Chapter 149 It's so good that you think of me as such a cowardly and wicked person...
Hunter Blade personally intervened, not only eliminating Shen Dixin's worries about how to contact the White Faces, but also inviting nearly 80% of the White Faces in the channel.
Apart from an old-timer like the one-eyed captain who has little fighting ability left, most of them were willing to go to the island, even though their lives, like candles flickering in the wind, might end at any moment.
"Master."
When Yuebai hugged her tightly, Chen Dixin showed the only genuine smile she had shown in a long time.
"I want a hug too! Big sister, it's been so long!"
Zhanlan also arrived. Shen Dixin looked at Yuebai with a probing gaze, and she explained with a smile.
"Zhanlan was just young when she died, and she's been a spirit for much longer than you. If we're talking about human years, you should call her grandma!"
Shen Dixin shook her head violently, her face full of resistance.
Passing players also looked at the group with curiosity. After realizing that this was not a game, no one treated them as NPCs anymore.
No matter how offensive their gazes were, they didn't flinch. They were all focused on Chen Dixin. Anyone with a weaker nerve would probably be sweating bullets by now.
I don't know what exactly Hunter Blade said to them, but the look in his eyes was so intense that it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he saw Shen Dixin as the reincarnation of the Moon Goddess.
Even though they had met a few times, the chef assessment instructors, who were not usually very friendly to humans, treated them with the same respect.
Wait a minute, there was a troublemaker staring at Chen Dixin. She squinted for a moment, then chuckled and looked back with a smile. Wasn't that the wandering merchant? She'd snagged the Moonbeam Necklace from him, and when he took off his hood, she almost didn't recognize him.
"You live in those houses near the mountain?"
"What do we need a house for? We don't need to sleep, we can fight all the time!" Yuebai was already rubbing his hands together, ready to go to the battlefield.
Shen Dixin stopped this crazy behavior, saying, "It's not time for you to fight like this yet. Fight when you need to, sleep when you need to. You can rest even if you don't sleep. We'll give you a schedule later."
"Coffee, take the men there!"
The other pale-faced men left without a word, following the coffee. They weren't familiar with Shen Dixing, and besides...
Shen Dixin looked at their lifeless backs and felt a little heavy-hearted. The pale-faced people were not born so boring. It was just that they lost their meaning as they walked towards death day by day, and their past memories were also lost one by one.
No wonder players mistook them for NPCs. Apart from the engineer and Moon White, who could stick to their own principles, the rest of the white-faced people had no purpose and just kept opening and closing their eyes.
The reason why players are willing to help them is because they can obtain food, medicine and other supplies from them. Spiritual beings cannot eat ordinary food. Players who are covered by an artificial shell are essentially still spiritual beings and eat special energy processed by the system.
This energy will never be provided free of charge to the white-faced people who have already completed the test. It will become part of the new race's assessment and is the only way for them to get "food".
If there is enough food, spirits can survive for a long time, just like the pale-faced people who are barely surviving now. They are like zombies, sending off batches of races that have been sent to the planet.
If humanity hadn't achieved a three-star rating, they would all be trapped here together, Shen Dixin thought with a chill.
The white-faced people lived longer and witnessed several tests. With their addition, fighting the enemy became much easier. Many players were able to stick to the eight-hour workday, and it even became the most stable period of time for a small number of people at sea.
Since the appearance of high-level sea monsters has increased, the surrounding channels have started to break down in large numbers, with a large influx of players every day. It looks like the number of people in the channel is about to exceed 20,000.
Meanwhile, the situation outside the channel is becoming increasingly severe.
Players who had previously declined Chen Dixin's invitation all agreed to switch channels.
Chen Dixin was responsible for selecting those with strong soul power and useful special abilities, while Lie Ren slowly smuggled dozens in each day. This morning, three hundred players who had undergone the makeover were in place.
With such a large increase in population, if we continue to absorb a large number of outside players as originally planned, the island's resources will not be enough.
Especially the pale-faced people, they were like rats entering a granary. No dung meant no feeling of fullness. If it weren't for Chen Dixin's strong prohibition against them eating more than three normal meals, the stored food would have been eaten up in a few days!
So she tore up a new schedule and sent the pale-faced people out to other islands to find food, agreeing that no matter how much food they found, one-fifth of it would be specially processed for them.
The white-faced people are not considered hostile targets, and the sea monster will ignore them unless it attacks them first.
With a carrot dangling in front of them, they happily agreed. Although they couldn't use the players' high-tech ships, each of the white-faced men had extensive experience at sea after years of sailing.
They set off that same day on the same boat they had come by.
Only coffee remained, glaring at her with deep resentment. The work schedule she'd spent all night creating! She hadn't even lived 24 hours straight!!
Shen Dixin touched the tip of her pen. "Haha, Coffee, here are your new little assistants."
"They've all been assigned other jobs." Coffee's hair was practically standing on end. "You're such a hands-off boss, all you do is give me tasks, you have no idea how much work there is on the island!"
Despite her complaints, Coffee continued to do her job very well, even though Cleansing Heart couldn't give her anything more.
Supplies, weapons, equipment? But Coffee doesn't go to the battlefield, and he hasn't even seen his own ship in a long time. Better food, clothing, and shelter? But life at sea is always tough, and no matter how comfortable it is, it can't compare to a single hair in modern life.
Shen Dixin has a lot, but she doesn't actually have any bargaining chips that can attract people to risk their lives for her.
She is an honest person; if she has doubts, she will address them directly.
"Capitalists have had a change of heart!"
Coffee joked that they always got along easily, but when it came to saying something mushy, she was too embarrassed to say it right away, and it took her a long time to reply.
“Some people don’t believe you when you talk about racial testing and human extinction. They think you’re dreaming or lying.”
Shen Dixin nodded. This was happening in every channel. Even in her own channel, among the players who had been in contact with her for so long, there were many conspiracy theories circulating. Some people even had a strong rebellious mentality, and the more she showed her beauty, the more suspicious they became.
If Chen Dixin weren't the one in control, and someone else suddenly appeared and told her the world was ending, she'd probably think they were a con artist. Entering her dreams? A sophisticated con artist. Teaching her something? Like bait to catch fish!
Her words have only recently gained acceptance as the cruelty of the disaster has become apparent.
"But I believe in you. I believe not only in this disaster, but also in you. You're working hard, right? Working hard for the future of our race. But I'm human too. We can't let you risk your life for us all by yourself. It's not just me; everyone will stand with you!"
After careful consideration, it seems that the latter, who deceives the whole world and is selfless and righteous, is more in line with her behavior.
So, it turns out he was thinking only of himself while doing all sorts of altruistic things? He was cowardly and cowardly, yet unwaveringly good.
“…It’s so good that you think that way.” Shen Dixin could only say with a stiff face.
Coffee, however, became more and more enthusiastic in her praise. Ever since she started the conversation, it was as if she had opened the door to a new world. She transformed into a full-fledged praiser, making Chen Dixin blush.
She glanced at it, became even more excited, and clung to the person even more fervently, praising them.
He praised everything from his appearance to his inner qualities, from his intelligence to his handsome physique.
Chen Dixin: That's enough!
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