Chapter 1: The Wasteland
"You have a new courier, please check ......"
The phone buzzed and sounded, one swarthy hand picked up the phone and looked at it, and the other scratched its head a little confusedly.
"Express, I haven't shopped online recently......"
It was a man with good facial features, healthy wheat-colored skin, and fox-like eyes that were lying on the sofa exuding a seemingly lazy atmosphere.
"Knock...... Boom...... ......The knock on the door kept ringing, and he got up from the sofa helplessly, muttering: "Coming, coming......"
"Hello, please check the ......" The courier handed over a courier package, Xiao Yi looked at the courier and signed his name.
"Diary, Wasteland Limited Edition." Xiao Yi wanted to ask the courier, but when he looked up, he found that the person had already left.
When I opened the package, I found that it was a pale yellow cover, with some kind of architectural relief on it, and the top of it said "Wasteland Diary", which felt like no ordinary paper in my hand.
"This can't be made of sheepskin, right......" Xiao Yi touched the cover, sniffed closely, and a strange smell came into his nasal cavity, which seemed to be some kind of leather.
Turn the first page, and a choice appears: if you were in a wasteland world, what would you do? Is it to live or to die?
The corners of Xiao Yi's mouth hooked, "Of course it's playing with the whole world, what's the point of just surviving......"
As soon as he finished saying this, the diary emitted a blazing white light, and in an instant he was sucked into the diary, and the diary disappeared.
The dizziness gradually disappeared, and Xiao Yi appeared in front of an abandoned city, surrounded by a state of desolation, collapsed skyscrapers, rusty protective nets, and various abandoned vehicles on the road, the entire sky was a faint yellow, and there was no green in the eyes......
Xiao Yi looked at his equipment, a little torn jacket, dusty goggles, a military kettle hanging from his waist, a somewhat shabby gray backpack, and a watch on his wrist that he couldn't read?
Suddenly, he felt something like a notebook in his arms, took out the diary that had led him to cross over, and opened the first page, and new handwriting appeared on it.
"January 1st, fine. I came to this wasteland world because I made the decision that since I was here, I would try to play with the whole world......"
There is also an emoji with a wicked smile on the back. Xiao Yi closed the diary, threw it directly into his backpack, and walked towards the abandoned city.
The street lamps on both sides of the road were broken, the poles were covered with rust, there was a thin layer of yellow sand on the ground, and the glass of the cars was all shattered.
Xiao Yi looked into a taxi abandoned on the side of the road, and found that there was nothing to record the text, and a smell of rust came directly to him.
"It's interesting, it's really a wasteland world, and there are no clues left." Xiao Yi said and walked towards the store.
Pushing open the glass door of the store, he found that most of the goods in it were gone, as if they had been looted, the shelves fell to the ground, broken glass was everywhere, and all the lamps above his head were removed.
Even if the end of the world comes suddenly, food is taken first, and then all kinds of daily necessities. Iron products should be useful last, and if it is because of corrosion, then why the cars on both sides of the road are still there, it is a bit unreasonable.
He continued to walk inside, saw the door of the storage room, and just wanted to open it, he found that there was something on the ground, he couldn't tell what it was, because looking at the traces, it was already a week ago, and it had begun to be covered with a shallow layer of sand.
Looking at the time, it was already 9:48, and without hesitation, he kicked open the door of the storage room, and the wooden door, which was already a little rotten, was directly broken.
After entering, he found that there were broken cardboard boxes everywhere, and suddenly he saw a faint white light emitting a pile of cardboard boxes in the corner, and when he opened it, it turned out to be 2 bottles of cans.
There was a vague image of a fish on the can, and as soon as I picked up the can, relevant information appeared in front of me.
Name: Expired canned fish
Quality: White, (edible)
Jian Shao: This is a canned food that has just passed its expiration date, and it looks like it is still edible, but it has a bit of side effects, and it seems that someone left it behind.
"This is the legendary golden finger...... Seems to have some effect,"
Xiao Yi muttered to himself, and suddenly, he saw that there seemed to be something pressed under the can.
He threw the canned food directly into his backpack, removed all the cardboard boxes around him, and saw something wrapped in oiled paper.
After opening the package, it was found that it was just a letter and a key.
"Dear son, when you read this letter, I am already dead, I have left you a little supplies, and there is the Doomsday Manor I built before outside the city to cope with the current situation.
However, the situation is more serious than I imagined, watch out for the night, and remember, do not easily explore the truth of the world, unless you can always be sane.
The route map to the manor, just on the back of the letter, remember, watch out for the arrival of night.
Forever love your father to stay. ”
After reading the letter, Xiao Yi actually had a warm feeling, as if an old father hugged him from behind.
In the original world, Xiao Yi was an orphan, grew up in an orphanage, worked hard in society alone, and participated in various wilderness survival training in his free time. Because he felt that in the wilderness, he could feel his presence.
He is especially envious that others have parents, whenever he sees others encounter setbacks, his parents will silently help on the side, and he can only carry everything alone.
Maybe this letter wasn't for himself, but now he needed the manor, a stronghold from which he could survive in this wasteland.
Xiao Yi searched carefully in the store again, found half a bottle of mineral water, and then reluctantly left the store, ready to go to the manor.
It was 10:45 a.m., and he found a dilapidated bicycle and rode it leisurely.
About an hour later, Xiao Yi panted and came to the front of the manor described on the letterhead, a large black iron gate, flanked by walls more than 3 meters high.
When I came to the iron door, I saw a key-shaped groove appear on the door, there was no pattern on the door, and there were many uneven marks, which seemed to be hit by a blunt object.
Xiao Yi put the key into the groove, and the sound of gears turning sounded, and the door slowly opened.
He walked into the manor, and a chime sounded in his ears: "Do you want to make this place a place to live?"
He looked left and right for the source of the sound, and finally realized that the sound came from his head.
"Yes," Xiao Yi replied briefly.
A simple map appeared in my mind, and a house mark appeared in my location.
He looked closely at the manor, and in front of him was a field of cultivated land, but it was overgrown with dead grass, and there was no modern irrigation system, only a dilapidated waterwheel.
When you walk in, there is still a little water at the bottom of the waterwheel, on the left is the place where the livestock are kept, and on the right is a barren vegetable garden with a few unknown plants in the vegetable field.
Where is this manor, a proper real-life version of Happy Farm, but no one takes care of it and it's deserted.
Walking into the main hall of the manor, there was nothing in it, it was empty, he turned all the rooms around again, and found that only one room had a wooden bed, a bookcase, and the rest of the rooms were similar to the main hall.
Out of the main hall, he came to the house where the farm implements were kept, and there were many farm tools in it, pickaxes, shovels, and dung forks...... He also found a large hammer.
After searching for a long time, I didn't find any seeds, so it seems that I need to bring them back from the outside world.
He went to the warehouse again to take a look, and as expected, there was not a grain in it. "Well, I can't do it on my own, maybe I should survive the other way." Xiao Yi sighed helplessly.
Open Personal Properties Panel ......
After a few seconds, nothing appeared in front of him, and Xiao Yi suspected that what he had obtained was a fake golden finger, and there was no basic thing.
"Is there a task system...... Xiao Yi asked again.
"Ding, do you want to open the task system......" The familiar voice appeared again.
"Open, and what the hell is you for?" Xiao Yi said as he walked to the main hall.
"Missing information, incomprehensible"
"Mission 1: Survive for 10 days. (General)
Mission 2: Successfully resolve an unknown event. (Intermediate)
Mission 3: Repair the Manor (Normal)"
"What is the unknown?" Xiao Yi asked.
"Randomly generated events that have happened in this world, but have not been resolved, will get a correction value after being solved, and 1 correction value can restore 1 sanity value."
"What's the use of sanity?" Xiao Yi asked, he had been thinking about the role of sanity on letters since he came to the manor from the city.
"Sanity is used to fight against the whispering of unknown existences at night, and once the sanity is too low, it will fall into a state of madness, and in severe cases, it will directly commit suicide."
"How do you resolve unknown events? Where to go and how do I get back after it is resolved? Xiao Yi asked directly.
"A temporal rift will be created from the host's side, and the host will return to the location of the event through the rift, and will return directly to the manor after resolving the event."
Xiao Yi looked at the time and felt a little hungry, so he had to eat the two cans of spoiled cans.
Perhaps, he can take advantage of the night when it comes, go directly into the time rift, and miss the time of the night.
"Note that it won't take the same amount of time to resolve the incident as it does in reality, so please don't be whimsical."
When Xiao Yi heard this, he felt a sense of loss in his heart, and said, "Is there a situation in the manor?" I'd like to take a look. ”
A green panel appeared in front of me: "
Name: Unnamed estate
Facilities: Almost all of them are in a state of abandonment
Without the support of the host's sanity, creatures in the manor class cannot resist the whispers of the night. ”