Chương 18: Chapter 17
In Germany Highways were manly build with a 3 Meter distance to the right side from anything. May this be a wall for noice protection or a damm like hill or just the tree line.
For Hans this signified he was jogging 2 meters into the tree line.
However the further he got the more it happened that the forest were interrupted by long fields.
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He had reached around the 45 km mark. Right now he was looking at the Irschenberg. A collection of services like Mc Donald's as well as normal restaurants plus hotels.
‚There should be around a thousand people max.'
Sneaking in and climbing on the roof of a Mc Donald's, Hans surveyed the area. To the north next to the Highway he could find barricades as well as Bonfire. Sentries he could see but he was sure there were some.
The south of the area on the other side was completely silent.
Sweeping through the south looking for possible stragglers, but it looked like they had done a careful search.
He could find no abnormal.
Standing back at the roof Hans thought about how to approach the sentries.
He had two options:
First would be an aggressive approach by trying to sneak in and spy.
The more openminded approach would be lighting a fire from a safe distance and calling out to them.
What could be seen was that they didn't had any large firearms.
A pistol could always be hidden.
One sentry had an long axe while the other had a sledgehammer.
Hans decided to be openminded. He wasn't naive in any way because he could see from the height of the two that they were highly likely not evolved and had at max 2.0 stats while he had 4 in endurance and perception. They couldn't trick him or out run him. He only needed to worry about a agility booster skill and them getting 4.0 agility while he had his 2 and something penalized agility.
To not waste his resources, he broke a beam out of a wood pallet, ripped down a curtain, washed in gasoline from a near gas station and created with it a big makeshift torch.
Igniting it he walked around a corner around 1000 meters away from the bonfire.
It took the opposite sentry a second to react and directing his colleagues attention to Hans.
‚They don't seem to have bad intentions or they would have had background thoughts about getting ambushed and wouldn't have concentrated all attention onto me.
Or they are just over confident.'
Slowly but with a constant pace Hans walked in the middle of the street.
„Hello There!" came a shout from the second sentry
„Hi!" was all Hans answered while swinging his makeshift torch.
„Where did you hide the last days to survive? We had combed through all Houses today after the last zombie got eaten. I hope we didn't scare you."
„No. I'm from Unterhaching I am tracking over the highway to Rosenheim to meet up with my family.
But what do you mean with the last zombie getting eaten?"
„Oh! So your from Munich. You must have see those things. They aren't human anymore. They also got stronger then when they were human. It's an apocalypse. However you must have seen those beasts. They were also tracking south.
A Tipp!!
If you don't attack them they will ignore you. They just pass right next to you. But those zombies attack everything that lives.
In the beginning the beasts were all beaten as the zombies got the first hit. But later the beast groups were getting bigger and consisted out of different animals. Today things changed as last nights sentries didn't see anymore animals. So we went out looking if any zombies werrrrrrr..."
The sentry stopped talking as now Hans was 2 Meter away and only now he could truly take in the 2.2 meters of height Hans had reached with the evolution.
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The human is only as tall as he is because of certain physical limitations. Normal humans of this size a rare but by no means something special. Humans 2.4 up to 2.7 (tallest man know) are special cases however all of them had one thing they didn't get old. Evolution developed the human body to work perfectly in the know average heights we know. If the human body surpasses these by a lot certain spots in the system of the human body will be under too high amounts of stress (because of different biological reasons not just gravity default!).
With time this will leave signs of wear and tear. The tallest man ever recorded was 2.72 meters tall and died at the age of 22 because of an infection in his ankle.
Other possibilities would be heart failure, lung tore. In the end it comes down to this.
Looking at the body of a person the age of 30, you may have parts of this body in as good a condition as a 90 year olds may have.
And as such these parts will easily be prone to problems.
For humans to naturally be of such sizes it would be needed for evolution to have taken another path
Or
To evolve again.
Bone, fiber densities and more would get strengthened. Nerves would transport impulses faster. The average reaction speed would be shorter. More complex reaction could be saved in the subparts of the brain.
Overall the human would be by far better melee fighter.
(A/N: i don't want to talk about ranged disciplines as I'm not good in them or know them well enough nor is ranged a real option as no hot weapons will be of relevance. Ranged only had effect by using some sort of mind voodoo shit. Cause seriously who will shoot nukes like arrows. Just a notice on the side nukes by no means are weak, not the modern one's.)
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The sentry was of average hight with 1.77 meters. Still that was a difference of 0.4 meters, close to half a meter.
As a reference most heads are around 25 centimeter.
So just add your head twice to your total hight then you know where this sentry had to look up to.
A US NBA player is an average 2 meters high.
With the sentry stopping to talk Hans stood still he also just realized how his new height reacted to people. Trying not to scare them or maybe even attack in panic he slowly went a few steppes back.
Getting the distance between them again the sentries got themself back under control.
„Ahhhhhhhhhhm. Sry. I never saw a giant like you. No offense."
„Hahahaha. None taken. Normally we are all just in our cars and everybody is only in his own little world."
Hand slowly walked forward again not stopping to talk.
„I'm sorry to tell you but what you think you know about this apocalypse is wrong. I'm all the way from Munich and I have seen things.
Before I have to tell everything twice could you wake up the rest of your group."
As the second sentry was already turning around the first put his arm on his shoulder and stopped him.
„Hmm. So it really is an apocalypse. Let me be honest. I don't like you being ... well you. Strong as you look and equipped. We have nobody here who owns a gun. So it hard to feel safe around a person such as you.
Pls don't take it as an offense but could you go back to that road cross with your torch and wait for let's say a quarter."
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Hans kept silent.
Tension was rising fast.
Hans put his hand on the grip of his sword.
The second sentry was sweating. He opens his mouth but no words came out.
The air was heavy.
Hans turned his head.
Starring right into the first mans eyes.
Then with a cling he pulled his word and
„BUU!"
Both man stumbled back. The second one even fell on the floor.
The first trying to grab the sledgehammer behind him. However he was trembling so hard that he couldn't get his grip right.
Sheathing his word again Hans laughed out.
„It's good you are thinking else then your colleague.
However you should never talk about something like having a gun. This only brings tension and you don't need that as a reason. Prioritizing safety is always a good enough reason."
Hans turned around walking back down the street. At the road cross he made himself comfy cause he was sure they will take more then a quarter of an hour.
He never had feared them having a pistol. With his night vision and 4 point perception he would have definitely noticed it from 2 Meter away.
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