Heavy fog.
The reinforced concrete building, once a witness to the development of human science and technology, is now a dangerous building.
The walls were riddled with cracks, with dry wall-climbing plants and weeds emerging from them.
Inside the building, third floor.
Wang Qi stared at the monster that had just been knocked over a few steps away, his hands holding the 25mm rebar weapon trembling slightly.
The monster is about 1.3 meters long?
It has ten legs, including a pair of hunting legs that are similar in shape to a mantis, but its attack method is not "hugging" but cutting. There are three pairs of walking feet, and finally there is a pair of extra muscular jumping feet.
The mouthparts are between those of a locust and a praying mantis.
The photoreceptor organ has four thumb-sized lenses on its head. In addition, there are more than ten lenses with similar texture distributed throughout the body, which are only about the size of a sesame seed.
The tail is equally terrifying, with three mutant tails hanging upside down above the torso. The middle one has an expansion structure and a vocal organ that summons companions. It has been cut off immediately after being poked. The other two mutant tails have stabbing structures at the ends. I don’t know if they are poisonous, so I didn’t dare to try it.
The body structure built for killing is not the scary thing about this monster.
In Wang Qi's eyes, the most terrifying thing about it is its social nature.
Whether he is truly social is unknown, because in the past month, he has only been as far as three hundred meters away from the safe house, and has never been close to the monster's lair.
The monster that had been poked with several holes still had certain bioelectrical reflections, so Wang Qi did not approach rashly.
After confirming that it was heading for complete death and his hands no longer shaking, he turned back and exited the doorless room, checking the corridor to avoid being backstabbed by other monsters later.
Time passed little by little, and about ten minutes passed. The monster stopped moving when I poked it with rebar, so I started the next step.
Get food.
...Yes, it is so ferocious that it cannot find suitable food, so monsters must be included in the recipe.
When I was cutting the monster with a tactical knife (fake), I thought of some bad memories again, and I crooked my mouth and moved slowly.
The tactical knife was left by an unknown generation of survivors and was not a product of the industrial age. After use, it was determined that it was hand-cut and ground from some kind of construction steel.
It's not easy to use, but it's the best hunting tool he can find. At least it can saw the exoskeleton of the monster in front of him.
To avoid making too much noise, the entire decomposition process is very slow.
It took twenty minutes to make a large enough incision in the abdomen.
Next is the heavy flavor part, just put your hands in and explore!
This was not the first monster he had killed. With a little experience, he quickly touched the trophy and pulled it out with force!
A lump of pure fat that shouldn't exist in an exoskeleton creature, in strips, about a kilogram each, with another strip inside.
Two strips of fat can provide a huge amount of calories for activities in the future.
After taking them all out, use a tactical knife to cut off a piece and swallow it directly!
That’s right, swallow it alive!
People don't know how ruthless they are unless they push themselves, otherwise why would they be called the terrifying upright ape!
There are other edible parts of the monster, but in order not to be surrounded by more monsters, he can only take another one - the bouncing leg thigh.
The exoskeleton of the bouncing thigh is harder and cannot be opened for a while, so it can only be twisted off.
It was very laborious, twisting it left and right, and then it pulled out with a pop, just like pulling out a radish. Fortunately, there was an extra piece of meat.
Step on the calf and break the anti-joint.
Two thighs, two pieces of fat, with a total weight of about seven to eight kilograms. Including rebar weapons and some outdoor tools and weapons, the load is close to the limit of a small body.
gone.
Watching the surroundings, he slowly went downstairs and left the building, to the remaining snowdrift in the dark corner of the building.
Treat the fat mass and thigh fractures with snow. After cooling, the smell will not easily dissipate. Also, wipe your hands and weapons clean.
Under the heavy fog, the visibility was less than 30 meters, and it was difficult to distinguish the outline of the building from 50 meters away.
The environment is very unfriendly to Wang Qi, and it also affects the monsters. The heavy fog not only affects the monsters' vision, but also reduces the spread of the smell.
After handling the loot, run away quickly.
On the streets, there are vehicles that have been abandoned for decades, human and pet bones, garbage piles, and snowdrifts. There is no straight line to walk.
There may be a death blow at every corner, so you have to be cautious.
Today went well, no extra Voldemorts were encountered.
It took a full ten minutes to cross two hundred meters and enter the compound where the safe house was located.
There are only two buildings in the compound. The front building has eleven floors above ground and one underground floor. The back building has ten floors and no underground. It is not directly connected to the underground garage.
The south side of the front building facing the street is protected by a glass exterior wall, and the overall internal condition is much better than other dangerous buildings nearby. Moreover, the building is a frame structure, so even if some walls and floors are damaged, the overall strength of the building will not be affected.
There is no main entrance to the safe house. You must enter through the safe passage in the underground garage.
The underground garage is his "emergency dining table" with his unknown neighbors. The fungi and garbage inside support a bug that is about the size of a cat. It feels like he is a close relative of Xiaoqiang.
The super-sized Xiaoqiang is not a threat, as long as you keep moving, they will not come close. But if you stop, they will quickly come over to test and nibble.
This feature also brings an "anti-ambush" entry to the underground garage. Monsters that want to ambush here will also be bitten by Xiao Qiang.
Also, Xiaoqiang is probably a snack for the monster scouts, because there are always a lot of Xiaoqiang growing up, but there are always only a dozen adults.
It is not ruled out that he was eaten by a neighbor he had not met yet.
Go upstairs through the underground parking lot and take the fire escape, staying alert until you reach the third floor.
The road from the third floor to the fourth floor is blocked by debris, and the line needs to be changed here.
elevator.
The elevator itself cannot move and has been transformed into the only path from the safe area to the passage.
Check the lint left on the access door above the elevator to make sure it has not been opened.
Enter the elevator and manually close the outer safety door that has lost power to isolate this space from the third floor.
Pull out the small pedal at the corner of the elevator, step on it to open the access door, and hang the wires tied with the loot on the protrusion above the access door.
Put back the small pedal, take off, and grab the edge of the access door with force.
After a few flutters, he reached the top of the inspection door, picked up the loot, put it on the fourth floor, and closed the inspection door.
Next comes the laborious work.
Next to the manhole, there is a guillotine trap on the side facing the door. The guillotine was also made of construction steel by an unknown generation of survivors. It may be the same maker as the hunting knife.
Restoring this trap is laborious, but it cannot be used without it. It is an important line of defense against intrusions into your safe zone.
Not only is it used to chop outsiders, but when such a heavy steel guillotine falls on top of a hollow metal box (elevator), even if there is a cloth pad to slow it down, the huge low-frequency sound can still spread throughout the building, making it a reliable alarm.
After the metal bracket supports the guillotine, it is considered to be within a safe range.
There is also an important functional area on the fourth floor.
The first to third floors of this building are counted as one area and are almost rectangular in appearance. Judging from the remnants, it was originally used as a shopping plaza. Going up to the fourth floor, the corridor becomes a "work" shape, and debris is accumulated in the middle of the central corridor.
In human terms, there are territorial divisions above the fourth floor.
And only on the fourth floor and the top floor, the two territories are interconnected.
Wang Qi carried the loot to the debris pile and opened the door latch outside the multi-purpose hall door on the right.
The door bolt is also rebar, so handle it carefully to avoid making loud noises.
There is a practice room inside, and it is impossible to tell which purpose it is for dance, etiquette, or bodybuilding.
The mirrored wall in the practice room is not glass, but some kind of paint.
Wang Qi, who was an architect in his previous life, judged based on his superficial knowledge that the technological progress before this end of the world was a little higher. It might be a branch deviation, or it might be that the overall level was 20 to 30 years higher. The difference was not big.
The door of the practice room at the other end of the debris pile is also locked from the outside and cannot be opened.
This is a shared area for supplies with his neighbors.
Supplies are artificially divided into three parts: garbage, weapons and survival.
The garbage is not the garbage outside. The garbage that can enter here is all metals with good quality, and there is very little plastic, because most of the plastics are brittle and cannot be used for manual modification at all.
Weapons are a flattering term, but they are actually tools such as large and small crowbars, hammers, or hand-held building materials such as steel bars.
The survival section has a slightly richer variety, including ready-made clothes, bedding, soaps and soaps that I don’t know if they can be used, etc., as well as food.
If it weren't for the food in the shared area, Wang Qi would have starved to death before facing the first monster.
There is also a palm-sized piece of meat and a piece of monster fat on the dried food shelf.
Wang Qi threaded the intact pieces of fat among the trophies with wires, hung them on the food shelf, and left.
It wasn't that he was reluctant to keep the meat, but it was just that the smell of meat during the drying process was stronger than that of fat. He felt that it would be better to process it on a higher floor... He was actually not sure whether the insect brain could process olfactory information.
Bolt the door again and climb up the stairs holding the steel bars.
From the fourth floor upwards, he checked all the corridors on each floor, until he checked the door latch in front of the rooftop door. Then he returned to the eighth floor, passed through the curtain made of empty can alarm bells, and reached the safe house.
