Volume 2 Chapter 5 The Tree of Terror
In the kitchen, there are eggs, bacon, and a box of Master Kong's bucket of instant noodles.
There is a well in the yard, the gas tank on the stove and the gas, Fu Hongyang just fetched water to cook a few buckets of instant noodles, beat eggs, cut some bacon, and the fragrant instant noodles were freshly baked.
It has only been three weeks since the end of the world, and it is still easy to find food and drink, which is one of the reasons why Fu Hongyang dared to go out alone with a bag on his back.
He hadn't gone to the town's supermarkets or kiosks to loot for supplies.
After eating instant noodles, the zombies outside finally walked away, only one of them, still hanging outside the wall. Before Fu Hongyang left, in the yard of this family, he found a steel drill. The steel drill is about 1.5 meters long, and the baby's arm is so thick that it looks like it has been twisted out of thick steel bars.
One end is hammered into an arc, and the other end is cut into a pointed end.
"It's about twenty pounds, which is just right with my current strength, and it's much easier than the steel bars I used before." He had new equipment, and directly threw away the thin steel bars that had been bent by smashing zombies before, replaced them with this steel drill, and waved Xia Ji's eight stick pumping techniques casually, which felt more comfortable than a chai knife.
He opened the door with Doudou and went straight to the wandering zombie.
Without waiting for the zombie to roar and rush over, he raised the steel drill and stabbed it at the zombie's head, poof, as if inserted into the tofu, and the zombie's skull was immediately pierced. Pulling out the steel drill, the brain overflowed, and the zombie fell to the ground in a daze, convulsing and dying.
"Sure enough, even if it's an iron-boned zombie, it can't stand me from giving it two steel drills."
With the steel drill in hand and full of confidence, Fu Hongyang continued to move along the village pass, preparing to rush to the town in one go, looking for a house to avoid the zombies. However, when he was about to arrive at the county road, he encountered more and more zombies, mutated zombies also appeared frequently, and the steel brazing was stained with a thick layer of brain.
In the middle of the way, it even caused a group of zombies to chase after him, and only chased him to the field and crossed a small ditch to get rid of these zombies.
"Wang!"
"Don't scream."
"Ahh Doudou was turning around on the ridges, and the weeds had grown all over the place, and there were even some clusters of thatch, which could submerge people's calves.
"It's hard to walk in the fields." Fu Hongyang walked along the edge of the small ditch, laboriously advancing, but fortunately he was familiar with the terrain here, and he could directly touch the town from the path.
Soon, though, he heard more and more clear zombie screams.
It was on the other side of the small ditch, but unfortunately his vision could only see the scenery within ten meters, and it was blurry in the distance, and he couldn't see it clearly. The only thing that could be seen was the shadows of many zombies, some of them were hovering on the edge of the ditch, and there was even a zombie who fell into the ditch.
The movement of the zombies falling into the ditch does not seem to alarm the zombie horde, or they are used to it.
This also made Fu Hongyang breathe a sigh of relief, at least the slight sound he and Doudou made on this side of the ditch could not attract zombies.
At present, zombies are still mainly auditory, supplemented by smell and vision, and may be weaker than the five senses of ordinary people.
However, it is very sensitive to the fragrance of the fruit on the mutated tree. When the tree was haze-free, as soon as the fruit of the tree was fragrant, the zombies rushed over from far away.
"I wonder if the tree will once again produce fragrant fruit that emits fragrance?"
"The fat cat has eaten the fragrant fruit of the tree, and if it returns to the haze-free area, it will probably stay there permanently. Maybe by the time I go back, the fat cat has become a powerful mutant...... Evolve big cats. ”
He was looking down in thought.
Leng Doudou bit his trouser tube, and then whined at the other side of the ditch.
"Huh?"
Fu Hongyang looked up and was suddenly startled, at some point, in the haze on the other side of the river, the outline of a huge tree had vaguely appeared. The height of this large tree is measured to be forty meters, and the canopy is vigorous and seems to be able to shade the sky, which is definitely larger than the black tree.
"There's a Mutant Tree there?"
"The zombies seem to be gathering around the mutant tree, there are too many sounds, is it the fragrant fruit on the tree that attracts the zombies to gather?"
"That's not right!" He suddenly came back to his senses and looked at the outline of the big tree in the fog in disbelief, "This mutated tree did not absorb the haze to form a haze-free area, unlike the haze-free area I saw the tree, it has merged with the haze, so I can see the blurred shadow!" ”
Because there is a space where there is no haze, when you look at it from a distance, what you see is not the outline of the tree, but the transparent area of the haze-free area, like a large cover with a boundary, which collects the scattered light sources around it and makes it look bright.
And the mutated tree in front of me does not have such a bright cover, it is really integrated into the haze.
"Ahh Doudou's IQ didn't understand this, and it shook its head and tail in a hurry, eager to go to the mutated tree, which was far more comfortable around the tree than in the haze.
"Doudou is not allowed to make a sound, it's dangerous there, do you understand the danger?" Fu Hongyang grabbed its dog's mouth and kept it from opening, training it reflexively in this way, understanding what he meant by the instructions he gave - he was training Doudou all the time along the way.
Doudou roughly understood Fu Hongyang's attitude, followed behind him, and really didn't make any sound.
There was only the rustling of footsteps through the grass.
As the distance got closer, the outline of the mutant tree became clearer and clearer, and the zombies gathered under the tree could also be seen a little clearly. Fu Hongyang clenched the steel drill in his hand, ready to be attacked by the zombie army at any time. But knowing that he was getting closer and closer to the zombie army, he still had the courage to move forward.
The small ditch is neither wide nor deep, and it cannot stop the zombies from crossing the river, but the zombies have low IQs after all, and it will take some effort to cross the river quickly.
This short time was enough for him to run away with Doudou.
So.
He dared to approach the mutant tree step by step, and the big tree was on the other side of the ditch, and it should have grown not far from the ditch. There are more and more zombies slamming into the water, making countless splashes, making sounds and zombie roaring sounds one after another. covered up the footsteps of Fu Hongyang and Doudou.
"It's getting closer and closer, and the outline of the mutant tree is getting clearer and clearer, and sure enough, there is no haze-free area!"
"The mutation of this big tree is definitely different from that of the black tree and the tree tree!"
"It should have a special fragrant fruit on it to attract these zombies...... Hey, the canopy is moving, are there zombies in it, or are animals like squirrels or cats on it? Fu Hongyang looked through the haze and carefully observed the mutated tree opposite, as well as the zombies gathered under the tree.
According to rough estimates, there are at least a few thousand zombies, all of which are gathered on the other side of the ditch.
Judging from the distribution range of zombies along the way, it should be this mutated tree, which attracts most of the zombies within a radius of five or six kilometers. And it happens to be because there is a small ditch blocking the zombies, and they are all confined to the other side of the ditch.
Zombies that wander around and fall into the water will, instinctively, return to the other side of the more attractive ditch.
A few meters away.
Fu Hongyang had already reached the closest distance to the mutant tree, and roughly estimated that the trunk was only twenty meters away from it, and the crown of the tree had even partially crossed the ditch and stretched above his head.
He even saw something like a tentacle stretch out from the tree, rolling up the zombies on the ground and pulling them back into the canopy. After a few moments, he threw the zombie back into the ground and rolled up another zombie. I don't know if it's the tentacles of some kind of mutated monster, or the branches of a branch.
"Terrible, what is this?"
Fu Hongyang had just raised his doubts, and suddenly felt a sound above his head.
He subconsciously jumped to the side, and then saw a wriggling branch hanging from his head, with a few leaves attached, curling towards where he stood.