In three consecutive days, Shen Cong met three "survivors", but they were three mutated creatures: digger, toothed wolf, and big-toothed rat. It seemed that the surviving creatures had all mutated.
Shen Cong can only explain all this by saying that the "activity" brought by the meteor shower has changed the world.
Including himself, everyone has been changed by activity.
"Is this a doomsday world or a new world?" Shen Cong couldn't help but ask.
No one answered him, so he could only slowly adapt.
The fang dagger could chop the head of a big-toothed rat open, which gave Shen Cong a lot of inspiration. He discovered that the use of activity was far more than the three functions of extension, alloying, and replacement that he had previously speculated.
Take the fang dagger as an example. When it is not injected with active guidance, it is a relatively hard jewelry, but once it is injected with activity, it immediately undergoes a qualitative change. Shen Cong tried to inject activity into it and cut off an ordinary knife.
This ability was named by Shen Cong - sharpening, the fourth ability of activity.
Shen Cong also discovered that only this pair of fangs on Yalang's body can be infused with active sharpening. It seems that this pair of fangs is the active essence part, or core, of Yalang's body.
The chelicerae of the ground-burrowing worm and the incisors of the big-toothed rat are also their active cores.
"Then where is the active core of the King Kong?"
Shen Cong meditated quietly, using his willpower to guide the activity of the King Kong, trying to find the place with the strongest activity, but he couldn't find such a place despite searching.
"What's wrong? Doesn't an inanimate body have an active core?"
Thinking of this, Shen Cong returned his willpower to himself, and he was also strengthened by activity. Logically speaking, it was also a case of mutation. If other mutated creatures have an active core, I might have one too. However, Shen Cong shook his head again ten minutes later.
He also didn't discover that he had an active core.
"Is my conclusion wrong?"
There is not enough information, so in the end we can only put aside the inference for the time being.
Because his arm needed to be recuperated, Shen Cong did not leave the Carrefour supermarket for the next few days. He welded a mousetrap with one hand, then put it on the ground-digger meat and quietly placed it in the Carrefour supermarket. Prepare to collect all the big-toothed rats in the supermarket, if there are any big-toothed rats left.
As for why the meat of ground-burrowing insects is used as bait, it is because the meat quality of the three mutated organisms, namely the toothed wolf, the big-toothed rat, and the ground-burrowing bug, ranges from high to low in activity content, and also from high to low in taste.
So Zhang Tan doesn’t eat junk food like digging insects anymore.
Perfect for seducing big-toothed rats.
However, the seduction process was not smooth. On the first day, there was no movement.
The next day there was still no movement.
On the third day, Shen Cong roasted the ground-digger meat and put it on the mousetrap, but there was still no movement. In addition, Shen Cong once again took out a batch of drinks, tobacco and alcohol, but still did not encounter the big-toothed rat. It seemed that only one of them had mutated.
But on the fourth day, there was movement in the mousetrap.
The worm meat was gone, and the mousetrap was half gone. It seemed that something had chewed through the steel bars as thick as the thumb of the mousetrap. There were obvious teeth marks and scratches at the broken places.
This discovery shocked Shen Cong into a cold sweat.
He thought that steel was the most direct barrier against monsters, but at this moment he suddenly discovered that there was some kind of creature that could bite even the steel.
The King Kong gave Shen Cong the greatest confidence because of its thick steel plate armor.
It's really terrible.
Shen Cong dropped half of the mousetrap and returned directly to the King Kong, then set off without hesitation towards the water plant.
Safety first.
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It is difficult to connect the pile of rubble with the original waterworks. There was a reservoir next to the waterworks. I dare not say that the waves were majestic, but also the smoke curled up. Now all you can see are rocks and yellow sand, no factory buildings or reservoirs.
"It's almost here. Let's dig around and see if we can find the location of the warehouse."
The mineral water I took out from Carrefour was so small that it was probably less than two barrels of bottled water in total, and a small bottle took up a lot of space.
The bulldozer worked hard to shovel away the layer of yellow sand and rocks on the surface, but it also consumed a lot of diesel fuel, which made Shen Cong feel distressed. Diesel is used less and less. If no new energy source can be found to replace it, this is a strategic resource more precious than gold.
"After replenishing water resources, we will go to the provincial capital to see if we can find a gas station. If we can keep some diesel or gasoline, the King Kong can continue to move forward. If we can't find it, we can only recharge in the sun and wander around slowly. .”
The cleanup lasted an hour and a half.
Finally found the entrance to the underground warehouse.
After clearing the entrance into a passable passage, Shen Cong did not walk in hastily. The experience at Carrefour Supermarket left a shadow on him.
So Shen Cong took out his high-tech equipment—a remote-controlled toy car equipped with a camera.
The toy car rushed into the underground warehouse in a flash, and the camera footage began to be transmitted. The warehouse was a bit large and divided into compartments. The toy car found nothing in the first compartment, only some gravel and black marks.
When I walked to the second compartment, a door was closed, blocking the remote control car from going deeper.
Shen Cong could only drive the remote control car back, and then prepare to go there himself. In order to increase his sense of security, he planned to make himself a set of armor - an active armor.
This inspiration was also inspired by the fang dagger chopping open the skull of a big-toothed rat.
Since the fang dagger can be infused with activity, it stands to reason that an active core such as the fang can be used to create a set of active armor. Due to current conditions, there are not so many active cores available, so Shen Cong thought of the King Kong, which is fully active.
With active steel plate armor, the protective power is greatly improved compared to simple steel plates.
So can the active steel plates of King Kong be used to create active armor
Although the components will soon lose their activity once they are cut off from the King Kong, the activity will not disappear for half an hour during this period. Shen Cong can use this deactivation process to create an active armor that can only be used for half an hour.
Once the half-hour deadline is up, the armor loses its activity.
You can give the armor to King Kong to use the alloy ability to assimilate, and then infuse the activity. Then when you need to use it, you can then cut off the connection and you can have half an hour of active armor time.
Genius idea!
Shen Cong couldn't help but feel proud.
When making the active armor, he had a whimsical idea. If the active core was embedded into the active armor, and using his own activity as a guide, would it be possible to increase the duration of the activity of the armor
At present, Shen Cong has fourteen fangs of a wolf, a pair of chelicerae of a digger, and a pair of incisors of a big-toothed rat.
It was enough to verify his idea.
As a folk master with incredible DIY skills, Shen Cong wanted to make a battle armor very easily, and he was as strong as an ox now, so he didn't need to worry about the weight of the battle armor and could afford it.
so.
Two days later, a rough pair of Optimus Prime 1.0 active armor, assembled from steel plates and inlaid with two fangs, was born.
It looks so ugly, even uglier than the original Iron Man suit.
But Shen Cong felt very safe wearing it on his body.
Even if you encounter that monster that can bite off steel bars and you can't defeat it, at least you have the ability to escape.
Interestingly, the activity of the battle armor seemed to have a wonderful reaction with the fangs, and the organic combination made Shen Cong feel that the flow of activity was greatly slowed down. The active armor, which is expected to be used for half an hour, can be used for at least three hours at this rate of loss.
Bang, bang, bang.
Shen Cong was wearing active armor, holding a high-imitation 6.4 pistol that had been assimilated by active agents, with two fang daggers on his waist, and a hand crossbow hanging on his back. He walked towards the warehouse armed to the teeth. .
The warehouse was empty except for Shen Cong's own footsteps.
The infrared thermal imaging camera on the left eye did not scan any objects with high thermal energy.
Shen Cong first came to the first compartment. He found black spots on the toy car before. Shen Cong was curious about what they were. When he walked in, he realized that these dark spots were left by blood. trace.
"bloodstain?"
This discovery made Shen Cong a little nervous, but Shen Cong couldn't tell whether it was the blood stains from two months ago or the blood stains after the apocalypse.
Just be more cautious.
Push open the door to the second compartment.
As soon as the door opened, a rotten smell suddenly hit my nose. I saw that the warehouse where bottled water was supposed to be stored was littered with at least a dozen human corpses, as well as the rotting corpses of several unknown monsters. wreckage.
"vomit!"
Shen Cong had never seen such a disgusting scene with his own eyes and almost retched.
After vomiting for a while and feeling much better, he accepted all this rationally and did not leave. Although dead bodies are disgusting, they are safe. Shen Cong is not afraid of corpses instinctively.
What could be more harmless than the dead... Of course, the zombie world is another matter.
"This seems to be caused by the battle between survivors and monsters. Judging from the degree of decay, it must have been at least a month. Could it have happened before the storm stopped?"
After looking at the body for a while, Shen Cong turned around and left, moving to the third compartment.
Sure enough, in the third compartment, traces of the survivors' lives, some food residues, bedding, toilets and other daily utensils were found. Because of the water and hiding in underground warehouses, these survivors were able to survive the raging storm, but unfortunately, they encountered mutant monsters.
"So, there will definitely be many survivors in big cities or military areas!" Shen Cong thought.
There are many basements in big cities. Many supermarkets are in the basement. They are rich in supplies and have some air-raid shelters and other facilities to avoid the doomsday storm. Naturally, there will be such shelters in military areas. Shen Cong survived hiding in the King Kong. It is conceivable that people hiding underground will not have difficulty surviving as long as they have enough to eat and drink.
"Survivors..."
A trace of solemnity flashed in his eyes. Shen Cong walked silently through the third compartment and came to the fourth compartment. This compartment was filled with barrels of water. Shen Cong was going to transport ten barrels back and get two more barrels. water for a bath. For nearly two months, he only wiped his body with a wet towel and never took a shower at all.
However, while taking a shower, Shen Cong was in a very complicated mood and his thoughts were confused because he didn't know how to deal with survivors.
It is impossible to wander around the world alone all your life, but you don't like to contact others before the end... In other words, there is not much difference in the weight of survivors and mutant monsters in Shen Cong's eyes. At most, there is an option to "exchange materials"... The human heart is the most unpredictable, and getting along with people is more frightening than getting along with monsters.
In novels and movies, this kind of "human cannibalism" incidents occur endlessly.
As a patient with persecution paranoia, he will always be alone against the world. Shen Cong only believes in himself!