The Void Pathfinder from the Demon Hunter World

The entire team turned around quickly, aiming their guns at the person who suddenly appeared behind them.

Two knights in power armor quickly protected the Paladin Paladin Taggarty behind them.

While everyone was staring at Marvin, they glanced around to see if there was any hiding place nearby.

The result is, no.

The nearest obstruction is 10 meters away, and no one can move 10 meters in an instant.

Marvin faced 6 guns, with a Fat Man nuclear bomb launcher on his shoulder, and a mini nuclear bomb stuck in the launch slot.

In fact, this is the most risky part of the whole plan.

For one, if Brotherhood soldiers opened fire on sight, he would likely be injured. And once injured, the consequences are hard to say.

Secondly, the Fat Man nuclear bomb flies very slowly and has a large explosion radius, so it is likely to injure itself.

Thirdly, even with Fat Man's nuclear bomb, he was not sure of annihilating everyone.

Taggarty asked sternly: "Are you so 'open and honest'?"

Marvin pretended to press Pip-Boy, put away the Fat Man nuclear bomb launcher, and then said: "It seems that you know about the Fat Man nuclear bomb. I was very polite by not throwing this thing directly on your heads. To be honest, you guys The clumsy test made me a little impatient.”

This is his second deterrent today.

Tagti took a deep breath, waved her hand, and asked the soldiers to put down their weapons. She didn't want 7V1 to be at a disadvantage.

Then, she pushed aside the knight in front of her, stepped forward and asked, "What exactly do you want to say?"

"First, Paladin, you seem to have made a mistake. The purpose of our joining is to confirm that you are really resisting the attack of the Scorch Beast. Now we have confirmed it. According to the plan, we will help the Brotherhood of Steel next Ease the relationship with the residents of Appalachia. Now we are helping you, not us asking you to help. Do you admit this?"

Tagati thought for a moment and nodded.

"So, put away your ridiculous tricks. The Brotherhood of Steel has enough trouble already, don't cause any more trouble for yourself."

Marvin's words were very rude, he wanted to be tough today.

His physical attributes are now almost exceeding the upper limit of the world, so he can't hide his clumsiness all the time.

Of course, the Brotherhood soldiers were a little unhappy. The two daredevils were about to raise their guns again, but were stopped by their teammates.

Marvin's sudden appearance of strange methods and Fat Man's nuclear bomb made them nervous and fearful, but the chief obviously wanted to continue the conversation.

Paladin Tagti waved his hand to suppress the emotions of the soldiers and said: "I will seriously consider your words. What else?"

The purpose of practicing boxing is to make silly people listen to me.

This sentence really makes sense.

"The second thing. Aren't you curious about my knife? Look..."

He took out the long knife from his waist and held the flat end in his hand.

"This is just a relatively sharp knife, not a technology. Because of family rules, I will not let others touch my knife... Don't look at the world with your narrow eyes. This world is not just about technology."

Seeing Taggarty retract his gaze, Marvin sheathed the sword and operated Pip-Boy again, and two more things appeared in his hand.

A knife obtained from Colt, and a dark iron rod.

This iron rod was cut from the window of the Eastern District Prison. (Chapter 27 of this volume)

Bang, clang...

He threw the knife and the iron rod on the ground, looked at the Brotherhood soldiers and said, "Whoever thinks you can cut the iron rod with that knife can come and try it. Then I will try it too." After that he said Take a few steps back.

Taggarty looked at Marvin with a strange look in his eyes, not knowing what it meant.

Marvin did not explain, but raised his hand and made a request.

The Brotherhood soldiers looked at each other.

Finally, Knight Morano came out and after Taggeti nodded in agreement, he stepped forward to pick up the knife and iron rod.

He drew out his samurai sword and struck each other with the iron rod. Dang...

He held a knife in one hand and an iron rod in the other. He frowned and tried it, but found that it was difficult to use force, so he waved to a uniformed soldier.

The soldier held an iron rod in both hands, and Morano held a knife in both hands, lunging forward to slash.

It can be seen that Morano has some melee skills, but doing so in power armor looks quite awkward.

Whether it's a knife or a sword, it doesn't mean it's powerful because it's powerful.

As expected, when there was a sound, the iron rod was bent and fell to the ground.

Morano looked at the blade and curled it.

The soldier was still a little embarrassed and quickly picked up the iron rod.

Morano grabbed the slightly curved iron rod, waved his hand to signal the opponent to return to the team, and then handed the knife to Taggarty.

The paladin looked over it several times, but found nothing special.

She passed it around to the soldiers again, and everyone shook their heads.

Marvin watched them struggle.

Don't rush at this time, just like close-up magic. The higher the audience's participation, the more shocking it will be when witnessing the miracle.

Being strong in force does not necessarily mean being reckless.

The Appalachian Brotherhood of Steel has at least 100 knights and 1,000 soldiers.

If you really want to fight hard, regardless of whether you can handle it, your follow-up plans will be greatly affected and your blood will be lost.

But Marvin can shock the opponent first and let the Brotherhood know that he has methods that are unsolvable and even incomprehensible.

In addition to ridicule, the word "Unconsciously Li" should have another explanation: "I can't understand it, but it's so scary!"

After the other party had checked enough, Marvin walked over to pass the knife and iron rod, and took two steps back to let everyone see clearly.

Marvin held an iron rod with a flat end in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, which he slashed casually.

Zheng~, clang clang clang... half of the iron rod fell...

This is really not difficult for him at all.

Marvin turned the handle of the knife upside down, took a few steps forward, and handed the handle to Paladin Taggarty.

After she caught it in shock, Marvin threw away the half of the iron rod in his left hand and said: "I come from an ancient family, and I have been practicing that sword attack for 14 years. Your technology collection method is stupid to me. ”

He spread his hands and said while stepping back: "People who use technology are always more important than technology, just like people who use knives are always more important than knives. In the end, again, don't cause trouble for yourself."

With the last word spoken, Marvin disappeared in a burst of faint blue light.

Two seconds later, Paladin Paladin Taggarty ordered angrily: "Look! Search every inch of the surrounding area!"

For two full hours, the soldiers even turned over the stones on the roadside within a radius of 500 meters, but still found nothing.

If it wasn't really far away, Morano would have wanted to go back to the observation station to mobilize people.

No one can expect a group of big-headed soldiers to have the ability to check footprints and fingerprints.

In the end, the Paladin gave up in frustration and led the team back to the Atlas Observation Station.

…

And what about Marvin?

He teleported behind a truck more than ten meters away, teleported a second time to a car further back and crouched down, and teleported a third time to the side of another bus further back.

Then, Marvin also stuck his head in to observe.

I found that no one was chasing me, and the sight of those people had been completely blocked.

So, he turned around and ran away.

After running into the cave in a flash, he immediately read the message and returned to the lakeside manor.

Not only does he need to read the message when teleporting, but the blue light around him will also be much brighter. Only in a cave can he guarantee that he will not be discovered.

He had verified the entire escape route three times over and over again.

Although the process was a bit embarrassing, no one saw it.

Moreover, running away after pretending to be B is not only effective, but also makes him feel happy.

He threw out 3 cards today.

First, teleport.

Second, he has the ability to carry a large amount of explosives, and he also has unconventional bombs such as Fat Man nuclear bombs.

Third, incredible sword skills.

Only the second item among them could be determined by the Brotherhood of Steel as relying on Pip-Boy. The other two items were completely impossible to figure out.

Of course, in fact, they even guessed the second item wrong. The learning machine is much more advanced than Pip-Boy.

Marvin believed that the brotherhood would be very polite before these issues were clarified.

Just like the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the beautiful country who just saw the 12,000-kilometer range Dongfeng Express.

If the deterrence still doesn't work this time and the Brotherhood is determined to cause trouble, then Marvin doesn't mind completely breaking up.

Surrounded by a large group of power armors carrying big guns, he was naturally not dead but also crippled.

But at present, the enemy is in the open and we are in the dark. He has many ways to assassinate, sneak attack, and blast.

As for the threat of the Radiant Corpse Beast?

They're all in trouble, who cares?

Marvin is not a real Wastelander, and his purpose was never to defend Appalachia.

…

The next day, when he came to the Defiance Fortress again, Marvin learned that the Vaughn team had been ordered to relieve themselves of the fortress defense tasks and no longer be responsible for any specific tasks.

The word "suggestion" was used in this very formal written order, suggesting that Robert Vaughn and other team leaders come to Atlas Observatory to communicate with the Paladins about next steps.

The shelter boys are very happy to be able to proceed to the next step smoothly.

Anita and Robert were a little suspicious of this politely worded order, but Marvin didn't explain it.

Marvin and Robert Vaughn agreed to meet at White Springs four days later to discuss follow-up plans.

In addition, Denis helped find out more.

The Appalachian Brotherhood of Steel really doesn't have any high technology, weapons or anything else.

He was quite disappointed.

Then, the Vault Boys returned to the fortress to pack their things and prepare to leave.

Most of them will return to White Spring, while captain Robert, deputy Anita, and two other important members will go to the Atlas Observatory.

The first is to arrange manpower to take the corpse of a radiated corpse beast to various settlements for exhibition. The focus is where the truck that transports the corpse comes from.

The second is to explore the lair of the radiated corpse beast and completely solve the scourge of the radiated corpse beast.

Marvin is more concerned about the second item. He is eager to find the nest so that he can advance the mission "Radiation Corpse Virus (Second Ring)".

But he couldn't wait for news. Now that he had the general direction, he might as well look for it himself first.

After he left the Defiance Fortress, he followed the road down the mountain and went deep into the cranberry bog alone.

…

The cranberry bog is very large, no smaller than the Toxic Valley.

There were two other locations he wanted to explore, Watauga City and the Rocco Research Center.

Watauga is a "future city" built before the war. Whether it is the municipal center, emergency service center, Watauga High School, shopping malls, real estate companies, mining companies and other commercial units, they are all located on more than a dozen skyscrapers. in the building. Note①

The entire Watauga is managed by the mayor, city government and artificial intelligence assistants, with grassroots services provided by a large number of service robots.

Although it is far from the cyber-style future city in Marvin's mind, it is already very advanced.

Unfortunately, this future city was also destroyed in an apocalyptic nuclear war.

Although most of the skyscrapers remain intact, they are completely deserted.

Instead of humans living here are crazy ghouls, radiated zombies, super mutants, and robots with disordered programming.

Acting alone, without the drag of the shelter boys, Marvin was at full speed, faster than all the monsters he encountered along the way.

He avoided all meaningless battles and entered the city of Watauga in only an hour.

Then, the whole day was spent in various skyscrapers.

Fortunately, it was not without gain, he found the "Assistant to the Mayor".

That's right, it's the same artificial intelligence as "Mayor Grafton".

This artificial intelligence terminal is exactly the same as the "Mayor of Grafton" except that its color is blue and its electronic voice is a male voice.

Marvin found this artificial intelligence server unit in the Civic Center.

[Tip: The artificial intelligence host is submitted successfully and will be rewarded with +5 free attribute points, +7 ability points, and 370 RP points. 】

Although most of the day was spent in skyscrapers, there were many opportunities to look out from outside and damaged buildings. Marvin did not find any radiated corpse beasts.

According to the information obtained from the Defiance Fortress, after each large-scale attack by the Scorched Corpse Beasts, in addition to the other monsters in the Cranberry Swamp becoming more active, the Scorched Corpse Beasts would also remain dormant for a few days.

That night, Marvin's attributes and abilities changed to:

【property】

[Name: Maven Goidemar]

[Race: Mixed-race human]

[Gender: Male]

[Status: Slight radiation remains]

[Energy (Chaos Magic Energy): 1533/1764]

[Strength: 48 View introduction]

[Agile: 46 View Introduction]

[Physique: 48 → 53 (-1) View profile]

[Perception: 45 (+1) View introduction]

[Spirit: 48 (+1) View introduction]

Since the environment of Cranberry Bog is quite bad, the environmental radiation value is 1 to 2 points higher than that of Toxic Valley.

Moreover, when fighting a Radiant Corpse Beast in close combat, you cannot avoid dealing with its radiation damage, so it is necessary to prioritize improving your physical fitness.

Fortunately, the "First-order World Imprisonment" was lifted, otherwise his attribute points would not be increased by more than 50.

Until now, Marvin has not figured out the upper limits of the so-called first-order and second-order worlds.

No matter how I ask the learning machine, the prompt I get is still "the temporary contractor has insufficient authority."

[Sword Mastery: 20 (When using knife weapons, the attack power is increased by 40%, the physical consumption is -20%, and it is easier to attack the enemy's vital points.) (Sword Mastery has been raised to the upper limit and cannot be improved by adding points, please do it yourself Understand higher-level sword skills)]

It has been two years since Marvin switched from using a sword to using a knife at the age of 17.

He had some vague understanding of higher-level sword skills, but he just couldn't break through the window paper.

And this layer of window paper seems to be kraft paper, which is very strong...

If your sword skills are no longer good, add firearms skills.

[Firearm Mastery: 5+ (When using live ammunition firearms and energy firearms, the accuracy is increased by 75%, the stability is increased by 75%, the physical consumption is -16%, the gun sense talent is slightly improved, and the gun knowledge has good learning talent.) ( The next upgrade requires 2 ability points)]

The remaining 1 ability point is still stored first.

…

The next day, Marvin went to the crater again and left 1,000 bottle caps for Tal to buy parts from scavengers. By the way, he sold the loot at Colt's and harvested more than a hundred bottle caps.

He might not have time to come to the crater in the future, so he would have to leave all the car matters to Tal.

Then, Marvin teleported not far from the Alpha stronghold and headed east to the Rocco Research Center.

The cranberry swamp is very large. It would be a bit difficult to find the mine mentioned by the Brotherhood of Steel based on the last sighted take-off point of the Scorched Corpse Beast and an unclear circle on the map.

Furthermore, it was still early for the 30-day time limit for the mission "Radiation Corpse Virus (Second Ring)", so Marvin decided to explore the Rocco Research Center first and then look for the mines.

In his vague memory, Rocco Company was a giant company before the war. It was engaged in almost any business. The most outstanding ones were robots, aircraft and heavy weapons.

Roco components can be found in almost all robots in the wasteland, and even most of the complete robots are produced by Roco.

Good stuff is almost guaranteed to be found in the research centers of such tech giants.

It would be great if he could improve his attributes and abilities before entering the radiant corpse beast's lair.

Who knows what is going on in the lair and how many radiated corpse beasts there are.

Now he can face a radiated corpse beast alone, and he has to guard against the radiated corpse beast flying away...

The Rocco Research Center is located in the northeast corner of the cranberry bog. Going further north will enter another area, the quagmire area.

The closer we get to the research center, the worse things get.

Along the way, I saw more and more monster wreckage, followed by a completely destroyed wooden restaurant and more than a dozen super mutant corpses, as well as a large number of human and power armor footprints...

The Rocco Research Center is located on a high ground and consists of two L-shaped scientific research buildings and a large parking lot.

Marvin used the car wreckage on the uphill road as cover and approached cautiously.

The parking lot was littered with vehicle wreckage and broken robots. A completely damaged three-legged robot was sitting quietly in the center of the parking lot.

This thing is actually called "Annihilator Sentinel", and in the early days it was also called "Iron Guard".

Marvin had encountered this type of robot on the way to Charleston Railway Station. (Chapter 5 of this volume)

At that time, the Annihilator was guarding the overturned train car. He was not strong enough at the time, and there was no need to fight hard, so he just went around it.

Later, he learned about the general situation of this robot from Dennis.

The Annihilator Sentinel is divided into Type I and Type II, both of which have extremely sensitive reaction speed, excellent combat AI, thick military alloy armor and powerful firepower.

The lower limbs of the Annihilator are three armored legs with explosion-proof rubber wheels at the end to ensure rapid movement.

The left arm is a large-caliber three-barrel minigun, which is more powerful than the 5mm minigun; the right arm is a three-barrel rocket launcher.

In addition to long-range firepower, this guy can also use huge mechanical force to use collision and mechanical arms to attack the enemy in close combat.

In addition, this 2.4-meter-tall military robot has very good electromagnetic protection capabilities, and electromagnetic bombs and interference are almost ineffective against it.

The most shameless thing is that each Annihilator has a self-destruct function.

The micro-fusion core power source makes its self-destruction power slightly greater than the Fat Man nuclear bomb.

Compared with Type I, the armor of the Annihilator Type II is stronger, the firepower is stronger, the AI ​​is more advanced, and the high-voltage electric attack of the outer armor is added.

It can be said that except for weak doors and weak stairs, the Annihilator Sentinel, especially Type II, has almost no weaknesses.

The completely damaged Annihilator in front of Marvin does not know whether it is Type I or Type II.

And it was the Brotherhood of Steel that killed this Annihilator and other robots around it.

There are several Brotherhood soldiers and knights stationed in front of the scientific research building and at an underground entrance to the parking lot.

Given that his current relationship with the Brotherhood is not very good, Marvin did not go forward to ask, but quietly hid outside the parking lot to observe.

The war in the resistance fortress is tense, and the Brotherhood has other places to be stationed, so the manpower should be quite tight.

Why did they launch a massive attack on the Rocco Research Center?

Marvin didn't know, and he didn't care.

The Brotherhood of Steel had obviously explored it, and it was very likely that they had taken something, but it was difficult to move the large server units, so he still had a chance.

Avoiding the sight of the soldiers, Marvin climbed into a larger scientific research building.

Surprisingly, there were no Brotherhood soldiers here, but there were debris all over the ground, and all the robots and security turrets were killed.

In several terminals on the first floor of the building, Marvin found a lot of information and emails, and pieced together the general situation of this research center.

This research center is dedicated to the study of brain-controlled robots.

It is a robot with flexible arms and tracks. A hemispherical glass jar is installed on its short body, and a complete human brain and biological eyes are soaked in the jar.

Before the war, Rocco Company was constrained by the insufficient performance of the core processor and could not maximize the role of the robot.

So, they set their sights on the human brain. The company "purchased" death row prisoners from the United States government and experimented with using the human brain as the core processor to control the machine.

The experimental results made them very excited.

After special treatment and placed in the brain machine, the brain can maintain healthy operation and agile thinking ability for at least 500 years.

The ability of the brain-controlled robot obtained from the experiment met 90% of Roco's expectations, so the experiment did not stop until the war broke out.

The following is a log of a researcher.

"I am very excited that the company agreed to my proposal to retain the collective wisdom of the entire research team in the brain extraction plan.

Each of you will undergo a craniotomy and brain extraction surgery, and then your brain will be suspended through a biomedical program to keep their thinking function sharp and extend their life cycle equivalent to many times that of ordinary people.

Just think about it, we can even enjoy the benefits of being separated from the disgusting flesh and achieve the terrible synchronization of consciousness and metal!

Ah, the glorious future is welcoming us!"

These lunatics don't even let themselves go.

On the second and third floors, Marvin still didn't encounter the Brotherhood soldiers. It seems that their target is in another scientific research building, or underground?

Marvin didn't care about these and continued to explore. He found more information.

The "scientists" at the research center divided all the "experimental subjects" into several levels according to their IQ and brain health.

Only the brains with the highest IQ and the healthiest will be transplanted into the brain-computer and become a member of the "great" brain-controlled robot.

In the special warehouse on the fourth floor, Marvin saw hundreds of canned brains densely packed and neatly arranged.

The management terminal of the warehouse showed that these experimental products were all marked as unqualified.

…

Responding to some book friends: Volume 2 is almost finished, and it is expected to be about 50 chapters. I will speed up writing and update in the next few days, and try to finish this volume as soon as possible. There will be a big melon at the end of the volume to expand the world view. In other words, by Volume 2 and Volume 3, the overall world view of this book will really unfold.

Note ①: Watauga is a fantasy city in the game Scorch 76, and has nothing to do with Watauga County, North Carolina, the United States.

The following is some nonsense, which can be skipped.

The United States is a confederation system, consisting of 50 states and the District of Columbia. The state government and the federal government are not superiors and subordinates, but equals, with different ZZ powers.

In recent years, Texas has been clamoring for independence because of immigration issues, and California has often been in a tough fight with the federal government over financial issues. This is not uncommon.

The United States has federal laws, and each state has its own state laws. Each state also has its own police system and army. Isn't it amazing?

When watching American dramas and Hollywood movies, you can often see Foberle and local police fighting for credit and blame because of the conflicts between several police systems.

Foberle is affiliated with the Federal Department of Justice and belongs to the federal police system.

The state government has state police, and there are local police in the local area, such as the New York Police NYPD and Los Angeles Police LAPD that we are familiar with. These local police are affiliated with local governments and are funded and established and managed by local governments. Some remote towns also have elected sheriffs.

Several police systems run in parallel, and many police stations are outsourced privately.

The messy police system makes the public security of the entire United States very hehe...

In addition, although the National Guard is known as the reserve of mold, the command belongs to the states, not the federal armed forces.

Add to that the large number of miscellaneous militia organizations with different numbers and self-equipped equipment in different places, as well as different gun laws in each state, and it is truly "Free America".

States are the first-level administrative divisions in the United States, and below the states are counties, which can also be translated as counties, and below the counties are cities and towns.

Counties in the United States are larger than cities, and towns are points that do not border each other.

Therefore, the population of towns in the United States will appear very small. For example, Los Angeles has less than 4 million people, Houston has 2.3 million people, and Boston has less than 600,000 people...

One reason is that the population there is indeed small, a total of 330 million, and also because the population calculation method is slightly different.

Similarly, the urban area is also very different from our urban area. The Morgantown and Watauga City described in the book are very small, about the same size as our districts and counties, or even smaller.

Speaking of population, Boss Gao has to thank Grandpa Yuan Longping.

The country's unparalleled talents, Yuan Gong will live forever! (Picture)