The other person's hand was withdrawn in one touch, and Jack couldn't figure out whether he was guarding himself or whether he was not used to such friendly gestures.
"That's really bad." Jack ignored why he was separated from his companions in such a place and the identity of the so-called passenger. "You saved us. If there is anything you can do to help..."
"I'm not familiar with this area, maybe you can tell me."
Jack didn't expect that the request made by the other party was actually this. In a dazed moment, Coulomb had already said, "What was the West Coast called here before? Anyway, we can't tell based on the geographical structure before the war. We only know that few people come here." Wasteland." Coulomb walked to the empty window and looked at it for a moment, then pointed to a convenient road, "About a kilometer straight from here is our settlement. Apart from our settlement, there is nothing else for more than 100 kilometers nearby. Who are they, yes, maybe some bums who are trying to beat us up for ghettoism.”
"Vagrant?"
"Oh, we have been in the settlement for a long time. I don't know what other people call them. In short, they are guys who do nothing and live by killing people and robbing food. I heard that they will eat when there is not enough food. Human flesh.”
When Coulomb said this, a heavy expression of disgust appeared on his face.
Qiu Yu stopped delving into the topic of homeless people, "You said this is a wasteland where no one comes. Why would you establish a settlement here? And I don't think this is a wasteland."
When it comes to this topic, Coulomb turns his attention to Jack. On these issues, Jack, who is more or less educated, can speak more clearly than himself.
Qiu Yu's ignorance made Jack bring back the possibility that he had just ruled out that he came from a high-level shelter. "It's said that this is a wasteland because it was affected by the war. The concentration of nuclear radiation has always been relatively high. Basically there is nothing." Plants can grow. In places farther south, people have begun to grow edible food. But precisely because food can be grown on the land in the south, the competition for survival there is quite fierce. Our settlements were originally much closer than they are now. In the south, we were forced to move out because of our weak strength. In addition to this, there is also the fact that we are a few scientists who came out of ordinary shelters in the settlement. They discovered from the map before the war that there is a Scientific research base, according to them, if previous science and technology can be discovered here, it will be possible to restore the earth to its former state..."
The more Qiu Yu listened, the more frightened he became. Although he could roughly guess some things when he entered this game, but now when he gets exactly the same information from others as he guessed, he feels as if his head is being immersed in zero degrees. Average in ice water.
Qiuyu just entered this game more than ten minutes ago. Because everyone stayed together when entering the two consecutive games, so under the influence of inertial thinking, Qiuyu also believed that they would still be together this time.
But when the scenery in front of him changed, he was the only one left in this room. That feeling of loneliness and helplessness made me, who once thought I had become strong, almost collapse.
However, with Qiu Yu's comprehensive thinking, it is completely impossible to say that he did not expect this situation at all.
After accepting the regulator's suggestion and letting everyone exchange a large bag of food, water, medical supplies, wilderness survival supplies, computers and several weapons before 2020, they exchanged another one that was the same as Ordoño. silver assault rifle. In Qiuyu's judgment, the weapons selected by weapons experts like Ordoño must be the most cost-effective. In case of being alone, this weapon should be the first choice for self-rescue. Now that he had taken into account the situation of being left alone, Qiu Yu simply asked everyone to redeem a 2044 version of a watch-type communicator worth two survival points. Its effective range is 120 kilometers and it can work continuously for nearly a year. There are other better communicators, but this is Qiuyu's consideration of various situations, even in his opinion, 120 kilometers is enough. Anyway, if the rules of the game deliberately separate everyone, even if there is a communicator that can be contacted all over the world, there will always be various problems that cannot work properly.
But after entering the game and finding out that he was actually alone, Qiu Yu still called anxiously, but he didn't get any response for a long time.
Fortunately, fate was still favoring him, and two strange-looking people ran into the downstairs of his room. This allowed Qiu Yu, who had some confidence in his heart, to analyze the current situation calmly.
Qiu Yu had already noticed some things in the last game. A hotel with old decorations, a lobby with a weird combination of future and retro, and the strange behavior of the person he pulled for questioning.
Now, coupled with this large group of abandoned buildings, the main part of which is intact, it is certain that this is the earth, but it is not the earth that I am familiar with... at least it is unfamiliar in terms of time.
Originally, there was always a slight doubt about the opportunity to counterattack after defending against an attack by an offensive civilization - facing an offensive civilization with all its soldiers, the defensive civilization only had a few game participants and one planet without a leader. Why should a brainless passer-by attack? The answer to this can now be figured out.
Overall, the two civilizations in the game are of equal strength. Therefore, facing the quantitative advantage of the offensive civilization having all the names and soldiers, the defensive civilization takes the quality route.
After successfully defending against an offensive civilization, the defensive civilization will gain a qualitative advantage. Just like after the Earth successfully defended against the attack of the lizard people, it immediately improved its technology for 30 years. If a counterattack were carried out at this time, the two civilizations that were just judged to be of equal strength would be affected by the 30 points of the Earth's The level of civilization increases and you instantly have an overwhelming technological advantage. After all, just looking at the history of the earth, you will understand that the difference of 30 years is already a terrifying distance.
But from this point of view alone, it seems that once a defensive civilization wins, it will become a disaster that is enough to end the offensive civilization. This is unfair to the 50% winning rate, so there is another way to deal with this. A balancing act…
When Qiu Yu still lacked conclusive evidence for his inference, with a sound that made his teeth sore, the evidence he needed poured out from all directions. They were huge rats whose size made Qiu Yu confused about distance. .
Whether it was due to the need to collect information or personal emotions, Qiu Yu decided to save the following two people.
The first time he used a gun to kill other creatures made Qiu Yu's long-lost stomach churning feeling reappear. In order not to let the rescued people see his fragile appearance, he quickly walked away after dropping the rope. And the fact that he kept shaking the gun in front of the two of them was not because he was pretending to be mysterious. It was simply because he did not expect that the recoil of this weapon, which Ordoño used so smoothly, would be so strong. The firing rate had been lowered. The attack was so fast that it only took a few seconds for him to feel like his hand was about to dislocate. If it were me before the exchange for enhancement, my arm might have been broken off after a few shots.
This made Qiu Yu realize that he was too fragile, but compared to the fragile body that he had prepared mentally for a long time, something confirmed by Jack made Qiu Yu find it more difficult to accept.
After Jack finished a long introduction, Qiu Yu used all his strength to speak, "What year is it now? What kind of war are you talking about?"
Jack was already used to Qiu Yu's question, but Qiu Yu's suddenly pale face made him feel a little uneasy. "Using the year counting standard before the war, it is now 2082. As for that war... it happened suddenly. Caused by the attack of aliens on the earth, humans saw that they could not win, so they detonated nuclear bombs on the earth at the same time. But even this failed to kill all the aliens... The explosion of the nuclear bomb plus the aliens They continued to kill humans for seven days, and more than 95% of humans died. Fortunately, on the eighth day, they suddenly stopped attacking humans. On the eleventh day, just like when they came, they suddenly Disappear from the earth..."
"This is wrong..."
Qiu Yu's murmur made Jack think that he was saying that what he said about the war was wrong, so he raised his right hand as if swearing, "What I'm talking about is definitely the most original memory passed down from generation to generation. If we say that human beings have forgotten We have lost science and forgotten morality, but we will never forget the reasons for all the current situations, and we will never be wrong.”
"is that so……"
Qiuyu recalled the supervisor's initial explanation of the rules of the game. The supervisor did say that the game space is a copy of the real space. He also said that no matter how many times people die in the copy space, it will not affect them. The death of people in the real space... in the game does not affect the real world. This has been confirmed. The problem is that they do not need to die many times. As long as they die once, it will have an irreversible impact on the game space.
They had obviously considered many possibilities to enter, but they were told by the supervisor, "No matter how many times they die in the copy space, nothing will happen to them in reality. In the next war, they will still be copied into a game character." "misled by the words. But there is no need for regulators to deceive themselves on this point, unless there is something else they don’t know about it. Or, the regulator did not lie in this sentence, but it included the best-case scenario in the description, but to get the best-case scenario, you must pay a corresponding price.
In short, now the game balance between defensive civilization and offensive civilization has been thoroughly understood...
