Chapter 43: Blackwater

One unexpected event after another made things worse.

Linked to Johnson's impatience, such a situation seems inevitable.

Andy looked up and announced his answer to the others who were looking at him expectantly.

"I've found the way, and there seems to be a pre-war underground pipe gallery down there, which is still largely well preserved, and we can go down there and maybe find a way out."

The crowd cheered up and began to let Andy take the lead.

It continued to advance in the dark ground for several hours, during which there was a series of frantic ramblings, some places with three or four branch crossings, and in other places the forks were so hidden that they even needed to be excavated, and there was no doubt that no one would have been able to walk through such places without the Pip-Boy for guidance.

Eventually, everyone came to a narrow hole that went straight down.

With the lighting of everyone, a wide and deep space appeared below, in which there were many pipes of different colors and thicknesses, and there were obvious traces of artificial buildings around, and anyone could see that this was the underground pipe gallery that Andy said before.

The only problem is that there seems to be water down there.

The light hit the hole and illuminated the black stagnant water below, and it was unclear how deep it was.

"Why so much water?"

Lucas looked down a little shocked, the black space complemented the black sewage, and the bottom felt as terrifying as the River Styx.

"There is an underground water vein underneath the Atlantis Tower..... That seems to be the reason why they chose this location, but frankly I don't understand why they built such a tall building on top of it..... The geological structure here is very average. ”

Sito suddenly became a little active, even with a smile on his face, which had been going on for a while and looked out of place with the others.

"You seem to be getting happier, why?"

Andy couldn't help but ask, in fact, everyone here is almost in a desperate situation now, the underground environment is complex and harsh, and the radiation around is getting higher and higher, although the beep boy has found a possible way out, but the situation has not directly improved....

"You can see it, it's actually very simple, in the ghouls' view, radiation is like a warm current, and the thing that emits radiation is as cute as a stove.... Do you know how I feel right now? I feel like I've come to Hawaii! ”

As he spoke, Sito suddenly thought of something.

"Oh... Sorry, I guess you don't know what Hawaii is.... Anyway, I'm feeling pretty comfortable now, a bit of sunbathing on the Sunshine Coast, but unfortunately there are no bikini beauties around...."

Bombie seems very disdainful that Cito always says this.

"If you want to see it, you can wear your own outfit to ensure that everyone's eyes are blinded."

There was a burst of laughter.

Johnson didn't take it easy.

He stared thoughtfully at the pipe gallery below, and finally dropped some rocks down, and found that the water below was not very deep.

"Don't waste any more time, let's go quickly."

Johnson reached out and pulled out a nail and a roll of rope from his backpack, and then began to make a rope that could be climbed down, and with the help of others, everyone soon began to slide down the rope one by one. It was embarrassing that the rope was not long enough, and it was necessary to jump down the last distance, so the turbid waves came and went.

Andy crawled out of the sewage, and God knows what the water was made of, but luckily he wasn't in a hazmat suit and didn't have to touch the damn water directly.

"Wait, is the beep boy waterproof?"

Quickly raised his left arm to take a look, wiping off the sticky black water, the beep boy seemed to have no problem, it seemed to be completely waterproof design.

Rubbing and rubbing, Andy suddenly found that the texture of these black waters was very familiar, and he always felt like the black water in the pod before.

He looked at the knee-high black water around him, and muttered to himself, he had wondered why the pods were filled with sticky black water when they opened up automatically, and now there was a lot of this stuff here..... What the hell is this thing? It can't be someone who dies in this environment, right?

As soon as this thought came out, he suddenly felt that there were many indescribable outlines in the black water in front of him, and Andy himself scared himself to the point that his hands and feet were cold.

"Oops!"

Just thinking about it, there was a loud scream behind him, and as soon as he turned around, Andy was slapped all over the face by a turbid wave, he wiped his mask hard to recover his vision, looked up, and found that Lucas was crawling out of the knee-deep black water on the ground with his waist on his back, and it was this guy who fell directly from the sky just now.

"How did you Lucas?"

Bombie looked very disgusted with the filthy black water, and this time she was very angry that Lucas was directly.

"Didn't catch the rope ....."

Andy was a little speechless as he watched Lucas get up with difficulty, and Johnson in the upper hall had already jumped down, only making a small splash, which was very different from Lucas's meteorite landing on the huge waves with his whole body.

Sito on the side didn't know what he was doing with his head down, Andy swept his eyes, and then turned his head in shock to find that Sito was actually washing his face with those slimy black water.

"What are you doing? Even if you're not afraid of radiation, you won't wash your face with this thing, right? ”

Sito didn't seem to care how dirty the water was.

"I feel like this stuff is as comfortable as a premium bath water.... I can't help but want to wash my face. ”

Andy shook his head speechlessly, quietly walked to the side and looked at Lucas and asked, "That guy was clumsy all the way, what the hell did you call him over?" ”

Sito replied in a whisper.

"Lucas knows a lot about terminals, and he played a big role when we came down the second time before, but unfortunately this third time he hasn't come down where he can be used."

The group regrouped, and Andy began to look for the next way out.

Johnson stopped him suddenly.

"What's wrong?"

Andy looked at Johnson strangely.

"I know where to go next, and it's likely that what we're looking for is around here....."

He looked back at Cito.

"Ah, that's probably what you said..."

Sito held up his flashlight and shone it at the walls on either side of the pipe gallery, and soon saw the markings of C-67 in one place.

"Oh, that's great, and the marks that have been left behind.... Now that I'm going to know what's next, you're all here, don't you know Andy? Asley is dead anyway. ”

Johnson was silent for a moment, then looked at Andy, who was full of question marks.

"You've probably been wondering a lot about all this, so I'm going to tell you a little bit about how we all know about this place and what we're looking for...... By the time I'm done, you should understand. ”

Under Andy's unclear gaze, Johnson seemed to have made a serious decision.