Chapter 262 Paper Money
Sun Hang once again picked up the container with rotten meat and raised it in front of the rearview mirror.
For some reason, he suddenly felt that rotten meat didn't seem that disgusting... and even had a desire to taste it.
"I must be out of my mind."
Sun Hang sighed, put the container aside, took another bite of the compressed biscuit, and forced himself to swallow it.
But just as Sun Hang swallowed the biscuit, he suddenly discovered that the "old woman" walking in front had disappeared.
The high beams were on, and the area 100 meters in front of the car was within sight. Not only was the land barren in this wasteland, there wasn't even a single big stone, so there was no hiding place at all...
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"Where have you gone?"
Sun Hang couldn't help but think of scenes from horror movies. He jumped out of the car and checked the car inside and out, even the bottom of the car and the trunk. There was still no sign of the "old woman" .
"This is really like seeing a ghost." Sun Hang concluded.
The banknotes are still there, and so are the rice cakes, which at least shows that all this is not an illusion.
But why did the "person" who gave him these things disappear under his nose?
Sun Hang grasped the steering wheel with both hands and closed his eyes hard.
He began to think about every detail of the contact with the "old woman" just now, every sentence and every word the other party said.
Sun Hang still couldn't find any valuable clues...
The only thing the other party mentioned repeatedly seemed to be not to let yourself "starve"...
In other words, "hunger" is a very serious problem in this place?
"Isn't this some 'rule-based trick'?" Sun Hang muttered in his heart, and forced himself to swallow another mouthful of unpalatable compressed biscuits.
The good news is that although the compressed biscuits are difficult to swallow, they will still make you feel full if they actually enter your stomach... Otherwise, Sun Hang might really eat the "rice cake" turned into a piece of rotten meat.
"That's not right... If 'hunger' is a dangerous thing, then why does the other party give you food?" A very outrageous idea came to Sun Hang's head...
You can't. That "old lady" is really your great-grandmother, right?
Sun Hang has no memory of the past, and he can't remember any other relatives he has in this world...
Assuming that this is really the occupied area of Yunnan and Dian areas...
He was attacked in a small town near Tianfu City, but he was very unfamiliar with Tianfu City... In other words, he was not a native of Shuzhou.
Is there a possibility that... I am a descendant of the refugees who fled to Shu when the Yunnan and Dian areas fell?
Putting aside the strange memory of Wuming Island for now, Sun Hang felt that his guess was quite reasonable.
Not all the refugees could escape to Shuzhou. A considerable number of people were left behind in the occupied areas... And these people who stayed may have their own ancestors...
But...if that "old woman" was really her ancestor, then why didn't she feel the slightest bit excited when she saw him?
Logically speaking, the reunion of relatives after a long absence should not be so ordinary, right?
Or is it that she just looks like the "old lady", that's why she shows such kindness to a stranger like herself?
"Damn... I'm going to look like that, right?" Sun Hang was shocked.
He took a look at himself in the mirror. Whether it was facial features or body, he was still a normal human being - but it was useless. When he was talking face to face with the "old woman", the reflection of the other party in the mirror was also a human being. Only when the other party Turn around and the mirror will reflect your "real face".
"I can't see what I see when I look in the mirror... I have to find another way."
Sun Hang thought for a while, turned his head, took out his mobile phone, turned on the camera function, pointed it at the rearview mirror, and then closed his eyes.
He took a deep breath, got rid of all the distracting thoughts in his head, and then pressed the shooting button.
"Click."
Sun Hang slowly opened his eyes and immediately looked at the phone screen.
In the photo, what is reflected in the rearview mirror is still a human being, not a monster made of deformed pieces of flesh.
Sun Hang breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he was not sure about the authenticity of the photo, given the current conditions, the best he could do was this.
It's better than seeing a monster reflected in the photo.
"It's not necessarily certain that the other party is kind..." Sun Hang looked at the "rice cakes" in the container, "Maybe I died after eating this thing, and then the other party just came back to collect my body... Then it became I am the other person’s food.”
"No, it's still wrong."
"The other party not only gave me food, but also gave me money...wait! Money!"
Sun Hang was startled and sat up straight.
He suddenly realized that there was a very important message hidden in it!
The other party gave me money to buy what I like to eat...Does this mean that there is a place where this money can be used? !
Sun Hang immediately thought of the "ghost market" that is a frequent visitor in various fantasy works - but judging from the current world view, it should be called "the ghost market" more appropriately.
Sun Hang imagined in his mind a group of strange creatures gathering together to trade goods using old currencies from decades ago...
What could be traded among the monsters?
Strange thing? Meme? Or some other stuff?
"Can this kind of banknote, which has been discontinued in the civilized world for a long time, still be used as hard currency in the 'occupied area'?" Sun Hang raised the crumpled banknote with some doubts and pointed it at the car roof. The warm yellow light from the reading lamp shines through the thin banknotes, making the face value written in Chinese characters on the front of the banknotes stand out.
Even middle school students know that paper money itself has no value and cannot be used as hard currency - real hard currency is those things with actual value, such as precious metals such as gold and silver, or food, industrial raw materials and the like. If placed in the world of monsters, memes can probably be regarded as a kind of "hard currency"...
As for paper money, it is said to be currency, but it is actually closer to a "credit certificate".
If you want banknotes to circulate, you first need a country or political system with sufficient strength, wealth and credit.
Could it be that the weird things have established a "weird thing country" in the occupied area?
If this speculation spreads in the human world, it will probably shatter the outlook of many people.
"No...it shouldn't be possible..."
"This banknote should have limitations. It may be just a 'prop' that can be used under certain conditions, rather than currency..."
Sun Hang remembered a case he had seen on the institute's intranet. At that time, he had just escaped from the strange office building, and he became interested in environmental strange things, so he went to look for some similar cases to look at.
That case described an amusement park that had turned into a Geng-shaped monster. All the rides in the amusement park had become "torture tools" with a high mortality rate - for example, the water in the water slide was replaced with Gasoline, when the player slides down the slide, the slide The pool on the ladder, including the end of the slide, will be directly ignited; for example, there is a huge ax above the pirate ship. Whenever the pirate ship swings to the highest point, the ax will sweep over and harvest all the heights. Things that come out of the ship's side.
According to one surviving investigator, the ax was invisible when stationary, and he survived purely because of his short stature...
In addition, there is also a Ferris wheel with cabin floors that randomly disappear, a really "creepy" haunted house, and a magic show that can "turn a dead person"...
If humans who accidentally enter it want to leave alive, they must use two crucial props-tickets and game coins.
The ticket will automatically appear in the pocket of everyone who enters the weird amusement park. Every time you play an item, there will be an extra stamp on the ticket. You need to collect the stamps of all items to reach the exit of the amusement park...
But that's not the end... In addition to collecting stamps, players also need to collect enough game coins. The way to obtain game currency is also very simple. You can redeem the points obtained when playing various projects. The higher the score, the more game currency you can get.
Players need to pay enough game currency to redeem their bodies in order to walk out of this amusement park intact... Otherwise, what comes out of the exit will only be scattered body parts.
The game coins collected by playing all the items are 100% not enough to redeem oneself. If you want to get out of the amusement park alive, you can only play the relatively dangerous items repeatedly... and lose the game coins.
Could it be that the banknote in his hand is the same kind of thing as the tickets and game coins in the amusement park?
Check out the 16-9 book bar and see the correct version!
Is this wasteland actually a very large environmental monster?
Five minutes later, Sun Hang started the car.
He drove in the direction from which the "old woman" came.
He clearly remembered that when he saw the "old woman", there was an unclear dirt road under her feet... But as the "old woman" disappeared, even this dirt road could no longer be found.
Staying where you are is definitely not an option. Since you originally planned to drive in that direction, you might as well continue driving there and see where the other party comes from.
After driving straight for almost twenty minutes, Sun Hang finally saw something different in the wasteland.
A rusty street sign stood abruptly in the open space.
Sun Hang got out of the car and walked forward.
The paint on the front of the road sign has completely peeled off, and the characters originally printed on it can no longer be seen... But on the back of the road sign, there is an arrow engraved, and there are also a few words engraved crookedly next to the arrow: "Linhai Road, go forward. 3KM, Maoyun Town”
In the Xiazhou Federation, many cities have roads named "Linhai Road", so Sun Hang couldn't determine his location based on this name... But it has to be said that in such a wasteland where not even a small puddle can be seen , the name Linhai Road is actually a bit ironic.
As for Maoyun Town, Sun Hang had never even heard of it.
He returned to the car, turned on the car's navigation device, and entered the place name "Maoyun Town" in offline mode.
"Seventeen matching results have been found." The navigation device made a sound, "Navigation cannot be performed in offline mode. Please reconnect to the GPS network or browse in map mode."
Sun Hang clicked "Map Mode".
Seventeen "Maoyun Towns" were marked on the map, but none of them were located in the Yundian area.
Sun Hang realized what the problem was - the data in this navigation device was updated every day. After the Yunnan and Dian areas were set as occupied areas, the related data would definitely be deleted...otherwise the navigation software would accidentally Navigating people to occupied areas would be great fun.
If you want detailed geographical information about the Yunnan and Dian regions, you have to buy old maps from decades ago... This kind of thing is not difficult to get in Tianfu City, but for Sun Hang now, there is no way.
"Bai is happy." Sun Hang curled his lips and stepped on the accelerator.
Since this road sign points out the direction, then go to this "Maoyun Town" and have a look... Even if that place is a trap, it is better than wandering around in the wilderness like a headless fly.
Although I lost my ability... I don't know why, after coming into contact with the "old lady", my fear and fear of strange things suddenly weakened a lot...
Is it because that "old lady" is too kind and charitable?
But who would have imagined that such a kind and charitable old man would look like a deformed lump of flesh in the mirror that could barely distinguish a human shape?
Sun Hang hummed the theme song of "Ultraman Tiga" every now and then, carefully adjusting the direction of the car to ensure that he walked as straight a route as possible...
Finally, dots of lights appeared in the distance. Under the illumination of these lights, the outline of a low building could be vaguely seen.
Sun Hang immediately turned off all the car lights.
Using these lights as a guide, he drove slowly over.
However, in less than five minutes, Sun Hang's idea of "quietly entering the village without firing a gun" came to nothing.
A searchlight lit up without warning, covering Sun Hang's car and illuminating a nearby sentry tower.
This sentry tower had almost blended into the darkness before, and Sun Hang was completely unaware of its existence.
Under the sentry tower, an old man with an armband that was so dirty that the original color could not be seen came over, knocked on the car window with the rubber-coated baton in his hand, and asked in a stiff tone: "Where did you come from? Where are you going? Go?”
"I...I'm going to the town to buy some food." Sun Hang replied after thinking for a moment.
"Buy food? Do you have money?" the old man asked.
"Yes." Sun Hang took out the note.
"If you want to buy food, just buy food. If you don't steal or rob, then go and do it openly... Why are you acting like a thief?" The old man's tone seemed to be full of dissatisfaction.
"Isn't this just to save some electricity?" Sun Hang made a random excuse.
He actually wanted to complain that the other person hiding in the darkness was more like a thief, but in line with the principle of doing more than doing less, Sun Hang still suppressed the desire to complain.
The old man did not embarrass Sun Hang. Instead, after Sun Hang turned on the car lights, he returned to the sentry tower and turned off the searchlights.
Sun Hang noticed that after he returned to the guard tower, he turned around, with his back to him, motionless... He looked like a clothing mannequin that had been abandoned there.
Sun Hang didn't say much, but carefully drove forward a short distance, and then looked at his rearview mirror.
(End of chapter)