Chapter 33: The Remnants of the Ancients

Silence fell in the sewers. The two ghouls stopped firing, but did not lay down their weapons, they stared nervously ahead, neither advancing nor retreating.

"You read that right, Soros." A hoarse female voice came from the side, and there was a simple metal shelf on her shoulder, and the flashlight was stuck on it.

"No, it won't." The male ghoul voice rang out, the same one that had been shouted earlier.

"I saw a lot more when I participated in the war in Anchorage, that situation was caused by the equipment of the bA people, the stealth boys can't do it to this extent, their equipment has genetic locks, and others can't use it if they pick it up, so.... You can't go wrong! Then the two fell silent, looking nervous even with their guns.

After waiting for five minutes, nothing seemed to have happened, and under the light of the flashlight, they didn't see anything special.

"The battery inside won't last long, what should I do?" The female ghoul raised her pistol and looked at the male ghoul she called Soros next to her.

Soros couldn't hold his breath so simply, his bloodshot eyes were almost red looking straight ahead, he only felt that the scenes in the ice and snow that he was about to forget were all emerging in front of his eyes one by one, the companions who were inexplicably cut their throats when they stood guard, the soldiers who suddenly fell when they charged, and the snipers who couldn't find them were blowing up the heads of the people around them one by one....

"Hold on to the end, Susie, I command you as a commander, soldier, do you hear that? Survive to the end! He gave the order in a tough tone, and the female ghoul on the side sighed.

"Yes.... Sir, I just hope the two of us won't be cut into pieces until Santiago returns. The two of them stood in a vigilant position for another five minutes, and Susie felt a dull ache in her old shoulders, and her stubborn commander stood in front as stubbornly as he had been a hundred years ago.

"Uh, sir? Is he dead or gone, I mean, is there such a possibility..."Soros did not react like a statue, Susie secretly grinned at the corners of her skinless mouth, and then shook her head slightly to shake off the strand of hair that covered one of her eyes, although this strand of hair often caused some small trouble to herself, but it was the last bit of hair on her head, and she was reluctant to say goodbye to it.

Suddenly, the sewage under his feet exploded. Soros rushed over like an afterimage, blocking the invisible sword with a dagger.

"You're still too tender boy, you had a chance, but you didn't catch it!" The face of this male ghoul was as horrible as a disfigured man smearing ground double-headed beef puree on his face, and the most knowledgeable of the wastelanders would know one thing, if you saw a ghoul with a more terrifying face than the average ghoul, he was probably unimaginably older, as these terrible marks were most likely imprinted on their faces at the outbreak of the Great War.

He laughed maniacally, staring viciously at the transparent figure in front of him, sewage was flowing from its surface, but the light completely passed through him, this was undoubtedly a bA man, the enemy of Soros.

"What are you crazy about? Do you like to shoot people so much? Andy looked at the ugly ghoul in front of him, and anger rose in his heart, seeing that they had lived in the sewers for a day or two, and most of them had done indiscriminate murder before, and the horror stories that had been circulated in New Canaan and Jericho in the past were probably the good deeds of these crazy ghouls in addition to the mutated creatures.

"It's disgusting that you're talking to us, don't you think you can fool me with this kind of rotten little trick you used in the past? Wrong, wrong! I'll kill you like I did your squeaky accomplices, shoot Susie! Soros shouted and hugged Andy like a crazy ghoul.

Susie, who was so frightened that she didn't come back to her senses for a while, was rejuvenated by this shout, she hurriedly raised the pistol in her hand, pulled the trigger and fired a shuttle of bullets towards where Andy was, which was actually a rare automatic pistol.

Seizing on this gap, Andy kicked the skinny mad ghoul into the sewer behind him, jumped nimbly to the top and grabbed the line to avoid strafing, then crawled on top of it, bent down to the stunned gaze of the female ghoul, stomped her under her feet, and disarmed her from her weapon.

"Wow, wow, fuck off! I don't care about you!! Susie struggled, but there was no way to escape from Andy's feet, and the flashlight on her shoulder fell to the ground and rolled into the corner.

With night vision, Andy saw that the ghoul was wearing a tattered soldier's uniform with patches, and he tore off a piece of rag from his shoulder, and when he saw a few words written on the stained epaulettes.

"Three percent..... City of Ogden..... Susie Baker. Andy threw the rag in his hand into the sewage and slammed his foot on the ghoul's chest to make her grunt, because the ghoul was trying to reach for his waist as he read the words.

"Are you still a member of some kind of organization? Yes? Answer me, Susie. The female ghoul was creaking at the bones she had been trampled on, but she still sneered and said something obscure about it.

"We're the proud militia that fucking kills bA's and their lackeys, the great three percent! You filthy bA! Don't think you've really won this war, even if the surface has become your territory, we will not surrender! Andy couldn't help but shake his head, how stubborn this is.

"Fool, the Great War has been over for more than a hundred years, SA is gone, I don't see any..."

"In short, the bA people didn't win either, both countries lost the nuclear war, and there are only survivors on the ground who continue to struggle to survive in the wasteland, your organization, your faith, your country.... It's all gone. I'm not a bA either, I just wore a special outfit, believe it or not, your name is Susie Baker, right? It's a nice name, it looks like you suffered a lot of crimes down there because of the radiation when the bomb fell, but you survived, don't you want to go back to the ground and see what has become of it? The ghoul named Susie listened to Andy's words in a daze, and all the people who dared to go down the sewers in the past and were touched by them were all killed by them cleanly, because Soros, who had gone out, told them that the SA had failed, the bA people had won a complete victory, and all the surface people had become lackeys of the bA people's education and became their accomplices.

They can only hide in the sewers, and in order to maintain secrecy, they eliminate all the puppet troops who come close. Susie felt that she had never thought about it, or that she had never dared to think about it, but that was not the truth.

But an old memory that she was about to forget suddenly came to mind. Immediately, she was furious.

"You shameless liar, how dare you tell such a clumsy lie! If the bA people had not occupied the ground, the SA would have been revived long ago! It is such a great existence, how could it be possible to give up on organizing civilians to rebuild the country? I've seen survivors in your mouth, and I've also... I tried to talk to one of them, but he just yelled and shot me, and that's ironclad evidence! Andy plunged the tip of his sword into her right hand, causing the folding sapper shovel she had sneaked out of her hand to the ground.

"Is there a chance that he was frightened by your face and thought you were a mad ghoul... In addition, in a sense, SA has not given up on rebuilding, but the way is a bit too extreme and not acceptable to everyone. Suddenly there was a voice in the back of the neck.

"There are enemies~" Andy didn't say a word, rolled to the side, and a shuttle of bullets shot mercilessly towards the place where he was standing just now, and in the blink of an eye, the female ghoul named Susie was mercilessly shot into rotten flesh.

Soros ran over with an assault rifle covered in mud, and he picked up the flashlight on the ground, the light was already very dim.

There was a sound of wading footsteps, and the ghoul who had left earlier seemed to have returned.

"Soros! What about the bA guy? The ghoul held a flashlight in his arm and shone it around.

"Still here, not leaving, I don't know if I hurt him just now, and yes, Susie was killed by him." A mournful cry sounded in the darkness.

"Fuck you!" A hoarse roar with a crying voice rang out.

"You red worm! I want you to pay for Susie's life! Andy squatted in a corner, listening to Soros's words, he silently complained in his heart, obviously you shot your teammates ruthlessly, why did it become my fault in a blink of an eye?

However, in the night vision, he saw that the new ghoul was carrying a large heavy gun with a very thick muzzle, the body of which was as wide as a large dark metal box, and a separate ammunition box hanging next to it.

It can be said that it is a cannon. Hull also issued a timely warning.

"The analysis is: automatic grenade launchers, please be careful when the enemy fires explosives." Andy cursed, got up and ran towards the disgusting sinkhole, and then a fierce man jumped into it again.

The front foot just entered the water, the back foot, one grenade after another, the violent explosion was very intensive, almost up and down the sewer up and down, this terrifying weapon can fire a large number of 40mm caliber grenades at a very fast speed, under the continuous saturation bombing, stealth or not stealth has lost its meaning, this is one of the ways for the SA army to deal with the stealth assassination of bA agents before the war.

Andy under the water relied on the blocking force of the water to not be injured by the splashing shrapnel, but the chaotic shockwave that bloomed everywhere in the front and back still made him dizzy, and then the sewage suddenly flowed rapidly in one direction, forming a whirlpool, Andy was just blown up by the grenade, and one was carried away by the current without paying attention.

He flew out of the water, felt it drop a short distance in the air, and then slammed into the water again.

Something soft enveloped him, and he touched it, feeling something was wrong. Stepping on the soft mud under his feet, Andy stood up from the stagnant water about one meter and two deep, and then saw that the soft things that wrapped him were actually huge leeches, and he hurriedly swung his sword to hack these monsters that tried to suck him dry to death.

"Beep-" The Pip-Boy's lights were turned on, and Andy found himself falling into an unidentified underground cavern, with a hole about four or five meters high at the top, and sewage was flowing down from it, presumably from where he had just fallen.

The guy with the automatic grenade launcher went crazy and blew up the fragile old sewers.

"Hell, how do you get out of here?" Andy shines around, the area of the cave is really not small, how can there be such a place underground?

He struggled to make his way, the water hindering his speed, and from time to time something unspeakable floated through the muddy, dark sewage, and some even touched Andy's underwater body parts.

Most of them are some light rotten wood, garbage, or maybe the mutated leeches that tried to suck blood before.... Suddenly, he felt something in the wrong shape wrap around his leg, and then a feeling of being grabbed by a hand came from his leg.

Andy's hair stood on end, and he grabbed the thing and dragged it out of the water, only to see a large mass of aquatic weeds entangled in a skeleton.

"What the hell?" He ripped off the weeds and threw them into the water to move on, the mapping of the Pip-Boy was going fast, and Andy could already tell by the plan on the screen that it seemed to be a gourd-shaped cave, and he was on the larger end.

The exit is at the end of the small end, and if you want to get there, you should have to squeeze through a narrow place.

Andy was watching when he suddenly heard the sound of falling water behind him, and he hurriedly turned off the lights of the Pip-Boy.

"Detect an enemy and activate the stealth field." In front of him, Andy became invisible again, and he saw the familiar flashlight light turn on, and after a few flashes, it finally went out unwillingly.

"Do you have a flashlight, Santiago?" Soros's hoarse voice rang out in a low voice.

"Brought.... Is it open? I'm going to kill that bA guy for revenge! "Santiago is indignant, Susie is a comrade-in-arms and a lover to him, but also an irreplaceable relative, a hundred years of underground coexistence has made their relationship indescribable, for Santiago, Susie's death almost cost him half of his life, and now he only feels that the goddess of revenge has lit a fire in his body, and the remaining life has become all the food for this fire.

Soros continues to whisper in the dark.

"That bA man must be around here, he is not so easy to be blown up, the two of us have to play with our lives now, are you afraid?" San Diego gritted his teeth in response.

"I'm willing to do anything but kill that bastard." The two then fell silent, and in the darkness, Andy, who remained invisible, felt that these ghouls who had lived underground for a long time were paranoid to an incredible degree.

Suddenly, a light lit up. The ghoul named Santiago wears a tattered green military uniform that almost turns into a beggar's suit, wears a rusty steel helmet on his head, and still holds the automatic grenade launcher in his hand, which he taps to the front of the weapon.

"Where are you? bA people, run away after killing someone? You think beautifully, you have to die here today, and I will not stop until I see your torn body. "It was empty, and there was no response.

The leeches didn't seem interested in him and walked around.

"Come out!" Santiago shouted as he moved forward, uttering some inconsequential provocative remarks, and after a moment of indignation in his chest, he began to shoot grenades indiscriminately.

Violent explosions came from all sides, and he suddenly heard something wrong in front of him, so he immediately fired two grenades at that place, and the violent explosion made a splash, and the blown up leeches flew all over the sky.

Santiago, armed with an automatic grenade launcher, approached quickly, the rock under his feet rising, causing him to gradually move away from the stagnant water, and through the light from his flashlight, he saw a narrow crack in the rock in front of him, barely enough for a man to squeeze through; There were now a large number of leeches gathering here, and the leeches were almost filling the gap, but the grenade he had just fired had blown most of the leeches into a blur, and when he looked again, a corpse had fallen near the gap, buried in the leech's broken corpse.

Overjoyed by his vengeance, Santiago ran over and kicked the corpse lying on the ground, then shone it with a flashlight attached to his weapon.

Although the back of the corpse had been blurred with flesh and blood, the face was not destroyed, it was covered in various colors of paint, emaciated and eerie, with strands of hair scattered from the head and all around, and there was nothing on the body.

Again, the dead man had died not from the grenade bombardment of Santiago, but from a throat cut, and the blood-stained knife was still in his hand, and the man had committed suicide.

"It's not your ....." He casually kicked a ceramic jar containing an unknown liquid next to him, there were several other gadgets around this strange jar, which might have been placed around by the dead man in some order before they were disrupted by the grenade explosion, but no one knew what it looked like now.

"Where are you ?!!!?" Santiago yells into the darkness around him, and tries to fire a grenade to vent his anger, but a loud grunt erupts from the crevice in the rock behind him; After a while, a large cloud of leeches poured out of it, and these leeches behaved very strangely, and after squeezing out, instead of scattering and swimming into the water, they began to entangle with each other, gathering more and more.

The flashlight shone at the mutated leeches, and Santiago looked back at the mutated creatures in amazement.

They wriggled and spit out a lot of black-brown liquid, which began to solidify and harden after flowing out and came into contact with the air, and gradually became more and more like a piece of cloth as they intertwined with each other.

The swarm of leeches lifted up the cloth, as if a huge human figure in a cloak slowly stood up, and an indescribable evil breath gushed out, and in the darkness formed by the area that seemed to be a cloak and hat, there was a sound, like the sound of a drowning person finally spitting out a bubble and bursting, and like the popping sound of a man trapped in a swamp struggling desperately in the mud.