The four veteran players who completed tasks earlier, except for Wildman who only bought a handgun and bullets, each had five hundred in their hands. Together, they could go into the dungeon a total of 17 times. As long as the car doesn’t break down, they would surely make a good profit.
At this moment, Wildman added
"I think you’ve missed a point; besides refreshed wild creatures, the scavenging task itself should be profitable. That huge garbage mountain might have something useful in it, like health potions, mana potions, or equipment fragments. The BOSS needs a ton, theoretically there’s about 500KG of capacity left to exploit."
The truck’s load sign was clear: 1.8T minus the passenger weight still left considerable load.
Others finally realized, saying it makes sense.
They always thought of the EuroGold as simple currency, but forgot that there’s also such a thing as dungeon tickets in the game.
Viewing it this way, this EuroGold probably has more functions than conventional game currency.
Eight people looked at each other,
Brother Dao: "Shall we start?"
Brother Ni: "Let’s do it! We’ll split into two groups, two players each, with money fronted by veteran players. We’ll distribute after task settlement."
Silver-haired Natural Curl: "Why do I feel it’s kind of dangerous. Pioneering is most likely to get us killed. Without weapons, if we encounter wild creatures, we’re just asking to be fed."
Bigshot: "Is the weapon issue not solvable? Let Brother Ni make something out of leftover scrap!"
"Got it, got it. I made a few rough ones yesterday, just need to sharpen them now."
Called upon, Brother Ni immediately turned to process leftover materials. There’s a five-hour limit per job, if he hurried he might get to go through a second dungeon run today.
Lin Miao was very lenient in this regard; players could do anything they wanted with cut-off scraps. Perhaps they might even surprise him.
Players have always been the type to act upon their words.
Immediately renting two cars from Lin Miao for 200 EuroGold, taking on two tasks and acquiring two drone bees that came equipped with the task, and spending money on two handguns and bullets.
And with solar panels providing power, the knife grinder on the processing table and the gun cleaning station’s efficiency improved considerably. Brother Ni managed four straight knives and some armor in less than half an hour.
Though neither of the equipments counted as grey gear, just an iron knife and a piece of iron plate hung on the chest.
But it didn’t hinder the players from unleashing an awe-inspiring momentum after donning this scrap.
"Men kill, women spare! Ha ha ha!"
"Top-notch racket! Yoru shiku!"
Except for Bigshot and Brother Dao who were driving, the silver-haired Natural Curl and the other six players all leaned out from the passenger seats, holding chains or long knives, letting out ’Oh Oh’ weird screams.
In the gaming world, this group of people didn’t care about their self-image, completely letting loose.
The apocalyptic aesthetics Lin Miao most dreaded appeared, not on the enemies but on the players.
He feared what kind of ghosts they would turn into after allowing vehicle paint jobs and modifications in the future.
As the eight players drove off in two cars, the originally bustling town suddenly quieted down.
Leaving only Lin Miao and Pandora tapping away at a keyboard in the office.
Earlier some players were curious about what Pandora was doing, but a big string of code almost made them faint. Even Brother Dao, Brother Ni, and Potato couldn’t understand a thing she was doing.
Lin Miao crossed his arms and looked at this net-addicted girl, asking, "How’s it going, discovered anything?"
A disconnected computer couldn’t discern a thing.
After the conversation, Pandora halted her hands, raising her head towards Lin Miao
"All unknown codes and running logic, unknown programming languages, computation more than anything I’ve seen before..."
She tilted her little head, "Did you create it yourself?"
When faced with uncertainty, just let AI handle it. Modern AI has grown beyond programmers’ capacity, no one knows how these digital gods evolve. Think everyone’s like Bartmos, those freaks?
Hearing this, Pandora deflated immediately, shrinking into a tiny ball on the chair.
Lin Miao really had no solution to this, totally clueless. Only other hackers might, like Lucy.
But how could he lure Lucy here?
Buying books or chips is overthinking
Know that hacker training tutorials are banned; you could buy a hundred guns and no one would care, but if you dare reveal hacker talent publicly, odds are someone from a company would knock at your door.
"Take your time, I’ve got some things to handle."
With eight players driving off, Pandora’s meager physical strength of three was left without any work, so let her be.
Installing surveillance, upgrading machine guns at watchposts, these tasks fell on him.
What kind of game developer and planner literally goes hands-on to move bricks?
As the target drew closer, Wildman also reminded the two new players in the rear compartment
"Just a heads-up for you two: remember to block your sense of smell, and lower your pain perception, or you’ll be overwhelmed at the place; don’t blame me then. Plus, don’t bring other game experiences into this; here, health bars are realistic. I got slashed twice by wild creatures the day before yesterday. If it weren’t for being promptly brought back after staunching the blood, I might have achieved the server’s first death."