Chapter 16 - Wolves

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The silver line formed a dot in the golden pupil before expanding abruptly. Thus, in his line of sight, the scenery five hundred meters away suddenly drew closer, allowing him to clearly see an adult corpse wolf with its tongue sticking out, resting on the light surface of the rock.

It was the sentry.

Zero knew that in front of this corpse wolf, there were dozens of other corpse wolves wandering around in the wilderness.

Corpse wolves are mutated wild wolves. They are infected by eating carrion and corpses. The wolves that couldn't survive the invasion died one after the other, and the ones that survived became ferocious beasts with bloodshot eyes and body odors, whose fur had turned gray. Although the Corpse Wolves consumed corpses, they preferred fresh meat.

He had already hunted for three days and had a deep understanding of this.

With regards to the smell of fresh flesh and blood, the Corpse Wolf's sense of smell was exceptionally developed. After repeated experiments, it was determined that a corpse wolf's sense of smell limit was around 400 meters, which allowed Zero to define the best shooting distance.

Naturally, the zero-handed M500 was not that far away. Besides, this large caliber firearm was almost extinct, so there was no silencer to match with it. If Zero took the revolver to hunt, he would probably attract the attention of all the zombie wolves within a few kilometers by firing a shot.

For this purpose, Zero bought a sniper rifle from the weapons warehouse.

It was an old SVD sniper rifle, designed and modified by the former Soviet Union's Dragunov. It used a 7N1 bullet, with a maximum range of 600 meters. However, with the combination of the Golden Eyes of Zero, it could effectively injure a person within 1000 meters. However, this type of sniper rifle had already been eliminated in the new era, and the "Falcon" series of sniper rifles started by the big gunner Manteos was commonly used. For example, the falcon N-1 that Allen used was one of the first generation of this series of guns.

Even though it was a beginner's gun model, coupled with the high accuracy semi-automatic sight gear and the latest sniper equipment, it could reach an effective range of 1500 meters.

In normal circumstances, the new sniper rifle's power and range was around 2.5 times that of the zero SVD.

On the other hand, as the sniper rifle was facing elimination, the 'Zero' sniper rifle was relatively cheaper. The manager of the weapon warehouse, Masson, only sold them at the price of 1050 yuan, who even gave him a basic amount of ammunition. After all, this type of spear would have to be returned to the Parkland Headquarters for recycling and destruction by the end of the year.

And this sniper rifle also went through some special modifications, such as the extra long barrel, which made this SVD sniper rifle out of shape. Through modification, with the cooperation of a zero golden right eye, the 50 pieces of firearms could display the power and range of a 300 pieces beginner falcon spear.

During the three days of hunting, Zero was constantly familiarizing himself with the operation of the sniper rifle in his hands. The corpse wolves that filled the mountains were his best practice target.

Today, it was no longer a group of lone corpse wolves that were hunting. He found a pack of wolves, no less than fifty adult males, and twenty different females and cubs. That was something he had inadvertently discovered while hunting a few male wolves yesterday, so he decided to finish off this wolf den today.

There was a huge difference in risk between a pack of corpse wolves and a single-digit group of corpse wolves. The pack wolves were more dangerous, and their reproduction would be unimaginable because of the she-wolves. By this time next year, Zero believes that the number of dead wolves will double.

In their line of sight, the sentry who was resting on his stomach began to move. This meant that the wolf pack had moved on.

Zero carried the sniper rifle and disappeared into the cover like a ghost. At a speed that was 10 kilometers per hour, he carried the pack of zombies far away.

Even if he ran all day, Zero would not feel tired. Two years ago, a Rank 1 Strength Enhancement allowed Zero to have sufficient stamina, and the point of evolution that was not triggered by a directional potion naturally evolved into a Rank 1 Agility Enhancement ability. Speed was a skill that was far more important to a Gunner than strength and defense. Therefore, Zero was quite satisfied with this ability.

Level one agility allowed a zero speed limit to reach 60 kilometers per hour. Moreover, it also came with other related minor abilities, including a more acute reaction, which were the basic conditions for Zero to be able to wander alone in the wilderness.

Zero maintained a distance of about a kilometer from the wolf pack.

He was looking for a suitable battlefield.

In front of him was a wilderness that was a kilometer away from the base. The plains here were not suitable for fighting with wolves. The wide terrain would greatly increase the space within the wolf pack's movements. Zero's sniper rifle was a single-shot firearm, which meant that he wouldn't be able to form a powerful firepower net with sufficient endurance.

Once the Wolves were within three hundred meters of him, that would be the time of his death.

The first stage of defense was not strong enough to withstand the Corpse Wolf fang that was able to use its mouth to bite through the steel plate. In this era, humans were evolving, but wild beasts evolved even faster.

So he was patient and had time. In order to hunt these corpse wolves, he had prepared three days of rations, which would allow him to travel back and forth in the wilderness within 1000 kilometers from the base.

And in fact, zero doesn't have to go that far. In his mind, he could clearly see the map within 500km of the base. He knew that there was a natural canyon that was 10 kilometers away from the base. Two years ago, when he went on a mission to Silver Tree City, he passed by that long and narrow canyon. Except for the road, which was barely passable, the rest of the area was craggy and rocky, with countless shelters. To Zero, that was the most suitable battlefield.

The wolves were heading towards the canyon.

Zero had never doubted his judgement. At noon, the canyon was in sight, confirming Zero's guess.

From the movements of the wolves, it seemed that they were preparing to migrate. There was no more food for them to survive in the wilderness nearby. If they wanted to survive, they had to leave this place to find a better place.

However, the wolves didn't know that Zero wasn't going to let them leave. If they could make one of these wild beasts be missing, then the people wandering in the wilderness would be less dangerous. This was a competitive era. In addition to competing against their kind, humans also competed against beasts and monsters for the space to survive.

Either you die, or I die!