Chapter 220 Flood
Pei Ming choked upon hearing this. His eyes darkened as he said, "When that time comes, you'll probably be the first to quit the game, right?"
"Don't think too much about it. The important thing now is to find wooden planks and boats and other means of sea transportation."
With that, Pei Ming turned and left to look for other players.
Li Pei was disappointed. He touched his nose, turned around and walked away angrily.
I didn't expect Pei Ming to actually trust Zhen Jinli so much. It seems he has to think of other ways.
Li Pei searched the hotel for something like a plank or a wooden boat, thinking: If only he could find a way to prove that what that woman Zhen Jinli said was untrue and incomplete.
Fu Ling walked around the bottom four floors of the hotel and asked the hotel staff, but still did not find any similar wooden products.
Not to mention things like wooden boats, they have seen the sculptures and ornaments in the hotel. Either the material cannot float in the water, or the shape is far from something like a boat.
Pei Ming also contacted several players in the same game to search together with them.
However, they searched the upper floors of the hotel until dark, but could not find anything suitable to serve as a life-saving sampan or boat in the event of a flood.
Finally, they bought some lifebuoys and other things in a shopping mall on the beach.
Zhen Jinli looked at the lifebuoys that everyone had bought. Although there were hundreds of them and some were quite large, her intuition told her that these lifebuoys would not be of much use.
"Have you seen the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'?" Zhen Jinli described it to everyone.
"A truly devastating flood is terrifying. It's fundamentally different from swimming at the beach. With just a lifebuoy, you probably won't survive long in a flood."
"The most urgent thing is that we still have to find something like a boat, or at least get some larger wooden boards."
Fu Ling said, "I actually went to a nearby amusement park today. The pirate ship there might be able to serve as a ship on the sea."
"But the staff will never agree to sell us the boat, and we probably can't afford it."
Pei Ming thought for a moment and said, "How about we steal the pirate ship while it's dark?"
After all, we are in the game, so there is no need to worry too much about the rules in the real world.
Zhen Jinli raised her eyebrows and looked at Pei Ming, who said somewhat embarrassedly.
"This is the only solution I can think of. If a flood really comes, the facilities in the amusement park will be submerged anyway."
"I think your idea is good."
What surprised Pei Ming was that Zhen Jinli actually agreed with his opinion.
Zhen Jinli followed Pei Ming's train of thought seriously and thought, "You are a metal-type mutant. It should be easy to untie the metal levers and chains on the pirate ship, right?"
Pei Ming was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly said, "Well, you could say that. I'll give it a try tonight."
After a pause, Pei Ming seriously raised another question.
"But there's still a problem to be solved. After we steal the pirate ship, where should we put it so that no one will find it?"
Zhen Jinli said nonchalantly: "Oh, you don't have to worry about that."
"My space is about the size of a basketball court, which is more than enough to fit a pirate ship."
She didn't know that the remaining space would one day be needed to store a pirate ship. She just instinctively wanted to make more space in case of emergency.
Pei Ming: “.”
As expected of the Koi MVP, the rich girl with the most points in the game is so domineering.
Other players would be lucky if they could ensure they had enough space to store food for a week or two, or at most a month.
She actually has a spare space as big as a basketball court. Isn't this really showing off her wealth?
The next morning, the news media reported two major news stories.
"According to the amusement park staff, the giant pirate ship inside the amusement park mysteriously disappeared early this morning, as if aliens had invaded and stolen it."
"The police are currently accessing relevant surveillance footage in an effort to solve the case, but so far no clues have been found to identify the suspect. The police have issued a reward notice. If anyone sees someone suspected of stealing the pirate ship, please call the police hotline XXXXXX."
The second piece of news is about heavy rain and reservoir dam problems.
"Due to recent heavy rains, water levels in reservoirs on both the east and west sides have risen and reached the flood warning line. The local government has begun arranging evacuations for residents in the flood discharge area. Residents in the flood discharge area are advised to prepare for relocation."
Zhen Jinli was watching the news reports in the hotel with a serious look in her eyes.
I'm afraid that it's not just the people in the flood discharge area who need to relocate. Those who live on the hills will also have to find a way to evacuate soon.
However, according to Zhen Jinli's observation, the area where they were located was already at a relatively high altitude. Where else could they retreat to?
When the real world-destroying flood comes, they can only release the pirate ship and see how long they can hold out.
Pei Ming and his friends are still busy today, collecting things like wooden boards.
The hotel staff didn't think much of the news report at first, but when they saw a group of people asking about things like wooden boards, they really started to panic.
"Could it be that a flood is about to hit?" other NPCs in the game began to murmur.
On the afternoon of the second day of the game, a large number of residents from the flood discharge area flocked to the hotel.
Although some of them could not afford to stay in hotels, the hotel lobby area and corridors were crowded with them.
Due to government instructions, the hotel must serve as a temporary shelter to accommodate residents of these plains areas.
Therefore, even if the waiters and guests in the hotel area are dissatisfied with the residents in the flood discharge area, they have no way to refuse entry or drive them away.
Some wealthier residents even started buying hotel rooms and asked the guests who were originally staying in the hotel to move out and move in.
"What are you doing? We were the first to come in!"
"We paid more for the room, so this room should be ours!"
"Front desk! Call your manager out. At least when staying in a hotel, there should be a first-come, first-served basis, right?!"
The tenant who was originally staying in the hotel refused to give up his room. The two sides were deadlocked, so they simply called the manager to mediate.
Although there are government regulations requiring stable prices of goods and vegetables, there is nothing that says hotel room rates cannot change.
So the hotel started to play it down, and finally posted a notice that the room rate was rising rapidly like a rocket, and the highest bidder would win.
Players like Zhen Jinli were forced to pay more points to barely keep the rooms they were currently staying in.
(End of this chapter)
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