Chapter 53: Desert Survival Day 8 (6) A thought emerged in my mind...
"Miaomiao is not short of water: Well, thanks for sharing the information. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me."
Hua Bie looked at the line of words that he had just input with his mind, thought about it and deleted it, and finally replied "OK" and turned off the holographic screen.
He was a little confused. They had obviously interacted so many times, but Miaomiao, who had no shortage of water, was still polite and distant to him as if there was a mountain between them.
On the other hand, she had only known that group of international students for a few days, yet they were so close that they were regarded as a small group by the Tiandihui. Did she say something she shouldn't have said, or do something she shouldn't have done?
Without figuring it out, he moved the dead monster's body 5 meters away and concentrated on practicing archery.
After Yu Miaomiao asked, she posted her guess to the group of 'Never Give Up Desert Rose Cannon Revenge Alliance'. After telling Lulu and Pipi what she had seen and heard, she found someone who had the blueprints for making a small snow melting machine.
"Meow Meow: Hello, I'll trade you three pieces of wood for the blueprints for a small snow melter."
"Lonely Mother: Okay, but I'm just wondering if you have any inside information about the future of the survival world."
"Lonely mother: Please don't misunderstand me. I truly miss my daughter. She's only six years old. I want to plan and stock up on supplies so she can better survive the apocalypse. Even if I'm gone, I can leave something for her like those people on this forum did."
Yu Miaomiao vaguely remembered seeing this ID's speech. She seemed to have mentioned her daughter on the first day she arrived.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: I don't have any gossip, but considering how cruel the apocalypse will be, I'm always prepared for a rainy day. Seeing that there are plans for underwater survival and survival in ice and snow, I'm worried about the accumulation of snow in the future, so I'm looking to exchange this item with you."
Yu Miaomiao couldn't possibly tell the other party that she was collecting technology blueprints everywhere because her intelligence was too low to use a crossbow.
But what she said was not false. Some people in the forum were already discussing the future doomsday trend, but most people felt that it was a bit unnecessary to worry about it, and it would be better to live a good life now.
"Lonely Mother: I've seen everyone's discussion saying that the world we're in is the earliest survival world, or something like a beta test server. I'm sure many people in the real world will send similar servers in the future. I really don't know what to do with my six-year-old daughter. Will I be able to contact her?"
The feeling of separation from one's family must be unpleasant. Yu Miaomiao thought about it and replied to the messages he had seen these days.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: I've seen everyone's discussions, and those who will come to the apocalypse are all adults, not very old. Your daughter probably won't come."
If even six-year-old children are sent to this cruel world of survival, isn't that tantamount to taking the lives of these children directly?
"Lonely Mother: I'm really worried. What if she gets dragged to a strange desert world? Even though I'm the only one sent here, I still worry about her being alone in the real world."
"Lonely mother: I'm sorry, Meow Meow, I'm speaking to you so abruptly. I've been missing her so much these days that I can't hold it back, so I'm complaining to you. I've been selling my snow melter for several days now, and no one wants it. You're really doing me a great favor by accepting it."
Yu Miaomiao also lost her parents at the age of six, so she could understand the feelings of the mother who complained to her.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: We are all doing business as usual, there's no question of whether we'll help or not. Moreover, as the first group of survivors, we have more time to stock up on apocalyptic resources. It would be best if your daughter didn't come. If she did, you'd definitely be able to help her right away after all the effort you've put in."
Yu Miaomiao had seen this ID active in various posts on the forum.
This ID often starts with bartering small items, and after countless rounds of exchanges, she gets a pretty good item, and then continues to do so. In addition to her own outsourcing and heroic battles with monsters at night, 'Lonely Mother' is also one of the top 20 people who unlock the beta server competition.
'Lonely Mother' posted a record post, in which she wrote about how she exchanged for supplies and her experiences in fighting monsters.
The content recorded in the post is very detailed, and even includes many apocalyptic details that no one has noticed and detailed introductions to each item.
But what she posted was very trivial and there was no summary, because she said from the beginning that the purpose of writing this post was not to provide everyone with a guide, but purely for record-keeping because she herself was a little forgetful.
No one paid attention to this post at first, until more and more people found that the content was indeed useful. Moreover, the "Lonely Mother" only posted on her own and did not form any cliques. When she encountered other people's questions, she would answer them if she could, and never confronted anyone who had doubts. So this post gradually became more and more popular.
"Lonely mother: Haha, thank you. A mother must be strong. This is a truth I gradually understood after entering the apocalypse. After my divorce, I relied on half of my ex-husband's property to make a good living. I used to be a person who had never done housework before, but now I am willing to do any dirty or hard work because I know that bastard will definitely not let my daughter live a good life."
Yu Miaomiao knew that the other party needed a window to vent. In the past eight days, the figure of the "lonely mother" could be seen everywhere. She seemed to have never stopped trading. She also had to browse and record various information whenever she had time. She would even take some "finding and OEM" jobs for half a steamed bun. She must be feeling very depressed.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: Yes, you have already made efforts far beyond the ordinary. In my opinion, you have done well enough. I believe you will definitely be able to save enough to provide a good life for your daughter."
"Lonely mother: Thank you, Meow Meow! No one else bothered to listen to my nagging, but you were the only one willing to comfort me. I hope you'll be well in the future. Hey, if I could return to my daughter, I'd give up all the supplies I've worked so hard to collect. I'd really rather see this apocalyptic game system completely destroyed one day, so no one would have to suffer like this anymore."
"Meow Meow is not short of water: I also hope there will be such a day."
The last words of this "lonely mother" also touched Yu Miaomiao's heart.
At first, everyone was praying for the day they could return to the real world, but after eight days, few people were discussing it anymore.
Now the survivors are slowly getting used to the daily heat and the routine of drawing cards and fighting monsters.
Even some people who have already gained control of some resources and power, under the banner of "the strong is king", claim that the current doomsday is the world that best suits human nature.
Yu Miaomiao doesn't think so. She still thinks modern society is the best.
And she discovered a problem.
When she came here, everyone called her by her nickname, whether it was Api and the others calling her Sister Meow Meow, or this strange older sister calling her Meow Meow, which made her a little dazed.
When we first arrived at the end of the world, the system asked everyone to choose a nickname, which could not be repeated.
If it is a game, there is nothing wrong with giving nicknames, because online nicknames are just people's virtual identities, but the end of the world is different, it is a real world.
The system initialization and name change are like giving everyone a chance to start over, allowing all survivors to completely immerse themselves in this new world. As time goes by, no one calls their real names anymore except for the people they knew in real life. Are they trying to make people forget their original selves and the world over time?
Yu Miaomiao finally said a few words of comfort and exchanged them for a snow melting machine.
[System prompt: Player Meow Meow has unlocked the crafting of a small snowmelt machine and his Wisdom value has increased by 1.]
Fortunately, snow melting machines are a product of technology, but I don’t know when I will need this machine.
She no longer planned to ask about other technical-sounding drawings in the world.
Useful blueprints, such as weapons that look ready for combat at any time, have outrageous bids.
The other blueprints are not cheap either, and they are not used at the moment. Yu Miaomiao really doesn't want to spend limited supplies to buy an unknown thing. Now he is only 2 points short of wisdom points to reach 35. It depends on whether he can kill 2 more glowing monsters tonight.
In the past two days, she insisted on clicking on the resource exploration every day, and new "water drops" representing water resources did appear nearby, but they were very small and not as good as the original ones.
Yu Miaomiao scooped up a bucket of water, traded it to Lulu, and then continued to make the rest
Roll of paper.
After working for more than an hour, I made 40 sets of toilet paper using the materials of 20 sets of toilet paper rolls. The lucky result was quite touching.
After trading all the toilet paper rolls to Pippi, she drank some water and continued to work on the orders she had received today.
As the days of the end of the world are getting closer, more and more people are coming to outsource the production of poison bows. The order that Yu Miaomiao took was for a poison bow, and the production fee was 5 pieces of linen.
The process of making poison bows is also twice as fast as before.
Not only are the tools for cutting wood sharper, but they also soften and heat faster.
In the process that Yu Miaomiao was worried about being harmed by the venom gland, she could also use a pair of tweezers to pinch the venom gland and crush it with an electric wheel.
The whole process only takes 15 minutes, and because there are fewer manual steps, the production time is also very stable.
Unfortunately, luck was not triggered.
The next order was the Arrow Group, and the person looking for her was a familiar ID - Iris.
Iris wants a lot of OEM orders, one is 30 sets of arrows, and the other is 6 sets of primary backpack expanders.
“Ding ding.”
"Pangpang: Sister Miaomiao, I've prepared the primary medical kit you requested. Wanna trade?"
"Meow Meow: Okay. What ingredients are needed to make the fever-reducing medicine you learned this afternoon?"
Just after drawing the card at noon, Lulu told him about what she had gotten today and said that she had learned how to make antipyretic medicine. Yu Miaomiao thought about it and decided to prepare some antipyretic medicine just in case.
"Pangpang: 2 Powdered Flowers, 2 Summer Grass Flowers, 1 Bone Meal. I got one Summer Grass Flower today, but I only have one. I don't have the others yet."
Yu Miaomiao saw the flowers of these two plants being sold at an auction house. She contacted the person privately and learned that the pink flowers came from Devil's Bend, an adventure location for which she did not have an adventure card.
According to the cards obtained by all survivors, there are currently 4 adventure sites in the desert world: Prank Cave, Dark Oasis, Devil's Bend and Maze Forest.
What Huabie gave about Dark Oasis is probably the most detailed description of all the survivors.
As for other expedition sites, everyone had only made preliminary explorations and had not ventured in depth.
The Prank Cave, as the name suggests, is an underground adventure site. Many of the monsters and levels inside are different from the normal thinking logic of normal people, and it is like a prank.
Devil's Bend is an area of crisscrossing wind-eroded mounds and wind-eroded depressions, which sounds somewhat similar to the Danxia landform. At night, this adventure site will be filled with ghostly howling sounds. Many people who go there are so scared that they quickly use their adventure cards to come back.
Yu Miaomiao was also confused about the maze forest at first. How could there be a forest in the desert?
But after reading other people's descriptions, this so-called forest is nothing more than desert trees as tall as a person, forming a maze.
It is easy to reach a dead end after entering. At the end of the dead end there must be a Crystal Gazing Scorpion. When seen by this scorpion, people will stop involuntarily. When they come to their senses, they will see the scorpion's stinger right in front of them in the next second. All survivors who have been there have used the Adventure Card to teleport back at this critical moment.
The expedition progress ranking list summarizes all the expedition progress of each survivor in the four expeditions.
Yu Miaomiao thought that Hua Bie was progressing quite fast, so she sent a message to ask.
"Meow Meow: Hello, do you have extra pollen flowers, summer grass flowers, and bone meal to trade with?"
Hua Bie's adventure site guide is ranked very high, and many people ask him for help in exchanging supplies.
But Miaomiao had no shortage of water and had worked with him so many times. Apart from asking for very detailed information about the expedition site, he had never seen her ask for help from him.
Whether it was when he was preparing to go to the expedition, or when he temporarily looked for her when he was in deep danger, she only talked about cooperation and never talked about conditions, which made him feel very comfortable every time he interacted with her, without having to worry about the intrigues and calculations in the apocalypse.
So when he was injured, the first thing he thought of was that Miaomiao was not short of water. He thought she would be like the Tiandihui group and at least bargain for a price or threaten to "kidnap" her, but she didn't do that.
It's not that he has a masochistic tendency, but in the last days, the malice of many people is too obvious, making him tired of being careful about this and guarding against that.
But what Hua Bie can be sure of now is that when Miaomiao is not short of water, he does not need to be on guard against these things, because she has a sincere heart that treats others kindly.
In fact, it’s not that no one has asked him about the situation in the expedition area, but they mostly asked about how to quickly obtain the treasure chest. No one would ask as detailed questions as she did.
It was so detailed that it felt like he had revisited the adventure site, allowing him to have a comprehensive review of his previous adventures. He even felt that if he went there again next time, the progress of the strategy could be improved by at least 5%.
So when he saw the message that Meow Meow was not short of water, a strange emotion emerged in his heart, and he subconsciously offered to help.
"Hua Bie: I have 4 portions of sorghum powder. Bone powder is made by grinding bones in a grinder. I do have a grinder. If you have bones, I can make some for you."
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