After viewing the aquarium in distant, I faced a floor packed with infected. An arrow attack failed against a Clicker, forcing me to use fire thrower. Following multiple deaths by a Clicker, a vent Stalker, a game freeze, and a relentless Bloater, I struggled to clear the floor using pipe bombs.
It was such a peaceful moment when I got a glimpse of the aquarium from this far away, cutting through the overgrown skyline. And I could see the tall building that we used to get this far as well, reminding me of how much ground we had covered.
But the peace didn't last long. As we reached this part of the building that was full of demons waiting in the shadows, so tension returned instantly. The rooms were covered in thick fungal growth, and the wet clicking sounds echoed through the dark corridors.
I was trying to be quiet to avoid drawing a crowd, but this Clicker didn't die even after I shot it with multiple arrows. So I had to open fire where I used the Flamethrower to burn it down before it reached me.
When I was trying to take down a Bloater using the Flamethrower, I noticed there was a Clicker coming through a tight space right beside me. I noticed this through the photo mode.
Right after coming out of the photo mode, the Clicker caught me before I could raise my weapon to defend myself. It took me down instantly, biting the neck before I could even attempt to break free from its grasp.
At the restart, I took down that Clicker with a clean headshot, with an arrow, dropping it silently into the spores. I walked over and I collected a supply from the dead body.
Then I noticed there was another Clicker that was not moving in another room across the hall, just twitching against the wall. So I shot it down with a headshot as well, dropping it to the floor before it could alert the others.
When I was getting close to that Clicker to see if I could reclaim the arrow, a Stalker jumped on me that was stuck with the veins on the wall. So I got to take care of it first.
The Stalker screamed out loudly, so all the demons of this floor came close to me at once. And when I was shooting the Bloater with shotgun shells in a panic, the game is stuck as I opened the photo mode by mistake.
At the restart, I tried a different approach to the entire floor. When I checked around at first without taking any demons down, I mapped out their patrol routes through the debris to see if I could just sneak past the entire horde.
And then I was walking toward the Bloater silently after taking down the first Clicker with my bow. But suddenly this Stalker jumped on me out of nowhere that I didn't see in the dark, which alerted the whole floor to my location.
I started running around the rooms after taking down that Stalker, as I didn't really want to be anywhere near the Bloater's toxic cloud. I kept my distance and I was making the pipe bombs ready to attack the heavy target.
But the Bloater somehow came close to me when I was shooting the pipe bombs towards it. It took me down as I couldn't escape him at the right moment, crushed me under its massive, fungal hands.
We'll check what happens next in another post.
Image Source: In game screenshots.
End of the post.
Peace.
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