Chapter 557: It doesn’t look good...

There's not much to say about the opening CG, it just roughly explains the world background.

As for zombie themes, the story background has already formed a mature system context.

An unknown pharmaceutical company developed a bioscience drug, which was then accidentally leaked. Although modern military forces with weapons had the upper hand in the beginning, the disease was spread through air circulation and eventually destroyed the world. The global population plummeted, and only a few survivors with innate antibodies and immunity to airborne transmission were left, still lingering in this world at the beginning of the catastrophe.

At this time, the catastrophe of mankind has just begun, and the order of the wasteland is still in chaos.

This is an era full of despair and danger, but also a brand new beginning of the posthuman era.

In short, pick up all the tools and weapons around you and try your best to survive in this doomsday!

With the end of the opening CG!

All the values in the game also appear in the dream's heads-up display.

A value bar directly below was divided into two, representing his health and armor.

The series of values on the lower left side shows his current survival status data.

Satiety, water, physical strength, oxygen, and infection value.

There are five major items, and the distribution is very reasonable.

After briefly understanding the functions of each UI, Dream checked his backpack again——

Without a doubt, empty.

Dream, who turned off the backpack UI, was obviously very satisfied with this setting:

"As expected, there is nothing here. Let's first look around to see if there is anything we can loot."

Push the door out of the safe house.

At this moment, it was already evening in the game world, and the blood-red setting sun used its remaining light to outline shadows of varying depths on the lonely streets.

There were only three or five abandoned cars lying on the narrow and quiet street, and the whole street was dead silent.

Moreover, perhaps because it was born in the suburbs, the surrounding buildings are not densely populated and are generally low.

The style of the entire visible game area is...

Simple.

Yes, crude.

Low buildings, sparse layout, thin roads, and a few abandoned cars.

Of course, no one can deny that such neighborhoods do exist in the world.

But the thing is, this is a game.

The suburban town now presented to players seems to be quite different from the metropolis with crisscrossing skyscrapers in the original trailer.

"Uh... that's it?"

When the water friends saw the surrounding scenes, they were also a little speechless -

"This building density... isn't it a bit too low..."

'It feels like you've traveled from Vienna's Golden Hall to Baker Farm (doge)'

"Hahaha, Baker Farm is too hellish. What a purgatory start."

"We are in my father-in-law's hometown, right?"

'Isn't this quite different from the metropolis shown in the trailer? There isn't even a building over ten stories high?'

"Maybe it's the spawn point? After all, it's a huge sandbox design, so there are bound to be some remote areas..."

"But this is a trial, why not pick a more awesome scene to show it off?"

'Maybe there are too many things in Metropolis? Even related to the key progress of the game? It's not easy to release it now?'

"That's not unreasonable..."

"But this difference is still a bit disappointing."

"Let's try it out first. Maybe the gameplay will be more attractive later."

'Too……'

"……"

Obviously.

The gap between the actual game and the trailer made many players feel a little disappointed.

However, the game has just begun, so the players won’t be killed with one blow.

"Let's take a look around first..."

Dream also said.

Since he had nothing at the beginning, his top priority now was to find a handy weapon to defend himself.

Thinking about it, Dream set his sights on a tool store not far away across the street.

This place must have something good to offer.

Adze, chisel, axe and saw are all useful weapons for self-defense in the end times.

Thinking of this, Dream took a step forward, crossed the street and walked towards the tool store across the street.

Squeak

I pushed open the door of the shop, and with a teeth-grinding friction sound, the evening light brought a dim and blurry light to the dark shop.

"Hello? Is anyone there?"

Dream has a bit of black humor.

Even in the end of the world, we still don’t forget to be polite.

"Boss? Shopper?"

"Is anyone there? Someone please come and see me..."

Bang!

Before he can finish!

Suddenly!

Suddenly, in the dark little shop, there was a loud noise of a counter collapsing!

Then, a dark shadow suddenly jumped out from behind the cashier counter on the right side of the store door and bit Dream's arm!

Snap!

"A generous gift - Fuck!!!"

The sudden Jumpscare gave Dream a big shock!

After a short scream, Dream, who fell to the ground, looked up!

He saw a zombie dressed in shop assistant's clothes, opening its bloody mouth and biting towards him!

Buzz——!

Bang! Bang!

Who is dream?

Killing zombies with bare hands was a piece of cake for him. After a brief shock, Dream reacted immediately and punched the clerk zombie twice, knocking him off balance.

What follows is a “round-based” fight!

It can be felt that the action setting of this game is relatively simple. With the help of action assist, the only attacking actions that Dream can complete with bare hands are "left and right hooks" and "front kicks".

There isn't even a running flying punch like in PUBG.

Fortunately, the zombies' mobility matches this simple action system.

After being attacked, the zombies will be stunned for a long time, which is enough time for the player to catch up and perform a combo on the zombies.

Plop.

Under the almost one-sided "crushing", the zombies quickly fell under Dream's iron fist.

“Hoo—hoo—hoo—”

With his stamina bar depleted, Dream was breathing heavily, as if his body had been hollowed out.

The viewers in the live broadcast room laughed at each other:

'It's been a long time since I've seen such a simple and crude action. The straight punch action is so straightforward that it can't be more straightforward and is full of pure killing desire. It's really a hearty and passionate battle! (dog head)'

"You should really thank the dog-head expression, otherwise I would put you in the enemy's clothes and bury you."

"No? This battle? Huh? I'm confused..."

"It's not even as fancy as Mr. Ma's Lightning Five Whip move."

"Isn't this action design too simple... even crude?"

"Yes, you should at least have the same level of movement as Sekiro."

'? ? ? '

'Sekiro's action level? Do you know what you are talking about? Sekiro's action level is still the benchmark for ARPGs, okay?'

"Sekiro's action level is indeed excessive, but the action design of Before the Disaster is... even more excessive, excessive in another direction."

"I'll be honest, the punching in APEX, an FPS game, is more powerful than this."

'Why do I have a bad feeling?'

"What? You're the only one who has it? When I saw Dream enter the game, I already felt something was wrong..."

"This bare-handed combat... is a bit abstract."

"Maybe they thought that most players wouldn't be empty-handed in the future, so they didn't do it well."

"Indeed, after all, it is still mainly based on shooting, but if this aspect can be improved, it would be better to enrich it further."

"……"

Following the discussion of the players!

Here, Dream's stamina bar was finally restored and he calmed down.

"Phew - this is not good -"

Dream calmed down again and looked at his own condition.

Due to the sudden attack from the zombies just now, he was bitten.

Without the bonus of armor, the health volume dropped by about one-tenth.

Moreover, according to the game settings, being bitten by a zombie will cause infection.

Although his infection value is only 5% now , if antibiotics are not found in time to curb the treatment, the infection value will continue to rise and eventually lead to corpse transformation. This character will be completely dead, and all the resources that have not been stored in the fixed shelter will be cleared.

So all in all, this game is pretty hardcore.

This is also one of the reasons why Dream prefers it.

"Let's find a weapon first, and then see if we can find a pharmacy and search for some antibiotics or something."

As he spoke, Dream walked into the tool store and came to a messy shelf.

The scene was very messy. It was obvious that someone had "visited" before. The goods were scattered all over the place, and even a row of shelves had fallen to the ground.

dream is not surprising.

Because judging from several promotional videos released by Yunwei before, under the sweeping catastrophe of the end of the world, from super malls to small grocery stores.

Almost all places where supplies can be found are in this messy state.

What players have to do is to pick out usable supplies from this mess.

Thinking of this, Dream also stepped over the mess, trying to prop up the collapsed shelves, rummaging through the garbage, and picking up scraps.

However!

Just as he leaned over to flip the shelves!

An unexpected situation occurred -

The shelves actually lit up in outline.

That's right.

The collapsed shelves lit up their outlines.

Then, Dream clearly felt an invisible and thin wall of air, firmly blocking his fingers that wanted to flip the shelves.

Following right on!

Swoosh——