Indenture

What technologies are available in the 21st century?

After experiencing three technological revolutions, namely steam, electricity, and new energy and biology, it has all the technologies enjoyed by contemporary humans!

Ye Miaomiao chose "Urban Ruins" without hesitation. Hesitating for even a second longer would be disrespectful to science and technology!

If you are lucky, there will be a research institute or a nuclear power plant on the land... wouldn't it be soaring to the sky?

After saying goodbye to Li Yihan, Ye Miaomiao couldn't wait to explore the new territory.

This territory is in a different place and time, so you can't just walk through it. By selecting "Urban Ruins" at the gate to Hungry Hungry's territory, you can enter it through the gate.

Ye Miaomiao gave the authority to enter and exit the territory to everyone in the research team.

Then he led the security team to open up new land!

Upon entering the territory, Ye Miaomiao felt a little uncomfortable—it had been so long since she'd seen modern architecture. Although the buildings were dilapidated, perhaps from floods or the sun, many exposed steel and concrete, rotting and rusting.

Turning around, I saw a few dusty words like "Light" and "Community" hanging on the broken pillar.

If you look carefully, you can find that there is a residential area, a supermarket and a community leisure center here.

Ye Miaomiao: "..."Okay, there is no nuclear power plant, no biological research center, this is an ordinary community.

But the team members were jubilant. Even in the ruins, it felt like they had temporarily returned to modern society. They first went into the supermarket and took a look. Some garbage was scattered at the entrance, and the shelves were bare.

It was finally confirmed that Guangming Community was deserted. All traces of human life had been cleared out over the past ten years, leaving only these broken walls and ruins.

Where did the people go? What happened here? No one knows. People in the apocalypse are more concerned about the scientific relics left inside.

The researchers quickly entered and were pleasantly surprised to find a generator in the supermarket warehouse! It must have been a backup unit for power outages; aside from being submerged in water, it was virtually undamaged.

Ye Miaomiao immediately stopped her research on the divine light and devoted most of the institute's energy to the generator.

When the rusty generator was carried from the city gate into the research institute, everyone knew that the territory was about to usher in new development.

Including Charles.

Charles was anxious.

His "ally," Arthur, had previously saluted and treated him with great respect. However, ever since returning to Hungry Hungry with this group of commoners, not only had Arthur ignored Charles, but even the lowly commoners had ignored him.

He still had the task of "poisoning Ye Miaomiao" in his hands, and he didn't know whether he should do it...

"Electricity is definitely mankind's greatest invention. I'm sure it will bring about earth-shaking changes to the territory."

"Are you kidding? The steam engine alone has brought us so much convenience, not to mention electricity. Think about it, what about God's people and the frozen snowfields? An electric grid and air conditioning, wouldn't that solve everything?"

"I'm thinking, now that we have electricity, how far behind are other things? Could the next one be an energy source unknown to our current technology? Something like dark matter, entering the interstellar age directly?"

As soon as he finished speaking, laughter came from the side: "You haven't even started yet, and you're already rushing into the stars. Aren't you afraid of a sophont coming down?"

Having said that, everyone looked expectant, their smiles filled with hope.

The laughter of the group inevitably reached Charles' ears, and he clenched his palms again.

He was a dandy student, but he had received an elite education since childhood and was not completely stupid. A small voice said that technological development was a good thing, not only for the hungry, but also for this disaster and everyone.

But the teachings he had received since childhood said in a louder voice that since the queen wanted to oppose E E E and even gave the order to kill Ye Miaomiao, such a good thing should not fall on E E E.

Technology has no borders, but people do.

"Queen..." Charles called out in his heart, "Can you hear me? What mission have you given Arthur, and what should I do now? Please tell me quickly..."

What he didn't know was that Queen Margaret, whom he loved so much, was not having a good time now.

On the seventh day of the temperature drop, a large number of shanties in the slum collapsed. The workers who had originally returned to work were left homeless, and the factory ruthlessly rejected their requests for shelter.

In just one day, nearly all of the hundred or so people died, their bodies buried under the thick snow. They didn't even have time to see the sun on the eighth day, and remained forever on this frozen snowfield.

Factories shut down once again, cutting off the already limited supply of food and wood. Some people, still clinging to their few resources, hid away secretly for the winter, while other nobles could barely afford food or a fireplace.

The nobles, who were once so high and mighty, all looked a bit haggard. After all, commoners and nobles are relative. Without commoners, they would have fallen from the altar. How could they still have the leisure and ease in the midst of disaster?

Margaret was almost unable to bear the constant harsh insults and private messages that rang from morning to night. Her usually friendly family members treated her as an enemy.

She thought about it carefully and realized that she was so lucky in her previous life that she had hardly encountered any setbacks. Even with a lifetime of experience, she still didn't know how to face everything in front of her.

Hunger became the last string of her heart that maintained her sanity. She knew that as long as she got the resources she needed, everything would return to normal.

It must return to its original state.

That night, Charles heard the familiar cuckoo's call. His face was filled with joy, and he listened to the secret message with respect. Then his heart was terrified and began to beat wildly.

The codeword consisted of only one word, "do it," but it was repeated countless times, causing Charles to take several deep breaths. It seemed that Arthur had failed.

Well...even if he was afraid, he had to do it.

Hungry Hungry is growing too fast, and he can't just sit back and watch his rival grow. For the queen, for the territory, for the country, for the glory, he has to take action, he must take action!

Time passed quickly, and a few days passed in the blink of an eye.

Ye Miaomiao sent the information about Tianyi Village to the customer service some time ago, and finally received the news today——

Customer Service 001: ": Tianyi Village doesn't have any creepy crawlers, but... I think your friend's Xinghua Village does have a creepy smell."

Ye Miaomiao: “?” Impossible.

Customer service also responded to the previous evolution points.

Customer Service 001: "This is a good thing. Many human territories will benefit from it, so feel free to use it. Just be sure not to skip levels, for example, from Steam to Electric. You have to make the jump yourself. If you use evolution points, you'll stop at Electric, and the deformed tech tree won't be fixed."

Ye Miaomiao thought of Li Yihan, who was eager to learn about the evolution points and soar into the sky: "..."

She hurried to Xinghua Village. As for why she didn't send a message through the diplomatic office, it was simply because she had nothing else to do and didn't want to waste those ten points.

After Tianyi Village was captured, everything in Xinghua Village returned to prosperity.

Li Yihan is still the P-society player that Ye Miaomiao is familiar with. She specializes in finding loopholes in games and is currently mainly engaged in the business of breeding God's people.

Li Yihan was overjoyed. "You know what? This god is a genius. Chickens can grow eight pairs of legs and eight pairs of wings. If I raise a chicken and sell it on the task board, I can get eight times the points."

"If I don't sell it, I can use it to feed other things. I even raised a cow that lost eight kilograms of meat in the first day. You wouldn't believe it."

Ye Miaomiao: "..." She really couldn't believe it. No wonder the residents of Xinghua Village have been able to hold on for so long in the face of Tianyi Village. They are engaged in this kind of business.

After a moment, Ye Miaomiao hesitated again and said, "But this meat can't be eaten, you didn't eat it!"

"I'm not stupid. I make money by selling points."

Ye Miaomiao nodded, relieved, and told her about the evolution point. Then she looked Li Yihan up and down. She only knew that reptiles harm people, and she couldn't imagine where the reptiles came from on Li Yihan.

Li Yihan's face froze when she noticed Ye Miaomiao's scrutiny. She suddenly wanted to cry: "You don't want to take me with you...my legs!"

Ye Miaomiao's game play has always been the most stable, and she has topped the Civilization battle list several times. Li Yihan is not good at business operations, and only likes to play abnormal games, so the first moment she enters the game is—

Not good, it's over. How dare she go so far as to be so rebellious and perverted in real life?

The next thought that came to her mind was that if she wanted to pass the game, she must find her legs.

Now... Li Yihan was about to cry, looking at Ye Miaomiao with tearful eyes. She was a head taller than Ye Miaomiao, and looked more like a little white flower. She sobbed and clung to Ye Miaomiao.

Ye Miaomiao reluctantly raised her hand and touched the back of her head: "I mean, have you encountered anything strange?"

The tears immediately stopped and the eyes looked at each other.

"A weird thing? It doesn't conform to the game's logic, it doesn't go against common sense?" Li Yihan murmured, "I'm selling out God's people, and I haven't broken the rules of the game... Could this be a weird thing?"

After a moment, the two said in unison -

"That low-grade item of yours!"

"I contacted you with the props!"

After taking out the props, Ye Miaomiao sent it to 001, but received a message a moment later that it was actually a crawler!

Its function is just as Li Yihan said, it can designate a friendly relationship with a certain territory - is this the only function?

Ye Miaomiao thought of Lord Yu and the two from Tianyi Village and felt that this was somewhat useless. Li Yihan's expression also showed a bit of pity. Silly child, he didn't realize that he had missed a system loophole that could be exploited.

However, the latter only cares whether the friendly relationship will be cancelled.

Similar to Anywhere Door, friendly relationships also require accumulating friendship points. Later on, they can be connected by means of transportation, so they can travel to each other even if they are far away.

The good thing is that after the reptile was taken away, not only was the friendly relationship not cancelled, but it also left Ye Miaomiao with a familiar dark gray fragment.

Skillfully synthesized

Congratulations on synthesizing the complete SSR item—Contract (Party A): Colorful Black.

Your item "Contract (Content): Transaction" can be merged with the item "Contract (Party A): Colorful Black." Do you want to merge them?

Ye Miaomiao: “!” Without hesitation, “Fusion!”

[Congratulations on obtaining an SSR item——]

[Indenture: Sign this contract and you will no longer be a mortal. You will never again observe worldly holidays. Remember, 007 is your code name. If you forget it, you will be tortured to death in KTV.]

The item "Selling Contract" retains its original function, with a new effect added: *** (you need to fill in Party A and Party B to obtain the effect)

Just by looking at the introduction, Ye Miaomiao knew that this was a contract with a black-hearted boss.

A certain office worker put himself in the position of "Party A" without hesitation. Before he could feel happy, he received the news -

[From "Selling a Body Contract": Sorry, you are not the correct Party A.]

Ye Miaomiao: “…”

She looked at Party B hesitantly for a moment, but ultimately didn't try to write her own name on it. Just kidding, she would rather never use this prop in her life than become the unlucky Party B.

Come to think of it...I seem to have heard of these three words "sell one's body indenture" somewhere?

Ye Miaomiao said goodbye to Li Yihan with hesitation and returned to E E E.

As the days passed, Ye Miaomiao kept an eye on the research institute and recruited a few more researchers, eager to research electricity immediately.

However, electricity and steam engines are separated by a generation gap of technological revolution, so it is not so easy to study them.

There has been some progress on other things -

The first was the blueprints for the buildings. Since Guangming Community was full of dilapidated buildings, it was easy to study the structures within them. Currently, they were able to build houses similar to modern ones, with plumbing and wiring buried within the walls for added comfort.

Ye Miaomiao has not used this item for the time being. All the houses need to undergo major structural changes, which requires a lot of resources and materials, and she feels distressed.

The second is the blueprint for residents' fitness equipment, such as space walkers, rowing machines, and single-person cycling machines. Long-term use can increase some physical attributes and occasionally earn achievements.

Ye Miaomiao added the drawings to the factory and asked them to produce several sets of accessories, one for each courtyard.

Finally, and most importantly, the research team found rubber.

Natural rubber is the latex of rubber trees, but there are no rubber trees in Hungry Hungry's territory, so this plan has been delayed. Synthetic rubber is much more difficult, but fortunately, they have found a finished synthetic rubber product, and there is also Zhang Ya, a "cheater".

With Zhang Ya's ready-made chemical formula, the primary factory can quickly produce inferior rubber with poor elasticity.

Low-quality rubber cannot be used to make precision scientific or medical instruments, but it is sufficient for making shoe soles.

Ye Miaomiao put on the special snow boots and stepped on the rubber soles. She couldn't help crying with joy - it was really not easy!

[Crude rubber fur boots: low-quality shoes, but highly durable and excellent in anti-slip effect.

Effect: Insulation 5℃, Movement speed +300m/h, Comfort +2]

Ye Miaomiao put new shoes on the shelves in the store and took the hot water bottles off the shelves.

The cost of rubber is lower than that of iron products, and the processing steps are more complicated than iron products. Ye Miaomiao put the new product on the shelves with reference to modern hot water bottles.

There are also tires, seat cushions...most of which can be replaced by rubber.

The rubber shoes didn't cause much of a stir in Hungry Hungry, after all, the territory had added tourist sightseeing buses and several routes around remote territories.

Each ride costs only 1 point, and the bus departs as soon as everyone is on board. Frequent commuters can also purchase monthly or quarterly passes, which are extremely cost-effective, so residents don't actually spend much time walking.

However, when Hu Mifeng's people came shopping, they suddenly discovered the effect of "moving speed +300m/h". They were delighted and quickly bought a pair.

Now Hu Mifeng's profession is becoming more and more useful. The entire territory has almost become a large express delivery transfer center. The residents have earned a lot of points by following him, and many of them have also won the title of "courier".

What are couriers worried about? Isn’t it because the delivery is not fast enough?

Thinking it was made with some special manufacturing process, the man picked it up and took a curious look, only to discover it was actually a rubber sole!

He hurried back to find the lord, and soon Hu Mifeng arrived, followed by Li Yihan, as if they had made an appointment.

While waiting for Ye Miaomiao, the two stared at each other, both having the same thought in their hearts: "Oh no, there's another dog."