Mystery makes me strong

Chapter 2880 Li Si's Lying Life

Under an active volcano.

Thick smoke erupts from the top of the mountain from time to time, and volcanic ash falls occasionally.

At the foot of the mountain, you can see magma pools from time to time.

The area is very desolate and there is almost no human habitation.

You can see several abandoned villages and farmlands.

There are some tents next to the hot springs.

In the past, due to the volcanic ash, the fields here were very fertile, and the yield per mu was very high in the feudal era.

But after industrialization, this place was abandoned.

Because this volcano erupted twice in succession, less than ten years apart, each time the volcanic ash covered an area of ​​hundreds of kilometers around it.

With such a high frequency, even the bravest people cannot withstand it.

Only the most daring explorers and fearless travelers dare to come here to explore this volcano and admire the hot springs and magma.

But Li Si doesn't care about this at all.

After all, he can only live here for 8 months at most.

Why would he care about what happens ten years later?

At this moment.

Li Si was carrying heavy luggage, including two large suitcases that could roll off-road.

He kept muttering, "Why don't you give me a portable space?" and then followed the tour group to a hot spring.

There is a temporary hotel made of tents here.

The fees are quite high.

Li Si did not check in. In fact, after he came here, he separated from the tour group.

Because he knew that the people in the tour group would soon be in internal strife after the end of the world.

The reason is simple, they didn't bring much supplies.

However, the competition for materials was something Li Si could not resolve.

The time was too short and he didn't have enough money.

Of course, he can also use various means to make money quickly.

But he had tested it before, and the consequence of doing so was either being quickly captured or fainting for no apparent reason.

He understood the reason why he was captured, because order would not be lost immediately in this doomsday.

It takes five or six days to lower the temperature, and then order is maintained.

It would take three full months until the yeti completely destroyed order.

Moreover, at the beginning, the enforcement of order was even stricter to prevent anyone from continuing to cause damage by taking advantage of natural disasters.

But there were many times when he clearly dodged it, but still fainted for inexplicable reasons and he didn't understand why.

Many times, he was not caught and ended up fainting. When he woke up, it was the beginning of the end.

This made him realize that in this time loop, he couldn't use illegal means to obtain money...

……

Wen Rensheng couldn't help but smile when he saw this.

Naturally, he saw through Li Si's confusion at a glance. In fact, this is the setting of the world: there are some things that cannot be done. If you do them, the protagonist will lose consciousness.

You know everything.

……

Li Si, carrying a large suitcase, left the team and came to the north of the volcano with ease.

There is a large lava pool here.

The hot magma makes the surrounding temperature reach as high as fifty or sixty degrees.

You have to stay more than a hundred meters away to be able to bear it.

From time to time, you can see boiling springs with bubbles coming out of them.

He opened one of the boxes and began to pitch his tent next to one of the boiling springs.

A box contains various tools and daily necessities.

In another box are compressed foods, vitamins, and medicines.

The compressed food is enough for him to eat for three years.

A small piece of modern compressed food can match a week's calorie consumption.

The only good news is that there is no shortage of water in this cold apocalypse.

In addition, there are boiling springs here, so there is no shortage of hot water. Of course, the water here cannot be drunk directly as it contains too many minerals.

So he still has filters that will last for three years.

After making some arrangements, Li Si lay in the tent, browsing the downloaded videos and novels on his mobile phone with peace of mind.

His suitcase, when unfolded, can be charged by solar energy.

Once a day.

This is enough for him to use his phone.

These videos and novels are, of course, different from before.

After all, there were so many of these content products that he felt he would never be able to finish watching them even if he cycled through them hundreds of times.

As far as I can remember, it took at least a month before people discovered that snow monsters would not spawn near lava.

But at that time, transportation was already extremely inconvenient.

It is already difficult for survivors to come here.

It wasn't until three months later that people started arriving here.

Of course, it was dangerous from the beginning.

Because he has food and others don't, others will snatch it away.

If he doesn't give, he will become food.

At first, they were able to find frozen fruits from the nearby forest that was buried in ice and snow.

But later, they could only aim at each other.

Of course Li Si also did it and made everything public.

But the consequences are not much better.

It's even worse than living here for a long time.

He was found quickly and treated very well.

The problem is that he also became the target of the yeti.

It's obvious that there are people controlling those snow monsters.

The other party's goal is to destroy the world.

Therefore, anything that gets in its way will be killed by it.

If it was just a simple ice and snow apocalypse with no intelligent snow monsters, to be honest, he felt that humans with their size could withstand it.

It must be possible to create artificial magma.

Because of the extreme cold, the underground magma activity of this active volcano will become less and less, and the coverage area will become smaller and smaller.

But if someone interferes, it won't work.

At the beginning of order, they could dig large amounts of magma pools and build underground cities with the magma pools as the center.

This is what Li Si did in the previous time loops.

The result is that the workers who built the lava pools were specifically hunted.

Because Yeti are invisible and can be resurrected infinitely, humans have almost no good way to deal with them.

In the end it was just a mess and exhausting.

There was a widespread loss of order.

Only a few settlements survived because they were not targeted and posed little threat.

After many time cycles, Li Si discovered a pattern: as long as a settlement is destined to disappear naturally in the next fifty years, the manipulator behind the scenes will not deliberately target it.

It doesn't mind letting humans survive for a few more decades.

But if a certain settlement has a strategic solution that can save human civilization in the future, it will inevitably be targeted.

"Damn it, now it seems that the person behind the scenes has a global vision."

"Why does it do that?"

“Is this a replica of God destroying the world?”

In fact, many people think so.

Of course, some people think that this was done by aliens.

In fact, these two speculations are similar.

After so many time loops, Li Si felt that this was done by some human who had a golden finger.

The opponent's golden finger may be the destruction of the world.

His golden finger is the time loop.

The two sides are fighting.

If he wins, he is out of the loop.

Of course, now that he has found a way to survive long term, he doesn't want to break out of the cycle.

After all, if he lives for 8 months at a time and lives indefinitely, he would be immortal.

This is also good.

This is probably the fundamental reason why he has not found a way to break the time loop - deep down in his heart, he doesn't really want to break it.

So I didn’t give it my all!
Li Si lay in the tent and spent half a month leisurely like this.

Now that your mobile phone has access to a satellite network, it doesn’t matter how much money you spend.

Within half a month, he saw the same news as before.

The cold is coming and order is unstable.

Some places can still be maintained, but some places have become chaotic.

People are frozen in their homes.

There was heavy snow and traffic was cut off.

Li Si was in the tent, safe and sound. He just rested every day.

Read novels and watch videos.

Apart from that, he does nothing.

Every day I just lie down and lie down, and continue lying down.

Until a month passed.

At this time, someone finally came near the volcano.

He heard three voices outside.

Two men and one woman.

Well, here comes the laborer.

In the previous time loop, he certainly did not do nothing during that month.

He'll build quite a bit of defense.

For example, he would dig a tunnel for himself under the tent, a basement, and many traps.

Of course he won't dig now.

After all, he felt it was too tiring.

Why dig it yourself?

It is entirely possible to use the labor of other people.

Anyway, if you fail, you can try again.

It can be said that he is now a bit like lying down.

After all, with so many time loops, he didn't want to do anything.

Aren’t there three more laborers now?

"It's warmer here, Manager Zhang, Engineer Wang, let's stay here for now."

It turned out to be three of the dozen or so tourists stranded here.

Li Si immediately guessed who the visitor was.

These tourists and explorers cannot leave the vicinity of this volcano.

Now they were migrating along the way, searching for food, and finally found him.

"Look, there's a tent here, and it seems there are people here?" a man said in surprise.

"Go in and have a look."

Hearing this, Li Si stood up and took out two machetes.

He also had a competition bow with a sliding wheel.

After leaving the tent, he saw the three men.

It's someone familiar.

Manager Zhang, Engineer Wang, and receptionist Xie.

The three of them are from the same company. They came here to travel and explore because they are working on a big project.

Manager Zhang frowned and said, "Sir, is this your tent? When did you come here?"

Li Si looked at them with a puzzled look on his face and explained, "I'm here to travel, so of course this is my tent."

"I stayed here because it was too cold outside."

He pretended to be easy to talk to.

Manager Zhang nodded slightly and then asked, "Then do you know what happened outside?"

"Of course I know. Didn't they say that an extreme cold apocalypse has already occurred?"

"I also have a satellite phone and know the news." Li Si said quickly.

"So that's it."

Suddenly, Engineer Wang next to him couldn't wait to ask, "Brother, do you have anything to eat?"

"Please give us something to eat and I'll give you money."

Li Si smiled.

“Haven’t you read any apocalyptic novels?”

"If you want to eat, you must work for me."

The three of them looked at each other, and Manager Zhang wanted to say, "Don't you want to take a look at the situation?"

But looking at the machete in the other person's hand, he decided to be patient.

So he said, "Okay, but how much food do you have here?"

Li Si smiled and said, "I don't have much here, but I know the technique of growing mushrooms."

"As long as we dig a mushroom house underground, use the hot water and the wood here to grow mushrooms, we can survive for a long time."

Manager Zhang immediately gave up the idea of ​​killing the other party directly.

Let's wait until everything is built.

Of course he knew that in the doomsday world, growing mushrooms would become an important factor affecting survival.

The survival of a base depends on the trees that have been frozen to death.

With wood and heat, mushrooms can be grown.

Humans cannot digest the organic matter in wood.

But fungi can digest it.

There are many forests on the earth.

It can be said that if there are very few survivors, relying on wood to turn into mushrooms to eat is enough to hold on until humans rebuild civilization.

The other two were immediately very happy.

So under Li Si's guidance, the other three started to work.

Of course, Li Si rarely works.

In his own words, "I provide both technology and food, so of course I shouldn't work more."

At first the three of them admitted this.

But as they worked hard while Li Si rested every day, he naturally had many complaints.

This is natural.

No matter how much you pay, as long as you don't work, those who work will be angry.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of anger can only turn into complaints and grumbling, followed by job hopping.

But now, there is no opportunity to change jobs.

Only rebellion.

Just like that, the good times didn’t last long.

After a month, they built the basement, mushroom room, and bathroom...

The three of them were so exhausted.

If Li Si hadn't provided enough calories, all three of them would have been exhausted to death.

The three people who had never done heavy work were all exhausted.

After it was built, the three people began to discuss it.

"No matter what, he provided food and shelter, we shouldn't go against him." Front desk clerk Xie still couldn't bear it.

But the two men rejected her naive idea.

"You are so stupid, do you want him to continue to oppress us like this?"

"Now there are three of us and he is alone. He should be the one working for us."

"That's right. From now on, let him grow mushrooms."

After thinking about it, the woman did not object.

After all, work is really tiring.

So, the three of them chose to sneak attack Li Si one night.

Of course, Li Si knew this would happen.

In fact, he had already set up some traps while the three of them were working.

When the two men entered his tent, they fell into the trap.

Then he was killed by the knife in the trap.

Xie waited for a long time at the front desk, and finally got two heads.

"what!"

She was frightened out of her wits.

Then she wanted to run away, but was caught by Li Si.

Then Li Si tied her up with a rope.

Li Si said angrily, "You bastards, I gave you food and water with good intentions and helped you build the mushroom room."

"So that you can all survive."

"You are just as ungrateful as the colonists."

"Don't kill me. I also objected, but they insisted on doing it." Ms. Xie said in horror.

"Well, if that's the case, you can live, but you have to be my slave now to pay for your sins."

Ms. Xie was a timid person after all, so she knelt down immediately.

"As long as you let me live, I will listen to you."

Only then did Li Si smile with satisfaction.

In fact, he had played this trick before.

He already knew the personalities of the three men.

Ms. Xie is the most timid one.

He still has some moral bottom line in his heart, and he can use this to control the other party and reduce the chance of resistance.

Of course he wouldn't be too harsh.

If you accuse or scold him without any reason, he will resist.

(End of this chapter)