The Void Pathfinder from the Demon Hunter World

[Task prompt: Scorched virus (first round). Verify whether the Scorched Beast is the source of the Scorched virus. Task time limit: 7 days. ]

Marvin received the above task when he communicated with Robert and Anita at the crater.

The task prompt is very short, but it contains quite a lot of information.

Is the Scorched Beast the big monster with a wingspan of more than 8 meters, similar to a bat, as they described? Very likely.

Is the Scorched Beast not the source of the Unscorched Virus? Very likely.

Then the next step is very clear, find the big monster, get some blood, and give it to the boys in the shelter.

At the crater, Anita Garcia invited Marvin to join their follow-up plan and contribute to the peace of Appalachia.

Marvin did not agree rashly, but just said "Let's go and see the situation first."

Know yourself and know the enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles.

You must see it first to judge whether you can fight.

What if you agree but can't fight, wouldn't it be embarrassing?

This answer gave the two a better impression.

This shows that the plan proposed by Marvin during the previous attack on the East District Prison was not a flash in the pan.

It also shows that Marvin is calm in the face of things and is not a reckless man who only has the power of force.

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Fifty kilometers east of the crater, there is a mountain range running north-south.

To the west of the mountain range is the Toxic Valley and the forest area, and to the east of the mountain range is the relatively dry and rugged Savage Ridge.

The Pumpkin House is northeast of Savage Ridge, and the straight-line distance is only more than 100 kilometers.

But it is still quite troublesome to cross the mountain range.

The area where the monster, which is not sure whether it is a "scorched corpse beast", is active is on the other side of the mountain range, where there is a place called Pumpkin House.

Marvin has already got the address of the Pumpkin House from Robert.

The mission time limit is only 7 days, so he has to hurry.

After all, the monster can fly, and it will not wait for him to find it honestly.

After leaving the Grand Cross, he immediately set off for the Pumpkin House.

When he got the address, Robert also pointed out a mountain pass that is convenient for crossing the mountain range, next to a substation.

The terrain of the mountainous area is not friendly to ordinary people, but fortunately Marvin is not an ordinary person.

The cliffs and gullies with a height difference of more than ten meters could not stop him from moving forward in a straight line, and he finally found the Pumpkin House at noon the next day.

This place with a somewhat cartoonish name is next to a north-south highway.

There is a fenced pumpkin field on the west side of the road, and a two-story building full of dilapidated pumpkin lanterns on the east side of the road.

The pickup truck bed next to the pumpkin field is full of dried pumpkins, and a small wooden house is built outside the fence wall, with a sign hanging on the door "Pumpkin Paradise".

The wooden house has a window facing outward, and behind the window sits a skeleton wearing a black dress and a top hat. On the wall behind the skeleton are pumpkin lanterns, Halloween costumes, and ghost masks.

In the two-story residential house across the road, the first floor is arranged as a store, and the goods are similar to those on the opposite side. A skeleton in a flowery dress sits behind the counter...

After the mining industry in Appalachia declined, the state government once supported the residents here to transform into the service industry and tourism industry, but the result should not be ideal.

For example, this privately built "Pumpkin Paradise" is probably not of interest to most tourists.

Marvin walked south along the road, killing waves of scorched corpses and wild dogs.

In addition to the broken houses and a lot of scorched corpses, there are green spots everywhere on the ground and in the woods beside the road, which will cause a slight tingling sensation when the skin touches them.

He wandered around here for an afternoon, but found nothing except an empty cave.

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The next morning, there was still no news from Rusty Pick Town. Marvin teleported to the Pumpkin House and subconsciously looked to the south sky. A small black dot was flying high in the sky.

It was too far away, so he couldn't see what was flying, but it should be big.

The black dot was flying towards him, and it was probably the monster he didn't wait for yesterday.

Marvin walked south along the road to select a good battlefield.

The road there was relatively wide, the woods on the west side of the road and the cliffs on the east side of the road were relatively far away, and there were many abandoned cars on the road that could block the monsters from moving, which was a relatively suitable place for fighting.

The UFO in the sky suddenly changed direction midway.

It was flying in a circle, circling once every ten minutes, as if it was patrolling its territory, with the center of the circle near Marvin.

The circle it circled was getting smaller and smaller, and the distance was getting closer and closer.

The monster really looked like a bat, but it had two more forelimbs than a bat.

In other words, it had six limbs like the legendary dragon, normal four limbs plus a pair of membrane wings. The whole body was black, with irregular fluorescent green lines on the wing membrane and torso.

When the monster flew, fluorescent green things would fall from its body, floating down in dots, like flying dandruff.

[Hint: The mission target, the scorched beast, was detected. You can kill it and submit it, or you can obtain biological samples to complete the mission. ]

Sure enough, this was the scorched beast.

The monster gradually lowered its flying altitude, and Marvin estimated its size, which was different from what Robert and the others said.

The wingspan of this giant beast should be about 10 meters, and its length should be more than 3.5 meters.

It was bigger than all the flying monsters he had faced, but he himself was stronger than before and was not afraid.

Marvin put on his helmet and prepared for battle.

Robert had specifically reminded him: "If you have power armor, wear it. If not, at least wear a gas mask."

Facing an enemy he knows nothing about, if an experienced person gives a kind reminder, he will definitely listen.

There is no need to wear power armor, otherwise it will be difficult to escape, but wearing a helmet is fine.

When the monster got closer, the combat panel changed.

[Environmental Radiation Value: 6]

Fuck, is it so abnormal? Just getting closer to the environment radiation increased by 2 points.

This monster itself is probably a huge radiation source.

Marvin did not feel the skin tingling and dizziness and nausea caused by radiation damage. He didn't know whether it was because of his strong physique or the Ranger armor.

He hid in the shadow of the truck, took out a full-finger glove on his right hand and put it on, swallowed a few anti-radiation pills, put on his helmet again, and continued to wait.

Because he needed to maintain the feel of holding the knife, he usually didn't wear gloves on his right hand, at most half-finger gloves.

But facing such strong radiation, it was a bit crazy to expose the skin.

Five minutes later, Marvin raised the sniper rifle, and the sniper scope circled with the monster.

Bang!

The first time he shot a flying target at a long distance, he missed.

Click, pull the bolt, clang, the shell fell to the ground.

Bang!

The second shot hit the monster's wing membrane, and it suddenly stopped, flapped its wings, and floated in the air and roared downwards.

Visible sound waves expanded downward from the monster's mouth, instantly covering an area of ​​nearly a thousand meters.

Marvin didn't care what the monster was doing. Since the target had stopped, he pulled the trigger again.

Bang!

This shot hit the monster's chest.

The scorched corpse turned nimbly in the air and rushed straight to Marvin.

Marvin put away his sniper rifle and walked out of the shadow of the truck. Quinn put on his shield and stared at the enemy in the sky with red goggles.

The monster flew very fast, and a distance of hundreds of meters was reached in a few seconds...

Bang, the huge wings suddenly spread out, covering the sky and the sun.

The monster had huge pointed ears, an upturned nose, and fangs interlaced in its black mouth that stretched to the roots of its ears. Its turbid black eyes were dull.

[Environmental Radiation Value: 17]

Before Marvin could sigh at the sudden increase in radiation value, he saw the giant beast open its mouth and howl.

Aw~~~!!

It was as if a Category 8 hurricane had blown over the ground, with dust flying and rubble hitting the scrapped cars with crackling sounds.

The paint on the trucks around him cracked and peeled off, and the few remaining glass pieces shattered on the spot.

Snap, the Quinn shield shattered into a patch of light in the blink of an eye.

Marvin took advantage of this moment to open the pale golden spherical shield, "Quinn Seal-Active Shield".

He felt his brain was shaking, dizzy, and a little nauseous.

The health bar on the panel dropped to 87% in an instant, and the end of the health bar slowly occupied by black, black represents radiation damage.

This kind of sonic attack was really the first time he encountered it, and he didn't expect the range to be so large and the power to be so strong.

Crack, the shield made a sound of being overwhelmed, and cracks appeared.

The sonic attack lasted less than 2 seconds, and Marvin felt like a minute had passed. Fortunately, he finally made it through.

He immediately pulled out the M67 heavy machine gun and pointed the muzzle at the monster's head.

Bang, bang, bang, bang... The large-caliber bullets hit accurately, spurting out a little black blood.

The monster moved sideways in the air nimbly, bringing up a gust of wind.

Marvin controlled the machine gun to rotate, and the endless bullets chased the head of the giant beast.

It must be led to the ground, otherwise there is no way to hit it. The heavy machine gun and sniper rifle did not cause enough damage to this monster.

The scorched corpse beast was probably hurt by the bullets. It folded its wings and fell directly from a height of 20 meters.

Bang, crack, a large piece of the concrete road surface was crushed.

The huge black claws slapped down head-on.

Teleport.

Marvin appeared behind the giant beast's head, stepping on its back, and the machine gun had cut into a long knife in seconds.

Guswen slashed down fiercely with a bright blue light...

Suddenly, his feet slipped, and the knife path deviated. He only cut off a part of the ear tip, and cut a few centimeters deep wound on the asphalt-like back of the neck.

The scorched beast seemed to have a layer of slippery mucus on its body, and it couldn't stand at all.

The giant beast shook its body vigorously, and Marvin had to teleport again, landing nearly ten meters away, stumbling two steps before standing firm.

The scorched beast pounced suddenly, leaped nearly ten meters away, opened its mouth and bit, and its scimitar-like sharp teeth were very scary.

Although the monster was very fast, it still had a small recoil before pounced forward.

Marvin seized this moment, ducked forward, dodged the scorched beast's sharp teeth, and got under it.

The long knife was pushed up, the back of the knife stuck in the shoulder socket, and Marvin bent over and carried the knife and rushed forward.

The tip of the knife cut a wound more than 2 meters long from the monster's throat to the side.

The scorched beast suddenly jumped up and fell heavily.

Marvin rolled forward to avoid it, and slapped the ground with his left hand, and a 12-meter purple magic circle unfolded.

When he stood up again, he was just next to the tail of the scorched beast.

The monster's tail was very short, and it was still connected to the wing membrane. The more he looked at it, the more it looked like a bat.

Marvin turned around suddenly, slashed his long sword horizontally, and the Gus pattern drew an ice-blue arc of light, which cut the hind leg bone of the scorched corpse.

Click, the blade only cut halfway in, and the giant beast took off into the air.

He flapped his huge wings suddenly, and the wind pressure forced Marvin to squat to avoid falling, and he finally had a chance to fill the Quinn shield.

The giant beast circled at low altitude, with a whistling sound, and suddenly rushed down, with its mouth open.

Marvin knew that the large-scale sonic attack was coming again, and immediately took the risk of teleporting behind a truck.

Aww~~~!!

The shield that had just been filled was broken again.

But with these few tenths of a second, Marvin once again opened the "active shield" to resist.

The blood volume dropped to 68%, and the black color occupied 6%. The body was already obviously weak.

Fortunately, there was a truck between them, which was much stronger than last time.

Fortunately, the new helmet was powerful, otherwise he felt that his eardrum might be ruptured.

The scorched beast flapped its wings, soared again, found the hiding enemy, and swooped down.

Since this monster looked so much like a bat, it must also have the ability to locate with sound waves.

Marvin was not surprised that the other party could find him, but he didn't believe that it could always use such a large-scale sound wave attack.

The scorched beast was too big, so he could only teleport to avoid the dive.

Bang, bang!

The truck was directly knocked over by the diving beast and rolled into the woods on the side of the road.

It took the scorched beast 3 seconds to find the enemy again, turned around suddenly, and swept with its right claw.

Marvin took advantage of these 3 seconds to replenish the Quinn shield again, holding the knife with both hands, and slashed against the wind.

Clang~Crack

Black blood splashed, and the skinny half of the giant claw was cut off by a knife.

Before he had time to be happy, the remaining half of the claw swept his shoulder.

Snap, the shield broke again.

Marvin was directly blown away.

He tried his best to adjust in the air and landed on the ground with a backflip.

"Cough..." A line of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth under the helmet, but Marvin's eyes were still calm.

The blood volume was still 61%, and the black part expanded to 9%.

Quinn's shield worked again, although it was slightly weak in the face of such a giant beast.

The scorched corpse recoiled slightly, fluttered its wings, and made a move to pounce.

Opportunity.

Marvin instantly estimated the landing point of the monster's hind legs.

Woo~bang, the giant beast jumped forward and landed.

Marvin teleported and slashed horizontally.

Clang~

The dazzling long sword accurately cut the wound on the monster's hind legs.

Crack!

Half of the hind legs fell to the ground.

When Marvin was about to cut the wing membrane with his backhand, the scorchbeast flapped its wings and took off instantly.

Ugh... A huge wind pressure hit Marvin, who was knocked over. He rolled backwards and stood up.

The giant beast had already soared into the sky.

Marvin did not give up, so he retracted his long sword and pulled out the M67 heavy machine gun.

Bang bang bang bang bang...

A series of black blood was sprinkled in the air, and the scorchbeast flew higher and higher, and farther and farther.

Marvin put away his gun and stopped wasting ammunition.

The huge purple magic circle had collapsed and disappeared...

Against such a big monster, the effect of the Aden seal... was almost the same as having nothing.

Marvin dragged his feet to the south and went into the uninhabited cave on the east side of the road. It was a little safer here.

He took off his helmet and arm armor and injected Radion Eliminator intravenously.

When he was closest to the scorchbeast, the panel showed that the environmental radiation value was as high as 25. Although the blood volume did not drop quickly, the weakness was very serious.

After removing the intravenous needle, Marvin drank half a bottle of healing potion, took two injections of treatment needles, ate two tubes of nutrient paste, and drank a bottle of water in one breath before he recovered from his weakness.

During this period, he summarized the characteristics of the scorched beast.

It is huge, strong, powerful, sensitive enough, can fly, has a large range of control skills, and has aura damage.

If this thing can't fly, Marvin is confident that he can kill it with radiation damage, but it's a bit shameless to fly at any time.

Although wearing power armor can resist radiation, it is too heavy and can't teleport. I wonder if it will be deflated like a can when it is hit by a big claw, and then Fanta will flow all over the floor?

In addition, this monster seems to have no pain nerves at all.

It will not scream after suffering such a serious injury as a broken limb, and it will not affect fighting and flying at all.

If his prediction is correct, the scorched beast should also have the ability to heal itself, but he doesn't know how fast it can heal itself.

Huh... It's really hard to do it alone...

...

It's almost time to rest, it's time to collect biological samples.

Marvin walked out of the cave and took out a large cloth bag and an empty can from the inventory.

Cloth bags are always available, whether it's for bottle caps or monster heads, they are very convenient.

The empty can was found in the underground base, and he even cleaned it.

He put the ear tip and two broken limbs into the cloth bag, and squatted on the cement road to collect the black blood that was glowing green.

Bang, bang, bang...

It was the footsteps of the power armor, coming from the south.

Marvin stood up and looked over, a T60 and two people were walking over.

"Civilians, what attacked here? What are you doing?" The leading power armor shouted.

The arrogant tone made Marvin uncomfortable.

"Before asking others, you have to explain your identity first."

"Brotherhood of Steel. Who are you? What happened here?"

Marvin suddenly realized that the logo on the chest of the T60 looked familiar.

"A bounty hunter. Here?" He pointed to the sky and said, "A big flying monster."

"Like a big bat?" asked the woman next to T60.

Marvin nodded.

T60 turned to the woman and said, "Rachel, your information is accurate. Scorched beasts have indeed appeared here."

The woman called Rachel was wearing a light blue long top with a close-fitting leather armor on the outside. The leather armor had many pockets and held various tools.

Rachel nodded: "That means there is indeed a problem with the defense line."

Although Marvin was confused, he did not ask rashly. It was an internal communication, so there was no need to explain to him.

Rachel turned around and asked Marvin: "Why do bounty hunters collect these?"

"It's the people in Shelter 76 who need it. They want to find the source of the radiation virus and need to collect various biological samples."

Marvin basically told the truth.

Regardless of whether outsiders appreciate the Brotherhood of Steel or not, they have to admit that it is a powerful force with abundant martial virtues. Compared with them, the crater is really equivalent to the bandits in the regular army.

It would be great if the Brotherhood could be brought down.

Rachel asked in surprise: "Are you going to die? Even accepting such a commission?"

This woman has so many questions, Marvin can only continue to answer: "They are helping everyone, I am helping them."

The man on the other side of T60 seemed to be a big soldier, and he didn't say a word.

T60 spoke again, pointing to the broken limbs exposed in the cloth bag and asked: "Did you do this alone?"

"Otherwise." Marvin spread his hands.

"Morano, there is no one else around, your question is stupid."

"You have to ask clearly."

Rachel looks like a good girl, and she is full of scary news as soon as she opens her mouth.

"Bounty hunters, go and fight against the fortress. There are at least two scorched corpses now..."

"Hey! Rachel, he's just a civilian." T60 raised his voice.

Rachel pouted and said, "What's the matter? We don't need those corpses."

"Wait..." Marvin pointed to the sky and asked uncertainly, "You mean, there are still a lot of those things?"

T60 replied, "Yes, the Brotherhood has been resisting the attack and spread of scorched corpses in the cranberry swamp."

This is a big problem.

Marvin thought about it and asked, "If I want to join you, where can I find you or other people who have the final say?"

He didn't plan to join the Brotherhood, and this question was asked on behalf of the people in the shelter.

T60 pointed behind him: "South, go along the way, the Atlas Observatory on the top of the mountain."

At this point, he took off his helmet, revealing a pot-lid hairstyle and a square white face.

"I am Knight Morano, and I really hope you can join the Brotherhood of Steel."

Marvin knew that this was another time when his strength came into play.

"Marvin Goydema, bounty hunter. I'll go."

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