This time I chose Paladin

"Don't force yourself to go so fast," said Nie Weiyang, who was driving a motorcycle and didn't look back when he spoke.

Yunni was stunned for a moment and fell silent.

The lights of Langcheng were just ahead. People seemed unaccustomed to a day without sunlight. As Nie Weiyang approached, he faintly heard someone complain, "If I don't get any sun for too long, I'll be deficient in vitamins..." Another person muttered, "It's just a cold dish."

Nie Weiyang sent Yun Ni to a temporary hospital, which was filled with the smell of human beings, blood and medicine.

Some medicine from Earth was also transported here. And with so many smart people in the world, of course some doctors and nurses reacted quickly in those ten seconds and quickly gathered up the medicine they had. Even among ordinary people, some chronically ill patients came with their medicine—those with high blood pressure, diabetes, and AIDS, for example. They understood the pain of being without medicine better than most.

Of course, the hospital is not short of bandages and some basic medicines now, and that's because Nie Weiyang had previously dumped a lot of stock in Langcheng...

"Your bandaging technique is very professional. Have you learned battlefield first aid?" The emergency doctor raised his eyebrows as he opened the bandage.

"Yeah." Nie Weiyang responded, "I have something else to do, so I'll be leaving first." He said to Yun Ni, "This place is managed by the military, and the environment is much better than outside. They should be able to arrange for you to stay nearby. When your friend arrives, I'll ask her to come find you."

Yun Ni nodded gratefully and said yes. Nie Weiyang hurried out to find Xiang Feng and explained the matter of Daliushan.

"I will send people to gather the people immediately." Xiang Feng said.

He didn't say anything like 'How could such a thing happen' or 'How could such a thing happen' - anyone with a discerning eye knows that the world has changed, and there will be more and more beasts who will enslave others by any means necessary. If someone says such things, it only proves that he is playing dumb.

"Have you seen the village official of Daliushuang?" Xiang Feng asked.

"Dead." Nie Weiyang answered briefly.

Xiang Feng sighed and turned to other questions. After understanding the situation, he dispatched two companies. Then, he suddenly asked Nie Weiyang, "Do you know if there are any dangers along the way from the capital to Yuzhou... no, Zhongzhou?"

"I know." Nie Weiyang said.

He also knew what the other party was talking about: now that the apocalypse and the game were confirmed to be real, there would definitely be people who wanted to know more information.

But he just said: "I have said most of what I can say."

Now that he had changed, he couldn't be sure of the direction of the end of the apocalypse. However, some of the information in the "New World" itself should have remained unchanged, and he was certain that, if nothing unexpected happened, there would still be a nuclear war in the middle of the apocalypse.

Recalling those days, Nie Weiyang paused and reiterated a message he had already put into the USB drive: "The nuclear materials in the transferred materials must be handled properly."

"I know." Xiang Feng nodded. He even memorized the entire text, but what he didn't understand was: "So, why?"

Nie Weiyang laughed again, but did not answer.

why?

Of course, nuclear radiation is also one of the reasons why the New World has become what it is now.

On Earth, the fallout from the atomic bomb explosion by Oppenheimer in 1945 sent cesium 137 to the entire world. This stuff exists in the body of every human being on Earth. Starting from this element that originally did not exist in the human application sequence, nuclear radiation will accompany the people on Earth forever.

In the new world, a rule is set for the entire planet: the probability and degree of mutation of organisms caused by radioactive substances increase significantly, especially in humans.

This was once believed by New World biologists to be one of the reasons why humans were transformed: if they were not transformed, everyone would be the same as the "locals" when they landed.

As for why nuclear war would happen...

…All I can say is that human greed knows no bounds. Everyone wants the world to be the way they want it to be. Yet, the vast majority of people don't know how to guide it properly.

"I'll go first." Nie Weiyang waved his hand.

He refused Xiang Feng's farewell and walked out of the makeshift camp, but after a few steps, his steps suddenly paused. The next second, a young man stumbled and fell where he had originally landed.

He was a young man with white hair and green eyes. Nie Weiyang took a look at his ear feathers and recognized his bloodline: Crane.

The white-haired crane... Wei He?

Nie Weiyang raised his eyebrows, turned the young man over, and saw a face with lifeless eyes.

It turned out to be Wei He, one of his teammates in Langcheng in his previous life!

Two guards hurried over and picked up Wei He awkwardly. "Sorry, Mr. Nie, this is the president of the Langcheng Anju Association. He might be a little tired."

"Ah..." Wei He's eyes were empty: "No more, not a single one left..."

Nie Weiyang: “…”

Apparently, this guy had gone crazy drawing talismans again. He just didn't know what title of president Wei He had held in his previous life. Furthermore, the use of the word "again" in describing a work-related madness actually evoked a certain sadness...

"...Take care of your health." Nie Weiyang said this dryly and left silently.

Three hours later, the residents of Daliushuang were finally taken away by the Langcheng garrison. Nie Weiyang breathed a sigh of relief, returned to his small tent in the mountain hut, sat down at the door, stretched, and felt a little tired from the bottom of his heart.

Rest, he thought.

No matter what else you have to do, you have to be full of energy first.

Chapter 19 'Rainy Season'

On the third day of the new world, at dusk, a torrential downpour washed over the world. This downpour would last for a month, causing flash floods, landslides, and rapidly rising water levels.

[Rainy Season [Level 1·Blue·Public Daily Event]-

Water is the source of all things, as people often say. Now, a heavy rain has covered the entire world. This may be the beginning of a disaster, or it may be a hard-earned period of time for infrastructure preparation.

Mold growth rate +30%

Organic matter decay speed +30%

Infectious Disease Activity +30%

Bacteria spread more easily

'Water' related element energy activity +50%

-50% activity against non-water elemental hostile units

-90% activity reduction for hostile units with heat/dryness related elements such as 'fire' and 'sand'

Event shared rewards: Crop growth rate +20% (lasting 365 days), livestock water resource utilization rate +20% (lasting 365 days)

Event Personal Rewards: [Water Vein Series Item Box] x1, Basic Survival Resource Pack x30, Clean Water 30L]

Starting at the Blue level, public events offered rewards. Nie Weiyang considered this mission a purely rewarding one, but it was only a reward for countries with mature public health systems and efficient execution capabilities...

As expected, less than a month after the incident began, a Level 2 yellow public hazard event called "The Great Plague" occurred in a country with a large land area in southern China. Half a month later, it not only did not end, but was even upgraded to an orange rating.

This left Nie Weiyang stunned.

In his previous life, he couldn't check the event lists of other regions. At this moment, he was relying on his strong body to build the wall of Lang City in the rain, and occasionally went out to fish...

Nie Weiyang sat in his camp, stirring the stove in front of him. The frying pan sizzled with sizzling meat. Next to him was a simple, transparent thermos cup filled with blood. A half-burned candle provided him with a faint, warm, goose-yellow light.

It was autumn when we traveled through time, and now the weather is cold. The second half of the rainy season will team up with winter to beat humans, and the rising blood moon will appear after the rainy season ends, giving humans a heavy blow.

During this period, he rarely returned to Lang City. Instead, he wandered in the wilderness, rescuing people, fighting monsters, and obtaining resources. Occasionally, he would catch mutant animals and bleed them, but rarely kill them.

The rainy season reduced monster activity, and hunting monsters often meant searching for hours without finding a single one. Fishing became the most convenient way to level up, as the water veins and the creatures within them were incredibly active. But Lang City was a small place, and even the most active of the small fish and shrimp wouldn't provide much experience.

The only good news is that there aren't many aggressive mutant plants, or rather, very few. The direction of plant evolution has dictated that they can only react passively and cannot actively attack.

Even though it is in ruins, the new world still has its own ecosystem. Even though it is beyond recognition, life is still looking for a way out year after year.

Now Nie Weiyang's level has been raised to level 9 and he is about to enter level 10. The opportunity he has been waiting for is about to come.

After eating the meat, Nie Weiyang slowly took a sip of the blood in the cup.

A vampire's sense of smell and taste was mutated, allowing him to sense the aroma and taste of each type of blood was different, but similarly, they all had an appeal to him, though he could control himself. This was one of the reasons why he tried not to go to Lang City: even if he could control himself, it was really too uncomfortable to hold it in.

He didn't want to whet his appetite for bloody battlefields or moving crowds, not at all. At least he had to reduce the frequency...

Nie Weiyang stood up, blew out the candle, straightened his jacket, hung the thermos on the handlebars of the motorcycle, and pushed the motorcycle towards the fence gate a few meters away.

This whole thing was so smooth that it was a bit too smooth. The brother didn't look like a solitary half-vampire at all, but more like an old man out for a stroll.

The biggest difference is that Nie Weiyang changed his equipment recently. He pieced together a set of white light armor and a white iron shield from monster drops, and mixed them with his original outdoor equipment, showing a subtle weirdness.

A high collar with black lining, black quick-drying windproof pants, a simple and neat silver light breastplate, matching waist armor and boot armor, and a light and durable jacket on the outside. He wears a ring on his finger and a "Whisper" on his left waist. He carries a round iron shield on his back with some slight scratches on it, indicating a durability of 98/100.

With all this, the heavy stabbing sword 'Whisper', which originally did not fit in with Nie Weiyang's style, became particularly discordant, but there was no better sword available, so he could only make do with it.

In addition, he also wore a pair of sunglasses, which were now perched on the top of his head, making his hair, which had grown longer, a little messy.

The price of high resilience is high metabolism. Half-vampires are easily hungry and their energy consumption is much higher than that of people with normal resilience. Their nails and hair also grow much faster than those of ordinary people.

"Today's target location is..." Nie Weiyang opened the sports watch fixed on the inside of his arm armor, "...the river intersection, the 'Three-Headed Water Snake'."

Although the water veins are dangerous, fish is probably the main source of nutrition for people everywhere recently. After all, the activity of other creatures has decreased, so it is better not to use those materials with a long shelf life rashly.

Moreover, the nutrients provided by fish, whether it is high-quality protein, vitamin D or B vitamins, are what people who live in a dark and humid environment for a long time and need to maintain good health need.

But there is a rule in "New World": when the death rate of creatures in a specific area exceeds a certain limit, temporarily disrupting the ecological balance or approaching extinction, a boss will appear in the area to slap humans twice.

To survive in the new world, humans will inevitably cause more or less damage to the environment, and the ecological environment will return it in a more direct way than the Earth itself. Discussions and debates about these issues have continued unabated for twenty years. Some extreme environmentalists even believe that humans should actively reduce their own numbers to achieve ecological balance. However, they have no intention of actively reducing themselves, which is truly interesting.

Nie Weiyang didn't care about the arguments; he just wanted people to survive, one by one, one by one. His long-term goal was to uncover all the secrets of the new world, solve the game system, and allow people to build a stable society. His short-term goal was to defeat monsters, level up, and...solve some insignificant problems.

Now, the ecological balance in the Langcheng area has reached a critical point, but people still know nothing about it. The only thing is that the army that received the news in advance has arrived and is withdrawing the fishermen who once belonged to various industries and professions in various river bends.

Nie Weiyang drove through the hillside and saw the river intersection in the distance. A barely perceptible blue light had emerged there, and on a tree somewhere on the edge of the river, a figure was squatting on it, and the rain made it look very hidden.

It was a figure that looked neither human nor human. It had a green face, fangs, red eyes, and black hair all over its body. It looked like a strange monkey. Although there was a neat diamond-shaped glowing gem embedded on its forehead, it was not discovered by anyone nearby.

Nie Weiyang narrowed his eyes and looked at it from a distance.

From the very beginning when he dealt with 'Ai', he knew that 'Zhongzhou' would be seen by everyone in the world because of that announcement. People with discerning eyes would naturally realize the importance of this matter. And within the Chinese region, and even in Zhongzhou itself, there would be many people with bad intentions.

What's more, there is even a 'World Boss' in Zhongzhou...

This place will become a 'battleground' even earlier than in the previous life.

And now, someone finally came all the way here to die.

Chapter 20 Everyone who comes is a guest

Nie Weiyang got out of the car. He put his sword, shield, and car into his backpack, but did not take off his equipment. Instead, he walked slowly in one direction.

The ape-like monster was faintly covered with a dim and fragmented light circle, which was the symbol of a "summoned creature". However, at this level, a summoned creature could not maintain its existence at most one hundred meters away from its master.

The summoner's real body must be nearby.

Nie Weiyang had killed so many summoners before that he could easily spot their most suitable hiding spots. If they were a more skilled player, he might have guessed wrong, but if they could sneak up to this place, they were definitely not ordinary people.

If you use a master's mindset to try to figure out bronze, you might be confused by your opponent, but if you use a master's mindset to try to figure out diamond, you're almost certain to win!

Nie Weiyang's gait gradually shifted, taking on a subtle rhythm. At this moment, he was closer to a fox or leopard than a human. This was the work of the New World biologists at the Zhongzhou base in his previous life—based on bionics and psychology, they had developed a gait known as the "Traceless Step." While the researchers themselves couldn't apply it, nearly all combat professionals affiliated with Zhongzhou benefited greatly from it. As one of the Seven Guardians of Zhongzhou, Nie Weiyang was naturally familiar with this technique, cultivating it almost like instinct.

It is precisely because of the assistance and care that Zhongzhou Base provides to its combatants that few people can bear to leave after joining.