Chapter 48: David

The two of them stood in front of the mural and looked at it for a while, and they couldn't tell what the hell this thing that was worshipped by everyone was.

There are only two conclusions that can be reached, firstly, this thing has a noble status, and secondly, this thing cannot be a person no matter how you look at it, and it is impossible for a person to have three eyes and a circle of horns on his head.

"What kind of graffiti left by primitive people, we may be in some ancient ruins now..."

Measles wiped the mural with his fingers and wiped off something like toner.

"What do you think those guys who took Gillian away?"

Andy held up the Pip-Boy to the left and right to probe around, and saw that there were a lot of debris on the walls that resembled oil lamps or torches, which should have been an area illuminated by flames, and it was indeed not a natural formation, or at least it was a place that had been artificially repaired in the later stages, but there was no more evidence than the stone bricks and the remains of the lighting fixtures that fit together perfectly.

The measles was struggling to flick the black powder off his fingers.

"Anything is possible, in the past I have heard many legends from merchants who have come from afar, and they often encounter strange things on the way to the merchants, some say that in the west... Very, very far west. I don't know how much west it is, but they call it the Great Dividing Range, and there is a kind of inhuman monster that lives underground, has great digging skills, and likes to live in groups and hunt in groups. ”

"They have sharp claws, thick skin, sharp teeth... It can also secrete toxins. ”

Andy listened to the description of measles and felt a bit fantastical, after all, he also traveled from south to north through east and west, but he had never heard of this kind of monster in the mouth of measles, but the description of this monster strangely coincided with the scene in front of him, such as living underground, claws...

"What's the name of that thing?"

"They can't tell, it's just a story told as a legend."

“............”

After continuing to walk in the dark tunnels for a while, the eyes suddenly opened up, and a large number of forks appeared on the left and right sides, and there seemed to be a highly complex underground passage system here, and the ground was full of stones, and it was impossible to distinguish the footprints.

How do you find this....

He was in trouble, and at that moment the beep-boy suddenly shook.

Andy looked at the beep-beep boy in surprise, he didn't know that Xiao Hei could be tracked.

"How did you do that?"

Words began to appear on the beep boy.

Andy was stunned, the so-called "creature" must refer to Xiao Hei, so when Diana made it, she had a chip implanted in it? But.... Why wasn't she told, and she was trying to...

Forget it, it's too late to think about it.

Relying on the mapping and signal tracking functions of the Pip-Boy, Andy strode into the darkness, weaving back and forth between various forks and corners.

"Hey, are you sure you won't get lost?"

Measles followed Andy and asked, but Andy ignored it, and he had to shake his head helplessly, although he was also extremely curious about this place, for ghouls, the radiation zone can be shuttled at will, there must still be a large number of high-tech pre-war relics left inside Kirtland Air Force Base, and he will report the situation here to his father after he returns, so this investigation of the surrounding area will also be meaningful.

I don't know how long I was walking around underground, but suddenly, lit oil lamps began to appear on the walls.

The two of them stopped to see that the oil lamp was made of stone, and its shape was very simple, like something similar to a lizard carrying a flame, and its interior contained some kind of grease, and the flame burned in it.

Of course, what really attracted the two of them was not the oil lamp, but the skeleton lying underneath.

The skeleton was wearing a tattered outfit and a backpack was thrown beside it.

The characteristics of the bones can prove that this is a dead human, yes, he has been dead for a long time, but why did he die in such a place?

Andy stepped forward to open the backpack, and there were actually three holographic cartridges inside.

Although I really wanted to hear what this person recorded before he died, but now that the situation was urgent, Andy continued to follow the coordinate prompts after hurriedly collecting the beep boy.

After a while, Andy hears Blackie's menacing roar, and when he looks over, he sees that he is grinning at a man.

"Blackie!"

Andy shouted, and Blackie immediately ran to him, but remained wary of the person in front of him.

After confirming that Blackie was not injured, Andy looked up and saw that it seemed to be a common wastelander, he was wearing a dirty brown double-headed cowhide thin jacket, a pair of black pants that had not been washed for an unknown amount of time, his face and hands were full of dirt, and his hair was so long that it covered his eyes and was greasy to knots, which was exactly the way of life of wastelanders: unless he couldn't stand it, he didn't wash his clothes or take a shower... After all, clean water is to buy vase caps and is not cheap, as for unclean water, it is better not to wash it.

"Who are you?"

In the face of Andy's questioning, this person behaved a little weirdly, he first looked at Andy and measles with an expressionless face, and then stood in place in a daze, not moving or speaking.

After a minute of confrontation, Andy couldn't bear it anymore and pulled out his pistol.

"Speak! Where's my friend? ”

The mysterious figure in front of him slowly raised his hands, his movements slow and stiff.

"I... It's called David. ”

Andy's eyelids twitched, and Measles laughed straight out.

"Dude, you're a little slow to react! Ha ha! ”

David didn't react to his taunts, his head slowly turning like a robot, and then he looked at Andy, a pair of gray eyes...

"Your friend... Who is it? ”

Blackie was still screaming, as if he thought that the man in front of him was very dangerous, Andy knew that his intelligence was not like that of an ordinary beast, although he could not speak, but this hostile attitude had shown everything, and this strange man must have something to do with Gillian's disappearance.

"A woman, dressed like you, with black hair that goes up to her shoulders, and she's been caught by some guys who might not look like people, I'm sure she's been here before, so, don't say you don't know."

There was silence for another full minute, and just when the green veins on Andy's forehead had burst out, the guy in front of him, who called himself David, slowly replied.

"I don't know."

The measles snorted and was happy, Andy raised his hand to his leg without saying a word is a shot, the deafening sound of gunfire echoed in the ground, and the powerful python directly knocked his entire leg away, David suddenly lost his balance and lay on the ground, but his face was still expressionless.

After a few moments, David began to undergo a series of strange changes in his body, first the color of his skin became dull, then the ends of his body began to twitch, his eyes began to roll around, and his fingers became longer and forced together, as if they could not be separated because of strong cramps.

Under the gaze of the two of them, David, who was shot in one leg and flew away, was "turning back to his original form" like a strange creature that was unable to continue to hide himself, his whole body twitched and writhed, the sound of bones shifting came from his body, and the dull skin gradually changed to a dark green, his face was getting longer and longer, his eyebrow bones were constantly widening and taller, and the nails on his fingers twisted and became as sharp as a beast.

"I-wo-oh-lying...."

David opened his mouth, and his mouth sounded like that of a broken robot.

A second "eyelid" opened and closed left and right suddenly appeared in those eyes, and when his eyes opened again, they had become a pair of vertical pupils.

Measles suddenly turned around, and Andy also activated V-mode alertly.

In V mode, several unidentified creatures appear in the surrounding darkness.

"Looks like his friends are here."

As he spoke, two arms stretched out from his robe, and in the darkness, the elbow bones of his two arms began to appear and gradually pierce the skin.

Andy didn't take his eyes off for the first time, he continued to point his gun at the creature in front of him who called himself David, he had seen a wide variety of monsters, among which there were quite a few that could create hallucinations or have superior intelligence, but it was the first time he had seen a monster that could be so realistically disguised as a human or even able to talk to a human, what was this?

"You should answer my question, David, can I call you that now?"

David, who had become extremely eccentric, did not respond to him this time, and the mouth opened to reveal a mouthful of fangs, only to let out a series of beastly growls and unidentified words that resembled swearing towards Andy.

"Blackie, bite him to death."

Andy gave the order indifferently, and then turned to deal with the guys who were surrounding him with Measles, and soon some weird screams came from behind.

"These things are really interesting, do you think they were also mutated by radiation?"

Measles spoke in an indifferent tone, and her figure faded away from Andy's Pip-Boy lighting and the light of the oil lamps on the walls, disappearing into the darkness.

"Whatever they are..."

Andy took a deep breath, and in the next second, he suddenly pulled out two energy weapon pistols and turned on the V mode to shoot repeatedly, one after another red lasers and green plasma lit up the surrounding darkness, melting and burning the approaching monsters one by one, burning them under the muzzle, every time a monster turned into flying ash or slime, the Reaper Raid skill immediately restored Andy's physical exertion, so that he could kill all the hostile targets within the coverage of V mode at once like emptying the billiards on the table.

Measles put down a corpse in his hand, turned his robe arm twice, and secretly withdrew the bone that protruded from his elbow into his body.

"It's wonderful..."

Andy spun his guns to retract them, and Blackie screamed behind him, so he ignored the corpses and just followed Blackie and continued to run into the darkness.

Measles kicked the corpse at his feet, and noticed a series of reliefs on the side of the wall, all of which were half-snakes, half-human things, standing in front of a group of humans kneeling and praying, and the largest of these strange people sat on a throne that matched its size, with a circle of sharp horns on the top of his head, a third eye on his forehead, and a peculiar feature, a rod sticking out of the span, the texture of the surface of the rod was not natural, not like its external genitalia, but a rod of unknown material.

“..........”

Measles simply glanced at it twice and chased it in the direction where Andy left, and the speed that erupted in an instant was actually several times that when he jumped down from the cave to chase Andy just now, even the flame of the oil lamp on the wall was pulled out by the wind he pulled out when he ran and tilted to one side, and some of the flames were not big in the first place, and they were directly blown out by this strong wind.

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

Blackie screamed as he ran to signal Andy to follow, and after running for a while, he suddenly realized that he had suddenly broken into an extremely wide space, and the left and right of the beep boy could only light up the darkness, and he could no longer see the walls on both sides as before, which meant that he had entered a new area.

Just when he wondered why this place had become very wide, a burst of blue light suddenly came out in the distance, followed by an electric lamp in the sky suddenly and orderly, and then the light completely illuminated the place, it turned out that the surrounding area was actually a completely hollowed out underground square, and there was not even a load-bearing pillar for support, the left and right sides seemed to be hundreds of meters wide, and the dome above the head was dozens of meters high, and it was made of a silver-gray metal, and the feet were no longer stones, but the same material floor.

Blackie roared straight ahead, and Andy saw that under the reflection of the blue light, there were about five or six figures slowly moving forward, and after a while, they disappeared into the blue light.

He saw that Xiao Hei stopped in a restless circle, so he had to stop in place and look around, everything in the vicinity was made of a silver-gray metal, there were tables, chairs, cabinets, and some oddly shaped consoles or things like huge walls, these walls were embedded with a lot of huge cylinders made of metal, and there were some broken under the walls, like transparent spindles with metal trim with the tips facing up, but these spindle containers had been broken, There was nothing left in it.

"That's amazing."

The sound of measles came from behind, and Andy was startled, always wondering when this guy would appear next to him, and there was no sound at all.

"Do you see what this is?"

Measles stretched out his hand and drew a circle.

"Some kind of underground research facility?"

Andy hesitated to come to this conclusion.

"Yes and no."

Measles picks up a piece of metal on the ground, which appears to belong to a mechanical object.

"Don't you think this is like a spaceship that crashed into the ground in the distant past? Or rather, for some reason it's embedded in the rocks underground. ”

Andy looked around in surprise, if you think about it from this angle, this place is really a little bit similar, and he directly thought of the UFO that was tracking them in the sky before, a silver-gray metal saucer-shaped flying machine, if it fell into the ground and put itself in it, would it be like this...

Xiao Hei suddenly shouted again, and ran out in one direction first.