Chapter 11: The Fear That Followed
The fun of the game should be more than just for beating levels.
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Now that the next goal has been determined, Qi Zhen and the three of them no longer hesitate, preparing to go to the forest to find the so-called "truth".
"This forest is so big, where should we find it?" Jiang Yan said.
"According to the captain's train of thought, of course." Qi Zhen pointed at Li Qiang.
"Where there are many zombies, where there is something unusual, we will look for it."
The three of them followed the path in front of the house and walked into this dense taiga.
From the first moment they stepped into the woods, a thick and almost indissolvable mist enveloped the three of them, and the visibility was so low that they could be said to be unable to see their fingers.
There are two items that play their due role at this point.
One is a miner's helmet, under the illumination of the headlamp, the fog is instantly penetrated as if it does not exist, making the range of the light become unobstructed, and the visual range of the three people becomes about ten meters.
The second was Dave's shovel, which was also effective for these tall conifers, and Qi Zhen only needed a light shovel, and the big tree disappeared like foam, which made the pace of the three of them much faster.
There are also some sporadic zombies along the way, but they are not the hard bones of bowlers, and even the iron bucket zombies and cone zombies are pitiful, almost all of them are ordinary zombies, these zombies have nothing to hide under the illumination of the headlamp, and they are soon killed with the cooperation of Li Qiang and Jiang Yan, and the hammer in Qi Zhen's hand does not come in handy.
After all, he can be killed remotely, and Qi Zhen doesn't want to fight in close combat.
Even this zombie sanctioner is really useful.
Walking towards a place where there are many zombies, that is, towards a place where the fog is thick.
This proves that they are right, and that the direction should be generally correct.
I don't know how long they walked, but just when Qi Zhen had almost lost the concept of time and direction, they finally saw something other than dense fog, zombies, and trees.
The trees blocking the road suddenly disappeared, which made Qi Zhen, who had shoveled all the way, a little uncomfortable.
The thing that appeared in front of Qi Zhen and the three of them looked like a wall, the color was neither gray nor blue, Qi Zhen went up and knocked on it, it felt like metal, but there was no sonorous sound of metal.
Qi Zhen shone it with a headlamp, the height was probably more than two meters, and behind the wall, you could vaguely see what seemed to be a tower.
The three of them decided to walk along the wall to see if they could get around it or find a door.
But after a few steps, the wall came to an end, and after a ninety-degree turn, it was still a wall.
"Is this a yard? Have we found a place? Jiang Yan asked.
Qi Zhen said to Li Qiang: "Captain, please help me, I'll go up and have a look." ”
Li Qiang nodded: "Then you can take a look at the wall, and if there is any problem, jump down." ”
Li Qiang lifted Qi Zhen up the wall with his shoulders.
Because of the relationship between the headlamp and Qi Zhen's head, once it was on the wall, Li Qiang and Jiang Yan were basically blind, and Qi Zhen disappeared in front of them almost instantly.
The two didn't dare to shout at him, so they could only wait silently below.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes.
At first, there was hardly any movement on it, and the more you got to the back, the more you could hear a footstep moving back and forth, listening to the sound, the frequency of the footsteps moving faster and faster, until it disappeared above their heads.
Qi Zhen poked her head out, and the light of the headlamp shone on the two people.
"Captain, let me go down." Qi Zhen's tone was a little unkind.
Li Qiang took him next, and when he saw Qi Zhen's face in disbelief and frustration, he was a little puzzled.
"What's going on up there? What do you see? Jiang Yan couldn't help but ask.
"Have you ever been to see the Leshan Giant Buddha?" Qi Zhen asked.
Li Qiang and Jiang Yan both chuckled in their hearts.
Qi Zhen nodded: "I guess this wall is the feet of mechanical zombies, just now we thought it was a yard, but in fact it was an iron lump, so there was no sound of metal when it was knocked on, as for that tower, although I can't shine so high, it must be this guy's legs." ”
Jiang Yan was already disgraced at this time, and she almost exclaimed, she asked in a trembling voice, "Then ...... say that?"
"That's right, I don't know why the gap is so big with the game, but if Dr. Zombie drives this thing to Dave's house, we're dead." Qi Zhen nodded and said helplessly.
"It's good that we're here, it's good that it hasn't started yet, and the most important thing is that our thinking is right, so Qi Zhen, don't be frustrated." Li Qiang encouraged.
Sure enough, the three of them found the second foot of the mechanical zombie not far to the right.
"According to the principle of the human body, if this mechanical zombie needs to stand shoulder-width apart to best support its body......" Qi Zhen estimated the distance between the two legs, smacking her lips.
"Don't think about it, it's important to find Dr. Zombie right now." Li Qiang stopped Qi Zhen's increasingly terrifying assumptions.
"Where to start, do you have any ideas?" Li Qiang asked.
"Yes, Dr. Zombie can't climb up, so there must be a door somewhere on the feet of the mechanical zombie, or a staircase, or an elevator, in short, Dr. Zombie should not be very far from that door, so that he can easily enter and exit." Qi Zhen replied.
"Okay, let's take a look."
The three men eventually found a door behind their feet, but it was closed and could not be opened.
Qi Zhen turned her back to the door and pointed ahead.
"It should be over here."
There was still a forest ahead, and the three of them were ready to continue their way.
After the three of them stepped into the forest, the scene changed again.
All the fog was gone, the trees were gone, and what appeared in front of everyone was a building that was almost identical to Dave's house.
The three were dumbfounded.
"This thing...... Kind of scary, right? Jiang Yan didn't react from the shock just now.
"This thing...... It's kind of funny, right? Li Qiang said.
"This thing...... Kind of interesting, right? Qi Zhen seemed to be asking two people, and it was also like asking herself.
The three of them slowly approached the house, the appearance of this house was almost no different from Dave's, the only difference was probably that it looked a little shabby, and no one seemed to take care of it.
Li Qiang picked up his standard firearm M249 again, and the magic elements around Jiang Yan also became active, and Qi Zhen tightened the hammer in his hand.
Everything was eerily quiet, even in this courtyard, and the weather was clear again.
The three of them walked to the door of the house, and Li Qiang nodded at Qi Zhen.
Qi Zhen opened the door suddenly, Li Qiang didn't say a word, and there was a sudden attack in the room, and with the eruption of the muzzle flame, all the things in the room that were swept by the bullets were shattered.
The gunfire stopped, and the three men looked into the room.
There was nothing in it except shattered furniture.
The three of them walked into the room and began to check.
At this time, a white-clothed zombie suddenly jumped from the second floor and ran out of the courtyard.
This white shadow flashed away in Qi Zhen's afterglow, and burrowed into the woods.
"Dr. Zombie! Get him! Qi Zhen shouted,
"It's too late, he's not so fast, let's hurry up and find clues!" Li Qiang said.
The trio found a number of blueprints of mechanical zombies in a room on the first floor, and something even more remarkable on the second floor.
"This is ......," Jiang Yan's eyes widened.
The second floor is opened up, so there is only a super large room, and in the center of the room there are four glass jars filled with green transparent liquid, which are connected to many pipes and wires for unknown purposes, and there are many instruments around to display data at all times.
And inside the glass jar, there are actually four zombie doctors of different sizes!
The largest one inside was already half a man tall, while the smallest one was the size of an adult's arm.
"There is such a heinous thing as cloning Dr. Zombie, Liu Jianshe of the dog day, it's really a surprise." Qi Zhen became more and more aware of why Jiang Yan and Yu Liang hated Liu Jianshe so much at the beginning of the game.
With a dense burst of gunfire, all the glass jars were broken, and the liquid flowed all over the ground, Qi Zhen took the hammer, hammered one by one, and sent these half-dead zombie doctors back to the west.
The room on the third floor is filled with cones, buckets, football suits, sleds, and even diving goggles and fins, apparently for normal zombie equipment.
The three of them finally came to the rooftop.
In the backyard, the roar of machinery continued to sound, and as various automated instruments continued to operate, one component after another was listed and welded together, and a new mechanical zombie was slowly taking shape.
"Damn, mechanical zombie production line?" Qi Zhen scolded, not knowing what to say.
Qi Zhen took out a black mushroom from his pocket and handed it to Li Qiang.
The biggest killer of Plants vs. Zombies - Bomb Mushroom!
Li Qiang took the mushroom, put away the gun, and threw the mushroom on the machinery like a grenade.
With a loud bang, the machines finally turned into a pile of broken copper and iron, and there was no way to use it anymore.
After solving all these problems, the tense nerves of the three people finally relaxed somewhat.
From any point of view, what they saw along the way was shocking.
However, without taking a break, the three of them had to set off immediately.
Because there's also a zombie doctor who ran away!
And its target must be Dave's house!
As the three of them walked out, Jiang Yan asked, "Can any of you help me explain, what the hell is going on?" ”
"What Qi Zhen said is not wrong, zombies will indeed refresh in an infinite loop, because this zombie doctor who studies zombies will continue to be cloned." Li Qiang said, it seems that there are still some lingering palpitations.
"I guess that the four jars we see are the four growth stages of Dr. Zombie, and when each Dr. Zombie is born, the remaining three Doctor Zombie hatchlings will be moved forward by one position, and new clones will be placed in the first jar."
"At the same time, the newly-born Zombie Doctor has to wait for the mechanical zombie to be built and drive it to where we just saw, and then he has to come back and start building a new mechanical zombie again, which explains why there are still so many mechanical zombie blueprints on the first floor, because they have to learn from scratch!"
"This double time limit determines that the frequency of Dr. Zombie's invasion will never be too fast, and the time interval can be roughly guaranteed!"
Li Qiang looked at Qi Zhen and signaled if he had anything else to add.
"It's basically similar to what the captain said, and there's another question, that is, where did those ordinary zombies come from, I still can't figure it out......" Qi Zhen said, but her voice became smaller and smaller.
"That's right! I understand! ”
Qi Zhen suddenly shouted, startling Li Qiang and Jiang Yan.
"Maybe we can find the birthplace of those zombies!"