Chapter 53: Stealing Skins

Kosley and Andy crouched in the corner, not moving.

A group of little yellow who passed by didn't seem to notice them, these people walked a little slowly, which is not surprising, the bloated heavy protective clothing looks heavy, and the security personnel with weapons wear slightly different clothes, compared to the one-piece yellow heavy protective clothing of others, the security personnel seem to be wearing lighter, easy to observe the action, such as the black pig-nose style gas mask he wears on his face, a lightweight single oxygen cylinder, and a black and yellow tight-fitting protective suit that seems to have a bulletproof and stab-proof function, Even the boots are lighter and more suitable for combat.

A strange thing that looked like a big metal dog followed them, carrying a lot of huge packages on its back and its head like a video camera.

Andy cautiously stuck his head out to peep, the group of people looked too professional.

"Don't just be in their field of vision, you never know what they're going to do."

Cosley muttered under his back behind Andy.

"Have you made contact with them?"

Andy saw that the person walking in front suddenly pressed somewhere on the gas mask, and then began to talk, as if to make contact with something.

"They have rejected all of our attempts and have a record of attacking us, and we can only register them as a hostile group."

Kosley pulled out his shotgun from behind his back and held it in his hand.

"You'd better not try to do that."

Andy carried the python and looked at those little yellows, not only in terms of equipment and supplies, these people's understanding of this special space must be better than that of Cosley, that strange metal dog should be some kind of robot that helps them transport supplies, they seem to maintain communication with the superior headquarters, if as Coslie said, this group of people seems to be from some company called Asynchronous, then they must have a clear purpose here.

Do you want to do it in a rough way.....

Just as he hesitated, the leader suddenly pressed the side of his head, as if listening to something urgently, and after a moment he suddenly waved his hand to the others, and a group of people turned around and ran in the direction where Andy and the others were.

"This..."

Andy hurriedly looked back at Koslie, who was also confused, but he still managed to get up and hide in a dark corner not far away.

The yellows continued to run in this direction at a rapid pace, when Andy heard a very hoarse and rude laugh coming from not far away, and his nose began to smell the stench of rotting blood for a while.

"Something?"

Andy and Kosley hid in the corner, whispering.

"I think it's probably a large group of people infected with SFV."

Cosley gave this answer, and of course he knew that Andy didn't know what SFV was.

"One of the many epidemic viruses here, no one knows how many people are infected with this virus, probably.... Million? ”

"Tens of thousands?"

Kosley nodded affirmatively.

"There have been several large-scale infections, and now how many people are infected with this virus is no longer verifiable, this virus is relatively ordinary, its onset time can reach up to 12 hours later, even if it occurs, the infected person will not completely lose his mind, and there are 2-3 days to be able to use medicine for treatment, if you miss this opportunity.... It's going to be those monsters. ”

Andy thought to himself that in his opinion, there was no medicine here at all, saying that it was a relatively ordinary virus, but once infected, it was not waiting for death, compared with the previous violent creeping, at most the countdown of life changed from minutes to days.

"Why don't these monster-infested walls change color?"

Cosley taught Andy something new in a serious tone.

"You remember, there's no real safe space here, only the massive gathering of monsters in a certain area in the full sense of the word will cause the walls to change color, and the wandering around of the infected with fungi and viruses will not lead to any changes, and many of the safe zone communities we've built are not perishing at the hands of real monsters, but at the hands of our former kind... Of course, they are dead, and they have become shells occupied by other things. ”

"Bang ——!!"

Andy heard the gunshots, and the security guards in the yellow were already firing, and he poked his head out to see that the corridors in front of him were blocked by a large group of strange-looking things, they were wearing dirty and shabby clothes, and they seemed to be normal human beings, but now they were extraordinary.

On their faces, there were two crimson vertical lines in the area of their eyes, which were actually two rotting grooves of flesh, and some bone spurs had grown out of the sockets where their eyes were, and the eyeballs were nowhere to be seen. Their mouths were cracked horizontally throughout, their cheeks seemed to be rotten and badly torn, and combined with their unconsciously open mouths and the mess of sharp teeth inside, they were a bunch of laughing monsters, and yes, they were laughing horrifiedly.

The exposed skin was an unusually dark yellow, mixed with some crimson, and some of the creatures with their mouths unusually wide open appeared to show more than a row of teeth, and their palms and other body parts had sharp bone spurs that pierced their flesh.

"Hahahahaha-"

"Ha-ha... Hee-hee-hee-hee.... Hahahaha. ”

"Hah! Ha! Ha! Ha! ”

All sorts of ridicule, ridicule, weird laughter, wild laughter, shrill laughter, every guy who looked like a rotten ghoul in Andy's eyes was laughing, these crazy monsters were not only more optimistic than the mad ghouls who remained in a state of anger forever, but their hair and teeth were much healthier than those of ghouls, and those palms full of bone spurs didn't need sharp nails to scratch anyone, just a few gentle touches were enough to make people bleed.

Given that these people are all infected with the so-called SFV, the touch will be fatal.

"Wow!"

An SFV-infected person let out a terrifying roar, her eyes certainly no longer visible, but that didn't stop her from brainlessly following the rest of her kind in the general direction.

"Bang ————!"

Another shot, a powerful shotgun, shattered the SFV infected person with a cloak like a female ghost, and many more blood holes through her body suddenly appeared in her chest, knocking over several infected people in the back.

The security personnel seemed to change their tactics as soon as they confirmed that they could no longer avoid the enemy, and all the gunmen opened fire, and the SFV-infected people fell in rows like harvested crops under the flying bullets, and Andy even saw that the mechanical dog carrying supplies actually stretched out two automatic firearms from the side of the body and lowered the center of gravity and began to strafe.

Just a few minutes later, there was a river of blood in front of me.

The last laughing SFV infected person was crushed in the head by a bullet and collapsed in a pool of blood.

The little yellow leader put down his weapon after a moment, pressed the side of his head and began to speak, although the voice was very dull through the gas mask, but because the distance was closer than just now, Andy could hear it clearly, and what these people said was indeed the authentic SA lingua franca, just like Coslie.

"This is the C-901 team, in the 48th minute of the mission, it was alerted to the enemy, the attempt to disengage failed, there was an engagement, the visual target sequence number is 67, the number is about 15, and all have been cleared....."

The muffled voice and the excessively fast pace of speech made it difficult for Andy to distinguish what he was saying behind him.

Xiao Huang seemed to be a little frightened, he put the heavy equipment in his hand on the ground temporarily, and when he turned around, he saw something in the dark corner, he immediately raised his flashlight and shone it, and then Andy and Kosley were directly exposed to his eyes.

"Yes...."

As soon as he shouted a word, Andy rushed over and punched him directly in the face, and the translucent mask on the front of the suit resembled some kind of tempered glass or high-strength plastic was directly shattered by the punch.

The yellows turned around, but Andy was already dragging the fallen man away like a plastic bag, and Cosley, who was a step late, raised his shotgun and fired a shot at the ceiling, causing the yellows to fall to the ground in fright.

......................

After running all the way to another place, looking left and right twice to make sure that it was safe, Andy looked down at the unlucky man who had been knocked over by his punch.

Just now, in order to pursue speed, Andy directly turned on the V mode, and found that the physical strength consumed was more than ten times that of the outside, which cast a cloud on his heart, if the physical strength consumption of the V mode was greatly increased here, it also meant that he could only launch a limited number of attacks in the V mode, such as the situation just now in the face of a group of gun-wielding Xiao Huang, he might be able to kill two or three people in an instant, but then he was directly exposed to the bullets, and the combat armor on his body may not be able to block their bullets.

In case of injury, the already rare treatment needles will be urgent.

Xiao Huang, whose mask was broken, revealed a black gas mask in the torn part of the protective suit, which looked like an ordinary face when taken off.

Thanks to the defensive power of this heavy protective suit, Andy's casual punch did not send this Xiao Huang away directly, he just fell into a baby-like sleep, and he probably couldn't wake up for a while.

Cosley hurried over, feeling a little anxious when he saw the little yellow lying on the ground.

"I told you before, everyone in the asynchronous company has a positioning device, and they will chase after it soon."

Andy began to flip through the man's hazmat suit.

"We should have some time, those people just shot too many bullets, they don't take the risk of coming over and looking for a companion immediately when they are short of ammo, right?"

As he spoke, Andy took out a built-in integrated walkie-talkie or something from his protective suit, which was still making a calling sound, and was directly pulled out and crushed by him.

"Well, maybe you're right, what did you do before? Why so...."

Cosley was momentarily speechless, there was more than one novice wanderer he had ever found, but Andy was definitely the first.

"Mercenaries."

Andy replied simply, and Cosley's eyes immediately became very exciting, ignoring his opinion, Andy found something near his head, presumably a camera or something, and it seemed that the image taken by this thing was similar to that of a human perspective.

I tried to stuff this thing into the Pip-Boy, but it failed, and this thing is not a holo cartridge.

Tossing the useless object aside, Kosley grabbed Andy's arm.

"It's time to go!"

Andy looked up and saw that the color around him was really starting to turn green, so he grabbed the unconscious little yellow and left.

The two of them hadn't run a few steps before they heard a rough shout, which was so sad and painful that people couldn't help but look sideways when they heard it.

"Help, help....! ....”

Cosley continued to run unmoved, and Andy certainly didn't bother to pay attention to the strange cry for help.

A white door appeared in front of him, and Cosley ran over and unscrewed the door, stopping where he was before Andy could follow.

"Run!"

Cosley shouted, then turned around and ran without looking back.

Andy hurried to follow him, and looked back to see a pair of glowing eyes and some glowing teeth inside the door, which made up a smiling face hidden in the darkness.

Suddenly, the incandescent lights began to go out one by one, and the two of them were immediately enveloped in darkness.

Andy turns on the Pip-Boy's lights, only to see Cosley dancing and shouting at him.

"Turn off the lights! Turn off the lights! ”

He turned off the lights and hid in the darkness, and a moment later he heard a loud, low noise passing not far away, like a group of people whispering.

A voice came from the back of the neck.

"Turn on Night Vision."

The eyes were green, and the darkness could no longer obscure Andy's eyes.

He fixed his eyes on the fact that Kosri was crouching motionless not far away, and there was a corpse next to him, the face of the corpse had been cut beyond recognition by something, and he could only see that the abuser seemed to want to cut out a smile, and there were some arrowheads, patterns, and words outlined in some kind of black paint on the walls around the corpse.

It reads: You need to smile more.

Andy looked at it twice, convinced that the black paint trace was similar to the one he had seen painted on the wall before, so that strange glowing smile was....

A screeching sound interrupted his train of thought, and the incandescent lamps suddenly resumed their illumination.

Quickly asked Hull to turn off the night vision mode to avoid being blinded by the light.

"Bang! ——”

The sound of a shotgun firing was heard, and Andy looked over to see Cosley being pinned to the ground by a huge yellowish humanoid monster about two meters tall.

Kosley's mouth was already held down by its big hand and couldn't make a sound, but the strange thing was that the monster was tearing at Cosley's face while muttering these strange things in his mouth.

"Help me.... Help me..... Yes.... Oh..... Anyone? .... Hello.... It hurts...."

Kosley's shotgun fell to the side, twisted into twists.

With a click, the monster tore off a bloody piece of dough and pressed it against its face.

Andy immediately raised the python and shot at the monster's distorted face, and the face that seemed to be wearing a pale yellow hood suddenly distorted and deformed, and some transparent liquid flowed out.

The monster slowly raised its head, staring at Andy with a pair of sunken white eyes, its body constantly squirming, and the skin on its face that had just been fitted was gradually merging with it.

Coslie, whose face was fixed to the ground with one hand of his hand, waved his arm and took out something from his backpack, but just as he was about to do something, the terrifying monster suddenly exerted force, only to hear a crisp crak, Coslie's arm suddenly fell to the ground weakly, and the thing in his hand also rolled away from the palm of his hand, which was clearly a thermos cup containing almond water.

The monster lifted Kosley's corpse and tore it in half in front of Andy, then began to tear off pieces of skin from it and stick it to itself, its eyes fixed on Andy in the process.