The basic silence points are 4,500. If the degree of completion is a little higher, it is normal to reach 5,000 or more. Taking into account the rewards for subsequent career development tasks, Lu Ban’s savings will soon exceed 10,000, and he can use it to refine his [Last Words].
As for why I chose to refine [Last Words] instead of buying more crowbars to protect myself, it is of course because [Last Words] is an [Inherent] level item.
What is the other [Inherent] level is the [All or Nothing] dice, a magical item that can take effect whenever Lu Ban faces a great existence and allow him to survive.
Although [Last Words] is just a repeater now, Lu Ban believes that it will have a promising future if it can be refined.
Moreover, young people nowadays are always thinking about consumption, but do not understand the value of saving money and have lost the traditional spirit. Lu Ban was very sad and decided to set an example for them.
In fact, the main reason is that Lu Ban can't afford those useful things.
After he chose the [Erosion] difficulty, the small hole expanded and became a cat's eye doorway.
Lu Ban looked inside and saw pitch black.
Suddenly, in the darkness, an eye suddenly opened.
Those were not human eyes, but the vertical pupils of some animal, dark yellow in color, covered in dirt, turbid and dull.
Around the eyes, a circle of text appeared.
[Do you want to enter the quiet place? ]
【whether】
Lu Ban chose no.
He saw that the countdown outside was still continuing.
"It turns out that these two days are two days of selection and preparation."
Lu Ban understood.
But he had nothing to prepare for.
The domestic security is so good, and it is too late to go abroad now. Lu Ban can't get any guns and ammunition. He can't use these hot weapons, and they are not as good as those exchanged from [Silent Department Store].
As for those swords, spears, axes, halberds, hooks, barbecued pork cakes, fried dough sticks and twisted dough sticks, Lu Ban was not comfortable using them.
He went downstairs and went to the supermarket to buy some ribs, a portable frying pan, a portable camping lamp that could be used as a fire source, and the corresponding tools, side dishes, water, etc., and put them in his bag.
I also took a flashlight, a power bank, compressed dry food, etc.
After cleaning up the meal, it was already evening.
Lu Ban sent a WeChat message to Qin Tiantian, saying that he was going to go out to collect materials for a few days. After thinking about it, he sent another message to the old squad leader Feng Yu.
In this world, Lu Ban really doesn't have anyone close to him.
He put on his coat, shouldered his backpack, held the crowbar in his hand, and words appeared in his vision.
[Do you want to enter the quiet place? ]
【whether】
Lu Ban chose [Yes].
He was surrounded by a colorful array of colors that did not belong to this world.
Lu Ban felt the weight of his body reaching his head and then quickly shifting to his stomach.
He saw that those unnameable colors formed several paragraphs of text.
[The speed of time in the Quiet Place is inconsistent with the outside world]
[The time ratio of this journey is: 3:1]
[Heading to the Wasted City]
Just when Lu Ban felt a little dizzy from these words, he felt something hard.
The first thing I felt was a kind of dry and throat-grinding air.
Then, there was a huge steel object shaking under him.
Lu Ban found himself sitting in the last row of a bus.
The bus was not big, with less than twenty seats, and he was the only one in the last row.
The lights in the car were dim, as if they would go out at any moment.
The seats are solid, wood of some age.
The guardrails are rusted steel.
The windows are cracked glass.
Outside the window, there are endless ruins under the night sky.
Lu Ban saw that the broken walls and ruins of unknown age were intertwined to form a piece of text.
【Abandoned City】
[In the 20th year of the new calendar, it is not suitable to travel]
[The prohibition did not completely eliminate crime, but made the gangs more powerful. In the abandoned city, the gangs are the masters of the underground world. Killing, blood, and death have turned the once hopeful city into a sinful city.]
[But there are still people who yearn for the abandoned city and rush here from all over the world, praying to discover their own wealth]
【Everyone wants to be the one in the story, right? 】
[Task requirements: Complete the journey to the abandoned city]
[Difficulty: Erosion]
"Prohibition..."
Lu Ban did not have much knowledge of history. He only knew that in his original world, around the 1920s and 1930s, a country had enacted a prohibition on alcohol on the grounds that alcohol would cause crimes against women.
But in reality, after the promulgation, many people still brewed wine in the name of medicine, and all of these wines flowed into the underground market and were controlled by gangs, indirectly contributing to the strength of the gangs.
It now seems that the chaos in the abandoned city and the prevalence of gangs are also closely related to the prohibition of alcohol.
Turning his gaze away from the window, Lu Ban looked inside the car.
The driver was a middle-aged bald man in his forties with a big belly.
There were three other passengers in the car besides Lu Ban.
In the front left, in the second to last row, there is a thin young man wearing a beret, curled up in a seat and shivering.
In the front right, in the third row from the bottom, is a middle-aged woman. She kept glancing at other people, with both hands in her pockets, appearing extremely cautious.
Behind the driver was a 1.9-meter-tall man wearing short clothes. He had a scar on his head that extended from the top of his head to his shoulder blade, which was shocking.
It seems that this is the person we are traveling with this time?
Seeing that everyone else remained silent, Lu Ban could only move himself and stand behind the shivering young man.
"Hello."
He spoke.
"Woooooa ...
The young man screamed and nearly jumped out of the window.
His reaction caught the attention of others, but only just attention.
“Do, what?”
The young man spoke the same language as Lu Ban, but his accent had a bit of a rural accent and was not very standard.
"Do you know how long it will take?"
Seeing that there was no problem in communication, Lu Ban asked directly.
"To-tomorrow... At least until dawn, we can see the houses in the abandoned city..."
He was timid and didn't seem very smart.
"At least eight hours."
The man sitting next to the driver added.
"oh."
Lu Ban nodded.
According to the time flow rate of 3:1, he stayed here for eight hours, but in reality only more than two hours had passed. If he was lucky, he could even go back for a midnight snack.
He didn't continue talking, but paid close attention to the environment.
The ruins outside looked like they had been abandoned for years and had long been covered by rain and vegetation, making it impossible to discern the original architectural form.
Even this road, when Lu Ban looked back, seemed to have been forcibly opened up on the rubble.
There was no starlight, no moonlight, the whole world was dark, only the front and rear lights of the bus provided some illumination on the road.
Lu Ban was just about to look away when he suddenly saw something passing from behind the bus and disappearing into the darkness of the ruins.
With just a glance, Lu Ban couldn't see its specific appearance, but he could vaguely tell that the thing had limbs, a body, a head, and its body was white.
Like a...person?