Chapter 4 Search, Trainee Collector!
The night darkened, gradually enveloping the wasteland.
Cheng Ye returned to the staff quarters, went up the stairs to the fifth floor of the tube building, and used the key to open the security door at the end of the corridor.
The single room is more than ten square meters, with only a small bed of one and a half meters and a small desk.
After he traveled through time and understood the situation, he cleared out all the other useless items and sent them to the scrap yard. Among them were the tokens of love between his predecessor and a woman in the inner city, and half a box of love letters.
There is no romance in the wasteland, and when even survival is a problem, you obviously shouldn't have any other thoughts.
After inserting the pendant into the socket to start charging, Cheng Ye went to the public restroom on the fifth floor and inserted the card to get water.
The young man in the mirror was thin, with a pale complexion and angular features. Judging from modern perspectives, he could be considered handsome.
But if placed in the wasteland, Liu Bi's figure and rough appearance would be the real version answer.
Fresh water gushed out of the water pipe, and the water color was slightly yellow due to the influence of mountain torrents upstream.
But with free electricity, limited water, and work, they could make ends meet.
The external broadcast of Happy City did not lie. It is indeed happier here than many sanctuary cities.
Of course, the premise is that there is no large-scale wave of infections.
The thirty-meter-high wall can block all attacks and protect the safety of the core residents of Happy City, but ordinary residents living in the buffer zone will suffer.
Nowadays, it takes 1,000 contribution points to enter the inner city. As an inspector, Cheng Ye worked for two months to accumulate 19 points.
For ordinary people to accumulate so many points, unless they win the lottery or find some scarce resources, there will still be a huge gap even if they work hard all their lives.
Moreover, as an inspector, even if he accumulated enough contribution points, he could not enter the inner city, which made Cheng Ye feel a faint sense of crisis.
If a wave of infected people comes, the buffer zone will not be able to withstand it.
He wants to escape, but how and where should he escape to?
Those experienced prosecutors might have secret shelters outside the quarantine zone, but he was a newcomer with neither the resources nor the ability. Where could he find a place to build a shelter?
Big Brother B might have it, but at that time, he also has to take his family to escape. Will he continue to take me with him?
After washing himself, Cheng Ye returned to his room with a lot of thoughts in his mind. He lay on the bed and couldn't fall asleep.
It was not until dawn and the light behind the curtains turned pale that he suddenly reacted and jumped to the socket board.
Touch the pendant and a panel appears.
[Current activation progress: 99.8%]
With only the last 0.2% left, Cheng Ye simply sat on the ground and touched the pendant after a while to see if there was any change in the progress.
The previous progress had accumulated over two months, and he didn't feel it was a long time. But at this moment, he felt a little anxious.
Fortunately, 0.2%, or 4 kWh, was fully charged before daybreak.
"Finally, enough!"
When this thought came to his mind, Cheng Ye's eyes suddenly widened, and he looked as if he had seen a ghost.
The pendant disappeared?
The moment the charging was completed, the pendant in the power strip seemed to become invisible and disappeared from sight in an instant.
But then, before Cheng Ye could come up with a second thought, a dazzling blue light suddenly flashed before his eyes.
The panel that I had seen countless times finally changed, displaying lines of text information.
[Civilization Collector has been fully charged and automatically activated and bound]
[Welcome civilization collector: Cheng Ye, using this collector, your current level is: Level 1 Apprentice]
[The Civilization Collector has entered the sensing mode. The collector can open and close this panel by silently reciting the Collector.]
[The corresponding level function of the civilization collector has been enabled. Please use your mind to check it on the panel.]
【Wish you a pleasant use! 】
"I'm a trainee inspector, and I'm also a trainee civilization collector..."
"That is to say, the Civilization Collector still has the potential to upgrade to a higher level and gain more functions."
Cheng Ye glanced over the words. He had prepared himself mentally for more than two months and was not surprised at this moment.
Including using the mind control panel, after repeatedly calling it up and closing it, you can quickly get familiar with it.
"The current first-level collector only has one function, but it's quite compatible with my job."
Cheng Ye's eyes swept across the only function on the panel.
Search (lv.1)
[Current energy value: 2/2 (after use, replenish energy and restore)]
[Searchable target: Living things]
[Search conditions: Requires consent from the organism, and the searchable range is opened based on the degree of cooperation]
[Currently searchable range: Intelligence (10% synergy, lv.1), Items (30% synergy, lv.1), Skills (50% synergy, lv.1), Skills (100% synergy, lv.2)]
[Search success rate: 50% success rate for searches at the same level, halved with each level increase, action points returned after failure]
[Note: This search is a peer-to-peer copy. Whether the search succeeds or fails, it will not affect the person being searched.]
"Searching can yield...information, items, skills?"
Cheng Ye's thoughts suddenly became active and he suppressed his inner excitement.
It is not difficult to obtain the consent of the creatures. The survivors who are willing to enter the isolation cage are more or less cooperative.
As long as there is guidance, 100% may be difficult to achieve, but Cheng Ye is very confident of achieving 50%.
Intelligence and items are easy to understand, but what kind of ability can be called a skill?
Is Big B's shooting ability considered a skill?
There are rumors that some superhumans who have not been infected by the source and accidentally acquired superpowers, are their abilities considered skills?
Cheng Ye couldn't help but look forward to it.
If this ability can be discovered, his chances of surviving the next field mission will definitely increase significantly.
"Unfortunately, the search success rate is not high, even for people of the same level, it's only 50%."
"Also, at my current level, I only have two search opportunities per charge, so I have to choose the right target carefully."
"As for the action point given for the failed search, I don't know what it's for..."
"And the energy value, how do I restore it?"
Countless questions came to him, and Cheng Ye's eyes lit up slightly. He decided not to think about the meaning of these terms for the time being. Regardless of success or failure, he should be able to find out what they specifically represent after searching them a few times.
in addition.
"You must not be impatient. Especially at times like this, you must be more cautious."
"Brother B has already asked for leave for me. If I rush to work, others will definitely think it's strange. If I use the collector at this time and show any abnormality, the chances of being targeted will be much higher."
Cheng Ye repeated this thought to himself over and over again, and it took him a while to suppress all the impulses in his heart and continue to study the civilization collector.
This research led him to discover a function hidden behind the search.
No, it shouldn’t be considered a function.
【Collector: Cheng Ye】
[Current Rank: Level 1 Apprentice (Search the current civilization and gather more information to advance)]
[Life Level: 0 (Has not yet reached the minimum standard)]
[Skills: Empty, Empty, Empty (At the current life level, up to three skills can be equipped at the same time)]
【Not unlocked yet...】
[Comment: Fragile trainee collector, your most important task right now isn't to gather information about civilizations, but to avoid being hunted by the indigenous peoples as much as possible!]
Failure to reach the minimum standard of life level, empty skill bar, and the evaluation that you will be hunted by the natives.
The panel is very simple, but it reflects Cheng Ye’s current situation very well.
"With my current abilities, encountering an infected being in close combat would be truly disastrous."
Confirm that no other functions are open.
Cheng Ye turned off the collector and began to think carefully about the next development direction.
Xingfu City is a standard industrial shelter city. The guns and ammunition produced there are often sold thousands of kilometers away in exchange for countless precious food, scientific and technological materials, etc.
Living in this city, it is not difficult for an inspector like Cheng Ye to buy a good gun.
For example, the Bison 9mm combat pistol that Liu Bi usually uses can be purchased for only 20 contribution points, which is very cost-effective.
However, although guns are extremely powerful, their usage scenarios are very fixed. They can only play their greatest role in scenarios such as clearing infection waves, large-scale team combat, guarding cities, and fighting with others.
The field missions of the checkpoints are mainly delivery, investigation, and information collection, and are completed by teams of two to four people. There are few direct combat missions.
Once you choose to open fire in the city, the infected bodies hiding in the ruins will immediately rush out like sharks smelling blood.
Being surrounded, failing the mission is a small matter, but losing your life is a big matter.
"If I'm lucky enough to get a delivery mission, I might not encounter any infected individuals along the way."
"When assigned to other exploration missions, the best option is to use cold weapons to eliminate infected bodies blocking the way, entering and exiting quietly."
"So... my next search will prioritize skills that can enhance my melee combat abilities."
His average score of seven rings in rapid-fire shooting at a 25-meter target basically met the minimum standard for field service.
However, he is still far behind in close combat, not only in skills, but also in courage, experience and adaptability.
If you can find a skill to make up for this shortcoming, the probability of survival will definitely increase a lot.
Cheng Ye made a decision in his heart and turned his head to look out the window.
The rain curtain wrapped in leaden clouds is slowly rolling in from the skyline. As the rain line continues to move south, Xingfu City has begun to be affected.
As usual, before the real heavy rain comes, the survivors on the road will definitely speed up their pace.
The checkpoint will definitely see a surge in traffic next!
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