Chapter 587: Lao Guo's Ambition
For the survivors, during the day, Storm's End is a city full of dangers that can cost you your life, and at night, it becomes a paradise for the undead.
Camp Steelwalker's most elite professionals and mortal soldiers would rest during the day, enjoying the food that other survivors had found at the risk of their lives.
For they will wrestle with death and fear every night until dawn.
Most of the survivors are accustomed to this kind of life, because they have no power to resist in the dark night, and those who are in good spirits will sleep until dawn, while those who are timid can only hide under the covers and pray in panic and prayer that they will still live to see the sun.
But this night was destined to be different.
Guo Yunfeng always remembered very well that there were one hundred and twenty-one survivors who came with James at the beginning, and unlike other survivors, these people seemed to be living a good life.
In the then-vegetable-colored Steelwalker camp, these people stood out like the moon in the night, and it was a full moon.
Half a month after the fall of Storm's End, there were still two fat men among those survivors, shiny and slippery.
At first, Guo Yunfeng was just a group of lucky people who were lucky enough to find enough food, but after James proposed to deal with a few prisoners privately and use human flesh to maintain the physical strength of the professionals, Guo Yunfeng began to feel that something was wrong.
During this period of time, Guo Yunfeng has been thinking about what kind of characteristics the undead have, he has captured no less than ten undead before and after, and even watched a bitten soldier transform from a human to an undead.
He has done a lot of experiments similar to Xu Yichen, and they are more detailed.
When the death knell sounded, these immortals regained their old memories and sanity, and could communicate like ordinary people, and although the three sentences were not separated from flesh, they knew who they were, and even knew who they had eaten.
These undead exhibited a peculiar cognitive impairment when asked sensitive questions, as if cannibalism was a matter of course.
These undead who have temporarily regained their senses have been tied in a dead knot in the logical loop, and once common sense and instinct conflict, they will fall into a state of hysterical madness.
Guo Yunfeng has also done other experiments, such as destroying the brain tissue of an undead person before the death knell rings, to verify whether the other party still uses the brain to think about problems.
It turns out that in this game world, human beings may have another complete mental storage system on top of the physiological system.
Even if the brain tissue was stirred into a tofu brain, the immortal was still as 'organized' as before.
These experiments forced Guo Yunfeng to be sure that the Brotherhood's sacrifice ceremony was successful, and that the entire living people in the Storm's Rest Castle were sacrificed to an unknown evil god.
Under the power of this evil god, the boundary between life and death is infinitely blurred, and the living may become dead at any time, while the dead can still speak and work like the living.
For most ordinary people who have never learned words or other knowledge, I am afraid that the difference between the two is negligible.
The souls of the living in the entire city are imprisoned in their own flesh and cannot be liberated.
In Guo Yunfeng's view, the biggest difference between the dead and the living is whether to eat people or not.
So when James proposed that he wanted to feed those professionals with the flesh and blood of those who refused to cooperate, he was classified as the 'undead' in Guo Yunfeng's heart, an undead who could always maintain human reason.
It's just that this realization is too late, and the survivors who entered the camp with James have disappeared without a trace like water droplets melted into the sea.
There are not enough people to count the population, and when accepting survivors from the outside world, Steelwalker Camp will only check for injuries and other physical discomforts, and register a name and occupation that cannot be identified as authentic, just in case.
The one who is really responsible for counting the population relies on the number of survivors in Guo Yunfeng's task prompt.
It took him a full five days to get trusted people in the camp to secretly determine the specific addresses of the people who had come with James, but he didn't get much.
And he also found out that James was very popular in the camp, and it seemed that many people would like to see James become the new leader.
This is not normal, Guo Yunfeng relied on his own strength to absorb those miners with the Steel Walker Infantry Battalion, and personally led the blade to enter and exit seven times after the disaster, searching for and rescuing survivors in the infected area, and every time he besieged the city, he took the lead and took charge alone.
It can be said that Guo Yunfeng has become a well-deserved leader with predictive decision-making and irreplaceable force, while James is just one of the later survivors, but he has gained such huge support in a short period of time.
Unless he used the means of the evil gods.
After the execution of James and his henchmen in the morning, Guo Yunfeng did not give any orders, as if the riots at the well had never happened.
It was not until the sun was about to set, and the last search party had returned to the camp, that he gave the order that no one should step outside his cabin except for the night guards.
Violators, beheaded.
On this night, there were only two hundred and seventy-two night watchmen in the entire camp, of which there were fourteen professionals, and the rest were mortal soldiers who had experienced a lot of battles.
This is Guo Yunfeng's family background, most of them are miners who first lived in the Steelwalker camp, and they have no reason to betray Guo Yunfeng.
Xu Yichen once offered to help purge the chaos worshippers inside the camp, but Guo Yunfeng refused.
"It's just a game, why are you so serious, if I don't handle it well, I'll be standing at your door tomorrow morning." Guo Yunfeng made a rare joke.
He had to rely on his own strength to get through it.
There is a tacit understanding between Xu Yichen and Guo Yunfeng, and neither of them has taken the initiative to mention the future of Fengxi Castle.
But they all knew that if everything went well, Guo Yunfeng would most likely become the first player in the Far South Continent to truly master a city.
The undead converged in droves on the streets, like a parade, in the direction of the Steelwalker camp, and the whole city smelled of rotting corpses, only there, the mouth-watering smell of meat.
The death knell that would normally sound at this time is silent tonight, and it is the actions of the day that have exhausted its strength.
But the guards still suffered heavy losses this night, and Guo Yunfeng himself was almost injured, because a staggering number of undead people also appeared in the camp.
This left the already understaffed defenders on both sides.