Chapter 16: The Forsaken City
"If the required materials appear in their perception range at the same time as humans, they will give priority to the materials and temporarily give up attacking humans."
Zheng Fan nodded, this coincided with the inference he made about the big-breasted female zombie at the beginning, but he was still very curious, the original big-breasted female zombie did not necessarily have much stronger defense and attack power, compared with his own King Kong not bad magic skill, it was too much worse.
It's all the same piece used, how can the gap be so big? Suddenly, he thought of a word that Mengyu had mentioned earlier, 'Activate Fragments'.
"Xiaoyu, I remember you told me before about activating the fragment, what does that mean?"
Mengyu didn't care about the title of 'Xiaoyu', but said lightly: "After the fragment enters the body of the creature, it must be activated with what it needs to be fragmented in order to truly exert the ability of the fragment." ”
"If the fragments are not activated, the most basic physical enhancements of the possessed person are increased in strength and speed. For example, I only really possessed some snake abilities after devouring snake blood. ”
"Similarly, after the possessed person becomes a zombie, if he doesn't find what he needs for his fragments, he is only more powerful, and he can't even do simple actions such as running, and only by chance does the zombie get what it needs for his fragments, it will become more and more powerful, and at the same time stimulate the true ability of the fragments."
Zheng Fan secretly rejoiced: "Fortunately, the big-breasted female zombie didn't get any gold before finding me, otherwise my broken door probably wouldn't have been able to withstand its light bump." ”
"In that case, there shouldn't be many zombies that have really activated the ability of fragmentation." Zheng Fan asked.
Mengyu nodded: "That's right, to give a simple example, if a zombie needs a lot of blood, even if it can find the mouse, it can't catch the mouse, even if their speed and strength have increased, but in terms of agility and dodge, it is still not as good as the cunning mouse." ”
"Or, the materials needed for zombie fragments are tiger blood, lion blood, etc., and it is even more impossible to find them, these rare and powerful animals are impossible to appear in the city. Unless they're really lucky, find a zoo, and be able to break into it and break through the cage. ”
Zheng Fan thoughtfully glanced at the zombie on the ground who had died completely and said: "No wonder, this zombie has the ability of a dog, it is estimated that he locked himself in his home before he died, and it happened that he had a dog at home, so he stimulated the power of the fragments, otherwise it is really rare for a zombie to catch a dog." ”
Mengyu said: "I don't rule out this possibility. ”
"I would like to ask, how long will it be before the possessed will completely turn into zombies without getting the materials needed for the fragments? If the supplies are replenished in time, how much do they need to be replenished, and how many days can they be added to the 'lifespan' after replenishment? ”
Zheng Fan asked the question he was most concerned about.
"The exact amount is unknown, but there is a reference, that is, all-you-can-eat."
"All-you-can-eat?"
"That's right, after devouring the shards, the shards in your body will quickly devour them, and when you find that the shards can't swallow any more, you can stop and wait for the next meal. After eating once, the interval between the next time you need to eat is about a week. ”
"The more supplies you swallow, the stronger your abilities will become, like you, your strength and defense will become stronger and stronger, and it is better to pray that you don't get appendicitis or other diseases, otherwise the doctor may really not be able to break your stomach."
"Aha."
Zheng Fan snorted, if one day in the future, he really died of appendicitis, maybe it would become the most aggrieved death in the history of the spiritual.
"Then as long as I keep swallowing food, I'll get stronger and stronger, and I'll never die, right?" Zheng Fan asked tentatively.
Mengyu shook her head: "The one who has the longest life span at the moment has lived for nine months and ten days. In other words, all the possessors will hardly survive more than a year. ”
Hearing this, Zheng Fan felt a little sad in his heart: "Sure enough, there is no free lunch in the world..."
"The more often the ability is used, the faster the materials needed for the fragments will be replenished, and in short, the faster you will die."
Zheng Fan silently lit a cigarette and asked a little funny: "This kind of thing, it stands to reason that you shouldn't tell me, right?" I know that I only have one year left to live, and the more I use my ability, the faster I will die, so why should I fight for your life? ”
Mengyu shrugged her shoulders: "None of the spirit possessors who have activated the ability of fragments by themselves should be fools, and you will know this kind of thing sooner or later, without our help, you will die faster." ”
Pointing to the zombies on the ground: "Even if you need the most common dog blood, you can guarantee that you can collect it every time." ”
Zheng Fan thought about it, it is indeed the case, a person's strength is really limited, all-you-can-eat, it sounds easy, but it is not so simple to do.
If nothing else, let's just say that the big bucket of snake blood that Mengyu swallowed just now, to say the least, there are hundreds of catties, how much blood is there in a snake? It's too difficult to collect enough supplies on your own.
"Okay, I'm probably clear about the shards and zombies, now let's talk about what is going on in this so-called abandoned city."
Mengyu said: "The energy stone exploded without warning, turning into fragments lurking in the bodies of humans, animals and plants. The length of the incubation period is different, and if it is long, it will not happen anything abnormal even for a few months, while the incubation period is short, a week, or a month, and it will explode and become a zombie. ”
"Tianluo City, where you are located, is the city with the most serious zombie outbreak in the country, and there is no one. One infected two, two infected four, it was impossible to control it at all, and in less than a month, Tianluo City could be said to have been reduced to a city of zombies. ”
Zheng Fan was a little displeased and said, "Why can't you control it?" As long as it is not a corpse possessed, it should be quickly suppressed if you cut off their limbs with a knife, or break their limbs with a gun and burn them with fire. ”
Mengyu said: "It's not as simple as you think, due to the interference of alien energy waves, the power system and communication system of Tianluo City are completely paralyzed, and thermal weapons such as guns have also strangely lost their effectiveness, just like a pile of scrap iron." ”
Zheng Fan said: "Can't you use thermal weapons?" Then why not organize a local army to destroy the zombies? Ordinary zombies are slow to move and have limited attack power, an ordinary man, as long as he has a knife, can easily subdue them, and also, why didn't you so-called Shenlongwei appear early to destroy those spirit-possessed corpses? ”
Mengyu was a little helpless by Zheng Fan's series of questions: "The number of soldiers in the army is limited, it doesn't play a role in the face of a large number of zombies, thermal weapons can't be used, Tianluo City has a population of three million, at least more than half of them are infected into zombies, and the number of troops is less than 10,000, how to fight?" ”
"Although a shelter was temporarily organized, and the zombies could not be suppressed, a notice was made to the people of Tianluo City, and most of the survivors, after knowing that the zombies broke out, did not even dare to go out of their homes and waited for rescue. But we didn't expect the communication system to be paralyzed, so many people didn't know that the shelter existed, and you probably didn't know either. ”
Zheng Fan nodded, he really didn't know what shelter there was, but he still asked a little unconvinced: "Even if the communication system is paralyzed, but the car can still be driven, you can get a few cars, get a few loudspeakers, and patrol back and forth in the city, and inform everyone of the existence of the shelter in this way." ”
Mengyu said: "We have also tried the similar method you said, but because the number of troops is too small, it is impossible to transmit the information to every corner of the city in time. In some remote places, it is basically impossible to be notified. The most important thing is that if you encounter a spirit corpse, even escaping is a problem, and you will basically be wiped out. ”
"And the army of Tianluo City has to face not only zombies, but also some lawbreakers who have surfaced by taking advantage of this catastrophe. They gang up, kill people and seize things, and act recklessly. Without the suppression of thermal weapons, Tianluo City simply became a paradise for this group of smashes. ”
Zheng Fan patted his head: "I really didn't expect what you said, I have also encountered this kind of miscellaneous pieces, and I slaughtered a few yesterday."
As you said, ordinary people are not opponents of the possessed corpses at all when they can't use hot weapons, and even you were almost killed by the possessed corpses, so why don't you find more people from the Divine Dragon Guard to come over and destroy these possessed corpses? ”
Mengyu sighed: "Zombies have erupted all over the country, or all over the world, but similar to Tianluo City, there are a large number of spirit corpses, and electricity, communications, thermal weapons, etc. are all paralyzed, you are the only one." ”
"If a large number of spirit possessors are sent to Tianluo City, what about other cities? The news of the zombie outbreak will completely break out in the whole country, when everyone is in danger, the social order is completely disordered, and most of the enterprises and production will stop running! ”
"So..."
"So you completely blockade Tianluo City and leave it to fend for itself, so that you can free up your strength to deal with the spirit-possessed corpses in other cities, right?" Zheng Fan waved his hand and interrupted Mengyu's words.
After hearing Zheng Fan say the words 'let him fend for himself', his face changed slightly: "We have also been thinking about countermeasures, and we haven't really given up on this city." But the possessed people are very short of manpower, other cities, electricity, communications, etc., are in a normal state, and there are only a few possessed corpses, the first time to find and destroy them, barely within our range of bearing. ”
Zheng Fan sighed helplessly, although he didn't want to accept this fact, he had to admit that this method was the most correct choice, to abandon a city and save his body.