Age of Empires From Scratch Chapter 441

  Chapter 441 Hobbes and Alice

   Hobbs swung the warhammer and ax into two propellers, and bounced all the arrows close to him to the side.

  Steve is even simpler, just lift the shield up, and no half of the arrows will hit him.

  Laura and David shrank behind Steve, moving forward slowly with Steve.

  Although David did not activate the Holy Light Shield, these arrows would not hurt him, but at this time, in order to keep a low profile, he decided to behave normally.

  Looking at the two corpses next to them, Jack and John are now more hedgehogs than hedgehogs. Even if all the arrows are pulled out from their bodies, it is impossible for anyone to recognize their identities.

   "How miserable!"

   There was a second of silence for the two actors, and David also checked Kaplan by the way.

Only then did I discover that the mechanism engineer introduced by Kane was not hit by the first round of arrow rain because he was standing in a better position, and hid behind the big tree for the first time. He was poking half his head out to check the situation Woolen cloth!

Just as David was checking, Hobbs had rushed to the manor house with two heavy weapons in hand, jumped onto the house with a light leap, swung the sledgehammer in his hand, and smashed it with a thud. With just a little effort, these automatic crossbow mechanisms on the roof have been smashed into waste products.

  Boom!

Jumping down from the roof, Hobbs moved his neck lightly. This kind of small scene was not even a warm-up for him. It was just a pity that the two teammates he recruited died without entering the gate. up.

   "This seems to be the automatic defense facility of the manor, how strange... If the laboratory is attacked, how do they avoid these protective facilities?"

  Under normal circumstances, after intruding into a certain range without permission, the automatic defense mechanism will be triggered.

  If the hive laboratory is attacked by the outside, there is no reason for these defense facilities to be triggered by myself and others until this time: "Something is wrong, everyone should be more careful next."

   Hobbs, who has traveled all over the world and made a good name, is not a guy with muscles but no brains. He even started to think about whether to give up this commission directly?

  But thinking that there is no substantive evidence so far, it would really damage my reputation if I just retreated like this, so I decided to find out what happened.

   Turning his head to look at David and the others, these teammates have no intention of retreating, and Hobbs is even less prepared to leave when he sees this.

  In any case, the famous Luke Hobbs can't be compared to a few unknowns, right?

  Watching Hobbs striding into the mansion, David and Steve looked at each other and spread their hands together.

  They all saw it. Hobbs sensed something was wrong, but he was tired of his reputation and gave up the best chance to quit.

   "It's a pity, if he chooses to leave, it may be a good thing."

  Laura also saw this, and what she said was not just referring to what was about to happen in the hive laboratory.

   Rather, it refers to the entire 'candidate' program.

   As a candidate, Luke Hobbs is destined to hit a wall named 'David' if he rushes forward unswervingly.

  The position determines the relationship between David and the candidates, unless Hobbs voluntarily lowers his 'status' and becomes David's 'teammate', that is, he voluntarily gives up his 'protagonist' status and is willing to be a supporting role.

  However, several people present could see that this Hobbs was obviously not someone who would do that.

   "What are you going to do?"

  Laura looked at David, and pointed at Hobbs who had already entered the mansion.

   David didn't hesitate at all: "Cold salad!"

  What else can I do? The only thing David can do is to explain the general situation clearly before making a move, so that the other party's death can be clearly explained.

   Of course, if Hobbs died directly in the laser tunnel like the mercenary captain in the original plot, David would not have to worry about it.

   Followed into the mansion together, they don't have to worry about not being able to find Hobbs if they move slowly, because this big man is standing in the wide hall of the mansion at this time, talking to a woman in a red dress.

  The few people who had just revisited the plot of Resident Evil yesterday afternoon recognized at a glance that this woman is the absolute protagonist of the Resident Evil movie version: Alice.

   "Now there are two candidates standing in front of you, do you want to do it?"

Ignoring the joke passed by Steve using tricks, David came to Hobbs in a few steps. Alice was slightly stunned when she saw David, and looked at David carefully twice before taking a look at him. Laura and Steve.

   "These are my teammates."

  While Hobbs was asking Alice, who knew nothing about the situation, Kaplan finally came to the inside of the mansion, entered the character very quickly, and checked all the organs in the mansion.

  Finally came to a conclusion: the mechanism in the mansion had been activated, and Alice's current state of not knowing anything should be the residual effect of being attacked by a spirit.

  Hobbs, who was still counting on being able to ask something from the lab's 'keeper', was disappointed when he heard that.

   "How long will it take for her to recover?"

   "A few hours if it is fast, or a few days to a month if it is slow."

   "..." Hobbs cursed in a low voice, wondering what kind of weird mechanism this is?

   At this moment, Hobbs seemed to have noticed something. Before he had time to signal his teammates, he saw Steve suddenly throw the shield in his hand.

   The round shield accurately hit a man hiding in a corner after being refracted twice, and then the shield bounced again and flew back into Steve's hand.

  Seeing this outrageous scene, Hobbs didn't even bother to care about the unknown person who was knocked out, and looked at Steve and the shield in his hand curiously.

   "What kind of shield is this?"

   "The best buckler in our village."

  During the conversation between the two, David brought back the unknown person: This is a young man wearing a simple leather armor with a standard one-handed sword stuck in his waist.

   Hobbs frowned tightly when he saw the man's attire and weapons.

   Just when he wanted David to wake up the man, the man woke up by himself: "I am the local patrol guard Matthew Addison."

   "Why do the patrolling guards only wear simple leather armor? And they ran into other people's houses so late?"

"I just heard some movement here and came to check. I'm not wearing guard armor because I'm not on duty." The man stood up and checked himself, and found that there was nothing abnormal except for a little pain in the back of the neck: " Who are you?"

   "I am Luke Hobbs, entrusted by the owner here to investigate what happened to the laboratory he invested in."

   "Luke Hobbs?" Matthew Addison was shocked when he heard this: "That Luke Hobbs?"

   "I don't know which one you're referring to, but I'm Luke Hobbs."

   "Luke Hobbs of the Holy Capital?"

"it's me!"

"Wow!"

   Matthew, whose face was suddenly full of joy, opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but before he could speak, he was interrupted by Kaplan who was busy for a long time.

   "The secret door has been unlocked, we can go in."

  As if reminded of something, Matthew immediately closed his mouth, and the surprise disappeared. Instead, he looked around with vigilant eyes, and looked at David and others.

  When his eyes caught on to David, Matthew was surprised to find that this person actually nodded his head in greeting to him.

   It's very strange, Matthew doesn't know why, this young man has an expression of "everything is under control", is it because he is Hobbs' teammate? Confident in Luke Hobbs?

With all kinds of doubts in his heart, and Matthew also had something to investigate, so even though Hobbs did not embarrass him or detain him, he followed Hobbs and his group into the mechanism opened by Kaplan Secret door.

  After walking into it, I found that it was a small station, and a magic subway stopped in front of everyone.

  In the eyes of David and the others, after entering here, the painting style of the surrounding environment has changed: if we were still in a European medieval style mansion before, we are now in modern times.

  However, the core still maintains the magical wind, and there are some faults on the magic subway, and the mechanics Kaplan said that he can easily solve them.

The actual situation is also the same. After Kaplan went up to tinker with it a few times, the magic subway restarted, and everyone present got on the train, and found the "root of all evil" Spence Parks in the car, which is the original movie Alice's fake husband who stole the virus from the inside and smashed a tube of the virus stock solution when he left.

  Take the subway and arrive at the end soon, and the front door is still locked.

   "Entering here is the real entry into the hive laboratory." Kaplan has been busy unlocking the trap door while explaining the situation to several people: "The next step is up to you."

   "Don't worry, no matter what happens inside, I can handle it."

  At this moment, Alice, who had followed along confusedly from just now, finally decided to ask for clarification, but instead of questioning Hobbs, who was obviously the leader, she stood in front of David.

   "What's going on?" Seeing that David didn't speak, Alice grabbed David's arm directly, as if to show her attitude: "I need to know the specific situation now."

   "The investors of Hive Lab did not receive the goods on time, and suspected that the lab was attacked by competitors, so they entrusted us to check the situation."

"that's all?"

"That's all I know." David finished the explanation with a smile, regretting that he, the temporary guest guide, couldn't get rewards from Alice: "After all, we are just temporarily hired adventurers. As for Other situations can only be known after entering the hive."

  (end of this chapter)

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