In daily life, people's bite force is usually about 30-82 pounds, that is, 13.6-37.2Kg. Because the periodontal ligament has a low pain tolerance, excessive force will cause severe pain, causing people to automatically reduce their bite force, so It is impossible for ordinary people to use enough bite force.
The size of a person's bite force is also affected by various factors such as eating habits, exercise, genetics, etc. Gu Chi remembers that there was a program that tested the bite force of humans, and the highest one reached 127 pounds, which is almost human The limit.
Considering that zombies don’t feel pain, this number needs to be higher. Based on past experiences in dreams, the zombie’s bite force should be about 170 pounds, which is equivalent to an adult pit bull.
To put it bluntly, one bite can break a person's bones.
Even if it's not big, it can crush human bones.
Gu Chi dared to stretch out his hand, so he was naturally confident.
After using Stone Skin, the arm did not turn into the color of stone, but had a smooth and moist feeling. Gu Chi, a person who has never been narcissistic, thought this hand was incredibly beautiful.
Under Lingmao's stunned gaze, Gu Chi took his hand back and ended the zombie's life with a "bang" shot.
Come to room 416.
Gu Chi didn't have a room card, so he could only politely ask for a bullet in the door lock.
The layout of the house is similar to the room they live in, but...
So clean.
Everything in the living room was unexpectedly neat, and not even a wrinkle could be seen on the light gray sofa towel.
Pushing open the master bedroom door, the sheets were neatly folded and the slippers were neatly placed under the bedside table. It didn't look like anyone had lived there.
Lingmao didn't dare to run around alone. She had been frightened by the zombies that would ambush. Now she was scared when she saw a closed door. Her eyes were darting around to observe the situation in the room, but her body was very honest and obedient. Following Gu Chi, she would enter whichever room Gu Chi entered.
After three times in and three out, the two returned to the living room.
The three rooms are all the same, with no trace of life.
Gu Chi picked up an upside-down cup. There was no moisture on the inside, and he couldn't help but look puzzled.
"Were they really in the hotel last night?"
"Should...not be here?"
Lingmao hesitated and said, she was not sure either.
Logically speaking, Chu Tiankuo and the others should not be absent from the hotel where everyone came last night, but various signs in the room showed that no one was living here. Could it be that Chu Tiankuo and the others got up early in the morning and tidied everything up? ?
Even if that were the case, where were they now?
Gu Chi stood in the middle of the living room, his eyes moving slowly, carefully looking at every corner.
In the end, there was really no clue, so Gu Chi had no choice but to extend his most sincere blessings to Chu Tiankuo and the others who disappeared out of thin air.
"I hope they're okay."
Bellcat: "Meow meow meow?"
"gone."
"oh."
…
Returning to 401, the first thing Lingmao did was take a shower and change clothes. Her pants were full of dirt and she almost fainted from the smell.
But just as she turned on the hot water and stripped herself naked, Gu Chi's voice came from outside the house.
"You'd better not take a shower."
"Ah? Why?"
"The water source may be contaminated."
"Then... I'll just rush for a moment, just for a moment, okay?"
Lingmao really wants to take a bath.
"It's up to you." Gu Chi said calmly, "When the time comes, just don't blame me for not being compassionate."
He is so fierce!
Lingmao pursed his lips.
At this moment, the girl has only one pendant left on her body. This is a prop she got in the previous copy. It can reduce the wearer's death probability. The specific reduction is not stated, and Suzumo doesn't know.
She clutched her chest and stared at the water flowing out of the shower. After struggling for a long time, she finally suppressed the urge to give it a try.
The water source may be contaminated, so bottled water is always okay, right?
In order to avoid waste, Lingmao collected the water with a bottle cap, poured it on the towel little by little, wetted the towel, and then wiped his body carefully.
in the living room.
Mustard soup was tinkering with modern pots and pans. There was an induction cooker on the coffee table, but it was obviously not plugged in. Gu Chi didn't see any wires. At this time, the soup in the pot was half boiling, with half of the bones exposed and overflowing. Rich meaty aroma.
Including water, all the things needed for cooking are included in the mustard soup, so there is no need to worry about safety issues.
Unless the mustard soup is also a bad one.
"What is the effect of this soup?" Gu Chi asked.
"Strength +3%, lasts for one hour." Mustard Soup replied.
The increase rate of primary food is generally around 3%, and perfect cooking can reach 5%-6%.
It may not seem high, but this is a very rare way for players to directly improve their basic attributes. As long as the skill level is high and the multiplier is sufficient, 3% can be the last straw for the enemy.
only……
Gu Chi glanced at his skill bar.
Strength is of no use to him.
Stoneskin is a physical skill, while Dream Control is a mental skill.
3% power can only give him a hair's worth of normal attack damage with one punch.
"Is there any spiritual food?" Gu Chi asked the mustard soup.
Mustard soup: "Yes, charcoal grilled blue mushrooms."
——"Charcoal Grilled Blue Mushroom: After eating, spirit +4%, constitution -1%, lasts for 1 hour."
Gu Chi: "Two skewers, please pack them up."
Mustard Soup: "Good!"
As a professional chef, there are basically some basic ingredients in the mustard soup dumplings, most of which are bought from the mall and are not expensive.
Jiang Niao, who was tightening screws on the side, looked over and asked, "Did Chu Tiankuo and the others leave on their own?"
"I don't know." Gu Chi briefly explained the situation of 416 and let the two of them make their own judgments.
Mustard Soup curled his lips: "I guess he doesn't want to take us with him."
Jiang Niao seems to have gotten used to it: "It's a high-difficulty dungeon. It's normal and understandable that they don't want to be held back. Thinking on the bright side, maybe they really encountered some trouble that they can't solve?"
"Wow, it smells so good!" Lingmao, who had solved his personal hygiene problem, changed into clean clothes and came out, joining the group chat #chutiankuo三人#, discussing what it was like for the other party to leave without saying hello. Intentional or intentional.
Gu Chi didn't say much during the whole process. Lingmiao felt that this man suddenly became aloof. In fact, Gu Chi was thinking, could dividing all the players into two teams like this be one of the mechanisms of this dungeon?
"I think we'd better find a way to get a car."
Regarding Chu Tiankuo and the others, Ling Mao and others didn't chat for long, and the topic quickly turned to how to better survive in the zombie apocalypse.
After all, this is the problem they are facing now, although no one knows how a good city could become like this overnight.
The most important thing is that it seems to have nothing to do with the main mission.
"Having a car will make it easier for us to collect food and explore other places later," Jiangdiao said.
"Everyone else is gone, so it shouldn't be difficult to get a car, but...do any of you know how to drive?" Mustard Soup scratched his head, "I can't anyway."
In reality, he is still a student, studying at Xingdongfang Cooking School. He signed up for the driving school, but never went to school.
Jiang Niao: "...Neither can I."
The two of them looked at Lingmao, and Lingmao looked at Gu Chi.
Gu Chi was about to speak when he was interrupted by a loudspeaker shout.
"anyone there……"
"Is anyone still alive?"
"If you can hear my voice, please answer!"
"Don't be afraid. I am a survivor of this city just like you. As long as you are willing, I can provide you with food and shelter...I can protect your safety."
"anyone there!"
The sound got closer and closer, followed by a series of gunshots.
"Da da da da da..."
The three bell cats looked at each other and quickly walked to the window to look out.
I saw an old-fashioned truck coming from the street. The speaker on the front of the truck repeatedly played the previous slogan. There was an unshaven man in the passenger seat. He leaned half of his body out of the window and held a machine gun in both hands. He opened fire on the zombies that rushed towards him and cursed:
"Go to hell, son of bitch!"
Jiangdiao: "Is this an NPC?"
Mustard Soup smacked his tongue: "It seems a bit fierce."
With one person and one gun, he can single out zombies in a street and become the leading actor in the movie.
Lingmao didn't take it seriously, thinking that you didn't see Gu Chi's shooting skills just now. If you replace the pistol with a machine gun, he will definitely be more powerful and handsome than this man.
"So do we have to answer?" Jiangdiao asked.
NPCs are not necessarily good people.
Gu Chi naturally understood this, but it was not his first consideration.
The most important thing now is intelligence.
"Put your things away," Gu Chi said.
He originally planned to leave the hotel before dark, so it wouldn't hurt to be earlier.
Lingmao had nothing to clean up, so he opened the window and waved to the man, shouting: "We are here!"
When the man heard the sound, he was stunned for a moment, then suddenly raised his head.
Looking at Gu Chi and Lingmao standing by the window, his eyes suddenly turned red, and the corners of his mouth curled up like he was crying or smiling.
The man trembled slightly and took out the grapple gun from the tool box, and shouted: "Get out of the way!"
Gu Chi immediately grabbed Lingmao's arm and pulled the girl aside.
"Whoosh!"
The hook dragged the thick rope accurately through the window and latched onto the wall.
The man fixed the other end to the truck: "Get down quickly!"
Without much hesitation, Gu Chi tore off the curtains one by one, put them on the rope, and prepared to slide them down.
"Hey, wait..." Lingmao, who was afraid of heights, looked at Gu Chi with pleading eyes, and gently grabbed the corner of his clothes with her little hands, like a pitiful and helpless kitten.
The tough guy felt soft after seeing it.
Gu Chi said expressionlessly: "Come up here yourself."
So, the girl hung on Gu Chi like a koala, and slid down the hook rope with Gu Chi.
River bird and mustard soup follow closely.
As soon as he landed, the man gave Gu Chi a big hug. His strong chest muscles were so hard that it was suffocating. Gu Chi felt as if he had been hit by a car. He couldn't help complaining in his heart. If NPC also had a numerical panel, what kind of physique would this guy have? At least above 9.
The river bird and the mustard soup were not immune to the man's passionate onslaught.
Only Lingmao, realizing that the situation was not good, escaped by hiding behind Gu Chi.
The man laughed, not embarrassed at all. He was just too excited and forgot that there are men and women.
"Have you been stuck here this whole time?"
"almost."
"I heard an explosion here before. None of you were hurt, right?"
"No, we are dealing with zombies."
"I see."
While talking, the man did not forget to kill monsters. He held a machine gun with one hand and fired. Coupled with Gu Chi's precise bursts, the zombies that rushed towards him fell in pieces. However, it seemed that these things could not be killed. This street The ones from the next street are almost cleared, and the ones from the next street are coming again.
"Get in the car, let's talk somewhere else!"
The truck only has two seats and there is no room in the front.
Besides the man, there was someone else in the driver's seat...
No, that's not right.
As they got closer, everyone saw clearly that the driver was not a human, but a golden retriever with shiny hair.
It had its paws on the steering wheel, a seatbelt on its body, and said a friendly hello to riverbirds and mustard soup.
"Woof woof!"
Jiangniao: "..."
Mustard soup: "..."
They can't drive a car, dogs can.
The four eventually sat in a manger at the back of the truck.
I thought that non-human driving would cause some bumps and bumps, and hitting a telephone pole would be normal. However, the truck was extremely stable all the way down, and it didn't even feel like it was being thrown around corners.
The excellent riding experience shocked the two Jiangniao people. They stopped chatting all day long and just listened to the country ballads floating out of the cab.
Gu Chi, on the other hand, was observing the receding buildings on both sides just like he did when he was inquiring about the news last night.
The house was still the same old house, unchanged, but he always felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't pinpoint what was wrong.
…
Half an hour later, everyone arrived at the man's residence.
This is a road house that looks to be old, with a lot of fruits and vegetables grown in the garden.
"It's a little messy, don't mind."
The man led Gu Chi and others into the house. Everything in the house fit his unshaven personal image. Fortunately, it was just messy and there was no strange smell.
The only smell was wine, and there were a few empty wine bottles lying crooked on the coffee table.
The room on the second floor is much tidier, probably because the man doesn't use it himself and rarely comes in.
"These are all vacant rooms. You can choose which one you want to live in."
The man thought that Gu Chi and others had come out of the hotel and probably had no place to stay, so he generously invited them to stay at his place.
"You don't have to worry about food and safety, I'll take care of it... By the way, do you like drinking? Haven't you tasted wine for a long time? Hahahaha, because I have looted all the wine in the city, etc. Hold on, I’ll get it for you!”
After saying that, without waiting for Gu Chi and others to reply, the man ran downstairs to get the wine, humming a little tune.
"What should I do? He's so enthusiastic..." Mustard Soup, who usually doesn't like to socialize, encountered a real social phobia and expressed his discomfort from head to toe.
"Maybe she has been alone for too long?" Lingmao was a little confused. The man made her feel as if she hadn't seen a living person for a long time, but wasn't everything normal yesterday? Twelve hours are all counted, how much longer can it be?
"When you say that, it feels like a trap to me." Jiang Niao looked around uncomfortably. Zombies have appeared, and it seems that it is not impossible for another pervert to eat people...
"Shall we come down for a drink?" the man who came back with the wine shouted from the first floor.
"Okay." Gu Chi was not afraid and went straight downstairs.
The three bell cats followed him.
The coffee table had been cleaned by the man and replaced with five brand new wine glasses.
There was also a large plate of wine-friendly potato chips.
The man who took off his coat only wore short sleeves, revealing his muscular arms.
Suspicions arose in his heart. The more Jiang Niao looked at it, the more he felt there was something wrong. He had already made up a legal drama in his mind in which he was drunk and his body was cut into pieces.
I didn’t think too much about the mustard soup, but I was a little cautious instinctively.
He actually had a good impression of this man who suddenly appeared. He was a little slovenly, but he was decent-looking, which saved them to a certain extent. Mustard Soup believed that the man was a good person, but he didn't realize how full of enthusiasm he was. It's hard to eat.
Gu Chi looked at the man pouring the wine and smiled: "We don't know your name yet."
The man slapped his head and laughed: "Look at me, I'm so excited that I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Neil West, I'm a policeman - I used to be. What about you? I think your marksmanship is pretty good. Are you a fellow policeman?" ?”
"That's right, we work for the Chenyong government." Gu Chi said.
"Then you are still one level higher than me." Neal sighed, "I didn't expect that even you would be abandoned by the Chenzong government. Those guys on top are really indifferent."
"Uncle, do you know there is a prophet in the city?" Lingmao asked.
"Don't call me uncle, I'm a little older, not much older than you." Neil said, "The prophet you are talking about is the kind of prophet who knows a lot and can do divination?"
"Yeah." Lingmao looked at Neil expectantly.
From this tone, it sounds like there's something going on!
But the fact is-
"Never heard of it," Neil said.
Lingmao: "..."
Neil snorted lightly: "There is no prophet in this world. If there really is one, why don't you come out to remind everyone to prevent the zombie virus from breaking out?"
Jiang Niao asked tentatively: "Maybe others are talking lightly?"
Neil: "Then he should have been torn apart by zombies by now."
Jiang Niao: "..." That makes sense.
Gu Chi was thinking about Neil's name: "Your surname is also West, do you know William?"
"William West?" Neil turned his head and looked at Gu Chi in surprise, "That's my father, do you know him?"
"Yeah." Gu Chi nodded, "We had a chat once before, and we had a pretty good time."
"Then you must be very fond of him." Neil said, "To be honest, my father has a bad temper. I often quarrel with him without even saying a few words. My mother divorced him because of this."
"But I don't blame him. I know that he actually loves us, but he's just not good at expressing it."
Neil's eyes revealed memories, as if he remembered some past events, but he didn't go into details and just sighed softly.
"I hope there is someone in heaven who can understand him like I do."
Heaven... It seems that William West also died in this sudden disaster.
Gu Chi said silently: "Sorry."
Neil shook his head, got rid of the bad emotions, and smiled: "It doesn't matter, it's been a year, and I have already looked away. His sacrifice is glorious, and I am proud of him."
As he spoke, Neil raised his glass, waved it toward the window, and drank it all in one gulp.
Gu Chi was stunned.
One year?
"You just said that your father has been dead for a year?"
"Yeah, time always sneaks away when we sleep." It's not polite to continue talking about this topic, but no one spoke for too long. It was hard to find someone to chat with. Neil chose to be tolerant. His father's death really made him sad. He started talking about the things he was proud of.
"A year ago, the zombie virus just broke out. The first batch of mutated people were homeless people, followed by sanitation workers..."
"Initially, their appearance had not changed and the government did not pay attention to them. They were just treated as ordinary rabies."
"It wasn't until later that all the people who were bitten showed the same symptoms and the homeless man's body began to rot, that everyone realized that this was not rabies, but a catastrophe."
"More and more people are infected, and the situation is gradually getting out of control. There are screams of terror and desperate wails everywhere."
"The first thing to suffer is the hospital. There are too many infected people there. The homeless people at the beginning were sent to various hospitals for treatment."
"And my father, William, knew that the hospital was the most dangerous place in the city, but he still chose to go in and save people."
"He said it was his duty, and even if he could save two babies, it would be good."
"As a person who supports the government, you should know that most of us police officers in local police stations get paid to get by. There are very few people who are as stupid and kind as my father."
"The ending is as you and I can see, he went in and never came out."
"Maybe he came out, but I don't recognize him anymore."
Speaking of this, Neil looked at his hands and smiled bitterly: "Or maybe I killed him with my own hands. After all, I have killed too many zombies. At first, I would count them to pass the time, but now I have stopped counting them. Too many to count.”
After listening to Neil's words, Gu Chi seemed to realize something, took out his phone, and opened the calendar, which he would never open at ordinary times.
Jiang Niao is still struggling with the story itself: "That's not right. You said the zombie virus broke out a year ago, but we yesterday -"
"Jiangniao!" Gu Chi interrupted him and looked at Neil: "What year is this year and what month is it?"
"Your phone is broken?" Neil was surprised why Gu Chi asked this, but he still replied: "November 14, 5777."
——November 14th, 5777. The calendar on the mobile phone also has this date.
But Gu Chi clearly remembered that in the background introduction, the time they arrived in Guicheng yesterday was November 13th, 5776.
It's just that the time on the phone only displays the month, day and current time by default, and does not display the year, so none of them noticed this.
Gu Chi suddenly knew why he felt something was wrong when he looked at those buildings before. It was an extremely subtle change.
Today's house is a bit older than yesterday's house.
Neil wasn't lying, this wasn't a trap.
Lingmao's feeling was right. Neil had indeed not seen a living person for a long time.
At this moment, Gu Chi also understood the meaning of the three words "Shigui City" - time here does not pass day by day. They slept for a whole year yesterday!
"Buzz!"
When this thought appeared in my mind, everything in front of me began to spin.
The ground shook violently, and the chandelier on the ceiling was shaken down to the coffee table, smashing into pieces along with the wine glass.
"what happens?!"
The three Jiangniao people were shocked.
Lingmao couldn't sit still, and it was only by holding Gu Chi's arms tightly that he didn't fall to the ground.
Outside the window, the originally bright sky dimmed with just one breath, turning into deep black.
There are no stars and no moon.
The only thing left is the old clock tower standing tall.
The two dials on the clock shimmered, and the hands moved rapidly.
"Dang!"
The bell rings.
A strong wave of tiredness came over, engulfing everyone. His eyelids were as heavy as lead, making Gu Chi unable to look at them for one more second.
His vision gradually blurred, and Gu Chi was finally unable to resist and fell into a deep sleep.
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