State of Decay - Chapter 346

[Chapter 341 Occupation]

Early in the morning, after breakfast, everyone joined the Mayan team. The reason why Shitou is not allowed to start the team is that he has serious distrust in his combat ability. After all, he is over 35 years old.

The pickup truck can only accommodate five people. Lin Wu handed Xiao Wai to Su Shi’s supervision and ran to the ramp. When he arrived at the ramp, Dashuang happened to drive back to the ramp. In order to save gas, Dashuang only ran a small lap, as long as he could prove that the license plate could fool the surveillance cameras.

Dashuang got out of the car and the other five people got in. Shitou drove the pickup truck and easily bypassed the zombies on the road. The speed and smoothness were not comparable to that of Dashuang.

The town is not big, and it only takes a few minutes for the car to reach the intersection. The number of zombies here has increased dramatically. However, there are relatively few zombies in the middle of the road. Unconventionally, the density of zombies in the building is extremely high. One understanding: This is the only way for NPCs to go to the airport, and all the zombies on the road have been killed. One understanding: When the virus broke out, everyone was sheltering from the rain in the building. There is also a more high-end understanding, ultrasonic corpse attractor or ultrasonic corpse expeller.

Why is it ultrasonic? Generally speaking, there is no problem if you can’t hear the problem and blame it on ultrasonic.

At the top of the stem, you can clearly see the highway bridge. Like the ramp, it has an automatic lift system, but it is equipped with an infrared system and cannot be bypassed from the left or right.

“Ready to fight.”

The car leaves the road, turns right and enters an open space 30 meters wide and 80 meters long, which can be called a small square or a parking lot. The car stopped 20 meters away from the commercial street building. Everyone got out of the car, eliminated the surrounding zombies, and cleared a safe area.

The commercial street is a single long building. There are no buildings on the right side of it, only the river embankment, all the way to the highway bridge. A hundred meters away on the left side of the commercial street is a long, low-rise building. Judging from the signboards, they are all restaurants.

Since there are no mutated zombies and the zombie density is not high, the battle to build a safe zone is relatively easy. After the battle, everyone gathered at the front of the car to hold a temporary meeting to determine specific combat strategies. During this process, everyone felt something bad. It is no exaggeration to say that the density of zombies in the mall is five times or even more than that in the small square.

In the middle of the shopping mall is a large staircase leading up to the second floor. On both sides of the staircase are shops along the street. There is a passage on the left and right of the stairs on the first floor, which allows access to the interior of the first floor. On the left side of the stairs is a clinic with a long structure, about 15 square meters in size by visual inspection, with more than 20 zombies crowded inside.

The clinic also has a back entrance, and you can see many zombies in the corridor at the back entrance.

Maya said: “Raise your hand if you have a weapon with a 90% silence.”

Lin Wu, Shana and Mian Qian raised their hands. Shana took the repeating Silencer that Lin Wu brought back, Lin Wu used the Silencer that the stone brought back from the shadows, and Mian Qian held a very beautiful silenced pistol.

Maya reached out and took Shana’s burst of Silencer, and said to Lin Wu: “You clear out the zombies in the clinic, and I’ll clean up the zombies in the burger restaurant next door. Cotton is responsible for cleaning up the remaining zombies.” After all, it’s a store, so it’s impossible to tell at a glance. After destroying the main zombie force, you need cotton to enter the store to clean up. What should we do if Cotton provokes zombies? That’s okay, just pull them out.

The next step was target shooting, one shot at a time, and the two of them shot and killed most of the zombies in the two shops. Cotton entered the clinic with guns in both hands. As a police officer, her daily training subjects included indoor combat. Maya’s arrangement played to her strengths.

As Cotton walked out of the burger shop, all the zombies in the two stores were cleared. This method is of course very efficient and safe, but the bullets also burn quickly. The two stores used 40 rounds of .22 bullets and 10 pistol bullets. During the defense of the Seven Stars a few months ago, Lin Wu took away most of the .22 bullets. His death also caused a shortage of .22 bullets in the base.

There are still more than 200 bullets in the assault rifle, but when the gun fires, zombies from the office building across the street and the surrounding fields will swarm in.

In the final analysis, cold weapons are the core in the doomsday era. Bullets expire, but anyone can make a stone axe.

Of course, Maya knows the information about the shortage of bullets. The purpose of clearing the two shops on the left is to establish another safe zone. Next, Lin Wula pulled the zombies, and the others were responsible for intercepting. The zombies in the hardcore mode have very strong running ability and impact, which also results in them being easily dragged away from their large army. It is true that some zombies will howl twice, but when the reinforcements reach the position where it howls, they will disperse on their own without discovering the player. Therefore, the person who pulled the zombies not only had to run faster than the zombies, but also much faster. Obviously Lin Wu was the best candidate.

Lin Wu is not good at frontal fighting. He has no skills with sharp blades and blunt weapons. He can swing them faster with the agility bonus, but they are far less effective than Maya’s sword skills.

Waves of internal zombies are pulled out of the clinic shop, just like the relationship between a scumbag and his ex-girlfriend, or a scumbag and his first love, endless.

In addition to pulling away zombies from the back door passage of the store, Lin Wu also pulled zombies from the back doors of other stores. This time also showed Lin Wu’s rich combat experience. He could roughly control the number of zombies he pulled out. If there are too many zombies, he will run faster to get rid of some of them. If there were fewer zombies, he would use his slingshot to call a few zombies to follow him.

Chasing with zombies is tiring, and it’s not easy for those who kill zombies. The impact of zombies still brings a lot of trouble to players. After a few waves, someone was injured, and the unlucky stone was even infected. Even so, Maya did not order a break. In fact, after someone is infected, not only can they not stop, but they must also increase their work efficiency.

Although there are no biochemical experts in the team to treat infections, Shadow’s family is still relatively strong. Everyone carries a few serum needles with them, and Maya also has a dozen defective serum needles in her backpack.

After more than an hour of fighting, the zombies on the first floor were basically cleared. Mian Mian entered the first floor alone and carefully searched for the remaining hidden zombies, while the others attacked the second floor.

There is good news at this time. The system prompts that Maya cannot occupy the clinic if there are no zombies around the clinic. This means that the clinic is not a separate unit. Of course, there is another possibility that players are not allowed to occupy Lemon Town.

As the zombies on the second floor were dragged down the stairs by Lin Wu one by one, the number of zombies in the commercial street was decreasing sharply. Seeing that everything was going according to plan, something happened.

There is a long passage on the first floor, with the back doors of each store on one side. On the other side, there are restrooms, drinking water, smoking area and back door respectively at the front and back ends. Closest to the stairs are two long and narrow shops.

Cotton first cleaned the rooms on the west side, then moved on to clear the shops and smoking areas on the east side, and finally entered the bathroom. The main purpose of hiding zombies is to scare people. Cotton held the pistol in her hand and looked down to see the feet of the zombies in the pit, so she pushed open the bathroom pit door. She never expected that the pistol jammed at this time.

Cotton glanced at the pistol out of habit, and then was thrown to the ground by the zombies. Cotton immediately called for help: “Need help, right away.” Because the zombies hiding in another pit heard the sound and came out of the pit to join the fight.

At this time, Lin Wu was taking 10 zombies down the stairs. As soon as Maya said: “Lin Wu, don’t pull.” She saw Lin Wu and 10 zombies coming down the stairs.

Maya immediately picked up the Silencer and shot two zombies, but the other eight zombies were already in front of her. She could only draw her knife to fight Shana and Shitou. Maya: “Lin Wu, go inside and help Cotton.”

“Okay.” Lin Wu ran inside and asked, “Cotton, where is it?”

“Toilet.”

Lin Wu knew that there were two bathrooms and asked: “Which one.”

Cotton knocked one zombie over, rolled on the spot to avoid another zombie’s attack, and pressed her body against the wall: “It’s the bathroom.” She had no chance to draw a weapon or stand up, and she had no concept of east, west, north, and south. .

Lin Wu, who didn’t hear any noise, went to the west bathroom. When he entered the men’s bathroom, there was no one, and when he entered the women’s bathroom, there was no one. He knew he had made a mistake and immediately ran to the east bathroom. This passage is 80 meters long, and the restrooms are at the east and west ends. Including the time it took Lin Wu to enter the two restrooms, when Lin Wu arrived at the place where Cotton was attacked, it had been more than 20 seconds since Cotton was attacked. Only Cotton’s body and two zombies were left in the bathroom.

“Cotton is dead.” Lin Wu attacked the two zombies.

Maya said: “Touch the corpse.” Mian Mian and Da Shuang are husband and wife, and they can come back. There is no time to grieve at this time, and losses should be minimized as much as possible.

Lin Wufeng stabbed two zombies and then quickly touched the corpses. Just halfway through the progress bar, two zombies hiding in the women’s restroom heard the noise and entered the men’s restroom. Lin Wu had no choice but to stop touching the corpse and use the third wind thorn to capture one. At this time, his body was already in a serious overdraft situation due to the fast running and continuous wind stabbing.

Lin Wu stabbed with the dagger, relying on his attributes to avoid the zombie’s scratches, and stabbed the zombie’s head with one dagger after another. However, because the room was cramped and there were corpses on the ground, Lin Wu failed twice when he tried to get around to the back of the zombies. When Lin Wu stabbed the zombie to death and touched the corpse again, time was running out. In the end, Cotton took away all the equipment.

This accident caused a ten-minute break in the battle. On the one hand, it allowed Lin Wu to catch his breath. After all, he had to continue running. On the one hand, Maya organized everyone to search and clear a small long field outside the first floor and the back door.

Is Maya responsible for Cotton’s death? Maya can organize everyone to ensure the safety of the first floor after basically cleaning it. But she didn’t do that. Instead, she let Cotton clean up alone, which seemed a bit eager for quick success.

Cotton is dead, at least within these 24 hours, no one knows what happened in the bathroom. Lin Wu explained on the channel: “When I entered, I saw Cotton’s corpse and two zombies.”

“The deployment error was my fault.” Maya’s fault was that she didn’t know people well and she overestimated Cotton’s ability. This made her start to reflect. After being separated for nearly three months, she should re-examine the combat effectiveness of the shadow personnel to ensure a more objective understanding.

Shana said: “Isn’t that true? Cotton can’t deal with two zombies?” Let alone Cotton using a gun, she couldn’t die at the hands of two zombies even with a knife.

Maya, who is not in the same channel, explained: “I originally hoped to make the best use of human resources and capture the commercial street before the NPC went to the airport to work. I was too hasty. I should have organized people to clean the first floor first.”

Shana said: “No, I didn’t mean that. I think your arrangement is right. Cotton is very suitable and has the ability to search for hidden zombies alone.”

Lin Wu said: “She will be back in 24 hours. There is no need to review her at this time. If you have this time, you might as well give me a massage.”

One sentence interrupted the reflection and explanation of the two deputy commanders.

…

Ten minutes later, the cleanup work continued. When the number of zombies fell below 10, captain Maya saw the occupation message. The first part of the occupation information is an electronic map, showing how many zombies are around and where the zombies are. It’s just a flat map, so it’s impossible to confirm whether the zombies are on the first floor, the second floor, or the rooftop.

The second part is the base description.

The commercial street is a large base with five large grids, namely two outdoor large grids on the rooftop and three indoor large grids on the second floor. There are 12 indoor small grids on the first floor, 8 storefronts along the street, two long and narrow stores inside, and two restrooms. The base can be expanded. The first expansion requires 500 building materials. After expansion, an additional floor will be added and three large grids will be added. The second expansion requires 1,000 building materials. After the expansion, a basement level will be added and 12 small grids will be added.

Looks pretty good, but some grids have been restricted to building units. Only wards can be built in the small grid of the clinic, only the gym can be built in the small grid of the gym, and only the laundry room can be built in the laundry room. Only facilities such as restrooms, hot springs, saunas, and shower rooms can be built in the two restrooms. In addition, the burger restaurant corresponds to the kitchen, the bookstore corresponds to the library, and the amusement shooting shop can only build a shooting range.

7 of the 12 small grids are restricted to buildings. Taken together, the number of small grids is neither too many nor too few. Limited buildings cannot be built just because you want to. For example, building a bathroom requires water, and building a shooting range requires investing in a weapon of each bullet type.

Of course Lin Wu was most concerned about whether he needed a washing machine to build a laundry room.

The third part is the conditions of occupation. There are no requirements for player attributes, only the number of players. The occupying team cannot be less than 4 people. If the captain or member is the commander of other bases, the other bases will be disbanded immediately after capture. Team members who are members of other bases will be immediately detached from other bases.

The current team size is 4, among which the tent owner Lin Wu is the recognized boss of the tent base. Regardless of the system, if Lin Wu dies or Lin Wu withdraws from the base, the tent base will be disbanded, and all buildings and stored building materials in the tent will be reset to zero. Along the way, Lin Ma cut down many trees and stored nearly two hundred building materials in the tent base.

The best way is to drive a pickup truck to pick people up, and everyone plans to do that. Maya, who was thoughtful, raised a possibility: NPC discovered that the license plate was stolen when he went to work at the airport in the morning. The license plate on the pickup truck may have been canceled by the system.

The first method is to have someone drive a pickup truck into the surveillance area. This is of course the best if the alarm will not be triggered. If the alarm is triggered, the car will have a hard time escaping the drone because the vehicle’s license plate cannot open the ramp’s parking lever. Then you can only hit the parking pole. If you bet badly, you will be hunted by drones. It’s a good bet, pickup trucks won’t be able to enter the small town of Lemmon for a while.

The second way is to build the base with 4 people first. Doing so will waste the building materials and facilities in the tent base. As a secondary problem, Su Shi and Da Shuang are temporarily homeless.

The question returns to the pickup truck. After the NPC goes to work, will the deck on the pickup truck still be valid?

(End of this chapter)