The enthusiastic Xie Beizhang seemed to have lost all the sense of conversation because of these words. He sat in his seat and stared out the window in a daze. After half an hour, he slowly realized Qiu Yu's weak state. After getting some bread and purified water, After giving it to Qiu Yu, he continued to enter a daze state.
Qiu didn't have the energy to continue talking for the time being. After wolfing down the food, he took a nap against the pile of debris beside him. In just this sleep, the sun's position moved from the top of his head to below the horizon, and it was because he heard I woke up from my dream with loud cheers.
The black earth was like the back of a giant beast, undulating slightly. Even though the car had driven onto a flat surface that could barely be regarded as a road, it was still bumping due to the overall terrain.
When the car turned along this road, Qiu Yu could see a faint light from the car window. In terms of the number of these lights, I'm afraid it can't be called a small town, even a country, but judging from the people in the car, The excitement seemed not to be disappointed at all by the size of the lights.
Although this world is quite similar to the world I am familiar with, there are still some differences after all. For example, this car has only one person who looks like a driver, which means that the journey of the car will not exceed one day. Although there are various things in the car There are a lot of them, but there is not much food and water, which also shows that this will not be a long journey. So, these people set out from Kyoto and reached this town for only five or six hundred kilometers at most.
It is really hard to imagine that a surrounding area based on a large city would be so desolate that there is no human habitation, not even artificial buildings and roads. Qiu Yu couldn't help but doubt the population size of this world, so he took advantage of Xie Beizhang's excitement. status, making inquiries in a circumstantial manner.
But the actual situation once again exceeded Qiu Yu's expectations. According to Xie Beizhang, Kyoto has a metropolitan city with a population of more than 20 million. This contrast between super and barren made Qiu Yu more and more confused, but when he was about to continue to obtain more information , the car has already entered the real town.
The passengers seemed to have made preparations before coming here. As soon as the car stopped, there were many people picking them up on the roadside, greeting the people in the car and helping them take their large luggage to the car.
The driver seemed not to worry about safety at all. He jumped out of the car as soon as he arrived at the stop and walked into the building on the roadside. No one came to pick Xie Beizhang up, but he obviously had a clear place to go. After saying goodbye to Qiu Yu, Carrying and carrying large and small bags, I walked forward along the street.
In just a few minutes, Qiu Yu was left alone in the car. Judging from the feeling, the time now was less than midnight, but not much different. Even on earth, it was midnight in an unfamiliar city street. It's probably not good to wander around, not to mention that this is a dangerous alien world where Qian Xiao's level requires going out to find helpers.
Qiuyu has thousands of ways to find a place to eat and drink, but having a method and doing it according to the method are completely different things. When he is with other people, he always asks others to do things not because Qiuyu doesn't want to do it, but because Qiu Yu can't do it, both for reasons of ability and psychological reasons.
Just like a person who wants to eat pork, all he is willing and able to pay is to buy the pork and take it home. If a pig is put in front of him and he is asked to turn the pig into pork by himself, he will have to face both ability and psychological obstacles. .
So now Qiu Yu couldn't let himself do something he didn't want to do at all, so he could only quickly catch up with Xie Beizhang from behind. This was a compromise method, not to deceive the other party just to find a place to stay.
, but relied on Xie Beizhang's own enthusiasm to help him.
Hearing the footsteps behind him, Xie Beizhang turned around and looked at Qiu Yu with difficulty, but before Qiu Yu could speak, he suddenly said in realization, "Oh, by the way, you are here temporarily, don't you have a place to stay?"
Qiu Yu nodded excitedly.
"Q135308970, call this number. It's a hotel with pick-up and drop-off services. The owner is nice. You can stay here first and find someone to repair your car tomorrow." The things on my body were too heavy and not suitable for standing and chatting, so after Xie Beizhang finished speaking,
Just continue to crawl forward slowly like a snail squeezed by its shell.
Qiu Yu wanted to cry but had no tears. God knows how to make the call, but in order to be suspected, he told Xie Beizhang that he didn't have a mobile phone when he was driving, or that his "mobile phone" was out of battery and he needed to borrow his phone to make a call, but it was impossible to say that he had no money.
If you don’t bring it with you, do you need to borrow it from him?
When Qiu Yu watched Xie Beizhang disappear into the darkness and looked back, no one else was left. It was as if he had become the only one in the world again.
Taking a deep breath, Qiu Yu chose a direction with brighter lights and walked. At first, he actually walked, but after just a few steps, Qiu Yu could no longer suppress the unspeakable fear in his heart and started running in large strides.
This town is quite strange. No matter how late it is in the cities on the earth, you can always see some night wandering gods on the streets, but here, Qiu Yu, who has better physical strength than normal standards, still can't see him until he is exhausted.
There was a figure. And none of the shops on both sides of the street were open, as if they didn't intend to do business at night at all.
However, it seems that the power of fate is still favoring Qiu Yu. When he is about to collapse, a bit of white light as cold as the bright moon shines from the end of the street. Qiu Yu is not in a hurry to determine whether it is another false hope, and mentions few things.
He ran desperately towards the light that seemed to be getting smaller and smaller.
"Wait a moment."
After running not far away, it was obvious that it was a rolling shutter door that was being pulled down. At the current speed, it would be completely closed before running over, so Qiu Yu didn't care about other troubles and shouted first.
Stop talking.
On the quiet street, Qiu Yu's shouting could be heard clearly for hundreds of meters. When the person closing the door heard the sound, he paused for a moment and stuck his head out from under the rolling shutter door to look around.
The light on the street was too dark, and he was afraid that the other party would not be able to spot him, so Qiu Yu shouted a few more times until the other party turned his head in his direction, then he held his breath and accelerated and ran forward.
Inside the rolling shutter door, a girl with dark bags under her eyes stared at Qiu Yu defensively for a moment, then scanned the surroundings with a more vigilant expression, and then asked in a low voice like a secret agent, "Online?"
The girl's behavior had already made Qiu Yu think about how to deal with a gathering point involving gangs. Suddenly he heard this word that made him feel quite incongruous. He was stunned for a moment before nodding quickly, "Uh... yes."
"come in."
Although the girl said this, she had no intention of opening the door to welcome guests. She just continued to hold the rolling shutter door, implying that Qiu Yu would lower her head and get in.
Being able to see people is already a very happy thing, and Qiu Yu is not a person like Sima Tianzhi who is strict with himself and treats others. After smiling and nodding to the girl, he leaned into the Internet cafe. As for having no money to surf the Internet...
Qiu Yu's brain could no longer think about such trivial matters, and there was even a brief pause in the movement of straightening his body.
In order not to add too much thinking burden to herself, after ignoring some minor differences, Qiu Yu tried to look at the world with a normal world perception. When she met an Internet cafe on the street late at night, she almost
Substitute Qiu Yu's thinking into ordinary life on earth. But when looking at the scene in the Internet cafe, the huge contrast between time and space made Qiu Yu's brain almost shut down.
There are no tables, chairs, computers, or network cables. There are only metal domes that are as tall as a person, neatly placed like tumblers in an open space of hundreds of square meters. The surrounding walls are spray-painted with extremely abstract styles.
In the graffiti, you can vaguely see words such as "Death to the whole family", "Get out", "Spiritual drugs", etc., full of freehand style. The whole scene is like a decadent science fiction illustration brought to reality.
The only thing that can be linked to an Internet cafe is perhaps the bar on the right side of the door, which is piled with various figurines and instant noodles and cigarettes in a rather messy manner.
“It’s basically empty, so you can sit wherever you want.”
The girl's words were mixed with the harsh squeaking sound of the rolling shutter door being closed, which reminded Qiu Yu of a robot with a humanoid appearance. However, being able to think of robots at least shows that Qiu Yu's thinking has finally been adjusted back to a mode that can adapt to the present.
But Qiu Yu is still confused about what to do next.
What I was originally worried about was just a small problem that could be dealt with, such as not having money to access the Internet, but now it unexpectedly turned into a big problem of how to use the computer. Although I heard about the virtual world from Xie Beizhang, I should not think anything about it.
It's something in a high-tech urban area. Who knew it would suddenly appear in an inconspicuous Internet cafe in a town that claims to resist the virtual world... Moreover, God knows if this computer has any functions such as identity authentication and checking for stowaways...
Seeing Qiu Yu's hesitant behavior, the girl went into defensive mode again, carefully retreating to the bar, reaching behind and groping for something that made Qiu Yu vaguely feel dangerous.
"Are you hiring network administrators here?"
Stimulated by the crisis, Qiuyu increased his thinking speed to the level when confronting the Destiny Weaver, in order to delay the attack first, and then think of other methods. But after he said the words, he actually saw a recruitment network administrator on the unknown sign next to the bar.
The revelation. Because it was covered with too many colors, I couldn’t see it just now. No, to be precise, I can’t see it much now. I can only vaguely see it next to the children’s calligraphy of “Don’t harm the next generation.”
Apart from the words "recruiting network administrator", there is nothing more that can be distinguished.
"Do you want to be a network administrator?" The girl looked at Qiu Yu again with a surprised and curious look, but her hands were still hidden behind the bar.
"Yes, I have been obsessed with this noble job since I was a child."
Qiu Yu spoke easily, but in fact, he carefully selected this from hundreds of response lines. The effect of cold humor is indeed good, and you can feel that the girl's hostility has been reduced.
"Will you fight?"
"Uh..." If people who are familiar with Qiu Yu see Qiu Yu now, they will definitely think that he is pretending. Who would believe that the strongest wise man who pushed countless powerful opponents to the abyss of despair while talking and laughing, actually turned out to be the most powerful person in the world?
In less than a minute, there were three pauses in thinking.
Qiu Yu was no longer sure how to answer, so he simply asked, "This...does the network administrator need to be able to fight?"
The girl said in a serious tone that she would definitely die if she jumped from the 20th floor, "It doesn't apply to other places, but for me, this is a basic job... no, it is a basic survival skill."