State of Decay - Chapter 324

[Chapter 319 On the Road]

As long as Maya is here, Lin Wu has nothing to worry about. According to previous rumors, there is a road with a certain number in the county, and Maya also knows the location of the road. This road is the starting point for home. Even if it’s not Route 99, you can still follow it. It may be the opposite direction, but if you don’t leave, you will never return home.

Maya and Qinglang left the event 20 minutes early. While Lin Wu was doing calculation and multiple-choice questions, Qinglang gave Maya the supplies Linma needed from the base and her own points.

The two horses drove side by side, and Maya explained the material situation to Lin Wu.

20 kilograms of air-dried meat, 5 bottles of 1,000 ml water, a continuous-shooting Silencer plus 100 rounds of ammunition, a 5.56 assault rifle and 100 rounds of ammunition, and two pistols and 150 rounds of ammunition. In addition, there are some odds and ends, such as a line set without a fishing rod, and a pair of headsets that can communicate autonomously within a range of 5 kilometers.

Maya said: “The weight is one reason, and the other reason is that Qinglang can’t go to the non-hardcore mode empty-handed.” Unlike death and being eliminated in the non-hardcore mode, Qinglang applies to exit the hardcore mode, and he can take away twice his own weight. supplies.

Maya reached out and handed something over, and Lin Wu took it and saw that it was a drone upgrade diagram, which was the upgrade diagram that could be exchanged for 20,000 points from the event.

Lin Wu said with great annoyance, “But I have already changed an upgrade map.”

Maya glanced at Lin Wu and said, “You didn’t, you took the tent.”

“How did you know?” She felt very unhappy.

Maya said: “Just like playing mahjong, you will only play cards based on your own cards. Even if you can think for yourself, you will think with your own thoughts. I know you will consider whether I also took the tent, but you can’t be sure that I points, because you don’t remember how many tasks I have completed and what color my badge is. Based on my understanding of you, as long as you think there is a possibility that I will not take the tent, you will definitely take the tent.” Lin Wu asked angrily

: “What if you are wrong?”

Maya replied: “That means my view of you is wrong, and I need to readjust and examine you.”

Lin Wu sighed: “Who the hell said it’s hard to find a confidant? Whoever wants it can take it. .” With someone who knows you better than you by your side, life feels very boring.

Maya said: “There is no need to be frustrated. I just know your three views, so I can infer your choice. Just like choosing between white rice and hot pot, in most cases you will choose hot pot.” Lin Wu: “Yes

. Everyone will choose hot pot.”

Maya said: “So you can’t understand people who hold opposite views to you. If you substitute for others, you will only substitute for their position, but not for their three views. There are many scientists who are addicted to scientific practice. Their understanding is the function of satiety, and there is no such thing as enjoying delicious food. Because they have more important things to do.” Seeing

Lin Wu want to refute, Maya spoke first: “Then let me give you a simple example. On a rest day, winter , there is no heating, and the bed is very comfortable. What will you do after you wake up?”

Lin Wu: “Either sleep for a while, or have bed entertainment, watch movies, etc.”

Maya asked: “Then do you understand? Is he such a person? He will get up as soon as possible and rush to a place a few kilometers away to play games online with several of his good brothers who also came here.” “That’s understandable.” Although there was also a lot of noise in the bed

. You can be online, but the atmosphere of playing black games with everyone is incomparable.

“So, everyone has different ideas, different desires, and different views, and their views on things will be completely different.” Maya said: “I only know that you will get up as soon as possible to open the black hole, but I don’t know what is in it. It’s fun. I don’t know if you will change your mind if you encounter other things. I don’t know what you are thinking.”

Lin Wu: “Okay, I took the tent.” Long-winded!

After ending this topic, Maya breathed a sigh of relief and said: “Take the road, search for the forest, spread out tents, cut down building materials, build basic facilities, and collect as much food as possible. We expect to stay for two days.” Lin Wu said: “Then we might as well go

back To the lake? There are woods and food near the ship.”

Maya said: “We will never be able to move forward without leaving the ship. Camping without consuming supplies will only waste time and kill our morale. Besides, we are already at full capacity. . The purpose of storing food is to move forward, not to store food.”

“Oh!”

Maya asked: “Can the drone be directly upgraded?”

“Yes.” Lin Wu said: “The upgrade time is 1 hour. The current investigation The drone still has 30% power. Are you sure you want to upgrade it to an integrated surveillance and combat drone now? That thing is an electric tiger, which consumes 50% of power in one hour. The reconnaissance aircraft only consumes 20% of power in one hour.” Maya

. Answer: “The role of a reconnaissance aircraft is to collect information by circling, and the role of an integrated surveillance drone is to find targets and eliminate them. For the same job, the former consumes less power and requires us to take risks and invest. Bullet resources.”

“You think about everything so clearly and meticulously, don’t you feel bored?” Lin Wu asked.

Maya was stunned by the question: “I never thought you would ask such a question. My answer is: This is my habit.” “Boring!” “Do you think math

problems

are interesting?”

“Of course not.”

Maya said: “But many people can find solving problems as fun. You think my life is boring, why don’t I think you are wasting your life?” Lin Wu thought for a while: “That makes sense.” The dead

woman is getting more and more angry. The more you can talk. Or maybe she would have said it, but was just too lazy to say it.

The two followed him to the vicinity of the county seat. After confirming the route, Maya took the lead and galloped wildly. Lin Wu drove the Phantom and followed closely. Xiao Wai had been lying on Lin Wu’s back and looking forward at the scenery, but now he jumped in front and stood on the horse, looking around carefully. The zombie land that the phantom passed through made it extremely alert. It only waited for the master’s order to go up and fight the zombies.

Both horses are good horses. They kept turning to the Ring Road and left Zuoxian County through the Ring Road to Nanxia Town. As soon as they entered Nanxia Town, Maya and Lin Wu saw a road 20 kilometers away. In addition to discovering the road, the two also met local players in Nanxia Town. They were very surprised to see Lin Ma and expressed their strong desire to treat Lin Ma to a cup of tea.

Lin Wu was about to agree when he saw the other party’s enthusiasm, but was rejected coldly by Maya: “Sorry, we have other things to do, thank you.” She was not interested in spending a lot of time getting to know a few strangers, just to have a cup of tea.

Lin Wu smiled and apologized for leaving with Maya. He couldn’t judge the good and evil of the other party, but he thought it was okay to have a cup of tea. Maya is worried. She just wants to know if this road is Route 99.

The two horses went up the hillside. The wild horses on the hillside were frightened and ran wildly with them. They were quickly thrown away by the sandstorm and the phantom. Cross the river again and reach the road from the left side of a dilapidated pasture.

Slow down the horse and drive slowly to the road sign, only to see Route 88 written on it. But Maya was not disappointed, because the road sign stated that this place is 1,300 kilometers away from Fantasy City.

Lin Wu didn’t understand: “What happened to Fantasy City?”

Maya knew that Lin Wu’s brain capacity could not store much information that he considered useless, so she explained: “There are two marking points written on the road sign of Highway 99. One point is called Lemon The town is 250 kilometers away from the sawmill and is a military aircraft base. One point is called Fantasy City, 750 kilometers away from the sawmill.”

Maya said: “We can arrive at Fantasy City first and then return to Zuoxian County. The total distance is 2,000 About kilometers. When Sandstorm and Phantom are in full condition, we can travel about 150 kilometers a day. We can return to Zuoxian in about 12 days.” Maya continued: “

In order to be more secure and take care of the condition of the horses, we use three days as a unit . Walk 100 kilometers on the first day and camp at night. Walk 100 kilometers on the second day and open the tent in the afternoon. Rest on the third day. We can walk 200 kilometers in three days, and we can return to Zuoxian in 10 three days.”

Lin Wu Dao: “Theoretically, it’s true. But your horse is called Sandstorm. It starts to slow down at 50 fatigue points, and completely stops working at 80 fatigue points.”

Maya said: “So I only walk 100 kilometers a day.”

Horses have both hunger and fatigue. In this state, hunger has no direct effect on the horse, and it will die if it reaches 100. Fatigue has a lasting effect. As a five-star horse, Phantom will not stop until it dies of exhaustion. Sandstorm is the opposite. If the fatigue value exceeds 50, it will start to slow down, and if the fatigue value is 80, it will stop working at all.

Maya took out a pen and paper and calculated: “Start at seven in the morning, rest at twelve, leave at two in the afternoon, and rest at seven in the evening. In this way, the fatigue value will be cleared at seven o’clock every morning.”

Lin Wu said: “The fatigue value No problem. Let’s discuss the hunger value now. It is known that there is grass in the tent camp. You know, although the phantom can make do with poorer grass, it only eats relatively poor grass.” “A horse can eat it in one day

. Not eating during the meal will increase hunger by 50%.” Maya frowned, what a bad horse, everyone has their own problems.

After pondering for a moment, Maya said: “The first day is the same as usual, the second day we camp before two o’clock in the afternoon, the third day we break camp at 11 o’clock in the evening, the fourth day is the same as usual. It is expected to walk 150 kilometers every three days, and we can reach Zuoxian County in about 40 days. Coupled with the unexpected incident on the way, we can go home within two months.”

Lin Wu: “Three days, two days of camping? It doesn’t matter to me, I’m worried that Xiaowai can’t stand it.”

Maya said: “If you are tired Let’s just rest for one more day. There are three months in autumn, which is also the best season of the year and the most suitable season for traveling.”

Lin Wu thought for a while: “Xiao Wai is not so pretentious. He will find a way to overcome this difficulty. Yes, it’s settled.”

Maya knew that Lin Wu was not just lazy, but had comprehensive considerations. First of all, we must consider people’s fatigue. The rest effect of camping is very poor. Secondly, according to the rule of camping every three days, camping does not mean rest. They need to find food and then process the food to ensure a shelf life of at least three days. In addition, you also need to consider the extreme areas that you may pass through on the long 2,000-kilometer journey home and the extreme weather that you may encounter.

Therefore, Lin Wu first asked Maya for a discount. As for whether to implement this discount in the future, it would depend on the specific situation. To put it nicely, it’s a sense of responsibility; to put it worst, it’s called lack of self-confidence.

This is also a typical manifestation of children’s mentality. The last time he got a score of 90, the parents greatly appreciated it, but the child may not be happy because he is worried that the parents will be unhappy if he fails to get a score of 90 next time. At the same time, he is unwilling to increase his study burden, so the best way is to bargain. Knowing that he has 90% strength, but if 80% can satisfy his parents, his mentality will be more positive. Although he is not confident in scoring 90 points every time, he is confident in holding on to the bottom line of 80 points every time.

…

The situation was worse than expected. On the first day, they entered the desert. In addition to windy sand, it was still windy sand. Maya suffered from heat stroke in the afternoon, so the two horses, two people and one dog went to the sand dunes to avoid direct sunlight and did not continue on the road until night. At the same time, all the water carried has been drunk.

At nine o’clock in the morning the next day, there was still no edge of the desert. Linma avoided the scorching sun and set up a tent in the wind-eroded rock area. Firstly, he needed to rest, and secondly, the two horses needed to eat. No building materials or trees that can be converted into building materials have been found so far.

However, the tent camp was more grand and beautiful than Linma imagined. It took two basic seconds to open the tent, and grass instantly appeared on the sand. In the middle of a circle of grass was a large circular tent.

The ground inside the tent was paved with insulating plastic, and a red carpet was laid in the middle. A hole was dug in the middle of the carpet, and a systematic bonfire was placed. There are seven empty grids surrounding the tent, and they are currently empty.

Using their backpacks as pillows, the two of them lay on the carpet, feeling exhausted and thirsty. Maya closed her eyes and said: “We must find the water source before sunset tomorrow.”

“I didn’t expect Shuguang to set a road sign trap for us.” Lin Wu said: “But it can’t be said to be a trap. Whether it’s the road sign in Zuo County of Science and Technology City or the road sign in Zuo County of Future City. The road signs in the county all hint that the player’s next journey will be desolate.”

“Stop talking, maintain your strength, and rest!” At

three o’clock in the afternoon, Lin Wu woke up and found a bitter taste in his mouth. He could smell his own when he held his hands and breathed. My breath smells bad and my obsession with water becomes stronger. Maya and her backpack were not there. Lin Wu walked out of the tent. The two horses were still grazing. Maya was on a rock hundreds of meters away, looking around with a telescope.

Lin Wu said hello through the headset, and Maya said: “Let the drone fly.”

Lin Wu named the integrated surveillance and combat drone Xiaoda. It is said to be small, but in fact it is about ten times larger than Xiaozhan, weighing the same weight. A big guy up to 18kg. Mount two more rockets of 5 kilograms each, weighing a full 28 kilograms. Lin Wu’s backpack contained nothing but guns and daggers. Even so, carrying only the drone and tent was more than Lin Wu’s standard load.

Unlike Xiao Zhen, all three methods of releasing Xiao Da are troublesome.

The first way is to build a launcher with a 35-degree angle, which can be made in the crafting room. The launcher weighs two kilograms. There is also a way to hold the drone with both hands and run to a speed of 30 kilometers per hour. The third method is to push the drone horizontally at a height of more than ten meters.

Lin Wu used the second method to fly the drone. With the rotation of the propeller, the big guy made a lot of noise and took off into the air. Although it has many shortcomings, its flying speed is several times faster than that of Xiao Zhan. Maya said this is due to the fact that it is a fixed-wing aircraft, and fixed-wing aircraft generally have a disadvantage: they cannot levitate.

Fortunately, Lin Wu has a hacker computer that can set various modes, such as regional cruising, following cruising, and searching for targets.

Lin Wu reported: “You can vaguely see a patch of green 15 kilometers to the west.” The highway went southeast.

“Vaguely?”

Lin Wu replied: “Vaguely.” One reason was that the distance was too far, and another reason was that the air was fluctuating because of the hot weather, making it difficult to determine the specific situation. Maybe it’s a mirage, maybe it’s just a shadow of a rock.

Maya said: “Close the tent. Continue along the road and release the drone every two hours.”

Lin Wu: “Understood.” He admired Maya’s character. Even in the face of such difficulties, her fighting spirit remained undiminished.

The King of Hell wanted him to die at the third watch, but Lin Wu wiped his neck at the second watch. He would never let the King of Hell get his wish. And Maya will choose to fight the King of Hell in the middle of the night. Even if there is no chance of winning, she will not give up.

(End of chapter)