Doomsday is Online - Chapter 12

March 13, 2023Ai Hrist

Lu Jiu glanced at the endless fields and felt that she was very wise and lucky to find a place where the crops grow so densely.

She doesn’t know how many acres it was, but according to three or four rice plants, 20 catties of rice can be harvested, and it shouldn’t be a problem to feed tens of thousands of people.

Lu Jiu didn’t collect too much, she stopped when she reached 200 catties of rice and then went to collect other things, but Shen Jufeng was still going on, there was no way he didn’t have as much food as Lu Jiu.

When Shen Jufeng finished collecting, he saw Lu Jiu sitting on the ridge in a daze, actually watching the dialogue box.

He remembered that no wild monsters had been attacked here until now: “Aren’t there any wild monsters near the city-state, or even near these fields?”

Because there were too many resources, and people stand scattered, he was not afraid that others will hear it, so he ask.

Lu Jiu nodded absent-mindedly: “The area around the city-state also belongs to the city lord’s territory. If you want to fight wild monsters, you have to walk some distance. People from the other city-state said in the dialogue box that they didn’t find a monster nearby the city, which also explains our state.”

But it doesn’t mean that people can just stay in the city and not go out. If people want to get stronger and get better resources, they must go out.

She remembered something again, and slapped her thigh: “By the way, I forgot to release the city-state mission, but I don’t know what to ask them to do yet.”

Fortunately, it was not necessary to release the task in the city-state. Lu Jiu sat on the spot and operated the panel to release the task, and soon all the residents in the city received the reminder.

【The city lord has released the city-state mission, and if you complete it actively, you can get the corresponding resources. 】

If people want to do the quest, they have to go to the Quest Hall to pick it up, and soon some people took action to pick up the quest.

[Task #1]

Collect rice;

Gather a stalk of wheat.

Mission Reward: Glory Crystal x5.

[Task #2:]

Unlimited time, kill ordinary monsters, reward: Glory Crystal x5;

Unlimited time, kill ordinary enhanced monsters, reward: Dust of Glory x1;

Unlimited time, kill common mutated monsters, reward: Dust of Glory x3;

Killing monsters can effectively counterattack the formation of beast hordes. Everyone is responsible for protecting the city-state.

Note: Each task can only be handed in once a day.

The first task was very simple, but it was very slow to accumulate 5000 contribution points, while the second task was relatively faster. What’s more, everyone knows that killing monsters also benefited them.

Now basically everyone knows what contribution value was for. One glory crystal = 1 contribution point, one glory dust = 2 contribution points, one glory fragment = 10 contribution points, and one glory heart = 100 contribution points.

Zhuang Yun and his daughter were in the mission hall. He accumulated some copper coins on the way to escape, and directly paid the rent for two months. He was safe in the city and he doesn’t have to worry about his daughter’s safety.

The City-state has regulations, people were not allowed to fight. And as long as they were within the territory of the city-state, skills cannot be used, unless it was to attack wild monsters.

If people make a move in the city, the attack will be restricted. However, once they make a move, although it will do 0 damage, they will be banned and driven out of the city. All their assets in the city will be automatically confiscated.

Zhuang Yun saw that task #1 was suitable for his daughter to do, and task 2 was possible for him. He observed that no wild monsters attacked near the city-state, and it was safe to go out to collect materials.

He wanted to fight more wild monsters outside and gets 5000 contribution points as soon as possible to let his daughter become a permanent resident first. He knows that becoming a permanent resident has many benefits, and he can buy a house in a residential area to live in permanently.

He can also open a shop in the city, whether it was selling food, clothing, or anything else, at present everyone, can only set up a stall in the commercial street but have to pay a stall fee. Although it was not expensive, if they can’t sell anything for a day, it was useless to pay the cost.

Anyway, to be a permanent resident was to have a home, and the most important belief of the Chinese was to have a home.

Zhuang Antong quickly accepted Task #1. It was safe to collect materials outside the city: “Dad, come on, hurry up, let’s do the task together.”

Zhuang Yun stroked his daughter’s soft hair, took her hand, and walked out of the task hall, “Okay, after the task is finished, you go back to the city, and Dad goes out to do other tasks.”

Zhuang Antong was only 5 years old, but it may be due to the divorce of her parents. She has always been very obedient and sensible and knew that there were many monsters outside.

Although she was worried, she had seen her father deal with those monsters, and knew that she couldn’t help much: “Okay, then father, you must come back soon.”

This was caused by the current environment. Zhuang Antong understands that their situation cannot be solved by acting like a baby. She just had to think her father was going to work like before.

This was unavoidable, and everyone has to live like this.

Task #1 was too simple, they only had to collect it not far from the city. Some people have already completed the task quickly when returning to the city. As for the collected things, they don’t need to hand them over.

It was the first time they had seen glory crystals. Zhuang Yun and his daughter looked at the glory crystals in their backpack after they finished collecting. They have five glory crystals in total. It was an irregularly shaped golden shining object, which looked like a gem.

“Dad, this is so beautiful.” Zhuang Antong held the crystal in her little hand.

Zhuang Yun put away the crystal, with a gentle smile on his face, “It’s beautiful. You should keep it well. We can settle here after collecting 5,000 contribution points.”

Zhuang Antong nodded her head and carefully put the crystal back into the backpack, “Dad, I have learned the chef skill card. You can eat the meals I cook when you come back.”

Although Zhuang Antong was only 5 years old, she knows a lot of characters. Zhuang Yun taught her so that when she got the chef skill card, she could read the characters directly.

In addition, ingredients and materials dropped after killing the wild monsters. Zhuang Yun has always collected them and put them in his daughter’s backpack.

“Okay, Dad wants to eat rabbit meat, and I will trouble An’an.”

Zhuang Yun believed children could learn more after they do things by themselves. Especially after the world has changed dramatically.

Zhuang Antong smiled even brighter when she heard that: “No problem.”

It was not that they didn’t see children along the way, but almost all the parents closely guarded their children.

A few of them only lose contact with their family members. People with soft hearts shelter these children.

After the dialogue box was opened, those who have a speaker and get separated from their families posted their information through the channel. If they don’t have a speaker, they can only fight monsters and see if they can drop a speaker.

At that time, they also found out that some people were different. They seem to have played this game a long time ago and have a lot of good equipment. Survival in the early stage was not a problem at all unless an accident happens.

Zhuang Yun thought of the girl he met, and the simple rice balls she gave them were sold in the game mall.

Up to now, the dropped items from monsters were ingredients. They can’t eat food directly without cooking.

He and his daughter only ate two of the rice balls before meeting the survival team, and then provided ingredients to those who learned the chef skill card in the team and asked them to make food.

However, making food seems to require talent. Some of the food produced was full of color and flavor, while some were barely acceptable to eat. However, the most important point was, if they can increase physical strength.

When Zhuang Antong was about to arrive in the city-state, she accidentally found a light cluster of cards and got a chef skill card. The three cards the girl gave them were two collection cards and a blacksmith card.

Now Zhuang Antong has learned the collection skill and the chef skill.

Zhuang Yun has learned the collection skill, the blacksmith skill, and the tailor’s skill. These were the only life skill cards he found along the way.