Corrupted Nation

Maya seemed to have thought of something and asked Lin Wu to step aside with her, and sure enough she took out a system map from her backpack. After resurrection, in addition to providing free food, water and sleep for 24 hours, a system map of the nearest town is also provided. Having never died before, Lin Ma never thought of this benefit.

This town is also called Beishang Town, and its full name is Beishang Town, You County, Nancheng City, Science and Technology City.

The town has a circular layout, like a target, with buildings built around the center of the town. The architectural style is ancient Middle Eastern style, with a few concrete buildings and most houses made of stone and earth.

After Lin Wu's drone reconnaissance, he reported back more information: "There is a bloody heart in the center of the town, covering 70% of the town."

"Are there any players?"

"not found."

“How much power does the drone have?”

"45%." Looting Nightmare and Blood Dream have never found a suitable time to recharge until now. The biggest disadvantage of this thing is that it must be fully charged at one time, and each charging time is 12 hours.

"Use sparingly." Maya asked, "Do you have a car?"

"No."

Just like the situation in Beishang Town in Zuoxian County, non-hardcore mode players looted the entire town. When the Big Mac Bloodheart appeared in the town, players began to evacuate. After entering the hardcore mode, players will not stay near the blood heart.

Judging from the map, unless you return to the resurrection point and go south, you must pass through the town because of the canyon landscape. Lin Wu asked: "Have you considered the direction?" Maybe the future city is next to the science and technology city, and if the direction is wrong, it will be completely different.

Maya said: "Faith is motivation and a goal, but don't be too persistent, otherwise it will be easy to be paranoid." My belief is to win the Nobel Prize, which is the goal of my struggle and life. I can accept the result that I will not win the Nobel Prize in my life. Isn't this a contradiction? Assuming there is no goal of winning a Nobel Prize or making a contribution to mankind, then the meaning of scientific research is just a job to me. The meaning of work is rewards. When I have better rewards, I will definitely leave scientific research work.

This is the importance of beliefs and ideals.

Lin Wu said: "There are ruts on the north side. It seems that a car made an emergency brake and left tire marks."

"Only hardcore mode leaves traces. Let's go to the north." Maya asked Lin Wu to put away the drone and use a map to explain the path: "Let's take No. 4 Street and go around the edge of the blood mist. Bullets are scarce, don't use them unless necessary. Use a gun."

"Do you feel weird?"

"What's weird?"

Lin Wu said: "The temperature of the whole server should be the same, right? Today's temperature is 39 degrees, why doesn't it feel hot?"

Maya was startled, and sighed softly as if she wanted to understand something. Facing Lin Wu, who was puzzled, she said: "Taking the topography of Blue Star as an example. The same temperature, higher humidity in the south and lower humidity in the north give people completely different feelings. It’s different. When it’s 35 degrees in the south and the temperature is stationary, the human body will sweat a lot. In the north, even if it’s 39 degrees, as long as you’re not exposed to direct sunlight, you may not sweat.”

Lin Wu didn't quite understand: "You mean the place we are in is different from Beishang Town in Zuoxian County?"

Maya nodded: "Not only are they different, but they are two opposite landforms. I guess we are more than a thousand kilometers away from the future city, or even two thousand kilometers away. We, we may never be able to go home."

Seeing that Maya was suddenly depressed, Lin Wu comforted her: "Going home is a belief."

Maya took a deep breath to calm down and said to Lin Wu, "I'm glad I'm not alone."

Lin Wu: "If no one can be resurrected here, let's go."

Entering No. 4 Street, Lin Wu, a leading soldier, sneaked and assassinated all the way. Maya followed Lin Wu in sneaking forward, and began to think about the future development in her mind.

First of all, you need a foothold. The foothold must have water and grass, so that you can continue to obtain survival capital for a long time.

Secondly, a doctor is needed, which is a big trouble. For Lin Wu and Maya, fractures and bleeding are commonplace. The best way is to learn general medicine on your own, which can treat bleeding and fractures, and even cure diseases. But first you need to get a general book. Although this thing is common, it needs to be purchased from an experienced player. In addition, you cannot be infected with the virus, otherwise you will definitely die.

Lin Wu's drone needs electricity, not to mention that there is no outpost card. Even if there is an outpost card to occupy the substation, wouldn't he and Lin Wu be trapped here?

After much thought, Maya felt that the best strategy would be to find a team and join the team temporarily to understand the situation, replenish resources, and collect more regional information. Use a springboard to get home step by step.

Zhongce and Lin Wu found a remote location with water and food, exchanged it with old players for a general practice and a medical book, and spent the last year of the game here.

What's the next step? Everything else is a bad idea. For example, if he and Lin Wu commit suicide, commit suicide again, and continue to commit suicide, as long as they have perseverance, they can eventually return to Beishang Town. But what’s the point of going back? No attributes, no skills, no points, no equipment, nothing.

The most difficult thing is to find a suitable team and join it as a newcomer. He could adapt to it, but with Lin Wu's personality, he probably wouldn't be willing to obey other people's orders. Even if Lin Wu can swallow his humiliation and start as a newcomer, how can he develop himself as a newcomer?

The middle strategy is the simplest, easy for most people, but difficult for Maya. She can accept having a companion who is eating and waiting to die, but she cannot accept herself eating and waiting to die. If you have faith, you should do something for your faith. However, some things cannot be forced. After all, they are old acquaintances, so Zhongce can reluctantly accept it.

The biggest reason why Maya cannot accept Zhongce is that she has no value in Zhongce. Lin Wu could form a strategic team with anyone at will. He must have Lin Wu to survive in the Zhongce team.

"XX, there are two Big Macs at the intersection of a small town." Lin Wu squatted and looked back at Maya.

Maya came to her senses and took out the map to check: "Go through this jade shop and turn to Street 5."

"Hey, cheer up, I'm counting on you to provide some encouragement."

Maya said: "As far as your character is concerned, you don't need spiritual encouragement."

Lin Wu said: "Nonsense, of course you need it. If nothing happens, you can shout: Lin Wu, you are so handsome. I will be able to resurrect with full health."

Maya wanted to laugh and said, "Let's go, there's so much nonsense."

"Hmph!" Turn left across the street and enter the long and narrow jade shop. There were two fierce ones inside. Lin Wu took out the steak knife and licked the blade: "I didn't expect that I would go back to my old job." Huh? The knife looked like it had just stabbed a zombie.

Feng stabbed over, stabbed the back with his left hand, choked the neck with his right hand, raised the knife with his hand, and directly took down a violent one. Throwing Kuangmeng's body to Maya, Lin Wu walked close to the wall and greeted Kuangmeng: "Hey."

Turning back violently, Lin Wu had already been stabbed by the wind and was cut into pieces again. After cutting it, Lin Wu took out a watermelon knife from Kuang Meng's corpse, held the watermelon knife horizontally in front of him, and said to Maya: "This is a good start."

Maya had to admit that Lin Wu was right. Zombies can also explode weapons, but the probability is very low, mostly materials and other items. If you are lucky, items such as skill books will appear. It is said that someone found bullets from zombies, but I don’t know if it is true or not.

There were several zombies in the second half of the jade shop. Maya took the watermelon knife and went forward to try it out. Without the bonus of swordsmanship and attributes, there is a huge gap in lethality. However, Maya performed much better than the newcomers. It seemed that she did not rely entirely on swordsmanship before, but learned from it. Every one of her strikes was clean and crisp, but unfortunately she lacked the chance of decapitation, so she could only retreat step by step to face the pressing zombies.

When facing the second zombie, Maya relied on her flexible dodge and tactical awareness to avoid the attack of the zombie's hands. Each knife struck the zombie's neck, quickly triggering the exclusive decapitation execution with a sharp blade.

Lin Wu sat aside: "Okay, Maya is so beautiful, Maya is so powerful, yeah yeah."

Maya lost all desire to fight and said, "Let's go."

Lin Wu asked: "No more cutting?"

Maya: "Efficiency."

Lin Wu jumped down from the countertop and said, "Wait." He climbed over the countertop, went to the cash register, and opened the small cabinet under the hidden cash register. Inside was a safe with a password pad.

Lin Wu asked: "Are all the locals fools?"

Maya explained: "The entire base spent manpower and material resources to get you this personal computer."

Lin Wu struggled to take out the small safe and put it on the counter: "What I mean is: they never thought of moving the safe?"

"Well..." How to answer this question? There is also a mechanical safe in the hilltop church that cannot be opened.

Lin Wu suddenly realized: "You haven't thought about it either."

Maya blushed instantly and kicked Lin Wu's calf out of embarrassment: "Open the lock quickly."

Ten seconds later, Lin Wu flipped his left arm. Maya saw the password, reached out to enter the password, and opened the safe. There are two things in it. One is a sniper crossbow, which does very high damage and has penetrating properties. The disadvantage is that it has a slow rate of fire and uses pointed crossbow arrows.

There are two types of crossbow arrows. One is a tapered light crossbow arrow, which has a high recovery rate but a short range. One is a pointed heavy crossbow, which weighs about the same as four 7.62 bullets. It has a low recovery rate and high manufacturing cost, but its lethality and range are very strong, even exceeding that of common pistols.

All crossbows are indestructible and silent weapons. The sniper crossbow is equipped with a quadruple scope, which is extremely rare among crossbows.

The second item in the safe is naturally the crossbow arrows. This is a set of crossbow bags, with a total of two small crossbow bags. Tied around the waist like a belt, the two crossbow pouches can be placed on the left or right waist. A small crossbow bag can hold 15 crossbow arrows, and both small crossbow bags are full.

Maya hung the sniper crossbow on her backpack and slung a fashionable crossbow bag around her waist, which looked a bit wild. Lin Wu looked at it for two more seconds. Seeing Maya looking at him, he hurriedly explained: "Look carefully, you look okay. No, that's not what I mean. You are very beautiful, but you are even more beautiful today."

"You talk too much, so let's go."

Lin Wu looked around and asked with trepidation, "Is there anyone else here?"

Maya finally couldn't help but give Lin Wu a slap on the head, and Lin Wu, who was beaten, went to explore the road honestly.

The density of zombies in the town is very low, at least for Lin Wu and Maya who have seen the world, it is not a problem at all. With a fluke mentality, the two of them carefully searched several shops and two private houses, but found no system items. However, after finding salt and other seasonings, Maya took away the inner pot of the rice cooker and used it as a pot.

Although these items have been corroded by hard core, they have a very long shelf life and are difficult to damage, so they can still be used.

Judging from the dust on the floor of the house, no players have set foot in it for a long time.

Lin Wu said: "This house is nice."

Maya objected: "There are no resources around, and prey can only be found outside the town. The nearest water source is one kilometer away, and the house is on the edge of the blood mist."

Lin Wu: "I don't have artistic talent. I said the house is good, but I didn't say the base is good."

Maya was defeated: "Well, this house is really nice."

Lin Wu: "It's not bad. There are no resources in the surrounding area. There are prey only outside the town. The nearest water source is one kilometer away, on the edge of the blood mist. Can you tell me where it is good?"

Maya laughed angrily and said, "Let's go!" The time of their death was four o'clock in the afternoon, and it was already five-thirty in the afternoon.

Maya said: "If we cannot find the player before seven o'clock, we will find a building to spend the night. We are not sure if it is a low-light night, and we need to look for flammable objects. In total, we only have two hours at most."

Lin Wu was puzzled: "Even if we find a place to live at seven o'clock, it will be nine o'clock in two hours. Isn't it already completely dark?"

Maya said: "No, the geographical environment is different. If we refer to the landforms of Blue Star, Science and Technology City should not enter true night until around 9:30."

"oh!"

Maya asked: "Doesn't the public education system have an out-of-district study trip every year?"

"I choose the island." Lin Wu explained: "Gobi desert or the island Kibini, what do you choose? No, it's the island coconut. Slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue." This must be explained clearly, lest Maya suspect that she is deliberately harassing . What's hateful is that the school doesn't allow you to choose a beach without clothes...

Seeing that Lin Wu was lost in memories while talking, Maya reminded: "I understand, let's go." She remembered the first time she met Lin Wu, and she got into a lot of trouble just because she asked too much. .

Speaking of fate, this thing is really wonderful. Let alone anything else, when it came to marriage, no one except Lin Wu chose him. In fact, Lin Wu didn't want to choose himself, but he could choose himself.

Thinking of this, Maya began to worry about Shadow again. The withdrawal of himself and Lin Wu from the group will inevitably bring some chaos to Shadow. Shitou lacks skilled personnel and hopes that Xingguang can take the initiative to step up and serve as deputy leader. Maya knows that Starlight has this ability, but as a newcomer, Starlight is not willing to go overboard and obliterate Shanna's existence value.

"Ah!" Lin Wu exclaimed and immediately retreated. The surrounding zombies reached the source of the sound but did not find Lin Wu's presence. Lin Wu and Maya retreated to the back door of the jade shop. Lin Wu looked at Maya and said seriously: "I know why I was locked up in the dark room."

Maya asked, "Why?"

Lin Wudao: "We made a common-sense mistake. We preconceived the idea that the higher the score, the better the treatment."

Maya responded: "No, it's not a mistake, it's the truth."

Lin Wu said: "Yes, this is true, but the priorities are wrong. I will complain first."

The little white rabbit appeared, and Lin Wu said, "I want to complain. I complained that my points were not deducted last time I died."

Lin Wu's question stopped the little white rabbit. It couldn't directly tell Lin Wu the hidden game mechanisms such as death and points, but Lin Wu got the information right again.

But of course the little white rabbit would not be stunned. Its computing power was close to infinite and replied: "Because you hold the Wu Zhu amulet, no points will be deducted for your death."

Lin Wu said: "The treatment a player receives after death is not based on their points, but based on the points deducted from them. Right?"

Little White Rabbit: "I'm sorry, this is a game mechanism problem, I can't answer it."

Lin Wudao: "So points are deducted for death based on a percentage. What you really want to hide is this piece of game information. If fixed points are deducted for death, everyone will not be treated differently. And the reason why I It’s the black room treatment because I wasn’t deducted points.”

Lin Wu looked at Maya and said, "The treatment everyone enjoys after death is not the treatment with points, but the treatment converted from points deducted." The points deducted are returned to the players as a consumption. There is only one reason why Shuguang is so ambiguous. It wants to hide this information. It doesn't want players to know: death means deducting points according to the proportion of points, not a fixed point deduction.

Dawn has been misleading players: the higher the points, the better the death treatment. While that's true, it's putting the cart before the horse.

Lin Wu said: "The price of your death is very high."

Maya was immediately heartbroken. The better the treatment she enjoyed, the more points she would be deducted.