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Using a revised strategy, I cleared the infected floor by sniping Clickers, bombed the Bloater, and took down a hidden Stalker. After escaping via an elevator shaft, Abby faced her fear of heights outside. They observed the nearby hospital, and spotted hostile WLF patrols ahead.
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With my new strategy, the first thing I did was taking down three Clickers with arrows and my silencer gun. And then I went for a Stalker hidden in a wall crevice, near the bloater.
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The Stalker survived the initial hit, and it came running to me screeching loudly, which altered the Bloater across the hall. So I had to stay on movement after shooting down the Stalker, to avoid being pinned down.
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I was ready this time, as I learned from my mistake in the previous attempt. So I started attacking the Bloater with all the pipe bombs I had in collection, and then I started shooting it with the shotgun and took it down before it could get close to me.
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The floor was clear to me to move ahead safely, but I knew there was another Stalker that messed up my progress for the first time. So I went for it proactively, and I shot it down before it could get out of its stuck zone in the wall.
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Before getting out of the building through an elevator shaft, I noticed a grim scene of a dead body was getting swollen by vines and fungus growth from the wall. And then I used the elevator shaft to drop down to the lower structural landing.
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At last, I found daylight. At this time, it's not from inside some glass window like before, we were actually close to outside this time.
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But before leaving the building for good to continue our journey, I stopped there to check that long height below us. And when I made Abby stand there near the crumbling edge, I heard her shivering in fear, her breathing tightening up instantly.
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Well, then I came out of that building and noticed the massive skyscrapers I've been climbing to get to this place so far. And there was this hospital also not far anymore.
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And then we reached this part from where we could see a WLF patrols guarding the hospital area. So Abby asked Lev to wait there while she'd go alone for the supplies, as the WLF will shoot on sight if they see a Seraphite companion.
We'll check what happens next in another post.
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Peace.
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