The Void Pathfinder from the Demon Hunter World

"Why?"

Anita asked in surprise. She didn't believe that the bounty hunter in front of her was so kind.

"The cultists built a base at Clancy Manor, west of the Toxic Valley. A week ago, McAllen and I took it down. Since they still have accomplices, I have to eliminate the trouble."

This is the truth. In addition to the mission requirements, it is also very necessary to cut the grass and root it out.

Who knows if there will be a new high priest or leader.

Anita was a little unconvinced. She stared at Marvin for several seconds before slowly nodding.

Robert broke the awkwardness: "You have to ask the supervisor for the specific location. I don't have it."

Marvin nodded and agreed: "Okay, I will go to Sutton Town to find her myself."

Robert asked again: "When will the Brotherhood of Steel go?"

Marvin calculated the time and said: "Let's meet here in the morning in 3 days and go to the Atlas Observatory together."

Because he wanted to conceal the fact that he could teleport over long distances, Marvin deliberately extended the time to 3 days.

"I'm afraid not." Lily suddenly said, "When things are over here, this base will be evacuated."

Lily led the material collection and logistics team and had her own work plan.

Robert spread his hands to show that his words did not count.

"Then at noon three days later," Marvin said indifferently, "Let's meet directly at the Atlas Observatory."

Robert Vaughn nodded: "Okay, that's it."

...

The next morning, Marvin came out of the underground base, took off the arm armor on his left arm, put on the Pip Boy, walked to the nearby town of Sutton, and knocked on the supervisor's door.

The cat's eye on the door flashed.

Marvin took a step back so that the people inside could see him clearly.

The door opened, and the gray-haired middle-aged woman smiled and said, "Hi, Marvin, long time no see."

"About ten days, not that long."

"What's up?"

"Lucky Mine."

The supervisor held the door with one hand, frowned and asked, "How do you know about Lucky Mine?"

"Clancy Manor west of Toxic Valley, you must know it."

The supervisor nodded.

"The dark faction of the Mothman Cult built a base there, capturing humans around to worship evil gods. The people from the crater and I took it down. I found the name of Lucky Mine in their scriptures. I have to clean up the trouble."

The supervisor opened the door.

"Come in."

Marvin glanced at her right hand holding a 10mm pistol behind her back, but didn't care.

This thing posed no threat to him now.

The supervisor put away his pistol openly and sat opposite Marvin on the coffee table. She asked directly: "What are you going to do?"

"Rush in and kill them all. What else can I do? Oh, by the way, I also killed the cultists in Point Plain. The last batch is in the Lucky Mine."

The supervisor raised his eyebrows and quickly returned to normal. She thought for a moment and reminded: "It may not be simple in there. We lost a whole team in it."

"I have seen Mothman. He can control human consciousness on a large scale. He is really not easy to mess with."

"Walter? There is really a Mothman? Then you..."

"In fact, it is just a big moth, bigger than a human, with some special abilities." Marvin pushed everything onto the Mothman-Avenger, and continued to make up stories: "My family is very old and has some special abilities... So, I am not easy to mess with, so I am alive and the Mothman is dead."

Since these people in the shelter don't know about the "intruder", he doesn't plan to say it.

The supervisor was silent. She understood Marvin's words, which were threats.

Either cooperate well, it's good for you, me and everyone, or just touch him, he's not easy to mess with.

He was a little annoyed by Anita's repeated probing, but threatening a woman who was not very experienced in the world was not only boring, but might also have the opposite effect.

Then take this opportunity to directly put pressure on the supervisor.

He really wanted to cooperate with the shelter, but it didn't mean he had to be humble.

In most cases, the weaker you act, the easier it is to lose the opportunity to cooperate.

No one wants to cooperate with a "coward".

The supervisor finally nodded in agreement: "Okay, wait a moment."

She got up and walked into the basement. When she returned, she was holding a slightly damaged Pip-Boy.

The supervisor opened the Pip-Boy and handed it over, saying: "This is the location of the Lucky Mine."

Marvin took it, looked at the map displayed on it, pulled out the data cable on his side, and connected it.

[Prompt: Other terminals have been connected, valid data found, do you want to download? ] [Yes] [No]

Select Yes.

[Prompt: Downloading external data...]

[Prompt: Download completed. 】

The data was very little, only the map was updated, with a few more locations, including the "Lucky Mine".

Marvin took back the data cable and returned the Pip-Boy, saying, "Okay, I'll leave now."

"Marvin..." The supervisor stood up and said, "My children may be a little immature. If they offend you, please show mercy."

Marvin sighed and replied, "Okay, I will."

"In addition..." The supervisor hesitated and reminded again and again: "Be careful, safety is the most important."

Marvin's mouth twitched, this woman is really good-tempered.

"I won't die so easily, goodbye."

...

After getting the location of the Lucky Mine, I have to go to the Rusty Pickaxe Town to withdraw the bounty.

Who knows, there is news in the Rusty Pickaxe Town.

A scavenger with a yellow face and skinny body was waiting for him in the lobby on the first floor.

According to the Mole Man, he had been waiting for a whole day.

Marvin originally wanted the scavenger to take him with him, but the man refused to do so and only told him the approximate location of the mine.

The red-eyed white-robed priest, the irrational cultists, captured wild animals and humans and brought them back to the mine. Everything matched.

Most importantly, the location he said matched the location Marvin had just obtained.

The skinny scavenger trembled when he was mentioned, and looked very scared.

Marvin always took the commission seriously, whether it was a commission given to him by others or he gave it to others.

Since the location given by the scavenger was correct, he would naturally pay the full amount.

120 bottle caps, 100 for the scavenger and 20 for the Mole Man. Minus the deposit already paid, a total of 70 bottle caps were paid.

This is quite a coincidence. When there is no news, there is no news everywhere. When there is news, there is news on both sides.

…

The "Lucky Mine" was originally the No. 4 mine of the Hornlight Mining Company. It was gradually abandoned before the war due to the exhaustion of coal resources inside.

And because it was one of the key mines of the Hornlight Company in the early days, the safety facilities and internal structures were well built, so it did not collapse in the nuclear explosion.

Later, major mining companies became more and more crazy, so they would not spend money on these things.

"Mine accidents" are a tradition that Western industrial countries have long had.

You can't go in a straight line from Rusty Pick Town to the Lucky Mine, or it would be slower to go in a straight line.

Marvin went down the mountain first and returned to the AVR Medical Center, which was the hospital where he killed the super mutant for the first time.

Then he went southwest along the road and the railway line, and went up the mountain again along the road to reach it. Note ①

On the way, we passed a dilapidated amusement park, which was quite lively inside. A small gang of predators was playing real-life CS with the scorched people in the amusement park.

After passing the amusement park, we passed two buildings along the road up the mountain, "Hornwright Mining Experimental Base".

There were many placards and scorched men left in the parking lot in front of the building.

Well, the weapons used by the scorched men to attack Marvin were these placards.

"Miners also have to support their families!"

"Resist mining robots!"

"We want to work!"

"Capitalists who drink human blood!"

No matter which world, this set of things is indispensable in this land of "freedom and democracy".

However, the protest march of the "miners" may never have any results.

...

The twisted and upward-growing tree roots pushed open the mining rails and tightly wrapped around the mine carts.

The rails were almost full of wooden stakes, and the corpses of people or animals were scattered under the wooden stakes.

The dark red totem of the Mothman was painted on the cement wall outside the mine.

The skinny cultists had bloodshot eyes, either worshiping the totem or wandering unconsciously between the wooden stakes.

Maybe it's been too long since there were fresh sacrifices, so the smell of blood and decay here is not strong.

Marvin looked at his mana bar.

[Energy (Chaos Mana): 1347/1512]

The battle with the Scorched Beast the day before yesterday consumed less than 500 mana. After less than two days of rest and daily meditation, it is almost full.

Since the spiritual attribute has been raised to more than 40, Marvin is not short of mana.

He didn't have many skills that cost mana.

He pinched his left hand and made a "Quenn Seal". Without any other preparation, Marvin started the hunting time.

These cultists who are no different from beasts are slightly inferior to the Scorched Beasts, and they don't even have many guns.

They can still stay in this corner because the benefits of killing them are too low and there are not enough bullets to waste.

Marvin wiped the blood off the knife, threw away the linen cloth in his hand, and walked towards the cave entrance.

Bang, a ball of black smoke exploded at the cave entrance.

Feathery tentacles, red compound eyes, a fat belly, and four scaly wings spread out, it was the Mothman - the Avenger.

The lightbulb-like compound eyes stared coldly ahead, as if saying: "Get lost."

However, Marvin was no longer there.

He would not wait for the enemy to pose.

After seeing clearly what the enemy was, he immediately teleported behind the other party and cut off four wings with two slashes.

Then he kicked the big moth in the back and raised his hand to use the "Alder Seal - Bone-piercing".

The Mothman fell to the ground with a plop and scurried out more than a meter.

Marvin jumped to the side of the Mothman, raised his knife and skillfully cut off the monster's head.

[The Mothman Avenger has been killed. ]

He picked up the moth's tentacles and waited for the blood to drain.

He was familiar with it, and the head he chopped off this time was much better than last time.

It is easy to judge from the written materials of the two factions of the Mothman Cult that there is more than one Mothman, and it seems that there is a distinction between good and evil.

But it was still a bit surprising to encounter it again.

What kind of existence is this thing? How is it produced?

What should I do if I encounter 2 or more at the same time next time?

There was no reward after submitting it, so Marvin planned to show this head to the people in the shelter and attribute the supernatural phenomenon to the Mothman again.

He gave the reason and the murderer. As for whether the supervisor Robert and others believe it, it depends on whether they want to continue to cooperate.

…

When I walked into the mine, the learning machine popped up a prompt.

[Task prompt: "Mothman Cult (Fourth Ring)" has been completed. The reward will be settled after all links are completed. ]

[Task prompt: Mothman Cult (fifth ring). Find the intruder. Mission time limit: 5 hours. ]

When Marvin first saw these two prompts, he hesitated.

Should he be cowardly and let the mission fail, or rush in?

He didn't know what the intruder was, nor did he know how strong the intruder was, but he should be very strong.

Judging from the direction of the previous mission, the last link might be to kill the intruder.

The learning machine will not issue a mission that must be killed?

This is just his guess, who knows if it is right?

You may die if you rush in!

The experience of two lifetimes flashed through his mind...

Is cowardly really useful?

If this mission fails, how severe is the punishment? Will he be "forced to execute"?

Cowardly can't solve the problem, whether you advance or retreat, you may die...

Then... why do you still cowardly?

Although he used some simple strategies in his life, most of his current strength was gained by rushing in.

Die?

It's not like he hasn't died before, so if he dies, he dies.

After signing the contract and choosing this path, he has no chance of turning back.

Marvin pulled a smile on his lips and walked into the dark mine.

…

Luckily, the mine has a complex terrain and is very dark.

Fortunately, there is a map function, otherwise Marvin would have gotten lost.

The map of the learning machine is not just a large map, but also detailed maps such as indoor maps and underground maps.

The detailed map is not available at the beginning, and he needs to walk through it once, which is a bit like the fog of war in the game.

Marvin had a large map of all Appalachia and most of the places and place names at the beginning, which were all data downloaded from other PI boys.

There are not many cultists in the cave, only about twenty in total.

Maybe the high priest has been away for too long and no one is managing it.

Marvin killed all the way and explored deep into the cave.

The deeper into the mine, the more abundant the magic energy around.

But unlike the magic energy in the Demon Hunter Continent, the magic energy here is cold and obscure, but it also contains a little vitality.

In a huge mine deep underground...

Broken iron sheets and steel frames formed a strange circular array in the center of the cave. A throne made of iron frames and bones stood behind the array, and messy tree roots drilled out from the top of the cave.

This should have been the sacrificial site of the Mothman Cult.

[Hint: Under mental attack, mental attribute determination in progress...mental attribute is higher than 7, determination passed. Willpower determination in progress...determination successful. You are immune to this mental attack. ]

Marvin was groping in the spacious cave with the "illumination magic" light ball on his head.

This cave has 5 forks, one of which is the way to come, and the other 4 are also wrong.

The mental attack he received became a guide.

If the road is wrong, the value of the determination will be reduced; if it is right, it should be increased, right?

A pile of weeds that he had not paid attention to before attracted Marvin's attention.

Wading through the weeds, he found that there was something wrong with the cave wall behind him. Although the color was similar to the surrounding stones, it was not actually a stone, but a pile of intertwined tree roots.

He took out the short knife "Wu De Pike" and cut off the tree roots, revealing the cave hidden behind.

The cave is just big enough for one person to pass through, and Marvin has to lower his head to get through, which is a bit awkward.

Fortunately, this section is not long, only more than 20 meters.

The following is a naturally formed cave, with no traces of artificial excavation, and the cave goes all the way down.

[Hint: Under mental attack, mental attribute determination is in progress... Mental attribute is higher than 15, the determination is passed. Willpower determination is in progress... The determination is successful. You are immune to this mental attack. ]

It seems that the direction is right this time...

...

Note ①: In order to make the plot reasonable, I changed the location of the lucky mine. The lucky mine in the game is on the east side of the ash pile, close to the resistance fortress, and I changed it to the west.