Chu Guang never thought that the second case of non-combat attrition in Vault 404 was actually because of the crabs in the lake?

"Claw Crab."

Looking at the big crab on the shore of the lake, lying on the player's head, it only took Chu Guang a second to recognize the identity of this thing.

This kind of crab probably belongs to a mutant of some kind of lake crab, as for the specific species no one knows, and it doesn't matter, after all, the crab that grows to a meter tall is not suitable for who to pull relatives.

The mud and algae hanging all over the body seemed to never be washed away, and it looked like a mess of mud from a distance. The high, curved carapace is a natural armor with a large amount of calcium and magnesium minerals, chitin, keratinized fibers, and other biopolymers, which can effectively disperse and cushion kinetic damage, and ordinary small arms hitting it are no different from tickling.

And those two huge pincers are even more explosive, and they are said to be able to cut thigh-thick tree trunks...... But how did this thing end up here?

Could it be that there is a nest of clawed crabs at the bottom of the lake or somewhere on the other side of the lake?

Chu Guang's brows tightened.

"What is a claw crab?" Fang Chang, who was following beside him, was confused when he heard this, and hurriedly asked.

"Xenomorph."

I don't have time to explain.

The claw-splitting crab had already gnawed off half of its head, and if it was any longer, the unlucky little player would have to be gnawed off from the neck down.

Chu Guang adjusted the KV-1 exoskeleton from "cruise mode" to "maneuver mode", increased the output power of the knee and elbow joints, and walked towards the claw crab with heavy steps, while calmly pulling out the hammer behind him.

The shell of the schizo crab is wide, resulting in the schizo crab having little to no back vision.

Although they have a keen sense of hearing at close range, they can't accurately tell the front and back of the target as long as they walk right in front of it.

If it's fast, 2 seconds, and you'll be able to knock it over with a hammer!

However, Chu Guang had just walked out of the forest two steps, and when he was still twenty or thirty meters away, Brother Mosquito suddenly carried a wooden tube and came out of the grass next to him.

"Big crabs? Where is it??? Gan, so big! Your Excellency, it's too dangerous, please don't go there! Let me turn it off! ”

With that, Brother Mosquito excitedly lit the fuse behind the wooden tube, carried it on his shoulder, and aimed the nozzle of the black hole at the crab.

"it!"

"It's a mosquito!"

"Run!"

The players who were joining in the excitement next to him were all frightened by his actions, and they all fled as if they had seen a plague.

Without waiting for Chu Guang to stop it, a tongue of fire burst out from the wooden tube, and with a fist-sized cannonball, it swooped towards the split-claw crab.

The clawed crab probably heard the movement, but before it could turn back, the little arm-long cannon fell into the mud behind its buttocks.

Apparently.

There is nothing wrong with this RPG.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

Listening to the sound of "boom", a pillar of mud flew up four or five meters flat, and the fire of the explosion shook the carapace twice, and the billowing smoke directly swallowed the huge body.

Nearly a kilogram of gunpowder exploded in an instant, and if a person stood so close, even if he was not scraped to death by shrapnel, his internal organs would have to be shattered.

However, the Claw Crab is not a human after all.

The blast wave of the explosion didn't penetrate its carapace, let alone damage its already small internal organs.

A terrible, hoarse howl rang out.

The Split Claw Crab, which was engulfed in smoke, rushed out in pain, quickly locked onto the nearest Chu Guang, and slammed into it with a big pincer.

However, it is probably because the leg was "broken" by the shock, and its speed is a little faster than a human walk.

Nearby players hurriedly raised their guns and fired, but the clawed crab that had been shot a few times was as fine as if it were fine, and it was not affected in the slightest.

"Ceasefire!"

Chu Guang raised his right fist and signaled the players to stop wasting bullets, then swept the sledgehammer in his hand and stepped forward with a sigh.

"You'll find something for me to do."

……

The lame Clawed Crab in front of the Nitrogen-powered Hammer is no different from a Marauder with empty ammunition.

Chu Guang didn't waste time with it at all, switched to B mode, and slammed it through with an armor-piercing blow, and the instantly blasted nitrogen armor directly shattered half of its face.

The battle is over.

A dozen or so young players who came out of the base with him were also responsible for scraping a sha, and except for wasting a few bullets, they didn't do any damage at all.

"Too strong......"

"Dawning Boss is awesome!"

"I finally know how the marauder's head is gone......"

The surrounding players whispered excitedly.

The mosquito carrying the wooden tube looked dazed, and it took a long time to come back to its senses until the battle was over.

"it...... Is this all right? ”

"Why don't you use HE bullets to hit the crew, why don't you change to AP bombs," Ye Shi patted the mosquito's shoulder with a smile on his face, "But there is one thing to say, brother, I will punish you for this skill." ”

The mosquito blushed and quibbled.

"It's definitely the plot...... Plot kill! The plot is not over, how can it be killed if the blood is locked. A kilogram of gunpowder, if you don't lock blood, you will definitely die! ”

"Hahahaha, it's possible! I can't think of locking blood in my brain hahaha. ”

“……”

Fang Chang sighed, didn't laugh at him with Ye Shi, just patted the eldest brother on the shoulder, gave him an encouraging look, and then went up to help the manager pack up the loot.

Such a big split-claw crab weighs three hundred catties, and it is possible to make it four or five hundred catties.

[Midnight Killing Chicken] turned an axe and threw an axe on the back of the split-claw crab, but the shock of the tiger's mouth was not to mention, and only a mud mark was left on the dirty thick shell.

"? Is this shell made of iron? His eyes bulged, and for the first time he doubted the power of his axe.

"It should be good to make armor," [Canyon Fugitive Mole] squatted next to him, and filed the big crab's pincers a few times with a woodcutter, "The pincers are so hard, this thing is really radiant mutation?" ”

"Hell knows."

Looking at the group of players who were around the Split Claw Crab and looking left and right, Chu Guang put away the hammer.

"You guys get a cart and carry it back."

"Yes!"

"Yes! Administrator! ”

Looking at the players who started to work, Chu Guang then found two young players who had nothing to do and asked them to move the headless corpse on the ground back.

Fortunately, they arrived in time, and the little player was only eaten in the brain, and his clothes were basically intact. The shrenchnel and burning wood tar that exploded before were basically blocked by the shell of the split-claw crab.

Chu Guang wasn't worried about the players dying now, but was more worried about them breaking their clothes.

People can come back when they die, and there are two sets of blue jackets in total, and I really don't know where to get such a fit.

……

On the way back, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and snow was already falling on the treetops and grass leaves. If it doesn't stop at night, I don't think we will have to wait for the next one, and we will have to get a layer of snow tomorrow.

Chu Guang initially speculated that it should be the temperature drop that caused the change in the range of these split-claw crabs, but he didn't know which direction they migrated from.

But don't settle down on his doorstep.

In order to prevent similar things from happening again, Chu Guang issued an order to designate the area around this area as a danger zone.

Do not approach these claw crabs until the source of these claw crabs is identified.

At the same time, he also instructed two players of the perception system, one to the northeast and the other to the southwest, to scout along the shore of the lake, and report any anomalies immediately.

The large crab, which was one meter tall on its stomach, was carried onto the board car by two players of the power system.

Singing a jumble of triumph along the way, the players who followed the Administrator on the "expedition" carried the trophy back to the outpost.

That high-profile appearance attracted the attention of many people.

"Damn, such a big crab?"

"What's going on?!"

Curious, the player who ate melons without knowing the truth stepped forward and pulled a team member to ask.

"Brother, where did you catch such a big crab?"

"I caught it."

"What's that?! You can catch it so much?! ”

"Hey, let's take the fisherman to make a nest first, won't this be caught?"

It wasn't just the nearby players who were stunned, but also Yu Hu, who happened to come from Bate Street to trade.

Next to him stood a man, both of them carrying one side of a wooden stick on one shoulder, and a strong mutated boar tied to the stick, standing in front of the west gate and looking at the crab, everyone looked stupid.

However, Chu Guang found him, and after walking towards him, he said with a smile.

"To change something?"

Yu Hu opened his mouth, and his two eyes had just moved away from the big crab and stuck to the big hammer behind Chu Guang's back.

However, the man next to him reacted first, nodded nervously, and said honestly.

"I'd like to change some salt, I heard you can change salt here."

Yu Hu finally came back to his senses and hurriedly introduced to Chu Guang.

"This is my cousin, surnamed Li, called Li Niu."

Li Niu is okay.

Chu Guang had a strange expression, thinking to himself what would happen if these twelve zodiac signs and a few common animals were used up by you.

"It's snowing outside, come in with me."

Under the leadership of Chu Guang, the two of them were unimpeded in the outpost, but there were always people who cast curious glances at them.

Yu Hu was used to it, after all, he had come several times, but the cousin he brought was the first time he came, and he always felt uncomfortable.

"Don't worry, they've been underground for a long time and haven't seen anyone outside the shelter, so they'll be curious when outsiders come."

Seeing this big man in a blue coat talking to him, Li Niu hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I don't care." ”

Chu Guang nodded, took the two of them to the warehouse, and handed them directly to Luca, the storekeeper who was guarding there.

The old serf recognized Yu Hu, immediately understood what he had to do, and skillfully took the man named Li Niu to the slaughtering stall.

Yu Hu handed over all the prey to him, and instead of following him, he leaned next to Chu Guang and stared curiously at the big hammer.

"Brother Chu, is this your weapon?"

"Sort of."

"Such a big one? Does it work? ”

"Absolutely."

"So, that split-claw crab just now, you killed it with this hammer?"

"Yes."

After receiving an affirmative answer, the young man's eyes bulged out, and it took a while to digest the shock in his heart, and he said in a word.

"It's too strong!"

Claw Crab!

A monster that no scavenger would ever want to encounter.

This thing is fast in narrow terrain, extremely explosive, and simple-minded, once it locks on to the target, it is to chase to the death.

Unless you can find a higher place to climb up, you can't escape.

Hardly anything can stand up to such a monster head-on, and even mutant brown bears don't want to fight it.

Chu Guang smiled and didn't explain.

It doesn't matter whether he is strong or not, as long as the power of science and technology is strong enough.

With a nuclear-powered hammer and a chemically powered exoskeleton, even a wall can be knocked out with a hammer, and the face of a beast?

"It's okay. Speaking of which, what's the situation on your side? The snow doesn't seem to stop for a while. ”

"What else, it's almost the same time every year, it's okay," Yu Hu was optimistic, and said with a nonchalant expression, "But this winter came too early this year, and we prepared in a hurry." Originally, there were caravans coming in October, but who would have thought that the end of September this year would be the last wave...... Ay. ”

Chu Guang said comfortingly.

"Think about it from another angle, when it's cold, the meat will last longer."

Yu Hu shook his head.

"But the prey is not easy to find, and if you want to hit the prey again, you have to continue to walk into the city and find the dens of those alien species."

Chu Guang said with interest.

"Oh? Do you have any experience? ”

Yu Hu nodded and spoke.

"It's not much experience, but it's half the feeling! The kind of half-upside-down building, especially the kind where the tree arches into, many small animals love to burrow into it, and even build nests in it. Some hyenas, jackals, and all other meat-eating animals go in with them, and they can find prey all year round...... It's just risky. ”

Chu Guang: "Nibble." ”

"Well, the nibbles like to hide in the building the most, but they don't hide too high, and we sweep the building from the fourth floor and go up. But even then, it's hard to say what you'll encounter inside. Maybe it's a nest of tens of thousands of rats, maybe it's a crawler resting. Without guns, we didn't dare to go too deep, at most we walked to the edge of the Fifth Ring Road. ”

Chu Guang sighed.

"It's snowing, and it's hard to go inside."

Yu Hu said with a wry smile.

"It's hard to walk when it's snowing, it's hard to walk without snow! The road is like a labyrinth, jumping up and down, and some streets are waterlogged from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, soaked in the water and never dried! ”

The straight-line distance from Bate Street to Boulder City is more than ten kilometers on the map, that is, from the 5th Ring Road to the edge of the 3rd Ring Road in Qingquan City, and the Wetland Park is a little farther away.

Qingquan City could not be found in the parallel world, but Chu Guang was analogous to the Jiangcheng where he once lived, and he could draw a line of more than ten kilometers on the map at random, and he could draw from the river to the far city.

What is the concept of distance?

If there is no traffic jam, it is better to drive for half an hour, and if there are many forks, it may take an hour.

As for walking?

Chu Guang had never tried to go so far, but even if he couldn't generalize, twenty overpasses or underground tunnels wouldn't be able to run.

This is still under normal traffic.

If you cross the ruins, it's a different concept entirely.

In the pre-war era, even the shortest buildings within the Fourth Ring Road were basically more than 600 meters long. The magnetic base and magnetic nodes laid on the exterior walls of highways and buildings are the basis for supporting the three-dimensional traffic of 120 lanes in the longitudinal direction.

In that era when maglev technology was popularized to private cars, the meaning of high-rise buildings has long been no longer just "houses", and even become part of "roads", especially buildings near main roads, and there are mandatory requirements for height.

Of course, these are all speculations made by Chu Guang based on the stories told by Old Charlie and limited intelligence, and they are not necessarily true.

But just by imagining the rows of dominoes, he could feel the oppression of this reinforced concrete cemetery.

Human beings always have an instinctive awe and even fear of creations that are hundreds of times greater than themselves. It is indeed not an easy task to search for prey in this ruin......

Chu Guang proposed.

"Why don't you all move in with me, I just happen to be short of manpower."

Although he was a little moved, Yu Hu still shook his head like a rattle.

"No, no, we can't trouble you."

Chu Guang said with a smile.

"What kind of trouble is this, I didn't raise you for nothing, at most I helped each other."

Yu Hu's head shook faster.

"It's okay to come to you to help, it's okay to stay for a few days, but it's still not okay to move here! We live well over there, underground...... It always feels weird. Besides, I can't understand what other people are talking about here except you, and it will definitely be difficult to get along after a long time. ”

Seeing him say this, Chu Guang didn't insist anymore.

Although Chu Guang wanted to say that they were actually different from the "blue coats" in the traditional sense, and did not always live underground, this was obviously not the crux of the matter.

When a person refuses based on multiple reasons, the reason given is often the least inconsequential.

The most typical example is "my mother won't let me".

So Chu Guang never listened to explanations, and even if he did, he didn't hear them.

Trust takes time to build, and there's no way to force it.

Besides, it's not like they don't have a home.

You can't tear down someone's house.

Yu Hu diverted the topic and asked with a smile.

"Speaking of which, Brother Chu, can you eat the meat on that big crab? It's the first time I've ever seen someone catch this guy. ”

Chu Guang said with a smile.

"I don't know, I'm going to ask you."

"Me? I didn't know, I heard that the female crab roe can be eaten, but I have never heard of crab meat can be ...... It would be nice if it could be eaten, how much meat does such a big crab have? ”

As he spoke, Yu Hu drooled.

Chu Guang smiled and waved his hand.

"Wait until next time! I'll study whether it's poisonous first, and if it's not, please eat to your heart's content! ”

Yu Hu nodded vigorously and smiled.

"Okay! At that time, I'll bring my big brother, my father, and the little fish! ”

"Haha, I'll just pack one for you and bring it back!"

The two chatted for a while, and the slaughter over there was already finished.

Probably because of the beginning of winter, the meat extraction rate of 250 kg of wild boar has reached 60%, and 150 kg of meat has been picked.

Two of them are 30 kilograms, which is considered as a reward for the shelter. The remaining 120 kilograms were given to the Li family's man and Yu Hu.

Wild boar skin is also a high-quality leather, especially good for armor, although the scarcity is not as good as deer skin, but the value is still much higher than hyena skin.

After asking Chu Guang, Luca still calculated 300g of coarse salt for the man according to the price of deerskin.

When it was changed to salt, the man looked happy, and thanked Chu Guang and Luka for a while, and then left with Yu Hu.

"Luca."

Seeing that the master was talking to him, Luca bowed his head respectfully in response.

"Do you have any commands? My lord. ”

Chu Guang asked.

"Can you eat the meat of the claw crab?"

Lukka was stunned for a moment, frowned and thought for a while, and said cautiously.

"My lord, the old slave has been working in the fields, and I have never seen anything like this...... But if you're not sure, I can test you for poison. ”

"That's not necessary."

If you really need to test the poison, then the player will try it, and if you don't kill the poison and lie down in the training cabin, how can you milk back with an additional 100% recovery speed bonus.

Besides, it doesn't matter if he's dead, and he is a good man for three days on the official website.

But at this moment, Chu Guang suddenly thought of someone, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

That's right.

Why didn't you forget that guy?

Do you need to take someone to try?

Give Crow a glance and see if she eats or not, it's over!