Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 198 - 135 Waste City (IX)_2

Chapter 198: Chapter 135 Waste City (IX)_2

Lin Wu grabbed the rope with both hands, took a deep breath, and jumped down, "Long live humanity."

He landed precisely three meters in front of the green device. Instantly, the green device began to shake, and countless zombies rushed out from the nearby buildings, heading in an unending stream toward the green device.

After waiting a few seconds, Lin Wu grabbed the rope and climbed back up, making the first zombies to arrive lunge at empty air. Some zombies kept howling, while others began to stack up like a "human" ladder under Lin Wu’s feet, attempting to build a ladder of corpses. It was Lin Wu’s first time seeing such a scene, and he was truly alarmed by the zombies howling beneath his feet.

No, he could die, but not like this. After all, it had been studied by humanity that being torn apart by wild beasts was the second most feared way to die, with being buried alive only third.

With that thought, Lin Wu immediately grabbed the rope, kicked his legs, and climbed upwards. He reached the top of the wire, abandoned the long hemp rope, and switched to a short piece of nylon rope, "Report, I have fallen."

"That’s enough."

It had to be enough, Lin Wu wasn’t a soldier. He had intended to die alone rather than all together, thinking it might leave a good impression on his ex-girlfriend and spare himself the embarrassment of meeting her again. But the howling zombies made Lin Wu lose his nerve. After all, as the old saying goes, it takes more courage to live than to die.

Lin Wu continued to slide down. Without scouting this section of the route and with many wires too close to the rooftops, Lin Wu had to avoid zombies by kicking his legs and adopting a figure-eight stance. But if you dodge the first, you might not escape the fifteenth; an extremely vicious zombie on a rooftop grabbed Lin Wu’s calf and took a bite out of it.

Lin Wu screamed in pain, kicking with his right leg. It was unclear if he couldn’t muster the strength, or if the zombie was too tenacious, but not only did he fail to shake it off, he was bitten again. Lin Wu steeled his heart and, without slowing down, slid down the wire with the zombie, both of them crashing hard against a utility pole. The zombie was dislodged, flying several 360-degree turns in the air before slapping against a wall.

Lin Wu, dazed from the collision, suffered fractures in twelve places. A miraculous painkiller brought him instant relief; his energy was restored, his waist stopped aching, and his legs no longer felt sore. He switched to another wire and slid down, but this time he had a bad feeling. His hand slipped and he landed directly on the steps of a small path, rolling down twenty meters before coming to a stop.

Lin Wu was not dead but dared not move. Every movement brought agony to all his fractured bones. After lying still for several seconds, he painfully took out a painkiller and swallowed it, then checked his condition: twenty-two fractures from his face to his feet, leaving him with only seven points of life remaining.

But what about the zombies?

Looking around, Lin Wu realized this was the starting point of a fire, and all the zombies in the area had been cleared out. Why did he fall? The ladder they had used earlier was fixed to a utility pole, and without the pole, naturally, the wire drooped.

Lin Wu sat up, took out a stack of bandages from his backpack to treat himself, and placed hemostatic bandages on every fracture. After bandaging up, he looked like a mummy, his body draped in gauze flapping in the wind, which gave him an air of a martial master making an entrance.

Maya and the others had gone to the second rally point, while Lin Wu was on his way to the first level rally point. They headed to District 11, while Lin Wu was in District 4, entirely separating the two groups.

Alas! That was the outcome of seeing his ex-girlfriend: not only did he nearly die, but he also lost a Maya. It wasn’t just a random complaint from Lin Wu; if it wasn’t for the connection with Fire Dance, Maya wouldn’t have trusted Sunlight and the others, nor would she have agreed to take on the mission to the rally point.

The surviving Lin Wu didn’t call out to Maya, although he knew she had made the right decision, but as the one being sacrificed, he felt somewhat disgruntled inside. To complete the mission at any cost, Lin Wu was that cost.

Lying on the street waiting for his injuries to heal, Lin Wu idly rolled one way, then back again, with the whole world eerily quiet. Everyone was gone to District 11 while he was still stuck in District 4. What to do next?

Lin Wu studied the map for a long time and discovered he could take the highway to the city hall of District 12, which was the third rally point. He couldn’t enter buildings by himself and could only travel on the broad streets. Biting his finger, Lin Wu used his own blood to draw a route on the map. According to the map scale and his calculations, the distance was 45 kilometers.

kilometers to traverse a city? Could the decimal point have been mistaken? The city is divided into 12 districts arranged in three rows, from left to right: 1, 2, 3, 4; 5, 6, 7, 8; 9, 10, 11, 12. Lin Wu needed to move from the last district of the first row to District 1, then from District 1 to District 5, District 5 to District 9, District 9 to District 10, District 10 to District 6, District 6 to District 7, District 7 to District 11, and finally reaching District 12.

Looking at the route, it can’t be said that he’s worn out Waste City, but he has certainly traversed Waste City entirely.

Lin Wu didn’t hold much hope for the mission, but he couldn’t bear to retreat. Now that he was here and not dead, he needed a goal. Lin Wu set out on his journey after his injuries had fully healed. Currently, the worst news was that he only had three hemostatic bandages left. There were still 30 hemostatic bandages.

After leaving the slums and entering District 11, Maya called for Lin Wu several times, but to no avail. Seeing that Lin Wu’s name was still in the team information, she asked Sunlight. Sunlight wasn’t sure if team members would leave the team upon death because he never lost a teammate. However, everyone believed Lin Wu was already dead. At this moment, Maya felt that she hadn’t handled the situation appropriately.

That’s what she thought, but Maya wouldn’t say it out loud. Seeing Maya unsuccessfully call for Lin Wu with an impassive face, Sunlight gave her a thumbs up; this sister was even tougher than him. Starlight kicked Sunlight and then walked alongside Maya, chatting with her.

Their car ran out of gas after entering District 11. Anyone who tried to take advantage of Dawn wouldn’t succeed. Even if you pushed the car by hand, Dawn could create a bolt of lightning to strike it.

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The wind whirled up the dust, and a lone figure wrapped in bandages walked on the desolate street, with buildings on both sides like the eyes of abyssal demons quietly watching him. Accompanied by a few gunshots, the zombies on the street fell, and the figure continued towards the sunset. The figure soon slowed down, looking towards a building on the left.

Appearing to be a clothing shop, a scientist was crouching by the wall, trembling with his head in his hands.

Lin Wu: "Fuck, how could there be a scientist here?"

He opened the map, searched for landmarks, confirmed the location, and identified a retreat point, Lin Wu then called out to the scientist who then followed him.

About 20 minutes later, Falcon reached the retreat point, and Lin Wu helped the scientist onto the helicopter. Seeing the scientist’s clumsy movements, he kicked him into the helicopter and then ran off, followed by zombies attracted by the noise of the helicopter.

Running, you’re no match for me.

Lin Wu hauled ass back the way he came. The zombies on the street had already been cleared, so it was just a contest of speed now. Running forward could mean crashing into an encirclement.

Soon Lin Wu had shaken off the zombies and resumed his journey. As for the soldier assigned to protect the scientist, Lin Wu could only apologize. As night approached, Lin Wu found a ’7’-shaped streetlamp, climbed up, and hung his sleeping bag at the top of the ’7,’ then laid himself down in it. With the sky as his blanket, Lin Wu quickly fell asleep.

He didn’t know how long he’d been asleep when a series of faint gunshots woke him. Lin Wu peeked out from his hammock to see a man and a woman on the open square using handguns as they retreated, alternating shots. Their enemies were more than a dozen zombies. Lin Wu saw through their intention at a glance; they wanted to use the width of the square to circle around, attempting to eliminate the zombies pursuing them with a kite-flying method.

However, they underestimated the zombies’ charge and overestimated their own gun skills, stumbling and getting wounded multiple times, escaping death narrowly each time. Seeing their strong will to survive, Lin Wu sat up and took aim, helping them out once. With Maya’s training and the closer range, Lin Wu’s aim improved dramatically; the first four shots all blew the zombies’ heads off.

At this point, the male player dragged the female player who had fallen to the ground and ran back. Even knowing they couldn’t escape, they didn’t give up. Then they saw one zombie after another’s heads burst open and fall to the ground. There were no more gunshots, no shouts. As the zombies kept falling, they realized someone was helping them, instantly boosting their morale to start fighting back. With the cooperation of the three, the group of zombies was quickly eliminated.

Seeing the two players bandaging and treating wounds on the spot, Lin Wu put away his gun and lay back down to continue sleeping.

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