State of Decay - Chapter 256
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After just a moment, the zombies rushed out. Unfortunately, the zombies were too impatient, and only two came out, and the small iron gate was squeezed to death by three zombies. At this time, Lin Wu and the others were very calm and were able to deal with the zombies with ease and enjoy the dramatic scene. Until one zombie was squeezed out, zombies rushed towards him like a tide.
Although they are all ordinary zombies, and the number is not very large, these zombies are more imposing than before the update. Lin Wu quickly discovered the problem. The previous zombies were basically the same model in terms of movement. The updated zombies are different. Some zombies run fast and some scream loudly. The most important thing is that they no longer have time to rest after sprinting, but run straight to death.
This onslaught of zombies caught several people in Doomsday Fortress off guard. Even Maya, who took out a 40-meter machete, couldn’t withstand it. What was even more outrageous was that the zombies would actually fall to the ground and bite her calf.
“Run.”
Maya kicked away the zombie on her left leg, bumped another zombie away with her shoulder, and ran with the three of them. Lin Wu ran the fastest. Seeing that the tide of corpses was chasing after her in a hurry, he took out a Molotov cocktail, lit it and threw it behind Maya. The flames exploded, and the zombies rushed through the sea of fire without hesitation. One by one, they were ignited. After running for more than ten meters, the fire corpses fell to the ground one after another and were burned to charcoal. When the wind blows, the coke disappears.
The flames were extinguished, but there were still five zombies alive. Everyone faced off against one and eliminated them with ease.
After it was over, everyone was left with lingering fears.
After the summer update, they checked the farmland, studied the base, and found NPCs, but they never thought that zombies would also be updated. No wonder the density of mutated zombies is reduced. More than twenty ordinary zombies form a zombie tide, which can already pose a great threat to four players.
Maya’s understanding is slightly different from Lin Wu’s. She agrees with the impact, but she believes that the source of the impact is from a different system. Before the update, in the narrow corridor, Maya could cut down a division by herself. After the update, zombies no longer line up waiting to be beheaded. The zombies behind them will squeeze forward desperately, pushing the zombies in front of them to the ground without hesitation.
Maya’s deep understanding summarizes: Hardcore mode can no longer open unparalleled.
Players who are insensitive and infirm need to carry Molotov cocktails with them. This is currently the cheapest and most effective way to deal with the zombie tide. Of course, the best way is not to provoke the zombie tide. If there had been a scream in the zombie wave just now, the four of them would have had no choice but to run for their lives towards the Doomsday Fortress.
Maya shared her encounter with Shana, and finally said: “I personally think that you can consider arranging enemy tactics around the fighter’s knife.” Bullets were upgraded to luxury goods, and fists were the most cost-effective weapons.
Maya said: “Go back to the base to heal, we have to practice the formation.” Just a moment ago, Maya and Cotton were both infected and injured, and Peanut was injured. Why was Peanut only injured but not infected? Because he ran into the wall in a panic.
“What formation?”
“Chop Knife Formation.” Maya said, “Based on the Qi Family Army.” The soldiers of the Qi Family Army have a principle in training and dealing with the enemy. If you don’t avoid it, you will cut it, and I will cut it back. Just a simple chop.
The biggest mistake just now was that when many people were traveling, everyone spread out and did not form an iron wall to stop the impact of the zombie wave. Although I will try my best to avoid confrontation with the zombie tide in the future, who knows what will happen in the next second. Injury and infection will not cause the player’s death. As long as he withstands it, he can use weapons and other advantages to fight back against the zombie tide. Of course, if you can’t withstand being knocked down by zombies, the two miracle doctors Xingguang and Cuiyu are beyond their reach.
You can get injured, you can get infected, but you can’t die.
Lin Wu, who didn’t know where to go with his imagination, said: “I know now that Shuguang has always been kind.” Assuming that players have to face such a zombie wave in these nine months of gaming career, the player The death rate has not simply doubled.
This reminds everyone of the scene where countless zombies attacked during the final activities of the second expedition to the abandoned city. At that time, the main reason why Lin Wu and his group finally won was because they adopted a circular formation and people were crowded together. Because there is no space, the zombies cannot make an impact.
But what kind of warehouse is this? How could there be so many zombies?
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There is nothing to practice in the kitchen knife formation, just use blunt objects or sharp blades to chop. There is only one thing to pay attention to, and that is to advance and retreat together with your companions. After only practicing for five minutes, everyone said that they had mastered the essence, and Maya had no choice but to give up.
After the treatment was completed, the four-person team went out again. They no longer chatted and strode along the way, but instead sneaked throughout the entire process, picking off the lone zombies one by one. When I entered Warehouse No. 1, I saw that it was a super large warehouse that connected the left, right and front warehouses. Its actual area was equivalent to 10 warehouses.
This is a cement warehouse. Piles of cement are arranged neatly, with enough passage for forklifts to meet in the middle.
There were dozens of zombies in the warehouse, and the density was relatively high. Peanut’s reconnaissance skills scanned and located seven resource points. Maya first shot the only screaming one with a repeating crossbow, and then used stone throwing to lure out the zombies. It took half an hour to eliminate them all.
Six of the seven resource points are building materials, and there is another resource point in the only office in the warehouse, a paper knife, classified as a short blade.
The peanut detection skill seems to be very useful, but it is also very useful, but it has a drawback. Investigation can only discover resources, not clues.
While everyone was searching, Maya looked through the work diary in the office and found that the cement in the warehouse was produced by suburban cement factories. There is also a message. Two weeks before the normal operation of the warehouse, the warehouse received a task. Due to anti-virus work, the cement warehouse received 500 kilograms of cement transferred from other warehouses. The calculation of cement by kilogram attracted Maya’s attention, so she looked through it carefully.
Taking her work diary, Maya found 10 bags of cement placed in the southeast corner. The 10 bags of cement had different packaging and different parameters. The only thing that was the same was that each bag was 50 kilograms. There is also a nameplate on each package of cement, describing the characteristics of the cement in detail, and finally there is a reference price.
Obviously these 10 bags of cement are exhibits. If the exhibition hall is far away, there is no need to transport them to the warehouse for storage. After all, it is cement, and it doesn’t matter if it expires. Customers want to see the physical objects and information. Most likely, the cement showroom is nearby, in a certain warehouse. Because of the needs of the Anti-Zombie Virus Command, the exhibition hall was vacated.
The question is, what are the items placed in the exhibition hall?
Maya looks for clues, while Lin Wu and others do hard work. For six bags of building materials, the three of them had to make two trips. Pick up a building materials package, run to the base and store it in the warehouse, then run back to pick up another building materials package and run back to the base. Expanding the base requires 250 building material packages, so you can expect hard work in the future.
The one-way trip is 240 meters, and the two round trips are nearly a kilometer. Each building material package weighs 10 kilograms. Including the weapons carried with them, each person’s load is about 20 kilograms. After running this thousand meters, physical strength became the immediate highlight. The main body of Lin Wu feels relatively relaxed, but you can also feel some fatigue unique to it after the update. The cotton on the auxiliary body is not a big problem either.
The strength-sensitive Peanut couldn’t keep up with everyone in the second half of each round. After barely transporting the building material packages back to the Fortress of Doom, he held one hand against the wall and gasped for air. Just like a real person, he calmed down quickly. Then I ran to the warehouse with a load of 10 kilograms, and I was able to do it with ease. Then Peanut carried 20 kilograms and ran the Fortress of Doom again. The situation was the same as the first time, or even worse. Peanut drank two bottles of water and cursed hardcore mode.
Peanut then said in surprise: “My physical strength increased by 0.01% stars.”
Lin Wu and Mian Mian may not have paid attention because of their high star rating. After hearing what Peanut said, the three of them got together to discuss that running around carrying a 50 kilogram bag of cement might quickly increase their physical experience.
Under the leadership of Lin Wu, a good-for-nothing, Maya, who was collecting clues, saw a strange scene. Each of the three men carried a bag of cement and walked in circles in the open space outside the warehouse. After less than two laps, one of them stopped first, then the second, and then the third. The three people were lying on the ground panting like half-dead dogs, while the real dog Xiaowai was running around.
“What do you think?”
“Experience added.”
“Increased?”
“Increased by 0.02%.”
“Then what?”
“Then I suggest you rest today.”
Yes, you have used all your strength. You still have it today. How does it work? Even if you have to exercise, you should run a marathon and get a long-lasting workout. And you, Peanut, after all, you still have a physical attribute bonus, what are you doing? You can gain up to one star of physical strength by running around carrying cement for a month. Let me ask you: What can one star of physical strength do?
I usually see three very smart people, but how come they become what they are when they get together. Maya didn’t want to say that word. Seeing that the energy and energy of the three people were exhausted, she had no choice but to withdraw her troops and return to the Doomsday Fortress to rest for a few hours and then decide whether to continue arranging work based on the specific situation.
The three of them returned to the base with their heads drooped, and each lay down on the bed. Lin Wu didn’t want to move at all, and said through the headset: “Dashuang, bring me a bottle of water.” After sleeping for two hours and eating fried rice for lunch, Lin Wu
recovered Some spirit. Until now, Lin Wu and Mian Mian finally accepted the immersive settings and began to face their fatigue. Previously, fatigue was a blessing, affecting the combat effectiveness calculated by the system. Now fatigue is a physical condition. Fortunately, there is no muscle soreness or other conditions, or Shuguang is still too kind.
However, Peanut had no interest in lunch. His mental state was very bad and his eyes were dull. After checking with Cuiyu, he found that Peanut suffered from heat stroke, so he wasted more than an hour in confusion. At three o’clock in the afternoon, the team set off again.
This time everyone learned the lesson, not only emptied their backpacks, but also avoided direct sunlight as much as possible to maintain physical strength.
Because three of the thugs had convulsions in the morning, Maya had more time to analyze clues and determined that the target warehouse was Warehouse No. 307. This afternoon’s job is to capture the office in the warehouse area and find the location of warehouse 307.
The office is a two-story house with eight rooms in total, located near the warehouse gate. The surrounding zombies are relatively dense, and the number of mutated zombies is very small, about 40 to 1 ratio. There are no Big Macs, two fierce ones, three screaming ones and two explosive zombies.
Lin Wu used the Silencer to kill the enemy from a distance. This thing was a nightmare in close combat. Then Lin Wu and Mian Mian pulled away from each other, and the two relied on stealth to clear the zombies on the road. Comparing the two, Lin Wu progressed very quickly, while Mian Mian was more careful. Cotton lacks the Wind Thorn and Stealth skills, replaced by the ‘Escape’ skill.
Players with the escape skill can trigger this skill in shrubs, garbage piles and other messy objects. For example, a neat cement warehouse cannot activate the escape skill, but an overgrown football field can. Sneaking in a suitable place for more than 3 seconds can trigger the escape skill. The player will enter the invisible state and can remain invisible when moving in the same scene.
This skill is great because it can use darkness to escape, but if the light exceeds a certain intensity, it will break the invisibility. Broken Shadow is a younger brother’s eight blessings, which lasts for 15 minutes, which means that once the shadow is broken, the escape skill cannot be used for 15 minutes.
Lin Wu’s passive stealth also has a great bonus at night. Peanut has night vision ability, coupled with Cotton’s escape, it’s a perfect night team. Too bad their captain doesn’t have any night travel advantages. Besides, it’s better to sleep in the middle of the night.
The cotton ducks between two rows of green trees, killing it quickly and with very high efficiency. However, the two rows of green trees did not lead to the office building. Cotton had no choice but to take the initiative to escape from the stealth, and its advancement speed immediately slowed down.
Can you come at night? No, because there are street lights in the warehouse district. Is it okay to go to a place without street lights at night? It doesn’t work either. Firstly, places without lights generally don’t have many resources. Secondly, you don’t have night vision capabilities when you escape, and you can’t use a flashlight. You might trip and fall to your death.
Although the skills are good, they are quite limited and can only be used in special situations.
Lin Wu arrived at the office building, fought back, and assisted Qian Qian in clearing the zombies on her route. After being busy for a while, Maya and Peanut followed. Cotton and Lin Wu cooperated to eliminate zombies in each office, while Maya and Peanut were responsible for searching for clues. Since cleanup work was in progress and the surrounding zombies were relatively active, Maya and Peanut acted very carefully, handling them gently and sneaking throughout the process.
A change from the usual drastic and joking work atmosphere made Peanut feel pressured for the first time.
After searching a place, Peanut stood up and accidentally knocked over a glass. Hearing the sound of a glass falling to the ground and shattering, several zombies on both sides of the office building changed from their usual slow, coping style and immediately rushed towards the source of the sound. Maya and Peanut easily eliminate the zombies. I originally thought that the matter would be over, but I didn’t expect that there were also fishermen among the zombies. One zombie arrived at the scene half a minute after its companions.
The zombie saw the two players from the office door. It did not rush up immediately, but looked up to the sky and howled. This howl was like spitting up phlegm. Not only was it unpleasant to hear, its volume had a much worse range than screaming, and it was only half a howl. Therefore, the zombies it summoned were less than expected, only eight came.
But there was a zombie coming from behind. It smashed the window glass and rolled into the office. This sound was equal to the volume of the howling zombies just now, and it attracted a few more zombies.
It wasn’t a big deal at first, but with Maya’s crossbow in hand, she quickly knocked them down one by one. But one of the zombies broke the broken fish tank when it fell, and several more zombies were pulled in. After going back and forth several times, Maya and Peanut both felt a little exhausted. After all, the origin of everything was just a cup. So in the next work, the two of them were more careful.
After cleaning the office, Cotton upstairs went to the hallway to take out the trash. Her search skill is a passive skill. It will be given to you if you want it, and it will be given to you even if you don’t want it. Every time a zombie is killed, the corpse is automatically touched, which makes the weight of her backpack continue to increase. In addition to rags, the garbage dumped out also contains marbles, coins, banknotes, lighters, matches, tickets and other odds and ends.
Lin Wu complained immediately to fight against Mian Mian. It’s not that he thinks these garbage are useless, after all, all garbage will be useful in the end of the world. The reason for his complaint was that he thought Mian Mian was a hard-working person, and sometimes she wanted to touch the body with her own hands. To prevent others from inheriting the traditional virtues of hard work was discrimination and a crime.
Although Mian Mian couldn’t see the little white rabbit, he could hear Lin Wu talking. In just two minutes, her outlook on life was shattered at least five times.
Looking back now, in Mian Mian’s impression, Lin Wu should be a lively young man who is a little green, sunny, and friendly. But through the contact in the past few days, it feels like that is not the case at all.
By the way, a certain coffee recently contains a lot of technological stuff, so I suggest you drink less of it!
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