Zombie Town (2) Monsters in the Dark
As it turns out, he has been too prescient. The lamp can be used, but the light is extremely bright and blinding. It"s not the gentle and dim orange light of an ordinary table lamp, but like the paleness of the chandelier"s light in the living room. If it"s not covered by the quilt, this room would be fully illuminated.
He carefully peeked under the quilt, revealing the white light, observed it, and then finally understood the meaning from before. Then he turned it over and saw something written on it.
【Do not turn the lights on, the brightness will attract them.】
【How strange, the species that only exist in the darkness, but pursue the light.】
Xin Meng instantly remembered the b.l.o.o.d.y characters on the snow white wall, shuddering, what the h.e.l.l is this game!
The monsters will be attracted by the light, so you can"t turn the lights on, then you can"t see the contents written in the card and wall and won"t know that you can"t turn the lights…
What a d.a.m.n hint, this is a dead end!
Xin Meng can"t wait to tear the card apart, but in the end, he can only helpless put it down, after all, this is the only clue he has.
He has already seen all the information on the card, but he can"t do anything with it. Where he is, what is outside, what is the clearance task, there"s no clue at all, it seems that he needs to find the other five teammates and look around for information together.
But…
Xin Meng is hesitant, looking for someone means you have to go out, going out means fighting the monster outside.
Yes, monster.
He can be sure that the thing outside is not a wild animal. It should be a monsters. Because he just read [the species that only exist in the darkness], it doesn"t mean they are only awake during the night, and it"s impossible for an animal to exist only in the evening. This sentence reminds him of evil creatures, such as vampires.
Although absurd, this is a horror game, what can"t be considered normal?
In fact, there are some thing that are not quite quite, but Xin Meng subconsciously ignores it.
However, it is important to first understand what kind of monsters are outside. The returns to the living room and quietly removes a few chairs and tables that block the door, revealing the door viewer.
This apartment should be an old building. Unlike the newly built apartments, there are only two households on the floor, that is, a door on the left and one in the right. There are three apartments in this floor. There are no elevator, only a dirty corridor. Xin Meng is in the middle door, looking out, just seeing half of the stairs, the lower half of the stairwell has a window, revealing that it is indeed evening. The gla.s.s is dark and st.u.r.dy, like a beast with its mouth open, ready to devour people. There"s light on the staircase, so Xin Meng has enough light to look around, but he didn"t see anything.
There was a rough and low pitched noise outside, how could there be nothing?
Is the door viewer too small? Xin Meng was too close to it, not expecting the light in front of him to suddenly go dark and a huge, b.l.o.o.d.y and green eyeball suddenly occupied the entire cat"s eyes, looking straight at him!
Xin Meng almost fell from the table and chairs!
s.h.i.t! What the h.e.l.l!
Unconsciously, Xin Meng still remembered to not make a sound; he has long been scared out!
The eyeball is too ugly. It"s not like the eyes of normal people, wrapped in the upper and lower eyelids. Instead, it"s a whole eyeball exposed outside, no eyelids, the white color of the eyes are gray, and the veins are a dark red. The pupil is gray and white, staring right at him!
Xin Meng"s hand began to tremble again. In the quiet room, he could only hear his own heartbeat, drumming on his ears, and nothing else! He almost turned around and ran to the bedroom, not daring to get close to the thing outside!
But reason stopped him. Xin Meng wants to live, he not only wants to avoid being killed by monsters, but he also doesn"t want to starve to death. There"s nothing in this room, so he must not hide for long. Whatever is waiting for him, he always needs to face it, including the thing outside his door.
Don"t be afraid, don"t be afraid, there"s nothing to be afraid of…
Xin Meng comforts himself, renewing courage, and carefully approaching the door viewer again.
This time, he saw the complete picture of the ‘monster".
A zombie.
It seemed to be a human whose skin has been peeled off. Apart from those words, there"s no more accurate description.
When the zombie was alive, he should have been an adult man, judging by the b.l.o.o.d.y suit he wore. His abdomen is smashed and all the rotten intestines and internal organs are falling off his body. All hair is completely lost, a mottled green scalp, also rotten, with black and yellow pus. You can see the broken bones hanging with meat at first glance. The face is similar, with even the gums finished.
There are a lot of fallen meat hanging on the teeth… Wait, there"s another one, next to him, there is a female zombie!
At that time, the lights on the house attracted two zombies. Now, they were blocking the door, walking around without aim. They made a groan and Xin Meng saw the female zombie wearing tattered pajamas. The dirty, racing tongue is cut in half, and the b.l.o.o.d.y teeth were pulled out of the jaw.
They can no longer be called human.
He doesn"t know if it"s a psychological effect, but Xin Meng now seems able to sense the disgusting smell in the air. There was a surge in his stomach and he almost vomited.
But more than the psychological and physical fear and bad feelings, the more important was that reality was not optimistic.
The lights in the stair are still on. Who knows how many monsters will be attracted by that light? Even if nothing else comes, there are still two blocking the door, what should he do?
Xin Meng was afraid and anxious. His mind was alright, but his physical strength was not very good. He couldn"t say he had no strength on his hands, but he never practiced any martial arts like taekwondo. He remember the strength the zombies had when hitting the door. He was completely helpless.
Fortunately, after the sensor light went out, it didn"t light up again.
Xin Meng, sightly relieved, retreated a little, staring at the door viewer with his brain spinning fast.
Two zombies at once, he can"t deal with it, what if he deal with them separately? Pull one in, leave the other outside, kill one and then kill the one outside…
No, it won"t work. Not only the zombie is so powerful, he can"t be sure he can pull one inside the apartment. And, if he indeed capture one, he may not be able to deal with it without being caught by it.
Yes, Xin Meng is not going to fight the zombies. Who knows if there"s any deadly bacteria on their filthy teeth, it"s better to not take risks.
What else can he do?
Since this is a game, it had definitely taken into account the physical characteristics of the player, so it should have a way for ordinary people, it should have a way to escape.
Don"t worry about it, don"t worry… Think about the characteristics of the zombies… The zombies will be attracted by light, so one he turns on the lights, he will attract them… What if it"s dawn?
Xin Meng suddenly asked himself what would happen once the sun rose. The zombies ‘seek light", so if the sky is bright outside but the room is dark, will they go outside?
Waiting inside, this idea is very unsafe, and it takes longer to lose more physical strength. When the time comes, he will have to face an even bigger dilemma, but Xin Meng has not found a better way. He can only try this first. Try it, if doesn"t work, he will think another way.
Waiting for the daylight, he went back to the bedroom and tried to find a weapon he could use. He didn"t want the zombies close, so the kitchen knife was useless. He had to look for something long, that would be the best.
He really found one. On the balcony, a stainless steel pipe was inserted in the middle of a flower pot, wrapped with vines. Xin Meng smashed the dry stems, pulled out the steel pipe from the vase and wiped the soil off. The pipe was a bit longer than his arm. He waved it around and it was quite smooth.
After thinking about it, he went to the kitchen and found a boning knife. After tying it to the end of the pipe, he made a homemade weapon.
Then he sat by the door and waited for dawn.
The house didn"t have any items that showed the time. All the watches and alarm clocks were broken. The phone was broken in half. His wrists were bare. So Xin Meng couldn"t know the current time.
The low groans of the zombies and the heavy footsteps that came back and forth were counted by his hears, full of uneasiness.
He never thought the night was so long.
Finally, he didn"t know how long it had taken, but the sound outside was a little different. He heard the gasps become heavier and then became lighter, getting farther and farther together with the footsteps. He quickly stood up and went to the door viewer to see it. He was excited to find that the window in the stairwell was shinning, it was dawn!
The zombies really left the dark corridor and stumbled downstairs. Their joints were stiff and inflexible. They couldn"t walk down the stairs one step at a time and half rolled down it. Going down, they still didn"t feel pain, and continued to walk. Watching it, Xin Meng sweat cold.
But it all confirmed his hypothesis from before, the zombies were really attracted by the sun, this is his chance to leave! He pushed the furniture blocking the door and once again confirmed trough the viewer that there was no zombies around, then found some fairly good clothes to wrap around his exposed skin. Holding the pipe on his hand, the opened the door.
The breeze, coming from the window, was cold like water vapor, shaking Xin Meng"s spirit, and the exhaustion and drowsiness of the night was slightly relieved. He quietly opened the door and went out.
In the corridor, except for the windows, the light is very dim. The iron handrails are rusty and crumbling. He went down the stairs. The next floor is the first floor. Seeing from the open corridor, the scenario outside if completely unfamiliar. It should be an old neighborhood. It"s surrounded by old six-story residential buildings. There are not many people living here, he sees many houses empty and windows without gla.s.s.
This should be a good thing, it means the number of zombies wouldn"t be that high around.
As Xin Meng expected, there are only a few zombies in the neighborhood, dragging their ruined bodies and stiff limps under the sun, slow and purposeless as puppets. As they walk, a yellow trail of pus if left from time to time on the road, along with rotten, minced meat. The odor of the bodies linger around, making people unable to resist the urge to puke.
A nightmarish scene.
Xin Meng tightened the hang holding the steel pipe, tried to control his breathing, and carefully walked on the shadow of the building, not daring to make a sound.
This method was very effective. The zombies were always walking in sunny places and did not mind the shadows. He does not want to be quick, but seeks stability, as there"s is lesser shadows. This way, he slowly moved not far from the building he left.
However, he couldn"t move on, because there was a large open s.p.a.ce in front of the building. There were no shadows, and there were around twenty zombies swaying beneath the bright sunshine.
He could not avoid them!