Chapter 53: Under the Moon in the Cathedral
Standing back in the Denver Police Department's underground base, Andy felt that everything he had not seen for a long time was under control, the CCTV of the whole dog town was connected to the surveillance system here, and according to the handyman, there were many other kinds of detectors that were still in normal working order, and these devices provided it with a steady stream of perfect round-the-clock information acquisition capabilities.
However, after explaining the matter to the robot handyman in charge here, it claimed that it needed some time to query the data, and now it has been a full half an hour, and Andy, who feels bored, dug out a pre-war comic book in a desk drawer and then began to read, the name of the comic is "Monster in Silver", and the content looks like the kind of classic superhero comics, in which the protagonist acts as a messenger of justice outside the world who walks alone in the night to carry out justice.
"I seem to have found a trace of the prisoner, Sheriff!" The handyman waved his mechanical arm, and the monitor behind it began to play several videos.
Beatrice scratched her head and couldn't figure out everything around her.
"Why.... Can you see ..... There are no windows...."Mark shook his head, not wanting to explain anything to science to this super mutant, as previous experience had amply proven that this guy's brain was not big enough to comprehend anything slightly more complicated.
He looked at the nearly intact automated site, believing that only minor improvements were needed to connect the system's uplink to more external nodes, and to more automated security facilities..... The monitor started playing footage after a snowflake, and it looked like it was recorded at night, and the way the infrared camera works causes the whole picture to glow a strange green, but the picture is still relatively clear.
On the roof of a dilapidated building, a man in a black robe stood alone motionless, the wind whistling at the hem of his robe, and soon after he suddenly jumped out of sight.
Andy put down the comic book he had read and stared at the monitor without blinking, and the style of this guy in the video is really unforgettable.
"Anything else?" The handyman stretched out his mechanical arm to operate on the console for a while.
"After a cursory inquiry, a total of 24 suspected related records were found, and the clearer ones are 1782 in addition to No. 1672, which will be played for you." There was another snowflake on the monitor, and then a new image appeared, and in an awkward position of the closed-circuit camera, a figure suddenly appeared in the corner, a staggering figure, which kept looking behind him as it ran, as if it was being chased by some dangerous creature.
Soon after, the man ran into an alley and left the surveillance footage, but it was followed by a black shadow with a very fast speed, and after about five or six minutes, the black shadow turned back from the alley, but the strange thing was that the black shadow stretched out its extremely slender hands and feet and began to climb directly from the outer wall of the building, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Andy frowned and replayed the two videos several times, this mysterious guy seemed to have quite amazing mobility, chasing prey as fast as a gust of wind, and also had the ability to maneuver as light as an insect.
His height was about two meters, and although his body was wrapped in the wide black robe, he could see that he was extremely thin, as well as the limbs..... Although it is only a glimpse, it is a little scary.
Beatrice and Mark also walked up behind him to watch. After reading it, the two of them expressed their own opinions.
"Black.... Will fly .... Can climb ..... Little bugs.... Ha ha. ”
"It's really weird, it is said that under certain conditions, radiation will cause a small number of people to produce mutations that seriously change their bodies, even more terrifying and serious than ghouls, could this monster be born in the same way? We have to be careful and prepare well before we encounter him, otherwise we don't know what will happen. Andy asked the handyman to stop playing.
"Can you locate this guy's current position? Or at least narrow down your search? We must find him, he is a vicious murderer, and he must be punished by law! When the handyman heard this, he immediately became excited, and the three mechanical eyes seemed to be shining brightly.
"I see, I understand Mr. Sheriff, please rest assured that I will handle this matter, I promise that I can use the big data consequential equation operation in the data center to deduce the possible hiding place of the criminals now, and after that, if necessary, be sure to allow the activation of three cRb-S to provide support!" Andy picked up the gentleman's hat on the table and put it on his head and stood up, the beep boy had already received the location information from the handyman, and the possible location was limited to a small circle, and the guy was probably somewhere there.
"Understand, you send one over to assist first, and I will contact you when I need to." Leaving the police station's underground base, the three immediately walked towards the area marked on the Pip-Boy's map, and a cRb-S giant mechanical dog that was activated in the middle walked out of the hangar of the police station's underground base, accompanying the three of them.
Mark, who was fascinated by the appearance of this pre-war mechanical creature with its beautiful industrial appearance, looked at the cRb-S from time to time and marveled at the ingenious design of some of the parts.
"Acme's creations are always so extraordinary, elegant and brutal, so different from the robots of General Atomics International and Rocco Industries.... But the problem is that the manufacturing cost of these guys is too high, so the price is not close to the people, and it is impossible for ordinary people to buy it for their own use, and they cannot compete with Rocco and General Atomics for the urban civilian market on the east and west coasts of the SA, but it is said that in the Midwestern countryside, their large agricultural robots also sold well back then. Beatrice waved the piece of dog meat in her hand towards cRb-S.
"Hey! Puppy! Give you dog meat to eat, haha! ”............................ When the three of them arrived at the marked location, the sun had already set, and darkness began to fall quickly in the dog town, and the wild dogs outside the city began to howl one after another, which made people shudder to hear.
A rusty car is still embedded in the second floor of a nearby building, and no one knows how the car took off flat, perhaps related to the scene of a serial car collision left next to it, and the driver in the cab of the car is still sitting there steadily, even if it has been reduced to bones.
Andy looked at the beep-beep boy as he walked, a multi-storey spire building not far away was probably the destination, it should be a pre-war church, yes, although almost no one in the wasteland now believes in those ancient religions, but looking at the huge remains of the building is still shocking.
"High-risk hostile targets are detected and suppression is carried out." The cRb-S suddenly turned on its lights, and after a brief siren fired, the high-pressure water cannon behind it burst into fire, a stream of water strong enough to pierce the building's exterior walls and sweep diagonally upward, destroying many crumbling windows along the way.
The two white fierce water jets were almost two water jets, accompanied by the cRb-S's agile forward rush leaving a horizontal trace of destruction on the dilapidated building, Andy looked at it and silently sweated for the dissidents in Denver back then.
Take it directly to the hospital or crematorium. Large chunks of construction debris fell from mid-air and shattered when they hit the ground.
Mark stared up at the location of the cRb-S attack, and sure enough, at the end of the water cannon sweeping, a black shadow quickly dodged downward, and after leaping, it briefly soared in the air like a bat with outstretched wings, flying directly to the building across the street.
"It's that guy!" As he spoke, the black shadow fell lightly on the roof of the scrapped car on the second floor, and the tall and thin strange existence in black robes looked down at several people silently, and under the darkness, this gaze was almost suffocating.
Andy and the unknown being had just looked at each other for a second, when the cRb-S suddenly opened the launch slot behind it, and after a few thuds, the tear gas canister was ejected, and the thick white smoke spread from the height, and the guy disappeared again after the smoke had cleared.
Andy Mark, wearing a gas mask, came out of the smoke from the tear gas, and Beatrice coughed with her big hand waving her hand, constantly complaining about the smelly stuff and stuff, and she didn't see any tears.
"Relocate the target location." Andy was a little speechless as he crossed his waist and looked at the suddenly reduced visibility around him, which was simply helping to set off smoke grenades on the opposite side.
"Roger, online, complete location acquisition..... The repositioning is complete. cRb-S's head turned a few times from side to side, and then he spotted a target and rushed forward, Andy and the others followed, and it was certain that the direction was the cathedral that the others had seen before.
"You're on the outside." Andy gave instructions to cRb-S and rushed into the crumbling old building with Mark and Beatrice.
"Roger, this unit is on standby." cRb-S stopped on the outside of the building, watching as the trio forcibly kicked open the rusted church door and broke into it, the guy who was able to fly through the wall and must have escaped through the windows of the upper floors.
Andy's vision was blurred by the dust flying up from the house, the interior of the building was covered with red dust, and a huge hole seemed to have appeared in the roof, causing the wind and sand to blow into it.
After turning on the V mode, he was surprised to see their target standing high up, the guy standing motionless on a headless statue without making a sound, and his whole body was illuminated by the moonlight coming in from outside.
He had a pair of eerie slanted eyes, and his whole body was wrapped in a black robe except for his head, which was quite eye-catching, his head was not half hairy, and his skin was as pale as paper, such a head was a light bulb in the moonlight.
At this moment, his eyes were fixed on the three men who had come to the door below, and after a long silence a terrible smile suddenly appeared on his face, and among the exposed teeth were several sharp canines of astonishing length.
"Hehehehehehe...."