In fact, with the help of the building skeletons on both sides of the street, the method of avoiding the bat demon is not Chen Xi's own originality, but the survival knowledge that every explorer who explores and adventures on the surface must master.

Large, powerful, and able to fly, bats like to perch on the top floors of tall buildings.

Because of this, it is difficult to get into some tight spaces.

If you move in the open area, it is an unobstructed target.

However, as long as you hide in a roofed building or underground, you can avoid bats to the greatest extent.

These are the bloody experiences that every human being who dares to explore on the surface of the earth in the last days has exchanged their precious lives for their lives!

Hiding under the eaves of the sheltered place, watching the snowflakes falling, Chen Xi just waited quietly while loading the crossbow with arrows.

A dried human corpse sitting in a corner, already covered in frost, was his only "companion"

Time passed minute by minute, and this snow seemed to never stop, but it was getting bigger and bigger...

Maybe he couldn't find the ant just now, and Chen Xi was not stupid enough to deliberately provoke, after circling the sky a few times, this "bat demon" reluctantly grabbed the two wolf corpses with his claws and slowly flew away from this area.

Seeing it go away, Chen Xi breathed a sigh of relief and began to scold himself:

"S-class mutants are amazing, huh? You can do whatever you want?! ”

"Wait for you! After I reach a few dozen levels, I will shoot you off in the head of any RPG or Barrett sniper! ”

After recovering some of the scene with cruel words, Chen Xi did not forget to look left and right to make sure that no other mutants heard his self-talk, and then cautiously embarked on the road home again...

Due to the territorial awareness and terrifying deterrent power of the high-level mutants, other low-level mutants did not dare to easily step into the territory of the high-level mutants.

So much so that on the way home, Chen Xi never encountered other mutants again.

A lonely figure forged ahead on the ruins of the city, covered in thick snow.

And the pace of progress, in the thick snow, is to leave a deep and shallow footprint.

In addition to the flying snowflakes, the only thing that was accompanied by the Geiger counter on his left wrist was the ticking sound that rang from time to time.

Fortunately, as a fifth-tier city, Nanling City does not have any large-scale industrial and military facilities, and is not among the core targets of the nuclear bomb strike, but has only been affected by the nuclear explosion.

As a result, the entire city's buildings, large and small, maintain their overall structure, and the residual radiation in each urban area is acceptable.

At least not like some big cities, before they have taken two steps, the Geiger counter calls frantically, reminding people to stay away from the area immediately...

About ten minutes later, when Chen Xi came to a road full of abandoned vehicles, he seemed to hear something from the whistling wind, and his footsteps stopped.

In the next second, he walked quickly to the thick snowdrift on the side, dug a hole with his hands, and then got into it.

Completely covered himself with cold snow, leaving only the lenses of his gas mask, and observed the movement on the road.

Just as Chen Xi fused himself with the snowdrift, the sound of "boom" sounded.

Immediately afterward, a series of gray-black figures exuding a dangerous aura galloped past in front of the long queue of abandoned vehicles in front of him!

Chen Xi, who had fused the memories of his predecessor, of course recognized that this hideous mutant with knotted muscles, a pair of oozing orange sharp pupils, fangs and claws, and a roaring and howling was one of the many threats on the surface!

The Sharptooth, a C-Class mutant, was mutated from a small pre-apocalyptic canine with a keen sense of smell and hearing.

Like the three-eyed snow wolf, the sharptooth is a social animal and is more aggressive, preferring to hunt in packs.

If you encounter a lone sharptooth, be sure to kill it before it howls!

Because, it's 100% going to howl at you!

And then, you'll have to deal with more than just three or two sharp-toothed beasts.

If he were to vote for "the explorer's most hated mutant", Chen Xi was sure that 99.9 percent of the explorers would vote for the sharptooth.

And what appeared in front of him was a wave of sharptooth beasts that came out to hunt!

Fortunately, Chen Xi reacted immediately when he heard the movement.

The snow masked the smell of his body, so much so that the sharptooth didn't notice that there was a daring human, hiding right under their noses...

Obediently hiding in the snowdrift, after watching this wave of sharptooth beasts and beasts go away, Chen Xi suddenly got out of the snowdrift and set foot on the way home again.

After another ten minutes, he finally arrived at his destination.

"It should be nearby..."

Looking around and seeing a bus stop sign on the left that was crushed by snow, and the rusty words "Yong'an" on it, Chen Xi bent down and began to dig it up with both hands.

After digging in the snow like a mole for about a few minutes, a sewer mouth came into view.

This is the entrance to the underground shelter!

The hands wearing leather gloves were slightly open, and the ten fingers clasped the gap in the manhole cover, and then the waist and horse were together, and the force was lifted up.

The manhole cover is not heavy, about twenty pounds, but with a "bang", the entire manhole cover was grabbed by Chen Xi and thrown aside.

Looking into the sewer with the help of the sun, the entire sewer mouth was frozen, and there was a lot of rubble and ice slag that had frozen underneath.

Chen Xi took out a stone and threw it down.

Syllable...

After waiting twenty seconds to make sure the sound didn't attract any mutants, he slipped into the sewer opening, grabbed the frozen old ladder with one hand, and closed the manhole cover with the other.

Grabbing both sides of the ladder with both hands, he slid down the frozen old staircase, and finally jumped down, and the whole person landed firmly in the sewer.

At this point, he finally got out of the dangerous surface and returned to the relatively less dangerous underground!

The Geiger counter didn't make any more noise, and Chen Xi also took off his gas mask casually, revealing a young face covered by messy hair.

Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, feeling the air that was somewhat peculiar and not too fresh entering his lungs, Chen Xi, who opened his eyes, couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart:

"It's good to be alive!"

。。。

In the pitch-black subway tunnel, it is like a black hole that swallows everything, which makes people shudder.

Coupled with the subtle movement that comes from the faint noise, people can't wait to speed up their pace and escape from this endless darkness.

However, compared to the sunny surface, there is no light in the underground, but it is the only home where human beings can survive in peace...

At this moment, at the end of the tunnel, a voice suddenly sounded:

"His grandmother drops, why is her luck so stinky today, and she drew a black lot..."

"Don't talk so much nonsense, if you don't want to be eaten by creepers, cheer up!"

It was a defensive outpost piled up with various obstacles.

The composition of the outpost is relatively simple, a three-meter-high defensive platform.

On either side of the railroad tracks in front of the outpost, there were two burning tin drums.

The flickering light of the fire, trying to illuminate an area in front of the outpost.

As you can see, there are also a lot of steel wire mesh and spiked barricades around it.

On the high platform, two sentries in heavy coats and rugby helmets sat on their heads.

The ones who spoke were these two unlucky guys who had just been drawn to the duty sign.

A middle-aged man with a beard was concentrating on wiping the barrel of an old shotgun in his hand with a rag full of engine oil.

"You have the heart to complain about the results of the lottery, you might as well take good care of your crossbow..."

On the opposite side, sitting on a wooden box, a young man in his twenties fiddled with the worn-out crossbow in his hand, and was very unimpressed by the reminder of his older companion:

"Don't worry, Brother Liu, those reptiles haven't been here for a long time, and even if they come, the two of us can drive those brainless guys back."

After a pause, he seemed to remember something, his brows furrowed, and suddenly the words changed:

"It's infuriating to say!"

"Those damn federal shit, with the best gear, hide in that warm office, eat fresh pork and vegetables, and bully people every day. As for us, we are waiting in line every day to receive the quota of food that is not enough to stuff our teeth, and we live a fucking life where we are hungry for every meal..."

Before he finished speaking, Brother Liu, who was a little older on the side, frowned, immediately stopped what he was doing, and scolded loudly:

"Be quiet! You want to die, I don't want to! If those guys hear you, you'll be sent to the gallows! ”

The young man who was warned smiled and didn't continue to scold: "Brother Liu, relax, I'm just complaining..."

"What's more, it's just the two of us here..."

As soon as the words fell, Brother Liu, who was sitting opposite, just wanted to speak, but he happened to look up in the direction of the subway tunnel.

Suddenly, as if he had seen something terrible, his face changed, and he subconsciously grabbed the shotgun in his hand and stood up suddenly!

"There's movement!"

Seeing this, the young man on the side was stunned for a moment, but he also reacted quickly, grabbed the crossbow, and aimed it in the direction of the subway tunnel.

I saw the end of the dark subway tunnel, and I don't know when, there was a flickering fire!

And under the light of the fire, a figure was approaching this side from a distance.

The footsteps of "da~da~da~" echoed throughout the tunnel.

Maybe it's a little far away, but the two people on the outpost can't see the appearance of the person who came.

But at least it's not those disgusting mutants who crawl on the ground and walls...

"Are you a trader in the Business Alliance?"

"Probably not, traders don't go it alone, and they don't use it, they all use hand-cranked railcars."

"Could it be someone from the other Vault?"

Just as the two were guessing the identity and purpose of the visitor, the firelight was getting closer and closer, and the figure was becoming clearer and clearer.

"Don't fire! It's me, my own people! ”

As the words echoed, the figure slowly walked from the darkness to the light of the searchlight under the light of the fire.

What caught my eye was a young face that was a little thin and had slightly sunken cheeks.

However, those dark eyes, as if hiding the entire starry sky, are extraordinarily deep and firm.

The person who came, it was Chen Xi!