Before leaving Linghu Wetland Park, Chu Guang first took Ye Shi to the mutant leech nest near the parking lot.

"Those mushrooms, that's where we found them." Yashi pointed to the broken cement pipe not far ahead.

"Good thing you didn't go in."

Chu Guang patted Ye Shi's shoulder.

"Let's go."

"That's not what we're aiming for today."

I heard that leeches can be used in medicine, but I don't know if mutated leeches can be used.

The two carefully avoided the nests of mutant leeches, avoiding lush vegetation and concrete ruins, and walking in the sun as much as possible.

Walked a little way in the east direction.

Looking at the viaducts, bridges, and residential buildings in front of him, Ye Shi, who was following Chu Guang, couldn't help but ask.

"Aren't we going hunting?"

"Yes."

"Then why are you getting farther and farther away from the forest?"

"There's the forest ahead."

“？”

Chu Guang didn't explain much, silently took off the iron tube rifle on his back, pushed the bullet into the chamber, and the momentum on his body also changed.

Not far away, is a broken viaduct.

On the moss-covered concrete load-bearing columns, the traces of time are hidden in the shadows of the greenery.

The basin-sized rat licked the muddy water in the gutter pit, and when it spotted two intruders, it sped to the grass to the side.

Ye Shi raised his head, his pupils dilated slightly, and a shocking color was printed.

Behind the broken viaduct were tall buildings covered with vines and moss. Thick roots cut through the cracked concrete ground, and tree trunks rose in the middle of the road, toppling car and bus stops that had long since been reduced to iron slag.

In this green hell, there is a lot of life, and there is also a hidden killing machine that devours everything.

The world in his eyes is so shocking that every frame is like a post-apocalyptic style of art, so much so that Night Ten even forgot that this is the "game world".

And at this moment, he finally understood the meaning of Chu Guang's words.

This is the real forest......

"You'll have to be careful from here."

Chu Guang said as he opened the safety of the iron tube rifle and explored forward step by step.

Although this can only be regarded as a northern suburb of Qingquan City, far from the core urban area, it still has to not relax its vigilance.

High-rise residences, sewers, three-dimensional gardens, parking lots, drone hives, CNC planting towers, maglev stations, and behind every window......

All man-made miracles, after being abandoned by civilization, have become natural greenhouses and seedbeds.

After the nuclear war, there was indeed a long winter on this land, but it only lasted less than half a century.

The forces of nature turn everything around.

The first to fall was the tall building, where the moss started along the backlit surface, eroded upwards, and eventually crawled all over its body.

And those that are not high-rise buildings are not immune.

In those years of human decline, it only took a few pouring rains and a sweltering summer to turn it into a paradise for fungi and angiosperms to grow wildly.

They provide abundant food for wild animals.

After the paralysis of the city's drainage system, the freshwater resources in the urban area are even more abundant than the adjacent Linghu Lake.

Wild animals and runaway poultry began to migrate from forests, lakes, and farms to more comfortable cities, and evolved into ferocious and bloodthirsty mutants under the triple action of radioactive materials, genetic weapons, and time.

They are collectively referred to as xenogeneous!

Of course......

The dangers here go far beyond that.

Cautiously walked along the side of No. 76 Street, and the surroundings were quiet, just when Ye Shi was thinking about where the xenos had gone, Chu Guang's voice came from the side.

"There is a situation."

In front of a scrapped car, Chu Guang suddenly stopped.

Ye Shi immediately came back to his senses, and also stopped, looking around nervously, but saw nothing.

"What's going on?"

Chu Guang's expression was solemn.

"There are traces of survivor activity."

"Other survivors?!" Ye Shi was stunned, and learned that Chu Guang lowered his voice, but he couldn't hide the excitement in his tone, "Are they the aborigines of the wasteland?" ”

It's finally time to meet the other NPCs!

He's been waiting for this moment for a long time!

Chu Guang glanced at him, knowing what he was thinking.

"You don't have to be so excited, it's not something to be happy about."

"Why?"

"Because in this kind of place, strangers are more dangerous than xenomorphs."

Without explaining much to him, Chu Guang squatted down and found a string of cans strung with wire behind the scrapped wheels.

The aluminum jar burst open, and from the fracture it looked like something had exploded, and the smell of rotten eggs could be faintly smelled.

"Gunpowder with an excess of sulfur, and ...... of pushpins and pieces of iron"

Chu Guang's brows furrowed.

Mutants?

Or a predator?

Ordinary survivors do not deploy tripline mines near settlements.

It's hard for this kind of thing to hurt xenomorphs with a keen sense of smell, in other words, to people.

Judging by the residual smell, the explosion should have been short, five hours or less at most.

Chu Guang turned around and asked.

"When you came out of the ground, did you hear an explosion coming from the east?"

Yaten shook his head nervously.

"Nope."

"You're waiting for me here."

Looking at Chu Guang, who put down the can and got up, Ye Shi asked nervously.

"What are you going to do?"

"Scout what's up ahead."

"I can be with you—"

"You, stay here."

Ye Shi wanted to insist, but when he looked at Shang Chuguang's eyes, he was choked up again when the words came to his mouth, and finally nodded slowly.

The coercion from the authority dog made him feel that the man in front of him was not messing with him, and he was really kicked off the line......

Tell Night Ten to hide next to the old car.

Chu Guang put away the gun, pulled out the sharpened steel pipe from his back, and slid quickly into the building on the side of the street.

Although when he came out, he did plan to use this player as a decoy, but now the situation is different.

On the other side are other survivors, most likely marauders or mutant tribes, and the bait has lost its meaning, and it will startle the snake instead.

Chu Guang's expression was solemn, and the steel pipe in his hand was tightened.

It's up to 1 km straight from Linghu Wetland Park, and it's too close to Vault 404!

Especially now that players are engaged in production, the smoke and sound generated will be discovered sooner or later, even if they are partially blocked by plants and concrete obstacles.

Keeping these dangers is always a hidden danger.

Chu Guang was ready to kill.

Once he judges that the other person is likely to pose a threat, he will not hesitate to strike first.

The ten-storey building along the street has a narrow security passage and a small space covered with moss.

But luckily, there are no particularly dangerous xenomorphs here.

Around the fifth floor, there were a few fat mutant mice, probably thinking that they were "too many rats", and they grinned at Chu Guang without knowing whether they were alive or dead.

If they had fled with their backs to each other, they would have swarmed up, but this uninvited guest was not afraid at all, and they did not dare to act rashly because of their timid nature, but only dared to pounce tentatively, baring their teeth with a shriek.

This has long been strange.

Chu Guang didn't say a word, he directly stepped forward, stabbed the nearest mutant rat, and immediately stabbed one to death.

Seeing that this guy was so fierce, the rats immediately fled as birds and beasts, burrowed into the entrance of the floor, and disappeared into the shadows.

"It doesn't look like a rat's nest."

"It should be about ten or twenty ......"

A little more, and these guys won't be easy to deal with.

Swarms of mutant rats can be tricky even for heavily armed mercenaries, let alone themselves with only one iron rifle.

Chu Guang breathed a sigh of relief, shook the pointed steel pipe, and shook off the fat rat that had been stabbed to death along with the bloodstains.

Go straight to the top floor of the 10th floor.

Chu Guang used the steel pipe in his hand as a crowbar, pried open the rusted door panel, and entered the rooftop.

It was very windy on the rooftop.

He walked over to the rusted water tank and looked towards the neighborhood to the east, and what he saw confirmed his suspicions.

In the open space between the concrete buildings, there stood a wooden barracks, with rags and construction debris blocking the view of the outside world.

There are two types of survivor colonies in the wasteland, those who live directly in houses that did not collapse before the war, and those who start new homes in ruins or open fields, depending on the surrounding conditions.

Marauders living in urban areas usually lived in buildings and rarely built such primitive dwellings and fortifications.

Only mutants with an average height of two meters and a weight of more than 300 pounds would build such wooden shacks when there is a ready-made house to use.

The stake at the entrance of the camp was sharpened like the fangs of a wild beast, and several severed corpses were haphazardly dressed, and the ground was stained with dried blood.

They eat everything.

Not only fungi, but also the fruits of plants, and even the flesh of mutated flies, mice, and cockroaches.

Of course, their favorite food is still the same kind that they once were-

Two-legged people.

His eyes searched along both sides of the street, and sure enough, Chu Guang saw a mutant sentry with a metal longbow on his back on the roof of the shops along the street at the end of 76th Street.

The green skin resembles the orcs of a fantasy movie, but in fact they are as strong, savage, rude, and murderous as the orcs.

At two meters tall and knotted muscles, he was wrapped in armor made of metal garbage, and even the "second half-priced" could be seen on the billboard that served as a cuirass.

The two upside-out steel bars attached to the shoulders are the faucets that have been removed directly from the bicycle - this thing works wonders when dealing with slashing and blunt force damage, and can jam a chainsaw or axe.

It can be said that it is quite cyberpunk.

If Chu Guang and Ye Shi continued to walk forward just now, at most they would have reached the intersection, and they would have been ambushed by that mutant sentry!

I was faintly afraid.

Chu Guang's Adam's apple moved slightly, shifted his gaze, and continued to look at the mutant camp in the eastern community.

He couldn't see how many people were inside because there were so many coverings, and he could only roughly judge from the size of the camp based on experience, that the number of mutants should be between twenty and thirty.

"Small Mutant Colony ......"

Chu Guang's expression gradually became solemn.

These guys are not easy to mess with!

Almost at the same time, a pale blue system pop-up appeared in his field of vision.

[Mission: Exterminate the mutant tribe on 76th Street.]

Type: Spur

Reward: 200 bonus points

】

And so on –

Missions can be triggered outside of the Vault?!

Chu Guang was stunned for a moment, and immediately tried to call out the system, but there was no response.

The pale blue mission pop-up window dispersed as if it had never appeared.

It seems like the system can only be turned on near the Vault, but the quest can be triggered anywhere outside of the Vault?

But......

These two hundred bonus points are a bit of a.

There was no hesitation.

Chu Guang immediately put away his weapon, turned around and went downstairs, and quickly left the area with a bewildered look on his face.

That's a 200-point bonus!

The side quest for summoning 100 players only gives 100 points, but this reward is 200, which is obviously not so easy to complete.

There's a big pit hidden inside!

Chu Guang is not stupid.

He wouldn't have been fooled so obviously.

"What did you see, Lord Administrator?" Looking at Chu Guang, who had finally stopped, the panting Ye Shi rested with his hands on his knees, and couldn't help but ask.

Chu Guang, who stood still to rest, replied casually.

"It's a mutant camp."

"Shall we ...... Just gone? ”

"Otherwise, a fight with them? Lost and thrown into the oil pan? Chu Guang glanced at him, "Think about it with your brain, we only have one gun." ”

There is even only one person who can fight.

Night Ten closed his mouth and stopped talking.

He didn't turn his head just now, he just thought that the mutant was the NPC of this game, and now I heard the manager say so, this mutant should be a hostile force?

And it also eats people......

Secretly jotted down this information, and Night Ten planned to share it with other players when he returned.

"It's not a good idea to provoke those brutes now, we need to be more prepared, concentrate on giving them a car, and never forget about it."

Chu Guang, who had walked away, cursed.

"It's so bad...... The mutant camp is actually on 76th Street, directly across from the park's east gate. ”

"We'll have to be careful anyway!"

……

The original hunting route can only be offset!

Chu Guang took Ye Shi around No. 76 Street, walked north along the viaduct and bridge out of the city for about a mile, and found an abandoned construction site.

The area of the construction site is very large, it should be a building that has just started, one of the buildings has been built to the seventeenth or eighteenth floor, and several other large pits should be the foundation being dug.

Most of the construction equipment has been scrapped, and the crane tower has smashed on the unfinished building, forming a slope.

It can be seen that the quality of this house is still good.

Even the crane tower was toppled by the shock wave of the nuclear explosion, while the concrete building was only smashed into a gap, and did not even damage the main structure.

The steel piled up on the site has corroded, and the cement in the bags has deteriorated and can no longer be used.

However, what was surprising was that Chu Guang found a large number of unused blue-gray stones here!

Chu Guang recognized it at a glance, this thing is limestone, and the main ingredient should be calcium carbonate if I remember correctly, which can be used as a raw material for firing cement.

"Good stuff!"

Chu Guang was secretly happy in his heart, turned out the map, and made a mark on it.

It was not a problem to turn all this limestone into cement and build two buildings.

As long as Lao Bai unlocks the technology of firing calcium carbonate cement, they don't need to worry about the raw materials of cement for a long time in the future!