In order to prevent the passengers from freezing to death and not being able to collect the fare, Maya asked the red clothes to distribute blankets and bedding to them, so that the Orient Express was only left with a futon hidden by Lin Wu. The main reason for the cold is that one side of the glass is broken, and the cold air is ruthlessly poured into the carriage, although the dormitory bed is moved to block it, but the effect is quite limited. In addition, the trains of this era were full of crevices and cold winds everywhere.

After discussing whether to use the only futon to plug the hole was vetoed, in order to avoid the splash of driving to freeze to death, the five people went to the cab together, and everyone sat in a circle, pulled a corner of the futon, and kept themselves warm as much as possible.

Now the outside temperature is minus 10 degrees, and it is unclear whether it will continue to cool down. To say that the system is quite humane, it has not directly cooled down to minus 40 degrees.

Hongyi asked his own question: "Maya, there are more than 10 people in some large bases, aren't they very fast at transporting coal and looting?" Isn't this too unfair to our small base? "The minimum number of participants is two, and they certainly don't get as much coal and food as five people. The resources that 5 people can get are definitely not as good as the resources that 10 people can get.

Maya couldn't answer this question, so she looked at Lin Wu, who complained and raised her own questions.

The White Rabbit replied, "Players are invited to find out on their own." ”

Lin Wu: "I mean it's not fair. ”

White Rabbit: "I can't be absolutely fair, I can only be relatively fair." ”

Lin Wu relayed the words of the little white rabbit, although he didn't get an answer, but Hongyi could only accept this statement. From this question to the shadows. Maya believes that the stone is responsible for driving, Su Ten is responsible for sleeping, and the others are arranged at will. Maya's question is whether there is any player interaction in this event.

Judging from the current situation, the main theme of this train is black, lonely, cold, and lonely. Most likely, the players are all in different dungeons, so why arrange it this way?

Slowly moving from non-casual mode to hardcore mode, Dawn seems to have been challenging the bottom line of players' survival. After thinking about it carefully, Maya discovers that Dawn is building a social class. First of all, people at the bottom, who can't even live in leisure mode, or who are unwilling to work hard and suffer a little bit of hardship, will have very low points. This group of people is relatively small.

This is followed by the middle layer. With hardcore as a watershed, being able to survive in hardcore mode for more than a month should be considered an upper-middle level. The number of middle-level people is definitely the largest, some people wisely abandon the hardcore mode, and some people abandon the hardcore mode after a month of trying.

At this time, Dawning can't let too many people stay in hardcore mode, or have too many points. Because Shuguang wants to create an olive-shaped society, there are many middle-level people and few high-level people.

No matter how little wealth the people at the bottom is, it is nothing but abject poverty, while the wealth of the people at the top has no boundaries. The more people who stay in hardcore mode, the more cake will be cut on behalf of the top, so a part of the quasi-rich will need to be screened out to strengthen the middle level.

From this, we can understand the reason why Dawn is becoming more and more strict with players, and that is to distribute wealth and control the number and wealth of the extremely wealthy.

If your guess is correct, it means that there are not many players who are currently staying in hardcore mode. According to the previous survey of the Zuoxian Market in the non-hardcore mode, 70% of the players said that they would leave the hardcore mode, and half of the remaining 30% of the players were not determined and said that they would try for a month first.

If this ratio is correct, it means that 300,000 players will enter Hardcore mode and 150,000 will stay in Hardcore mode.

No, there won't be so many of them. You have to think about typhoons, deaths, and other situations. Some people are originally determined but will be discouraged after multiple deaths, especially the cancellation of the base infinite bullet update, which will discourage many people. Conversely, players who have exited Hardcore cannot return to Hardcore mode.

At 70 percent and 15 percent, the Maya estimate is that there should be about 50,000 more. Each large city has a population of 5,000. There were two cities in each great city, and each city had two thousand five hundred men. There were two counties in each city, and each county was given 1,250 men. There are two towns in each county, and each town is divided into more than 600 people.

That doesn't seem quite right. During the typhoon, according to the information obtained by Shana's investigation, the remaining number of players in Beishang Town was about 80. However, even at the beginning of the game, there are not many people in the town of Kitakami, Zuo County.

Maya once traveled through the Silk Road to the town of Kitakami in Youxian County, which is a plain and not only has a large area, but also players can be seen everywhere. The number of people should be about five times that of Beishang Town in Zuo County.

In this calculation, 50,000 people may be too much, and 30,000 people should be a more appropriate figure.

The other four chatted, and Maya thought about her own business, and no one bothered her, and in the end it was the sirens that disturbed her.

A text appears on the control panel display: random task, task difficulty level B, task time 10 minutes, do you accept? Failure of the mission will be punished on a case-by-case basis.

In order to prevent players from staying in the car for a long time to get bored, the system will assign random tasks, which can be omitted.

"As it depends?" Everyone found the point at the same time. That is, there are other possibilities for this task besides success and failure.

Everyone looked at Maya together, and Maya nodded: "Pick it up, it's just B-level, there's no reason not to pick it up." "At the beginning of the seven days, there will be a lot of random tasks in the future, and you must know the intensity of the B difficulty tasks.

After the five-cent special effect on the control panel, a serum needle appeared. Mission: One person in the train is infected with the zombie virus and is currently in the incubation period, so there are no symptoms. Please find the infected person and give him a serum injection. The mission time is ten minutes. Special Note: Once the mission infected person becomes ill, he will die immediately, and he cannot be cured through the hospital bed, and his life cannot be saved by injection of serum injections.

Everyone is stunned and looks for a patient who is asymptomatic, and the patient is dying. The questioner is not your average shameless.

Lin Wu proposed: "Let's throw all the NPCs off the train and hack the serum shots." I don't think they would have paid as much for a ticket as I did as a beggar. ”

Maya was angry and said, "You made money from killing." ”

Lin Wu raised the police badge on his chest: "Hey, hey!" ”

Not having time to waste time with him, Maya arranged, "There are still nine passengers. In addition to the splash, each person is responsible for two NPCs. Ask them where they're from, who they've met, and if they've drunk dirty water, looking for any possible clues. ”

Lin Wu didn't know whether to raise the bar or prompt: "The task is that there is a person in the train, and one person contains not only NPCs, but also players." ”

Maya was stunned and looked at Lin Wu: "This sentence is very reasonable. ”

"Really?" Lin Wu was a little surprised. This feeling is like a bad student, who suddenly answered the teacher's confusion in a back-to-back way, and I was honestly afraid.

Maya said: "If you fail the mission, you will be punished according to the specific situation. Let's assume that an NPC is infected with the virus, and we fail the mission and lose one NPC, or if the NPC attacks other passengers and loses several passengers. In this way, the sentence is very vague depending on the situation. So there's also the possibility that someone has the virus and if we don't find out, we'll lose a companion. ”

Lin Wu raised his hand: "I'm fine, I'm a survivor of the blood plague, immune to the zombie virus." ”

The three people in red were shocked: "There are still such characteristics?" ”

Lin Wu smiled: "It is necessary to have both ability and political integrity." Stop! "I don't know who kicked themselves under the covers, a bunch of bad guys.

Maya lifted the quilt, and the remaining four people trembled and shrunk together, Maya said: "Check the NPC first, then the player, and start work." ”

Shui Hua said: "I especially admire those who get up on time in winter and say that they will lift the quilt. ”

"Go, go." Everyone helped each other to get up from the ground and head towards the passenger car.

System information, Town 1 is a human town, and there is no zombie virus. This is the most important clue. So the first thing to ask is NPC: Where are you from? No I drop baby.

This question filtered out all the NPCs, all of whom were from Town 1 and had never left Town 1. Either it was a system error and the information given was wrong. Either the player is infected with the virus.

Three minutes later, everyone gathered at the front of the car to reminisce about the situation when digging coal and burning coal, but they didn't make sense. Lin Wu said: "The task is random, and it can be picked up or not. Dawn can do it to NPCs, but not without a reason. If we get a virus, we are infected with a virus. ”

It is undeniable that what Lin Wu said makes sense. While everyone was pondering, Splash, who had more social experience, asked a question: "Did you ask about NPC occupations?" ”

"Nope."

"Some professions are born to lie. ”

Lin Wu: "This, this can't be written, right?" ”

Splash: "Folk occupation." ”

So everyone went to the passenger compartment again, and the question was really asked. The first is a fund manager, what is a fund manager? Everyone invests money in him, whether he makes money or not, he has to get a commission. Before taking the money, he had to say that it was a lot of fanciful things to get everyone to give him the money.

The second is some kind of insurance salesman. It is the kind of insurance salesman who pays for everything when he takes out insurance, and he doesn't pay for it after an accident, and he doesn't pay for it.

The third is a salesman who sells health care products for the elderly, and it is said that he can live to be 300 years old if he eats his products.

The fourth is the owner who specializes in the production of pre-made dishes without any additives and can have a shelf life of up to one year.

The fifth is a 50-year-old aunt Internet celebrity who is good at beauty.

There were still five minutes left, and the four of them stood together looking at the NPC, and their mentality was a little broken.

Lin Wu had an idea, and pulled out a hundred knives from his pocket: "The purpose of our inquiry is because we picked up a hundred knives outside Town No. 1, and since everyone has not left Town No. 1, it means that none of the people here are lost owners." ”

The owner of the prefabricated dish immediately stood up: "I fled from Pipa Town to Town 1 yesterday. ”

The aunt and the health care product salesman stood up one after another, saying that they came to No. 1 town yesterday. The boss was very excited, took out his ticket for the bus, and said, "It is said that there are patients with unknown diseases in Pipa Town, so I left Pipa Town." ”

Maya looked at the other two, "Why did you go to Town 1?" ”

The two glanced at each other, and were about to speak, when Lin Wu took out his revolver: "There is no evidence to talk nonsense, grab first and then kill." So the two sat back in silence.

Needle down at the boss, and the system prompts: The task is successful.

Lin Wu patted the manager and the insurance salesman on the shoulder: "You are honest people, people who have escaped from low-level interests, I misunderstood you." ”

Hongyi was puzzled: "Why apologize?" ”

Lin Wu replied: "There are also honest people in these two professions. But the careers of the other three are completely uncontroversial, because they can't make money without lying. ”

With the success of the mission, a card appeared after the starlight of the control panel and the five-cent special effect flickered: a three-choice class card.

The three professions are: Guide, Hawker, and Bounty Hunter.

Bounty Hunter: Accept wanted warrants from human towns, and hunt wanted criminals to earn money and fame rewards.

Hawker: You can sell goods to passengers on the train, and you can not only buy at a discount and sell at a high price when trading with humans, but also open hidden trades.

Guide: You can get access information. This includes route information, station ahead information, etc.

Everyone looked at Maya again, Lin Wu looked very seriously, so serious that Maya wanted to beat him.

Maya pondered and said, "I'm not sure about the number of human towns, human towns have a lot of tasks, and we don't need to risk chasing wanted criminals." Guides and hawkers are to be considered, where the basic function of the hawker is related to the human town. The most important thing in this event is the train, and money is just an aid, so I decided to choose a guide. ”

Looking left and right, everyone had no opinion, so Maya appointed Red as a guide.

Immediately after the appointment, Redcoat reported the information: "Under the standard speed, we will reach Town 2 in 4 hours." Passing through the dangerous area of Heifeng Village, the average temperature of the whole process is minus 5 degrees. Town 2 is a zombie town. ”

The control panel displays only one warning message when approaching Town 2: Town 2 is a zombie town. Obviously, the wizard is more reliable than the control panel.

Maya asked, "How long will it take to get to Black Wind Village?" ”

Hongyi replied: "The map only shows the location, not the distance, and it is estimated that there are still two hours." ”

Lin Wu was worried about looking at the passenger compartment: "Do we need compensation for the death of a passenger?" Even if you don't compensate, where can you find nine pits? ”

Hongyi smiled: "Lin Wu, your brain hole always amazes me. ”

Maya ignored the chat between the two and said, "Hongyi and I use the regun, and Qinglang and Lin Wu use the pistol." Lin Wu, you and Sunny are training to reload, and Hongyi and I are training to reload rifles. ”

Lin Wu said: "It's not necessary, right? We should recharge our energy and wait for work. ”

Maya, who was accustomed to ignoring it, said to Lin Wu and Qinglang: "You load the bullet once. ”

Lin Wu maintained an unhappy expression, took out the pistol and flicked the wheel, shaking the pistol and pouring out six bullets. He held the bullets in his hand, loaded them one by one, and finally pushed the wheels back.

Maya nodded, "You can go to the side and rest." ”

It was the first time he had played with a revolver, either spilling bullets while loading, or not smoothly loading them, or the bullets were not fully pushed into the wheel magazine. Without Maya's order, he obediently went to the dormitory to practice playing the ball.

Maya demonstrates the process of loading rifles. Take out two bullets, hold one bullet in your mouth, then reload, aim and shoot, and then load the mouth bullet into the magazine. A set of two bullets reduces the time it takes to pull out bullets.

Lin Wu, who was watching the excitement on the side, suddenly had a twitch in his head, stretched out his head to make a grimace at the red clothes, and shouted. Startled, Redcoat sucked the bullet in his mouth and nearly swallowed it. Before the red clothes recovered, Lin Wu had already obediently squatted down with his head in his hands, which made the red clothes laugh more than once, and Lin Wu apologized by getting off the donkey.

This prank has no purpose, pure cerebral convulsions.

(End of chapter)