Beside the nameless river, surrounded by burnt soil and tree trunks.
The previous fire had been extinguished, and torches were placed in a circle in the open space, surrounding the twenty-nine dejected prisoners.
It is already late at night, and it will be dawn in a few hours.
Ye Shi, who was standing by, yawned and looked at Lao Bai.
"How long will it take for the administrator to come back?"
"have no idea."
"Where's the storm?"
Fang Chang pointed with his chin at the half-dug cave dwelling by the river.
"He had classes in the afternoon and fell asleep there."
It is actually very convenient to log off the game. In addition to safely logging off at the resurrection point, you can disconnect in any scene as long as you lose consciousness.
Including but not limited to being knocked unconscious or falling asleep normally.
It’s just that this method cannot save the progress of the gene sequence.
Hearing that Guang Feng actually went to class, Ye Shi asked in confusion.
“Isn’t it a PPT distribution assistant?”
"I don't know, maybe he can't let go of his students. Anyway, the group battle is over, and I think he's still in a state of disbelief, so I'll just let him go offline first. When he wakes up, he'll be in charge of our class."
As the oldest old man in the herd of cattle and horses, Lao Bai is probably the one who has been in contact with the strong wind for the longest time, and is also the one who knows him best in the herd.
"...Don't look at the bragging that Bangfeng usually does with you in the group every day. In reality, he is actually a very honest and dull person. He is a dedicated person who has no other hobbies except gaming."
Ye Shi chuckled.
"I honestly didn't notice it, but I'm Mensao."
Lao Bai laughed.
"Haha, just hurt him while he's not online!"
Ye Shi: "Speaking of which... the game characters after being offline still don't respond no matter what I do?"
"Probably, so logging out of a non-safe area is actually quite dangerous if no one is watching." Fang Chang glanced at Ye Shi, "What do you want to do?"
Ye Shi rolled his eyes.
"I didn't want to do anything, I was just thinking... if we all go offline, wouldn't the NPCs be able to do whatever they want to us in the training cabin?"
Hearing this idea, Lao Bai and Fang Chang both choked on their saliva.
"puff."
"Ahem! Okay, don't use your dirty thoughts to speculate on others. Besides, this kind of groundless speculation has no meaning at all. You have neither evidence to prove nor evidence to falsify. Similar problems include but are not limited to aliens.
Is it always around us? Is our world actually a game? Does science as we know it still hold true outside our 'horizon'? Endless suspicion is just asking for trouble unless you can find reliable evidence."
"What is dirty! Can't you be curious? What else do you do when you are standing guard? Why are your preaching tone becoming more and more like a violent wind?" Ye Shi rolled his eyes speechlessly.
Fang Chang shrugged.
"No, I just think that people who think about this problem are very problematic."
Lao Bai nodded in agreement and added a stab.
"That's right, and I don't think anyone will do whatever they want with your body."
Ye Shi: "I said what if! What if! Hey, I really have nothing in common with you old people."
Fang Chang: "..."
Lao Bai: "..."
At this time, Tomato Scrambled Eggs and three other players came over from a distance.
Seizing the opportunity, Ye Shi immediately changed the topic.
"Hey, Brother Scrambled Egg, why are you here?"
"I'm here to change shifts. Didn't the manager say that I will be on duty after two o'clock?" Brother Scrambled Egg looked at the missing person and asked curiously, "Where's the blast?"
"It's offline. Something happened in real life. We'll take it back to him later."
Scrambled eggs nodded in understanding.
"Ouch."
Now that someone is changing shifts, it's much more comfortable.
I just happened to go offline to have a meal, rest for a while and then come back to play.
Lao Bai carried Guangfeng on his shoulders, then handed over the care of the prisoners to Brother Scrambled Egg and others, and then left with Ye Shi, Fang Chang and the others.
This time it was their turn to scramble the eggs and they were bored.
The four little players stood guard with serious faces at first, but seeing that the prisoners were all asleep, they also stood and chatted together to pass the time.
"You're too hasty. If I had known that standing guard would be so boring, I should have gone to the warehouse to buy some meat and charcoal to grill."
"Yeah, speaking of scrambled eggs, brother, is the rhino meat delicious?"
"Where have I ever eaten that stuff..."
"Aren't you a cook?"
“Which restaurant dares to do this???”
"I heard that rhinos belong to the CITES Appendix I species of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. It seems that the starting period is five years and there is no upper limit. But there are probably no wild rhinos in China, so you have to go to South Africa."
"...Well, there should be no problem in the game, right?"
The players are chatting.
At this time, a rustling sound came from the woods nearby.
A group of people immediately tensed up and held the guns in their hands, but soon they relaxed.
Those who came were our own people.
"How are the prisoners doing?"
"You're all still here, respected manager."
"very good."
Chu Guang nodded, looked at the players following him and said.
"Bring these people with you."
A player on duty said excitedly.
"Take him back and hang him?"
That's what they've always done!
However, this time the manager seems to have a new idea.
"Take them to the abandoned tire factory four kilometers away. There is a dungeon they built themselves." Chu Guang glanced at the villains and said calmly, "Death is too easy for them. They will be in the mines in Honghe Town.
Spend the rest of your life.”
The mines in Honghe Town are not real mines, most of them are former sites of landfills.
Only God knows what will be dug out of it. It would not be surprising even if it is nuclear waste that was illegally landfilled.
The slaves who worked there were all expendable, and few could survive more than ten years, and even less so in two or three years.
But who cares?
People are dying every day in the wasteland.
All the prisoners who had dozed off were woken up, and more than twenty of them were strung up on a rope, forming a long queue.
There are about a dozen players nearby with guns holding them down, and they are not afraid of these people running away.
I walked along the elevated highway out of the city for four kilometers, detoured into a street, and soon arrived at an abandoned tire factory.
Seeing that people were already standing on the wall of their former lair, the faces of these predators were ashen, and they all showed expressions of despair.
In the camp, the liberated prisoners stood in the open space with blank faces, looking at the returning plunderers, instinctively afraid and wanting to escape.
However, after seeing the ropes tied to the marauders and the soldiers holding them down, these poor people became quiet again.
Even if they are not smart, they can still see it.
There is a new owner here.
A "Garrison Mission" with high rewards was released. Chu Guang selected the ten lucky players who raised their hands first to guard here, and then arranged for those players who were slow to raise their hands to collect the loot and pack the loot brought from the base.
Carts and trolleys.
According to his "contract" with Hain, all the loot belongs to him.
After making these arrangements, Chu Guang walked up to Hain, looked at this businessman who had made great achievements and said.
"When do you plan to leave?"
Hain said with a respectful expression.
"I have sent Wen back. He moves very quickly and should be able to come back with what you want within four days."
Chu Guang asked.
"Is he alone?"
"Of course, a person is the fastest. He carries my token on his body, whether I am with him or not." This cunning businessman may have suddenly thought of something, and with a thought in his heart, he continued to add, "I
I know what you are worried about, please don't worry, I am willing to stay with you as a hostage. Even if you don't trust my character, you should trust that I won't make fun of my own life."
Chu Guang glanced at him with interest.
It's okay to know what I'm worried about.
I don't even know it myself.
"It's up to you. I neither trust your character nor care about any clever tricks you can do. I plan to return to the outpost soon. Do you plan to stay here? Or go back with me?"
He left ten players in the base to watch, in groups of five, divided into two shifts. Basically, two people stood in the dungeon, and three stood on the wall and at the door. It was more than enough to watch these few prisoners.
These trophies cannot be moved in one trip, and we have to make several trips during the day.
All players will be busy with things all day tomorrow.
"I'll go back with you," Hain said immediately after taking only a second to make a judgment, "I don't want to stay here for a second."
Predators usually don't pay much attention to hygiene. There is a rotten smell in the village, which makes normal people unable to stay there. Only rats and cockroaches like it.
Chu Guang nodded without saying anything, and gestured to the players who were pulling carts and carts that were ready.
"Let's go."
"Take our spoils with you."
"go home!"
…
It was already four o'clock in the morning when we returned to the outpost.
Looking through the gaps in the forest, you can already vaguely see a few hazes of white.
Except for the guards standing guard on the fence and a few professional players who were busy in the industrial area, there were basically few people in the base.
But if you wait a little longer, there will be more people.
Chu Guang randomly found two empty rooms in the main building of the nursing home and lent them to Hain and his female bodyguards.
Then Chu Guang asked Luka, who had just woken up, to keep an eye on them for a while, and then returned to the shelter with Xiao Qi in his arms.
He put Xiaoqi in the corner to charge, and told him to wake up Xia Yan and go to work on time tomorrow, but not to let her disturb him, and then turned around and went back to his room.
The door is closed.
Chu Guang sat on the soft bed and took out a yellowed notebook from his pocket.
This is the collection he found in the "Bear" room.
Because there was a bloody handprint printed on the cover of the notebook, Chu Guang thought that this should be some kind of token of the Bloody Hand clan, so he curiously stuffed it into his pocket.
However, what Chu Guang didn't expect was that when he opened the title page of the notebook, he found that what was recorded in it was not the weird customs or traditions he imagined, but just a simple diary.
【January 2, 2129】
"The war ended at the end of 2128, 2129... In other words, this diary was written in the first year of the Wasteland Era?"
Chu Guang is very sensitive to numbers and will never forget them after seeing them.
Speaking of which, among all the information he had collected so far, there was no news about that war.
Maybe this diary can bring me some clues.
With a hint of curiosity about visiting historical sites, Chu Guang looked at the first line under the date label through the soft light in the room.