Apocalyptic Invasion: I Activated the Apocalyptic Points System

Can you believe what a mentally ill person with a disordered mind says?

This is a question that doesn't need to be considered!

"I'm sorry, I..." Zhang Yanan had just finished refusing when Qin Xu interrupted her, "Even if I'm mentally ill, it doesn't mean I'm an idiot!"

"You must still be a college student, right?" he suddenly asked.

"That's right." Zhang Yanan nodded subconsciously, not understanding why Qin Xu suddenly asked this.

Although she was a college student, not all college students are naive and easily fooled. At least she was quite wary and wouldn't easily trust a stranger.

"I am an orphan and I was homeless for several years. I know how to find resources to survive in a strange city and how to find a safe shelter."

Qin Xu explained his advantages.

If you want others to accept you quickly, you must have value. You need to let others know that you are a useful person, not a useless burden.

"You'll definitely not lose out if you team up with me, and someone like me won't pose any threat to you."

After the apocalypse, as social order gradually collapsed, the monetary system became obsolete, and even real gold and silver were useless, returning to the most primitive form of barter.

However, the problem is that half a month is not enough time for social order to completely collapse. Most shops are owned and cannot be sold for free.

If you try to forcibly take it, conflict will break out. People in a post-apocalyptic world will fight to the death for a bite to eat, because resources are theoretically non-renewable!

Therefore, for survivors on the run, finding supplies is of paramount importance!

Because these refugees, especially those on foot, cannot carry much supplies, they have to constantly move to new safe areas to collect them.

Then, when the fog appears, quickly evacuate to the next safe area, repeating the cycle, becoming a wanderer while constantly escaping the fog and collecting supplies.

After the apocalypse of the mist arrives, no place is absolutely safe, so don't think about building a safe haven to stay in for long. You can only keep escaping the mist, keep moving to the next safe area, and keep going.

Zhang Yanan naturally understood this principle. She actually wanted to go back to her hometown to find her family, but the distance was over a thousand kilometers, and there were no airplanes or high-speed trains available to take her now.

Even if she manages to return to her hometown after overcoming numerous hardships, her family members may not still be there; they may have already left. Therefore, she can only pray silently for her family in her heart.

Since I can't go home, I need to become a wanderer and keep going. So I need a reliable team to support each other.

What is most important in the apocalypse?

It's all just various survival supplies, completely meaningless!

If Qin Xu can truly find various supplies and a safe haven in an unfamiliar city, then he is indeed a rare talent.

"Could it be that talented people really do emerge from mental hospitals?" Zhang Yanan couldn't help but mutter to herself.

She wasn't the indecisive type, and after a slight hesitation, she decided to team up with Qin Xu to go to Nanshan City to see if he really had any skills.

If you're really capable, then form a long-term team; if you're not, then get lost.

Of course, the most important thing is that Qin Xu looks like a weakling, posing no threat to him. If they really fought, he would just be a handful.

"I'll trust you for now, and I hope you won't disappoint me when we get to Nanshan City." Zhang Yanan pulled out a dagger from her waist and threw it at Qin Xu.

Whoosh!

The dagger was embedded in the soil twenty centimeters in front of Qin Xu, at least ten centimeters deep.

This was Zhang Yanan's way of giving him a warning, telling him not to try anything funny. To her, even if Qin Xu had a dagger, it wouldn't pose much of a threat.

"Don't worry, I, Qin Xu, never lie!"

Qin Xu reached out and grasped the hilt of the knife, pulling the dagger out of the soil. He then took off his shirt, cut off the two sleeves, and prepared to make a pair of simple cloth shoes.

He stood up, cut down a few branches full of willow leaves from the big willow tree, then sat down and first cut open his two sleeves and wrapped them around his feet.

The wound on the sole of his foot hurt a little when it came into contact with the fabric, but he gritted his teeth and endured it, picking willow leaves from the tree branch to use as shoe soles.

He padded his feet with a full centimeter of willow leaves before wrapping the remaining fabric around them, making a very simple pair of cloth shoes.

The injury to my foot isn't a big problem. I should be able to recover by using a basic healing potion later. I'm not using it now because I don't want Zhang Yanan to see it.

"Done."

Qin Xu stood up, walked towards Zhang Yanan, pointed the knife at himself, and handed it to her. "Thank you," he said, giving Zhang Yanan a friendly smile.

"I must say, you are indeed a talent." Zhang Yanan took the dagger. She suddenly realized that Qin Xu's logical thinking and interpersonal skills were better than most people's.

Making a simple pair of shoes from sleeves and leaves is not a method that most people would think of, and even if they did, they might not be able to make them.

Is he really not mentally ill? Or am I just prejudiced?

"Let's go, we need to get to Nanshan City before dark." After glancing at Qin Xu's shoes, Zhang Yanan turned and walked quickly westward.

Qin Xu followed closely behind.

While following Zhang Yanan, he checked his belongings. Besides thermal underwear, long underwear, and a hospital gown, all he had was his cell phone in his pocket.

The phone battery is almost dead, the network in this world is down, this thing is so bad it's barely usable as a brick, it's basically useless.

Fortunately, there were still some items from the newbie gift pack in the system space, including a small amount of food and water, two bottles of basic healing potions, and two bottles of basic mental potions.

The basic healing potion is basically a small red bottle that can instantly heal minor injuries; the basic mental potion is naturally a small blue bottle that can instantly restore mental energy.

The beginner's short sword is a metal sword, 40 centimeters in total length, with a blade length of 30 centimeters.

The real world is not a game, so these items are not digitized, at least not now, and it's unknown whether they will be in the future.

Qin Xu believed that using a 40-centimeter-long short sword to kill the Corruptor was no different from suicide. At least he wouldn't be so foolish as to risk his life against a monster with a short sword.

Therefore, the beginner quest to kill three mist monsters requires careful planning and thought; you need to come up with a way to complete it without much danger.

His primary task now is to stay alive!

Besides completing the beginner tasks, the most important thing is to familiarize yourself with the environment, collect resources, and adapt to the survival rules of the apocalypse as quickly as possible.

After glancing at Zhang Yanan walking ahead, Qin Xu had a sudden thought, and a small red medicine bottle about the thickness of a thumb appeared in his hand. He quickly unscrewed the cap and drank it all in one gulp.

In an instant, he felt a warm current flow into his feet, the pain disappeared instantly, and the wounds on his feet healed.

After stuffing the empty medicine bottle into his pocket, Qin Xu jogged over to Zhang Yanan and asked, "Does any creature turn into a monster when shrouded in mist?"

"I saw a husky turn into a monster after being shrouded in mist." Zhang Yanan turned to look at Qin Xu, then quickened her pace.

"That husky is really unlucky," Qin Xu muttered to himself, wondering if it would be easier to kill small animals if they turned into mist monsters.

The beginner quests don't say that you have to kill someone to become a Mist Monster to count, so theoretically, small animals turning into Mist Monsters would also count.

An hour later, the two walked about five or six kilometers and came to the edge of a village. They stopped under a big tree and planned to rest for a few minutes.

The village was quiet, and there was no one to be seen on the streets. The villagers might be staying at home, or they might have already fled the village.

After thinking for a moment, Qin Xu suddenly said to Zhang Yanan beside him, "Um... I'm going to take a stroll around the village to see if I can find some supplies and borrow some clothes. Wait here for me for a bit, I'll be back in fifteen minutes at most."

After saying that, he ran towards the village.

Zhang Yanan frowned slightly, but still followed him in the end, because she was afraid that Qin Xu would be discovered stealing and then beaten to death.