The enthusiastic Xie Beizhang seemed to have lost all the meaning of the conversation because of these words. He sat in his seat and stared out the window in a daze. It took half an hour for him to slowly realize Qiu Yu's weak state. After giving Qiu Yu some bread and purified water, 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. Just in this sleep, the position of the sun moved from the top of my head to below the horizon, and I woke up from my dream because I heard cheers one after another.
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 the 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 considered a small town or even a village, but judging from the excitement of the people in the car, it seems that they are not 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 character who looks like a driver, which means that the car's journey will not exceed one day. Although there were many things in the car, there was not much food and water, which also showed that this would not be a long trip. So, these people's journey from Kyoto to this small town is 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 would be no human habitation, not even artificial buildings or roads. Qiu Yu couldn't help but have some doubts about the population size of this world, so he took advantage of Xie Beizhang's excited state to make indirect inquiries.
But the actual situation once again exceeded Qiu Yu's expectations. According to Xie Beizhang, Kyoto is 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 had 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 didn't seem 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, he carried and carried large and small bags and 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 is less than midnight, but not much different. Even on Earth, wandering around in an unfamiliar city street in the middle of the night would probably not be a good thing, not to mention that this was a dangerous alien world where even someone of Qianxiao's level needed to go out and find helpers.
Qiu Yu 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 with other people, always asking others to do things is not because Qiu Yu doesn't want to do it, but because Qiu Yu can't do it. This is due to both 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 bring himself to do something he didn't want to do at all, so he could only quickly catch up with Xie Beizhang from behind. This is a compromise method, not to deceive the other party in order to find a place to stay, but to rely 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 live?"
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 to stand and chat, so after Xie Beizhang finished speaking, He continued to crawl forward slowly like a snail pressed by its shell.
Qiu Yu wanted to cry but had no tears. God knows how to make the phone call. I just tried to be suspicious and told Xie Beizhang that I didn't have a mobile phone when I was driving, or that my "mobile phone" was out of battery and I needed to borrow his phone. Bar?
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 a world where only he existed alone.
Taking a deep breath, Qiu Yu chose a direction with brighter lights and walked. At first, he really 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 cities on the earth, you can always see some night wandering gods on the streets, but here, Qiu Yu relied on his better than normal physical strength to run until he was exhausted, but he still couldn't see a single person. And none of the shops on both sides of the street were open, as if they had no intention of doing business at night.
However, it seems that the power of fate still favors Qiu Yu. When he is about to collapse, a bit of white light as cold as the bright moon falls from the end of the street. Qiu Yu was not in a hurry to determine whether it was another false hope. He used his little strength and ran 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 scream could be heard clearly for hundreds of meters. When the person who was 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 find 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 gangsters. 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 the kind of 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 not having money to surf the Internet... Qiu Yu's brain can no longer think about such trivial matters, and there is even a brief pause in the movement of straightening his body.
In order not to add too much thinking burden to himself, after ignoring some minor differences, Qiu Yu tried to look at the world with a normal world perception. When he encountered an Internet cafe on the street late at night, he 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, just metal domes as tall as a person, neatly placed like tumblers in an open space of hundreds of square meters. The surrounding walls are covered with very abstract graffiti, and you can vaguely see words such as "Death to the whole family", "Get out", "Spiritual drugs", etc., which are full of freehand style. The whole scene is like a decadent science fiction illustration brought to reality.
The only thing that can be associated with 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 current situation. But Qiu Yu was still confused about what to do next.
What was originally a worry was just a small problem that could be dealt with, such as not having enough money to access the Internet, but now it unexpectedly turned into a big problem of how to use the computer. Although I heard information about the virtual world from Xie Beizhang, I thought it should be 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 identity authentication, checking stowaways and other functions...
Seeing Qiu Yu's hesitant behavior, the girl entered the defensive mode again, carefully retreated to the bar, reached behind and groped for something that made Qiu Yu vaguely feel dangerous.
"Are you hiring network administrators here?"
Under the stimulus of the crisis, Qiu Yu 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 saying that, I actually saw a recruitment notice on the unknown sign next to the bar. Because it was covered in too many colors, I couldn't see it just now. No, to be precise, I can't see it now either. Except for the vaguely visible words about the recruitment of network administrators next to the children's calligraphy of "Don't harm the next generation". Nothing more can be distinguished beyond the characters.
"Do you want to be a network administrator?" The girl looked at Qiu Yu again with surprised and curious eyes, 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 these lines from hundreds of response lines. The effect of the 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 most powerful wise man who pushed countless powerful opponents to the abyss of despair while talking and laughing would actually have three pauses in his thinking in less than a minute.
Qiu Yu was no longer sure how to answer, so he simply asked, "This...does the network administrator need to know how to fight?"
The girl said in a serious tone that she would definitely die if she jumped from a twenty-story building, "It doesn't apply to other places, but for me here, this is a basic job... no, it is a basic survival skill."
