State of Decay - Chapter 329

[Chapter 324 Old friend?]

It was around 11 noon when we arrived at the Beicheng ramp. The road signs showed that the ramp was 35 kilometers away from the main urban area of Beicheng. But you can see this big city built in the basin from the highway. This is also the first time the two of them have seen a high-end city. After opening the server, they fled directly from Future City to a remote place called Beishang Town. After half a year of hard work, they moved to the county seat. And it is still far away from becoming a high-end city.

“Would you like to go and have a look?” Lin Wu suggested: “Look at the big cities.”

Maya thought that it would be a good day, so she agreed. An hour later the two arrived at the suburbs of Beicheng. There are many high-rise buildings and hordes of zombies in the northern city. It seems that the whole city exudes a rotten smell. Climbing the signal tower and looking down, the entire city was dotted with red circles of blood mist. The density of zombies was by no means comparable to that of Zuoxian County.

Here, Lin Ma saw evolved mutant zombies for the first time.

Most of the Big Macs in North City are still Big Macs, and a small number of Big Macs have evolved into Big Macs that can use simple weapons. Eight hundred meters away from the two men, a Big Mac was carrying a two-meter-long log weighing about 100 kilograms and wandering on the street with a wave of corpses. A Big Mac on the side was holding a bicycle in its right hand. The bicycle was crushed beyond recognition by it. Even so, Lin Ma knew that this thing had become its weapon.

A bloody maniac had spiky white hair growing out of its back, making it look like it was wearing a spiky body armor. Its hands also grew sharp claws, perhaps because it had not cut its nails for too long. After all, nails will grow after death. The appearance of the evolved Blood Scream has not changed much, but its movement speed has been greatly improved. The speed of the evolved Blood Scream within the blood mist is equivalent to the walking speed of a normal human. Explosive Death also has an evolved form. It will spit out a poisonous mist every ten seconds, and the maximum stay time of the poisonous mist is 60 seconds.

Lin Wu complained: “Why can’t we see evolved zombies in small counties and megacities? This is discrimination and unfair treatment. I protest against this.”

Shuguang replied: Zombies in megacities have already begun when we enter the hard-core era . Evolve slowly. The number of zombies increases due to refresh. When the zombie density in the area reaches a limit, evolved mutant zombies will appear. The higher the density of zombies, the more evolved zombies will be.

Why are there so many zombies in North City? In addition to refreshing, there is also the main reason why people are concentrated in cities. Taking the real-life Ludao as an example, the population density is 13,000 people per square kilometer. At the same time, Ludao also maintains a large greening ratio. The calculation of 1.3 people per 100 square meters does not seem to be too much, but the area of buildings, lakes, and rivers is not small. In addition, there are forest parks, wetland parks, etc. on the island. The population density in the main living and working areas of the people is extremely high. .

North City also has some areas with low zombie density, such as the public cemetery in the middle of the city. In addition, the number of zombies in buildings, especially buildings above two floors, is relatively small.

Maya observed carefully with a telescope and asserted: “With the power of the shadow, there is no way to gain a foothold in the North City unless the base’s unlimited ammunition rules are restored.” Even in Zuoxian County, they can only choose to saw wood on the edge of the industrial area, and the system recommends sawing wood The factory established a base.

Lin Wu raised a question: “If Shadow can’t survive, what’s the point of setting up big cities? There are also super cities.”

Maya answered: “Shuguang has nearly infinite computing power. It just constructs a world for players and doesn’t care. Is it meaningful to players? The refresh system in the game has caused the number of zombies in big cities to reach an extremely terrifying number.”

Lin Wu said: “I complained about the refresh problem. You know, sometimes it is quite boring and I want to find someone to argue with. .”

“I know.” Maya asked: “What’s Shuguang’s answer?”

Lin Wu said: “This guy’s answer is: How are you sure that zombies won’t reproduce? I threw the nut on it. This is the first time I heard that zombies can reproduce.”

” Not necessarily.” Maya disagreed with Lin Wu’s view: “For example, Blood Heart, according to the information we obtained from the secret mission, Blood Heart seems to be a mother body. According to the information about the activities in the Abandoned City, we can know that the zombies in the Abandoned City are only in appearance and Humans are similar, but their DNA is very different. The DNA similarity between humans and apples is higher than that between zombies and human DNA. Maybe zombies don’t reproduce through human-like patterns.” Lin Wu: “I can’t understand.”

Maya

said : “Do you know how many eggs a queen ant can lay? If you enlarge the size of the ant a hundred times, the ant is a more terrifying existence than the zombies. Since zombies are divorced from humans, we cannot treat zombies with normal thinking.”

” No, no.” Lin Wu disagreed: “Ants are living things, zombies are dead things, corpses, moving corpses.” “Inaccurate. To be precise, zombies are

things that have lost their autonomous consciousness and have a relatively complete motor nervous system. .” Maya said: “For example, for example, rabies patients slowly lose their consciousness, but they do not die. As they lose consciousness, their physical aggression begins to increase. We assume that rabies cannot kill the patient. Life, the patient will instinctively attack other creatures. Is it possible that the patient has the instinct to eat? Since there is the instinct to eat, is there the instinct to reproduce?” Seeing

Lin Wu thinking, Maya said: “No matter what creature wants to maintain itself, The ability to move requires energy. For carbon-based organisms, food is the only way to replenish energy. The zombies in the game definitely do not comply with scientific logic. Are we too stupid to argue about this?” Lin

Wudao : “Same fool, same fool.”

After the investigation, the two were ready to leave. Maya grabbed the back collar of Lin Wu’s clothes who was about to slide down the ladder. Lin Wu climbed back onto the maintenance platform and looked down. A white pickup truck was seen driving on the side road. Lin Wu looked back at Phantom and Sandstorm. They were at the small ditch behind the nearby bus stop. Due to the distance, angle and obstruction, people in the white pickup truck should not be able to detect them.

The white pickup truck drove to a nearby suburban parking lot and parked. This parking lot is a vehicle camp where foreign vehicles, especially RVs, can be parked here and enter the North City by bus or other means of transportation.

A girl with a pot-top schoolgirl haircut got out of the cab, an assault rifle with a silencer hanging from her backpack. She stood there observing for a while, then sneaked for about twenty meters, pulled out the slingshot from her waist, and pebbles hit Bai Mao’s fierce body. Bai Mao Kuang Meng was only about ten meters away from it, and he immediately spotted her after being hit.

The girl ran backwards towards the car, pulling Kuangmeng to a safe area while also getting rid of any zombies that might have come with Kuangmeng. Then she stopped and turned around, holding the pistol with both hands, aiming and shooting, and fired ten bullets to kill Kuang Meng. Then, the girl squatted in front of Kuang Meng, as if dissecting or touching the corpse.

Maya said: “She is a trained rookie. The way she holds the gun and the way she stands are very professional, and the rhythm of pulling the trigger is very good. She should have quite a lot of shooting experience. But it can be clearly seen that her daily shooting She’s a dead target, and she’s not capable of dealing with violent movements.”

“What’s your brain power?” Lin Wu said, “Who asked you to care about her combat qualities? A car, a pickup truck, can transport phantoms and sandstorms away. Pickup truck.” Cool!

Maya didn’t care about Lin Wu’s rebellious tone and asked hesitantly: “Robbery?”

“What kind of robbery? Borrowing or buying.” Lin Wu said: “I’ll trade Xiaowai for a car.”

Maya said: “Let’s take a look. , but you can’t rob, that’s the principle.”

Lin Wu said: “If she takes a gun when she sees me, what if I accidentally kill her?”

Maya said: “You must control her first.” Even if you don’t rob, you can’t put yourself in danger. If you don’t rob others, maybe others will rob you? Thermal firearms have a particularly big disadvantage: once they are touched, life or death can happen, so sometimes there is no time for conversation at all.

…

The girl killed the second white-haired Kuang Meng and squatted on the ground intently to watch the dissection progress bar. Lin Wu squatted less than one meter behind her: “Hi! Little beauty.”

The girl subconsciously turned around and saw the person, and immediately became furious. Lin Wu would never forget in his life that a person could open his eyes so wide. The girl held a pistol in one hand and a dagger in the other. She closed her eyes and was about to let out an extremely terrifying scream. Because she had enough time, Maya on the left rear quickly covered her mouth with her left hand from behind. It looks like Maya’s movements are quite skillful, oh, I forgot that she is a soldier.

Lin Wu pointed at the girl: “Don’t scream. If you don’t scream, I’ll let you go.”

The girl opened her eyes wide and nodded in fear.

Maya let go of the girl, who immediately picked up the gun. Lin Ma was about to take action, but he never thought that the girl put the pistol on his chin and said with a cry: “Don’t move, if you dare to move, I will die for you.”

“Huh?” This confused the two men who were ready to shoot. This change was completely out of their consideration.

The girl cried and begged: “Lin Wu, please let me go, I’m bankrupt.”

Lin Wu and Maya were completely confused and looked at each other. Lin Wu looked at the girl in shock: “Fortress agent?” “

I I’m from the Secret Service, but I’m not an agent. I’m just a small treasurer of the Secret Service who just graduated less than a year ago. I’m not a threat to you.” The girl begged: “Can you let me go?” “Ah?

” Lin Wu thought for a while and said, “It’s not impossible to let you go, but you have to let me have fun.”

Maya looked at Lin Wu like a beast: I’m still here.

The girl begged: “Please.”

Lin Wu was not in a hurry and asked: “What’s your name?”

“Lin Meng.”

“Lin Meng, what a good name. Look at Lin Meng, I can’t let you go in vain, right?” You have to pay a price for being so beautiful, right? But Shuguang won’t let you do some things, but you can do two things.” Lin Meng was scared and

nervous, but she couldn’t afford to lose her equipment, so she could only ask: “What do you want? ?”

“What do you have?”

“I…I don’t understand. I’ve been studying and haven’t had time to fall in love yet. What do you want me to do?” Tears welled up in my eyes. Why did I meet this damn Lin Wu?

Lin Wu smiled and said: “I want your underwear.” “

But underwear is an exclusive item and cannot be traded.”

Lin Wu was dissatisfied: “Then…”

“Is outerwear good? Outerwear is also fine. You can only take it if you kill me. I can’t get the weapons and equipment, but I can’t get the coat.” Lin Meng observed Lin Xiaosepi and said in a persuasive manner: “I’ve been wearing it for two days, and I haven’t changed it. It’s all the smell of my sweat.” Lin Wu hesitated for a long time: “Okay

. .”

After saying that, Lin Meng took off his backpack and then took off the white long-sleeved pullover he was wearing. She covered her body with one hand and handed the coat to Lin Wu with the other. Lin Wu glanced at the mosaic of her body, took the coat, and went to see Lin Meng looking at herself. Lin Wu paused for three seconds, covered his mouth and nose with his coat, and waved with a satisfied expression: “Let’s go, let’s go.”

Lin Meng backed away uneasily with his backpack in hand, then turned and ran towards the white pickup truck, in a panic Start the car. Then the pickup truck hit the green shrubs on the roadside, and Lin Meng hurriedly reversed the truck and drove away.

Lin Wu and Maya whistled, and two horses and Xiao Wai came running. They climbed on the back of the horse. Maya asked with a half-smile, “Does it smell good?” “I won’t tell you.”

Lin Wu reached out to catch the jumping horse. Xiao Wai placed it on the horse in front of him.

Maya said: “You seem to have done something bad to others.”

“Huh?”

“I don’t exist in her eyes at all.”

Lin Wu thought for a while: “I don’t know, drive!”

This time he is not on the road. , but to drive a carriage, the two horses ran rapidly, at a speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour, but this speed obviously could not catch up with the frightened Lin Meng. However, the advantage of horses is that they can take shortcuts. If the pickup truck turns, they will go straight. After pursuing each other for about 15 kilometers, the speed of the sandstorm began to slow down. Continuous high-intensity running causes it to reach 50% fatigue slowdown value.

The phantom left the sandstorm behind and continued to pursue. Lin Wu watched as the phantom’s fatigue value went from 50 to 60, 70, and 80. Even so, the phantom’s speed did not slow down, and it traveled in straight lines over mountains and ridges, and its speed did not slow down when flowing across rivers. When the fatigue value reached 90, Lin Wu stopped his horse.

Lin Wu and Phantom were on a hill. Below was a large plain, but there was no trace of the white pickup truck. There is a roadside gas station to the southeast. There are coffee shops and restaurants to the northeast. There are two small buildings on the side of the Zhengdong Highway. They are so far apart that it is unclear what they are.

Lin Wu dismounted, tied the phantom to a tree, and beat the horse to make it hide in the woods.

Then, Lin Wu took out Lin Meng’s coat from his backpack and let Xiao Wai smell Lin Meng’s coat. As a hunting dog, Xiao Wai was very excited to see that he finally had the opportunity to do his job. He squirmed while sniffing.

“Are you perverted? Just smell it, what do you mean by twisting your butt?”

Lin Wu took off his coat, Xiao Wai sniffed the air, and headed downhill towards the gas station in the southeast. There was no phantom, so Lin Wu ran very fast. He chased Xiao Wai to the gas station and ordered Xiao Wai to come back and let him find a hidden place to stay. Lin Wu entered stealth mode and walked around to the side of the gas station.

The gas station consisted of four parts. The first part is a convenience store, the second part is the gas station outside the convenience store, the third part is the automatic car wash next to the convenience store, and the fourth part is a toilet. Lin Wu had already spotted the white pickup truck parked in the automatic washroom.

Lin Wu started searching from the toilet. After a rough inspection, he headed towards the car wash. Then his foot hooked on a fishing line. Fortunately, Lin Wu was alert when he was sneaking, and he immediately discovered the fishing line. Following the fishing line to between the toilet and the car wash, I found a mine with only a little of its head exposed.

Damn girl!

Lin Wu crossed the trip wire and walked around with a more cautious attitude, but found no other dangers or situations.

Lin Wu raised his hand and ordered Xiao Wai to come over. He took out his coat and gave it to Xiao Wai to smell. This time he grabbed Xiao Wai’s neck and slowed down Xiao Wai. Xiao Wai was very capable and took Lin Wu to the men’s room without any hesitation.

Is this girl smart or just good at it?

Lin Wu let Xiao Wai lie on the ground and groped around. He quickly found the small secret door on the door of Pit No. 2. He pushed the secret door upwards and found a password disk inside. Lin Wu used his personal computer to search for the device, successfully accessed the password disk, and then started decoding. After a while, the 8-digit password appeared on the monitor of Lin Wu’s personal computer.

(End of chapter)