Chapter 79: Fifth Settlement Day Game Update
Putting aside the strange sense of déjà vu in his mind, Yu Luowei concentrated on processing the news.
Tomorrow is the settlement day, and most people want to wait until the settlement day to come, but Yu Luowei still wants to go out and explore tomorrow, so he told others that if they choose to come today, they can choose two meals for free in the restaurant or snack bar.
One of the reasons why Beicheng is so popular is the delicious food. In addition, most of the constant temperature clothing purchased during the event have not been used up. As soon as the news came out, most people chose to settle in their new homes today.
By the time the wave of new arrivals had passed in the afternoon, North City's population had reached nearly ten thousand. Yu Luowei had been busy guiding the new residents all day, and even with a megaphone, he still felt his mouth dry from talking.
The planning document Lu Zhi had given her was a high-level tool; it would be updated promptly no matter what happened to the city. Unfortunately, there was only one copy. Yu Luowei decided to find a way to create a map once the city was upgraded to a higher level. Cities were already massive, especially residential areas, which all looked identical from the outside. Without the planning document, it was possible to get lost.
The weather was too hot, and the desert was all outside. Even with the thermal suits, no one was out and about except for the new citizens. However, the last day of the disaster wasn't so peaceful. Around 5 or 6 pm, a fire suddenly broke out around the city walls.
The temperature in several bases near the city wall suddenly rose. When they came out to look for them, they saw a raging fire. They were almost scared and quickly looked for something to put out the fire.
At the same time, Yu Luowei, who was resting in the office, found that the defense of the city wall had inexplicably decreased, and then learned the reason from the group chat.
Nearby citizens had already connected the water pipes in their shelters to try to extinguish the flames, but the effect was limited. However, someone used a water skill card, which was quite effective. Yu Luowei found several water skill cards in the warehouse and rushed to the fire without stopping.
The fire was massive. As a Level 7 survivor, Yu Luowei's attack power was much higher than that of the average citizen, and his skill cards were much more powerful, with one card equal to two for others. With Yu Luowei's involvement, the fire was put out much faster. Even so, it took five of Yu Luowei's orange skill cards to extinguish all the fires in the city.
After taking a look outside the city, Yu Luowei found that the fire had no effect on the forest built during the event, and the city walls were of a high level, so the temperature outside could not affect the city. Therefore, he did not use any more skill cards.
Although the defense of the city wall will still be reduced, it will only drop by one third at most. Yu Luowei plans to upgrade the city wall a few more levels tomorrow, so he doesn't care about the loss of defense.
This strange fire, requiring no flammable materials, struck every city and every individual base. It dealt a fatal blow to those already struggling to survive the extremely high temperatures—this fire was no match for a thermostatic suit. Moreover, the flames inflicted five times more damage to the base's shield than to the city walls. Many people died because the flames consumed all the base's defenses, causing the base's temperature to match the outside world.
At midnight, the fire outside the city completed its mission and was extinguished in an instant. Regardless of how much the city wall's defense had been reduced, the first thing Yu Luowei did when she woke up was to upgrade the wall.
Since this season's rankings now include a city ranking, this settlement day is highly anticipated. At eight o'clock, the system notification finally sounded, much to everyone's anticipation:
Congratulations to everyone for surviving the Fierce Sand Season! Leaderboard rewards will be distributed in ten minutes. Rewards for ranking within the same city will be distributed based on your contribution.
In addition, at the beginning of the next season, the survival game will also usher in a major update, the contents are as follows:
1. Starting from the next season, there will be no treasure chests in the external environment. The only source of treasure chests is ranking rewards.
2. All regions will be merged into one larger region. The regional leaderboards will be eliminated, and a fixed city leaderboard will be added. All survivors will be encouraged to join a city or organization within three days. Also, the materials and points required to upgrade a city (excluding city walls) will be halved today.
3. Today, the temperature will return to normal, but the desert landscape will not refresh. City owners can purchase surface environments in the Points Store and add them to their surroundings via the city map. They will refresh outside the city as normal at the start of the next season. All purchased environments and plants created during this season's activities belong to the city. Areas not added will still appear as deserts in the next season.
4. The copies outside the city that are converted by defeating the residents of that city will be retained. The citizens of that city can enter for free, and they can get material rewards (no treasure chests) by clearing the copies.
5. The city electricity and water cards and personal electricity and water cards in the points mall are sold in limited quantities for the last time and will no longer be available. City lords are requested to build water plants and power stations as soon as possible.
The regional merger will end in one hour, and the regional chat channel will be temporarily unavailable. Other rules remain the same as previous settlement days. Please enjoy settlement day!
This series of updates surprised everyone eager to claim their rewards. Those quick to grab water and electricity cards were already scrambling for them. Yu Luowei had gained quite a bit from opening those hundreds of boxes last time, so this time, she only replenished a few city water cards and stopped participating. Instead, she went to check out the construction requirements for the water plant and power station.
A more appropriate name for a water plant would be a "purification plant." It requires a water source from the outside world and then purifies it into tap water. Once built, citizens will connect to the water pipes and pay their water bills, just like in the real world.
Power stations are similar to those in the real world, divided into thermal power stations, wind power stations, and solar power stations. The system also thoughtfully notes that cities are suitable for thermal power stations (preferably equipped with large air purifiers), while citizens can consider solar power stations.
Yu Luowei, initially puzzled by the lack of nuclear power plants, suddenly realized when he saw that thermal power plants required fire, coal, and wood: the materials needed for nuclear power plants were nowhere to be found here. Forget uranium, even if Blue Star had achieved controlled nuclear fusion, the core fuels deuterium and tritium were hard to find in the game.
According to the system's prompts, a water plant and a thermal power plant are enough for cities below level seven. Yu Luowei installed a water plant, a thermal power plant and corresponding air purifiers in the corners of the city, which consumed her 700,000 points.
Without time to feel bad, Yu Luowei clicked on the surface environment in the points mall again, checked the points, and went through every environment, including rivers, oceans, and even snow-capped mountains. There were two types of forests here: one was a mixed tree forest similar to the previous game, which could be placed anywhere, and the other was a variety of specialized forests, such as tropical rainforests and temperate broadleaf forests, which required the corresponding environment to be placed before they could be placed. Since they were not expensive, Yu Luowei bought some of each.
The purchase was a pleasure, but when it came time to place it, Yu Luowei encountered difficulties. Thinking that Lu Zhi had also been responsible for the city planning, Yu Luowei handed the task over to him.
Lu Zhi wasn't planning to leave the city today. He explained that killing monsters during activities also yielded treasure chests, and since his luck was high, he had ample supplies. Furthermore, as the city lord, Yu Luowei could sense everything going on on the second and third floors of the city processing center. Feeling at ease, Yu Luowei left the office to him and headed to the desert.
The desert outside the city walls was no longer as empty as before. Now, people were digging with shovels everywhere, or walking around looking for treasure chests. Considering that the treasure chests in the event were all dug out, Yu Luowei was not surprised by their behavior.
As the temperature returned to normal, monsters and animals began to appear. After finally finding a deserted spot, Yu Luowei lured a group of monsters and set up a similar small pavilion, attempting to purify the monsters before trading treasure chests.
After absorbing the red-level fire monster in the event, and with the addition of the magic stone, Yu Luowei's fire magic level has reached level seven. However, because her fire magic had long been mutated, there is no difference in the name now.
Fortunately, the purification capacity hadn't decreased, and the speed had increased. Several of the purified animals even had taming signs appearing above their heads, allowing them to enter the pet space without even needing a pet contract. With such good news, Yu Luowei naturally accepted all of them—after all, she had plenty of supplies and could afford to raise them.
After purification, Yu Luowei seemed to be able to understand some of the animals' calls. From them, Yu Luowei learned that the treasure chests they had obtained were the same as the ones the citizens outside were looking for. Therefore, after obtaining a batch of treasure chests, Yu Luowei stopped trading with the animals and left the rest to the citizens.
There was only desert outside and nowhere good to go, so he left some fish caught from the lake at the entrance of the Black Abyss for the little animals. Yu Luowei took another walk in the forest outside the city wall, the result of the activity, and found the fruit trees he had planted.
Because it was the settlement day, the trees had grown and the fruits had ripened, so Yu Luowei picked some and returned to the city processing center.
Lu Zhi had already completed all the surface environment arrangements and was no longer in the office. Yu Luowei took a quick look at the map. As a science student, her limited geographical knowledge told her it was reasonable, so she didn't look at it again. Of course, one of the reasons she was so confident was that this thing could be modified without limit.
By this time, the merge had been completed. The zone chat channel had become the main chat channel, transforming into a massive family search. Yu Luowei glanced at the headcount; the original 28 billion people were now down to nearly 5 billion. A survival rate of nearly one in six was still quite high compared to the novels Yu Luowei had read.
Lin Zhixia, Jiang Nian'an, Fang Min, and Zhao Linlang also contacted their surviving relatives one after another. Except for Jiang Nian'an's parents and brother who had joined them in other cities, all the other surviving relatives joined them in North City today.
The event mall was still open. Jiang Nian'an wanted her family to leave their original city and come to find her (this was what Fang Min and Zhao Linlang's mother did), but was rejected. It turned out that the mayor of that city was a good brother of Jiang Nian'an's brother. They even persuaded Jiang Nian'an to go over. After all, Jiang Nian'an was well-known in the overall rankings in terms of combat power and progress.
When Jiang Nian'an told Yu Luowei, Yu Luowei was terrified, worried that her next words would be "I'm sorry, Weiwei." Fortunately, Jiang Nian'an didn't say that in the end, but was just a little disappointed.
Yu Luowei headed straight to Jiang Nian'an's base, carrying a gift. After a long chat, she finally managed to calm her down. At dinnertime, the two of them decided to invite their friends over for a meal. They hadn't been together since joining the game, so today was a good time to relax and unwind since it was settlement day. Yu Luowei also invited Lu Zhi, planning to give him a few supply chests when he arrived, as a thank you for his help setting up the environment today.
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