Vault 444 Affluent Quarter, Fringe Area.

Like the slums, the rich area seemed to have been emptied, but along the way, except for a few wandering parasites, Qi Lin and the others found nothing.

There are no living people, no corpses, and no places like food processing plants.

"Hell...... Where have the people in the rich and middle districts gone, it is impossible for them to be killed. Four muttered quietly as he stared at the heartbeat detector's screen.

However, he was only halfway through his words when he was pulled into an alley on the right-hand side by Qi Lin.

"At 12 o'clock, a normal-level parasite, let's go around."

Along the way, all those who encountered parasites chose to avoid the battle without exception - in the case of learning that there were king-level parasites in Vault 444, any contact with any parasite might be detected by the king-level parasites, although the probability was not high, but in case of winning the lottery, the four people whose whereabouts were exposed would probably have to face thousands of parasites.

Not to mention anything else, just the awakening of those parasites in the "Merlin" food processing factory is not something that Qi Lin and the four of them can deal with.

"I should have applied for a few portable tactical nuclear warheads if I knew about it." Falcon complained.

"Come on, a 'fat man' goes down, in this closed environment, we have no place to run, either we are shocked to death by the shock wave or buried alive by the collapsed dome, except for the madman who does not want to die, no one dares to use this weapon underground." Regarding Falcon's complaints, No. 3 immediately complained.

"I'm just talking, at least in case we're cornered, we can also have a means to die together, right?"

"That's not going to be approved, our mission is to save the hostages, not blow up the entire vault." Qi Lin took over the conversation and said, "Okay, shut up, pay attention to the vigilance around." ”

"It's so quiet here, and to be honest, it's a bit of a panic." Falcon inserted the Gauss pistol back into the holsters on either side of his thighs and rubbed his cheeks vigorously.

"I'd rather be quiet all the time."

"An unrecognized heartbeat signal has been found!" At this moment, Four, who had been looking at the screen of the heartbeat detector, shouted in a low voice.

"Where?" The other three were instantly agitated, and each found a place to hide.

"Turn right at the intersection ahead, 28 meters in a straight line...... 27 meters, 25 meters, he's coming towards us! ”

Within seconds, a soldier wearing a gray flannel uniform and a black nylon vest appeared at the intersection ahead, holding an AK74U submachine gun in his hand - this use of 5.45 caliber bullets was once the standard self-defense weapon of second-line troops, with a fast rate of fire, high power, and strong penetration, due to the use of rifle cartridges, the range is more than twice that of the MP5 submachine gun. Criminals and rioters perform better when targeting things like the much more expensive MP5.

However, when facing a parasite, whether it is an AK74U or an MP5, even the power of AKM is difficult to effectively kill - in order to protect the parasitic worm hidden deep in the skull, the parasite's skull is the hardest part of the body, and if the skull cannot be penetrated, no matter how many shots are fired, it cannot be completely killed.

And this soldier actually came out on patrol with an AK74U, obviously not because he couldn't find a powerful weapon that could deal with the parasite, but because there would be no conflict between him and the parasite at all.

This also reflects from the side that these rebels and parasites are completely in the same group.

"Falcon, you change the ammunition to short-acting tranquilizer rounds, I'll shoot when I count to one, and number three and number four stay on guard, keeping an eye on our sides and rear...... Three, two, one—"

The falcon quickly pulled the trigger, and with a muffled "poof", the soldier who had just reached the center of the intersection fell to the ground.

At the same time, Qi Lin quickly rushed out, approached the fallen soldier, carried it on his shoulder, and ran back to the team's hiding place in three steps and two steps.

This is a yellow soldier, about thirty years old, with thick dark circles on his eyes, a scruffy beard, and a constant smell of bad clothes on his body, obviously he has not washed for a long time.

From his armband, the metal badge pinned to the nylon vest, and the number engraved on the gun, Qi Lin could tell that the soldier's name was Zhang Peng, and that he was a sentry belonging to the 2nd Guards Brigade of the Edas Consortium.

"Inject him with an antidote."

After Qi Lin finished speaking, the falcon took out a vacuum syringe similar to a morphine injection, plunged the needle into the sentry's arm, and then gently squeezed the hose to inject the anesthetic antidote into the other party's body.

Less than ten seconds after the antidote was injected, the sentry let out a low groan and slowly opened his eyes.

However, when he regained consciousness, he found that his limbs were tied, a large piece of duct tape was attached to his mouth, and four men with black masks were crouching in front of him, and a cold blade was pressed tightly against the side of his throat.

"Don't shout, don't struggle, that's not good for you." Qi Lin said, and at the same time, he was secretly glad in his heart that No. 5 had gone back to pass on the information, otherwise, seeing this familiar scene, it was estimated that No. 5's old face would have no place to rest.

......The reaction of the captured sentinel was not much different from when No. 5 was captured by Qi Lin, except that Qi Lin found that the other party's round eyes were full of bloodshots.

This rebel has not rested for a long time, but even if it is a person who stays up for several days in a row, there shouldn't be so much bloodshot in his eyes?

"If you're willing to cooperate, just nod...... Do you hear that, and if you're willing to cooperate, just nod...... Feed? Feed! ”

The captured sentry's eyes remained round, but his head was tilted to one side, and in the next second, his body twitched violently!

"Damn, this guy has been parasitized! Eggs are hatching! ”

Qi Lin didn't think about it, and immediately cut his throat with a dagger, and then stabbed the other party in the heart.

And the falcon put the pistol against the opponent's head and pulled the trigger again and again-

The falcon fired a full six shots before the sentry's struggle stopped, and his blood-stained body drooped and slid to the ground.

The parasitism was not yet complete, and the body had not yet been modified by the special materials secreted by the parasitic worm, so the strength of the body was still the same as that of a normal human, and the falcon easily pierced his head and killed the parasitic worm that had just hatched.

"Are these rebel soldiers also parasitized?" Qi Lin took out one with a solemn face, hastily wiped the blood that had splashed on his body, looked at the corpse of the sentry and said.

"It seems that the situation is far worse than we thought."