The Void Pathfinder from the Demon Hunter World

(Recommended background music for this chapter: "PSYCHO" singer: AViVA.)

Good morning, Xiaoyu.

After arranging today's tasks, Jayne Banks continued: "Rey, take them away first, and be careful on the road."

Rey nodded and waved to take away a man and a woman.

"Marvin, your mission today is very critical. There are many violent mole people outside the mining area of ​​Blackwater Mining, with sophisticated weapons. I need you to provide support at a high altitude."

"No problem."

Jayne waved his hand and ordered: "Let's go!"

Because the journey is long, in order to save energy, Jayne did not wear power armor, but would wear it before reaching the destination.

What surprised Marvin was that after leaving the foundation compound, they did not go down the mountain but headed north.

According to Jayne, they would take a mountain pass in the north, which is much closer and the road is not difficult to walk.

In such a large wilderness, as long as you have enough ability, you can go anywhere you want.

Marvin was mentally prepared for this, and was not panicked, just improvising.

Walking on the mountain road, people will be scattered and they won't gather together, so there are no good opportunities.

Marvin seemed to be in a good mood and talked more than usual.

He took this opportunity to ask a lot of questions that were not convenient to ask before, such as where there is artificial intelligence, where there are large technology companies and industrial enterprises, where can I get blueprints...

In order not to make Marvin suspicious, Jayne answered them patiently.

Two hours after leaving the foundation, the road ahead was no longer uphill, and the distance between the five people was no longer so large.

Turning a corner, there was a straight and narrow valley with steep mountains on both sides and towering peaks.

When he went nearly a hundred meters deep into the valley, Marvin seemed to have found something beside him, and ran over and squatted down to study it for a while.

Jayne continued to move forward without stopping, but slowed down his pace and paid attention to Marvin's movements. He felt that this kid was very strange today.

Marvin dug under the stone for a while and pulled out a leather bag. He opened it and took a look, and his face showed joy.

He lifted the hood that kept him from the rain and raised the leather bag to shake it. The bulging pockets made a rustling sound...

"Hey, guys, bottle caps, lots of bottle caps!"

When they heard that there was money, several people gathered around. Jayne also walked a few steps towards here, stopped not far away, and didn't get too close.

The leather bag in Marvin's hand suddenly disappeared, and his left hand slapped the ground, and the Yaden seal-gigantic.

The huge purple magic circle with a diameter of more than ten meters enveloped everyone, including Jayne who was a few meters away.

The four people felt their bodies sink, and Marvin disappeared in a burst of blue light.

The next moment, he appeared behind Jayne's left, and the Gus pattern had already slashed down diagonally.

Jayne Banks turned his head and looked over, his face ferocious.

He raised his left hand and wanted to block it with the Pip Boy, but it didn't work.

Crack, puff...

The head and the entire left arm flew up.

Jayne was the most threatening point of the entire team, and he must be solved first, and then the others...

Bang!

Elvin Jordan's pistol fired. Jayne was not the only one who noticed Marvin's abnormality today.

The bullet burst out of the muzzle flame and shot out at high speed...

Unfortunately, he missed.

Marvin disappeared again...

"Ah!" The blonde girl Garin Goraton covered her face with both hands and screamed...

Elvin's eyes were wide open, and his pupils trembled and turned to the left. He only had time to move his eyeballs.

He finally saw the knife clearly at close range, a long knife with a shining ice-blue mysterious symbol... It was slashing towards his neck.

'I... What kind of monster did I find back...'

The world was spinning, and Elvin's sight was getting lower and lower, gradually swallowed by the darkness...

The muzzle of a rifle was raised, and the index finger of the shelter boy was about to pull the trigger...

Alder Seal - Bone-piercing.

Bang!

White air waves spurted out from Marvin's palm in a fan shape, instantly freezing and overturning the last two people.

Marvin dodged and pursued, nailing the man to the ground with a knife, and pulled out a revolver with his left hand and pointed it at Jialin.

Bang, bang, bang, two shots to the torso and one shot to the head, three kills.

It was not Mozambique shooting, but the first two shots were simply off target.

While pulling out the long knife with his right hand, he swung it back and cut the last man's belly open, splitting the heart in two.

Blood drew an arc in the air with the raised tip of the knife...

Click, sheathing the knife, Marvin let out a long breath.

But the matter is not over yet...

After he dragged the body to the big rock next to the cliff, he could not take care of the blood on the ground for the time being.

Fortunately, the battle site was quite far from the valley entrance and would not be discovered immediately. Moreover, the smell of blood would not spread too far on rainy days.

Marvin walked to the entrance of the valley, raised his head and looked around, and soon found a suitable position.

There was a small protrusion on one side of the cliff, which was barely enough for one person to stand.

He teleported up, flipped up his hood to cover his conspicuous silver hair and the falling rain...

...

More than ten minutes later, three figures, one big and two small, came down the hillside.

Marvin stood quietly on the cliff, holding an unactivated invisible boy in his hand.

Bang, the metal big foot landed in the puddle, splashing mud and water.

"Hey, Rei, watch out." The girl with short brown hair jumped up, avoiding the mud and complaining to her companions.

Rei didn't reply, nor did he look back. Wearing power armor made it difficult to look back.

"What are you doing today? Why do you have to go around before chasing Jayne and the others?" The girl asked.

She had asked this question twice, but Rey kept putting off saying it.

The man on the other side also turned to look. He had some guesses, but he was not sure.

It's time to let your friends know the real mission of today.

Rey John slowed down and the three of them walked side by side. His voice came out from the power armor helmet, a little distorted.

"Marvin Geidema, that bounty hunter, our goal today is to kill him."

"Huh?" The short-haired woman was surprised and her voice rose a bit.

"Oh~!" The man on the other side had a true expression.

On the cliff, Marvin's face was hidden in the shadow of his hood. He activated the Invisible Boy and his figure disappeared.

The woman asked in confusion: "Why? He is so powerful. It's hard to find such a helper."

"It's because he is so powerful..."

"No." Rey interrupted his companion and said, "Because of that sniper rifle, we need that gun. And Marvin will never hand it over obediently."

The three of them turned a corner and walked into the long and narrow valley.

This was not their first time walking this way, and there was no danger in this area. The three of them were very relaxed at this time.

If they could look up, oh, and look carefully, they would find that the raindrops hit the empty space on the cliff, vaguely forming a human shape.

Unfortunately, when driving in the rain, few people look up.

"So, we just take it ourselves?" The man continued what Rey said, "Beautiful, I like this idea, oh, and his knife. Rey, when are you going to move..."

Poof~, snap.

My companion suddenly stopped mid-sentence. There was the sound of a sharp knife piercing flesh, the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, and the sound of metal colliding...

Rey controlled the power armor to move. He saw his companion lowering his head in a daze, and a line of blood spurted out from his chest, growing more and more.

Bang, there was an explosion on the ground, and a gray shadow swept from behind his companion to the other side...

"thunder……"

It was the short-haired woman who exclaimed, and Rey quickly continued to turn around.

The woman covered her neck with one hand, and a large amount of blood poured out, instantly staining her chest red. Her other hand reluctantly came up and pointed behind Rey.

"After you..."

Poof, the body of the male companion fell.

A huge gun appeared in the hands of the power armor, and three laser generators rotated extremely fast.

"Marvin, it's you!" Ray John shouted frantically, but Marvin was nowhere to be found.

With a pop, the body of the female companion also fell.

Rey found someone behind him moving to open the valve.

When there is someone inside the power armor, the valve behind it is locked, and the opponent has no success. Note①

Rey is very good at using power armor. He turned around skillfully, and the mini laser machine gun in his hand rotated at high speed, shooting out dense red rays.

Unfortunately, the power armor in this world is not flexible enough. Both the neck and the waist can only rotate in a small amount. Turning around can only be achieved by walking.

No matter how hard he tried, he could only turn slowly.

Therefore, he still couldn't find the enemy, and the heavy rain of laser rays only hit the rocks on the cliff.

The two of them were just walking back and forth in the rain...

…

Marvin was annoyed now.

The phrase "the mouse pulls the turtle" is very appropriate.

As a master of swordsmanship, you can roughly see what can be cut and what cannot be cut at a glance. The power armor in front of him was obviously something he couldn't cut yet.

If you cut hard, the blade will be damaged. There was no master blacksmith in the wasteland who could help him repair the long knife. Simple repair tools alone cannot solve the problem of chipping.

He tried the ring-shaped valve on the back of the power armor, and it was locked.

He also tried using magic to freeze, but it still had no effect.

Thinking about it, it would be ridiculous if a power armor that could withstand nuclear radiation couldn't even provide good thermal insulation.

In fact, power armor is the pinnacle of individual armor in front of the United States. It is the most advanced armor designed to deal with high-intensity wars and nuclear wars. The purpose of developing power armor is to allow soldiers to wear it for a week in combat.

Powered armor not only has good radiation resistance, but also has sufficient thermal insulation properties, and even has air circulation systems, water circulation systems, etc.

And Marvin's current ice magic is not as abnormal as ultra-low temperature.

His original plan was to deal with Rey John first, because this kid usually didn't like to wear a helmet.

Unexpectedly, it rained today, so people wore helmets.

…

"Where is Jayne? Where are the others? Come out!" Rey shouted.

He knew that Marvin was behind him, so he tried to turn left and right continuously, but not only did he not find the other person, but he also felt a little dizzy. He tried randomly turning left and right, but that didn't work either, and he became even more dizzy.

"Stop shouting, I killed them all and left no one alive."

"You lied! Jayne, come out quickly!"

"That big rock in front is where Jayne's body is." Marvin's tone was calm.

Marvin had carefully observed how each of them performed in battle, and it was obvious that Rey was a pushover.

He is not good at the art of mouth evasion, so he rarely talks nonsense in battle, but now there is no other way to get people out of that iron shell, so he can only reluctantly try psychological warfare.

"Coward! I don't believe a word you say! Let's face each other!"

This provocation method had no effect on Marvin. He did not speak and still relied on his nimble steps to stay in the blind spot of the opponent's field of vision. This is much easier for him than talking.

Rey John was originally an impulsive and reckless person. Since he was influenced by Jayne Banks since he was a child, and he has been constantly experiencing battles after leaving the shelter, he has restrained himself a lot now, but he is still impulsive and easy to make mistakes in battle. It was also for this reason that Jayne was the first to equip him with power armor.

And now, two teammates died in front of him, and the lives and deaths of the others were unknown. He was isolated and helpless, and the enemy was behind him but he had no way to deal with it.

The invisible enemy is the most terrifying.

Anger, sadness, fear, frustration, all kinds of emotions continue to accumulate...

Rey was about to collapse. Although he didn't admit it, his legs couldn't help but move and walked towards the big rock.

He saw the blood on the ground and his heart sank.

His sight gradually bypassed the big rock. A bloody golden ponytail was Garin; a boot was Erwin; a lonely left arm was Jayne.

Rey subconsciously quickened his pace.

Bang, the heavy power armor fell down. It was Marvin who did it.

The more Ray wanted to go over, the more he couldn't let him do what he wanted, so that he could force him out of the tin can.

The power armor got up in a panic, and was tripped again, splashing mud and water.

The power armor in this world weighs about 2 tons. With Marvin's current strength, he can't push it or carry it, but he can still trip it.

"Ah... Jayne!"

Ray John completely collapsed.

Crack~

The back of the power armor flipped up, the legs cracked, and he climbed out of the overturned armor.

Puff~

A bloody knife tip pierced his heart.

Marvin kicked the dying Ray into the pile of corpses and reunited his friends.

He looked up at the sky, the rain gradually subsided, why did he look like a villain?

Shaking his head to throw away the random thoughts in his mind, he began to collect the spoils, which was the most important thing.

Because he was not sure whether the Pip Boy would conflict with his inventory, he packed these personal terminals in a backpack.

Put Ray John's power armor into the inventory, which took up a lot of space. He cleaned the inventory yesterday to install the power armor.

Then there are guns and armor.

The rain stopped, Marvin gathered all the bodies, set a big fire, burned them all, and used pyroblast to completely destroy the battle scene, and teleported away...

There were two wounded people lying in the foundation who had not recovered yet, two people died in the raid on the super mutant camp, and Marvin killed 7 of the 11 members of the Banks team. It can be said that the Banks team in Shelter 76 has been wiped out.

...

Back to the underground base, rested for 2 hours, ate and drank well, and began to count the spoils.

After so much trouble, whether it can make back the cost depends on this.

[Hint: Found a special item Pip Boy, do you want to take out the items inside? ][Yes][No]

As expected, the things inside can be taken out, so this time the harvest must be good.

Ignoring the prompts for the time being, Marvin wanted to check out the contents of the Pip-Boy first, but found that it seemed to be locked and could not be operated at all.

He remembered his last experience with the supervisor, and immediately pulled out the data cable from the Pip-Boy, connected it, and indeed a lot of download prompts appeared.

After a lot of trouble, the bedroom was almost covered with miscellaneous things.

Blueprints:

Power armor workbench, 7 light weapons blueprints, mini machine gun blueprints, mini laser machine gun blueprints, 2 grenade blueprints, 5 ammunition blueprints, 6 medicine blueprints, 18 diet blueprints, 3 auxiliary tool blueprints, 5 armor blueprints, 13 men's clothing blueprints, 44 women's clothing blueprints, and 8 other blueprints. A total of 1820RP was obtained as a learning machine reward.

Weapons:

2 mini laser machine guns, 1 special combat rifle obtained from Jayne, 21 fragmentation grenades, 11 electromagnetic grenades, and 32 various guns that were not used.

Ammunition:

25 fusion cores for mini laser machine guns and power armor, 63 nuclear fusion batteries, more than 300 rounds of combat rifle bullets, more than 120 rounds of .44 caliber pistol bullets, and a lot of unused ammunition.

Medicine:

142 treatment needles, 27 bottles of anti-radiation, 87 injections of radiation-eliminating, and a lot of unused medicines.

Armor:

Except for the special combat armor that has a good effect in defending against live ammunition and energy bullets, Marvin doesn't like any other armor. But the combat armor has too small a defense surface, and it is easy to be hit in the unarmored position during the battle. Marvin is going to find a way to solve the armor problem himself, and he won't use standard armor.

Materials:

Materials that can be used to make various weapons and armor on the workbench, metal materials such as steel, copper, lead, silver, various leather materials, granular gunpowder, and some materials that Marvin doesn't know the use of, each piece and bottle has a name written on it, which is very considerate.

Many new place names have been added to the map. Except for the right and lower left corners, most areas on the map have more locations. After reading the information in the Jayne disk, Marvin determined several places he must go.

Grafton, where the mayor is a very powerful artificial intelligence.

Poseidon Energy, a large nuclear power plant that could power half of West Virginia before the war.

White Spring Resort, which was not damaged in the nuclear war, should have many secrets.

Crater, another large settlement, belongs to a less extreme predator organization.

Sanctuary Technology University, you know you should go and see it just by looking at the name.

Rocco Research Center, it is suspected that there are a lot of scientific and technological information left, but there is no specific location.

Momongo Power Plant and Thunder Mountain Power Plant, the other two nuclear power plants, also have no specific locations.

Atlas Observatory, which is a branch of the Brotherhood of Steel.

Pumpkin House, where several scavengers said there were monsters.

After sorting out the above gains, Marvin began to look at the power armor information he got from Ian while studying the two power armors he got.

Captain Jayne Banks' power armor model is T John's power armor model is T51B. From the performance of parameters, Rey's T51B is a better power armor, but T60 has better radiation resistance.

Marvin plans to keep both. Collecting various models of power armor is an option that no man can refuse, although he rarely wears it.

To avoid exposure, he repainted these two mechas in an inconspicuous black.

...

Not everyone can use power armor, and training is required.

The power armor is one size larger than a person. The driver's feet in the power armor are actually stepping on the armor's calf, not in an iron boot, and the body feeling is a bit bad.

The arms of the armor are also much longer than human hands. The hands actually control a set of precision instruments in the armor to operate a pair of iron hands.

It took Marvin 3 days to walk, run, climb stairs, and pick up things normally after falling from the ground. It took 6 days to fight with large firearms, and 7 days to shoot while moving.

After 7 days, he dared to wear the power armor for a non-intense battle.

After that, he conducted 3 days of actual combat training at the Poseidon Energy Plant.

He was very satisfied with the auxiliary aiming function, strong full-body protection ability and excellent radiation resistance of the power armor. At least he can enter the nuclear power plant without any scruples.

The power armor also has some good small functions, such as putting medical injections in a special card slot and injecting them directly when needed. But the pills still need to take off the helmet to eat.

When wearing power armor, Marvin's teleportation and transmission can only move himself, and the armor will stay in place. Because it is not the person who moves with the armor, but the armor that moves with the person.

Slow speed, very poor flexibility, limited vision of the helmet and huge shoulder armor greatly affect vision, hearing is limited by the helmet and internal noise, there is no sense of touch at all, and the hands are limited so that even a seal cannot be released.

These shortcomings of the power armor almost limit Marvin's combat power by 80%.

Giving up 80% of combat power for defense is an extremely stupid behavior. Therefore, he will not wear power armor to fight in non-extreme environments.

In terms of weapons, with the power armor assisted aiming, the 12.7mm heavy machine gun performs very well, but compared with the two mini machine guns, the firing rate and ammunition volume are not good enough, and it may be weak when facing a large number of enemies.

The 5mm caliber mini machine gun was abandoned by Marvin, first because it is too troublesome to press the bullet, second because it takes more than 1 second for the barrel to rotate and prepare after pulling the trigger before the first bullet is fired, and third because the damage of a single bullet is too low.

Whether it is damage, accuracy or firing rate, the mini laser machine gun performs much better.

Fusion core: A fusion core can provide 1,000 laser beams for the mini laser machine gun, which can support the power armor for 1 day to a week, depending on the intensity of the battle. A fusion core costs 100 RP, which is a bit expensive.

Marvin now has a RP balance of 4,180, which is enough for control points to last for a while.

There is also a surprise. Captain Jayne Banks has a special combat rifle in his inventory.

This rifle has a very special red paint job. In addition to the excellent shooting experience, the gunshot is very small after being equipped with a special silencer. Even with ordinary ammunition, the bullets fired from this rifle have a faster initial velocity and can cause greater damage to the enemy. There is no model on the side of the gun body, but a word "fixative" is engraved on it. Note ②

In comparison, another weapon in his collection is too rubbish, a knife that can spit fire. Marvin can't figure it out at all. If a knife can't cut anything, what can it change even if it can spit fire?

During the days of practicing power armor, he was also thinking about another thing.

This cooperation with the shelter people was actually a failure.

Marvin did not hate Jayne Banks or anyone in his team. Everyone was struggling for their own survival and interests in the wasteland, and it was normal to fight for life and death.

The whole incident made him further understand a truth: it is not a good deal to rush to help.

He should not take the initiative to offer help, but should let the other party ask for help, so that there would be fewer conflicts.

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Note ①: In the game, the energy core, that is, the "fusion core", will be exposed behind the power armor. You can think of it as a large-capacity fusion battery, which will still be shot and exploded. This is obviously a game balance design. No matter how stupid the weapon design expert is, he will not leave such a big flaw, so I changed it. I don’t care where the fusion core is changed, anyway, there will be no such big flaw.

Note ②: Fixer is the official translation of fixer. Fixer has multiple meanings. I still use the more common but not very suitable fixer.