The Void Pathfinder from the Demon Hunter World

It was only when Marvin returned to Baiquan Railway Station early the next morning that he saw the buildings opposite.

Neat and beautiful lawns, beautifully designed landscape plants, pure white and complete buildings, no debris and broken roads. It doesn't look like a wasteland at all.

The various types of robots cruising back and forth at the entrance of the building complex made him give up his plan to sneak in, at least the main entrance was inaccessible.

I have other things on my mind, so I’ll try to find a way to get in next time.

After leaving Baiquan Station, Marvin walked south along the railroad tracks. He met several scavengers along the way. Everyone was wary of each other, and then they separated to continue their work.

This is the normal behavior of wastelanders.

Until the afternoon, Marvin left the railroad tracks and followed the road up the mountain. Halfway up the mountain, there was a complete wooden three-story house with complete glass windows, neatly stacked firewood, an open front door, and a fairly neat porch.

It seems like someone lives here.

He walked towards the small building, and when passing by the firewood pile, his sharp eyes spotted something yellow in the gap of the firewood pile, which looked very familiar.

When I dug it out, it was a disk. Open the Pip-Boy card slot on your left wrist and insert the disk. There is a recording inside and play it.

"The supervisor's log...somewhere in the mountainous area..." The voice seemed to be enduring pain, and kept panting, "I'm...not very good...the situation is very bad, damn, it hurts too much. While...while... I am still conscious... I was attacked. The other party was wearing a gas mask... wearing a thick coat, but they were not human beings... not human beings..."

Marvin had just separated from the supervisor and knew she was okay. But the key point is that she still plays the Riddler while recording. Isn't this appropriate?

He was a little curious as to what was going on.

To his surprise, there was a counter in the lobby on the first floor of the small building. A middle-aged woman said with a smile: "Welcome, this is the Mid-Levels Budget Hotel. This is the best hotel nearby. We not only provide comfortable single rooms. , breakfast is also provided.”

If it weren't for the window sill covered with radioactive dust, Marvin would have thought it was seven days.

"What's for breakfast?"

"Uh...yes, it's mole meat and radish flowers."

"Is this true every day?"

"Of course not."

"Then what was yesterday?"

"Uh, let me think about it, ah, I remember it, it's corn and tomato soup."

"Do you sell mole meat? I want to buy it."

"Sorry, we don't sell it. Do you want to stay?"

"Okay, come and get a room."

"5 bottle caps, thank you."

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The room was pretty good, double bed, the mattress was cracked, only the mattress; the bathroom was not small, there was a layer of mud in the bathtub, and there was a bucket; there was a TV, although there was no electricity; the ceiling fan was a bit shaky.

Wasteland, you can’t ask for more.

Marvin was not surprised that there was an inn in the wasteland. Everyone has no home now and is wandering around. It is good to have a place to stay when going out. But it’s not appropriate for a hotel to be located halfway up a mountain.

Offering breakfast but not being able to tell what it is is even more problematic.

The woman at the front desk sweated when she was asked a few questions, and coupled with the supervisor's recording, there might be something wrong with this place...

After leaving the room, Marvin walked around upstairs and downstairs. He was the only guest.

Sitting on the balcony on the second floor was a man who looked a little older. He couldn't tell how old he was.

He saw Marvin saying hello: "Hi... uh... um..." At this point, he seemed to have forgotten that there was someone in front of him, and turned to look at the scenery...

Marvin walked up to him and asked, "Who are you?"

"Welcome to...uh...uh..."

Marvin's head turned black and he turned around to leave.

The man suddenly said: "Mid-level Hotel. My memory is just a little fuzzy. I have a good memory. You can see that I remember not to let anyone go to the basement."

Marvin turned around and asked, "What happened in the basement?"

"Hmm... uh... welcome to..."

Marvin went to the first floor, did not meet the woman at the front desk, and found a closed door at the back of the small building.

There was a faint smell of rancidity and blood inside, a smell he was very familiar with.

Marvin took a step back and kicked the door open.

"Who?" a man shouted from the basement.

Marvin didn't reply at all because he saw an arm on the chopping board against the wall.

Bang! Bang!

Two heads were shot in a row. Marvin closed the door and returned to the first floor of the hotel.

The woman looked at Marvin nervously, not daring to speak.

"Just two?" Marvin asked.

"Yes, yes, only 2."

"Have you eaten it?"

"What? Oh, no...that's disgusting. Me, my husband and I, just Robert upstairs, were coerced. Thank you. Here's your bottle cap."

Marvin waved his hand and left the Mid-Levels Hotel. A forgetful old man and a woman who is nervous about telling lies cannot do anything important.

Whether here or on the Redanian border, whenever order breaks down, there are always some cowardly and disgusting guys who engage in cannibalism. It's quite unappetizing.

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After climbing the mountain for another 2 hours, I finally saw the buildings in the distance. From a distance, there should be a large area.

As I got closer, the crowds gradually thickened, and the people I met had some smiles, and acquaintances would say hello.

The entire building complex is fenced with logs and iron sheets six to seven meters high, and there are sentries on the fence.

The door was open, someone was repairing the wires next to the door, and someone was coming out of the door. Looking in from the gate, it's very lively inside. There are huge painted words "Foundation" on the door.

Marvin was not in a hurry to go in. He found an unmanned location in the valley far outside the gate and set the coordinates. Carrying a combat rifle and packing the loot he had collected in the past few days in a backpack, Marvin reentered the foundation.

Even though it was his first time here and he was carrying a gun, the guards did not stop Marvin from going in. I don't know how they distinguish between good and bad people.

The space inside was very large. Marvin turned around. On the right was the internal building of the foundation. It seemed that there was an elevator to the underground. On the ground was a tower-shaped landscape building. The specific function was unknown, and strangers were not allowed to approach.

In front of the building, there was a row of workshops converted from trailers. Some craftsmen were working and selling things inside.

The middle seemed to be for entertainment. Someone was playing a musical instrument, and two robots were selling food and equipment.

In the middle of the left side, there were a lot of pipes for unknown purposes, surrounded by wooden houses in the middle. These houses were obviously built not long ago.

Marvin saw dozens of people. This was indeed a large settlement.

Marvin was not in a hurry because he did not meet Elvin Jordan. He sold the scattered spoils to the robot and got 247 bottle caps. He also bought a good mask at the stall. The air in the ash pile was very bad and slightly radioactive. He had to breathe carefully every time and take radionuclide to relieve it. A gas mask would be much better.

Then Marvin accidentally found a barber shop. He had always wanted to cut his hair, and finally got a refreshing three-sided haircut.

When it was getting dark, several people wearing blue jumpsuits and different armors walked into the gate of the foundation.

Marvin was leaning on the railing, smoking and listening to someone playing the piano.

As an old smoker, he finally found a clean filter cigarette, and he had to try it. Although he had no addiction to smoking at all now. After seeing the group of people, Marvin squinted his eyes and observed.

There were 5 people in total, 3 white people and 2 black people. The white man in the middle was wearing a military green painted power armor, but he didn't wear a helmet.

Elvin Jordan was among them, and he was still dressed in the same outfit.

Marvin also saw another familiar face, the woman who asked Marvin to sweep the garbage outside Pinglin Town. Today, he tied his blond hair into a ponytail, and he looked good in a combat armor and a jumpsuit. She was the cleanest among the five people.

Elvin Jordan, who was standing on the far right of the team, had a somewhat depressed face, but he immediately smiled when he saw Marvin.

He waved excitedly at Marvin, said something to the white man in power armor, and then ran over.

"Hi, Marvin, great hairstyle. You are finally here, I thought you were not coming. How is this place? It's great, right..."

"Stop, Elvin, I'm here because the supervisor sent me here." Marvin flashed his beep boy. He was taking precautions, and while everyone was there, he explained his identity clearly.

"Why is it you? What are you doing here? Who are you?" the blonde girl questioned.

Marvin ignored the girl and said to the white man in power armor who was obviously the leader: "Marvin Geidema, bounty hunter, come to help."

The girl saw that no one paid attention to her, and glared at Marvin angrily, but her companion pulled her arm and she stopped talking.

"We have been delayed here for too long. Hello, I am Ray John. Did the supervisor tell you what you are doing specifically?"

"No. You are the leader, you arrange it. I am good at hunting, I can hunt anything... Or, if you have any trouble, tell me and discuss it."

"Go to my place, it's not convenient here."

A group of people walked out of the foundation compound, and Marvin dealt with Erwin's chatter at the end. The destination of the group was several strange buildings outside the foundation. Marvin guessed that these were the residences built by the shelter boys using CAMP.

Rey's house is the first one, which is a relatively large one. It is made of steel frames, glass and scrap trailers. The first floor is a large hall with a dining table and kitchen on one side, a large circle of sofas in the middle, and various workbenches on the other side. The bedroom should be upstairs.

After a few mechanical transmission and decompression sounds, the power armor cracked from the back, and Rey John came out from inside, and the power armor closed again. It's really handsome.

The six people sat down on the sofa in the hall. Rey John said while drinking water: "Currently, the largest settlement area in Appalachia is here and the "crater" in the north. It took too much time for us to persuade both sides to inject the radiated corpse virus vaccine, but fortunately, the problem has been solved. We have another problem now."

Rey John paused and continued: "We need to go to a super mutant camp to get something, but there are about 20 super mutants there. We tried several times, but there was no way, and we almost couldn't come back."

"The supervisor said that you have about 10 people, who is this?" Marvin pointed to the other 4 people and said.

"Oh, Jayne and the other five went to the 'crater' and haven't come back yet."

In addition to Erwin, another black man said: "If Jayne was here, we would have taken it down long ago."

"Yeah, what a pity..." said the white man next to Lei John.

The group of people were a little depressed when they talked about this, and the atmosphere was not very good.

Marvin would not say anything about their experience. He felt that these people were like students who had just graduated from college and were not ready to face the cruel wasteland.

Whether in the demon hunter world or in the wasteland, Marvin was prepared to be killed, anyway, this life was earned. He acted so cautiously because he knew that this road was full of dangers, and if he was not careful, he might not even have the chance to regret.

Rey John spoke first and broke the silence: "Guys, don't be discouraged, there will always be a way. Marvin, do you have any ideas?"

Marvin didn't say anything. He said, "Super mutants are the big green ones, right?"

Rey nodded.

"I've encountered them sporadically, and they are indeed more difficult to deal with than the radiated zombies. I have never been to the places you mentioned, so I don't have any ideas for the time being. Now that you are the leader, you can just make arrangements."

When the blond girl heard this, she sneered: "Hey, I thought you were so powerful. Just a native, what ability can he have..."

Rey John interrupted the girl: "Garin, shut up! He's here to help."

"Did I say something wrong?" the girl argued, "He couldn't help it."

"I can also work for money. I'm a bounty hunter. Let's see how much you can give me."

The girl was a little embarrassed. She actually didn't have many bottle caps and spent too many resources on building houses, beautiful clothes and equipment, but she didn't want to give in.

"Then you go and kill those mutants. How much will you charge?"

Marvin immediately climbed up the pole: "No problem, I want a set of power armor with good radiation resistance."

The girl continued to be tough: "Bragging, you are the only one..."

Marvin didn't give her a chance to continue taunting her. He wanted to make sure the reward was real: "I'll do the work if you promise. If you can't finish it, you won't be charged. But if I finish it..."

Rey John quickly stepped in to mediate: "Marvin, we can't decide on a set of power armor. We can't discuss this until Jayne comes back."

Marvin found that they were not as rich as he thought, and was a little disappointed. He shrugged and said nothing.

The blonde girl said: "I don't trust him. He will tell lies if he has no ability."

Except for Ervin Jordan and Rey John, although the others did not speak, they all had expressions of approval on their faces.

Rey actually began to dislike this stranger a little, and he felt that what the girl said made sense. But Marvin came to help with good intentions. As the temporary leader, he couldn't make the situation too tense.

Rey thought of an idea, and without raising the issue of trust or distrust, he said: "Marvin, let's do this. There is a small lake to the east here. There are many mire crabs in it, and there is also a mire crab queen. The Foundation And we are at a loss what to do if you can solve it?"

Rey John's idea is to use the Mire Crab Queen to scare Marvin and let him understand that the wasteland is still very dangerous. Don't talk nonsense and let everyone work together.

Marvin did not rush to agree, he asked: "Queen of the Swamp Crab? Does that thing stay in the lake all the time?"

"Yes, I've always been there, are you scared?" the blond girl said first.

Marvin ignored her provocation and said to Rey John: "Give me half a day. I have to check the situation first and get back to you at noon tomorrow."

"Hey, you're not afraid." The girl sneered in a low voice.

The others said nothing.

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