This Game Is Too Realistic

House: "Sinking in a beautiful dream, perishing in madness... This is probably the most realistic portrayal of the survivors of Dawn City. A fish-selling company was sold to 25 billion silver coins by them, and the entire alliance together did not have that much money. , This is much more expensive than the S coins used to destroy Boulder City!”

"It can be seen that they have not learned the painful lessons of Boulder City at all. Instead, they treat garbage as treasure and hold it in their hands, while the real treasure is treated as garbage and discarded like old shoes."

"The greatness of Boulder City was not because of the chips, but because of the hard-working workers! But the alliance paid those guys... Well, I mean if people have income without working, which fool will still work? They They are using wrong methods to turn these hard-working people into lazy people and drunkards!”

"I'll just put it here. Sooner or later, the alliance will collapse. Anyone with silver coins in their pockets will regret it in the end. That's a matter of time!"

Leader (applause): "So Mr. House, what do you think is the right thing to do?"

House: "Mr. Sigma is quite good. Although the Firestone Group has taken over the most profitable industry in Bugra, that gentleman will not be stupid enough to pay dividends to shareholders... Of course, I mean this is a good thing, Firestone The group's benefits have been quietly infiltrated into the pockets of everyone in Bugla, feeding the entire settlement instead of enriching the wallets of a handful of shareholders. The loss-making financial report is the best proof. They all benefited. He loses money, but he works conscientiously! Mr. Sigma is an unknown philanthropist and a real good person who is not good at winning people's hearts!

Manager (sound of drinking water): "I also think Mr. Sigma did the right thing, but you can't evaluate that gentleman... Well, our interview ends here. Today's topic is Baiyue Company , please ask the next interviewee..."

Soft music played on the radio at the bar, and the host started interviewing the next victim of the Boulder City bankruptcy case.

The recent tragedy in Dawn City has stung the residents of Bugra. They need to give these children with heart and liver injuries some mental massage to lower their blood pressure.

After all, the Alliance and Bugera are too close. Heaven and Hell are actually the same province, and there are frequent business contacts between them. It is inevitable that there will be some gossip.

This is true for each other.

For example, now, the radio in Boulder City can hear this broadcast.

The residents of Boulder City are all too familiar with that distinctive drake voice.

"Sometimes I don't quite understand... Did this guy really listen to what he said seriously?" The middle-aged man sitting at the dining table eating breakfast made a helpless expression.

It was his suggestion to see how Mr. House was doing, but now he regretted changing the channel.

Listening to that guy barking is better than listening to the battle report from the front line. Although the back line is a bit boring, it is not that boring at least.

The waiter who came over with the dinner plate shrugged his shoulders and placed a palm-sized piece of barbecue ribs on the table.

"I don't know, but we seem to have collapsed again. After all, it's morning now."

"Ha ha ha ha."

The waiter made everyone laugh, and the dining workers burst out laughing, and several people almost choked.

This is the Walnut Tavern near the industrial area of ​​Boulder City. The old signboard looks like it has some signs of age.

In the past, workers at the cannery were used to coming here to smoke cigarette butts and drink low-quality wine mixed with water, but now they are used to ordering a 3-silver-coin beef rib before going to work to keep their energy up. From 8 a.m. to noon maintain the best condition.

After all, there are only a few drunkards who get drunk early in the morning. Most people still need to be decent, especially after they have savings and families.

It was only after they had everything that they realized that the so-called quality, elegance, decency and other messy things were not the specialty of the nobility at all, but were just made up by those who got something for nothing in order to suppress them mentally. List of lies.

They themselves can see it most clearly. After their lives get better, they know more about integrity and etiquette than the old nobles.

At least they will not use money to humiliate their own compatriots, nor will they ask for privileges that are above the dignity of others.

Although the streaming media in the Bugla Free State are accustomed to calling what happened in Boulder City the "Great Bankruptcy of Boulder City," the residents of Boulder City themselves prefer to call it the "Great Revolution of Boulder City."

For example, House, who is now invited to complain on the radio, is the "victim" of that revolution.

Looking at the co-workers who were laughing at House, only one person showed a slightly affectionate look.

When Joey and Lovett led people to occupy the radio station, he was among them. When he let House go, he clearly saw the expression on that guy's face.

"Actually, I don't hate him. That guy is also a pathetic person, and he is even more pathetic now. We were all hamsters in a cage. We finally broke free of the cage and were able to run outside the rollers, but he But he hurriedly got into the new cage before dawn...I have to admit, we really scared him at the time. "

The studio was just another kind of assembly line, and the person in charge obviously didn't respect House very much, and it was even less likely that Sigma was praised by him.

The people sitting at the table looked at each other.

"I can't recognize you, at least in my opinion, that guy is not worthy of mercy. He never said a good word for us, and only in the end did he say that he was forced. And now, he also㱗Lying, this guy has never reflected on it.”

"That's right, if he really felt that he was wrong, he wouldn't have escaped from here. Isn't there a saying that people who lie are not afraid of their lies being exposed. What they are afraid of is that someone will remember that he lied, and everyone here Remember them all.”

These words have been recognized by many people, but not all.

"...But because of this, I think it's understandable that he escapes. We have enacted laws, but there are too many people who hate him. Even if we don't persecute him systematically, we can't stop him from losing control of his emotions. Friends threw bottles at him and even shot him in the back of the head."

The noisy argument continued until the bell rang. A group of workers threw away their cups and plates and headed towards their workplace.

In the past, they had to arrive at the cannery on time when the bell rang, but the workers' union believed that "workers don't have watches, and they only know the time when they hear the bell after leaving home" and "you can work energetically only when you are full." Therefore, factories are required to either provide free working meals or allow workers 20 minutes of commuting time.

Although the reason sounds a bit absurd, the industrial association finally chose the "lesser of two evils" and gave the workers a twenty-minute "paid commute" in exchange for not affecting the production plan and not drinking before work. " time.

For factories, just getting these drunkards to drink less can already increase production capacity quite a bit.

As for those workers, even if it is to maintain the dignity they have finally won, they will be a little more serious when working.

However, what no one expected was that the biggest beneficiaries of the bargaining between the Workers' Association and the Industrial Association were the breakfast shops and vendors pushing food carts around the industrial area, so that some pubs that were closed in the morning even became 18 hours or even 24 hours.

Longer business hours mean that more employees are needed, otherwise expensive overtime wages have to be paid. Therefore, even Boulder City, which has the least shortage of people, is experiencing a labor shortage.

A constant influx of survivors from the giant wall filled the gap, especially immigrants from Borneo and the central provinces, most of whom started by washing dishes.

However, that doesn't mean everything.

For example, Niyang is a special case.

㱗While most people were washing dishes and getting ID cards, he immediately came up with the idea of ​​paid work and hired citizens of the Union to be his boss.

not only that.

While the stupid wolf guard was still thinking of ways to make the Duke happy, he had already come up with a brilliant idea - to open a newspaper of his own to write about the things Duke Galava liked to read.

This was actually very easy, and he didn't even need to use up his brain cells to think about it, because House had already thought it out for him. All he had to do was hold his nose and copy the nonsense that guy was talking about in the studio onto paper, and then add some condiments to it. Just go to Duke Galawa's table.

The name of this newspaper is "Shuguang Yongyuan Street News". Shuguang naturally refers to Shuguang City, and Yongyuan Street Subway Station is the historical place name of Qingquan.

No one would know that this newspaper was just a sleazy little newspaper, because it would not be distributed to the public.

This is actually a small loophole in the alliance's laws, just like when he first obtained his identity.

Only publicly distributed newspapers need to be certified by industry committees, and the newspaper he runs is read only by the Duke of Galawa and the staff of the Xilan Imperial Embassy, ​​and is published in the name of office supplies, even [Entertainment News] 】 There is no need to add the logo.

In fact, "Shuguangyuan Newspaper" was not registered in the name of a newspaper at all. The business category was filled with office appliances and baby products.

It's just that the name is Baozhen.

Of course, due to the Shuguang City authorities' ruthless suppression of honest people who dare to tell the truth, the survival of "Shuguangyuan Newspaper" is in jeopardy, and it needs the sponsorship of well-wishers to continue telling the truth.

Niyang asked the editor in charge of typesetting to leave the bank card number for receiving donations on the last page of the newspaper.

Sure enough, his newspaper received "anonymous donations" one after another.

Sometimes the signatures of these donations are "the supreme giant of White Elephant City", sometimes "the kind and caring elephant poet", and "the boatman who fights for equality on the eternal river", but Niyang is more important than anyone else. It is clear that these vests are actually the same person.

After all, there is only one person in the entire Xilan Empire Embassy who can read "Shuguangyuan Newspaper" from beginning to end.

What's more, every time he went to the bank to make a payment, he went there on behalf of Duke Jarawa.

If it weren't for the bank's order execution, he would have skipped the step of sending money.

Occasionally, the Duke of Jarawa would be so excited by the newspapers that he would be asked to make a telegram of the imminent collapse of the alliance and send it to Tiandu in Borneo, so that he could share the simple joy with the respected Lord Wutuo. .

However, neither Duke Galawa nor His Majesty knew that the entire report was started by his loyal servant himself from beginning to end.

"You are playing with fire, my boss... Dawn City is not Boulder City. People here will not tolerate anyone making fun of their respected management. Even the most outrageous Goblin Observer will not make fun of a living god. "Looking at the increasingly outrageous content in the newspaper, the editor in charge of typesetting shook his head and looked at the man standing by the blinds and said.

He is a recent immigrant, has not experienced previous love, and has not even obtained an ID card yet. His feelings for managers are not as fanatical as ordinary people, but only ordinary respect.

After all, after seeing Sigma's hypocrisy, he realized how good a leader who truly cares for his subordinates is.

But the guys in Dawn City don't think so. Their feelings towards the management are just like the residents of Luoxia Province towards the "Spirit of the Sand Sea".

Niyang didn't have a haircut, he just looked through the gap in the blinds in the direction of Embassy Street not far away, and said in a very soft voice.

"No one understands the league better than me, and no one understands management better than me... I am his true fan. As long as we don't foul, there is nothing wrong with us."

The editor said with a wry smile.

"You must have never heard of the Hindison case."

He had heard of it before coming to the Alliance. After all, the TV stations in the Bugla Free State often used this article as a seal to mock the freedom of the Alliance.

Niyang continued slowly.

"Of course I have heard of it. I even watched the verdict in court and studied the file carefully. On the other hand, you, who probably only know the name Hindison, think you have seen through the entire alliance. In fact, you and your hometown Just like the guys in the Bugla Free State, they lost their sense of taste after drinking too much sewage, and they can’t live without simple definitions and labels.”

The editor was obviously not convinced, but because the other person was the boss, he suppressed his temper and asked.

"Isn't it true? He asked the Guards to arrest that guy."

Niyang looked at him and said with a smile.

"Then what do you think would have happened to the guy named Cindyson if he hadn't done this? This is a wasteland. The law can punish people who make mistakes, but it can't resurrect the dead. I bet, let alone sit down On the train to Yi's house, if the Guards had not arrived in time, he would not have even been able to walk out of the hotel alive. "

The editor laughed and said, "According to what you say, can he still be protecting that guy?"

Niyang said with a smile.

"Protect that guy? Haha, as expected, I am the only one who truly understands that gentleman... What he protects is neither Hindison nor the guys who are booing in his name, but the order of the alliance."

In fact, it was also the Hindison case that caused the citizens of the Alliance to burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm, spontaneously participate in the work of the Congress, and improve the formulation of a series of laws, such as methods to regulate the newspaper industry, etc. .

Neither the Emperor of Xilan nor Sigmar of the Free State, he channeled people's fanaticism and loyalty to the right place.

And this is what Niyang admires most about him.

Looking at the speechless editor, Niyang continued.

"Just do as I say. That gentleman is not a stingy person. I have told you a long time ago that our job is to cheat, and I also need Duke Galawa's money, and I also need him to continue to be stupid. In addition, I have to do a lot of things, not only to improve my life... but also to do a little better. "

In fact, after staying in Dawn City for a period of time, his mentality has undergone some changes, especially after reading "Awakening of Boer".

He could never forget those words——

"The visible Stephen can be destroyed, but the invisible Stephen cannot be destroyed. We are their ghosts, and they are our ghosts."

Those words were like an enlightenment, which suddenly made him realize that what he needed in the province of Borneo was not the man he admired.

There is no point in being angry with Duke Jarawa. There is more than one White Elephant City in Borneo, and there is more than one duke. What's more, this duke also has a lot of wives and a lot of sons. He can pass the title down from generation to generation.

If you want to get rid of a nest of cockroaches, you can't just focus on one cockroach.

If I really anger him to death, not only will the Xilan Empire not change, but it will regain its glory because it has lost a fool who has nothing but blood.

This is possible. After all, there are not many guys who can attract hatred like Duke Galawa. He can't make the foreign minister of the alliance slam the table in anger, but that guy can make Benno, an ally, even without acting. Captain Tewan showed a look of disgust.

(In the end, if Duke Galava dies, he will lose the only tool he can use to make a profit.

Therefore, instead of irritating him with the "Goblin Observer", it is better to use a pacifier to coax him like a baby and let him immerse himself in the sweetness of milk and honey.

The Duke of Gallava will never know where his money is.

He will use that money to sponsor the "Daily Survivor" newspaper in Fries Harbor and sponsor the Moon Clan who escaped from Camp Rowell to publish it in Golden Gallon Harbor, West Sail Harbor, and wherever a spark can be ignited. More from Survivor Daily.

Not only does he provide money, he will also contribute articles to the "Daily Survivor" of Chip Harbor, just like Mr. Sberg who wrote "Boll the Awakening".

For this reason, he specially visited Boulder City, visited those who experienced the change, and even had a chat with Mr. Malvern, the gray-haired librarian of Boulder City. He also read the draft of the chronicle written by the old man for Boulder City.

He and the old man agreed that it was Hal's "Daily Survivor" that ignited the fire of enlightenment, and Sperger's "Boer the Awakening" united the suffering poor people of Boulder City.

The change has actually begun before everyone realizes it, and it is already too late by the time Mr. Sid tries to nip it in the cradle. As for chips, S-coins, economic overheating and other series of crises, they are just the fuse that finally lights the powder keg, speeding up the process and saving a few lives.

If there had not been that cultural enlightenment, no matter how many people died that night, there would have been no one. Boulder City would always have been Boulder City.

After talking with the old man, he had already found a way to change the Xilan Empire.

Just when the Duke of Jarawa, as the "Supreme Giant of Xiang City", generously poured money into the "Shuguangyuan Newspaper" and was complacent, he had already written the pen names "Mr. Rat" and "Big Horned Rat" on French fries. The Hong Kong newspaper wrote the things he hated most - "The Emperor's Carriage" and "A Thousand "Needles".

Compared with Sperger, he has a slight advantage. Both his literary talent and knowledge are much richer than that of a cannery worker, and the most important thing is that he does not start with literacy.

Thank God, whether it was out of noble dignity or because he was too lazy to write love letters to the noble ladies, Duke Jarawa hired tutors for all his servants. Even a naive guy like Bablu can write. , let alone him.

Looking at the editor sitting at the desk working conscientiously, Niyang stood in front of the blinds and picked up the tea cup and took a sip.

Looking at the manuscript slandering the manager, he didn't feel any emotion in his heart, but at this moment his eyes lit up, and he suddenly had some inspiration, and he thought with a smile.

"Actually, what House said makes sense. 'Lazy' Boulder City is doomed to destruction, and poverty is the best way to maintain progress... Let me think about it, the next article will be "Red Earth"."

Except for the city of a thousand pillars, nothing can touch the deepest souls of the survivors of Borneo more than the "red earth"...

…

Since the "War in Heaven" was mainly fought by the residents of the Sanctuary on the front line, and most of the war effort was borne by all parties in the Alliance, the Alliance residents far behind did not actually feel the pain of life. Big impact.

On the contrary, because the war brought orders, the factories in Lipa City and Boulder City started operating in three shifts again, just like they did during the battle of Luoxia Province.

But the difference is that the alliance is different from the past in terms of productivity and abundance of materials.

In order to attract migrant workers to work in their factories, each factory tried its best, not only promising them free housing and insurance, but also offering them higher wages than each other.

Especially for those workers with skills and experience, those factories are eager to provide education for their next generation, and the treatment is more ridiculous than the other, which is an exaggeration.

As for those factories that try their best to attract foreign workers, they can only think of two directions: "improving productivity" or "bringing in foreign labor."

Some old production lines with high manual participation are slowly being phased out in favor of production lines with higher levels of electrification and automation.

Due to Xizhou's controllable fusion reactor, the alliance's energy resources are very cheap, and there are experts from Camp 101 and students trained by them to help with automation.

In addition, with Borneo as a "pond" that can accommodate backward production lines, a series of equipment such as sewing machines and pot machines have a place to go.

The residents of the Alliance, especially the residents of Dawn City, have used their own hard work and wisdom to eliminate the wasteland around them to a certain extent.

Chu Guang didn't expect much from them. He just hoped that they would continue to maintain their life, live their own lives well, and influence other wastelanders in the wasteland within their ability... It was enough...

The front line of Haiya Province.

Today, the front line is still grinding meat as usual. The only difference is probably that those cute people who have adapted to death are becoming more and more skilled at grinding meat.

The changes that happened to them were very obvious.

Players who used to be able to kill more than a dozen or twenty bacterial variants in one life would easily hit three digits even if their levels did not change much.

Attributes only affect one aspect of combat effectiveness, and are not the only determining factor.

This is probably the most realistic part of the game.

Chu Guang, who was on the Heart of Steel, received two reports from distant places.

One of the reports came from Camp 101, and the report was written by Xiaoyu.

The report mainly describes the current situation of Baiyue Company and the opinions of the expert team of Camp 101, including the current problems in the field and the loopholes that need to be repaired, etc.

Chu Guang was quite satisfied with this report.

Not only because the report was written so that he could understand it even with half a bucket of water in his stomach, but also because he could see the growth of a small fish between the lines of the report.

Thanks to the scholars at Camp 101, the little girl did not waste her talent for being sensitive to numbers, and she also found a career that she was passionate about.

It was a wise decision to let her follow Pai to Camp 101 for further study.

After all, if she were by her side, she would be able to learn a quadratic function and bulk economics even if she died.

As for the more difficult things, he himself would have to seek advice from professionals.

Looking at Juan Xiu's handwriting on the tablet, Chu Guang sighed with some emotion.

"Time flies so fast. In the blink of an eye, the little fish has grown up."

Xiaoqi, who was sitting on the pen holder, nodded slightly and said with her cheeks in her hands.

"Yes...it feels like it was just yesterday that you taught her arithmetic and literacy."

Chu Guang coughed lightly.

"...That's not the case."

Although he does occasionally feel as if he is separated from others, it is a bit exaggerated that this guy is not sensitive to time.

With a flick of his index finger, Chu Guang put this report aside for the time being and read the second report.

This report comes from the Social Science Data Collection Division of the Science Expedition Team, and was written by Ms. Han Ziyue, who is investigating local cultural and customary phenomena in Jingallang Port.

He was not very familiar with the name. He only remembered that the Thorn Corps discovered the "Little Popsicle" in Pioneer City, and it once belonged to Vault No. 288.

The situation in the Great Desert is different from other areas. It has withstood the "big collapse" of the entire space elevator and even the terminal orbital space station. It is the most complex place in the wasteland, and the same is true for the shelter there.

For example, the administrator's log of Shelter 288 was lost, the door opened early, and a series of other incidents. In addition, the various situations that happened to Han Ziyue were quite similar to Heya, and the report on her life spanned a total of 5 pages.

In short, something seemed to have happened in a place he didn't know about, and this Ms. Han was influenced by Rama, the commander of the Thorn Corps, and became interested in the great migration of survivors that had occurred in the Borneo province.

Her job is not only to investigate what happened in the past, but also to observe the changes that are taking place in Golden Gallen Port.

Since they found a lot of good things at the Governor's Mansion in Golden Gallen Port, the scientific expedition team was quite supportive of her project, and Chu Guang also paid attention to the report she submitted.

There is no shelter in Borneo, but there are a large number of survivors.

In a sense, her research filled in the missing manager's log for them.

[...Under the influence of Baiyue Company, the Jingallan Port authorities used the foreign exchange reserves of Emperor Xilan to build a large number of schools and night schools for young people in the settlements, and promoted similar obligations as those in Shuguang City. The education bill has improved the local literacy rate to a certain extent.

Influenced by the increase in the literacy rate and the citizens of the South China Sea Alliance who went to the area to teach, some artistic works of music, painting, and text began to appear in Golden Gallen Port.

Local residents are not only actively pursuing a better life, but are also actively exploring theories other than "thousands of races and thousands of gods", and are trying to criticize and decompose some outdated and feudal traditions and concepts. "Gods do not exist." "This concept has become popular among some progressives, and this is what surprises me the most.

According to common sense, the local conservative forces should be more deeply rooted than the Lion Kingdom and the Hump Kingdom, but the result is exactly the opposite in my opinion. In this "Cultural Activities", "Look East" quickly became a consensus among the upper and lower classes, just as they had looked West before. The conservative forces that were supposed to confront the progressive forces did not play a role at all, but unexpectedly complied. After judging that they could no longer resist, the conservatives immediately surrendered.

I think this is not due to some kind of capitulationism or xenophobia, nor is it true surrender, but more like "tolerance" integrated into the cultural attributes of local survivors.

The endurance of local survivors is something I have never seen in other settlements. Farmers in Jinchuan Province do not dare to do this to their own serfs, but they are used to it.

Not only that, their "endurance" is as deep-rooted as their "stubbornness" which is rarely shown in their character. It is impossible for these survivors to change themselves easily, but they are not reluctant to bow their heads and make changes. Looks like.

Just like the old nobles who imitated the Alliance to dress and eat, they immediately drew a clear line from their loyalty to His Majesty and the Governor. They were extremely cooperative with your subordinates, and tried to appear more progressive, more diligent and studious than the pro-Alliance faction.

You may think this is a good thing, your subordinates may think it is irrelevant, but I still have to express my different opinions. That hidden force is more like disguised blood hiding in blood vessels and pus. They are waiting for an opportunity. Once they find an opportunity, they will immediately change their identity and block the original leaky window. Make it harder for the wind to blow in.

Of course...everything has two sides. Even if there are a series of hidden worries, the series of revolutionary measures implemented by your subordinates in the local area are worthy of recognition, and the results they have achieved are obvious to everyone.

At present, my research is still continuing, and there may be some omissions. I hope I am just overthinking.

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Chu Guang read the report to the end, touched his chin, and wanted to reply with "Sociology +3". He thought that the report was written by an NPC, but finally replied with "Read".

He looks at the problem from a different perspective than Fang Chang, and certainly from a different perspective than the Alliance scholars.

She said that the problem existed, he could see it, and as she herself had mentioned in her report, the local survivors were spontaneously seeking progress under the influence of the residents of Vault 404, and they were Exploring the hidden dangers buried deep in their cultural nature will not change even without progress.

It's not that sitting and talking doesn't hurt your back. It's destined to be a difficulty that the local survivors have to overcome on their own.

Even if Han Ziyue pointed out the problem, it was too difficult for him to do anything.

Other players have already done a lot, and any further step would be too much.

He believed that Fang Chang had actually noticed something.

Sitting on the pen holder, Xiao Qi looked at him and made a playful joke.

"Master, you said before that you were not very optimistic about the practices of those players, but they seem to be doing pretty well, right?"

Chu Guang made a helpless expression and stretched out his index finger to turn off the report coming from behind.

"You have been following me for so long, you should know that my judgment is not always correct."

Unexpectedness is the normal state of life, and only gods are omniscient and omnipotent.

If he could really be that great, why would he need so many experts and scholars?

He did all the work by himself.

And it's too early to draw conclusions.

What surprised him was that his unintentional words made Xiao Qi freeze there for some reason, and her movements of shaking her calves stopped.

There was a glimmer of hope in those pupils, and it seemed like an illusion.

Looking at it stunned, Chu Guang frowned slightly and tapped its head with his index finger.

"What's wrong? Are you stuck?"

"No..." Xiaoqi came back to his senses and looked at him, then showed a smile, "Nothing... As expected of the master, Xiaoqi's intellectual plug-in was beating so hard that it almost burned down."

As it spoke, it swung its calves again and looked at him with full eyes.

Chu Guang made a helpless expression.

It's okay to burn it.

I always feel like this guy is talking more and more.