Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 143 - 113: Vacation Home

Chapter 143: Chapter 113: Vacation Home

Maya returned to Shadow Base after one in the morning and found Lin Wu’s room screen open, a clear sign that he wasn’t in bed. Before she could start looking for him, a green dot appeared on the base map. Maya walked to the west gate and saw Lin Wu struggling to drag a screamer, its mouth sealed with tape.

"You’re really going for it?"

Maya hurried over to help, and with her strength, controlled the screamer with ease. Lin Wu took out a rope, and under Maya’s guidance, tied a knot, then secured the rope to a column on the edge of the safety zone.

Is it possible to move items to block passages? Yes and no, most items can’t. Take, for instance, a shelf, if you don’t keep moving it, the shelf will be reset to its original spot.

One type of item that can be used is furniture, such as safes, refrigerators, and wardrobes can be placed within the safety zone without being reset. But if they block the path of zombies, they will be attacked by zombies, and all items will take damage. The effect is the same as when players dismantle them, breaking down a large refrigerator into pieces.

Practical items for blocking paths are cars; cars have a feature where they turn into scrap cars when their durability drops to zero and need a repair kit to fix. Since scrap cars don’t have durability, they can’t be dismantled without specialized equipment, thus cars are good tools for blocking paths. However, they can only block regular zombies; agile types like Frenzy can squeeze through any gap. Forget about Titans; they’ll just pick up the car and smash people with it.

Can Screamers be tied up? In theory, yes, but they need to be watched. This was a discovery Maya and Lin Wu made after two hours of surveillance. When an ordinary zombie wandered near the screamer, it actually attempted to rescue the screamer, its sole purpose being to scratch through the rope.

Maya understood, "Ropes have durability. Shelves have durability; as long as shelves are in their designated spots, zombies won’t attack them. Move a shelf, and zombies will attack it. Ropes hinder zombies’ progress, or zombies instinctively destroy ropes that aren’t placed by the system."

Lin Wu said, "Our radio, warehouse, and so on are system items in system locations, so zombies won’t attack them."

Because of this, the two conducted an overnight experiment, hanging up some handmade items in the base and drawing a few zombies to the location. Sure enough, on approaching the handmade items, the zombies began to attack, but ignored the radio close at hand.

The method of bounding screamers can be used but is considered a one-time item. If players leave midway, the screamer might be rescued by its peers.

Day shift is Maya’s job; the system requires five hours of sleep a day. The only time Lin Wu and Maya can go out on missions or grind together is in the few hours at night. Because they’ve been accompanying Little Knife in tunnel grinding, they haven’t had the chance to go to the fire station in Forest Park to retrieve the pickup.

Since Titan appeared in the tunnel, they can’t grind Blood Plague for the time being. After discussing with Lin Wu, Maya contacted Stone, informing him she would take a day off tomorrow; she planned to scour the Forest Park system with Lin Wu. For this reason, Maya prepared a route map overnight; she wouldn’t do things on the fly like Lin Wu.

One real reason for taking leave: Because of the day shift, scouting the concrete factory, studying zombies, making route maps, and similar tasks meant Maya couldn’t get enough sleep.

At the supermarket base, Maya wished she could stretch a day into 48 hours.

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Firstly, they needed to get a car, and Maya decided to walk there.

Walking down the forest path, they were surrounded by towering trees. Thankfully it was daytime, so it wasn’t frightening to walk among them. The scenery was picturesque, with rays of sunshine piercing through the gaps in the leaves, creating a breathtaking view. They couldn’t help but slow down their pace.

Birdsong was incessant, and the wind rustling the leaves made a shasha sound.

Shasha sound?

"Six Wings." Lin Wu turned and saw a Six Wings swooping toward him, immediately dodging with Wind Stinger. However, Wind Stinger was not a teleport, and Lin Wu was sent flying by the impact, crashing into Maya and both of them slammed into a tree beside them. The brave Six Wings, having collided with people, did not die; it rushed towards them, flapping its wings, only to have its head chopped off by Maya with a single strike.

"Infected?" Lin Wu asked. Injuries were not scary because they could be treated with medicine and the wounds would not get worse. Infection was different; they’d need Serum, or they’d have to return and lie down.

"No."

When Lin Wu was sent flying by Six Wings, he had wrapped his arms around Maya, preventing the Six Wings from directly attacking her. Maya held the Composite Crossbow in hand, looking around cautiously, "Be careful, danger lurks everywhere." The previously peaceful and picturesque scenery could turn into a battlefield in an instant.

Lin Wu also drew the Silencer.

The two moved forward at a steady pace. Lin Wu ’shushed’ silently, and they both crouched down on the spot to listen carefully. From about a hundred meters ahead came a low growl. Lin Wu was quite familiar with this sound: "Bear."

Maya asked, "The bear that slapped you away?"

Lin Wu put one hand on his hip and looked at Maya, who was trying to suppress her laughter. "Every time you mention bears, I remember that scene."

Ignoring the tease, Lin Wu deployed a drone, "Seventy-three meters away, the target is three meters off the trail. Ten meters ahead of us, there are two Six Wings, one Frenzy, and several zombies." Why not launch the drone earlier? Isn’t it to save power?

Even without the Face-Slapping Trap, Lin Wu could still handle Frenzy, but the number of Frenzies he could deal with at the same time was greatly reduced, at most one at a time.

With the Silencer, Lin Wu first shot down a Six Wings that was hidden in the tree canopy. The Six Wings fell straight down, dead on impact, after being shot from the branches.

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