Urban Sims

Chapter 6 The Ceiling Dilemma

Seeing the gray and white walls of the long-lost rental house, feeling a strong sense of hunger in his stomach, Zhou Ming quickly took out a few packets of crispy noodles from the closet, and started to gobble them up with cold water.

The game time of "The Sims" system is not consistent with the time flow of the outside world, because players cannot quit the game halfway, so 20 years have passed in the game, which is equivalent to a day in the outside world.

Fortunately, the system can provide the dormancy function of the host body. During the dormancy period, the consumption of various physiological functions of the player is minimized. Generally, as long as the player stays in the game for no more than 100 years at a time, relying on the dormancy function of the host body, two or three days The gaming experience just feels a little thirsty and hungry.

If the player is really against the sky and the time in the game exceeds the maximum limit of the dormancy function of the body, in order to ensure the health of the host, the system will forcibly terminate the game and bring the player back to reality.

……

After eating three bags of crispy noodles, Zhou Ming sat by the bed, facing the system panel in his mind, thinking about the next step.

To be honest, Zhou Ming thinks that among the three games he has played, apart from the miserable first two games, the development of the third game is still okay. The couple is loving, the children and grandchildren are full, and the end of life. There are also some twists and turns in the middle. The moment was leisurely, but he was quite satisfied with the ending.

This can be regarded as the ending that most ordinary people can accept.

However, looking at the C-level game evaluation and the harvest of a total of 246 achievement points, Zhou Ming knew that if he was willing to be an ordinary person in the game and spend his life honestly and dutifully, he would have the most and no achievement points. It will be more than 300, and it is impossible to have much room for improvement.

Not to mention any counterattack.

What is counterattack?In addition to living long enough, owning more property, gaining high status and prestige, and marrying the woman you want to marry the most!
If you can't do even one of these items, the so-called counterattack can only be fishing for moons from the bottom of the water and clouds in the sky.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Ming opened the [Skills] product column of the system mall, and focused on the three skills.

"[Elementary Farming Technique], after using it, you can get the farming skills of a skilled farmer, crop yield +5%, exchange requirement: 100 achievement points"

"[Elementary Blacksmithing Technique], after using it, you can get the blacksmithing skills of a skilled blacksmith, the speed of blacksmithing +5%, the exchange requirement: 100 achievement points"

"[Elementary Carpentry Technique], after using it, you can get the carpentry skills of a skilled carpenter, tool making speed +5%, exchange requirement: 100 achievement points"

These three skill cards can be said to be the three cheapest among all the products in the system mall.

At present, the balance of achievement points in Zhou Ming's player account just happened to break through 303 points, which is an integer of [-] points.

"【Elementary Farming Technique】Purchased successfully, achievement point -100, bound to the corresponding task map cannot be unbound and cannot be recycled after use!"

"【Elementary blacksmithing technique】purchased successfully, achievement point -100,..."

"【Elementary Carpentry Skill】Purchased successfully, achievement point -100,..."

After purchasing the three skill cards, Zhou Ming's confidence has increased a lot.

In the first three games, Zhou Ming, who has survived for more than 80 years, has skills in farming, blacksmithing, carpentry, and even fishing and hunting. Especially in farming, he is even better than ordinary skilled farmers... But In addition to farming, it is difficult for him to be called an expert in blacksmithing and carpentry. After all, he has never been a professional blacksmith and carpenter in this game. Self-taught.

In the era of ancient agricultural civilization, craftsmen such as blacksmiths and carpenters could be regarded as the "middle class", and they could support a large family just by relying on their pure craftsmanship.

If I can also be a blacksmith and carpenter, and then combine it with my own advantageous project farming, it will be no problem to support the family, and I will definitely be able to accumulate a lot of property!

If the family property is abundant, there will be more offspring to support, and if there are more brothers and sisters, there will be more wasteland that can be reclaimed. After a snowball effect is formed, it is not a problem to get a lot of achievement points!
Enter the game again!

……

Ten days after the real world.

Opening his eyes, Zhou Ming sat up from the single bed.

Click on the game panel.

Mission Map: "Zhang Ergou's Counterattack Life"

Game role: Zhang Ergou
game state: over
Property: 82 (you have 5 mu of paddy fields, 40 mu of thin land, two large bamboo and wooden buildings, and some gold and silver property)
Status: 3 (your possessions give you some status)

Reputation: 16 (You are quite famous, your stories are spread all over the world)
Partner: 1 (you have a wonderful marriage, you accompanied her to the end [+50 achievement points])
Offspring: 26 (Congratulations, you have left behind a considerable number of bloodlines, and your family will continue to multiply for a long time)
Lifespan: 58 (Your lifespan exceeds 88% of the villagers, and you are a rare long-lived person)

Achievements obtained: 496
Game evaluation: B (Your life is like the stars in the sky, although the light is dim, but it shines on the world forever)

Highest achievement: 496 (reach 500 achievement points to open the next level)

"I've played five games in a row, how come I'm still close to breaking 500?"

Zhou Ming frowned heavily. He played five rounds in a row in the past ten days, but he didn't expect that the best round he played was even close to 500 achievement points.

In these five games, except for one game that died early due to a serious illness when he was a child, and one game that was burned to death by the witches invited by the villagers because of his too monstrous performance, the other three games basically went smoothly to the end, and each game They all got more than [-] achievement points.

But 500 achievement points are still like an invisible ceiling, which cannot be broken through.

"Impossible, in the past few games, by farming, blacksmithing, and carpentry, I have earned a lot of property and have many offspring. I have also changed three or four wives, and the cost of food and clothing has never been lower. Lack, I learned how to keep in good health later on, and my life expectancy is longer than before, why?"

Zhou Ming is a little confused. In the game, he has been desperately earning money, opening up wasteland, building houses, having children, continuing to make money, opening up wasteland, buying land, building houses, and having children... There is almost no pause in the middle, all the hard work, and finally It only got a B rating.

"Host, A-level evaluation is not very difficult to get. Please carefully check your six scores during the game. The overall score is not based on which score is high, but which score you have the least."

Seeing that Zhou Ming seems to have fallen into a dead end, the system kindly reminded him.

"Least score?"

Zhou Ming looked at the game panel, and after seeing two slightly thin numbers, he thought for a while and said, "Only two items of status and reputation, I have the least score, so do I have to increase these two scores to successfully pass the level? "

"System, how can I improve my status and reputation in the game?" Zhou Ming asked.

"This system cannot provide an exact method, but the composition of status includes these factors, that is, personal ability, resource support, control of property, and rights granted by the government are related..."

"Reputation is divided into positive reputation and negative reputation, positive, including the good deeds of the player, and the behaviors that have a positive impact; negative, related to the evil and negative actions of the player... "

"That is to say, no matter if I do good or bad things in the game, as long as I make an impact, I can get reputation?" Zhou Ming said.

"So to speak, host."

Zhou Ming nodded if he had realized something, and after thinking about the countermeasures, he said: "System, this time, I know what to do!"

However, before entering the game, Zhou Ming spent 1000 achievement points in the system mall to buy a [Junior Hunting Card]

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