Volume 1 The Endless Wilderness Section 9 Exploration
Nights in the wilderness are dangerous, but it's relatively close to Orchidtown, with only a handful of roaming ghouls and a locomotive, it's relatively safe.
Before dark, he found a large rock more than three meters high and set up a small tent underneath. Then I washed my hands, opened the can, boiled the noodles, and ate a delicious meal.
That night, apart from the occasional barking of a ghoul or two in the distance, nothing special happened.
Nothing to say all night......
As soon as it was dawn, Chen Xing woke up. Sleeping in the wilderness is a matter of necessity. Last night, he used rocks and locomotives to form a relatively safe angle. Lay a few more warning traps. If it weren't for humans, it wouldn't be much of a problem.
After boiling some hot water and eating a compressed biscuit, Chen Xing stepped onto the locomotive and returned to the place where he killed the living corpse yesterday. Holding his head high, he rode slowly, carefully searching every part of the gray earth. So so
Where should the entrance be?
As a general rule, the entrance should be at the place where the living corpses crawl out. But the scope is too large, and some clues must be found before it can be excavated.
After about half an hour, he found a rusty water pipe, so he took out a military shovel and made a hole along the water pipe facing down. In order to avoid being seen by people passing by, he would spread the dirt around every once in a while.
In this way, it is necessary to get close to the front to see the straight hole in the ground, which greatly increases the concealment. A traveler in the wilderness, if he is not confident that his strength is far superior to that of the other party, will not take the initiative to approach another traveler. Both sides will maintain sufficient safe distance to facilitate evacuation at any time.
Digging a hole is a huge project, plus digging for a while and stopping for a while, for a whole day, Chen Xing only dug five or six meters down. Cover the hole with a tarp, drive back to the big rock, rest for the night, and continue digging the next day.
"Toot ......"
Digging and digging, the black watch suddenly sounded. Chen Xing lifted his sleeves and looked at it.
[Congratulations!] Your stats have been boosted during hard work, gain +1 Strength]
[Personal Attribute Update......]
[Name: Chen Xing]
[ID: HumMr2005814977369]
[Social Credit: Good-]
[Vital Status: Sub-healthy (7% of living corpse toxins, 1% of epidermal damage, recovering...... )]
[Power: 12]
[Dexterity: 15]
[constitution: 9]
[Psychic Power: Uninitiated] [Unknown Defect: Psychic Perception Dulled (-10)]
[Innate ability: None]
[Registered Skills (Dragonstone Town Hall): Precision Shooting (Intermediate), Survival in the Wild (Beginner), Two-Wheeled Motorcycle Driving (Master), Legal Knowledge (Beginner)]
[Registered Spell: None]
[Registered Occupation (Dragonstone Mountain Town Hall): Mercenary (Beginner), Courier (Senior)]
[Unregistered (System Assessment Only) Skills: Engineering Mining (Looks Okay), Cooking (Looks Okay), Cleanliness (Looks Good), Surgical (Seems to Be Bandaging), Computing (Can Do Ordinary Compound Operations), Eloquence (Can Bargain with Little Girl), ......]
[Unregistered (System Evaluation Only) Spell: None]
[Gold: 1 silver, 3 bronze (cash), 3 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze 6 cents (bank)]
“yeah!” Chen Xing clenched his fists and shouted, which could be regarded as encouraging himself. Although it is still very low overall, a little bit is a little bit, and a little adds up. Someday, the "elite-level" combat power will climb.
In this world, the combat power level is generally divided into, elite, town, lord, king, and emperor.
The standard for the elite level is 25 or more in Constitution, 15 in Agility or above, and 25 or more in any of the Strength and Spiritual Power. Relying on exercise alone, it is difficult for the vast majority of pure human beings to exceed twenty in the three items of force sensitive body, and they must be injected with "attribute enhancement potions" to improve. Spiritual power is completely dependent on talent, and some people are naturally strong, without the assistance of medicine, they can absorb spiritual energy, condense spiritual pools, and even swallow heaven and earth, drink hundreds of rivers, and open up a boundless spiritual sea. Some people are born with a lack of potions, and no amount of potion will help.
Only those who have reached the elite level can be regarded as warriors in the true sense of the word, and at the same time, they are also the minimum standard for obtaining the title of nobility, otherwise they will not be in the stream.
In the United Kingdom of Ambergris, an elite warrior who has served for more than ten years automatically earns the title of knight. If you have enough achievements, you can also get the title of baron.
The standard of the town guard level is very vague. The elasticity range is very large, and there are no rigid requirements for individual attributes. Because in the actual battle, in addition to personal attributes, it also depends on natural abilities, combat skills, experience, spells that can be cast, and so on. A person with fifty full attributes is likely to be killed head-on by a person with only twenty full attributes but very good natural abilities.
Therefore, the evaluation criteria for the town guard level mainly come from the combat merits. After accumulating to a certain level, you can obtain the title of "Guardian of the Wilderness" and own a fiefdom of a town.
As for the lord-level, king-level, and emperor-level in the back, Chen Xing had only heard of it, but he didn't have any in-depth understanding. A low-level mercenary really doesn't need to know much.
However, according to the theories of scientists, it is difficult for the body strength of "carbon-based life" to be thirty times higher than that of standard humans. In other words, the limit of the three attributes of the force sensitive body is 299. As for spiritual power, it is theoretically unlimited. Therefore, some scientists believe that spiritual power is the key point for carbon-based life to surpass the limit.
Although this is said theoretically, in fact, people with more than 100 of the three attributes of the force sensitive body are already rare. Of course, there are more than one hundred and fifty, but those are all legendary. And when the attribute exceeds ninety, the body density has exceeded the detection range of the black table, and the specific value cannot be measured, commonly known as "bursting the table".
Chen Xing's goal in his previous life was to become an elite-level mercenary. It's just fifteen years of hard work, and when there is still one step away from the goal, he was slapped by the Abyss Great Demon.
Since God has given him a chance to do it again, no matter what he says, he has to come out of the town guard level. As the mayor of the town, holding the soldiers of a town, it is still very majestic. At least for Chen Xing in the previous life, the mayor of the town was already a big man out of reach.
On the fourth day of digging, the ground suddenly sank and collapsed. Fortunately, Chen Xing was prepared, tied a rope around his waist, and connected the locomotive to the willow nails on the ground, so he didn't fall.
It was pitch black below, and Chen Xing took out a flashlight and shone it down. In the incandescent beam, there was dust and dirt everywhere.
He loosened the rope and drooped downward, quickly touching the ground. As far as the eye can see, this is an underground space of hundreds of square meters. There are many large water tanks around, the ones tens of meters high, either vertically or horizontally, connected to countless thick water pipes, half-hidden in the dirt, but there is not much rust on the surface.
The upper roof is arched, with a large hole in diameter of five or six meters. And that's where he came down. The ground has risen quite a bit due to a large amount of earth falling from the gap. From the equipment buried in the soil, it is at least more than ten meters deep.
Based on past experience, he quickly determined that this was the "impurity sedimentation room" of the water station, the first step in the water purification process.
Although he didn't find any danger, Chen Xing pulled out his pistol and explored cautiously.
"Wow......"
As they approached a jug, the earth on the ground suddenly arched, and a living corpse pulled the dirt out of the ground. Chen Xing quickly pulled out the dagger, and when the half of the living corpse's body was just unearthed, he held it behind his back, plunged into its temple, and twisted it hard!
The living corpse waved its arms wildly and quickly lowered its head.
Chen Xing wiped the blood from the dagger on his pants and inserted it back into the armed belt around his waist. Some people like to tie the dagger to their calves, Chen Xing is very unaccustomed to it, and it affects his movement a bit and is easy to knock.
After exploring a little further, another living corpse emerged. Chen Xing concocted it in the same way and killed him with one sword. He doesn't have many bullets now, and he can save it.
Ten minutes later, he searched all the places, and there was nothing special except for two living dead and a large pile of giant jugs.
However, he also found the location of the entrance, which could be opened by digging a few meters down.
Chen Xing rested for a while, ate something, and began digging.
"Rustling ......"
In the quiet and dark underground space, the sound of shovels and sand rubbing echoes, which is particularly permeating.
Chen Xing III was a human being, and he had been a mercenary for more than ten years, and he was used to seeing life and death. As long as it's not an imminent danger, you won't be afraid.
"Giggle......
Half an hour later, Chen Xing dug open the ground, revealing most of the iron gate. Then he twisted the lock and opened the door.
"...... Uproar"
The moment the iron gate opened, a large amount of earth poured down, forming a small dirt slope. A flashlight shines inside, black and white tiled floors, long benches, and rows of metal lockers.
Chen Xing took a look, it was empty, there was nothing, so he put his mind at ease and slid inward along the dirt slope.
"Wow!" The moment he just entered the door, Chen Xing suddenly had a wind in the back of his head and hurriedly rolled forward. He then pulled out his pistol and fired a series of shots at the living corpses that were hiding behind the door.
"Bang bang!"
Chen Xing was so frightened that the bullets were fired out without money until the living corpse fell to the ground.
"Whew......" he wiped the cold sweat with his sleeve and exhaled. There are a few bullets left, and they are too dangerous to explore anymore.
However, now that we've arrived at the locker room, let's see what we have to offer.
"Click......"
He walked over to a row of lockers, tugged at them, and found them all locked. I had to pick up a shovel and smash and pry.
"Bang bang!"
A loud sound echoed through the small space, making people's hearts palpitate, for fear of alarming the monsters hiding in the shadows.
"Click!"
After a few smashes, the locker was loosened, and Chen Xing pulled it and dropped a lot of things. There are big waves of beautiful women printed on the cover, magazines that fall apart at the touch of a button, and all kinds of rusty small objects, gloves, knives, lighters and so on.
After rummaging for a while, there was nothing of value. Disappointed, Chen Xing pried open the second cabinet.
As soon as the cabinet door opened, Chen Xing's eyes suddenly lit up, in addition to a few rotten camouflage uniforms, there was also something wrapped in black oilcloth.
Now it's earned, and what is wrapped in this oilcloth can only be one thing - guns!
He quickly took out the package, and the rope on the outside shattered when he touched it, and the oilcloth on the outside also fell off automatically. But after wrapping it several times, nothing in it was rotten.
Peeling off the tarpaulin layer by layer, the rich smell of diesel oil comes out. Gradually, a jet-black and shiny Uzi submachine gun was revealed, along with three more cartridges of bullets.
Chen Xing was immediately ecstatic, took it out and tried it, at least it looked intact. Then he opened all the cabinets, but found no more firearms, but a gold brooch and a diamond ring. The diamond was sparkling, very beautiful, at least half a carat.
After the search, he didn't dare to open the door of the locker room, because there were not many bullets, and the Uzi submachine gun that had just arrived had not been tried yet, and those bullets had been stored for an unknown number of years, and God knows if they could still be used.
Now that you've made a gain, let's not take any chances.
With that in mind, he went back to the sedimentation chamber and climbed up the rope. Then cover the hole with a tent cloth and cover it with dirt to remove the traces. After everything was done, I got on the motorcycle and headed to Orchid Town.