Corrupted Nation

The townspeople left behind many pots and pans, but due to hard core corrosion and irrespective of martial ethics, even the pottery was degraded. In the hardcore mode, fewer and fewer items are recognized by the system, and players’ main items come from the crafting room.

Lin Wu followed Maya's request to collect waste plastic. The system is quite reasonable. The degradation time of plastic is too long, so the only plastic that is not affected by hard core is plastic, but it is also targeted at mineral water bottles. Fortunately, what Linma needs now is a mineral water bottle.

Lin Wu searched several houses and miraculously found an extremely rare and even unique artifact: a washing machine. All the washing machines in the home are broken and they have to be broken down to get parts. There is a rigid condition for building a laundry room on the base: a complete washing machine is required.

Pots for boiling water, stone stoves, etc. are not system items, but they can be used. In short, the chances of finding a functioning washing machine certified by the system are infinitely close to zero.

Or say that Shuguang is an honest person. It never makes humans despair. There is always a complete item hidden in the back room, basement, and baffle of such a barren town. Not to mention that it took a ghost to find it, Lin Wu didn't believe that someone would go to the middle of the desert to find a washing machine.

Very fun, right? It's a pity that you met me. Lin Wu immediately picked up the washing machine and returned to the tent. Okay, I can’t hold it anymore, I’ll come back later. Either she couldn't hold her, or she was very tired from holding her. Since Maya is such a strong woman, why should she let this sensitive man suffer?

After waiting for Maya to come back, Lin Wu sat on the grass in front of the tent and wrestled with Xiao Wai. When he got tired of playing, he hugged Xiao Wai and rubbed against the cold phantom. At first, the phantom would take two steps away and snort to express dissatisfaction. After being harassed many times, it tolerated it. But it was no longer fun, so Lin Wu and Xiao Wai started to play two-legged dry swimming.

The person lies on the grass with his face to one side and his upper body cannot move. He lifts his knees and steps on the grass to push the whole person forward.

When Maya came back and saw this scene, she felt a deep sense of powerlessness. After hanging out with Lin Wu for a long time, as a big girl, I often felt like a mother.

"Hi!" Lin Wu held the little crooked head with one hand and slid forward: "Been here for so long?"

Maya took out a package from her backpack: "Found a package of building materials."

Lin Wu sat up immediately: "You put the building materials into storage first, and I will take you to see the artifacts of this game."

Out of curiosity, Maya followed Lin Wu to the basement of a house. Lin Wu opened the partition and showed Maya: "Dang, dang, dang!"

"Washing machine?" Maya stepped forward to check and asked in surprise: "A complete washing machine? Is there a complete washing machine in the center of the desert in an uninhabited area?"

Lin Wu nodded: "We can't understand Shuguang's badness. Move away!"

"Wait a minute." Maya: "You can't build a laundry room with a bag of building materials."

Lin Wu said: "Tear down the ward."

"Demolish the wards?" Maya didn't know what Lin Wu was thinking, and said, "After the wards are demolished, the seven grids of the base are empty, and the only building is the laundry room. There is no kitchen, no dormitory, no production room, no ward, only The key to a laundry room is that there is no water. Demolish the ward and build a laundry room without water?"

Lin Wu said: "You must know that this washing machine is rare in the ages. Think about it, you accidentally obtained an only novel signed by Shenxia. His novel is not good and he is not famous, but there is only this one in the entire universe. , do you think it is precious or not? The washing machine is of no use, but there is only this one in the whole house. Building a laundry room is the only way to take it away." The accessory facilities only increase the time of storage and storage, but do not increase the weight.

Because of the passion in Lin Wu's words, Maya found that she was a little tempted. This is not a washing machine, this is vanity, this is a medal, this is a symbol. But Maya immediately shook her head and put her thoughts aside: "First we have to leave the desert alive."

Lin Wu said: "After you leave the desert, you will regret not taking the washing machine with you. Because you will never find a washing machine. Just like love, if you miss it, it is gone."

Maya asked: "You want it very much?"

The stinky bitch rebels against the general. Lin Wu could see that she was tempted by what he said, but she was only slightly shaken. At this time, she needs an excuse. For example, if she says she wants it very much, she will go down the steps to collect the washing machine.

Lin Wu nodded seriously: "Yes."

Maya pulled out the assault rifle, and Lin Wu hurriedly stood in front of the washing machine; "No, no, no, put the gun down, we have something to discuss." A woman's heart is like a needle in the sea, which no mortal can guess.

Maya put away her gun and said patiently to Lin Wu: "Lin Wu, let's make a hypothesis. We took away the washing machine, we returned to the Fortress of Doom, and we also found a scarce outpost card to connect water to the laundry room. What next? "

"Then?" Lin Wu: "Then you can wash your clothes."

Maya said: "Then when you were sleeping, playing, and hiding in the tent, a dozen people from the shadows would enter the tent from time to time to wash clothes. Everyone would say hello to you when they came in, and they would chat with you while they were washing clothes. .You have to maintain the lowest courtesy, right? After all, you are too lazy to cook, so you have to eat what others cook, so you are embarrassed not to let others use the washing machine, right?"

"I-I-I can put the tent away."

"Really? Okay, you can put the tent away and live in the Doomsday Fortress as an ally every day. If you need anything, just ask others to bring it to you from the warehouse. It's not a big problem."

"It's not big."

Maya asked: "But Phantom is very picky about food, not to mention that you can't find good pasture near the Doomsday Fortress. Even if you find good pasture, will you go to graze every day? Look at the time, winter is coming again, don't let Phantom eat it Forage, you have to prepare fodder for it.”

Lin Wu smiled bitterly: "Can't you want it?"

"Can't have it." Maya nodded seriously.

"Then kill it and put an end to my thoughts."

So the only washing machine in the server died under Maya's gun.

"Are you really doing this?" he cried loudly.

Maya looked at Xiaowai and said, "Go and comfort your master." Leave and you act slowly.

…

The desert town is large and has many houses. Linma searched 70% of the area and only found one complete mineral water plastic bottle that could be used to fill water. The town also gave an explanation. After the residents moved away, a professional environmental protection company came to the town to clean up the garbage, leaving no garbage to pick up.

In view of the scarcity of resources here, in order to save food, we put down the tents at three o'clock in the afternoon and went on the night journey at seven o'clock. When resting during the day the next day, Lin Ma clearly felt that the terrain was declining. At 11 o'clock in the evening the next day, Lin Ma saw the long-lost lights. Even in hardcore mode, the system still retains street lights in system towns.

As we walked toward the lighted town, the area of ​​sand became smaller and smaller, and soon green trees and grass appeared. Then Linma was blocked by a large river, and the Route 88 bridge collapsed completely. According to visual inspection, the straight-line distance between them and the town of lights is about 20 kilometers.

After Maya used the night vision device to check the surrounding materials, she asked Lin Wu to put down the tent in an open space 100 meters away from the river. After putting down the tent this time, the threat level of the tent base rose to two stars.

After dawn, Linma ushered in a day of rest and labor. Maya cut down trees to exchange for building materials, and first built a crafting room to make tools and maintain weapons. Once you have a crafting room, use branches and stones to craft stone axes. Due to lack of scrap iron, Maya's watermelon knife, whose durability had reached its lowest point, was temporarily put away.

Lin Wu's drone brought good news: there are abundant resources along the river, there are many trees, not to mention water sources, and food is not a problem.

It also brings bad news: there are no crossing points, no bridges, and no ferries within 10 kilometers. The river is 90 meters narrowest and its depth is unknown. The water flow is relatively turbulent in most areas and particularly turbulent in a few areas.

Judging from the situation, the pressure on the Linma and Xiaowaidu rivers is not great, and they can just drift upstream and slowly reach the shore, but there is no way that two horses can cross.

The first way is to abandon the two horses, but the Doomsday Fortress is still at the end of the world. Without the help of the horses, even if they can reach the Doomsday Fortress, the game is basically over.

The second way is to go around. Because the river is not straight, Lin Wu's drone did not find any bridges or ferries along the river. This cannot be ruled out because the view is blocked.

Maya's decision was naturally to implement the second method and go upstream. The further upstream you go, the fewer tributaries there are and the smaller the river surface becomes. I don’t know when I will find the road, but I am sure that compared to the desert trip a few days ago, this place can be called paradise. After several days of struggling to survive, Maya had given up her original plan of three days as a group, and at the same time she had given up her eagerness to go home.

Going home is just a direction, a goal, not a method.

In the afternoon, the kitchen and dormitory were successfully set up. Lin Wu missed the washing machine for three seconds, dug out a small bag of black tea in his backpack, brewed a pot of black tea, and delivered it to the workplace thirty meters away. When they arrived at the location, they put the tea on the stone pier and put the dried meat on it. Maya then sat down. The two of them were blowing the river breeze and drinking hot tea. The temperature was neither too high nor too low, so they were very comfortable.

Maya drank the tea in one gulp and prepared to continue working, but Xiaowai was unhappy. Seeing this, Linma immediately took out the assault rifle. The direction that Xiao Wai faced was a one-meter-wide country road beside the river embankment. The roadside was full of weeds and various trees, and it was difficult to see what was inside.

Maya pointed upward: "The top of the head."

Lin Wu looked up and saw an eagle hovering 500 meters above the two of them.

Lin Wu asked: "Do you want to shoot it down? I have never eaten eagle meat. Can I eat it? Is it delicious?"

Maya pointed to Xiaowai and Lin Wu, and pointed to the side. The two separated and surrounded the river embankment. After walking a few steps, a boy came out of the shelter on a bicycle. He was stunned when he saw two people 20 meters away from him, holding weapons. Putting one foot on the ground and raising his hands, the boy showed that he was not holding a weapon and said: "I have no ill intentions, I am a nearby player."

Maya put down the gun, but did not let down her guard: "Nearby?"

"10 kilometers away, Yunmeng tribe, my name is Xiaohuo." The little boy was not very old, less than 20 by visual inspection. His face looked very sunny and cheerful. He looked at the weapons of the two people: "Aren't you newcomers?"

"Yes and no, my name is Lin Wu." Lin Wu put away his weapon and stepped forward to shake hands with Xiao Huo and asked, "You found us 10 kilometers away?"

"Oh!" Xiaohuo understood the two people's wariness, looked up at the sky, put the little fingers of both hands into his mouth and blew a loud whistle. The eagle hovering in the sky swooped down quickly, and when it approached the ground, it spread its wings With a show, he stood on Xiao Huo's shoulders.

Xiao Huo introduced: "Lao Huo, my Falcon."

Lin Wu asked in surprise: "Are you a hunter too?"

Xiaohuo was also surprised: "Yeah? Are you a hunter too?"

Lin Wu lowered his head and looked at Xiaowai at his feet: "Xiaowai, hound." It feels like you are a bit out of place.

"Haha, what a fate." Xiao Huo shook hands with Lin Wu again. After a while of chatting, Xiao Huo asked: "Are you going to live permanently or cross the river? But whether you want to live long or cross the river, you have to go to the Yunmeng tribe first."

"Why?"

"Because the Yunmeng Tribe is the best place to live, and also because there are fishing boats in the Yunmeng Tribe." Xiaohuo said again: "Even if you want to cross the river, the Yunmeng Tribe is the best choice. The water surface is very It’s wide and the current is relatively fast, but the maximum water depth is only about 1 meter.”

"Hello, my name is Maya." Maya shook hands with Xiaohuo and asked, "What type of base is the Yunmeng Tribe?" The risk of a leadership-type base is higher than that of an individual-type base. A personal base means that everyone trusts each other, and this atmosphere is less likely to produce thugs.

"Base? No, we are a tribe, not a base."

Lin Wu didn't understand: "Not a base?" Lin Wu knew that a different kind of base was called an alliance, which was composed of many small bases, but it was still a base after all.

Xiaohuo explained: "We are refugees, people without a base."

"No base?" Lin Ma asked at the same time.

"Well, there's no base."

The Yunmeng tribe was born nine months ago with only four members. They make a living by farming, fishing and hunting. In fact, they were the first ones to enter the hardcore mode. Through complaints and communication, Shuguang agreed that people in the Yunmeng tribe area should enter the hard-core mode, which means that everyone in the Yunmeng tribe area does not need system beds and food.

It turns out that Dawn was inspired by humans to promote the hardcore model, and rape is everywhere.

What was particularly beneficial to the development of the Yunmeng tribe was that the world had not yet been corroded at that time, all kinds of items were new, and there were a lot of materials obtained from demolition. Before the game entered hardcore mode, the number of Yunmeng tribe members reached 18. After entering the hardcore mode, many players in Beishang Town, Youxian County, Beicheng City, across the river, defected to the Yunmeng Tribe, and new people were resurrected to join the tribe. Currently, the total number of Yunmeng Tribe members is 58.

On a daily basis, they rely on planting, hunting and fishing to make a living. They abide by tribal conventions and have courts.

Lin Wu started to pack up the tent, and the three of them sat on the ground outside the tent. Xiao Huo had a lot of questions to ask. For example, this magical tent was enough to make him stunned, but Lin Wu had more questions: "What should I do if I get sick or injured?"

Xiaohuo said: "There is a small base on the edge of the Yunmeng tribe area. Its members are a doctor and a blacksmith. It corresponds to the ward and production room. This was a helpless decision after everyone discussed it. There are real doctors in the tribe. , but a real doctor cannot cure the disease of the game. There are also professional engineers in the tribe, but he lacks equipment and cannot make tools."

Maya's question: "You share the food, so when hunting and other tasks, won't there be cases where some people are passive and slack in their work? Others may pass the danger to others. It's not that I deliberately doubt it, it's just that there are so many of you that it exceeds morality. Controllable range." Shadow's 12 people are close to the limit. Any more people, and the trouble will multiply. The existing lifestyle must be changed, and community rules may even be introduced.

Xiaohuo explained: "We are not a public ownership company. The only things we share are doctors and blacksmiths, and we are responsible for their food. Except for doctors and blacksmiths, the supplies that others receive are privately owned. Everyone or every couple has their own house. , those who have the ability to build it better, and those who have no pursuit, just be more casual."

Xiao Huo: "The resources in the tribal area are very rich, and food and clothing are not a problem. Tribe members live their own lives every day. Of course, some people will form gangs, but as long as they do not break the covenant, they have nothing to do with the tribe."