Chapter 54: The Dark Room
Blackie was searching with his nose twitching, and Andy and Eve could only stand and wait. More than half an hour has passed, and still nothing has been found.
There is nothing ahead of here, but Diya, who the two of them watched coming in, has now mysteriously disappeared.
"Is there a place to hide?" Andy glanced around, and some unknown species of mutated plants were growing heavily underground, apparently due to the radiation emitted by the radiation sources here.
"I really don't know, I've never been down here for long..... Because according to the seniors, that would produce terrible things. Eve bit her lip nervously, her heart in a mess.
"But since she came down with some kind of purpose, we have to figure this out, can that pet of yours find out something?" Xiao Hei didn't seem to be able to find anything for a while, but Andy's attention at the moment couldn't help but return to the previous depression, where the black humanoid shadow that gradually emerged seemed to have some changes.
It's hard to describe what had changed, and Andy felt a slight difference in the shadow's posture.
"Something is wrong." Andy walked over to the depression, where the surface of the stone had become white and harder after erosion.
He reached out and brought the light of the Pip-Boy closer to the shadow, and Andy's pupils shrank under the bright light.
Something resembling a shriveled eyeball appeared on the shadow's body, and it trembled slightly from the sting of the light..... Andy withdrew his arm slightly, and as the light moved away from the ore, the shadow suddenly blurred again.
"What's in there is alive?" Eve also noticed the scene just now, and was a little shocked at the moment.
"How is it possible.... It won't be long before the dead slaves will be completely melted away by these stones, and there will be nothing left, this..."A sharp voice came, and the two turned to look, Xiao Hei was standing upright in a place where mutated plants were luxuriant, watching the two of them scream, and the mutated plants there looked like a mass of black rags, tangled with each other.
Andy left the man in the stone who didn't know whether he was alive or dead and ran to Xiao Hei's side, and after using a knife to pry open the mutant plant, sure enough, there was a narrow stone crack behind him.
It's about the height and width of enough for a person to enter, and the crevice is overgrown with those dirty black mutant plants, and in general, even if someone stumbles upon it, they won't even think to try to go in and have a look.
"Will she be here?" Andy pointed to the depths of the crevice.
"There's no other possibility..... I've never heard anyone say that there is such a place here. Eve was about to go in first, but was stopped by Andy.
"I'd better go ahead." He lifted the beep-beep boy on his arm and leaned sideways into the gap, the filthy mutated plants rubbing against his whole body along the way, which was not very pleasant, and several times Andy wanted to get out of here immediately.
When he finally got out of the cramped place, he saw a new man-made space appear in front of him.
Everywhere there are metal plates that have been welded together, about a meter long and wide, and are evenly fixed to the top and bottom, left and right.
Ahead is a straight hallway, with several rooms at the end appearing, one of which appears to be lit.
Eve barely managed to get out of the crack, and as soon as she came out, she began to frantically shake her hair, and it seemed that she couldn't stand the fact that there were so many things stuck in her hair.
Andy pressed down on her with his palm a few times to signal her to whisper, and he noticed that the Pip-Boy's built-in Geiger counter had quieted down, a discovery that led him to believe that the black metal plate laid here was probably lead or some other protective item that would shield her from radiation.
The two of them walked lightly towards the door at the end of the hallway, where they passed a black iron door with a square opening, which was completely open.
Andy tilted his arm slightly, and through the bright light, the room was filled with rows of iron cabinets and things like that lay across the floor.
Blackie had already reached the lighted door, arched himself and let out a low roar. Drawing his weapon and pushing the side of his arm, the door opened.
A bright candle was shining on a table in the middle of the room, on which there was some food, but none of it had been eaten.
A man in a black robe trimmed with silver was lying motionless on the table, while across from him sat a thin man with hair like a chicken's nest.
"Oops.... Who's here? The head of the chicken nest grinned and showed a mouthful of yellow teeth. Eve stepped forward and asked loudly.
"Who are you? That's Deya? What did you do to her? The head of the chicken nest laughed, and got up from the chair and walked to the wall behind him, and then they noticed that on the wall behind the head of the chicken nest hung a large drawing, on which a drawing was outlined in simple black lines.
The content seems to be a detailed explanation of the structure of the buildings and the terrain, and there are many professional-looking mapping tools on the side.
"My mission has been accomplished, and this is the last step." He raised his hand, and the flames scorched the drawing, and immediately began to burn.
In the light of the flames, the man did not respond to Eve's question, only kept laughing strangely.
"I'm afraid I'm already crazy, do it!" Andy didn't waste any more time, he pulled out the python and was about to shoot, and the head of the hen's nest threw the menorah at him.
Under the threat of the flames, he had no choice but to raise his leg and kick the candlestick that was about to fly to his face, and then fired several shots in front of him in the darkness of this moment.
The deafening sound of gunfire echoed through the narrow space, and Eve was completely unprepared, and was so frightened that she crouched on the ground with her head in her hands.
The light of the Pip-Boy took over the extinguished candle, and Andy, whose eyes had adapted to the change in light, looked left and right only to find that the man was nowhere to be seen.
"What about people?" Andy's gaze swept across the black metal plate that had been pierced through a few holes, and suddenly he looked up sharply, and immediately saw a broken chandelier shelf hidden in the darkness above the room.
A pair of terrible eyes were looking at Andy from above, and the moment the two looked at each other, the man jumped down from above with a cold light in his hand.
Xiao Hei roared and pounced on the side and slightly knocked the head of the chicken nest open. At the last moment, Andy turned around and barely dodged the cold light, and after the chicken nest head hit the ground, he kicked Xiao Hei away, took out a pistol and prepared to fire at Andy.
A cloud of white powder was suddenly thrown into the face of the head of the chicken nest, choking him and coughing, and the gun in his hand lost its accuracy.
The scimitar was slashed from above, and Eve's movements were swift as if she was about to chop off the head of the chicken nest, but the opponent reacted quickly enough to kick her away with a vicious flying kick.
Andy lifted the rhinoceros and shot the python together, but the head of the chicken nest was as sensitive as a monkey, and after rolling left and right for two times, he deceived himself, and after his head was crooked, he reached out and grabbed the barrel of the rhinoceros and forcibly turned the shot to let Andy shoot the air, and then raised his knee and knocked the python away.
The two immediately began hand-to-hand combat, and in the chaotic combination of fists and kicks, neither of them could take advantage of anything for a while.
After a moment of grappling, a fierce jab from the head of the chicken nest was blocked by Andy raising his arm, and the next moment the high leg side kick of the head of the chicken nest was aimed at Andy's waist, and the powerful force made Andy breathe.
When the other party wanted to continue to suppress, Andy suddenly moved amazingly fast, and the three punches suddenly hit the head of the chicken nest in the face almost in a line.
He was knocked out and slammed into the wall, and as soon as he got up, he saw Andy already standing in front of him, and another series of punches with afterimages were struck.
This set of combination punches is not only amazingly fast but also extremely accurate, each punch is almost in the same place, although the chicken nest head is very strong in the ability to resist blows, but it can not withstand the destruction of this pile driver.
He was beaten and nosebleeds, and his feet slipped and fell to his knees. Andy breathed a sigh of relief, although the consumption of continuous use of V mode after Diana's adjustment was not as exaggerated as before, it would also make him consume his physical strength greatly, so he would not use this trick easily.
"Surrender, you're done." Eve got up from the ground, limped to Dya's side, and when she lifted her face, she let out an exclamation, for the daughter of Hekate was now bruised and had a clear strangulation mark on her neck.
"You.... You actually killed her?! Her tears gushed out, and she was so angry that she lost her mind, and pulled out a flying knife and grabbed it in her hand and stabbed it at the head of the chicken nest kneeling on the ground, but unexpectedly, the man suddenly raised his head and smiled weirdly, and suddenly burst out, snatching the knife from Eve's hand and preparing to hold her hostage.
At this moment, Andy, who couldn't stop it, could only let out a sigh, and then he suddenly disappeared in place.
With a dull thud, Andy's fist and the head of the chicken coop were connected in a straight line with the metal wall behind him, and the head under the unkempt hair had been twisted and deformed by the terrible force, and the blood of Bo Bo was flowing down the wall, and when Andy withdrew his fist, the face had become a bloody pit.
Eve didn't even realize what was happening, and froze there. In the dark room, there were two more corpses that were miserable in the blink of an eye.
"Well, at least now it's over, Eve.... You should be right away—" Before Andy could finish speaking, a strange footstep sounded in the hallway behind the door, and it sounded like it was approaching.
He jerked around and lifted the beep-boy to illuminate the darkness.
“..........”