Chapter 185 Truce
The shouts of killing in the library were deafening, slowly weakened, and finally became completely silent. The mist began to move, splitting into three streams: one continued forward, one turned back, and one drifted toward the riverbed to the west. Lin Wu stood on the edge of the rope, stretched out his hand and pulled everyone to crawl across the eaves and put them on the rope. Everyone, including Xiao Wai, returned to the third floor safely. Lin Wu grabbed the rope and was about to slide down. A sinister bullet flew from the darkness and hit Lin Wu. Lin Wu let go of his hands, and all the bullets that came after him missed. Lin Wu tightened his grip on the rope and hit the ground on the first floor.
Before everyone could go downstairs to check, Lin Wu had already completed the hospitalization procedures and was lying on the hospital bed, receiving treatment from the NPC. Maya breathed a sigh of relief: "Can't you buy a gold card with so many points?"
Lin Wu shook his head: "It costs 200 for me to kill one person, and 300 for a gold card."
While Huo Wu said: "The gold card has been raised to 500 ." The big screen explained that because the sales volume of gold cards exceeded expectations, the value of the gold cards was increased to 500 points. The resurrection card still costs 200 points, which shows that not many people buy the resurrection card. You can guess at your best that those who buy gold cards in large quantities must be those bastard hunters.
In addition, the prices of assault rifles, assault rifle bullets and bombs, which are also the two most commonly used weapons by hunters, have all doubled.
Many players who went out to escape the fog returned to the library one after another, and the library became lively again, as if nothing happened just now. Maya looked at the crowd and found that many people had not taken off their protective clothing, so it was impossible to know who the hunter was. The increase in the price of gold cards is beneficial to players, which means that hunters will not die with a small number of players. As the number of players decreases, the difficulty for hunters to obtain points will skyrocket.
Maya returned to the ward, and the people from the Spark Base had left. Maya said: "We have to survive for two days." She expressed her opinion.
Peanut agreed and put forward his own suggestion: "Stay at the library supply point during the day, at least stay here tomorrow, maybe other surviving partners will find here."
Maya nodded: "The library is not safe at night, and the excavation site You will also be attacked by fog at night."
Lin Wu said: "It is better to evacuate to the subway channel of the excavation site. We have night vision devices, and the zombies and monsters inside are very weak. You can also earn some points by the way." Maya said
: "I believe that hunters will not hunt in subways and tunnels. However, countless zombies poured out of the tunnels today. What if there is also a zombie wave in the subway?"
Lin Wu thought for a long time: "It seems that there is no completely safe place."
Peanut said: "Players at the supply point in area 1 will go to the excavation point in area 6, and players at the supply point in area 4 will go to the excavation point in area 7. No one cares about areas 2 and 3." Maya took out the map and looked at it for a while:
" It only takes us half an hour to enter Area 3. To avoid the fog attack at night, we need to find a high point. Signal towers or rooftops of high-rise buildings are fine. We will set off tomorrow evening." Maya traded the night vision device to Peanut and went downstairs to start again. If you want to buy one, do it quickly to avoid the price going up later.
Maya met Starfire at the merchandise purchase area on the second floor. During the conversation between the two, Maya did not invite them to join the team. Starfire and the three of them were having some arguments about whether to go back to find Rizhao. Maya gave Starfire no advice. She believed that whether the bomb was detonated by Sunlight and killed the Hunter, or the Hunter was not waiting for him at the excavation site, he would go back to the library on his own. Judging from the current situation, only people like Lin Wu are qualified to rescue others. Others going out will only increase the risk of being killed.
It is conceivable that the resurrected hunters will definitely focus on the area from the supply point to the excavation point.
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On the morning of the third day of the dungeon, after a day and a half of massacre, the number of players had dropped to 30,000. However, half of the deaths of players have nothing to do with hunters. The causes of death include hunger, zombies, injuries outdoors, and rupture of protective clothing.
Due to the destruction of the excavation site in Area 7 and the elusive appearance of hunters, almost all players in this area gathered in the library. Many people choose to do protected brick-moving tasks to earn some points. But places with many players are hunters’ favorite places. In four hours from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., four explosions occurred outside the library, each blast taking away dozens of people.
Players lacked unified management and were unable to fight against this situation. More people huddled in the safe area of the library and never went out. This is also true. There are many snipers ambushing around the library, and players who leave the safe area are easily killed by snipers. Once night comes, hunters will sneak into the library as players and take advantage of the fog to carry out indiscriminate attacks on the people in the library.
It had to be said that Lin Wu still envied the task of the fortress agent. Not only could he earn points quickly, but he also had a sense of accomplishment by bullying the many with less.
As a supply point, the library certainly cannot accommodate ten thousand people. It doesn't matter, the library can be expanded internally to add rooms and space. But even so, the library was still very crowded.
After purchasing all the supplies and having a free dinner at six in the afternoon, Lin Wu, three people and one dog left the library through the back door. There were many players who left with them, and their purpose was to avoid trouble. During this period, someone was shot, and the stealth Lin Wu responded by hitting Nightmare. Although there was no headshot, it also made Nightmare guarding the back door afraid to show his face for the time being. Three people and one dog took the opportunity to escape. After a while, darkness enveloped the entire land, and only the lights from the library could be seen.
The fog in the distance is slowly approaching, the hunters are ready to move, and another massacre will be staged in the library.
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The foothold was a signal tower next to the factory area in District 3. This signal tower was crumbling, and it kept making creaking sounds when climbing up. Maya went first and carefully checked the overall support. She believed that the main structure was complete. Lin Wu then carried Xiao Wai and Peanut to the signal tower maintenance area.
Not long after they settled down, fog appeared in the southeast and southwest directions. The two fogs converged and spread to the surrounding area. Peanut brought up something that the two of them didn't want to mention: "They should be more evil than good."
Lin Wu objected: "Jiu people have their own fate. If they really die, I will tell them later that you cursed them to death."
Peanut. Hehe smiled and felt a little relieved: "If the players can unite together, they can resist the hunters."
Maya said: "It is easy to unite, but very difficult. The player's wish is not to die. If someone unites the players, then in When facing danger, who is at the front? For example, Nightmare is sniping people coming out of the library from a hundred meters away. Players can swarm up and force Nightmare to escape from the sniper point." Maya: "But who is at the front
? With a distance of 100 meters and obstacles on the road, Nightmare has time to kill three or five people. The situation is more like what we encountered at the excavation site. Faced with the threat of death, the people in the front row crazily squeezed towards the back. Only when they learned When they were certain to die if they didn't resist, they rushed out together."
Maya: "Don't talk about strangers, even when asking base members to die, the other party would hesitate. We often encounter similar things in society, a thief is stealing Things, no one dares to speak out. But once one person stands up, there is a high probability that others will stand up. The difficult thing is the first person. And people who can unite the players will basically not be the first to rush out." Peanut
asked : "Is there any way?"
"Heavy rewards are an effective method." Maya said: "If you are brave enough to give material rewards, it is best to ask the other party not to donate, but to have to ask for them. In this way, people will be given sufficient rewards. Conditions for acting bravely. If we tell the players that everyone rushes out and anyone who dies outside the dungeon can get an assault rifle, I believe many people will rush out without fear of death."
Of course it doesn't work in practice. Firstly, there aren't that many guns, and secondly, people don't believe it. At this time, a group with financial resources and credibility is needed to do this. This is not something that can be solved by just one person.
After eating and taking turns to watch the night, the night passed.
On the fourth day of the dungeon, three people and one dog continued to nest on the signal tower. It was not until the morning of the fifth day of the dungeon that the three of them came down from the signal tower. They planned to return to the library to check the number of surviving players before making further plans. Time waits for no one, and there are only the last three days. It is dangerous to face the hunters, but wealth can be found in danger. Without the interference of a large number of players, it is still unclear who is hunting whom.
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There are still players in the library, but the crowded scene like the market has long since disappeared. Look at the players here, either in groups of five or seven, who all act as a team and do not easily communicate with the outside world. Judging from the weapons they carried, at least half of them were equipped with automatic rifles. Lin Wu even discovered that a girl owned a reconnaissance drone exactly like his. Went forward to communicate and learned that the other party was a drone made from hacker skills.
This surprised Lin Wu. He knew that making a drone required many, many materials.
With a common language, the two groups started chatting. This group of five people came from a legion under the jurisdiction of Beicheng, 15 kilometers away from Future City. The legion has 15 official members and is divided into three bases, namely the red legion, the orange legion and the yellow legion. The three legion bases are separated in a triangle to form a large base. After going through the dungeon for several days, only 5 of the 15 people survived. They also killed 3 hunters during the firefight.
The deputy commander of the Yellow Legion is the current commander of the team. He sincerely invites Shadow Base to send people to their base to inspect and consider their proposal to establish a new legion. After listening to the other party's explanation, Maya agreed with the legion model and said that she would seriously consider the other party's proposal.
Legion mode threshold: Have certain strength. There are no specific requirements for ethics, but there are courts within the Legion. You can be a pervert, but if you do something like a pervert, it violates the laws of the Legion and you must face trial. Except for the defendant's legion and the victim's legion, the other members are jurors, who decide whether the defendant is guilty or not. Its structure is not modern law, but closer to a management system that combines modern law with tribes.
In addition, the leader of each legion takes turns to be the legion commander on duty, responsible for handling cross-legion government affairs. Currently, there are three professionals in the legion who are still further improving the legion rules. They hope to build the legion into a human home in the home game.
I learned from the legion that the hunters have become more and more arrogant in the past two days, and the original assassination with tactics has changed to killing with firepower. They not only ambush players, but also rely on advanced weapons and abundant bullets to confront players in the wild. Although there are many capable players among the players, even if they survive an attack, they have used up most of their bullets, causing their resources to quickly deplete.
Each of the five members of the legion has an assault rifle, three of which were obtained from their dead comrades. The five members only have 40 rounds of ammunition left. They are discussing how to deal with the current situation. The legion also explained that because the number of players has dropped sharply and the remaining players are average in strength, the hunters' performance is getting worse and worse.
There are currently 7,500 surviving players, and in the half hour that Shadow communicated with Legion, only 10 died. Of course, this does not completely explain the problem. It is possible that the hunters did not take action and these 10 people just died from zombie attacks.
After separating from the legion and purchasing supplies, Maya told them her plan, and the three of them left through the back door. Under Lin Wu's investigation, the three of them made a large circle and arrived at a group of buildings about a hundred meters in front of the library. I never expected to bump into a player team here first.
The two groups exchanged several shots. When Lin Wu circled back and prepared to kill, the other party asked: "Who are you?" "
Players." Maya also felt something was wrong: "Ordinary players."
"So are we, Nancheng Pistachio. "
Maya said: "Go north to town Shadow."
The other party corrected: "Go south to town Pistachio in Nancheng."
After the two parties met and chatted, they found out that there were three player teams nearby. They joined together to mix into this building complex. Their purpose It is an ambush hunter. There was a firefight yesterday afternoon. After the other party took the initiative to retreat, no trace of the hunter was found.
As Maya expected, after a few days of elimination, the remaining players not only had the ability to survive, but also began to hunt the hunters as a group. Not only has the hunting difficulty of hunters suddenly increased, but the price they pay and the harvest they gain are already disproportionate. Assuming that every time a hunter kills 10 people, he can recoup the loss of one death, then of course he has made a lot of money in the past few days. But now, it is difficult for a hunter to replace 10 players with one life.
The disadvantage of fortress hunters is skills, and the advantage of players who survive is skills. The advantage of fortress hunters is weapons and equipment, but with the deduction of skills, they may not have much advantage.
Maya declined the other party's invitation and went to the excavation site with Lin Wu and Peanut to carry out Plan B.
But Plan B quickly ran aground because there were seven player teams squatting for hunters near the excavation site. They had a gun battle with hunters two hours ago, and two of them died. An NPC hunter and a player hunter were killed by them. They also provided their findings that the player hunters were difficult to identify after wearing protective clothing, but their shoes were all uniform style leather boots. They can tell whether they are fortress hunters by their shoes, and it is also based on this that they can take the lead in this morning's battle.
With their protection, the number of players doing tasks in the excavation site began to increase, and everyone used demolition crowbars to search for parts in nearby buildings. While they work, they also serve as bait, attracting hunters to attack. The area around the excavation site has become a cat-and-mouse game.
(End of chapter)