Chapter 867 Countdown to three days (10,000 words)
[Main mission: Pioneer]
Explore the first island (completed)
Find a communicable biome (completed)
Guard this island until the countdown ends: 71:59:29 (in progress)
Content: You are safe, for now. As homeless survivors, this may be a true home - but only time will tell. You know that the next few days will be crucial - that will decide
Your future destiny is to be defeated; or to have your own land. Also, be careful of outsiders, be careful of disasters, be careful of weirdness...be careful of the same kind.
"What triggers the main quest?"
"Murals on the walls."
In the midst of the trivial whispers, Wang Wen asked Qie Musu, and returned to Qianye to observe the murals.
Although the mural is simple and has been corroded and weathered by the sea breeze, it can barely maintain the coherence of the mural's story: in the first part, a group of humanoid silhouettes landed on the island in a wooden boat, followed by some crude lines that seemed to have been carved wrongly and crossed out. In the second part, this group of humanoid figures
The outline encloses the open space, and the flames are rising, surrounding the revealed terrifying outline. In the third part, people build camp stone houses in the center of the island where they are fighting against the terrifying outline.
In the fourth part, the mural ends abruptly with only half of it: people fall in a pool of blood, and countless simple lines crowd the islands and seas in a desperate and dense manner.
"It should be a kind of group character, almost invisible, but strangely afraid of fire." Qianye analyzed.
Although the mural was painted decades or even hundreds of years ago, combined with the main line of the third section, it can be regarded as some kind of reminder.
Within 72 hours, they may appear and attack the island.
Players gathered around to view the murals, and then searched for traces of the murals in other stone houses.
"Explore the second island separately. We have to take control of this place before noon." Qianye arranged things for the players who had finished reading the murals, and reminded: "Avoid those sketches. If you find anything strange, go back first and don't rush in."
Maybe there's still time to explore the entire island before nightfall.
Players dispersed one after another and explored outside the flat island.
Qianye did not leave. There are still seven or eight stone houses, and we should be able to find more clues from them.
Unfortunately, the long years have corroded too much, and only the stone house itself is left standing, and even two of the stone houses have collapsed. Some players are moving away the piles of stones, trying to try their luck to find something.
As time went by, players who explored the island returned one after another, bringing unexpected news: the island was empty.
"The calm before the storm, Jacky Cheung before dawn." Mu Su whispered slowly at this time.
I hope to hear, ask, and hear the words, and fall into some kind of thinking.
"What did you think of?" Qianye asked him.
Wangwen Wenqie thought carefully: "Is this some kind of joke we haven't heard of..."
"Don't think about such things."
The emptiness of the second island and the main mission confirm the "safe house" conjecture, but this island does not entirely belong to them at the moment.
Before the sketch grass in the dry forest divided into fungus carpets has been processed.
Qianye doesn't like asking his companions to use their lives to verify a certain result, although this is the best way.
But they have to do it.
Tianmo's volunteering washed away Qianye's guilt. He remembered the reminder and everyone watched Zhong approaching the sketch grass, observing him, and reaching out to touch——
Sketch grass fruit is like a dandelion, swaying gently.
Nothing happened.
Tianmo stood up, looked at his companions in the distance, and smiled confidently: "It's just fruit, there's nothing to be afraid of."
Mu Su covered her eyes and couldn't bear to look any further.
The cruel scene has not yet come, and the sketched dandelions behind Tianmo are still swaying in the breeze.
"What's so weird about this?" Wang Wenwen asked Qie who was standing next to Mu Su at some point.
Mu Su glanced sideways: "Why do you think I know?"
Wang Wenwen was speechless and asked without giving up: "Do you have any suggestions?"
"I don't know if there's any hope of saving him. I'm just waiting to die."
The player base is divided into two camps when it comes to what to do with sketch dandelions.
One thinks it should be destroyed, the other thinks it should be kept.
In the end, Qianye and Wangwen Wenqie chose the latter.
"In the context of the end of the world, we should not expect that plants will not change... They will also inevitably change due to the environment. We have no evidence that cleaning them will make the island safer, but there is also no evidence that not cleaning them will bring disaster... So before understanding them
Before anything else, keep your distance and don’t do anything.”
Obviously, the stone house will become their next home. Some people stayed to clean and strengthen the stone house, while the rest dispersed and went to the dry forest to collect firewood and collect supplies.
"Are we still going to fish?"
Many players began to feel weakly hungry. It was bearable for the time being, but it was impossible for them to go without food for the next three days.
"Go fishing on the west coast." Qianye arranged after hesitation.
The amphibians obviously came from the northeast, and fishing in the west might hide their presence.
Then when the players cleaned the stone house and swept away the dust, they found an unexpected surprise on the surface of the stone house: it seemed that naturally formed cracks connected on the surface of the stone house to form a quasi-character character similar to "ten thousand".
What makes it more than just a coincidence is that every stone house has the same cracks.
"What's this?"
"That's ten thousand words." Mu Su said with certainty.
Qianye was deep in thought, looked closely, listened, asked and whispered in a low voice.
"First this, then that, then... murmur, murmur, murmur, murmur..."
I hope Wen Wen Qie remembers what Qian Ye explained and whispers the same.
"These humans must be sacrificed to my Lord"
A player looked strange as he passed behind Mu Su, who was dubbing Qianye and Wangwenwenqie.
After the whisper ended, Wang Wen Wen Qe quickly returned with a few players.
Waiting for them to take the raft to the initial island, Qianye appealed to the truth: "Remember when we looked at the island from the cave and couldn't see this stone house? Maybe it has something to do with this rune..."
Watching the two rafts docking, watching Wenwenqie and others disappear from the shore. After waiting for a while, their insignificant outlines appeared in the cave.
Wangwenwenqie’s news came from outside the game: they can see the players...but they can’t see the stone house, nor can they see the people in the stone house.
The ruined stone house has become the key to their survival.
Now, they have a gathering place.
Qianye asked players to try to copy this rune, but Wang Wen Wen Che was not allowed to come back.
Because the cunning rabbit has three holes.
And another thing she whispered to Wang Wen Wen Qe: traitor.
The main mission "Beware of outsiders, beware of disasters, beware of weirdness...beware of similar people" almost clearly indicates that there may be betrayers among them.
Mu Su was undoubtedly the most suspicious, but Qianye speculated that he was not a mole.
Then things became simple. After cleaning the safe house and catching the fish, it was almost evening. The players erased their footprints on the beach, covered up all their traces, and retreated to the stone house.
The players each hide in the stone house. The wooden door used by the raft not only blocks the cold sea breeze at night, but also prevents the light of the bonfire from shining outside the stone house.
Wangwenwenqie and others who were far away on the first island also reoccupied the auditorium and blocked the entrance to the cave.
So the obvious thing is——
The audience cannot drowsily endure three days of doing nothing;