Chapter 2: The Wasteland

"That's what it is...... The terrestrial world now? ”

After the countdown ended, Qi Lin's eyes went dark, and he was directly teleported to this place.

The sky was still covered with heavy radiant clouds, but it seemed to have dissipated much more than it had been three years ago, and the cloudy yellow sunlight was scattered haphazardly across the barren land through the weaker spots between the clouds.

The ground beneath his feet was covered with cracked and cemented clods of earth, and a road that could barely be seen stretched across Qi Lin's side, leading to the horizon in the distance.

The nuclear winter has passed, and the temperature on Earth has begun to gradually warm, but the recovery rate of vanished vitality and civilization is far less than that of melting snow.

Qi Lin looked at his equipment again, and saw that he was wearing a set of coarse cloth pants woven from artificial hemp fibers, which was the standard clothing in the civilian area of the shelter, and as for other things, except for the Swiss Army knife in his pocket, there was only a wrist-shaped smart brain on his left wrist.

"The initial attributes of the characters in this game are determined by the physical fitness of the player in reality." Qi Lin remembered such a sentence in the game manual, and couldn't help but be a little glad that although he had been in the underground shelter for the past three years, he had always had the habit of exercising.

In fact, there is really no entertainment in the slums of the shelters, except for the video recorders that waste a lot of electricity allowances, and some magazines and novels that have long been read in tatters, and life in the slums is indeed very apt to be described as "eating and waiting to die".

In addition to detecting nearby radiation concentrations, the miniature brain can also display Qi Lin's basic body data.

These stats are Strength, Agility, Perception, Stamina, Radiance, Satiety, Hydration, and most importantly, Health.

Now Qi Lin's attributes are strength 6, agility 7, perception 7, physical fitness 8, radiance 0, satiety 100, water 100, and health 100.

The upper limit of a normal human strength and other basic attributes is 10, but it is possible to break through the limit through ultra-high-intensity training or some special means.

Like those athletes in the pre-apocalyptic Olympics, there are many athletes who have reached 11, 12 or even 13 in individual attributes.

Radiation, as the name suggests, is the concentration of radiation accumulated in the body, when the radiation level reaches about 40, it will begin to affect the properties of the body, reaching 70 can already be regarded as being heavily irradiated, and it is difficult to recover through drugs, as for 100...... That's a concentration that's enough to kill instantly.

In the Vault, everyone is more or less in possession of some dispensed anti-radiation drugs, but in the "Wasteland Survival Code", every player who has just entered the game is empty-handed, and Qi Lin suddenly thought that it is likely that in the early stages of the game, this anti-radiation medicine will become an important strategic resource.

Whether it's collecting supplies from the ruins or wandering the wilderness for hunting, it's inevitable to go into areas with high levels of radiation, and at that point, anti-radiation drugs will become a vital thing.

"These drugs ...... There should be quite a few in hospitals and pharmacies, and there must also be in army camps and convenience stores! ”

Nuclear war did not break out suddenly in an instant, and during the last period of human life on the ground, anti-radiation drugs became almost the standard of daily necessities.

In addition to anti-radiation drugs, it was imperative to find clean food and drinking water, and when Qi Lin studied these attributes, the water value changed, from 100 to 99.

After the water drops to 50, the game will simulate a strong sense of thirst, and if it drops to 30, the body will become very weak, if it becomes zero, it will be completely dehydrated, and it is basically not far from death.

In addition, if you drink polluted water, although the water will rise, the radiation level in the body will also rise.

Therefore, clean water is also one of the important resources in the wasteland.

Purified water, food, anti-radiation drugs. After identifying the target materials he was looking for at the beginning of the game, Qi Lin began to travel on the wilderness, this is the highway, then there should be rest areas and gas stations along the way, as long as he finds this kind of place, then it means a lot of supplies!

……

The radiation concentration in this area is very low, probably to take care of novice players who have just entered the game, Qi Lin has been walking along the highway for an hour and a half, and the radiation level in his body has changed from 0 to 1.

It's just that the speed of water decline is a little unexpectedly fast, there are only 70 left, and there is a faint feeling of dryness in the mouth.

"There are buildings!"

A square-roofed building that almost blended in with the earthy yellow wilderness came into view, and according to Qi Lin's memories of the surface world, it should be a gas station!

Regardless of the physical exertion, he immediately accelerated and walked towards the gas station, but before he could get close to the range of the gas station, he had to stop his steps.

There are zombies.

When the end of the world comes, not all human beings will be able to enter the underground shelter, and the humans who remain on the ground, and those who are not killed by the nuclear explosion in the first place, almost all of them will be under the action of high-intensity radiation and become a kind of monster called the "living dead".

The skin of the living dead festers and falls off, and their bodily functions become very different from those of humans, they do not feel pain, they are not afraid of radiation, and they are infertile......

The living dead are roughly divided into two kinds by the scientists in the shelter, zombies and zombies, zombies have the body of the living dead, but the brain structure is still intact, they have the memory and consciousness of life, they are intelligent creatures, and they can communicate to a certain extent.

But zombies are different, these creatures whose brains have been completely destroyed by radiation have been completely reduced to undead monsters dominated by instinct and only craving for fresh flesh and blood!

Now in front of Qi Lin's eyes, these living dead people wearing tattered gas station employee uniforms and wandering around the gas station are obviously the latter!

"Unlucky...... There are actually four zombies! ”

Although the underground shelter has released information about zombies, it has never told the residents how to deal with a zombie.

The only thing Qi Lin knew was that the strength of these zombies far exceeded that of normal humans, and besides, apart from cutting off the spine or destroying the brain, the zombies could basically not be killed by other means.

"Brain-destroying?"

Qi Lin looked at the Swiss Army knife in his hand, which was less than ten centimeters long, and felt that the frontal rigidity was almost equated with wasting a chance to resurrect in vain.

According to the information provided by the brain, these zombies are the lowest level of rotting corpses, except for up to 10 points of strength attributes, the vision is not strong, the sense of hearing is 0, and the range of smell is only about 50 meters in radius, if you want to go around the back of the gas station......

"Phew!"

"Phew!"

"Woohoo!"

Just as Qi Lin was pondering how to enter the gas station, a burst of gunfire suddenly came from the direction of three o'clock, and the four zombies fell in response!