The Void Pathfinder from the Demon Hunter World

(Recommended background music for this chapter: "Fallout 4 Main Theme" singer: Inon Zur.)

Black Pine Forest Bar, single room upstairs.

The beef is stewed, the soup tastes okay, but the meat tastes a bit strange, probably because of the mutation...

Marvin finished eating 2 servings of stewed beef and felt nothing. He didn't know if there was radiation in his body now, and there was no way to test it.

This single room is pitifully small, with just a bed and a small cabinet, that's all.

It only takes 4 steps to walk from the bed to the door, and there is a bathroom that is difficult to turn around, with only a tin bucket inside...

Spend 14 points of mana to set a magic alarm at the door, as long as it can wake him up in time, don't expect more.

He turned on the learning machine, and the prompt was still there.

[Prompt: The fusion of Pip-Boy is about to begin. It is recommended to perform this fusion in a safe area. Do you want to start the fusion? 】【Yes】【No】

Select Yes.

The learning machine interface disappeared, and then nothing could be done.

Marvin was also careless and went to bed with his clothes on. He didn't know when he would sleep in bed again.

…

The next morning, the restarted learning machine showed a lot of new things.

In the lower left corner of my eyes is a red HP bar, with the data at 100%. There are words above the red bar, normal. In the lower right corner is a blue bar, with the data at 1296/1296. There is also a yellow bar below the blue bar, which is physical strength, with the data at 100%. In the upper right corner is a small square map.

These can all be turned off to restore the cleanest vision.

In addition to the original pages of attributes, abilities, inventory, tasks, knowledge, and books, there is another page, a huge map. Note ①

Even the place names are marked, Marvin is here in the Black Pine Forest.

The route and terrain are already in the map, but only a few places nearby have clear locations. It seems that it was copied from the shelter boy Luo Qi Land who was killed by him.

Is this a copy of the function of the Pip Boy?

Other pages have not changed, and the inventory has expanded to almost 4 pages, leaving a large space.

In addition, the learning machine has a new prompt.

[Task Tips: Get the Vault-Tec Product C.A.M.P, get the Vault-Tec Product Workshop. ]

What is C.A.M.P? What is a workshop?

Marvin thought about it for a long time. It seemed to be used to build a house? He couldn't remember what it looked like.

He left the room, ordered breakfast, and bought a lot of beef. He sat at the bar and planned to chat with the Duchess.

When he recalled the plot of the game in the morning, he remembered that in the main plot of Fallout 76, it seemed that a nuclear bomb was going to be dropped at the end.

Nuclear bombs, good stuff, the Wild Hunter must like it very much. You can make it.

"Ready to leave? Where to?" The Duchess asked while wiping the bar.

"I don't know, do you have any work to recommend?"

"What kind of work do you take?"

"People, beasts, monsters, robots, I can kill anything."

"I don't have any here, the people in the shelter have cleaned up the area several times a while ago. It's safe here now."

"Where are those people now? Maybe they have work."

"I heard they went south. You can go down the road to Pinglin Town."

"Okay, thanks, bye."

"Bye."

...

As soon as he walked out of the door, Marvin saw someone he didn't expect at all, Gaunt O'Dimm.

This devil was dressed like a traveling merchant in the wasteland. He was wearing a patched blue long coat and jeans, a dirty flowered headscarf, and a huge backpack. He looked exactly like a two-headed bull, except that there was no two-headed bull carrying goods.

He still had a smiling face and waved his hand holding the gas mask as a greeting.

"Hey, did you lose your two-headed cow?"

"Look, I took this off just in case you didn't recognize it."

The devil raised the gas mask in his hand, walked to the bench next to the cowshed, and sat down.

"Thank you very much. Why, do you have business here?"

Marvin was indeed a little curious. He originally thought that Gunter O'Dimm would not come to a place like the wasteland with a technological apocalypse style.

"There are people in need of help in every world."

Marvin leaned against the trailer next to him.

"Okay. Who is it this time? What do I need to do?"

"A man named John Henry Eden. He wanted to be the president here, so I let him be the president. The contract is that I will take his soul after he dies."

Gunter O'Dimm gestured a small distance with his thumb and index finger.

"Then he had a 'small' accident and almost died. But he hid his soul in that... oh, computer. According to the contract, he is still alive, and if nothing unexpected happens, he will not die for a long time, so I can't collect his soul. So it depends on you."

"Wait a minute, let me think again. This broken place still has a country? And a president?"

"Let me think about it, I haven't been here for a while..." Gaunt O'Dimm rubbed his head and recalled, "...You know the Enclave?"

When Marvin heard the familiar name of the organization, his memory began to clear.

"I know, and then what?"

"The Enclave believes that it is the government of the United States, so the president of the Enclave is the president of the United States. At least he thinks so, so the contract is effective."

"Then how do I find him?"

The devil spread his hands: "You have to rely on yourself."

"Last question, was it you who dragged me to this wasteland?"

Gunter O'Dimm quickly waved his hand and said, "I don't have the ability. You can ask the existence above you."

Marvin only has a learning machine that cannot communicate, and there is a ghost on top.

To prevent the devil from seeing anything, he changed the subject: "Understood. By the way, do you sell guns?"

"I also want to ask, do you have a bottle cap?"

"Farke!"

"Goodbye, Marvin."

[Task tip: Debt collection. Help Gaunt O'Dem collect the souls owed to John Henry Eden. Due to special reasons, this mission has been accepted and needs to be completed before leaving this world. If the mission fails, you will bear unknown risks. 】

…

Gunter O'Dimm has "disappeared" for a while, and Marvin is still sitting on the bench next to the cattle pen, calculating spatial coordinates.

He analyzed the spatial coordinates of the "Black Pine Bar" and remembered them in his mind.

Surprisingly, after the analysis is completed, the coordinates of this point on the learning machine map will also be displayed, which is consistent with the calculation results.

It seems that the new functions of the learning machine are not only the ones I just saw, but also need to be explored a little bit...

Leaving the lodgepole pine forest, Marvin followed the road south.

…

The world of Fallout is very similar to Blue Star, except that history has taken a turn from World War II.

In the nearly one hundred years after World War II, a bipolar world was formed, led by the United States of the North American continent and the Eastern powers of the Eurasian continent.

The technology of this world has also reached a strange turning point for unknown reasons. There are no semiconductors or integrated circuits. Instead, transistor technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, and biotechnology has developed rapidly.

After the 21st century, fossil energy such as oil has gradually depleted, and the two poles of the world have developed from a cold war to a hot war due to competition for energy.

A war broke out over the last piece of land with oil, Alaska. Note②

The two superpowers are fighting in this arctic ice field...

At the end of the war, I don’t know which side launched the first nuclear bomb first. Then, overwhelming nuclear missiles fell, and the world was over...

Who actually launched the first nuclear bomb? It is unknown, and the nuclear war that destroyed the world broke out inexplicably...

Before the outbreak of nuclear war, due to the continued awareness of war confrontation, a special company, Shelter Technology Company, was born in the United States.

This company is nominally building high-tech shelters, striving to protect the people of the United States and preserve civilization in a nuclear war. In fact, behind Shelter Technology is the United States government, and there is a hint of a deeper background.

This company has established a total of 122 shelters in the United States. Most of the shelters are not used to protect the people, but are used to conduct incredible experiments, including human experiments, biological mutation experiments, human group social experiments, etc.

The Enclave, a shadow government hidden behind the United States government, emerged after the war. They possess sophisticated technological power and huge military power.

…

The concrete road on the flat land in front of me is still intact, but there is no human habitation. There are messy shrubs beside the road, and there is a small river in the distance, flowing south parallel to the road.

In the dense forest on the hillside on the other side of the river, you can occasionally see wild deer, and the remains of mutated wild dogs and corpse-radiated people are left on the roadside.

This is slightly different from the wasteland in Marvin's memory.

The wasteland in his memory was arid and lacked water, with sparse and dry vegetation, and the air was full of radioactive dust...

Although the scene in front of me was also full of barbarism, the plants were lush and the environment was not very bad.

Appalachia, where is it?

He did not ask the Duchess of Black Pine Forest directly, because it would expose many secrets of his own. He preferred to find the answer himself.

Ahead, behind a rusted and damaged car, a "man" was kneeling on the roadside, covered in darkness, holding his head in his hands, looking up to the sky, seemingly in pain.

From the time Marvin saw "it" more than a hundred meters away, until he got closer to more than ten meters away, the humanoid object remained motionless.

This "person" doesn't look like a living thing, but like a completely carbonized dead person, with strange bright green stripes covering its body.

Marvin picked up a piece of gravel and threw it over.

Pa, hoo~

The humanoid object shattered into a black mist and was blown away by the wind, leaving only a layer of black ash on the ground and the abandoned car.

Marvin waited for the black fog to completely dissipate, then bypassed the abandoned car and continued moving forward.

That thing was so weird, he wouldn't get close to it out of curiosity. God knows what will be triggered.

…

After passing through a bridge tunnel, a small town appeared in front of us. This is Pinglin Town.

A very beautiful wooden house suddenly appeared on the right side of the river, which was incompatible with the surrounding environment.

The white painted wooden walls and porch, the red roof, are brand new and clean, as if they had not experienced a nuclear war.

Marvin approached carefully and encountered no danger.

After stepping onto the porch he found the front door of the house unlocked and knocked on the open door.

"Is there anyone?"

"who?"

A woman's voice came from upstairs, followed by thumping sounds coming downstairs.

A young girl wearing a pink dress and blond hair came downstairs. When she saw Marvin, she asked sharply: "Who are you? What do you want to do?"

Marvin asked, "Are you from Vault 76?"

"So what? I don't have a bottle cap for you, go away."

"I just wanted to ask you where the others went?"

"Why do you ask?"

"You are going to rebuild Appalachia, and I plan to help."

"Oh?"

The blonde girl did not come down, but stood on the stairs and pointed at Marvin and said, "Don't come in, I just changed the carpet."

Marvin retreated to the door and asked, "Where can I go to find other people in the shelter?"

"Tsk, how should I know? What can you do if you go there?"

"A lot, I'm a pretty good bounty hunter."

"What the hell... I haven't heard of it."

"Okay."

Confirming that he couldn't get anything out of this woman, he turned and left.

"Wait! Clean up the mud you brought up..."

Marvin ignored her and walked towards the town. However, when he turned around, he caught a glimpse of an unfolded machine at the base of the outer wall of the house, with the words "C.A.M.P" on the green paint.

...

Pinglin Town is a very small town, with a church, a restaurant, an unused gas station and a dozen residential houses, connected by a broken cement road.

There is a group of self-help groups who call themselves "responders" living in the town, about a dozen people. Most of them are new, and only one woman named Heather Ellis has seen the people in the shelter.

The restaurant is not open for business at the moment because a cook has not been found yet. Heather is cleaning the restaurant and preparing to try to open it.

From her, Marvin learned that the people in the shelter had been gone for at least a month.

As for the whereabouts of the people in the shelter, she only knew that they left Pinglin Town and went to Sutton Town in the east to find their supervisor.

Sutton Town, this place is on Marvin's map.

He did not rush to leave Pinglin Town, but walked around the town.

It is not easy to survive in a wasteland full of malice and danger. He needs a safe shelter, reliable drinking water and food, and weapons.

In a wasteland with rampant guns and no laws, it is too disadvantageous to use only a knife. Even with a gun, bullets are still a big problem. How to replenish? Relying on seizures may not be enough.

Marvin is not sure what kind of damage the gun can cause to himself. At least, the sword can still hurt him.

In addition, can the current set of armor seized and modified from the Wild Hunt Navigator effectively defend against live ammunition? In the future, he will inevitably face energy guns such as lasers and plasma. What should he do?

After walking around, he found a good place under an abandoned small building next to the church.

It was the basement of a two-story cement building, which was completely sealed.

Marvin used inhuman strength to remove the wooden boards and stones. Going down the stairs was an underground space of more than 40 square meters, with a lot of cardboard boxes, crates, broken sofas, single folding beds and other waste garbage.

He left the folding bed and broken sofa, and threw the rest far outside.

Marvin used the Gus pattern to drill upwards on the roof of the basement, opened a vent to the first floor of the small building, and sealed the entrance with stones and river sand again, and a safe house that only he could enter and exit was built.

He was very familiar with the inside and outside of the safe house, and the blocking wall was only a few dozen centimeters thick, so it was not difficult to teleport in or out.

If he was in an unfamiliar place, he would not dare to teleport through the wall, as he would be doomed if he got stuck.

Then, Marvin wasted some mana to use the cleaning spell to clean the dust, which was not much, and spread the expensive fur mattress and blanket in the inventory on the folding bed.

Pinglin Town is relatively safe at present, and this place can at least let him sleep peacefully at night.

The problem of the shelter was solved, and Marvin teleported out of the stairs of the safe house and walked towards the beautiful house of the woman in the shelter.

The main door was closed, and Marvin looked carefully through the window. There was no one in the room on the first floor. He knocked on the window again, but there was still no one.

He turned to the side corner, and the machine with "C.A.M.P" printed on it was still there.

Marvin silently said you're welcome and put his hand on the machine.

[Hint: Found the task item C.A.M.P, do you want to submit it? ] [Yes] [No]

Choose yes.

The machine disappeared, but the beautiful house was still there.

Marvin scratched his head, this is different from what he expected.

In his memory, this house should have been built with this high-tech CAMP. Since the CAMP is gone, will the house also disappear? But in fact, it didn't.

Why would a learning machine need such a machine?

Alas, I can't figure it out, so I'll just ignore it for now.

[Hint: Submission successful, task completed, reward ability point +1. ]

Marvin quickly left the scene of the crime, jumped over the stream, and found a spacious place in the woods on the hillside. He wanted to do a firearms test. Use the existing armor spare parts and firearms to conduct preliminary firearms damage tests.

The small-caliber bullets of the iron barrel pistol can only cause minor damage to the leather armor, just a small pit.

The semi-automatic pistol can penetrate the leather armor but will lose kinetic energy, but it has no way to deal with metal armor plates, and it can't even make a small pit.

The scattered projectiles of the double-barreled shotgun can penetrate the leather armor within 5 meters, and cannot be effective on metal armor plates, but the impact force of the shotgun is very considerable.

Marvin believes that if he is hit by a shotgun at close range in the leather armor, there is a high probability that he will have a fracture or internal organ rupture.

During the experiment, he discovered that he could now clearly see the trajectory of the bullets from the iron pipe pistol.

As long as he could see it, he would have the confidence to cut the bullets with a knife.

Unfortunately, he could not see the bullets from the semi-automatic pistol clearly. Even if he could see the shotgun clearly, he could not do anything.

…

The next morning, after eating something casually, Marvin walked east according to the instructions on the map.

Across from a 4-lane damaged cement road, the mountain becomes steeper, and there are many shrubs and woods. The visibility is not good, and rashly walking into the woods can easily cause unnecessary trouble.

Fortunately, there was a road on the map, so he gave up climbing and followed the road first north and then east.

This journey is not just about rushing, he also has to practice shooting and test gun damage. The radiated corpses and mutated wild dogs that occasionally wander out of broken houses and bushes are the best targets.

The iron pipe pistol is almost useless, it does low damage and is difficult to use, so give it up.

Semi-automatic pistols are okay. Bullets that hit the triangular area from the nose to the eyes of a radiated corpse can basically be fatal with two shots; hitting other areas of the head has limited effect; hitting the body is not much different from missing.

Double-barreled shotguns can shatter wherever they hit within 5 meters, and have a probability of being fatal with one shot. However, they are not very effective at 5 meters away. The distribution area of ​​the projectiles is too large, but they still have obvious knockback and knockback effects.

This time when he went out, he pretended to carry a bag, put the pistol in the holster on his leg, and wore a suit of armor, finally looking more like a real bounty hunter.

Of course, if you really want to fight without any scruples, you have to follow your old habits.

Along the way, he also practiced using the inventory to quickly switch weapons, striving to be able to switch weapons instantly and seamlessly during battle.

Perhaps because of his bloodline talent, it is not difficult for him to use the inventory space to quickly switch weapons.

…

Three hours later, Marvin arrived at Sutton train station.

There are two workbenches in the station, one seems to be modified for metal objects, and the other looks like a chemical experiment bench, but it's a pity that he doesn't know how to use it. This should have been left by the people in the shelter, but why was it placed at the train station?

Coming out of the train station, the sun shines on the trees and houses on the hillside not far away. It is very beautiful and does not look like a wasteland at all.

But the collapsed buildings, broken wooden fences, and dried blood at the foot of the hillside still reminded him that this was indeed a barbaric land after nuclear war.

When he walked along the stone stairs outside the train station and approached a house halfway up the mountain, he found a middle-aged woman wearing a shelter jumpsuit and a plaid shirt sitting in the courtyard behind the house, basking in the sun. A rifle was leaning against the tea table.

"Hi, excuse me." Marvin greeted loudly.

The woman turned around and looked up and down at the young man outside the fence. Not a predator, not like a scavenger, just a 10mm pistol.

The woman put down most of her guard and asked with a smile: "Young man, what's the matter?"

"I'm looking for someone from Vault 76, and I want to help."

"What help?"

"I came from the lodgepole pine forest, and the residents said they were helping people rebuild Appalachia. Good Samaritans deserved more help. I'm a pretty good bounty hunter, and I thought I could help."

"Oh? People like you are rare in Appalachia." The middle-aged woman was testing.

Marvin had no choice but to continue making up: "I'm not a local, I'm from the north. I've only been here a few days."

"Bounty hunter, that's an old word. What do you want? We don't have bottle caps." The woman began to admit her identity, but she was still testing.

"No, I don't need bottle caps. I can find other jobs to earn bottle caps. Again, good-hearted people should get help."

"Young man, you don't look like a kind person. Tell me, what do you want?"

Marvin secretly lamented that he didn't perform well and could only change his mind.

"I need some tools and gun blueprints, and I think you should have them. Living in the wasteland, knowledge is more useful than bullets."

The woman took a sip from the tea cup and said, "Come in and sit down, young man."

Marvin pushed open the low fence door and sat across from the woman.

The woman stretched out her right hand: "I am the supervisor of Vault 76."

The two parties shook hands, and the woman felt the calluses on the young man's hand. It didn't look like a hand that often used a gun, but it wasn't an ordinary person either. The "bounty hunter" argument has some credibility.

"I am Marvin Geidema, a bounty hunter from afar."

The supervisor asked: "How do you prove your statement? Marvin. You know, we all have to be more careful when surviving in the wasteland."

"Find something for me to kill. I'm better at this kind of work."

The supervisor pondered for a while and said, "I'll make three requests, and you'll complete them. I'll pay you with a few drawings. Is that okay?"

"Yes, time, place, target."

The supervisor smiled, waved his hand and said, "Haha, I look like a bad guy who hires a killer. Not like that, do you know Taylor County Amusement Park?"

Marvin memorized the names of all the places that could be seen on the map and nodded in agreement.

"There is a small island in the middle of the river west of the amusement park. There is a deathclaw living on it. We lost several people there. I want you to take its claw. This is a very dangerous task, you don't have to accept it. "

Marvin knew that if he didn't accept it, there would be basically no chance of further success. Besides, the death claw is not timid at all. Is it faster than a vampire, stronger than a giant, or can it fly?

"No problem. Besides, where can I get a better gun and bullets? Mine are left to my family. Now I only have this and a knife."

He gestured as he drew his semiautomatic pistol from his leg holster.

"Well...just wait a moment." The supervisor picked up the rifle beside the table and returned to the room.

A few minutes later she came out with another scoped rifle and placed the gun and two boxes of ammunition on the tea table.

"Is this okay?"

Marvin just said it casually. He just wanted to find an arms dealer, but he didn't expect the supervisor to give him the stock directly.

He didn't rush to take it. First, it would be easy to show his fear if he was not familiar with it, and second, it would be bad to be too anxious.

"Enough, I'll go now."

"Be careful."

"I won't die that easily." He picked up the gun and bullets, "I'm a professional."

[Task prompt: Eliminate the death claws. The supervisor of Shelter 76 asked you to eliminate the death claws on the river island west of Taylor County Amusement Park. Do you want to accept this task? 】【Yes】【No】

Choose yes.

...

Note ①: How can there be no map? Right... Starting from this volume, the learning machine slowly showed its uniqueness...

Note ②: The first Fallout series game was released on September 30, 1997. At that time, SL had disintegrated. The creative team studied the world situation and found that it seemed that only Tokyo University could compete with the United States, so we became the world background. It's nonsense. They don't understand our culture at all. But the world background is like this.

There is another chapter today.