[One month before the space pirate invasion, and another month and a half before the Zerg arrived.]

Gui Gui gave the exact time of the bright sunshine.

"Do the other players know?"

[Let's see how much history they have to know!] Gui Gui shrugged, indicating that the game doesn't suppress any of your usual knowledge. If you've thoroughly studied this period of history before entering the game, you'll be fine!

In response, Mingmei just wants to ask, besides the Hualan Star people, who else has the time to look back at this history?

...

"Huh! Why is the water this color?"

Disguised as a staff member serving meals at the community canteen, Lu Xiaoyao spent her entire day at the window serving food to people coming and going. As soon as a large plate of food was gone, the kitchen staff would immediately bring it up. She didn't even have a chance to catch her breath, let alone drink water. She worked until late at night before finally taking off her apron and carrying the food prepared by the kitchen staff, preparing to return to her residence according to her role.

As she was leaving, someone called out to her, reminding her not to forget to get a bottle of hot water to drink when she got home.

But who would have thought that the hot water would turn yellow?

Her exclamation also alerted the other staff members who had not yet left.

"What happened?" The NPCs in the kitchen, hearing Lu Xiaoyao's words, thought something was wrong and quickly stepped forward.

"This water is yellow!"

Seeing Lu Xiaoyao's exaggerated reaction, the others seemed unsurprised, and some even looked at her with disdain, saying, "What's wrong? Are you surprised by yellow?"

"Could it be that..."

"You're not trying to say it's not brown, are you?" Someone preemptively cut off Lu Xiaoyao's unfinished question, replacing it with this sentence.

Lu Xiaoyao: ?? ??

Is it possible for drinking water to be brown?

The ultimate comfort drink for couch potatoes?

"Hey, people from small towns are really something else; they've probably never seen such clear water before!"

These words made Lu Xiaoyao's eyes widen immediately.

Are you kidding me?

With water this color, how can you tell me your water is clear?

Surrounded by a group of middle-aged women, feeling like a monkey, Lu Xiaoyao stopped bothering them, gave an awkward laugh, filled half a pot with hot water, and hurriedly left with her lunchbox.

All that remained was a chattering voice behind her, with her as the central figure in the discussion.

After walking a long way from the community canteen, Lu Xiaoyao took a deep breath of the cold air, finally allowing herself to relax and take out the character information and game background that she hadn't had time to look through carefully because she was busy entering the game.

Seeing that the ancient planet Blue Star was experiencing tensions between countries over water resources, Lu Xiaoyao chuckled twice.

"Such a small planet, and there are so many countries?"

This wasn't the first time Lu Xiaoyao, who grew up in interstellar space, had learned that there were many independent regimes on the ancient Blue Star, but every time she read about it, she still found it fascinating.

She scoffed at the idea of ​​this struggle for water resources.

"We're all on the same planet, and the water is constantly circulating. Do some countries really not use their brains at all?"

After finishing her rant about the origin story of the ancient Blue Star water resource war, Lu Xiaoyao returned to her residence, a 40-square-meter studio apartment.

Currently, due to the water shortage on the entire ancient planet, H country, a populous nation, has a unified allocation system for everything from food to water. The community canteen provides each person with three meals a day, a water bottle that Lu Xiaoyao just brought back, and a limit of one bottle of hot water per person per day.

After taking a bite of food, Lu Xiaoyao's expression immediately changed.

An indescribable, strange smell inside made her vomit the next second.

"The color of this soup isn't just from soy sauce, it's also from water, right?" Lu Xiaoyao suddenly realized that even her drinking water was like this, so what kind of water could she use for the food she brought back?

Many other players who entered this game faced the same problem as Lu Xiaoyao.

The role Hu Yue got this time was actually an air force pilot. She still found it very novel to fly something that was almost an antique. She trained with the other NPCs in the game for a while in the afternoon, and before dinner, she listened to her squad leader talk about the international situation that she had never heard of before.

Goodness, that's complicated, much more exciting than the conflict between the Empire and the Federation!

As a result, Hu Yue also encountered a dilemma at dinner.

Why is this rice this color?

Looking at the yellowish-gray rice, if it weren't for the fact that the shape of the rice was similar to the rice she usually ate in the restaurants on Hualan Star, she would have suspected that this was some kind of extinct staple food from ancient Hualan Star!

"Just rice?" The comrade opposite her stared at Hu Yue with a suspicious look, not understanding what she was surprised about.

"Why is it this color? Isn't rice supposed to be white?"

Hu Yue should have kept her question in check. Her comrade immediately retorted, "You don't mean to say you're cooking with purified water, do you? How can you even bring yourself to say something so extravagant? For us, having purified water is already a luxury. How come you're getting more and more outrageous?"

Hu Yue: ?? ?

"But... we can't use this water, can we...?"

"I've been drinking this kind of water since I was a child, is there a problem?"

A flash of anger crossed the eyes of that comrade-in-arms. Hu Yue was speechless and said nothing more. She just took a bite of rice, which was so bad that she almost vomited it up, which angered everyone.

Hu Yue quickly dug out the game's background information and browsed through it.

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