Chapter 49 Jingyuan and the mutant at the gas station (3500)

At 1:23 in the afternoon, Jingyuan finally left the central city along the highway. There were many fewer high-rise buildings visible, and there were large gaps between buildings. The roads became empty and cars no longer hit them.

It's all over the street.

What I saw and heard along the way proved that Zhoushan City is not a developed city. There is no subway in this city, and there are very few large shopping malls. Even near the city center, there are many old houses. The old houses are just a city famous for its scenic spots.

A tourist city, nothing more.

The permanent population of Zhoushan City is not large, so the number of zombies is relatively small. This is a good thing for him. At least after riding for such a long distance, he has never encountered a road that was so crowded by zombies that it became impassable.

Calculating the time, it has been five and a half hours since I left home at eight in the morning, of which less than an hour was spent actually riding a bicycle.

Looting shops, taking detours, dealing with zombies, and eating all took a lot of time. If he were asked to walk through it all over again, he felt that he would be able to reach his current location in half an hour.

After riding for a short distance, he saw the Xiuhu Avenue gas station. This place was one-third of the node when he planned the route last night.

At this speed, if we insist on moving forward, we won't reach the southern suburbs until almost evening, so we won't be able to reserve much time for exploration.

Spending the night in a strange place without any preparation is obviously not a good choice.

He thought that he could only stop here today. He would explore around the gas station and go back around 5 o'clock. He would not waste any extra time on the road tomorrow.

Speaking of which, there is an icon of a little monster near the gas station. What is it? A group of zombies?

But today he encountered a lot of zombies in the central city, including large groups of more than 30 zombies. It seemed that these were not marked on the map.

The same thing happened when I went to Shunxiang Supermarket. The supermarket only had icons for supplies, but no information about monsters.

Is it because zombies are the same kind as him, so to him, zombies are not hostile?

So what does that monster icon represent?

He did not approach the gas station rashly. He parked his bicycle on the side of the road and prepared to take out the map and take a look.

Suddenly, a strange wind disturbed his senses.

He stepped on the ground with his feet and felt something approaching, but the vibrations from the ground were too weak, and he could only judge the general direction, which was the direction of the gas station!

He suddenly turned his head to look over, and vaguely saw a jumping black dot closing the distance at an extremely fast speed.

Jingyuan didn't know what it was, but it wasn't a slow and stupid zombie.

He did not hesitate, quickly took off the rifle, pulled the spring and took aim.

That guy is very fast and small.

Jingyuan kicked off his military boots and stepped barefoot on the ground, so that he could feel the vibrations of the ground more clearly.

He closed his eyes and concentrated on the wind, sounds and vibrations.

The mutated creature appeared in another perspective of his, extremely clear.

boom!

He caught the guy at the moment he jumped and fired, and the bullet hit him. The impact caused the guy to fall back for a while, but it didn't die on the spot, and instead ran away along the way it came.

Xiaobai was alerted by the gunfire and stuck his head out. Jingyuan pressed it into the bag, tightened the zipper, pulled out the file and spear, and walked carefully towards the place where the unknown mutant fell.

Using the tip of the gun to dig through the weeds, he saw a pool of black blood, and a trail of black blood dripped out, pointing to the gas station.

Pulling out a pistol with one hand and an eggplant knife with the other, he very cautiously came to the entrance of the gas station. A trace of blood pointed to the guy's hiding place.

On the interior wall of the gas station, he saw something different.

The human skull was thrown on the ground casually, and the Tianling Cap was bitten through, as if some creature had bitten it open in order to suck out the brain.

When Jingyuan passed through the atrium of the gas station, he finally saw the deformed monster clearly. It was about the size of a 3-year-old child. It had dense pimples on its skin. Its upper body was atrophied, but its legs were unusually developed. It had bulging goldfish eyes.

It's like it's going to explode in the next second.

That shot hit one of its legs. The powerful power of the rifle directly shot a bloody hole in its right leg. It grinned at Jingyuan and contracted one leg as if it wanted to jump, but it couldn't.

He stood up and struggled and crawled on the ground, like a lame frog.

Jingyuan felt very sick, so he pulled out his rasp gun, pointed it at its eyeball, stabbed it in the head, and killed it.

He carefully used a 1.5-meter-long file and spear to explore the corners of the gas station, but found no other monsters.

In "Snake's" senses, there was no movement of other creatures except him and Xiaobai.

He patrolled around the gas station and opened the map. The icon of the little monster rolled his eyes and stuck out his tongue.

The tense nerves relaxed a little.

This was the first time he encountered a mutant that actively attacked him. The deformed goldfish seemed to feed on the brains of zombies.

Judging from its appearance, it should have evolved only in terms of speed and bite power. Its defense is very low and it will be lame after one shot.

The gas station is its hiding place. It is not difficult to deduce its habits. It will attack its target at an extremely fast speed, then quickly bite off the prey's head and bring it to the hiding place to devour it.

In the nearby grassland, Jingyuan also found a dozen headless corpses, which proved that it was also very weak and could not even drag corpses, but it was still a very dangerous mutant.

It seemed that Jingyuan won easily, but if he had not obtained the "snake" ability, he would not have been able to see the mutant's movements clearly, let alone aim at it.

After meeting this deformed goldfish monster, Jingyuan finally understood the meaning of the monster icon on the map.

It turns out that the zombies are not classified as his enemies at all. Think about it, the zombie buddies are quite friendly to him and will never actively harass him.

The outside world is indeed full of dangers. You must stay away from these monster icons. I am afraid that they are all unique mutants and have a high probability of active attack. It is too dangerous to contact them rashly without knowing what their abilities are.

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He circled the places on the map that needed attention and slightly changed the route.

This also announced the end of today's road exploration plan. He did not plan to go further to explore the road. He checked the gas station and went back to repair it.

He didn't dare to touch the fuel tank. Even if there was remaining fuel in it, he couldn't use it now. Moreover, he didn't have a key and could only use force to open it. If sparks were caused by friction during the process and the fuel exploded, the whole crowd would burst into laughter.

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He searched every room in the gas station: business room, awning, generator equipment room, office, canteen, and toilet.

In the generator equipment room, he found the diesel generator set and four waist-high iron oil barrels. Three of the four oil barrels were filled with diesel and one was half full.

The generator set is in good condition, at least on the outside, no faults can be seen.

Unfortunately, this is not a small mobile diesel generator. This yellow-painted generator is quite heavy. It is about 3 meters long and more than 1 meter high. It is screwed together with the concrete floor with thick screws. It is impossible for him to move it alone.

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The dials and buttons on it were also very complicated. He felt that it was better not to try it rashly until he found the operation manual.

However, the generator cannot be taken away, so he can find a way to put the diesel in small tanks and transport it in batches. If he finds a small generator for civilian use in the future, he can use the electric lights. Even better, if he can get it

A game console, or a computer with stand-alone games and downloaded TV series and movies, is simply not that exciting.

He silently noted this place down and closed the door of the power generation room tightly again.

Later, he found a dry powder fire extinguisher and two brand-new fire axes in the fire cabinet. The fire extinguishers were useless, but the fire axes were good things, so he took them all with him.

When he came to the office, he saw four desktop computers and a silver-white business notebook on the table. The notebook could not be turned on, but apart from dust on the outer casing, there was no obvious wear and tear. He also put it in his bag, thinking about this.

When people go to work and fish, they must download movies and TV series on their computers to watch. When they have access to electricity, they will count on these movies and TV series to pass the time.

There is nothing much to say about the rest, which are all useless debris. However, I found a dirty crystal ball on a private desk.

It's the kind of water-filled crystal ball that sells for ten yuan a piece and is decorated with a scaled-down snow scene. Usually a snowman and a red house are the standard ones. When you shake it, the shiny snow powder will float around, which is quite nice.

Little girls generally like it.

Jingyuan felt that since Xiao Yun'er liked the Luminous Pearl, she would also like this crystal ball, so she also stuffed it into her bag.

At about 2:30, he got on his bike and headed back the same way.

The journey he took was fast. A little after three o'clock, he returned to Shili Sunshine and put down all the things he had collected. He played Frisbee with Xiaobai for a while, ate some more, and went out with the crystal ball.

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After all, I said I would go see her if I had free time today.

Organizing his thoughts and planning his route can be done after dark. He would never want to go out at night.

He is already very familiar with this area. Scientific research shows that it takes 14 days for a person to adapt to a new environment, and he has been here for almost two weeks.

It's a pity that the geographical environment here is really bad, and there are many monsters nearby, otherwise it would be a good place to make a home here.

Humming a little tune, he came to the door of Shunxiang Supermarket again.

Xiao Yun'er's figure was immediately visible. She was sitting next to the blue plastic table, seemingly unaware of Jing Yuan's arrival.

Jingyuan came to her side and saw clearly what she was doing. She was drawing on the small notebook that Jingyuan gave her yesterday. She didn't know where she found a pencil, and wrapped a vine around the tip of the pen.

Painting bit by bit, it seemed that she learned from Jing Yuan that she could still draw things.

She has drawn a lot of scraps, and this notebook with hundreds of pages has almost been used up by her.

The painting style is very delicate, and the powerful precision of the vines gives her the sketching ability of a printer.

The painting on the paper looks like it was taken by a black and white camera. In the dark paper, the night pearl seems to really emit a dreamlike light.

But this painting is not realistic enough, and even looks a bit strange, because Jingyuan’s head overlaps with the night pearl, and he is like a big Buddha that can shine, which makes this originally beautiful painting look weird.

Somewhat funny.

Jingyuan couldn't help but laugh out loud, because Xiao Yun'er was still painting very attentively, and he just sat opposite her and put the crystal ball on the table.

Suddenly a question came to mind: why were his head and the Night Pearl drawn together?

When he thought about the answer to the question, he felt inexplicably complicated.

He sighed softly and said in his heart, don't think of me as a pearl in the night. My head really doesn't shine, but I can't illuminate you when it's dark.
Chapter completed!