59. Go deeper
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Ding Hao lowered the muzzle of his gun and walked forward slowly.
"Who are you?" Hearing Ding Hao's voice, the young man turned his head as if he had been electrified. The boy was very young, he looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, with a fine countenance, and he was wearing an iron armor with it, stained with blood and dark green slime. Although this armor is not bulletproof, it can resist the fangs and claws of mutated creatures, and is popular among some poor mercenaries.
"I'm a mercenary on a mission." Ding Hao took out his mercenary badge and showed it to the young man. "What are you doing here?"
"Thank goodness someone is finally here." The young man's face showed a touch of joy, and then he continued to give artificial respiration to the person lying on the ground, "I want to save his life, please come and help me." ”
Ding Hao looked at the person lying on the ground and found that his neck was twisted, his face was pale, he was not breathing, and he was obviously dead.
"Calm down, he's dead." Ding Hao said.
"No...... There will definitely be ...... What can be done......" After listening to Ding Hao's words, the young man began to massage the corpse on the ground harder, "As long as ...... I...... Don't give up. ”
"Let it go." Ding Hao stretched out his hand and grabbed the young man's shoulder.
"I'm sorry......" The boy knelt on the ground, covering his face with his hands, tears streaming down his fingers, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry......"
"You've done your best." Ding Hao patted the young man's shoulder and comforted.
"Thank you, stranger." After a long while, the boy stopped crying, "My name is Kerry, and he's my uncle. ”
"My name is Ding Hao." Ding Hao also introduced himself, "What are you doing here?" Is it also a task? ”
"Nope." Kerry shook his head, "I'm just a waste picker, following my uncle's men to pick up trash in the city. A few minutes ago, we were attacked and a dark figure dragged my uncle into the sewer, and my uncle's friend jumped down with him, and I waited for a while on it for fear before coming down. ”
Ding Hao looked up, and sure enough, there was a sewer entrance directly above his head, the lid was gone, and he could see the cloudy sky outside.
"When I came down, I saw that my uncle was dead, and everyone was dead." As he spoke, Kerry choked up again.
"What attacked you? Have you ever seen what a monster looks like? Ding Hao asked.
"No, when I came down, I only saw the back of the monster leaving." Kerry slightly recalled what had happened before, "All I know is that it's big, it's fast, and it's going to send out ...... The sound of sucking saliva, I don't know the rest. ”
"Well, it doesn't sound like a water ghost, and it doesn't sound like a mirelurk." Ding Hao said, and then pointed to the entrance of the sewer, "Okay, you can get out of here." ”
"Thank you for your kindness, but I'm going to kill that monster and avenge my uncle!" Kerry's red eyes widened, sniffed, then picked up an M870 shotgun from the ground, and removed the bullet belt from his uncle's body, and then looked at Ding Hao with expectant eyes: "Are you willing to help me?" ”
"That monster is dangerous, and you can see its destructive power." Ding Hao pointed to the corpse lying in the passage on the other side, which was obviously the companion of the child's uncle.
"I'm not a kid anymore!" Kerry raised the shotgun in his hand, "I'll use a shotgun and a grenade!" ”
"Okay then, if you want to follow me, you can do it." This time Ding Hao didn't refuse, "But I came here for another mission, if you encounter it, you don't mind slaughtering it, if you can't meet it, don't blame me." ”
"If you don't meet it, I'll be here until I kill that monster before I get out!" Kerry said categorically.
"Whatever you want." Ding Hao turned around and continued to move forward along the footprints on the ground, "In addition, lower the muzzle of your gun, I don't want to be attacked from behind." ”
That being said, Ding Hao still quietly asked the bean paste bag to be attached to the bulletproof plate of his combat suit, at least with this guy, he didn't have to be afraid of the black gun behind him.
Within a few steps, the two of them were blocked by a twisted iron fence gate. The fence was tilted throughout, and the gaps above were so tightly stuffed with gravel that it seemed impossible to climb through.
"That's where that monster escaped, and I think it's what it struck like this." Kerry said to Ding Hao.
"Great, I hope we don't look the other way." Ding Hao tried to push the iron door hard, and found that the metal bars that made up the iron door were all bent, stuck together with each other, and could not be opened by manpower at all.
"Shall we drill through?" Kerry gestured at the gap between the fences and realized that his head could still get through. But Ding Hao, who was wearing a combat uniform, couldn't squeeze through it no matter what.
"I don't need to." Ding Hao looked at the wall and found that the iron fence had made the wall fragile because of the impact, so he picked up an iron bar from the ground and smashed it the broken masonry. Once, twice, the gravel fell one after another, and Ding Hao soon smashed out a gap enough for one person to pass.
After passing through the iron door, the two of them came to another empty hall, but this hall was a little strange, the ceiling, walls, and the floor were covered with a thick layer of dark green slime like a fungus blanket, and if you looked closely, you could see that these slime were still squirming slightly.
"Be careful, that monster might be nearby." Ding Hao turned on his headlamp and squatted down to look for footprints, because fluorescent plants could not grow in places covered with slime, so the hall looked dark.
The snow-white light dispelled the darkness, and a distorted face with seven holes bleeding appeared in front of Ding Hao, and Ding Hao subconsciously took two steps back. Then I realized that it was a corpse wrapped in slime.
"Do you recognize him?" Ding Hao looked at the pile of corpses on the ground and asked.
"Yes, his name is Fonn, and he is one of my uncle's companions." Kerry was silent for a moment, and in just a few minutes all the people he knew were dead, the experience had already numbed Kerry. "Looks like he's been dragged here by that monster and wrapped in slime, whew...... It's miserable. ”
Ding Hao looked around and found that the footprints were gone, it was possible that the squirming mucus had eliminated the footprints, and the only exit from this room was the drain on the floor, which led to the next floor of the sewer. However, this drain is also covered with mucus around it, and Ding Hao thinks that he will never touch such a disgusting looking thing.
"I think this is the way for the monster to go up and down." Looking at the drain on the ground, Kerry said.
"Of course, let's find out if there's a normal passage." Ding Hao carefully recalled the similar area he had walked through before, and vaguely remembered that this kind of room with a drainage outlet often has an access door on the right side. So he hit the wall on the right side with the metal rod in his hand, and sure enough, Ding Hao soon hit something like a metal plate.
"This should be it." Ding Hao motioned for Kerry to step back, and then used the metal rod in his hand to cut open the slime attached to the wall, as if tearing plastic wrap, tearing a large piece, and a metal door appeared in front of the two.
Ding Hao listened intently, and found that the roars of the water ghosts behind the door came and went, and there were at least seven or eight at a rough count.
"There are a lot of water ghosts down there, I'll go down first, and you can come down after killing the water ghosts." Ding Hao said to Kerry. "You wait a little bit up there."
"No, I'm going to fight alongside you!" Teenagers are hot-blooded, and Kerry is no exception.
"Save your life against mutated creatures, if you think it makes more sense to feed a bunch of water ghosts." In this regard, Ding Hao poured a basin of cold water mercilessly, "Your uncle is still waiting for you to avenge him." ”
"Okay, be careful."
Ding Hao grabbed the handle and slowly opened the door, but as soon as he opened the iron door, he was pounced on by a water ghost, and in Kerry's screams, the water ghost lay on Ding Hao and bit and scratched.
Fortunately, Ding Hao was wearing new armor this time, and the Kevlan material mixed with wire was not something that the water ghost's teeth and claws could get open, Ding Hao directly grabbed the water ghost's neck and threw it against the wall, and then kicked its head.
"Don't scream like a, okay?" Ding Hao said to Kerry angrily, and then kicked another water ghost attracted by Kerry's scream down the stairs, and pulled the trigger to beat it into a sieve, and did not forget to bring the iron door behind him while walking down the stairs.
This floor is the lair of water ghosts, standing on the stairs Ding Hao saw many water ghosts running around the stairs, and in the corner covered by slime, there was even a nest of little water ghosts waiting to be fed.
It was not easy to deal with a large group of water ghosts, but the card terrain could make the battle much easier, and Ding Hao half-squatted on the stairs and shot rhythmically at the water ghosts rushing up. I don't know if it's because of the more water, but the lethal parts of water ghosts are much larger than ordinary ghouls, and if you hit your head, you will be killed on the spot nine times out of ten.
Soon the corpses of the water ghosts were piled up on the stairs into a small mountain, and the other water ghosts also knew Ding Hao's danger, and they cowered and circled around the stairs, but they refused to rush up, and the two sides were deadlocked.
There is no way to consume it like this, so Ding Hao directly took out a UV lighting rod and pulled the latch and threw it out, the purple light suddenly illuminated a large area, and the surrounding water ghosts ran away with strange screams. Ding Hao seized the opportunity and rushed down the stairs directly, trying to find a corner to ensure that he would not be attacked by the back before those water ghosts reacted, but before he could run two steps, a water ghost pounced on him and hugged his left leg.
Ding Hao slammed down with the butt of the gun, causing the water ghost to bleed and almost shatter his skull, and at the same time, his left leg was pulled out of the water ghost's embrace, and then he kicked and shattered the water ghost's skull, and then rolled forward, successfully entering the area of the ultraviolet flare while dodging the second water ghost, and was afraid of the bright ultraviolet light, these water ghosts roared around, but none of them dared to rush up.
Ding Hao half-squatted on the ground and used M4A1 to shoot at these water ghosts one by one, and those who hid behind obstacles cleaned up with grenades and grenades, and soon the water ghosts in this area were slaughtered.
"Hey! Are you okay? After a few moments, Kerry's voice came from the stairs.
"I'm fine, what's wrong with you?" Ding Hao trampled the last nest of whining little water ghosts into slag with one kick. "I haven't called you yet."
"I heard the gunfire stop, and I felt like the fight should be over, so I came down." Kerry walked over cautiously, and poked the corpse of the water ghost on the ground with the muzzle of the gun from time to time to prevent the other party from lying on the ground and pretending to be dead. "There are so many water ghosts here? Isn't there a mutated creature here? ”
Mutated creatures and ghouls-like creatures are often mortal enemies, and it's very rare for the two to coexist.