30. Night (I)
"Ding Hao, I have a result here." Towards the end of the evening, Dr. Zareth suddenly sent a communication, and his tone was very excited, "The head you gave me is very interesting, I have extracted a lot of ingredients that can act on radiation, but I still need some comparison samples. β
"So what kind of comparison samples do you need?"
"The results of my experiments here show that this creature was made from a living person with some kind of substance, and it must be something from a ghoul, but I have compared the samples I have on hand and have found that the biological tissue of the ghoul has this effect. Ding Hao, do you remember the runaway ghoul you met two days ago? I think that ghoul is probably the source, and if you can, please get some tissue samples back. β
"That's fine, but where exactly should I find this thing?"
"You go and contact Jonah, he already sent someone to find that particular ghoul yesterday."
After contacting Jonah, Ding Hao learned that the person who had gone to find the escapee was still his acquaintance, Lydia, and Lydia seemed to have found out.
"Lydia, have you found the escapee?" When Ding Hao found Lydia, it was already approaching dusk, and at this moment, Lydia was hiding in a newsstand wearing an anti-infrared cloak and observing the tall building in front of her.
"Runaways? What a fitting name you came up with? Lydia handed the telescope in her hand to Ding Hao, and then pointed to the tall building in front of her, "On the 12th floor, count the seventh window from right to left, and the escapee is inside." β
Ding Hao picked up the binoculars and looked at the place Lydia said, and soon found a dark green figure walking around through the broken window, needless to say, this must be the escapee. But in addition to the escapees, Ding Hao also saw several extremely agile and strong figures, which looked like living people with skin peeled from the outside, with bright red muscles and white fascia exposed, looking disgusting and terrifying.
"That's the Daredevil?" Ding Hao asked subconsciously.
"Yes." Lydia nodded, "This building is a huge ghoul lair with at least 10 Daredevils or more in it. Judging from what I have seen in the past two days, these night demons should have herded the runaways like cattle and sheep, taken out to find food at night, and brought back in the early morning. If we want to hunt the escapees, we must think about how to deal with the wrath of the Daredevil. β
To be honest, the wrath of the night demon is really not something that ordinary people can bear, this bloodthirsty and terrifying monster is strong, with strong muscles, strong resistance to bullets, and agile movements, flying on walls like walking on the ground, except for fear of ultraviolet rays, there is almost no weakness, and it is an extremely deadly enemy at night.
"Do you have any coping options?" After singled out the Weeping Witch, Ding Hao was naturally not afraid of singled out the Night Demon. Even if he is beaten, he can escape if he can't beat the spirit monkey. But this mission is obviously a two-person operation, and Lydia has become Ding Hao's shortcoming, so before starting to discuss the details of the mission, you must first ask Lydia's ability.
"That's how I cope." Lydia lifted a camping bag on the floor onto the counter, unzipped it, and pulled out a heavy brown battle rifle, the HCAR.
The HCAR is a copy of the BAR rifle of the Second World War era, and many places have been modernized: the barrel has been shortened, the surface is covered with oval pits, the heat dissipation area is increased while the weight is reduced, the receiver and handguard of engineering plastics are made of 3D printing, the 30-06 caliber magazine for 30 rounds, and there is also a hydraulic control system inside the butt, which greatly reduces recoil.
Compared to the 8.8 kg BAR, the HCAR is only 5.3 kg, and these magic changes are equivalent to making a set of full-body big swords and losing a lot of fat.
The .30-06 bullet used by HCAR has a kinetic energy of approximately 3450 joules, which is enough to kill a headshot against Daredevil, and a two-shot shot to the chest. To solve the problem of gunfire, Lydia installed a silencer with an inverted V-shaped brake in the muzzle, which reduces recoil by 70% while muffling the sound, and combined with the hydraulic control system in the stock, this semi-automatic heavy combat rifle fires almost as smoothly as a laser gun. In addition, Lydia has also added a 6x medium-range sniper scope, which is no pressure at night when combined with night vision devices.
"I've found a vantage point to snipe, but I need someone on the ground to cooperate and grab the runaway's body before the Daredevil." Lydia's glasses blinked, and she no longer looked at Ding Hao. "It's crazy, it's dangerous, I suggest giving up, what do you think?"
Both the Daredevil and the Runaway have a very strong perception, as long as the Runaway feels the danger, he will run away immediately, while the Night Demon will immediately go crazy when he feels that the Runaway is in danger, and if the Runaway dies, the Night Demon will definitely snatch the body of the Runaway and return to the lair. In addition, there are at least 8 or more Daredevil around each escapee, so it is very difficult to obtain the body tissue of the escapee.
"Sounds interesting, maybe give it a try."
"You're such a madman."
"Thanks for the compliment."
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3 hours, 10:30 p.m.
"Ding Hao, I saw the escapee, on the square 300 meters west of the building." Lydia, who was leaning on the roof and searching for a target with an HCAR riflescope, pressed her headset and whispered.
"Roger." Ding Hao, who was resting in the corner of the newsstand, opened his clear eyes, and then took off the Super Blade Compound Bow from his back, "I've set off." β
Once the location of the runaway was determined, Lydia shifted her gaze away from looking at it, and although the runaway foraged for food in a different place every night, as long as it was not disturbed, she would not go to two places during a foraging period. Lydia turned her gun and looked downstairs, where she quickly found a fast-moving shadow.
Although she couldn't see Ding Hao's specific movements clearly, Lydia was still amazed by Ding Hao's speed. It's hard to believe that this is the ruins of a downtown area, and the surrounding environment is unimaginably complex, and it is hard to believe that you can move quickly in this terrain at almost a dashing speed. Lydia prefers to believe that she is seeing a cat instead of a person.
But the slender red light of the laser sight showed that this was indeed Ding Hao.
"Lydia, with me as the center, do you see the acid ghoul at two o'clock 40 meters away?" At a fork in the road, Ding Hao was blocked by a group of ghouls. The normal ghouls struggling in the middle of the road are not a threat, but the real annoyance is the special ghouls dangling from the roof of abandoned trucks on both sides of the road. A snorting ghoul and a high-jumping ghoul, either of them dying in the middle of the road below would catch their attention because of their height, and the two guys had their eyes overlapping each other, so they had to be killed at the same time.
"See." Lydia placed the crosshair on the sour ghoul's large, toad-like face.
"I'll count to 3 seconds,......" Ding Hao raised his compound bow and aimed at the head of the high-jumping ghoul, slowly filling up. Then shoot it. β
Three......
Two...... After 0.7 seconds, Ding Hao let go of the spreader, the bow arm instantly straightened, and the bowstring drove the hunting arrow to fly towards the head of the high-jumping ghoul at a speed of 120 meters per second.
One...... There was a glimmer of light on the roof of the building where Lydia was, and a long bullet burst out of the barrel of the gun, and the last one to strike, piercing the skull of the acid ghoul before the tip of the hunting arrow pierced the eye of the high-jumping ghoul, killing both ghouls almost simultaneously.
βNiceοΌβ Ding Hao praised on the radio, then hung the compound bow on the hook of the backpack, and the whole person silently climbed onto the roof of the truck parked on the side of the road like a spirit monkey, and continued to run towards the target location. The ghouls in the middle of the road were still frolicking, unaware that their two companions had long since died.
"Stop, there's a self-detonating ghoul coming your way!" Just as Ding Hao was approaching the entrance of the square, Lydia suddenly sent a warning, and Ding Hao quickly found a hidden corner and shrank in, and started sneaking by the way.
The self-detonating ghoul is a burly fat man, with a very big belly, at least more than 400 pounds, and the self-detonating ghoul does not take the initiative to self-detonate, but likes to spray bile at the enemy, this bile will attract other ghouls around to attack the target or kill each other, and the self-detonating ghoul only needs to wait until the bile is exhausted, and the ghoul group can be scooped up from the ground to eat.
As for self-detonation, it will burst like a balloon when attacked, and the power is no less than that of a high-explosive grenade. The current task is to steal the main thing, so for this kind of guy who can't be beaten, he can only dodge.
After waiting for a while, the self-detonating ghoul finally walked away, and Ding Hao came out of his hiding place and walked towards the center of the square.
After more than 80 years of time, the square in front of Ding Hao is no longer what it was at the beginning, the stone slabs on the ground are broken and differentiated, all kinds of plants emerge tenaciously from the cracks, and the former fountain square has become more and more like a wild place.
"The nearest Daredevil is 50 meters from you at 11 o'clock, do you need me to take it out?" Lydia looked at the scene in the scope and asked Ding Hao.
"No, don't startle the snake, wait for me to get closer." Ding Hao vetoed Lydia's proposal, then lowered his body and entered a stealth state and slowly walked in the direction of the escapee.
"Ding Hao, I can't see you anymore, where are you?" Ding Hao's sudden disappearance made Lydia a little nervous.
"Don't panic." With the help of stealth skills, Ding Hao had successfully touched 10 meters beside the night demon, and he could already clearly hear the night demon's unique and heavy breathing. 9 night demons, the distance between the two adjacent night demons is about 10 meters, in a circle to surround the escapees, Ding Hao wants to test how far away the night demons can find themselves wearing an anti-infrared cloak and in a hidden state.
Step by step, Ding Hao slowly approached the Night Demon, and just when the distance was reduced to 5 meters, the Night Demon suddenly turned around and stared at Ding Hao's direction, while a rapid and heavy wheezing sound came out of his throat.