Chapter 70: What is a human being?

There was a clicking sound from the side, and Andy saw that it was Mark, whose hair was completely wet with sewage and stuck to the top of his head, holding an assault rifle and shooting at the indescribably huge humanoid monster in front of him.

The 5.56mm bullet pulled a line on the pitch-black skin, and some black-red blood spilled out, but it wasn't much, and almost all the wounds were coagulated and stopped bleeding in the blink of an eye, and then quickly began to heal.

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The giant who "played" Beatrice glanced sideways at Mark, and those eyes seemed to reveal contempt and arrogance, and it was unmoved, and being strafed by an assault rifle was as innocuous to it as if it had been bitten by a mosquito.

Seeing that his attack was ignored, Mark threw his assault rifle into the water, pulled out his plasma pistol, and then motioned for Andy to attack with him.

Andy understood what he meant, so the two of them each raised their energy weapons and fired a salvo at the giant in front of them, the red laser and green plasma slashed through the air and hit the target.

The laser burned holes in the dark skin, and the plasma melted off one of the giant's shorter arms.

The giant finally caught his attention this time, and threw Beatrice out, its clawed arms on its upper body making it look imposing, and the expression of its jawless face looked naturally serious and cold, and now it looked very depressed and terrifying.

"Kick the leg!" Mark let out a low cry and pulled the trigger of the plasma pistol, and Andy hurriedly did so, and the two of them used all their power to attack the desperate enemy.

The plasma from Mark's plasma pistol flew very slowly, and the monster was as fast as a whirlwind when it moved, easily dodging the green plasma.

However, it had to stop for a moment and sink into a hitstun as Andy's attacks hit a high rate, and the high-speed flying bullets and lasers combined with the V-mode aiming function caused the giant to be hit one after another in the process of rapid movement, and the joint of one leg was damaged.

Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Mark shot at the top of its head, and several shots of plasma successfully hit the monster's head, burning several of its eyes, but just as he was about to continue refilling, there was a hollow click from the weapon in his hand.

"....." Mark looked down and checked, and sure enough, the ammunition was empty.

"No bullets!" Andy tosses the N99 to Mark and continues to shoot lasers with the self-charging pistol, but after a few shots, the pistol also hears a warning sound, and after all the energy reserves are consumed, the pistol takes a certain amount of time to complete self-charging.

"Me too... That's good. Putting away the self-charging pistol, Andy put on the Hercules Power Fist, but as soon as he put on the Pip-Boy, a prompt popped up.

"The internal energy reserve is less than 27%, it is recommended to find a high energy source to quickly recharge the gloves, if the conditions cannot be met, the time required to complete the self-charging is: 120 hours." Before Andy could complain about it, the giant had already moved again, and it seemed that the part of its leg that had been shot by Andy had healed in a blink of an eye.

Mark used his skillful marksmanship to continue firing with the N99 pistol in an attempt to contain the giant's movements, but without the blessing of V-mode, it was difficult for him to deal effective damage to monsters that were moving at a strange speed for a distance from time to time.

The giant approached Mark at a near-teleportation speed, grabbed a heavy lab table, and threw it at Mark.

The blow was so shocking that when the metal lab table, which was about two meters wide and three meters long, spun around and flew towards Mark, he had nowhere to escape, and at the critical moment he could only cross his arms in front of him, and then he was smashed out of the table without accident, and the waves that set off drowned everything that followed.

"Mark!" Andy shouted, but there was no way to save him immediately, because the giant had already arrived in front of Andy after throwing off the table.

A thick black arm swept across, and the slender nails were as sharp as razors, and once they were caught, the steel-clad robot would be torn open and strewn with parts and oil all over the ground.

With a bang, Andy was knocked out of the way, and the giant looked at his arm, as if he was a little dissatisfied with the effect, so he threw himself forward into the water, and swam quickly in the direction of Andy's flight like a torpedo.

But before it could do it, Beatrice had already run up with a super-powered hammer, and she stopped where the giant had to go, and slammed the hammer down, sending the water on the ground a splash.

"You.... Stinky fish! She slowly lifted the Super Power Hammer, but there was nothing underneath.

A huge figure appeared silently behind her, multiple arms grabbed the super mutant from behind, the claws pierced her thick skin, she screamed and was slowly lifted into the air, as long as the giant behind her added strength, this super mutant would probably be torn apart by the claws.

"Ahh - Pain! - Beatrice struggled weakly, and the super power hammer in her hand slipped and sank into the water.

The giant stared at Beatrice as she was lifted, her pierced body dripping blood from its skin before vanishing.

"Grunt...... "Gurr" made strange noises from its black-red tentacle mouth, and several of its shorter arms on its upper body bent and stretched out, groping towards Beatrice's heart.

"Oooo - "A figure suddenly leaped out of the stagnant water, and then moved to the giant's side like lightning, arching one leg forward and the other leg back, gathering all the strength of his body into his right fist, and slamming a heavy blow.

Along with this punch, there was also a powerful energy blast gushing out from the boxing gloves, and the giant didn't react at all, and was directly blown away by a punch, and the arms that were grabbing Beatrice were broken together.

Andy stood still in the same position as he had just swung his fist, the stagnant water around him instantly evaporated and dissipated due to the high-energy impact, and then the stagnant water from other places poured in from all directions to fill the hole that was exposed to the ground.

The Hermes battle armor on his body has been seriously damaged because of the claw just now, and I am afraid that he will have to return to the factory for repair later..... Beatrice lost her grip and struggled to her feet from the ground, pulling out the arms that had been inserted into her body little by little.

Andy saw that there were several arms that almost wanted to disembowel this super mutant, but she didn't seem to be affected too much and could still stand up, which was amazingly alive.

"Are you alright?" Beatrice took one of her arms and watched as she suddenly drooled.

"I want to.... Eat meat..."Her expression began to become trance-like, first being sucked by the giant leech, then nearly being torn apart, the super mutant was recovering from the wounds all over her body, but it took a lot of energy to replenish, in other words, she needed to eat, a lot of food.

Once this appetite is not satisfied, the super mutants will descend into a beastly madness, and all reason will be withdrawn from their minds.

As if she had lost interest in everything else, Beatrice began to chew and swallow the arms that had fallen off the giant's body.

Seeing that there was no way to dissuade Beatrice from consuming those unknown ingredients in this state, Andy simply didn't stop it, what he was more concerned about at the moment was whether the giant had died under this deadly sneak attack that relied on the V mode lightning raid mode, if it was those common monsters, he was confident that this punch would not only kill the enemy, but even the scum would be gone.

But what about this guy? A massive, mutilated body slowly rose from the water, more than half of its body missing, but the rest was still enough to support its movements, though it looked less majestic than it had been, and more like a discarded puppet found in a garbage heap.

The whole body was in tatters, the flesh was gone, the skull was still half shattered, and in the remaining eye, the giant no longer showed the sadistic and contemptuous feelings of the past, but was replaced by terrible resentment and anger.

There were no more black-red tentacles left on its mouth, and they all stood up one after another. Andy knew what the guy was going to do at a glance, but even if he drank a few bottles of nursery solvent to recover his injuries and strength while Beatrice was tormented, he couldn't punch fast enough to interrupt the giant's imminent shockwave.

It was another familiar terrible roar that seemed to be able to shatter people's souls in resonance, Andy didn't have time to think about it, only felt that his eyes were black and his body flew upside down, and he lost consciousness again.

By the time he was pulled out of the water, everything seemed to have returned to peace. The embarrassed Mark still had congealed blood stains on his face, his white lab coat had become strips of rags, and his shirt was full of holes, revealing strange silver-gray underwear.

"Wake up!" Andy shook his head, felt water coming out of his ears, and felt his nose itch again, first sneezed, and then suddenly began to vomit, spitting out a large mouthful of cloudy green sewage.

"Ahem, ahemโ€”" He coughed violently, and looked up to see Beatrice screaming involuntarily as she lay on the giant's mutilated corpse and devoured it, her face shivering to look at.

"What's wrong with her?" Andy looked at Mark, and Mark, whose glasses were missing, glanced at Beatrice, and there was a slight cold light in his eyes.

"It's nothing more than being controlled by the irrepressible dirty instincts of super mutants, who are dangerous beasts in their bones, and the kitchens they built when they gathered.... You probably haven't seen it with your own eyes, it's a horrible sight of bones that have been skinned and eaten everywhere. Mark said, holding up a syringe gun from nowhere, the liquid ammunition filled with it glowing green.

"I don't know what the flesh of the dead guy will do if she eats it, and maybe it will make her something similar to the monster, and we don't even know if she will come to her senses after eating the monster's corpse. Maybe she still hasn't eaten enough after that, and then wants to eat the two of us plus food, it's better to take this opportunity to get to know her directly, anyway, no one in Hoover Dam will care what happens to this super mutant in the end. He raised the syringe gun in his hand and was about to fire, but was stopped by Andy.

"Where are you from?" Andy stared at the syringe gun, never seeing Mark use it.

"I found it in a corner of this laboratory before, and they must have a plan to deal with the loss of control of the test subjects and mutated creatures, and this thing is a special weapon to quickly destroy the FEV mutant monsters." After a brief explanation, he was about to raise his gun again, but this time he was still thwarted by Andy.

"Don't shoot!" Mark sighed, a little hysterical.

"Why?! Don't think that creature is honest, if she's wandering in the wild and feeling hungry, she'll eat everything she can catch, including humans! Even especially humans! She's a super mutant! It is a monster born from the deformed hands of distorted science and technology before the war! The best way to deal with it is to free the soul in her body that has completely forgotten who she is! It won't take much effort, as long as this shot hits her, everything will be over in no time, you get out of the way! Andy still disagreed with him shooting.

"Mark! Beatrice is already our friend, we should give her a chance as much as possible, if she eats the corpse and still doesn't come to her senses, it's not too late to shoot, even if she's a super mutant as you said, but at least she's a super mutant who can get along with other people. Mark gritted his teeth, closed his eyes and calmed down for a while, and finally put down the syringe gun in his hand, only to notice that Mark's left arm was hanging weakly to the side.

"Are you hurt? I'll give you the treatment needle. Mark refused, pulled out a super needle from his pocket, and after a brief period of pain, his injury began to heal quickly, but the arm still didn't seem to heal so easily.

Mark, who slowly stood up, looked at Beatrice, who was still swallowing, and his face was still hard to hide his disgust, Andy didn't want him to kill again, so he had to continue to persuade him.

"Don't do that, I know that super mutants used to pose a huge threat to the whole of New California, but now that those things are in the past, you may have your own reasons to continue to be prejudiced against them, but Beatrice is not bad by nature, she is still willing to make friends with humans." Mark shook his head with a grimace.

"Prejudice...? Maybe I just can't be true friends with dirty mutants. Andy also felt a little angry in his heart when he heard this, and couldn't help but ask.

"How do you define who is what you call a filthy mutant? There are also a lot of people in the wasteland who look exactly like humans, but they do ten thousand times more terrible things than she did all day long, they rob, rape, massacre, and eat people in droves, but they don't have green skin, will they also be counted as dirty mutants by you? If you think they are, then do you think I'm what you call a 'dirty mutant'? Mark turned his head to look at Andy, and there was a chill in his eyes that was undisguised to Andy, something he had never felt in anyone he'd ever felt before, not even the bloody marauders or the psychopathic madmen with twisted minds.

The momentum that seeped out was as merciless as a cold wind, like the reflection of a cold slaughtering machine under the moon at midnight.

This light is so pure, there is simply no impurity, and there is only pure condescending selfless murderous aura.

After a moment, Mark, who suddenly realized that he had lost his temper, turned his head away.

"I'm sorry....." he looked down at his own twisted reflection on the muddy and dirty water, which loomed as the water rippled.

"Everything here is so sick to my stomach."