Chapter 32 - 31 Hunter
After Maya assigned the morning shift work, the brief meeting concluded. Maya also had private conversations with a few individuals, and Stone, bearing the mindset of a boss, listened in for a while before walking away. In Stone’s view, tactical training was dry and tedious.
For the day shift, everyone donned raincoats and got into the vehicle, escorting Su Shi to the commercial street to crack the Huarong Road puzzle. At this time, Lin Wu couldn’t rest either; he and Stone were responsible for guarding the base. After this morning’s meeting, Stone had everyone bring back any textual materials they could easily carry, as a boss doesn’t need to work in reality, but in the game, it’s different. Other than driving, Stone couldn’t do much else, and he was quite content with his ability to fill in as an intelligence analyst.
Lin Wu sat by the campfire, watching the pumpkins Tangtang had planted. They grew incredibly fast, bearing fruit just overnight. However, fruiting or not didn’t matter as long as they were planted, they would provide the base with food ingredients every day at 8 am.
As Stone boiled water for tea, he saw Lin Wu looking at the pumpkins and said, "The food situation is relatively optimistic; we still have four days’ worth of food supplies. The Maya Farm Base direction has abundant food and gasoline reserves. Even so, the consumption of 9 food units per day is somewhat alarming." As maintenance costs, the medical room consumes one unit of medical resources per day, and several buildings combined consume one unit of construction resources per day. These are minor issues, as a basic pack can yield 4 units of resources. Only the amount of food consumed is hard to accept.
Stone said, "If we completely deplete the food resources nearby without achieving self-sufficiency, we’ll be in big trouble."
"Can’t we trade for resources?" Lin Wu suggested, "There are many players near the Former Shadow Base now, and a few have Skill Books. Do you think we could trade for some Agricultural Skills Books?"
Stone asked, "Trade with what?"
Lin Wu replied, "Guns."
Stone shook his head repeatedly, "We only have three guns at the moment. We still don’t know the intensity of the sieges, and if we trade away the guns now, what will we defend our home with?"