Chapter 8: Human Traces
At about 5:30 pm that day, all the team members had returned to the square and brought back a large amount of canvas, plastic cloth, wood boards, aluminum alloy nuggets and metal strips, all piled up high. After Chu Hao carefully selected them, he selected some fabrics and wood, as well as aluminum alloy nuggets, and all were put into his space fragments.
"It's almost done. Let's go to the edge of the city first, and then find a huge tree to live in. Today is too late, and it will start to make hot air balloons tomorrow. It's best to finish tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and then we will rush to New York."
After Chu Hao made the decision, he took everyone to find a few cars that could still be driven and drove directly outside the city.
The location of this city has basically been clarified. It is located in a city in Tennessee. It is still a long way from here to New York, and everyone has only thirty days, so it is really hard to delay.
After driving for less than a long time, everyone had already arrived at the edge of the city. From here, the fields outside were covered with green grass and trees. You could only vaguely see the roads on the expressway. Even the grass on both sides of the expressway was almost growing on the road. The feeling of abandonment made everyone feel even stronger.
It was about six o'clock at this moment, and the sun was about to set, and the whole sky was red. In a short while, the sky would darken. From then on, it would be extremely dangerous in this wilderness. Everyone did not know what Chu Hao had exchanged. Except for a few people, the rest of the people also began to get nervous. Oqi said directly: "Captain, are we going to rush around overnight? But those zombies, no, I think they should be called mutants. Those mutants are hunting at night, and they might encounter them on the highway!"
"Of course it's impossible to rush to the night."
Chu Hao smiled slightly and found the thickest tree. Then, after silently closing his eyes in front of this tree, he opened his eyes and started to make gestures, then recited a spell. Then, a wooden door appeared on the trunk of the tree in everyone's eyes.
Everyone saw that Chu Hao actually opened the door. Behind the door, it was not a wooden trunk, but a wooden room, and there were wooden chairs, tables, beds, etc. The floor was made of wooden, and even windows, which looked a bit like a vacation cabin in the countryside.
Chu Hao walked directly into the wooden house, and the others hesitated for a moment and followed Chu Hao into it. After walking inside, everyone realized that the room was not small, at least fifty square meters. Although there was only one room, it was not difficult to accommodate members of the entire Arctic Continent team. But in fact, the trunk of this big tree is definitely not more than ten meters in diameter, and this room is much larger than a big tree.
"After the door is closed, it looks directly from the outside, and even if the trunk is broken, it cannot enter our room. To be precise, this room should be a shrinking half-plane, and it cannot enter this space without special means or great energy breaking through the magic limit. Of course, windows and other things will not be displayed from the outside. This tree is just a tree, so we are absolutely safe here. The only pity is that the size of this room is determined by the tree, and a tree smaller than the thickness of a door cannot use this magic, and it can only last for twenty-four hours. After twenty-four hours, the tree will die."
Although Chu Hao said so, he was very satisfied with this magic. Perhaps this magic has great restrictions on the DND rules. For example, the druids in the DND rules will prevent the spread and use of this magic. They will use force, and there are also gods in the forest system to prevent it. Therefore, this magic that consumes the life of a large tree of a certain age is indeed restricted under the DND rules.
But in the real world, this magic is extremely useful. It is essential for traveling at home and killing people and setting fires. You only need a big tree to have a nearly absolutely safe residence. You don’t have to worry about dangers in the wild. It can also be regarded as a kind of magic that hides all signs. Such magic is cost-effective. If you want to achieve this with technology or creation, you have to invest at least tens of thousands of reward points to do it, but magic only requires one tree.
The rest of the team were obviously excited about such a wooden house. Not to mention safety, living in this way would really save the trouble of traveling, especially the new girl, who was even more excited to walk around the wooden house.
Another thing to mention is that since the return of reality, this new girl has obviously become much better than before, and she will talk and laugh, no longer as dead as before. At this time, she is most surprised and active in the wooden house.
Since we had a safe residence, everyone finally felt relieved and started preparing supper. Because of Chu Hao's space fragments, there was no shortage of ingredients. Although there was no chef, many people present had cooking experience and would not eat any half-cooked food. Although the taste could not be guaranteed to be delicious, at least you can eat enough, right? And you can eat very much... For example, Nian Xikong...
After dinner, everyone was chatting with each other indiscriminately. I don’t know where Zhang Heng flipped out a deck of playing cards, pulled Tom and Ochi and started fighting Landlords. However, after playing a few games, the new girl Bilis suddenly exclaimed, focusing everyone’s attention, and then he saw Bilis suddenly pointing to the distance and said, “There is a fire there!”
Everyone quickly turned over and gathered in front of the window. Sure enough, when they saw from the window, they saw that there seemed to be a fire in the extremely far away of the horizon, but it was not obvious. Looking at it at such a distance, it was just a little red dot. If it weren't for the so-called light source pollution that had long been gone in this era, otherwise, if they were placed in a normal world, even in the wild, they would not have seen such a little light.
Everyone saw the fire, and they looked at Chu Hao at the same time. Chu Hao was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No, first, the distance is too far. Even if you are Nian Xikong, it will take a long time to rush over. When you rush over, it will be a big deal if there is anyone there. And it's too dangerous. When the door is opened, creatures outside can rush in. I can't joke about your lives, so I won't agree to you to leave this room, and at most record that direction. We will search tomorrow, and people who can live from the end of the world to the present generally have ways to deal with these mutants. Maybe this fire is one of their methods. If we rush over, maybe it will hurt them. Just like that, we won't go out."
There was nothing that night. The next day, when it was bright and the sun came out, everyone left the tree house. Outside the tree house, the vehicle everyone was driving yesterday had obvious traces of being searched and pushed, and there were many footprints on the ground. It was obvious that outside the tree house, I don’t know how many mutants had arrived yesterday. Suddenly, the new girl and Tom muttered that fortunately they didn’t leave the tree house yesterday, otherwise they would definitely be hit and hit.
Chu Hao has long speculated about these mutants. First, their metabolism is extremely fast, which can be seen from the plot of the movie, which leads to their body temperature rise and they are very sensitive to cold. Second, because the metabolism is faster, their strength is extremely strong and the speed is also extremely fast, and it is likely to increase muscle strength and bone strength at the same time. Almost every mutant is nearly ten times stronger than ordinary people.
The above are two characteristics that are directly reflected in the plot. Secondly, Chu Hao guessed that their sense of smell should be sensitive, otherwise the protagonist would not spray disinfectant water every time he returned home. However, the woman in the plot did not spray disinfectant water, which immediately caused these mutants to find the room where the hero was located. This sense of smell allowed them to better prey.
That's right, the acceleration of metabolism not only brings physical improvement, but also increases their food consumption, and their lifespan should also be reduced. These mutants naturally cannot plant anything. So they can only hunt various creatures, and of course, they may also dig out plant tuber fruits. After all, they are also from human variants, so they should still be omnivorous, because they are not real zombies after all, nor those dead people.
Not to mention these, when everyone left the tree house, Chu Hao immediately ordered Nian Xikong to rush to the place where the fire was emitted last night. Nian Xikong flew with a sword and returned there in just ten minutes. The information she brought back made Chu Hao think for a while, because she found an overturned truck with large loads of food and various human supplies, such as paper, clothes, and even toothpaste. The truck with large load had already exploded and was burned in a mess. Blood was also found at the scene, but no corpse was found. In addition, according to Nian Xikong, many traces of vehicles were found there, which could leave traces, which means that at least a recent time a vehicle had been driving by.
"In other words, there should be a gathering place for humans in the nearby mountains or plateaus?"
Chu Hao murmured with a little interest, and next to him, Zhang Heng immediately asked: "You seem to be very interested? Are you planning to find a gathering place for surviving humans?"
Chu Hao suddenly laughed, and he smiled and said, "Yes, if you can find a gathering place for surviving humans by the way, then why not? Right, Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Heng, we are the last survivors of the secret laboratory of the human government that came out of the 51st area of the United States. How can we not find a gathering place for survivors?"
"We are... the redeemers of this world.
Chapter completed!