The Void Pathfinder from the Demon Hunter World

(Recommended background music for this chapter: "Time to Die" Source: Fallout 4 Soundtrack.)

Rey wanted to arrange accommodation for Marvin, but Marvin refused, saying that he had a place to live.

At night, he followed Elvin Jordan from a distance.

Elvin also moved his CAMP and house here, but he didn't know why he moved the house together.

This continued until everyone fell asleep, but Marvin didn't hear anything useful.

He left the shelter where the boys lived, walked around the foundation compound, and noticed that no one was following him.

He came down from the cliff behind the foundation and walked east for 10 minutes before he saw the lake they were talking about.

Although it was night, it was still clear that the lake was very dirty.

The moonlight made the visibility nearby okay. When he approached the lake, two large crabs rustled out of the bushes in front of him, which were as tall as a person.

The two crabs were about 1.5 meters tall when lying down, and their shells were about 1.2 meters in diameter. One claw was large and the other was small, and bubbles were coming out of their mouthparts.

Marvin tested the hardness of the crab shell and cut it open easily.

After dismembering the two crabs, he lost interest. The mutated internal organs inside the crab shell looked a bit disgusting and smelled fishy.

There was a small house by the lake. Marvin kicked the door open and searched inside. There was nothing inside except the damaged fishing gear. This should have been a store selling fishing gear.

He climbed onto the roof and used the scope of his sniper rifle to target the big guy in the center of the lake.

He could only barely see that it was a huge insect monster, like a mutated woodlice that had been magnified countless times. The part above the water alone was more than 3 meters high.

He couldn't connect this thing with a crab.

He tried to shoot it in circles with a sniper rifle and a combat rifle, and basically figured out the characteristics of this big monster.

The moving speed is not fast, it should rely on the gastropod to move underwater, so its speed after landing should be similar, not fast.

Judging from the tonnage and size, if it is hit from the front, it is basically dead, and the thick shell behind the monster does not need to worry about the attack from behind.

The queen of mud crabs has a certain long-range attack ability, spitting, acidic mucus, and parabolic attacks, which are very easy to dodge. But you must not be hit by saliva, because the acidic mucus seems to be highly toxic.

It is enough to understand the situation for the time being, and you can confirm it again in the morning.

In the dark night, Marvin teleported back to the lakeside manor and went back to the underground base to sleep and rest.

The next morning, he bypassed the foundation compound and went directly to the queen of mud crabs.

After chopping two mud crabs again, he tried the situation during the day and found that the queen of mud crabs likes close combat, does not spit often, and has poor eyesight.

The big monster was easily led ashore by Marvin, and then Marvin ran away.

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Back to the shelter where the boys lived, only the blonde girl was there, wearing a beautiful green skirt. God knows where she got so many clean skirts.

“I’m looking for Ray John.” Marvin asked the girl who opened the door.

“He’s out.” The girl said impatiently.

Marvin knew he couldn’t get anything out of it, so he turned around and was about to leave.

The girl asked loudly: “Did you do anything to my CAMP? How come my CAMP disappeared when I bumped into you?”

I have to say, she guessed it right. But Marvin couldn’t recognize it, he didn’t even stop.

He found a big rock nearby and sat cross-legged, basking in the sun while reading “Principles and Maintenance Guide of Wheeled Vehicles”.

I got this book a long time ago and thought it would be useless, but the few cars in the manor garage still made it useful.

I don’t know which world this book is from. It contains not only internal combustion locomotives and trams, but also nuclear energy, hydrogen fuel and various types of wheeled vehicles with unknown energy. Except for the difficult engine principles, Marvin can barely understand the rest.

...

More than an hour later, Ray John and two team members came back. Marvin closed the panel and followed them.

There were four people in the hall. Marvin knocked on the open door: "I'll take the job. I want a high-powered sniper rifle with a caliber of 12.7mm or larger."

Ray John was stunned for a moment, and so were the others.

They found out that Marvin was not there early in the morning and knew that he had gone to see the Queen of the Swamp Crabs. They thought Marvin would be scared and come back to surrender, but...

Ray had not prepared an answer for this situation and did not know how to answer for a while. After hesitating for a long time, he asked: "Are you sure?"

"Sure. Prepare the reward. Also, don't let anyone come to watch. It's none of my business if they die."

In the minds of these boys in the shelter, monsters of the size of the Swamp Crab Queen can only be pushed with heavy weapons such as rocket launchers.

It is possible to kill such a guy with a group of people carrying rocket launchers and firing from a distance.

They couldn't figure out how one person could kill such a large crustacean.

Seeing that the other party didn't say anything, Marvin said, "Then you think about it, I'll wait outside."

He turned and walked to a nearby place, leaned against the railing, took out an apple and chewed it with a crunching sound.

This apple was brought out from the Temeria Palace. There are only a few left, and it is precious. In such a large settlement as the Foundation, he has never seen fresh fruits, only wrinkled tomatoes for sale.

Marvin was wearing a Pip-Boy, so it was not so conspicuous to take something out of thin air.

However, these people in the shelter still carried their weapons on their backs, which showed that they could not switch in time during the battle.

Marvin had never really used a Pip-Boy, so he carried a battle rifle on his back as usual, with the revolver in the holster on his left leg. He planned to have the opportunity to see how these people used weapons in battle to prevent his secrets from being exposed.

A few minutes later, as Marvin had just put away the apple cores, Ray John came out to Marvin and said, "This is considered a joint employment between us and the foundation. Come with me, and we'll go talk to Page."

Following Rey, Marvin finally entered the internal area of ​​the foundation, underground of the building on the right side of the compound.

Page, the head of the foundation, is a middle-aged man, chubby, with a Mediterranean hairstyle, wearing denim overalls, and is welding something.

The underground space is very busy, everyone is busy with their own things.

Rey yelled, "Peppa! Paige!"

The underground space is closed and noisy. If you don't shout loudly, you won't be heard at all.

Page put down the welding gun and mask, turned around and asked calmly: "What's going on?"

It seems that the relationship between the people in the shelter and the foundation is not that good, or maybe Page has such a personality.

Rey pointed to the office. After a few people entered the room and closed the door, it finally became quieter.

Rey pointed at Marvin and said: "The helper our supervisor has hired can kill the Mire Crab Queen, but he must be paid."

Page was happy when he heard the first half of the sentence, but calmed down when he heard the second half.

"How many bottle caps?"

Rey gestured to Marvin to speak himself.

This was obviously a pig sale, and Marvin didn't want to be fooled. He pointed at Rey and said, "I'm asking them for a powerful sniper rifle. As for how you negotiate, it's none of my business."

After saying that, he moved away from the two of them and leaned against the wall, arms folded, and waited.

In fact, Marvin asked for a high price. A mire crab queen was not worth that much, and large-caliber sniper rifles were not easy to obtain at the moment.

Firstly, Marvin didn’t know the price, so he just said it casually; secondly, Rey John didn’t think that Marvin would take it, but after Marvin did, he wanted to sell it to the foundation, so there was no need for him to help the foundation to counter the price. , so the situation ends here.

The two murmured for a while, and Rey came over and said, "Marvin, that mire crab queen has cost them a lot of people, and Paige also has a headache, so they agreed. It took me a lot of effort. Woolen cloth."

Marvin didn't appreciate it. Business is business, and monster hunting entrustment requires principles.

"When I take a job from you, I only ask you for the account. How you negotiate with each other has nothing to do with me. Are you saying that there is no problem with the payment?"

Rey had never experienced this and was a little unsure, but in the end he nodded with dignity: "Yes, no problem."

"Don't let people come and watch. I won't be responsible if someone dies."

Marvin lifted his feet and left.

[Task tip: Mire Crab Queen. There is a Mire Crab Queen in the lake east of the foundation, threatening the safety of the residents. Rey John has commissioned you to eliminate the Mire Crab Queen. Do you want to accept this task? 】【whether】

Select Yes.

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In the afternoon, everyone who had work in the foundation went out, and when there were the fewest people in the compound, Marvin came out of a side door of the compound, walked up the stairs to the side hillside, and walked towards the dirty lake.

He carried both a sniper rifle and a battle rifle on his back, a revolver in the holster on his left leg, and Guswen with a scabbard hanging on his belt. The outside is a patchwork leather trench coat.

Use the revolver to kill 2 wandering mire crabs and find the shore of the lake you selected in advance. The area here is relatively flat, the grass is not high, and there are not many shrubs and gravels.

The Queen of the Mud Crab is still in the middle of the lake, constantly using her two slender front claws to pick out something from the lake water and stuff it into her mouthparts.

When everything was ready, Marvin put the battle rifle next to him, picked up the bolt-action rifle, crouched down to resist the gun, put the queen's head in the crosshair, and started firing rhythmically.

Bang, bang, bang...

The big monster stops eating on the second shot and turns on its attacker on the fourth shot.

After Marvin finished shooting the 7 bullets in the magazine, he threw away the sniper rifle, picked up the battle rifle, stood and resisted the gun, fired 2 consecutive short bursts, and retreated while shooting. He did not seek damage, only stacked hatred points, and attracted monsters. Go ashore.

The queen was successfully led to the flat ground by the lake. When she was still 20 meters away from him, she suddenly accelerated and rushed towards him.

Marvin dropped his battle rifle, drew his long knife and waited. Although the queen charged fiercely, her actual speed was only the same due to the pressure brought by her size.

When the monster got close to 5 meters, Marvin suddenly started to move with such force that the mud beneath his feet sank into pieces.

After quickly making a small circle, he arrived at the queen's right rear.

The monster's large size, crustacean structure, and multi-legged locomotion make it very slow to turn around.

Marvin jumped on the multi-legged tail used for walking by the monster, used the thorns on the queen's back shell, climbed alternately with his left hand and both feet, and climbed to the top of the monster's head in 2 seconds.

Holding the knife behind his back, the couscous pattern glowed slightly with blue light...

Poof~ The long knife was inserted through the gap between the back shell and the head...

The handle of the knife reaches the chest area, click~

A crack of more than ten centimeters was opened between the monster's head and back carapace, and the crack was immediately filled with green body fluids...

squeak! ~~~~

The Mire Crab Queen made a shrill cry and began to shake her body...

Marvin barely held himself in place with a long knife and his legs, took out two frag grenades from his lower back, bit off the tabs, threw them into the wound, pulled out the knife, jumped off the ground, and rolled to relieve his force.

Bang, bang!

In the two dull explosions, a large amount of green body fluid and broken shells splashed out from the top of the monster's head, and then it fell to the ground.

The Mire Crab Queen lost half of her head, but she was still tossing on the ground, unable to stand up or die.

After waiting for more than ten seconds, Marvin saw that the monster was still struggling vigorously, so he thought he had to give it another blow.

He dodged the gravel and grass debris thrown by the monster, turned to the top of the monster's head, and chopped down the wound with the long knife. He didn't cut off the monster's entire head until he retreated and waited again.

Even insects would become weak due to excessive blood loss.

Marvin went over to enlarge the wound every once in a while, so that the big hole could continue to flow out green body fluids. There were two times when the monster turned over and lay down and could barely move with its limbs, and he took some effort to cut off each leg.

After a full hour and a half, the queen of the mud crab stopped twitching.

Marvin put on his two rifles again, took out a hemp rope, tied up half of the monster's head and a front claw, and dragged it back.

When he returned to the foundation compound from the side door, more and more people came. Page, Ray John, the other two people from Shelter 76, and several people from the foundation were waiting.

Marvin knew that someone would secretly watch from a distance, so he didn't even think about teleporting. But he didn't plan to hide too much of his sword skills, so why did he practice so hard? He didn't want people to watch just for peace and quiet.

"I've finished my work."

Page took out a long package and handed it to Ray. This is also a wise man, and he didn't communicate with Marvin on this matter.

Ray took the package a little embarrassed and handed it to Marvin.

Marvin looked at Page, and Page gave Marvin a meaningful look.

Marvin didn't take the package, but said to Ray: "Open it for me to see."

Ray was even more embarrassed, but there was nothing he could do. He put the package on the ground and unwrapped it layer by layer.

It was a large-caliber sniper rifle, but it was not in good condition. It was probably a bit difficult to shoot.

"Is this different from what we agreed on?"

"The Foundation only has this one." Ray stood up and said.

"I'll say it again, I'll only ask you to pay for the work I took from you." Marvin turned around and pointed to a corner of the compound: "There's a workbench over there, it's not that it can't be handled."

Rey was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Marvin to say this at all. He subconsciously thought that Marvin was an ignorant wasteland native, and even ignored the beep boy in his hand.

Rey couldn't be thick-skinned and deny the agreed thing, he took the sniper rifle to the weapon workbench.

This repair will cost a lot of materials, and his power armor is also a big spender, this time it hurts a lot. But things have to be done, so many people are watching, he doesn't want to lose face.

Marvin finally got his large-caliber sniper rifle, the all-black gun body is about 1.4 meters long, the muzzle has a suppressor, and the huge magazine means that this guy uses very large bullets.

【Hint: The mission "Queen of the Mud Crab" has been completed. Do you want to collect the reward of the reward knowledge book "Kanvis Three-stage Long-range Shooting Technique"? 】【Yes】【No】

Choose yes.

Marvin put away his gun and returned to Ray's residence with everyone in the shelter. He rejected Elvin Jordan's invitation to dinner and talked to Ray John about the follow-up plan.

"I really can't make the decision about the power armor. We were supposed to wait for Jayne to come back before taking the next step. But Garin suggested that we try it ourselves. Although it didn't work, at least we gained experience. I decided to wait for Jayne to come back. What about you, Marvin?"

Ray was still explaining the last failure and helping his teammates save face.

To be honest, Ray John is actually a good person.

Marvin didn't comment.

"It doesn't matter. I'm just a worker. I listen to whoever is the boss."

At this time, everyone had arrived, and Garin didn't bother Marvin anymore. He ate in silence. Everyone was shocked by Marvin's fighting ability. They didn't expect someone to be so flexible and jump on the head of the mud crab queen in a few moves.

"When will they arrive, Jayne?"

Rey swallowed the lizard meat and said, "Maybe the day after tomorrow, how about that?"

"Do you have any work for me tomorrow? If not, I won't come here."

Rey thought, since the plan was postponed, there was really no need for Marvin to follow. And he still didn't trust this man.

As for assigning work to Marvin. Forget it, I can't afford it, it's too expensive.

But they forgot one thing, Marvin was originally here to help, and they pushed the helper away.

"Okay, you can come the day after tomorrow at noon."

"Then I'll come the day after tomorrow, bye, Rey." Raising his hand to greet Rey and Erwin, Marvin left the foundation.

Back to his underground base, Marvin took out the other front claw of the Queen of the Swamp Crab from the inventory.

[Hint: Found the remains of a mutant creature, do you want to submit? 】【Yes】【No】

Choose yes.

[Hint: Submit successfully, reward physical attribute +1. 】

The restaurant in Pinglin Town opened the day before yesterday. Although there were not many customers, it has already started selling food and drinks.

Marvin bought some grilled lizard skewers and cooked beef, and was eating them with relish. Although the lizard skewers looked strange, they tasted okay and were very chewy. The beef was stewed with tomatoes and potatoes, and the beef was not as delicious as the lizard meat.

Although it contains trace amounts of residual radiation, you can't always live on nutritional paste. Eating that kind of thing every day would make life too boring.

After these few days, Marvin also thought it through. Living in the wasteland, radiation is unavoidable, and there will always be a way to deal with the residual radiation in the future. Even if the technology side doesn't work, you can still find a way from the mysterious side. At worst, when the physical attributes are improved, you can always find a way.

After dinner, he began to study the newly acquired "Kanvis Three-stage Long-range Shooting Technique". This book came just in time.

The tactical shooting he practiced before did not have much special sniper training methods and practical knowledge, and Marvin's sniper rifle training had never been to the point.

This is a long-range and ultra-long-range shooting training system and practical routines summarized by a legendary shooter from an unknown human country.

Long-range shooting is broken down into three stages: pre-aiming, body control, and firing. It discusses in detail how to deal with the problems encountered in these three stages under different environments, physical conditions, types of firearms, etc., full of details.

…

The next day, Marvin teleported to Poseidon Energy and found a beautiful and wide-view location on the hillside behind the cooling tower of the nuclear power plant, and began to practice shooting.

The 12.7mm caliber bullets and machine guns use the same model, and there are more than 300 rounds. If it is a sniper, it will be enough to fight for a long time, and there are enough crazy zombies wandering outside the nuclear power plant.

He started aiming in a prone position with great enthusiasm according to the instructions in the book...

10 minutes later, Marvin got up very frustrated. He overestimated his ability. 800 meters was still too far, and he didn't hit a single shot. At such a long distance, the slightest movement of the gun body would cause the bullet trajectory to deviate far away.

Marvin changed to a closer position, about 300 meters away, calmed down, and corrected his shooting habits bit by bit.

At noon, Marvin returned to the underground base, found some scrap steel and tools, and made a tripod by himself. The original tripod of the sniper rifle was too short. In his actual combat, he rarely used the prone position to snipe safely, so he had to make a tripod that could be used in a squatting position.

Although it was easy to hold the gun with both hands, Marvin couldn't do it stably enough now, so he could only use tools instead.

In the afternoon, he returned to the periphery of Poseidon Energy and continued to practice shooting.

With such a large-caliber gun, you don't need to shoot at the head when shooting at a human target. Basically, as long as it is hit by the bullet, that large piece will break. When fighting a super mutant, you should be able to make a big hole in the chest with one shot. The torso structure is greatly damaged, and the target will completely lose the ability to move even if it does not die.

More than 200 rounds of 12.7mm bullets were consumed that day. After the ghouls chased after them, a lot of other bullets were used to kill at least 60 ghouls.

From the beginning, it took 4 shots to kill a target. By the time the work was over, Marvin could achieve an 80% hit rate at 200 meters and a 60% hit rate at 300 meters.

When he returned to the base again, his gun mastery was upgraded to one level.

[Gun Mastery: 8 + (When using live ammunition guns and energy guns, accuracy increases by 40%, stability increases by 40%, physical strength consumption is -8%, and it is easier to learn gun knowledge.)]

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