Chapter 22: How Many?
Wei Yuan: Where they are, it should be a town on the edge of the city. It seems that it should have been very prosperous before the disaster.
Marks can still be seen on the wide eight-lane road, but the ground is so cracked that it looks like it has been subjected to a severe earthquake, and the cracks on the road are more than a slap wide. Weeds and thorns stubbornly probed through the cracks.
There are also a number of broken down cars on the road, which have now been reduced to rows of rusty shells.
The trees on the side of the street have gone crazy now. All of them seemed to have grown for a hundred years, thick and massive, but few of them were serious shapes, all of them were twisted and coiled. The epidermis and lifeless leaves also look languid and black.
Wei Yuan has seen a lot of such trees along the way, and these trees have been eroded by the power of hell......
The small buildings of three to five stories on both sides of the street can still be seen to have been various shops.
It's just that now the houses on the street are dilapidated. The doors and windows of the shops on the street have long since been destroyed, and everything inside the house is in shambles. In some buildings, even the walls have begun to collapse. Some of them also have blackened marks from the fire.
In the alleys and paths between the buildings, you can vaguely see some figures wandering slowly. It was supposed to be the former residents and residents, but now they have been reduced to skeletons and zombies.
Wei Yuan looked at a dilapidated shop on his left, the plaque had already been blurred and damaged, but he could still vaguely see the two Chinese characters in the supermarket. This made him both relieved and a little frightened.
A similar point of view was put forward in the illusory realm materials issued by the Second Academy: this world fused by the out-of-control illusory realm monster wasteland may be an unknown corner of the original world.
There are countless ruins of cities like this in the native world, but most of the urban ruins in the native world have been gone for hundreds of years and have long since disappeared.
But this fused city, even if it is eroded by the forces of hell, looks like it has been abandoned for no more than 50 years. More likely only twelve years......
A careful search may even reveal some well-preserved items in the city.
The city may have been a brief fragment of time, recorded in the moment of disaster......
The place where the teacher led the team and chose for the apprentices to spend the night was a small three-story building. Wei Yuan could see that this should have been a small hotel before. The wooden counter at the door was still in its original shape, and there were even a few dusty plastic bottles of drinks lying alone on the shelves, which had collapsed most of them.
When Wei Yuan looked at that shape, he always felt that it was like a happy water with the brand of "One Hundred Ridiculous Things......
The apprentices were assigned by the teacher to check on each room, clean up possible monsters, and practice how to be a garbage guy by the way.
In a ruined fantasy world like this, the card disciples will never return empty-handed! Traditional arts! Of course, if you go to other people's homes in the normal world to rummage through boxes and cabinets, and kill people's chickens and cows, then it is estimated that the ending will not be too beautiful......
Wei Yuan and the others each cleaned up a room, and there were really a few zombies!
When no one is around, the zombie may face the corner of the wall, or wander around in a small circle. Once a living creature is found, it will pounce on the opponent at a speed of five centimeters per second......
These zombies look like corpses that have been buried underground for years before they rot. The whole body is shriveled and moldy, and some of them have mildew. You can grow mushrooms!
The subcutaneous fat of zombies is heavily saponified, and the skin clings to the body, forming something similar to a skin membrane.
These zombie muscles are atrophied, stiff but resilient, like some good-textured old wood, or the thick rubber of one of those big tires.
Wei Yuan hit the zombie on the head with a stick, and there was a muffled bang. The zombie's head was a little crooked, but it actually tilted its head like that, and continued to stretch out its sinful hands to Wei Yuan.
Wei Yuan hit the head of the fallen demon with a steel baseball bat, which was as simple as smashing a watermelon. But a stick hitting the zombie on the head is like hitting the tires of a big car, not only does it have a counter-shock force.
Wei Yuan's weapon was a baseball bat, and it was still the same effect. Those who chose the dagger were even more uncomfortable.
Just like Yuan Fenghua, the short sword in his hand is waved like a butterfly, which is fast and beautiful. It's just that in addition to drawing ugly sword marks on the zombie's head and disfiguring it, it didn't do anything to the zombie. On the contrary, the zombie almost gave Yuan Fenghua a warm hug.
Then Yuan Fenghua was in a hurry, and impassioned music sounded in his ears. It's not that this time......
A warm current poured into his body! He swung his short sword at a sudden speed, and the force was doubled! Three swords slashed at the zombie's neck, chopping off the zombie's head!
Then he let out a sigh of satisfaction. His soul card went on cooldown, and he was also stuck in Sage Time. For a moment, I didn't want to do anything or do anything, and I fell into a chair and fell into a decadent ......
Compared to other card disciples, Wei Yuan purposefully chose a room to enter.
Before crossing over, Wei Yuan's second aunt opened a small hotel. He still knows a certain amount about hotels.
Sure enough, the room he went into was where the boss or the person on duty lived.
He gripped the locked door, which was so rotten that with a little exertion it was scrapped and dragged down by a large piece of broken wood.
He looked carefully around the room......
The house was dilapidated, but it didn't look like it had been affected by outside influences.
He found a body on the bed in the corner. The corpse had long since turned to dry bones, and there was not even a trace of odor left. There was also a desktop computer on the table at the door, except that time had turned it into a pile of rags.
Wei Yuan came to the bed where the dry bones were and found that there was a notebook on the bed with some messy handwriting on it.
Looking at the yellowed and brittle book, Wei Yuan felt that it had experienced at least 20 years.
The room had been closed before, and the notebook could not see the wind or light, so it was barely kept.
Even so, Wei Yuan didn't dare to flip it, so he could only bend down and carefully identify the handwriting on it.
"There are more and more monsters...... There's also movement upstairs...... The power has been out for three days, and the phone has been turned off...... I'm so hungry, I don't dare go out......"
Some of the words were no longer legible, but Wei Yuan still saw some information. It should be the last last stroke that a person desperately recorded when disaster struck.
Wei Yuan sighed, took out the baseball bat on his back and swung it back!
There was a crisp "click", and the baseball bat swept a dry bone off.
The upper body of the dry bones that fell to the ground was still not dead, still struggling.
Just now, when Wei Yuan carefully recognized the handwriting, the dry bones that had been poured for many years moved.
However, this dry bone has been going through too long, and it has long since decayed, and it has no combat power to speak of. It tossed like this, and instead broke several of its bones. Wei Yuan even suspected that if he really let it grab it, it would break its finger bones instead.
Wei Yuan stepped on the miserable white skull and walked out of the room.
It didn't take long for the crowd to clear out the small building. Then they went around in groups of three or five. Because compared to the Stinger and the Fallen Demon, the experience of zombies is much higher.
When the sun had completely set and it was dark, everyone took up their quarters in the inn.
The three leading teachers and those previous apprentices began to take out various utensils and cook food.
Some boil soup with their own bread, some grill meat, and some boil noodles......
Looking at the card newcomers, most of them took out ready-made bread, compressed biscuits, and jerky food and struggled to swallow.
Those experienced old card apprentices naturally know to make themselves eat as well as possible. But these newcomers who are on an adventure for the first time only know how to prepare enough food and don't think about comfort.
Billy Zhou smiled and said to everyone, "If you can, try to be as kind to yourself as possible." Whether it's eating or living. This will help you to keep your mind and body in shape during the long adventure. ”
At this time, Wei Yuan had already taken out the marinated leg of lamb and the grill from the big leather bag...... The carbon fire is red, and the leg of lamb is bubbling with oil.
Those old cardinal disciples who were still smiling and grinning as Wei Yuan sprinkled various seasonings on the leg of mutton, their mentality gradually changed. The barbecue and hot soup in this mouth, why is it not fragrant?
"Brother Yuan, Brother Yuan, you really have a hand! The chef of the Heavenly Residence is at this level!"
Zhou Yang slapped the horse with his whiskers, but his eyes were staring at the shiny roast leg of lamb.
Wei Yuan cut off a large piece of meat with a knife, inserted it into an iron skewered and handed it to Zhou Yang.
Yuan Fenghua smelled the strong aroma, and involuntarily swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and couldn't swallow the compressed biscuit in his mouth.
At the beginning, I was bent on bringing more food in case of accidents in the wild, but who would have thought that there would be such a scene now? People have to die more than people, and goods have to be thrown away!
"You kid is carrying these flashy things, if there is a lack of food in the wild, you will cry!" a voice criticized nearby.
Wei Yuan turned his head, and the one who spoke first was the decadent uncle who didn't talk much.
But this old guy has a set of corners of his mouth, and his saliva is going to flow down.
Wei Yuan looked at the other party's green eyes and said, "What you said is that you want to ...... Got you a piece?"
"Uh-huh! I'll taste it!" the sloppy uncle opened his mouth, and a large piece of meat went in, and hot oil ran down the corners of his mouth.
It smells so good!
"Let's have some garlic, don't you kill it!" Wei Yuan took out two heads of garlic.
"Okay, good, let it go! Eat meat without garlic, the fragrance is half less!"
You say you want to eat if you want to, what's the lack of food or something......
Wei Yuan glanced at the big leather bag of one card that he had only strengthened except for his weapon.
At this point, it's already a fine card, no way, it's lucky. Now the capacity is huge!
He looked at the various supplies in the large leather bag that were enough for a family of five to survive for three months...... Not much?