Chapter 14: The Mercy of a Knight

Ling Qi led the newcomers into Prim's abandoned post office with a blank face, and the fat man wanted to speak several times, he didn't quite understand Ling Qi's sudden change of attitude. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

Even if the other party has been deceived before, since he has already been a good person, why bother to play the role of a villain, just be generous to the end, and fight for a reputation.

Of course, Ling Qi wouldn't explain to him what the true meaning of fame was. It's not about how good or bad you are, or what some people think you're good or bad, it's about what most people who don't know you at all, and what they hear about you.

Fame is extensive, and what you do is ultimately meager. It is impossible to make a name for yourself by relying on your hands, without word of mouth.

Maybe the people will see the hearts of the people for a long time, and maybe the false name will be debunked one day, but does Ling Qi need that kind of reputation that will last forever?

In less than an hour, Ling Qi had already received the payment he deserved.

5,000 bottle caps, plus valuables worth far more than 3,000 bottle caps, gold and silver jewelry, he asked for a lot of hard work.

Some people pretend to be lions, and of course they will be debunked, and then they will be severely depressed, because they are a sheep at all. And Ling Qi, the lion, once he speaks, will either be fed or eat people, there is no third possibility!

In fact, he is already benevolent, and if he changes NRC to take over here, it is not as simple as charging a hard fee, and long-term squeezing can even scavenge ten times or a hundred times the benefits of 8,000 bottle caps!

This is also the reason why some people do not hesitate to send excess returns when they learn of the tragic situation at the Bison Inn.

They're courting him!

These circumstances were foreseen by Ling Qi, and of course huge wealth was unbearable for individuals, but the collective power could always do what others thought could not be done.

Politely sent off the townsfolk who didn't know each other at all, waved out some "garbage" from the storage space, and deposited the new harvest into it!

"Okay, let's go~ Let's go overnight, don't let Benny's kid run. ”

"I suppose that while the townsfolk of Prim should be grateful for my help, the hillbillies probably won't invite us to stay for dinner. ”

Ling Qi, who was in a good mood, rarely made a joke.

After Tang Xiao heard this, he rolled his eyes.

He was very suspicious that if someone continued to "punish the strong and help the weak" like this, they would sooner or later become the public enemy of the wasteland.

"Let's~ Aren't we waiting for Mo Mo?"

The pleasant atmosphere immediately froze, except for Ling Qi, who was smiling, the other two newcomers all looked at Liu Yun in surprise, making her a little restless.

"You're right, while everyone is responsible for their words and actions, I can be tolerant of the occasional mistakes you make. ”

Hearing Ling Qi say this, except for Leo, the three of them were shocked, including the woman who made this suggestion.

"Well, your equipment is good anyway, and I've fulfilled my obligations as a captain. Benny must be chased, I will definitely go, and as for any of you who want to stay and look for Momo, I will not raise any objections. ”

Tang Xiao and Li Qiang secretly said in their hearts, sure enough.

The college student was still a little lucky, he also wanted to end the mission as soon as possible and leave this ghost place, he had had enough. As for Mo Mo, he admitted that his restless heart made him have some good feelings and thoughts about her, but if it was compared to his own safety, that kind of inexplicable and uninteresting woman would better let her die.

Ling Qi didn't know that his words and deeds were imperceptibly influencing the people around him. Even if he knew, he probably wouldn't care.

He is a person who does not need to flaunt justice in front of others, and the good name of benevolence is just a cloak that can be discarded at any time.

At the end of the day, it's called going my own way, but is there anything wrong with that?

I do my thing, what do I have to do with you!

Besides, I didn't rape you, I didn't imprison you, and I gave you so much help, so you don't think about reciprocating, what else do you want?

At least for these newcomers, Ling Qi has indeed not harmed their interests, but has been giving help. Even if this kind of investment is not intended to be well-intentioned, why should the act itself be connected for different purposes!

In such a world of the jungle, it is not too much to be excessive, and it is ridiculous to pin one's own fate on the moral code of others.

Just after noon, Ling Qi and his party embarked on the journey again, leaving Prim far behind.

The locomotive is still very well preserved, and the newcomers choose to ignore the blood stains on the ground.

In the afternoon, they came to a place that resembled a highway toll booth and had to abandon their cars and walk on foot.

The road ahead has been completely cut off, with vast wastelands and rolling mountains on the right, and an endless desert sea on the left, where one would sink into the sand on his knees, let alone ride a bicycle.

"Forget it, let's go. ”

Ling Qi didn't even dismantle the battery this time, and directly gave up the car.

On the side, Tang Xiao looked at the highway toll station building not far away, and stopped talking.

"Let's go over and have a look. ”

Ling Qi broke his heart in one mouth, thinking that this was probably another landmark that appeared in the game.

A quarter of an hour later, the crowd walked out of the building, whose doors had been torn down, empty-handed, and found nothing.

"It's nothing, after all, the goal is so obvious, and there are good things that have been collected. ”

Ling Qi gave Tang Xiao a rare comfort, he still valued some of the information he provided, at least it was quite a reference, such as the lucky pistol was indeed at the Steve Bison Hotel.

"Hmm~ It's okay, I know, reality and games are different after all. ”

Tang Xiao also covered his mouth and replied, there was no wind and sand earlier, but as the sun set in the west, there were more and more yellow dust covering the sky.

"Looks like we're probably going to spend the night here today!"

Ling Qi's tone was a little worried, he was not an indigenous after all, and he didn't know anything about the local environment. It's good to have a car, but there is no car to catch up with Banni and his party, which is difficult.

"yes, there's an NRC stronghold ahead of us, but now it looks like we won't have time to get there before dark. Yesterday, there was not much wind, but this time there was a sandstorm, which is really unlucky. ”

The wind and sand were getting stronger and stronger, and the faint yellowness of the earth even obscured the afterglow of the sunset, and the five of them had retreated into the building that looked like a road maintenance toll booth.

"Providence, the natural environment of this world has long been destroyed, and it is not surprising that nothing happens. ”

"By the way, the stronghold you're talking about should be the Mojave outpost. But it doesn't seem to be the same as where we're going. ”

Ling Qi has PP boys, and they have also looked at the maps nearby, of course there is no record of the small places they are staying in now, and several large strongholds in the NRC are still marked.

However, the outpost that Tang Xiao seemed to pass through as a matter of course was not consistent with the planned route planned by Ling Qi to detour Route 188 to Las Vegas.

If taking Route 8 from Qingquan Town to Las Vegas is a straight line, then the route they are taking now, following Benny, is an ellipse. It just bypasses a place called Montenegro, but also includes some other dangerous areas, such as the nearby anthills that show a large area of desertification.

As for the Mojave outpost, it is further ahead, going straight without turning, which is equivalent to a protruding line on the ellipse, which is indeed not in the way.

"Hey, Captain, you even remember the name of the place?"

Tang Xiao was a little surprised, and he began to suspect that Ling Qi was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

"Isn't it a good idea? I don't remember exactly, maybe. After all, it doesn't take an hour to run along the map in the game, even if it is converted to the time in the game, it will only last a day or two, and of course there will be a mission or a relatively large stronghold, which is going to be around the way..."

"Perhaps, I estimate that it will take at least a day to get from here to the outpost, so don't take a detour if you don't have any special needs. As for some place names, I just think of them once in a while, and you know I have a pretty good memory. ”

Ling Qi said perfunctorily, listening to the crackling glass window of the yellow sand, and fell into deep thought.

"Let's familiarize yourself with your respective weapons if you have time, we'll stay here tonight and have some canned potato beef stew or something, and I don't know if it's broken." ”

"Ah~ And the potato beef stew, this is a good thing, I..."

The wind was quiet, and the howling electromagnetic storm began to ravage the land again.

More than ten miles away from the 178 Highway Maintenance Station, on the plain of Anthill, the rustling movement was accompanied by the roar of some kind of monster, and it did not stop all night.

Late at night, Liu Yun suddenly pricked up her ears nervously, she felt that something was approaching her, and suddenly her whole body became stiff, and she couldn't help but clench the weapon in her hand!

She trembled slightly nervously, but she only waited for a pair of big broad hands to tuck the corners of the quilt for her.

In the dim room, in the slightly cool night, Ling Qi's eyes were deep, and he covered the quilts for his teammates in turn, only Tang Xiao did not move at all.

He noticed the fat man Li Qiang's gradually slowing breathing, he heard the almost undetectable sound of water droplets falling to the ground and bouncing again, and he even felt that he could sense Tang Xiao's thoughts running at high speed.

He found that in the darkness he was the master of omniscience, and laughed silently.

The next day, the wind still didn't stop, but it was much quieter than last night's ghostly crying.

Ling Qi simply summoned the well-fed Godzilla back and used its huge size to shield everyone from the wind and dust.

Although according to Tang Xiao, the Mojave outpost had several tasks that could be easily completed, everyone still decided to move along the original route.

Ling Qi no longer has any expectations for the so-called tasks in the original game, and he doesn't need those small material gains.

Hiking is much slower than cycling, especially in the wind mixed with the yellow sand.

If Godzilla had grown up and his teammates had been more physically strong, perhaps everyone would have been able to ride the Behemoth. Now, it is estimated that there are only two people who can go up and sit firmly, Ling Qi and the Wood Elf.

In the afternoon, due to the large amount of physical exertion, the high-calorie and high-protein food that was full in the morning has long been digested, and the stomachs of the newlyweds begin to rumble again.

After all, a few people are not scavengers in the wasteland, they still have the strength to walk after being hungry for a few days, and when they have transportation, they will definitely not be able to walk if they are thirsty, hungry and tired.

Finally, after more than half an hour, they finally came across a simple tent that seemed to have been set up by their predecessors.

It was a small shelter fenced in iron and wood under a huge sign, and the roof of the hut was covered with a thick plastic film that had turned earthy yellow.

Sensing that there was no threat nearby, Ling Qi walked over directly with the newcomers, while Godzilla stayed outside to be on guard.

Entering this humble tent, the air was very dry and had a kind of scorching bitterness characteristic of a wasteland, but I was fortunate to finally get out of the raging sandstorm.

"Tang Xiao, how far do you think this is from Neptune, and can we get there before sunset? ”

Ling Qi tore off the cloak he had just changed, took off his clothes and wiped his face, took out a few sets of spare ones from the storage space, kept one for himself, and handed the rest to the newcomers.

"I don't know, this kind of bird place, Kenben can't locate it. ”

Tang Xiao complained, and didn't care about his rumbling stomach, so he learned from Ling Qi to simply clean up his body and change into clean clothes.

This is disgraced, how can the pampered college students bear it, even if the migrant workers come, it is estimated that they will have to complain.

After a period of familiarity, there was a lot less avoidance among everyone, and even Liu Yun dared to change her clothes in public, of course, she was wearing a small dress.

Sweeping the space of less than five square meters around him, Ling Qi thought, could it be that he was going to spend the night here today.

But now it's just one or two o'clock in the afternoon, and I stopped so early, what year and month can I catch up with Banni!

He wasn't annoyed that he didn't have camping tools like tents in his storage space. First, those things are too large but not valuable, and second, in such an environment, unless they are nailed directly to the ground with wood and covered with iron sheets, ordinary tents simply cannot stand firmly.

The most important thing is that it is not himself who is heavily dependent on the environment after all, and there is really no way, and the possibility that he will fly solo cannot be ruled out.

"Okay, let's eat something and get some rest. Then I walked in the direction of Neptune, and I felt like I wasn't too far from there. If we can't make it before sunset, let's find a place to rest. I don't think you want to spend the night here. ”

Hearing Ling Qi say this, Tang Xiao, who wanted to object, looked at the humble environment around him and couldn't help but stop. As for the other two, they also nodded again and again at the dark and greasy ground.

After a simple meal and replenished water, everyone hit the road again.

After a few hours, Ling Qi finally had to admit that he felt that this kind of thing was unreliable.

He actually has a positioning device on his body, and every PP boy comes with a positioning function. This kind of positioning is not GPS tracking, but a comparison of distance and terrain, so it can theoretically be used anywhere. But you need a starting coordinates, and a map that's basically accurate.

It's just that someone doesn't want to share it with his teammates at all, he believes that once he takes out the PP boy, Tang Xiao will definitely covet this guy. Although he has two pp boys, it is obviously not his style to give them away for free, and Tang Xiao can't get anything equivalent to exchange now, unless he waits...

Although the function of the PP boy is perfect, for the current him, he is not indispensable all the time, he must be exposed in front of people, and his strong strength gives him more options. Just as if you can take out enemies with guns, there's no need to let newcomers know about the Shattered Blade and the Ice Guardian.

Before sunset, the group was lucky enough to find a crypt located on a lonely hill with the help of Godzilla, and of course the mutated groundhogs in the nest became the belly of the giant beast, and the vacant place became the accommodation of several people tonight.

The diameter of the entrance more than one meter wide made the newlyweds sigh secretly, but at night, the gentle storm in the day became violent again.

drilled in turn, and even Ling Qi didn't have any energy outside.

He was very suspicious that this kind of storm should have something to do with the geographical location, not that they came unlucky, but that this ghost place would blow strong winds every night, so there were few people within a radius of a hundred miles, and there were no villages and towns.

The people in the wasteland have their own rules of survival, and no matter how bad the environment is, there is a peach source that has been missed, Qingquan Town is such a peach source, and where they are now is the real wasteland.

After a night, after getting out of the hole the next morning, Liu Yun, whose face was pale, seemed to be sick.

The Wood Elf treated her with an ebony ring, but it had little effect.

Ling Qi was not a doctor, so he couldn't tell what disease she had, but it shouldn't be a cold and diarrhea, and he suddenly thought of one of the most common and almost ubiquitous diseases in the wasteland-radiation sickness!

Long-term exposure to radiation can cause the human body to become cancerous or deformified, but the early symptoms are still relatively easy to identify and treat.

After eating a few grains of Raditenin, this woman's complexion immediately improved a lot, and the medicine in this plane has this kind of miraculous effect, and the results are immediate, but unfortunately it can't get rid of the category of treating the symptoms but not the root cause.

After all, radiation cannot be cured, and the process of cell necrosis cannot be reversed. Raditronin can only temporarily suppress the re-destruction of cells by radiant energy, but cannot eradicate them from the body. Essentially, it is up to your own constitution to resist the radiation you have ingested, or wait for it to run out of energy and dissipate, and then new benign cells will replace the necrotic ones, and then you will be considered to have recovered from a serious illness.

In such an environment, where is there such a good thing?

There are many wasteland vagrants who die every year due to radiation overdose, and of course, some of them have become "zombies", and it is difficult to say whether they will become sane zombies or crazy zombies.

Ling Qi, who has relevant medical knowledge, and Tang Xiao, who has played games, don't say much, and the college students themselves are playing drums and taking care of themselves.

He thickened his clothes and put on a hat to protect his skin from direct exposure to the air and dust.

He even asked for a few Raditenins to eat, because in the original game, radiation damage did not directly cause illness, but a gradual process, and he didn't want to be like a woman.

The fat man is a rare man, and he shushred Liu Yun and asked for warmth, but unfortunately this woman was worried, where could she take care of this fat guy's overtures.

Another day, finally, at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, Ling Qi and his party, who had corrected their route again, walked out of the wind-blown sand area and came to a city where most of the buildings had been engulfed in flames and burned black!

Neptune, it's finally here!

"Hey!! are there any living people!!"

Tang Xiao, who ripped off his turban, strode through the ruins of the city, shouting loudly.

There were no crazy "winners" of the Bomb Gang, and no Caesar's soldiers who asked him to help promote the prestige of the Legion, and it was obviously the same attack here as in the game, but unfortunately there was nothing left.

Tang Xiao returned to the team disappointed, and Ling Qi also walked out of a fairly intact building on the side of the road.

"Let's find a place to rest first, and go straight to the city hall. ”

Unlike Tang Xiao, who was devastated by the blow, Ling Qi still decided to go to the place where the college student mentioned earlier and had a plot.

About ten minutes later, everyone saw the only building that was not too badly damaged.

Of course, the two rows of wooden stakes erected in front of his door like street lamps, and the bomb gang members nailed to the stakes made Tang Xiao shudder while regaining his sense of familiarity.

"All ~ all dead?"

Tang Xiao stammered and asked, in fact, there was no need to ask, he just wanted to know why reality played such a big joke with him again, the bomb gang that was hung up in the game was obviously alive!

Ling Qi ignored him, and didn't even look at the corpses that were bleeding and dying miserably.

Liu Yun has shrunk into the arms of the fat man in fear, and the fat boy has finally passed the addiction of a normal man~

"Wait, beware of the dogs in thereβ€”"

Don stopped before he finished the joke, because he himself thought the setting was silly. Everyone is gone, and all the people who should be killed are killed, so what are the dogs doing in the city hall?

Ling Qi smiled, didn't care, and pushed the door directly!