Chapter 30: Back to the pot
The world of thousands of machines, according to the distribution of gamers, is divided into four game areas: southeast, northwest and northwest, and the four game areas share a server. In order to prevent cultural differences from deviating from the theme of the game, the play areas are not interoperable, and only for short periods of limited time are held during certain exchange events.
This setting effectively maintains the peaceful development of the world of thousands of machines and minimizes the virtual reality of various international issues.
This kind of peace is simply impossible in reality, but it is possible in an online world without hunger and poverty, and even religious beliefs can be solved. For example, in the southern game area where India and Pakistan are located, the system has created a very halal god of the third brother, and then directly appears to every believer: Tell you, if you have food and drink, you are honest, don't be foolish, listen? Otherwise, you are not halal, and I will steam you!
An international problem that has been fighting each other for hundreds of years has been so easily solved.
The same is true of those terrorist organizations, they believe in whatever they believe, they will create a thousand opportunities, and directly debate with those extremists: What are you reading blindly with this book? Why do you always distort my meaning? You are the teacher of the Celestial Empire? Hurry up and stop, I didn't think it meant anything when I said these things in the first place, so don't bother.
Is it any wonder that Qianji has become the final victor in the international virtual reality war?
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and the thousand-machine system finally collapsed due to unknown factors.
The boundaries of the game zone are removed, and resources begin to deplete rapidly. Imaginary gods and saints can't solve hunger, let alone suppress the greed activated by the end times, and the world is in chaos from then on.
After all kinds of wars and disasters, there are only three major game areas left in the world of thousands of machines, which can be simply summarized as: the eastern game area with strong individual strength and many organizations but not unity. A concentration of high-end players and an ambitious northern gaming area. and the Western Game District, where religion is solid, but the least developed.
Well, the southern game area is gone, and in the years when the thousands of machines were in chaos, the four major game areas were fighting each other, and they didn't forget to carry out internal mutual halal in this situation, and self-destructed in advance.
After leaving the novice village, I asked Wan Pei to do a simple science popularization of the world pattern of a thousand machines for me, because I only knew that I wanted to save this world, and I didn't know what the threat of destruction it was facing, and I needed some basic information to analyze, even if I couldn't analyze it, if I wanted to survive in this strange world, it would be beneficial and harmless to be a little familiar with history.
I know my habits, I don't like to listen to inconsequential details, and I like to get straight to the basics of everything. Wanpei's understanding is good, I said my preferences, she really avoided useless details, so that I had an intuitive understanding of the pattern and process of the world of thousands of machines in a short period of time.
"As for the specific situation of the three major game areas, I only know more about the east, and the east is currently ......."
"Shut up!"
Wan Pei also has to give an introduction to the eastern game area, but I don't have any mood to listen to it anymore, because I am busy washing my hair.
I made a simple container with my manufacturing skills, and then took water and put it in it, I squatted here and rubbed my bangs for at least half an hour, the more I rubbed it, the more angry it became, now let alone listening to Wanpei's teaching, if she were a man, I would want to beat her.
Wanpei was yelled at by me and felt aggrieved: "Master, why are you suddenly angry?
"Phew!"
I snorted, and then shook my wet bangs: "I finally understand, you novice village doesn't have a good thing from top to bottom!"
Wan Pei was a little unhappy: "Master, how can you say that, how good everyone is to you, especially the village chief......"
"Especially that old toad! On the surface, he is respectful to me, but in fact, he has been holding back the calamity in his heart!"
"You... You are bad~ How can you say that about the village chief. ”
I pointed to my emerald green bangs and was about to cry: "Have I wronged him, ah? What do you mean by getting me a head of green hair before leaving? Isn't it just borrowing Liu Lao Liu and my wife to bury me! I can't wash it off, I can't cut it off, I can't cut it off, I'm destined to have green hair in the future?"
Wan Pei also said strongly: "Even if the village chief jokes with you too much, you shouldn't settle the account on the heads of the whole village~"
I snapped the group photo before leaving the village on Wan Pei's face, this kind of old-fashioned camera photo takes a while to develop, I just had nothing to do to glance over, only to see a lock of emerald green bangs on my head, and more than a hundred novice villagers standing behind me, pointing at my head with various gestures, making snickering gestures!
"Poof~" Wan Pei couldn't help laughing, because her movements were the most exaggerated and she laughed the most happily in the photo.
This is clearly the whole village playing tricks on me! Wow, I really can't bear it, and I will beat the woman too!
Seeing that I was angry, Wanpei hurriedly grabbed her ears and squatted down to beg for mercy: "The master is angry, the master is angry, everyone has been harmed too much by the sixth master, so I made a joke with you to relieve stress." You know that we respect you, you have a lot of adults, you won't blame us~"
I smacked my bangs on the back of my head, but the hairstyle that the elder gave me couldn't take care of myself, and it hung down when I swiped it back, so I could only throw it aside: "I know they all hate Liu Lao Liu, but what I said is very clear, I am also a victim, how can you harm your comrades on the same front?"
Wan Pei squatted there and smiled: "The master is smart, the villagers are not stupid, if you don't say it, we can also see that your relationship with the sixth master is extraordinary, and if you harm you, it is to take revenge on the sixth master in disguise, at least you will trouble him because of this matter in the future, hehe~"
I was angry and couldn't say anything, so I could only accuse Wan Pei: "Then what are you following and joining? Aren't you the one who respects your sixth master the most?"
Wan Pei frowned: "Respect is respect, but no matter how respectful I am, it won't affect me to annoy him, you didn't hear how he described my parents' appearance behind his back, I really didn't know that there were people in the world with such a bad mouth!"
I'm really helpless, this pot is inexplicable, but it's come to this, what can I do?
Picking up the photo that fell on the ground, and looking at the happy smiles on the familiar faces on it, I unconsciously smiled too, if this little joke can make them happy, it will be a big profit.
sighed and said to Wan Pei: "Okay, let's squat less in the future, it's easy to walk away, I don't know?"
Wan Pei hurriedly stood up with her cleavage on her chest, and pretended to twist a few times shyly, which was more fake than the female anchor.
I asked, "How can I get these bangs gone?" or change the color. ”
Wan Pei said: "This hairstyle and hair color are modified by the village chief with the authority of the barber's system, and the player can't change it in any way, so he can only find other barbers to modify it." ”
"Where can I find it?"
"Oh~ The Thousand Machine system has collapsed, and the NPCs outside the novice village have lost their immunity, and they will be harmed and threatened with death, and most of them have been adopted or imprisoned by players, and I don't know where to find them. ”
I was puzzled: "What are you doing with the inclusion of imprisoned NPCs?"
Wan Pei explained: "After the collapse of the Qianji system, it will be followed by resource regeneration, task system and some game functions, and the system authority of some functional NPCs is still there, such as the equipment repair of the blacksmith, such as the healing skills of the doctor, these powers are rare resources for players, in order to compete for NPCs, a theme war broke out in the Qianji." ”
I rubbed my head, it was worthy of the end of the world, it was really a mess.
Wan Pei thought that I was worried about the hairstyle and hair color, and hurriedly comforted: "In addition to finding the Barber NPC, there is another way, which is to find those players who have been given haircutting skills by the system. ”
I wondered, "Is the haircutting skill also a survival skill?"
"No, barber skills are only available to players whose professions are related to hairdressing, such as makeup artists~ such as beauty salons~ such as aiding girls~"
I laughed, and the girl has to be able to get a haircut? Well, that's very much in line with the country.
"So you know someone who knows how to barber?"
Wan Pei raised her chin proudly: "Of course, people know a lot of fashion stylists~"
"Where's the nearest one? Our first task is to help me change my hairstyle!"
"Hahaha~Master, you don't need to be in such a hurry~"
I said that you are less hippie and smiling, green hair is much more uncomfortable than green hats, and you don't have to be cheated on as a daughter-in-law, and I can't afford to lose that person if I am misunderstood as imitating Da Zhang Wei.
"Who is Da Zhang Wei?"
"One of the spokesmen of the joke of the fan!"
Wan Pei has been walking in the east of thousands of machines for decades, as an NPC set up by the system to specifically encourage players to consume, she has naturally intersected with a large number of players, including many in the beauty salon industry, she thought about it, and said that there is a familiar barber in the recent "Ice Cold", and I can ask him to help me change my hairstyle.
Then our first stop is the ice chill west of the novice village.
To get to Ice, we had three days to go and needed to go around an area called 'Wilderness'. This journey is not short, in the era of normal operation of thousands of machines, there will be a large number of "beasts" and "monsters" along the way to interfere with players passing by, and there are corresponding tasks to follow. Players form teams and travel while completing tasks, often taking more than ten days to arrive.
But now it's different, the Thousand Machine system has collapsed, beasts and monsters are killed and no longer respawn, and the NPCs who issued the quests have long been gone, except for the barren scorched earth and the dark and gloomy sky at noon, there is no company along the way.
After two days of safe and sound, the only thing that bothered me a little was a vast area of radiation glowing with a faint green light. With a detector, the radiation value reached more than 200, Wan Pei said that the radiation value reached more than 50 will kill people, we did not dare to wear protective clothing to go in, chose to detour.
The oppressive apocalyptic atmosphere made me more tired, and on the third day, I had only walked for two hours and couldn't walk, and we stopped in a place where huge abandoned water towers were standing here and there, ready to eat something to regain our survival attributes, and rest for a while before continuing on our way.
Digging into a water tower to conceal myself, I was about to take out the cooking utensils to cook, but Wan Pei stopped me.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
Wan Pei reminded in a vigilant voice: "There are people nearby. ”