Chapter 2: First Hospital (1)
[Pioneer JS5418345 login completed]
The initial login point to the unknown space was at the hospital entrance. After a brief dizziness, Bai Jinshu opened his eyes again, and his first feeling was old.
This is a building with a strong sense of old-fashionedness from the 1980s.
Then it was crowded, and the hospital entrance was packed with people.
The hospital that can be named "number" must be a large public hospital. It is now 1:30 in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day. Patients and their families are coming and going in front of the hospital. The sultry air is mixed with the strange smell of medicine and disinfectant, and there are ticket sellers selling numbers and vendors selling fruit baskets for visiting patients.
These people crowded into the square in front of the hospital, filling up this not-so-small square. Before Bai Jinshu could take a clear look at the surrounding situation, he saw that the crowd coming and going in front of him suddenly and abruptly separated into a line.
A fat man came from behind the crowd.
It would be more accurate to say that the fat man squeezed his way here rather than walked. He was struggling to squeeze through the crowd, politely asking for permission to pass, but in his actions he was rudely relying on his broad body to push aside all the people in front of him. For a while, swear words could be heard everywhere he passed by.
The cursing stopped when they saw the fat man's face.
To be fair, judging from his appearance alone, this fat guy can actually be said to be pleasing to the eye. Although he weighs over 200 pounds, his facial features are not fierce. Instead, he has a pair of kind eyes and eyebrows, and he smiles when he sees people.
But all this was abruptly destroyed by a scar that ran across his entire face, from the left corner of his eye to the right side of his jaw.
The scar was particularly conspicuous running across the middle of his face. Everyone who saw the scar wisely shut their mouths of complaint and silently moved to the sides.
The fat man seemed to be used to these gazes. He squeezed out of the crowd without a care in the world, looked Bai Jinshu up and down, and asked in a low voice: "Brother, Foundation?"
The man spoke with a heavy Beijing accent. If the word "foundation" had not appeared in his words, Bai Jinshu would have thought that he was here to challenge others to a fight and seek revenge.
"Yes," Bai Jinshu was distracted quickly and came back to his senses quickly, and answered quickly, "Are you also a pioneer?"
It's no wonder that the fat man recognized him at a glance. There were people here who came to see a doctor, most of them were in a hurry and looked sick. Among these patients, Bai Jinshu, who came into the unknown space empty-handed and looked extremely relaxed, was simply out of place.
Besides, it's not just him, the fat man in front of him who had just squeezed out from a group of patients is the same.
The fat man is wearing a combat watch of the same style on his left hand, which is the carrier of the operating panel in the unknown space.
"Of course, thank goodness the replacement is here," he heard the fat man in front of him sigh quickly as if he was saved before he finished looking at him, "Dude, you don't know, someone died before we even started exploring. There is a limit on the number of people in this exploration. We've been waiting for more than half an hour for a replacement. If you hadn't come, we would all be roasted outside."
He looked like he had finally seen his savior, but when he mentioned that someone had died, a hint of fear and avoidance appeared on his face.
Someone died? Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Is it that the explorer team's mission is too dangerous, or is this unexplored world too terrifying? How come people die before they even start?
From the information broadcast before entering, we learned that the quota for this exploration team is eight people.
The fat man said that this book has a limit on the number of people, which means that it cannot be opened if the team members are not complete. Therefore, if there is a reduction in personnel before the start, the Foundation will add other pioneers to make the team full of eight people.
——And he was the player who was brought in as a replacement.
The fat man breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he didn't ask anything, and walked impatiently in the direction he came from. The patients coming and going were concerned about the scar on his face and avoided him, leaving a wide road for the two of them. At the end of the road was a group of people who were also sweating profusely.
Seeing him bring back a long-haired man, several people who seemed to be fidgeting showed the same look of being saved. The person sitting in the middle took a few steps forward attentively: "This... is the replacement, right?"
These should be the other team members in the copy.
According to what the fat man said, they must have been waiting for a long time, so before he came, these people must have known each other.
The fat man brought the person in, wiped his sweat and said impatiently: "Hurry up, punch in quickly and start exploring. It's too hot outside. There should be air conditioning in the inpatient building."
When they heard the word "air conditioning", the other team members immediately showed longing on their faces, as if they had been outside in the sun for too long and couldn't help but want to turn on the air conditioning.
Bai Jinshu followed the fat man and observed the atmosphere among the group of people. He noticed with interest that when these people reacted, their eyes always intentionally or unintentionally avoided the man in a peaked cap standing at the edge. Even when the fat man led him into the crowd, he subconsciously chose a position farther away from him.
They tried to avoid this man but dared not show it, so they had to use the excuse that they had been in the sun for too long and wanted to turn on the air conditioner quickly to cover up their anxiety and fear.
Bai Jinshu's eyes naturally fell on this person.
The team members all looked very alert. They probably didn't know each other, but they were in perfect harmony and showed a unified fear of the man in the baseball cap.
If you want to gain prestige in front of a group of strangers as quickly as possible, the best way is to demonstrate your strength, and the most direct way to demonstrate your strength is to resort to force.
Adding to the fact that someone died before, it is not difficult to guess that the death of that person was definitely related to the man in the baseball cap in front of him.
This team has already had problems before they even started exploring. I'm really curious about what happened before...
Bai Jinshu clicked his tongue twice in his heart and lightly withdrew his gaze.
The heat was unbearable, and these people had been waiting for him in the sun for more than half an hour. He didn't want to stay outside any longer. Facing the expectant eyes of a group of people looking at him as if he were a savior, Bai Jinshu finally spread his hands and said, "Excuse me...how do I check in?"
As soon as he logged in, he was dragged here by Fatty. Before he had time to study the task panel in hand, he had no idea what punching in was.
"You don't know how to do it?!" Hearing this, the man who had been so attentive just now immediately became subtle: "Are you a newcomer too?"
"also"?
It seems that he is not the only newcomer here...but is there any problem with him being a newcomer?
This foundation discriminates against newcomers?
Bai Jinshu was puzzled, but nodded anyway.
The man who asked the question suddenly looked very unhappy. His eyes circled back and forth between him and the man in the baseball cap, and he whispered something.
Considering the presence of the baseball cap, the man lowered his voice. Bai Jinshu did not hear clearly what he said, but he saw the other team members behind him like frightened birds: "Alright, Chen Fei, stop talking!"
I don't think it's anything good to say.
Chen Fei seemed to realize that he had said something wrong. He quickly stopped mumbling, glanced carefully at the baseball cap in the distance, and immediately closed his mouth.
Seeing the awkward atmosphere, the fat man quickly stepped out to smooth things over, saying, "The weather is too hot, and everyone is a little irritable. Please don't mind it, please don't mind it."
"Dude, open the task panel and turn on the location on the map. Once you're sure you're in the unknown space, just click on the check-in button."
Bai Jinshu completed the check-in as he was told, and finally, the copy progress on the task panel changed from blank to 0%.
The page refreshed and a new description appeared: [The quota for this exploration is eight people, and all team members have completed it. ]
"Thank you." Bai Jinshu looked up and nodded to the fat man.
"It's okay, it's okay," the fat man laughed, not noticing the strange atmosphere at all, "We are all newcomers too, this is what Brother Yang Peiyang just told us."
The Yang Pei he mentioned should be the man in the baseball cap.
Oh... no wonder.
Bai Jinshu blinked subtly, and a hint of understanding flashed in his eyes.
Yang Pei is the only old team member among this group of newcomers. Judging from the performance of the others, he must have been related to the death of the previous team member, and most of them may have been killed by him.
The others were all newcomers who did not understand the ecology of the Explorer Team and did not dare to act rashly. They were inevitably frightened after seeing the old team members killing people at will. After learning that the replacement would also be an old team member, they naturally hoped to have an old team member come in to compete with Yang Pei.
Who would have thought that Bai Jinshu was a newcomer who knew nothing like them? No wonder some people's faces changed immediately after he asked how to punch in.
Bai Jinshu glanced at Chen Fei, who had a livid face and was hesitating whether to turn around and try to please Yang Pei. His expression changed several times, but in the end he did not take a step towards the man in the baseball cap.
It's funny, why are they so sure that a veteran team member who can compete with Yang Pei will be substituted in? Aren't they worried that the new player will be a murderer like Yang Pei?
Bai Jinshu curled his lips and was about to say something when he heard a familiar electronic voice: [Dear Pioneer JS5418345, you have entered an unknown space. Please keep smiling. The live report will begin soon.]
[Live broadcast start countdown: 60]
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This announcement should be audible to everyone. As the countdown began, everyone, including Yang Pei, adjusted their expressions and started heading towards the hospital building.
Bai Jinshu stayed at the end of the crowd and called out to the logistics customer service a few times tentatively after the announcement was over.
No response.
It seems that this electronic sound is only used for broadcasting, and customer service cannot be contacted in the world.
“Dude, you’d better read the instructions,” the fat man came over and whispered to him as he tried to call customer service, “It contains some instructions for the foundation’s live broadcast reporting system. Brother Yang said it’s very important, so we’ve already read it while waiting for the replacement.”
When did this fat man appear? Bai Jinshu paused and looked at the fat man for a few seconds with a smirk.
"Hey," the fat man felt a little scared when he was stared at, "Um... why don't you read the instructions? Why are you staring at me?"
Bai Jinshu smiled wryly: "Then why don't you just move forward? Why are you reminding me?"
The eight people in this team are not in harmony with each other, so it is hard not to suspect that the fat man has ulterior motives.
"Ahem," the fat man coughed lightly, leaned forward somewhat embarrassedly and whispered in a low voice: "Um... buddy, tell me the truth, are you really a newcomer?"
"What else?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyes nonchalantly, "What's the problem?"
"No problem, no problem, definitely no problem," the fat man denied repeatedly, "but buddy, you don't know, before you came, Brother Yang told us that the replacement must be a veteran team member, who knew you came in and asked us how to clock in, I was just curious... so I asked a few more questions."
"I was thinking... an old team member, it's impossible that he doesn't know how to punch in, right? Then if it's a new team member, our great boss, a leader who is nowhere to be found, and one of the most reliable and authoritative foundations in the world, wouldn't they have sent the wrong person? That would be a work accident, right?" The fat man boasted a lot, then changed the subject, his voice became lower and lower, he made faces, and looked like he understood everything.
Bai Jinshu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood what he meant.
The fat guy judged others by himself and thought that he was indeed an old team member, but Yang Pei had a bad reputation, so he pretended to be a newcomer to avoid Yang Pei.
This is interesting.
Judging from Chen Fei's performance before, Yang Pei must have said this. But according to Bai Jinshu's observation, although these words came from Yang Pei, he was not surprised at all after he found out that he was a newcomer.
But the problem is that he is indeed a newcomer. Since Yang Pei will definitely replace the old team member, why was he brought in?
Bai Jinshu's brain was working rapidly, but he didn't waste time fooling the fat man: "I am indeed a newcomer, maybe the higher-ups made a mistake."
"Yes, yes, yes!" The fat man was not at all disappointed that his guess was denied. He immediately slapped his thigh and responded, "Dude, you are indeed a newcomer. There is no newer than you in this copy."
The fat man praised him to the skies but then revealed his true intentions: "Dude, you're a newcomer and so am I. My name is Lu Changfeng. How about we form a team? We can look after each other in the dungeon, and we can also support each other, exchange information, and cooperate for mutual benefit."
Bai Jinshu was about to send him away when he paused.
So the reason why he appeared here was obvious. The fat man was a newcomer who entered the exploration for the first time, and he came to find someone to hold his thighs.
In an unknown and unexplored world, teaming up is indeed the most cost-effective way.
Lu Changfeng thought he was an old team member, so he came to hug his thigh to add protection for himself. And Bai Jinshu, who was basically a useless fighter with no ability to fight back except for his brain, just needed a reliable thug.
Not to mention that the identity of the old team member that Lu Changfeng made up in his own mind would indeed give him enough reasons and excuses to instruct Lu Changfeng to do things in the future.
"Just call me Scaro." Although the fat man has a scar on his face and looks fierce, his decisiveness is pretty good compared to the other newcomers.
He is bold and careful, and has good connections with people, so being a thug is just right for him. Bai Jinshu has no reason to refuse.
Besides, he wasn't telling the truth.
Skao was one of the names the long-haired young man used when he was abroad. Bai Jinshu was a well-known actor outside, so it was certainly impossible for him to use his own name to show off in the game. So, giving a fake name was the best option.
The fat man really understood, and without asking why Bai Jin said an English name, he immediately started to get closer to him by calling him by name: "Then I will call you Brother Ao from now on."
Since they had decided to form a team, Bai Jinshu nodded without any concern: "Changfeng."
"No, Brother Ao, please don't call me that," the fat man shuddered, "My name sounds so literary and creepy, and my friends also think it doesn't live up to the name, so they nicknamed me rice noodle rolls. Brother Ao, you should just call me rice noodle rolls..."
Rice noodle rolls...Bai Jinshu blinked in amusement. At least one of Lu Changfeng and his friend must be from Guangdong.
But this nickname is indeed better than Changfeng.
There is not a single hair on this fat guy from head to toe that can be associated with the elegant and majestic word "Changfeng". Calling it "rice roll" is indeed much more palatable than calling it "Changfeng".
Seeing that he accepted the title, Lu Changfeng immediately changed sides: "Brother Ao, we have to be careful with Yang Pei."
Bai Jinshu: "...you're going to change 'Brother Yang' into 'Yang Pei'?"
Lu Changfeng raised his neck: "Of course. From now on, you are my only brother!"
"Declined," Bai Jinshu said, ending his endless stream of flattery. "Remember to tell me later what happened to the team member who died before I got here."
He had to know what was going on with Yang Pei so that he could come up with a plan to deal with it.
Everyone here is new, so we have no way of asking about his past deeds, so we can only speculate based on his performance in the dungeon.
"Okay, okay," Lu Changfeng agreed quickly, "I'll tell you in detail later, Brother Ao."
"That's fine. I'll take a look at the precautions before the live broadcast starts." Bai Jinshu glanced at the countdown for the live broadcast and saw that it was almost at the end. In order to prevent other things from needing to be dealt with after the live broadcast started, he quickly sent Lu Changfeng away.
Seeing Lu Changfeng walking away happily with an expression that said "Brother Ao is worthy of being Brother Ao, even pretending to be a newcomer he is so dedicated", the real newcomer Bai Jinshu opened the panel and started looking for the instructions of the live broadcast reporting system he mentioned.
Simply put, the foundation's live broadcast is to showcase the progress of exploration of unknown space, and it tends to be more focused on selecting the best rather than the largest quantity.
The team members here do not have their own live broadcast room. Each exploration will only have one live broadcast room, and the room will be given a certain potential value based on the sponsorship amount of this exploration and the team members' points.
Just like gambling on stones, unexplored collections will be estimated in level and sponsored blindly before the exploration team is dispatched. After the exploration is completed and the survival rules of the plane are thoroughly understood, the sponsors of the blind investment will obtain the rights to subsequent development and use or the proceeds from sales.
The live report is more like the "window opening" link for everyone in gambling on stones. During the exploration process of the team members, as the number of rules discovered increases, the level of the collection will also change with the progress of the exploration. Other viewers watching the live broadcast will decide whether to join the investment or make additional investments based on this.
Of course, blind investing carries a higher risk, so the benefits they can gain are much greater than those who join in later in the process.
The Foundation will allocate exploration space to explore unknown spaces based on the points of the exploration team members. After the points reach a certain value, they can choose for themselves. As newcomers with 0 points, they naturally have no right to choose and are automatically allocated to the lowest E-level space.
There are six collection levels, the lowest is E and the highest is S. The higher the level, the higher the danger. Every time a pioneer participates in the exploration, regardless of whether he has discovered the survival rules, he will get a certain fixed points. This is the universal points they use to exchange miracles and realize their wishes.
At present, the points for one exploration at the E level where he is are 200, while the points for the D level one level higher are 3,000, and the points for the C level even higher are doubled to 10,000.
With only a difference of two levels, the points from E to C have increased fifty times. It can be seen that the best way to accumulate points is to perform actively, explore the dungeon well, obtain more angel investors, enter higher-level dungeons, and get more points.
Bai Jinshu quickly scanned these words and couldn't help but sigh that Party A's father is always a father no matter where he is.
There are two directions for the additional investment of these audiences after the report starts. One is to explore the rules. If someone makes additional investment because of discovering new rules, the exploration team member who discovered this rule will convert a fixed proportion of points from this investment.
The other is for exploration team members. If an exploration team member performs well, investors can start a round of angel investment and become a partner of the team member. During the partnership period, they can earn points in other future projects and be eligible to invite the explorer to join their own exploration project.
Bai Jinshu compared these two investments with the live broadcasts he had watched before in his mind. The former is equivalent to giving rewards to the anchor, and the latter is to join the anchor. This is much easier to understand at a glance.
As for the two rules, the former is easy to understand, and the latter exists because the exploration of unknown space also requires funds. The amount of blind investment is the initial funds of the first batch of teams. If the team cannot complete the exploration within the time limit, or is wiped out and cannot continue, the investors who have participated in the blind investment and those who join the investment later will have to continue to invest funds to send new teams.
Therefore, at this time, more efficient and better-qualified exploration team members are the key to reducing costs, saving money and completing the rule exploration as soon as possible.
The potential value during live broadcast is to help investors judge the quality of the current team members. It is determined by the sum of the blind investment amount and the total points of the team members, which is basically equal to the combined value of all the team members in this exploration. Therefore, if you enter a space with extremely high blind investment values, or meet a teammate with high points, you will find that the potential value of this live broadcast is extremely high.
Just like this time, the unknown space he entered was estimated to be of the lowest level E, and the blind throw value was not high either, but the potential value was bizarrely as high as 20,000, so there was only one possibility.
He met high-scoring teammates.
Moreover, this seems to be a high-scoring teammate who has no good intentions towards his companions.
The author has something to say:
I always feel that using the word "colleague" to describe a shark criminal and an abettor is a hellish joke (Palms together)
Skao is the transliteration of skull, which means skull. It is not a random name.
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