Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 678 - 321 Stone Age_2

Chapter 678: Chapter 321 Stone Age_2

"We must cross the highway bridge; otherwise, we can only go back to North Town and take the county road to Fantasy City," Maya said. "To cross the highway bridge, the only method I can think of at the moment is a masking agent. Accept the mission, kill zombies, and collect their eyeballs."

Lin Wu asked, "Will that work?"

Maya shook her head lightly, "Not sure. Zombies, in principle, do not attack animals unless the animals attack them first."

Lin Wu said, "I can turn off Phantom’s active attack ability."

"No, the zombies are too dense. If it were just the two of us, we might have a chance to get through the crowd of corpses in a minute. On horseback, it’s very easy to run into zombies," Maya said. "A slow passage might not be possible in one minute. Moreover, after taking the masking agent, our actions are limited, making it difficult to control the horses."

Lin Wu said, "Then there’s only one way left."

"What way?"

"Kill them all." They were flanked by forests, so they could cut down trees, dig up stones, make stone knives, and stone daggers. With the base camp as their reliance, they’d clear a path, ant-style, by killing zombies one group at a time.

Maya assessed, "It will probably take two days." Chopping wood in exchange for building materials, constructing facilities, and crafting weapons all took time. They had to be very careful when dealing with such a large group of zombies, slowly whittling them down.

Using rockets to deal with Frenzy and the two Titans, then using up some ammunition reserves, two days should be about right. Maya was also resigned to the fact that Dawn had deployed such a dense and large number of zombies in such a godforsaken place.

Dawn: Should we have deployed them inside your base instead?

The biggest headache for Maya was not the Titans, but the soldier zombies. Rockets might not kill them, and when she used a knife to hack at soldier zombies, the durability of her weapons quickly dwindled. Lin Wu was in the same boat; unless they could craft daggers with sharpness traits, their stone weapons’ durability would mean a few stabs before they had to switch blades.

Aside from wooden sticks, stone weapons also needed stones, which were everywhere. They could either pick them up or craft pickaxes to mine stone ores.

The plan was not very risky, but it was tedious and time-consuming. After considering all options, Maya had no other choice but to retreat five hundred meters with Lin Wu and set up tents by the tributary river.

They chopped wood, collected stones, and made stone weapons. During this time, both needed to eat, drink tea, bathe, wash clothes, and even take a nap.

Indeed, it was Lin Wu who needed to drink tea and take a nap, and it was Maya who needed to bathe and wash clothes. However, Lin Wu had a reason for slacking off. He didn’t want Maya to wash his clothes, so he declined her invitation to go down to the river together, stating he needed to take a nap. After Maya washed and changed into spare clothes, Lin Wu would go bathe and wash his clothes.

And honestly, the Wai-branded bath brushes were really useful, with an impressive cleaning ability.

They set up camp in the morning, but it wasn’t until three in the afternoon that they began killing zombies. The reason for the delay was Lin Wu’s guess that the soldiers would return to their tents after sunset. It turned out Lin Wu was wrong; the soldiers here did not clock off.

For Lin Ma at her current level, luring a small number of zombies and eliminating them separately was not a problem. The only issue was the sheer number of zombies, which also respawned, though slowly, and not within a certain range of the player. It was purely a matter of wasting time, with no mood even for Corpse Looting.

They stopped work at eight in the evening for dinner. After five continuous hours of work, they had only eliminated eighty zombies, a low efficiency. One reason was the need to lure the zombies, and another was the stone knives and stone daggers had too low a durability, especially against soldier zombies. One stone dagger could only take down two soldier zombies, and one stone knife could only handle one. Digging stones and making weapons took up most of their time.

Early in the morning, Maya cooked dried meat and wild vegetable soup, while Lin Wu fired two rockets, taking out the last Titan. Meanwhile, Little Fight had only 7% of its power left. With a 20% power consumption per hour, how long could 7% last? Lin Wu thought for a moment, then tossed the question to Wai, packed up the twenty stone daggers made the night before, and set out with Maya, who was carrying a pile of stone knives.

Today was yet another primitive battle. Stone weapons clearly had the upper hand, and by eating away at the outskirts, they gradually thinned out the dense crowd of corpses, making their cleanup job much more manageable. Forgoing lunch and the nap, Lin Wu took on the task of chipping stones and crafting stone knives, while Maya faced the zombies alone. By five in the afternoon, they had cleared away all the zombies at the bridgehead.

Maya’s Knife Method advanced to level 4, with a beheading rate of 30% and a combo rate of 20%, due to the heavy stone knives. This was somewhat disappointing to Maya, who had hoped for combo rates of 80% to 90%. Now, reaching that goal seemed almost impossible.

Tonight was the Night of Dim Light, so they could only stay another night. Their tent camp now had four facilities: a kitchen, dormitory, workshop, and infirmary. Each time the tent was set up or taken down, it took six hours. Considering the specifics, the two did not rest after the battle, but instead collected wood for fuel.

In the wee hours of the morning, Lin Wu packed up the tents while Maya lit four campfires around the area to prevent Night Demon attacks. They took turns on night watch, resulting in poor sleep quality and insufficient rest.

The six hours required to set up and take down the tents made their base somewhat less useful, significantly disrupting their marching plans. During the Sentry Card checkpoint at the highway bridge, Maya was constantly pondering this issue. But they couldn’t just not set up the tents—how would they know if tonight was the Night of Dim Light?

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