"Side mission: [Locust]"

"Task description: Locusts cover the sky and the sun is colorless, and the wild fields shed tears and blood. They can't catch them even though they hold their clothes and stamp their feet. The big leaves are completely empty and the twigs are broken."

"Mission goal: survive safely for one month (Fang Sanduo, Huang Mei)"

"Mission reward: Mask grid points +50, physical recovery potion (universal)*1 (both Fang Sanduo and Huang Mei successfully survived, random chance of reward*1)"

Fang Yu's eyes lit up when she saw this mission.

He first noticed that the system tasks now included Fang Sanduo and Huang Mei in the task scope!

Before this, the system had always focused on his personal survival.

But obviously after Fang Yu's several choices, the system followed Fang Yu's will and included Fang Sanduo and Huang Mei into task consideration.

Fang Yu can still survive alone, but if he brings these two people with him, his difficulty will increase. But correspondingly, because of this change, a new reward mechanism has appeared in the system!

Random chance*1

This is a reward that has never appeared in previous worlds.

However, according to the settings of the simulator, in each simulated world, the task mechanism and even the rewards that appear in the system will change differently.

Like the first world, the mission mechanism is missions and achievement badges.

The rewards are all skills and so on. The second world cannot be counted because Fang Yu changed the world line.

But in the third world, in addition to achievements and tasks, the rewarded skills become memory infusions that fit the world view, and there are even technology cards drawn later!

It can be said that the gameplay and experience of each world are different.

Then, this so-called random opportunity is a unique reward in this world.

However, accordingly, the difficulty of the task has increased a lot.

Locust plague, once the locust plague really arrives, the next step will obviously be a food crisis.

Food for three people for a month is a big problem.

Hey...Eat, eat, eat! After I came to this world, I couldn’t live with this mouth!

These are not troubled times, this is clearly the end of famine!

Seeing that Fang Sanduo and Huang Mei looked frightened, Fang Yu had to comfort them.

"Uncle! Auntie, it's okay. Even if it's a locust plague, to put it bluntly, it's Taguchi Village that should suffer. What we have to do is spend all the money and buy more food to prepare."

Although Fang Yu's words were biased, as the saying goes, a dead Taoist friend never dies a poor Taoist. Fang Sanduo really relaxed a lot when he thought that the biggest property of himself and others in this village was this small house.

But then, he reacted.

"Yes! Yes! We have to buy more food and salt before anyone reacts!"

With that said, Fang Sanduo immediately took out the remaining four taels of silver at home.

After all, this place belongs to the south. Because of the abundance of grain here, the price of grain and rice is still much lower than in the north. For four taels of silver, four thousand guan, and more than three square meters, you can buy it at the grain shop in the county town for about

Hundreds of kilograms of grain and rice!

Of course, it is not possible to buy all grains and rice, but also some salt.

During their escape from famine, Fang Yu and the others managed to survive with the salt they had stored until the end. If they didn't buy salt and didn't take in salt for a long time, their bodies would change.

Plump and swollen, limbs are weak and weak.

Compared with grains and rice, salt is much more expensive. A pound of coarse salt costs about 400 yuan.

Balancing the two sides, Fang Sanduo's little money is enough to buy two kilograms of coarse salt and one load of grain.

But even so, one load of food is enough for Fang Yu and the three of them to eat for a month.

Looking at it this way, the task difficulty doesn't seem to be very high?

Could it be said that the county has started to increase prices now?

Seeing that Fang Sanduo was about to go out alone, Fang Yu finally stopped him.

There was so much grain, rice, salt and so on. Last time Fang Sanduo went to the county town, he encountered people snatching grain. This time Fang Yu didn't trust him to go alone.

Moreover, it is too conspicuous for one person to carry so much grain.

Therefore, in the end, Fang Yu and Fang Sanduo chose to pull out their old hero, the two-wheeled carriage.

Not to mention the practicality of this carriage, the three of them used it emotionally for this journey alone, so even if it was a little worn out, they did not throw it away or destroy it.

After all, I can make a cart, right?

Huang Mei was left to look after the house alone, while Fang Yu and Fang Sanduo pulled the carriage toward the county seat.

Along the way, he met people from the same village, so he went to the county town to see a doctor on the pretext that Fang Sanduo was feeling unwell.

The big guys in the village didn't know Fang Yu's family well yet, so they didn't ask any more questions and allowed them to arrive at the county town smoothly.

This time they were not in too much of a hurry. In order to ease their mood along the way, Fang Yu and Fang Sanduo calmly chatted and pulled the car.

The place where the car is pulled in front was specially modified before, and a protruding carport was built to protect it from rain and sun.

Viewed from the side, it looks like a large rickshaw.

It's just that this "rickshaw" needs two people to pull it, or a martial arts practitioner with the same physique as Fang Yu.

The two people pulled the cart and quickly arrived at the county town. The tooth guard guarding the gate simply read the two people's documents and let them enter the city.

The so-called document is similar to a modern residence permit. Only with this certificate will the dental guard let the two people in.

In addition to checking the documents, the dental guard also carefully checked the carriage that Fang Yu and the two were pulling in. After confirming that there was no problem, he waved for the two of them to pull in.

This is Fang Yu's first time entering the city.

This is the first time he has entered a county from this ancient perspective.

But the scene that greeted his eyes disappointed him greatly.

There are no high bluestone walls here, only stone walls that look more like they are made of soil and stones and are full of rustic flavor.

It's just like the kind of wall built by Fang Yu in the countryside in his hometown.

It's only three meters high and a few dozen centimeters wide.

Behind the stone wall, there are two sentry posts about five meters high made of wood. The city gate to enter is made of solid materials. It is made of solid wood cutting boards about ten centimeters thick. It is extremely thick. Once it is closed,

Going up, Fang Yu felt that if he wanted to attack the city, it would be easier to tear down the stone wall next to it.

After entering the city, the ground is not a bluestone road, but a solid dirt road.

However, these dirt roads have been continuously trampled and compacted, and now their hardness is comparable to that of rocks.

The ground is fairly flat, and it can be seen that there are signs of repairs on this road. Some of the soil pits that have been trampled down have traces of new soil being patted down.

There are not many people in the county.

There are not many vendors setting up stalls on the street.

Basically, there are only vendors setting up stalls next to some shops.

There are candy sellers, pancake sellers, wonton sellers, and sugar water sellers.

The shouts of these vendors were loud, but very regular. Fang Yu found that they seemed to have a tacit understanding of their own. Once the vendor next to him shouted, the other vendors would stop shouting and would shout one by one in a very orderly manner.

In this way, the county residents and villagers passing by will not be impatient because of the noisy shouting, and all the guests will be ushered to the stall with the shouting.

There are very few types of shops opened here.

Except for pawn shops, grain and rice shops, sesame oil shops, clothing shops, and restaurants that are necessary for daily life, there are no other shops here such as rouge shops, inns, restaurants, and brothels that are common in film and television dramas.

However, Fang Yu just thought about it and understood why it wasn't there.

If a store wants to be revitalized, it needs foot traffic.

This is just a small county town, not a state capital or a county capital. It has a small population and a small flow of people.

And most of the people here are not rich.

As a result, high-end consumer places such as rouge shops, jewelry shops, restaurants, and brothels have no place to survive here. If they open here, they will basically wait to close down.

Fang Yu and Fang Sanduo came to a grain and rice shop.

Fang Yu looked at the current market price.

Eighty cents per bucket.

Fang Yu didn't know if the price was expensive, but seeing Fang Sanduo's frown, he knew that the price was obviously a bit high.

"Shopkeeper, the price of grain and rice has increased now?"

A short, fat boss who was sitting in the shop making calculations stopped fiddling with his abacus and looked up at Fang Sanduo. Seeing that he was wearing simple trousers and linen clothes, he immediately saw that this was also a Kuhaha, so

After taking a quick look, he lowered his head and continued to calculate the accounts while explaining in a calm tone.

"Yes, everything has gone up. Now the neighboring county has been gnawed by locusts because of the cultivated fields. Now the price of food has been rising. If you want to buy it, buy it quickly. Tomorrow it won't be at this price."

As he said that, the fat boss raised his head and thought for a moment, then looked at the account book. Then he shook his head, walked out from behind the counter, walked to the rice bag, pulled the clerk standing there away, and glanced at the customer.

Wooden sign on rice bag.
To be continued...