Updated: 2012-07-05

The silver lines converged into a dot in the golden pupils, and then suddenly expanded. As a result, the scene five hundred meters away suddenly zoomed in, allowing Zero to clearly see an adult corpse wolf sticking out its tongue and resting on the backlit side of the rock.

That's the sentinel.

Zero knew that in front of this corpse wolf, there were dozens of packs of corpse wolves roaming the wilderness.

Dead wolves are mutated wild wolves that become infected by devouring carrion and corpses. The wild wolves that could not survive the invasion of the virus died one after another, and those who survived turned into the fierce beasts that exuded the smell of corpses all over their bodies, their fur turned gray-white, and their eyes were crimson. Corpse wolves feed on corpses, but Zero knows that they prefer fresh flesh and blood.

Zero, who has been hunting corpse wolves for three days, has a deep understanding of this.

For the smell of fresh flesh and blood, the sense of smell of the corpse wolf is unusually developed. After Zero's repeated shiyan, it was determined that the olfactory limit of a corpse wolf was about 400 meters in radius, which also allowed Zero to define his best shooting distance.

Naturally, the M500 in Zero's hand does not have such a long range. In addition, there is no further production of this almost extinct large-caliber firearm, so there is no sound suppression equipment to match it. If Zero goes hunting with a revolver, I'm afraid that just one shot will attract the attention of all the corpse wolves within kilometers.

To do this, Zero specially purchased a sniper rifle in the arsenal.

This is an old-era SVD sniper rifle, a sniper rifle designed and improved by Dragunov of the former Soviet Union. It uses 7n1 shells, and the maximum power range is within 600 meters, but with the cooperation of zero gold and yellow eyes, it can exert the power of effective killing within kilometers. It's just that this type of sniper rifle has been eliminated in the new era, and the "Falcon" series of sniper rifles started by the big arms company Manteos are commonly used today, such as the Falcon N-1 used by Allen is the first generation of this series of guns.

Even the original gun, with the use of high-precision semi-automatic sights and the latest sniper equipment, can reach an effective range of 1,500 meters.

Normally, the new sniper rifle is about 2.5 times more powerful and rangeless than the Zero SVD.

But on the other hand, because it is a gun that is facing obsolescence, the sniper rifle of Zero is relatively cheap. Mason, the administrator of the arsenal, sold only 50 pieces of zero, and also gave away a base amount of ammunition. Anyway, this type of gun will be sent back to the Parkland headquarters for recycling and destruction at the end of the year, and Masson sold one of them to Zero on the principle of making nothing for nothing.

And this sniper rifle has also undergone some special modifications of Zero's own, such as a specially lengthened barrel, which makes this SVD sniper rifle nondescript. Through modification, with the cooperation of Zero's golden right eye, a firearm with a price of only 50 pieces can exert the power and range equivalent to that of a prototype falcon gun of 300 pieces.

During the three days of hunting, Zero became familiar with the operation of the sniper rifle in his hand, and the corpse wolves all over the mountains were his most hode practice targets.

Today, it's no longer a group of lone wolves that hunt zero. He spotted a pack of wolves with no less than fifty adult males and twenty females and cubs. It was accidentally discovered yesterday when hunting a few male wolves, and Zero decided to end this wolf den today.

After the corpse wolf packs, its danger is very different from that of a single-digit corpse wolf. Dead wolves are more dangerous in packs, and because of the presence of she-wolves, they will reproduce more than you think. By this time next year, Zero believes the number of corpse wolves will double.

In sight, the sentry resting on his stomach began to move, which meant that the wolves had shifted again.

Zero, with a sniper rifle on his back, disappeared silently behind cover like a ghost, hanging the group of corpse wolves at a constant speed of ten kilometers per hour.

Even if you run like this for a day, Zero doesn't feel tired. Two years ago, the first-order liliang enhancement that appeared somehow allowed Zero to have enough physical strength, and the evolution point that was not triggered by the directional potion naturally transformed into the ability of the first-order agility enhancement. Speed is a far more important ability for a gunslinger than liliang and defense. So Zero is quite satisfied with this ability.

The first-order agility enhancement allows the zero speed limit to reach a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. It also comes with other associated abilities, including sharper reflexes, which are essential for Zero to be able to roam the wilderness alone.

Zero and the wolves maintain a distance of about a kilometer.

He was looking for the right battlefield.

In front of you is the wilderness a kilometer away from the base, and the plains here are not suitable for fighting wolves. The wide terrain will give the wolves a lot more room to move, and the Zero's sniper rifle is a single-shot firearm, which means that it cannot form a powerful firepower network with enough endurance.

Once the wolves are within zero three hundred meters, that's when he dies.

The first-order defense enhancement is not enough to defend against the fangs of the corpse wolf that can bite open the steel plate with its mouth, and in this era, humans are evolving, but beasts are evolving faster.

So Zero is waiting for the opportunity, he is patient and has time. In order to hunt this pack of corpse wolves, he prepared three days' rations, which was enough for Zero to travel back and forth in the wilderness within a thousand kilometers of the base.

And in fact, Zero doesn't need to go that far. In his mind's eye, the map of the base within a radius of five hundred kilometers was clear. Zero knew that there was a natural canyon ten kilometers away from the base, and he had passed through that narrow canyon two years ago on his mission to Silvertree City. Except for the road, which is barely passable, the rest of the place is full of strange rocks and countless shelters. For Zero, that is the most suitable battlefield.

The route of the wolves is heading towards the canyon.

Zero had never doubted his judgment, and it was nearly noon, and the canyon was in sight, confirming Zero's thoughts.

Judging by the movement of the wolves, this group of corpse wolves is preparing to migrate long-distance. There is no surplus food left in the nearby wilderness to provide them with what they need to survive, and if they are to survive, they must leave here in search of a better place.

But the wolves didn't know that Zero wasn't going to let them go. If one of these beasts can be missing, then there will be less danger for those who are helpless to roam the wilderness. This is an era of competition, in which people compete not only with their own kind, but also with beasts and monsters for survival.

Either you die, or I die!