后世界末日世界中的移植

Part 2 Necrophage Hunter

The HuntersJust as Alex was on the verge of losing his patience and throwing away all the cans, regardless of making any profit, in order to shake off the three zombies and escape for his life, a hint of the unique roar of a vehicle came from the highway behind him, which sounded extremely distinct in this desolate place.Alex turned his head and saw, on the extremely distant highway, a pickup truck speeding on the sandy road, kicking up clouds of flying sand and burying the zombies who heard the sound and rushed towards the vehicle in the rolling yellow dust. The speed of the pickup truck was extremely fast. Originally, it was just a small black dot, but in the blink of an eye, it was already close enough to see everything on the truck clearly.This was a Ford pickup truck. On the roof of the truck, a fixed frame was welded, and a light machine gun was installed on it. A strong big man was operating the machine gun. On the rear compartment of the truck, two other strong and sturdy men were sitting inside. They were carrying guns on their shoulders and pointing them recklessly at the zombies who were running towards them because of the sound of the vehicle. From time to time, they let out bursts of loud laughter and sometimes crude shouts.Seeing the nearly fully armed Ford pickup truck, Alex's heart filled with joy. He ran and jumped along the highway, holding the jute bag on his back with one hand and waving the other hand desperately: "Hi, hi, hi... Here... Here..."Such a strange scene confused the five people on the pickup truck at first. But they quickly understood what was going on and all burst into laughter. After surpassing Alex, the yellow sand and mud filled the air and covered Alex all over. Inhaling the dust, Alex immediately felt it enter his lungs. "Cough... Cough... Cough. These bastards." The feeling of almost suffocating made Alex couldn't help coughing and swearing.The pickup truck slowed down a little. The big man who was operating the machine gun stuck his head out in the midst of his wild laughter and mocked: "Hey, kid! What the hell are you doing? Don't tell me you were so embarrassed by these three zombies, right?"The sound of the vehicle had already made the three zombies abandon Alex as their target and turn to attack the vehicle instead."Fifth brother, take them out." The big man operating the machine gun shouted loudly. Without saying a word, one of the two strong men sitting in the rear compartment put away his rifle, took a quick aim, and with three silent shots, the three zombies that had been chasing Alex for nearly half an hour were hit in the neck. The bullets blew off half of their necks, and they directly fell to the ground on their faces.Alex's eyes lit up: "Type 03 automatic rifle with a homemade silencer." Thinking of the precision of this big man, Alex couldn't help sighing again. In just a few years of the post-apocalyptic era, everyone had become excellent marksmen. For people like them, this distance of shooting was no challenge at all.After killing the three zombies, the pickup truck came to an emergency stop. The fifth brother who had just fired his gun picked up the gun with one hand and jumped out of the compartment. He ran a few steps to the three fallen zombies, took out a pair of gloves from his pocket, and then pulled out the bayonet attached to the Type 03 automatic rifle from the edge of his boot. Without hesitation, he stabbed one of the zombies in the head with the bayonet, dug out the rotten flesh inside the skull, and quickly picked out a blue crystal the size of a nail from it."Ugh..."Seeing the scene of the three zombies' heads being opened one after another, Alex felt his stomach churn. A sour and fishy feeling rose up to his throat, and he opened his mouth and vomited. The bread and milk he had just eaten in the morning had not been completely digested, and they were all vomited out."It's too cruel and bloody..." When Alex first used the Space-Time Ring in his hand, he was lucky enough to appear near a temporary camp. So what he saw was just a peaceful scene. Through the short transaction, he only knew that he had come to an era dominated by zombies.The earth has countless dimensional spaces and times. No one knows when the earth will experience a turning point. Like the earth in the dimension that Alex has come to, history branched off in 2020. The melting of the Arctic ice and snow exposed the extraterrestrial meteorites that had been buried deep underground for billions of years, allowing the extraterrestrial viruses on the meteorites to spread into the air and kill most of the people in the world, turning them into strange zombies.When Alex got this Space-Time Ring, the post-apocalyptic era had already been going on for five whole years.Alex's idea was very simple. He wanted to take advantage of the characteristic that the Space-Time Ring could cross two spaces and times to resell goods. In the post-apocalyptic era, there were huge groups of zombies everywhere. They were moving and killing and devouring any living creatures in their path. As a result, humans did not have a fixed residence and were always moving to escape the encirclement and suppression of the zombies. As a result, the production of food became difficult, causing the scarcity of food in the post-apocalyptic era.The first transaction was undoubtedly very successful. The cautious Alex only brought more than 20 cans of fruit cans and exchanged them for all kinds of gold products worth more than 100,000 yuan in modern times.The huge profit made Alex not afraid of the horror of the post-apocalyptic era at all. After preparing for two days, he carried a bag of beef cans and once again rushed into the post-apocalyptic era. In Alex's imagination, although the post-apocalyptic era was full of dangers, the speed of the zombies was too slow. It should not be a difficult thing to escape. But the scene of digging open the zombie's head just now had deeply stimulated Alex, which made him understand that in the post-apocalyptic era, whether it was a zombie or a human life, they were all fragile and could be killed by each other at any time."Ha ha! I didn't expect to have such good luck. There are actually three blue crystals." The fifth brother, regardless of his hands being covered with black and stinking rotten brain matter, excitedly held up the three pure blue crystals the size of thumbs in his palm and said loudly. He looked at Alex, who was still vomiting, with a strange expression and muttered: "I really don't know whether this kid is lucky or unlucky... He was actually targeted by a level 2 zombie."In the post-apocalyptic era, the most common and popular, but also the most dangerous profession, is undoubtedly the hunter.After humans discovered this kind of crystal in the zombie's brain and studied that these crystals contained new energy, the profession of hunter was born. The work of hunters is simple and free. As long as you kill the zombies and dig out the crystals formed in their brains due to the virus, it means you have income. The more crystals you obtain, the higher your income will be, and it may even make you an upper-class person who has no worries about food and clothing.The quality of crystals can be divided into eight levels, advancing from the first-level white to the second-level blue, green, yellow, red, purple, black, and seven colors. And the level of the crystal represents the level of the zombie. The higher the level of the crystal, the stronger the ability of the zombie, and it becomes more and more difficult for humans to hunt them. Most of the time, crystals above level 3 are not within the reach of individuals.The energy composition of the crystals is very strange. After years of research by humans, there has been no great progress in the use of this energy, and the actual application is very limited. Now humans are like having a mountain of treasures, but they have no way to spend a single penny. As a result, the crystals are getting more and more, and unexpectedly, the crystals have become a hard currency similar to gold. Coupled with the most primitive trading method of bartering, the three have become the three most common trading methods in the post-apocalyptic era.The current post-apocalyptic era gives people the feeling of playing a game. Zombies are monsters, and they can drop money when they are killed.It's a very simple way to make money. As long as you kill the zombies, you can obtain crystals of various qualities, which means you have wealth. But who knows the dangers of the hunters? Almost every crystal is covered with human blood. Every year, countless hunters die at the claws and teeth of the zombies. Especially when they encounter high-level zombies, often an entire team is wiped out and disappears in the post-apocalyptic era.Although the blue crystal is only a level 2 crystal, it is worth several times more than the level 1 white crystal. No wonder the fifth brother's expression is full of excitement.