Survival in the neighborhood: Give me a piece of bread every day

After Jiang Lai took out the blueprints, she immediately displayed the detailed information of the three blueprints.

Room expansion plans

[Effect: Your room will be 3 square meters larger]

【Requirements for use: 10 Gold Coins】

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[Ornate Chandelier Blueprints]

[Effect: Provides continuous light, dispels darkness, and intimidates weaker dark creatures]

[Requirements: 5 Gold Coins, 3 Iron Blocks, 2 Glass, 4 Light Tubes, 2 Batteries]

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[Monitor blueprints (room-binding blueprints)]

[Effect: Provides a better view in the corridor]

【Usage Requirements: 15 Gold Coins】

"The room expansion plans and the surveillance camera plans are both good."

Chen An showed a satisfied expression.

The space in their room is still too small.

With an extra three square meters, there will be plenty of space to move around, and you can also put out a recliner to increase comfort.

This is equivalent to killing two birds with one stone.

Comfort is crucial to his ability to upgrade his skills.

If the surveillance camera can be installed in the corridor, then he will be able to monitor the situation in the corridor in real time.

Its practicality goes without saying.

"We can hold off on the other blueprints for now. We have enough gold coins, so let's upgrade the doors first."

Chen An picked out the blueprint for the anti-damage door from the pile of blueprints on the table.

He naturally didn't put these miscellaneous items into his backpack, since backpacks have a limited number of compartments.

[Materials are available. Should we use the blueprint for the damage-resistant door?]

【whether】

Chen An clicked "yes".

Then the familiar countdown appeared on the steel door.

【09: 59】

【09: 58】

【09...】

This will take ten minutes.

As expected, the higher the level of the room, the longer it takes to upgrade.

It's similar to the setup of most farming-themed games.

I wonder if there are any items in this world that can speed up construction, just like in the game?

After all, if the room level becomes higher in the future, and upgrading takes several hours or even days, that would be too long.

Just as Chen An was pondering this.

The panel suddenly started vibrating.

That notification only appears when a friend sends a private message.

Click to view Chen An.

Wang Ziyan: Something's happened! Xu Bo has been murdered!

Wang Ziyan: Their team suffered over a dozen casualties!!

Room owner of room number 009527: What's going on?

Wang Ziyan: When we entered the community, we encountered a group of people blocking the entrance. They were forcibly demanding an entrance fee and protection money. Xu Bo and the others refused to pay, and an argument ensued. Suddenly, Xu Bo was ambushed and his head was smashed.

Wang Ziyan: Those robbers also said that we would have to pay protection money to enter and leave the community from now on, and they also said that they would lock the unit doors in a few days, preparing to coerce all of us residents into paying protection money.

Chen An frowned.

He thought Xu Bo had been ambushed by a monster.

It turned out that he was harmed by his own kind.

But what concerned Chen An even more were these guys who collected protection money.

Although he doesn't go out, he's not afraid of being charged protection money for the time being.

But once he has the ability to protect himself, he plans to go out.

These guys will definitely be a big problem then.

Moreover, being drained of blood by these beasts will plunge the entire community into chaos, and the residents' overall development speed will be greatly reduced.

This would definitely cause the mortality rate to skyrocket.

Chen An's talent is related to the number of survivors in the community.

To affect the overall mortality rate is to destroy its foundation.

This is absolutely intolerable!

After thinking for a moment, Chen An began to edit and send the message.

Resident No. 009527: Have you entered the community?

Wang Ziyan: We're already in. We had to pay two gold coins to get in safely.

Wang Ziyan: Many other people were also forced to pay tolls.

The toll is two gold coins.

It's utterly exploitative.

That means each person has to pay one gold coin.

No wonder Xu Bo and the others fought against them.

"These guys are shameless! Such exorbitant toll fees!"

Jiang Lai couldn't help but get angry when she saw the chat history.

"We worked hard here for half a day to earn just over a hundred gold coins, while they just stood at the entrance of the community and could make money without having to put up any resources."

"Even if only two or three thousand people enter and leave the community each day, they can still earn two or three thousand gold coins a day. This is outrageous."

Chen An frowned and said, "When Wang Ziyan returns, let's gather some information from them first..."

He was figuring out how to kill these vampires.

I believe other residents would also be unwilling to be charged such high toll fees.

It all depends on whether someone can unite a group of residents to resist.

A few minutes later.

A knock came at the door.

Chen An got dressed, looked through the peephole to make sure it was Wang Ziyan, and then opened the door.

When Wang Ziyan entered, she was followed by a long-haired girl.

It looks familiar.

But Chen An didn't look at it for long. Instead, he asked the question that concerned him more: "How many of those bandits who collect protection money are there in total?"

"It was too dark for me to see clearly, but there must have been hundreds."

"That's what Wang Ziyan said."

At the same time.

A rather dense sound of footsteps and cursing could be heard in the hallway.

The room, which is not soundproof, allows you to hear outside sounds clearly.

"Sigh, if Brother Xu hadn't been ambushed, he definitely wouldn't have died so easily. If it had been a head-on fight, with Brother Xu's talent, even if he died, he could have taken down several of them."

"A bunch of beasts! They're utterly despicable! They start fighting at the slightest provocation!"

"Does this mean we'll have to pay a toll to leave our neighborhood from now on? One gold coin each time, who can afford that?"

"What else can we do? We've lost over a dozen of our ninth-floor fighters this time; even if we wanted to resist, it would be difficult..."

"Damn it, those bastards even said they'd be going door-to-door collecting protection money from us, it's outrageous!"

"If only we had a powerful leader who could take down those bastards..."

"..."

The sound quickly faded into the distance.

Wang Ziyan lowered her head and couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Chen An, could you... could you take us in...?"

Ok?

The sudden initiative surprised both Chen An and Jiang Lai.

Wang Ziyan gave a wry smile and explained, "Lu Xi and I originally had a chance to upgrade our door to level three and stop Laughing Nightmare's attack today. But we were just robbed of two gold coins, and now we only have two left..."

"Upgrading the door before the monsters invade today is no longer an option."

As she spoke, she subconsciously glanced at the large bed and toilet behind Chen An.

And the pile of items on the wooden table.

There were even several blueprints among them!

This shows just how monstrous Chen An's strength is.

Wang Ziyan knew that her only hope of survival now was to cling to the coattails of the powerful.

Otherwise, don't even talk about the future.

Whether we can survive today's monster invasion is a question.

She had already discussed it with Lin Luxi on the way upstairs.

If Chen An is willing to take them in, then they will surrender without hesitation.

It's not that I don't want to work hard.

The problem is that the toll fees are simply too expensive.

Otherwise, given their monster-killing pace, they could have easily upgraded to level three today by piecing things together.

They just went out and killed three faceless monsters, which dropped a lot of silver coins!

result……

They were completely drained by the bandits in one go.