Chapter 64: The World of Cannibalism

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It wasn't until the cloaked man left that Li Xin knew the other party's name from the mouth of the hotel owner Tom: Rod.

The tavern owner is a bald man named Tom. He has strong muscles, and the smell of blood is faint in the strong body, which is enough to deter those who drink and make trouble. It is said that Tom was one of the first people involved in the establishment of the camp, and after the camp was settled, he was tired of the murderous life, and transformed the cafΓ© into its current state and opened a tavern.

There was a foul smell in the dimly lit hotel, and the two oil lamps on the counter emitted thick black smoke, and the faint light of the fire barely dispelled the darkness around them, allowing people to look at the people around them. In a dark corner, a few drinkers gathered together to talk in whispers, occasionally casting a mixture of surprise and greed at the backpacks behind the two men and women on the counter.

Li Xin was sitting at the counter talking to Boss Tom in a low voice, and he tried to pull out more and more things from the other party's mouth. After pondering for a long time, Li Xin finally lost the last patience and took out a compressed biscuit and threw it at Tom's reluctance, which was able to loosen his mouth with a closed mouth.

"I didn't expect you to have this thing now, I thought the things in the city would have been scraped a month ago." Tom put the compressed biscuits in his pocket with satisfaction, took a small notebook from nowhere and handed it to Li Xin, and explained under the gaze of the four of them: "This is the monster information we have collected so far, I believe you will like it." ”

"A month ago?" Shihan was very keen to catch the words in the other party's mouth, exchanged glances with the people around him, and asked rhetorically: "You have indeed entered a month from the cataclysm to now?" ”

Tom suddenly said, "A month and five days, to be exact. ”

"How do you know?" Yayun asked impatiently.

"Mechanical clock." He pointed to the ancient pendulum next to him and whispered. "We've been living under this darkness for more than a month, and until now, I feel like I'm alive as a miracle."

"Damn, you've been living for a month since the cataclysm?" Yang Tao cursed in a low voice, he thought that more than ten days had passed.

"Without the change of day and night, time doesn't mean much anymore." Li Xin was also surprised in his heart, but quickly regained his composure. "It's a day to be able to survive now."

Everyone fell silent.

Li Xin glanced at Tom suspiciously, took out the fluorescent bottle and began to read the words on it with the help of the faint light.

Flipping through the somewhat worn book, the first page is a creature called a mutant rat. In fact, the description inside is completely indistinguishable from the mutant rats that Li Xin and the others encountered, but that's about it. He flipped through a few more pages in a row, the skeleton monster, the rat monster...... The few scattered pages were of no use to him in the slightest.

It seems that the other party actually prevaricates himself with something casually?

Li Xin narrowed his eyes, a dangerous glint flashed in his brown eyes, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Are you going to use this thing to hit me?" He pushed the notebook back in front of Tom and waited for an answer.

A thick bloody murderous aura swept through the entire tavern, and the guests who had been drinking in the corner turned pale and raised their heads to look at the counter in fear, with a little more awe on their faces.

Tom was forced to take out another copy and threw it to Li Xin, muttering something without knowing what he was muttering. Li Xin turned two pages and frowned, and from the expression on his face, he could see that he was not very satisfied with the content recorded above. He began to check the memories in his head with the information in the notebook, which also recorded some creatures that he had not encountered.

For example: clawed rats. According to the records, the clawed rat is another evolutionary trend of the rat monster, slightly smaller than the rat monster, brown skin, with twenty feet long sharp claws, can easily tear through the strong bone armor of most mutants, is an extremely dangerous mutant creature.

Hazard Level: 3

Weakness: Brain.

建yì: Shoot and kill.

The book also records another monster that Li Xin cares about: the walking corpse. He put the notebook on the table, reached out and tapped twice on the page of the walking corpse to ask Tom why, and the introduction of the walking corpse in the notebook was only one line: the corpse of the companion was cremated.

Tom stopped wiping the cup, glanced at the notebook, and after a moment of silence, he said in a deep voice: The walking corpse is a dead thing similar to a skeleton, but they are not the same as skeletons, the walking corpse is more aggressive monsters, they crave food, just like skeletons attack all living things. ”

"After the fifth day, those who starve to death will become walking corpses if their bodies can remain intact, and there is a good chance that other dead people will become walking corpses. The first time we saw them, shortly after the camp was formed, a dead companion turned into a monster and attacked the others. Tom raised the back of his left hand to reveal the hideous bite mark on his right elbow, and recalled with blank eyes, "Fortunately, it is not contagious." ”

Li Xin remembered that Rondi directly closed the underground shelter and was closed, and now he probably understood the reason, and muttered: "I see, do you want to strangle the danger in the cradle?" ”

"The weakness of the walking corpse is still the head." Tom shrugged his shoulders and explained. "In fact, the vast majority of dead things are difficult to survive as long as they lose their heads."

Li Xin continued to flip through the last few pages of his notebook, his eyes resting on the record of the monster called Vicious Fang. The description of his appearance above reminded him of the terrifying mutated monster he had encountered before. The description of the fangs is very limited, and apart from the general description of its size, the mutant beast named the fangs is set to a danger level 5 creature.

"How much do you know about Viciousfang?" Li Xin asked in a low voice.

"If I've seen this dangerous mutated creature, do you think I'll still be able to survive now?" Tom laughed dryly.

"Fierce Fangs." After Yayun took the notes and looked at them, her face suddenly became gloomy, and she said in a low voice, "Could this be the monster we encountered before." ”

"There is no doubt about it." Li Xin shook his head and said, "Until now, I still think it's a miracle that I can survive after encountering it." ”

"You have Fierce Fangs?" Tom grew his mouth in surprise when he heard this conversation, and muttered, "It's incredible." ”

"I think it's incredible, too." Li Xin said softly: "That monster can't even help it with ordinary firearms, and the tank should have some use!" He looked beyond the firelight and stared at Tom, and questioned: "I don't think Rondy is pulling his tank to travel around the city or show off, if you can't wait for replenishment, once the fuel runs out, the tank can only become a fixed turret, I don't think Rondy should be stupid enough to even think about this kind of thing!" ”

Under the puzzled gazes of the four, Tom coughed lightly and raised an index finger.

"Greedy guy!" Li Xin took out another compressed biscuit and threw it to Tom, motioning for him to continue.

"Rondi is not the only one who wants to hunt down the fangs to strengthen himself, there are many powerful people in the camp. However, after hunting Vicious Fang, he died, and only a few people who survived described the monster's appearance and named it 'Fierce Fang'" Tom put away the compressed biscuit and continued, "It is said that Rondy's strength is at a bottleneck, and he wants to hunt Fierce Fang to strengthen himself in order to break through the limit. ”

"Obviously, he failed." Li Xin stared at the notebook, probably able to guess the ending. He hadn't forgotten that when he first encountered it, he was so frightened that he shrunk in the corner and shivered. Even if Rondi had a powerful technological weapon like a tank, how many mutants could keep their cool and shoot at the fangs? What's more, the fangs are not stakes, and their sharp instincts are enough to allow it to dodge the shells of death.

"No, Rondy was only halfway there, he managed to wound the fangs, in fact the cannonball only hit it in the legs, and the fangs fled." Tom's tone seemed to have a deep hatred in it, and several of his former companions had accidentally buried it in its mouth.

"Kill it?" Li Xin shook his head and said, "Although I don't know Rondy's strength, I have been in contact with Fierce Fang, and I know the gap between myself and it. Without a sufficient number of tanks forming a dense network of fire, it is very difficult to hunt it! ”

"The information I gave you is definitely worth those two compressed cookies." Tom stopped and didn't want to continue on the topic that followed. He took out a small plate containing four thumb-sized square pieces of meat and placed it in front of Li Xin, and made a gesture to ask for a taste.

"Jerky?" Li Xin picked up a piece and put it in front of him to observe, he couldn't judge what the dried meat in front of him was made of for the time being, and asked, "Rat jerky or human jerky?" ”

"Human jerky?" The poem said sharply. She was sensitive to these words, looked at the jerky on the plate in disgust, and quietly moved her body back. Several people around Li Xin all showed disgusted eyes.

"Rat jerky, the sour taste in the meat has been removed by special means, the process is a bit troublesome, and it is the favorite food of most powerful people." Tom enthusiastically introduced the food in front of him to Li Xin. "This is for you to try temporarily, if you like to take rat jerky in the future, you can exchange it with me, five for one."

"Rat meat!" Li Xin's tone was full of mockery, and he continued: "I thought you were eating human jerky. Mutant rats feed on human corpses, and eating this thing indirectly consumes human flesh. He added, "I thought you were eating human flesh." ”

"Don't talk about it." Yayun's face was extremely pale, unable to continue to bear the fact that she was messing up, and squeezed Li Xin's arm with her right hand, as if to prevent him from continuing.

"Of course, a small number of people do eat human jerky, and I don't deny that, after all, you have to fill your stomach." Tom looked at the staggering trio and continued with a mocking face: "Of course, the vast majority of people will not do this, and only a very few extreme people will eat their own dead companions. Tom's face was not very good at talking about these things, and he did not intend to continue the bad subject, but asked, "Aren't you going to taste it?" ”

"Of course!" Li Xin took out a pistol and handed it to Yayun, then picked up the piece of rat jerky, threw it into his mouth in front of everyone, chewed it twice and swallowed his stomach.

"How does it feel?" Yayun stared at Li Xin nervously, if her man was abnormal, she would shoot the man in front of her mercilessly.

"I don't feel it, in fact, although it doesn't smell sour or fishy, it doesn't smell like anything else, and it tastes like you're eating a rag." Li Xin pursed his lips, put away his pistol and said, "JianyΓ¬, you put some seasoning on that thing." ”

"If there's any extra seasoning."

"That's right." Li Xin asked in a low voice, "If we want to stay here, how can we find a place to live here?" ”

"If you want to stay here, everybody is welcome. As for the shelter, there are still many empty rooms upstairs that need to be sorted out by yourself, and I can provide you with that a mutant rat's corpse can provide room for five days. Tom became enthusiastic, and said, "Those beautiful women are willing to provide you with special services if you need them, as long as you can provide food every day." He glanced at the two women beside him who looked a little ugly, and said ambiguously, "However, I see that you don't seem to need special services to vent your excess energy." ”

"We're going to go out and look for you." Li Xin stood up and beckoned to his companions, signaling them to prepare to leave.

"Mutant Beast!"

Suddenly, there was a panicked scream outside, and the whole camp boiled like a boiling kettle, and the screams and cries of the survivors mingled as they frantically crowded the nearest house to seek refuge.

"What happened?" Li Xin walked out of the tavern in a few steps and looked around at the chaotic street. Tom, the owner of the hotel, appeared behind them at some point, carrying a heavy iron hanging in his hand, and said with a stern expression: "Damn, there are mutant beasts invading the camp, what the hell are the patrols doing?" ”

"Mutant beasts are invading, and it doesn't seem to be safe here." Li Xin muttered.