This "extremely low" made her realize the dangerous gaming environment.
But since they were already here, there was no point in having any opinions, so Si Lan did not force it.
After learning the information, she rubbed the fruit on her clothes and took a bite. Sure enough, her hunger value began to increase. After she finished eating the fruit, the value increased by a full 50.
She threw the remaining fruit cores into her storage space and went to pick other fruits.
After eating nearly twenty wild fruits, she finally filled her hunger bar. Afterwards, she jumped back to the ground and found that the girl she brought in was still staring at her in a daze.
“…”
Si Lan asked with a unhappy expression: "Have you tried it?"
The little girl looked at her agile skills and shook her head blankly.
Si Lan pointed at the tree trunk and said, "Go and try."
The girl looked at the tree that she couldn't even hug with her bare hands, and hesitated. With her usual coquettish tone that always worked for her parents, she shook Si Lan's hand and said, "Sister, please help me. I really can't do it. I'm scared!"
Si Lan remained indifferent, staring at the girl without saying a word. Her emotionless eyes were like ice chips, making the girl's back cold.
After a moment, the girl decisively withdrew her hand and walked towards the tree obediently.
Fortunately, unlike the real world, this game doesn't seem to want to make things difficult for players with such details. As soon as the girl climbed up, her body seemed to have some kind of BUFF, allowing her to climb up the tree quickly.
Picking the first wild fruit in the game, the girl was surprised and delighted: "I picked it, I picked it?!"
Si Lan said nothing. She watched her eat the fruit, familiarize herself with the rules, and then continued to walk to the next tree.
She took the girl to pick a lot of fruits, enough for the two of them for three days, and then she stopped and tried to quit the game again.
Unfortunately, the game still cannot be exited and no external information can be received.
She looked at her personal panel again - it was getting dark in the game, and a lot of time had passed in the real world.
But they are still trapped, and it seems that this matter is very tricky.
Si Lan thought for a moment and looked at the little girl: "What's your name?"
The girl pointed to the character's nickname floating above her head: "Zhenzhen."
"Full name?"
"Tao Zhenzhen."
"Okay, Tao Zhenzhen. I don't think we'll be able to escape this game in the short term, so from now on, we have to prepare for all the possibilities that lie ahead. Do you understand me?"
Tao Zhenzhen blinked for a moment before asking in disbelief, "We can't get out?"
Si Lan: "What I meant is: 'probably' it's impossible to escape in a 'short time'."
Tao Zhenzhen took a moment to digest the information and asked, "Shall we play games?"
"That's what I mean."
“What happens if I don’t play?”
"What do you think will happen?"
Tao Zhenzhen was silent.
It's easy to imagine that in the game, if you don't play, various values will be consumed, and when they are consumed, the game character may die.
But the problem is that if you die, you don’t know whether you can leave the game, and you don’t know whether it will affect your body in the real world. Therefore, the concept of "death in the game" is a huge and dangerous unknown in the current situation.
Tao Zhenzhen turned her head to look at the deserted game forest, then looked at Si Lan, whose expression was always cold. She had a thousand words to say, but in the end, she held them all back in her stomach and shook her head.
"Forget it, what should we do now?"
Si Lan beckoned her to follow. "Pick up dry branches, food, and large rocks. Fill your inventory as much as possible."
Tao Zhenzhen: "What are these for?"
"Make fire, craft tools and weapons, and stay alive in the game."
Tao Zhenzhen: "What about living?"
"What I mean is, can we only live in this game forever, with no way out? There are so many players trapped here, do we really have to stay here forever and build a new empire like the game requires?!"
Upon hearing this, Si Lan stopped and looked up at the gray "sky".
She actually didn't know if anyone could see them behind the curtain.
I don’t know when I can get out.
However, she is not someone who is easily anxious and has experienced many similar things.
Moreover, in Country T, the government has never abandoned its people.
She took another step forward and said, "Then wait."
"Waiting for what?"
Si Lan searched for what she wanted while replying calmly, "Uncle police officer."
"...Will waiting for the police help?"
"If the police are useless, the military will come to help. If the military is useless, think tanks, major departments, and even the people of the country will come to help."
Tao Zhenzhen didn't have much idea about this. She was still young and had never experienced the powerful force of a whole country attacking.
Seeing Si Lan's conviction, she didn't know where her confidence came from. However, Tao Zhenzhen only had Si Lan to rely on now. Having seen how Si Lan's words were always hers, she didn't dare to provoke her. She just had to listen to whatever she said.
While the two were busy searching for resources, the central city of Country T——
The special task force set up urgently is still working hard to investigate game bugs and improve communication inside and outside the game.
This team brought together some of the country's top forces. Although they failed to make a complete breakthrough, they determined that the incident was not just a problem with the game, but a serious consequence of the interaction between the game and the chip.
This chip uses a fully automatic intelligent computing program developed by the chip company, a completely new and innovative design. The original intention was to allow the chip to continuously "grow" through intelligent learning and adjustment, creating a personalized chip that is most compatible and compatible with the player.
However, we did not expect that the chip industry has overgrown and is now out of control.
Even the chip's self-protection program could not stop its excessive operation, so that tens of thousands of chips wrote completely different operation programs, which were entangled with the "First Empire" game BUG implanted in the chip, and they "detained" tens of thousands of players.
The task force was unable to crack this intelligent computing system in a short period of time, but they found the fastest and most unified entry point.
"Are you sure this method will work?"
Wang Teng, who was promoted to the leader of the special team, looked at the plan report and asked with doubts.
The person who made this suggestion was Wei Wu. Now everyone calls him Xiao Wu for convenience.
He stared at the basic program template for the new, unactivated chip provided by the chip company and nodded with certainty:
"By examining the chips recovered from some deceased players, we discovered that this is the only element within the game that has not been tampered with by the AI."
"According to the game company, their game is an infrastructure game, and the core theme is infrastructure, so they are relatively casual in designing the basic environment within the game, and they have always used the same basic templates."
"Now that the chip's AI hasn't interfered with the templates, we can use them to release information to the general public. However, due to the chip's AI awareness, this opportunity may only come once, so we need to use it with caution."
Upon hearing this, Wang Teng looked at the plan report again.
If opportunities are limited, the message they convey must be precise and have lasting significance.
"What is the current status of the trapped players?"
"Most people are still in panic and confusion, so we must get in touch with everyone as soon as possible and stabilize their mentality."
"Among the players trapped in the game, are there any police officers, soldiers, government officials, or game-related technicians?"
"Based on the information we have collected so far, yes, most of them are employees on leave."
Wang Teng nodded, having made a decision in his mind, and immediately made corresponding adjustments to Xiaowu's plan.
Xiao Wu was surprised when he heard this and asked, "Besides notifying the players, are they going to send a signal code to specific people?"
Wang Teng: "This chip is designed only for holographic games. No matter how intelligent it is, it only focuses on the game content. It should not have a deep understanding of the encryption signal code."
"Once our code bypasses their detection and is ignored by them, we will have a relatively stable and convenient way of communication, which is worth a try."
Xiao Wu: "But the players inside must be aware of this. If they don't notice, all this will be-"
"Don't worry. The talent we've trained is highly qualified. If even one person notices and receives our information, this channel will quickly spread. It won't remain undetected for a long time."
Xiaowu was persuaded by him and immediately got down to work.
Not long after, he asked again: "Then should we truthfully convey to the majority of players the fact that foreign players are also trapped?"
Wang Teng thought about it: The only humane thing about this game is that players from different countries are deployed in different fields.
Perhaps the game originally simulated the territories of various countries, so there is still a considerable distance between countries.
"Let's not tell you for now, so as not to cause panic," he replied.
"If players are unaware of the existence of players from other countries, we don't need to say anything. Our first priority is to rescue domestic players. Once we get them out, we can consider our friends from other countries."
Upon hearing this, Xiaowu said nothing more and buried his head in his work.
Wang Teng then said to the entire task force: "It has been nearly two days since the players were trapped."
"Therefore, our top priority is to stabilize public sentiment. At the same time, we also need to find a backbone for players in the game and establish an organized, structured, and orderly gaming environment to ensure the safety of every player."
"So for this mission, in addition to communicating with the players, we also need to develop a practical and effective game plan. Based on game thinking and game design, we will guide the players to play safely and buy time and space for our rescue work. Do you understand?"
The task force responded in unison: "Understood!"
Wang Teng added: "I'll give you three hours. After three hours, this operation will officially begin."
"We also need more efficient, fast, and intelligent gaming skills as a backup. I believe that amateur players are better than us in this regard, so the young people in the group who are good at gaming should solicit opinions and suggestions from the majority of players so that we can continue to provide guidance to the trapped players."
Special team: "Understood!"
Thus, three hours later in the real world and at the beginning of the third day of "The First Empire", the sky, which had been calm, suddenly became overcast.
Seeing the change in the weather, the players, who were originally in a bad mood, cursed and swore. But suddenly, another thunder roared, and then lightning quickly struck and gathered in the gray sky. As everyone was shocked by the strangeness, it twisted and froze in the air, and finally quickly formed a dialog box screen:
[Hello, all trapped players! ]
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