Conquering alien worlds starts from the game

November [-], earth time, every ordinary Monday.

Yang Qiu went back to Earth, took a shower, changed into clean clothes, and sat down to turn on the computer and read emails as usual.

Three days (earth time) after receiving the deposit, "Director Lu" delivered all the road construction equipment...

They were all large equipment, so of course they couldn’t be delivered to the small courtyard in the urban-rural fringe where Yang Qiu rented. “Director Lu” directly sent him the address of the civil warehouse in the suburbs of Anshi, and asked the same city courier to deliver the warehouse key. , let him mention it himself.

When Yang Qiu went out to eat noodles, he took the key from a nearby courier cabinet, called Didi directly, and headed to the suburban warehouse.

The identity he is currently using is still the illegal identity he bought from someone online earlier. It has been more than a month since the game "Outsider World" was released, and the "closed beta" has been a full month. Find out his "old bottom"... Since the other party deliberately turned a blind eye, there is no need for Yang Qiu to engage in conspiracy theories.

When I got to the place, I found that the warehouse arranged by "Director Lu" originally belonged to a certain agricultural machinery factory was not to mention how clean it was, not to mention sending people to lie in ambush. Yang Qiu released his mental field and scanned it. The largest one within a kilometer was found. The living things were no bigger than mice, and even the security guards who were supposed to watch the warehouse were cleared in advance.

"Cooperation requires integrity, and the road goes a long way!" Yang Qiu praised "Director Lu", who has not yet known his true face, and entered the warehouse generously.

Not long after the warehouse door was closed, the bugs and cameras installed by professionals inside the warehouse lost all their signals.

Half an hour later, Yang Qiu came out of the civilian rental warehouse that the old factory waste was converted into, shaking both hands, stood on the side of the road, called Didi, and then returned to the city.

Not long after Didi drove away, a van drove over from the opposite direction and stopped outside the warehouse. Several capable men in regular clothes jumped out and rushed into the warehouse.

In the old agricultural machinery factory that was once prosperous and could even be assembled with tractors in its heyday, road construction equipment, mine diesel generator sets, and Dongfeng trucks full of diesel barrels, all piled up without a trace.

The field staff stared blankly at the large warehouse, which was so clean that even the coils of wires hadn't been left behind, and hurriedly took out their phones and reported the situation...

Ji Tang went online at [-] o'clock in the morning and took Rex to the countryside for research. After traveling for half a day, the two arrived at the final destination of the research trip - Beishan Village, the farthest from the town, located on the north side of a big mountain.

It was around four o'clock in the afternoon when the two of them arrived, and the sun was at its peak. The villagers in Beishan Village all came out of their homes and started working in the fields at the foot of the mountain.

Ji Tang and Rex, who saw this farming map in late summer and early autumn from a distance, their expressions were quite numb...

From the mouths of the villagers in the nearby villages, they have already heard part of the situation of Beishan Village, but after seeing it... it is still very shocking.

In Beishan Village with a population of over [-] and a total of less than [-] households, there are dozens of young and old working in the fields, all naked.

Seeing outsiders coming, the villagers of these mountain-backing villages still knew how to be shy, except for the older ones who were unmoved, and the younger ones quietly turned their backs.

Ji Tang heard Rex next to him inhaling lightly... He could guess the young man's expression without looking.

A man who looked very old, his face and body were reddened by sunburn, but his actual age should not exceed 40 years old trotted to the edge of the field, picked up a pair of rags that could barely be called trousers, and wrapped them around his waist On the road, I stared at the still-clothed skeleton (Ji Tang) who was pushing a mountain bike from a long distance in confusion, and then walked towards Rex hesitantly. Pretty decent.

Because Ji Tang, the skeleton, stood next to him, this man didn't dare to get too close, and made a series of chirping sounds with Rex after 20 meters, nodding and bowing, as if he was asking about Rex's origin intention.

Rex nodded at the man, turned his face stiffly, and said to Ji Tang with an ugly expression: "He calls himself Walker, the village chief of Beishan Village."

Ji Tang patted Rex on the shoulder understandingly.

When he went to the countryside for research on the first day, Rex had the naive idea of ​​"changing the village head can transform the poor and impoverished village to get rid of poverty and become rich". Although he knew how naive this idea was, he didn't say this anymore... But now Seeing the barefoot and shirtless village chief who didn't even have a pair of decent trousers, Rex must have felt ashamed and flustered.

What followed was the extremely proficient research process for both of them—Rex reported himself as the new lord of Westem, picked him up before Village Chief Walker knelt down in panic, and handed him a rhododendron badge to let him know. He squeezed and asked the village chief to lead them to the village to understand the situation.

After walking through the less than forty families who lived densely on the mountainside to ward off wild beasts, Rex became even more depressed...

The earth embryo house with yellow mud and grass straw is the most important property of each household. No one can see the most common low-quality glassware in the world. Even the village chief's house can only have clay pots and black bright glassware. A shiny black wooden bowl.

Most households can’t produce a complete set of clothing, but the village head and a few older villagers have a half-set of patch-on-patch “outing clothes”—the villagers need to take the soybeans to other villages When the salt is changed, it will be sent by these villagers who can afford "outing clothes".

The daily food of the villagers...is potatoes.

I usually eat wild salamander mashed potatoes. When there are seasonal wild fruits on the mountain, it is a variety of fruit mashed potatoes. Just add a little salt to taste.

When the big pits dug around the village can trap beasts without eyes, or when the children of some family catch voles, rabbits and snakes, the villagers can only see meat and animal fat in their wooden bowls.

The whole village is very primitive, so primitive that it is hard to imagine that less than 10 miles away from this village is the town of Westham, where some blocks are electrified. The city of Innatrix...

Rex, who has already visited 21 villages, can see the "poor roots" of this village without Ji Tang pointing it out - lack of water and good land.

The Westham Territory is not short of water. Due to its proximity to the Sorensen Mountains, both groundwater and river water are quite abundant.

However, the abundance of water resources and whether the people living here can make full use of water resources are two different things. For example, Beishan Village, which is the farthest from the densely populated area (town), has to choose to live on the mountain and cultivate the fields below the mountain in order to resist wild animals.

Far away from the main river that runs through Westham's territory, they can only use a small stream to get water, so they can't grow wheat (wheat still needs watering), but can only grow drought-tolerant potatoes and soybeans; they can farm more safely There is only the field at the foot of the mountain, so they have no way to take turns to fallow and cultivate the soil. They can only plant soybeans and potatoes on the same piece of land in rotation according to the experience of their ancestors.

Hearing the village chief Walker talking nervously and stuttering for a long time, words that didn't convey the meaning, and it took a lot of effort to understand what he wanted to express, Rex had no choice but to express that he was not here to enlist husbands, West Mu doesn't fight—it seems that the previous lords have given up on treating this village as a taxable place, and if it weren't for the war, they probably wouldn't even remember that there are still people in this place.

After getting a general understanding of the situation in Xiabei Mountain Village, and keeping a rough record of the village's population, Ji Tang said to Rex on the return journey: "It is very difficult for this village to get rid of poverty on the spot, and the water diversion project is too expensive. Based on the financial situation of Westham Territory, I estimate that we will not have the funds to do this kind of thing in a few years. To solve the plight of Back Mountain Village, it seems that the only way is to relocate the whole village.”

Rex nodded silently and sighed deeply.

"I always thought that it was because the lord's officials were not honest enough to make people's lives difficult. Ji Tang, it really must be that my thinking is too naive." Rex said melancholy.

"Your thinking is not to say that everything is wrong." Ji Tang comforted, "It's just that poverty in different regions has different factors, and it's not all problems that can be solved by officials being clean and honest. Integrity and morality are not a panacea. The most important thing is to be able to do things and have the determination to do things.”

Rex nodded and shook his head, still sighing.

For Rex's reaction, Ji Tang can understand very well...

No matter which plane you are in, the problem of poverty is the most "easy to solve" problem, but also the most difficult to solve.

The reason for saying "easiest to solve" is that in some people's opinion, all you need to do to solve the poverty problem is to do charity—for example, charitable activities on the earth, charitable organizations in developed countries go to third world countries to deliver food to local people, Sending medicines and clothes, asking reporters to take a few photos of the grateful smiling faces of the poor people when they receive the food, and posting them will satisfy the soul. Even if the obligation to the poor has been fulfilled, you can enjoy the civilized world with peace of mind after patting your ass and going home. .

This kind of poverty alleviation activity that doesn't even treat the symptoms but not the root cause really doesn't have much effect-international charities send food and medical care to Africa and India every year. Charity has been around for decades. Africans should starve and starve. sick sick.

Of course, it doesn't mean that this kind of relief charity is really meaningless... At least the poor can still get some benefits, and by the way, it can also solve the problem of luxury cars and houses for some charity personnel, or help their families Wealthy millionaires legally avoid taxes.

Some people will say that those charitable humanitarian organizations have good intentions and good intentions. There are indeed many great people in these organizations who have done great things, and they cannot be killed with a single stick. Then the problem comes, The small group of people in these organizations who are really doing practical things and really want to solve the poverty problem really don't understand the root cause of poverty in the third world countries?

People on earth have passed the social stage where knowledge is monopolized as resources. Uncle Hei can understand the outside world by buying a cheap Chinese smartphone and finding a place with Internet access. He has sufficient resources, broaden his horizons, and has the ability to travel to third world countries. Do the international humanitarian organizations that put food and medicine and even send medical teams there really not understand what the local people need?

To put it bluntly, it’s just seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages in the difficult road and the easy road—the success of China’s poverty alleviation can be seen all over the world. Why don’t those international organizations that have been charitable for decades or even hundreds of years not There are many ways to learn advanced experience.

Rex is an idealist who is willing to do practical things. At least in name, he is the owner of this land. He really wants to improve the lives of the people of Westham. He does not classify the remote rural population as a burden to civilization. , social burdens, backward people who urgently need to be eliminated, the easiest "poverty alleviation" option of sending some supplies to complete self-satisfaction and then slapping your ass and leaving, it is bound to be impossible for him to appear in his mind.

With this kind of thought in mind, he ran through more than 20 villages in the Westham territory. It would be abnormal if he was not in a hurry to get angry, helpless, depressed and depressed.

Returning to Westham before dark, Ji Tang separated from Rex, ran to find Zhao Zhenzhen as usual, and informed her of the situation of today's investigation——Zhao Zhenzhen and the expert team are not in the same system, two people offline Do not meet.

Zhao Zhenzhen listened to Ji Tang's introduction to the last village visited today, nodded, and said: "The poverty in this world is not the same as the poverty in China."

Ji Tang was deeply convinced.

Most of the poverty in China is poverty due to illness and poverty in the elderly.

The former is easy to understand, while the latter's words... It hurts people, but it is also easy to understand - there are quite a large number of people living in extreme poverty below the food and clothing line, and the biggest reason is the abandonment of their children.

The subsistence allowances and pensions of the elderly, and even the oil, salt, rice and noodles sent by the village committee of the sub-district office and the poverty alleviation cadres will be taken away by their children and grandchildren... Such things also exist in reality. (Note)

As for the two types of people who take drugs and become poor due to laziness, they are not within the scope of Zhao Zhenzhen and Ji Tang's consideration - if you say you can't say it, it is tantamount to making a mistake in thinking, but who wants to care about such people in their hearts!

The loss of labor force is the biggest reason for the poverty of the bottom class in China.

But the situation in this world is different. Ji Tang and Rex visited for several days, and the destitute groups they saw were mainly young and strong, and there were not many sick or elderly people.

The reason is very simple and cruel - young and middle-aged people are struggling under the line of food and clothing, where do the sick and the elderly have the strength to struggle?

The village is as impoverished as the back mountain. The oldest person Ji Tang and Rex met was a female villager in her early forties.

Where are the people older than this villager?

Self-explanatory.

"A large number of young and middle-aged people are poor, so it's no wonder that people in this place are so calm when talking about wars, and even regard territorial wars as normal." Zhao Zhenzhen shook his head and said, "The only people we can come here are you and me and the two Uncle, there are not many things that can be done, but what should be done is still to be done, and it is best to start promoting the matter of Hecun before winter."

Westem's arable land is actually quite small for local farmers, even if the whole connected and flat land is at least half occupied by the manor farms of the Rhine nobles scattered everywhere, the rest of the land is properly managed and regenerated. Gradually open up wasteland, and it is no problem to feed even the farmers and the townspeople with [-] mouths.

"That's what the expert group said," Ji Tang said, "The suggestion given by the above is that when enough local currency is coordinated to purchase food, we should seize the opportunity to create a benchmark village to attract farmers to settle—"

Before Ji Tang finished speaking, he heard a "ding" in his ear, and a large yellow word popped out on the information panel...

Seeing Ji Tang lowering his head slightly, Zhao Zhenzhen seemed to be looking at something diagonally below, and immediately understood: "Lord Yang sent you a mission?"

Ji Tang raised his head stiffly, and said dumbfoundingly: "Lord Yang asked me to immediately organize manpower to install the generator and pull the wires..."

The expert team's "delivery" date for Lord Yang is today, and Zhao Zhenzhen couldn't laugh or cry when she heard it: "This guy is very aggressive, and he gets out of the way when he gets something."

The former mayor looked down on the old electric wire lord Yang and Ji Tang who pulled it on the main road in the town. When the building was remodeled, this fire hazard was removed by the way, and according to the plan, there was a gap for the cable to run.

The lord Yang requested to install the generator and pull the wires immediately at night (it was only noon in reality, and it was already dark in the game). Ji Tang had no choice but to go off the assembly line quickly and take Lao Geng and Master Liu who had already finished work. Call them all, bring along Rex, Ben, the orc Ossirian, the boy Brook, the orc girl Lika, and other natives who are classified as their own, and let them go...

If the wires are exposed, it is easy to cause safety problems, and it is also easy to be stolen. When the road in the town was renovated, Ji Tang had already asked the clerks to arrange for the townspeople to dig out the underground space along the sides of the road to allow the cables to pass. Anyway, this world There is no fear of being run over by heavy trucks on the streets and roads, and it is okay to bury them shallower.

The 100KW diesel generator set purchased from the mine can generate 100 kilowatt-hours of electricity in one hour, and the fuel consumption is about 30 liters. If it is only enough for some area lighting and drives small motors, two sets are enough for Westem. The lord Yang asked Ji Tang There are indeed only two installed...

The generators, transformers, and transmission cables are all made in China, the quality is excellent, and the loss during the transmission process is so low that it can be ignored. However, in order to keep the loss as low as possible, Ji Tang installed both generators on the main road in the town. Meet the nearby power transmission.

Due to the lack of manpower, Ji Tang asked the clerks to suspend recruitment for half a day, gave half-day leave to the townspeople who worked temporarily, and closed the main road in the town to continue to work before dawn (in another world).

The townspeople who came to line up early in the morning to claim the job number didn't know what they were worried about, and they all surrounded the outside of the town's main road, refusing to leave no matter what they said.

Ms. Shirley nervously came to report the situation to Rex, and when she heard hundreds of people blocking the outside, Rex was also blinded and looked at Ji Tang in a daze.

Ji Tang: "..."

"...Arrange a performance for them!" Ji Tang, who was in a hurry, said angrily, "Go to the resettlement site and ask talented people who can sing and dance if they would like to perform at the street corner. Just help people calm down!"

After driving the bewildered Ms. Shirley to call someone, Ji Tang used his authority as the mayor of the player to send tasks to the online players...

Monster spawners, liver quests, and chatterers saw the mayor's quest displayed on the information panel, and laughed one by one: "Participate in stage performances to appease restless townspeople? What kind of bird feather quest is this? "

"I can sing Little Apple, can the townsman NPC I sing understand?"

"Ji Tang has been in office for so long and hasn't sent out any missions. I thought this guy had forgotten about it. His feelings are accumulating energy and waiting for his big move!"

It's all about complaining, but there are still a lot of idle players teleporting to Westham Town, looking for Ji Tang happily...

"Damn it! Are you pulling a cable?" The players present saw the construction site and immediately yelled, "Okay, Ji Tang, why don't we go to dance by hiding from the liver and hiding the mission?"

"It's a free job, and there is no reward! Didn't you see that everyone who is busy here is using the account of the toolman?" Ji Tang knew how to shut up these guys, and immediately killed them with one move.

As soon as they heard that there was no reward, the players lost their memory on the spot and said in a hurry: "Then what are you going to do with this mission, can I sing Little Apple?"

"It's fine to sing, the NPC can't hear it." Ji Tang immediately asked the natives to pick off the azalea badge when he saw the players coming, and he didn't have to worry about talking, "Is there anyone who can dance? And someone who can organize a performance, appease The rewards for town residents are doubled!"

There must be a brave man under a heavy reward, and a warrior immediately raised his hand: "I! I'll come!"

The townspeople who had been stuck at the intersection of the main road in the town for nearly an hour looked worriedly or anxiously towards the isolation zone piled up of wood and bricks.

I have just received a stable daily salary for a few days, and everyone hopes from the bottom of my heart that this kind of work can last for a while, and suddenly they say that they will stop working for half a day and let them Come back in the afternoon, the townspeople can really go home with peace of mind.

"Why did you suddenly say that you will stop working? Could it be that Mr. Rex has no money to pay his salary?"

"Could it be that the undead captured those people the day before yesterday and came back to cause trouble?"

"Miss Gold Coin bless..."

The townspeople were whispering to each other anxiously, and suddenly there was a commotion among those crowded in the front row.

People tried their best to step on their feet and look forward, and found... an extremely fit female warrior in a gorgeous dress, carrying a table by herself, came around from behind the isolation belt, put the table down in front of the crowd, climbed onto the table and stood still .

The female soldier standing on the table looked at the hundreds of townspeople who were blocking the street, and raised her hand: "Hi everyone!"

It's not the weird voice of KABAKABA, but Mandarin with a perfect accent.

But the townspeople still didn't understand, they just looked at this man in bewilderment.

Although she was too fit, this person should be a woman no matter how she looked at it, why did she actually have a man's voice? !

Players lay on the isolation belt and shouted: "Don't waste time, Boss Orange Cat! You won't last long with this transformation!"

"That's right, hurry up and sing while the vocal accompaniment is still available!"

The RMB player with the ID "There is an orange cat" has just reached the first level, and the energy bar is very short. It is really impossible to maintain the disguise phantom for too long. He quickly shook his shoulders, spread his hands forward, and opened his mouth Just sing: "You're my little little apple—"

"Grass ha ha ha ha ha!"

"The real Nima can only sing about Little Apple!"

Teacher Yuchi, who took over the task of organizing the performance, held his stomach and said, "Don't laugh, don't laugh, the dance group hurry up!"

The townspeople in the front row saw undead coming out from behind the barrier, and hurriedly squeezed back to vacate the venue consciously.

Turning to the front, several players lined up in front of the table where Boss Orange Cat was standing, with their arms folded and their pelvis raised, they danced a very irregular horse-riding dance...

Teacher Yuchi, who just told everyone not to laugh, slipped and rolled under the isolation belt on the spot.