Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 188 - 131 Waste City (Five)_2

Chapter 188: Chapter 131 Waste City (Five)_2

"It’s not 20 years; it’s a lifetime," Maya said. "Even if you’re good for nothing, people will still support you. Why? Because it’s their child you’ve won over."

Lin Wu lamented, "I’ve lost big time."

Maya asked, "Did you learn to spout this nonsense after breaking up with Fire Dance?"

Lin Wu countered, "Why do you say that?"

Maya replied, "Cynical and insistent on having your own way, winning by evasion."

Lin Wu said, "No, no, no, I love life, that’s why I don’t want to hang myself on a single tree."

Maya said, "I’m not saying you don’t love life, but something that can change a person’s character must be imprinted in their heart."

Lin Wu asked, "Aren’t you tired after working all day? I’m tired, I want to sleep."

Seeing this, Maya did not say anything more. She walked to the back door, looked up at the sky through the window frame, pushed open the small door at the back, and hung a row of bullet casings there, testing their sound level as well.

Back at the resting area, Lin Wu asked, "Maya, what’s your love life like?" He had said too much himself and felt at a loss; he had to earn some interest back.

Maya glanced at Lin Wu, took some food and water out of her backpack, and said, "I almost got married six months ago."

Lin Wu perked up, "Oh? What happened?"

Maya, with a calm expression, said, "We dated for four years and had already set a wedding date. The evening before the wedding, he came to me and told me something had happened at his bachelor party the day before. He was being blackmailed, but he didn’t give in. Instead, he chose to tell me, hoping I could forgive him."

Lin Wu asked, "You mean an affair?"

"Yes."

Lin Wu nodded and asked, "Did you forgive him?"

Maya sat on her sleeping bag, seemingly brought back to that moment. After a long while, she said, "I forgave him because I couldn’t find a reason not to. But during the marriage vows, when the priest asked if he would always be faithful to me, he answered without hesitation that he would. I didn’t believe him. I interrupted the wedding, and we broke up because of that."

Maya continued, "Two days later, the police came to me. Only then did I learn that he had killed that woman and her two accomplices on the night of the failed wedding. The police told me that this was a gang that specifically targeted men at bachelor parties. Many victims, considering their upcoming weddings, chose to pay off the gang to keep the peace and never reported the crime. No one reported it this time either."

Lin Wu said, "Based on the current laws of Blue Star, your fiancé’s situation isn’t too bad." Killing someone in a blackmail situation is most often referred to as excessive self-defense on Blue Star. Self-defense laws mean that if someone is committing a criminal act against you, you have the right to retaliate with any weapon.

Maya said, "No, he admitted that he killed out of revenge for the wedding failure, not because of the blackmail."

Lin Wu expressed his regret, "He was an honest man. Ten years?"

Maya said, "Because it was his first offense, he showed a good attitude in admitting his guilt, and the people he killed were members of a criminal gang, he was ultimately sentenced to 5 years. I had no intention of dating anymore and planned to see his changes after seven years before deciding. Unexpectedly, I was selected to go to Earth."

Seeing Maya in low spirits, Lin Wu changed the subject, "Do you think Dawn is messing with me on purpose? Out of a million players, ten teams per dungeon, and I just happened to run into my ex-girlfriend, what are the odds?"

"A sky full of indignation?"

"Haha," Lin Wu laughed. "The nearer to the mist, the greater the confusion, you’ve also learned to tease."

"..." Reflecting.

Lin Wu asked, "Have you decided? Are we going to evacuate halfway to resupply, or are we going for an all-or-nothing run? If it’s the latter, I need to conserve my drone’s battery."

"Depends on the situation," Maya said as she stood up with a can in hand, scanning the surroundings. "I don’t feel safe resting here."

"Sixth sense?"

"Perhaps," Maya replied. "Zombies are divided into two types, indoor and outdoor. Based on the information we gathered during daylight, the zombies seem to be like trees planted by a green device."

Lin Wu asked, "What are you trying to say?"

Maya answered, "Don’t you think the distribution of indoor zombies is very even? Think back, can the zombie distribution be expressed in data, like one zombie per five square meters, or perhaps four? Apart from outdoor zombies, indoor zombies never appear in groups. They are rather spread out in their standing positions."

Maya continued, "Let’s talk about our current resting place. Originally, there were twelve zombies here, weren’t their standing positions also at certain intervals? And the office buildings; although the density of zombies in the buildings is high, that’s because of the number of floors in the office buildings."

Lin Wu said, "You believe that at night the zombies will redistribute themselves. The zombies left in the streets with nowhere to go will take over the vacancies. But what is the principle behind zombie respawning?"

"It’s the same as in Homeland. Zombies within a certain distance from the player do not respawn," Maya explained.

Lin Wu understood, "The zombies standing on the streets will keep filling in the vacancies during the night. As long as there are empty spots, they will continuously move towards them under the control of the green device."

Maya said, "Based on the information obtained today, the green device seems to have certain control over the zombies."

Lin Wu said, "From the perspective of a game, it’s understandable, but from reality, it’s hard to comprehend."

"No, it’s achievable in reality too. The green zombie alert behavior is to shake, maybe it releases some gas that attracts other zombies. Just like programming, the positions of the zombies are set in advance. As soon as a position becomes vacant, that spot will send out a signal, drawing in a new zombie to fill the gap. Considering that zombies are not machines, it’s most likely done through sound or smell to control them."

Lin Wu remained noncommittal, "I just hope you’re not confusing the game with reality."

Maya did not argue, "I know it’s not reality." If everything about Waste City was a fact, Dawn would surely explain to the Blue Star public, and it would have been recorded in history books. No explanation might mean Dawn lacks evidence to prove zombies are controlled by the green device, suggesting that part of the information is game fiction created by Dawn. Another possibility is that Dawn just borrowed the scenery from Waste City to create a game replica.

Just like the Dynasty Warriors game, which only uses generals’ names, relationships, and historical events. The hack-and-slash game mechanics have nothing to do with the actual Three Kingdoms.

Maya added, "Do not rule out that Dawn wants players to dig into the truth about the zombie virus. We have a mission secret 1/10, the information obtained in secret places is all real. We previously speculated that Dawn put all the information they had into the game, but Dawn wouldn’t make any inferences without evidence, hence they left the deducing to the players."

Lin Wu agreed, "That’s something Dawn would do." For instance, if a murder occurs on Blue Star, Dawn would assist detectives by organizing all the evidence, but they wouldn’t draw any conclusions from the evidence, nor would they make any inferences. Deductions and conclusions must be made by the detectives themselves.

Or take another example, if two people are running for district chief, Dawn wouldn’t tell people who to vote for. Instead, it would list all the information about both candidates, allowing people to read and choose for themselves. The information is divided into three categories: information verified by Dawn, information explained by the parties involved, and information discussed by others about the parties involved.

"We need to leave this place; if twelve zombies died here, twelve more will replenish their ranks. We should camp in a place without zombies, not occupy a campsite after killing zombies," Maya said as she took out a map, using the afterglow of the setting sun. "Two hundred meters away, there’s a Signal Transmission Tower. If I remember correctly, it’s 40 meters tall with a direct ladder up and down, and a maintenance area at the top."

Lin Wu nitpicked, "Every transmission tower has a maintenance area." Most of the material in a signal tower is just to increase height; the core parts are at the top. To install and repair these core pieces, there inevitably has to be a maintenance area.

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