Chapter 261: Survival at Sea Day 12 (3) First Visit to Fishman Island…
When replying to the message, Yu Miaomiao asked everyone else to look over.
"Pathfinder: Everyone was injured, to varying degrees. Those who attempted to reach into the barrier where others were drawing cards had their hands severed. The wound looked like it had been melted by a sharp object, and a high-voltage current was flowing through their bodies. Those who were drawing cards were interrupted and fainted for a few seconds. They were uninjured, but suffered temporary amnesia, forgetting the entire drawing process. The system automatically selected the cards for them, but the rewards were still there. What are your observations?"
His words were cold, as if the injured people were not his own. He brushed off the pain of having a broken hand and then being exposed to high voltage electricity with a casual remark.
Yu Miaomiao was glad that she didn't let these friends or herself do this experiment. Such an indifferent person was willing to tell her so clearly, and he just wanted to know other information from her.
So at first she only told him the data obtained from the borrowed instrument, and did not mention the results of the observations made by several people this time, and waited for him to tell her more information.
What's strange is that there should be quite a few people on Dr. Ji's side, so do they still need to know what she went through here?
Do you want to confirm what you see, or is it that everyone sees something different?
Yu Miaomiao carefully summarized what she had seen and heard to the other party, and sure enough, the other party replied with a few words.
"Pathfinder: It seems they are all the same, just in different directions after being teleported. Please contact me if you have any further information."
Yu Miaomiao quickly asked.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: How is that companion who interfered with other people's card drawing? Can the advanced medical kit heal his injuries?"
In fact, Yu Miaomiao thought of a new testing method, but whether to try it depends on whether it is worth it and whether it is dangerous.
Since the system doesn't want anyone other than the card drawer to interfere with the card drawing process, and at the same time wants the person involved to lose his memory, it means that daily card drawing may be the key node for obtaining additional clues.
"Pathfinder: Dedicated to science. The high voltage is so strong that we can't even get close to it. So, comrade, do you want to try and see what the consequences are?"
She's going to try?
How is it possible? She would do it even though she knew it was a dead end. She doesn't have such a desperate desire for knowledge.
"Meow Meow: My point is, since the system is so reluctant to allow humans to interfere, is there some important information hidden in the card draw? It seems that there are people in the world who sell insulation equipment, and the blueprints are dropped from insulated electric eels. Dr. Ji, are there any connections between the weather, card draws, and monsters?"
Yu Miaomiao asked directly with the answer, and Dr. Ji immediately gave her a "warm" response.
"Pathfinder: Good idea. I'll go and arrange the next experiment plan."
Will another "innocent" survivor die in this experiment? Judging from his behavior, he probably doesn't care.
For Dr. Ji, life means far less than his experiments.
Yu Miaomiao didn't want to tell the other party about the videotape and the card drawing.
Dr. Ji obviously doesn't care about her life for the experimental results, and the life she doesn't care about is someone else's. In the entire apocalypse, she and someone from another district are the only ones who will publicly make video cassettes. That person has clearly stated that the waiting time will be very long, so Dr. Ji's target is most likely herself.
What if she doesn't help with the OEM?
The other party no longer gives her new information?
Or will he be threatened by Yijian Kaitianmen and others, or even face other consequences?
When she first heard about this scholar and his research, she was still in awe and thought it was amazing that in the last days there were still people pursuing the truth and using scientific methods to find a way home.
But now she just feels that she should be more selfish towards these people and exchange information selectively.
The longer Yu Miaomiao stayed in the apocalypse, the more cautious he became.
In order to confirm whether the people she communicated with were reliable, she spent some time to inquire about each partner. She had heard a lot about the story of Yi Jian Kai Tian Men before, saying that he would do anything to obtain some information and items he wanted.
Is this what scientific research should be like?
He disregards human lives and seeks the truth in the name of sacrificing the self for the greater good. What's the big difference between him and the evil guy in District 9?
However, Shi Yancheng's target is Yu Miaomiao and her friends, as well as more children and people with high panel stats, trying to harm them for profit.
She is not yet the target of Yijian Kaitianmen's attack. In fact, they are still relying on her and secretly helping her, but this is only temporary.
If the doctor's interests are really involved one day, will she be able to escape?
Therefore, even if the group of people who opened the sky with a sword hid their abilities and showed extraordinary personal abilities, and even knew more of the truth, they were still unwilling to reveal any information, let alone lead or help others.
However, Nana, the person she has always relied on and trusted the most, took on the responsibility of leading the entire district forward earlier.
The power of one person is small, but it is different when there is a group of people. She is more and more convinced that if she works hard with this group of friends in front of her, she will definitely be able to go back.
After turning off the holographic screen, Yu Miaomiao also saw the disgust and determination in the eyes of others. Lulu and Yingying had already begun to denounce these behaviors and were about to open a bag of melon seeds to start scolding them.
Yes, no one wants to be used as a gun, even if it is just a potential threat.
Hua Bie was naturally a little unhappy. The tricks of these people were obviously more advanced than what he had seen before, but they were all bad. However, he couldn't bear to see Yu Miaomiao's depressed look.
Ever since she first met Miaomiao, she has been actively planning for the future and every challenge. Why did those people from District 9 disturb her mind? Before she could say anything to comfort him, she stopped when she looked at Xiaoguai's firm eyes and strange movements.
There are now many toys placed on the deck of the boat for several people, and Yingying has placed several large cat scratching boards in front of the public cabin door. Xiaoguai is scratching an upright board and sharpening his claws, as if he heard the human voice next to him, but the person next to him didn't say anything at all. He tentatively responded to Yu Miaomiao with a "meow".
Hearing its response, Yu Miaomiao knew it was successful.
Thinking about the issue of consciousness, she tried opening the chat interface, focusing her whole heart on Xiaoguai. She repeatedly used her consciousness to input a line of non-existent text, and then silently recited to Xiaoguai, "I'm going to be away for a while. You must stay with Sister Yingying. Don't worry about looking for me everywhere. Don't be afraid."
Of course, while she was saying these words, her hands were accompanied by repetitive movements, but it was good enough just to know that she could communicate with Xiaoguai through her thoughts. Although she didn't know if it could receive it in the expedition area, this kind of telepathic communication was also very powerful in ordinary battles.
Everyone dispersed and went about their own business. It was a while before Yu Miaomiao received a reply from the dark horse.
"I can't stop thinking about you: Why are you willing to help me find someone? Do you want to recruit me into your team, or do you want me to help you with some experiment?"
'Unstoppable Missing' did not deny her identity and indirectly admitted that she was the one who posted a missing person post on the cross-server forum. She even told Yu Miaomiao that many people with different purposes had looked for her.
Yu Miaomiao certainly had her own requests, and she preferred frank communication to avoid the guesswork.
"Meow Meow: Well, I'd like to invite you to join the team after we've established a certain level of trust. I see you've been looking for a friend, and I also have a good friend who got lost in the apocalypse. I sincerely hope that in this harsh apocalypse, everyone can eventually find the person they're looking for."
"I just joined the internal test server. I bought the cross-server invitation from Yang Haotian of the Tiandihui to join your server. He also made a similar request. I haven't made up my mind yet. Let me think about it."
It's Yang Haotian again...
Cross-server invitation cards are difficult to obtain, but I didn’t expect Yang Haotian to be so willing to use this card to extend an olive branch.
The cross-server invitation qualification was exchanged reasonably, but Yang Haotian could obviously use it at other times, and would he give up this dark horse so easily? I'm afraid he would use all kinds of means to win over this newcomer with a high ranking.
It seems that she needs to find out more information about this person.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: Okay, if you need help finding someone, you can contact me."
After Yu Miaomiao sent information seeking investigation to Nana and Yijian Kaitianmen, she placed some items in a closet with her nickname on it in a public area.
Things are managed in a unified manner. Not only will there be people on duty to protect the supplies, but you can also deposit your belongings, reduce the amount of supplies in your backpack, and increase your subsequent acquisition of supplies.
Hua Bie saw Yu Miaomiao unloading the goods in different categories and asked, "Are we going to the exploration site now?"
"Yeah." Yu Miaomiao glanced at Xiaoguai worriedly, "If anything unexpected happens to it, please contact me as soon as possible."
Hua Bie: "Okay."
Xiaoguai outside the door was playing with a cat toy with Yingying, and seemed not to understand what Yu Miaomiao meant by leaving.
Yu Miaomiao used the Fishman Island Adventure Multiple Experience Card, held an iron rod firmly with one hand, and felt a moment of floating in the air under his feet. After a short period of friction with the stick in his hand, he felt dizzy.
A second later, her feet were on a gray-brown beach, surrounded by gray mist.
Fishman Island, as the name suggests, is an island. When you set foot on this land, you will have a very strange sense of separation, just like walking into an old black-and-white movie.
Occasionally, survivors will see an isolated island covered by thick smog in the world of Sea Survival. This is the random Fishman Island in Sea Survival that does not require an Adventure Card to enter.
Few people can directly enter the island. The flying insect monsters in the thick fog area are far more powerful than the monsters in the ordinary light fog. As you get closer, terrifying fishmen will emerge from the sea. The fishmen will spread their spider arms and directly climb onto the boats driven by the survivors, forcing the survivors to enter combat status in advance. If they drive further in, the boat will sink until the sea water completely submerges the surface of the boat.
Iris went to the island under such difficult circumstances, and she drove her luxury cruise ship past all the way.
It was through this experience that Iris learned how to kill the earliest murlocs, which was to cut them horizontally and split them in half.
It sounds simple, but in practice...
Yu Miaomiao's eyes met the two fishmen crawling out of the sea behind her.
She thought that the mermen in the apocalypse would look like fish or mermaids, but none of them looked like fish or mermaids, or to be more precise, they were all deformed versions.
The two monsters had dark blue skin covered with fish scales with barbs, which almost blended into the sea water and stood out particularly in this monotonous gray area.
Their heads looked like drowned people sewn onto the body of a flat fish, with a creepy, terrifying human face tilted sideways. The eyeballs on the swollen face were only empty eye sockets, with a tiny fish eyeball embedded in it spinning around, as if searching for a target.
Four human arms bent in reverse supported the body as it crawled quickly on the ground, leaving behind several long trails of mucus.
All I saw was a big, long mouth that almost reached their ears, and the jagged teeth inside made an unpleasant biting sound as they moved quickly. A forked fish tail kept slapping the ground, pushing the whole fish forward, making a regular "puff puff" sound on the sand, like a dead fish making its last struggle.
They were not moving fast at the moment because Yu Miaomiao remained in a hibernation state and was not discovered.
As soon as you come in, you are faced with a red health bar and such a terrifying monster. The person who planned this Fishman Island expedition must have a very twisted mind.
Originally, Yu Miaomiao was worried about cutting off the monsters related to humans, especially the monsters with human faces, and she might have some reservations. But looking at this fish-man that looked like a mutant and not human, she felt a little evil and wanted to kill it faster than anyone else.
The sonar dagger is not suitable for killing, but the horizontal sword is.
Under Hua Bie's guidance and his own diligent practice, Yu Miaomiao can use this knife very skillfully. The knife style is no longer an imaginary picture, but a killing move that can be contracted freely every time he exerts force.
Looking at the name of the monster on the holographic screen - the first generation of fishman, let's use this first generation to sharpen the blade first.
The upper arm drives the forearm to generate force, drawing a parabola in the air. The silver-white blade pierces through the mist and slashes at the fish coming towards it.
She felt a slight resistance on her hand, but it was quickly broken by her clever strength. The fish flesh and bones broke off. Before the monster could splatter a pool of gray pus, she took two steps forward, turned her wrist, grasped the hilt of the knife with her backhand, turned around and chopped again.
Before the other murloc could reach out and grab her, she cut it in half, and the bent arm fell powerlessly to the beach.
This time the killing was even faster. She didn't even use any auxiliary potions to achieve such an amazing killing effect. It turns out that practicing swordsmanship and feeling the power of the sword are very important.
Two eyeballs fell from the two monsters, and after the round, swollen sacs were put into the backpack, they became two portions of mucus.
The two strange corpses on the ground gradually turned into gray sand and dissipated on the land beneath their feet.
What a strange adventure site. I wonder what the people who designed it were thinking or what their purpose was.
In the past few days, Yu Miaomiao has also discussed this doomsday, which is the so-called purpose of the game, with other companions.
According to the information obtained by Iris and the intelligence provided by Dr. Ji, it can be basically confirmed that everything they are currently experiencing is the result of a careful human plan.
First, they collect all kinds of information several years in advance, then choose the time to "place" millions of people in one or certain places, and then use cutting-edge but immature technology in virtual scenes that look like games, design these levels, draw cards, and improve personal abilities. What's the purpose?
Human genetic modification and elite selection?
According to Hua Bie, artificial genetic modification is prohibited by law. Could it be done secretly?
Assuming that it is not a secret activity, but is put on the table and tacitly approved by the federal government, then this genetic modification is not artificial modification, but is caused by some special methods to cause genetic mutations in humans themselves.
Everything Dr. Ji mentioned was related to brain-computer interaction and consciousness, but he did not mention anything related to human body modification. Does he not know, or is he hiding something?
Body modification... Isn't that guy in District 9 doing this experiment?
The answer is obvious.
Under the instruction of the Federation, this new technology was used to select a group of people who could quickly improve their physical functions through certain methods. At worst, they could also quickly improve their personal physical fitness through the experimental methods of District 9.
Pick these people out, and then...
And what does it have to do with the current expedition destination?
In the earliest adventure site, the Dark Oasis, survivors had to avoid light exposure and not make any noise. In the later stages of the adventure site, the monsters were designed to be completely unconcerned, and they were allowed to make all kinds of noises at will, and the venue became even bloodier.
The expedition area is clearly a place where you can obtain a large amount of supplies, so why is it designed so haphazardly?
In other words, as long as we make the exploration area more complicated and difficult, and continue to screen the surviving survivors, it doesn't matter what patterns exist in it.
But it’s obvious that every adventure site has its own set of rules, so how could they be designed randomly?
Yu Miaomiao would always decipher the rules of the current exploration site before moving forward, but when she killed ten first-generation fishmen in a row, an idea flashed through her mind.
These terrifying fishmen are like the scenes seen in some documentaries. It is said that a long time ago, when there was no Federation, a small force polluted nature for its own selfish desires and similar mutated monsters appeared, but soon that force was gone, and those alien species disappeared with it. Could it be that the designer of the first generation of fishmen was inspired by this?
After defeating 24 first-generation fishmen, Yu Miaomiao came to a lake on an island.
Apart from the gray sand, there are only tall dead trees scattered everywhere on Fishman Island. The distance is covered by thick fog.
The only remaining terrain here is these lakes.
The long and narrow lake channel blocks the road ahead, and the lake water at both ends flows down the cliff, forming a gray lake area that must be passed.
She had heard about the situation in the lake from other people, so she put on all the underwater equipment and protective gear and stepped into the water.
Hot, very hot.
The temperature of the lake water should be far higher than body temperature. Yu Miaomiao, who was wearing layer upon layer of waterproof and protective clothes, had already started sweating.
If the different roads in the previous adventure sites were branches, then the gray lake on Fishman Island is the branch of the current adventure site.
The dragon boat that could be placed in the expedition area was no longer effective here. Any floating object on the lake water of this island would slowly sink, and she could only swim across by herself.
The lake is not wide and it only takes about 10 minutes to swim across it. However, if you want to dive to the bottom of the lake to search for the treasure chest, you will encounter a treasure chest guardian monster.
Therefore, exploring the lake bottom is equivalent to exploring the branch road.
She had been here for almost half an hour, and her progress had always been 0. Along the way, apart from the slime dropped by the weird-looking fishmen after their death, there was nothing else to pick up. Only by diving to the bottom of the lake could she get the bucket-shaped treasure chest that would increase her progress.
The lake was overgrown with aquatic plants, which were different from those in the sea. The aquatic plants here were mostly red and floc-like. Although they would not float towards people, they were enough to hinder her diving. In the lake full of aquatic plants, she could not open her fins at all, so she had to put away her backpack.
After diving for more than ten seconds, she saw the first red bucket in a pile of flocculent water plants. She could open it by breaking the snaps on both sides of the bucket lid to get the expedition supplies inside.
This also sounds simple, but she seems to have never encountered a simple thing.
The moment her hand touched the wooden buckle, two pairs of human arms covered with countless small suction cups stretched out from the water plants.
On the holographic screen, I saw the name of this monster, Type 2 Murloc.
Their health bars are yellow, and only when humans touch the treasure chest bucket they are guarding will their health bars turn red and they will take the initiative to attack.
As luck would have it, the first bucket Yu Miaomiao found was a treasure chest with a guardian monster.
She had many ideas for battle in the lake, but none of them worked when she was holding the treasure chest. She had no choice but to activate the catapult and returned to the shore in two strokes, holding the bucket.
The fishman who had grabbed the bucket earlier also emerged from the water. The moment he came ashore, he immediately transformed into the appearance of the first generation of fishman, and was then hacked to death by Yu Miaomiao with a knife.
It turns out that the Type 2 murloc becomes the first generation after coming ashore. Does that mean that all the murlocs encountered afterwards follow the same logic?
After making sure the surroundings were safe, she opened the buckle.
The expected system sound did not appear. When the lid of the wooden barrel was opened, a blue water bottle was lying quietly inside.
What the hell... Shouldn't there be a treasure chest and supplies in the barrel? Where is the stuff?
Yu Miaomiao clicked on the historical information, but there was no information related to the expedition gift pack.
Another BUG?
Could it be that the system is stuck and the things were given but there was no announcement?
She checked and there wasn't much.
If it is a real treasure chest, the supplies inside will automatically go into the backpack after opening it, and the treasure chest will disappear at the same time. This is the case in various adventure areas in Desert Survival and the Crystal Palace adventure area. How could Fishman Island be special?
Can I take this bottle? Is it a trap?
She just opened the message interface and wanted to ask other people if they had encountered the same situation, when she saw the message from Hua Bie.
"Hua Bie: Maybe you've been away for too long, Xiaoguai is getting anxious."
"Meow Meow is not short of water: I'm trying to communicate with it with my consciousness. Can you help me observe it?"
"Hanabie: Okay."
Yu Miaomiao sat quietly on the sand, concentrating her mind, and just like before, she tried to repeat to Xiaoguai things like, "I'm here, don't worry."
“Ding ding.”
"Hua Bie: It seems useless. Yingying bought some ingredients to make a wolf meat and shrimp stew. Xiaoguai almost ran to find you after taking a bite, and he became more and more anxious."
"Meowth is not short of water: Okay, I'll be right back. By the way, have you ever encountered a situation where the items in the treasure chest or bucket on Fishman Island don't automatically go into your backpack after opening it? Have you ever seen a bottle of blue liquid on Fishman Island?"
"Hua Bie: I haven't met him before. I'll find someone to ask for you."
The other party didn't ask any more questions, but agreed directly. Yu Miaomiao sighed in her heart that it was really worry-free.
Xiaoguai, it has accepted that she has been away for a long time this time, and she must go back. Don't easily touch the tolerance limit of a person or an animal, otherwise it will only backfire.
But this bottle of liquid...
She had just tried to use the system backpack function, but couldn't put it into the backpack. She confirmed that the high-level shield durability was still there, so she used a clip to take it out of the bucket.
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