The Void Pathfinder from the Demon Hunter World

8:43 am.

Crack, silver-gray metal boots crushed the brittle dead branches, and white dust rose from the ground.

Due to the high temperature, the air in the distance seemed a little distorted.

A gust of hot wind blew, raising white sand and dust.

There was still a small puddle beside the dry riverbed, and the water surface reflected a colorful halo in the sun, like a layer of dirty oil.

Splash, the water surface rippled.

An ugly and huge mutant toad flexibly climbed out of the puddle and rushed towards the human in front of it.

Quack, the toad opened its mouth and shot out a nearly three-meter-long tongue.

Marvin dodged it, and the combat rifle in his hand instantly switched to a long knife.

Snap, the tongue, which was as fast as a bullet, was cut off by a knife and fell to the ground.

Quack, the toad trembled with pain, and the four eyes of different sizes on the top of its head suddenly widened, and the pustules on its back burst one after another, splashing out gray-green mucus.

Marvin immediately stopped his forward steps, teleported backward, and switched the long knife in his hand to a combat rifle again.

Puff puff puff...

The fourth bullet finally shattered the toad's skull, and the subsequent bullets crushed the monster's already small brain.

Marvin quickly hid in the shadow under the bridge not far away, took off the gas mask on his head, took a long breath, and drank half a bottle of water.

He had been scouting outside Grafton for more than an hour. This was the third mutant toad he killed.

After separating from the shelter boys yesterday, he followed the railway tracks to the northwest and finally arrived at Grafton Railway Station after sunset.

It was not a good idea to explore such a complex area in the dark. In addition, this quiet town gave him a feeling that was far from peaceful.

The sun had only risen for less than 2 hours, and the surface temperature was almost 40℃. The whole town was covered with thick white radioactive dust, and the environmental radiation value fluctuated between 4 and 6, which was already quite high.

Fortunately, Marvin himself is a self-propelled air conditioner, so he can move freely in the high temperature, but he still gets thirsty easily.

Grafton City seems a bit small to Marvin, and he prefers to call it a town.

(A place with a population of 500,000 is called a city in the eyes of Westerners, but it is at most a town here. Some towns in Europe and the United States have only dozens of people, and our villages have more people than this, right?)

Most of the buildings in the town are well preserved, and the roads are full of broken trees and various car wreckages.

There is a group of super mutants in the center of the town, with more than 20 of them. He was glad that he didn't rush in last night, and fortunately the silencer performance of the "fixer" combat rifle is very good, so the battle just now did not alarm those monsters.

More importantly, the municipal center he was looking for was also nearby.

It's not that he was afraid, but if he could solve the problem more easily, why did he have to rush?

...

Marvin lay on the top of the water tower more than ten meters high, aiming the sniper scope at the roof of the hospital in the distance. That hospital is the base of the super mutants in Grafton.

There were no flesh bags around the hospital, which meant that these super mutants had just arrived and had not had time to store food.

After roughly determining the location and number of the enemy, he took a deep breath, placed his left hand under his right arm to support the butt of the gun, put the butt of the gun against his shoulder, and slowly pulled the trigger.

Bang! Hit, knocked down.

Pull the bolt, load the gun, and pull the trigger.

Bang! Hit, knocked down.

Bang! Missed.

"Over there! The white tower."

"Wow, hahaha, humans..."

Marvin was unmoved, calmly fired the 7 bullets in the magazine, and retracted his head to load the bullets one by one.

The super mutants emerged from various buildings and surrounded the water tower in a semi-arc shape, and the bullets hit the water tower with a clang.

Click, insert the magazine, and Marvin listened to the movement below.

Well, it's almost done.

He put away the sniper rifle, turned over and jumped down from the top of the water tower.

Teleporting, moving horizontally in the air for several meters, landing on the sloping roof of the church, sliding down the roof, landing, rolling to release the force, Marvin stood up and ran.

The water tower and the church completely blocked the view of the super mutant.

"Where is that bastard?"

"I don't know. Get out of the way!"

"Asshole, you..."

The green-skinned monster who was pushed back involuntarily.

Snap, the trip wire under the water tower was torn off.

Boom boom boom boom...

Marvin hung 20 cluster grenades there, even the thick-skinned super mutant was blown to pieces, but only 2 of them were killed.

Crunch~

With the sound of metal breaking that made people's teeth ache, the steel frame that was already severely rusted collapsed, and the water tower more than ten meters high collapsed.

Marvin lay on the roof of a two-story house and set up the sniper rifle again.

This location is just at the end of the road. There are more than a dozen green monsters on the straight road, but unfortunately some of them are blocked by the collapsed water tower and the rising dust.

A special super mutant walked out of the hospital gate. It was wearing a simple but well-fitting leather robe and a necklace made of broken bones and teeth around its neck. Unlike its green counterparts, it has gray-blue skin.

The blue mutant looked at the collapsed water tower, tilted his head and thought for a while, then pressed the electronic device on his left arm, and his figure became transparent, and it became invisible.

Huh, huh...

The air outlet of the gas mask blew up the radioactive dust on the ground, and Marvin took a breath.

Click, pull the bolt to load the gun, and pull the trigger.

Bang...

...

The words "GRA__ON P_LICE" on the door of the concrete building across the street from the hospital were incomplete, but it was still recognizable. This was originally the Grafton Police Station.

In the innermost detention room of the police station were ten humans, sitting dejectedly on the ground against the wall.

Opposite the prison gate are six men and women dressed as predators, all wearing leather or metal armor. The armor has a volcanic eruption logo printed on it, or has similar tattoos on the skin.

Among the six was a thin man wearing overalls and a work jacket.

Under the left and right walls are four humans dressed as scavengers.

It's easy to tell the difference between looters and scavengers in the wasteland. Those with relatively complete equipment and armor, sophisticated weapons, gang movements, and strong aggressiveness are more likely to be marauders. On the contrary, they are generally scavengers.

Looters' main occupation is robbery, while scavengers' main occupation is picking up garbage.

Due to the high degree of freedom in the wasteland, the two often interchange identities. Looters will also pick up garbage when there are no targets around to rob; when they encounter an easy target, scavengers will also rob.

Looters often form gangs, and gangs have very different operating styles.

For example, the "Blood Eagle Gang" that Marvin encountered before was a relatively extreme gang with cruel methods and strong force, and even occupied the Ash Heap area to a certain extent.

There are many similar gangs in Appalachia, and the Blood Eagle Gang and the Cutthroat Gang are relatively large.

Marvin was going to go to the "Crater", the destination to gain reputation, which was a settlement of marauders.

Crater's behavior is relatively mild. They advocate force deterrence and fair fighting, rather than brutal killing of the weak.

Even if they are gentler, this is a group of marauders, robbery is still their main business, and most of the crater residents can be said to be bastards.

When gunfire rang out outside, everyone raised their heads, with a light called "hope" shining in their eyes.

They all had minor or serious injuries, and the longest one had been hungry for a week.

Super mutants are provided with minimal food and radioactive sewage every day.

Their hopes of escaping became increasingly slim.

The gunfire became more and more intense, and there were occasional explosions. The thin man in a work jacket couldn't help shouting: "Boss Meg must be here to save..."

The one-eyed man next to him covered his mouth.

"Shut up! Idiot."

Boom, the back of the thin man's head hit the wall.

The one-eyed man's left hand was obviously broken. It was hanging in his arms and badly swollen. He took back his right hand and whispered: "Save your strength, don't even have the strength to escape later."

"Hey...can't you be gentler?" The thin man covered the injury on his face with one hand and the back of his head with the other, complaining in a low voice.

"Fake! It's not because of you that I have to follow you."

"You can't find it. What if I don't follow? If we can't find the chip, we will completely cut off the Internet..." The thin man continued to mutter in retort.

The one-eyed man raised his hand to strike, but his left arm was injured. His cheeks twitched, he put down his hands angrily, and stopped talking.

The naked super mutant ducked into the holding area and punched the iron fence.

"Shut up! Bastards, if you make any more noise, I'll kill and eat you!"

Bang, cement chips and dust fell from the roof. Everyone lowered their heads and stopped talking. Each of them had been beaten more than once.

The green-skinned monster was satisfied with its deterrent effect and turned around and went out. As for the gunshots outside, it has nothing to do with it. Its mission is to keep an eye on these humans who are about to be sent away. Unfortunately, it can't eat. It's a little hungry...

The thin man's name is Tarr, the crater's treasured pimple and the only engineer who can fix almost anything.

Their mission this time was to help Tal find an electronic component, the KMI-8789 model signal amplifier.

Originally, it would be enough to issue a reward and let the people below find it, or let the scavengers in the surrounding area find it.

Unfortunately, the Wastelanders had never even attended preschool, and no one could recognize what the component looked like, even if they had a picture. Even if a lucky scavenger finds it, it is still bad.

The one-eyed man's name is John McCarron. The mission of him and his four younger brothers is to protect Tarr in finding this kind of signal amplifier. Only Tarr himself can accurately identify whether what he finds is right or wrong, good or bad. .

This group of people was really unlucky. The first stop was at Grafton Steel Company, where they were beaten to the point of running away by a group of robots. The second stop was when they arrived here and were captured by super mutants.

'Damn it, when did this place get so many green monsters? He doesn't eat people and is very disciplined. This is not normal. You need to let Boss Meg know as soon as you get back. ’

McCarron thought secretly: 'The gunshots outside were sometimes strong and weak, but the heavy sniper rifle never stopped, and its position was erratic. It was obvious that he was a master, and he might really be able to escape. ’

…

Marvin put away his sniper rifle, jumped down from the roof, and walked to the hospital.

The super mutants on the periphery have almost been cleared, and I don't know if there are any enemies left inside the hospital.

The two-story building in the Civic Center is less than 200 meters away from the hospital. If there is an AI mayor in Grafton, there is a high probability that it will be there.

He still doesn't know how to contain the artificial intelligence and how long it will take. He has to make sure that there are no enemies nearby to harass him.

Woo~

Suddenly there was a sound of breaking wind behind Marvin's head, and a looming silhouette of a giant struck something down.

Bang, the big ax made of gears and steel plates hit the cement road, breaking out a few gravels and smashing them into nothing.

Marvin appeared behind the enemy, and a super mutant with gray-blue skin appeared in front of his eyes.

"???What kind of monster is this?"

Even though there was a question mark on his forehead, he did not delay firing the battle rifle in his hand.

Puff, puff, two short shots in succession hit the back of Super Transformation.

The blue-skinned super-transformer staggered and turned around, revealing a ferocious face. A strange thin belt tied its upper lip, making its expression even more sinister.

The super mutant did not rush forward immediately, but asked: "Human, how did you do that?"

Marvin didn't reply, but moved forward steadily while pulling the trigger, only changing the shooting target.

Puff, puff, the bullet hit the blue-skinned monster's knee.

"Drink!" The light flickered and the mutant became invisible again.

Although the blurry outline can still be seen, in close combat measured in milliseconds, this is already a great advantage.

"The Eye of True Seeing"

Marvin stopped slightly, the color saturation of all the colors in his sight dropped slightly, and the invisible enemy reappeared.

He ducked forward and dodged the giant axe.

Zheng, the blade rang lightly, cutting off the enemy's leg.

The super-changer didn't care about the remaining leg at all, twisting his body and swinging the ax again.

Marvin rolled back to avoid it.

The blue-skinned monster couldn't stand firmly on one leg, and the fighting movements were so large that it finally fell down. It looked crazy and continued to attack even if it was crawling.

Marvin cut off the enemy's arm with one knife, then kicked him over, reversed the long knife, and nailed the blue-skinned monster to the ground with one knife. The giant ax fell in the distance with a clang.

The super mutant was still scratching relentlessly, and blue-gray blood splashed all over Marvin, which was completely different from the state of calm questioning just now.

Marvin thought for a moment and pointed his left hand at the monster's face.

"Psychic Bewitchment"

The magic, which only used about 20 points of magic energy, was easily effective, and the opponent's mental resistance was almost negative. Note①

The monster stopped struggling and its eyes were dull.

Marvin pressed the handle of the knife with both hands and continued to step on it and asked, "Are you a super mutant?"

"No, I am a more powerful creature, we are new humans!"

This question seemed to make him a little excited. Marvin stepped up his output and once again used his mind to bewitch.

"Are all the super mutants around here your group?"

"Yes."

"Why are you arresting people?"

"In order to replenish the population, we cannot have children normally."

"So you don't eat people?"

"You can also eat, but racial reproduction is more important."

"Where is your base camp?"

"The prison on the southeast side."

"Where are the people you arrested?"

"In the nearby police station, they will be sent to prison regularly."

Marvin raised his eyebrows. When he was investigating before, he only looked at the outside and didn't find anyone arrested in the police station. This question was just asked by the way while the other party was still awake.

He pulled out the long knife, pressed down with his backhand, and cut off the super mutant's neck with one knife.

…

"McAllen, the gunfire has stopped." Tarr asked the one-eyed man next to him in a low voice.

"Shh, keep your voice down, don't wake up that monster. We can hopefully escape."

The surroundings were quiet, and although the two of them made very small voices, others still heard them, and everyone looked at the one-eyed man.

There was also loud snoring coming from outside the prison area.

Tal lowered his voice and asked, "How do you say it?"

"If the super mutants win, they won't be so quiet, and they'll throw in a few more people."

Everyone else nodded slightly.

Creaking, the sound of the door opening came from outside.

The super mutant asked: "Who?"

Bang bang, two gunshots, then the sound of fighting and the sound of a sharp knife piercing flesh, something hit the ground...

A man wore a tattered leather trench coat with strange but extremely sophisticated metal armor inside, and a gas mask on his head.

The man opened the cell door with a key and said, "It's safe outside, leave now."

Marvin didn't want outsiders to be present when he was housing the artificial intelligence.

Kill them all? That's too weird, he's not that bloodthirsty.

"Wait." John McCarron pulled up Tal and stopped Marvin who was about to turn around and leave.

"Can you give me some water? We've been thirsty for a long time."

"Hold on."

Marvin turned around and left the prison area, placing ten bottles of water on the table outside, one for each person. It's not that he means well, he just wants these people to leave quickly.

There is no difference between the pure water produced by the learning machine and the unbranded bottled water, and it will not cause any trouble at all.

He took off his gas mask and shouted into the cell: "There is water on the table outside. Come out and get it yourself."

Everyone came out one by one, some picked up bottles of water, looked at his too young and clean face, and left without saying a word, while others said thank you.

A cockscomb-headed predator wanted to take two more bottles, but McCarron kicked him over: "Get out! Wait for me outside."

The one-eyed man glanced at the super mutant whose bodies were separated on the ground and asked, "Are you the only one?"

Marvin nodded: "Yes."

"Amazing. John McCarron, I owe you once. Come to the crater to find me when you have time." McCarron gave a thumbs up, turned around and left.

"Wait a minute." Marvin called to the one-eyed man and threw him a few treatment needles. "You're not bad, either."

Since you've brushed up the crater's favorability in advance, you might as well add more. He has a lot of these therapeutic needles produced in the wasteland, and they are free of charge. What's more, this Macallan's toughness can't be hidden, he is indeed a good player.

The Stimulant was a medical miracle before the war. It appeared inexplicably and had no predecessor products. The United States alone produced millions of them, making it easy to find them after the war.

The Stimulant can quickly heal skin and muscle injuries, and has a certain effect on fractures, but the effect on broken limbs and internal injuries is very limited. The most important thing is that it is not addictive, and the only side effect is thirst. Note ②

……

Note ①: The blue super mutants, Nightcrawler, and the setting in Fallout-New Vegas, take it and use it. The origin of these blue mutants will be explained later.

Note ②: The origin of the Stimulant technology will be explained in subsequent chapters. Book friends who know about it should not spoil it.