Chapter 3

"Can the task description be changed?"

[?] 184's voice was filled with confusion. [Why change it? Is there something wrong with the description?]

Mingzhu: “…”

"Take a closer look at the mission description..." Mingzhu said, unable to bear the thought: "What does it mean to build thatched huts to shelter refugees?"

[There were originally several styles to choose from, but didn't all of them just bind to a host and travel to interstellar society with them?...]

[Then, due to force majeure and other factors, the system was disrupted and most of the infrastructure data was lost. Currently, only the Chinese-style infrastructure remains.]

[Now I am in the right world and my profession is right for me, but what I lost can never be found again.]

At this point, 184 started to cry like a cat again.

[I can’t find it back, host. Your poor body has become a cripple.]

"Hmmmm, crippled."

Mingzhu perfunctorily consoled him. "You've gotten yourself into this state, and you still have the nerve to cry? Is anyone more miserable than him, the host?"

Please!

He was the one who was powerful in the battle against the Zerg in his previous life.

The 184 system really doesn't provide much help!

I know I can't blame him, but when Mingzhu faces 184's sadness, he doesn't feel distressed. Instead, he laughs at it.

For example, even though Mingzhu was collecting construction materials according to the requirements of Side Mission 2, he was multitasking: while collecting construction materials, he was chatting with 184 and using the live point map on his light computer watch to make notes on the area around him within 5,000 meters.

Side Quest 3: Build a hotel for travelers to rest.

Side Quest 4: How can the refugees who have been attracted here have no place to live? Please build houses for the refugees to live in.

Side Quest 5: How can the refugees who have settled down be without the protection of defensive buildings? Please build defensive buildings to protect the residents who are determined to settle in the Doomsday Fortress under your governance.

Mingzhu: “…”

184 obeyed and gave the task description. But even if it was changed, what's the difference between "refugees" and "refugees"?

"Modern academic terms." Mingzhu gritted his teeth. "Don't give me fancy terms. 'Refugees' and 'Refugees' are terms that only appear when natural or man-made disasters strike. 'Refugees' were mostly used in ancient times, but 'refugees', well, can be used in ancient, modern, and future societies. But I think..."

"Don't worry about what you think." 184 had a proud face, and the next moment he appeared beside Mingzhu in the image of a calico cat.

"Everyone has to feel the same."

Mingzhu: "You seem to have gained weight again."

184's face suddenly widened in disbelief: "Really? Tong has gained weight again?"

"Yeah, I'm fat again."

Mingzhu stretched out his hand to straighten the hair on 184's head and said with a smile: "A cat is cute no matter how fat it is. Don't worry, as your host, I won't dislike you."

"Well, host, I forgive you."

184 squatted and watched Mingzhu continue to collect building materials slowly.

"Tong has changed his ways. The host cannot embarrass Tong so easily next time."

Mingzhu rolled his eyes and grumbled, "Don't think I'll soften my heart just because you're wearing that silly cat image. Tongzi, the most important thing when building a system is rigor. Do you understand? You're not rigorous in your mission descriptions. You can't even tell the difference between 'refugees' and 'wanderers'. How can you possibly build the universe's premier infrastructure system?"

184 nodded thoughtfully.

Mingzhu continued to complain, "You said your program was damaged, and I believe you, but what's your current situation? Do you have enough energy to rebuild yourself?"

"No, this is my avatar." 184 answered seriously, "The host can touch Tong because Tong and the host are bound together."

"Yeah, as long as it doesn't waste energy."

Mingzhu straightened the ahoge on 184's head again and began to collect building materials based on the materials needed to build a straw hut and a hotel.

The housing construction page provides information on five types of houses. The straw hut is the cheapest, with a total area of ​​approximately 70 square meters, can accommodate 10 people, and is furnished like a large bunk bed.

The hut is simply a thatched house with a total area of ​​60 square meters and can be freely configured. It can also accommodate 10 people...

The total area of ​​bamboo houses, wooden houses and stone houses is larger than thatched houses, and is equal to the total area of ​​straw huts. However, the materials required are more expensive than those of straw huts and thatched houses, and special construction materials are required.

Mingzhu has only collected the materials for building a thatched hut. If he wants to exchange them for the blank blueprints for building a courtyard house, he needs 1,000 Starlight Coins.

Mingzhu only had 100 Starlight Coins. After collecting enough supplies, Mingzhu stopped collecting and instead planned his route, preparing to head to the city center of City X.

At this moment, the optical computer watch suddenly sounded an alarm.

"1000 meters ahead, there are mutated creatures chasing their prey, running towards the host."

Mingzhu: “?”

Didn’t we scan any living people before?

Could it be that the prey being chased by the mutated creatures is not a human?

As he pondered, Mingzhu gripped his pistol tightly and stared ahead warily. A distance of 1000 meters wasn't long, but for a mutant creature, it was very short.

Soon, the prey that had been chased by the mutated creatures appeared. It was a mutated golden retriever, carrying a family of five on its back.

The mutated creature chasing them was a pitcher plant that could walk on its roots.

"Get out of the way! There's a man-eating Piranha plant."

Before the mutation, the pitcher plant was a small and very cute plant, and was often planted in flower pots as an ornamental plant.

After the mutation, the pitcher plant grew to the size of a small car, and its diet changed from insects to animals, including humans.

It is obvious that this mutant pitcher plant, which can run fast with its strong roots, regards the mutant golden retriever and the family of five on its back as food.

If the food runs away, the mutant pitcher plant will naturally chase it.

At first, the Marauder's Map was not scanned. Not only was the distance too far, but there was also no voice broadcast function. As a result, even if the Marauder's Map was scanned, Mingzhu would not have noticed it in time.

The five members of the family had the same look of fear on their faces.

They screamed and told Mingzhu to get away quickly.

Mingzhu obediently dodged quickly, and even jumped towards the mutant pitcher plant in a particularly rampant manner. When the mutant pitcher plant opened its mouth wide and tried to swallow Mingzhu into its stomach, Mingzhu took out a soybean-sized thunder and fire bomb and threw it into the mutant pitcher plant's wide-open mouth.

5 seconds later, there was a muffled sound, and the mutated pitcher plant cracked from the inside out and exploded instantly.

184: "......"

——He forgot that his host had a fear of insufficient firepower. Apart from the necessary food and daily necessities, the space button was almost full of weapons and small thunder and fire bombs that had huge lethality.

"Oops, I was too quick."

Mingzhu scratched his head and turned to greet the stunned family of five. "You guys are from out of town, right?"

The mutated golden retriever didn't have time to brake and crashed headfirst into a tree. It was now dazed and groggy, lying on the ground howling and groaning, looking both aggrieved and pitiful.

"Xiao Wu is awesome."

The little girl squatted aside and reached out to touch the nose of the mutated golden retriever.

In fact, compared with other mutated canines, this mutated golden retriever is not very big, about the size of an ordinary car.

The little girl stood in front of it, small yet extremely harmonious.

Mingzhu took a glance and then looked away.

"Thank you for saving us."

Jiang Lijun came to his senses and quickly thanked him.

His wife was hiding behind him, trembling in fear. It was unclear whether she was feeling lucky for having escaped from the mouth of the man-eating plant, or was afraid of Mingzhu's brutality and thoughtlessness in killing the mutated pitcher plant.

Mingzhu didn't care and naturally accepted the other party's thanks. He then asked again whether the family of five came from other places or were locals of City X.

"We're from the neighboring city, Z." Jiang Lijun panted, his heart still trembling. "A few days ago, I heard a radio broadcast from City X saying that a base had been built here, and that the base in City Z had been breached by mutant animals. If we don't leave now, we'll face the fate of being kept captive by the mutant animals."

"Thank goodness for Xiao Wu, our family of five was able to leave City Z safely."

As Jiang Lijun spoke, the little crow howled a few times in response. His wife nodded repeatedly, echoing the sentiment, saying that they had left City Z together, but had just left the city when they were pursued by the mutant plants.

Mingzhu nodded in understanding, but did not comment.

He asked just to be sure.

Now that it was confirmed, Mingzhu prepared to continue walking deeper into City X.

There were enough materials to build a straw hut, but not enough to make beds, furniture, or even kitchen utensils.

They don't even make beds, but instead build kangs like people do in the north during the winter, and the necessary building materials also need to be collected.

"Your destination is the base in City X?" Mingzhu said, "It just so happens that my destination is also the base in City X."

Mingzhu had just arrived, so he certainly didn't know whether City X had a base. His optical computer watch's built-in "live point" map function could only scan an area with a diameter of 1,000 meters, centered on Mingzhu.

The scanning range is not large, but it is definitely enough!

Mingzhu's current actions were to further understand the situation through the indigenous people. After a brief analysis, Mingzhu felt that traveling together was the most appropriate approach at the moment.

As expected, Jiang Lijun's family of five didn't refuse and happily agreed to Mingzhu's proposal. Mingzhu's almost instantaneous killing of the mutated Piranha Plant proved that he was a powerful psychic. With him on the road, at least the five of them wouldn't have to flee in panic under Xiaowu's protection.

Aunt Jiang even enthusiastically invited Mingzhu to ride on Xiaowu to the base in City X.

Mingzhu didn't refuse, fitting right in with the family of five. On the way to the X City base aboard the Little Crow, Jiang Lijun and his wife, Liu Yan, answered nearly every question. But when it came to superpowers, they couldn't hide their disappointment.

"My Tiantian has superpowers, a level one healing ability, but no killing power. My wife, my parents, and I all don't have superpowers. We all rely on Xiaowu's protection, otherwise we would have been eaten by the Piranha Plant long before it set its sights on us."

Jiang Tiantian is currently six years old. When the doomsday broke out, she happened to be sick at home and did not go to kindergarten. Jiang Lijun was also worried about his daughter, so he and his wife took leave and did not go to work.

As for Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang, it was also a coincidence. If Jiang Tiantian hadn't been sick, the old couple would have signed up for the "Sunset Red" tour group to travel along the coast.

It can be said that Jiang Tiantian's illness came at the right time, leaving her grandparents, parents at home.

Moreover, the elderly love to stock up. What should Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang do when they are bored at home? Naturally, they will wander around the city. Today, they will go to this supermarket for discounts and stock up. Today, they will go to that supermarket for discounts and stock up.

It was also thanks to the old couple's stockpiling that Jiang Lijun's family of five successfully survived month after month when the doomsday broke out and zombie attacks occurred everywhere.

Speaking of which, compared to City X, City Z is both lucky and unfortunate.

It was lucky because the zombie outbreak in City Z occurred several days later than in City X. It was unfortunate because even though it broke out several days later, City X still fell quickly, with most of the citizens transformed into zombies and the remaining few struggling to survive.

Just like City X, City Z was able to maintain stability at the beginning and regularly eliminated zombies. However, as time passed, the flora and fauna also mutated, and the lives of the surviving citizens of City Z suddenly turned from semi-hell to endless purgatory.

Even among the mutated plants and animals, there appeared kings with IQs comparable to those of a 10-year-old human, a mutated wisteria, a mutated wild boar...

The two cooperated with each other to besiege the surviving citizens of City Z and raise them like humans raise livestock.

He eats several people every day, never more than that, and eats the strong ones first, followed by the elderly. He never eats children, and he is even quite aware of the crisis and forces men and women to mate.

Anyway, Mingzhu, who had learned about the situation in City Z from Jiang Lijun, was almost shocked and couldn't help but complain, "What a trick!"

Jiang Lijun: “?”

"I mean, it feels like the Wisteria King and the Wild Boar King have IQs higher than 10 years old." Mingzhu then said, "With them surrounding them, I'm sure the people in City Z must have had a hard time escaping."

"We didn't actually notice it at first. It wasn't until we lost several psychics that we realized what the 'Wisteria King' and the 'Wild Boar King' were planning."

"There's nothing we can do. City Z is only a fourth-tier city. There aren't many psychics here, and they're not very strong. The highest-level psychic is only level three."

"Level three? Not bad!"

"Yes, but they were all eaten." Jiang Lijun said again: "My Tiantian awakened her healing ability after she caught a cold and had a fever."

However, it was very weak, and coupled with its young age, it was spared by the 'Wisteria King' and the 'Wild Boar King'. However, this exemption was only temporary, as human psychics were undoubtedly a great supplement to the mutated plants and animals.

If Jiang Tiantian continued to stay in City Z, she would definitely be on the recipe list of 'Wisteria King' and 'Wild Boar King', so Jiang Lijun took his wife and parents and tried his best with the help of Xiao Wu.