As if to confirm what Ge Zhaodu said, the pace of the next game became faster, and more than ten years happened in a blink of an eye.
After all, after surviving that monster wave, there has been no new monster wave that can force Hope City to retreat to the tower.
Since there is no dangerous situation, time can naturally pass quickly without having to keep an eye on the status of the city-state.
Of course, this does not mean that the game becomes boring. In this third stage, the center of the player's game has shifted to how to ensure the stability of power.
After the city-state's survival crisis was lifted, the struggle for power became more intense. Excellent players like Ge Zhaodu could turn this struggle into a healthy competition.
If each force wants to become the leader of the city-state, it does not rely on any dirty tricks, but relies on its own contribution to the city-state.
However, some players with poor operational skills will be unable to suppress the competition among city-states, causing the competition for leaders to become increasingly vicious.
In the end, before the monsters came to attack the city-state, the city-state's own people started killing themselves first, destroying a great city-state like this.
Therefore, how to coordinate the conflicts between various forces will test the player's skills. This is also the main focus of the game in the third stage.
The third stage lasts only a few hours or even a few days in the real world, but it lasts for many years in the virtual world.
Ling Mengyu raised her head and looked at the sky. It was still dark there. It had been more than seventy years since she had seen the sun that was visible when she looked up.
More than seventy years have passed since the establishment of the former Hope City. Ling Mengyu is almost the oldest old man in the entire city-state.
Those who built Hope City together in the past, whether they were fellow invitees or natives of the mission world, are no longer alive at this time.
Luokas/Ge Zhao, who is older than her, passed away more than ten years ago. Now Hope City has been replaced by the third generation, who controls the core of leadership.
Due to the suspicious identity of the invitees, Ling Mengyu, just like Suo Jian, has never been able to become the leader of Hope City, but she doesn't particularly care about it.
After all, this was a mission, and the situation was not so critical that the natives could not solve it and had to act as leaders themselves.
Compared with never being able to become a leader, the most unforgettable thing for her now is that she has begun to forget Suo Jian's face. After all, Suo Jian died in the monster wave when the city was first built more than seventy years ago.
Therefore, as her body became weaker, Ling Mengyu began to feel happy. As long as she died naturally, she could return to the dominant space and see her former partners again.
After more than seventy years, compared with the former City of Hope, the changes that have taken place in this city-state can be said to be completely new.
At this time, Ling Mengyu was standing at the top of the tower, looking at this city-state that had a history of more than seventy years and was growing older with her.
She couldn't help but think that if people like Suo Jian and Yang Wenshou, who had sacrificed their lives in the early days of the city's construction, were resurrected, they would probably feel strange about where they were.
The tower that once stood on the top of the mountain has been continuously repaired by successive leaders and has now become a large-scale shelter with complete defense facilities.
Although so far this tower, as the last refuge of Hope City, has only been used once in the early days of the city's construction, it does not prevent it from being continuously reinforced in the future.
After all, this is the last refuge of the city-state. When every resident looks up and sees the towering tower on the top of the mountain, it will undoubtedly increase their confidence in the future.
Aya Mengyu moved her gaze away from the tower, past the all-stone city wall at the foot of the mountain, and towards the distant area of Hope City, where the main residents of Hope City live.
Compared with more than seventy years ago, earth-shaking changes have taken place here, and the scale can be said to have expanded several times.
Now the city-state's area and reach have spanned the river that once ran to the west of the city, and a satellite city has been built close to each other on the other side of the river.
This satellite city has a surveillance function. It can observe the monsters on the other side of the river. When a monster wave occurs, the battle scope can also be limited here to avoid causing too much damage to the main body of the city-state.
In addition to the greatly expanded area, the layout structure of the entire city-state has also changed. It is no longer the common concentric structure in this world.
At that time, the leader of Hope City was still Luokas/Ge Zhao. He accepted Ling Mengyu's suggestion and transformed the city into the city structure of the Han and Tang Dynasties.
The city-state is divided into different districts, and each district is isolated by a small city wall. The advantage of this is that it can reduce the area of damage.
With the rise of a new generation that has never seen the sun, it is no longer necessary to force a group of people to sleep together as it was many years ago to prevent someone from committing suicide in an uninhabited corner.
Therefore, each newlywed couple can apply to receive a house for their own family, and then live in this house.
Of course, all the houses in this world have their own unique features. The main reason is that the door layout is a bit clever. Only humans can open it normally, while monsters can only open it through brute force. It is difficult to open it by accident.
In this way, even if an accident occurs, the owner of the house dies without being discovered and is transformed into a monster by the darkness.
Then it is impossible to rush out of the house immediately and cause harm to the residents in the city. The collision with the wall or door of the house can leave a certain reminder time.
In fact, as far as Ge Zhaodu is concerned, he is not willing to cause such trouble. Everyone lives in the same house. If something goes wrong, it would be great to be able to find out immediately.
As for what the residents of Hope City think? It made me laugh to death. It’s the fourth natural disaster. Why should I care what you think? This is to survive, do you understand?
Unfortunately, if many people gather together, their mental state of life will be very tense, so Ge Zhaodu can only arrange such separate houses for them to live in.
There are still schools in the city, which teach underage children the basic rules of survival in this world, such as not opening the door but reporting the guard immediately when seeing a shaking house, etc.
These are the lessons that countless people have gained with their blood and even their lives. Now they can be condensed into knowledge and taught to innocent and ignorant children.
Ling Mengyu glanced around and saw the entire city-state, and a smile couldn't help but appear on her lips. The lights all over the city swaying and dancing in the dark apocalypse were the ray of light representing hope in the midst of despair.
As long as this light still exists, it can prove to the world that human beings have not succumbed to darkness or despair, and are still surviving tenaciously.
