Chapter 7: Survivor Remains
For three days in a row, Shen Cong encountered three "survivors", but they were three mutated creatures, the digging worm, the toothed wolf, and the big toothed rat, and it seemed that the creatures that survived had all mutated.
Shen Cong can only use the "activity" brought by the meteor shower to change the world and explain all this.
Including himself, they have all been changed by the activity.
"Is this the end world, or is it the new world?" Shen Cong couldn't help but ask.
No one answered him, and he had to adapt slowly.
The fanged dagger was able to chop open the head of the toothed rat, which gave Shen Cong a lot of inspiration, and he found that the use of the activity was far more than the three functions of extension, alloy, and displacement that he had speculated before.
Take the fanged dagger as an example, when it is not injected with active guidance, it is a relatively hard jewelry, but once it is injected with vitality, it immediately produces a qualitative change. Shen Cong tried to inject the activity into it, and directly cut off an ordinary knife and cut.
This ability was named by Shen Cong - Sharpening, the fourth ability of activity.
Shen Cong also found that only this pair of fangs on the tooth wolf can be infused with active sharpening, and it seems that this pair of fangs is the essence of the activity on the tooth wolf, or the core.
The chelicerae of burrowing insects and the front teeth of large-toothed rats are also their active cores.
"And where is the active core of the King Kong?"
Shen Cong pondered and used his willpower to guide the activity of the King Kong, trying to find the place with the strongest activity, but he couldn't find such a place.
"What's wrong, isn't there a living body without an active core?"
Thinking of this, Shen Cong returned his willpower to himself, and he was also strengthened by the activity, which logically belonged to the mutation situation. If other mutant creatures had an active core, they might have it themselves. However, Shen Cong shook his head again after ten minutes.
He didn't realize that he had an active core.
"Am I wrong?"
There is not enough information, so in the end, the inference can only be put aside for the time being.
Because his arm had to heal, Shen Cong did not leave the Carrefour supermarket for the next few days, he welded a mousetrap with one hand, and then put on the digging insect meat and quietly placed it in the Carrefour supermarket. Prepare to take a nest of rats in the supermarket, if there are any rats.
As for why the meat of the digging insect is used as bait, because the meat quality of the three mutant creatures of the tooth wolf, the big tooth rat and the digging insect is from high to low, and the taste is also from high to low.
So Zhang Tan doesn't eat junk food like digging insects.
It's just right to seduce a toothed rat.
However, the seduction process did not go well, and on the first day, there was no movement.
The next day there was still no movement.
On the third day, Shen Cong cooked the meat of the digging insects, and then put it on the mousetrap, but there was still no movement. In addition, Shen Cong took a batch of drinks, cigarettes and alcohol again, but still did not encounter the big tooth rat, it seems that there is really only one mutation.
On the fourth day, however, the mousetrap moved.
The digging worm meat is gone, and the mousetrap is half gone. It seems to be something, the steel bar that is the thickness of the thumb of the mousetrap has been bitten off, and where it is broken, there are obvious tooth marks and scratches.
This discovery shocked Shen Cong into a cold sweat.
He thought that steel was the most direct barrier against monsters, but at this moment, he suddenly discovered that there was a certain creature that even the steel had bitten off.
The King Kong gave Shen Cong the greatest confidence, which was the heavy layer of steel plate armor.
It's horrible.
Shen Cong dropped half of the mousetrap, returned directly to the King Kong, and then set off without hesitation, heading in the direction of the waterworks.
Safety first.
……
It is difficult to associate a pile of rocks with the original waterworks, which had a reservoir next to them, and I dare not say that the waves are magnificent and the smoke is curling. Nowadays, there are only rocks and yellow sand in sight, and there is no factory building or reservoir.
"That's pretty much the place, dig and see if you can find the location of the warehouse."
The little mineral water taken out of Carrefour is so small that it is estimated that it is not enough to add up to two barrels of water, and a small bottle also takes up space.
The bulldozer worked hard to shovel away a layer of yellow sand and rocks on the surface, but it also consumed a lot of diesel, which made Shen Cong very distressed. Diesel is used a little less, and in the absence of new energy sources to replace, this is a strategic resource more precious than gold.
"After replenishing the water resources, I will go to the direction of the provincial capital to see if I can find a gas station, if I can keep some diesel or gasoline, the King Kong can continue to move forward, if I can't find it, I can only bask in the sun and charge and wander slowly."
The clean-up lasted an hour and a half.
Finally found the entrance to the underground warehouse.
After clearing the entrance out of a passage that could be passed, Shen Cong did not rush in again, and the Carrefour supermarket encounter left a shadow on him.
So Shen Cong came up with his own high-tech equipment - a remote-controlled toy car with a camera installed.
The toy car rushed into the underground warehouse, and the camera began to transmit, which was a bit large and divided into compartments. Nothing was found in the first compartment of the toy car, only a few rubbles and traces of black paint piece by piece.
Walking to the second compartment, there was a door closed, keeping the RC car out and unable to go any further.
Shen Cong could only drive the remote control car back, and then prepared to go down in person. In order to increase his sense of security, he is going to make himself a set of armor - reactive battle armor.
This inspiration was also inspired by the fanged dagger chopping open the skull of a large-toothed rat.
Since the Fangs Dagger can infuse with activity, it stands to reason that it is possible to use active cores such as fangs to create a set of active armor. At present, due to the conditions, there are not so many active cores that can be used, so Shen Cong thought of the King Kong Number, and the King Kong Number is active as a whole.
With the active steel plate armor, the protection is greatly increased compared to the steel plate alone.
So can you use the active steel plate of the King Kong to create an active armor?
Although once the element is cut from the diamond, it will soon lose its activity, but for half an hour during this period, the activity will not disappear for the time being. Shen Cong could use this inactive process to create an active battle armor that could only be used for half an hour.
As soon as the half-hour deadline expires, the Warframe loses its activity.
You can hand over the armor to the King Kong to use the alloy ability to assimilate, and then infuse the activity, and then you need to use it, and then cut the connection, and you can have half an hour of active armor time.
Genius idea!
Shen Cong couldn't help but feel a little proud.
When making the active armor, he was whimsical, if the active core was embedded in the active armor, he was using his own activity as a guide, could he increase the duration of the armor's activity?
At present, Shen Cong has the fangs of fourteen toothed wolves, a pair of chelicerae of digging insects, and a pair of front teeth of large-toothed rats.
Enough to test his ideas.
As a folk master with explosive DIY ability, Shen Cong wants to make a battle armor very easily, and he is now as strong as an ox, so he doesn't need to take into account the weight of the battle armor at all, and he can afford it.
So.
Two days later, a rough pair of steel plates and inlaid with two fangs, the Optimus Prime 1.0 Reactive Warframe, was born.
It looks ugly, even uglier than the most primitive Iron Man suit.
But Shen Cong wore it on himself and felt a sense of security.
Even if you encounter a monster that can bite off the steel bar, you can't beat it, but at least you have the ability to escape.
Interestingly, the activity of the battle armor seemed to have a wonderful reaction with the fangs, organically combined, making Shen Cong feel that the speed of the activity had slowed down considerably. An active armor that is expected to last half an hour can be used for at least three hours at this rate of drainage.
Bang, clang.
Shen Cong was wearing an active battle armor and holding a high imitation six that had been assimilated by activation. Four pistols, two fanged daggers pinned to his waist, and a crossbow hanging from his back, armed to the teeth, walked towards the warehouse.
The warehouse was empty, only the sound of Shen Cong's own footsteps.
The thermal imaging camera in the left eye area did not detect any objects with high thermal energy.
Shen Cong first came to the first compartment, before the toy car found a piece of black spots, Shen Cong was very curious about what it was, and when he walked in, he found that this black black spot, so I wanted to leave traces of blood.
"Bloodprint?"
This discovery made Shen Cong a little nervous, but Shen Cong couldn't tell whether it was the bloodstain from two months ago or the bloodstain after the apocalypse.
Only more cautious.
Push open the door to the second compartment.
The door opened, and suddenly a rancid smell came to my nose, and I saw that the warehouse, which should have stored bottled water, was stacked with the corpses of a dozen or so humans, as well as the rotting remains of several unknown monsters.
"Gross!"
Shen Cong had never seen such a disgusting scene with his own eyes, and he almost retched.
After vomiting for a while, feeling much better, he accepted all this rationally and did not leave. Although the dead body was disgusting but safe, Shen Cong was instinctively not afraid of the corpse.
What could be more harmless than a dead man...... Of course, the zombie world counts separately.
"It seems to be the result of the survivors fighting the monsters, looking at the level of decay, it's been at least a month, could it have happened before the storm stopped?"
After looking at the corpse for a while, Shen Cong turned around and left, advancing to the third compartment.
Sure enough, in the third compartment, traces of the survivors' lives were found, some food residues, as well as bedding, commode and other household utensils. Because of the water and hiding in the underground warehouse, these survivors were able to survive the raging storm, but unfortunately, they encountered mutated monsters.
"In this way, in a big city, or a military district station, there will definitely be a lot of survivors!" Shen Cong pondered.
There are many basements in big cities, many supermarkets are in basements, rich in materials, and some air-raid shelters and other facilities can avoid the doomsday storm. Naturally, the military region will also have such a place of refuge, Shen Cong hid in the King Kong, and all survived, it is conceivable that people hiding underground, as long as they eat and drink without worry, it is not difficult to survive.
"Survivor ......"
A trace of solemnity flashed in his eyes, Shen Cong silently walked through the third compartment and came to the fourth compartment, this compartment was full of bottled water, Shen Cong was going to transport back ten buckets, and get two buckets of water to take a bath. For nearly two months, he only wiped his body with a wet towel and never took a shower at all.
However, when taking a bath, Shen Cong was in a very complicated mood, and his thoughts were very chaotic, because he didn't know how to deal with the survivors.
It's impossible to wander the world alone all your life, but you don't like to come into contact with others before the end of the day...... In other words, there is not much difference between the weight of survivors and mutant monsters in Shen Cong's eyes, at most there is an option of "exchanging materials...... The human heart is the most unpredictable, and getting along with people is more worrying than getting along with monsters.
In novels and movies, this kind of "cannibalism" incident emerges in endlessly.
As a persecuted delusional person, he will always be alone against the whole world, Shen Cong only believes in himself!