Chapter 210
Manager Wang left with a large bucket of iced sour plum soup and ten kilograms of wild boar meat that Qiao Sheng and his friends had given him. Although the islanders on this island had plenty of food and drink, they really couldn't afford to eat meat every meal.
So things like meat and food were still considered hard currency.
Manager Wang left with a group of his followers. Qiao Sheng and his friends returned to the boat first and moved the boat to a corner as agreed, so as not to block other boats from docking at the port.
They hurriedly ate breakfast first, and it took less than half an hour. Manager Wang sent his followers to deliver a message, asking them to wait a while. It was not easy to do this during the day, and it would be best for them to go to the island after nightfall.
At that time, the younger brother who followed Wang Guanshi took his ID card to enter the household registration system. With the ID card, they were no longer considered as outsiders, but as islanders who had gone out and returned.
When they were walking on the island, they had something to say if someone checked them. They were also told to find a house to rent as soon as possible, otherwise it would be unreal if they did not have a specific place to live when they were questioned.
The next thing was a vivid performance by the younger brother. Qiao Sheng saw that this should be the original words of Wang Guanshi. In summary, he was promoting various rental houses to them. He
was talking about introducing houses for friends. Everyone knew that the owner of the house must be Wang Guanshi, but if you ask someone to do something for you, you have to give him some benefits.
After asking carefully, he told me to take the message back and rent the second house he mentioned. As for the monthly rent, it would need to be discussed with them by Manager Wang himself. After my
brother left, Qiao Sheng and the others simply returned to the boat to continue resting. Considering that this instance was time-limited, she secretly asked the system how the time was calculated, whether it would start counting when docking or when they landed.
The system told her that it would start counting when they triggered it, and she could not get any other information.
Qiao Sheng explained the situation to Li Mu and Xia Beibei: "I think that according to the rules of the game, to trigger the timer, we have to find the event or NPC that can trigger it. Just going to the island is definitely not enough."
Li Mu, who seldom plays games, doesn't understand the content of this kind of game, and there is nothing he can analyze. Xia Beibei, a high school student who is wholeheartedly preparing for the college entrance examination, also seldom plays MMORPG games. He only played a single-game mobile game with classmates in the past two years, so he doesn't know anything about quest games.
"Sister Qiao's analysis is very reasonable. When playing games, those adventure missions that need to be triggered are indeed the right time, right place, and right people. It is very likely that our mission this time is also like this. And did you notice that a few players' wooden boats approached just now, right there. When I went to collect honey just now, I saw a lot of them, but other port managers drove them away." Lin Haiyang pointed to the place where they had just stopped the boat and said.
This surprised them, after all, it was easy for them to stay. On second thought, it is very likely that those players did not give bribes or the bribes were not enough.
They did not care about other players' affairs, and first took care of the little land in front of them.
How to trigger the countdown of the dungeon? Qiao Sheng and his friends decided to wait until they got to the island to conduct a field investigation, because they had to go to the island to apply for an identity and rent a house at night, so they should try to rest as much as possible during the day.
So the four of them were not busy working, and they all chose to sit in Qiao Sheng's cabin, opened the wooden window facing the port, drank cold drinks, petted animals, and recorded the situation of the port while chatting.
This attention was really amazing. In just one morning, six players' ships approached the port, but only one ship was put in the corner, and the other ships were all blown away by the islanders.
In the afternoon, 22 ships approached the port of the island, including a large fleet of nine ships. Unexpectedly, the fleet of nine ships was directed to wait in a corner, and the other 13 ships were driven away as expected. Leisure time is
always short. Considering that we don’t know if we can sleep tonight after arriving on the island in the middle of the night, several people had dinner early, and fell directly on the bed to rest after a little digestion. It was not dark when I closed
my eyes, and I was awakened by the sound outside the ship. After nightfall, the port was silent for some reason. At this time, there were people walking around outside the ship. Even if the sound was suppressed, it was still very obvious.
Qiao Sheng closed his eyes for a while and then heard someone calling them from outside the boat. After listening carefully for a while, he realized it was the manager Wang. When he hurried to pack up, Lin Haiyang had already gone to meet him. In the quiet night, their whispers were heard clearly.
When Qiao Sheng and his friends got off the boat, there were still a few people around them, chattering and asking when they could be taken away.
"Don't ask me, it's not me who promised to take you to the island. Go back to the boat and wait. Go find whoever promised." Brother Wang waved his hand to drive away the chattering players around him like flies.
Unexpectedly, these players were also stubborn. Even after Manager Wang said so, these people still pestered.
Just when Qiao Sheng was getting a little anxious and afraid that their qualification to go to the island would be ruined, Manager Wang waved his hand behind him, and the guards guarding the port came over.
It's no wonder that the burly guards drew out the big knife on their waists and slowly approached the players. Sure enough, this visual impact still made those players take a few steps back.
Manager Wang quickly called the four of them to follow him and leave, completely ignoring the people behind him who were clamoring to report.
"Brother Wang, what should we do if these people really report us? Will it affect you?" Lin Haiyang asked this question with great level.
In fact, he was worried about his identity, but the words he asked were completely worried about this new big brother.
"Tsk, grandma, it's not that I look down on them, if you have the guts, go ahead and sue them. Of the three managers in this port, I am the only one who can do things. The other two managers they found are just taking money but not doing anything. If they want to report, they have to come to the island. Just wait. As long as the ban is not lifted, these people will have no chance to go to the island. As for the guards, don't worry about them. They are all our people. They can shout whatever they want. Unless the island owner is idle and stays up late to patrol in the middle of the night, no one will pay attention to them." Manager Wang looked nonchalant.
Qiao Sheng carefully observed his expression and felt relieved. He quietly sent an email to Xia Beibei, jokingly suspecting that her luck played a role here.
[Hey, Sister Qiao, it has nothing to do with us. Have you forgotten the title of Lin Haiyang, the nigger? Diplomatic Expert: All NPCs start with +20 friendship. With this title, combined with our luck points, all the good things are taken by him.] Xia Beibei's reply came quickly.
Qiao Sheng then remembered that there was such a thing as a title. She also had a title that increased NPC friendship, but her title of Kind Person seemed malnourished compared to Lin Haiyang's additional Little Expert. It only added five points, which was only a quarter of Lin Haiyang's. So she never wore this
title since she got it. Compared with the Flower of Language and the Guardian of Cultural Relics she was wearing now, the title of Kind Person seemed so miserable that it could only be forgotten.
After walking a distance on the island, under the guidance of Manager Wang, they soon came to a battery sightseeing car. According to Manager Wang, this is the common means of transportation on the island.
There is a power plant on the island, so there is no need to worry about electricity. Although this battery car is not fast, it is actually enough on the island.
After getting on the battery car, because this matter also needs to be concealed, Brother Wang said that he did not bring a driver out, and he drove them to the household registration office.
There was already an office staff waiting there. When he saw Brother Wang, he nodded and took them into the house.
Qiao Sheng originally thought that there would be some high-tech input waiting for them, such as fingerprint input, photo taking, etc., but when he entered the door, he saw piles of notebooks in the room.
The clerk selected a middle notebook from the shelf by the wall, pulled it out, took it to the desk next to it, opened it and started to input the information for them.
Such a simple way of handwriting was really unexpected. Lin Haiyang was used to talking a lot, so he asked Qiao Sheng and the others to input the information first, and he stayed behind to chat with Brother Wang to get information.
Especially such a backward way of working formed a sharp contrast with the electric car they just took.
I don’t know if Manager Wang is too simple or the game left them a gap to break through.
This person told everything clearly, like a bamboo tube pouring beans. Before the city became an island, every household had a computer. Now there are no computers. It has nothing to do with electricity. The main reason is that the existing ability cannot make new ones. The computers brought out by the refugees before were requisitioned by the island owner's mansion for use by those departments with special needs.
Departments like the household registration office have become very primitive and rely entirely on handwriting.
"Will we be discovered if we do this? Will it have any impact on you, brother Wang?" Lin Haiyang asked sincerely.
"Of course not. Didn't you see what Xiao Hu did just now? We are very familiar with this matter and have our own set of procedures. I certainly can't tell outsiders, but Brother Lin, you are a good person, so I will tell you. The household registration books extracted are the middle ones. They are all household registration books from many years ago. Generally, few people flip through them. In addition, Xiao Hu has special skills. His handwriting can be learned to be the same as that of the clerks who used to manage the household registration office. Even if the higher-ups check it out, so many household registration books are almost like picking up a needle in a haystack. You understand, it's very safe." Manager Wang patted his shoulder and raised his eyebrows at him.