40. Take a drive
Although the information provided by Erro was not much, it was sufficient, and Ding Hao had already preliminarily drawn up a tactic in his mind to hunt the spindle spider by the end of the conversation.
"Hey!" Just when Ding Hao left Error's office, he suddenly felt someone tap him on the shoulder, turned his head to look, and found that there was nothing, and when he turned his head back, Altea's pretty face was only two centimeters away from Ding Hao's face.
"Is there anything wrong with you?" Ding Hao took half a step back without a trace.
Althea blinked her big watery eyes and leaned over: "You have been talking for so long, what did my father tell you?" ”
"It's nothing, it's just about the broken bridge to the south, and he wants me to deal with the spindle spider near the broken bridge."
"You promised?" Listening to Ding Hao's words, Althea's eyes suddenly widened.
"yes, what's the problem?"
"Do you know how dangerous those spindle spiders are? Your wounds haven't healed yet, how can he let you do this? Listening to Ding Hao's words, Althea couldn't help but raise her eyebrows, and then she was about to rush to Elllo's office, Ding Hao hurriedly grabbed Althea's arm.
"Relax, it's just a bunch of spiders, can it be more powerful than a bunch of werewolves?" Ding Hao took Althea's hand and took a few steps out, "And my profession is a mercenary, and it is my job to deal with these mutant creatures." ”
"Really?" Althea was skeptical.
"Why am I lying to you?" Ding Hao showed great patience for the girl in front of him who had saved him, "I'm going to the shallow water port in the south, which means I have to go through the forest." But now the bridge in the forest is broken, and a swarm of spiders is blocking the bridge repair, so I have to deal with the spiders whether or not your dad asks for it. ”
"Oh, okay." Althea was silent for a moment, then came up with a new idea: "In that case, I'm going with you!" ”
Ding Hao: "......"
Altea: "What, no? ”
"Your dad is in there." Ding Hao pointed to the office behind him with his thumb, "You go and ask, and if he agrees, you will follow me." ”
……
"That's what he agreed to?" Seeing Althea come out of the office with a smile on her face in less than three minutes, Ding Hao felt that his brain was a little insufficient, under normal circumstances, shouldn't the father try his best to prevent his daughter from taking risks?
"Of course, I grew up in this forest, which is as familiar to me as my back garden." Althea said with a grin. "Alright, let's hurry up."
To be reasonable, don't you think this back garden is too luxurious?
"Wait, our destination is south, why are you heading north?" After taking two steps, Althea found that the direction she was walking was a little wrong, so she looked at Ding Hao and asked puzzled.
"How far is the Broken Bridge from Nighttown?" Ding Hao asked rhetorically.
"Well......" Althea thought for a moment, "about 15 kilometers." ”
"How long will it take for us to walk along?"
"If you don't encounter mutant creatures, it will take about 2 hours at the earliest." "But it's good to be there in four hours under normal circumstances." ”
"If there's a way to get from Nightshade to the Broken Bridge in 20 minutes, would you like to try it?"
"Really?"
"You wait here for me for a moment." Coming to the north gate of the town, Ding Hao asked Althea to wait at the door for a while, and then went into the woods to take the off-road vehicle out of the interface space. After encountering the werewolf, the new car was destroyed and decent, with dented claw marks and holes everywhere. Although Ding Hao doesn't particularly care about the appearance of the car, it is quite disturbing that the new car has become like this within two days of driving, so find a time to see if you can repair the scars on the car.
"It's a car?" Watching Ding Hao drive the off-road vehicle back to the gate of Night Town, Althea couldn't help but ask curiously. "It's the first time I've seen a moving car."
"Come on, brother, take you for a ride." Ding Hao said.
"The ......" Althea circled around the buggy and asked a crucial question: "Where do I sit?" ”
It's broken, Ding Hao's car is a single-person off-road vehicle used in the competition, also known as a buggy car, this car has only one driver's seat, and Altea has no place to sit.
"Hmm......" Ding Hao turned his head to look, "That's it, the back cover of your car is closed, remember to hold on to the frame, don't be thrown out halfway." ”
Seeing Althea sitting on the back cover of the car with a little discomfort, a kind of rustic atmosphere of driving a tractor arose spontaneously in Ding Hao's heart.
Why did it become like this...... Whether it's with a beautiful girl or a ride in an off-road vehicle. The overlap of two happy things will surely produce more happiness...... But why, is this happening......
Although it looks a little rustic, Althea is still very happy to feel the convenience and speed of the car ride.
"Althea, I have a question for you." Driving on the forest road, Ding Hao, who was a little bored, planned to find something to talk about. "When the hell was your town founded?"
Ding Hao had seen the map before, at least on the military map 80 years ago, there was no place for Night Town, which means that Night Town only appeared after the end of the world.
"I know that, Dad told me." "He said that 80 years ago, there was a catastrophe in the whole world, people who used to live in cities fled by car to take refuge in the wilderness, and as a result, a group of people were involved in a car accident on the highway in the middle of our forest, the car was damaged, and the road was blocked. These people had nowhere to go, so they went into the forest, intending to survive on it. ”
"And then they founded Nighttown?"
"Yes." Speaking of this, Althea sighed, "But those people died very early, I haven't seen my grandparents, and now all the people in Night Town are the descendants of those people." ”
In this case, Ding Hao speculated that it may be that the radiation environment after the nuclear explosion made it difficult for humans to adapt and lead to early death, which is not difficult to explain why there is not a single old man in Night Town.
"What about werewolves? When did these monsters appear? Ding Hao drove an off-road vehicle to carefully avoid a large shallow pit on the road, and as a result, he hit a rabbit that jumped out of the grass on the side of the road and crossed the road, and hit the rabbit into a bloody blur on the spot, and flew back into the grass on the side of the road.
"Werewolves, I remember having werewolves when I was a child." Althea didn't even notice the vibration of the buggy, "These guys are dangerous, but they move very regularly, and there are less than three townspeople who have been killed by werewolves in the past ten years." Truth be told, werewolves can be a bit dangerous to outsiders like you, but they're nothing to us in Nighttown. ”
"Well, since you don't care, I don't have to bother." Ding Hao shrugged.
The path in the woods was cleared little by little by the townspeople of Yeshi Town for several years, and its smoothness was certainly not as smooth as the asphalt or cement paved road, in order to take care of Althea sitting on the back of the car, Ding Hao tried to ensure that it was as smooth as possible while maintaining a speed of 50 yards.
"Ding Hao, look at the front left." When approaching the broken bridge, Althea suddenly pointed to the left front and patted Ding Hao's shoulder, "There is a lumber yard over there, if you can't return to Night Town before the night comes, you can rest in the lumber yard for a night, and there are also ultraviolet lights around the lumber yard, which is enough to drive away werewolves." ”
Through the dense woods, you can indeed see a lumberyard built in a glade, but this model is not a safe house in Seattle, routines, routines everywhere!
"Oh, okay." Ding Hao agreed expressionlessly, and silently noted the location of the lumberyard. Honestly, if something delays you, you'll really have to stay here for one night.
The logging yard is very close to the river, and seeing the logging site means that the broken bridge is not far ahead, in order to prevent the noise of the off-road vehicle from alarming the spindle spider, Ding Hao parked the off-road vehicle in the logging yard, and then walked forward with Althea.
Soon a forest covered in white cobwebs appeared in front of the two of them.
"Have you dealt with a spindle spider before?" Hiding in the bushes, Ding Hao asked Althea while observing the spider swarm in the distance.
"I've fought a few lone ones, and I know their attacks and weaknesses, but I've never dealt with a whole group." Althea said.
"And what weapons did you bring?"
"A double-barreled shotgun, 30 rounds, a dagger, gone."
"Here's for you, then." Ding Hao handed the M4 rifle behind his back to Althea along with two fully loaded magazines, "I'll attack in a while, you just need to watch next to me, don't make a sound." If I accidentally catch a bunch of spiders, you shoot them with a rifle, you know what I mean? ”
"Understood." Althea pulled out the M4's magazine to check the number of bullets in it, and then inserted it back into the magazine socket, "But you gave me the gun, what weapon did you use?" ”
"I have this." Ding Hao took off the backpack and put it on the ground, then took out the super blade compound bow that was disassembled into parts and put it together. The abdomen of the spindle spider has no carapace, it is very soft, and it can be cut with a knife, and it is a bit too much damage if you use 5.56mm bullets. And there is no way to replenish ammunition here, Ding Hao must save every bullet, in this case, bows and arrows that can be recycled and reused become the best choice.