State of Decay - Chapter 336

[Chapter 331 Moving forward]

Maya, who usually kept her emotions calm, obtained the iron supplies, her uncontrollable excitement made her talk a lot. It’s not that metal is precious, but that in Maya’s view, metal is a ticket to home.

Seeing this, Lin Wu was a little worried. He sincerely hoped that the highway was Route 99, otherwise the blow to Maya would be cruel. Maya kept herself excited and busy, leaving no time to think about whether it was Route 99. Isn’t this an escape?

When the calm Maya displays this emotion, it represents Maya’s eager desire to return home. Lin Wu didn’t want Maya to be disappointed, but they only had a 50% chance, and their fate was not in their control.

You should have hope in your heart, but you should not expect too much, otherwise you will easily fall into endless hell.

With the backing of metal weapons, Maya let go of the zombies. However, compared to her previous swordsmanship, her swordsmanship lacks streamlinedness. In short, her combo rate is low. In this kind of frontal battlefield, Lin Wu’s role was relatively limited. His weapon was a wooden stick made of the simplest materials. He took the wooden stick and yelled at one side, but Maya took a knife and drove him aside to enjoy the cool air.

Inspired by Lin Meng’s slingshot, Lin Wu tried to synthesize wood and plastic in the production room, and the result was a plastic handle stick. Lin Wu synthesized a few scrap rubber and wood to obtain a rubber-headed stick. Continuing tossing around, using plastic and rubber to combine, four options appeared. Lin Wu chose rubber bands. Then combine wood and rubber bands to get a trebuchet.

I lost it!

Put a stone into one end of the trebuchet, shake the handle, and the stone will eject. There is no hit rate at all. You may even hit yourself when you first start training.

Lin Wu continued to dig through the garbage dump and remade the rubber band. Now the problem was with the wood. Lin Wu used wooden sticks. Logically speaking, he should use wooden forks, but the production room didn’t recognize wooden forks.

In desperation, she could only seek advice from smart people. After listening to it, Maya said: “Wooden stick, rubber band and piece of cloth or rubber. Three items, not two.” Maya admired Lin Wu very much. Get the rubber band out.

Maya said, “Make more rubber bands when you have time.”

“You want to play with a slingshot too?”

“No, I’ll tie my hair.”

Under Maya’s guidance, Lin Wu finally made a system-certified slingshot. The lethality is almost zero, it is silent, the shooting range is 15 meters, and the effective range is almost zero. This is because the effective range is linked to the lethality. The shooting distance of 15 meters represents the longest shooting distance. Can you pull the rubber band hard to make the shooting distance exceed 15 meters? No, because the slingshot will be directly damaged.

With the assistance of the slingshot, Maya’s efficiency increased dramatically. She no longer needed to pull zombies. Lin Wu used the slingshot to pull zombies in front of Maya from more than ten meters away. During this period, because Maya was distracted, Lin Wufeng’s sting was scratched, which made Maya immediately change her strategy: make a serum injection first.

There is still a long way to go home, and there will definitely be a lot of zombies to face. Although the veteran players are very skilled in their actions, there are traces of zombie behavior. But if you often walk by the river, how can you avoid getting your shoes wet?

On the second day of setting up camp, Lin Ma gave up the attack and rode four kilometers along the mountainside, where blood zombies appeared in the blood mist area. At this time, Lin Wu, a survivor of the blood plague, became the main force in killing zombies. Blood zombies are different from ordinary zombies. If ordinary zombies scratch your skin, you may not be infected. You will only be infected if you are bitten. The blood zombie virus covers your whole body. Even if you don’t touch you, as long as you are close to you, there is a low chance of infection.

The most ferocious among them is the Blood Frenzy. Its palms sweep within 30 centimeters of the head, and the wind of its palms can 100% infect the player with the virus. After being bitten by the blood maniac, the infection bar took off immediately. However, the chance of dropping serum from Blood Frenzy is very high, with an average of one bottle of serum dropped from every three.

Mixed with painkillers or other medications, serum can be used to create serum shots. Serum injections in hard-core mode are also divided into levels. Biochemistry experts and antibiotics can make first-class serum injections, which have the same effect as non-hard-core mode serum injections: eliminate all infections and be immune to viral infections within two hours.

Maya, a general practitioner, can only make level 5 painkillers: reducing the infection value by 30%.

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At 6:30 pm on the fifth day of camp, there were only more than 20 zombies left on the road, and only one last shudder was needed to break through the passage. Maya terminates the attack, reasoning that today is a low-light night. Lin Wu did not refute, and returned to the tent with Maya, and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

It was indeed a twilight night, but there was still an hour before darkness fell. Lin Wu knew that Maya didn’t want to reveal the answer too early, and she needed time to adjust her mentality.

In the middle of the night, Maya sat outside the tent and lit a bonfire. Lin Wu didn’t disturb Maya, he knew she needed time alone.

In the early morning, the two began to pack their belongings. Put down the tent at 1am. At seven o’clock in the morning, after packing up the tent and having breakfast, Linma headed towards the road. One night, three zombies spawned. No problem. It took 10 minutes to kill all thirty zombies.

Turn left on the road and go up the ramp. There are still scattered zombies here, just kill them as you go. The ramp makes a big circle to reach the highway, and a road sign is erected 30 meters away from the ramp entrance. This is a 1.7-meter-high road sign with small fonts and facing away from Lin Ma.

The two approached the road sign 10 meters away, and Maya said, “Wait for me here.”

After saying that, Maya walked to the front of the sign and quietly looked at the information on it. Lin Wu couldn’t read any information from her expression, but he could read a message from her long-term stillness: this highway was not Route 99.

Maya held the sign with one hand, closed her eyes and put her forehead on the back of her hand. Lin Wu walked over, or to be precise, walked around, and walked around behind Maya.

The worst life is not that there is no hope, but that it gives you a little hope in despair.

Highway 77, 3,500 kilometers away from Star City, is despair. Among the rows of locations below, Lin Wu saw a familiar location: 1,800 kilometers away from the town of Lemon. The small town of Lemeng is 250 kilometers away from Zuoxian County. Route 77 and Route 99 both connect to the small town of Lemmon. The difference is that it only takes 750 kilometers from Highway 99 in Fantasy City to Zuoxian. It takes more than 2,000 kilometers to get to Zuoxian from Highway 77.

Maya sat on the ground hugging her knees, leaning against the road sign in a daze. Lin Wu approached, and Maya spoke first: “I want to be alone for a while, thank you.”

Lin Wu left without saying a word, returned to the ramp, and sat down On the guardrail, let Xiaowai lie on his knees. He also wanted to be quiet.

More than two thousand kilometers? Not much if all goes well. It has been 45 days since the first day of autumn, and there are still 45 days left until winter. In the past 45 days, they traveled from Science and Technology City to Fantasy City. The distance between the two big cities is 1,300 kilometers.

Strictly speaking, these 1,300 kilometers were not smooth. Deducting the 15 days it took to circumnavigate Fantasy City and the 10 days it took to clean up the bridgehead and refinery, they traveled 1,300 kilometers in 20 days. After deducting the time wasted from leaving the road and entering the town, we stopped at Yunmeng tribe and were blocked by crossing the river. There are also objective reasons for the low efficiency of their march due to the harsh environment of the desert.

The average daily distance is about 80 kilometers.

Theoretically speaking, 2,000 kilometers only takes 25 days. But the 1,300-kilometer experience taught Lin Wu that a 2,000-kilometer journey would never be smooth.

In addition, Lin Wu became curious about the small town of Lemmon. Why did the road signs on Route 99 and Route 77 specifically mention this town? Others call it a town in the north and a town in the south. Why is it called Lemmon Town? From previous information, we know that there is an air force stationed in the small town of Lemmon, as well as a dual-use airport.

The change from 750 to 2000 was not too harmful to Lin Wu. He had the ability to comfort himself in adversity. His understanding is that 750 kilometers may not be better than 2,000 kilometers. What concerned Lin Wu was Maya. He only understood Maya’s outstanding character, but did not understand Maya’s specific character. From the current point of view, the road signs have done a lot of damage to Maya, at least causing Maya to temporarily lose her fighting spirit.

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I don’t know how long it took, until Lin Wu fell asleep and felt like the sun was blocked. Lin Wu looked up and saw Maya standing beside him.

Maya regained her calm expression: “Let’s go.”

“Lemmon Town?”

“Lemmon Town.”

After Maya said that, she got on her horse and drove slowly. Lin Wu took a look and hurriedly shouted: “Hey, hey, This way.” Wrong direction.

Maya stopped her horse and returned to Lin Wu. She didn’t seem to have reacted yet and asked, “Wrong?”

Lin Wu explained: “The road sign faces the southwest. It is for people coming from the southwest, not for people coming from the southwest.” People who turn their backs to the road sign will see it.” Is this girl stupid?

“Wait a minute.” Maya thought of something: “That means there are two road signs? One is for people in the southwest, and one is for people in the northeast.”

Lin Wu hated this. When people have accepted the reality, another sign was born. A little pathetic hope. Maya rode away, and Lin Wu could only keep up. After running for about two kilometers, he saw another road sign, which was on the side of another ramp entering Fantasy City.

This is not a highway with separate front and back lanes. Is it necessary to do this?

Maya placed her hand on the road sign: 1,200 kilometers away from Future City. There is no mention of the town of Lemmon.

This is not hope, this is choice, I x your dawn.

The first option is to walk 2,000 kilometers northeast to reach the small town of Lemmon.

The second option is to walk 1,200 kilometers southwest to reach Future City.

Lin Ma all knows the approximate location of the town of Laimeng, which is 250 kilometers away from Zuoxian County. But they still don’t know the specific location of Beicheng, let alone Future City. When they arrived in Future City, they had many choices. One option was to find a way to go to Beicheng and then to Zuoxian County. One option is to find the way to escape to Beishang Town after opening the server.

“The devil doesn’t want us to go home.” Maya took two steps back and looked at the road sign and said, “But I believe that our will can defeat everything.”

Lin Wu accompanied him and asked cautiously: “Then which direction should we go?” He felt that both sides It’s all right, who knows which way is easier to go.

Maya said: “Lemmon Town, now that we have decided on Lemmon Town, we cannot change our decision before there is overwhelming information. Even if our decision is wrong, we must move forward bravely and firmly. Go down.” We must not let the choice between the two disturb the morale of the army.

When you make a decision, you must forget about the other decision and don’t assume what would have happened if you had made another decision.

Lin Wu mounted the horse and said, “Let’s go!” The silly woman became shrewd again and became more determined. Lin Wu never believed in the nonsense that setbacks can make people grow. He believed that setbacks could only increase psychological trauma. But this idea cannot be applied to Maya. She is a person who becomes more courageous with every setback. Hmm…beating her every day will make her stronger, and maybe one day she can tear up a Big Mac with her hands.

Still remember Maya once asked Lin Wu, what were you thinking about when you were on your way? In fact, you can think of anything.

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The next few days went very smoothly. The total journey on the first day was 150 kilometers. We stayed overnight on the roadside and built our own abandoned hut base. Phantom even ate water plants by the stream. Fishing and hunting at night and resting in the early morning.

Had breakfast at 8 o’clock the next day, abandoned the base and continued on the road. The total journey is 150 kilometers. camping.

The total journey on the third day is 100 kilometers. At 2 o’clock in the afternoon, we unfold the tent and hunt, fish and dig wild vegetables.

In three days, Lin Ma walked 400 kilometers. At this speed, it would only take half a month to return to Zuoxian County, which was about the same time as it took to circle around Fantasy City.

On the fourth day, we did not rush on the road, but rested for another day in order to store food. Although I also found time to hunt and fish in the past three days, there were few resources and I was unfamiliar with the environment, so I was resting on my laurels. Although there are mountains and rivers along the way, the prey resources in ordinary mountain forests cannot be compared with those in rain forests.

Take fishing as an example. The fish in the rainforest rivers are not only big in size, but also fierce in eating. The rivers that Route 77 passes through are mostly filled with crucian carp, grass carp and the like. Not only does it take time to build nests, but it also requires a high level of vigilance and requires extreme patience from anglers.

There are many kinds of animals in the rainforest. Mammals are relatively rare in the woods. They are mostly small things like squirrels and pheasants. They can either climb trees or fly. No animal is willing to fight to the death with Lin Wu.

Stocking up on food is just a purpose, and the reason for stocking up on food is the information prompted by the road signs. Starting after fifty kilometers, Highway 77 will enter the volcanic zone for about 300 kilometers.

You can see the gray sky in the distance from the camp. It is obvious that there are active volcanoes in the volcanic zone. According to Maya’s understanding, it is difficult to find food in areas with more active volcanoes. There are also rivers, but they are boiling or warm water, and fish will never survive. Volcanic ash can cause the migration and extinction of native plants and animals.

Compared with natural disasters such as tsunamis and earthquakes, volcanic eruptions are relatively mild. Lava flows slowly and the damage caused by an eruption is limited. Leaving aside the ignition of forest fires, the biggest hazard is the volcanic ash after the explosion, which causes great damage to the environment.

This section of the road is not a desert, it is better than a desert. The 300-kilometer journey is very embarrassing. Considering the needs of Huansha Erma, we must camp at least once. What should you do if a volcano erupts? What else can be done? The tent brings dawn, and greetings are sent home. Considering the low probability of volcanic eruptions, the greater difficulty should be the landforms formed by volcanic eruptions. For example, the cooling magma blocking the road and the rocks ejected from the mountain.

“How much food is left?”

Maya took inventory of her backpack and horse bag and said, “Two days.” Why not stock up on more food in the Fantasy City Jungle? Because item warehouses cannot be built in tent bases, the load-bearing capacity of people and horses is limited. Because of the lessons learned from the past, the amount of water carried is super doubled.

After putting away the tent, Lin Wu asked: “Let’s go?”

Maya got on her horse and said, “Let’s go.”

(End of this chapter)