21. Special ghouls
"That's it, come down." Having killed the heavily armored marauders, Ding Hao said to Lydia, who was hiding on the second floor, over the radio.
"You killed all of them alone?" Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Lydia asked in disbelief. The predator is not a pig, and even if it is a pig, it will take some time to catch 7 pigs running around, but how long has it been? Three minutes or five minutes?
"Is there anyone else but me?" Ding Hao spread out his hands and turned around, "Okay, hurry up and search the body, we still have something to do." ”
Except for the heavily armored Marauders who used the Remington M870, all the other Marauders used the M4A1 of Yishui, and Ding Hao knew where the weapons in the arsenal went. So this time the harvest is very impressive, a total of 6 M4A1s were confiscated, about 600 5.56mm caliber bullets, a Remington M870, 80 12-gauge shotguns, 6 fragmentation grenades, and three large bags full of canned food.
"I didn't find a 7.62mm mid-power bullet, do you want to change your weapon?"
"It seems that this is the only way to go." Lydia removed the AKM she was carrying, then crouched on the ground and began to inspect the M4A1s on the ground.
A cursory look at Lydia reveals some problems, these M4A1s have obviously not been maintained for a long time, the internal parts are worn out, the rust is a mess, it can only be said that it can barely be used, but there is no telling when something will go wrong. Fortunately, there are six M4A1s, and the parts are common to each other, so Lydia can remove the relatively good parts from each gun to form a new gun in better condition.
Ding Hao was not idle when Lydia was assembling the new gun, and the M4A1 used by the Marauders had more or less additional tactical accessories on it, so Ding Hao took these tactical accessories off and installed them on his M4A1.
Then the M4A1 in Ding Hao's hand has three more accessories, namely a silencer, an ACOG scope, and a laser sight, and this rifle is more handy to use after adding accessories.
"What about these three bags of food?" Looking at the three large backpacks on the ground, Lydia asked Ding Hao.
It's a post-nuclear wasteland, and every piece of food is precious, not to mention three large bags of canned food that weigh hundreds of kilograms.
Lydia has to take care of the child, and Ding Hao is not suitable for carrying such a heavy thing in order to ensure combat effectiveness, and if he gives up, the two are reluctant.
After thinking about it carefully, Ding Hao opened the map on the tactical terminal and found that the location of the next safe house was not too far from the police station, and he suddenly had an idea.
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"That's your solution?" Five minutes later, Lydia asked Ding Hao with a wistful face.
"What, what's wrong?" At this moment, in front of the two of them was a trolley that Ding Hao found from a nearby supermarket, and three backpacks full of food were placed in the car, while the little girl was sitting in the gap between the backpacks and was a little at a loss.
"Nothing, that's good." After hesitating for a while, Lydia couldn't find the words to object, but accepted the job as a cart worker.
Thirty minutes later, Ding Hao and Lydia arrived at the second damaged safe house, which was built in the underground garage of a residential building, which was very hidden. After some investigation, Ding Hao found that the reason for the damage to this safe house was actually that a group of rampaging rats got in and bit off the power lines of the generator, which caused the ultraviolet lamps and communication devices to be offline. The safe house was restored after cleaning the rampaging rats out of the garage, plugging the rat holes, and finally connecting the wires.
"Two have been repaired, and one is still missing." Ding Hao opened the map on the tactical terminal and calculated the time it would take to get to the last damaged safe house, "If we hurry, we can probably reach the third safe house before night comes, provided that we don't take these foods with us." ”
More than 200 catties of food, even if there is a cart to push it, is a big burden.
"The food is easy to manage, we can stay here and then notify the stronghold to send someone to pick it up." "But Lily must follow me, and I don't want to leave her here alone." ”
Lily is the name of the little girl, Lydia seems to be very persistent in this orphan, and Ding Hao can't understand why. But this girl didn't need Ding Hao to be responsible, so she went with her. "Then you are responsible for protecting her, and I will solve the battle or something. Remember, we don't have that much time to spend on fighting. ”
That being said, it's not so easy to travel long distances in a city full of ghouls, almost all the way to kill, and just as the sun is about to set, Ding Hao and Lydia finally reach the location of the third damaged safe house.
The safe house is a small two-story shop fenced with barbed wire, and although it is unknown why it was damaged, it looks normal from the outside.
However, Ding Hao would rather have a large group of ghouls walking around, so that at least he could know what the enemy was to face in a while.
"I feel something is wrong." Ding Hao stretched out his hand to stop Lydia, who was about to walk to the store, "I'll go first and take a look." ”
"Well, be careful."
In order to guard against the enemies in the room, Ding Hao specially removed the M870 shotgun from his back, and against enemies in a small area, the shotgun is more effective than pistols and rifles, and this gun is much larger than a double-barreled shotgun in terms of ammunition load and power.
Gently pushing open the hidden door, the tactical flashlight on the side of the barrel illuminates the room, but there are no ghouls or mutated creatures in the room, and there is nothing of note except for the debris scattered on the floor. But just in case, Ding Hao still carefully inspected all the corners.
"Come in, there's no danger inside." Ding Hao beckoned to Lydia, and at the same time, the radio in Ding Hao's hand suddenly rang.
"Ding Hao? I'm Prester, it's getting dark soon, have you found a safe house? ”
"Found it, I'm looking to check the cause of the damage to the safe house."
"Is Lydia okay?"
"She?" Ding Hao turned his head to look at Lydia, who was diluting nutrients with pure water and feeding Lily to eat. "Of course she's good, and she's picked up a child. By the way, I'm curious, why did you want me to take her? ”
"Lydia is a very talented young man of ours, I just want her to see how you fight and deal with emergencies, nothing else."
"Okay."
After the communication, Ding Hao began to check the power supply of this safe house, the most important thing in the safe house is the defense system composed of ultraviolet lights, as long as the ultraviolet lights are not broken, even if there is no fence, those ghouls will not approach. Of course, on the other hand, without ultraviolet lamps, even a fortification like a military fortress may not be very safe.
So the damage to the safe house basically means that the ultraviolet light is not on.
Ding Hao checked along the line, first of all, the lamp was not damaged, and the wires were also in good condition, so the damaged part should be the power supply or gate. Ding Hao followed the wire to the garage at the back of the house, and it seemed that the power supply should be inside.
The door of the garage was a roller shutter door, but it was not locked, and Ding Hao pulled the door handle and pulled the roller shutter door up easily.
Tong! With a muffled sound, Ding Hao only felt a pain in his chest, and the whole person was directly beaten upside down and flew ten meters away, until he hit the barbed wire.
"Ahem." Fortunately, there is a ceramic bulletproof insert on the chest, otherwise at least several ribs will be broken this time. Ding Hao didn't have time to get up, so he directly took Remington and sprayed three shots in the direction of the garage, and there was a low howl of pain from the garage, which sounded as if he had hit something.
After shooting and injuring the other party, Ding Hao got up to see who was hiding in the garage.
"Glowing seed?" Looking at the dark green ghoul in front of him, Ding Hao was simply shocked, Ding Hao, the luminous species that had just begun to evolve, could still deal with it, but the fully evolved luminous species was not so easy to provoke.
But after a closer look, Ding Hao found that this thing didn't look like a glowing species. The luminous species emits emerald green fluorescence all over its body, and through the translucent skin, you can even see the muscle textures and blood vessels in the body. The ghoul in front of him has short legs and long hands, covered with green pus, and looks very disgusting, not a glowing species at all.
Of course, whatever it is, just kill it. Ding Hao held a gun and pulled the trigger on this mutant ghoul again and again, but he didn't expect this ghoul to be as agile as an ape, and jumped out of the garage the moment Ding Hao pulled his finger, and Ding Hao's attacks all failed. After jumping out of the garage, the mutant ghoul did not attack Ding Hao again, but directly disappeared into the night over the barbed wire.
"Damn, what kind of monster is this?" Ding Hao rubbed his chest, which was still aching, and staggered towards the garage. Now it's getting dark, and if you don't turn on the power switch, all the ghosts and ghosts outside will come over.
When the electric gate was opened, all the ultraviolet lights around the store were turned on, and the entire store was shrouded in a faint purple light, and then Ding Hao used the radio on the tactical terminal to contact Dr. Zareth in the stronghold.
"Doctor Zare, I'm Ding Hao, I just met a ghoul covered in green pus, which looks like a new breed."
"A ghoul covered in green pus? Interesting, did you kill it? ”
"No, it escaped." Ding Hao looked outside the barbed wire fence and couldn't see anything at all. "But I've shot it three times before, so I should have wounded it."
"This should be some rare special mutation, I don't have the corresponding information here, if you see this kind of ghoul next time, you must notify me."