Chapter 42 Arrival at the Neighboring City
The sky was gloomy over the ruined city.
Even the day is forever dim.
Within two months, a large number of blood-red vines broke through the streets and concrete, winding up along the walls of the buildings. Countless powerful mutated zombies wandered the streets, roaring and chasing the survivors who dared to set foot on the streets.
But they are not the most dangerous existence in the apocalypse.
“Yo!”
Large zombie birds with rotten flesh circled around the building. They were over three meters tall, with mutated beaks shining with metallic luster, feather edges becoming sharp like blades, and thick claws like three-edged bayonets.
As they have the advantage of the sky, they don't have to chase prey as hard as ordinary zombies.
They can easily find their prey, then drop down at an unimaginable speed, piercing the prey's body with their powerful claws. Their modified beaks can easily crack the prey's hard skull, allowing them to enjoy the delicious brain.
“Yo!”
A zombie bird spotted its prey and let out a scream before launching an attack. Its speed far exceeded that of other creatures, so it did not need to deliberately hide its presence.
It came down at lightning speed, easily piercing its prey's shoulder with its claws before the prey could hide in a building.
The survivor screamed in pain, attracting zombies from all around. The zombie bird flapped its wings and flew into the sky grabbing its prey.
The relationship between the zombies is not harmonious, and there is competition and hostility among them. If you dine on the ground, you will inevitably be frequently disturbed.
They usually dine on the rooftops of buildings. When the zombie bird flew to the same level as the building, it descended toward the rooftop. But just before it landed, a foot stepped on its back.
The overwhelming force caused the big bird to fall down, smashing the concrete floor heavily. The prey was directly crushed into meat paste. The big bird was thrown half to death and was soon eaten by the zombies that surrounded it.
The figure in the sky used the reaction force of stepping on the zombie bird to land lightly on the roof.
“That should be it.”
Chiyou opened the task panel. According to the coordinates given by the legendary task, the Ice Jade Boots were nearby.
Let's start searching from this building.
Although the coordinates are given during the day, the boots are most likely no longer nearby.
But Chiyou was not sure what form the boots would take.
Whether it is in a fixed treasure chest, exploded by a powerful zombie, or in some other form.
He knew nothing now. Although Li Shouyun had collected scattered parts of ice jade in his previous life, that was two years later. By that time, the scattered parts from all over the world had already been collected by other people. There was no need to open treasure chests or fight zombies, so there was no value in borrowing.
Chiyou chopped open the locked door of the stairwell with a knife.
The door, which had not been maintained for a long time, opened inward automatically. The rusted hinges made a decaying sound, which wandered inside the stairwell. In response, the roar of zombies came from below.
Chiyou turned around and threw an energy bullet, hitting the zombie bird that was falling from the sky and trying to kill Chiyou as a prey.
Chiyou ignored the falling zombie bird and walked into the stairwell. The rusty door closed heavily.
My vision suddenly went dark, and then the dark vision took effect, and the surroundings became bright again.
In the end times, especially in the middle and late stages, everyone has supplemented their dark vision through various means, such as dark equipment, skills, consumables, etc.
At this time, people actually hate places with insufficient light more than real darkness.
If there is really no light, or it is dark enough, dark vision will take effect.
What I fear most is the dim light coming in.
It’s bright, but I can’t see clearly around me.
It's dark, but there is still some light.
Normally, it is not clear, the darkness is not yet high enough to make dark vision effective.
There was no such trouble in the fully enclosed stairwell. The shaky lights had lost their function due to the power outage, and the fire emergency lights had long been out of service, so no light came in.
Chiyou stepped into the top floor. This high-rise building was not a traditional structure with three households per two elevators or two households per one elevator. Instead, it was a residential apartment with a long corridor and a dozen small independent rooms on both sides.
There are more than 20 rooms on the first floor, which provides Chiyou with great convenience.
The coordinates were marked directly in the form of an entire building. If it was a regular residential building, a building would be divided into several units, and Chiyou would have to search every unit up and down. Originally, because he was not sure whether the boots were still there, he might have worked in vain. If he had to go up and down so many times, it would be too annoying.
Most of the doors on this floor are closed.
Not every door has a survivor; this is only the case for certain types of housing.
Most people living in single apartments are office workers.
The apocalypse happened to happen during the day on a weekday, so it was normal that there were very few survivors and zombies in the apartment.
Chiyou summoned his clone, and he was already able to simply control the clone while moving himself.
If he searches one floor and his clone searches one floor, the speed will be much faster.
Chi You kicked the door open. Now he no longer needed to use the ice jade to break open the security door, as the fragile door lock could no longer withstand his strength.
After entering the room, Chiyou searched it carefully, even the closet and the bathroom, but found nothing.
Although there is nothing to be sad or disappointed about...
“But this is too much.”
Chiyou walked out of the door and couldn't help but complain. There were six floors in a row and hundreds of rooms.
No survivors, treasure chests, or zombies were found.
I hope to meet a skilled wandering merchant sooner and exchange some perception skills for him, so that I don’t have to search everywhere when I want to find something.
With this thought in mind, Chiyou kicked open the door opposite.
I don’t know if it was because Chiyou used too much force or if the door was of poor quality, but the hinge and door lock broke together, and the entire door flew in and hit the wall directly opposite the door.
Pieces of flesh spurted out from around the door, splashing all over the wall and ceiling. The arm that was forcibly squeezed off fell into a puddle of blood.
Chiyou went into the house and searched, and found a bronze treasure chest, inside which was a level 20 bronze ring. The properties were pretty good, increasing strength by 13 points, which was 5 points higher than the level 5 silver ring equipped by Chiyou.
As the zombies' levels increase, the levels of the equipment dropped from ordinary treasure chests and cards also increase a lot.
Generally speaking, however, the level of equipment will not exceed the level of zombies, unless it is in special treasure chests or dungeons, where equipment that exceeds the current level can be found.
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