The yellowed bamboo rafts moved forward slowly on the calm river, and the green hills and farmland on both sides of the river slowly moved from the front, and as the sun rose, the natural scenery on both sides became rarer and rarer. What came was neatly built river embankments, dense houses and high-rise buildings.
This is just a town near Xiangshi. When you arrive at the Youjiang Wharf, the cruise ships that should have been parked there have disappeared, and some are just zombies wandering along the shore.
Hearing the sound of the engine, the zombies rushed towards the shore one after another. Although there were fences to stop them, when a large number of zombies were crowded, the zombies in the front row fell into the river one by one like dumplings.
Holding his backpack, Peng Mao pressed down his goosebumps and said, "I would rather live on the river all my life. Only the river and the sea are relatively safe."
"Then when we arrive at our destination, don't get off the bamboo raft." Shi Gongzhui said.
"You're not the boss here, I won't listen to you." Peng Mao said.
Shi Gongzhui glanced at Hao Jian and Lian Runing who were resting with their eyes closed, and said, "Speaking of this, I really thought classmate Lian was your captain."
After getting along for so many days, if he can't see that among these people, Hao Jian is actually the decision maker, then he will be disgraced as a regular worker of the "Special Response Team".
"Actually, it's normal for classmate Lian to be called the boss, because Hao Jian always listens to her." Peng Mao whispered.
Shi Gongwei was sour with a row of teeth: "The sour smell of love!"
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After the bamboo raft went through seven or eight big bends, the bustling and bustling town disappeared again in front of the eyes, followed by another beautiful scenery.
Then they crossed two bridges, and when they reached the third bridge, Tonghu Bridge, they had already crossed the boundary of Xiangshi.
It is difficult to see the green mountains on both sides of the strait, and there are occasional forests, but they are completely surrounded by dense houses and high-rise buildings, making people feel no beauty of nature at all.
Of course, Hao Jian and the others no longer had the heart to enjoy the green mountains and waters. When they stepped into the boundary of Xiangshi, their muscles were tensed, and they focused on every inch of land on the shore.
The river water gradually became turbid, and there was a lot of gasoline floating on the river surface, and within their naked eyes, wrecks of colliding yachts or overturned cruise ships could be seen everywhere. It can be seen that there are many people who want to escape the big city by water, but the boat has a carrying capacity, and the fleeing people will not take this into account, and the overloaded boat will naturally sink.
Hao Jian and the others also saw bodies floating on the river surface. There were men and women, and most of them were children. It could be seen that these were the victims of the sinking. They were not infected by zombies, but died in an accident. Isn't this another apocalypse
"Hey, there is a floating suitcase, should we fish it out and see if there is any food in it?" Shi Gongzhui said.
"I think it's either clothes or money or other valuables!" Hao Jian said.
"Although I really want to change into new clothes, it's not easy to rob the clothes of the deceased. As for valuable things... For the end times, it's not valuable at all, isn't it?" Lian Runing sighed.
Hao Jian wanted to say that the money could actually be circulated, but since they all knew that Ding Gu Nian's group wanted to collect money, and were suspicious of it, she didn't want to show any behavior of "collecting money" after that, otherwise It also exposes itself to other hosts.
Alas, it really hurts my heart to show the appearance of "seeing money as dung"!
In the end, they didn't even try to retrieve the suitcases, because while they were chatting, several helicopters appeared in the sky, and they went straight to the west of prosperity, without even looking at them on the river.
"I haven't seen a helicopter for several days. I almost forgot that the escort team has these driving tools." The five people watched the helicopter leave with emotion.
"Depending on the situation, the helicopter is not used for rescue operations, like it is carrying out some urgent tasks. Besides, the escorts we encountered are basically land, and we have never encountered either sea or air, so it is easy to have less contact. ignore them."
"That's right, under normal circumstances, helicopters and fighter jets won't appear over densely populated urban areas, and they're not shooting American blockbusters. TV stations will also send helicopters to live broadcast." Why wasn't there a helicopter to send him off in the first place?"
"You're just doing some errands for the official, and you still want a helicopter to send them off? It's so beautiful!" Peng Mao sprayed him.
Shi Gongzhui pointed at him, and finally hummed: "It's almost there, I still won't talk to you so much nonsense!"
From their current location, they still have to walk more than 20 kilometers to reach the city center. However, the area of the city center is too large. After Hao Jian asked Shi Gongzhui to narrow down the area, it was confirmed that it would take about 27 kilometers. And that's just the distance to the nearest river bank.
Once ashore, there are still several streets to reach.
Not to mention, these streets alone are the most dangerous areas, and it is really unlikely that they will break through.
Everyone knows this, so the closer you get to your destination, the heavier the atmosphere on the bamboo raft becomes. Shi Gongcui stopped arguing with Peng Mao, Lian Runing quietly controlled the bamboo raft, Xin Ting rested on the bamboo chair, and Hao Jian stood in front of the bamboo raft to observe the surrounding environment with binoculars.
They could occasionally hear cries for help from the shore, and many people waved to them and asked them to take them for a ride. However, Hao Jian refused without hesitation. Although they looked ruthless, they didn't want to add any more trouble at such a juncture.
After adding another can of gasoline, the diversion of the river water became more and more, and the river mouth gradually narrowed.
Just when Shi Gongzhui felt more and more that something was wrong, he suddenly saw the address written on a billboard on the bank, not "Xiangshi", but Nanfang City.
After realizing something, he turned his head and stared at Hao Jian.
Hao Jian seemed to be contemplating, but after the gaze he cast over, he quickly passed away and looked back at him.
"This is no longer the scope of Xiangshi, you lied to me!" Shi Gongzhui tried his best to suppress his anger, holding the axe replaced by Xin Ting in his hand, as if Hao Jian didn't give him a reasonable explanation, he would come forward To hold hostage to practice such as lemon.
Peng Mao and Xin Ting were a little confused by his words. What does it mean that this is not the scope of Xiangshi
They looked at Lian Runing, but saw Lian Runing stopped the bamboo raft.
Hao Jian sat down beside Shi Gongyi, and before Shi Gongyi was about to beat her, he said, "I don't want my gun to be aimed at my companion."
Shi Gongzhui thought that she still had a gun on her body, so she could only hold back and see what she wanted to say.
Seeing his cooperation, Hao Jian smiled slightly: "You want us to help you, but I didn't say I'm a saint. There's no benefit. Why should I risk my life to help you?"
Peng Mao just wanted to ask, are they not companions? But looking at Hao Jian's cold eyes, his words got stuck in his throat.
Are they not companions? Why does Hao Jian look at them with such eyes
Hao Jian didn't care about Peng Mao and Xin Ting, she turned her head and looked at Shi Gongzhui again: "You don't have to wonder if I'm a 'no blame' person, I didn't plan to lie to you about this matter, I and 'No blame' It's nothing to blame. You should expect the benefits I want from you."
Shi Gongzhui stared at her, and suddenly remembered that the purpose of their trip was to return to Nanfang City to find their relatives. He looked at the location again. The bamboo raft was located at the north tributary of the Dongjiang River. The north bank was the suburb of Nanfang City, and the south bank was the boundary of Xiangshi City.
Under the bridge behind him, there is a river branching off from the north tributary of the Dongjiang River. Entering from there, you can return to the nearest bank to his destination. If you go straight forward, you will enter the southernmost district of Nanfang City.
The straight-line distance of this location is exactly within eight kilometers of the university town, which is the farthest distance he can use this device to hack into the official communication channel.
He thought for a while and asked with a cold face, "Tell me, what do you want to do?"
"I want you to invade the education systems of Nanfangcheng University and Nanhai University, and search for the landing information of several people."
Lian Runing probably didn't want Hao Jian to be the bad guy, so she said, "They are my parents and younger siblings. The purpose of my coming back this time is to find them, no matter if they are alive or dead, there is news. There is always a way forward. We are very sorry for holding you hostage, but I don’t intend to justify my own ulterior motives. I hope you can cooperate.”
Shi Gongzhui rolled his eyes: "You two are really good! Okay, we're all here, and since you've helped me a lot, I'll give it a try. But no matter what the result is, We all still have to go back to where I said, promise?"
Lian Runing nodded: "I promise you."
"I listened to the younger sister."
Shi Gongzhui was not willing to pay attention to them any more, but turned on his own equipment and started to operate it quickly.
Hao Jian leaned back against the bamboo chair, and his thoughts returned to the dialogue with the system.
Just when they stepped into the boundary of Nanfang City, the main task 1: Send Lian Runing back to Nanfang City, in fact, has been reminded to complete, and when the reminder of the completion of the task sounded, the reward of the task appeared.
Congratulations to the host for completing the main task 1...
Task duration: 216 hours and 42 minutes.
Mission Rating: Three Stars
Mission reward: 200 experience, 500 points.
The host currently has accumulated experience of 1196 and accumulated remaining points of 1955!
The host experience has reached the 1000 experience required to upgrade to level 4. Please choose whether to upgrade.
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The experience required to level up to level 4 just happened to be stuck at 996. If the main mission 1 was not completed, Hao Jian had to kill another zombie. But for her in front of her, it doesn't matter whether she upgrades to level 4, but if she can upgrade, that's the icing on the cake.
She chose to upgrade, and before she had time to see what changed after upgrading to level 4, she confronted Shi Gongzhui.
Now that Shi Gongwei is honest, she continues to look at the permissions and functions updated after level 4. But before that, she was stunned for a moment by the 2000 experience required to upgrade to level 5 prompted by the system.
Of course, it was only for a moment, after all, this was something she expected.
Based on her years of experience playing games, level 6 may require 5,000 experience, or 10,000 experience, which is probably related to the permissions and functions opened by the level.
After level 4, the system opens the package permission, which is limited to 10 items.
Hao Jian is not sure how it defines "piece" for the time being. She is just very puzzled: "Isn't the system already built with a package function? Isn't this permission a bit redundant?"
The system replied: "The host claims to be smart, don't you realize that the package function that the host thinks is actually just that the host is too lazy to take out the rewards, and the system just stores it? And once the host takes out all the rewards from the system, It can't be put back."
Hao Jian really didn't think about this question: "In other words, this package permission is actually similar to a space plug-in, which can put objects outside the system?"
"correct."
Hao Jian didn't look happy at all, instead he pondered again.
The system was worried about what amazing thoughts she had, so it reminded: "After the host reaches level 4, the amount of food that can be purchased is 100, the amount of over-the-counter medicines that can be purchased is 30, the amount of daily necessities that can be purchased is 50, and the amount of cold weapons can be purchased. 3 pieces, and 3 new prescription drugs can be purchased. The visible range of the map reaches 5 kilometers!”
"... Oh, then I can be sure that Ding Gu Nian was indeed above level 4 before." Except for the heat-weapon, the materials that can be purchased, let alone feed twenty people, even fifty people are more than enough. .
"These rewards of yours really make me feel unreal." Hao Jian secretly said, "But it is very real to the senses, so real that it seems that I have experienced all this."
"The host has a professional term called 'both visual phenomenon', also known as 'hippocampus effect', which refers to a sense of deja vu that has not been experienced or a scene that seems to have been experienced at a certain time and place."
"You've done a lot of research on this?"
"Of course, the system is erudite!"
… Where did the tyrannical system go, and why did it change to a very narcissistic code now
Hao Jian glanced at Shi Gongzhui, saw that he had not done it yet, and then went to check his level reward.
The basic reward is still spicy strips, but it has been increased from 1 pack to 2 packs, and the reward that seems to be really useful is a bit hard to figure out, because one is an electric scooter, and the other is a "spider-man" safety suit, which is working at heights. safety cable used by the user, etc.
"Your level reward is quite a showy operation. I really can't tell whether each host's level reward is the same. After all, you are rewarded with all these things, which may not be used in your life." Hao Jian paused. Down.
"But I remembered one thing. Back then, when we were in Huangtian Town, no one from Ding Gu Nian's group found us, that is to say, there were no stalkers among them. To put it another way, they were not as far as us. ... So, they don't have telescopes, which means our rank rewards may be different."
"..." Seeing that it was time for Hao Jian to pretend again, the system just wanted to pretend to be dead, it couldn't hear anything...
As for the Gurkha Army-Knife, Hao Jian thinks that Ding Gunian bought it from the cold weapon special, or... The rewards for the hosts at level 1 are the same.
In any case, now is not the time to ponder these things.
At this moment, Shi Gongzhui suddenly said: "Lian Qingmiao, professor of the School of Geographical Sciences of Nanhai University, has logged into the school's educational system several times in July 2018, and the last login was at 11:00 on July 27, 2018. 23 points, the address is displayed on the campus of Nanhai University in the university town."
Lian Ru Ning's heart lifted at this moment.
"Gao Ruosu, associate professor of the History Department of Nanfangcheng University, the last time he logged into the Academic Affairs System was on July 26, 2018. The address is on the South Campus of Nanfangcheng University, which is Yuewan Middle Road..."
Hao Jian frowned, as she expected. Lian Runing's mother's school is in a blocked city center, which means that her chances of surviving are much lower than that of Lian Runing's father.
"As for Lian Rumeng, there has been no record of her landing in the past month, but the Fine Arts Department of Nanhai University has a list of people who go out to sketch, and it seems that her name is on it."
Lian Runing's heart went up and down with Shi Gongyi's words. When she asked the last name, Shi Gongyi said, "Are you guys supposed to keep your promise?"
The implication is that if Hao Jian and the others do not cooperate, then he is not going to tell the news about Lian Ruji.