Chapter 65 Desert Survival Day 9 (8) Let them be more anxious...

[Players apply to enter the expedition area based on integrity]

[Reason for application: Hello, there are less than six hours left until the expedition rankings are finalized. Everyone is catching up, and I'm about to fall off the leaderboard. I really need the rewards. I did use tricks to deceive some people before, but I really haven't harmed anyone. I just want to get a bandage to survive tonight. You know, normal mode is about to enter the apocalypse. I beg you, please let me in. We survivors can't be manipulated by the game system. We must unite and face the outside world. You can privately message me. Any supplies are negotiable. I can give them to you in advance, as long as you are willing to give them.]

【Agree/Reject】

The reason for the application should have a word limit. Yu Miaomiao looked at his obviously incomplete essay and wondered how "he" could actually retreat in order to advance.

She deliberately waited for a while before clicking "Reject", making the other party think that she was hesitant.

Chengxinweiben probably guessed that others had seen his ID appear in fraudulent posts, but he probably didn't expect that the person he was defrauding was exactly the person he was seeking help from.

I have to applaud the system for its ability to play tricks on people.

If it were someone else, after reading the post claiming that he was a liar, they would definitely have doubts in their hearts, but after seeing the words "honesty is the basis", they might be moved.

Some soft-hearted people, or those who saw the benefits he mentioned, couldn't help but chat with him privately. If the other party really gave them some small favors, and they were probably not familiar with the rules of the expedition area, they would be fooled by him and might really let him in.

Hua Bie had never walked out of the Dark Oasis to the second half of the oasis. He said that the last time he did so, he could only see a new fork in the road, but at that time he was surrounded by scavengers and patrol monsters. Therefore, many people thought that having one more person would mean more help.

Moreover, in this seemingly begging message, this honesty-based person deliberately released two pieces of information: one is that he can give things, even weapons, and the other is about bandages.

Everyone knows that bandages are a scarce commodity. His sales pitch makes it seem as if bandages are a must-have for ranking and settlement. Seeing this, even the most vigilant person might be attracted by this small detail and send an inquiry.

Once the inquiry begins, you fall into a fraudulent trap based on integrity.

Yu Miaomiao currently has absolute ownership for more than five hours. During her adventure, no third person sent an application. Those who wanted to come in should have applied, so there are only these two people who have adventure cards corresponding to her adventure site.

Whether she agreed or not, the expedition site would be occupied by one of the two men sooner or later.

Instead of letting these two people try their luck after she left, she might as well give it to one of them when she was about to go out.

It's not like she hadn't thought about letting one person in first and then setting a trap to kill him.

But she was afraid that when the moment came to kill someone, she would be soft-hearted, because killing monsters was easy, but killing people was something she had not yet made up her mind to do.

She had also tried, but the traps and other things in her bag could not be placed in the exploration area, so she could not trap the next survivor when he came in.

If she hid somewhere and shot, even if she could do it, the other party might not be off guard. If the other party dodged it, she would not be sure whether the weapon in her hand would have any chance of success.

In addition, the sound of gunfire will attract patrolling monsters behind, leaving him vulnerable to attack from both sides. If he cannot win, he can only use the expedition card to temporarily teleport back, which will also terminate his expedition early and squeeze him out of the top 100 expedition rankings.

However, she could take advantage of this and surround the two newcomers from the front and back.

After all, when fighting with patrol monsters, no new patrol monsters will appear, but as long as there are no patrol monsters, making a loud noise will attract the ones behind.

So she already had an idea in her mind about who to let in first, and that was honesty.

But not now. I need to wait a little longer, until I have almost completed my exploration, until they have little time left, until they become a little more anxious after being rejected repeatedly.

Yu Miaomiao didn’t understand the character based on integrity yet, but she knew that people like the big winners in life would definitely not let others in once they got in.

The best plan is to let Chengxinweiben come in first, and then let the winner of life come in when she is safe, because she is not sure whether Chengxinweiben will let other people in after she leaves.

As for why they had to wait, Yu Miaomiao would definitely not allow these two people to make any progress in their exploration. Besides, people would only do impulsive things when they were in a hurry.

After standing there for a long time, the birds behind him seemed to be a little tired of staring at him, and began to groom each other again.

When Yu Miaomiao thought about the gunshots, she realized that she couldn't hear any sound in this adventure area. No, except for the branch guardian monsters, no other animals or plants made any sound.

Whether it's the wind blowing the plants, or the rabbit being knocked away by the octopus deer, or the animals chewing, there is no sound at all, so this is why the sound of the survivor using the gun is so obvious and can attract patrolling monsters so quickly.

The guardian monster will make a sound, so there will be a countdown in sight, which is the time it will take for the patrol monster to come after hearing the sound, not the killing time.

The lake water rippled as the fish swam around, a scene she hadn't seen in a long time.

I don't know if this water can be used.

She used an empty bottle to take a bottle. After taking it, the bottle could not be put into the backpack. She had to pour out the water before she could put the empty bottle back.

Someone in the post mentioned that after drinking the water in the oasis, they vomited and had diarrhea for two days. Some people couldn't bear it and died of exhaustion, while others barely managed to survive. Therefore, the water here is only for exploration, and survivors should not even think about using it.

Walking on the water on the gravel road, Yu Miaomiao walked carefully towards the other side, her eyes always fixed on the two birds on the branches.

Just as she reached the other side, the two birds, which were happily picking each other's feathers with their wedge-shaped beaks, immediately stopped their beak movements and flapped their wings, which were several times wider than their bodies, to fly towards her.

Yu Miaomiao held the umbrella between her head and shoulders, and her hands were ready to shoot the arrow. As a result, two birds flew high over her head. She turned around and looked, and they flew directly to the top of the tree.

What's at the top of the tree?

Is it a treasure chest?

Yu Miaomiao remained alert at all times and tried to walk under the tree as quietly as possible.

If these two birds are guardian monsters, they can make sounds to attract patrolling monsters when they see themselves.

Because she was holding an umbrella and couldn't always pay attention to when the birds on the road would swoop down, she simply moved the box to the shore.

The box was not heavy, and she didn't know whether the things inside were good or not. From her current perspective, she saw two birds standing next to a bird's nest on the top of the tree. There was a very conspicuous brass treasure chest in the nest.

Are they guarding the treasure chest on the top of the tree?

Yu Miaomiao stood on tiptoe and took a closer look. It seemed that there was a dark brown egg next to the treasure chest. On the side of the big tree, there was a climbing net that spiraled up along the tree, and at the end of the net was the bird's nest.

So these two birds sensed the approach of humans, but they didn't know where Yu Miaomiao was, so they could only blindly guard the bird's nest.

If these two birds are guardian monsters, then what they are guarding is the real branch treasure chest, and the one in her hand is just a confusing treasure chest.

But they were all treasure chests, so she didn't think having too many was too much. Yu Miaomiao quickly opened them with a flat-blade screwdriver.

[Successfully triggered the Lucky trait, Adventure Land Gift Pack: 32 Screws, 20 Iron Ingots, 15 Copper Ingots, 30 Strings, 9 Plastic Blocks, 3 Stones, 3 Wood, 1 Cuckoo Feather Crown, and the End Times Signature Kiln Chicken King Leg.]

Azalea crest...?

Yu Miaomiao looked at the description of this item.

[Name: Cuckoo Feather Crown (1/1)

Level: 13

Introduction: Whether it looks good or not is another matter. There is high energy ahead. This is not a psychological effect. The smooth feathers can save your life once, so please cherish them.

Attributes: Can provide the wearer with a single shield against fatal head injuries. Multiple ordinary injuries will also damage the feather crown, turning it into an ordinary ornament.

Is it really that amazing? A feather crest.

Yu Miaomiao took out the cuckoo feather crown from her backpack. It looked a bit like a chief's hat, and the headband was filled with olive-brown feathers. It was easily recognizable as the same feathers as the two birds in the tree.

It turned out that the two birds were called cuckoos. No wonder from her current perspective, the two birds' beaks were clearly opening and closing, but no sound came out.

So even if she entered the range guarded by the two birds, there was no countdown, because as long as she didn't make any noise, she wouldn't attract the patrolling monsters.

In that case, she planned to open the treasure chest on the tree when she was about to leave the adventure site, let the water in the lake behind the oasis rise, and then let the two people in.

The box in front of him had disappeared, and all the things were put into the backpack. Not knowing what would happen next, Yu Miaomiao simply put on the cuckoo feather crest and looked at it in the lake. It actually looked pretty good.

Yu Miaomiao had promised to give the non-dairy finished food to Ziren once she got it. She sent a message to him and traded this delicious-sounding level 4 food.

She looked back at the two birds on the tree, which were still guarding their nest. Only then did she feel relieved and slowly walked out of the island.

She collected quite a few snap mushrooms along the flooded road.

When she pulled the mushroom out, it made a very small "popping" sound. The first time she pulled it out, she was worried that the sound would attract monsters, so she immediately made defensive preparations and waited there for a few minutes. Seeing that no other monsters came, she continued to pull the mushroom with peace of mind.

The "boji" sounds were quite exciting, forming a sharp contrast with the quiet and terrifying environment around.

Go back to the fork in the road. If nothing goes wrong, the other two roads will be the main roads.

The camels eating aloe vera were still gnawing on the food in their mouths. Their positions and what they ate had not changed at all.

Yu Miaomiao watched as one of them bit off a corner of an aloe vera plant. When it took the next bite, the missing corner grew back. It still bit at the same place, performing the same action over and over again. It was as if it was programmed to death and had no soul at all.

So, this is just a doomsday game system. The designer hasn't even finished designing the system yet before teleporting these poor survivors in.

No wonder the world they are in now is called the beta test server.

There are two paths to take, but Yu Miaomiao doesn't want to waste time fighting monsters, so she chooses the middle one.

Because the shrubs were overgrown and the road was blocked by broad leaves and branches, it was a bit difficult to walk on.

She had tried to fit all the leaves and branches into her backpack, so she didn't plan to chop them all the way through, wasting time and potentially increasing the risk.

Yu Miaomiao remembered that from the third fork in the road, there were eggs to pick up. She had received a few before, and she had shared some with Lulu and Api. She only had two left.

There are many ways to cook eggs, and there are corresponding level 4 recipes. With the flour ground from the wheat she grows, as well as milk and salt, she can make clear soup noodles.