Chapter 51: The Gutter
"Don't make a noise!" Andy roared and shifted the direction of the Pip-Boy's lighting to the front, aiming his self-charging pistol in both hands at the spot where the strange figure had flashed.
As far as the eye can see, there are all kinds of rubble, and the first floor of this building has been so badly damaged that I don't know what is wrong, and it is still filled with deep dirty water.
If there were some hidden dangers in such a place, it would be fatal. The strings and the cylinder brain realized that the atmosphere was not right, and stopped the endless noise, and it was pitch black all around, and there was hardly any sound.
"What's wrong?" String also took out her weapon and made a defensive gesture, but because of the excitement just now, she didn't notice the unknown object that Andy saw.
"There's something in the water, it's not small.... It looks like the body is very long, what the hell! Could it be that there are witch snakes here, too? The tank brain noticed that the stagnant water here was not a pool of stagnant water, it seemed to be moving slowly in one direction, and the water had a unified place no matter where it came from.
The three of them were on guard for a moment, no matter what it was before, it seemed to have left the place.
After a moment of silence, the group finally let down their vigilance for a moment and began to discuss what to do next.
"It's completely finished here, and the map mapped out on the beep boy is also a mess, I can't understand it, what about the tour guide we found before?" String pulled out the book, flipped through two pages, and shook his head.
"Visitors aren't allowed to enter here, and I guess it's on the employee handbook. And even if we could find an employee handbook, the first floor of the plant was now embedded with the first floor of the geothermal power plant below, and the pre-war information was outdated and useless. ”
"How's that going to go?" Andy scratched his head, it can be said that there are no roads everywhere around, or it can be said that there are roads everywhere.
Large and small gaps, deformed corridors, collapsed floor slabs, old wires hanging down, holes that don't know where to lead... Of course, there may be more possible pathways underneath the water.
"We should follow the direction of the current." Cylinder Brain makes a suggestion. Xian soon accepted this method as well.
"Yes.... The place where the water flows will not be a dead end at least, and the water will certainly continue to flow downward, with the lower levels of the power plant being our final destination. The three of them then slowly moved forward in the water, encountering many obstacles along the way, sometimes Andy couldn't get through the gaps that the tank brain could squeeze into, and sometimes the tank brain would be stuck in the water and couldn't move in the water, and Andy needed to save him with great effort.
"Whoa-" String was watching the Tank Brain and Andy discuss how to sawn or remove the floor slab in front of her, when suddenly there was a sound of water behind her, and she turned her head vigilantly, and by the light of the flashlight, she saw a thick black shadow under the water that was swimming in its direction.
"Back! It's those witch snakes again! Andy hurriedly put down the steel bar that he had used as a crowbar, and at a glance he saw a thick, python-like snake burst out of the water, opened its large mouth full of dense fangs, and pounced on the string.
She had reacted fast enough that the biochemical gun had already hit the witch snake, but because the contents of the ammunition still needed some time to take effect, she didn't stop the opponent in time.
A red laser pierced the air and temporarily illuminated the surrounding darkness, and the high-temperature laser instantly pierced the snake's head, leaving a charred hole, and the subsequent additional shot was like a red storm, burning the upper body of the monster to ashes like the sunlight that broke through the dark clouds.
Xian wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, if she hadn't paid more attention to the sounds around her, Andy and Tank Brain should not have noticed her disappearance at this moment, and she would have become the monster's meal in an instant.
"I knew...."Andy stared at the reddish embers in the water, and when he arrived at the nursery, he found that the water veins here had basically been completely invaded by those witch snakes, and if it weren't for the normal operation of the flood discharge facility's automation system, those witch snakes would have caused a disaster if they had a chance to continue to spread outside.
"String, do you have any of the things that can dispel the witch snake before?" He received a negative answer.
"No... At that time, it was all used up for you. The rest of the road was still very tortuous, and the three of them had to stop from time to time to clear the road before they could continue to move forward, and on the way, there were huge witch snakes trying to sneak up on a few people, and even one of them almost swallowed and dragged away the tank brain, and he released Tesla's electric shock in the stomach and turned it into a cloud of ashes.
They were frustrated as they marched forward in the darkness, when suddenly they saw some dim light in front of them, and when they approached that direction, there seemed to be a very deafening sound of water coming from outside, like a loud noise near the great waterfall they had passed before.
The speed of the water was getting faster, and they had to hold on to the debris around them cautiously. Eventually, the eyes suddenly opened up.
Andy stood on a protrusion made up of several floor slabs for a long time, looking into the distance ahead, as if they had come to the huge ravine that they had seen across the ground that almost split the factory in two.
The water rushed out towards a trumpet-shaped cave-like opening, and on the outside was a huge and extremely wide fissure, and the countless streams of water around it formed countless waterfalls and smashed into the lower floors of the factory, which was supposed to be split in two by the fissure, but unlike this side, it was almost structurally intact.
From this vantage point, you can see a cross-sectional view of the factory, and on the other side of the bank should be the assembly line workshop of the factory, with a large number of industrial machine tools and various complex equipment that Andy can't name.
Some were bent by the slabs that had fallen by the earthquake, and some were rusty and crumbling by the current.
The huge conveyor belts were empty, and I don't know where the Garden of Eden Creator was placed.
"It's a shame, I thought we could find a working GEcK production plant." String leaned next to Andy and looked at the grand scene in front of them.
"Almost all of those machines were destroyed, so large in size..... Since this was once a factory that produced GEcK, there must be a large number of high-precision industrial equipment, and to this extent, in the current world.... It can be said that it is completely impossible to return to its original production capacity. The Tank Brain took a careful look at the bottomless abyss below, and it was really unknown where it led.
Far below, on a large rock, an unidentified object above it was emitting a pale green cloud of smoke or fog towards the surrounding area.
"Did you see that?" He held out his mechanical finger and pointed at the unidentified damaged device on the stone.
"It's a GEcK, it's broken. It is the same as the one that was smashed in the center of the garden before, and after it is damaged, it will continue to emit strong radiation, and because of the damage to its control computer, some undetermined generators will continue to execute incorrectly. Each of those things is enough to create a piece of plant hell that we've experienced before.... And there's no telling how many of those things will fall into it. Hearing this, Andy also glanced down, and there was a faint green light emitting from the deep ditch filled with water, like a narrow evil eye, which was intimidating.
"Well, we're not going to go down and dive for a swim anyway... But what's next? He looked left and right, and there was no way around.
"Maybe it's not like there's no way, and you have the hook I gave you, right?" The chord points to the side, where there are a lot of small platforms where the bumpy canine teeth interact with, and if done correctly, they can gradually move from mid-air to the opposite side where they are in a relatively good state.
"This .....! If you fall! The cylinder brain retreated again and again, but a piece of metal garbage of considerable volume was suddenly washed out by the turbulence in the darkness behind him, and the cylinder brain was directly knocked out with a bang, and his loud scream was drowned in the roaring sound of the water.
“!!” Andy Chord dodged his screams and watched the guy fall.