Chapter 20 Mutant Horde!

  Before leaving Linghu Wetland Park, Chu Guang took Ye Shi to the mutated leech nest near the parking lot.

   "That's where we found those mushrooms." Ye Shi pointed to the broken cement pipe not far ahead.

   "Fortunately you didn't go in."

  Chu Guang patted Ye Shi on the shoulder.

   "Let's go."

   "Our goal today is not it."

  I heard that leeches can be used as medicine, but I don’t know if mutated leeches can.

  The two carefully avoided the nest of mutated leeches, avoided lush vegetation and concrete ruins, and walked in the sun as much as possible.

   Walked for a while towards the east.

  Looking at the viaduct and residential buildings ahead, Ye Shi, who was following Chu Guang, couldn't help asking.

   "Aren't we going hunting?"

"Yes."

   "Then why are you getting farther and farther away from the forest?"

   "The forest is ahead."

   "?"

  Chu Guang didn't explain much, and silently took off the iron-pipe rifle on his back, pushed the bullet into the barrel, and his aura changed.

   Not far away, there is a broken viaduct bridge.

   On the concrete load-bearing pillars covered with moss, the traces of time are hidden by the shadows of green plants.

  The rat with the size of a washbasin licked the muddy water in the gutter stone pit, and when it found the two uninvited guests, it rushed to the grass on one side.

  Ye Shi raised his head, his pupils dilated slightly, and they were printed with a touch of shocking color.

   Behind the broken viaduct, there are tall buildings covered with vines and moss. Thick roots broke through the cracked concrete ground, and tree trunks rose up in the middle of the road, overturning the cars and bus stops that had long been turned into iron slag.

  In this green hell, there is a lot of vitality, but there is also a hidden murderous intent to devour everything.

  The world in his eyes is so shocking, every frame is like a post-apocalyptic artwork, so that Ye Shi even forgot 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."

  Chu Guang opened the safety of the iron pipe rifle while talking, and explored step by step.

  Although this can only be regarded as the northern outskirts of Qingquan City, far from the core urban area, we still have to not relax our vigilance.

  High-rise residences, sewers, three-dimensional gardens, parking lots, drone hives, CNC planting towers, maglev stations and behind every window...

  All man-made miracles, after being abandoned by civilization, have become natural greenhouses and seedbeds.

  After the nuclear war, there was indeed a long cold winter on this land, but it only lasted for less than half a century.

  The forces of nature turned everything around.

  The high-rise buildings were the first to fall. The moss started along the backlit surface, eroded upwards, and finally covered its whole body.

   And those non-tall buildings were not spared.

  In the years of human decline, only a few downpours and a hot summer can make this place a paradise for the wild growth of fungi and angiosperms.

   They provide abundant food for wildlife.

  After the city's drainage system was paralyzed, the fresh water resources in the urban area were even more abundant than the nearby Linghu Lake.

  Wild animals and out-of-control poultry began to migrate from forests, lakes, and farms to cities with more comfortable living environments, and evolved into vicious and bloodthirsty mutants under the triple effects of radioactive substances, genetic weapons, and time.

   They are collectively referred to as heterogeneous!

certainly…

  The danger here is much more than that.

   Walked carefully along the side of No. 76 Street for a while, the surroundings were quiet, and when Ye Shi was thinking about where all the alien species had gone, Chu Guang's voice came from beside him.

   "There is a situation."

   In front of a scrapped car, Chu Guang stopped suddenly.

  Ye Shi immediately came back to his senses, stopped his steps, and looked around nervously, but saw nothing.

   "What happened?"

   Chu Guang looked dignified.

   "There are traces of survivors' activities."

   "Other survivors?!" Ye Shi was stunned for a moment, imitating Chu Guang and lowering his voice, but couldn't hide the excitement in his tone, "Are they the aborigines of the wasteland?"

   Finally meeting other NPCs!

  He has been waiting for this moment for a long time!

  Chu Guang glanced at him and knew what he was thinking.

   "You don't have to be so excited, this is not something to be happy about."

"Why?"

   "Because in this kind of place, strangers are more dangerous than aliens."

   Without explaining to him, Chu Guang squatted down and found a string of soda cans strung by wire behind the scrapped wheels.

  The aluminum can was broken outwards. From the fracture, it looked like something had been fried, and the residual smell of rotten eggs could still be vaguely smelled.

   "Gunpowder with an excess of sulphur, and thumbtacks and pieces of iron..."

   Chu Guang frowned.

Mutant?

   Or Predator?

  Normal survivors will not deploy tripwire mines near settlements.

   This kind of thing is difficult to hurt alien species with a keen sense of smell, in other words, it is against people.

   Judging from the residual smell, the explosion time should be short, at most five hours or even less.

   Chu Guang turned around and asked.

   "When you came out of the ground, did you hear the explosion coming from the east?"

  Ye Shi shook his head nervously.

"No."

"wait for me here."

   Seeing Chu Guang who put down the can and stood up, Ye Shi asked nervously.

   "What are you going to do?"

   "Check out the situation ahead."

   "I can be with you—"

   "You, stay here."

  Ye Shi wanted to persevere, but when he met Chu Guang's eyes, he choked on the words again, and finally nodded slowly.

  The coercion from the authority dog ​​made him feel that the man in front of him was not messing with him, maybe he would really be kicked off the assembly line...

   Instruct Ye Shi to hide beside the old car.

  Chu Guang put away the gun, pulled out the sharpened steel pipe from his back, and quickly slipped into the building on the side of the street with a short body.

  Although he did intend to use this player as a bait when he came out, but the situation is different now.

   Opposite them are other survivors, and they are likely to be predators or mutant tribes. The bait has lost its meaning, and will instead scare the snake away.

  Chu Guang looked dignified, holding the steel pipe tightly in his hand.

   The straight-line distance from Linghu Wetland Park is at most 1 kilometer, which is too close to Shelter 404!

  Especially now that the players are engaged in heavy production, even if the smoke and sound produced are partly blocked by plants and concrete obstacles, they will be discovered by the people here sooner or later.

   Keeping these dangers is always a hidden danger.

  Chu Guang is ready to kill.

  Once he judges that the opponent may pose a threat, he will strike first without hesitation.

  The ten-storey building along the street has very narrow safety passages, and the small space is covered with moss.

   But fortunately, there are no particularly dangerous xenomorphs here.

  Around the fifth floor, there were a few fat mutant mice, probably because they felt that they were "a lot of rats", and grinned at Chu Guang unwillingly.

  If they were running away with their backs turned, they must have rushed up in a swarm, but they were not afraid of this uninvited guest at all, which made them dare not act rashly because of their timid nature.

   This has long been familiar.

  Chu Guang didn't say a word, he directly moved forward with a tube, aimed at the nearest mutant mouse, and immediately killed one.

   Seeing that this guy was so fierce, the rats immediately ran away like birds and beasts, got into the entrance of the floor, and disappeared in the shadows.

   "It doesn't look like a rat's nest."

   "It should be about ten or twenty..."

   A little more, and these guys will be hard to deal with.

   Groups of mutated rats would be troublesome even for fully armed mercenaries, let alone me who only had an iron-barreled rifle.

  Chu Guang heaved a sigh of relief, shook the pointed steel pipe, and threw off the fat mouse and the blood that had been impaled to death.

  Go directly to the top floor of the tenth floor.

  Chu Guang used the steel pipe in his hand as a crowbar to pry open the rusted door panel and enter the roof terrace.

  The wind on the roof is very strong.

  He walked to the side of the rusted water tank and looked towards the community to the east. What he saw really confirmed his guess.

   I saw a wooden camp standing in the open space in the middle of the concrete building, with rags and construction waste blocking the view from the outside world.

  The survivors’ strongholds on the wasteland 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 stove in the ruins or open space, depending on the surrounding conditions.

  Plunderers living in urban areas usually live in buildings, and rarely build such primitive dwellings and fortifications.

   Only mutants with an average height of two meters and a weight of more than 300 kilograms would build this kind of wooden shack when they obviously had a ready-made house available.

  The wooden stakes at the gate of the camp were sharpened, like the fangs of wild beasts, with a few severed corpses scattered on them, and dried blood on the ground.

   They eat anything.

   Not just fungi, the fruits of plants, and even the meat of mutated flies, mice, and cockroaches.

  Of course, their favorite food is still the same kind—

   A person with two feet.

  Looking along both sides of the street, Chu Guang saw a mutant sentinel carrying a metal longbow on the roof of a shop along the street at the end of No. 76 Street.

  The green skin is very much like the orcs in fantasy movies, but in fact they are indeed as strong, brutal, rude and bloodthirsty as orcs.

  The two-meter height and gnarled muscles are covered with an armor made of metal trash, and even "the second half price" can be seen on the billboard as a breastplate.

  The two outturned steel bars on the shoulders are the faucet directly removed from the bicycle-this thing is very effective in dealing with chopping and blunt weapon damage, and can jam a chainsaw or an axe.

   It can be said to be quite cyberpunk.

  If Chu Guang and Ye Shi continued to move forward just now, they would have been ambushed by the mutant sentinel at most at the intersection!

   Feeling faintly afraid.

  Chu Guang slightly moved his Adam's apple, shifted his gaze, and continued to look at the mutant camp in the east community.

  Because there were too many obstacles, he couldn't see how many people were inside. He could only roughly judge from the size of the camp based on experience that the number of mutants should be between twenty and thirty.

   "Small mutant colony..."

   Chu Guang's expression gradually became dignified.

   These guys are not easy to mess with!

  Almost at the same time, a light blue system pop-up window appeared in his field of vision.

  【Mission: Destroy the tribe of mutants on 76th Street

  Type: branch line

   Reward: 200 reward points

  ]

etc-

  Can the mission be triggered outside the shelter? !

   Chu Guang was taken aback for a moment, and immediately tried to breathe out the system, but there was no response.

  The light blue task pop-up window dissipated, as if it had never appeared before.

  It seems that the system can only be opened near the shelter, but the task can be triggered anywhere outside the shelter?

but…

   These two hundred reward points are a bit awesome.

   Without hesitation.

  Chu Guang immediately put away his weapon, turned and went downstairs, and quickly left the area with Ye Shi in a daze.

   That's a 200-point reward!

  The side mission to summon 100 players is only given 100 points, but the reward is 200. It is obvious that this task is not so easy to complete.

   Maybe there is a big pit hidden inside!

  Chu Guang is not stupid.

  He wouldn't fall for such an obvious trick.

   "Master Manager, what exactly did you see?" Looking at Chu Guang who finally stopped, Ye Shi, who was panting, put his hands on his knees to rest, and couldn't help asking.

  Chu Guang, who stood still and rested, answered casually.

   "It's a camp for mutants."

   "Then we... just leave?"

   "Otherwise, fight with them? If you lose, you will be thrown into the frying pan?" Chu Guang glanced at him, "Think about it, we only have one gun."

  Even only one person can fight.

  Ye Shi shut his mouth and stopped talking.

  He didn't turn his head around just now, he only thought of the mutants as the NPCs of this game, and now hearing what the manager said, these mutants should be hostile forces?

   And cannibalism...

   Secretly wrote down this information, and Ye Shi planned to share it with other players after returning home.

   "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, once and for all."

  Chu Guang who walked away cursed.

   "It's really unlucky... The camp of mutants is actually on 76th Street, directly opposite the east gate of the park."

   "In any case, we have to be careful!"

  …

  The original hunting route can only be shifted!

  Chu Guang took Ye Shi around No. 76 Street, walked north along the elevated road bridge out of the city for about a mile, and found an abandoned construction site.

  The area of ​​the construction site is very large. It should be a real estate that has just started construction. One of the buildings has reached the seventeenth or eighteenth floor. The other large pits should be the foundation being dug.

  Most of the equipment used in the construction has been scrapped, and the crane tower even fell on the unfinished building, forming a slope.

   It can be seen that the quality of this house is still good.

  Even the hanging tower was knocked down by the shock wave of the nuclear explosion, but the concrete building was only smashed with a gap, and the main structure was not even damaged.

  The steel stacked on the construction site has corroded, and the cement in the bag has also hydrated and deteriorated, making it unusable.

  However, what is surprising is that Chu Guang found a large number of unused blue-gray stones here!

  Chu Guang recognized it at a glance. This thing is limestone. The main ingredient should be calcium carbonate, which can be used as a raw material for firing cement.

   "Good stuff!"

  Chu Guang was secretly delighted, pulled out the map, and made a mark on it.

   If all these limestones are smelted into cement, it will not be a problem to build two buildings.

  As long as Lao Bai unlocks the technology of burning Portland cement, they will not need to worry about the raw materials of cement for a long time in the future!

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  (end of this chapter)