State of Decay - Chapter 339

[Chapter 334 Lemon Town]

Maya: “I found some coffee, instant coffee.”

“Where?”

“Lower level.”

Lin Wu was startled: “Is there a lower level on the plane?”

Maya replied: “The lower level usually contains checked luggage. In addition, there is a small kitchen under the service desk of some aircraft. Oh…”

“What’s wrong?”

After a while, Maya said: “There is a zombie in the refrigerator.” She was still frightened.

Lin Wu said with relief: “I understand, not everyone can be as brave as me.”

Maya was speechless, after all, she was really shocked.

“There is a black canvas box.” Lin Wu pulled the handle and took the canvas box out of the luggage compartment without piercing the box with his fingers. After thinking about it for three seconds, I felt that the zombies would not be able to fit into this canvas box, so I opened the zipper. Lin Wu reported: “Girl’s suitcase, swimsuit, skirt, sunglasses, no, sunglasses with red frame. It suits you very well.” “

Can you use it?”

“This is not impossible.”

“That suits you too. “

What I’m saying is… No, you’re right.” Lin Wu accompanied him and asked cautiously: “Do you still want the swimsuit and skirt?” “

Tear it into rags.”

“Oh.” This is standard clothing. , is she really a prodigal?

Does this box have any significance? It’s all nonsense. Lin Wu then thought about it, didn’t this box have a meaning? You can tie the box to Sandstorm. Why a sandstorm and not a phantom? As a licking horse, Sandstorm would never ask this question.

Ten minutes later, Maya said: “I’m looking for a set of professional ski equipment in the warehouse.”

Lin Wu said: “I found a warehouse of garbage in the back warehouse. Oh, I found a satellite phone and two batteries. Things It’s a good thing, but I don’t know who we can call.”

Lin Wu crossed the break and reached the front cabin. The front cabin was obviously much more spacious than the economy cabin in the back half, but the zombies were just as annoying as the economy cabin, hiding in every nook and cranny. It’s scary.

After two hours of searching, nothing of value was found, but when I got off the plane, I encountered a zombie wearing a pilot’s suit. How could such special zombies be let go? After they were eliminated, a ID card with a chip was found. There is information such as Anderson’s age, 55 years old, the validity period of his certificate, etc.

The only catch was a ski suit and women’s sunglasses. After adjusting the weight of the two horses, Maya put on her goggles and skied in front of the team to lead the way. Lin Wu mounted his horse and drove slowly. For Lin Wu, speed is not important, the important thing is not to walk. Maya, with a rope tied around her waist, stopped every 100 meters, dug out the snow as usual, and determined the road surface before moving forward.

Perhaps Shuguang’s conscience discovered that the two went very smoothly. They spent a week walking 200 kilometers, leaving the snowfield area and returning to the road.

The journey covered 1,200 kilometers in 20 days, 550 kilometers from the town of Lemeng and 800 kilometers from Zuoxian County.

And there’s even better news. Not long after Linma left the snowfield, she discovered a small village not far from the road. After searching, it was learned that they had entered the Future City area. Although Route 77 does not reach Future City, it connects to the areas under the jurisdiction of Future City.

According to information and directions, they are located at the southernmost tip of Future City. The Zuo County they call is at the northernmost end of Future City.

Maya sighed with emotion: “I never thought that the city would be bordering the plateau in the future.” This sentence revealed the joy in her heart.

Lin Wu asked: “Should we take the county road through Future City, or continue on Route 77?”

“Continue, target Lemon Town.” As long as we reach Lemon Town, returning to Zuoxian County is not a problem.

Maya set up a base at a farmer’s house and rested for a day. During the period, the two discussed whether to build tent base facilities, and finally decided not to add tent buildings for the time being.

After 65 days and 2,500 kilometers of travel, Lin Ma finally set foot on the land of Future City.

…

The natural environment of Future City is very friendly. There is no desert or snowfield, but only the beauty of late autumn. The withered yellow leaves slowly drifted down the roadside. Listening to the rhythmic sound of horse hooves, the amount of conversation between Lin and Ma increased significantly.

At noon five days later, Lin Ma camped seven kilometers away from the town of Lemon because there was a post in front of them. The zombies at the outpost are not a big problem, there are only about a dozen soldier zombies with the fortress logo on their clothes.

The checkpoint is located between two cliffs, blocking the only way. What caused Linma trouble were four automatic turrets. The fort is very conspicuous. It is located at a height of 3 meters and 7 meters on the left and right sides of the checkpoint. The red light emitted by the fort continuously scans the road in the area 50 meters in front of it, up, down, left and right.

One kilometer away from the checkpoint, there are barbed wire fences and warning signs stating that this is a military area and any intruders will be shot. It is specially explained for players that the turret is a heat-sensing automatic turret. Since the road is closed, no medium or large wild animals can break into the one-kilometer closed area, so there is no possibility of running out of bullets.

Investigator Maya drew the look of a checkpoint on the paper and said: “There are two solar panels above. I don’t think there is a possibility of energy exhaustion.”

Lin Wu said: “You can blow them up with a small amount of energy, but it will take a day to recharge.” Yes.” Rockets are replenished every 24 hours.

Maya nodded, looking at the closed road of this kilometer outside the valley, and said: “I’m worried about the town of Lemon. The checkpoint is equipped with automatic turrets, so what dangers will there be to the town?”

Lin Wu said: “Wind and Waves The bigger the fish, the more expensive it is. Before, I didn’t believe that players could own airplanes. Judging from the information and alert level of Lemmon Town, maybe we can actually get an airplane from Lemmon Town.”

“Can’t burn oil.”

“ This is an airport town, are you still worried about lack of fuel?”

Maya: “How dare you make a fool of yourself, I just want to return to Shadow as soon as possible.”

Lin Wu: “Really?”

Maya hesitated for a moment and said, “If there is The plane is not bad either.”

“Haha.”

Maya sighed: Childish.

One rocket for one turret, and you have to wait 24 hours for the remaining two. According to the images sent by Xiaoda, the town of Lemon is surrounded by a canyon on three sides and an ocean on one side. There is only one road on the three sides of the canyon. The situation is the same as what Linma encountered. There is a one kilometer long and narrow dangerous road, and there is also a sentry post at the end of the dangerous road.

After passing the pass, there is a road of about 5 kilometers connecting to the small town of Lemmon. To the north of the town of Lemmon, towards the ocean, is an airport. The airport consists of a tower, terminal, runway, apron, hangar, etc.

“I guessed from what I saw that this place should be a shelter.” Lin Wu explained: “There are three natural dangers and one side is sea transportation. Abandon land transportation and use ships and airplanes to communicate with the outside world. If I had to guess, I would guess three The passes correspond to Highways 77, 88 and 99 respectively.”

Maya asked: “Are there humans?”

Lin Wu replied: “Probably not. The zombie density is lower than Zuoxian County and higher than Beishang Town. No mutant zombies have been found, but it seems that all zombies are soldier zombies.”

Maya asked: “Are there no resident zombies?”

Lin Wu Wu looked at it for a while and replied affirmatively: “I didn’t see it anyway.”

Maya thoughtfully said: “Fortress completely controlled the town of Lemon, and moved or killed all the residents of the town. The intention was to destroy the town of Lemon. Build it into a military fortress.”

Lin Wu added: “It feels like a military fortress with quite high technological content. Its defense capabilities don’t seem to need to be driven by humans.”

“Artificial intelligence?” Maya said: “Twenty years before humans fled the earth. , human society has produced artificial intelligence, and it is widely used in life and production. Based on this basis, humans have developed the perfect girlfriend robot, which has also caused violent social conflicts. Subsequently, the use of artificial intelligence has lost control, not only replacing doctors , lawyers, judges and other traditional professions, have completely controlled the Internet.”

Maya said: “The biggest problem is the artificial intelligence faction.”

“Does this thing have factions?”

Maya explained: “The robots made by the artificial intelligence of Maya Company, When it sees someone throwing away garbage, it will pick it up and put it in the trash can. Lin Wu’s artificial intelligence robot will beat up the litterer and ask him to put the trash in the trash can. Factional conflicts are particularly serious on the Internet. Due to the lack of unified industry standards and lack of supervision, the first artificial intelligence Internet war was launched by several business giants in 2040.”

Maya said: “In fact, the so-called artificial intelligence has not awakened, it is just a machine with super It is a machine with strong learning ability and does not have any autonomous consciousness. But this also shows that human beings have mastered quite powerful technological power when they left the earth. Are you asking whether it is possible to build an unsupervised military fortress through artificial intelligence? I think it is completely Yes.”

Lin Wu asked: “Can my personal computer control this military fortress?”

Maya said: “Absolutely impossible. Not to mention the software and the other party’s security measures to deal with hacker intrusions, compared to the hardware, your personal Computers and other people’s artificial intelligence are not at the same level at all. What’s more, the other party is an artificial intelligence that has mastered the world’s most advanced hacking technology, and you are just a novice.” “You are a

novice, and your whole family is a novice.” Lin Wu corrected “My name is Xiaoshuai.”

“Okay, Xiaoshuai.” Maya lowered her voice and said, “I feel like I can really steal a plane here.”

Lin Wu lowered his voice: “Why are you speaking so quietly?”

Maya said: “That’s not the point.” When the topic of stealing came up, he lowered his voice unknowingly.

Maya said: “Each pass has four rockets, and you can pass one pass in two days. The first option is to pass two passes in four days, break through the town of Lemon, and go to Zuoxian County.”

Maya said: “The second option , sneak into Lemon Town, let’s go to the airport to take a look, maybe we can get a fixed-wing aircraft or a helicopter.”

Lin Wu said: “If the other party is not stupid, they will arrange more agencies at the airport .” The town is a living area, and perhaps the security is not that tight.

Lin Wu added and asked: “Even if we get the plane, how will we arrange the Phantom and Sandstorm?”

Maya said: “You take Sandstorm and Phantom overland.”

“You…you want to abandon your companions for the plane?”

“No. Ah, I can hover in the sky to guide the way.” Maya said: “If I can get an armed helicopter full of ammunition, I can escort you all the way back to the shadow.”

Lin Wu said: “Hey, wake up, it’s dawn, Stop dreaming. You lose your mind when you talk about big weapons.”

Maya didn’t care, her mind became more and more active, and asked: “Is this possible? The fortress has arranged outposts at three passes and close defenses on the coast. Cannons, but there are no other agencies arranged in the town.”

Lin Wu looked at Maya for a while: “Build a medical office first.” Doctors can heal themselves. If you really like it, go and see. If you are disabled, you will heal yourself. If you die, I’m waiting for you.

Who doesn’t have a hobby yet?

…

There are abundant resources outside the narrow passage. During the day’s waiting time, Lin Wu was in charge of hunting, and Maya was in charge of imagination. She even thought about making her own oxygen cylinder and sneaking into the airport by sea.

On the morning of the 71st day, Xiaoda blew up the remaining two forts, and Lin Ma entered the outpost. After Maya’s inspection, it was confirmed that this place is an unmanned checkpoint because there are no chairs, desks and other items needed by humans. Check the destroyed turret again to make sure it’s new.

Then Lin Wu complained again.

“What I destroyed was the turret. Where were the bullets?”

“This is an integrated turret, and all the bullets are installed inside the turret.”

Maya reminded, and Lin Wu asked: “Is it artificial intelligence that controls the turret?”

Little White Rabbit: “It can only It’s a program.” The scan found a large heat-sensitive creature, took aim, and fired. Some high-end machines can distinguish whether the person is a person or an animal, whether they are armed, and other information, and then decide whether to shoot directly or use other methods to contact the rear based on the information. There is also the simplest and crudest one, which is monitoring and remote control.

You are the God of Creation, you have the final say.

Lin Ma searched the post but found nothing, and then passed the pass. Lin Ma did not dare to ride the horse, leaving the two horses behind. They separated left and right with guns in hand and slowly advanced towards the town along both sides of the road.

I encountered an automatic checkpoint on the road, similar to a traffic stop in a parking lot. When a car approaches, the machine scans the license plate to decide whether to sound the alarm or let the vehicle pass. It’s not a problem for Lin Ma, just go around it.

Apart from the automatic checkpoints, they encountered no obstacles along the way and the two of them successfully arrived at the south of the small town of Lemon. Lemmon Town has a U-shaped structure, with the north opening facing the airport and the ocean. Linma is located at the south end, at the bottom of the U shape. The two of them first walked along the road and determined that Highway 99 was to the east, that is, to the right of the U.

In the middle of the U-shape is a small town with relatively low buildings, which is the main town of Lemmon.

The town of Lemon is divided into two parts. The first part is a villa residential area built along the U-shaped highway. The central area is a commercial area, which includes hotels, restaurants, office buildings, entertainment venues, administrative agencies, town offices, etc. What’s interesting is that the roads in the town are also U-shaped, with big Us inside small Us, divided into five levels in total.

A river cuts off the connection between the town and the airport, and a 3-kilometer-long road bridge is built on the river. From the topography point of view, if you want to reach the airport, you must go deep into the town, go to the core business district, and then pass through the business district to the airport.

Lin Ma observed the villa area dozens of meters away on the road, and there were not too many zombies in sight. Due to the gap of more than ten meters between the villa area and the highway, no zombies have been found on the highway, not even on the ramp.

“Something’s wrong.” Maya asked Lin Wu to lie on the ground and handed the binoculars to Lin Wu: “11 o’clock direction.”

“A jeep?”

“Well, it’s shaking.”

Lin Wu: “It has a cold?”

Maya felt dizzy. , If this kind of person is not beaten to death on the spot, how can he keep it for the New Year?

(End of chapter)