While Xiao Wu was sending the message, on the other side, Si Lan was taking a stone axe to the woods to cut down trees.
After all, it was a primitive stone tool, much blunter than a modern axe. By the time she had chopped down a few small trees as thick as her arms, her stamina and hunger levels had dropped significantly.
After replenishing her energy with wild fruits, she went hunting rabbits. The wind whistled along the way, sometimes long and sometimes short, and she listened as she hunted. By dusk, she had finally gathered all the resources she had targeted for the day and had also explored half of the forest.
After she memorized the distribution of resources here, she picked up some more stones and then walked back.
As soon as she came out of the woods, she saw a lot of players gathered outside.
Under the leadership of Fang Xun, they sharpened branches with stones, tied them into rows with vines, and inserted them into the soil at an angle facing the woods at regular intervals to form a simple protection to prevent ferocious wild animals from running out to attack the settled residents.
Seeing Si Lan, Fang Xun greeted her: "Hi, are you here to collect resources again?"
Si Lan nodded and turned to look at the raft in front of her.
Fang Xun explained, "Oh, it's to protect against wild animals. There are a lot of children playing here, and it would be too dangerous to leave it alone. But given the current conditions, we can't make any good traps, so we'll just make do with this for now."
Si Lan glanced at the tip of the raft again. After a moment, she asked Fang Xun, "What method did you teach me?"
Fang Xun: "Yes."
Si Lan reached out and tapped the tip of the branch. After a moment, she shook her head and said, "Not enough."
"how?"
"Don't forget, this is Hell Mode difficulty. At this level, either the beasts won't appear, or they'll have powerful attacks and thick health bars, so you can't treat them with common sense."
Fang Xun was stunned again, and it took him a long while to react: "But the tools I have now can only do this much."
Si Lan was silent for a while.
Finally, she looked at the thin stone pieces the residents were using and asked what tools they had now.
After learning that there were only simply polished stones and that more tools were still waiting to be made by experienced players, she asked Fang Xun how many players there were in this area.
Fang Xun: "Currently forty-one."
“How many experienced players are there?”
"Twenty, if you include the kids. Seniors, all under ten? I haven't even asked you yet."
Si Lan: "I don't really have gaming experience."
Then she asked if there were any other similar gathering places nearby. When she learned that Fang Xun would have to take time to investigate tomorrow, she nodded and walked away: "Wait a moment, you guys go ahead and get busy."
Fang Xun looked at her back without turning back: What are you going to do?
Si Lan quickly returned to the small camp and saw Fan Wenqing and others still busy making tools.
Upon discovering Si Lan's return, Fan Wenqing raised her numb hands and called out weakly, "You're back? Did you gain anything?"
Si Lan took out the resources and placed them on the ground, then went over to her and asked, "What about you guys?"
Fan Wenqing proudly picked up a finished product from the ground and said, "Can you believe it? I've made two knives!"
Her companion Liu Qing also showed off her "works": "The hoe is ready, and I can use it for farming. Xiao Liu also made a stone axe. I'm afraid that this one will wear out too quickly and there will be no replacement if it breaks."
Si Lan nodded and took the knife made by Fan Wenqing first.
She is very good at choosing materials. She picked up relatively thin stone pieces, and after hammering and polishing them, they became very sharp.
Si Lan took a piece of broken wood and tried it on it.
"Lend it to me for a while?" she asked Fan Wenqing.
Fan Wenqing opened her eyes wide. "It was originally made for us to use together. If you need it, just take it. Aren't we a team?"
When she heard the word "team", Si Lan paused.
But he quickly covered it up without leaving a trace, picked up a thick branch, and started to cut the tip.
"You veteran gamers, do you have a common language for communication? Or maybe some code words, markings, or something like that?" she asked as she whittled.
Fan Wenqing was stunned for a moment, not quite reacting: "What do you mean?"
"For example, call-outs, recruitment notices, clubs, and the like. Is there a default communication language? If I need to gather high-level players and raise resources, is there a way?"
Fan Wenqing was silent for a long time.
Finally, he said, "This is usually a feature only available in online games."
"There aren't many infrastructure games for everyone, and most people play them single-player. The kind of mode you're talking about isn't really universal in infrastructure games."
Si Lan: "It doesn't necessarily have to be an infrastructure game. Isn't there a method that everyone will understand as soon as it appears?"
Fan Wenqing and her sisters thought about it seriously for a while, and finally shook their heads: "This is a bit too difficult to achieve. What's more, we don't have internet right now, so we can't send any messages. There's nothing we can do."
Liu Qing nodded in agreement. "Yes. There's no way to guarantee that everyone can see it. This is only possible when you're online. But once you're online, all you have to do is say it. There's no need for any representative symbols."
Fan Wenqing exchanged a glance with her. "So, ultimately, our problem is that we don't have a network. We can't connect to the global network."
After hearing this, Si Lan's eyebrows moved and she looked up at the sky:...
Global Networking...
Finally, she put away the shaved branches and knives, along with the hoe Liu Qing had made, and stood up and said, "Okay, I get it."
Fan Wenqing was a little surprised: "I thought you were also a high-level player?" Otherwise, how could you do everything so skillfully and quickly.
Si Lan shook her head: "I'm not."
"...So you're a newbie?"
“It’s just played.”
Fan Wenqing looked at her in disbelief, thinking she was teasing her.
Si Lan didn't explain anything. She put down the three hares for them to deal with and returned to the edge of the woods.
When she came back here, it was already getting dark.
Fang Xun saw her again, walked over and asked, "What happened?"
Si Lan saw that the sharp rafts set up by everyone had basically blocked off a large area of the forest. She handed him a knife and a thick branch she had cut. "Let's do it this way. The tools are limited and can't be replaced overnight. You can place them separately. One at a certain distance is enough."
Fang Xun took the branch from her and took a look...
???
Afraid that I had seen it wrong, I turned it over and saw the blood groove hidden in the dark.
"Battery?"
He was shocked.
It was a bayonet that she had modified. The multiple internal hooks had the ability to fix flesh and blood and expand wounds. If you were stabbed by this thing, you would lose a lot of blood even if you didn't die. It was extremely lethal.
Fang Xun's eyes widened.
Perhaps because she noticed the scrutiny in his eyes was too intense, Si Lan replied indifferently, "Legitimate background."
Fang Xun looked her up and down several times.
His eyes were full of disbelief.
Si Lan didn't explain any further and took out another knife: "Don't teach others how to make this kind of thing. Do it yourself. It's still early and there's still time."
As she spoke, she sat down, took out the appropriate wood, and began to chisel.
Fang Xun was in mixed mood.
But considering the current situation is special and this is not the real world, he doesn't have the conditions to care about it.
I had no choice but to sit down next to her and work together according to her ideas.
The two worked until late at night to complete the work.
By this time, Fang Xun had persuaded the other residents to return to the camp, and they were the only two people there who built a small bonfire and worked overnight.
After the wooden bayonets were made, the two men placed them in appropriate locations, then used Liu Qing's stone hoe to dig a few earth traps, buried them with weeds, and then walked back.
He was very tired after a busy day. Even though Fang Xun admired the tool-making skills of Fan Wenqing and the others, he didn't have the energy to talk to them. He went back separately with Si Lan and talked about it tomorrow.
When Si Lan returned to the camp, Tao Zhenzhen had already set up the straw hut that Si Lan left for her and was sleeping under the hut by the fire.
Fan Wenqing and the others persevered, waiting for her return. They devoured the three roasted rabbits, one remaining for Si Lan. After confirming she had no other needs, Fan Wenqing and the others huddled with Tao Zhenzhen under the straw hut and settled for sleep.
Si Lan waited until they all fell asleep before putting down the things in her hands.
After making sure they were all asleep, she disassembled the remaining skeleton of the roasted rabbit, picked up her tools and a pile of pebbles she had picked up from the stream in the forest, and walked to the lake not far from the camp.
The skeleton was cleaned, hammered into joints of varying lengths, tied up with straw and vines, and then fixed to a thick log and inserted into the lakeside.
Then she stared at the lake surface, which was rippling from time to time, for a while, and began to place stones in a circle around the lake and fix them to the soil.
After she finished, she stood up and confirmed that everything was correct before going back to the camp to rest.
The next day, at daybreak, Fang Xun, who came with the residents to fetch water, saw a strange scene by the lake.
To others, this thing is just an extra inexplicable bone support, and no one will even notice the stones on the ground.
But in Fang Xun's eyes, they convey much more information.
After studying all this, he looked towards the camp where Si Lan was without hesitation.
Si Lan wasn't there, probably out looking for resources again. Fang Xun looked at the shelf and the stones again...
He decisively warned the resident players beside him: "This lake may also be a channel for our country to transmit information to us in the future."
"So, when you go back later, be sure to tell the other residents that they can come here to draw water and fish, but don't touch anything else near the lake. You must actively protect the scene, okay?"
When residents learned that the country actually used codes to communicate with the military and police, they were already in awe and felt it was awe-inspiring.
Now that they heard Fang Xun's arrangement, they readily agreed. He also suggested setting up wooden signs and carving warning words nearby. Fang Xun did not stop them and acquiesced to this move.
After Si Lan's reminder, Fang Xun, who had originally devoted all his energy to organizing the residents, became more cautious. When he left the camp and looked for nearby camps that day, he also told the military and police leaders of other camps about these measures.
At five o'clock in the afternoon of that day, at the office of the special task force of Country T.
The special team that continuously observes the movements of players has found that the in-game players in Country T show clearer organizational trends and patterns.
The team was pleased to see the neatly organized layout of the areas on the map. Xiaowu led the technical staff to continue writing the code for the next communication session, while also keeping an eye on the various changes in the game, hoping to find more breakthroughs.
At this time, Wang Teng came over and asked about their current development status.
After Xiaowu reported, Wang Teng reminded him and his team: "We must pay attention to more details to prevent others from passing information to us but not ignoring it. So, we must capture it carefully."
Xiao Wu agreed repeatedly, but the map of the desolate planet was too huge. Although they were conscious of doing so, it was difficult to observe all the details. They could only be patient and discover them slowly.
At this moment, Wang Teng looked at several border areas on the map and suddenly remembered something, so he asked again: "How are those foreign players who are also trapped? Pull them over to take a look."
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