The Void Pathfinder from the Demon Hunter World

Crack~

Marvin woke up from his meditation with a start.

He had to keep an eye on the movements below tonight, but it would be too tiring if he kept staring at them.

He had to study something to prevent himself from falling asleep.

So he discovered another way to use meditation.

When not in deep meditation, although his eyes were closed, other senses would be slightly enhanced.

And hearing is much more useful than vision at night.

Although the enhanced sense of smell makes the surrounding fishy and rotten smells more obvious, it is actually just that after smelling for a long time.

The main door of the main building was pushed open halfway, but nothing came out.

True Vision Eye, dim vision.

Marvin saw two tall figures tiptoeing to close the door and leave.

Compared with other super mutants, these two were a little thin, wearing fitted clothes, carrying bags, and seemed to be carrying weapons.

Optical invisibility is indeed very useful on the technological side, but opening the door invisibly is a bit self-deception, right?

The two invisible monsters did not alarm other super mutants and quietly walked towards the main gate of the wall.

Marvin followed them from a distance, and even the invisible boy did not use it.

He had used it too many times today and was very tired. He could not use it again.

It was night now, and he was several hundred meters away from the two guys in front of him. He would not be exposed for a while.

After walking a few hundred meters, the two guys turned off the invisible and showed up.

Although he could not see the color clearly, Marvin immediately determined that these two were blue super mutants.

The East District Prison lost at least 20 green monsters today. If it happened again tomorrow, they would probably not be able to escape.

Tonight is the last chance to escape.

Marvin guessed right.

After walking a few hundred meters, the distance was far enough. Even if the gunshot alarmed the super mutants in the prison, it would be too late to rescue them.

Marvin suddenly accelerated and chased with all his strength.

The blue super mutant was very alert and immediately turned back. When he found that the person chasing him was a human, he immediately threw away his bag and became invisible.

Eye of True Vision.

Marvin saw them take down the weapons behind them, a hammer and an axe, are they planning to fight in close combat?

That's great.

Although the moonlight is weak, it is enough for close combat.

He didn't even turn on the low-light vision, and the 40 perception attribute bonus is not only for hearing.

The two blue monsters didn't know that their invisibility was ineffective, and they separated to the left and right tacitly.

Marvin looked like he couldn't stop the car, and continued to stumble forward.

Woo~

Two heavy weapons swept over from left to right, up and down... and missed.

Marvin teleported to one side, the knife flashed, and two knives broke his hamstrings and arms, and the full metal hammer fell to the ground with a bang.

He teleported again and appeared on the other side, easily crippling another monster.

Super mutants have no special abilities except for their thick skin and flesh, so they can be interrogated without worry.

Marvin was also very measured in his actions, which not only ensured that the two monsters would not die, but also made them unable to resist.

Like the blue super mutants encountered in Grafton, these two are also completely defenseless against "Mind Bewitching".

If the magic spell of Mind Bewitching is used continuously on the same target, the recipient will easily develop resistance.

But these two will not, even if they are used three times, they will not resist.

This also gave Marvin time to ask more questions.

…

The official name of the blue super mutant is "Night Walker", from a place called "Mojave" in the west.

The super mutants built their own town in the Black Mountains of Mojave, and the more "intelligent" Night Walkers were responsible for managing the town and commanding the green monsters to fight. Note ①

Because super mutants cannot reproduce and are very warlike, their numbers will decrease.

So the town often sends teams out to hunt humans and infect the prey with the FEV virus to increase the population.

The two Night Walkers in front of me and the one that Marvin killed in Grafton are all from that town.

The three of them are also the commanders of the three teams.

In addition to hunting for food and capturing humans, they were also entrusted with important tasks because of their more "stable" emotions. Explore farther places.

These three fools led their green monsters to the south...

Then, they successfully got lost.

They searched all over the place and ended up heading east, unable to find their home.

These three smart people simply let go and continued to walk, looking for other suitable places to settle down and create their own brilliant careers.

They walked, robbed, and fought all the way. I don't know how long they walked, but it was a long, long, long time.

The night walker mentioned it in a daze.

They killed several humans with automatic weapons, and the leader was wearing a very nice suit.

Out of respect for the strong and love for clothes, the night walkers always carried that suit.

Unfortunately, they ran in a hurry this time and couldn't take it with them, so they stayed in prison...

They fought too many battles on this expedition to the east, and their green monsters were stupid and couldn't run away. They all died, leaving only the three of them.

Finally, the Night Walkers climbed over the mountains and found a green and beautiful place.

Even though the super mutants are not afraid of radiation and sandstorms, they don't like to be abused.

Appalachia had no sense of existence before the war and was the poorest place in the entire United States. Because it did not suffer many nuclear attacks, the climate is quite good, the vegetation is rich, and there are many wild animals. Now humans have come here to settle down.

The Night Walkers immediately fell in love with this place.

More importantly, while they were wandering around Appalachia and recruiting new followers, they found a large amount of forced evolution virus (FEV) in a small town.

In this way, they had the capital to expand their tribe.

The night walkers chose the East District Prison as their base camp because the buildings here are solid and can also hold prey.

They took their new followers to kill the crazy ghouls wandering in the prison, and sent teams to spread out to capture anything alive.

The super mutants have a very diverse diet, as long as it is meat, they can eat it, but the green monsters in the East District Prison are not allowed to eat humans.

Because humans are the basis for expanding the tribe, humans infected with the FEV virus will become super mutants after successful mutation.

Only three night walkers have the right to eat humans, and human meat is much more delicious than other monster meat.

As for why the skin of the night walkers is blue, Marvin didn't have time to ask, he didn't want to waste too much magic power on meaningless news.

Everything that should be known is known, and the mission of "finding out the origin of the blue super mutant" has been completed.

The next step is to explore the inside of the prison.

Although he had learned from the two night walkers what they were doing inside, he couldn't consider the mission completed without a look, right?

Besides, there were so many green monsters to kill inside.

The two bags were a pile of blood and flesh, which was of no value.

Marvin put away the two hideous blue heads and walked towards the prison.

…

The super mutants sleeping in the shack were scattered and sleeping soundly, so they were easy to kill.

Even if some of them woke up occasionally, Marvin would not give them the opportunity to shout or shoot.

After clearing the enemies outside, he did not go through the door or enter from the broken wall on the side, but quietly climbed up to the third-floor window.

No one stipulated that you had to start from the first floor to attack a building.

On the third floor of the south outer wall, Marvin climbed by the window.

The glass was gone long ago, leaving only the metal fence, and it was easy to judge that there were no living creatures inside.

Click, click, click.

With a few slight noises, the railing was cut off, and Marvin put the broken iron bars into the inventory and climbed into the room.

A person stood quietly in the corner, his red goggles reflecting a faint light.

Marvin was startled and disappeared before his feet even touched the ground.

Snap, the blade stopped at the neck of the "person".

Damn, it turned out to be a dummy, just wearing a handsome armor.

The vague memory gradually became clear.

Isn't this a Ranger?

The Ranger armor is known as the coolest outfit in the Fallout series. No wonder Night Walker traveled thousands of miles to collect it and even found a model dummy.

Marvin dismantled the dummy lightly and put away the full set of Ranger armor. Note ②

Based on the equipment information given by the learning machine, the smile on the corner of his mouth was harder to suppress than the AK burst.

This row on the third floor should be where Night Walker lives. There is only a faint smell of rot and blood, no other monsters, and no door leading to the back building.

Could it be that this three-story building in the shape of an inverted T is actually two separate buildings?

There is also an armory on the third floor, which contains a lot of guns and bullets, as well as two unmodified mini nuclear bombs.

Marvin did not touch these things. Everyone has a share of the spoils, and they are not important things, so stealing them would be a bit stingy.

There is no door on the second floor leading to the back building.

The layout of the upper two floors of the horizontal building is the same, with two rows of rooms on the north and south sides, a long corridor in the middle, and stairs on the east and west sides.

Judging from the layout of the rooms, the upper two floors should have been the office area of ​​the prison.

The vertical building should be the prison cell.

Before Marvin climbed into the window, he recorded a coordinate point outside the building in advance and forced himself to remember it in his mind.

If there is an emergency, such as encountering a suicide bomber, as long as the coordinate point is no more than 18 meters away from him, he can teleport out immediately.

A height of more than ten meters is not a problem for him. Even if he falls, it is difficult to get hurt, which is better than being hit in the face by a nuclear bomb.

When the predetermined coordinate point is more than 15 meters away from him, he will stop and set a new coordinate point next to the window.

Because of this reason and the darkness inside the building, Marvin's exploration speed was quite slow.

His cautiousness soon paid off. He found a shirtless super mutant in the room on the second floor, drooling as he slept.

The iron chain of the green monster's apron was tied to a mini nuclear bomb.

Seeing this, Marvin teleported into the room, cut the chain with the first knife, grabbed the nuclear bomb with his left hand and put it into the inventory, and beheaded it with the second knife.

The whole process took less than 2 seconds, and the super mutant left this not-so-beautiful world as soon as he opened his eyes.

The two buildings, one horizontal and one vertical, were indeed separated, but not completely separated. There was a door leading to the back on the first floor.

The vertical building was indeed a prison cell, and the scene inside was cruel and disgusting.

The super mutant turned this place into a brutal mutation experiment site.

There were two large rows of plastic barrels in the prisoner bathroom, and the barrels contained a disgusting yellow-green solution with a pungent smell. This was the FEV virus.

Just from the environment and smell, it can be judged that the quality of the virus obtained by the Night Walker was not very good.

The humans they captured would be stuffed into barrels for a period of time to ensure that the virus could fully infect them.

Almost all plastic barrels had signs of struggle, and some barrels had human remains in them. The red blood mixed with the yellow-green solution made the color even more disgusting.

Those who were fully infected with the virus would be locked up in cells and wait for mutation to occur.

The mutation caused by FEV was not 100% successful, even with the purest virus stock solution, let alone the inferior product.

The remains and corpses of failed mutants can be seen everywhere in the cell. Some of them have melted bones and become a pile of rotten meat in the corner; some have deformed hands and feet on their backs; some have infinite muscle growth and become a red cystic meat ball...

Marvin had the opportunity to use "illumination" to explore the entire prison only after killing all the super mutants.

He was considered a man who had seen some scenes, and the scene in the bio-alchemy laboratory was also very cruel.

Even so, he vomited twice in a row.

The whole prison was filled with rotten, sour and foul smells. Hell is just like this...

The confiscated weapons and ammunition were piled up in the yard. Marvin sat on the top of the tower, blowing the night wind, waiting for dawn.

...

Super mutants originated from the research on forced evolution virus. (Chapter 6 of this volume)

FEV gave super mutants super strong physique and excellent regeneration ability.

The price is that their nervous system will also grow wildly, causing these monsters to fall into endless pain and rage, and also accompanied by bone deformities. For example, all super mutants are hunchbacked.

Research teams in different regions use different virus strains, resulting in subtle differences in super mutants in different places.

Why do nightwalkers have gray-blue skin? No one knows.

Maybe it's because they have been wearing that strange invisible device since birth, or maybe it's because of other things...

Compared to their green counterparts, nightwalkers are more "intelligent", but that device also makes them more likely to go crazy than their peers.

FEV can prevent physical illness, but it can't prevent mental illness.

Schizophrenia is the mildest disease among nightwalkers.

These are all unknown to Marvin, who is meditating.

...

At dawn, Marvin ended his meditation and jumped off the tower.

He put on his Pip-Boy again, carried a gun and a knife on his back, and held a large bloody cloth bag in his hand, and walked towards the gathering point.

Several acquaintances such as McAllen, Robert, and Dennis surrounded him, and then suddenly retreated.

"Ugh, damn it." One-eyed Dragon covered his nose and complained, "Did you fall into the cesspool?"

Marvin's mood had not yet calmed down, and he said coldly: "Everyone is killed inside, go and take a look."

He stuffed the bag of heads into McAllen and turned to walk towards the prison.

One-eyed Dragon opened the bag and took a look, and said to everyone: "Two blue super mutants."

Several people looked at each other.

Dennis asked Anita: "What's wrong with him?"

The Latin beauty rolled her eyes: "You ask me? Who should I ask?"

McAllen saw that Marvin was in a bad mood, and didn't say much, calling his men to chase him.

Robert also followed with his men.

...

Outside the main gate of the prison building, Marvin leaned against the wall.

"...This is the situation, is there anything else to ask?"

Seeing that several people shook their heads, he looked at McAllen and asked: "Do you have cigarettes?" Note ③

One-eyed Dragon took out a wrinkled cigarette box and took out two cigarettes.

Marvin grabbed the cigarette box and left him only one cigarette.

The two of them gathered a match and lit it.

Marvin took the match away as well.

McAllen took a deep breath and vomited heavily.

He had seen the situation in the prison and vomited, and now his mouth still tasted strange.

In fact, out of curiosity, everyone went in to visit, and some people only took a few glances and ran out with their mouths covered.

There are still several people holding the wall and retching, and Anita, who was standing next to Robert, vomited and her face turned pale.

"Puh, puh, puh..." Robert Vaughan spit out the mouthwash and food residue and asked, "Didn't you find any living humans?"

"Huh..." Marvin shook his head, "No."

Robert nodded and uttered two words meaningfully: "Okay..."

McAllen flicked the cigarette butt and asked, "The work is done, what's next?"

"I'll go back first and go to Meg to settle the bill tomorrow." Marvin turned around and left with a half-smoked cigarette in his mouth.

McAllen shouted from behind: "Where the hell do you live?"

Marvin didn't turn around, waved his hand and replied: "Secret."

...

Note ①: When Nightwalker first appeared in Chapter 15 of this volume, some book friends said that the blue monster was created by the Bishop. I want to say this specifically, it's not true.

Nightwalker appeared in the game "Fallout New Vegas" and lived in the Mojave Wasteland. He has nothing to do with the Bishop.

Whether from the original timeline or the background setting, Nightwalker is generally considered to be a second-generation super mutant, and the one created by the Bishop is called the first-generation super mutant.

Due to the limited space of this volume, there will be no distinction between the first and second generations.

What is the Bishop? It is the final boss of Fallout 1, the ancestor of a certain super mutant. As for its appearance, it is a meat ball with a human head and a computer core wrapped around it, and countless tentacles connect various equipment in the entire underground shelter. Very curious.

If you are interested, you can Baidu it yourself.

Why can't super mutants reproduce? There are many theories, and I agree with one of them.

Forced Evolution Virus (FEV) will actively improve the diseased cells and genes in the human body, so super mutants will hardly get sick.

Animals, including humans, rely on sperm cells and egg cells for reproduction. Neither of them is a complete cell, only half of the chromosomes.

So the FEV virus thinks that sperm cells and egg cells are diseased and improves them.

Sperm and eggs have lost the function of combining and reproducing offspring, so super mutants naturally cannot reproduce, and even their sexual characteristics have disappeared. In other words, super mutants are actually genderless.

New Vegas is a game that was released many, many years ago. Even those who have played it may have forgotten it. I will just mention it here. The town in the Black Mountain region mentioned in this chapter is not the same place as the town led by Marcus.

The source of the Appalachian super mutation is the town of Huntersville, and the virus experiment unit is Western Technology Company. The virus stock solution found by Nightcrawler should also come from here.

Regarding the Fallout series, I added a preface of several hundred words in Chapter 1 of this volume. If you are interested, you can go back and take a look.

Note ②: Ranger! Finally I can talk about it. I took great pains to pull out Nightcrawler and even made a special plot for this.

Novels are not like games. You can make a Ranger look by hanging a whole skin or a picture in the mall. I have to make the plot look less awkward.

Ranger advanced riot armor, how can you come to the radiation wasteland without a set? It would be a waste of time. There are pictures in the next chapter. The pictures are available only when the protagonist wears it.

Note ③: Minors are prohibited from smoking, and smoking is prohibited in public places. Smoking is harmful to health. Dog heads save lives.