Chapter 9: The traveling merchant Jia is not fake
Xiao Yi fell into silence as he listened to Wu Tian's narration, and the mad doctor seemed to be a pitiful person.
"System, can my modifier bring someone back to their senses?"
"The modifier can only restore sanity to creatures in the manor."
"There are 7 host modifiers left, please solve random tasks as soon as possible to accumulate modifiers."
"I have a total of 2 points, why do you have 7 points left, did you swallow the system privately?" Xiao Yi was a little depressed in his heart.
"Solution, maintaining the daily sanity of the characters in the manor requires a little correction value every day, and fighting against the whispers of unknown existence at night requires a little sanity value." The system's voice rang out again.
"Plants are living things, aren't they?" Xiao Yi asked again, but the system did not respond.
The traveling merchant on the other side of the city received a letter, and looking at the stick figure drawn on the envelope, he hesitated a little, but finally opened the letter.
"Dear Traveling Merchant Jia, the mad doctor's manor has recently opened, but after our observation, the owner of the manor is not the mad doctor, and we guess that it may be the child he has been looking for.
As a promise, you must make a trip to the manor tomorrow to complete the first transaction. ”
At the end of the letter are cat's paw prints. After reading the letter, he fell into the memory, a few years ago he was not a traveling merchant, and like the other survivors, he was tormented by babbling every night, and just when he was about to fall into a state of complete madness, a man in a white coat, with messy hair, glasses, and a toolbox in his hand, appeared in front of him and asked him, "Do you know where my child is?" Do you want to live? ”
He was on the verge of madness, his heart was filled with the desire to destroy, and then he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head and fainted.
When he woke up the next day, he looked squarely at the middle-aged man in a white coat in front of him. Recalling what he asked himself, Jia replied truthfully, "I...... I don't see your child, but I want to live. ”
The man in the white coat in front of him seemed to have known this answer, and after a moment of silence, he took out a pale stone, threw it to him, and said: "This thing can alleviate the murmuring of the night, if you want to continue to live, you can try to be a traveling merchant, although the world has abandoned us, but there is also hope."
After saying that, he went straight into the distance, Jia Buqiao became a traveling merchant from that time, and he learned through his peers that the man was called the "mad doctor", and there was only one condition for joining the traveling merchant: if he met the mad doctor's children in the future, he must be rescued unconditionally, just like the mad doctor rescued them at that time. ”
The sky gradually darkened, Jia Bufei entered the city, found a random place, and began to rest.
Xiao Yi prepared dinner, and Wu Tian took Wu Long to start cleaning the manor.
"Uncle Tian, is there a rumor here that I can fight against the whispering stone for a short time? Night had come, but I didn't hear the whispers as usual. Wu Long felt it carefully and said.
Wu Tian looked at the night outside and replied lightly: "Maybe......"
He is still a little suspicious of Xiao Yi's identity now, because it is rumored that the mad doctor was the first to find a stone that can briefly fight against the whisper, although there are still many questions, but as long as Xiao Yi takes the initiative to say, he will not ask.
Dinner was still the same as lunch, white rice and stir-fried greens, Wu Long was very happy to eat, he felt that it was the best thing in the world.
"Eat slowly, no one will rob you." Xiao Yi looked at Wu Long and said as he buried his face in the rice bowl.
After the meal, everyone washed up and went back to their rooms to rest. Xiao Yi opened his diary and wrote: "On January 2nd, the second day I came to the wasteland world, today I met the survivors Wu Tian and Wu Long......
I learned the title of the letter writer from Wu Tian's mouth~ Mad doctor, the constant consumption of correction values makes me feel a sense of urgency, and I must carry out the next random event tomorrow. ”
After writing the last word, Xiao Yi looked at the night outside the window, he now regretted his original joke, it is not as simple as the game to survive alone in the wasteland world, even if there is a system to assist him, he will feel lost.
In a ruined place, a mad doctor in a shabby white lab coat rummaged through the rubble, his eyes bloodshot.
Suddenly, as if he had found something, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. When I picked it up, it turned out to be a photo, showing a 10-year-old child, wearing a blue jersey, holding a football, sweating profusely and unable to hide his bright smile.
Behind him, many spectators could be seen shouting, and a line of text could be faintly seen on the banner: "Warm celebration, No. 2 Middle School...... Soccer Match Winning ......"
The mad doctor carefully wiped the photo, then put it in the pocket of his underwear, lifted the toolbox next to it and disappeared into the darkness.
In the other room, Wu Long looked at Wu Tiandao, who was asleep next to him: "Uncle Long, I'm not dreaming now, I really don't want to wake up."
Wu Tian said in a calm tone: "No, go to sleep, there are still many things to do tomorrow."
"Uh-huh......" Wu Long muttered, and there was no sound.
"The owner...... Mad Doctor's Child...... I had seen the photos at the beginning......" Wu Tian muttered and fell asleep.
Xiao Yi had just gotten up, washed up and was about to make breakfast, when he heard Wu Tian's shout behind him.
"My lord, there are traveling merchants passing by today, and we can exchange them for some supplies."
"How do you know?" Xiao Yi asked suspiciously.
"Look at the sky." Wu Tian pointed to his head.
Xiao Yi looked up at the sky and saw a huge blue cat's paw print on it.
"What is this?" Xiao Yi asked.
"Traveling merchants will put a marker along the way, which is used to remind nearby survivors that they are about to pass by, and if the exchange of resources can put a marker on the road, they will pay attention." Wu Tiandao.
"Steward, put our markers on the road, we won't go out to collect resources today, maybe we can exchange vegetables for something else." Xiao Yi said as he walked to the kitchen.
"My lord, what do you want to mark?" Wu Tian asked.
"The Garden of Eden knows, our manor is, mark it for yourself." Xiao Yi's voice gradually faded away.
Let Wu Tian kill people and set fires can be easily completed, as for the design icon, it is difficult for him, back to the woodworking room, holding a carving knife in one hand and a wooden board in the other, constantly gesturing......
After more than 10 minutes, there were no marks on the wooden board, Wu Tian was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and finally gritted his teeth, went directly to the roof along the ladder, and looked down at the front of the manor.
The garden was a little green, and the corn was sprouting and thriving, and it was already more than a foot high, and the waterwheel did not spin, and the water flowed down the plank around the farmland.
The grass in the garden has been partially cleared, and now there is a shortage of livestock, if there is a dog, a few chickens...... That's even more perfect. Smoke slowly rises from the chimney, and you can faintly smell the aroma of white porridge.
Wu Tian had a flash of inspiration, he knew what to mark, and took out a carving knife to quickly carve it on the wooden board, and the sawdust flew.
"Dragon, get up and eat." Xiao Yi shouted into Wu Long's room. When I looked up, I found Wu Tian standing on the roof, carving something in his hand.
Wu Long rubbed his eyes and sat up from the bed, repeatedly making sure that this was not a dream, and responded: "Got it, my lord."
After washing up, I looked up and saw Wu Tian on the roof, and was about to say something, when I found that Xiao Yi made a booing motion, smiled and shook his head.
When the two came to the kitchen, Wu Longcai asked, "My lord, what is Uncle Tian doing on the roof?"
"See the cat's paw prints in the sky, your uncle is designing the icon of the manor, maybe we will have meat to eat today." Xiao Yi touched Wu Long's head and said.
"Really...... I've seen traveling merchants, they all drive around in trucks, and they have a lot of stuff in their cars......" Wu Tian said with an excited smile.
Xiao Yi looked at the time, it was already 8:30, Wu Tian ran into the kitchen with a red face and handed over a wooden board engraved with a pattern as if offering a treasure.
Looking carefully at the wooden board, I found that there was a brief view of the manor engraved on it, and there was a warm feeling at a glance, especially the three words "Garden of Eden" on the top, which had been specially modified by Wu Tian, and it was a little silky to the touch.
"You'll also carve...... Very good. Xiao Yi exclaimed.
While eating breakfast, Xiao Yi asked, "Housekeeper, do you think we can exchange something with the vegetables in the vegetable garden, you are more experienced in this regard."
Wu Tian stopped his chopsticks and thought for a while and said, "A few chickens, a dog, this is the most we can exchange, don't think about the rest."
"Are there any animals yet?" Xiao Yi asked in surprise.
"Yes, it's just hard to catch, they seem to have evolved, and their speed is much faster than that of humans, and the others haven't changed." Wu Tiandao.
After dinner, Xiao Yi and Wu Tian were taking care of the vegetable garden, they needed to prepare a little green vegetables and green onions, and by the way, they would clean up all the wild grass in the garden, and the waterwheel would also be repaired.
Wu Tian went out and put the sign on a large wooden board, on which were written: "Garden of Eden", and a black road sign pointed in the direction of the manor.
It was 10:30 a.m., and the sound of a truck engine came from outside the door.
Xiao Yi opened the black iron gate and saw a modified heavy truck parked outside the door.
The car was covered with solar panels, which reflected a dazzling glow in the sun, and a man in a black combat uniform, a gray hat, and a list in his hand stepped out of the car.
Looking at the man's pace, he was not the kind of businessman Xiao Yi imagined, this person was similar to Wu Tian, either a mercenary or a special soldier.
"Hello, I'm a traveling merchant Jia Buzhu, are you the owner of the manor?" The man asked in a somewhat hoarse voice.
"Well, can you see the list you have?" Xiao Yi stepped forward and kept a distance of 1.5 meters from the man, at this distance, even if the other party suddenly made a move, he would have time to react.