State of Decay - Chapter 340
[Chapter 335 Experimenter]
While talking, a creature walked out of the villa next to the jeep. After identification, Lin Ma was shocked. It turned out to be a human NPC. He wears a black training uniform with the fortress logo printed on the chest, and a long gray cloak. He stood next to the zombie, turned around to make sure his iron door was closed, opened the car door, got in the car, and drove away.
I have to complain again.
To this question, Little White Rabbit’s answer was: “Players are welcome to explore on their own.”
Faced with Little White Rabbit’s affirmative answer, Maya began to reason: “NPCs and zombies live in the town, and zombies will not attack NPCs. I am the first Shi Shi thought of masking medicine, but the masking medicine only lasts for a short time, only one minute, and will cause the body to lose control.”
Lin Wu asked: “Why don’t zombies bite zombies?”
“Huh?”
Lin Wu: “You Do zombies regard NPCs as the same kind?”
Maya thought along the way and said: “Fortress has some kind of medicine or technology that allows humans and zombies to coexist. Then there is no need to migrate humans to Blue Star.”
Lin Wu said hurriedly : “This is a game, Blue Star is history.”
Maya disagreed: “I don’t think Shuguang will make up important things. Is there another possibility that the zombies here will not attack humans?”
Lin Wu said: ” Maya, we saw the same thing, but thought about completely different things. Didn’t you notice? This place is only 250 kilometers away from Zuoxian County, and it only takes more than two hours to drive. If you look at how nourishing the lives of these NPCs are, the locals must have A large amount of materials. According to normal logic, where there are a large number of NPCs living, there is no such thing as corrosion. Otherwise, if you want to drink a sip of coffee, you will end up eating a sip of garbage.”
Lin Wu further said: “This is a resource library.”
Maya didn’t answer, she was thinking about something else: “I don’t understand, why didn’t they find out that the fort at the pass was damaged?”
Lin Wu said: “The fort is not connected to the Internet, it is a separate system. I don’t know, I’m just guessing. What are your plans?”
Maya said: “A car alone should be a more important person. We need to make sure that zombies will not attack humans or NPCs. To confirm this, we should sneak into his home, I believe You should be able to find clues.” After all, this is a game.
Lin Wu said in the spirit of the game: “I think we should focus on why such a small town is set up in the game.”
“Airplane?”
This woman also has a time when her IQ is off, and her only thought is airplane. Lin Wu was not very curious. His idea was to take Route 99 directly, spend two days blowing up the fort, and quickly return to Shadow. One of the reasons why Lin Wu didn’t object was to take care of Maya’s curiosity. Secondly, Lin Wu felt that in the hard-core era of global corrosion, Lemon Town might be an excellent source of supplies for players.
Because of the second reason, Lin Wu also wanted to find out the situation in the town.
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After hanging the rope, the two rappelled down from the road to the backyard of Villa No. 20. The owner of Villa No. 20 is the NPC driving the jeep.
Lin Wu was about to touch the zombie 7 meters away, but Maya stopped him. Maya said in his ear: “Zombies are also one of their security measures.” In daily life here, one less zombie around might make them miserable. suspect.
The fence in the backyard was two meters high. The two jumped up and climbed up the wall and climbed into the backyard. The villa is not big, with a small patch of grass in front and a small patch in the backyard. The left and right sides of the main building are only three meters wide. There were no zombies in the backyard, and there were many beautiful flowers that Lin Ma couldn’t name.
The back door of the villa is not locked and uses a latch, which is a device designed to prevent zombies but not humans.
The two-story villa is not large overall, and the main building covers an area of less than 80 square meters. The first floor is the dining room, living room, bathroom and kitchen. Follow the stairs to the second floor and see a corridor. There are three rooms on the right side of the corridor, namely the study room, the bedroom and the exercise room. There is a table tennis table placed against the wall in the sports room, with black curtains drawn tightly.
Lin Wu touched the door and turned on the light in the room. Lin Ma looked at each other: there is electricity.
All the windows in all rooms, including the first floor, are locked. The windows are not made of glass, but transparent and thickened Miacrylic panels. They are full of plastic and have a poor texture, but the price is more expensive than ordinary glass.
Lin Wu stood outside the study, reading a rule posted by the door: “One: Try not to make too much noise, so as not to disturb the zombies. Two: When people are at home, they must open the door to prevent zombies from hearing the sound. When you can’t find a way, destroy buildings at will. Three: You must tighten the curtains before turning on the lights at night. Four: You are not allowed to visit. Five: You are not allowed to attack zombies for no reason. Even if zombies invade your home, you must send them away gently and politely. Six: You are not allowed to feed zombies, chat with zombies, or have any other interactions with zombies.”
Maya found a lot of clues during this period, and after sorting them out, she basically understood the situation in Lemon Town.
After a virus infection occurred in the future city, Fortress Company immediately launched an emergency plan.
In response to a doomsday crisis, mainly a global nuclear crisis, Fortress Corporation launched Project Ark to build underground shelters in ten small towns. The shelter in the small town of Lemmon is located 80 meters underground beneath the airport.
Lemon Sanctuary was originally established for the purpose of human continuation, but instead of a nuclear crisis, a zombie virus appeared. Lemon Sanctuary has become Fortress Company’s most important virus research facility. But the situation was worse than they thought, and soon after the shelter became operational, many people, including soldiers, became infected with the virus.
The senior officials of the fortress kept it secret while hiring mercenaries at high prices to enter the epidemic area and obtain the serum from the blood heart. In the end, half of the people in Lemon Asylum were injected with the serum, and the other half became zombies.
The research direction of each shelter is different. The research direction of Lemon Shelter is to coexist with viruses, similar to genetic vaccines. By adding a virus sequence number to the human body’s genes, the human body can become immune to the virus. For example, with the hepatitis B vaccine, some people can produce antibodies after being vaccinated, while others cannot.
The first batch of five experimenters became zombies, with various spots appearing on their skin and hair falling out when pulled. But to their surprise, the experimenters could still maintain a clear mind and control of their bodies. The most powerful thing is that the zombies will default to the experimenter as the same kind and will not attack him. The sequelae are that the experimenter loses interest in normal food, and instead has the urge to bite humans, and will fall into madness until he loses his rationality and eventually becomes a zombie. Although the ending was the same, the process was different, which gave the fortress senior officials a lot of confidence.
Lemon Town conducted in-depth research in this area. In two years, they synthesized a relatively effective vaccine. This vaccine can not only resist the coexistence of zombie viruses and zombies, but also greatly reduce side effects. To use an inappropriate metaphor, a human being injected with a new vaccine is like an old smoker who quits smoking. The process of controlling himself not to bite is difficult, but it does not make him lose his mind.
The biggest problem is that the new vaccine is not very effective. Now the underground research institute in the small town of Lemon is stepping up vaccine research and development.
Ordinary people have been living in underground shelters. Only experimenters can live in the town. Some researchers or security guards can’t stand the environment and voluntarily become experimental subjects. Experimental subjects will undergo a simple blood collection and mental health conversation every day, and a comprehensive physical examination once a week.
The owner of Villa No. 20 is a genetic engineer who took the initiative to become an experimenter two months ago, according to his diary. There are 80 experimenters living in the town, led by a man named Iceman designated by the shelter.
The owner of Villa No. 20 goes to the airport every morning, completes blood collection and mental health examinations, and goes home with distributed food. His daily routine is to play table tennis and plant flowers against the wall.
A month ago, due to manpower shortage, the Fortress Company set up automatic forts at three passes, built barbed wire fences on the roads, and then removed the sentries. The brother of the owner of Villa No. 20 was a sentinel. After he was laid off, his brother was assigned to work on the Hope.
The Hope was a supply ship whose mission was to go to sea once a week to obtain living supplies provided by the Fortress Company.
Since there is no concern about external invasion or the safety of the experimenters, Lemon Town only has a 20-person armed security guard from the Fortress Company in the underground shelter.
This is the ecological circle of Lemon Town.
At this time, humans have established an isolation zone on the island and decided to launch an immigration plan. In order to obtain more serum, the quarantine area offered a heavy bounty to the fortress mercenaries and went to ten small towns including Lemon. After the mercenaries who came to Lemon Town became experimenters, the experimenters flew them to the epidemic area in a plane to collect serum.
This is the source of the fortress mercenaries who continue to enter the epidemic area. Why do mercenaries get infected and die? Because genetic vaccines are ineffective for some people, of course the mercenaries will not know this. Furthermore, Lemmon is only one of ten towns.
Maya’s thinking: There are planes, fuel, flying, and low security.
Lin Wu’s thinking: This is a backdoor opened by Sugon for the hardcore mode. If a base could be established in Lemon Town, it would be equivalent to returning to a non-hardcore mode. There would be water and electricity, the zombie density would not be high, the experimenters would lack combat effectiveness, and the fortress security would be 80 meters underground. The advantage is not only that the town has not been corroded, but also that a large amount of supplies are delivered to Lemmon every week. This includes fuel, tools, etc., and possibly even weapons and ammunition.
If nothing else, the materials that can be demolished and looted are enough to support many Shadows.
“It’s almost time, the master will be back soon. Let’s retreat, don’t take anything.” Maya said: “Go to the west to camp, no matter what, we have to eliminate the automatic turret first.”
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Follow the U-shaped road to the west and enter 99 Highway, ride another 4 kilometers and camp on the beach one kilometer away from the checkpoint. This is a small beach with piles of rocks. Not to mention that it is difficult for ships to dock, it is also difficult for people to climb onto the cliffs of the beach due to the action of the waves. The camping point is next to a crack, with a sliver of sky seven meters below. When the tide is high, sea water pours in, forming a small inland sea with an area of more than 200 square meters.
Maya immediately went to the checkpoint and confirmed that the checkpoint turret could rotate 360 degrees. Today’s share of the small fight has been finished, and the two of them will have to stay here for at least two and a half days. Lin Wu’s suggestion was to fish in the inland sea, while Maya’s idea was to penetrate into the central area of the town and look for opportunities to go to the airport through the highway bridge.
This kind of infiltration mode was the first time for Lin Ma. Before, it was either an NPC base or a zombie world. It was the first time they encountered a mixture of zombies and NPCs. Maya is not very worried about the armed NPCs in the underground shelter, she is worried about the automatic defense system. Once discovered by the NPC, the other party may alert the headquarters, and the headquarters may dispatch a drone.
This is not unfounded. Lin Ma has seen drone swarms and unmanned pocket tanks protecting the airport at Shuixi Middle School. In addition, we must also consider whether the experimental NPC on the ground has combat capabilities, whether the Hope is armed, and whether the crew is armed.
Maya went to the U-shaped highway alone, climbed to a signal tower, and took a telescope to quietly observe every move of zombies and NPCs on the signal tower. The zombies and NPC didn’t see the reason. Instead, Maya saw a two-person propeller fixed-wing aircraft flying from the sea. After the plane landed, it drove into Hangar No. 1. After a while, the pilot left the hangar.
Maya thus confirmed that the plane was flyable. Not only that, about ten minutes later, two NPCs wearing ground crew uniforms drove a tanker truck into the hangar.
Maya contacted Lin Wu, who was taking a nap, through the headset. Lin Wu asked, “Is there any chance?”
Maya said, “There is an automatic checkpoint on the highway bridge, and you need to swipe your identity. Apart from this, no other security systems were found.”
Lin Wu said Said: “Experimenters driving will not attract zombies. You will attract zombies by driving.” The sound of the car will attract zombies, but the zombies attack the car not because of the sound of the car, but because there are humans in the car. As long as humans leave the car, the zombies will give up attacking the car.
Lin Wu said: “You can give it a try. Anyway, you have time and don’t care about the 24 hours of resurrection. My personal suggestion is that we should establish a base in the town and carry out steady infiltration and occupation.”
Maya asked: “Do you remember the base changing activity? “Yes.
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Maya said: “We found a commercial street base at that time. Now I see a place similar to a commercial street. It may be the base recommended by the system. On the back of the commercial street is the river, and two hundred meters away is the The highway bridge is located on the edge of the core area. I watched it for more than an hour. There are five NPCs in total. They go directly to and from the villa and the airport through the highway bridge. No one goes to the commercial street.”
Lin Wu knew about the commercial street base. At that time, the base was aimed at commercial businesses. Street base was discussed. It is said to be a commercial street, but it is more like a long two-story market. There are various shops on the first floor, ranging from clinics to gyms. Each shop is a small grid. The second floor is for clothing and electrical appliances stores. The space is spacious, with several small grids and two large grids. The rooftop has a large outdoor grid and is a natural outpost.
However, the defensive capabilities of commercial streets are not strong. On the one hand, because the long facade of the base faces the open space of the parking lot, there is no geographical advantage at all. Secondly, there are two back doors on the first floor, which are easily penetrated by zombies.
Maya said there was a river on the back side, which solved the second problem. But the first problem is difficult to solve. Without fences or fences, it is difficult to stop the frontal impact of the corpse tide. The advantage is that each store in the commercial street has corresponding bonuses. Establishing a ward in the clinic not only speeds up recovery, but also randomly dispenses pills or herbal medicines every day. Using a gym will give you more attribute experience than a normal gym. In addition, there is a bookstore on the first floor and a screening room on the second floor.
Overall, it is a place where everyone can live comfortably. Because it is an indoor building, you can still comfortably move around indoors when there is heavy rain or other weather conditions.
Lin Wu said after a long time: “The game will be over in three quarters. Who knows what Shuguang will do. The Doomsday Fortress not only has defensive capabilities, but also has rivers and seas, and is relatively rich in resources.” Although it is ugly, although it is up and down You need to climb a straight ladder to reach the building. Although most of the bases are open-air buildings, their defense capabilities are really strong.
“Okay.” Lin Wu convinced Maya, and Maya said: “I will go back after drawing the map.”
(End of this chapter)
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