fanatics equipped under a special scientific laboratory. In this laboratory, experiments were conducted on captured troglodytes. From deadly monsters trapped in cages, pumped blood and poison. Of course, before that, they were either poisoned with a poisonous gas, or put a bullet in the forehead, so that they would not resist. Thanks to the poison, the Brotherhood destroyed the Styx in its time, and now it organized local sabotage, bringing poisoned water to the “impure” settlements. However, the poisoned water was only the tip of the iceberg. With an inexhaustible source of poison at hand, the fanatics were preparing to start making gas bombs. It was enough to blow up one such bomb with a large gathering of people - and the Wastes would once again flood the hordes of deadly creatures. After listening to Trevor’s disturbing story, Dylan mentally agreed with Walsh. It would be better for the Brotherhood to have a nuclear warhead! Faith was more skeptical. Taking Dylan by the sleeve, the girl took him aside.

- In my opinion, no laboratory exists. The poor guy just went to the roof from a long stay in the sun - she said her opinion.

- And if not? We need to check everything, - objected Dylan.

- Oh, come on. There is nothing to check there. Trevor is just crazy.

- Doyle you say the same thing?

“This is a meticulous goat!” Faith thought with annoyance, who was impatient to leave the fortress as soon as possible.

- Stand! - Suddenly there was someone's shout.

Dylan and Faith simultaneously turned their heads to the side, and saw that they were being fooled by the rifle in a robe.

- I saw everything. You talked to a damn traitor! - he began to blame the guests.

- No, you are! We just ...

Not finishing the sentence to the end, Faith grabbed a knife, and threw it at the fanatic. When the knife pierced him in the chest, the adept jerked, and fell dead to the ground. Faith walked quickly to the dead man.

“I dreamed of doing this all day,” said the contented girl, pulling the knife out of the body of the fanatic.

Dylan looked apprehensively at the observation towers, and then at the gate. Fortunately, all sentries looked the other way, so none of them noticed the death of a fellow. Fearing that someone would find the dead man and raise the alarm, Dylan and Faith dragged the dead adept away from the prison building and hid him behind the prison laundry.

- What are we going to do with Trevor? - Horner was curious, carefully peering around the corner.

- Nothing. Let it hang where it hung, ”Faith said indifferently.

- Are you so joking? - Horner frowned.

“Trevor knew what he was doing, so let him take offense at himself.” In addition, with his broken legs, he will not go far, and that he is still carrying hemorrhoids.

Dylan was not happy with the cynical approach of his companion, although he was in some way agreeing with her. Trevor was a burden to them. For himself, Horner decided that he would possibly try to pick up Walsh on the way back, provided that the risk was minimal and if no one had raised the alarm by that moment. Having studied the prison well over the past day, Dylan and Faith came to the conclusion that the laboratory was located in the west wing, because it was there that they saw the door, near which two machine gunners stood by idols. On the way to the laboratory, no one really paid attention to the guests. Crowds of adepts hurried to the chapel for an evening prayer, obligatory for all the inhabitants of the fortress, as if women and children. The exception, for obvious reasons, were only guards.Reaching the west wing, Dylan and Faith, hiding around the corner, began to think as if they would quietly finish off the guards, but before any plan was thought up, the loud siren suddenly deafened a couple. This happened because one of the children strolling around the yard, who decided to skip the evening prayer, hid behind the laundry, and stumbled upon the corpse of the adept. The frightened child rushed to the sentinel at the gate, who on the radio contacted the guard inside the prison.

- Well, at least now we don’t have to bother about how to finish these fools silently! - Faith exclaimed, snatching two pistols from her belt.

Before Dylan could stop her, Faith jumped out from around the corner, and shot the guards who were guarding the entrance to the laboratory. Facing Horner, Faith grinned.

- What stopped, brake? Once you have come, let's at least look at what is behind the door! - She said, and ran to the door.

Fighting a desire to strangle an impulsive idiot with his own hands, Dylan followed Faith. The Brotherhood lab looked exactly like Horner had imagined. There were flasks with obscure chemicals, and some medical equipment, and of course a few cells with troglodytes. At the sight of Faith, the monsters were immediately alarmed, but as soon as Dylan got into the laboratory, all the troglodytes froze.

“Wow, I didn't lie,” Faith said in surprise.

Stumbling on Horner's angry gaze, the girl was not embarrassed in the least.

“Just don't look at me like that.” After all, you yourself hear how this damn siren is buzzing. We would have been met at the exit anyway, ”she said in her own defense.

- And now, thanks to you, we will not have time to reach the exit! - annoyedly blurted out Dylan.

“Then we have only one thing left to do — look for another exit from here,” Faith calmly retorted, and went in search of an emergency exit.

When the girl ran past one of the cages, the troglodyte sitting there tried to grab her, but Faith managed to duck and slash the monster with a knife in her hand. Dylan began to barricade the entrance using laboratory equipment and tables. Looking closely at the last table, on which syringes with tranquilizers lay, Dylan just in case put one of them in his pocket. Only he blocked the entrance, as the door was pierced by an automatic burst. Dylan hurriedly crashed to the floor and crawled to the side, leaving the line of fire. Faith's inspection of the laboratory brought Horner some disappointing news - there was no emergency exit from the laboratory, and solid windows were installed on all the windows.

- Maybe we will try to dissolve them with chemicals from flasks? Faith offered.

She already realized that she had acted thoughtlessly, and seriously substituted them both, but she did not intend to admit to this. Meanwhile, the fanatics who reached the door realized that the entrance was blocked and began to break the door.

- Nothing will come of it. “The poison and the blood of the troglodytes do not corrode the metal, but fortunately for you, I know what to do,” said Horner confidently.

- Is anything required of me? - clarified cheered Faith.

- Required. Come to me.

Faith squinting at Horner, Faith still approached him. The last thing she expected was that Dylan grabbed a syringe from his pocket and thrust it into her neck. Catching the unconscious girl, Horner carried her into a corner, and sat down near the wall. CSKA did not need the help of an impulsive companion - he needed her to not see exactly what he was going to do. Glancing at the door through which endlessly pounded from the other side, Dylan headed for the cells. Monsters sitting there watched Horner with undisguised interest. Vykinuv automatic, Dylan shot locks on all cells, but the Troglodytes were in no hurry to break free.

- Your exit, freaks. Do not touch the girl - she is with me. And kill all the others! - Horner ordered.

The fanatics who escaped to the lab got tired of knocking the door, and they made a hole in the wall, making a couple of volleys from the grenade launchers.The troglodytes leaping out of their cages ran around Horner and rushed to the hole formed in the wall.

TO BE CONTINUED...