Chapter 1: Bounty Hunters
Endless darkness enveloped the entire space, and only a small leaping flame burned tenaciously.
The sound of the chaotic footsteps accompanied the boy's chaotic breathing was heard far away!
"Alan, run! Come on! ”
A hoarse cry pierced through the dark space, and the childish face turned stiffly in the firelight. He had short, black messy hair, and at the moment his old pajamas were covered in blood, and his dark pupils were full of horror.
"Hey, hey, hey......"
In the darkness, a tooth-aching shrill laugh sounded suddenly, and the boy suddenly went limp, and his thin body fell to the ground. The torch in his hand rolled out, and the stubborn flame still worked hard and burned......
"Hey, hey, hey......"
The laughter drew nearer and closer, and the boy tried to get up, but found that his body seemed to have lost all its strength at once, and he could only watch a pair of rotten feet appear in the light.
It was a tall creature of two meters, with rotting cyan skin exposed from its torn clothes. Its eyes were red, its cracked mouth revealing disgusting teeth, and a drop of scarlet blood trickled down the corner of his mouth and dripped onto his body, barely exposing his chest.
Its bones were unusually large, its left arm was bent at an eerie angle, and all five of its fingers were folded, apparently unusable. But there was no pain on its face, and a pair of blood-red eyes stared greedily at the boy in front of it.
"Hungry ......"
After muttering a word, it suddenly opened its mouth, and the entire corner of its mouth was torn with a sudden force, and the disgusting back molars could almost be seen.
"No......" The little boy let out a frightened scream, and the monster in front of him had already pounced fiercely......
"No!"
"Bang!"
A crisp thud was followed by a scream, followed by bursts of nasty laughter.
"Poor Alan, are you having nightmares again? Ha ha! ”
In front of him was a slightly humble room, and on the solid wood single bed sat a dark-haired man, rubbing his red and swollen forehead vigorously, and next to his head, a thick iron bucket was suspended that kept swaying.
"Raymond!"
The black-haired man ripped the bucket off and stood up. In front of him was a tall man, with flaxen-colored curly hair bound by goggles, muscular limbs like a bear, and freckles on his face. He hugged his shoulders and looked at the black-haired man who was only about one meter seven, with a smug look on his face: "Okay, my poor little Alan." Captain Henry is already waiting impatiently, you better get up quickly. ”
Raymond said and pushed open the door and walked out.
"It's a damn dream again!" Alan rubbed his forehead, "And damn Raymond." ”
He stood up and put on his clothes. Dark bib pants and a washed crumpled light-colored shirt with a leather jacket over it. Alan wiped his face indiscriminately, and then lifted the coarse cloth backpack at the head of the bed with great difficulty.
Pushing open the door, the slightly cluttered street was already lively. A whistle sounded, and groups of people were busy running. Alan took a deep breath and was in a much better mood.
"Alan, you're sleeping again!"
A gray-haired middle-aged man walked over, he was wearing a leather coat, but his knees and elbows were wrapped with heavy metal plates, and he was tightly tied with hemp rope, he stepped forward and patted Allen on the shoulder gently: "You know, Raymond this kid ......"
"Henry, I know, he's just trying to have some fun." Alan smiled, "And we do need him, don't we?" ”
"Actually, you don't need to go with you on this mission, after all, it's too dangerous there." Henry took the backpack on Alan's shoulder into his hand, "You really don't have to ......"
"I'm twenty-three." Alan stared at Henry's eyes seriously, "Although I am weak, my marksmanship is good, and I can repair your weapons, I will not be a burden." I have to face these disgusting guys or that nightmare will haunt me for the rest of my life. ”
Henry sighed and didn't say anything more, and Alan squeezed into the crowd after him!
The two made their way through the crowd to the outside of the bustling town, where an old-fashioned steam-powered car had already been prepared. The slightly noisy steam engine kept spinning, and puffs of black smoke erupted from under the car.
"Captain, isn't he, he's really going?" A bald man sitting in the power car asked puzzledly, "This is not a joke, we are still making a lot of money on this mission?" ”
"I'll take care of him." Henry glanced at the man in the driver's seat, and then fell on Raymond in the driver's seat, "Take care of yourselves." ”
Raymond smiled and raised his hands: "Captain, listen to you." ”
Throwing the backpack into the trunk, Henry sat in the passenger seat, while Alan and the bald man sat in the back.
"That Alan, I don't mean anything else, you know, bounty hunters are not easy to do." The bald man took the initiative to speak after seeing Alan sit down, "Don't look at the three of us are all reformers, but the guys we face are all dangerous, and they all appear in groups, so ......"
Alan took out a musket from his waist and wiped it gently: "Colin, believe me, my marksmanship is not bad, I will not hold back." ”
Looking at the old-fashioned musket in Allen's hand, Colin shrugged his shoulders, but Raymond laughed out loud: "Musket, this joke is really good, little Alan, I am optimistic about you, haha." ”
The steam engine roared, and the power car finally started, leaving a trail of black smoke in its place.
The zombie plague has ravaged the entire Republic of Steppen for hundreds of years. This creature, which feeds on human flesh and blood and gradually expands its own kind, has become the number one public enemy of the entire Republic.
More and more bounties are being released by the Republic, and the rewards are being increased again and again. However, in recent years, the number of zombies has not been controlled, but has become more and more intense. It is not uncommon to see news in the newspapers about zombie attacks on human villages, which has become the largest news in all news newspapers.
Henry unfolded the map in his hand, a bright red line flashing on the rough paper, and a green arrow representing a steam-powered car slowly traveled along the red line.
"Check out the gear, we'll be there soon." Henry said as he put away the mission map. Colin leaned in and pulled out a long suitcase from under his feet, then unzipped it.
Alan stared at the alchemy equipment in his backpack with some envy, as an ordinary person, he understood that these weapons that were designed to deal with zombies could not be used by himself.
Henry took out a double-barreled shotgun from his backpack, but the shape of this shotgun was slightly strange, the front half of the barrel was jet-black metal, but the second half was made of translucent material, and you could clearly see the emerald green liquid flowing inside. He took out a box of bullets, and pressed the yellow-orange-orange bullets into the chamber one by one, the shotgun that could only hold two bullets at a time, but it was loaded with twelve, and after the bullets entered the chamber, you can see from the translucent barrel, they are neatly attached to the chamber, and even impregnated with the emerald green liquid.
Colin held a one-handed musket, different from the old antique in Allen's hand, this musket had a barrel fifty centimeters long, and there was a sharp spike at the curved handle, Colin carefully took out a black metal box, and then took out six red bullets from it, and examined it carefully.
Alan only felt a wave of heat rushing towards his face, and he stared curiously at the red bullet entering the chamber: "This is, the flame warhead?" ”
"That's right, this box cost Lao Tzu a hundred gold coins." Colin said in pain.
"As long as this mission can be completed, we will be able to get three thousand gold coins, and we will replace you with a big guy at the right time." Henry said with a smile, "As for Raymond, you don't need it, your father's gold coins can be piled up." ”
"Hehe, I'll show you what the real big guy is." Raymond glanced at Allen, a smug expression.
About an hour later, the steam-powered car slowly stopped. Ahead is the target location of this mission, a town that has been abandoned for a long time.
"It's disgusting!"
Colin frowned, his gaze falling on the pile of rotten flesh at the entrance to the town, which was clearly distinguishable as a woman's hand and half of her rotting body.
Raymond screamed excitedly, he opened the trunk of the steam-powered car, and then took out a two-meter-long metal box with a thickness of sixty or seventy centimeters.
"Be quiet, do you want to kill us?" Henry whispered.
"Rest assured, rest assured!" Raymond opened the metal lock on the box, then raised his head to look at Allen, "Little Alan, wait and cover your eyes and chin, don't fall off easily." ”
Alan snorted disdainfully, but his gaze was drawn to it.
I saw Raymond open the metal box and take out an oversized firearm from it.
It was a weapon that appeared to be a patchwork of transparent glass tubes, with a bronze metal bracket on the trunk and a large transparent glass tube with a diameter of ten centimeters. You can clearly see the small electric current beating inside. The muzzle of the gun is three metal spikes that protrude from the gears and are open, and at the tail of the gun is a metal conduit attached to a black metal backpack inside the case.
Raymond carried the black metal backpack behind him, and then pulled the metal pull ring under the backpack violently, and heard a mechanical turning sound, and puffs of black smoke erupted from the top of the backpack.
Raymond held the large gun, the metal spikes at the muzzle of the gun turned under the action of the gears, and a small electric current began to beat at the muzzle, he pulled down the goggles, and then said excitedly:
"Now, let's do it!"