The Void Pathfinder from the Demon Hunter World

Resistance Fortress, first floor, Vaughn Team Barracks.

"Marvin's analysis is correct. If we face four scorched beasts and a large number of scorched men at the same time, the battle will probably be difficult." Anita frowned and said, "Besides, it is now basically certain that the scorched beasts are the source of the scorched virus."

Everyone nodded, and Sumar, who always spoke little, asked: "Where did so many scorched beasts come from?"

Everyone was silent.

When the scorched beasts attacked, they were all guarding the missile racks under the fortress, and they couldn't even see the city of Watauga, let alone see where the scorched beasts came from.

"This is not important..." Robert Vaughn said, "What's important now is, if there are really so many scorched beasts coming, and there are scorched men besieging us at the same time, what should we do?"

Everyone was silent again, but no one said to escape, and they were all frowning and thinking of ways.

Dennis was a natural optimist, not affected at all. He jumped up and shouted: "MVP time! Guys, if we can kill a scorched beast, what can those big-headed soldiers say?"

Sumar poured cold water on him again: "Use your rifle?"

The black boy hugged his teammate's neck and said flatteringly: "Hey, Sumar, good brother, you will help me, right? You see..."

Captain Robert ignored the two jokers and said in a deep voice: "You can try it. At least we can hold back a scorched beast, or we can be responsible for killing the scorched people on the periphery. Come, let's discuss it..."

The atmosphere in the entire fortress began to become tense.

Everyone was running forward, especially the logistics department.

A large amount of ammunition was distributed to the soldiers or placed behind various bunkers. The missile rack was overhauled for a full 2 ​​hours.

Vaughn's direct superior, a sergeant, was also quite satisfied with Vaughn's firepower and personnel configuration. He had also seen Marvin participate in the battle and no longer minded him approaching the north fence.

As long as Marvin didn't climb over the fence, he wouldn't be responsible.

The Brotherhood of Steel was not a regular army after all.

Marvin was chatting with Robert, Anita and others across the fence, and the sergeant pretended not to see it.

"Maybe I have a way." Marvin said outside the fence.

"What way?" Robert asked.

"It's hard to say, I can only try, it may not work." Marvin said, "At least, I will be fine. The worst case scenario is that I escape back and join you, then we have to use your plan."

Considering that Marvin had injured a scorched beast alone, several people still believed what he said "try".

The teammates told Marvin to be careful and went back to stand guard.

At noon, Marvin changed his hiding place and camped on the top of a hill on the southeast side of the fortress.

Marvin sat in a dilapidated wooden house, quietly waiting for the scorched beast to attack.

During this period, there were scorched people wandering up from the mountain from time to time, and he used a combat rifle and a knife to deal with them.

Without making too much noise, he would not be besieged by a large number of scorched corpses.

In the evening, gunshots were heard from the fortress, and the outer soldiers exchanged fire with the scorched corpses.

At night, Marvin sat in the corner with a fixative, listening to the footsteps and meaningless hums of the scorched corpses around him, and looking at the sky.

The scorched corpses who accidentally broke into the broken house would be silently killed at the door and become obstacles blocking the door.

…

In the early morning, when the sky was bright, the gunshots from the fortress became more frequent, and the door of the broken house was already blocked by corpses.

Marvin leaned against the broken wall and looked quietly to the east from the broken wall.

Ten black dots flew up from behind the ruined skyscrapers of Watauga City in the east, spreading to the northwest, west and southwest.

The black dots on the northwest and southwest sides were attracted one by one by the ground defense missiles.

That was the automatic defense system deployed by the Brotherhood in the Cranberry Swamp. The four defense points plus the resistance fortress formed an arc defense line to prevent the spread of scorched corpses.

The death rate at the defense point was higher than that at the resistance fortress. They not only had to face the scorched beasts, but also other monsters in the cranberry swamp, super mutants, and violent robots with disordered programs.

Finally, four scorched beasts flew towards the fortress.

Marvin let out a long sigh. Fortunately, the scorched beasts did not come at night, otherwise it would be too much trouble.

He stood up and stretched his limbs, swallowed a few tablets of anti-radiation, changed his gloves, put on his helmet, and took out his sniper rifle.

He placed the gun on a broken wall in the room and squatted down. The angle was very good. Marvin observed the four flying scorched beasts through the scope. The southernmost one seemed to be smaller.

When the scorched beasts flew over the damaged building on the top of the hill, they were still more than 600 meters away from Marvin.

[Tip: You can kill and submit the scorched beasts. ]

Marvin ignored the prompt of the learning machine and pulled the trigger.

Bang!

The sound of the gun echoed between the broken walls, shaking up some dust.

He didn't care if there were any other scorched people around him. The flying beasts flying overhead were very fast, and he only had four chances to fire.

Bang!

The southernmost scorched beast stopped, and he turned his head to look at the ground to the south.

Bang!

The scorched beast hovered in the air and shook its head, aiming at the damaged building and swooping down.

Marvin shrank to the corner of the wall, holding up the spherical shield, ready to face the sonic attack.

Ouch! ~

Crack, clatter ~

The upper part of the broken brick wall was shattered by the sonic wave, and the dust raised filled the damaged building.

This time Marvin only felt a little dizzy, everything else was fine, even the shield was intact.

Turn off the active shield, cast the Quen Seal, pick up the M67 heavy machine gun, aim at the belly of the giant beast hovering above his head and start shooting.

Bang bang bang bang bang...

The monster's head is too hard, but its belly is relatively soft. This is the experience of the last battle with the scorched beast.

The giant beast retracted its wings, and its huge body of nearly 4 meters long fell directly from a height of more than ten meters.

Boom, crash~

The few remaining broken walls on the south side were smashed down again.

Teleporting, Marvin appeared next to the monster's hind legs. This place is already outside the building.

He has been hiding in the house for so long, and he has already figured out the surrounding terrain.

Gus pattern lit up with a bright blue light, and slashed horizontally with all his strength.

Clang~ Crack...

One of the hind legs of the scorched beast was broken.

The monster jumped back flexibly, and its wings naturally opened slightly...

Marvin turned around and jumped after breaking the leg with a knife, and slashed in the air with his waist.

Swish...

The beast's left wing was cut open like a piece of cloth, and two wing bones were also cut off.

Crack...

The long knife was stuck by the thickest bone, and Marvin could no longer exert force in the air, and was carried backwards.

The monster jumped back and landed on its buttocks because it was missing a hind leg.

Marvin disappeared in the air, landed on the side of the monster, and chopped down with his long knife diagonally.

The side of the scorched beast was cut open by a knife, exposing its fluorescent squirming internal organs.

Without waiting for the monster to counterattack, Marvin jumped onto the broken wall in two steps, and the long knife in his hand was instantly cut into an M67 heavy machine gun.

Bang bang bang bang...

The heavy machine gun aimed at the wound in the beast's abdomen and continued to shoot, and large-caliber bullets penetrated the wound from time to time, destroying the internal organs.

The scorched beast staggered and turned around, using its hard head and forelimbs to cover the wound.

Marvin was unmoved and continued to stand on the broken wall and shoot.

The scorched beast suddenly pounced forward, and Marvin retreated and fell into the house.

The monster forgot that it had lost a leg, so it didn't reach far enough to reach the broken wall.

The monster, the broken wall and the ground formed a right triangle.

Seeing such a good opportunity, Marvin would not miss it.

With a flash of blue light, he took the risk of teleporting to the other side of the broken wall. He squatted down and the throat of the monster was right above his head.

Guswen stabbed upward into the throat of the scorched beast, dragging the knife with both hands to cut horizontally to expand the wound.

The scorched beast retracted its upper body and tried to retract its right claw.

It couldn't even find where its enemy was now, but it just felt uncomfortable in its neck.

Ma Wen felt the monster's movement with his hand, twisted the blade in time, and staggered by the huge force.

Guswen cut a 7-shaped wound from the giant beast's throat to the lower jaw.

The scorched beast was scared and flapped its wings to fly, but its left wing was severely damaged. It barely flew into the air for a while and fell back to the ground.

Marvin was hit by the wind pressure from the monster and hit the broken wall behind him. He flipped into the house and switched to the heavy machine gun to fire again.

After getting close to the scorched beast, the environmental radiation value was 22, which was too damaging. Marvin would not fight in close combat without a good opportunity, because the monster could not escape anyway.

The giant beast tried to fly twice, but was shot in the abdomen and severely injured both times, and fell twice.

The scorched beast lay on the ground with its front legs and opened its mouth to roar.

Marvin did not even dodge, because he did not believe that it could roar to cause damage with such a big wound on its throat.

Hiss, hiss...

The monster barely made two ugly roars, and nothing happened.

Marvin took back the heavy machine gun with an empty ammunition belt, replaced it with a laser machine gun, and continued to fire...

The scorched beast found that it really could not fly, and staggered around. It seemed that it was planning to crawl away.

Marvin had been shooting easily for nearly half a minute, and his physical strength had recovered a lot.

With a flash of blue light, he appeared next to the monster's only remaining right hind leg, and Guswen cut out another arc of light again, breaking another leg of the beast.

Relying on the power of its forelimbs and the flapping of its wings, the giant beast suddenly turned around and swept its claws.

It was already huge in size, but because of its disability, its attack pre-swing was more obvious.

Marvin held the knife with both hands and slashed it against the wind.

This time he adjusted his movements to avoid being hit by the remaining limbs, and only black blood was spilled on his coat.

Dodging the struggle of the scorched beast, switching to the laser machine gun, Marvin first killed the scorched man who had been shooting from the outside, and then surrounded the immobile scorched beast and fired.

After emptying two semi-fusion cores and firing more than 2,400 lasers, he finally received a kill prompt.

[The scorched beast has been killed. ]

He spent more than a dozen points of magic power and used the cleaning spell to clean the black blood on the armor. The radiation value of this black blood was extremely high.

He took out the commonly used cloth bag and put two broken limbs in it. This thing will be useful later.

Hiding back in the more dilapidated house, Marvin injected an intravenous injection of radiation-removing Ning, an intramuscular injection of a treatment needle, ate a tube of nutrient paste, and drank a bottle of watermelon juice.

This was the fastest treatment method for radiation damage and weakness that he had figured out.

The battle at the fortress was still fierce, so he was in no hurry to go back.

The three scorched beasts and an unknown number of scorched men could resist the fortress, but that was not his responsibility.

He had already fulfilled his promise to Robert to "try", so there was no need to do more.

...

About half an hour later, there were no more scorched beasts in the sky above the fortress, and Marvin got up and returned.

There were still a few scorched men on the road, and he shot them one by one.

There were countless remains of scorched men outside the fortress's courtyard fence, and the fence was damaged in many places. There were also some new damages and bullet holes on the fortress.

There was a scorched beast corpse in the southeast corner of the fence, and another one outside the northern fence.

The last scorched beast was in the direction of the main gate, with its wings damaged, struggling to death...

Marvin retreated down the mountain to avoid being accidentally injured, and then walked around halfway up the mountain to the northeast of the fortress before climbing back up and watching the battle end from a distance.

This was wartime, and Marvin would not approach foolishly. Being shot by a nervous soldier would be in vain.

The battle was over as the last Scorch fell and hundreds of people chanted "Invincible!"

As he walked towards the north fence, he adjusted the communication channel and called his teammates.

Robert's voice: "Roger. Marvin, are you okay?"

Anita's voice: "You're talking nonsense, Robert. The reminder we received was that there were 4 Scorch Beasts, but there were actually only 3. What did you do?"

"Yes, I lured him away."

Robert's voice: "Good job, man. Are you sure you're okay? I'll tell the sergeant to come here."

…

Fortress 4th floor, commander's office.

"Did you lure away the missing Radiant Corpse Beast?" Knight Webb asked.

"Yes." Marvin answered.

"Did it escape or..."

Marvin pretended to operate Pip-Boy, took out the bag containing the severed limbs from the inventory, threw it on the ground and said: "Kill."

He once asked his teammates if the Brotherhood of Steel would ask them for Pip-Boy.

According to the information received by the teammates, the Brotherhood had indeed become interested in Pip-Boy.

I also obtained several Pip-Boys from the corpses of people in the Vault, but after studying them, I found that I couldn't understand them at all.

The Brotherhood couldn't find any place where Pip-Boy could be produced or repaired.

In the end, the matter was settled.

Elijah, the clerk, squatted down and opened the bag, took out two severed limbs, and looked up at the officer.

Weber took a piece of the rear claw of the Radiant Corpse Beast with Yahuazi in his hands. He was silent for a long time before asking, "Can you give me this?"

A black woman smoking a cigarette next to her slapped her forehead.

Elijah, the clerk, pushed up his glasses.

"Sir, this thing has very high radiation. Are you sure?"

Weber immediately discarded the severed limb.

"Forget it." He asked Marvin, "The fracture is very neat. How did you do it?"

Marvin patted the long knife hanging on his waist and said, "This."

Weber pulled down his sunglasses a little, stretched out his hand curiously and asked, "Can you show me?"

Marvin frowned, murderous aura erupted all over his body, and the surrounding temperature dropped rapidly.

"You'd better not think that."

Everyone present was shocked, including Knight Webber, who thought he had seen strong winds and waves.

He swore that he had never been so frightened when facing the Radiant Corpse Beast alone.

How could a swordsman show his sword to others casually? It's not a craft.

This is one of the reasons why Marvin refused to join the Brotherhood of Steel. The chief asks you for it, will you give it to me?

To his surprise, Weber was not angry and said calmly: "I'm sorry. Can you take it out and let me take a look?"

Marvin pressed the snap of the scabbard with his left hand, clicked, the sword flashed, and the Gus pattern's sharp blade lay in front of him.

"Hey, what a scary knife."

Marvin sheathed the knife, frowned and asked, "What exactly do you want to say?"

Weber adjusted his mood before speaking: "You said you lured away the Radiant Corpse Beast. I originally thought you were bragging. I came to you just to find out the truth of the matter. I didn't expect you to kill the monster. I don't know now. What to do, after all, you are still a civilian."

"No reward is needed, as long as the brotherhood can carry out the next plan as agreed."

Hearing this, Robert and Anita next to them felt very proud.

Weber suddenly said: "Oh, I remembered it."

He turned to the shelter boy and said: "You also performed very well in the battle. After this time, we can be stable for at least half a month. I will contact Tagti as soon as possible to see what the next step is. Then, that's it for today. Disbanded."

Robert and Anita stood at attention and saluted: "Yes, sir. Goodbye, sir."

Marvin reassembled the severed limbs of the Radiant Corpse Beast, nodded to Webb, and followed the two of them out of the office.

…

At the main entrance of the fortress courtyard, Robert and Anita were seeing Marvin off.

Marvin was going back to the underground base to have a good sleep and recuperate enough to deal with possible changes in the Brotherhood's attitude.

"Hey, man, I didn't think it would turn out like this." It was Robert who reported the situation and was a little apologetic about what happened in the office.

Marvin shook his head: "It has nothing to do with you, that's what these soldiers are like. You will see more in the future. Knight Webb is pretty good."

The Brotherhood has a mixed reputation in the Fallout series. A set of United States military thinking allows them to do things tough and extreme, without considering the consequences, and always get themselves into trouble.

Anita reminded: "You should appear less in front of them in the future. Marvin, we will still have to deal with the rest. There will be no problem."

"Okay." He would not refute Anita's kindness.

Things generally don't get better because of good intentions, but he is confident that he can move forward with the planned plan, and he still has many options ahead.

The most important thing is that he saw the place where the Radiant Corpse Beast took off, southeast of Watauga City.

That should be the lair of the Radiant Corpse Beast, and it is also his destination.

Marvin nodded to the two of them and left the Defiance Fortress.

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