Chapter 228: The Marionette (2/2)
"Woo~~~Woo~~~"
The cold wind continued to blow from the direction of the Bishui River, and as it passed through the streets and alleys, it made a howling sound like a ghost's cry. Ice #Fire @ Chinese.
The sky was also overcast, and the occasional crow flew across the sky making a 'quacking' noise, but it made the docklands more and more desolate and silent.
In such a place, it is really not a pleasant thing to confront an inexplicable being.
Lawson turned his head to look around.
The road he was on was narrow, less than 4 meters wide, and the pile of loose goods was blocking his way. He couldn't make a detour, and he wanted to see what was going on behind the pile, so he had to keep going.
'There may be a monster hiding behind the pile, but it could also be a survivor. The other party didn't come out, maybe because he was nervous and scared. ’
After thinking about it, Lawson took a deep breath, secretly mobilized the energy in the energy pool, and was ready to explode at any time, and when everything was ready, he moved towards the pile step by step, and at the same time slowed down his tone: "Hi ~ buddy, I'm here now." I don't really have any ill intentions, I'm not a monster, I just want to help. ”
As the distance got closer, the sound of breathing behind the pile became clearer and clearer. At this distance, the voice still sounded no different from a normal person.
Rosen lowered his vigilance slightly: "It should be a frightened survivor." ”
By this time, he had already walked to the side of the pile, and as long as he crossed one of the boxes, he could see the true face of the hidden figure. He stopped, steadied, and walked forward again.
A few seconds later, Rosen saw the silhouette of the figure.
Judging from the size of the other party, this is a middle-aged woman in her forties, wearing a thick cotton coat and a tight headscarf on her head.
Rosen breathed a sigh of relief and said in a slow tone, "Ma'am......."
As soon as he said a name, the man suddenly turned his head, and let out a creepy shrill laugh, and then, like a wild beast, she kicked her hands and feet to the ground, and the whole person pounced on Rosen like lightning.
At this moment, Rosen saw this person's face, her skin was blue-black, her eyes were glowing with oily green, her movements were obviously as violent as a predatory beast, but the expression on her face did not fluctuate in the slightest, it looked as if she was wearing a mask of a middle-aged woman.
The change was so sudden that Lawson felt his heart thump, and his steps involuntarily stepped back.
As a master hunter, he had dealt with all kinds of monsters, no matter how ugly and disgusting, he had seen them, but he had never seen such a strange existence.
Seeing that the monster was about to pounce in front of him, Lawson's hand instinctively raised the musket in his hand and pulled the trigger hard.
"Bang~"
A shot passed, and it was missed.
At the moment when Lawson fired, the monster suddenly 'jumped' to the side, and the whole dodge action was without warning, giving people a very mechanical, very loud, like a marionette, but the speed was unusually fast.
The distance between the two sides was already very close, and after the other party dodged, he immediately rushed forward, and in a blink of an eye, he rushed to Rosen's eyes again, and the opponent's hands were less than half a meter away from Rosen.
At this distance, Rosen could clearly see the folds of skin on the back of the monster's hands, as well as the cracks in her fingernails. If you ignore the blue-black skin and the nails with a jet-black metallic sheen, the appearance alone looks like a pair of hands that have worked hard all year round.
At the last moment, Rosen's mind froze, and the energy that had been accumulated for a long time exploded.
"Boom~~~"
A jet of light flashed in front of Lawson, and the air was immediately endowed with condensed energy, forming a violent shockwave, which frantically pushed forward, and crashed right into the monster.
'Knock~~' made a muffled sound, as if hitting a copper pot wrapped in worn leather, very stuffy and a little brittle.
The monster was pushed backwards by the raging airflow, and the clothes on its body were torn to pieces by the airflow, revealing the bloated body of a blue-black, fat middle-aged woman wrapped in thick fat.
While the monster was in mid-air and out of control, Lawson quickly raised his musket, aimed at the monster's chest, and pulled the trigger continuously.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
Three huge bullets with a caliber of more than two centimeters accurately hit the monster's chest, and on the thick layer of fat, three bowl-shaped pits were punched, and after a moment, the pits disappeared without a trace, and everything returned to its original state, but the bullets were bounced alive.
Rosen clearly saw the whole process, and his pupils suddenly shrank: "What a tough skin, stronger than the dragon warrior Ollamsen!" ’
Fortunately, in the face of this particularly tough skin, Rosen has also prepared countermeasures.
With a movement of his left hand, he pulled out the musket inserted in the holster of his left leg, this musket had the same appearance as the one he held in his right hand, but the bullets in the magazine were different, and it was full of armor-piercing bullets equipped with tungsten steel bullets, which were specially designed to deal with such thick-skinned monsters.
'Click~', open the safe, and aim at the target at the same time, Lawson decisively pulled the trigger.
"Bang~~~" sounded, and it hit, but it was not the chest that Lawson expected, but the waist wrapped in a circle of fat.
The moment Rosen fired, the monster had just landed on its toes, but even with such a disadvantage, she actually mastered the balance of her body in an instant, and made the best dodge in an instant, successfully dodging the fatal blow.
"Poof~~" The armor-piercing bullet took effect, and the fat on the monster's waist was broken through a large hole, and black blood as thick as asphalt immediately seeped out of the wound.
Rosen noticed that the strange blood instantly turned from a liquid to a rubber-like solid when it came into contact with the air, tightly enveloping the wound.
The bleeding stopped immediately.
"Ha~~~~"
After the monster was wounded, she let out another shrill laugh, and instead of continuing her attack, she turned abruptly and jumped away like a stiff puppet.
The action is still stiff, but the speed is lightning fast.
"Stay!"
Rosen let out a low sigh, and the armor-piercing musket in his left hand was quickly handed over to his right hand, which was good at shooting, and his left arm was raised as a gun carriage to support his right hand, quickly aiming at the monster's back, and pulling the trigger continuously.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
Gunshots rang out one after another, but each one missed.
Whenever Lawson's crosshair locked onto his target, the monster seemed to know what he was thinking, and would make an abrupt change of direction without warning, dodging the bullet by a fraction of a second.
After three shots, the monster had already rushed to the corner of the street, and it made another lightning veer, rushing through the corner, and the figure disappeared, and the footsteps were speeding away.
Rosen slowly put away the musket, reached out and wiped his forehead, it was covered with cold sweat.
This monster is very strong, but it is not enough to scare him, what really frightens him is that this monster, whether it is breathing or heartbeat, sounds exactly like an ordinary person, and it is impossible to distinguish at all. Judging from the other party's outfit and appearance, except for the blue-black skin and eyes, the other characteristics are a middle-aged woman who has reached middle age and her figure has begun to grow.
'This is supposed to be a transformed monster...... Let's hope it's not the worst yet! ’
In the worst-case scenario, there are no survivors left in the docklands, and the reason why there is a strange situation where the number of corpses is not matched is because the corpses have all been transformed into monsters.
The thought of the possibility of facing thousands of terrifying monsters made Rosen feel a deep sense of horror in his heart.
Before he could calm down, he suddenly heard frequent gunshots from the other direction, and the sound of gunfire was dull and powerful, like war drums.
Lawson's heart moved: "It's not good, it's the destroyer I created for Veronica, I'm afraid she has encountered similar monsters!" ”