Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 364 - 200 - Exploration

Chapter 364: Chapter 200 - Exploration

Chatting, walking, and killing, they easily reached Channel 1.

Shana stopped and said, "We’ve arrived at Channel 1. Be careful, the blueprint doesn’t show what’s above us. According to the route and distance, I think this exit is about 200 meters east of Warehouse 88."

Maya snapped her fingers and pointed forward, signaling Lin Wu to take action. He went up the ladder, lifted once, then again, using all his stamina for one last lift...

Lin Wu said, "It seems like there’s a car pressing down from above." It wasn’t completely immobile; they could barely move it 0.1 Prawn. (Prawn, a unit of length on Blue Star. It is said to have been established in honor of a certain non-famous, non-mainstream internet writer, but its origin is now unclear.)

A Maya-class player climbed the ladder and with both hands, exerted her strength in an instant burst, lifting the manhole cover just slightly before shaking her head at those below, "No good."

Double-body Snow Egg said, "Let me give it a try."

Snow Egg went up the ladder, pushed with both hands using the Overlord’s lift, depleting his entire stamina bar in an instant. With his shout, the manhole cover flew up, spun half a turn in the air, and crashed to one side.

Snow Egg looked down at everyone and said, "You’re joking, right?"

Just after Snow Egg finished speaking, they all showed a look of horror and chaos ensued, "Get down, hurry, run!" Some even pulled Snow Egg directly.

Looking up, Snow Egg saw a head staring at him and froze in shock: "Tit... Titan..."

The Titan reached a hand into the manhole and grabbed Snow Egg’s left hand, while everyone clung to Snow Egg’s body and pulled down. After a scream of agony, Snow Egg’s left hand was ripped off. Without caring for anything else, they dragged Snow Egg and ran, and after about ten meters, seeing that the Titan couldn’t enter, they finally had the chance to check Snow Egg’s injury.

Snow Egg lay on the ground while Little Knife knelt beside him, tears falling as she bandaged him: "I’ll get you back right away."

Snow Egg said, "Give me a painkiller first."

After taking the painkiller, Snow Egg let out a soft sigh and looked affectionately at Little Knife, "A laceration, it won’t stop bleeding, it’s no use. I’m gone, take good care of yourself."

"No, I have plenty of bandages," said Little Knife as she continued to wrap the bandages tearfully.

Snow Egg gently placed his hand on Little Knife’s, "Let it go."

Tears streaming down her face, Little Knife apologized, "I’m sorry, it’s my fault, I should have married you."

Snow Egg smiled, "Fool, this has nothing to do with you."

Everyone wept sorrowfully.

Wiping away her tears, Little Knife asked, "What will I do without you?"

Snow Egg replied, "Every evening, when you look up to the west, you’ll see the brightest star. You’ll know I’m also looking at that star, thinking of you."

"Can I interrupt for a second?" Lin Wu pulled out a bandage, "I have a high-level professional bandage."

Everyone turned to Lin Wu as he said, "It’s a long story."

Little Knife quickly applied the bandage on Snow Egg, who happily exclaimed, "The laceration is healing, and with some medicine for regaining blood, I’ll be able to hold on."

Overjoyed, Little Knife hugged Snow Egg, "That’s great."

Lin Wu walked away, saying, "Fools, let’s go, he’ll take good care of himself."

As they walked, Peanut sang, "When I think of you, you are that brightest star."

Lin Wu turned to Peanut and asked, "I just have one question. His hand was severed, so why did he have to lie on the ground?"

Peanut pondered and said, "That’s a good question."

The outcome was more or less a happy one. Snow Egg’s injury needed treatment, and although the professional bandage could stop the bleeding, regrowing his left hand required Emerald Feather’s help. The group had to retreat the way they came.

Back at the base’s infirmary, Snow Egg lay in a sickbed spitting blood along with Emerald Feather as the treatment for the severed limb required a staggering 12 hours.

This sparked Lin Wu’s imagination, and he suggested to Maya, "If we run out of food in the summer, can’t we just eat a leg each day?" Given Emerald Feather’s healing efficiency, assuming no rest, we could consume two legs per day, supplemented with some grain and grass soup, which should be enough for 10 people at the base. Compared to the farmer Stone, the doctor Emerald Feather could produce more food daily.

Maya couldn’t help but knock Lin Wu on the head to bring him back to his senses, then called out, "Everyone else, continue."

Lin Wu looked at Little Knife, "She’s not going, right? She needs to take care of her family."

Upon hearing this, Little Knife immediately charged at him with all her might, but she couldn’t catch up to Lin Wu. They ran around the crowd twice, and Little Knife stomped on the spot in frustration, then knocked out the grinning Peanut with a punch, "Only you can sing, only you can sing."

The exploration team was down to six members.

...

The exploration team smoothly arrived at the entrance of Channel 1, where the manhole cover had already been lifted. Lin Wu deployed a drone at the entrance and reported, "A football field, with only one side having a three-tiered open stand, likely a recreation area for workers after work. That’s right, it’s a large grassy park, with exercise equipment not far away. About 300 meters from the football field, there’s an L-shaped apartment building, 5 stories high, composed of 6 units, with an underground parking lot. There are quite a few cars parked on the right side of the road leading to the apartments."

Maya asked, "Are there any zombies nearby?"

Lin Wu replied, "The Titan is 15 meters away, no horde, the zombie density is low."

Hearing this, Maya pulled Lin Wu down to check the situation herself, then returned and whispered with Shana while drawing maps. Maya said, "The resources are in these six apartment buildings, quite a distance away, not an ideal spot for scavenging."

Shana opened the System Map provided by Nightmare and searched for a while, "The football field is to the east of our base, roughly one kilometer from the Sawmill base. This is all a residential area, and there are 20 independent villas nearby, probably homes for outside technical staff."