Deep in the Living

Chapter 401 Zombies in the Villa Area
hum!
Rody sat up suddenly, the rotten smell mixed in the air penetrated his nostrils, and he even felt that fungus and moss were beginning to grow in his lungs.

He was covered with an oil-stained quilt and the pillow was filled with cotton wool. The slightest movement was accompanied by a creaking sound from the bed axles.

But these environmental factors did not affect him.

The first thing Rody did was look at his right arm, at the pinhole left on it, as if he could see silvery-white germs crawling in the dark pinhole.

When he noticed the pinhole,

Gulu!

A hungry roar from the belly broke the silence in the room.

"So hungry!"

It's a completely different kind of hunger.
It was a strong feeling that could tear the abdominal cavity apart, as if the intestines were folded together, as if something was gnawing at each piece of intestinal epidermis, forcing Roddy to press his abdomen tightly with his hands.

However, the qualities acquired from the monk of suffering made him feel secretly happy even as he twitched.

But pain is not the main thing.
In this process, the desire to eat gradually occupies all consciousness and becomes the most intuitive physiological need.

The convulsions lasted for about five minutes before slowly stopping.

After finishing, Rody quickly got out of bed and instinctively wanted to look for food.

There was a mirror right next to the bedroom door, and Luo Di found that he had lost a lot of weight. Most of the muscles he had gained from more than ten years of exercise had been metabolized and broken down, and his cheeks had a more obvious cheekbone contour.

crunch~
Pushing open the peeling wooden door, the bedroom door on the opposite side of the second floor also opened.

Yu Lu also floated out with a thin face. She floated at a very low altitude, with her toes almost hanging on the ground, maintaining the minimum energy consumption.

The villa is designed with two floors.

The two walked up the stairs to the first floor which was filled with a rotten smell. All kinds of garbage were piled up here, but the two ignored the terrible environment and followed the faint smell of food to find the refrigerator.

At the very back of the refrigerator were two unopened cans of meat.

Yu Lu, who got the cans first, almost took both for herself, but when she thought that the game would be over if the servant Rody died, she was willing to give one box to him.

After Rody got the can, he swallowed all the meat in just one bite, and even wiped off the remaining grease on the inner wall of the can with his fingers.

After the food entered my stomach, the abnormal feeling of hunger finally faded away, but a faint feeling still remained in my body.

Roddy estimated that it would not take a day, maybe less than half a day, before the feeling of hunger would come back again.

He didn't want to experience that feeling a second time, the feeling of being completely dominated by desire and as if he was about to lose himself.

Even Yu Lu felt a little regretful. She should not have let Hua Yuan come. She would have the chance to investigate the things she wanted later. After all, the Death Challenge would have to go through multiple rounds.

Even she couldn't resist this feeling of hunger, and in this state, many things were difficult to achieve.

A cold voice came out of her mouth without the need for vocal cords:
"Get familiar with the environment inside the house first, and gather here in ten minutes. Try to reduce the frequency of movement as much as possible. Extra movement will speed up the onset of hunger.

Mr. Question Mark concealed some things, among which the amount of food per day was subject to conditional restrictions. It was estimated that one would need to reduce the breathing rate to the lowest and remain motionless in order to barely survive a day.

If the body is active, we will feel hungry in less than half a day. Once we cannot find food when hunger comes, we will change completely. The pituitary gland will be infected with the virus and we will turn into zombies.

The hunger virus injected into us is essentially a variant of the zombie virus from Javan himself."

Rody just nodded. After all, talking also consumes energy.

Judging from the current situation, it would be really dangerous to go out to find food later.

Whether it's the threat of zombies outside or threats from other participants, the movement will intensify.

Time is money.

They had to act quickly before the canned meat was digested.

Rody did not move around much, he just came to the center of the hall and turned around to observe the surroundings. Although he was extremely hungry before, he still subconsciously remembered the bedroom and the areas he passed along the way.

All the windows of the villa are boarded up and there is no second exit except the front door.

According to the rules,

Neither they, the zombies nor other participants are allowed to destroy the villa.

In other words, unless they open the door to greet them in person, the inside of the villa is absolutely safe.

The easiest way to survive more than three days is to collect three days' worth of food, return to the villa, eat it all, lie down, and wait for the game to end.

But is it really that simple?

Soon, Yu Lu also completed the search and confirmed that the villa had no basement and no ventilation ducts, and it was indeed a completely sealed space.

And even her spirit form couldn't penetrate it, not even the gate.

It also means that even if they want to search for food in other participants’ villas, they cannot find loopholes and can only knock on the door from the front. If the other party does not open the door, there is nothing they can do.

Moreover, it is unknown what the outside of the community looks like, how many zombies are wandering outside, and how strong the zombies are.

If you want to get information, you have to go out.

Specific action plans must also be made temporarily after going out to obtain intelligence.

The two of them walked decisively towards the door, and Rody quickly looked through the peephole to see if there were any living creatures outside the door.

"no one."

Just as he moved away from the peephole, Yu Lu's fingers suddenly landed on his forehead.

Rody could feel something cold coming, but it didn't penetrate into his body but stuck to the surface, like a layer of stable film, which wiped out all his smell and lowered his body temperature so that he would not be detected by thermal imaging.

They both pushed the door open and walked out at the same time.

The autumn wind is rustling,

The fallen leaves hung on the broken and abandoned street lamps, making the scene desolate and dark.

The villas are arranged at equal distances, and there is no end in sight either horizontally or vertically. It seems like a villa community with infinite space.

The good news is that there is only one zombie visible in the limited field of view.

Ding ding ding ~ A zombie, more than a hundred meters away, was constantly banging its head against a street lamp.

Such knocking sounds can actually help Rody and others cover up their footsteps, and the other party does not seem to have noticed the two people a hundred meters away, which at least shows that this distance is safe.

At this moment, Yu Lu's cold voice rang in Luo Di's mind. Because of the touch of fingers just now, this kind of consciousness connection was established, and they could communicate directly through consciousness.

"It seems that there are more villas here than participants. Perhaps some of the villas are uninhabited, and we can get the food in the empty villas without fighting."

Rody also responded through this connection of consciousness, without wasting energy from his mouth or tongue, and without making any sound, which was perfectly suited to the current situation.

"If the door of the vacant room is closed, we still can't go in according to the rules. I was wondering, can we eat zombie meat? If it's roasted, maybe we can try it?
There just happened to be a lone zombie, so we could lure it over here, kill it quickly, and take it back to process it?"

Yu Lu did not respond directly, but thought for a while: "First visit the nearby 'neighbors'. If they can't open the door, then consider the zombies."

Ten minutes passed,
When the two returned to the door of their own villa, they found that the doors of the adjacent villas were all locked, making it impossible to tell whether they were vacant or occupied by other participants.

After some consideration, he prepared to attack the lone zombie.

This matter will naturally be left to Yu Lu.

She is more suitable in terms of strength, means and attack range. And zombies with humanoid structure like this can be dealt with with simple ropes.

Floating closer, soundlessly.

If the distance is too far, the effect will be poor and energy consumption will increase.

When the distance gradually shortened to 30 meters,
The zombie still didn't notice and continued to bang its head against the street lamp.

Yu Lu didn't even raise her hands, but some kind of invisible field spread out.
The hanging rope appeared.

Rody's eyes widened. He thought it was a hanging rope.

Who would have thought that there would be five ropes appearing from five directions, and one even emerged from the ground.

It seems that Yu Lu does not intend to hang the other party, but to directly "dismember and quarter the body", which can also save the subsequent food processing steps.

But when the knot was put on the zombie's body,
hum!
The knot suddenly disappeared.

The zombies also stopped banging their heads.

The stiff neck began to twist.
He stared with pale eyes at the person who attacked him.

Yu Lu was shocked. "Spiritual immunity? Is this... the ability of the first generation zombie shared with the zombies in the game?"

In a blink of an eye, the zombie was standing on top of the street lamp.

Kakakka~
The jaw and the ribs in the chest were torn apart, turning into a bloody mouth, pouncing on me like a wild beast...

(End of this chapter)