Facts have proved that he is so foresight. The desk lamp does work, but the light is extremely bright and dazzling. It is not the gentle and dim orange light of an ordinary desk lamp, but as pale as the chandelier in the living room. If it is not blocked by the quilt, I'm afraid this room will be illuminated as bright as day.
He carefully lifted a bit of the quilt, revealing a very faint light, and put the card close to him. He studied it sentence by sentence repeatedly, and finally understood the meaning of it. Then he turned it over and found that there were words at the back.
[Don’t turn on the lights, the light will attract them.]
[How strange that a species that should only exist in darkness pursues the light.]
Xin Meng suddenly thought of the four bloody big characters on the snow-white wall, and suddenly her heart shuddered. What the hell kind of game is this!
Monsters are attracted to light, so the lights cannot be turned on, but if you don’t turn on the lights, you won’t be able to see the content on the card and the wall, and you won’t know that you can’t turn on the lights…
What a damn tip, this is a dead end!
Xin Meng wanted to tear up the card, but in the end she had no choice but to put it down. After all, it was the only clue.
He has seen all the prompt information on the card, but he can't tell anything based on these alone. Where is he, what is outside, and what is the mission to clear the level? He has no clue at all. It seems that he still needs to find someone else first. five teammates, looking for information from them.
but…
Xin Meng was a little hesitant. If he wanted to find someone, he had to go out. If he wanted to go out, he had to deal with the monsters outside first.
Yes, monster.
He can be sure that the thing outside is definitely not a beast, but some kind of monster, because the card says "Species that should only exist in the dark". This darkness does not simply refer to night, and even if it is, then It's impossible for animals to only exist at night. This sentence reminded him of some bad things, such as vampires and so on.
Although it is absurd, this is a horror game, so everything that happens is normal, right
In fact, there was still something not quite right, but for some reason, Xin Meng subconsciously ignored it.
But the top priority was to figure out what species the monster outside the door was. He returned to the living room, gently moved some tables and chairs at the door, exposed the peephole on the security door, and leaned over to look outside. .
This house should be an old building with a very old layout. Unlike a newly built building with only two households on the first floor, facing each other on the left and right, this building has three households. There is no elevator and only dirty corridors. Xin Meng is at the middle door. When I look out, I can see half of the stairs going down. There is also a window open in the stairwell on the lower floor. It is indeed night time. It is dark outside the glass, as if there is a strange thing with a big black mouth. The ferocious beast was about to choose someone to devour, but due to the impact just now, the sensor light in the stairwell was on, so Xin Meng's vision was still clear, but he didn't see anything.
The loud gasping and low roaring outside was clearly still there, but why was there nothing
Is it because the cat's eye range is too small? Xin Meng got closer, but unexpectedly, the light in front of her eyes suddenly dimmed, and a huge, bloody blue and white eyeball suddenly occupied the entire cat's eye, staring directly at him!
Xin Meng was so frightened that she almost fell off the table and chair!
Damn it! What the hell!
If Xin Meng hadn't subconsciously remembered not to make a sound, Xin Meng would have screamed out in fear!
Those eyeballs are really terrifying. They are not like normal people's eyes, which are covered by upper and lower eyelids. Instead, they look like a complete eyeball exposed to the outside, with all the eyelids missing. The whites of the eyes are blue-gray and covered with dark red like spider webs. Bloodshot, his pupils were gray and lifeless, just staring at him!
Xin Meng's hands began to shake again. In the quiet room, he could clearly hear his rapid and dull heartbeat, which seemed to fill his entire eardrum, and for a moment he couldn't hear anything! He almost turned around and ran back to the bedroom, never to come near it again!
But reason stopped him. Xin Meng wanted to live. Not only did he not want to be bitten to death by monsters, he also didn't want to starve to death. There was nothing to eat in this room. He must not hide for too long, no matter what was outside, He always has to face it, let alone this time through the door.
Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, there is nothing to be afraid of...
While comforting herself in her heart, Xin Meng clenched her fingers hard, mustered up her courage again, and cautiously approached the cat's eye again.
This time, he saw the "monster" completely.
A zombie.
This humanoid monster seemed to have been skinned. There is no more accurate description other than this word.
When the zombie was alive, he should have been an adult man. He was wearing a tattered suit full of blood stains. His bulging abdomen was disemboweled, and his rotten and dirty intestines and internal organs were hanging out of his body. His hair was completely gone, and a piece of his hair was exposed. A mottled green and white scalp, the skin all over the body is rotten, and there is black and yellow pus flowing out. At a glance, you can see the black bones with broken meat hanging inside. There is not even a good skin on the face, and there is no eyeball. The gums are completely exposed, and there are still many pieces of meat hanging on the teeth...
No, there is another one. Next to him, there is a female zombie!
The light in the room at that time attracted a total of two zombies. At this time, they were all blocked at the door. They were wandering aimlessly, screaming and panting irrationally. Xin Meng saw a female zombie wearing tattered pajamas. The dirty and putrid tongue was almost broken in half, and the bloody parts were hanging out of the teeth.
They can no longer be called human beings.
I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but after seeing their appearance clearly, Xin Meng's sense of smell, which had been blocked all this time, suddenly became smoother. Through the door, she seemed to be able to smell the strong and disgusting corpse odor coming from outside. , my stomach was churning, and I almost vomited it out.
But more importantly than the physical and psychological fear and disgust, the reality is really not optimistic.
The light in the stairwell is still on. Who knows how many monsters are nearby that will be attracted by this light? Even if no one else comes, these are two of them. They are blocking the door and won't leave. What should I do
Xin Meng was scared and anxious. His brain was okay, but his physical strength was really not that good. He couldn't say that he was incapable of binding a chicken, but he had never practiced martial arts or Taekwondo. He remembered the embarrassing scene where two zombies hit the security door just now. The intensity of the terror left him completely helpless.
Fortunately, after the sensor light went out this time, it did not come back on.
Xin Meng breathed a sigh of relief and stepped away a little, staring blankly at the security door, but his mind was spinning rapidly.
He couldn't deal with two zombies together. What if they were introduced one by one? Put one in first, shut the other one out, kill this one and then deal with the one outside...
No, that won't work. Not to mention that the zombie was so powerful that he had no confidence that he could shut the other one out in time. Even if he did let one in, he might not be able to survive without being bitten by it. Solve it when the situation arises.
Yes, Xin Meng has no intention of killing zombies at the risk of being injured. Who knows if there are any deadly bacteria in their dirty teeth. He will not risk himself.
What else can be done
Since it is a game, the player's physical characteristics must be taken into consideration, so there should be no way for ordinary people to survive, and there must be other ways to escape.
Don't be impatient, think carefully, think about... think about the characteristics of zombies...
Zombies are attracted to light, so once he turns on the light, it will attract the attention of zombies. What if... what if it's dawn
Xin Meng had an idea and suddenly thought, what would happen if she waited until the sun rose? Zombies like to "chase the light." It's daylight outside, but the house is dark. Will zombies be attracted outside
The idea of waiting in place is actually very unsafe. If he spends a moment longer, he will lose more energy. When the time comes, he will face a greater dilemma. However, Xin Meng did not find a better way for a while, so he could only try it first. Try it, if it doesn't work, then think of other ways.
While waiting for daybreak, he returned to the bedroom and tried to find some usable weapons. He didn't want zombies to get close, so kitchen knives were useless. He still had to find something long, similar to a long knife or a stick. The best stuff.
Needless to say, he actually found one. It was on the balcony. A stainless steel pipe was inserted in the middle of the flower pot, and the withered vines of morning glories were wrapped around it. It must have been used as a flower stand by the owner. Xin Meng rolled down the dry flower stems, pulled out the steel pipe from the basin, and wiped the soil off. The steel pipe was a little longer than his arm. He waved it in his hand and found it quite easy.
After thinking about it, I went to the kitchen again, found a boning knife, and tied it tightly to one end of the steel pipe with a rope. It was considered a homemade weapon.
Then he sat by the security door and waited quietly for dawn.
There are no intact items in the house that can display time. All the watches and alarm clocks have been smashed. The mobile phone has been broken in half. His wrist is also bare and has nothing on it. Therefore, Xin Meng cannot judge the current time and can only listen to Listening to the low roars of the zombies outside and the heavy footsteps moving back and forth, I silently counted in my heart, feeling the passage of time with uneasiness.
He had never found the night so difficult.
Finally, after an unknown amount of time, the sounds outside finally became a little different. He heard two gasps that became heavier in vain, and then became lighter again. Together with the heavy staggering footsteps, they became farther and farther away. He quickly kicked his legs and stood up. , lying down at the peephole to take a look, I was excited to find that the sun was shining through the window in the stairwell, and it was dawn!
As expected, the zombies left this dark stairwell and stumbled towards the downstairs. Their joints were stiff and inflexible, and they could not carefully walk down the stairs step by step. They missed the mark with a few feet and were almost half-rolling. They fell down, but they didn't know the pain. They fell into a ball and still managed to get up and continue walking. Xin Meng's hair stood on end.
But this also confirmed Xin Meng's initial thoughts. The zombies were indeed attracted by the sunshine outside. This was his chance to leave! He pushed aside a large pile of furniture blocking the door and once again confirmed through the peephole that there were no zombies in the stairwell. He then went back to the house to find a few pieces of clothing that were still intact and wrapped them around him to cover all exposed skin. Holding the steel pipe in his hand, he opened the security door a small crack.
A gentle breeze blew in through the windows of the stairwell, bringing with it the coolness and moisture of the early morning. It refreshed Xin Meng's energy. The fatigue and sleepiness after staying up all night were slightly relieved. He quietly opened the door and gently opened the door. He walked out quietly.
The light in the corridor is very dim except near the windows. The iron handrails are rusty and crumbling. Go down the stairs. The next floor is the first floor. Looking out from the open corridor, you can see the scenery outside. But it was completely unfamiliar. It should be in an old community, surrounded by the same dilapidated six-story residential buildings, and there shouldn't be many people living there. He saw that many houses were empty, and the windows didn't even have glass. .
This should be a good thing, at least it means that the number of zombies should not reach a dense level.
The fact was just as Xin Meng expected, there were only a few sporadic zombies on the road in the community, dragging their dirty and dilapidated bodies. Under the sunlight, their limbs were stiff, like puppets on strings, moving slowly and aimlessly. From time to time, turbid yellow pus or rotten minced meat is left on the road while walking. The stench of corpses seems to linger in the nose, making people's stomachs uncontrollably churning.
A nightmare scenario.
Xin Meng tightened her hand on the steel pipe, tried hard to control her breathing, and carefully walked out against the shadow of the building, trying not to make any noise.
This method is very effective. Zombies always hang around in sunny places, but there are relatively few shadows. He does not seek speed, only stability. In this way, he slowly moved to a place not far from the entrance of the community.
But he still couldn't move forward, because there was a large bare open space in front of the main entrance of the community, without any cover, and there were about twenty zombies wandering in the bright sunshine, and he couldn't avoid it at all!