What is this? How do you describe it? Andy stood in the darkness in his stealth state, and the wriggling mass of leeches formed a new form in a completely unimaginable way, and the unknown corpse that had been found before and the strange jar around the corpse had all been swallowed by it.

Santiago held the automatic grenade launcher in his hand, and the emotions he had been filled with were vanishing, replaced by a chill that seemed to him to be like a black hole sucking up everything around him.

He remembered that long, long time ago, he had traveled to a magnificent waterfall in Zion National Park, which plunged from a high place into a bottomless canyon.

Standing behind the guardrail, staring at the abyss that could not be filled even with the endless flood every second, Santiago felt a strong urge to leap from a great height, and this urge was so terrible that he sweated on his forehead when he came back to his senses, and when he recalled the feeling of dizziness at that time, he only felt that the mental defenses he had obtained from the group seemed indestructible, but in fact he was about to collapse at the touch of a button.

"Goo-lur..... Goo-lur...... And at this moment, he only felt that the thing in front of him was giving him such feelings, its very existence was a kind of bewitchment of everything in the outside world, and those strange sounds were meaningless, but they made him feel so chilled.

No matter how dizzy he was, he would not fall, and the improvised nuclear-powered exoskeleton he wore that had been procured by the militia before the war could keep him stable, and it could also provide additional assistance to him when his muscles were already consumed by radiation, and even lift the heavy weapon to move around.

Soros's voice suddenly came out of the darkness.

"Don't panic, Santiago, it's just a magic trick by that bA guy, fire!" Santiago's whole body was shocked, and he immediately pulled the trigger, and a 40mm grenade flew out and smashed into the strange being

Inside the "body", there was no sound, and it sank silently like a debris falling into the water.

He was taken aback for a moment, and then fired several grenades, but none of them exploded. When the last grenade was fired, Santiago had to fall into a state of horror when he was confronted with something incomprehensible, he had no idea what the unrecognizable thing was in front of him, he couldn't understand why the invincible weapon of violence in his hand was ineffective at the moment, and when he began to be helpless, the flame of revenge was finally extinguished by the cold water of fear.

"Hmm.... Wow! He opened his mouth and let out an indefatigable cry that rang out from his pierced face, and he lowered the weapon in his hand, which was still heavy even with the help of the exoskeleton, and wanted to turn and flee, but even if he temporarily turned his eyes away, the darkness under the cloak was like a magnet, and in the blink of an eye, his vision was pulled back into place, and a dark, cold intangibles were slowly pouring into his uncovered brain like mercury.

The sanity that had been held on to by this poor survivor of the Great War for more than a hundred years began to crumble. It consisted of pitch-black, viscous unidentified secretions

"Blanket" general stuff bulges under a bag, followed by a strip

The "arm" slowly stretched out, and the large clumps of leeches intertwined with each other, seemingly disorderly, but with a clear purpose, that ugly

The "arm" was reaching for Santiago, who looked unusually good. The old ghoul just stared blankly, the huge leeches getting closer and closer to his face.

"Boom ——!!!" ....................... Andy was awakened by a tingling sensation in his arm, and he got up from the water, feeling uncomfortable all over.

In addition to all kinds of pain distributed throughout the body, there was also a strange burning sensation that was stuffed in his chest and difficult to vent, he suddenly subconsciously glanced at the beep boy, and found that more than thirty of his treatment needles had disappeared.

"Huh?" He subconsciously let out a sound, looking at the darkness around him, his mind couldn't turn a little, what's wrong?

Hull's voice came from the back of his neck.

"You're finally awake, I'm planning to inject you with the thirty-second needle and the tenth Ma-X, if you don't wake up, our stock may run out." When Andy heard this, he suddenly felt a hot pain in his arm, I am afraid that it has been honeycomb by Hel during the loss of consciousness, and I don't know if injecting so much numb-x will cause addiction, and once the effect of the drug has passed, a painful withdrawal reaction will occur.

"What's going on? ..... You turn on the night vision first... I can't see anything. Hull explained in a frustrated tone.

"I'm sorry ~ Because of the impact of the explosion before, I suffered some damage, the night vision function and the stealth function need to wait for a while before they can be activated, otherwise it may have a negative impact on your body, if you want to observe the surrounding environment with the naked eye, it is recommended to turn on the light of the beep boy, although it is useless, but at least it is very reliable when it is a light bulb, isn't it?" There was a violent vibration from the Pip-Boy, and some offensive words flew across the screen.

Andy pressed the switch, and with a familiar beep, a green glow lit up the surroundings. It was still the same dark underground cavern, but the narrow rock crevice before was not seen, and after a while, Andy noticed that he seemed to be more than ten meters away from before.

He recalled, in his vague memory, just as the unknown thing was about to touch the ghoul, there was a sudden violent explosion, this explosion was so powerful, that even Andy, who was watching from a distance, was instantly swept away by the shockwave, lost consciousness and fainted, if it wasn't for Hull maintaining his vital signs, I am afraid he would have drowned in the water.

Is it those dumb grenades that exploded with a delay? But Andy didn't think it was right, and in his last memories, it wasn't the giant leech that exploded first, but the mad ghoul.

Well, this is not the time to think about these details. Andy walked to the previous gap with difficulty, according to the map mapped by the beep-boy before, if he wanted to find the exit, he had to go through the gap, but when he returned from the pain all over his body, he found that the rock gap had been blown away because of the explosion.

“..... Damn, how do you get this back? He had to turn to Pip-Boy again, and this time a big X appeared on the map, and the exit sign was marked to the spot where he had fallen.

Although the ground was about five meters away from the grenade's hole, Andy was confident to climb back with Hull's help.

An eerie grunt came from not far away, which was unusual, and Andy turned the beep boy around, and the green light dispelled the darkness there.

In the midst of the large mass of broken leech corpses, something was still tumbling, and a few lingering leeches wriggled and mutilated their bodies were rotating around an unidentified object, squeezing out bubbles in the mixture of mucus and blood, making a strange gurgling sound.

He stared at it in silence for a moment, feeling that the only thing that was left was the source of the strange aura from before, what could it be?

Curious, Andy took out his pistol and fired a few shots at the leeches, and the bullets carrying huge kinetic energy flew the leeches and left the thing exposed, and the recoil pulled some of the wounds, making him grin in pain, but when he saw what the thing was, he was surprised and couldn't feel the pain for a while.

It should be regarded as a part of a statue, probably the head, and the overall shape is an irregular spherical shape about two meters in diameter, the material is unknown, like a white stone, but there is a strong penetrating green light in the leakage of the stone; The reason why Andy thinks that this may be the head part of the statue has obvious carving marks on its surface, and it looks like a face similar to a human, this face has strange proportions, it seems to be a middle-aged and elderly man, with a slender nose, baldness, very sharp facial lines, and the overall expression is extremely depressed and solemn.

Just from this skull, the whole stone statue should be a kind of cervical vertebrae leaning forward and sinking like water, standing in silent mourning-like strange posture, its surface is full of traces of the vicissitudes of time, but from its design point of view, it does not look primitive, who made it?

And why was it abandoned in this underground cavern? Did the leeches accidentally wrap around the head and start some kind of cluster effect, or did the head attract and control the brainless leeches to their advantage?

Andy stared at the stone head, only to think incredible, the slightest closer, the beep boy's built-in Geiger counter gurgling, meaning that the thing was emitting strong radiation.

"It's not good for your health to stay here for too long~" Hull's voice came from the back of his neck, and Andy didn't bother to continue to think about these things meaninglessly, or the surface world was more important to him, he had to go back as soon as possible.

Trickling water to the uneven cliff face, Andy tried it and began to climb, but halfway through the climb he slipped off the slippery rock face and fell heavily into the water.

Coughing and getting up, Andy looked up and suddenly remembered that he had a hook lock before, and it would be much easier to go up with that, so he immediately lowered his head and rummaged through the beep-boy.

"There are enemies~" Andy was stunned for a moment, everything was blown to pieces, how could there still be enemies?

But he just subconsciously crouched down and turned off the lights of the beep boy, and the next second a bullet whistled past him.

The clatter kept coming, and the light of the fire flickered in the darkness. A trembling ghoul with an assault rifle fired at the last of the light, his body covered in glaring wounds, an eyeball and a few fingers missing, and a large hole in his abdomen... The radiation-ravaged flesh was too fragile, but the ghouls didn't feel much pain, their physical needs gradually diminished, and all their senses were dulled, allowing Thoros to survive on the radiation cockroaches and sewage he had killed in the sewers for years, ignoring the excruciating pain that should have been on him that caused ordinary people to faint.

He let go of the finger that pulled the trigger and replaced the last clip.

"How do your own weapons taste? I have to say that this is better than SA's self-produced assault rifle, not only is it more accurate and lethal, but it can still be used even if it is blown up and blistered like now....." There was a response from the darkness.

"Lay down your arms, your companions are dead, and I don't want to argue with you anymore." Soros suddenly turned the gun and fired at the location where the sound came.

"You want me to surrender? Ha! Delusion! You're lucky not to be blown up by me, but you can't run away this time, hahaha, do you think you've completely won? No! Even if you make the SA people not even recognize the SA flag, I won't, I will always remember! No matter what I become, I will not give up on destroying you completely! The bA assault rifle he held in his hand fired, pulsed from the recoil, and suddenly skidded from the water and rolled out of his hand into the water.

The rifle that went off almost hit Soros, but he didn't care at the moment, and immediately dived into the water to fumble for the last weapon, and just as he touched the gun, suddenly a powerful force pulled his gun from his hand.

He hurriedly poked his head out of the water, but it was too late, and a cold muzzle pressed against his head.

Andy stood in front of him, and Soros saw Andy's face for the first time, and his eyes were first surprised, and then deep sadness.

"Have they educated the SA people to this extent? How many of your compatriots did you kill for them to get this garment back? The tall, muscular SA young man standing in front of him showed no sign of remorse, instead he looked at Soros with psychotic eyes, at his tattered soldier's uniform on crumpled dead skin and rotten flesh, at the epaulettes that symbolized his outdated status, and at the intestines that slipped out.

"You said you weren't killed? So, that guy who is blowing up everywhere has a bomb that you can detonate? Soros didn't answer, just watched Andy laugh maniacally.

A cold light flashed, and his head was cut off by Andy. ....................... Crawling back down the hook and back into the sewers, Andy walked through the crumbling debris and played with the bA assault rifle for a while, which weighed moderately and was angular, had a simple mechanism, and used a generic 5.56 caliber bullet with a quick reload.

The safety is located on the side and rear and is a metal clip that allows the user to switch between automatic and semi-automatic firing modes.

All in all, it makes people feel very reliable. Although he prefers to use a pistol, it is also a good choice to leave the rifle behind.

One last glance back at the hole that had crawled out, the sewage was still flowing into it, the stubborn old ghouls were all dead, and the sewers of Jericho Town were one less hazard.

Remembering the special part of the structure he had seen in the Pip-Boy earlier, Andy headed east.

There was a rusty deformed metal door on the brick wall at the eastern end of the sewer, which Andy slowly pulled open, and as soon as he opened a gap, Andy had to stop, because under Hull's warning, he noticed a mechanism behind the door, and once the door was directly and completely opened, several grenades hanging from the roof would be pulled off and fall to the ground.

The intruder couldn't react at all after opening the door, and only noticed that the grenade on the ground would be blown up because of the sound of landing.

Andy reached out and tore off the string, hanging it on a protrusion on the wall next to it, then completely opened the rusty metal door and carefully removed the grenade hanging in the air.

The house was a mess, certainly uncleaned in a hundred years, boxes of bullets piled up in the corners, and many of the pre-war packaged food packaging left behind after being eaten, whether blue or white, cardboard boxes and jars, all mixed together and firmly stuck to the ground with black dirt.

There are many vague slogans carved into the walls, most of them are quite contemporary battle slogans, and some terrifying gadgets such as almost small piles of human skulls.

A tattered notebook was placed in a corner that looked like a kennel for a bed, and when I opened it, it was the same.

[Diary No.: I'm convinced of this, the BA people have taken over the surface, and when I finally mustered up the courage to cautiously go to the ground to contact the others, they looked at me with a strange expression, they didn't listen to me, and waved sticks to tell me to get out of the way.... I waved the SA flag at them to wake them up, but in exchange for stones, they insulted me with some kind of word I didn't understand, like they saw me as a monster, these people have gone crazy, they have become exactly like the bA people.

【Diary number: I found some edible mushrooms outside today, they were ugly and smelly, they looked like a disgusting mass of internal organs, I should have written so, but even if it was a real mass of internal organs, I wouldn't let it go, after cooking, it tasted good.

[Diary number: There are especially many bA lackeys who have infiltrated recently, and some of them are very good at acting, they use paint to stain their bodies with blood, pretending to be fleeing people, saying that there is a riot above, begging us to take them in for the time being, hum..... Not only was Susie shaken, but even Santiago had been deceived, and I was not going to be deceived by the bA lackeys, I reprimanded them harshly, and tied up this poor fellow and threw him into the water like his companions, and they deserved it!

[Diary number: I met the 42nd bA lackey, he actually said that he accidentally fell into the well and got lost before coming here, he didn't want to lie to me, his treacherous eyes have revealed his intentions, he wants to go back and report to the bA people about our group of stalwarts, to prevent us from launching a counterattack one day, he has a weapon in his hand, I find an opportunity to execute him immediately.

[Diary No.: I've been really trying to get out of this damn place for a long time, I've had enough of the dirty water and bugs, we can't even go too far now because those rats are going to attack us, Santiago proposed that we blow up those rats with a stock grenade, but I refused, those rats are probably the bioweapons dropped by the BA people, and it's not yet time to be exposed.

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