Chapter 106: The Outer City
This group of beings at the bottom lives an extremely miserable life.
Even if maggots bite on rotten flesh, even if the skin is covered with tumors of all sizes, even if you sleep in feces and water, even if half of your face is gnawed off by someone.
They all survived, like rats in the apocalypse, hiding in dark and damp corners, eating grains of indescribably foul-smelling food.
It's painful to be alive, but at least it's alive.
Hungry to the extreme, these scavengers will start attacking their own kind.
The commoner and aristocratic quarters are forbidden areas.
So they wander around the outskirts of Hale City or in the slums, attacking passing and bully creatures, such as scavengers or children with less strength.
They didn't dare go out and fight the low-end creatures of the doom, and even a mutated rat would be enough to scare them out.
Even if they accidentally pick up a few corpses of monsters that have died inexplicably, they will rush to eat hungry, whether there is a virus or not, as long as they can eat enough, they have a little more hope of survival.
They have a preference for children.
That is, it is not like the meat of the elderly, it is not like the meat of the elderly, it is not stiff and sour like of adults, and it does not have the rotten smell of other scavengers. The child's meat is tender and delicious, and it seems to have a sweet touch.
Hence the nickname for this group of scavengers, and the most popular: the Nezumi.
They are the spreaders of plague and disease.
In a way, there is nothing wrong with clearing this group of people in the central camp, but it is important to note that this last stronghold of civilization in the Blue World is definitely not a place full of good intentions.
The really good people were killed at the beginning of the apocalypse.
Unscrupulous villains who can survive.
This is the end times.
"So how do these people eat?"
On the side of the dark and gloomy road, Lin Yetian looked at the potholed muddy road and said with some strange doubts.
There was not a glimmer of light here, and the smell of endless vastness and blood filled the air, as if there had been slaughter here again and again.
If it weren't for the light coming from the walls of the majestic shore ahead, no one would have believed that this was the outer part of the central camp.
"Part of it is to send a few teams of doomsday warriors to capture some edible and relatively low-level monsters by going out hunting, but this is too risky, and there are often some hidden monsters hiding in the shadows to attack, causing a heavier blow to the already scarce doomsday warriors. ”
"So more often than not, these civilians are allowed to go through small holes around them that only allow one person to enter and exit, and let them out to fight monsters. If someone can kill the monster and come back safely, then the central camp will allocate a part of the food as the rent for their residence, and after some exploitation by the gatekeepers, the remaining small part is the food they can really get. ”
"Of course, if they can't overcome the food, they themselves will become part of the food......"
Oliver explained with a complicated expression.
Xue Muyan frowned with some disgust, she didn't expect that the so-called last civilization stronghold would actually obtain food in this way.
The only thing that could bring her some comfort was that at least the rulers didn't keep humans in captivity as food and eat them raw.
"What about the other part?" Lin Yetian said casually.
"There are still some ......," Oliver thought for a moment and continued, "The Noble District is the center of the three cities, and there is an underground river in it, and the corpses of fish or other unknown creatures are often brought by the current, and sometimes if you are lucky, you can even find a few intact mutant pigs. ”
"The ruler of the central camp arranges some of the most basic jobs, and the reward is not to starve. That's why there has never been a large-scale outbreak of plague in the central camp - most of the corpses with the virus have been thrown into the river. And scavengers can't go into the aristocratic area to fish for corpses to eat. ”
"Is the Dark River the moat that surrounds the outer walls?"
Xue Muyan asked with some hesitation.
"No, the ancient river is the ancient river, and this dark river is this dark river, and the two are not connected, because no one has ever seen the body that left the dark river appear on top of the ancient river. As for where this dark river will lead...... I'm afraid only those people in the City Lord's Mansion can know. ”
Oliver said with a solemn look on his face.
"The Ganges is good, the Ganges is good, the people of South Asia love it......"
Lin Yetian suddenly sang with a strange grin when he listened to it.
Xue Muyan gave him a strange look, and then continued to look at Oliver carefully:
"How do you divide the strength of these doomsday monsters? What is low-level and what is high-level, and how can they be judged as doomsday creatures that humans can fight?"
Although Lin Yetian always looks like she is very arrogant, as the brains of the team, there are some things that Lin Yetian needs to help Lin Yetian arrange even if Lin Yetian doesn't ask her.
"Don't you know? I thought they were all universal now?"
Oliver looked at Xue Muyan with some suspicion.
"If you want you to say it, just say it, otherwise I'll let Xiaoyan beat you into a pig's head and beat you later. Lin Yetian's gloomy voice sounded in Oliver's ears, and by the way, he threw the pot on Xue Muyan's head.
Oliver remembered the appearance of Xue Muyan beating Lin Yetian, and couldn't help but shudder, and said in a loud voice:
"All the horror creatures are roughly divided into five levels. Level 1 horror creatures require a squad of more than five people to barely kill without damage, and if there are enough energy weapons, the requirements can be appropriately reduced.
Unfortunately, most of the weapons are scarce items, and with the exception of one or two Doomsday Warriors who have escaped from the Doom Fortress, the rest of the civilians or nezumi are no longer equipped to have firepower. ”
"No one wants to provoke a level 2 horror creature if it's not necessary. Level 3 horror creatures require heavy weapons and countless Doomsday Warriors to destroy, and level 4 horror creatures can easily slaughter a human gathering point, most of which have a population of less than 10,000 and cannot fight against it. ”
"As for the fifth-level terrifying creatures, they have reached a level that humans can't compete with, just like the legend of black blood, the man without a shadow, and the creatures in the yellow sand, these three terrifying creatures, they can easily break through several doomsday fortresses in a row, and leave the abyss unscathed. ”
"Fortunately, I don't know what happened recently, but the activities of these terrifying creatures seem to have calmed down, and humans have been able to take this opportunity to survive. ”
Oliver said with a solemn expression.
Walking out of the hole, everyone stood in front of the hole that had been deliberately covered.
In late autumn, the fallen leaves cover a layer, and through the mountain forest, you can see the ruins of the city looming in the distance.
From time to time, roars relented through the city, reminding them of the horrors of the place.
"What about demons? Sixth-level terrifying creatures?"
Xue Muyan suddenly remembered Adam just now.
Obviously, Adam's coercion and strength were far higher than the terrifying creatures they had encountered, such as the Yaki Snake and the Yellow Sand Pill Hill.
If demons were also counted in the ranks of terrifying creatures, then their level would obviously be much higher than that of level five.
"Demon ......" Oliver thought for a moment, then explained with some embarrassment:
"The demons are beyond the terrifying creatures, they can destroy a Doomsday Fortress with a single hand, and if they are willing to cooperate, maybe several demons can completely destroy the central camp......"
"Because of that...... The upper rulers didn't count them as such."
Not far away, several projected high beams echoed back and forth, illuminating possible terrifying creatures.
In the current situation, only the central camp, which claims to be the last stronghold, has such large-scale electricity use.
Countless ghosts of black holes kept floating in front of several people, but fortunately, Lin Yetian carried the demon token given by Adam on his belt, so that he did not suffer any monster attacks along the way.
A few minutes later, they came to the edge of the forest, and there was no end to the cracked streets.
Under the gloomy sky, the streets are clogged with eroded shelves, and they are parked in a messy manner, as if the disaster struck suddenly.
White bones are scattered everywhere, both human and animal.
The desolate streets were lifeless, lined with shops and tall buildings that had been struck by something and broken at the waist. or blocking the street, or leaning against adjacent buildings.
Not far away, the towering city walls are in front of you.
Lin Yetian put away the Adam token on his body, and looked at the purgatory-like outer city in front of him for a long time.
"The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles. ”
Lin Yetian sighed silently, raised his steps, and stepped into the outer city.