After the number of players started to increase, Lin Miao unlocked the panel as a reward for completing the novice task of reading the "Agency Manual," so they didn’t have to learn how to use the equipment like Potato and the others did when they first arrived.
After leaving the agency, players didn’t know how to describe this new world with words. The dust that entered their noses felt so real!
If it weren’t for the various panels in their vision, they might have thought this was a real world.
Egyptian Beauty ran all the way to the bathroom, ready to turn on the faucet to see how the game’s fluid mechanics were.
Twisting the faucet, the rushing water and cold touch directly shocked Egyptian Beauty.
Then she sniffed... something seemed off; she scooped up a handful and looked at it suspiciously, then stuck out her tongue to lick it.
Her scream attracted several surrounding players.
"What are you doing now?"
Natural Curl watched as ten new players pecked here and licked there, barely understanding how Lin Miao felt when he first saw them.
Like a whole scout troop.
Today, he had to be the scout troop leader the whole day, but didn’t get any task rewards.
Egyptian Beauty held a bit of water in her hands and brought it in front of Natural Curl, and asked with wide eyes
"Is this our daily water supply?"
Natural Curl still remembered Brother Dao saying this water had excessive lead ions.
"Yeah, what’s the problem? Just a bit of pollution, doesn’t stop us from using it, it’s just a game, a game!"
Egyptian Beauty’s voice became sharper.
"Do you know how severe the pollution is? Lead, silver, aluminium... I suspect that this handful of water could get the entire staff of this water plant executed by the environmental bureau, plus the bacteria is definitely over the limit. Drink too much and you’re sure to get viral arthritis, fetal deformities, or even... YW and NC!"
Natural Curl got goosebumps hearing this, touching himself down there, "Is it really that serious? We’ve been using this water for days without feeling any problems."
"You’re talking nonsense, you won’t show clear clinical symptoms until at least a month later."
"Then you don’t need to worry." Natural Curl heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this, patting Egyptian Beauty’s shoulder and said seriously, "Because you might die once within a month, and once you die the DBUFF disappears."
So, if you die fast enough, chronic diseases can’t catch up with you?
Player [Big Ear Tutu], who followed over, curiously asked, "No, buddy, what do you do that you could tell the water’s bad in one glance?"
"I studied water supply and drainage engineering in the US. That damn place has terrible water quality, and the local government refuses to pay for repairs. They’ve been blabbering for years but couldn’t get anything done, it’s not even as good as back home."
Seeing a blonde white guy say ’back home’, made other players feel a bit mixed.
But at this stage, players have no choice but to use dirty water, and the boss hasn’t spoken yet, so why worry?
Natural Curl rented an old captain-delivered light truck, with a capacity of 3.5T, but the rent increased by a full double.
He drove the truck over, knocked on the door, and told the players still chatting together
"Alright, take the task and let’s go, I spent 200 euros for you guys. If you don’t want to log in tomorrow with a cold and muscle ache DBUFF hanging on you, then get moving!"
Because Potato and the others had to wait until the afternoon to log in, Natural Curl planned to take 5 new players to the garbage mountain to gather materials, and since there were more people, he couldn’t manage everyone. The remaining five players, two took guard tasks, and two or three took machine gun tower modifications.
Interestingly, besides the group tasks, if a player takes an individual task, others won’t know unless disclosed.
And how could the so-called main task and mysterious gift not be tempting?
"Hey guys, what do you think, does that main task have any implications?"
Sitting in the swaying back compartment, Big Ear Tutu couldn’t help but start chatting with others.
Due to difficulty spreading official website information, early dissemination relied on game QQ groups or forums like Donkey GA, and players could easily recognize each other. For example, Mantou was attracted by Natural Curl’s website reservation post in a QQ group.
She initially thought her friend was on the small website again, but it turned out to be a game site.
"What kind of implications could there be?" Egyptian Beauty seemed unconcerned, what kind of product could a water supply and drainage specialist design?
Sewage system or water purifier?
"According to the official website’s setting, it’s 2075 now, with hovering cars, what could a bunch of 2024 bumpkins design that’s useful?"
"I don’t think so." [Rainy Night Without a Knife] crossed his arms and signaled everyone to look at the driver seat. "See that? Manual transmission, it’s 2075 yet they’re still using manual transmission for petrol cars. That promotional video on the site, and the weapons in the arsenal, are still using gunpowder propulsion, indicating this world’s technological development in-game is seriously skewed, you know."
Big Ear Tutu suddenly got interested, "You’re suggesting we do BYD or TSL?"
"Are you daydreaming here, brother?" Rainy Night Without a Knife rolled his eyes, "That’s an industrial production line comprised of millions of workers, from motors to batteries to control systems, which one do you know? I’m talking about something simple."