Chapter 002: Black Beetleworm
Although he woke up, Ye Fan found that his situation at the moment was still not good.
In a strange wilderness, there is a severe shortage of food, no transportation, no map, no weapons, no friends......
This is not a time of peace, you may encounter strange beasts anytime and anywhere, and it is difficult for a lone person with bare hands to survive.
Even if he is now an evolutionary, he can't change anything.
If he had plenty of food, a car, enough gas, and a gun, he might really be a lone ranger.
But now he didn't have any of them - he had a May Fourth pistol, but after he fell unconscious, he was taken away by the team along with the bullets and rationed to the others.
So now he has to find the above three things as soon as possible, especially the food.
Just where to look? Now he doesn't know where he is or where he's going......
No matter what, just go down the road, there must be abandoned towns ahead, although the supplies of these towns are estimated to have been swept away by the survivors from all walks of life, but there will be a little left. If you're lucky, you might be able to find a vehicle on the road.
After encountering vehicles and food, you should still go to the Lushan base, after all, it is safer and there are plenty of supplies.
After making up his mind, Ye Fan packed the little food he had left with a flashlight in a bag, and tied up the tarpaulin and coat for the rudimentary tent together, and carried it on his back, maybe he would have to rely on them for the night.
That's all he's had.
Through the position of the sun, Ye Fan judged the general direction, and thus judged that the road was going east-west.
"The base of Lushan is in the east, so let's go east, I hope you don't encounter strange beasts."
Ye Fan prayed secretly. Although with his current strength, if he encounters one or two low-level alien beasts, he can barely deal with them even if he doesn't have a gun, but it is definitely not 100% safe, in case he is accidentally injured, with his current situation, no one to take care of him, and it is difficult to hold on.
So it's best not to encounter strange beasts, if you do, you can escape, if you can't, then you can only fight.
Not long after hitting the road, Ye Fan saw a Porsche parked in the middle of the road from a distance, and the door was ajar.
He didn't get excited, because previous experience told him that the car was either scrapped or ran out of gas, so it was abandoned here.
In fact, the vast majority of vehicles stranded on the side of the road are like this, otherwise they would have been driven away by other survivors.
It's been a year since the end of the world, the road is naturally unmaintained, the road condition is getting worse and worse, the probability of vehicle scrapping is increasing, and many other cars are in good working condition, but because the gasoline is exhausted, and there is no gas station nearby, it is also equivalent to scrapping.
Some people may say, in that case, why not just take out the gasoline from those abandoned vehicles and add it in?
It's a pity that most of the abandoned vehicles are also out of gas, because they have already been boarded first, Ye Fan remembers that when their team encountered a stranded vehicle, they would go to collect gasoline and store it in the car.
In fact, the truck where Ye Fan was lying later was filled with several barrels of gasoline, and the smell made him very, very uncomfortable when he was unconscious but still conscious.
Food, weapons, and gasoline are the three hard currencies of the last days, and this is the truth.
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The results of the search proved that he was right, the car ran out of gas. The owner of the car is also estimated to be a survivor, and the car ran out of gas after driving so far, so he had to abandon the car.
On the next journey, Ye Fan encountered several stranded vehicles, and the result was still the same, either out of gas, or scrapped and out of gas.
"Alas, at this time, it is really not easy to find a vehicle that can drive, and it is estimated that it will become more and more serious in the future."
But it wasn't for nothing, as next to the second car, he found a headless corpse with a long axe in his hand and a hiking bag next to it.
The unlucky child was probably chased by a strange beast until the car ran out of gas and had to abandon the car and escape, but his head was bitten off.
Ye Fan squatted down, vigorously broke the fingers of the headless corpse, and took out the long axe in his hand.
"Good thing, there are weapons, although they are not guns, but they are much better than bare hands."
I checked the hiking bag again and found that it contained a small amount of food and purified water, a small flashlight, and a dagger.
He stuffed everything on his body into his hiking bag, put a dagger at his waist, and naturally held the long axe in his hand.
Now he is much more steady, and he thinks that he has the strength to fight in the face of foreign beasts.
At this time, he had been walking for half a day and felt a little hungry, so he took out a packet of instant noodles, opened it and only half of it, poured a few sips of pure water, and then raced back into the bag.
That's his lunch.
It's not that he can't eat when he's full, it's that he saves food, and he doesn't know when he'll find food, and now he has so little left, so he has to save. Eating a saltwater duck in one go before was really because he had just woken up, his body was too weak and needed to replenish energy.
Sometimes food is really saved, and if you save a ham sausage today, maybe it will save your life the day after tomorrow.
As long as you survive a few months in the last days, you will understand this.
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Half an hour later, Ye Fan's figure appeared at a bend in the highway, and in front of him, a monster with a hideous face suddenly appeared!
A giant insect beast that looks like a beetle but is as big as a calf!
The black carapace is covered with peculiar patterns, the eight insect legs are comparable to large water pipes, each one is one meter long, and the gray compound eyes of two eggs are terrifying, exuding terrifying fluorescence, and the pair of hard palates as sharp as big scissors make a creaking sound, which is creepy!
Ye Fan took a few steps back, clenched the long axe and confronted it, his expression solemn.
He didn't dare to be careless, because he knew how powerful this monster was, and in the process of escaping before, he didn't know how many times he had encountered it, and many of his teammates died tragically under his palate!
In the base broadcast, this monster is named the Black Beetle Worm, and it is listed as a first-class alien beast.
The naming and grading of insect beasts was advocated by a doctor of biology in the Chongming base, of course, not because he was a game controller, let alone boring, but to evaluate the strength of various alien beasts, so that the survivors could make the most accurate judgment in the shortest time and improve their survival rate.
Up to now, all kinds of common strange beasts have been systematically named and classified, and broadcast in turn on the radio of the major bases, not only introducing their physical characteristics, distribution areas, but also their main combat methods and weaknesses, which is very helpful to survivors everywhere. This is definitely a great act of kindness from the base.
Although this black beetle worm is the lowest level of first-class alien beasts, it is not easy to deal with at all, it is agile and explosive, its six long legs are as sharp as knives, it can pierce the intestines and break the stomach, and the pair of palates flowing with disgusting green liquid are even more indestructible, Ye Fan once saw a teammate's thigh directly cut off by Qi Gen!
According to the assessment of the base broadcast, its combat power is the strength of 5 people, that is, in the case of only cold weapons, ordinary survivors must have at least 5 people to be on par with them, and if you want to win completely, the number is estimated to be doubled.
So Ye Fan's caution was completely justified, but he wasn't too flustered.
Because now he is no longer an ordinary person, but an evolutionary.
A first-level evolutionary like him, who has just grafted the Evolution Element, has a combat power assessment of 10 people in the base broadcast.
In other words, theoretically, with his strength, he can completely defeat this insect beast.
Of course, this is only a theory, the actual battle is not a card game, whoever points big will win, there are too many factors that affect the outcome of the game, the environment, the state, the fighting skills, mistakes, accidents, etc., any of which can turn the tide of the battle at any time and change the final result.
After all, the combat power assessment can only be a reference, and if you take it lightly because the combat power evaluation is superior, it can only be self-defeating!
So Ye Fan didn't dare to be careless at all.
Suddenly, he took the initiative, picked up his long axe, and rushed forward, straight to the head of the black wolf beetle.
His speed is twice as fast as that of ordinary people, and the distance of five or six meters is instantaneous!
The black beetle worm is also an agile beast, and its speed is not inferior to him in the slightest, and it has already kicked its hind legs angrily and swooped down.
A person and a worm meet like a calcium carbide spark!
At that moment, the black beetle worm easily dodged the attack of the long axe, and at the same time, it reversed and bit directly at Ye Fan's neck from the side.
Ye Fan seemed to be prepared, flew up with his right foot, and kicked the black wolf worm in the abdomen!
The black beetle worm was in pain, and the offensive stalled for a moment because of this. Ye Fan took the opportunity to dodge and retreated a few meters away.
This time, the enraged black beetle did not confront it again, but angrily grinded its palate, made a clattering sound that made the scalp tingle, and chased after it.
Ye Fan was still not in a hurry, nor did he fight with it, but quickly dodged, and then kept swimming, taking the big insect in a circle, but he never refused to let it get close.
This is also because he is an evolutionary, so he dares to do this. If it is replaced by ordinary people, the speed and reaction can't beat the insects and beasts at all.
During this time, Ye Fan always circled in the same direction, and the insects and beasts naturally followed in the same direction.
Suddenly, Ye Fan changed direction!
The insect beast pounced, and because of its habitual surname, it failed to brake in time, and continued to pounce in the original direction.
The long-awaited opportunity, how could Ye Fan give up?!
He quickly turned around and came back, jumped hard, and actually pounced on the back of the black wolf worm, using the strength and weight of his hands to directly press it to the ground!
The black beetle worm was naturally unwilling to be restrained, and let out a sharp roar, and the six sharp legs kicked and waved wildly, marking several deep marks on the asphalt road!
However, these struggles were completely futile, because its leg joints could not be reversed, so it could not reach Ye Fan at all, and the six legs were too thin for its body, and the strength was insufficient, and it was difficult for it to overturn Ye Fan on his back.
Ye Fan decisively picked up the long axe, aimed at the head of this compound-eyed insect, and smashed it hard!
One, two, three......
In an instant, the big worm's head was smashed to pieces, and it naturally stopped struggling.
So this insect beast, which was still menacing just now, is lying on the side of the road at this moment, and it can't die anymore!
"The strength of the evolutionary is really extraordinary, the cold weapon singled out the black beetle worm, and killed this beast so easily."
Ye Fan said with emotion while rubbing the blade of the axe with dry grass.
Although he had also killed the black beetle insect before, he either used the power of the gun or the joint efforts of everyone, and he couldn't even think of it alone.
Although he used a little trick in this battle, taking advantage of the weakness of the black beetleworm's back with no offensive power, and killing it at close range, the most fundamental reason was because of the strength of the evolutionary!
If it weren't for the speed, strength and reaction far beyond ordinary people, this plan would have been impossible to implement, and perhaps he would have been chased and bitten off his neck by the black wolf worm!
No genetic seeds were found in the corpse of the black wolf worm, and its meat was poisonous and inedible at all, so Ye Fan didn't touch it at all, and after resting for a while, he continued on the road.
About two hours later, Ye Fan's figure appeared in an abandoned town.
From the map on the bus stop sign, Ye Fan learned that this town is called Taojiang Town, which is located in Hengshan City, Hunan Province.
"I didn't expect it to be in Hengshan City, I thought it might be in Changsha."
Taojiang Town is an old inland town with a population estimated at about 10,000, and the economy is not very developed, with buildings and streets quite old, far from being compared with coastal towns.
Of course, all of this is now meaningless, because at the moment it has become a dead town.
The streets were in shambles, full of stranded cars, scattered and disorderly, some rear-ended, some colliding together, and some even rushing through the green belt and tumbling in front of the shops. The road was littered with debris, boxes, clothes, broken glass from cars, etc., etc., etc., scattered all over the place.
Most of the shops on both sides are wide open, empty inside, and they are also full of clutter and messy.
Whether it is the street or the door of the store, there are corpses scattered everywhere, rare intact, headless, missing arms and legs, and with wide open chests......
There was a lot of stenching, sickening maggots crawling on it, and a few crows, also pecking at the carrion on the corpses.
These are the only two living creatures in sight.
There are also dried blood stains everywhere, and the large dark red is shocking, even after the wind and rain, it is difficult to wash away!
Ye Fan was not too shocked, because he had already seen it, and all the towns were like this along the way.
With his nose in one hand and his axe in the other, he cautiously walked down the street into the depths of the town.
If he could, he didn't want this, because in a densely populated area like a town, the probability of encountering alien beasts would increase greatly, and when a disaster occurred, many alien beasts found that there were more prey in the town, so they poured into it, and many stayed to continue to hunt the survivors who were hidden in the buildings and entered the town to find supplies.
And because there are many obstacles in the town, many roads are blocked, and it is not easy to escape even if you have a car.
The larger the scale, the more central the area, the greater the danger.
So if there was another choice, Ye Fan was definitely reluctant to enter the town. But now he has nothing, so he has to risk his life.
Luckily, the town is not very big, and the main street can be seen as far as the eye can see, so the danger surname is acceptable.
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