Chapter 15: No Peeping
"So, we're going to do something crazy next?" Battery asked in his heavily accented lingua franca.
The Atomic Humvee drove four men south, with Andy planning to find an opportunity to infiltrate the hive and plant bombs, while the others drove the mutated insects to keep them out of the nest temporarily.
"It's not particularly dangerous for you, and even if those bugs are fast enough to catch up with this car, they won't be a threat to you in the car.... Just be careful. Andy spun the wheel around to avoid a big hole.
"Otto, you know how to drive, right?" The old ghoul nodded confidently.
"Of course.... Yes, the last time I drove was around the same time, when did I come, it seems like decades ago. Andy was a little speechless as he asked the other two.
"Battery, Alexandra, will you two be?" Alexandra bluntly said that she wouldn't open the iron box, and Battery happily said that he had read many books on how to drive a car, and although he had never practiced it, he really wanted to try it.
Andy sighed, it seems that he still has to count on Otto, after all, he has driving experience, although I don't know what era of driving experience.
After about ten minutes of driving, they saw the railroad tracks on the ground, and they were in good shape. After driving along the railroad tracks for another five minutes, a building appeared in the distance.
It is a large concrete building, slightly smaller than the water plant in Jericho Town, but the damage is much worse than the water plant, part of the roof has collapsed, and part of the wall is also severely cracked.
They stopped near the long-abandoned dusty platform, and saw a huge fountain building at the entrance of the station building, large enough to hold an entire atomic Humvee.
Half of the fountain is broken, but the other half still shows its former beauty, like a swirling splash of water frozen in mid-air, full of agility and change, although its material is white marble.
Of course, the original pool has long since dried up, and it is hard to imagine what it will be like when the water spews out of it again.
The entrance to the station building is not far behind the fountain.
"Let's talk about the plan again...."Andy and the other three went through the whole story in detail, and after several of them said that they had heard and remembered everything, Andy got out of the car alone with explosives and transferred control of the Atomic Humvee to Otto.
Before leaving, Alexandra handed him a bottle.
"It's the antidote." She told the important thing.
"Take it immediately as soon as you get poisoned, but first of all, I can't guarantee the efficacy, and secondly, this thing doesn't mean that you can be immune to toxins for a period of time after taking it, at most it just relieves your poisoning reaction." Andy puts away the antidote and jumps out of the car, and the Atomic Humvee drives away, and Andy takes out the bomb that Sheriff O'Connor gave him earlier.
The mud mass in his hand looks harmless to humans and animals, but according to the Pip-Boy's information notes, this thing seems to be a strange thing called C6 explosive, which is not only very powerful in explosion, but also absolutely safe, and only explodes due to the impact when the detonator inserted into it is triggered.
In addition, the beep boy also told him that this thing is edible, and it will not feel anything after being improved, of course, there is no nutrition, and it will only be smoothly excreted after providing a little satiety, and it can also be used as fuel for cooking if necessary, which is really versatile.
"Hell, who's going to eat this thing or cook with it....", whispering a whisper, Andy continued to crouch behind a piece of building debris, as they had agreed, Otto would drive the Atomic Humvee in the other direction of the station building, and then Alexandra and the battery would use their weapons to provoke the mutant wasps inside; If all goes well, the irascible creatures will immediately swarm out, and Otto will only need to fight and run to lure most of the bugs away, giving Andy a chance to enter the hive.
So Andy is here right now, waiting for the gunshots. After a while, the sound of shotguns and .50 machine guns on board came from the east, and after a while, the guns gradually faded away.
Andy observed for a moment before sprinting towards the station building, seeing shriveled fragments of corpses discarded by mutant wasps outside their nests.
He had just walked around the building for a short time when suddenly three or four mutant wasps the size of wild dogs flew towards him, just as the deputy sheriff had described, they had yellow carapaces and some spikes, and the stings on their tails looked as fierce as they could directly pierce people, and the buzzing sound they made when flying was disturbing.
"Bang bang—" The two pistols fired in quick succession, the bullets piercing the bugs' exoskeletons, sending them to the ground, swinging their arthropods frantically in circles.
Unexpectedly, this shot really stabbed the honeycomb, and there was a terrifying buzz up and down for a while.
Andy suddenly chuckled in his heart, seeing that the number of mutant wasps that were lured away was far lower than expected, there were still quite a lot of bugs in the station building, he could only turn his head and escape, in the dark corridor of the station building, those mutant wasps poked their heads out of the corners and crevices everywhere, and then angrily stretched out their bee stings and flew towards Andy quickly.
"Buzz ————" uses V mode to fight back while running, but his physical strength is quickly consumed in this state, even if he drinks a few bottles of solvent left to replenish his physical strength in a hurry, there is no way to maintain it all the time, in case he accidentally runs out of physical strength, he will be chased and attacked by those mutant insects, and when the time comes, he will either be bitten to death or poisoned.
Just then there was another buzz in front of them, and the fastest ones had already burrowed into the station building, these were real giant wasps, each of them the size of half a two-headed cow, and the noise they made during flight was deafening.
Now Andy understands that those who were led away are adult individuals, and those he met before seem to be juveniles.
At the last moment, he had to put on the Hercules Power Fist, and since the last time he ran out of energy in the secret Lab 1c under the Hoover Dam, the weapon has been very slow to recharge itself, and Andy doesn't know where to find its so-called high-efficiency charging device, which has only been charged by about 30% until now.
But he couldn't care less, and now he could only swing his fist in front of him. A violent blast of energy rushed out of the station building, sending the mutated wasps who had received pheromone signals and hurried back.
Andy ran out in disarray, the impact of Hercules' fist could not pose a threat to the rear, and after throwing a punch with all his strength in the front, he could not continue to use it in the short term because of the exhaustion of energy, and he had to use a pistol attack to get rid of the mutant wasp chasing from the rear, and was stung a few times in the process due to chaos.
Although the back were all larvae, the bee stings of those guys still easily pierced the trench coat, Andy did not have any armor on his body at the moment, and the bee venom was directly injected into his body, and suddenly a severe feeling of dizziness enveloped him, and the world in front of him became bizarre and colorful, followed by retching and intense pain.
Pouring the antidote given by Alexandra in one gulp, and relying on his amazing stamina, he ran out of the station building to escape the pursuit of those mutant wasps.
"Whew.... ......"Andy staggered along, feeling like the whole world was spinning like crazy, and there were strange black shadows swaying like crazy everywhere.
He knew that he had made a big deal this time, not only did he almost die in the hive, but he couldn't find a chance to put the bomb in the right place, and now he didn't know how long he could stay awake.
Thinking about it, a feeling of powerlessness suddenly hits, Andy stumbles on his left foot and falls to the ground on his right foot, and at the last second before he closes his eyes, he only sees a huge mutant wasp crawling towards him on the ground.
I don't know how long he was in the dark, he suddenly felt what he saw in front of him, this feeling was very subtle, as if you can occasionally see something like a hallucination after closing your eyes, exists and does not exist, he tried to find something that could be distinguished by a star, and finally found a bright spot.
The bright spots are getting bigger and bigger, and I just feel as if I have passed through something. This time, he felt that the world was much clearer, and the universe seemed to be vast, with countless stars twinkling in the distance, and magnificent nebulae exuding indescribable brilliance.
Then he saw ...... Old Fan playing cards? Yes, as strange as it sounds, a Beanie-eyed villain who seems to be Old Fan is sitting on either side of a table in the void with some playing cards on the table with another guy who looks a little like him.
Andy tried to make a sound, but was unsuccessful, there was absolute silence around him, he couldn't hear anything and couldn't make anything.
Just when he thought he was going to keep looking like this, Lao Fan and his playmate suddenly took out sunglasses from their pockets and put them on their faces, and then looked in one direction together, Andy's eyes were also attracted, but there was only a deep darkness there.
As he thought so, the stars shone from the darkness, and then more and more, flickering in patches, and the stars began to move slowly as if they were in some regular arrangement.
Andy subconsciously wanted to look at the moving stars to find their movements, but the movement of the stars seemed to be irregular, and ..... More and more strange colors are floating among the stars, some of which Andy doesn't even know how to describe, his previous knowledge of colors can't be placed on these colors, they seem to be colors that don't belong to this world, so they are beyond Andy's cognition.
When Andy subconsciously tried to use
"Blue",
When words like "yellow" are used to describe them, the next second they feel that these descriptions are completely wrong. As if the inkwell had been overturned in the void, the colors fused with each other and became more and more brilliant, Andy began to feel that the colors were reflected directly in his mind, he felt that he could not breathe and began to gag, as if his brain had been filled with too much sewage, and then even began to have auditory hallucinations, which were as disgusting as countless people muttering to themselves quickly.
He wanted to scream, he wanted to move, but he couldn't feel his hands or feet, and as soon as he let out his shout, it was as if he had melted into the dark ether without a vibration.
As the auditory hallucinations intensified, the images of the stars seemed to take on a new look, and in Andy's eyes, he suddenly realized what this irregular cluster of stars was.
It was like a huge face..... At that moment, there was a sound in Andy's body like a glass bottle shattering on the ground, but he didn't understand why, only a deep confusion.
The distracting whispers gradually ceased to be noise, as if some being was expounding a great truth, and the illusion distorted his vision, as countless stars burst one by one, and the furious energy poured out in all directions, causing more indescribable and incomprehensible chain reactions, as if everything was never-ending, as if it was going to stop in the next second.
The majestic voice sounded directly in Andy's heart with a certain soul-chilling resonance.
"In the midst of all the great divisions, ten trillion trillion worlds gush out, transforming billions of civilizations, fire and light, the vastness of creating all insignificance, the dazzling glory, and the deafening roar.... From the ancient times, back to the roots, the great chaos gives birth to everything, is for everything to return to the great chaos, a mortal body can also incarnate a hundred thousand stars, beyond all suffering, return to the end of fate.... Pray to me that I will come down and dedicate your rotting and filthy flesh as a vessel of greatness—come, see my glory along this light, and I will disintegrate every particle of your body, and forge this meaningless and fleeting fragile form in light, come... Witness the truth, until the day of division, and you will become a light that will shine on all things in the universe and return to ..... The Great Schism!! "The invisible flame seemed to be violently ignited with these words, and the light of those stars was getting brighter and brighter.
Andy only felt suffocated, the light of the stars burned him like a brand, and it also made him feel that some kind of strange change was taking place, as if his whole body was expanding inside and out, and something was about to erupt..... A hand suddenly grabbed him by the shoulder, pulling him away from the light.
At the last moment, Andy saw a small man in blue standing in front of the unspeakable presence and outstretched his hand, as if he had done something, and as if he had done nothing.
I don't know if it's a hallucination again, but a huge flickering white vertical bar appears in the void for a moment, and then disappears as if it never existed.
Countless stars began to go out one by one. The hand thrust, and before Andy could see who it was, he felt something through again, and then lost consciousness again.
"Hey, he seems to be awake." A hoarse voice came from not far away, and as soon as you heard it, you knew it was Otto's voice.
A hand roughly opened Andy's eyes, and then a strong light pierced in.
"Oh!" He turned off the flashlight and rubbed his eyes and sat up, seeing that it was his companions, who were now in the Atomic Humvee.
Alexandra put away her flashlight and rubbed her slapping hand.
"You ungrateful bastard, if I hadn't beaten that bug to death, you would have been gnawed all over by now." Andy wiped the sweat from his forehead and gradually calmed down.
"You saved me? Thank you..."Alexandra snorted disdainfully, pointing to the empty syringes that had been thrown in the corner.
"Your condition was not very good at the time, there is no way, to save your life, it is too late for the treatment needles, fortunately I still have some medicines, these are to be counted separately bottle caps." Andy turned his head to see the injected syringes and madness, the small red plastic gas canister, and the entire empty spirit bottle, as well as some things he didn't recognize, and it was obvious that the contents of these packages were all in his body now.
"Well.... I thought I could keep my distance from these things all the time. He struggled to his feet, but the beep-boy shook at an inopportune moment.
After clicking on it, a familiar face appeared on the screen.
"I have a task for you, as soon as possible, and leave now."