Chapter 5: If there are ghosts
In a flash of cold light, a Green Guard soldier took out a battle dagger and cut the palm of the protector, and the other soldier raised his leg and kicked the palm of the hand together with the grenade he was holding inside, and at the same time raised his hand to fire, the protector was shot in the face and staggered a step, and then was pierced through the skull by the dagger and killed on the spot, and the moment the body fell, the kicked grenade also exploded in the distance, and the two soldiers and Andy were unscathed.
Andy watched this scene and could only shout in his heart.
So agile, so decisive, so skilled, the weapons and armor in their hands are all first-class goods, to say that there is any armed team in the wasteland that can be comparable to the Grimm Guards, it will be really difficult to find for a while, Andy feels that the NcR army is slightly inferior in terms of individual soldier quality, unless it is compared with the rangers of the Ranger unit, as for other organizations, the quality of the soldiers of the Brotherhood of Steel can be compared, and the rest is the enclave army that Andy has only heard of but has never seen with his own eyes, Their soldiers are rumored to be even better than those of the Brotherhood.
Even if human soldiers enlist early and start training, they can only be trained for a few years, and the number of veterans who happen to participate in a few battles is also rare, once they are over forty, the physical fitness of human soldiers begins to decline rapidly, and these ghouls in front of them have no such restrictions at all, if they are put in the NcR army, they are all enough to serve as senior officers, hundred-year veterans, this is almost a dream word for humans, after all, it is difficult for ordinary people to live for a hundred years.
Colonel Green's only problem with their team is the numbers, the ghouls can't reproduce, and the new blood can only be absorbed by the ghouls who defect later, and they have to choose the best from these ghouls, and when they pull people, they also have to face a competition with Clark in terms of ideological appeal.
It's no wonder that Colonel Green couldn't bear it, as time passed, Clarke's power was growing rapidly, while he was the opposite.
The battle in Level 3 lasted for more than ten minutes, and the Dharma Protectors who were cornered finally chose to blow themselves up.
The group of people quickly approached the destination, and as they walked, they saw a person appear in front of them.
The skin of his face was folded and prolapsed, almost falling to the ground, and such an ugly ghoul in a white coat sat there with his head bowed alone, and should have been shot and killed by the soldiers in an instant, but no one did so at this moment, because the ghoul in front of him was very famous in the reservation, he was Dr. Sebastian, one of Clark's most trusted people, and his only assistant.
Colonel Green gestured for the others to stop.
"Sebastian, be wise to surrender quickly, go to my hands and do something real, don't continue to waste your efforts for Clark's stupid dreams, you only have this chance."
Dr. Sebastian snorted a few times, then let out a groky choking cry as he had two jars beside him, both empty, one unaware of what had been in it, and the other rolling on the ground, emitting some glowing liquid.
Colonel Green frowned, and was about to order the guy who stood in the way to be killed, but saw Dr. Sebastian stand up suddenly, and began to vomit violently, a large amount of glowing blood gushed out of his mouth, this guy's facial features were wrinkled, tearing his clothes in pain, his nails left deep scratches on the flesh, and after his white coat was torn by himself, the exposed upper body gradually changed.
Andy's eyes widened, and Dr. Sebastian's scarred, wrinkled, scarred, skin-leaking skin was constantly emerging one small skeleton after another silhouettes that moved through his body like ghosts and ghosts, as if trying to break through his flesh and run out, and Dr. Sebastian's body was constantly expanding under this inside-out force.
"Ah!! ——”
Dr. Sebastian screamed uncontrollably, and a strong green light continued to leak from his body.
"Fire!"
Colonel Green gave the order, and the soldiers raised their weapons and fired at Dr. Sebastian, the bullets completely covering his body like a downpour, and in a moment they were shattered into a pulp.
The flesh and blood that fell to the ground gradually bulged one after another' The bubbles of these flesh and blood gradually became uneven, forming one fist-sized skeleton after another, these small skeletons let out a sharp cry, crawled out of the flesh and mud, and in an instant grew limbs and torsos, and in a few steps, its volume quickly expanded to the size of a child, and its face was full of resentment.
The soldiers did not hesitate in the slightest, and immediately turned their attacks to those strange flesh monsters, and the bullets continued to disintegrate the monsters that escaped into a mass of flesh, but the flesh quickly reassembled into a skeleton wrapped in red and green gravy and climbed up again.
"Blow them up!"
Colonel Green took out a grenade with one hand, bit down the safety with his teeth and threw it, and several soldiers took out their grenades and raised their muzzles to fire grenades, and the explosives exploded violently, blowing up all the monsters that kept running again.
The stench of burnt flesh and blood spread, and in a cloud of smoke, several more figures rushed out, these figures were in tatters, their skin was open, and many sharp bones came out of their bodies, and they were scratching and stabbing as soon as they got close, and several soldiers were knocked to the ground before they could dodge, and the other soldiers immediately dragged back the wounded and used their rifle butts and daggers to block the attacks of these monsters.
Andy decisively activated the V mode dual-gun shooting, and those bloody monsters were beaten softly, and the soldiers who reacted hurriedly retreated in unison while using the automatic rifles in their hands to strafe.
Colonel Green gritted his teeth as he looked at the monsters that were constantly being beaten but couldn't be killed, and suddenly shouted to a few ghoul soldiers behind him with large packages on their backs.
"Get all the flamethrowers out!"
The ghouls were wearing something similar to an improvised exoskeleton to provide the strength to carry a huge package and follow the group, and after hearing Colonel Green's order, they crouched down on the spot to untie the package, took out several flamethrowers and passed them to several Grimm Guard soldiers, who carried fuel canisters and ran to the monsters to start breathing fire.
The raging flames drowned the monsters that kept coming back, and these monsters all let out screams, constantly changing their forms in the flames, and for a moment the scene in front of them was as terrible as purgatory, the directly burning metal ground was scorched and melted, and the air was hot and numb, and those monsters finally subsided, completely turning into lumps of charcoal, and there was no more movement.
Colonel Green looked at the coke and suddenly vomited with his hands on his knees.
"Vomit..... Damn it.... Vomit... cough cough cough .... It's really not human.... Vomit... Iniquity..."
I don't know if it's an illusion, Andy looked at the burnt areas, and in a trance he could hear a baby-like cry.
String clutched her chest for a moment of discomfort, and Andy grabbed her hand and comforted her for a while.
She asked, coughing.
"Those... Are those babies? What's going on? ”
Andy felt that it was a long story, and he could only pick out some important explanations.
"Remember Colonel Green saying they were 'science geeks'? Those monsters were their artificially created ghoul babies, they were originally implanted in artificial wombs and nurtured in the bodies of living humans, and now the ghouls should have taken these babies out because they felt hopeless... I guess he also drank some high-radiation liquids, and the ghouls that made up reacted to radiation..."
Xian waved her hand again and again to indicate that she didn't want to continue listening.
Colonel Green vomited for a few minutes and asked everyone to move on and be sure to deal with Clark once and for all.
After a while, the soldiers at the front reported a new situation, and all entrances to Dr. Clark's bedroom were blocked by purple standing walls, which were so strong that neither bullets nor explosives could shake them.
Xian looked at the purple light, pondered for a moment, and made a judgment.
"This... It was supposed to be an energy barrier created by using pre-war solid light technology, and it would be extremely strong to destroy it by physical means, and it would not work at all. The only way to do this is to cut off the energy supply, which disappears in an instant when there is no supply. ”
Colonel Green was silent for a moment, but after a while seemed to have made a decision.
"I have a solution."
He found a soldier to say a few words, and the soldier saluted and ran away.
Seeing Andy's curious eyes, Colonel Green explained.
"I said that I used to be the head of security here, and the designers designed this place before the war with a problem in mind, such a large base energy that could be hit by a nuclear bomb must be supplied by a nuclear reactor, but if there is an accident at the nuclear reactor, the underground nuclear arsenal is likely to be affected and exploded, and then the entire underground bunker will be blown up."
"To avoid this, the reactors on the reserve are fitted with a protective shell, which limits the power of the reactor explosion to a certain area, which means that we can cut off the power supply to these walls without being harmed."
Andy nodded, then a question came to mind.
"But if the reactor explodes and the elevator can't work anymore, won't we be trapped here?"
Colonel Green had obviously thought of this a long time ago, and just smiled.
String tugged at Andy's arm to the side.
"There must be a backup reactor at a pre-war facility of this level, maybe more than one, and even if the power is reduced, the energy to maintain simple facilities such as elevators and gates can still be provided, so there is no need to worry at all."
Less than half an hour later, with a dull roar, the wall of stance vanished.
"Rush!"
The soldiers soon arrived near Dr. Clark's bedroom door, several soldiers took out the high-explosive bombs that had been prepared for a long time, and after installing them, everyone retreated to a safe area, and the soldiers pressed the starter and detonated the explosives installed on the door at the same time, with an explosion, Dr. Clark's last defense was also breached, and the dark and mysterious bedroom was exposed.
Colonel Green was the first to turn on the flashlight and rush in.
"Clark! William Clark! Where are you? Stop hiding! ”
He kicked through some of the clutter around him, and finally saw a man lying on the small bed.
Colonel Green slowly lowered his pistol, and for a moment a thousand thoughts came to his mind, this little back was undoubtedly Dr. Clark, the sweater he was wearing was even the style he liked before the war, fifty years had passed since he was last seen in the reservation, and he had been living in seclusion in this dark and closed room in the deepest part of the underground bunker in Level 3 for fifty years?
It's unbelievable.
He glanced around, and saw nothing for entertainment, only some food and household items, and a device for video communication, the camera of the device was specially adjusted, and according to the previous situation, it could only be inferred that it could only shine on the mouth, and the most other than that were all kinds of books, these books are now hard to find, but they can be called precious, but ^_^ what does it mean?
While Colonel Green was pondering, a soldier leaned over and whispered.
"Level 3 has not found those important targets, there are traces of the emergency escape exits being activated, according to the surveillance records retrieved, all three people have already left here, do you want to send someone to chase them?"
He waved his hand indifferently, since William Clark was in front of him, it didn't matter whether his 'children' were dead or alive.
Andy stared at the monumental scene in front of him.
Dr. William Clark, the chief scientist of the Los Alamos military base before the war and the self-proclaimed draugr messian, who has been treated almost like a god on the reservation after the war, and all his subordinates are either killed or fled at this moment; And his enemy, Colonel Green, the pre-war chief of security and the highest commander of the garrison at Los Alamos, a serious senior officer of the SA, has already led troops into his bedroom and blocked him in his bed, what else will Dr. Clark do in the face of this situation? What else would you say?
No one stepped forward, leaving time for Colonel Green and Dr. Clark.
Colonel Green took off the steel helmet on top of his head and threw it on the floor with a thud, and Dr. Clark, who was lying on the bed, turned his back to him, and moved slightly when he heard the voice, but still did not turn over.
"Clark! Don't you dare to face me? ”
There was some disappointment in his tone, and he withdrew the pistol in his holster.
"I thought I would come in and see a corpse that had died by suicide, or a guy with a gun holding his own nonsense and trying to resist to the end, but what happened? What do I see? An idiot who pretends to sleep with his back to me? ”
Dr. Clark remained motionless in that position, faintly emitting some strange grunts.
Colonel Green walked over, and suddenly noticed a small table in the darkness next to the bed, on which lay a tray, all of which were syringes and test tubes for medicines, some of which were clearly used.
He fiddled a few times, clutching an empty syringe and complaining sarcastically.
"I mean, you're not pretending to be asleep, you're hiding, aren't you? William Clark, is it really you, forbidding others to use drugs, but you are snorting every day? Very good, in line with my vision for you. ”
He tossed the syringe in his hand, and it slammed into the back of Dr. Clark's head, and this time he finally rolled over and got up.
With an unnatural convulsion like epileptic limbs, the hunched back of the ghoul stood up from the bed, his face revealed in the light of the flashlights around him, the upper half of his face completely ulcerated, only the face near the mouth was intact.
Andy was shocked to see it, so that's why he only showed his mouth in his past communications?
Colonel Green was even more stunned on the spot, this face was too different from what he imagined, his first reaction was whether it was just a false stand-in in front of him, but after carefully distinguishing it for a while, he dispelled this guess again, the person in front of him was indeed his 'old friend'.
"You... Clark, what's the matter with you? ”
Dr. Clark was unable to answer, he stared blankly at Colonel Green, his mouth purring and muttering involuntarily, and after a moment he slowly turned his head to look at Andy and the two chords, and then looked straight at them.
"Goo.... Drink.... Roar! ——”
Dr. Clark roared and rushed towards the two, Colonel Green had not yet reacted, and the other soldiers did not dare to act without receiving orders, Andy pushed the string behind him, and then without hesitation, he raised the python and pulled the trigger on Dr. Clark's head.
After a gunshot, the headless body collapsed into the darkness.