State of Decay - Chapter 328

[Chapter 323 Stone Age]

Maya’s voice came from the headset: “Lin Wu, wait for me. I’ll go to the town office to get a map.” Each town office provides an unlimited number of paper maps. It’s limited to small towns like going north to south.

“Okay.” Lin Wu rode the horse in circles near the town hall. The phantom was very powerful. When not running, he could kick a zombie away with one kick, and his hind legs could kick the zombie ten meters away. It seems that weight is the rule in hand-to-hand combat. No wonder Maya dares to bully her repeatedly.

In her wild thoughts, Maya got the map and continued moving forward, but discovered the player when she was about to leave the town. On the rooftop of a three-story villa on the roadside, a woman waved excitedly to the two of them: “Hi.”

Following the shout, a male player appeared on the rooftop and greeted the two of them in surprise. With an understanding attitude, Maya went over to talk to the two of them. They are a couple who occupy the villa as a base, block the first floor with stones and other structures, and use the second and third floors as living areas.

Stone will not corrode, but will be damaged by zombies, but its durability is very high.

The couple obtained a large number of foam boxes and placed them on the rooftop for growing crops. They also made their own water collectors and raised four chickens. The most amazing thing is that there is a river behind the villa. The river bank of the villa is only eight meters long. They can get food by fishing. Unlike the people in the Yunmeng tribe, they really challenge players, with the purpose of challenging the living environment, and they enjoy it.

What to do when zombies attack the city? So far, they haven’t encountered a high-star siege. If there is a high-star siege, they will move to Building B, a villa with the same environment as them. Building B also has stone walls on the first floor, chickens are raised on the balcony, and crops are planted. The two villas are connected by a suspension cable they built with wires. Relying on the two people’s agility bonus, they can easily go back and forth between the two buildings 20 meters apart.

What Lin Wu thought was the most amazing thing was that the two people somehow managed to get four cars to the stairs from the first floor to the second floor of the two villas. The car was filled with rocks, and the trunks of the two cars were filled with building material packages that had not been used yet. Their construction needs are simple. One is the basic building materials needed to occupy the new base, and the other is the materials needed to build a medical room and a production room.

Why not leave the small town and live in the mountains and forests? One is because there are abundant food sources in the river. Second, the mountain forest base is a single family, making it difficult to adopt siege and movement tactics. Third, there are many wild beasts and mosquitoes in the mountains and forests.

The couple put down a basket containing some tomatoes, corn and sweet potatoes they had grown themselves. The other party was so enthusiastic that Maya did not refuse. After receiving the gift, she put a total of 50 pistol and rifle bullets in the basket. The couple felt sorry for this and planned to give them something more, but Maya left first and Linma continued south.

“Previously, I thought that the hard-core survival mode was either to stay in a group or to hide from the world.” Maya said: “Now it seems that there are other ways to survive. The Yunmeng tribe avoids the rules of the game, but this couple made full use of the rules of the game.”

Lin Wu Lema pointed to the distance: “Look!”

Maya looked to the left. As they left Beishang Town, Route 88, which was originally on the left, turned left, getting farther and farther away from them. Maya said: “We can’t go further south.”

Highway 88 must be adjacent to Fantasy City, and there must be Highway 99 near Fantasy City. If you follow the county road, you must first reach You County, then reach Nanxia Town in You County, and then go south to Beicheng. After leaving Beicheng, continue south to reach Fantasy City. This road passes through a zombie gathering area and has twists and turns. Route 88, on the other hand, is only one way.

Although he was interested in going to Nanxia Town to see Leiyun Base and find a way to charge the drone, objectively considering the choices he faced, he had to give up the opportunity to charge. Charging is an excuse for Maya. Maya wants to learn more about the lives of players who are still living in hardcore mode. These are very valuable experiences.

Lin Ma filled up the water near Highway 88 and walked along Highway 88. According to Maya’s calculations, they are still 500 kilometers away from Fantasy City. Lin Wu couldn’t figure out how this data was calculated. He had already reached the boundary of Fantasy City, why was it still so far away?

After driving on Route 88 for an hour, Lin Wu knew what the problem was: the designer of Route 88 had a flaw in his mind. If you finally encounter a mountain with an altitude of more than 500 meters in the plain, he will build a winding mountain road for you instead of going around the left and right sides of the mountain. If Xiao’s battery hadn’t bottomed out, Lin Wu would definitely not be able to coddle him.

We camped for one night and set off at seven o’clock the next day. Soon a river wider than Yunmeng River blocked the way. This time the Route 88 bridge was intact, but the bridgehead was filled with zombies.

This is a checkpoint similar to my hometown, but they do not have a tent area. There are more than a dozen military camp tents on both sides of the road. Obviously this is not an inspection checkpoint, but an interception checkpoint. Maya visually estimated that the number of soldier zombies exceeded two hundred, and the number of ordinary zombies exceeded five hundred. Looking from the drone, densely packed zombies are like ants entrenched on the bridge. When a rocket went down, twenty zombies were blown away, but the gap in the area caused by them flying away was quickly filled.

“Detection!” Maya was angry. It was a waste of electricity.

Lin Wu drove a drone to patrol along the river bank and reported: “There are mountains within ten kilometers on both sides of the river bank. Visually, this is the river with the gentlest water. In other words…” “You must

pass the highway bridge, otherwise you can only return. Take the county road from Beishang Town to Fantasy City.” Maya said: “To pass the highway bridge, the only way I can think of is to use a masking agent. Accept the mission and kill zombies to collect eyeballs.” Lin Wu asked: “Is that feasible

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Maya shook her head lightly: “Not sure. In principle, zombies will not attack animals unless the animals attack the zombies first.”

Lin Wu said: “I can turn off the phantom’s active attack ability.”

“No, the zombies are too dense. If it’s the two of us, Individuals have a chance to pass through the zombies in one minute. It is easy to hit the zombies if you ride a horse.” Maya: “One minute may not be enough to pass slowly. In addition, after taking the masking agent, our behavior is restricted and it is difficult to control. Horses.”

Lin Wu said: “Then there is only one way left.”

“What way?”

“Kill them all.” There are mountains and forests on both sides. Cut down trees, dig out stones, make stone knives and stone daggers, rely on the base, and use ants to Find a way to move.

Maya assessed: “It will probably take two days.” It takes time to cut down wood to exchange for building materials, build facilities, and make weapons. Such a large group of zombies needs to be handled very carefully, and can only be eaten away slowly.

Use rockets to deal with Kuangmeng and the two Big Macs, and use some ammunition reserves, and it’s almost two days. Maya was also convinced that Dawn had released such a dense and large number of zombies in such a deserted place.

Shuguang: Should it be put into the base?

The biggest headache for Maya is not the Big Mac, but the soldier zombies. Rockets may not necessarily kill them, but if you use a knife to kill soldier zombies, the durability of the weapon will be lost. Lin Wu’s situation was the same. Unless he could make a sharp dagger, the durability of stone weapons meant that he would have to change his dagger after just a few stabs.

In addition to sticks, stone weapons also require stones. Stones are everywhere. You must either pick them up or make a pickaxe to dig stone mines.

This plan is low-risk, but the process is tedious and takes time. After thinking about it, Maya had no other option, so she and Lin Wu retreated five hundred meters and set up tents by a tributary river.

Chopping wood, collecting stones, and crafting stone weapons. During this period, the two of them need to eat, drink tea, take a bath, wash clothes, and even take a nap.

That’s right, it’s Lin Wu who needs to drink tea and take a nap, and it’s Maya who needs to take a shower and wash clothes. However, Lin Wu had a reason for being lazy. He didn’t want Maya to wash his clothes, so he refused the invitation to go down to the river together, saying that he wanted to take a nap. After Maya finished washing her clothes and put on spare clothes, Lin Wu went to take a shower and wash her clothes.

Not to mention, the Xiaowai brand bath brush is very easy to use and has great stain removal ability.

They set up camp in the morning and didn’t start killing zombies until three in the afternoon. The reason why they were so busy was that Lin Wu guessed that the soldiers would return to their tents after sunset. Facts have proved that Lin Wu is wrong, the soldiers here are not off duty.

For Lin Ma’s current level, it is not a problem to pull a small number of zombies, divide them and annihilate them. There are just too many zombies, and zombies will refresh. Of course, the refresh speed is relatively slow, and they will not refresh within a certain range of players. It’s just a waste of time, and I don’t even feel like touching the corpse.

After finishing work at eight o’clock in the evening and having dinner, the two of them worked continuously for five hours and only eliminated 80 zombies, which was not very efficient. One reason is that you need to pull monsters, and another reason is that the durability of stone knives and stone daggers is too low, making them ineffective against soldier zombies. A stone dagger can only be exchanged for two soldier zombies, and a stone knife can only be exchanged for one soldier zombie. Digging rocks and making weapons took up most of the time.

Early in the morning, Maya cooked dried meat and wild vegetable soup, and Lin Wu knocked down two rockets and killed the last Big Mac. The Xiaoda only has 7% power left. If 20% of the power is consumed every hour, how many minutes can 7% of the power be used? Lin Wu thought for a while, then threw the question to Xiao Wai, put away the twenty stone daggers he made last night, and went out to work with Maya, who was carrying a pile of stone daggers.

Today was another battle between primitive people. Stone weapons obviously had the upper hand. They slowly thinned out the densely packed corpses by nibbling around the perimeter, which also made their cleanup work easier. Giving up his lunch break and lunch time, Lin Wu was responsible for breaking stones and stone knives, leaving Maya to fight alone. By five o’clock in the afternoon, all the zombies at the bridge were hacked to death.

Maya’s sword skills have been upgraded to level 4. Due to the heavy weight of the stone knife, the decapitation rate is 30% and the combo rate is 20%. This is somewhat disappointing to Maya. She hopes that the combo rate can reach 80% or even 90%. Now it is far away The difficulty of this goal is already very high and almost impossible to achieve.

Today is a low-light night, and the two of them can only stay one more night. At present, the tent camp has four facilities: kitchen, dormitory, production room and medical room. It takes six hours to put the tent in and out each time. Considering the circumstances, the two men did not rest after the battle, but cut and picked wood for fuel.

In the early morning, Lin Wu collected the tents, and Maya lit four bonfires around them to avoid being attacked by night demons. Lin Ma took turns watching the fire, resulting in poor sleep quality and insufficient sleep time.

The 6 hours of unfolding and folding time made the tent base a bit useless, and the chopping time in between greatly disrupted the march plan. Maya kept thinking about this as she passed the highway bridge checkpoint. But you have to open the tent. How do you know if tonight is a low-light night?

One way is to stop moving at 5 p.m., collect firewood and other combustible materials to camp, and take turns keeping watch. This will lead to poor sleep quality and fatigue the next day. For example, after not sleeping well last night, Lin Wu not only didn’t feel guilty today, he didn’t even want to say anything.

One way is to stop moving forward at one o’clock in the afternoon and start setting up camp, unfold the tent at seven o’clock in the evening, sleep well, close the tent at six o’clock the next day, and finish the tent at twelve noon.

So after comprehensively considering the situation of the horses, Maya proposed a new marching plan. We camped at 5pm on the first day, set off at 7am on the second day, and opened the tent at 1pm on the second day. While waiting for the tent to open, Lin and Ma can wash up, wash clothes, tidy up their personal hygiene, hunt, fish and replenish food. On the third day, the tent is put away at 6 a.m. and the tent is completely put away at 12 o’clock. During the period, water can be filled and food preservation and other matters can be dealt with.

Lin Wu had no objection to this two-day plan. He just didn’t understand why Maya had to plan. Wouldn’t it be nice to leave when she wanted and rest when she wanted.

People with two personalities discussed this. Lin Wu has a casual personality, while Maya is rigorous in her work.

To give the simplest example, Lin Wu and Maya made an appointment to go fishing tomorrow, and Maya would make a plan. She would go to pick Lin Wu downstairs at Lin Wu’s house at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning, which required Lin Wu to be downstairs around 8 o’clock. Wait for Maya. If Lin Wu went to bed early the day before, he might get up at six o’clock, get bored, and drive to pick up Maya. If he went to bed late, he might not be woken up by Maya until 8 o’clock.

Lin Wu is a person who keeps his word and is punctual. This character actually leads to his inner resistance to rules because it will increase his psychological pressure. Therefore, Lin Wu usually does not set too many rules, neither for himself nor for others.

Still in the above example, Lin Wu and Maya made an appointment, whoever is ready will call the other person tomorrow, which will cause Maya to feel psychological pressure. What time is the right time to prepare? I wake up at 6 a.m., should I get up and get ready? Or sleep until eight o’clock and then get up again? If Lin Wu was ready to call him and he came to pick him up, it would be tight for him to prepare. After all, you need to wash up and go to the toilet. How to arrange breakfast? eat together? Everyone eats his own food?

For a person who abides by time, Maya doesn’t like people who are late, and hopes that others will not waste time waiting for her. The lack of a timeline makes Maya confused about when to do something.

No two people have exactly the same personality. Seeking common ground while reserving differences and being tolerant of each other is the way to get along between friends.

Lin Wu put forward his own solution to the example: I will wait for you at home. If you come over at any time, I will be ready at any time. After Maya arrived at Lin Wu’s house, if Lin Wu fell asleep, Maya was mentally prepared to wait. If Lin Wu is ready, the two of them can set off.

Switching to the march, Maya took the lead in scheduling, notifying Lin Wu in advance and giving flexible change times. For example, Maya’s order is to set up camp within 1 hour. If there was no Lin Wu, Maya would set up camp on time in 1 hour. On the contrary, Lin Ma has one hour to find a camp, and they can set up camp half an hour earlier or half an hour later.

With reasonable arrangements, after five consecutive days of marching, the two finally reached the ramp from Highway 88 to the North City of Fantasy City. Horses and personnel were in good condition due to effective rest and abundant resources.

(End of chapter)