Chapter 2: The Corpse Hunte
Just when Zhou Yuanqiang was about to throw away all the cans, even if he didn't make a penny, he had to get rid of the three zombies and escape, a unique roar of a car came from the road behind him, which seemed particularly real in this deserted place.
Zhou Yuanqiang turned his head and saw a pickup truck speeding on a muddy road far away, bringing up flying sand all over the sky, drowning the zombies who heard the sound and approached the car in the rolling yellow dust. The pickup truck was very fast, and it was just a small black dot at first, but in a blink of an eye, it was enough to see everything on the pickup truck clearly.
This was a Ford pickup truck. On the roof, a fixed frame was welded, on which a heavy-duty machine gun was installed, and a sturdy man was operating it. In the back car, two equally strong men sat inside. They carried their guns on their shoulders and pointed at the zombies on both sides of the road that were running towards them because of the sound of the car. They laughed from time to time, and sometimes heard vulgar shouts and curses.
Seeing the almost fully armed Ford pickup truck, Zhou Yuanqiang was delighted. He ran and jumped on the road, holding the sack on his back with one hand and waving the other hand desperately: "Hey, hey, hey... here... here..."
Such a weird scene confused the five people in the pickup truck, but they soon understood what was going on and all laughed. After the pickup truck passed Zhou Yuanqiang, the yellow mud and sand in the sky sprinkled all over Zhou Tianqiang. In one breath, he immediately felt the mud and dust entering his lungs. "Cough... cough... cough, these bastards." This feeling of almost suffocating made Zhou Yuanqiang cough and curse.
The pickup truck slowed down a bit. The big man operating the machine gun stuck his head out in laughter and said mockingly: "Hey, kid, what the hell are you doing? You won't tell me that you are so embarrassed by these three zombies?"
The sound of the car had long made the three zombies give up on Zhou Yuanqiang and rush towards the car instead.
"Old Five, kill them." The big man operating the machine gun shouted. One of the two strong men sitting in the back of the car put his rifle in his pocket without saying a word, just aimed slightly, and fired three silent small bursts. The three zombies who had been chasing Zhou Tianqiang for nearly half an hour were hit in the neck. The bullets shot off half of their necks and fell directly on the road.
Zhou Yuanqiang's eyes lit up: "03-type automatic rifle, homemade silencer." Thinking of the sturdy man's accuracy, Zhou Yuanqiang sighed again. In just a few years, the people in this end of the world have all become sharpshooters. Shooting at this distance is not challenging at all for them.
After killing the three zombies, the pickup truck braked suddenly. The fifth man who had just fired the gun, holding the gun in one hand, turned over and jumped out of the car. He ran to the three fallen zombies in a few steps. He first took out a pair of gloves from his pocket and put them on, and then pulled out the bayonet equipped with the 03-type automatic rifle from the side of his boots. Without any hesitation, he stabbed one of the zombies in the head with a knife, dug out the rot in the head, and skillfully picked out a small blue crystal the size of a fingernail from it.
"Ugh..." Seeing the three zombies' heads being picked open one after another, Zhou Yuanqiang felt his stomach surge, and something sour and fishy rushed up his throat. He vomited as soon as he opened his mouth. The bread and milk he had just eaten in the morning were not fully digested, but he vomited them all. "Too cruel, too bloody..." When Zhou Yuanqiang used the time and space ring in his hand for the first time, he was lucky enough to appear at the edge of a temporary camp, so all he saw was peace. Through a short transaction, he only knew that he had arrived in an era where zombies were rampant. The earth has countless planes of time and space, and no one knows when the earth will have a turning point. Just like the plane of the earth that Zhou Yuanqiang arrived at, history branched in 2020. The melting of the Arctic ice and snow exposed the alien meteorites that had been buried for who knows how many billions of years, allowing the alien viruses on the alien meteorites to spread into the air, wiping out most of the world's human beings, and turning them into strange zombies. When Zhou Yuanqiang got this time-space ring, the apocalypse had already happened for five years.
Zhou Yuanqiang's idea was very simple, that is, to use the time-space ring's ability to travel through two time and space to resell items. The apocalypse was full of huge groups of zombies. They moved around, killing and eating any creatures they came to. The consequence was that humans did not have a fixed residence and always escaped the encirclement of zombies during migration. As a result, it became difficult to produce food, causing food to be scarce in the apocalypse.
The first transaction was undoubtedly very successful. The cautious Zhou Yuanqiang only brought more than 20 cans of canned fruit, but in exchange for various gold products worth hundreds of thousands of yuan in modern times.
The huge profit made Zhou Yuanqiang not afraid of the horror of the apocalypse at all. After two days of preparation, he resolutely carried a bag of canned beef and came to the apocalypse again. In Zhou Yuanqiang's imagination, although the apocalypse was full of dangers, the zombies were too slow. Isn't it a simple thing to escape? But the scene of digging open the zombie's head just now deeply stimulated Zhou Yuanqiang, which made him realize that in the end of the world, whether it is zombies or human life, they are equally fragile and may be killed by each other at any time.
"Haha, I didn't expect to be so lucky, it turned out to be three blue crystals." The old fifth excitedly raised the three pure blue crystals the size of thumbs in his palms, regardless of his hands full of black and smelly rotten brains, and said loudly. He looked at Zhou Yuanqiang who was still vomiting with some strangeness, and muttered: "I really don't know whether this kid is lucky or unlucky... He was targeted by a level 2 zombie."
In the end of the world, the most common, popular, and also the most dangerous profession is the corpse hunter.
Since humans discovered this kind of crystal in the zombie brain and studied that these crystals contain new energy, the profession of corpse hunter was born. The work of corpse hunters is simple and free. As long as you kill the zombies and dig out the crystals formed by the virus in their brains, it means that you have income. The more crystals you get, the higher your income will be, and you may even become an upper-class person with no worries about food and clothing.
The quality of crystals can be divided into eight levels, from the first level white to the second level blue, green, yellow, red, purple, black, and colorful. The level of the crystal represents the level of the zombie. The higher the level of the crystal, the stronger the zombie's ability is, and it becomes more and more difficult for humans to hunt it. In many cases, crystals above level three are not something that individuals can obtain.
The energy composition of crystals is very strange. After years of research by humans, there has not been much progress in the use of this energy, and the actual use is pitiful. Today's humans are like owning a treasure mountain, but there is no way to spend a penny. As a result, more and more crystals are obtained, and in the end, surprisingly, crystals and gold have become hard popular currencies. Coupled with the most primitive trading method of barter, the three have become the three most common trading methods in the end of the world.
The end of the world now gives people the feeling that they are playing a game, zombies are monsters, and money will burst out of them.
It's a very simple way to make money. As long as you kill zombies, you can get crystals of different qualities, which means you have wealth. But who knows how dangerous the zombie hunters are? Almost every crystal is covered with human blood. Every year, countless zombie hunters die at the hands of zombies, especially when they encounter high-level zombies. Often a team is wiped out and disappears in the apocalypse. Although the blue crystal is only a level 2 crystal, it is several times more valuable than the level 1 white crystal. No wonder Lao Wu's expression is full of excitement.
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