Unlike Motli, Qiuyu, who was partially informed from the beginning, did not become relaxed just because he saw the person. That kind of unwillingness to communicate, in addition to the fact that the crisis has occurred, may also mean that the crisis is likely to come 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 take advantage of it easily?
However, it is impossible to draw a definite conclusion based solely on one person's attitude. Qiu Yu takes Mattli to continue his visit to neighbors.
This villa area is not very big, with a total of more than forty houses. After more than twenty consecutive misses, Qiu Yu finally found someone again.
The person in the house was an old man living alone in a wheelchair. When Qiu Yu started knocking on the door, the other party hesitated slightly, but in the end he operated 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 people's trust is to tell the truth. It just so happens that the other person seems to be someone who can tell the truth.
"We've 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 yelled, "We were probably kidnapped to this hellish place. At least tell us where we are and where everyone else has 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."
"Are you 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 old man's expression of confusion was no less than theirs. "I thought you were stragglers here when they left with the police."
Mattley's eyes widened, "Police? Get out of here?"
"Ahem, yes. About a few days ago, some government staff went door-to-door to inform everyone that a monster had appeared, asking everyone to prepare for evacuation."
"Monster? Then everyone 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 streets outside. I didn't want to The people 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? Anyway, I'm already quite old. Instead of causing trouble for others and having others 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. The scary screams could be heard 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 is about to appear, it will be a disaster for me who needs to face it alone.
"In which direction did they leave?" Since he couldn't face it, Qiuyu considered a strategic shift.
"It's going...cough cough cough, it's going...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 are galloping in Qiu Yu's heart. Has he forgotten it at his old age? This is clearly the game’s control over intelligence! But it doesn't matter, there are so many people leaving, and you can find the general direction by just looking for some traces on the road. Unfortunately, the old man's next words gave Qiu Yu another whip in his heart.
"Ahem, but you can ask the homeless people who have 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 should basically not be around anymore."
Thinking of the street I just saw, which was cleaner than a professional cleaning team, it goes without saying that this homeless man is also used for game intelligence control. Now that they have cleaned up, nine times out of ten they will not leave any clues about their evacuation direction. But so far, even if intelligence control is carried out in this game, it is all within the scope of reasonable logic. There should be an explanation for those homeless people who followed residents to pick up things but did not directly break into nearby houses, 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 exchanged, the exchange items were: thugs running amok without civilization points, one point of universal education, five points of average level, 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 will be as high as possible. But one was not 100% sure, and the other was limited by the shortage of civilization points, so he had to exchange for an average of five points.
In Qiuyu's consideration, this average level is based on the average level of humans on earth. But apart from the size of the city, this average level shocked him again.
In a society where a disaster occurs and no one breaks into a house when it is empty, what level of average is this? So what if the door is not closed at night? Does it mean that banks are open at night? What about Utopia? Could it be at the level of comet civilization?
"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 were open, and there seemed to be a lot less stuff inside 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, Qiu Yu felt that this was restricting the supplies of game players like himself. But when we analyze this bill alone, we find that it is so reasonable that people applaud 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 the kind of escape that does not have much time, most people will not think about what to prepare, but can run out empty-handed.
So what happens after you run away? No matter how high the quality of the population is, they will start to use various means to find food due to hunger within a day or two. And then this negative stuff becomes contagious very quickly. Even people with a full stomach will consider more needs, and many people start eating not just for their stomachs. Wealth, physical desires, and mental pressure can all become causes of mental breakdown. If there is not enough order armed to control, stealing, robbing, and killing will become the main theme of infinite expansion among human beings.
But the existence of this bill can fundamentally prevent these situations from happening.
Because knowing that things in the store can be taken legally 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 retreating residents will have satisfaction and assurance both physically and mentally.
It is conceivable that a person leaves home empty-handed due to disaster. On the way out, I had time to think about what I needed to bring. The shops on both sides have been emptied, but each person's carrying capacity is limited, and there is police supervision, so this person is not worried about the shops behind him being the same. After walking forward for a few minutes or dozens of minutes, I found a store that still had a lot of items. I entered it, picked up the necessary parts, and continued to evacuate in an orderly manner with the others.
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 would be quite troublesome for players like Qiu Yu. Things in various stores have been emptied. Let alone finding some combat weapons, just eating is enough. Judging from 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 saying goodbye to the old man, he took Matli and hurried back to the house where the other two were waiting.
The information collected now is not much, but it is enough for Qiu Yu to know what to do next.
It might be a good choice to catch up with the retreating residents. But on the one hand, they 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, and it may not be 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 didn't like this situation, at least he didn't worry that the monster would kill him forcefully as soon as it came up.
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's movement speed was so slow that there was no need to block it, or the number of monsters was too small to catch up. Humanity.
For Akiha, who has the ability to sense spread, both of these are within the range that can be dealt with. But some preparation is still necessary.
After returning to the house, Qiu Yu briefly told Ivan and Inoue the information he obtained. Hearing that there was a monster, Ivan didn't dare to run around anymore. When faced with a crisis, humans still prefer to stay in a safe haven unique to intelligent creatures than in an open space like a street.
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. In case 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."
Rescue is unlikely to be possible, and the possibility of just being trapped in this house is equally low. It will only 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. When the words came to their minds, they naturally thought that they could stay safe in the house and 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?"
