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It was almost two o'clock in the afternoon when they returned to the fishing boat. They were tired and hungry, so they ate some bread and went to bed.
"We haven't had to go monster hunting recently," said Tao Sai.
Firstly, after they had dealt with the three bugs, the bugs temporarily lost their ability to reproduce, and the bug blood in that area was completely cleared. Secondly, in the past two days, especially the explosion at noon today, they had earned a considerable amount of experience points.
Yay!
There was no good news more exciting than this. Zhou Ning closed his eyes contentedly and slept soundly.
After three hours of deep sleep, Tao Sai regained his energy and got up to start planning how to distribute these experience points. Currently, the accumulated experience points in the experience slot have reached 10,000+.
Upgrading the Refugee Ship was definitely not enough. Characters and Refugee Ships leveled up on different levels. Each level up in a character quadrupled their experience bar, while for a Refugee Ship, it multiplied by a full 100. The next level required a full 20,000+ experience points. Furthermore, the upgrade materials were also quite limited; the redundant materials from the last upgrade and the 500 units of universal materials I had just acquired weren't enough.
Tao Sai decided to use all the experience points to upgrade the character first.
She calculated the experience points. She and Zhou Ning were both only level 2 now. If divided equally into two parts, the experience points would be just enough to allow them to level up three levels at once.
That's it.
Tao Sai began to infuse experience points into the character.
[Character [Taosai] successfully upgraded (Lv2→Lv5)! ]
【Tao Sai [female]
Star rating: ★☆
Level: 5
Experience: 8192/32768
Attribute
Intelligence: 6/100
Strength: 15/100
Physical strength: 6/100
Agility: 6/100
Resistance: 3/100
Skill: [Charge Level 1]
As expected, his strength value increased by a full 4 attribute points. If the skill [Charge] came into play again, Tao Sai felt that he could crush the game planner to pieces in an instant.
It’s not that her strength is bad, but why should she be so biased in one subject!
Fortunately, her resistance and intelligence increased a little, which gave her some comfort.
Continue to infuse Zhou Ning with experience points.
[Character [Zhou Ning] successfully upgraded (Lv2→Lv5)! ]
【Zhou Ning [female]
Star rating: ☆
Level: 5
Experience: 8192/32768
property
Intelligence: 7/100
Strength: 2/100
Physical strength: 1/100
Agility: 1/100
Resistance: 1/100
Skill: [Deep Sleep]
Because Zhou Ning's star rating was only half a star, she only gained 3 attribute points after leveling up three times. However, Tao Sai was very satisfied with her point allocation. Her intelligence was stable, and the increase in resistance and strength had enhanced her self-defense ability to a certain extent.
However, Zhou Ning's overall attribute points are still too weak, and she needs to be upgraded if there is a chance.
In short, continue to accumulate resources and continue to become stronger!
Before logging out of the system, Tao Sai noticed the insect swarm countdown on the main page, which showed that there were less than two days left.
A natural disaster is about to strike, and it's almost time to start taking in more refugees.
The capacity of the refugee ship is limited, and it is impossible to recruit people at will. Some choices must be made.
From the perspective of playing the game, Tao Sai will very rationally select refugees with strong abilities, high basic attribute values, and the potential to develop into crew members to board the ship.
But the situation now is that, although it is still a game structure, she is directly facing a real world. The people living in this world are living people with thoughts, souls and emotions, not NPCs and game programs.
Humans are not plants or trees. Normal people will start by considering their closest people.
Tao Sai's family in this world consisted of her scoundrel father, who abandoned her early to start a new and happy family and never actively disturbed her. (She had some more distant relatives and elders, but they never inquired about her life or death.) As for friends, she was naturally aloof and had never made close friends with anyone except Zhou Ning. She had no one she absolutely had to protect.
Taking into account the food reserves and living space, this fishing boat can probably accommodate about five or six people. If there are more people, the food will quickly run out, and if there is no replenishment, everyone on board will starve to death.
At that point, it’s game over. There’s still a chance to start over, but in reality there is no such thing as a second chance.
Tao Sai had normal emotions but was also rational enough. After Zhou Ning woke up, she seriously explained the current situation to her and gave her four places.
Zhou Ning thought about it seriously and answered her: "Taotao, I want to pick up my parents and grandma."
"That's absolutely fine." Tao Sai nodded.
She was quite familiar with Zhou Ning's family. Ever since her college days, Aunt Li Yinzhu had often sent food to the school for them to eat together. Zhou Ning's family lived in Nanzhou City, and she often invited her to their home for meals during the holidays. Uncle Zhou was humorous, and Grandma Zhou was kind and warm. She was particularly impressed by Aunt Li, a top-notch cook who loved to wear beautiful clothes. In four words, she was beautiful and kind-hearted.
If they were on board it couldn't get any better than this.
Zhou Ning held the phone, thought for a moment, organized his words, and started calling home.
At first, she wanted to save many people and couldn't bear to see those she once knew die, but she also understood the cruelty of natural disasters. Except for her closest relatives, others could only give some friendly reminders at most.
Tao Sai enjoyed the breeze on the deck, then sat aside to edit some text and posted a natural disaster warning to his friends.
As for the kind people who had befriended her and helped her over the years, she chose to send private messages to them one by one, along with the insect video and evacuation guidelines she had posted on Weibo. They wouldn't believe it at first, but when the insect swarm actually arrived, they would remember the message she sent today and would probably be able to provide some help.
When Tao Sai was little, her neighbors in her hometown took good care of her. They all had small boats, but they were enough to support the family for a while. When the refugee boats were expanded enough, Tao Sai was happy to take over their boats.
Zhou Ning finished the phone call with his parents with a few words, trying to be brief and to the point.
She didn't have the confidence to convince her parents that a natural disaster was about to happen. Both of them were intellectuals, firm believers in science and materialism, and had their own stubborn beliefs and judgments. It was inappropriate for them to instill moral principles into her.
So Zhou Ning could only lie and say that he wanted to travel with them, and Taotao wanted to use her family's fishing boat to take them on a tour of the Yangtze River.
Zhou Weixing and his wife usually have an easy job and are not busy. Traveling is one of their hobbies, and they are more than happy to travel with their daughter whom they have spoiled since she was a child.
Grandma Zhou was in good health and loved to walk around, so the whole family readily agreed.
Tao Sai opened the cached offline map of Nanzhou City on his laptop, carefully studied the nearby terrain and water network, and found the ferry that was most suitable for fishing boats to anchor nearby, which was in Xu Zhuang, not far from here.
After Zhou Ning sent the location to her father, she seemed to be lost in thought.
"Taotao, you said it would be great if I could persuade my parents to use all their savings to stock up on supplies, but that's not realistic." Zhou Ning sighed, "Oh! I can only watch the money turn into waste paper, what a pity."
Their family income is actually quite good, but they are frugal. My mother uses a small notebook to record every expense of the family. She would rather deposit all the money in the bank than waste it on anything impractical.
"All my savings over the years are now in the bank." Zhou Ning said with a bitter expression.
"Don't worry. Although a natural disaster is coming, the monetary system is not so easy to collapse. I estimate that in about half a month, prices will gradually rise. It's okay to spend the money before then." Tao Sai said calmly.
This wasn't groundless talk; she had experienced the last natural disaster. Nanzhou City, not being at the epicenter of the disaster, wasn't affected by the insect swarm until almost a month later. During that time, although people were panicking and frantically hoarding supplies, currency was barely circulating.
At that time, she even saw with her own eyes that some rich people paid money to buy a place on the rescue ship.
The man who exchanged his position was dancing with joy, holding more money than he could spend in his lifetime, but soon he was standing on the shore, and the cash banknotes, which were not even warm yet, were swallowed up by the swarm of insects until nothing was left.
After listening to Tao Sai's story, Zhou Ning said quietly, "I hope my mother won't be a miser."
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