I was not mentally prepared at all. When I met, I found out that my neighbor was a child!
A heavily armored child, whose sibling proportions confirm that he is not a dwarf.
He is visually estimated to be 1.4 meters tall, maybe a few centimeters taller.
His little face was dirty, and the marks looked like they were smeared deliberately.
His eyes can obviously see... He can't see colors, but he can see the movements of his eyeballs. He is probably a "night-walking ghost" like Wang Qi, and the age judgment can only be based on human experience, which may not be accurate.
Judging from the rounded arc of the face, the size of the head, and the ratio of height and length, the age is no more than eleven years old, maybe even less than ten years old. Considering the nutritional conditions of the existing environment, the error may be more than three years old.
There are three pieces of clothing, and since she is not yet grown, it is impossible to tell her gender.
The child's main weapons are a crossbow and a foot-operated crossbow. The child is more than half the height of a person and is slung behind his back. The world in front of him is definitely a first-class murder weapon. The elastic steel plate used in the crossbow arm is probably considered a legend. Level treasure.
At this moment, the child was holding another hand crossbow that was half smaller and aimed at Wang Qi's feet, as if he was planning to lift it up and pierce him at any time.
Sure enough, there is little difference between the way survivors of this world treat their own kind and how they treat wild beasts.
Wang Qi slowly inserted the steel bar back into the buckle on his back, slowly raised his hand, and did not leave the doorway. At least he could try to dodge when the opponent actually fired an arrow.
He wanted to see his neighbor before, but when he saw a child, Wang Qi didn't know what to do.
Taking advantage of the time to do the movements, he thought about it and said:
"You should eat more. You're too thin to be able to defend yourself against reptiles."
It's not loud enough to be heard from the other side, but not loud enough to penetrate the concrete.
He was speaking in his native language, so he didn't need to think that the other person wouldn't understand him. He just wanted to see the child's reaction to the language.
The child's hands tightened and his eyes unconsciously drifted to the doorway on his side.
This reaction was much better than Wang Qi's worst-case scenario, which proved that at least it was not the first time that the child heard someone talking, otherwise it would be difficult to keep the crossbow in place.
Wang Qi decided to take a little risk.
He raised his hands and moved sideways slowly, not closing the distance to the child.
Come to the place where you draw pictures on the mirror wall, bend down and pick up the dye box you left here before.
"You can't understand me. If you could speak, I probably wouldn't understand either. If you want to say something to me or need anything, just draw it here."
As he rambled, he dipped his fingers into a ball of dye and drew an insect's legs on the mirrored wall, then filled in some to make sure the black and white vision could be seen clearly.
When he was done, he faced the child and pointed at two pieces of meat and two pieces of fat on the food shelf: "These are all for you. I hope you won't point the crossbow at me next time."
As he spoke, he made a crossbow gesture...actually similar to the gesture of holding a double-barreled shotgun.
Wang Qi doesn't know anything about preschool education, let alone teaching. He only knows that human beings have very strong learning abilities. If you talk as much as possible, the other person will eventually be able to extract the meaning of a few words.
The opponent uses two crossbows, one large and one small. There are wooden arrows hanging on the hand crossbows. Regardless of whether they are equipped with melee weapons, they must have learned how to make simple crossbow arrows. Whether they are proficient or not is not a big problem. There will not be much problem with their intelligence, at least compared to Dogs are strong. Even dogs can understand some human speech, let alone humanoid creatures that can make crossbows.
After saying what needed to be said, he waited for a while, but the person on the other side still didn't say anything, so he stopped waiting and exited the material room, closing the door and bolting it.
In fact, after seeing that the other person was a child, he had considered surviving together, but now was not the time.
Take it easy.
At least today I found an intelligent being to talk to, and the anxiety of more than a month has dissipated a lot.
The child probably doesn't know what he missed today.
The original plan was that if the neighbor was friendly enough, or even a semi-friend with a certain degree of familiarity, he planned to try to see if the glowing left hand could work on others. This is why he scheduled the meeting until midnight that day.
The reason for this experiment is very good, because if you can only add attributes to yourself, the left hand glowing is a meaningless process. He wants to know what else can be done with the left hand when it shines.
After the meeting, Wang Qi went upstairs to supplement some nutrition, hoping to gain some weight.
After eating the second meal, my left hand lighted up, so I added some more.
It is still the most efficient [overall enhancement item], [muscle fiber response speed 6+2].
The response speed of muscle fibers is relatively easy to understand. Muscles are scaled by the walking motion of two muscle proteins at the molecular level. The time from the maximum length to the shortest length of the muscle depends on the speed of molecular walking. How to adjust the molecular walking speed... comes to the knowledge framework. Outside, it’s probably some metaphysical stuff at the DNA level.
In short, further enhance explosive power.
Arm yourself and go out looking for trouble with the reptiles.
It was the same direction and route as yesterday, and I brought a few taels of dried meat for emergency rations.
While walking along the original route, he did not forget to observe the marks on the snow.
A little snow that fell at some point was not enough to completely cover up the traces of his actions. If there were reptiles, other monsters, or survivors trying to follow the traces at this time, they would definitely leave their own traces.
Unfortunately, nothing was found.
Could it be that he and the neighbor kid were the only two survivors in the ruins of the city...or was [Night Walker] a monster itself, and human survivors didn't exist at all?
After arriving at yesterday's army rescue point, we did not continue to the south, but instead explored the northwest area.
This is Wang Qi's exploration habit. He first checks the road and both sides, and then explores the large and small city blocks divided by the road. In the event of an escape situation, you can ensure that you can immediately find a route for quick escape.
The damage in this area was relatively more serious. Except for a few frame buildings near the road, including shopping malls and other commercial buildings, there were a large number of buildings with six floors or less in the area. Almost half of them partially collapsed, but not all collapsed, but it was not bad.
Although most buildings can be called dangerous buildings, these semi-collapsed buildings are obviously among the most dangerous among dangerous buildings. Wang Qi is not an adventurer, at least he hasn't changed his mind yet, and he won't even get close to their walls unless necessary.
After excluding high-risk buildings, there are not many buildings left with exploration value.
Two kindergartens, two clinics, and a two-story community hospital were all the ones that had been ransacked several times.
Among them, the community hospital showed signs that it had been occupied by survivors, but unfortunately not many useful things were left behind.
I picked up a few small medical cylinders with a capacity of less than two liters. They might have been used to hold liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen. I haven't used it yet, but if I have enough tools and materials in the future and have some free time, I can try to use them to make an air rifle.
In fact, it is also good to use for food preservation, but such a good bottle is really a waste.
One night, I met two more reptiles that had not had time to return to their nest and were hiding in the corner of the building.
After more than forty-eight hours of cooling, the movement ability of these bugs was still declining, and they were almost unable to form an effective attack, so they were easily packed and put on the sled.
The number of scattered reptiles was much greater than Wang Qi expected.
It had been less than sixty hours since the snow started, and he had killed five reptiles. The maximum straight-line distance between several points was 400 meters and turned into a square. He explored at most 15% of the 0.16 square meter area. Even excluding the parts that lacked insulation and hiding conditions due to various reasons, the scope of his exploration and observation did not exceed 35%. %.
This means that if you look carefully in the area, you may be able to find about ten frozen reptiles.
Is this what reptiles do? The fat body in the body makes it easier for them to spend the winter outside?
In my wild thoughts, I noticed that something was not quite right.
Reptiles are known to scatter when exposed to a sudden drop in temperature below freezing, and gradually lose their ability to move.
It is not unusual for the temperature to drop by more than ten degrees in one day in winter. Large-scale snowfalls mostly occur under such circumstances.
When the reptiles lose their mobility, the survivors will naturally become active, searching for supplies, trading seeds, and storing food.
Each year there is a dedicated "relaxation period" that reduces the survivors' need to hunt at other times.
This means that people will not immediately lose the physical fitness required for hunting just because they do not hunt for a few days. In this way, the hunting strategy is not to go all out, but to obtain as much food as possible while protecting oneself.
The difference between the two hunting strategies is that if you hunt with your life, most of the time you will not survive for a few years after participating in the hunt; if you use a cautious strategy, you will have a relatively longer life cycle and even retain certain parenting conditions. It can be seen that the survivors are likely to have a certain scale.
Wang Qi has never found any traces of recent activities of other survivors, such as bedding and bonfires without dust.
The two situations are inconsistent with each other, and two inferences are derived.
First, the reptile was not the culprit responsible for the apocalyptic disaster. It was just a group of monsters that were not important at first and gradually adapted to the post-disaster environment and thrived in the post-disaster environment.
Second, there are other reasons that are reducing the survival rate of survivors. Maybe it is the survivors themselves, maybe it is the unknown existence that woke up Wang Qi yesterday, or it may be the [Night Walker] itself that Wang Qi represents.
What Wang Qi, a non-professional, could deduce was limited, and it might be completely wrong, but it didn't matter, he was just used to using thinking to fight against loneliness.
Although he has met his neighbors and loneliness is no longer a threat in the short term, he has no intention of changing the habits he has formed.
He is not satisfied with just living, he also needs something to pursue.
