Chapter 4 Survival(1/2)
There are a large number of people flowing towards the river in the distance.
Liu Xiao and the others were not far from the river, only a hundred meters apart, so they quickly walked towards the river.
The riverside was crowded with people, and they finally squeezed to the riverside. After just one glance at the river, Liu Xiao knew why he felt uneasy.
On the calm river, a few corpses slowly floated down from the upstream. No, not just a few. He looked upstream. That scene was something he would never forget.
Countless corpses almost covered the surface of the river, and they slowly floated downstream little by little with the current.
On both sides of the river upstream, there were many people jumping into the water one after another.
Liu Xiao watched helplessly as a mother and daughter cried, embraced each other and submerged into the water. After a brief struggle, they disappeared.
Facing death makes everyone extremely depressed.
There were women around who wanted to cry, but they only dared to cover their mouths and swallow more.
Our original life cannot be said to be very happy, but there was no war, famine, and very few deaths. There was almost no need to face primitive fears, but now it is different, completely.
Even if the female voice said that death here does not mean real death, everyone knows that the current body also exists. Do you choose to use a death to verify the authenticity of what the female voice said? This
How much courage does it take, what if what she said was completely a lie?
There is a constant stream of people falling into the river, and the floating corpses seem to indicate the fact to those on the shore that they have gone back first, so you can continue to suffer here.
So more people were shaken, and more people joined in.
Seeing this scene, Liu Xiao did not continue to watch, turned around, squeezed out of the crowd, and left the river.
He didn't believe it, not that he didn't believe what the woman said, but that it would be meaningless for a higher civilization to send them here. What he remembered was the woman's accompanying words. This was an unprecedented opportunity.
If that's the case, why miss it?
For thousands of years, for every emperor who has stood at the top of a dynasty, who dares to say that his life is better than that of an ordinary middle-class person today?
This is a gap in technology, a gap in culture, and even more a gap in civilization.
The corner of Liu Xiao's mouth rose. At this moment, he decided that he must survive here.
Afraid that team members would be affected by the incident of jumping into the river, Li Tianjia decided to move the team away from the river and closer to the woods. The condition of the team members was relatively stable. After all, rational people still choose to be cowardly in the face of death.
At the same time, the number of people in the team has also been slightly expanded, and seven more independent college students have joined.
The girls have basically completed the acquisition of knowledge. Of course, many of them also found that the knowledge rewards available to each person are different. This also shows that at Origin, there are many types of knowledge systems, and it is almost impossible to master them all. This point
Everyone also understands that after all, even in the known knowledge system on earth, even if a person spends his entire life, he may not be able to learn it all.
But at least, the basic knowledge related to survival is there.
Liu Xiao didn't have time to ask everyone for knowledge and information one by one. He just roughly knew which girl had gained what type of knowledge, and asked their names to remember their looks.
Soon, Li Tianjia gathered everyone and began to prepare for survival.
"There is a lot of knowledge and information and it is very complicated. I will tell you a few directions. The girls will give their opinions based on the knowledge they know. Then we will decide what kind of items the boys will get and what they will do next."
Seeing that everyone had gathered together, Li Tianjia opened his mouth and said.
"The top priority is diet, followed by safety, and third by rest. We still don't know the day and night cycle here, but we should be prepared. Ye Shan."
Li Tianjia called a girl's name.
If Li Tianjia is the leader of this small group, then Ye Shan is the eldest sister of the girls in this group. She is an academic figure among the current graduates. She is well-known in the school, and she is upright and straightforward. She is also the student union of the school.
The vice-president. If he were not limited to his petite body, which could not give people enough sense of security in this environment, he would also be the best candidate for the leader.
"Okay, let me tell you," Ye Shan followed Li Tianjia's speech, "river water is still the main source of drinking water. Although there is a lot...but it is living water, and those things are not rotten yet. We can take the water and burn it.
Open it, this can solve the drinking water problem, but you need water containers and water boiling utensils. As for food..."
Ye Shan grabbed a plant with yellow stems and leaves at her feet and pulled it up with great difficulty.
"Help me." After realizing that her strength was not enough, she asked the boy for help.
Two boys immediately stepped forward and uprooted the plant with her.
I saw seven or eight long stems connected to the roots of the plant.
"This plant is called Solanum nucifera. According to records of knowledge about lower plants, its rhizome can be eaten directly." As she spoke, she broke a rhizome from the middle to let everyone see the inside of the rhizome.
"Why does it look a bit like a yam?"
"Your yams are so long..."
One boy broke off a piece and tasted it.
"What does it smell like?" Everyone stared at his expression.
"It's not bad, it's a little sweet, and it tastes like sweet potatoes." The boy thought about it and took the rest of it into his mouth.
"This is one of the food sources. In addition, this plant that is half a person tall and has a green leaf spike at the top is called Artemisia annua. Its rhizomes are also edible, and there are also those with blue finger-sized leaves.
The fruit-bearing plant is called Paidimei, and the fruits can be eaten directly. Some of them are in the woods."
Ye Shan looked at the woods in the distance with some hesitation in her eyes.
"I warn everyone that in addition to the plants I mentioned, many plants are dangerous. They are not just poisonous, but they are aggressive."
"ah?"
"What the hell? Attacking plants?"
"Yes, it's about aggression. Although we only know about the lower plants nearby, some of these lower-level plants also have the ability to attack people. For example, there is a plant called Wood Tears, which should have a charm on the branch.
It is a bit like a creeper. It secretes venom to animals on the ground. The venom falls from high and low on the animals and corrodes the animal's fur. If the toxin falls on the eyes, the eyes will be directly corroded and cause blindness.
"Ye Shan said solemnly.
"The wood tears I am talking about should be considered the most threatening plants among the lower plants. There are also some that can only slightly harm animals of our size. As for what it will be like above the lower plants, it is impossible to evaluate now. So,
If you go into the woods later, you must be careful."
"Perhaps because of the huge number of humans teleported here, the lower animals nearby have basically hid in the woods. Therefore, before entering the woods, except for aquatic animals, it may be difficult for us to see animals that can be used as food."
"As for the issue of rest, let me talk about the basic rules of the origin. Day and night also alternate here, but the time between day and night is not 24 hours, but close to 336 hours. In other words, a day here is half of the earth's time.
Month, the day here is one week on Earth."
"wtf!?"
"Doesn't that mean we have to sleep during the day?"
"The evil capitalist has finally figured out the ultimate solution to 996!"
"Let Ye Shan finish speaking first." Li Tianjia interrupted everyone's complaints at the right time.
"I continued to say that on Earth, sleeping is for the body and brain to rest, to allow cerebrospinal fluid to enter the brain, and to discharge metabolites and toxins, but here, sleeping should have other purposes. Because our body structure is different from the original one.
Well, as for what the difference is, I can’t answer this question at the moment.”
Although everyone was a little surprised, they did not continue to dwell on this issue. After all, there were too many unknowns in a short period of time, which greatly improved their ability to accept.
While Ye Shan was explaining, Liu Xiao was also paying attention to the movements of other surrounding groups.
"We have to take action immediately." Liu Xiao interrupted Ye Shan, although this was a bit rude.
He pointed to some people a hundred meters away, "Look over there, they have started to collect food."
Everyone looked in the direction of Liu Xiao's finger. Sure enough, there were hundreds of people bending down, purposefully looking for something in the grass. Some people were even pulling out plants one by one, which were clearly Artemisia annua.
Many of these people carried hoes and shovels, and these tools greatly improved their efficiency.
"Although this grassland is very large, it is definitely not enough to feed millions of people. We must collect as much food as possible before more people start." Liu Xiao's words are not alarmist, but a cruel reality.
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"To put it bluntly, if we want to survive at the original point, we must do everything faster than others. If we compete with the vast majority of people for resources, otherwise, we will have no advantage and our survival space will be compressed little by little."
This principle does not come from life, but from Liu Xiao's rich gaming experience.
When the well-known domestic online games that attracted much attention were first launched, millions of people poured into the server at the same time, crowded into the novice village and competed for the few resources, tasks, and monsters, sometimes killing one by one.
The task is so weird that it can even take up to an hour.
Correspondingly, those players who complete the mission quickly from the beginning, upgrade and leave the novice village will widen the gap in level, equipment and strength with other players in a very short period of time, and continue to accumulate these advantages.
to the end.
In online games, Liu Xiao is the type of player who quickly breaks out of the novice village, and he is often at the top of the game rankings.
Li Tianjia also realized the seriousness of the problem and immediately began to assign tasks.
"Zhou Peng, Cui Wei, you two get the engineer shovel. Huang Yuchen, Hu Le, one of you has an ax and the other a saw. Wu Dongquan, I need a container to hold water, the bigger the better. Tiger, you get the fire stick, outdoor
The kind used..."
Tasks were arranged one by one, and the boys began to choose their own item rewards one by one, while the girls directly began to collect the plum blossoms.
Until the end, including Li Tianjia himself, there were still four boys who had not been assigned tasks, including Liu Xiao.
The items were obtained very smoothly, and each prop began to transform from imagination into real objects. Ye Shan began to assign tasks to everyone, and everyone became busy.
At this time, Li Tianjia gathered together four boys who had not been assigned tasks.
"Boss, are we not alive?"
To be continued...