vrcanaries Chapter 345 - 193: Aerial Corridor_2
Chapter 345 - 193: Aerial Corridor_2
Chapter 345: Chapter 193: Aerial Corridor_2Just as Lin Wu was intently eliminating zombies, the noise of the sawmill pierced his eardrums. Lin Wu stuck his head out to look toward the factory, only to see everyone blocking their ears as they ran from the interior of the factory to the backyard. Indeed, there really was no such thing as a free lunch—the cost of adding one building material unit per hour not only increased the threat value but also forced players to endure the torment of the noise.
The one with the best mentality had to be Shana, who put on her Nuclear Portable Player and sat on the ground, enjoying the entire sawing process. Oddly enough, the process of cutting the logs was neat and efficient, which was quite stress-relieving.
Outside the safe zone where you couldn’t hear the noise, you wouldn’t directly attract zombies, which meant the system still retained some basic decency. Why do I say so? Because the sound insulation in the barracks was very poor, and lying in bed, all you could hear was a booming, hissing sound. Even when sleeping and dreaming, the sound of the sawmill—boom, hiss, hiss—echoed in the dreams.
The system determined the sleep environment to be poor in quality, so 5 hours of sleep were changed to 6 hours. However, come the summer season, this problem would be resolved as the system would no longer regulate sleep time or location. Still, it required everyone to have a bed. If the base didn’t have enough beds, all members would be in a low-spirited state.
Waking up early in the morning, Lin Wu walked out of the barracks with a dull look, surrounded by buildings and the incessant sound of sawing in his ears. Lin Wu was just about to sit down on the ground when Stone, wearing a straw hat, pulled Lin Wu to sit on a chair in the farm area and covered Lin Wu’s head with his own straw hat. During this, Lin Wu didn’t struggle or resist, his mind filled only with the booming, hissing noise of the saw.
Snow Egg and Shana were on sentry duty, and the others gradually came out of their dormitories, looking around with vacant eyes. After Little Knife found a place to sit in the backyard, the rest also sat down side by side, no one asking why they were sitting there. After sitting for a while and coming back to their senses, Little Knife looked around and called out loudly, "Where’s Lin Wu?"
Snow Egg up in the watchtower replied, "I don’t know."
Maya answered through the headset, "He should have gone out."
Little Knife, "I want to go out too."
Snow Egg, "It’s dangerous outside."
Lin Wu hadn’t gone far. After crossing the river, he stealthily passed through dangerous zones and arrived at an outpost of the power station. Climbing up to the rooftop of the control room, he lay down to beautifully admire the blue sky and white clouds. Even the low growls of nearby zombies were far more pleasant to hear than the sound of the sawmill.
After resting for a bit, Lin Wu set his sights on a row of shops about a hundred meters away. There were a total of seven stores on this commercial street—three restaurants, two bars, one small supermarket, and one clothing store, which were apparently mainly serving the workers of nearby factories before the virus outbreak.
The street was at the edge of the Blood Mist, with about three and a half of the stores enveloped in it. Lin Wu climbed onto the power station’s fence for a careful observation; the road to the commercial street didn’t have many zombies, but the density of zombies on the street itself was extremely high. It was a situation similar to when he and Maya had stolen books. That time, Lin Wu had to consume a corpse smell concealer to successfully enter the bookstore.
Inside the power station were eight towering pylons. Lin Wu climbed one of them and dropped a water pipe onto two power lines to prove they were not electrified. He used a rope to bind his arms, creating a simple safety harness, and hung from one power line with one hand while the other hand hooked the safety harness onto the power line. After getting set up, he moved hand over hand towards the commercial street, continuously shifting the knot of the safety rope along the wire.
This was where the game’s features came into play—in reality, doing something this dangerous, you might lose your grip due to carelessness. But in the game, as long as your stats are sufficient, you wouldn’t fall.
Lin Wu alternated hand over hand for about 30 meters. When his stamina was exhausted, Lin Wu let go, letting the harness suspend him in the air. As his stamina slowly refilled, Lin Wu continued to move hand over hand forward, constantly shifting the safety rope’s knot on the wire.
At that moment, everyone from Shadow was up at the watchtower watching the spectacle, some with binoculars, and others with rifles. Little Knife asked worriedly, "How is he going to get down?"
Two pylons spanned across the middle of the commercial street. When he reached above the rooftops of the shops, Lin Wu dropped a rope and slid down to the rooftops. There were no zombies on the rooftops, which were littered with tents and basic living necessities—it seemed many had taken refuge on the rooftops before.
Opening the skylight cover of Shop No. 1, Lin Wu released a drone and obtained information about the zombies inside the clothing store. It was hard to imagine that a shop with less than a hundred square meters could house 12 zombies.
Lin Wu crept into the clothing store through the skylight stairway, using obstacles and stealth to eliminate the zombies one by one. After spending a considerable amount of time and energy clearing out the zombies from the clothing store, Lin Wu asked himself a question: What was he doing in the clothing store?
This was not a meaningless question. Lin Wu had