Chapter 49: Bomb Disposal

Goddard and Isaac watched in silence as the mass of organic flesh that I don't know how to describe it was constantly changing.

Six arms, a half-deformed body, and a mutilated head grew out of the severed limb section, and the half-body monster struggled to crawl out of its old body like a butterfly out of a cocoon.

"What the hell is this... This ghoul isβ€”" Goddard looked disgusting, his mouth incoherent.

Isaac swapped the laser pistol for batteries and fired at the junction between the newly crawled monster and the swollen corpse, the laser's heat scorched both of them, preventing the newly crawled creature from fully appearing, leaving the lower half of his body in the corpse.

It roared in rage, its dark eyes fixed on Isaac, and its six extremely long arms alternated and moved rapidly, crawling towards where they were standing like a large spider.

Isaac continued to shoot, and the monster moved from side to side, even crawling under the platform for a while and suddenly reappearing to attack.

The two of them could only keep backing away, and when the monster burst in again, Goddard jerked out his 'camera', a device called a white flash, which was originally used for brainwashing experiments, but now became a special control device.

"Close your eyes!" Goddard closed his eyes and shouted and flipped the switch, and a fierce white light lit up violently, but this time the monster instantly rolled out a pair of white inner eyelids in the eyeballs, directly blocking the light.

Isaac closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them again, and when he saw that the situation was wrong, he immediately kicked Goddard, who was still holding the machine still, and narrowly saved him from the monster's hands.

The half-body monster dragging half of the spine crawled with six long arms and was about to stretch out its claws to catch Goddard, but it was empty, it turned its head and turned its attention to Isaac, but the other party raised the laser pistol and fired repeatedly, the monster rolled around on the ground, the hot red laser can cause high damage to it, and even several lasers hit the junction between the arm and the body to burn it.

The monster spewed out a mouthful of filthy blood to interrupt Isaac's attack, and was about to take advantage of Isaac's vision obscured by the blood, Goddard, who had just gotten up next to him, half-crouched on the ground and raised a strange little 'gun', and the muzzle of the gun shot out a strange ammunition connected to the line, inserted into the monster's body, and then Goddard pressed the switch, and a strong electric current entered the monster's body along the line, twitching its electric body.

Isaac, who finally wiped off the blood, raised the laser pistol in his hand this time and fired while approaching forward, the monster was trapped by the current and couldn't move, so he could only eat the laser, and after a while, all his arms were shot off, and his body was burned out of a lot of carbonized holes.

Dr. Goddard dropped the small gun in his hand, and the batteries inside had drained all their power in a very short time.

"What is this? I've never seen a monster like this, not even in the barriers created by Unification and the Enclave, in the bases that are stacked with the corpses of individuals who have failed FEV infection... Disgusting. Isaac wanted to replenish the gun, but found that the battery was gone, so he had to give up.

"Anyway, leave it alone, that bomb-like thing down there must be defused as soon as possible, quick!" The two left behind the freckles and took the elevator to the launch platform, this launch platform is made of high-grade concrete, there is a groove on it for fixing the rocket, there are several fixtures around the groove to clamp the rocket, if the rocket is not released in advance, it will definitely make the rocket damaged and explode, according to its structure, these fixtures are not at all. Disarmed' option, the only way to get the rocket to lift off is to use a specific code to trigger the small-yield bomb inside it and destroy it.

Underneath that groove is not solid, but has a two-way channel that drains the hot gases and flames that eject from under the rocket during engine start-up.

None of this is the point, the point is... The two of them hurried to the strange device, and after observing it for a while, they were both convinced that it was a bomb.

And the bomb has already been set up, and it will explode in about twenty minutes.

"I'm going to try to dismantle it." Isaac volunteered to take out some gadgets and walked over, but Goddard stopped him suspiciously.

"Wait, what the hell are you trying to do that I'm not sure, how did I just see those intruders in the high ground being soldiers of your Brotherhood? Do you want to defuse the bomb or do you want to install it completely, to be sure that it can blow up the rocket completely? Isaac looked at Goddard impatiently, wondering why the bald man had no numbers in his mind.

"You fool keep your suspicions in your heart, it doesn't make any sense! But I can answer one question from you, those intruders are indeed Brotherhood soldiers, but they belong to an extremist faction, and I am not one of them, and I am risking being investigated for coming here to help you, is that enough? Goddard didn't understand very well, in his eyes the Brotherhood of Steel was a bunch of rebel bandits, and there was no need to divide one faction into another.

"Not enough! I'm going to defuse the bomb with you this time! Isaac clenched his fists and tried to give him another punch, but Goddard pulled out the device that emitted white light.

"Don't think about it again, or you won't be able to bear the consequences, if I adjust to the maximum power, you will become dementia for the next month! At this distance, it's useless for you to close your eyes! Hearing Goddard's announcement, Isaac endured and endured without a seizure.

"Well, if you want to show off your backward skill level then come on, but if you're dragging your feet and hurting us all, then I'm going to get you a good night's sleep before it's all undone." The two of them gathered together with disdain for each other and began to study the bomb, but on the high platform, the downed freckles had almost recovered, the places where the laser burned had grown, and the missing lower half of the body had also grown.

The dark eyeballs flashed again, and it crawled up and looked around in confusion for the enemy's tracks, and finally looked down to see Isaac and Goddard, the monster crawling straight over the metal railing in a daze, and then falling straight from the air.

The two men, who were arguing over whether to cut a wire, were startled by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, and turned to see Freckles struggling to get up from the ground, with multiple fractures all over its body, and a large amount of foul, glowing blood pouring out of its body, making the Geiger counter that Goddard and Isaac carried with them ring.

"Damn it, why can't this thing be killed?!" Goddard stepped back, and Isaac glanced at the laser pistol that had no ammunition on his body, and instead pulled out a few electromagnetic grenades and threw them at the monster, the explosion that stopped the monster's steps, but it was only for a moment.

At the critical moment, a sturdy figure suddenly ran over, in a way that could not feel the recoil, each holding an automatic rifle in both hands and shooting wildly at the monster, the monster's beaten body was crooked and did not dare to continue to eat bullets, so he could only hurriedly climb to the diversion groove under the launch platform to dodge, and the sturdy figure ordered the people around him to start searching, and when the monster retreated, the two found that it was actually a big bear.

"Are you all right?" Big Bear took turns reloading the two rifles in his hand, vigilantly looking around for traces of monsters.

After dealing with a few Steel Ring scouts near the gate who wanted to break through with the stealth boy, Big Bear immediately took a part of the gang to go over to reinforce in the direction of the sound that came from before, but he didn't expect to see such a dangerous scene when he passed by the launch platform halfway, and two extremely important scientists were about to be attacked by a monster with a terrifying appearance, so he hurriedly took action.

"It's fine, but it's the bomb that matters." Goddard pointed to the square object attached to the rocket, and the bear looked at the back with a sinking color.

"Please dismantle it as soon as possible, and I'll help you buy time." With that, he followed the sound of gunfire in the diversion trough.

When the bear arrived, he saw that the monster had almost turned into a strange plant, limp in a corner, swelling several times in size, and a large number of slender 'limbs' and undulating bulges sticking out of its body.

Several members of the Rocket Gang were firing at it, but the bullets didn't feel any change when they got in.

One of the gang suddenly had a nosebleed, and the big bear looked at the Geiger counter he took out, and with the sound he could tell that the radiation here was rapidly rising to an extremely terrifying level, and he immediately asked everyone to back away, but he stayed here.

Radiation can't harm super mutants because FEV has restructured his genes. The bear fired two more bullets at the monster, still to no avail.

He simply dropped the gun and pulled out his bear claw gloves.

"What the hell is this strange thing?" muttered the Great Bear, a claw slicing through the monster's thick outer skin and slicing off several limbs along the way, with layers of bullets embedded in the cortex, and something like an embryo in the depths.

He raised his paw and was about to pierce it, the embryo-like thing seemed to have sense, jerked suddenly, and actually opened a cloudy black 'eye', and after seeing the big bear, a stream of dirty blood squirted, and the big bear hurriedly raised his arm to block the dirt from entering the eye, but just like that, the strange embryo suddenly broke free of the afterbirth coat and ran out again.

The bear followed the wet blood stains on the ground all the way into the dark depths in the center of the diversion trough, and as soon as he entered, the bear felt that something was wrong, and there was obviously a lot of moving in the darkness.

He turned on his flashlight and saw that it was actually a few wild ghouls, I don't know what age it was, the clothes on their bodies were rotten, maybe the people who happened to be here before the war entered this place to avoid the aftermath of the nuclear bomb, but this was not a protective bunker at all, and the radiation value here must have been very high during the war, so some people became skeletons in the corner, and the rest became wild ghouls.

The monster was preying on the ghouls, eating a shriveled ghoul in a few bites like chewing a biscuit, and its body was growing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The bear tried to run over to stop it, but the two ghouls rushed over and pounced on him, their dirty teeth biting on the thick green skin of the bear, leaving not even a single bite mark at all, and the bear killed the two ghouls at will with his bear claw fist and elbow, only to see that the monster had grown to about the same size as him after eating three or four ghouls.

A large number of limbs grew indiscriminately on the monster's body, and the pair of pitch-black eyeballs on the head stared at the big bear, and its body gradually emitted a bright green light, and it suddenly let out an angry roar upwards, and its whole body suddenly emitted an extremely bright and intense light, which even temporarily illuminated the space here, revealing the huge circular engine vent of the Hermes rocket above their heads.

The surrounding ghouls instantly began to get excited, as if they were injected with vitality, and their bodies began to glow and swell, and even the two mad ghouls who had been killed by the big bear shook and got up from the ground.

Geiger's counter was almost out of the charts, but fortunately, the big bear didn't care about radiation damage at all, he wielded the bear claw fist gloves with flexible steps to perfectly exert the power that the highly developed muscles on his body could burst out, while making the mad ghouls flutter in the air with his bewildering footsteps while tearing the approaching mad ghouls apart, when he finally approached the monster that was screaming and glowing violently, he did not hesitate to insert the arm wearing a sharp metal claw sleeve into the monster's violently beating heart, and then pulled it out, A large amount of glowing blood gushed out.

The light that illuminates the darkness is gradually extinguished... As Big Bear dragged the monster corpse with a large hole in his chest out of the diversion trough, the Rocket Gang members raised their weapons and let out cheers.

"Get some fuel!" Big Bear tells the agitated Rocket Gang not to go near the corpse, as the corpse still has a lot of radiation left, and they should quickly find fuel and use the hot flames to completely burn the almost unkillable monster to ashes.

He looked at the location of the bomb beneath the rocket, and the two scientists were nervously disposing of it.

"We should cut the line." Goddard made a suggestion, pointing to a wire.

"Are you sure?" Isaac looked at him with a knife in hand.

"If you cut it wrong, the bomb might explode immediately." Goddard's face was determined.

"I've seen the construction of this bomb, and I can't go wrong with that." Isaac asked a few detailed questions, and Goddard answered them fluently, which made his face full of surprise, because although he did see the construction diagram of the similar bomb and was sure that there was a good probability that there would be no mistake in doing so, but it was found in the crypto tribe's kiva, and the bald man said that he had seen the construction diagram of the bomb, and where did he see it?

Thinking of the glowing device he took out earlier, he was really more and more curious. The knife slowly cuts down, and the bomb's countdown stops, and then the countdown display goes off.

The two of them took some effort to dismantle the bomb and hand it to Big Bear, just as the Rocket Gang members also found some biofuel from New Canaan, and Big Bear dragged the monster's body away from the rocket to douse it with biofuel and dropped the bomb on it.

At that moment, the corpse, which looked like it was dead, twitched again, and the bear fired several shots at it, and then threw a lighter far away.

The flames engulfed the monster in an instant, and soon the bomb was detonated, leaving the monster with no bones left.

Big Bear had just breathed a sigh of relief when a Rocket gang suddenly came to report.

"The boss is fighting a big monster!"