There is absolutely no vision in the darkness.
It is twice as difficult to kill a giant rat.
However, after fighting with giant rats for a whole day and killing dozens of them, Mallory had an insight into the movement and attack patterns of giant rats, and knew the subtle sounds they made when they moved and attacked.
With the help of the watch detection, even in the dark, when the giant rats attacked, he was able to strike in time, although not as deadly as in the daytime, the chances of chasing them away or even seriously wounding them is still very high.
After driving away two giant rats that tried to attack him along the way, Mallory made it to the hunting lodge without incident.
The hunting lodge has lights and shares the electricity bill with the big house.
Although the light was dim, it was sufficient as a place to fight.
His goal today was to continue hunting a large number of giant rats and expand the range of his scouting app as much as possible.
The expansion of ten meters to twenty meters requires an additional 4,000 points of time index, and the expansion of twenty meters to thirty meters requires an additional 8,000 points of time index, and the cost of expansion doubles for each additional ten meters. If he can expand to a hundred meters, then his watch's probing will be able to cover the entire area.
But that's not a very realistic thing to do.
Because to expand to 100 meters, he would need to hunt a total of 2044 giant rats and obtain 2.04 million time index points to do so.
From yesterday's experience, hunting ten an hour is already the limit, probably related to the density of giant rats and even refresh rate, when the hunt began, the density of giant rats is very high, may be three minutes to attract one or encounter one, but later, the density of giant rats dropped greatly, it is likely that more than ten minutes or even longer to find one.
Even if he doesn't eat or drink from now until noon, he will be able to hunt at most 100 only.
Therefore, Mallory's initial goal is to expand the scouting range to 50 meters.
This way he only needs to hunt 60 giant rats.
60 giant rats, it will take about seven to eight hours, maybe more, after all, he still need to rest in the middle, go back to frying meat and so on, if the density of the giant rats drop greatly, you need to wait longer for them to recover.
How they appear, or how they are refreshed, Mallory is unclear at the moment.
His scouting app currently only has the ability to scout a ten meter radius, and does not yet have the ability to monitor most of the area in real time.
Since there is a target, just don't think too much and start doing it.
After a while, a giant rat was attracted to the room by opening the door and creating a sound.
Mallory lured it into the room and killed it with a precise headshot hammer kill.
Then he goes out and lures in a second target.
And so on and so forth.
It gets tedious after a while.
In the process, Mallory found that his observation, reflexes, arm strength, endurance, and overall physical fitness were slowly increasing, not in the way that attributes in fantasy or games do, but in the way that human beings improve after extreme training, and these improvements will not just be reflected in this episode, but will be of great benefit to him when he faces similar episodes in the future.
This should also be a good thing.
At dawn at six o'clock, Mallory had hunted more than forty giant rats, earning more than 40,000 time index points, of which he consumed 28,000 to increase the detection range of the scouting app to 40 meters.
He was really hungry.
Mallory picked four of the most robust giant rats, and trapped two more on the way back, returning to the big house with a total of six giant rats.
After throwing the six giant rats through the unlocked window, Mallory also went back to the living room of the house through the window.
Liuyin really is not dead, is sitting on the sofa with vacant eyes looking at the ceiling.
There was no reaction to Mallory's return, as if a walking corpse.
Mallory took a look at her and moved all the giant rats into the kitchen, opening them one by one, taking the fat and flesh, and after that, threw all the garbage out the window, and only then began to fire up the pan, frying the fat into oil, and then putting the meat into the frying pan.
The smell of meat filled the house.
Mallory took a bowl of fried meat to the living room and asked Liuyin to eat it.
She ignored him.
Mallory put the bowl on the coffee table in front of her, and then went back to the kitchen to continue frying the meat while enjoying it.
After a while, Mallory redeemed a few bottles of beer on the refrigerator door, and then drank the beer while eating the meat, humming a little tune while he was happy.
"Why don't you care if I die?" Liuyin suddenly came to the kitchen door and questioned Mallory.
"You can't die in here." Mallory answered Liuyin.
"What happened yesterday didn't affect you at all? Why can you act like nothing happened?" Liuyin continued to question Mallory.
"Yesterday? What happened yesterday?" Mallory recalled, he didn't seem to have a fight with Liu Yin, right? Why is she so angry?
"Not only yesterday, but also the day before yesterday, breaking arms and legs, cutting flesh and scraping bones, did it really have no effect on you at all? You're still eating so well! And drinking! Singing?"
"What is the meaning of you living like this?" Liuyin looked at Mallory with an incomprehensible look, a normal person would have wanted to end his life by this time, right?
Hearing what Liu Yin said, Mallory was flabbergasted.
"The meaning of living? Live, live can eat meat ah." Mallory answered Liuyin, then stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth, and took another sip from his beer can.
"Is that reason alone to sustain you to live? And to live with so much pain? I don't believe it!" Liuyin was devastated by Mallory's answer.
"To live, there is hope. For example, I want to fulfill my promise to her to become a movie star in the future, and then go to her and help her finish that film of hers. And then ... she's going to make good on her promise to me, too." Mallory gave another answer after thinking for a while longer.
"Who is she? The female director from earlier?"
"It doesn't really matter who she is, what matters is that I do have such a target." Mallory thought for a moment more before opening his mouth.
"Is it important to you to become a movie star? Even if you become a movie star, you're still just an actor that the city plays around with! Still can not get rid of the fate of being manipulated! Just such a nebulous goal or reason to become your belief to live? I still don't believe it!" Liu Yin felt that she did not find the answer she wanted.
"I think the most fundamental reason, probably ... involves the biggest difference between you and me. You really want to hear it? Then I'll put the matter properly into perspective." Mallory put down his beer can and his expression became serious.
"Tell me about it."