08. Frenzy
At dawn, a dull gunshot suddenly sounded on the quiet street, and then a dull sound of something falling to the ground, and then returned to silence.
Zhou Chu walked out of the shadow on the side of the street, and the muzzle of the shotgun in his hand was still emitting blue smoke.
"It's already morning."
Squinted at the rising sun in the distance, Zhou Chu said to himself, then walked towards the place where the sun had already shone with his backpack.
This city rarely sees sunshine. At least this week, this is the first time Zhou Chu has seen such bright sunshine during the day, so he climbed up to the top of a seventeen-story building that could shine into the sun without hesitation. After sealing the only iron door, he put his backpack aside, leaned against the wall, closed his eyes, and enjoyed this rare moment.
This is the eighth day in this dream world since he talked to Mingling, and the sixteenth day he started this dream.
At least for now, Zhou Chu has become accustomed to this kind of life.
This is a large city with a large area with a population of millions. It should be a fictional city. At least Zhou Chu has never heard of Mingzhu City. According to Zhou Chu's memory and the information collected, the virus leaked on August 20, and he entered this nightmare on August 21. The virus broke out seven days later, which is the eighth day after he entered this nightmare, August 31, and now it is September 8, the eighth day after the virus broke out.
After enjoying the rare sunshine for a while, Zhou Chu stood up and looked at the skyscrapers in the distance. The cement buildings were still towering but no longer prosperous. It was just the eighth day, and everything began to show signs of desolation and decadence.
The lone hero... At this moment, Zhou Chu seemed to have such a feeling, just like Will Smith in "I Am a Legend", a city, a person, fighting against countless zombies, surviving, and living.
But it shouldn't be like this. He actually took what Ming Ling said as real, and played this nightmare as a real version of the online game. I don't know if it was a brain sucking or a joy in suffering. But if it was a game, things shouldn't be as simple as survival. There should be something else. Zhou Chu vaguely felt this way. The sound that suddenly sounded in his mind the day before yesterday can prove it.
That day, when Zhou Chu knocked down a zombie's head, a sound suddenly sounded in his mind, which scared him.
"Kill one hundred zombies and get the achievement of "first show of skills". The Dream World rewards ten points, and one weapon magazine is suitable for one, and the real world rewards one hundred dollars."
After calming down, Zhou Chu realized that this was what Ming Ling said, "consciousness" in the nightmare world, but he didn't know what the points were for, but the existence of this point made him believe that in this nightmare world, what needs to be accomplished is definitely not just survival, but there must be something else, which must be discovered by yourself, otherwise you only need to continue to kill zombies and survive, and you can get rewards continuously, which seems a bit too easy.
But then again, it is actually not that easy. Surviving endlessly can drive people crazy, not to mention that there are some terrifying existences, such as Licking Master... But Zhou Chu has been lucky these days and has not met a licker. There are a few mutated zombies, but they just move faster and have greater power.
Since you know nothing, you can only explore and search based on your own judgment.
After enjoying a rare sunshine, Zhou Chu stood up, carried his backpack, went downstairs, and continued to walk forward.
The road was a little quiet, which made Zhou Chu more cautious. After talking to Mingling that day, he gave up his plan to stay in one place and went into battle lightly, collecting information while heading towards every place where clues might appear.
This is a huge city. Zhou Chu has explored the police stations and hospitals in the nearby areas one after another, and has found nothing. He has set his sights on the research institute closest to him. This is also the goal he wanted to explore at the beginning, a small private biology institute.
In the original Resident Evil, the virus outbreak in Raccoon City was caused by William stomping the T virus test tube, which was the main reason. The lack of work capacity of the waste treatment plant only mutates some people, which is the reason why sporadic SS attacks humans began to appear in the city. The mountain viruses did not enter the city, and the victims in the mountain were basically eaten by dogs. The Western Paradise, the cultivation station and the train had been destroyed, and no virus was leaked. Perhaps there were mutated creatures in the mountainous areas, but they had little impact on the city. It can be seen from the data that the creatures in the mountainous areas only attacked climbers at the beginning, which attracted the attention of the police. The main reason in the city was that the spread of rats caused the explosion.
Therefore, if you want to find the source or the place where the virus first broke out in this city, the Biological Research Institute must go. Even if the virus does not break out through leakage, but is artificial, you will know some clues more or less. If you still don’t know, there is no way, so continue wandering around the city, searching until the day there are clues.
The institute is about two or three hours away, and the closer it is to the institute, the quieter it is nearby. This itself reveals strangeness. If the zombie group has the biological instinct to divide areas according to their abilities, then the quieter it is, the fewer zombies wandering, and the more dangerous it is.
Along the way, several zombies were knocked down, and the surrounding buildings began to change from bustling and dense to sporadic and dilapidated close to the suburbs, representing the spire of the institute and also appeared far away from one end of sight.
There was about a thousand meters away. Zhou Chu looked around, then looked around, and walked towards a convenience store. He needed to make some adjustments and rest before entering the research institute.
The convenience store was in a mess, but Zhou Chu still found the food and water they needed. After experience over the past few days, Zhou Chu found that the so-called food seems to be easier to eat in such an environment. Except for food such as compressed dry food, the others are not too safe and easy to carry. So in the past few days, he has found food that can be eaten and solved on the spot. The food carried in his backpack will only be compressed dry food and other foods that are difficult to swallow but easy to preserve.
After getting rid of a bag of uncontaminated instant noodles and bread and drinking another bottle of mineral water, Zhou Chu put his backpack in the corner of the convenience store, covered it up with other debris, and walked out of the convenience store with only a shotgun.
Now he has a shotgun, a submachine gun, and a pistol. These days, Zhou Chu rarely uses a submachine gun, but uses the shotgun found at the defense line that day. The reason for choosing this gun was not only because of its close-range lethality, but also because the shotgun had the most ammunition. But these days, even if Zhou Chu chose to detour most of the time and never conflicted with the zombie group head-on, even in a sudden encounter, the shotgun had almost used up and used up a magazine, and the submachine gun also used up a magazine, but the rewarded one appeared in his backpack for no reason, so it turned into two magazines. The pistol had 20 rounds of bullets, plus a folding knife, a multi-function tactical dagger, and a flashlight. This is all the equipment on him.
It was pitiful, but even these equipment and a backpack were too difficult for Zhou Chu to bear at first. However, after the second day and the third day of embarrassment, Zhou Chu began to get used to this burden.
But if you don’t find anything, the days ahead will be even more difficult. In addition to these, there are some places in this city that reveal strangeness, such as in the hospital and the police station, there are no guns, ammunition and medicines, as if there are no such things at all, or they are plundered.
Sighing, Zhou Chu looked at the research institute in the distance and walked over.
But the more I went to the institute, the more the strange quietness became. Zhou Chu even felt that there was no sound except his footsteps, and there was no sound of wind. It seemed that there was no living creature except himself. The main entrance of the institute had already appeared at the end of the road.
Zhou Chu stopped, stood there quietly for a while, then picked up his gun, and walked slowly towards the gate of the institute step by step.
But with every step, Zhou Chu's intuition, the feeling of danger became stronger and stronger, even so strong that he was constantly reminding him that moving forward would be a great danger.
But the surroundings were still extremely quiet, which made Zhou Chu hesitate. It was not impossible to leave, but the place where the nearby area was the most likely place to discover something was here. Zhou Chu stood in the middle of the street, hesitated for a moment, and then continued to walk forward.
But if you take this step, a sudden change occurs!
A very large licker suddenly jumped out of the building behind the gate of the institute, then raised his head and called out in the air.
Before Zhou Chu could react, An Jing was suddenly broken, and rustling sounds came everywhere. Then tides of zombies rushed out from the corner of the street, from the broken parts of the building, from the darkness and shadows, from Zhou Chu.
Zhou Chu stood alone in the middle of the street, facing the craziest group of zombies, with a large number that was even far greater than that night.
He was completely surrounded.
Chapter completed!