Chapter 25: Killed in Action
"Hi." Lin Wu greeted Shitou.
Shitou: "Why are you back?"
Lin Wu: "Where is Maya?"
Shitou said: "She's sleeping."
"Oh."
Shitou was dissatisfied: "Hey, I'm the boss." You can tell yourself if you have anything.
Lin Wu said: "You need to adjust your work content."
Shitou pointed towards the backyard and said: "Maya is in the barracks."
"Tch!"
"Childish."
The four beds in the room were originally arranged for girls, but Maya refused. It was she who loved camping. A few men were too embarrassed to occupy the last bed in the room, so they all moved into the barracks. The 15% reduction in morale caused by open-air beds has a relatively large impact to a certain extent. To remove the attribute that reduces morale by 15%, the barracks must be upgraded to a luxury barracks. The luxurious barracks not only increases morale by 15%, but also adds two more beds.
Upgrading the luxury barracks requires two conditions. The first condition is that the life skill of a member of the base is Architect. At a glance, you can tell that Architect is definitely not a primary life skill. It is currently unclear what kind of upgraded version of Architect is required. rise several times. The second condition is a question mark. It seems that the second condition can only be seen after the architect appears.
Judging from the real-life architecture, the barracks is not bad. Although each unit is not large, it is equipped with screen doors to provide a certain degree of privacy. Each unit has a double-layer structure, with a bed on the upper floor and a desk on the lower floor. A small candle is provided free of charge on the upper and lower floors.
Lin Wu found the room with Maya's name written on it and knocked on the screen. If the owner is at home, the screen is closed and outsiders cannot enter. Soon the screen opened and Maya invited Lin Wu into her room. Because the space was too small, Maya went back to the bed on the second floor, while Lin Wu sat on a chair on the first floor to communicate with Maya.
Lin Wu first explained the need for intellectual support in Store No. 1. Maya expressed her understanding and would arrange for someone to escort Su Shi to unlock it during the day tomorrow. Then Lin Wu asked: "Did you hear the sound of 'gugu' when you were active near the commercial street and apartments during the day? The sound sounded a bit low, but it was very penetrating." Maya answered firmly: "No.
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Lin Wu nodded: "Okay, good night."
Maya stopped Lin Wu and said, "Did you go back to the church specifically because of this?"
Lin Wu nodded. Although your tone was questioning, my answer was straight in the affirmative.
Maya thought for a moment and said, "Cancel tonight's mission to explore Apartment No. 2."
"Okay." Lin Wu opened the screen, and a numerical value appeared in the upper left corner in front of him: reduce morale by 20%. Lin Wu opened the base interface in surprise and saw the first resident in the cemetery at the mountaintop church base: Cotton.
The base instantly became lively, and people working and resting asked each other: Is cotton dead? How did you die?
Cotton's mission tonight is to raid Apartment Building No. 1. At eight o'clock in the evening, after arriving near the commercial street with Mian Mian, Lin Wu and Mian Mian went their separate ways. Lin Wu also paid attention to the situation near Apartment Building No. 1 many times, and it was always quiet. Maya asked Cotton and Lin Wu to each carry a Molotov cocktail, and whoever needed help would light the Molotov cocktail.
In the event of an emergency, Shitou immediately held a meeting by the bonfire in the backyard, and the entire church was only a little brighter on that side of the bonfire. Base morale is system data, Shitou believes that real morale is more important. Today was a good day. The nine people were united in taking down the church on the top of the mountain, and their morale was high. Unexpectedly, a person was killed that night, and I didn’t even know the reason.
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Maya first explained her idea of dispatching the night shift. Cotton and Lin Wu both have two points of sensitivity. The difference is that Cotton is the main body and auxiliary force. Both of them have pretty good escape capabilities, so they are arranged to work at night. Finally, she did not require Mian Qian or Lin Wu to notify another person when they returned to the base. This sentence was to excuse Lin Wu. In Maya's words, there is an expression of responsibility for the deployment error, which led to the death of cotton.
Lin Wu explained the unusual noise he heard and believed that there were mutated zombies near the apartment building.
Xiaodao and other day shift workers disagreed with this. Ma Hun spent the entire day shift squatting near Apartment No. 2. Except for screaming zombies and exploding zombies, no other mutated zombies were found. Blood zombies cannot be considered mutated zombies, they can only be said to be enhanced zombies.
Lin Wu insisted on his opinion. He believed that there were unknown mutated zombies near Building 2.
Lin Wu said: "It was the first time we encountered Kuang Meng. We made preparations in advance and took the initiative to lead it to the base. In the end, we paid the price of serious injuries to two people. If this was the first time we encountered Kuang Meng by chance, I don't think anyone would survive. . I didn’t hear any violent sounds tonight. In the case of Cotton, there is almost no situation where ordinary zombies cannot escape. Therefore, I firmly believe that there is at least one mutated zombie that we have never seen near the apartment building." Lin
. Wu said: "If you want to prove whether there is or not, go and take a look. I will go alone."
Maya said: "Go during the day."
Lin Wu disagreed: "Maybe it's not an accident that you didn't find it during the day, maybe this kind of zombies It only appears at night. Su Shi, can you make a sky cannon?"
Su Shi replied: "No problem."
Maya stopped persuading. Lin Wu had the strongest ability to survive in the base. If Lin Wu was killed by zombies even though he was on guard, it meant that no one in the base was safe.
Lin Wu applied for equipment and brought a flashlight, a dagger, a cannon, a lighter, chewing gum, a short-barreled shotgun and four shotgun bullets. Before leaving, Lin Wu told Shitou that if he died, he hoped they could build a good base and he would find a way to return to the base after he was resurrected.
Shitou promised that he would definitely reserve a place for Lin Wu and let Lin Wu abide by the agreement.
The knife sent Lin Wu to the intersection of the base: "Hey, run faster."
"Yeah."
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Lin Wu sneaked all the way. When he reached the commercial street, he killed the zombies he encountered. He slowly approached and arrived at Apartment No. 1. near the building. There are 5 apartment buildings, 3 in front and 2 in back, about 50 meters apart from each other. Lin Wu stopped and crouched beside the bushes near Apartment Building No. 1. After a while, he heard a "coo" sound coming from the direction of Building No. 2, and could not determine the distance.
Lin Wu looked towards the direction where the sound came from, but did not see the mutated zombies. He waited quietly for a minute and found that the 'coo' sound that sounded every 15 seconds seemed to be approaching his position.
No, I still haven’t seen any mutated zombies. Lin Wu's palms began to sweat. He thought the sound was no more than 25 meters away from him. There were only street lights on the highway in the commercial street, and it was dark on both sides. Lin Wu could only shine a flashlight in the direction of the sound, but he never found it.
Suddenly the sound changed, from the original coo to a coo, and the frequency began to increase. Its sound was like a submarine's sonar, which kept accelerating as the destroyer approached. In less than a moment, the sound became once every three seconds. Lin Wu, who was feeling nervous at this time, never saw the mutant zombie, but his ears told him that there was something less than 15 meters away from him. His instinct told him that this thing was searching for his exact location.
(End of chapter)