
...The militia leader at the gate of Giant Rock City is very strong and can feel the dangerous aura. He is probably the awakened one, and he is not sure how many levels it is.
In addition, the awakened person will be registered when entering the survivor stronghold.
But judging from the reactions of people around you, ordinary awakened people should not be worthy of special treatment, and registration is just a routine matter.
The militia allowed the group to release them.
Looking at the towering giant door walking overhead, Xu Shun, carrying a bag, couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Finally arrived.
……
...We followed the caravan into the Giant Rock City, and the caravan leader paid the entry tax for us, with a total of 6 chips.
That night.
After going offline, Fang Chang immediately went to the official website to open a post and brought the first-hand information from Jushi City to the forum.
Not only are the players very curious about what the Dog Planner put in the new map, but even the planner himself is curious about what the situation is like in the Stone City.
To be honest.
Chu Guang had saved up his bargaining chips for five months, just to run there from Bet Street.
If he hadn't discovered Sanctuary 404, he might have already made screws there.
Since it is a serial post, Elder Fang is not typing very quickly. Chu Guang, who was sitting in front of the computer, clicked and looked at the poster's options, and temporarily filtered the comments of the sculpted netizens.
The situation inside the city is completely different from outside the city. The streets here have been renovated and the buildings are rebuilt on the ruins that have been knocked down. The higher the city goes, the higher it is, but they are not even higher than the huge wall.
Good hotels are expensive, cheap hotels and taverns are hidden in complex alleys, where conditions are not much better than the slums outside.But it is worth mentioning that the drainage system is built, so it doesn't smell too bad.
Perhaps the planning is hinting us that we should consider adding some municipal facilities to the surface bases?
Besides, in terms of clothing, the residents here mainly wear cotton and linen, and the weaving industry should be very developed.For citizens who have a job in the city, there is basically no problem with dressing, but one piece of clothing will last for a long time.Mercenaries prefer to choose leather clothes or body armor made of special materials, so even if they hide their guns, it is easy to distinguish them.
A few hospitals and schools are sporadically distributed in several communities on the edge of the inner city.People living there have completely different mental outlooks than those outside and have stronger consumption power.
There is also a wall in the city center, which is the inner city of Giant Rock City. More than ten pre-war tall buildings have been renovated to form the top of the pyramid of Giant Rock City.And the ruler who dominated all this was a man named Fang Ming.He rarely appears directly in front of the public and often shows himself as holographic images.Most people are full of awe of him, but a considerable number of people don't care.
It is worth mentioning that the materials in Giant Rock City are not scarce and their productivity is not low. Many technologies have even reached the field of science fiction, but most people are still living in a difficult situation.Especially for the uneducated lower class people, there are only two ways to get rich, either join the caravan or become a mercenary.
After solving the place where we settled, we and the caravans brought the Devil Bu and Spirit Leaf to the trading post.The commodities in the entire Stone City are traded there, with hundreds of stalls inside, like a market.The stall owners there were amazed at our weaving craftsmanship, and we had to give Ms. Tengteng a thumbs up here... But I could feel that they were obviously more interested in Spiritual Leaf.
In the end, 10 devil cloth sold for 5,000 chips, and the 100kg spiritual leaf also sold for 5,000 chips... This was the result of the bargaining. At the beginning, they only planned to give half of this number.The weight of the goods is actually not much different, but I personally feel that the latter is less difficult to obtain and is obviously more profitable.
After the transaction was completed, the guard NPC and I visited here and conducted a simple survey of the market. We found that the demand for rubber and biomass oil here is very stable, the purchase volume is surprisingly large, and the most important thing is the transparent price!The only disadvantage is that the price is not high, so it is a problem where to get so much rubber and oil.
In addition, cotton, flax, grains, materials such as steel, aluminum, and even precious metals such as silver and gold can be traded here.
The following is only for speculation!
Considering that the key points of the two professions of Merchant and Mercenary, the next version may open the gameplay of merchants and mercenaries.
If you plan to go to business, be sure to pay attention to the weak consumption capacity of the residents here, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to sell a very high premium for food!
But in contrast, the mercenaries have strong consumption capacity and clear needs.Cheap weapons, protective gear, auxiliary equipment, stress-releasing alcohol and even mental leaves, as well as medical gauze and dry food, can be sold here at a good price!
Maybe we should run a store in Boulder City?Our weapons are obviously oversupply!
Of course, if you have a brother from the power system who is interested, you can also go to the factory to make screws?However, the triggering method is unknown and the returns are very low, and the process seems to be extremely boring.
Unless you have never entered the factory in reality, it is highly recommended!
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