Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Strange Ruins of the Town
Is this the living dead?
Not quite accurate, it looks more like something out of "Strange Prequel".
Chen Ye sensed that something was wrong, and turned around and wanted to leave the town ruins with Lin Zimo and Lu Ze.
But the collapsed city wall just now is now fully presented in front of you.
The three-story city wall directly blocked the last hope outside.
Chen Ye knocked on the wall tiles with his hand in disbelief.
There was a dull echo from the hard, thick walls, as if mocking him for why he didn't hurry up and give up struggling.
"Brother Ye, what should we do?"
Lin Zimo took out the compound crossbow and seemed to be ready for battle, but her trembling hands had completely betrayed her.
"It's impossible to go back the way you came, so let's find another exit!"
Chen Ye thought about many possibilities, but he didn't expect things to develop like this.
He angrily slammed his fist on the wall brick: "This place is too evil, I don't know what weird things will happen, we have to act as soon as possible!" ”
While speaking, Lu Zhiqiang slowly walked over from a distance.
It grinned and smiled, but it grew faster and faster under its feet.
Chen Ye sensed that the danger was approaching, and without hesitation, he raised the compound crossbow and fired the last explosive crossbow arrow in the empty magazine.
The bolts shoot out at a speed of 124 meters per second, and can hit the target in the blink of an eye.
But Lu Zhiqiang, who ran over, suddenly raised his hand and grabbed the flying crossbow arrow with one hand with an unimaginable reaction speed that ordinary people could not imagine.
The bolt was firmly stuck in his hand and never advanced a single point.
Lu Zhiqiang smiled even more happily.
But it didn't expect that under the action of inertia, the stone counterweight at the end of the arrow shaft squeezed out all the explosive oil inside the arrow shaft along the hole of the arrow.
When squeezed, the resin of the cedar wood begins to heat up rapidly.
And under the action of high temperatures, the secretions of the jellyfish gland of red nitrate are reactivated.
The moment it comes into contact with the air, it vaporizes into red smoke.
Everything happened very quickly, and in less than a second before and after Lu Zhiqiang grabbed the arrow, he was directly wrapped in the flames.
The oil mixed with cedar resin does not wipe off even if it sticks to the skin.
It could only watch as it was consumed by the crimson flames.
In fact, when Liu Jianguo was making arrows, he had long anticipated various possibilities on the battlefield.
So after his design, once the crossbow arrow is fired, even if it misses the target due to accident, it will explode on its own.
But Chen Ye and Liu Jianguo still underestimated the tenacious vitality of such non-human creatures.
When Lu Zhiqiang fell to the ground, the organs and tissues in various parts of his body were torn apart, letting out a seeping scream, and fled in different directions.
The rest of the slower runners were burned to charcoal.
"This monster should be completely dead, right?"
No system kill beeps were received, and no survival points and life essences were captured.
Chen Ye stood in the distance, looking at the coke that was still burning on the ground, and did not dare to relax his vigilance.
And there must be more than one strange life form like Lu Zhiqiang in the town.
But the fighting was so loud here, but there was no reaction on the "bustling and lively" streets, which looked abnormal.
Chen Ye stared in the direction of the street while taking out the magazine of the military composite crossbow.
Put a new explosive bolt in it, then reload it into the body.
Since the explosive crossbow bolt was still in the experimental stage, Liu Jianguo used up all the materials and only made 30 arrows.
But Chen Ye had just entered the ruins of the town, and he had already used up 5 of them.
In addition, the oil filler of the Flame Fist was only ten pieces.
Including the oil that had been filled into the gloves, Chen Ye still had eleven more opportunities to use the "Deliberate Punch".
Ammunition is not rich!
If he doesn't save some money, I'm afraid he won't be able to last until the moment of dawn.
Chen Ye was both helpless and annoyed.
He knew that exploring the ruins of the town would be dangerous.
It's just that I didn't expect that the danger level would be directly full!
Lin Zimo came to Chen Ye's side and pulled the wildebeest fur around his head.
"Brother Ye, this place is too hot, wasn't the temperature outside below zero before I came?"
The situation was too critical just now, making Chen Ye ignore the surrounding environmental conditions.
After hearing Lin Zimo's words, he found that the temperature in this place was at a normal level, and there were no traces of frost erosion on the buildings and ground.
"Don't take off your gear!" Chen Ye admonished the two beside him.
Because it's impossible to determine if you're in an illusion or if you're in some mysterious alien dimension.
So you can't take off your fur cape easily.
If they are contaminated with some kind of psychic contamination, their consciousness is mired in an illusion.
Then once you make the action of taking off the fur, the body will be frozen into an ice sculpture in a short time.
It's like a patient with hypothermia.
Chen Ye raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his sideburns, licked his dry lips, and then turned on the system and entered the world channel interface.
Scientifically speaking, things in the realm of illusion do not follow the laws of physics, nor can they simulate detailed and logical textual information.
So he wanted to confirm whether he was currently in a fantasy through the message of the World Channel.
As a result, after entering the channel, the light curtain turned out to be empty.
The same is true for the consignment center, there are no goods, and the private chat interface cannot be opened.
It's like playing a game and completely disconnecting from the server.
"Can you see the World Channel and the Consignment Center?"
Chen Ye asked sideways.
Lin Zimo and Lu Ze opened the system interface one after another, and then shook their heads in surprise.
It seems that everyone is in the same situation.
The Kunyu map and resource detector are still available, but the content you see is unchanged from before.
In desperation, Chen Ye could only lead the team along the edge of the city wall and detour all the way to the city gate.
In his vision, if he could break through the guards at the city gate, he might be able to leave this strange place.
But after arriving at the city gate, he found that there was no guard around the huge gate.
It can't be a trap, right?
Chen Ye stepped forward tentatively, but before he could figure out what was going on, the resource detector suddenly sounded an alarm.
【High-energy reaction detected】
Through the radar images, he saw that the entire city gate was covered with a red shadow.
Many tentacles spread out from the base of the phantom, buried deep in the ground like the roots of a tree.
Chen Ye stopped the two people who were about to walk forward, pulled out a stone brick from the ground and threw it out.
As soon as the stone bricks fell into the corridor, there was a jolt on the walls on the left and right sides of the city gate.
Then it slammed shut together, smashing the stone bricks directly.
The two walls even made a chewing and grinding motion, making them look like living creatures.
Chen Ye decisively picked up the military compound crossbow and shot an arrow at the wall.
"Bang"
A loud bang was heard, and the fireball flew several meters high.
However, such a violent explosion did not affect the city gates in any way, only partially blackened the walls.
The three of them froze in place, looking at each other.
No wonder this place doesn't need guards!
Chen Ye put down the compound crossbow and had to start looking for another way out.
But at this moment, a female voice sounded behind him:
"Are you going out of town?"
The voice sounded a little familiar, Chen Ye turned his head and found that it was Ai Jing.
"The festival is about to start, are you going out of the city?"
Ai Jing asked again, and at the same time walked over with his crooked arms outstretched.
Her eyes bulge outward, like the antennae of a parasite-infested snail.
The mouth rises upwards in a very unnatural arc, and the corners of the mouth are torn all the way to the base of the ear.
It's not just this woman.
Chen Ye saw Zhang Han and Zheng Chengan standing not far away.
Lu Ze looked at his classmates who had already died in the crowd, and also let out an exclamation.
In addition, there are many "people" and strange-shaped creatures who come out of the streets and alleys and gather towards the city gate.
They come from different races and have different appearances.
But there is one thing in common.
They're all laughing.