Chapter 14 Absorptive Capacity
After absorbing the zombie, Ma Le felt that his health had been restored, and his hunger and fatigue were swept away. According to the setting in the game, absorbing creatures can restore life, and at the same time, it can also read memories, it is estimated that the zombie's brain has been occupied by the virus and has no intelligence, Ma Le did not read any memories.
Standing up and moving his limbs, feeling the abundance of his body, Ma Le still didn't believe that he had just "eaten" a zombie. At that time, under the pressure of hunger, I felt that the zombie was delicious, and now that I think about it, Ma Le can't help but feel sick for a while...... But now is not the time to be hypocritical, it's true to get out of here quickly.
Now that Ma Le has the ability to absorb, he is no longer afraid of ordinary zombies, and now when it comes to being infected by the black light virus, he is stricter than all zombies! Ma Le left the apartment in a hurry and took advantage of the night to come to a supermarket. Although the streets are full of zombies that can be used as "food", if the situation is not very urgent, Ma Le is still willing to eat normal food.
It's only been 10 days since the infection, and although the supermarket is messy, the vacuum-packed food can still be eaten, and many biscuits and bread have not expired. Ma Le found a shopping cart, picked up enough food for seven days to load most of the cart, then unloaded the wheels, twisted the iron basket in the middle into a sealed "iron net pocket", and then found a rope to tie the "iron net pocket" to his body, and quietly left the supermarket.
As for the foothold, Ma Le still chose another apartment, the reason is very simple, the corridor in the apartment building is narrow, and mutant monsters such as hunters can't squeeze in, and even if they come in, they can't be used, and when he is relatively small, his chances of survival will be greater.
Ma Le took a lot of effort to transport the large basket of food up to the second floor of the apartment, cleared all the zombies on this floor, and then moved a lot of sundries to tightly block the entrance of the building. In this way, ordinary zombies basically can't enter this layer. As for himself, he can usually enter and exit from the window, and with his current body, climbing two or three floors is not the same as playing.
After spending the night settling down, Ma Le picked a fairly clean room to live in. Seeing enough food to eat for seven days, he began to think about how he would spend the rest of his life.
First of all, Ma Le remembered that the plot of the torture and killing of the prototype generation actually only happened in eighteen days, from Alex's release of the virus and the birth of the prototype, to the eighteenth day when the U.S. military planned to use nuclear bombs to clear Manhattan, but Alex stopped them and dropped the nuclear bombs into the ocean. And now it's the tenth day after infection, and the mission requires seven days to survive, which means that by the seventeenth day he can leave, not in time for the final nuclear explosion.
As for the plot of these seven days, although Ma Le can't remember it clearly, he can confirm that there is absolutely no crisis enough to threaten the whole of Manhattan. In this way, as long as he stays in this apartment honestly, he should be safe.
But Ma Le didn't think so, even if this world could be safely passed, there was a second and third, more dangerous world waiting for him. What he needs is not just safety, but the ability to keep himself safe. What's more, now Ma Le has one more goal, and he secretly swears that sooner or later, he will settle accounts with those senior people who almost killed him! To this end, he must become strong as fast as possible, and every minute and second must be used to improve his strength!
In this way, Ma Le lived in an apartment in this infected area, went out to hunt zombies and collect supplies during the day, and returned to the apartment to rest at night.
These things are said to be light, but in fact they are nine deaths. You must know that there are not only zombies in Manhattan now, but also mutated monsters such as hunters. Ma Le encountered hunters more than once, and each time he escaped in a thrilling way, burrowing into a narrow building to escape with his life. Even once, Ma Le's heart was pierced by the hunter's claws, but fortunately, he had a talent of "unknown physique", and it was not fatal to be destroyed, but this time instead of killing Ma Le, he seized the opportunity to fight back to the limit, and severely injured and absorbed the hunter.
This is also the first time that Ma Le has absorbed creatures other than zombies, although the hunter is also a mutant creature infected by the virus, but he already has a simple mind, so Ma Le finally experienced the feeling of reading memories. At the moment when the hunter's head was blown into minced meat and absorbed, countless memory fragments flashed through Ma Le's mind, which were disorganized, with only some fragments of information. But this information is not useless, it involves the distribution range of hunters in the city, which is somewhat helpful for Ma Le's future actions. By the time Ma Le came back to his senses, it was about a fraction of a second.
Then, Ma Le felt a sense of satisfaction full of limbs, as if a warm current passed through the meridians of his body, the injuries on his body recovered instantly, and the fatigue was swept away. Ma Le keenly felt that his attributes had improved again! I've never felt this way when I absorbed zombies before.,Obviously,It's not like eating any miscellaneous fish minions to make up for it.,If you want to improve your strength.,At least you have to eat some powerful monsters!
Speaking of absorption, Ma Le has absorbed no less than hundreds of zombies in the past few days, and in the process, he has roughly summarized the various characteristics of absorption capacity. In fact, in reality, the absorption capacity is still a little different from that in the game.
The first is the cooldown time, Ma Le can't continuously exert the absorption ability, for ordinary zombies, there is an interval of about ten to twenty minutes between two absorptions, this time is not fixed, it generally depends on the strength of the last absorbed creature, the stronger the creature, the longer the interval between the next absorption. For example, when he absorbed the hunter, within a few hours, Ma Le's absorption ability could not be used, so he thought that there was something wrong with his ability...... If the absorption capacity is forced to be exerted again in the interval between absorption, there will be a feeling similar to a full stomach, which is simply no appetite and cannot eat. Ma Le estimates that this so-called "cooling time" should be the time left for the body to digest.
The second is camouflage, in the game, Alex can change into the shape of all the creatures he absorbs, even the fingerprints are exactly the same. Ma Le tried, and he could indeed transform into the appearance of an absorbed zombie, not only that, but his body also had some kind of magical memory function. Every time Ma Le absorbs a creature, he can temporarily remember the appearance of this creature, and even if he changes back to his original form, his body will remember the previous form and change at any time, until he absorbs the next creature, which will replace the appearance of the previous creature.
In addition, Ma Le found that his body can also permanently remember three shapes, once a certain shape is permanently remembered, no matter how many creatures he absorbs, it cannot be replaced, unless Ma Le voluntarily gives up, otherwise these three shapes will always follow Ma Le. In this way, counting three permanent memories, one temporary memories, plus Ma Le's original appearance, he can have a total of five appearances at the same time!
Turning into other appearances is not only a change in appearance, but also a voice, body odor, etc., will also become consistent with the goal, Ma Le even once turned into a zombie and walked on the street full of zombies, and no zombies found him for a whole hour. However, this trait also has drawbacks, Ma Le found that turning into a zombie will reduce his own strength, and the specific reduction depends on the size of the target zombie, the thinner ones will drop more, and the stronger ones will drop lower. But no matter how big a zombie becomes, it will be a little weaker than Ma Le's original appearance.
In addition, in the game, Alex can even transform their costumes after absorbing the soldiers of Black Watch, and not only that, but even things like communicators and gas masks can be changed by body tissues, and can even be used normally! In reality, this is obviously a bit nonsense, simply relying on the change of body tissues to make clothes, Ma Le can also do it now, it will disassemble and scan the other party's clothes when absorbing zombies, and also remember the structure and material of the clothes. But there is one thing, this is limited to natural materials, such as cotton or leather, and nylon synthetic fiber clothes will definitely not change. In addition, metal buttons, zippers, and plastic hanging ornaments on clothes, etc., these things cannot be analyzed. Therefore, every time Ma Le breaks down and changes his clothes, he will clink parts off the ground, and then wear a strange costume with no buttons and no zippers.
By the way, after absorbing the hunter, Ma Le also tried to see if he could turn into this mutated monster, but failed. It's also an infected monster, zombies can change, but hunters can't, Ma Le guessed, it should be a matter of size, he can't change into something that is too different in size.
In this way, four days passed in a blink of an eye, and Ma Le gradually adapted to this bloody and tense life, and he felt that he had indeed become stronger. This kind of strength is not strong in attributes or skills, but a change in mentality! The accumulation of experience has given him the bearing to be unfazed, people who are accustomed to killing and fighting will exert 120% of their strength between life and death, while people who have empty strength and an unsound mentality will find it difficult to exert even if they have strong abilities!
Ma Le now is completely different from the rookie four days ago, his eyes look indifferent, and only when he feels danger will burst out with amazing light; His expression looks relaxed and casual, and he only becomes strong and resolute when the enemy attacks! At this time, Ma Le's image is even more nonsensical: he is carrying a bazooka, a grenade on his waist, an automatic rifle hanging around his neck, and an "iron pipe spear" in his hand. On the first day, Ma Le returned to the building where Alex had been encountered, and not only did he get enough weapons and equipment, but he also found the "Iron Pipe Spear" that helped him kill the first hunter, and it seems that he really has a relationship with this thing.
Ma Le squinted at the western sky, the sun was about to set, and the fourth day was about to pass, and he could return in three more days. Today he didn't plan to go back to his original apartment, but to a dilapidated building. He climbed up to the fourth floor, hid himself in the dimly lit room, and looked down through the window.
Not far below is a black watchman, separating the infected area from the safe zone, next to the checkpoint is a makeshift fortification, looking down the fortification, not far away is a military base. Behind these military installations is a safe zone for civilians.
Ma Le was misled by Jiang Dahua before, and subconsciously regarded the army as an enemy, but now that he thinks about it, the army in the original form is mainly the Marine Corps and the Black Watch, and these two forces will not blatantly kill civilians in general. Not only that, but after the outbreak of infection, Manhattan was completely locked down, and residents could not leave, so there were still a large number of civilians living in safe areas that were not infected.
However, Black Watch will not let go of anyone who escapes from the infected area, even if there is no external injury, it will be checked up and down, ordinary people are easy to do, Ma Le is not an ordinary person now, he has obtained some of Alex's abilities, if he is discovered by Black Watch, it is humanitarian not to study him! Because of this, in the past few days, he only dared to look at the streets and pedestrians in the security zone from a distance in this building, but he did not dare to rush through the border.
However, today is different, Ma Le has finally waited for a chance to blend into the safe zone!