Chapter 269: Thirteenth Day of Survival at Sea (2) The person who wanted to harm her was too...

There was a delay in the system, and everyone was surprised to hear the news.

In the end times, the system is what everyone relies on for survival, whether it is communicating with people or using items. Among all people, only Yu Miaomiao has encountered this. When it really happened to her, it was still a little difficult to accept for a while.

Although today was different from the time Yu Miaomiao encountered her in the Prank Cave, there was just a slight delay, but no one knew what the delay was.

Lulu said the delay was sometimes just a few seconds, but sometimes it was as long as 5 minutes.

Yu Miaomiao quickly sent a message in the group chat to test the delay, and everyone also conducted delay tests on various system interfaces.

Yu Miaomiao saw the message she sent one minute later, while the others saw it after 30 seconds or 20 seconds, with different delay times.

But this delay is not limited to sending messages. Stores, forums, friend requests, team building, transactions, and even taking out backpack items may be delayed. According to actual tests, the longest delay is 10 minutes.

Therefore, there will not be any useless items in the system. Small wardrobes and medium-sized wardrobes come in handy at this time. Although these wardrobes may not look large, they have built-in gas compression packers. Putting any bedding, clothing and other items in them can save a lot of space.

Fortunately, Yu Miaomiao and others had already stored a large number of items in the wardrobe, insulated box and in the house in order to make the system mistakenly think that they had less things in their backpacks so that they could get more items. Therefore, even if the system could not be opened, there was still enough food, clothing and daily necessities.

It was freezing cold outside. After staying outside for only ten minutes, several people were shivering with cold. Someone took out a thermometer to measure the temperature and it was already minus twelve degrees Celsius.

It is true that some people, like Yu Miaomiao, would store items that they don’t use on a daily basis in their closets. But except for the people in Yu Miaomiao’s base, no one took out thick clothes and put them in the closets in advance. The world was wailing and everyone was cursing why the system did this.

Now buying and selling are also subject to delay restrictions. It’s not that people can’t take things out of their backpacks, it’s just slower, so there’s nothing they can do except scold.

All system operations are slow, what about the adventure area?

Hua Bie came back after midnight. He said that he had never encountered this situation in the adventure area. As long as people are in the adventure area, sending messages and retrieving objects will not be affected by delays, and the monster attacks and treasure chest pickups are normal.

It seems that there is a delay only in the sea world. Is it because the two places are independent, or is it because the system encourages people to go to the adventure world?

Iris: "I've been to the expedition zone these past two days and haven't gotten any new information, but I've noticed that after surviving at sea, there are significantly fewer people in the expedition zone. When I was surviving in the desert, I often encountered situations where I couldn't enter the expedition zone, but I haven't encountered that since I entered the sea."

He had just returned from the expedition. As he pushed open the door to the common area, he heard discussions outside. He continued, "Today was also my first time going to the Crystal Palace. Not only did I not get any new expedition cards, but that clam monster also broke a finger. It seems like it's not that people don't want to go, but that they're afraid to go, or that if they do go, they have to return immediately."

No one dares to go, which means that many exploration sites are vacant, so the system activated some kind of emergency plan to do this.

As the end of the world progresses, everyone's survival ability has improved a lot. Killing monsters is no problem, and maintaining basic survival is no problem. At present, survival in the snow season after surviving at sea does not seem to be very difficult. Most people feel that what they have should be enough, and there is no need to go on an expedition and fight for their lives.

As for the ranking, 2% is enough to be on the adventure guide list, just go there twice and you will have it. The higher rankings are not something that ordinary people can get.

If you don't move forward, you will move backward. Maybe the survivors don't know that there will be radiation during the snow season.

Yu Miaomiao was a little hesitant about whether to explain this more secret information to all the survivors, as this might cause panic and even lead to a rush to explore the area.

She didn't want to see what she saw on her first day in the sea survival world, with corpses everywhere and the bodies of her own kind becoming food for monsters. She listened to everyone's discussion without saying a word.

Yingying was absent-minded, not caring about the system delay at all. She only had Xiaoguai on her mind. Finally, when everyone stopped discussing the matter, she quietly asked Yu Miaomiao, "Sister Miaomiao, why didn't Xiaoguai come?"

Yu Miaomiao was a little worried about Xiaoguai's condition. He had been listless since this morning, so she suggested, "Xiaoguai has been huddled by the fireplace this morning and refused to come out. I guess he's cold, but he doesn't seem to be in good condition. I'm a little worried too. How about you go and take a look for me?"

Someone asked about the expedition site, but it was not convenient for her to leave yet.

Yingying nodded quickly: "Okay, okay, I want to pet the cat."

Lulu held Yingying back and said, "Don't play too long. We agreed to go to the exploration area first today. We have to come back in the afternoon to make up for Sister Miaomiao's class."

Yingying made a gesture to assure, "Got it!"

Since the weather today is not suitable for staying in the sea world, everyone has arranged to take turns going to the adventure site. Even if the progress cannot be improved much, they can collect more adventure information for each other.

The spacious public area was crowded with people. Yu Miaomiao observed her surroundings. There were two people who had recently joined their base, a man and a woman who claimed to be a couple. But she didn't think they looked familiar to her, so she couldn't help but be wary.

While hiding the interface, Yu Miaomiao explained the situation to the team members and continued to participate in today's monster discussion.

In frosty weather, there are only two known monsters. One is the seal that was shot before. Lulu said that it looks like a seal from a distance, but in fact it looks like a sea lion when you get close. However, these two creatures look similar. Yu Miaomiao has seen it in a rare animal aquarium. It is really a monster.

On the biological sensor, the monster was indeed called "Four Unusual Things in the Ice Sea".

After everyone told what they had seen and heard, the lookout standing in the tower blew the horn to announce that a monster was attacking, and everyone wrapped their coats tightly and went out.

Hua Bie and Yu Miaomiao simultaneously pulled up their crossbows, both bows were fully drawn, and shot arrows at the monsters rushing towards them from both sides.

After Yu Miaomiao shot one shot, she immediately shot the second and third. After firing six shots in a row, before the group of "four-legged creatures" could get close, they were shot to death by her arrows.

On the other side, Hua Bie shot two shots with one bow. After a few sharp "whoosh" sounds, seven or eight seals fell to the ground and blood flowed all over the ice.

Then, several heads resembling wolves' heads emerged from the ice on both sides that were cut by the "Four Unsimilarities" and emerged from the water. This was the second monster in the frosty weather - the sea lion, an alien monster with a penguin-like body and a dog's head.

The survivors on the boat were all battle-hardened. Each of them took out a crossbow and shot at the "Sibu Xiang" and "Sea Dogs" rushing in from all directions.

Five minutes later, the ice was covered with monster corpses, and the monster crisis was temporarily resolved.

Seeing this, the man from the newly joined couple was about to step onto the ice to capture the monster.

He had one foot on the thin, brittle ice, and since no one was following him, he turned his head and asked, "Aren't you going to pick it up?"

Chenchen said in a bad tone: "We just said that we can't step on the ice casually. It's unsafe. Have you been surviving in the apocalypse for so long without paying attention to your ears?"

People admitted into the base usually have to go through several levels of screening and live alone on the periphery for a day or two. Only after their background is fully investigated will they be allowed in.

Of this couple, only the woman could find her past experiences, while there was no information about the man at all. The couple's explanation at the time was that they had been living together since coming to the apocalypse, so there was no need for both of them to speak on the forum.

Chenchen spoke very bluntly. People who had been at the base for a long time knew what kind of character she was. However, when other new survivors heard this, they immediately retorted, "I just didn't hear clearly. Is it necessary to say such harsh words?"

Chenchen is closest to the shore. She was the one who collected the monster corpses before. She had told Yu Miaomiao privately that she had come up with a method to collect the monster corpses and would tell everyone after it was successfully tested. Now she was standing alone surrounded by several newcomers.

Yu Miaomiao had a bad feeling in her heart. She winked at Hua Bie and Siyue respectively, then slowly approached and said, "You think Chenchen's words are unpleasant, but this 'Wenqing' fell and was bitten by a monster. Would you be willing to give him an advanced medical kit?"

Warmth is the man in the couple.

The man who was arguing with Chenchen had a lingering look in his eyes. Seeing that it was Yu Miaomiao who was speaking, his tone was a little weaker, but he still said dissatisfiedly: "Aren't we a collective? If you get hurt, it must be paid from the public stock. Why should I pay for it?"

Chenchen put his hands on his hips and was very unhappy, almost cursing: "Yes, the injured are using the public inventory. Where do the things in the inventory come from? Otherwise, you can put all your supplies in the public storage box and let us use more."

When the man who was arguing heard a woman pointing at his nose and making such a fuss, he immediately became furious and raised his hand to hit her. But before he could do anything, he was knocked to the ground by April's Lie with a wooden stick.

At the same time, Hua Bie had already taken action before Miaomiao and tied up the man who pretended to be weak and wanted to step on the ice with a rope.

The whole process took less than a minute. When everyone came to their senses, Yu Miaomiao pointed a gun at the woman's head and a knife at her waist. "What is your purpose in coming here? Are you here to create chaos or to kill me?"

"ah?"

"What's going on?"

"Oh my god... there are bad people among the crowd."

It wasn't until 'Aoyi' snatched a poison needle from the woman's hand that everyone understood what was going on.

The subdued woman shouted unwillingly, "I can live in such comfort in the end times, with heating and delicious food. I just can't stand it and want revenge. Since I didn't succeed, you can kill me or cut me up as you please."

This statement was obviously weak. Yu Miaomiao carefully observed the skin condition of the two people and found no reaction as if they had been injected with a poison needle, which meant they were not poisoned.

He didn't need an antidote to survive, yet he was so determined to die. Even after being caught, he didn't make any excuses and just asked for death. Could it be that the bad guys had some evidence against him?

Yu Miaomiao said in a positive tone: "Xia Bulexue, do you think that if you listen to them and don't leak the secret, they will let your child go?"

The rule of Yu Miaomiao's base is that every survivor who joins will have their backpack and supplies checked. Yingying is the person in charge of the inspection. She said that she had seen the mobile phone of the woman named Xia Buluoxue in front of Yu Miaomiao, and found a photo of a seven or eight-year-old child on the back.

At first, Yu Miaomiao was somewhat resistant to this proposal, thinking that it was a bit of a violation of human rights and privacy, but this proposal was passed unanimously with the other people raising their hands in agreement.

Although you can hand over all the supplies to your accomplices before the bad guys come and trade them after the situation stabilizes, this rule can at least ensure that when the bad guys first come, they do not have enough firepower to cause large-scale damage or injure people.

Moreover, there is no credibility among bad guys. What you give out today may not be available for return tomorrow.

Since no one can guarantee whether someone will do bad things or become bad in the future, it is enough to ensure that you are safe at present.

Xia Buxu frowned when she heard the word "child," but then she said calmly, "Since you've guessed my intention, you should know that if I tell you, my Beibei will definitely die. If I don't tell you, she still has a chance of survival."

Yu Miaomiao was always paying attention to the expressions of the two people. She only had a lie detection card in her hand. She didn't plan to use it on this person. Instead, she said to Siyue, "Brother Siyue, please ask your people to interrogate this man named Wen Qing."

"Hey, hey, hey, no, I'm innocent. I was deceived by this woman. I'm a good person. I want to come to you, Meow God!" When the man named Wen Qing was taken away by April, he kept shouting relentlessly, but his eyes were staring at Xia Buluoxue in front of Yu Miaomiao like a poisonous snake.

After the man walked away, Yu Miaomiao continued, "Well, Wen Qing is from 'Who Am I', right? He forced you to come here? Your child must have been abducted to District 9 for human experiments in Shi Yancheng. He must have gone there without a chance of returning."

At this time, the crowd had dispersed, and the person who started the trouble was taken away by Hua Bie for questioning. Only a few people that Yu Miaomiao trusted the most were here.

The sky, once clear, began to drizzle. Several people stood under the outdoor umbrellas Yu Miaomiao had first opened, leaving Xia Buxue, tied to the iron pillar of the boat, alone in the sleet. She was puzzled. Why did the others seem so uninterested in what had just happened? Did they not want to know something, to find out something? Or was it that this person called Miaomiao Buqueshui had so much say here that they didn't dare to stay and listen.

Xia Buxu didn't react at all to what Miaomiao said. Her cotton coat was completely wet and soon turned into a lump of ice. The chill penetrated deep into her bones, making her shiver uncontrollably. She had no time to think about the irrational behavior of the people in the base.

"The rain in this apocalypse is really strange. The temperature is almost minus 20 degrees, but it's not ice falling, it's raining." Yu Miaomiao sat by the fire and chatted with Chenchen.

Chenchen took out the meat smeared with barbecue sauce and took a bite of it: "Sister Miaomiao, the meat smeared with your barbecue sauce is so fragrant, it tastes better than most of the food made in the cooking pot. If it weren't for the ordinary level 4 food, I would have eaten it all."

Yu Miaomiao scooped out a spoonful of meat sauce and spread it on the shrimp balls. "One spoonful per person per day. If you dare to eat one more spoonful, I don't need to do anything. Yingying will be the first to fight you."

Chenchen gave a wry smile and pointed the tip of the skewer at Xia Buxu, whose entire body was about to turn to ice. He said, "Yingying is so deceptive. She looks harmless, but she has the worst temper and the most ruthless methods. It seems like Yingying and Xiaoguai are getting along better and better. If she asked Xiaoguai to attack an object or a person, would he be willing to do it?"

Recently, many people on the forum have posted pictures of Xiaoguai fighting, including bloody photos and brutal videos. Those who can send videos are all at the top of the list. They are lurking nearby, and Yu Miaomiao is no exception. It's just that after seeing Xiaoguai, they only dare to use the camera to take pictures and run away. They dare not stay, otherwise the machine hovering in the air can be grabbed by Xiaoguai.

Seeing the two of them leisurely enjoying the barbecue, Xia Buxu couldn't help but shout, "It's no use threatening me like this. Nothing is more important than my daughter's life."

Yu Miaomiao put the roasted shrimp balls into the system backpack. This thing was covered with sauce and was not suitable for being placed in an insulated box. After returning to her room, she would slowly take it out and let Xiaoguai try to see if it liked it.

Seeing that the two were still chatting about interesting stories about ferocious beasts and the weather, and not paying attention to her, Xia Buxu finally couldn't help but ask, "What on earth are you doing? Can you please give me a quick death?"

Chenchen: “No.”

Yu Miaomiao: “That’s fine…”

Chenchen looked at Yu Miaomiao with some doubt, and heard Yu Miaomiao say, "If you are willing to tell me everything, I can consider giving you an injection and then letting you go."

Xia Buliangxue turned her head away without answering. She knew that she would probably freeze to death here today. She hated that she could never save her daughter.

Yu Miaomiao was very close to the stove, but it was still a bit cold just sitting there. She didn't intend to continue acting, but asked the other party what he cared about: "Do you know what the people in District 9 are doing?"

Before she could answer, Yu Miaomiao continued, "You three are in the same group, right? I don't know how good my other two companions' interrogation techniques are. I'm sure they're not very good at it. But I will treat what I just said to you as if you told me. I will tell your other two companions everything and post it publicly. As for what will happen...oh, you'd better stop yelling, or I really want to see if a rag can actually block someone's mouth."

Xia Bulexue only uttered two syllables of the curse word before it met the gray cloth in Yu Miaomiao's hand. She could smell the stench even from a meter away, so she quickly fell silent.

Yu Miaomiao: "The human experiments that the bad guy in District 9 was conducting were randomly extracting certain values ​​from the survivors' personal dashboards and updating them on himself to improve his personal abilities. Tell me, what values ​​are there in your daughter that are worth him going to all that trouble to kidnap her? Don't tell me he's training her as a personal soldier or using it to coerce you. You're so easily captured, are you worth a cross-server invitation card?"

Xia Buxu's mouth was not blocked, but she could not utter a word of defense. Yes, she had not figured out why 'Who Am I' had spent a lot of money to invite her to join the base, and then went to such great lengths to send her daughter away.

Yu Miaomiao: "I don't know what the process of extracting the numerical value is, but I can confirm that once your daughter is selected as an experimental target, only death awaits her. I don't know your daughter's personal abilities or whether her numerical values ​​are high, but I can confirm that your daughter has one numerical value that Shiyancheng really needs: her age."

When Xia Buluoxue heard Yu Miaomiao say this, her breathing became a little unstable. She couldn't believe what was going to happen and looked forward with blank eyes.

These things were originally known to the public within Yu Miaomiao's base, but because these people had just arrived, they were not told before they were fully trusted. If it had been later, Yu Miaomiao might not have been able to use this information. It can only be said that the people who wanted to harm her were too impatient.

Yu Miaomiao: "Of course you have your strengths that others value. The fact that you managed to survive for 40 days in the apocalypse with your child alone, and still consistently rank in the top 50 for monster slaying and exploration, is enough to prove your ability. If you have the ability, you shouldn't help the evil. Associating with wolves will only harm you and your daughter."

Xia Buxu had her own pride in her heart, but she was crushed by Yu Miaomiao's words. She no longer stood upright, but sat limply on the ground. She didn't know if her feet were cold or weak from the ups and downs of her mood. Her heart was already a mess. She hadn't thought that she would fail before she even made a move. "Tell me, what should I do? What can I do?"

Chenchen looked disappointed: "Of course you should tell us everything you know. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Is that hard to understand?"

Yu Miaomiao: Emmm

She just told Chenchen roughly the process of leaking information, but she didn't expect Chenchen to say that. It was a novel idea.

Xia Bulexue hurriedly shook her head: "No, no, I've already told you, my daughter's fate will be immediate death."

Chenchen rolled his eyes. "We can tell everyone that you didn't say anything and that they believed you. Then you can pretend to pass on some half-true and half-false news to the other party from time to time. This way, you can save your daughter's life and act as a double agent to help us take down the bad guys."

Xia Buxu rekindled her spirits when she heard this, and murmured, "Okay, okay, as long as I can save my daughter, I can do anything."

Yu Miaomiao and Chenchen looked at each other, with a question in their eyes, is this okay?

In order to avoid further accidents, Chenchen searched Xia Buluoxue again and untied her after confirming that there were no other attack items. Fortunately, Xia Buluoxue's life trajectory had been traced on the forum, otherwise they would not have given her a chance so "temporarily" so soon.

Yu Miaomiao asked carefully and made the next plan before letting others take Xia Buluoxue to a farther ship, and then returned to his cabin alone.

Tired, Yu Miaomiao sat slumped on the sofa and sighed.

She didn't expect that dealing with people would be so tiring. In the end times, different people have different intentions. She has to be wary of this and guard against that every day. It would be easier to kill a few more monsters than to put on a show.

A cat's head nudged the back of her hand, and its soft ears rubbed her palm back and forth. Yu Miaomiao felt itchy in her palm, and all the fatigue just now was swept away. After seeing Xiaoguai's cute and fierce face, all her worries disappeared in an instant.

People often say that petting cats will make you feel good, and it turns out to be true.

After stroking for more than ten minutes, Yu Miaomiao finally took out the grilled shrimp from her backpack. However, Xiaoguai sniffed it twice and made an "ow" sound, indicating that he was not interested.

Before Yingying was dragged to the adventure site by Lulu, she left a lot of food for Xiaoguai, but Xiaoguai consumed extra food today, so she asked Yu Miaomiao to prepare more.

Under Xiaoguai's eager gaze, Yu Miaomiao had no choice but to say, "Xiaoguai, you have to wait a moment. There are some problems with the system today, so the food will be served slowly."

She looked up at the system interface, trying to avoid the other person's drooling look.

People all over the world are discussing the system delay. According to the information provided by everyone, the system delay is between 5 seconds and 10 minutes, and there is no fixed delay time.

There is panic, but more of a worry is about the future direction of the system.

There will be a ten-minute delay today, will there be a twenty-minute delay tomorrow, and will the system fail completely in the future?

Whether it is necessary to store supplies in the room now and what to do in the future are the main issues people are discussing, but because of the delay, the discussions in the world are often irrelevant. Even though it is difficult to talk, there are still a lot more chat messages than before.

Yu Miaomiao thought, since the system was so delayed, even the products obtained after making items on the workbench would arrive in the backpack a little later. Her post also stated that there would be no delay in the exploration area. Why did they have time to chat here instead of going on an adventure?

Are you really planning to settle down and live a happy life in the end times?

In this case, Yu Miaomiao told everyone about the imminent crisis, and with her own strategy, she built two more buildings.

One is to make public the anti-radiation supplies that they have obtained, so that everyone will not simply think that the snow season means snow and low temperatures, and to widely collect information on other special materials and gather more information.

Next is a seemingly unimportant family search floor, which lists some cases of lost children in the end times and calls on everyone to help forward and find them, including Xia Buluoxue's daughter Beibei.