This Game Is Too Realistic-Chapter 301.2: War Preparations

On the edge of Red River Town.

Outside the fence of the Horseshoe Merchants Association, many trucks full of goods slowly passed the wooden sentry post.

Red River Town was different from Clearspring City. There was no unified large-scale survivor settlement there. The owners' mines and businesses all enclosed a piece of land as their compounds and lived a different life to each other.

It was just that compared with the local slave owners, most foreign traveling merchants and mercenaries still preferred to live in the compounds of local merchants.

Although both were untrustworthy, everyone was more worried about being collared and handcuffed while sleeping in the middle of the night than being emptied of their wallets by unscrupulous merchants.

Few people would go to the compounds of the slave owners, but there would always be an endless stream of guests in front of the compounds of the major businesses.

Over time, the latter gradually developed into a post station, and with the increase of the resident population, it gradually became what it was.

Horseshoe Town was considered to be a larger survivor settlement around Red River Town, and it was also closest to Clearspring City.

However, there was an essential difference between this place and the survivor settlement in the traditional sense.

Generally, small and medium-sized survivor settlements were mostly xenophobic. It was just that the degree of xenophobia was different.

However, here, foreigners accounted for 80% of the total population. In fact, it was probably even more!

Sisi, sitting in the driver's seat, had been observing the passing pedestrians. Just looking at their clothes, skin color and demeanor, it was impossible to tell who were locals and who came from other places to do business.

While Sisi was looking at the NPCs, the NPCs standing on both sides of the road were also looking at them.

Especially the truck. It attracted the attention of many mercenaries and traveling merchants.

"Why doesn't that truck have a chimney?"

"I guess it's using batteries."

"Electric truck?! What if it ran out of electricity on the road?"

"Short-distance traveling should be no problem... I recognize this. It seems to be called an Electric Mule, produced by those blue coats in the northern suburbs of Clearspring City."

"Those blue gophers? No wonder they are so smooth-skinned."

"Wait, you said Electric Mule?! The one cost 50,000 silver coins?"

"Yeah?"

50,000 silver coins!

The mercenaries who had been to Dawn City held their breath in unison, envious expressions appeared on their faces.

In the northern suburbs of Clearspring City, 200 silver coins could be exchanged for an assault rifle!

That much money was enough to arm a company of soldiers!

What was even more enviable, and what was even more coveted, was that the back of that truck was loaded with a whole load of light and heavy weapons and ammunition. They were at least twice as valuable as the truck.

What made it even more unbelievable was that the people who were sitting in the front seats in such a truck full of goods were actually two young girls!

Although female mercenaries in the wasteland were not uncommon, they looked completely different.

How in the world did they arrive safely?

"I... I feel like a lot of people are staring at us...” Sesame Paste, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, said in a low voice while tightening the helmet that hid her cat ears.

"Calm down, if they want to watch us, just let them watch. This is a safe zone, we just need to mind our own business." Sisi mumbled as she glanced out of the window.

Although Roshan’s sequence level was not high, and her combat power was hard to describe, her burly figure was still quite intimidating.

Facing a big white bear wearing heavy armor, even ability users would have to go around.

Coupled with the 10mm caliber Maxim II on the roof of the truck, and Tail who couldn't sit still, it was more than enough to deter evildoers.

It had been a smooth journey the entire way.

When they occasionally encountered people who travelled the same way, everyone took a detour after seeing them.

The only threat they had encountered was a pack of wolves that tried to approach them in the dark.

Only Tail and Roshan were online, and the situation indeed became a little dangerous.

Fortunately, Tail reacted quickly. While Roshan bared her teeth to frighten the approaching wolves, she climbed onto the roof of the truck and opened fire while roaring happily.

After dropping more than a dozen corpses, the wolves quickly withdrew.

But honestly, wolf meat was really unpalatable. No matter how they processed the meat, there was always an unpleasant taste.

Later, they sold these prey to the purchase station in Garbage City, exchanged some supplies from local vendors, and then continued on their way.

"Whoa! Is this Red River Town?!"

"It's totally different from Boulder Town! Nobody's afraid of me."

Tail and Roshan were looking left and right excitedly from the moment they passed the sentry post.

There were square mud houses on both sides of the street, a crowded row of peddlers selling goods under the sheds along the street, mercenaries with weapons on their backs shuttling in the narrow street, and traveling merchants holding robes bargaining with buyers.

The other end of the rope was sometimes a machine with a crawler chassis, sometimes a cow full of sacks, and sometimes a person... Or someone with many bionic parts.

Everything there was full of novelty.

The development team behind Wasteland Online wasn't making a game, they were trying to make a real world!

It was just too cool!

Listening to Roshan's speech in the communication channel, a subtle smile appeared on Sisi’s face. "Uh, I think they are actually afraid, but they don't dare to say anything to us... How about you place a rope around your neck and hold it by yourself?"

Roshan immediately protested. "Wait, that's too weird. At least someone else needs to hold it for me."

Sesame Paste raised an eyebrow speechlessly. "...?"

Sisi also turned to look at her with a strange look on her face. "?"

The only one who didn't think that there was anything wrong with this sentence was Tail. Standing on the roof of the truck, she was still immersed in the joy of unlocking the new map.

"Speaking of which, this place is called Red River Town, but why didn't we see any river along the way?!"

Sisi thought for a moment before replying, "Maybe there was one before the war?"

Tail thought for a moment before she continued, "Oh! I see! By the way, I heard that there are a lot of bugs here, and there are also big bugs that are tens of meters long!"

"Bug, bug?! Where?!" Sesame Paste nervously gripped the gun under the seat and looked out the window. But there were no bugs outside.

Tail chuckled to herself before mumbling, "It's not here. I saw it on the forum. Everyone was talking about it."

Sisi added absentmindedly, "Oh. That's so scary."

"Huh! Sisi is so fake!" Tail sneered.

"Okay, okay. I'm driving. The road here is too narrow... Just wait a moment." Soothing the energetic Tail with a coaxing tone, Sisi's thoughts drifted to the official website.

It's said that if one goes all the way to the west and enters the Sunset Province from the River Valley Province, one will see an endless sea of ​​sand to the west.

That sounds much more spectacular than this.

"I should take a look when I have a chance."

The trading post in Horseshoe Town was not far from the main entrance.

Sisi parked the truck next to the unloading point, opened the door and jumped off the truck. After she communicated with the staff next to the unloading point in a poor federation language, a few porters came to help them unload the goods.

The check was done by a man in a leather jacket with a brown scarf around his neck and a cigarette dangling from his mouth.

Sisi also noticed that the man's left arm was a mechanical prosthesis, but judging from the mottled rust, it should have been used for a long time.

Before walking to the side of the goods, the man consciously extinguished the cigarette and stuffed it back into his pocket, apparently intending to continue smoking it later on.

"LD-47 rifles, 88mm mortars, 20mm Lance, KV-1 exoskeletons, and ammunition. These are exactly what we need. But before I give you an estimate, I need to know what you want. Slaves? Or ores? Actual goods? Or do you want tickets?”

The players’ VM would translate some keywords.

Combining her own understanding and the strategies on the official website, Sisi generally understood what he said, and answered in a concise tone, "Ores and goods."

The man raised his eyebrows. "Do you have a quotation?"

Sisi didn't speak, took out a piece of paper from her pocket and handed it to him.

Before setting off from Dawn City, she had browsed other players' posts on the forum, and learned about the market in advance. She had already calculated the materials she planned to purchase and made a list.

Compared to picking and choosing on the spot, and bargaining with locals who had a strong accent when speaking the federation language, she felt that it was more efficient to come prepared.

Besides, bargaining with her lousy federation language might even cause unnecessary misunderstandings. It would be even more embarrassing if the locals found out that they didn’t actually know the market and ripped them off.

The man took a look at the list and frowned slightly. "Copper, nickel, zinc, and sulfur are not a problem, but platinum... We don't have it in stock. You may have to wait until tomorrow. Or I can pay you with tickets for the platinum, and you can take the tickets to the nearby mine and directly get the ore there."

Sisi frowned, and shook her head after thinking for a moment. "We'll have the other ores now. You can send the platinum to the military base of the New Alliance."

The man looked at her in surprise. "Are you from the New Alliance?"

Sisi replied with as few words as possible. "Yes."

A trace of fear emerged in his eyes, the man accepted the list without saying anything, and called his porters to start loading the goods.

Back at the truck, Sisi looked at her teammates and said, "There's been a slight change in plans. There's no stock of platinum, and we have to stay here overnight."

"Stay here?" Tail asked with sparkling eyes.

"Of course not. We need to go back to the nearby save point... By the way, can you even fall asleep here? It's so noisy." Sisi said helplessly.

Tail turned on the VM and opened the map. It seemed that she still didn't know where the New Alliance's military base was.

Sesame Paste asked curiously, "What's that platinum for?"

Sisi replied casually: "It's the order from the chemical plant. Maybe a catalyst for acid production. It is probably used to expand the production capacity of nitric acid."

Tail’s eyes started to sparkle. "Acid production?"

Sisi thought for a moment before she replied, "For the production of smokeless powder."

Roshan looked at Sisi in surprise. "How do you know this?"

Sisi's expression turned a little strange. "Emmm... I didn't understand at first. But after playing this game, I gradually understand everything."

...

Meanwhile...

Horseshoe Town's town center, in the headquarters of the Chamber Of Commerce.

The man sitting in the office frowned slightly as he watched the inventory list handed over by his subordinate. "Sulphur, copper... and platinum, We are out of stock?"

The subordinate standing at the desk nodded. "Mhm, most of them were bought by caravans from Clearspring City."

The man thought for a moment, got up and walked to the wall. He looked at the map on the wall and thought for a long time.

When his eyes fell on the West Continent City in the north of Clearspring City, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he subconsciously clenched his fists. "Very good!"

The New Alliance is going to attack the Bonechewer Clan!

If they successfully capture West Continent City, the Snake Clan stationed in Heavenly Water City will fall into a passive situation of being attacked from both sides.

By then, the pressure on Red River Town will also be relieved!

Of course, he saw much more than that.

If the war machines in the northern suburbs of Clearspring City were fully activated, they would make a lot of money!

"Sir?" the subordinate looked at his back and asked in a low voice.

Averting his eyes from the map, the man didn't explain anything to his subordinate, but only gave a brief order. "Increase the stocks of sulfur and copper. You can leave now."

Restraining his excitement, the man returned to his desk, took out the communicator in the drawer, and called the mine owners who had been doing business with them.

"My friend..."

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