Meng Qingyin once saw a post: What would Earth look like if humanity disappeared?
Now, she has seen with her own eyes the Blue Star, where humans have been gone for nearly two years—two years is the time they spent in the game world, but judging from the current state of the Blue Star, it seems that humans have not been gone for just two short years.
Meng Qingyin suspected that only two years had passed on Blue Star.
This is a coastal city. The original high-rise buildings are now dilapidated, the power and communication facilities are all destroyed, the vehicles are scrapped and left as piles of iron, the plants are growing wildly, and all kinds of small animals are moving around in search of food.
The civilization of the past is gone, and the city today is more like a post-apocalyptic city.
There was no trace of human activity in sight.
At that time, there were still hundreds of millions of players alive in the game. They should have all returned to Earth, but scattered all over the world.
Meng Qingyin returned to the train.
The system backpack is gone, but all the items in it are scattered throughout the carriage. However, now is not the time to check the supplies.
"Little Elf? Are you still there?" Meng Qingyin asked tentatively.
【Master, I'm here!】
Xiao Ai's voice was as flat and straightforward as ever, without any ups and downs, but Meng Qingyin's eyes welled up with tears.
She sat in the driver's seat and checked the map on the center console.
The map shows a dense cluster of green, human-shaped markers located more than ten kilometers away from here.
There were also scattered green signs in the shape of rabbits, foxes, chickens, sheep, etc. in the surrounding area.
Meng Qingyin immediately directed the little elf to drive towards the crowd.
There, perhaps, will be players she knows.
The train started moving and slowly headed towards the crowd.
The once-paved road surface was in a terrible state, with thick weeds and vines growing out of the cracks, but Little Elf always managed to drive the car onto a relatively flat road.
Before long, Meng Qingyin spotted the crowd in the distance.
But when she saw the faces in the crowd, she was stunned. Without exception, they were all elderly people and minors, and many of the elderly were even holding babies in their arms.
Their faces showed panic, as if they didn't understand why they were in such a strange place.
The crowd was restless.
Meng Qingyin jumped off the train.
Just then, a loud voice rang out from the crowd: "Listen up, everyone! I've cleared a space in the square ahead. There's food and water there. You can come with me to rest for a bit."
In the crowd, the energetic old man was directing the crowd in an orderly manner.
Meng Qingyin's eyes lit up, and she quickly walked over.
The elderly man was maintaining order in the crowd and didn't see her.
The crowd was mostly made up of elderly people. An elderly woman holding a baby in her arms did not notice the vines on the ground, tripped over them, and fell forward.
"Watch out!" Meng Qingyin caught her quickly and took the child from her arms. "Let me hold it for you."
The old woman, still shaken, said, "Thank you, young lady."
The elderly man looked over, delighted: "Little Meng!"
Meng Qingyin smiled at him and helped the old woman walk forward.
On the way, from the old woman's rambling chatter, Meng Qingyin learned that the child was not her grandson. She said that she felt like she had taken a nap and woke up here. Seeing the child crying pitifully, she kept holding him.
"Young lady, what exactly happened? Where are the child's parents?" the old woman asked.
Meng Qingyin couldn't answer.
The child's parents may have died in the game, or they may have survived and are searching for their child.
Seeing her silence, the old woman simply sighed and asked no more questions.
After walking for more than ten minutes, the group finally arrived at a relatively open square.
This used to be a park, but the weeds on the ground have been cleared away.
The elderly man distributed food and water to everyone, and then chatted with Meng Qingyin.
"There are hundreds of millions of players in the entire region. The fact that the two of us could meet means that Lu Cheng and the others are also nearby," the old man speculated.
Meng Qingyin: "That's possible. I came here to get everyone together first."
The elderly man said, "Go and find them. I'll stay here and watch over these old people and children. When I woke up, I encountered a tiger. If no one is here to guard them, they will be in great danger."
Although players no longer have attribute panels, their superhuman physical abilities have been preserved. Combined with their experience in fighting monsters in the game world, dealing with a tiger is a piece of cake.
Meng Qingyin nodded: "Okay."
She returned to the train and continued on her way. She encountered several more groups of people, mostly elderly people and children. Similarly, there were players guarding the area around them.
And they are all players from server 30.
This discovery further confirmed Meng Qingyin's suspicions.
It seems that finding Chen Leying and the others is only a matter of time.
Meng Qingyin dealt with any dangerous animals she encountered along the way to prevent them from harming people.
In the evening, she successfully found Chen Leying, Qin Jiu, and others.
The original team has reunited at this moment.
In the days that followed, they gathered more players and together cleared out place after place to settle down. They rebuilt simple houses on this land, reclaimed wasteland, and planted crops.
But crops take time to grow, and this city alone has tens of thousands of elderly people and children.
Players spontaneously brought out the food they had stockpiled in the game.
This city is by the sea, and some people weave fishing nets to go out to sea to catch fish. They eat seafood, and these foods can last for a while.
Things are moving in a positive direction, and a safe zone is gradually forming here.
Safe zones like these have been established all over the world.
Some safe zones only accept players, while others only accept people with a skill. Of course, some safe zones also accept the elderly and children, giving them a place to settle down and make a living.
It seems that no matter what kind of predicament humanity faces, it will rebuild its home with its own hands.
Within a year, the safe zone had returned to order.
Those days of struggling to survive in the game world seem like a bizarre and fantastical dream.
But the players all know that it wasn't a dream, but rather the path they came from.
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