Conquering alien worlds starts from the game

"Caroline?" Allen was surprised, he thought Caroline was on his side, "What's wrong with you, are you serious?"

"I didn't ask you to listen to me." Caroline said quickly, "You all know, Alan, Simon, my mother has been looking for a blind date for me since last year, and I decided to resign this year Come back, you don’t have to be like me.”

Such an excuse obviously cannot convince Alan, this young man who is only one year younger than Caroline shook his head repeatedly: "This is not your truth, Caroline, we have been playing since we were young, and we are going to serve you as a restaurant We only parted ways when the waiter waited."

Caroline sighed, they were all her childhood playmates, she didn't want Allen to misunderstand that she didn't support him, but she didn't want Allen to think that she liked to lie, so she said: "I just... I really intend to stay Come on down, really Ellen. I understand your concern, and I do too, but... given the choice, I'd rather stay in town."

After a pause, this 23-year-old girl showed a bitter smile that didn't match her age: "When we met before, I said I was fine too, it was a lie, it was just because I couldn't let go of face. I'm...I'm sick of working in a restaurant, I'm sick of it."

"You may not understand that my job is not as simple as working hard. Let's put it this way, there will always be boring men who will look at you with critical scrutiny, say something irritating without politeness, even in person. Talk loudly about how much a small-town girl like us is worth paying for."

Caroline spread her hands and said irritably: "If someone points at me and says, look, that girl is from Westham, then everyone around will laugh, as if I'm a living person just standing there." joke."

"And we're not allowed to get angry or panic, that would bring down the class of a fine dining restaurant. If you even dare to cry, then you're screwed, your salary will be cut two notches, you'll be sent back to the kitchen, from doing the dishes. Let’s start working.” Caroline said angrily, “It’s just commonplace for people to touch their buttocks and pinch their waists unexpectedly. Who made us waiters in high-end restaurants wear eye-catching short skirts.”

"You always say that it's so easy to earn money by serving dishes in such a beautiful big shop... In fact, I have wanted to change with others countless times." Caroline With a wry smile, he swept across the astonished faces of his childhood playmates, "I would rather stay in a dusty workshop in sweaty and dirty clothes, really, I really want to."

Allen's complexion changed several times, and he wanted to say something, but finally shook his head.

Yes, working in a factory is not pleasant, the heavy physical labor and the strict workshop supervisor are all annoying, especially part of the salary has to be handed over to the trade union that has never seen anything done for them, which is even more frustrating People feel angry.

But... the factory does not accept everyone. Like the leather factory where he and Simon have worked for several years, only male workers aged 16 to 40 are required, neither older nor female.

"Staying in Westham, at least no one will laugh at me because I'm from Westham. In addition, Mr. Rex's salary is really fair." Caroline finally said, "Ray The mayor of the undead town appointed by Mr. Kess is willing to recruit even those who come out of the brothel to be clerks, and he does not refuse women to work as sanitation workers and odd jobs. I think I can always find a job."

Allen sighed, knowing he couldn't convince his companions.

"Let's stay together, Alan." Simon said after being silent for a while, "No matter what happens in the future, at least Mr. Rex is the lord of Westham now, isn't he? Even if he will be If the others drive away, then we can at least make some money during this period." After a pause, the young man said seriously, "Believe me, if we are together...we can make a lot of money!"

The petite Benjamin is the youngest among them, just 19 years old this year.Compared with the slightly older Caroline and Alan, he has a better relationship with Simon, who is only two years older than him, and said curiously: "Simon, do you want us to do something with you? "

"Yes." Simon nodded vigorously, and said loudly, "We can be businessmen and take the things that Mr. Rex sells to people and sell them elsewhere!"

Allen, who was opposed to staying before, was shocked: "What are you talking about, where did we get the capital?"

All four of them worked in Inadoli, and Benjamin, who worked the shortest, also worked as an apprentice in a shoemaker's shop for four years, but they really didn't save much money.

The reason is not that they are extravagant, but...the cost of living in Westem is too high, and their salaries have to be brought back by someone to support their family's expenses.

"So we need to make money first." Simon said with bright eyes, "Now many people have bought good fabrics that Mr. Rex asked him to sell to them at a low price. My grandma also used her savings to buy more than 20 meters of fabrics. Hidden in the cabinet. We can find our close people first, persuade them, let them give us the cloth to resell, and give them the cost of the cloth and half of the profit after selling, and we only need the other half of the profit.”

"My grandma bought cloth for only ten copper coins per meter. The fabric can be sold outside for twenty copper coins or 25 copper coins!"

"We help people close to us resell the cloth, and we can earn at least five copper coins per meter of cloth!" Simon waved his arms to his friends in high spirits: "And what do we need to pay? We only need to chip in to rent a car Two carriages will do!"

"Because Nadili wants to collect business tax, then we will sell it in a distant country, or send it to the manor farm! We can sell it for money!"

Allen opened his mouth wide, and Caroline's eyes widened.

Benjamin jumped up happily and hung on Simon: "I want to be with you, Simon! You want to take me!"

Simon laughed, let Benjamin hang on him, and sincerely invited Alan and Caroline: "Come together?"

Allen hesitated for two seconds, gritted his teeth, and stretched out his hand: "Count me in."

"And me." Caroline also stretched out her hand excitedly.

Seeing that the three of them put their hands together, Benjamin hurriedly got off Simon's body, and his two hands that were soaked in shoe polish were tightly held on the backs of the boys' hands: "Me too, me too!"

Simon took out all the money he had on the spot, and discussed with his friends how to rent a car, how to persuade close people to give them cloth for resale...

The four young people discussed livelyly for a while, and Benjamin, the youngest in the grade, suddenly said, "I said, why don't we go to see Mr. Rex and ask him to give us some fabrics for us to ship and sell?"

Simon didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Stop talking stupid things, Benjamin, Mr. Lord is so easy to see."

Caroline said "uh": "This... I heard from my grandfather, Mr. Rex is easy to see... They can see it every day when they receive meals."

"Hey, Caroline, don't you also think that Benjamin's nonsense can work?" Simon didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Benjamin said innocently: "I'm not kidding, my mother always said that Mr. Rex is a very kind gentleman, why not try it."

"I said, can we talk about something serious?" Allen said helplessly.

"Wait, Benjamin's idea is not impossible." Caroline said with bright eyes, "My grandpa also said that Mr. Rex is a generous gentleman he has never met in his life. I believe my grandpa will not Wrong person. And now that Mr. Rex sells such a good cloth to the townspeople at such a low price, he wants the townspeople to trust him, right? Let's ask him, even if he doesn't Will agree, and I don't think he will punish us either."

Alan & Simon looked at each other, a little shaken, and a little bit unreliable to do this...

Caroline is a person with a lot of ideas, and she has blind faith in her grandfather. Seeing that her friends did not insist on objecting, she hurriedly dragged all three of them to the main road in the town.

As soon as the four of them arrived at the intersection, they saw... a long, endless queue lined up on the side of the road.

"What is this doing?" Allen was surprised.

"Should be... recruiting?" Simon looked around and pointed to someone in the team, "It should be, look, my uncle is also in there."

A man in a leather hat standing in the long line heard a familiar voice, turned his head and saw his nephew, and hurriedly waved his hands and shouted: "Simon! You bastard, you ran out of sight early in the morning, you're killing me!" I've been looking for it for a long time! Hurry up and line up at the back, and when there are enough people, you won't be able to take your turn!"

"I'm sorry uncle, I have more important things!" Simon hurriedly dragged his friends and ran away.

"What's the matter with you! Come back quickly!" Simon's uncle stomped his feet anxiously, and was reluctant to get out of the team.

The four young men ran across the long queue across the road for a while, and they could be regarded as seeing the footage of the team—two square tables were set up in front of the gate of the largest clubhouse ever, and several young ladies were busy registering for the queue. Township registration.

Caroline walked closer curiously, and found... those ladies seemed to be from the brothel on this street. Their skin was tanned a lot, but their faces and figures were still very good. It is not something ordinary people can see.

"This is the town hall clerk hired by the mayor of the undead, right?" Caroline couldn't help being a little envious. No matter what the lives of these ladies were, it was Caroline's dream to work in such a decent place.

It's still early in the morning, and the temperature is still not high, but these clerks are already sweating; they quickly register the names of the townspeople, and distribute bamboo chips with long fingers and different symbols on them to those who have registered.

Caroline approached curiously, and heard a lady tell the townspeople who had just received the bamboo slices in a slightly hoarse voice: "This is your work certificate for today, the number on it is today's date, the text It’s your name, remember to keep it safe. After the work is over, the person in charge of the site will ask you to line up and draw a red line on your bamboo slices with a special pen. You can go to the town hall to receive your salary with the bamboo slices with the red line. You can pick it up later, as long as you don’t lose the bamboo pieces.”

Caroline thought about what the clerk said, and nodded silently... If so many people were to write down their names one by one, they would definitely be overwhelmed. It would be much easier to use this kind of bamboo as a settlement voucher—even if it was counterfeited, it would be useless The kind of red line with special strokes can't cheat money.

Caroline wanted to take a closer look, but her friend grabbed her by the collar in time.

"Don't pass by, or you will be misunderstood as someone who wants to jump in the queue." Simon sweated and reminded Caroline to look to the side, those people in front of the line were staring fiercely at this side.

Caroline didn't want to be scolded by others, so she hurried back.

The people who received the bamboo pieces were divided into different groups and taken away in batches by the security guards wearing (former militia) uniforms. Jimmy, who was maintaining order, saw the four of them and waved: "Simon, Allen! What are you doing here, you have to queue up to do odd jobs!"

Jimmy is about the same age as these four young people, and they have played together before. When Simon saw the acquaintance, his eyes lit up and he hurriedly went up to him: "Jimmy, we want to see Mr. Rex!"

Jimmy: "Huh?"

"Who wants to see me?" Among the noisy crowd, a man turned his head strangely.

Across the distance of half a street, the four young people caught off guard...they saw Charlie Rex who had been guessing and discussing for a long time.

While seeing the new lord clearly, the four young men all opened their mouths—so young!

It seems that they are not a few years older than them!

Looks younger than Jimmy who played with them as a kid too!

Rex looked at the three men and one woman, and confirmed that he didn't know each other, so he turned his attention to the security teammate Jimmy who was talking to the four.

"This, this is my friend, who is also from the town." Jimmy introduced nervously.

"I'm Charlie Rex, what's the matter?" Rex smiled gently at the four small town youths.

Caroline, who was standing at the front, ignored her nervousness, and instinctively stood up straight and replied: "Hello, dear sir, I am Caroline Megan, and I, we hope to have a talk with you."

Rex waved his hand to signal Jimmy to return to the team, then smiled and nodded to Caroline: "Okay, come here."

Listening patiently to these brave young people from the small town stuttering and explaining their intentions, Rex couldn't help laughing.

"Of course." Rex said happily, "You don't need to rent a car if you want to do this business. I can rent a tricycle for you. But the price of cloth and rice is already the lowest price now, and the price can't be reduced if you buy it in batches. Do you agree?"

The four young men were so surprised that they almost jumped up on the spot.

"Of course, of course." Caroline said nervously, "But, but we don't have enough capital..."

"The first batch of goods can be credited to you, and you will settle the payment when you come to get the goods again." Rex said kindly, "There is also tax, [-]% of the transaction tax and your personal high income income tax must be paid in full."

"Okay, okay!" Caroline let go and smiled ecstatically, nodding desperately.

"Then sign the contract and get the goods." Rex waved his hand and immediately led the four young people to the town hall.

The four young people who had eaten crabs seemed to be sleepwalking, and they didn't have a strong sense of reality along the way. When they really arrived at the town hall and the contract was placed in front of them, the four people suddenly came back to their senses.

"Can you really give us the cloth?" Simon raised his head foolishly and said dreamily.

"Of course, this is not something you can joke about." Rex took out the red ink from the desk drawer, "Read carefully the terms of the contract, and if there is no problem, sign and press your thumbprint."

Of the four, Allen was literate—his family was better off than the other three, and he had attended school as a child.

But Allen didn't have the courage to read the contract in front of the lord, so he took the red ink and pressed his handprint...

Rex couldn't laugh or cry: "That's not how the contract is signed, come on, let me read it to you."

The four young men looked at each other... dare not refuse.

After going through the contract procedures, getting a copy of the contract, and being led to the town hall's warehouse, when they saw the warehouse full of cloth rolls, the jaws of the four young men couldn't stop dropping...

Half an hour later, the four people who came with empty hands pushed two tricycles full of cloth rolls out of the town hall compound.

After walking for a long time, Simon, who was in charge of the front of the car, turned back with a confused expression on his face: "Guys, we just... got two carts of cloth? Didn't pay a single copper coin?"

Alan was frightened by him, and shouted: "Be sober, Simon, this is not for nothing. After selling the money, you have to settle the payment! All four of us have signed and stamped our fingerprints, and our family members are all in the town. , don't hurt anyone!"

"I'm not so crazy!" Simon said with a smile, "I just can't believe...Mr. Rex is so easy to talk to!"

"Mr. Rex has a lot of cloth." Benjamin swallowed, and said dreamily, "Simon, if we sell all these cloths, will we be able to make a lot of money?"

"Of course!" Said Simon, invigorated, "Mr. Rex said he would give us as much cloth as we could sell, and we've signed the contract—boys, we're going to be rich! "

"I'm going to get rich!" Benjamin jumped up and hung on Simon again.

"Wait, will it be unsafe for the four of us to push so much cloth?" Caroline smirked for a while, and then suddenly calmed down, "Just the four of us carrying so much cloth to a distant village, will it be safe?" won't be robbed?"

Benjamin and Simon, who were in ecstasy, woke up after being frightened by these words.

The nearby villages would come to Westham to buy cloth themselves, and there was no need to buy the expensive goods they sent over.

A little farther away, the village on Inadoli's side... They don't know each other well at all, and they really don't know if they will be robbed!

"Call people." Simon gritted his teeth, "We'll go back and call people, and we'll call everyone who can come... After we sell the cloth, we can settle the wages. We can make less money."

Therefore, none of the four young men dared to leave the two carts, and ran from house to house, looking for relatives and friends...

Caroline's mother, Ms. Winnie, knew that her daughter was brave enough to do business with the lord on credit, and almost fainted.

After further questioning, she found that her daughter had even signed the contract and stamped her fingerprints, and there was no possibility of repentance. Ms. Winnie wished she could faint again.

The reactions of the other three families were similar to those of Megan's family...

What kind of evil did the family in a small town, whose ancestors have lived prudently for generations, raise such a bold offspring who caused such a catastrophe to the family by inattentiveness? !

Others are worried about not getting a monthly salary even when they are employed, but you all dare to do business with the new lord!

In desperation, the elders of these four families had no choice but to hold their noses and call friends everywhere...

Rex didn't know that he thought it was a chance for the young people, but instead caused the four families to jump up and down, and sent the four away, he turned to look for Ji Tang.

There are more than 20 villages in Westham’s territory, the closest of these villages is less than three kilometers away from Westham Town, and the farthest is in the mountains more than 30 miles away; in order to roughly determine the amount of funds that need to be prepared for the unified purchase of autumn harvest, Ji Tang has already informed Rex and asked Rex to spare time to go to the countryside to investigate together.

If it wasn't for his skeleton appearance getting in the way, Ji Tang originally planned to go by himself...

The mayor and the lord, the two local "supreme officials" met, took out the all-terrain mountain bike they had ridden from the town of exile, and one person and one ghost stepped out of the town on the mountain bike.

"The mayors of the villages registered in the town hall are also recorded more than 20 years ago. The former mayor really...during his reign, he never managed other places except Westham Town." On the road, the good-tempered Rex I couldn't help complaining, "I don't know how many times these village chiefs have changed, Ji Tang, what do you think we are going to do to these people?"

"We are new here, and we don't know the situation, so don't rush to make a conclusion, and do a full investigation first." Ji Tang is also used to giving advice on everything, and said patiently, "Even if we really want to rectify the situation in the village, we can't come up with it all at once. Just engage in action, at least until we have a firm foothold and a certain mass base before we consider it.”

Rex was silent for a while, and said: "Can't the undead be the village chief?"

Ji Tang: "...I don't think so."

Brother Lahong fought to get the mayor of the exile town, and he didn't keep his ambition for two days, so he went back to lead the group to kill monsters... I expect players to be able to engage in tedious and boring tasks in the "game" without any sense of accomplishment The administrative work is completely impractical.

Rex struggled for a while, then reluctantly nodded: "Okay... listen to you."

Westham's countryside is similar to the southern villages of Huaxia Kingdom, except that there are no rice fields in sight, and the locals grow more wheat and corn.

This is not to say that there is no rice in this world, but that rice planting has higher requirements for basic water conservancy—even the only town road in a remote country like Westham was built by skin and meat business. Don't even think about it.

After traveling to several villages and meeting some brave local villagers to learn about local farming and mulberry, Ji Tang, who had only grown vegetables two years before joining the army, had countless ideas of going to the countryside to help farmers and the poor. Come……

On the way to the next village, the two riders on the ridge saw a large group of people appearing on the town road to the northeast from a distance.

Rex stopped the mountain bike and stared at the group of people.

The distance is very far, and only a vague outline can be seen, but...you don't need to see too clearly, you can also confirm that this group of people is not good!

Not only are they all riding horses, but they're also wearing shiny armor that reflects the midday sun!

"It's the enemy!" Rex said to Ji Tang solemnly.

Ji Tang also saw the shining armor on the riders.

However, unlike Rex's reaction as if he was facing a big enemy, the first thought that popped up in Ji Tang's mind was: It's a monster.