Chapter 286 Survival at Sea Day 16 (2) Showing Affection...
"Aoyi: You're definitely fine with it... but our exploration progress is really low... Putting aside the question of whether I've gained much or not, the exploration points I've earned are already very disadvantageous to the server-wide merger competition."
Everyone's efforts are certainly important, but he is not the only one in the entire apocalypse, and low progress is the norm. Not everyone can pass the expedition area. Yu Miaomiao looked at their previous chat records and felt very strange when she saw this. Why did Aoyi suddenly have such a feeling?
"Chenchen: No, buddy, there's no need to talk like that. We're all part of the same group, and we all have the same free time every day. Why do you sound like you're complaining about something? Are you complaining about the unreasonable shift schedule, or about the lack of food or shelter?"
"Dudu was furious: We're a team, yes, but there's a huge disparity in our strength, and there are also differences in our individual rankings. Aoyi was saying this more out of self-blame than blaming anyone else. Chenchen, we've known each other for so long, sharing the end of the world. He was just anxious for a moment, so don't mind..."
"Chenchen: Don't make it sound like I'm targeting him. Miaoshen said there can't be any malicious comparisons in our base. If you have any opinions, just speak up directly. Beating around the bush is pointless."
"Ao Yi: Never mind. I was too nosy. Okay, just pretend I didn't say anything."
After this sentence, there was silence until Iris broke the deadlock with a "?"
"I'm furious: You've already said it, don't pretend you didn't say it. System chats can't be undone, and the records are forever preserved. If you truly feel you said something you shouldn't have, you should take concrete actions to make amends or change it, instead of coming here 36 days into the apocalypse and still saying things that disrupt harmony."
After Yu Miaomiao looked at this message, there was silence for several minutes before there was new news. She thought it was best to express opinions directly, but the way Aoyi spoke was indeed a bit uncomfortable.
"Ao Yi: Well, it's my fault for upsetting everyone. I'm sorry. My combat abilities are indeed a bit weak, and going on an expedition would be a waste of time. I've volunteered to clean the base for three days."
Cleaning the base is not an easy job. In addition to completing basic cleaning, all defense facilities need to be carefully inspected to check for deficiencies and fill in the gaps. If there are any problems with any facilities, they must be taken to the repair station for repair in time.
A normal person needs at least 4 hours of personal free time to complete a cleaning, and can also receive a small fixed reward from the total supplies of the base.
"Chubby: Even if we reduce the number of staff on duty, there's hardly any vacant space in the exploration area right now. Doesn't that mean we can't do anything indoors? If you want to do crafting at a workbench, you can just tie it up and wait until the wind stops, and you can still do it."
"Berserk Mode: Actually, it's not just the problem Lulu mentioned. Take me for example. I'm in the exploration area, but I can only get to 8% at most. After that, I can't get through at all. It just so happens that I'm on lunch break, so I can come back and take a break so I can serve everyone!"
Seeing this, no one spoke anymore. No one wanted to get involved in this matter, but Yu Miaomiao knew that there were already people with different voices in the base.
And just like Kuangbao said, Aoyi usually doesn't have conflicts with others. To be more precise, he is a rather introverted person. Why is he so excited today?
Before she could go talk to Aoyi, Yingying sent a series of indignant messages.
"Yingyingguai: Wow, I didn't expect Aoyi, who usually doesn't say a word, to be so rude! I just privately chatted with him to ask him what he thought, and he actually told me that we have Sister Miaomiao's help, so we won't have to worry about rankings. Before I could even finish my insults, he apologized first, saying the exact same thing he said in the group chat just now. I even wondered if he had a split personality!"
Yu Miaomiao suddenly had an idea. If those who were hostile to her and the base found that sending people from outside to cause damage was not feasible, would it be possible for them to attack people inside the base?
Cleaning is a monotonous job. Usually only the people who are scheduled to do it will do it, and one person can do it for a day. Why would Aoyi take the initiative to do it at this time?
Having come into contact with so many different kinds of people in the apocalypse, Yu Miaomiao had to question this person again.
She thought about it and decided to tell Lulu about her doubts. After all, Yingying and Chenchen were both impatient and it was easy for them to be exposed before they could catch anyone wrong.
After this episode, Yingying finally came to her bedroom.
The room expansion stopped automatically as soon as it was past midnight last night. The house was only raised by one floor and the area had not been expanded yet, but at least Xiaoguai wouldn't feel aggrieved staying there anymore.
But just waiting for Lulu to come was no use. After Yu Miaomiao used the card in her hand, it showed that there were people there. While she was working on the workbench, she kept looking for people to exchange cards until the familiar system sound rang.
As soon as Yu Miaomiao's feet left the ground and were about to float upwards, they suddenly stopped.
If I hadn't eaten, I could only think about it. Now I'm watching others eat, and everyone would be greedy.
Yu Miaomiao wiped her mouth and consoled herself, saying that it was not that she did not want to share, but if she did not finish a dish by herself, she would not add any energy points. What’s more, the dish was so delicious that she really could not stop eating it.
After eating, start by reading messages from friends.
"Hua Bie: I've found out a few things about that person named Tingting. She's definitely been looking for someone, but I haven't heard of her having any grudges or doing anything bad. It's just that she often disappears after getting some special supplies."
Just half an hour after this message, Hua Bie sent a new message.
"Hua Bie: The person Tingting is looking for is most likely 'that good guy.' At my place, I ran into a former employee of 'that good guy's' former company. I saved his life, but he said he couldn't tell me more. As for the reason, I guess it's the same as the note you had someone pass on to me."
They define 'the good guy' as the person who helps the survivors and gives them hidden abilities, that is, Wei. As for 'the bad guy', he is the mastermind behind the scenes who has received some warnings, but he has not been found yet.
Tingting told her that the artificial intelligence group would analyze the words and actions of all survivors and add an elimination mechanism for people or things that might pose a threat to the doomsday system. This was why Yu Miaomiao always encountered temporary increases in the difficulty of survival or difficulties coming early.
When Tingting heard Yu Miaomiao's description, she was very surprised, because even Tingting herself had only encountered someone with cheats like him once, so how could she have met Yu Miaomiao so many times.
At that time, Yu Miaomiao's vague answer was that because she could always get more supplies, she might have been noticed by the system algorithm.
After Hua Bie sent these two messages, there was no other news. Yu Miaomiao took a quick look and found that he had indeed appeared in the expedition site.
Nana only sent one message.
"Yiren Tiafantian: Baby, you may be very busy right now. I have collected information for you. The server that will be merging with yours is District 9. Don't be afraid, I will always stand by your side."
District 9? ?
Why did it have to be District 9?
Isn’t District 9 the place where that scumbag conducted human experiments? Does the system want her to know the truth?
impossible.
Or maybe they want to send the people in the beta test server to the person who is doing the human experiment? This is possible.
But Yu Miaomiao guessed that according to the system's bad settings, it was clearly trying to intensify the conflict and see how the best-developed server would fight against the dominant server.
I don’t know if Hua Biekan saw it or not. After Yu Miaomiao sent a reassuring message to Nana, she sent a confirmation message to Hua Bie.
Until she finished reading all the group chat discussions, she did not receive a reply from Hua Bie. Yu Miaomiao thought that nothing might have happened. She took another look and saw that the other party's adventure progress was still changing. Maybe he was busy killing monsters and had no time.
If we have to talk about the benefits of the server merger, it is that Huabie can come back without using a cross-server invitation card.
There are three group chats in the base, one for core members, one for the base group, and one for scheduling.
The core members' group discussed the result, which is what Yingying mentioned, to shorten the entertainment and rest time and go to the adventure destination as soon as possible.
The shift group was also reduced from 10 people at the beginning to 5 people per shift. The rest time of the remaining people remained unchanged, but all the free people went to the adventure site.
No one was dissatisfied with the result. Some were even willing to sleep two hours less just to go faster, but they were all persuaded by April's Lie. After all, one of their companions died silently in the mouth of a seabird two days ago due to fatigue from fighting.
Now only Chenchen was left here to rest. Chenchen had just returned from the expedition and missed the start time of the competition. He rolled up the quilt, said good night to Yu Miaomiao, and fell asleep.
Yu Miaomiao glanced at the unused player on the table and took Xiaoguai to her room.
On the way back, Xiaoguai participated in killing the sea lions while Yu Miaomiao was thinking about things. From the battles of several people in the base, she could clearly see that the current scheduling allocation was a bit too extreme, and she always felt something was wrong.
Not to mention rushing to the expedition site, whether the base and the expedition site are safe, even the original plan of watching videotapes every day was directly shelved. A strange thought came to her mind, could it be that the system does not want to give these survivors leisure time?
Or, you don't want the survivors to find the secret hidden in the videotape?
Without exception, everyone in the world chat on this server revealed a sense of urgency about this server merger competition. From their words, one can vaguely see that a small number of survivors on this server are complaining about the automatic opening of this event.
What they meant was that if Meow Meow hadn't been so desperate to get the final BOSS treasure chest, he wouldn't have put everyone in a passive position.
But soon a lot of people came out to speak up for him. After all, in the apocalypse, no one knows what behavior will trigger strange activities, so if you want to blame someone, blame the system.
After much discussion, I asked those who questioned me from the beginning: if it were them, would they not open the final treasure chest when they saw it right in front of them?
I started to suspect that those who maliciously speculated that Meow Meow was not short of water were enemy spies from foreign servers, deliberately discrediting Meow God, making Meow God angry and stop updating the strategy post.
After this trend emerged, Yu Miaomiao once again received a large number of private messages, all begging her not to believe in slander and not to pay attention to the provocations of outsiders.
She had already seen the post from District 9 condemning the cross-server exchange, but she didn't intend to pay any attention to it. Every word in the post said that Meow Meow didn't need water and just wanted them to lose their lives. Besides cursing, it also asked her to stop leading the people in the internal test server.
Yu Miaomiao found this post funny. What's the point of knowing when to stop? She had clearly put herself on the losing side of the competition and didn't even think about trying hard. What qualifications did she have to criticize her?
Although a small number of people in the beta test server would make negative remarks, the atmosphere of the entire server was positive. From what she had just seen, as soon as the event notification came in, there were already many people in the expedition area.
Yu Miaomiao was very tired now, but she still forced herself to list out the general information about passing Fishman Island. As for the door and Xiaoguai, she did not explain them, but only said that the final BOSS mechanism was the same as the exploration area during the desert survival.
After Tingting left the expedition site, her location kept changing and no new information was sent, so Yu Miaomiao had no choice but to wait patiently.
After a brief exchange with other companions, I soon received news that Hua Bie was safe. The best thing is that all the friends are well.
Yu Miaomiao had just thought about the details of Fishman Island for a few minutes, and before the countdown next to the time started, he could no longer hold on and fell asleep.
She hasn't practiced yet today...
The next day, Yu Miaomiao suddenly woke up in a sweat with this guilty thought.
It was hot, as stuffy as being in a sauna, and I could hear Xiaoguai's uncomfortable low breathing next to my ears.
For some reason, the central air conditioning in the room stopped again, and the quilt was all wet. When Yu Miaomiao opened her eyes, she saw Xiaoguai sticking out his tongue.
She hurriedly took out the ice water from her backpack to quench Xiaoguai's thirst, but she found that there was no response after taking it for a long time. Could it be that the system was still delayed?
Yu Miaomiao opened the chat interface to see what other companions were saying, but what caught her eye were more than ten unread messages from Yingying.
what happens.
Yu Miaomiao walked to the insulated box in the house to get some ice water, and looked at the message while feeding Xiaoguai water with one hand.
"Yingyingguai: Sister Miaomiao, when will the new guide be updated? I don't dare to move forward without your detailed guide, let alone ask you in the group, for fear of being scolded by Lulu, hehe."
"Yingyingguai: Sister Miaomiao, you said the final boss has the same mechanics as the desert world's exploration zone. Could it be that you encountered a clone of Xiaoguai?"
"Yingyingguai: Ah... Sister Meow Meow, I suddenly thought of a bad possibility. "
"Yingyingguai: Wuuwuwu, please don't, Sister Miaomiao, please don't tell me how you're going to deal with Xiaoguai. If you do, Xiaoguai will be finished."
"Yingyingguai: Someone really encountered a Xiaoguai clone. Why did these people have to come and spy on us? Wuwuwu, if they weren't monitoring us and hadn't seen Xiaoguai, they wouldn't have encountered him at all. They are courting death. Why do they do this?"
The next few messages were all Yingying's mumbling to herself, but Yu Miaomiao could understand from her words that someone had already followed the method she said, walked to the last BOSS, and even met a copy of Xiaoguai.
How to kill Xiaoguai?
If she wasn't there, no one would be able to kill the Xiaoguai clone, because it needs a human that the original Xiaoguai trusts to feed it, and it will only eat food with a knockout effect.
In fact, she didn't need to list that the final BOSS would be a copy of the strongest monster the current survivors had ever seen. Other survivors could guess it. After all, in the desert survival world, people from other servers had already figured out this pattern. Once someone saw that it was a copy of Xiaoguai, they would quickly understand.
Yu Miaomiao threw out this conclusion directly, just to see how many people would ask how to kill Xiaoguai's clone. She could find out from these people those who were hiding near her with ulterior motives. How could she possibly tell the real method to kill Xiaoguai?
Regarding the current system delay, she looked at the group chat and understood what was going on today, comparing the time numbers with the weather.
[Survival at Sea Day 14 06:30 Sunny Storm Dust] [Server Merge Competition Time Remaining 112 Hours 00 Minutes 45 Seconds]
The people at the base said that the contents of the backpack can only be taken out when a dust storm falls from the sky. At other times, all backpack-related functions are disabled. However, once you reach the expedition site, all system functions will return to normal.
Another weather feature that encourages survivors to go to the adventure area. The system really does everything it can.
After browsing the posts and having a certain grasp of today's weather conditions, she planned to answer all the questions in a while.
Because the chat and forum were not affected, so from early morning till now, too many unread messages have accumulated, which is actually not conducive to her obtaining important information.
It was impossible for Yu Miaomiao to spend a lot of time carefully reading the messages sent by everyone. After a quick glance, she found that except for a few people from foreign servers who often contacted her, they were all asking for information about the expedition site.
Before, she felt strange because she clearly had not posted any message on the cross-server post, so why could people from foreign servers who had not added her as a friend find her and send her messages? Finally, Tingting told her that a very small number of people had an extra function of the forum, which was daily sharing. They could send posts from their own server to people from foreign servers. People from foreign servers could not leave messages and could only view and privately chat with the poster.
Some people use this function to sell information and make money. They didn’t expect that in the end times, even sharing can make money.
"One Sword Opens the Heavens: Comrade, I have no intention of prying into your private affairs. It's just that this server-wide competition has become too much of a fuss, and we've all heard this announcement. You got the final treasure chest but didn't gain all the progress toward the expedition. Did you run into any trouble? If you have any questions, please let me know. I hope I can help you and your server secure victory."
Why is he pretending to be a good person here... He is obviously trying to get information from her. In comparison, it would be more pleasant to talk to Dr. Ji, who is said to have lower EQ. At least we can both get what we need.
Yu Miaomiao is now becoming more and more disgusted with this person. Perhaps in the past this was just a normal greeting, but since she had a bad impression of him, she can't look at the words sent by the other party from a normal perspective. In addition, if she wants to contact her, she needs to find someone to share her posts once a day for private chat. How can she believe it if he has no purpose but to care about her?
But now is not the time to fall out. Yu Miaomiao planned to pretend not to see it and then look at the next message that made her laugh and cry.
"Shi Yancheng: Friend, since our two servers are going to merge, why don't we discuss how to do it?"
Strange, does this person know the rules of the merge? Or can he control the merge?
Besides, who would be friends with someone like him? Discussing with him is a complete waste of time. She still has a lot of things to do. Even if she wants to find out the other party's intentions, she has to wait until she gets certain information.
After Yu Miaomiao finished drinking the water in her hand, she opened the curtains. It was gray outside the window. If she was not mistaken, the scene of yellow sand all over the sky was the dust storm in today's weather.
While the system backpack was still working, she quickly took out the condensing fan and placed it inside the house. A cool breeze blew by, and she and Xiaoguai breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
Just as Yu Miaomiao was about to reach out and touch Xiaoguai, it turned its head away.
"Meow, meow."
It’s hot, time to drink some water and eat.
Yu Miaomiao didn't have time to eat herself, so she helped Xiaoguai fill up the food and water bowls first, and also took out a batch of supplies to replenish all the thermal boxes in the house.
A dust storm can reduce the durability of her central air conditioner to 0. It seems that it is not suitable to use this machine today, and she has to use the old equipment again.
One may not be enough, but she doesn't have time to make a second one. She still remembers that she gave the drawing to Ziren in the early days. At that time, the two had agreed that Ziren needed to help her with one hour of work for free every day. Yu Miaomiao felt that this time should be counted.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: Do you know where those people who came to seek the inheritance are?"
Yu Miaomiao sent a message to Ziren straight away and began to plan the route to pick up the goods.
"Is Ziren here? They won't be going today. After all, only during a dust storm can the system backpack be used. Even if they find the goods, they can't put them back in the backpack. Do you want to go now? Safety first."
Yu Miaomiao: ...
When did the people who once wanted to harm her start caring about her safety?
"Meow Meow is not short of water: You owed me one hour of daily work, can you pay me back now? I need four condensing fans."
"Is Ziren here? Okay, I'll do it first, and then I'll trade with you when I'm done."
He really acted like a good guy and was willing to advance the money first. Yu Miaomiao really couldn't see through Ziren. Was it really because of Api's departure that he turned over a new leaf?
She spent too much time in the expedition site yesterday, which delayed the pickup time. Today's weather gave her an opportunity to make use of the time difference, and she had to set off now. As for the expedition site, she had to go later, and she had to invite Tingting to go with her again.
Tingting said she had made a new discovery, but she could only say it in person, after all, there was a "monitor" who was monitoring the chat information in real time.
Yu Miaomiao and Yingying exchanged shift times. After explaining his plan to Yingying in person, he carefully instructed Xiaoguai again.
Xiaoguai didn't seem to be so resistant to Miaomiao's leaving again. On this hot day, it preferred to rest on the water bag she prepared for it. For Xiaoguai, comfort came first.
After dismantling the facilities under the ship and putting on a new condensing fan, Yu Miaomiao secretly entered the underwater oxygen chamber and quietly left the base.
【System prompt: Please draw your gift pack card】
She used to pay a lot of attention to the details of card drawing, but now she feels that the focus may not be on this separate card drawing space, but on the space itself.
Assuming that Dr. Ji traveled to the apocalypse to conduct experiments, it is impossible for him not to know what the apocalypse is like. He may even know more than Tingting and Iris. There is no reason for him to let the people around him conduct experiments when drawing cards after being reminded by Miaomiao.
There are only two possibilities: he knew it, but deliberately followed Yu Miaomiao's words to conduct experiments and mislead Yu Miaomiao; or, he himself knew very little about the card drawing process, or even said that it was something he wanted to know but no one told him.
Is it possible that Awei can hide various information in the card drawing? This card drawing process was done independently by Awei. After Awei went offline, no one could interfere with it, so the people in the system company have been trying to use the survivors of the apocalypse to crack this card drawing process.
According to this line of thought, could it be that the card drawing process is a secret door left by Wei?
It took a lot of time to observe the surroundings and the cards. As the system countdown reminded him, Yu Miaomiao quickly selected one of the cards.
[System Notice: Calculation of Brilliant Galaxy*Eternal Gem Resource Card Rewards Begins]
[Successfully trigger the Lucky trait, White Gems*20, Yellow Gems*25, Purple Gems*15, Black Gems*7, Red Gems*3, Gold Gems*2.]
This is not the first time that a gem resource card has appeared. This type of more advanced gem resource card has appeared for the third time. Currently, gem cards are not used in the craftsmanship of all workbenches, and they only appear in the important synthesis guide section of the system.
Yu Miaomiao always felt that gems were also very important information points.
Even the information left by Wei on the card reminded Tingting to destroy more caves, which were the portals to the adventure site inlaid with gems. Could it be that gems were also the key to connecting reality and virtuality?
Since these items can be obtained by drawing cards and exploring, she felt that this should not be a topic that would be monitored by the system, and immediately sent her guess to Nana and Huabie.
"Yiren Xifanshijie: OK, I have plenty of confidence. I've also asked my companions to observe the entrance to the adventure zone and the card drawing process. By the way, Baozi, you still haven't made it to the adventure zone?"
"Meow Meow: Well, the exploration sites here are all overcrowded. Since there's nowhere else to go, should I help my companions at other bases clear the levels and get more exploration progress points?"
"Emm, the situation you just described has also happened here. Your suspicion is reasonable. Protecting yourself is the most important thing. No matter what happens, I just want to say one thing: Miaobao, do whatever you want. Go your own way, and tell those who don't like you to get lost."
Nana noticed Yu Miaomiao's hesitation at a glance and immediately gave her a response that made her feel relieved.
Because someone raised questions today, Yu Miaomiao was a little hesitant, but this base was built by her, and her small group contributed the most to the base's supplies, strategies, and infrastructure. Why should she do things according to other people's preferences?
She will help kill the bosses in the order of the schedule, but before the clearance, her personal free time is her own.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: I love you, my big baby Nana."
Yu Miaomiao was in a good mood and clicked on Hua Bie's message.
"Hua Bie: I also saw the gems you mentioned near the experimental gate that led to Shiyan City, but I heard that once you enter, the gems will disappear. If there are any new developments, I will update you."
"Meow Meow is not short of water: Good."
After Huabie exchanged a Fishman Island Expedition Card with her, he typed a line of words on the screen: "How have you been lately?" and then clicked delete. What he actually wanted to ask was something else.
Just when Miaomiao was about to ask others if the exploration area was free, the Fishman Island Expedition Card in her hand suddenly took effect. The next second, after a familiar feeling of dizziness, she landed steadily on the beach of Fishman Island.
This card was just exchanged with Hua Bie. Before she had time to carefully read Hua Bie's message about the expedition site with this number, she had already landed.
The grass was green and everything was full of life. It was clearly a completely different place from the Fishman Island she had in mind.
Hua Bie said that one needs to be more careful in this expedition site, because the murlocs here have one more ability than the murlocs in other expedition sites, which is to spit acid.
Where there is danger, there will naturally be more gains. After Yu Miaomiao killed the first two monsters, he put the venom gland in addition to the mucus into his backpack.
After she dived out of the first narrow lake, she received a message from Tingting.
"Unstoppable longing: Meow! Have you also come to the adventure site where poison glands are produced?"
also?
Yu Miaomiao glanced at her backpack and found that in the past ten minutes, two more venom glands had appeared in her backpack. It went without saying that they were copied from Tingting.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: Among the pile of items you got, there is no such numbered adventure experience card, right?"
"Unstoppable longing: Yes, there are several other radiation-proof items and techniques, but I've learned them all. Coincidentally, all of these items require venom glands. Isn't that a coincidence?"
Are you sure it's a coincidence? Or is it an insider cheat?
"Meow Meow is not short of water: Is the poison circle diagram displayed?"
Yu Miaomiao ignored Tingting's show of affection. She was more concerned about the map that Tingting got after she hurriedly left that day.
When they were in the Crystal Palace Sea, Tingting didn't have the chance to show it to Yu Miaomiao, but according to Tingting's description, it was a map that would show the spread and weakening of the poison circle. For this doomsday, it was also a cheat map prepared by Awei for Tingting.
"I can't stop thinking about you: Let me see."
"Unstoppable longing: Damn, Meow Meow, do you have telepathy with this map? It really shows it!"
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