Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 887 - 387: The Waterway

Chapter 887: Chapter 387: The Waterway

Xiao Wu praised, "You did well this time."

Lin Wu checked the rifle magazine and asked, "Which part was done well?"

Xiao Wu replied, "Both passing the gun and removing the magazine spring were done well. But why, after a millennium, do you still use handguns?" If you don’t use handguns, why are you so familiar with them?

"You ask too many questions, just hurry up and check your firearms and ammunition. Who knows, it might turn into a bloodbath as soon as we open the door."

Xiao Wu was just curious, with no suspicion, and started checking his firearms immediately upon hearing Lin Wu’s words. It wouldn’t do to find out the safety is still on when it comes time to shoot.

Lin Wu crouched at the front, with Lin Meng and Xiao Wu leaning on the left and right behind him. The ding of the elevator doors made everyone even more tense. The doors slowly opened to an empty corridor. Stepping out of the elevator, the alarm could be heard more clearly, obviously the zombies had been lured away by it.

Lin Wu gestured, and Xiao Wu took point, advancing about ten meters to reach the subway exit. There were two gently sloping ramps leading left and right out of the subway exit, with canopies on top. Following the ramp upward, they found the subway mouth was on the edge of the commercial plaza.

"We’re screwed." The zombie density was higher than Lin Wu had anticipated, with more than one zombie per square meter across the plaza. There were also many amusement facilities in the plaza, places to feed pigeons, food galleries, little trains, etc., which also blocked the chaotic rush of people and vehicles.

Xiao Wu pointed to a building over a thousand meters away: "That’s the Galaxy Building."

The three stood at the edge of the canopy, with the rain getting heavier outside. Through the rain curtain, Lin Wu could only see a large, still-lit billboard in the middle of the building: Galaxy Hotel.

Next to the plaza was a road covered with cars, revealing just how numerous a city’s cars could be. The 1500-meter road from the plaza to the Galaxy Building was filled with cars. The gaps between cars were packed with zombies. On the other side of the road was a basketball court, with sixteen half-courts fenced in. Though the zombie density inside and outside the court was not as high as the plaza, it was also not a place they could just barge through.

Lin Wu muttered, "I’d rather have a power outage." At least he still had the advantage of night vision. Because of the plaza and the basketball court, the area was particularly brightly lit.

Driving through was not an option, sneaking by was impossible, and charging through was suicide.

Xiao Wu pointed, "See the entrance 20 meters away?"

Lin Wu responded, "The underground parking of the plaza, with driveways on both sides. If I’m not mistaken, that’s the only entrance and exit."

Xiao Wu said, "Such underground parking lots must have a large drainage channel, or else a heavy rain would flood all the cars in the parking lot. Normally, the drainage sewers would be connected to each other."

Lin Wu said, "I believe it, but I don’t believe we can make it through."

Xiao Wu said, "I have a compass."

Lin Wu countered, "A sewer is not the wilderness."

Xiao Wu insisted, "This is the only way."

Lin Wu had been down sewers more than a few times in Sawmill and Left County, the difference was with Shana’s cheating device and sewer maps. In reality, most sewers had no maps. If it were a combined drainage and sewage system, it would be a maze upon a maze. To make matters worse, it was pouring rain, the best time for drainage. The only good news was that sewers wouldn’t spawn zombies, nor would they spawn Titans.

Xiao Wu continued, "There are maintenance wells in the sewers, even if we got lost, we could find a maintenance well to climb out."

Lin Wu argued, "Aren’t maintenance wells often built under roads? Do you see all these cars? Can you even move them? I’m more worried that the sewers have become flood channels." It wasn’t interesting that manhole covers were built on the roads, but some were placed so maliciously that you had to drive over them and not the lines. Couldn’t they be installed next to the solid lines? Does the sound of clanging feel nice?

Xiao Wu stated, "It hasn’t rained for long, if we’re going into the sewers we need to move fast. We still need to find the sewer entrance."

Lin Wu looked around and decided, "Alright, let’s do it." There was no turning back at this point, at worst they die. Once this was understood, there was no risk they couldn’t take.

Lin Meng questioned, "How come nobody asked for my opinion?"

Lin Wu looked at Lin Meng.

Lin Meng flashed a toothy grin, "I have no objections." If she hadn’t offered her splendid smile in time, she would have certainly been hit, that violent tyrant.

Throughout the half-day, because there was so much to do and NPC feelings needed to be considered, Lin Meng and Lin Wu had little time to chat. She had a lot to say. To Lin Meng, she wasn’t seeking to complete the whole game; she would do her best, but wouldn’t force the outcome. She didn’t care about potential dangers.

What she cared about was whether her decisions would kill her companions, not whether their decisions would kill her.

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The zombie density in the parking lot was low and there weren’t many vehicles. Lin Wu, using his years of experience as a point man, employed Snake Skin maneuvering and assassination techniques to clear a safe zone of twenty square meters. The water running down the entrance ramp to the parking lot was blocked and followed the gutters along the wall, making it easy to find a sewer well through this detail.

This was a rectangular sewer opening, and Xiao Wu moved the cover aside. Lin Wu went down first. The situation was not ideal; the water wasn’t deep, but it was a round pipe only one meter high, not the large sewers Lin Wu was used to in the game.

Lin Meng, who had done similar estimations during her university days, explained to Lin Wu that there were many sewer openings in the parking lot, each corresponding to a pipe, and these pipes should connect to a sewer.

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