Chapter 744 Zombie Village
A grayish-yellow light gradually appeared on the horizon. It was the sun rising behind the thick radiation clouds. Qi Lin glanced at the mechanical watch on his wrist. It was already six o'clock in the morning.
He drove peacefully in the wasteland for a whole night. Except for a radioactive hyena, which was not even elite level and whose fur was rotten, it chased the all-terrain off-road vehicle for several kilometers. Nothing happened.
This place is far away from the location of the shelter, and it belongs to the unexplored "foggy area" on the map. Due to the recent tense situation within human beings, and the genetic agent incident, organizations and consortium alliances have lost a large number of evolvers. , so more than 90% of the zone tasks have been cut off, and many observation posts originally established on the surface have also been canceled due to lack of manpower.
The situation in the wasteland is changing rapidly. In just a few days, a certain area can become unrecognizable. If you want to know the information of these unexplored areas, there are only two ways.
The information left over from the old era and the mastermind’s exploration report.
The former is already on the verge of being scrapped. Those bustling metropolises have long been reduced to ruins, rivers and lakes have dried up, and the wide highways are covered and buried by yellow sand. Among the materials left over from the old era, the only one with reference The only valuable ones are dead data that will not change dramatically, such as longitude and latitude, topography, altitude, etc., as well as place names that have become history.
As for the latter, no team returning to the surface dares to use this information, and they will not even consider using it as reference intelligence-even if 99% of this information is accurate, the remaining 100% One is enough to be fatal.
With the mastermind's IQ, cunning, and computing power, if you want to plant several traps in this information, you will definitely not be able to find them without a professional team conducting analysis for more than a week. However, the data of this information is so vast that it is impossible for the organization to have enough of manpower and time to analyze them one by one.
Because of this, progress in the exploration of some non-key areas on the surface has been very slow - these tasks were originally planned to be carried out slowly after all humans returned to the surface.
But for Qi Lin, he urgently needs to obtain this information.
If they want to go to the LS City ruins, the route originally chosen by the Thunder Falcon team and the recovery team can no longer be taken. The mastermind has probably included this route under surveillance. Qi Lin must open up a new route in the wasteland. route to come.
When opening up a new route, the biggest worry is that you accidentally break into the territory of some high-level mutant creatures - such as the king-blooded dragon lizard, which are easy to find, just stay away from them. But if you encounter monsters such as frozen soil rockworms, you may only be surprised to know that you have penetrated deep into the opponent's territory after encountering an attack - and the premise is that you can survive the opponent's attack. Otherwise, I don’t even know how to die.
In "Wasteland Survival Code", many players who are not very powerful when exploring unknown areas do not even know what thing killed them, and they are already squatting in a small dark room waiting for the countdown to resurrection.
However, as more people died, players naturally summarized a lot of practical experiences. These experiences can be used in the virtual game world and are equally applicable in the real wasteland.
One of the very important experiences is to use the "wasteland native NPC".
In addition to humans, there is also a special species living in the wasteland - the living dead.
Compared with the humans hiding in underground shelters, these living dead who have been living on the ground are the real "wasteland natives."
There are two types of living dead, zombies that are no different from monsters and zombies that have certain intelligence. Although the latter do not necessarily have good intentions towards humans, and many zombies even extremely hate normal humans, at least they were once humans and retained their In order to understand the memory and thinking of being a human being, there is also the possibility of communication.
If Qi Lin can find a zombie willing to communicate with him, it will definitely be of great help to his next actions.
Qi Lin slowed down the all-terrain off-road vehicle slightly and deliberately moved towards the hills on the northeast side.
According to the data obtained in the game, most zombie settlements in the wild prefer to be located at the foot of a mountain or at the bottom of a slope, in a leeward location.
Qi Lin was lucky. He had just climbed over a hill and saw what he wanted to see - a row of wooden structures built with plastic sheets, foam boards and wooden sticks at the bottom of the back slope two kilometers away. The shack is surrounded by a low wall made of stones. A zombie wearing only a pair of tattered trousers, with almost all the skin on his body, and whose gender is unclear, is sitting in front of a shack. , holding a piece of rusty iron in his hand, he was cutting a long branch, and it seemed that he was making a weapon such as a short spear.
There are several other zombies lying lazily on the hillside basking in the sun.
Based on the number of shacks, Qi Lin judged that it was probably a small-scale zombie village, and the number of zombies was about twenty to fifty.
How to deal with zombies is also a science - most zombies are not friendly to living people, but there are also zombies who live in human cities and live peacefully with players... In fact, except for those with brain damage Except for the individual, the thinking mode of zombies is not much different from that of humans. There are even some zombies who still regard themselves as humans.
The zombies in front of him can form a village, and there are some racks for drying simple clothes, blankets and leather in the village. Qi Lin thinks that these should be a group of zombies with relatively intact "humanity".
Qi Lin took a few cans of braised pork from the trunk of the car, took out two more military stimulants, and slowly walked towards the zombie village.
What do zombies like? This issue has also been studied by players... After all, with so many players, there will always be idle guys, and this issue is not meaningless.
Clothes, weapons, daily necessities... In addition to these practical things, there are also people who like precious metals and jewelry. In a city where Qi Lin has settled, there is a zombie NPC who runs a grocery store and especially likes to collect old things. Books and magazines of the era.
The hobbies of zombies can be said to be diverse, but there are two things that all zombies will not refuse - cans and drugs.
Although the zombie's body can completely rely on absorbing radiation to maintain operation, almost all qualified zombies retain the habit of eating... The feeling of chewing food will remind them of the memory of when they were born as humans, and compared to a whole piece BBQ, zombies prefer canned food with strong imprint of industrial civilization.
As for drugs, it is even easier to understand. Zombies will not be affected by the side effects, but they cannot escape drug addiction and mental dependence. The feeling of ecstasy is not much entertainment in life. For zombies, it is too tempting.
Qi Lin did not bring any drugs such as Jet and Baifen when he came out this time, but stimulants can barely be regarded as close relatives of such things.