Wasteland: I Awakened A Plant System - Chapter 150: Zombie Appearance

Chapter 150: Zombie Appearance

Five days have passed since the last natural disaster, and the Plant Essence in my possession has reached a peak.

He knew that although it seemed like a lot, it was actually not worth spending at all.

Conversely, the daily bartering of food for metal over the past few days has significantly reduced the food inventory in the warehouse.

There is still a reduction of one or two hundred kg of food.

The warehouse was mostly stocked with wolf meat, with over two thousand kilograms remaining.

Strictly speaking, this is not real wolf meat, but the meat of a wolf spirit.

Although these creatures can walk upright, their taste is still similar to that of ordinary wolf meat.

It’s not very oily, it’s firm and chewy, and it has a faint fishy smell.

It wasn’t particularly delicious; as people on Earth, they were still most accustomed to eating chicken or lamb, or sometimes.

They usually trade these kinds of food that don’t taste very good.

There’s not much truly delicious chicken, beef, and lamb left.

“It seems we’ll have to stockpile a lot of this food once the extreme cold ends.”

Now, he’s more interested in the taste of food than the quantity.

Having struggled to survive in the wasteland for so long, he felt it was perfectly reasonable to eat something good.

Having decided on his future hunting plans, he turned his attention to the construction of Territory 2.

Nowadays, most basic facilities are already in place; what’s needed now are more functional facilities.

After gathering many materials, he wants to design it the same way as the Cameron Town defence mechanisms.

He even has created a biogas generator.

“Now is the perfect time to install the generator, which will provide more power to the shelter.”

Without further ado, they arrived at the location of the biogas digester and activated the system.

“System, follow the plan you mentioned last time and connect the biogas generator to the biogas digester and the farmland greenhouse.”

He paused for a moment as he spoke, then walked to the makeshift chicken coop he had dug at random.

He frowned at the chicken droppings all over the chicken coop.

Even with Divya cleaning every day, the chicken coop is still incredibly filthy.

“System, while you’re at it, connect a manure collection pipe to the chicken coop. Add that to what we just did, and calculate how much Plant Essence there is in total.”

[Ding, Total required: Plant Essence X900, including connection to biogas generator, biogas residue transport pipeline, and fertilizer collection pipeline, and all facilities.]

After hearing this, he waved his hand and said, “Let’s build it.”

There’s not much to say about the construction of the two pipelines; he’d seen them several times before.

It is worth noting the power generation efficiency of biogas generators.

According to the system, with sufficient biogas, the daily power generation per cubic meter is approximately 1.5 kilowatt-hours.

This is quite alarming. It may seem like it only uses 1.5 kilowatt-hours of electricity, but in reality, the biogas digester has a volume of 60 cubic meters.

That means it can generate 1.5 x 60 = 80 kilowatt-hours of electricity per day.

Of course, this is just an ideal situation. His shelter only has three members in total, and it’s not a heartless manure-producing machine, so where would he get an inexhaustible supply of biogas?

Including the droppings from a few chickens, it can convert about 3 kilowatt-hours of electricity per day.

However, Vikram is still quite satisfied with this, since the power consumption in the Territory 2 was zero at the moment.

It was far from being a deficit, so as a result, there was some additional power supply capacity.

Later on, as long as more livestock are introduced and efforts are made to produce manure, the installation of high-power-consuming appliances such as water heaters will be just around the corner.

After doing his work, Vikram was just ready to go inside, a barely perceptible sound entered his ears.

He was startled by the shout that sounded like it was coming from not far away.

Divya, Anjali and Sophia were also looking at him, suddenly becoming tense. “What’s going on, Vikram?”

“Yeah, what’s wrong all of a sudden?”

Just when he thought he was hallucinating because he was too tense, that familiar sound echoed in his ears again.

“Ho—”

He pointed in the direction the sound came from, frowning, and said, “Didn’t you hear it?”

Following the direction of their fingers, the two could only see a wall and heard nothing, so they shook their heads.

“That’s strange, I’m sure I didn’t mishear.”

To make sure he wasn’t hallucinating, he summoned a screen showing three people present, visible only to him.

This is precisely the system’s biological detection function.

The pale blue screen confirmed that he hadn’t misheard; there were indeed creatures lingering nearby.

And this location was only a few meters away from them.

However, Vikram suspected that there might be a problem with the biodetection. At such a close distance, why can’t it detect it?

“You all stay here, I’m going out for a bit.” With that, before they could even warn him of the danger outside, he looked towards Fire Mage Druid. “Follow me.”

“There’s probably enough snow outside to bury a person, why do you think he’s in such a hurry to go out?”

“I don’t know. He said he heard a noise just now. Could it be the Savage Wolf Shelter coming over?” Anjali clenched his fists, his voice trembling with anger.

“Unlikely. If Savage Wolf Shelter knew the location of Vikram’s Territory, he would have attacked long ago. Why would he choose this insecure time?” Sophia murmured.

Divya took a deep breath and said, “Anyway, we’d better stay put. Going out might just cause him more trouble.”

At the foot of the mountain, Vikram was investigating the source of the sound, but he was facing some difficulty.

The reason for the difficulty was, the snow outside blocked his passage, and it took him a long time to climb out.

As Divya just mentioned, the snow was almost reaching Vikram’s upper thighs.

He estimated that the depth was at least one meter.

Even though Vikram was not afraid of the cold, he could hardly move in this environment after finally getting out, if he didn’t bring out the Fire Mage Druid with himself.

Trying to take a step uphill, they found that even pulling their feet out of the snow was a problem, let alone climbing the mountain.

But with Fire Mage Druid, it all started becoming easy.

He slowly tried to stand up, and seeing that he could walk freely without sinking deep into the snow, he walked towards the direction where the green dot appeared on the biological detector.

The reason they couldn’t hear anything just now is probably because their physical condition can affect their hearing and vision.

The fact that he could hear noises proved that the source of the noise must be near.

Sure enough, after walking less than ten meters towards the mountaintop, he spotted a group of people.

Several figures, just like Vikram earlier, buried deep in the snow, were baring their fangs and roaring because they were bound.

Observing their movements from a distance, Vikram immediately understood the situation of these creatures.

The bluish-green skin faintly emitted a putrid stench, and on the blood-stained face, one could occasionally see a few eyeballs that were not completely rotten.

On his wildly waving arms, several pieces of rotten flesh were supported only by two or three tattered muscles.

Almost all the hair on his head was gone, and although he was buried deep in the snow, his exposed internal organs still gave him a considerable shock.

“Eh~”

He shook his head and sighed, “As expected, the wasteland world can’t escape a full-scale zombie invasion.”

He thought he was mentally prepared, but when he saw zombies appear on the wasteland instead of just in the ruins, he couldn’t help but feel uneasy.

It wasn’t that he was afraid of the zombies’ terrifying appearance; they all looked the same, and he was already used to it; his Druids Team has already killed many Zombies.

But the real concern is whether future food supplies will be completely cut off due to the appearance of zombies.

After all, zombies are not just things that people can eat.

Strictly speaking, apart from their own kind, they will hunt and devour any piece of meat, regardless of whether it smells good or bad, without any hesitation. But Zombies were their own kind.

—

Fortunately, the biological detectors indicated that the closest zombies were only seven buried deep in the snow.

He couldn’t tell whether the creatures in the distance were zombies, but they were scattered and far from the level of the zombie hordes in the movies.

It’s worth noting that, due to the reduced land area, biometrics indicate a significantly larger number of survivors in the vicinity compared to previous years.

After silently noting down these details, Vikram stepped forward.

These zombies are no different from those in the ruins; they are still rare and exquisite creatures.

Before he could even get close, the sound of his footsteps on the snow had already ignited their ferocity.

The snow that seemed to be trapping them was now being plowed away by brute force, creating a small patch of land.

Several zombies then took the opportunity to crawl out from inside.

They crawled on all fours, which was a lucky coincidence, and their light, almost fleshy bodies prevented them from getting stuck again.

Faced with Vikram, who didn’t run away but instead charged at them, they opened their stinking mouths, which had few teeth left, without hesitation.

Like geckos, they slithered across the snow, lunging at Vikram as he strolled leisurely.

In response, he simply held the claw. And with his other hands, he just punched it.

“Splat!” Blood splattered everywhere, along with brain matter flying all over the ground.

Before the zombies ahead even arrived, they had already lost one of their kind.

However, the zombies showed no fear and continued to crawl toward him without flinching.

Six zombies attacked simultaneously, blocking Vikram’s path from all sides.

Its mouth dripped with foul-smelling saliva, and it glared at it menacingly.

Vikram, surrounded, shook his head expressionlessly, and soon six vines arrived and held the Zombies in their places.

While Vikram simply started killing them, in a few movies one Zombie was killed.

Vikram then picked two of them, and heavily slammed them in the ground.

Then…

“puff–”

The heads of the two zombies collided violently and exploded like watermelons, splattering brains and rotting flesh, staining the surrounding snow red.

Vikram expression still indifferent, as if everything that had just happened was nothing more than a casual act.

He glanced coldly at the shattered remains of the zombies on the ground, his eyes showing a hint of disdain and disgust.

Ignoring the remaining three zombies charging towards him, he squatted down and used the snow to wash away the stench from his hands.

Just as the zombie charged forward with its mouth agape, again the vine appeared which had stopped them previously, and this time it started burning.

Soon, the remaining three zombies turned iron ash.

Vikram, having washed his hands and stood up, saw that all seven zombies were killed, and he seemed extremely relaxed and at ease throughout the process.

He crouches down and collects the boxes dropped by the zombies.

Then he cut one hand, and picked it, while the rest of them were burnt to ashes by the Fire Mage Druid.

The purpose of doing this is obvious: to prevent other creatures from being attracted to the rotting flesh.

Another point is to prevent the zombie virus from contaminating the environment of the mountain where the shelter is located.

After the Zombies were burnt, Vikram turned around and returned the way he came.