It's okay, 10 days is 10 days. I'm single now, I don't have to live for anyone, I can afford to spend this little time.
Alex had reserved one month for himself. One month should be enough for him to get over it. By then, he would be ready to write his new book, say goodbye to the past, and start a new journey.
Thirst is a relatively easy problem to solve. There are more than ten wells in the village, and not far outside the village there is a clear stream. It is relatively easy to get water.
Relying on his memories of Peace Village over the past two days, Alex went to a public well and used the wooden bucket next to it to draw water. After some manipulation, he brought up a bucket of clean water from the well, and then controlled the character to go up and guzzle some, and the thirst quickly subsided.
The problem of food is not so easy to solve.
At this time, most of the hardworking villagers have already gone out to work, and those who are left behind are basically the elderly and children.
Alex tried to contact these elderly people who stayed behind, wanting to beg some food from them to quench his hunger. As a result, after saying all the nice things he could, and with his throat smoking, these elderly people just looked at him indifferently, with an expression of indifference.
Not everyone in the Peace Village is like John, who feels pity for the refugees. Most people in the village, especially the elderly, are actually quite wary of these sudden strangers, and even hostile.
Especially after several players caused trouble in the village and were expelled or killed by the village patrol, the villagers' guard against the players has become even stronger.
They feel that these outsiders are all unstable factors, and that their presence will be a scourge that will affect the peace and stability of the Peace Village.
After repeatedly asking several elderly people for directions, Alex received nothing but cold stares.
He went around the front door of the John family, which was locked and unoccupied.
He then went to look at the extinguished bonfire in the village.
Most of the player characters were still "lying dead", and only a small number of players had risen.
Among the players who had risen, a few, like him before, were doing simple strength training and were sweating all over.
Some were just wandering around the village, not knowing what they wanted to do.
Prompt: "You are very hungry now and need to eat."
This system prompt will appear every few minutes.
The character also experiences corresponding symptoms, with his stomach rumbling, his walk unsteady, and even his walking speed slowing down a bit.
Forget it, since I can't find food in the village, I'll go look outside the village.
Alex controls the character and passes through the village gate, leaving Peace Village.
Outside Peace Village, there are fields, vegetable gardens, and orchards.
Looking around, you can see many people working in them.
These are all the villagers of Peace Village.
They work from sunrise to sunset. These farmlands, vegetable gardens, and orchards are their source of food and their lives.
When Alex walked past them, these villagers would temporarily put down their work and coldly stare at Alex.
The look in their eyes was like they were guarding against a thief.
Under this kind of gaze, Alex wisely kept his mouth shut and didn't ask for food.
After this experience, he no longer had any good feelings towards these villagers in the Peace Village.
He wanted to take advantage of their inattentiveness to go to the orchard and steal some fruit or vegetables to satisfy his hunger.
After all, this was just a game, and he would not have any mental burden.
The problem was that no matter where he went, there would be different villagers following him from a short distance away, leaving him no choice.
Forget it, if I can't find food here, I'll go look further away.
If that doesn't work, just wait until nightfall. At nightfall, the kind-hearted John will arrange a communal meal for the players.
The farther away, the closer to the mountains and forests. In the mountains and forests, apart from wild beasts and ferocious beasts, there should also be wild fruits and other things that can be used to quench hunger, Alex thought to himself.
After Alex stumbled into the mountains and forests, the villagers stopped following him.
Alex began to search for food in the mountains.
Previously, through the forum, he learned that there would be wild beasts, and even ferocious beasts, in the mountains outside the village. Novice players are not strong and unarmed, and are simply no match for these wild beasts and ferocious beasts. Therefore, Alex is very cautious and dares only to grope in the outermost forest, not daring to go too deep into the mountains.
Tip: "You are hungry and need to eat."
Ignoring this tip, Alex continued to search for his food.
After ten minutes, he found a kind of berry, red and very similar to a cherry.
Should this wild fruit be edible?
Alex controlled his character and picked off a wild fruit and ate it.
He was very cautious and only ate one wild fruit, not the whole bunch in front of him.
Naturally, Alex could not taste the wild fruit through the screen, nor could he even smell it.
He began to wait, and he was prepared to wait for 20 minutes. If there was no problem, he would eat the remaining wild fruit.
As it turned out, it was less than 10 minutes before the character began to vomit, tears and snot flowing together, and even yellow bile was vomited out.
Because the character's eyes were blurred by the tears, Alex's phone screen also became blurred.
There was no doubt that the wild fruit was poisonous.
Alex sighed inwardly. Thinking about it now, he realized that he had been negligent. This was only the outskirts of the forest, very close to the village. If such a large bunch of wild fruit was edible, it was estimated that it would have been picked by the villagers long ago, and it would not have survived until now.
It took the character a full 20 minutes of struggling before the situation improved, and Alex's phone screen once again became clear.
Alex controlled his character and continued walking forward with a weak pace.
The character walked even more slowly than before, and from time to time it would stop without being controlled, gasping weakly for a few breaths.
With a resolute heart, Alex controlled his character and ventured slightly deeper into the mountains.
It was obviously impossible to find wild fruits and other food at the outer edge of the mountains. Even if there was any here, it would have been plundered by the villagers.
If you want to find food, you have to go deeper.
After another ten minutes, Alex found a palm-sized mushroom under a bush.
The mushroom was greyish-yellow in color, not bright at all and completely inconspicuous.
Alex began to rack his brains, recalling some common knowledge about mushrooms.
As far as he knew, mushrooms with bright colors were basically poisonous.
As for mushrooms that are not very bright in color, some of them are edible, but some are also highly toxic.
So, is the mushroom in front of him an edible mushroom or a poisonous one?
He has a serious lack of knowledge about surviving in the wild, so he simply cannot tell.
This is too difficult.