Unlike Mattli, Qiuyu, who was partially informed from the beginning, did not become relaxed just because he met the person. That kind of unwillingness to even communicate, in addition to the fact that the crisis has already occurred, may also mean that the crisis is very likely.
Probably from humans.
When the players of the Tower of Civilization are difficult to gather, can even the residents of this world not be able to use it easily?
However, it is impossible to draw a definite conclusion just based on one person's attitude. Qiu Yu took Mattli to continue the visit to the neighbors.
This villa area is not that big, with a total of more than forty houses. After missing out more than twenty times in a row, Qiu Yu finally found someone again.
The person in the house was an old man living alone in a wheelchair. When Qiuyu started knocking on the door, the other person hesitated slightly, but finally he maneuvered the wheelchair and came to the door. He called through the door, "What's the matter?"
In this situation of insufficient information, the best way to win someone's trust is to tell the truth. It just so happens that the other party seems to be someone who can tell the truth.
"We encountered something strange and need help."
"Ha, encountered something strange? Who doesn't?"
Qiu Yu thought for a while, "The strange things we are talking about are definitely different from what you have encountered..."
Mattley shouted, "We were probably kidnapped to this hellish place. At least tell us where we are and where the others have gone."
The door was suddenly opened. The old man and Qiu Yu looked at each other quietly for a few seconds, "Come in, the door is not the place to talk."
"You are saying that you lost your memory and found yourself lying in the house over there when you woke up?" After listening to Qiu Yu's brief explanation, the expression of confusion on the old man's face was no less than theirs. "I thought you were following me.
We were left behind here when the police left."
Mattley's eyes widened, "Police? Get out of here?"
"Ahem, yes, about a few days ago, some government staff went door-to-door to notify that a monster had appeared, asking everyone to prepare for evacuation."
"Monster? And then all the people disappeared?"
The old man shook his head, "Of course not. We live well here. Who wants to leave just now? But within a few hours, I saw many police officers leading a large number of nearby residents to leave from the street outside. I didn't want to
Those who left panicked, and a small number of them immediately joined the evacuation team. The remaining people also left one after another in the following time."
Mattli looked at the old man suspiciously, "Then why don't you leave?"
The old man patted his leg and said, "How can I walk like this? I'm already quite old anyway. Instead of causing trouble to others and having someone take care of me, it's better to see what the monster looks like before I die."
"Then what did you see the monster look like?"
"No, but it should be soon. I could hear scary screams since midnight yesterday, and they didn't stop until dawn."
Qiu Yu was shocked. This meant that the game only gave him less than a day to buffer. No matter what monster was about to appear, it would be a disaster for him who needed to face it alone.
"In which direction did they leave?" Since he couldn't face it, Qiuyu considered a strategic shift.
"It's going to...cough cough cough cough, it's going to...cough cough cough cough, hey, I'm getting older, look at my head, I can't remember things from a few days ago."
Thousands of horses galloping in Qiu Yu's heart, have you forgotten it when you are old? This is clearly the game's control of intelligence! But it doesn't matter, so many people have left, and you can find the general direction just by looking for traces on the road. Unfortunately, the old man's next words
The galloping horse in Qiu Yu's heart was whipped hard.
"Ahem, but you can ask the homeless man who has been picking up things behind the evacuated residents. It's just that most of the things have been picked up in the past few days, so they are probably no longer around."
Thinking of the street I just saw, which was cleaner than the professional cleaning team. Needless to say, this homeless man is also used for game intelligence control. Since they have cleaned it, 8/9 times out of 10, they will not give it.
Leave clues for the evacuation direction. But so far, even if intelligence control is carried out in this game, it is all within the scope of reasonable logic. Those traffickers followed the residents to pick up things, but did not directly break into the nearby houses. They should
There will also be an explanation, right?
After asking this question, the old man looked at Qiu Yu in surprise.
"If you pick up something that someone else dropped, if the owner wants it back, just return it. If you don't want it, it will be yours. But breaking into someone else's house is a crime."
When the population quality was first exchanged, the exchange items were: thugs running rampant without any need for civilization, one point of universal education, five points of average living standards, one hundred points of keeping households open at night, and a hundred thousand points of utopia.
Considering that this is likely to be the future base, Qiu Yu naturally hopes that the quality of the indigenous people in the base is as high as possible. But one is not 100% sure, and the other is limited by the shortage of civilization points, so he had to exchange five points.
average level.
In Qiuyu's consideration, this average level was based on the average level of humans on earth. But besides the scale of the city, this average level shocked him again.
In a society where there is a disaster and no one breaks into the house when the house is empty, what is the average level of this dimension? What about keeping the accounts open at night? Does it mean that the bank accounts are open at night? What about Utopia? Could it be on the level of a comet civilization?
Bar?
"You can't enter other people's houses. What about the shops? I just took a look through the window of the house and found that most of the shops are open, and the things inside seem to be much less than normal."
The old man thought for a while, "Remember, it should be stipulated in the Crisis Act. Under special circumstances, residents can take whatever they want from the store, and the government will be responsible for compensation in the future."
When he first heard about it, Qiuyu thought it was restricting the supply of supplies for gamers like himself. But after analyzing the bill alone, he found that it was so reasonable that people applauded it.
Generally speaking, if a city encounters a war or some other crisis and all residents need to evacuate their families, the evacuees need to bring food and water in addition to money and valuables. If the evacuation requires a long distance
In addition to needing more food and drinking water, they also need bedding and tents for sleeping, a change of clothes, weapons and tools for self-defense, emergency medicines, personal favorites, etc.
If there is enough time to prepare during the evacuation, it is okay, but if it is an escape-style evacuation where there is not much time, most people will not think about what to prepare, and it will be good if they can run out empty-handed.
So what happens after you run away? No matter how high the quality of the population is, within a day or two they will start to use various means to seek food because of hunger. Then this negative thing will spread quickly. Even people with a full stomach will
Will consider more needs, and many people start not just for their stomach. Wealth, physical pain, and mental stress can all become inducements to the collapse of their sanity. If there is not enough order and armed control, theft, robbery, murder, etc.
Things will become the dominant theme of infinite expansion among human beings.
But the existence of this bill can fundamentally prevent these situations from happening.
Because you know that things in the store can be taken legally, this is a kind of order in itself, and there will be no losses caused by destructive looting. And since there are so many things in the store, the evacuated residents will feel better both physically and mentally.
Satisfaction and assurance.
It is conceivable that a person leaves home empty-handed due to a disaster. On the way out, he starts to have time to think about what he needs to bring. The shops on both sides have been empty, but everyone's carrying capacity is limited, plus there are
There is police supervision, so this person is not worried about the same situation in the stores behind. After walking forward for a few minutes or dozens of minutes, he finds a store with many items, enters it, takes the necessary parts, and continues with others.
Conduct an orderly evacuation.
A city's material reserves are often much higher than residents' consumption. As long as there is no waste, it will not cause major chaos for quite some time.
And with this time buffer, if it is not a devastating disaster, it will be enough for the government to solve the problem.
However, all this is a good thing from the perspective of the residents of this world, but it is quite troublesome to leave it to players like Qiu Yu. Things in various stores have been emptied, let alone finding some combat weapons, just eating is enough.
According to the regulators, this is a game that takes a lot of time.
Maybe those houses with closed doors are specially reserved for players according to the rules of the game, but after all, they are not as good as stores with massive categories of materials. What and how much you can find depends entirely on luck.
Wanting to stay here, Qiu Yu invited the old man to stay with them. After being rejected, he didn't waste any time. After bidding farewell to the old man, he hurried back to the house where the other two people were waiting with Matli.
The information collected now is not much, but it is enough for Qiu Yu to know what to do next.
Catching up with the retreating residents may be a good choice. But on the one hand, we don’t know which direction they are going. If they go in the wrong direction, they will just run into a pile of monsters. On the other hand, the specific form of the game is not clear yet.
It's not necessarily safe to stay with most people. Therefore, the best way right now is to see those monsters with your own eyes here.
Although Qiu Yu doesn't like this situation, at least he doesn't worry that the monster will kill him forcefully as soon as it comes.
The retreating team had been away for a few days, and the monster had just arrived nearby. In addition, the sound of troops fighting with it had not been heard, so either the monster moved so slowly that there was no need to block it, or the number of monsters was too small to catch up.
Humanity.
For Qiu Yu, who has the ability to sense spread, both of these are within the range that can be dealt with. But some preparations are still necessary.
After returning to the house, Qiuyu briefly told Ivan and Inoue the information he had obtained. When he heard that there were monsters, Ivan did not dare to run around. When faced with a crisis, humans still prefer open spaces like streets.
Stay in a safe haven unique to intelligent creatures.
Inoue was much calmer than Ivan, "Would you like to change to a safer house?"
"There is no time to choose." It's not that there is no time to choose, but Qiuyu has used the spread of perception to check all the houses he has approached before. Except for the house where the unfriendly man lives, regardless of the structure or strength, this
"This house is already the best," "It is very likely that those monsters will appear tonight. If this area is occupied by monsters, we will be trapped in this house until rescue arrives, so we must prepare some necessary supplies as soon as possible."
thing."
There will probably not be rescue, but the possibility of just being trapped in this house is equally low. It will be a matter of time before a monster breaks through the door. What Qiuyu said was just a hint of guidance to leave hope in their hearts.
In their minds, it was naturally assumed that they could stay safe by staying in the house, and then wait for human counterattack and rescue.
Inoue frowned, "But our own problem is still...forget it, let's solve the immediate matter first. What should we do specifically?"