Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Chapter 519 The Polluted City (13)

The journey to the third floor of the hospital was quite smooth. Apart from the room where the backup generator was located, the third floor was basically filled with medical equipment cabins that required a lot of power support. There were no regular wards, so relatively speaking, there were almost no people on the third floor. However, there were some crazy townspeople dressed as doctors wandering around. Except for a few doctors in the corridor, the others were basically in the rooms. The cabins where these medical equipment were located basically used electric doors, so they were much stronger than ordinary ward doors, and they could not be opened without power, so it was a good thing. However, apart from Adenauer who knew the situation inside, the old policemen Juan and Madison were not aware of it.

There didn't seem to be any special guys on the third floor of the hospital, and those few scattered wanderers couldn't be Adenauer's opponents, so it didn't take long for them to come to the location of the backup generator. After some operation, the backup generator was almost fully prepared, but it couldn't be started at present, because a specific password was required to start this generator.

"Miss Madison, do you know the code needed to activate this backup generator?"

"I really don't know. I've been in this town for so long, and this backup generator has hardly been used. There was only a brief power outage a year ago when an earthquake occurred. It was restarted once at that time, but I've never been to the third floor of the hospital, so I don't know who has the password."

"Okay, by the way, you can throw away that backpack."

"But don't you still need to use the samples inside for experiments? Isn't this why we came to the hospital... What's going on?"

Madison was a little confused about Adenauer's sudden change of topic. She was right. The reason why the three of them came to the hospital was to use the hospital's medical equipment to test the police officers' body samples. So Madison subconsciously took a look at the backpack she was carrying, which contained the samples. She found that the lower part of the bag she was carrying was torn into a big hole, and the things inside were missing. She didn't know where they fell.

"It should be when we were on the second floor before. We scraped something when we were escaping. It doesn't matter. There are samples everywhere here."

However, Adenauer was not angry, and even said a few words to comfort him. What he said was right. There were available samples everywhere in the hospital, and there were a lot of crazy townspeople. He could even do some live experiments.

However, the premise of everything is to find the password to start the generator first, or other ways to bypass the password. But now Adenauer's focus is actually not on how these townspeople changed. He is more curious about the dead, fully armed guys in the third floor hall behind the backup generator. These people are not soldiers, let alone police, but they are definitely related to the situation in the town. The reason why he didn't go directly to find their location before was because he didn't have a suitable excuse, but now he just needs to find the key to the generator, which is a natural excuse.

"Let's look on the third floor first. When the town loses power, someone from the hospital should come to the third floor to start the backup generator. We can search on the bodies of those guys we killed before who were wandering around on this floor. If we're lucky, we might be able to find the password we need."

The words of the old policeman Juan undoubtedly helped Adenauer, who nodded and agreed with Juan's statement. Madison had no objection. After all, it was undoubtedly safer for her to stay on the third floor where no one was. Although the inside of the hospital was full of dangers and it was pitch black, it was at least much better than the outside where it was raining heavily. At least it was not humid.

Adenauer actually had no hope of finding the password to start the backup generator. As a device that was not part of the doctor's job, it was unlikely to find the password from a doctor. If there were any power workers or maintenance workers around, he could look for them, after all, this job was related to them. Even if some doctors did know the password for the backup generator, as brainworkers, they probably wouldn't write it down on paper and carry it with them. They would probably remember it directly in their heads.

And there is another strange thing, that is, as a backup generator for the hospital, it requires a password to turn it on, which is not right in the first place. After all, if an emergency power outage really happens, if the relevant person in charge is not in the hospital and cannot be contacted temporarily, then this backup generator that requires a password will become a decoration, which is unreasonable.

Finding the password for the backup generator is not one of the tasks in the dungeon, but an optional option. This kind of non-essential optional option, except for an optional task prompt, does not give the specific location of the required props like other tasks. Although Adenauer can use the contractor's equipment to bypass the password and start the generator directly, he is not prepared to do so, which is unexplainable.

So under the pretext of looking for the password, the three of them temporarily left the room where the backup generator was located, and the first direction they looked for was naturally the bodies of the doctors they had killed in the corridor before.

The result was obvious. These people did not have anything related to the password of the backup generator. So the three continued to search and soon, under the leadership of Adenauer, they entered the lobby on the third floor. Under Adenauer's secret guidance, Madison and the old policeman Juan soon "discovered" the bodies of the armed men who died in the lobby on the third floor.

"Where did these guys come from? Why did they die here?"

"It is estimated that they encountered some special townspeople who were mutated, or were influenced and killed each other. Otherwise, with their equipment, it would be more than enough to deal with those townspeople."

After Juan and Madison "discovered" these guys, the three of them naturally changed into their equipment. They didn't need these things anyway, so they might as well give them to useful people. After being armed, Juan and Madison finally felt a little more confident, but Juan still felt very strange about the degree of armament of these guys.

The guys who died in the third-floor hall were wearing combat uniforms made of the same material. Although there were no logos on them, it could be seen from the style of the combat uniforms that they should be standard. Everyone was equipped with bulletproof vests, not ordinary bulletproof vests that require bulletproof inserts, but with a special artificial alloy lining. After the analysis of this artificial alloy by the contractor's equipment, Adenauer understood its specific effect. This artificial alloy is a powerful memory metal that has great protection against impact force, and as long as the same position is not attacked multiple times in a short period of time, these artificial alloys will self-repair and play a bulletproof role again. However, these artificial alloys also have a service life. According to the calculation of the contractor's equipment, it is estimated that they can theoretically block the shooting of one hundred to two hundred bullets.

All of them wore special combat helmets with holographic screens inside, but they were not intelligent targeting systems, but observation equipment with thermal imaging and night vision equipment. There were network nodes inside the helmets that could be linked, probably for communication or something like that, but now these nodes have been deleted, probably because the people behind them cut off contact with them after learning of their deaths. There was also a small ventilation system inside the helmets that could act as a gas mask, but according to the contractor's equipment testing, the filtration capacity of this ventilation system was very average, and it could only protect against some traditional known viruses.

As for their weapons, they were not that advanced. They were all ordinary guns, mainly CQB rifles with silencers installed for indoor combat, submachine guns, short-section shotguns, and pistols, as well as some non-lethal throwing weapons and some daggers as auxiliary weapons. The guns themselves were not strange, but the amount of ammunition they carried was strange.

Take the rifle in Adenauer's hand as an example. On the body where he found the rifle, there were six rifle magazines, including the ammunition in his small backpack. Adenauer checked the ammunition capacity of the rifle magazine, which was a standard 280-round capacity, which means that this guy carried a total of rounds of ammunition, including the original magazine on the rifle. This was just the rifle bullets. The pistol in his leg holster also had five or six spare magazines. According to the standard of individual soldier carrying ammunition, the bullets on this guy have reached the level of a support soldier, but he is not the only one like this. All the dead guys carry a lot of ammunition.

Based on the weapons they used, which were basically prepared for close-range combat, Adenauer originally thought that they were going to carry out some kind of decapitation or assassination operation. After all, all the weapons they carried were not suitable for long-range combat, but the amount of ammunition they carried even exceeded the standard of regular combat and reached the level of armed support. However, the ammunition they carried was all the ammunition needed for the weapons they used, so they could not possibly be carrying out any support mission. It was precisely because of the contradiction between the type of their weapons and the amount of ammunition that Adenauer was very confused about their appearance.

However, their abundant supplies were a godsend to the three of them. With these things, as long as nothing went wrong, they would definitely have no problem leaving the town alive. The three of them, who were temporarily safe, started talking about the bodies of the armed units that appeared in the lobby on the third floor of the hospital. But Adenauer and Juan talked more, after all, Madison had little experience, and she just felt strange that these people were here.

"Why would such a person appear in a small town? Madison, is there any important person in the small town hospital?"

"No, this town is not an important city after all. People live here mainly because the environment nearby is good and the public security is relatively good. There are no serious criminal cases. The most serious incident in recent years was when Alvin got drunk and fell into the river. But he didn't die. He was rescued by a few old people who were fishing at night by the river. There are no minerals around the town. There is a lumberyard, but it is not large and will not attract any big shots here. Do you think these fully armed guys are here to protect some big shot?"

"It looks like there is a connection... What do you think? Adenauer."

"I don't think so. The equipment these guys are equipped with is more like a decapitation operation or assassination, but they carry too much ammunition, which doesn't fit this model. And their equipment is also problematic. If they are protecting some important person, night vision and thermal imaging equipment are useless. These are things that are only needed for active attacks."

"Hey hey hey~~"

While the three were talking, a strange sound suddenly came from one of the corridors on one side of the hall. It sounded like a guy with a sharp voice sneering. When the three heard the sound, they immediately stopped talking, and Adenauer raised his rifle directly in the direction of the sound. With one hand holding the gun, Adenauer quickly made several tactical gestures. Juan and Madison immediately hid behind the pillars near the third-floor hall, while Adenauer held the rifle and walked cautiously in the direction of the sound.

Leaning against the wall at the entrance of the corridor, Adenauer tilted his head and looked through the optical sight on his rifle. With the night vision device on his helmet, Adenauer could finally stop disguising himself. He could not see at night, so he used the contractor's equipment to directly turn off the various devices on the helmet and began to observe the situation inside the corridor.

A preliminary observation showed that there were only a few ordinary townspeople leaning against the wall in a quiet state inside the corridor. The doors of the surrounding rooms were closed and almost all of them were empty. Adenauer used the angle of the wall as a support and shot the townspeople in the head with a few precise shots. Their bodies fell to the ground, making some noises.

"Hey hey hey~~"

Not long after the sound of them falling to the ground was heard, the sharp sneer was heard again. Although Adenauer was still looking for the source of the sound, he had actually discovered what made the sound and determined its specific location.

A town resident who looked like a child was in the ventilation duct above Adenauer's head, less than ten meters away from him. This thing had a very strange appearance, as if it only had an upper body, and from the four corners of the upper body, long limbs as thin as hemp stalks grew out, the neck was extremely thick and very short, the face was very large, attached to the end of the thick neck, and among the facial features, the nose and ears seemed to have suffered severe damage, the outer ears disappeared, leaving only the ear holes, and the nose was low as if someone had smashed it into the face. But the eyes and mouth had become much larger.

That shrill laughter did not come from this thing's mouth, but from its short and thick neck. There were two rows of shallow holes on both sides of its neck, and the shrill laughter came from these holes.

Although on the surface, Adenauer pretended that he didn't notice the guy hiding in the ventilation duct above his head, he had actually quietly begun to change his stance. The nearest vent in the ventilation duct to Adenauer was just one meter in front of him. As long as that guy dared to appear from here, Adenauer could just raise the muzzle of the gun and empty the magazine before he landed.

In order to prevent Juan and Madison from becoming unlucky, Adenauer made a gesture to tell Juan that he had found something but was not sure where it was. The latter immediately whispered to Madison what Adenauer's gesture meant.

"Boom!"

"Hey hey hey~~~"

At this moment, the vent that Adenauer had locked was suddenly opened, and a sharp laugh was heard at the same time. The thing he had discovered also rushed out from that position, stretching out its limbs, trying to grab Adenauer's body.

"Whoosh. Whoosh."

But the moment he approached Adenauer's body, this guy felt something stuffed into his mouth. Before he could turn his eyes to confirm what it was, he suddenly felt his head sink, and then he immediately lost consciousness.

Adenauer, who had already adjusted the angle and tilted the muzzle upwards, stuffed it into the guy's mouth, pulled out his rifle, shook off the blood on it, and for safety reasons, he fired two more shots at the body he had taken down to the ground. Then he gestured to the back, telling the two men that they were safe for the time being.