Chapter 318 Outer Tower
Lin Wu said that after all the taskers completed their tasks and left the apocalyptic world, they would spend the rest of their time in a place called the System Tower.
The taskers called it the Outer Tower.
It was very large, as if it had no boundaries. There were buildings of various styles, just like a city, but it only looked like a city.
Most of the buildings here were abandoned and vacant. Some were tall and towering, some were connected in rows, there were Chinese-style buildings, there were Western-style buildings, some were yellowed and old, and some were new and bright.
The layout of these buildings was illogical and disorderly, as if the builders had done it arbitrarily when designing all this, without spending much thought at all.
Each tasker has a space of his own, or a safe house.
This room is where each tasker is when he first wakes up in the system tower. It is not big, about 20 square meters, with a monotonous color. At the beginning, there are only simple beds, tables, chairs and a toilet.
Later, when the tasker completes the task and earns points, he can exchange the points for the desired furniture, or even change to a larger safe house.
This safe house is bound to the tasker. Without the permission of the tasker, others cannot enter.
The entire outer tower is very large, with many taskers and various gangs. Some taskers who have experienced many worlds have already established their own forces and divided their own territories, so there are all kinds of open and secret struggles between teams and gangs.
As for the trading places where various gangs have emerged or where individual taskers have spontaneously organized, they are even more diverse. In those places, various supplies, cards, weapons, medicines, props...even people are sold.
Men, women, boys, girls...beautiful people. Those taskers who are not strong enough and dare not venture into the task world again and again, in order to pay for daily water expenses and safe house expenses, will exchange their bodies for the supplies they want, or directly exchange for points, and then use the points to exchange with the system...
In the world of the system tower, there are no laws, only the law of the jungle, and a bottom line rule given by the system.
The rule is: the tasker cannot kill people in the system tower. For the first violation, the tasker's system will be shut down for three months. During these three months, they cannot use points for transactions, and they cannot accept tasks to go to the apocalypse world.
For the second violation, in addition to the system shutdown, the tasker's safe house will also be closed for three months. This also means that during these three months, the tasker cannot leave the system tower and has no safe house to shelter. They will be in a dangerous and movable position. For
the third violation, the tasker will be directly cleared.
It is precisely because of this bottom line rule that no matter how chaotic the outer tower world is, there will never be a large-scale fight.
As long as this bottom line is not touched, all other behaviors will be ignored by the system.
**
Based on what she learned from Lin Wu and Tang Yatong, Youxi imagined the outer tower to be somewhat like a no-man's land in a war-torn country.
But no matter what, in her imagination, the outer tower has always been a city, perhaps on a distant desolate planet, or in a fragmented world destroyed by the apocalypse.
But at this moment, the system tower world that she and Xing Min sensed seemed like a strange square, fixed in the dark universe by some unknown force.
It is not on a planet, and there are no other planets around it, or even stars. It is like a piece of flat land placed abruptly in the universe. There is a transparent cover on its outside, which protects the buildings and taskers inside, so that they will not be crushed by the pressure and low temperature of the universe.
The feeling this alien dimension gave her was completely different from the feeling the nebula world gave her. It was like a square box, without mountains, rivers, trees, oceans, streams, or sunshine or rain.
Although the nebula world was eroded by dark matter, one could still feel the thriving breath of life, and this alien dimension, as Lin Wu said, was like the world one enters after death, full of cold and gray tones, without any vitality.
Youxi: If this is the outer tower world, then the inner tower does not seem to be in the same space as it. Also, Leng Mian only transferred to me the control of some mission worlds before, so there are only 3,897 mission worlds in the nebula. Is the outer tower world where this missioner is now located complete?
[From the perspective of this space alone, it is complete. But there is another possibility. There is actually more than one outer tower world. After all, there are hundreds of millions of missionaries. Although there are many light spots in this space, they are far less than hundreds of millions. Maybe the outer tower is also divided into areas, but the missionaries have never been to other areas and have no way to distinguish them. 】
When You Xi heard this, her mind moved. She knew that Leng Mian and You Zhenzhen were in the inner tower, but what about Tang Yatong and the others? Would she and Lin Wu Xiyuan be in this outer tower world?
She calmed down and wanted to get closer to this space just like she felt in the nebula world, but before her consciousness got closer, she felt a force blocking her outside the alien space.
She looked through that power, and the missionaries in the alien space were still as small as dots of light. She couldn't even see their human appearance, let alone distinguish one from another.
Soon, Youxi suddenly discovered that the substance that constituted the power that blocked her was actually a layer of light golden light.
This is - Xing Min?
[I didn't set up a barrier, what is this? Wait for me.]
After a moment, Xing Min's voice came again, this time with some surprise.
[The spaceship system has entered the automatic upgrade state. I also felt the barrier you felt just now. It seems that it was automatically generated because of the system upgrade.]
Youxi: Upgrade? Can your spaceship system be upgraded?
[Originally it was not possible, because the spaceship was stuck in the void, and there was no energy source here. The energy you get from the mission world is just a drop in the bucket, far from the upgrade standard. However, after the spaceship system was restarted, it received a vast amount of energy from the nebula world, so now the entire spaceship system is automatically upgrading...】
Even Xing Min was surprised by this situation, which means that the energy just received is much more than they felt, so that the energy overflowed and the entire spaceship system entered an automatic upgrade state.
Youxi: Will it have any negative impact on you?
【No, upgrading is a good thing, but... the system has not been upgraded for too many years, I am a little surprised. Youxi
didn't quite understand what the upgrade of the entire spaceship system meant at this time. Since it would not have a bad impact on Xing Min, she stopped asking and continued to study the alien space.
The alien space felt like it existed in her mind, just like the nebula world, but Youxi knew that this was just a way of presentation.
Just like the app on the screen of a mobile phone, the app is an invisible program in reality, invisible and intangible. Only by connecting to the Internet with a mobile phone can the app be used.
Now, she feels that her brain has become a carrier like a mobile phone, and her consciousness is the network. She can directly perform certain operations on the nebula world and the alien space through consciousness. It’s
just that she currently cannot fully understand how to operate it specifically and how many functions it has. She needs to explore it bit by bit.
But she vaguely feels that now she can not only put herself into the nebula world, but also randomly select the "light spot" in the alien space and then put it into the nebula world.
Wait -
You Xi suddenly reacted, if she can put the tasker into the nebula world, then in a sense, she has become a system-like existence! ?
[Well, if you can put the missioners into the nebula world, you should be able to decide the content of the mission. Maybe it is impossible to release too detailed content, but it should be possible to adjust the main direction of the mission. For example, if the main direction of a world is adjusted to rescue, then the missioners who enter this world will receive similar world missions...]
[And there is no specific operation method for these now. Maybe there will be new changes after the spaceship system is upgraded.]
Youxi: How long will the upgrade take?
[From just now to now, the upgrade progress is 0.00001%.]
Youxi:...
**
On the first day after returning from the mission, Youxi did not go out, nor did he organize the supplies to show Youfeng and Fanqi the new and novel supplies and delicacies. He was retaliating and left them at home for the whole day.
When she came back at midnight, she threw the perishable food supplies on the terrace and in the living room directly into the Star House warehouse.
Before breakfast, when she found that Xing Min had directly increased her Star House warehouse from 1,314 cubic meters to 5,200 cubic meters, she also moved the silver RV and other non-food supplies originally placed on the terrace into the warehouse.
Interestingly, she could still sense the 450 cubic meters of space she had expanded in the Endless Train World.
Before leaving the world, the 450 cubic meters of space merged with her 1314 cubic meters of Star House Warehouse. However, this fusion did not mean that the two spaces were connected, but that they were like two rooms, one large and one small, that were stuck together. There was still a wall between the two "rooms".
She was worried that this merger of space was only temporary, so she transferred all the materials she wanted to take away from the endless world into the 1314 cubic meters of Star House Warehouse.
As a result, she now found that next to the huge Star House Warehouse that had expanded to 5200 cubic meters, the 450 cubic meters of space was still there, but it was still like an extra room, and there was a wall between it and the Star House Warehouse.
She tried to move a cup of hot water in. An hour later, she successfully took out the hot water and found that the water temperature had not changed.
Now that the spaceship system has sufficient energy and the Star House warehouse can be expanded at any time, she doesn't care much about the extra space. It's just a pity. It would be great if this small space could be peeled off and tied to Fan Qi or You Feng.
Probably because it is spring, the rain outside has been pouring down for the third day.
She stood on the terrace and looked down at the valley below, and found that the bamboo sea in the valley seemed to have grown a lot taller.
After the mutation, the bamboo was originally two or three times taller than ordinary bamboo. Now, after only two days and two nights, it has suddenly soared up another two or three meters.
She walked to the south side of the terrace and looked out for a while. Because the height was not high enough, she could not see the whole picture of the scenic area on the high ground.
She had rested well now and the spaceship had enough energy, so she planned to go out for a walk.
So after breakfast, she told You Feng and Fan Qi about going out.
"How about Dad accompany you?" You Feng was a little worried.
"Dad, if you want to go, we can go out together. If you are just worried about me, don't force yourself to go with me."
Since the day before yesterday, when they knew that she would not have to enter the mission world for a long time, the two of them completely relaxed and were in a very good mood. In addition to basic physical training and making some delicious food in the past two days, they spent the rest of the time on movies and TV series.
"You really don't have to worry about me. If necessary, I can teleport back at any time." You Xi reminded.
"That's right, you were still talking about that drama when you got up this morning, why go out, your daughter is even more worried about you." Fan Qi washed the tata fruit and mint fruit brought back by her daughter, and said to You Feng, "It has just rained for two days outside, there must be some movement. Let your daughter go out first, and we will go out together in two days."
"That's right, the drama should be finished in two days, so don't worry about it."
You Xi: ...
You Feng and Fan Qi didn't go out, but "Bean Sprout" wanted to go out very much.
When she changed her clothes, he waited outside her room, and when she changed into neat thin waterproof sports pants and T-shirt and opened the door, he immediately hugged her ankles and climbed up vigorously.
"Don't worry, I'll take you with me this time." Youxi smiled, went to the downstairs entrance to change shoes, and then sprayed herself with a layer of [sunscreen spray]. Then she bent down and stretched out her hand to the "Bean Sprout" standing obediently beside her. After it held her fingers and stood firmly, she sent it to her shoulder.
Outside the door of the Star House is the scenic area's imitation Western-style building area. This area is not large, with only a street in the middle and about a dozen buildings on both sides.
These buildings are not high, and many of them have only simple doors and windows. There is no furniture inside, and there is no water or electricity. It is just a simulated building for tourists to visit.
She stood on the street and glanced around, and she knew that no one lived in this area.
She walked between the two buildings, and her eyes soon became clear. In front of her was a large grassland slope that sloped slightly downward. There were several winding paths for tourists to walk on, and there were beautiful white windmills.
On one side of the grassland, there was an area that had been turned into a ramp slide.
Further down the grassland was the central trunk road of this highland park. Many trees were planted on both sides. The trunk road was surrounded by white railings. Behind the trees on the other side of the railings was another open grassland. There should be a place for camping and barbecue.
Youxi saw low buildings there, which looked like restaurants, cafes and small shops. A little further away, there was a lake and a ranch orchard.
Such buildings usually have water and electricity, and because the park is located on high ground, far from the ground, there are usually generators and reservoirs installed.
She guessed that those white windmills were not just decorations, but wind turbines.
It seems that this highland, with water, electricity, and food, is indeed a good place to stay.
However, the entire highland is very large, and Youxi did not plan to walk through it all by herself. She took the survival aids she bought in the Devouring Land, took out the drone she also bought there, connected it, and directly launched the drone.
**
Behind the highland orchard, there stand several five- or six-story farmhouse buildings.
This is the other side of the entire highland, and the imitation Western-style building complex where Youxi Star House is located is located at the two ends of the highland horizontally, the former in the south and the latter in the north.
Although these buildings are farmhouses, because the highland park is expensive, the buildings and B&Bs here are also built to five-star standards. The buildings are close to the southern cliff, and there are also large bamboo forests in the valley below the cliff.
Some of the people living in these B&Bs now are tourists who were here at the beginning of the animal and plant mutation, and the other part are people who escaped from the nearby county town after the animal and plant mutation.
Although the ecological park has existed for a long time, the scenic park located on this highland is newly built, so not many people know about it.
However, due to limited resources on the highland and for safety reasons, the cable car was shut down not long after the people who fled from the county town went to the highland.
In the past few months, the two groups of people lived in the same area. Although there was no major conflict such as fighting, small conflicts over resources frequently occurred.
This was mainly because 80% of the tourists who were in the highlands belonged to the same team.
They were a filming crew for a variety show and came to the highlands to record a seven-day show.
Unexpectedly, a dramatic change happened in these seven days.
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