Chapter 44: The Dead Lake
A man-made river was soon discovered by Andy, and the river was carrying water from further upstream to the garden area, which then continued to flow outside.
The river is about five meters wide, wider than the river downstream, and the temperature in the water is not so high, and it seems that the reason for the unusually high temperature of the water at the flood discharge facility is due to the residual temperature caused by a special purification process in the flood discharge facility.
The sides of the river have been artificially reinforced, and some of the reinforcements have cracked due to the impact of earthquakes. The surroundings were back to the way they had been when they first entered the nursery, with strange creatures that Andy Chord didn't even recognize.
They must have never encountered a human since they were born, so some of them fled as if they saw a monster, while others stood still in a daze.
Several deer were drinking by the river, sometimes bowing their heads to drink, sometimes looking at the three of them curiously.
"What a beautiful creature." Xian looked at the deer with his hands folded, they looked extremely healthy, there were no two heads or ulcers on the skin, the hair on their bodies was slightly brownish yellow in the sun, and their expressions were flexible and alert.
Suddenly, there were strange noises in the river, and the ears of the deer suddenly stood up, and then they all moved away from the shore at lightning speed.
This startled the three of them, but long after the deer disappeared, the unknown presence in the river did not show up at all.
"There's something in the water?" Andy put his hands on the handle of his gun and slowly approached the river, but was pulled by the string.
"Animals are so fearful that they must be predators hiding in the water." She turned to look at the tank, and the other man shrugged
"Shoulder". The Tesla rifle fired an arc of electricity that plunged directly into the water. In that instant, the surface of the water boiled, and countless terrible blacks were innumerable
The "long snake" thing jumped out of the water and writhed wildly. These guys are pitch black, exactly the same color as the bottom of the river.
As they tossed and turned, those gaped mouths were filled with terrifying fangs, making these monsters look terrifying.
"So many witch snakes?" String was frightened and took a few steps back, anyone who dared to approach this body of water would be attacked in an instant, those monsters love to suck blood the most, once bitten by their sucker-like mouths, there is no other way to get rid of them except to cut off their heads, and it still can't stop your blood loss.
These monsters can suck themselves several times larger, they are ferocious and greedy. Stimulated by the electric shock, the snakes became enraged, and they jumped out of the river, sliding on the ground like long snakes to get closer to a few people.
Andy decisively turns on the V mode and shoots the snakes one by one before they get closer. The bodies of these monsters are covered in a layer of slippery and greasy slime, and they act in strange ways.
In the case of a large crowd, it is not only difficult to hit, but also difficult to kill quickly, but fortunately, Andy is not afraid of this situation.
The cylinder brain cooperated to shoot a large number of electric arcs, and the Tesla arc bounced back and forth between multiple monsters, burning them to give off an aroma.
The remnants of the snake fled back into the water, and all was quiet again. Andy blew on the muzzle of the gun arrogantly, raising his brow at the strings.
The other party gave him a blank look, walked to the river and looked ahead, since there were already a considerable number of witch snakes here, it was impossible for the artificial lake to go down there to lack this kind of thing.
"If I find the source, I may be able to poison everything in this river, but I'm afraid the natives downstream will suffer." Andy scratched his head.
"But isn't there a powerful purification facility for the flood discharge facility?" String took out a container and looked at it, then shoved it back in.
"If there is a case, I don't know how many people will die at my hands.... Well, anyway, since that Harold said that everything was not a matter in front of Diana, then I didn't need to do this superfluous thing. ”................. After about two hours of walking along the river, the surrounding terrain began to change.
They began to walk more uphill, and the height here was noticeably higher than the previous area, and there were often boulder cliffs hanging above the heads of several people, dotted with many plants, and they heard a long, loud sound coming from a distance.
"What sound?" Andy listened vigilantly for a moment, but didn't come up with an answer.
"It's a waterfall." Xian sighed and pinched his waist to rest for a while, the road here is really rugged and difficult, and the cylinder brain has overturned many times, so that the two of them have to stop from time to time to rescue him.
"There's so much water here that you can form a waterfall." Eventually, they saw a huge circular lake at the end of the river.
The lake was so large that to Andy's eyes, it was almost as large as an entire garden area before it.
Surrounded by green hills, a large white waterfall cascades down from above and smashes straight into the lake below.
It stirred the surface of the lake and made a sound that could travel far, far away. Andy opens Pip-Boy's map, which shows that they need to approach the source of the waterfall diagonally above, but the exact route is not marked, and it seems that they need to continue to explore.
However, a few people came closer to the huge lake and soon discovered the anomaly. Floating on the shore of the lake were a number of corpses, starting with a huge brown bear, whose flesh had turned a strange black and purple, and its body was covered with strange circular scars, as if it had been held in by countless cylinders with a large number of needles built.
Not far away, there was a huge object suspended in the water, and from some clues, it was originally a huge fish living in a lake, four or five meters long.
But now its body was almost unrecognizable, a pile of bones wrapped in broken skin. In addition to these two most conspicuous creatures, there were also many half-decomposed corpses of various animals on the shore, which were basically floated from the water after being hit by the aftermath of the waterfall.
There was an opening that diverted the water from the lake into the artificial river, and the corpses floated all the way to the shore along the way.
There were no traces of any live animals around, and not even the birds of the sky were reluctant to approach it.
A few people cautiously explored the lake for a while, and were sure that there were a large number of witch snakes gathered in the lake, because many of the corpses still had such creatures wriggling and crawling in their stomachs, and some of them were of very surprising length.
But after going around the circle, they found that they seemed to have reached a dead end, because the huge lake in front of them was located in a closed valley, and the only way to enter was the exit of the artificial river, but that was also the place where everyone came in, and the animals that died near this place may have also come in to find water or feed, and then died tragically in the mouths of the monsters in the lake.
The waterfall cascades down the hill, keeping the lake at the same level forever, but there is no path that allows several people to walk up from near the lake to the height of the waterfall.
"How?" Andy searched around again in confusion, and was almost attacked by several huge witch snakes as thick as human thighs, and the fellows rushed to the shore with excitement, so excited that the whiskers around their mouths were trembling, trying to drag the newly delivered idiot into the water to feast on them.
They are shot back by Andy, and the wounded serpent flees back into the water, but the blood that spills out causes their companions to go berserk, and the water surface is constantly splashed with water and blood from these monsters.
The monsters here are hungry, and the reason why they haven't left the lake is because there is a wide bridge placed at the junction of the lake and the river, and there seem to be several filters under the bridge to prevent the oversized being from swimming outside.
Only the little ones who are not so big have the opportunity to leave the lake and go downstream for more food to grow and develop.
Andy sat desperately on a rock far away from the lake, eating and resting while discussing how to continue walking, Andy also cut and roasted the corpse of a witch snake, and found that although this thing was ugly and indescribable, the taste of the meat was actually very sweet and delicious after cooking, but the string refused to eat this thing, she had already had a psychological shadow because of the carcasses of those dead animals.
Adjusting his electronic eyes, he looked at the area around the waterfall and suddenly noticed that something was wrong.
"I know where the road is."