Chapter 33: Ambush
Zhao Chuling didn't delay any longer, stuffed the last two fruits into his mouth, and then stuffed the shelter grass into his coat as well. Then the two of them left here, Jiang Yunlan closed the door here, blocked it with a big stone, and stuck a leaf on the crack of the door, if there were monsters or people who had entered, he would know.
In the wild, Jiang Yunlan's scavenger skills are vividly embodied, he can look at the surrounding traces to determine how many monsters are in a certain house, and he can also determine what type of monster it is based on footprints.
Scavengers are not strong in combat, and they can survive in this environment by relying on their detection ability and evasion ability, and they can also use all the materials they can use to deal with monsters, such as shelter grass is the most commonly used method, if there is no shelter grass last night, their smell will be discovered by monsters, and then the result is two different things.
That monster last night was definitely not ordinary, and it was difficult to say whether they could escape with the strength of the two of them, so the skills of scavengers were sometimes more useful than fighting, and many of the scouts were scavengers.
Jiang Yunlan chose a building that judged that there was little threat, and walked in carefully with a knife. There was a strong smell of decay in the room, not to mention dust, and many items were scattered all over the floor, because it was too old to tell what it was.
"There are no footprints on the ground here, so it must be safe." Zhao Chuling whispered.
Jiang Yunlan looked carefully at the corridor and whispered: "Not necessarily, there are many kinds of monsters that have the ability to crawl, not only to determine the ground, ceiling and walls must be checked, and sometimes a small detail outside can determine our life and death." ”
Jiang Yunlan's father was able to survive for so many years as a scavenger, it was not just luck, and Jiang Yunlan learned a skill because of this.
"Oh!" Zhao Chuling wrote it down carefully.
Jiang Yunlan took her to find her room by room, basically everything has rotted, and only some materials with particularly strong antiseptic ability can withstand three hundred years and can be preserved.
When he arrived in the fifth room, when he carefully pushed the door open, he saw a dry corpse lying in the living room, Zhao Chuling was startled, and he was relieved to see that it was just a dry corpse, and he wanted to go in to find something.
Jiang Yunlan stretched out his hand to stop it, and whispered: "It is impossible for a corpse to exist outside, and if it can exist, it must be a walking corpse, this is an iron rule, any corpse will be eaten by monsters in a short time, understand." ”
"Oh, got it." Zhao Chuling nodded.
The two of them came in, although they were already very careful, but the sound was always there, and the walking corpse suddenly opened its eyes and got up and rushed towards the two.
Jiang Yunlan immediately rushed forward, the short knife stabbed out, and before the walking corpse touched him, the short knife stabbed the bridge of the corpse's nose, penetrating its head, and the corpse's body shook a few times before falling.
"Remember, the walking corpse will only temporarily die if it destroys its brain, and it will not kill its body and limbs no matter how much it attacks, or it will be burned." Jiang Yunlan told Zhao Chuling a little bit of what she knew, and wanted her to learn more.
Zhao Chuling was very well-behaved and carefully remembered everything Jiang Yunlan said, she knew very well that Jiang Yunlan was deliberately teaching herself, otherwise he would not have to waste his saliva. If it hadn't been for Jiang Yunlan's reminder just now, the people who didn't know walked next to the "corpse", the walking corpse would have been bitten in the leg as soon as they pounced on it, and the burden would have been infected, which would be equivalent to declaring death, which is naturally dangerous.
In fact, whether it is a scavenger or a patrol, most of them are not killed by a frontal attack by monsters, but more are killed by a walking corpse that suddenly jumps up and is killed by a monster.
Then the two searched the room, and after finding no walking corpses, they searched separately for the things in the room, and it didn't take long for Zhao Chuling to press a box and shouted: "Jiang Yunlan, find a strange thing, it's not rotten." ”
Jiang Yunlan walked to the room where she was and saw Zhao Chuling holding a telescope in his hand, and a moldy nylon bag was placed on the table next to her.
"You're lucky to find a telescope! And it's so well preserved, this one can sell for a very high price in the scavenger camp. Jiang Yunlan took a look at it, and after making sure that it was in good condition, she handed it back to Zhao Chuling.
"Oh, this is so good, then give it to you, I won't use it anyway, it's up to you to take care of me these days." Zhao Chuling handed him the binoculars with a smiling look.
"Scavengers rule, whoever picks it up is whoever's." Jiang Yunlan didn't accept it.
"I'm not a waste picker." Zhao Chuling still handed him the telescope.
"We don't have to push it around, we use it together this month, and it works a lot and allows us to observe far away." Jiang Yunlan said.
"Okay, you better save it." After Zhao Chuling stuffed the things into his hand, he continued to rummage through them humming a little song.
Then the two of them rummaged through the floor, it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon, killed four walking corpses pretending to be dead, and found some leather and metal, which are useless to ordinary people, but definitely good things for Jiang Yunlan.
Before leaving, when they went up to the roof, they found some plant fruits, it is very common to have these things on the roof, many plants that like sunlight, will grow on the roof, this fruit they find is called the sun-facing fruit, the scavengers call it the fruit of life and death, the fruit is red, similar to tomatoes, it can grow in a shady place, or it can grow in a sunny place.
The fruit that grows is exactly the same, but the effect is completely opposite, the fruit grown in the sun tastes sweet and sour to eat, and it is good to satisfy hunger and quench thirst. If it grows in a dark place, it is highly poisonous, and a single bite can kill a person.
It is precisely because of this characteristic that there is a origin of the name of the fruit of life and death, and many novices have died on this fruit. After Jiang Yunlan told Zhao Chuling about the effect of the fruit of life and death, Zhao Chuling was surprised, these things that could not be learned in the city, and at the same time he felt amazed and admired the people who survived outside the city, which required tenacious will and wisdom to survive.
As soon as he walked out of the building, Zhao Chuling said with some interest: "I suddenly found that scavenging is quite interesting, and I can find a lot of strange things." ”
"When you do the same thing day after day and year after year, it won't be interesting, it's early winter, it's getting dark quickly, we have to return to the shelter before dark, let's go, the life and death fruits collected today are enough for us to eat for three days." Jiang Yunlan led the way in front.
Zhao Chuling hummed and followed him, smiling, feeling that Jiang Yunlan and his brother seemed to be in front of him in everything, and he would work hard to teach himself, in the past, his brother worked hard to teach himself to practice, but now Jiang Yunlan taught himself survival skills, and suddenly felt that meeting this person might be another kind of compensation from God.
When they returned to the residence, Zhao Chuling was just about to walk over, Jiang Yunlan grabbed her and frowned and said, "Someone has entered, the leaves I got stuck in the crack of the door are gone, the stone has been moved, and now it has been moved back to its original position, which means that it is man-made, and monsters will not do such things." ”
"Oh, scavengers are thieves, even if you don't fall into an ambush, it's just a matter of killing you." Suddenly, Liu Quan walked out of the house next to him, and a student walked out on the left and right. And in the house in front of it, after the door was opened, came out an adult man in a mask, dressed in the combat uniform of an instructor.
Jiang Yunlan was taken aback, and immediately pulled out a short knife and whispered, "Run when you have the opportunity." ”
Zhao Chuling nodded nervously and pulled out a pair of short swords.