Before leaving Linghu Wetland Park, Chu Guang went to the mutant leech nest near the parking lot with Yeshi.
"Those mushrooms, we found them there." Yeshi pointed to the broken cement pipe not far ahead.
"Fortunately, you didn't go in."
Chu Guang patted the shoulder of Yeshi.
"Let's go."
"It's not our goal today."
It's said that leeches can be used as medicine, but I don't know whether mutant leeches can be used.
They carefully avoided the nest of the mutant leech, avoided the lush vegetation and concrete ruins, and tried to walk in the sun.
He walked some way to the east.
Looking at the viaduct and residential buildings in front, Ye Shi, who was beside Chu Guang, couldn't help asking.
"Aren't we going hunting?"
"Yes."
"Then why is it farther and farther away from the forest?"
"The forest lies ahead."
“？”
Without much explanation, Chu Guang silently took off the iron pipe rifle on his back, pushed the bullet into the gun chamber, and his momentum also changed.
Not far away is a broken viaduct.
The traces of time are hidden by the shadows of green plants on the moss covered concrete bearing columns.
The big mouse licked the muddy water in the ditch and stone pit. When it found two intruders, it rushed to the grass on one side.
Yeshi raised his head, his pupils slightly enlarged, and printed a touch of shocking color.
Behind the broken viaduct, there are tall buildings covered with vines and moss. Strong roots pierced the cracked concrete ground, and tree trunks rose in the middle of the road, overturning cars and bus stops that had become iron slag.
The green hell is full of life, and there are also hidden opportunities to devour everything.
The world in my eyes is so shocking that every frame is like a post apocalyptic art piece that I even forget that this is the "game world".
At this moment, he finally understood the meaning of Chu Guang's words.
Here is the real forest
"Be careful from here on."
As Chuguang spoke, he opened the safety of the iron pipe rifle and explored forward step by step.
Although this is only the northern suburb of Qingquan City, far from the core urban area, we still have to be alert.
High rise residential buildings, sewers, three-dimensional gardens, parking lots, drone beehives, CNC planting towers, maglev stations and behind every window
All man-made miracles, abandoned by civilization, have become natural greenhouses and seedbeds.
After the nuclear war, there was a long cold winter on this land, but it only lasted for less than half a century.
The power of nature turns everything around.
High rise buildings were the first to fall, and moss began to erode along the backlight and eventually covered its whole body.
Those non high-rise buildings were not spared.
In the years of human recession, only a few heavy downpours and a sultry summer were needed to make this place a paradise for wild growth of fungi and angiosperms.
They provide abundant food for wild animals.
After the breakdown of the urban drainage system, the fresh water resources in the urban area are even more abundant than the nearby Linghu Lake.
Wildlife and out of control poultry began to migrate from forests, lakes and farms to cities with more comfortable living environment, and under the triple effects of radioactive materials, genetic weapons and time, they evolved into ferocious and bloodthirsty mutants.
They are collectively called heterogeneous!
Of course
The danger here is far more than that.
I carefully walked along the side of 76th Street for a while. It was quiet around. When I was thinking about where the other species had gone, the voice of Chu Guang came from the side.
"Yes."
In front of an abandoned car, Chu Guang suddenly stopped.
At night ten, he came back to himself at once, stopped his steps and looked around nervously, but saw nothing.
"What happened?"
The Chu light looked solemn.
"There are traces of survivors' activities."
"Other survivors?!" Yeteng was stunned, learning from Chu Guang to lower his voice, but could not hide the excitement in his tone. "Are they aborigines on the waste soil?"
Finally, I want to meet other NPCs!
He has been waiting for this moment for a long time!
Chu Guang glanced at him, knowing what he was thinking.
"You needn't be so excited. It's not something to be happy about."
"Why?"
"Because in such a place, strangers are more dangerous than aliens."
Without explaining more to him, Chu Guang squatted down and found a string of cans strung with iron wires behind the discarded wheels.
The aluminum can is broken outwards. From the fracture, it looks like something is fried, and you can vaguely smell the smell of rotten eggs.
"Gunpowder with excessive sulfur content, as well as thumbnails and iron sheets..."
Chu Guang frowned.
Mutants?
Or a predator?
General survivors may not deploy trip mines near settlements.
This kind of thing is very difficult to hurt the smell sensitive alien, in other words, it is human.
Judging from the residual smell, the explosion time should be short, at most five hours or less.
Chu Guang looked back and asked.
"When you came out of the ground, did you hear the explosion coming from the east?"
Yeshi shook his head nervously.
"No."
"Wait for me here."
Looking at Chu Guang who put down the can and got up, Yeshi asked nervously.
"What are you doing?"
"Investigate the situation ahead."
"I can join you -"
"You, stay here."
Yeshi wanted to insist, but he choked on Chuguang's eyes and finally nodded slowly.
The pressure from the authority dog made him feel that the man in front of him was not fighting with him. Maybe he would be kicked off the line
Tell Yeshi to hide it beside the old car.
Chu Guang put the gun away, pulled out the sharp steel pipe from his back, and quickly slipped into the building on the side of the street with a low body.
Although he did intend to use this player as bait when he came out, the situation is different now.
Opposite are other survivors, who may be predators or mutant tribes. The bait has lost its meaning and will scare the snake instead.
Chu Guang looked dignified, with steel tubes in his hands.
The straight-line distance from here to Linghu Wetland Park is at most 1km, and it is too close to No. 404 Refuge!
Especially now the players are engaged in production. Even if the smoke and sound generated are partially blocked by plants and concrete barriers, people here will find them sooner or later after a long time.
Keeping these dangers is always a hidden danger.
Chu Guang is ready to kill.
Once he judges that the other party may pose a threat, he will not hesitate to start.
The ten storey building along the street has a narrow safety passage, and the narrow space is covered with moss.
Fortunately, there is no particularly dangerous species here.
Around the fifth floor, there were several fat mutant mice, probably because they felt that they were "numerous and powerful" and showed their teeth at Chu Guang.
If they run away with their backs turned to them, they must have rushed up in a swarm. But this unexpected guest is not afraid at all. They dare not act rashly even if they are timid. They only dare to make a tentative attack and show their teeth in a shrill voice.
This has long been the case.
Without saying a word, Chu Guang went straight ahead and stabbed the nearest mutant mouse, killing one immediately.
When the rats saw this guy was so fierce, they immediately ran away like birds and beasts, got into the entrance of the floor and disappeared in the shadow.
"It doesn't look like a rat's nest."
"It should only be ten or twenty..."
More, these guys will be hard to deal with.
Crowds of mutant rats will be troublesome even if the fully armed mercenaries encounter them, let alone the ones who only have one iron pipe rifle.
Chu Guang breathed a sigh of relief and shook the sharp steel pipe, throwing down the fat mouse and the blood.
Go straight to the top floor of the tenth floor.
Chu Guang used the steel pipe in his hand as a crowbar to pry open the rusty door panel and enter the roof roof.
The wind is strong on the roof.
He walked to the side of the rusty water tank and looked toward the east community. The picture he saw confirmed his guess.
In the open space in the middle of the concrete building, there stands a camp made of wood. Shredded cloth and construction waste block the view of the outside world.
The survivors' strongholds on the waste soil can be roughly divided into two categories: one is to live directly in the houses that did not collapse before the war, and the other is to start a new life in the ruins or open spaces, depending on the surrounding conditions.
Predators living in urban areas usually live in buildings, and rarely build such original houses and fortifications.
Only mutants with an average height of two meters and a weight of more than 300 kg will build such wooden shacks when they clearly have ready houses to use.
The wooden stake at the gate of the camp was sharpened, like the tusks of wild animals. There were several broken limbs and bodies on it, and the ground was covered with dried blood.
They eat everything.
Not only fungi, fruits of plants, but also the meat of mutant flies, mice and cockroaches.
Of course, their favorite food was once the same kind——
A man with two feet.
Looking along both sides of the street, Chu Guang saw a mutant sentry with a metal bow on his back at the top of the shops along the street at the end of No. 76 Street.
The green skin looks like the Orcs in the fantasy movies. In fact, they are as strong, brutal, rude and bloodthirsty as the Orcs.
Two meters in height and the muscles of Qiu Jie are wrapped with metal garbage to make up the armor. The billboard used as the breastplate can even see the "second half price".
The two everted steel bars embedded on the shoulders are also the faucets that are directly removed from the bicycle. This device is very effective in dealing with chopping and blunt force injuries, and can jam the electric saw or axe.
It can be said that quite a Cyberpunk.
If Chu Guang and Yeshi had just continued to move forward, they would have met the ambush of the mutant sentry if they had reached the intersection at most!
I was afraid in my heart.
Chu Guang's throat knot moved slightly, moved his eyes, and continued to look at the mutant camp in the east community.
Because there were too many shelters, he could not see how many people were inside. He could only roughly judge from the scale of the camp based on experience that the number of mutants should be between 20 and 30.
"Small mutant colonies..."
Chu Guang's face became solemn.
These guys are not easy to mess with!
Almost at the same time, a light blue system pop-up window appeared in his view.
[Task: exterminate the mutant tribe located on 76th Street
Type: Branch
Reward: 200 reward points
】
Wait——
Can you trigger tasks outside the shelter?!
Chu Guang was stunned and immediately tried to exhale from the system, but there was no response.
The light blue mission pop-up window scattered, as if it had never appeared.
It seems that the system can only be opened near the refuge, but the task can be triggered anywhere outside the refuge?
But
These 200 reward points are a bit of praise.
No hesitation.
Chu Guang immediately put away his weapons, turned down the stairs, and quickly left the area with an ignorant face.
That's 200 rewards!
The branch line calling 100 players only gave 100 points, but this reward was given 200 points. It is obvious that this task is not so easy to complete.
Maybe there is a big hole in it!
Chu Guang is not stupid.
He would not be so obviously taken in.
"Manager, what did you see?" Looking at Chu Guang who finally stopped, Ye Shi, panting, put his hands on his knees to rest, couldn't help asking.
Chu Guang, standing to rest, answered casually.
"It's a mutant camp."
"So we... just leave?"
"Otherwise, fight with them? Lose and be thrown into the frying pan?" Chu Guang glanced at him. "Think with your head, we only have one gun."
Even only one person can fight.
Yeshi closed his mouth and stopped talking.
He didn't turn around just now. He only thought that the mutant was the NPC of the game. Now, the manager said that the mutant should be a hostile force?
And eat people
Yeshi plans to share this information with other players when he goes back.
"It's not a good idea to provoke those beasts now. We need to be more fully prepared and concentrate on giving them to the car. From now on, we can do it once and for all."
Chu Guang swears when he is far away.
"It's really unlucky... The mutant camp is on 76th Street, directly opposite the east gate of the park."
"Anyway, we must be careful!"
……
The original hunting route can only be offset!
Chu Guang took Yeshi to bypass No. 76 Street and walked north along the viaduct out of the city for about a mile. He found an abandoned construction site.
The construction site covers a large area. It should be a building that has just started construction. One of the buildings has reached the 17th or 8th floor, and the other several large pits should be the foundation being dug.
Most of the construction equipment has been scrapped, and the hanging tower has hit the unfinished building, forming a slope.
It can be seen that the quality of the house is good.
Even the suspension tower was knocked down by the shock wave of the nuclear explosion, while the concrete building was just knocked out of a gap, even without damaging the main structure.
The steel stacked on the construction site has been rusted, and the cement in the bag has been hydrated and deteriorated, so it can no longer be used.
However, to our surprise, Chu Guang found a lot of unused green gray stones here!
Chu Guang recognized at a glance that this thing was limestone, and the main component should be calcium carbonate, which could be used as the raw material for burning cement.
"Good thing!"
Chu Guang was secretly happy. He turned over the map and made a mark on it.
It is not a problem to build two buildings by refining all the limestone into cement.
As long as Lao Bai has unlocked the technology of burning Portland cement, they won't have to worry about the raw materials of cement for a long time in the future!