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What's the best way to get across this area?
1 of 12: The first thing to jump to is the rusty red car, but note that it starts sinking slowly.
2 of 12: Get up onto its roof instead of standing on its hood, then look around for a way to continue.
3 of 12: The easiest way is to use the nearby wooden crates and large spool to jump over to the back of a truck.
4 of 12: Then you've got a bit of a problem. There's way too long a stretch of sludge to jump over to get to the cement walkway piece with the pillars and explosive barrels on it (which is the next bit of solid footing).
5 of 12: So use the gravity gun to make a "move along as you go" kind of pathway. (Like you did to get across the antlion-infested sand in a certain part of Chapter 8.)
6 of 12: Toss the big wooden spool in the back of the truck into the sludge nearby, then get the spool behind the truck and toss it out farther.
7 of 12: Jump to the nearest spool and then the farthest spool (after pulling it closer with the gravity gun if it's too far out), then turn around and move the spool behind you so that it's now in front of you.
8 of 12: Keep spooling along, shooting down any zombies that rise up in front of you, until you make it to the walkway piece with pillars.
9 of 12: Run quickly across it and jump to the hood of the partially submerged red car that's just past the other side.
10 of 12: Jump onto the car's roof, then jump from it to the nearest part of the big overturned truck.
11 of 12: Run to the other side of the truck and jump onto the pipes that slope upward.
12 of 12: Move up them until they level out, and you'll be well past the radioactive goop and all the zombies in it.
