Although the power of the compound bow was immense, Chris didn't make a rash move when he didn't know the strength of these wandering corpses. He had always been cautious, as caution was the secret to living longer. Brainless impulsiveness and hot bloodedness could most easily lead one into a dangerous situation.
After taking out the stone spade, Chris started digging behind the earth wall. He was unusually careful and dug very slowly. The main reason was that he wasn't sure if the wandering corpses had hearing. Once the speed of digging was fast, noise was unavoidable. In order to avoid the noise attracting the walkers, Chris didn't mind digging a little slower himself.
His dog Max was very smart. When Chris was digging with the stone spade, he was at the side, constantly digging the soil with his paws, piling the soil Chris dug out to the side to facilitate his work. One person and one dog cooperated with each other, and soon after, a cave that could accommodate one person to pass through was dug out.
Chris first took a closer look through the hole to make sure there was no danger and then took the lead to pass through, with Max close behind him. Passing through the earth wall, Chris and Max finally officially entered the ruins. Closely clinging to the root of the wall, Chris observed the surroundings. They should now be in the courtyard of a certain family.
In the yard, a wandering corpse was pacing back and forth, and there was no one person or dog to be found yet. Not far away from them, there were three adobe houses, about a hundred meters away. Although the distance wasn't far, it wasn't close in the case of a traveling corpse patrolling.
Just as Chris was thinking about countermeasures, the roaming corpses suddenly changed their direction of advance and came towards the direction where he and Max were. Seeing the gradually approaching walker, Max immediately understood that this was the enemy and arched his body in a fighting stance.
Chris was similarly startled in his heart when he saw the swimming corpse turn its body around. But after observing for a few seconds, he dropped his heart. Although he and Max were in the path of the traveling corpse's advance, it should just be a coincidence. The walking corpse did not notice them, which could be seen by observing the pace of the walking corpse. The walker's pace was still slow and breathless.
Chris gently patted Max's head, signaling it to relax, and then pointed to the wooden door of the earthen house not far away, which was their destination. In order to avoid the sound attracting the attention of the wandering corpses, he did not use words to express it. Max was very smart, after seeing Chris's gesture, he immediately understood his meaning and wagged his tail, indicating that he understood his master's intention.
The wandering zombie got closer and closer, and Chris and Max moved. They deliberately lowered their footsteps, one person and one dog, one in front and one behind, moving carefully. Three minutes later, they finally arrived at the wooden door. After quickly dodging into the room, Chris immediately locked the door.
Through the door of the room, the wandering corpses were still wandering aimlessly in the yard, not noticing Chris and Max in the slightest. Chris had just let out a sigh of relief when Max by his feet suddenly exploded! All the white hairs on its back stood up, its body arched high, its snow-white fangs were bared outside, and a low whimpering sound came from its throat.
Hearing Max's voice, Chris' scalp tingled, knowing that there was danger. He immediately turned around and looked towards the back, the center of the room. In the center of the room, a wandering zombie crawled up from the ground and quickly rushed towards Chris and Max! Chris instantly regretted his decision to enter the room. With such a small room, his most relied upon weapon, the compound bow, could not be utilized at all!
Chris couldn't think about it in time, so he could only be forced to take the stone spade out of storage as a weapon. The room was small, only a few dozen square feet. The wandering zombie came in front of Chris in an instant, waving its arms and grabbing at his face. Chris hurriedly crossed the stone shovel to block it, but the traveling corpse's attack was not as swift as expected, it was as if it was dragged by something for a moment, its advance stopped, and the attack came to a halt as well.
Chris looked down and saw that Max was biting the swimmer's calf with a deadly grip, trying to hinder its movement. Good job! Chris was touched beyond words in his heart, and at the same time, he seized this opportunity and swung the stone spade fiercely. Bang! With a muffled sound, the rounded stone spade smashed into the traveling corpse's head. The zombie instantly flew backwards, and ruthlessly smashed into the earth wall, raising a lot of dust.
The traveling corpse didn't know if it was dead or alive, but Chris's movements didn't stop. Taking advantage of the distance, he hurriedly took out the compound bow from the warehouse, nocked the arrow, aimed, and fired! The arrow shot out and accurately stuck in the body of the traveling corpse. One arrow was obviously not enough, Chris fired three arrows in a row, and three more arrows were stuck on the chest cavity of the traveling corpse.
Just as Chris breathed a sigh of relief and was about to put the compound bow away, the zombie unexpectedly and strangely stood up again! There were still four arrows stuck in its chest, and the arrows had pierced out from its back, but it still stood up. Moreover, what shocked Chris even more was that a closed side door in the room suddenly opened, and another zombie slowly walked out.
The walker with four arrows stuck in it seemed as if it was not affected by anything, and it gradually approached towards Chris together with the later walkers. Max blocked in front of Chris and charged towards one of the walkers. Although the zombies had no vision, they sensed Max who was swooping in. One of the walkers bent its knee and kicked at Max, while the other one bent down and tried to grab him.
Max managed to dodge the kick of one of the walkers, but failed to avoid the grab of the other walker. The walker's hands clamped down hard on Max like a vise. Max opened his mouth and bit at the walker's wrists, but as if the walker had no sense of pain, not only did it not let go, but the force of its grip became even greater. Max was in pain and bit harder.
Chris was not idle while Max was struggling with the zombie. He opened the system interface and quickly rummaged through to consult the Monster Illustrated Guide, and finally found the page about the Swimming Corpse.
"Name: Swimming Corpse" "Introduction: after experiencing some kind of disaster, all the people here have turned into immortal walking corpses that have no souls and spend their days wandering around." "Inborn Skill: Immortality: the bodies of the wandering corpses are wrapped in a mysterious power, they never die." "Weakness: blowing their heads off won't restrict their movement, you can try breaking their limbs!"
There it was! Chris found the weakness of the Swimming Zombies and quickly closed the Monster Illustration and looked towards the two Swimming Zombies with Max. Max continued to struggle, and Chris's heart raced. One of the walkers was choking Max hard with both hands, as if it wanted to strangle him alive; the other walker kept scratching Max with its claws, only because it had no vision, most of its scratches didn't hit, and the ones that did hit only grabbed onto the body of the other walker.
Chris knew he had to take care of them quickly or Max's life would be in danger. Identifying the weaknesses of the walkers, confidence rose in his heart to defeat them. Because Max was still being held hostage by the walker, he aimed with extreme caution. When the point of aim coincided with the arms of the walkers, Chris loosened the bowstring. Swoosh! The arrow viciously nailed the big arm of the walking corpse. The wandering corpse's large arm bone instantly broke and hung down powerlessly. Max, who was originally pinned down, also broke free from the wandering corpse's hands.
After Max landed on the ground, it still tore at the swimmer's calf. It had learned that tearing could not cause substantial damage to the walker, but it did so in order to hold the two walkers back, preventing them from moving on and creating an environment for Chris's attack.
Chris seized the opportunity provided by Max, re-nocked the arrow, pulled the string, and several air-breaking arrows shot out one after another, hitting the arms and legs of the two walkers respectively. Bang! With two muffled sounds, the wandering corpses lost the support of their legs and fell heavily to the ground. Although they were still writhing and struggling on the ground, they had already lost the ability to hurt people.
Chris and Max let out a sigh of relief at the same time. In the ruins, they could only explore for two hours, and the battle just now had already consumed most of the time. Time was running out, no longer paying attention to the wandering corpses on the ground, Chris began to search through the earthen house. Any items that he came into contact with, he received them in the warehouse together. The specific effect, wait to return to the shelter to check, now the most important thing is to take them all away.
There were a total of three earthen houses, and Chris quickly searched them all. Just as he was breathing a sigh of relief, a heavy slamming sound suddenly rang out! He immediately ran out of the inner room and saw that outside the door of the room, the wandering corpse that he had bypassed earlier was smashing the door. And behind it, several other walkers were approaching! The door of the room was just an ordinary wooden door, it definitely couldn't withstand several walkers attacking at the same time!
There was no other way back in the room, there were only two choices in front of him: either protect the wooden door and hold on until two hours, the system would automatically repatriate, or break through the wooden door and escape the ruins through the hole he entered with Max! The roaming zombies were getting closer and closer, and Chris had to make a choice right away.
In the end, he decided to escape! Chris didn't have a watch on him to confirm the time. Two hours was a long time to say the least, but he couldn't gamble on it, or the cost would be his own life if he lost the gamble. He came to the wooden door, set up his compound bow, and shot three arrows in a row! Splat! The glass of the wooden door was instantly broken, and the three arrows accurately hit the two traveling corpses.
Two of them hit the legs of the same zombie, rendering it incapacitated; the other arrow hit the head of a zombie, which instantly exploded, and the zombie fell to the ground due to inertia. But the moment they fell, the headless zombies immediately stood up again. Without a head, it had no effect on them!
The wooden door that had lost its glass was even more fragile, and one of the zombies even reached its small arm in along with the window's break and opened the switch of the room's door!