A gray-yellow light gradually appeared in the sky, which was the sun rising behind the thick radiant clouds. Qi Lin glanced at the mechanical watch on his wrist. It was already six o'clock in the morning.

He drove safely on the wasteland for a night, except for a radiant hyena who was less than an elite level and whose fur was rotten and ran a few kilometers after chasing the all-terrain off-road vehicle. Qi Lin basically encountered nothing that night.

This place is far away from the shelter, and it is an undiscovered "fog area" on the map. Due to the recent tense situation within humans, and the genetic drug incident has caused the organization and consortium alliance to lose a large number of evolvers, more than 90% of the area missions have been cut off, and many observation posts originally set up on the surface have been forced to be cancelled due to insufficient manpower.

The situation on the wasteland is changing rapidly. In just a few days, a certain area can become unrecognizable. There are only two ways to understand the information of these unexplored areas.

Data left over from the old era and exploration reports from the master's mind.

The former is already on the verge of scrapping, the bustling metropolises have long been turned into ruins, rivers and lakes have dried up, and the wide highways are buried by yellow sand. Among the materials left over from the old era, the only reference value is probably those dead data that will not undergo huge changes, such as longitude, terrain, altitude, etc., and those place names that have become history.

As for the latter, no team that returns to the surface dares to use this information, and they will not even consider using it as reference information - even if ninety-nine percent of this information is accurate, the remaining one is enough to be fatal.

With the main brain's IQ, cunning degree and computing ability, if you want to lay a few traps in this information, you will definitely not be able to find it without a professional team conducting more than a week of analysis. However, the data of this information is vast, and the organization cannot have enough manpower and time to analyze it one by one.

Because of this, the exploration of some non-key areas on the surface has been very slow. These tasks were originally planned to be carried out slowly after all mankind returns to the surface.

But for Qi Lin, he urgently needs information in this regard now.

If you want to go to the site of Leshan City, the route originally chosen by the Lei Falcon team and the recovery troops can no longer be taken. The main brain may have included this route in surveillance. Qi Lin must open up another new route on the wasteland.

When opening up a new route, the most worrying thing is to accidentally break into the territory of some high-level mutant creatures - it's okay to be easily discovered like the King Blood Dragon Lizard, so you can avoid it far away. But if you encounter monsters like frozen rockworms, you may only realize that you have penetrated into the other party's territory after being attacked - and, the premise is to survive the other party's attack, otherwise you won't even know how to die.

In the "Wasteland Survival Code", many players with poor strength do not even know what they were killed by when exploring unknown areas, and they are already squatting in the small dark room waiting for the countdown to resurrection.

However, with more people dead, players naturally summarized a lot of practical experiences. These experiences can be used in the virtual game world and are also applicable to the wasteland of reality.

One of the very important experiences is to use the "wasteland indigenous NPC".

In addition to humans, there is also a relatively special species living in the wasteland - the Living Dead.

Compared with humans hiding in underground shelters, these living dead people who have been living on the ground are the real "wasteland natives".

There are two types of living dead people, zombies that are no different from monsters and zombies with certain wisdom. Although the latter does not necessarily have good intentions to humans, many zombies even hate normal humans extremely, but at least they were also humans and retained the memory and thinking of being humans. Therefore, there is a possibility of communication.

If Qi Lin could find a zombie who was willing to communicate with him, it would definitely be of great help to his next action.

Qi Lin slightly slowed down the speed of the all-terrain off-road vehicle and deliberately leaned towards the hills on the northeast side.

According to the data obtained in the game, most zombie settlements located in the wild like to choose leeward places such as the foot of the mountain or the bottom of the slope.

Qi Lin was lucky. He just crossed a mountain and saw what he wanted to see - under the back slope two kilometers away, there was a row of shacks built of plastic cloth, foam boards and wooden sticks. The outer edge of the shack was a circle of low walls made of stones. One was wearing only a pair of ragged trousers, and his skin was almost completely peeled off. The zombie who couldn't tell the difference in gender was sitting in front of a shack. He was holding a piece of rusty iron in his hand and cutting a long branch. It seemed that he was making weapons like a short spear.

There are several other zombies lying lazily on the hillside basking in the sun.

Based on the number of shacks, Qi Lin judged that it was about a small-scale zombie village, with the number of zombies ranging from about twenty to fifty.

How to deal with zombies is also a science - most zombies are not friendly to living people, but there are also zombies who live in human cities and live in peace with players... In fact, apart from individuals with brain damage, the thinking mode of zombies is not very different from that of humans, and some zombies still regard themselves as humans.

These zombies in front of us can form a village, and there are some simple clothes, blankets and leather racks in the village. Qi Lin thinks that this should be a group of zombies whose "human nature" is relatively intact.

Qi Lin took a few canned braised pork in the trunk of the car, took out two more military stimulants, and slowly walked towards the zombie village.

What do zombies like? Players have also studied this question... After all, there are so many players, there will always be idle and pains. Moreover, this question is not meaningless.

Clothing, weapons, daily necessities... In addition to these practical things, there are also those who like precious metals and jewelry. In a city where Qi Lin fell, there is also a zombie NPC who runs a grocery store, who especially likes to collect books and magazines from the old era.

Zombies have various hobbies, but there are two things that all zombies will not refuse - canned food, and drugs.

Although the body of zombies can completely rely on absorbing radiation to maintain their operation, almost all zombies with conditions retain their eating habits... The feeling of chewing food reminds them of their memories when they were born, and zombies prefer canned foods with a strong mark of industrial civilization than a whole piece of barbecue.

As for drugs, it is even more difficult to understand. Zombies will not be affected by side effects, but they cannot escape drug addiction and mental dependence. The feeling of being so ecstatic is really too tempting for zombies who do not have much entertainment in their lives.
Chapter completed!