Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 147

Option 64.3 28.6%, Option 7.1 [-]%, Option [-] [-]%.

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【Option [-]】

[Stay up late to lay the track, and try it out first]

……

Attack depends on orbit, and retreat also depends on it.

Still laying the track according to the original plan.

Zheng Zhuo wiped the sweat off his face and made up his mind.

Keep going.

Staying up late and working overtime is not unfamiliar to Zheng Zhuo.Before resigning, he had tapped on the keyboard countless times, looking through the glass windows of the company in despair and exhaustion, watching the sky turn pale.

But it was the first time to stay up late doing physical work.

"Drink ah ah ah ah—"

Anyway, no one was looking at him, and all the strange plants that could hear the sound and distinguish the position were called back.After installing sliding tracks for four more plots, Zheng Zhuo began to encourage himself by shouting loudly.

Cha Cha Cha Cha.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--!"

He wields a weeding hacksaw.The hacksaw mingled with his shouts.

And that's it, 4 more plots.

"..."

tired.Yelling is also exhausting.

He closed his mouth.

Cha Cha Cha Cha.

The weeding hacksaw cut silently.

But the silent night is too depressing.

After 4 plots, he started singing loudly.

His intonation is terrible.

……

[Small town plot (+ the path of the sliding track)]: 22 grids + 42 grids

[Unexplored forest (the distance from the end of the sliding track to the farm)]: 6 grids

……

No matter how difficult an experience is, there will be a time in the past.

I don't know how long the endless homework lasted, and a hazy light penetrated into the sky.

Zheng Zhuo heard a faint commotion coming from ahead.

It's like the movement that many plants will make when they are superimposed and squeeze each other.

Zheng Zhuo stopped the installation of the sliding track here.At the same time, he stopped turning the weeding hacksaw.

The farm...could be just ahead.

Zheng Zhuo carefully carried the bag on his back and moved forward.

He used to always use a weeding hacksaw before, but now he uses his hands to push through the jungle, which is very unaccustomed to him.The forward speed is therefore very slow.

But when the first ray of morning light penetrated into the jungle, he saw what Chu Huairen said "the color and size of the plants are very abnormal", and what Zhuang Yusheng meant when he said "parts of the plant's limbs are mixed together".

Through a gap in the jungle, he saw a mass of plants and mushrooms wrapped together.

Zheng Zhuo had seen a similar environment when the card led him into the world.At that time, there was a farm in that location.

But now, the appearance of the farm could not be seen at all.Under the wrapping of plants, not a little bit of the outer wall of the house is exposed.

Near the huge mass of wrappings, densely packed, crowded with various plants.

[Identification] I can't give a name.Those plants have an uncanny appearance.This is not to say that nouns such as "loofah flower", "Impatiens flower" and "Japanese melon" are wrong.

Rather, they have parts of various types of plants on their bodies.

blah blah.

The plant closest to Zheng Zhuo swung its eight [loofah flower] legs and turned.The hard shell of the foot hit the ground, making the sound that Zheng Zhuo heard when he first met the loofah flower.

But the eight legs of the loofah flower do not grow on the loofah flower.

"(...what the hell.)"

What appeared in front of Zheng Zhuo was a plant with eight loofah flower legs on the lower body and the big head of [Impatiens] that can shoot seeds on the upper body.

Also, the head is separated from the stem, and three flowers grow.

【Carer】If...

Not here.

Zheng Zhuo looked around.

nowhere.

He kept his distance carefully and made no sound.Therefore, those strange plants didn't seem to notice him...

No, it seems to have been found.Many strange plants began to search around consciously.

But they don't have a strong will to search.

"(Is it an order from the [caregiver]?)"

Focus on defending the farm... something like that.

Zheng Zhuo saw many [loofah flowers] and [mushrooms] being parasitized by [snake vines] on their heads.But the larger grafts don't, probably because they already have enough intelligence.

right here.Now, the enemy has not found Zheng Zhuo, and there is no commander who can give them orders.

"(It would be nice if it could be set on fire.)"

This is really a perfect time to set fire!

Zheng Zhuo has [Broken Bomb] in his backpack.The explosive power of this bomb can ignite flames in a small area, but he is not sure whether the lethality and ignition efficiency are enough.

After all, there are so many layers of strange plants in front of him.Even if they step on one plant, the fire will be extinguished.

"(But there is no better way to ignite.)"

Zheng Zhuo quietly took out the "Alchemy Dictionary" from his backpack and flipped through it.

"(Most of the ignition methods require a large amount of [Gunpowder], and a small part requires [Lime Powder]. My [Gunpowder] is used as a bullet, and [Lime Powder] is used as a damage trap.)"

"([Lime powder] is hard to deal with. [Gunpowder]...)"

Zheng Zhuo's previous [Gunpowder] was obtained after catching a [Impatiens].

and many more.

【Impatiens】?
Zheng Zhuo suddenly raised his head and looked at the three flowers on the head of the grafted plant in front of him.

The neck below the flower is bulging.

Zheng Zhuo remembered that he dug out [Gunpowder] from that position before.

……

Ga... ah...

The strange plants made noises and moved slowly around the farm.They squeezed each other and gathered into a ball.

The morning light gradually sprinkled on them.

According to past experience, their "carers" will come out of the farm that can no longer be seen clearly in a short time to water and fertilize them.

But today is a special day.

Someone arrived here before their [caretakers] woke up.

Whoosh.

There was a soft sound.Several bags flew out of the forest.

The bags were soaked with oil, flew in an arc in the air, and landed in the pile of plants.

next second.

Bang!
Explosion, roar.The fragments exploded outward, and the fire snake wrapped around the plants around the impact point.

- Hiss - ah -

The plant pile was in chaos in an instant!They jostled and fell on top of each other, crushing many flames—

The grafted plants were also momentarily attracted by the commotion.The three heads of the strange plant closest to the forest looked at the place where the bomb was dropped at the same time.

at this time.

boom!
A shot went off.

The shot hit the impatiens-shaped head of the strange plant.The flowers were crushed by the huge impact and scattered in the air.

Followed by.

boom! boom! boom!
Another few shots were fired.

All the flowers were blown to pieces.Then……

chapped.

Weeding hacksaws protrude from the necks below the flowers.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...

[Gunpowder] The powder leaked out like sand, and was caught by the huge backpack below.

……

Squeak squeak squeak.

The sliding track makes an overwhelming sound.

Zheng Zhuo grasped it.He moved quickly towards the town.The package on his back was bulging, and it was so heavy that it almost bent the rails of the steel structure.

Black fine powder continuously leaked from the opening of the backpack.

It's gunpowder.

Zheng Zhuo harvested a large amount of gunpowder from the grafted plant.

The gunpowder slid all the way with Zheng Zhuo, leaking behind him in small doses.

Behind it, there was the sound of thunder like an earthquake.

Many strange plants chased them out.Just behind Zheng Zhuo.

"—Faster than expected——!"

Zheng Zhuo took out a flint and steel, rubbed it on his trousers, and threw it far behind him.

boom!
The flames ignited along the gunpowder, and a huge tongue of flame spewed out in an instant.

Squeak squeak!

The strange plants screamed.However, only the frontmost strange plants were lit.The tide-like strange plants pushed down the strange plants in front, stepped on them, and continued to move forward——

Zheng Zhuo slid forward quickly.

Middle of forest, forest front, stone wall.

He will not stop at the stone wall.

This time, he was going back to the mayor's office in one breath.

【gunpowder】.

He brought back a large quantity of gunpowder.He wants to use them to refine the props recorded in the "Dictionary of Alchemy".

A prop that can determine victory.

……

【problem】

[What kind of props should be refined with a large amount of gunpowder? 】

【Option [-]】

【Long Torch】: Huge torch.Using gunpowder as fuel, it can spray flames enough to cover 1 block of land in an instant.Flexibility is best.

【Option [-]】

[Siege Engine]: A siege engine made of a lot of steel.Driven by the explosion of gunpowder, it runs over all objects within 1 square in front with a huge mass.Less flexible.

【Option [-]】

【Large lawn mower】: A lawn mower made of many 【hard shell fragments】 and 【plant teeth】.Driven and rotated by the explosion of gunpowder, it is not very flexible, but it can crush all objects within 2 horizontal grids in front of it.

【Option [-]】

[Explosive Bomb Cannon]: Use gunpowder to make many [Explosive Bombs], load them and fire them.The rate of fire is slow and needs tweaking, but can cause an explosion big enough to cover a 2×2 tile.

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