Chapter 15: The Dirty Land

There are no fierce dogs that suddenly pounce, and there are no gusts of wind that there are so many dead people that they scatter in the legend. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The biggest advantage of the sci-fi world is that you don't have to worry about a ghost squatting in a dark corner.

Although Ling Qi had the Xuangui Yuan Magnetic Protective Body, he still had to admit that he was really powerless for that kind of thing.

For example, a certain "woman" who is feared by the Ice Guardians, Ling Qi believes that if that glasses boy wants to harm him anywhere outside the reincarnation space, it is enough to find a small shop to eat a bowl of noodles, and there is no need to do it himself.

Fortunately, this kind of thing won't happen for a while!

There were also a lot of corpses in the town hall, this time not only the bombs, but also many civilians and some scantily clad prostitutes.

Those corpses all had traces of animal bites, and Ling Qi felt that it was not appropriate to feed his pets with these "leftovers", so he didn't think about it anymore.

From the outside, the municipal building has a total of five floors and is between two and three meters high, so at first glance it still looks a bit imposing.

However, that kind of momentum has basically disappeared since they came in, not because of the faint smell of corpses in the air, but because of the messy scene around them like they have been raided, it is simply digging three feet into the ground.

Neptune's post office had a few scraps of food, left behind by an eyeball robot that had not been of much use until now. Here, even the tables and chairs have been removed, and in some places, the door panels and window shelves are gone. Although it is likely that those things were used as ignitions, they still give people a sense of absurdity.

Suddenly, the image of Caesar's legion in the minds of Ling Qi and others had fallen from a mighty ancient Roman warrior to a ragged scavenger.

On the first floor, there are two warehouses and three safes, all of which are empty, not counting the remaining half of the mops in the warehouse.

On the second floor, which looks like a banquet hall, even the crystal lamps on the ceiling have been removed. There was a room that looked like an office, and there was a large pile of electronic terminals that looked like "head-mounted displays". Of course, they were all smashed by the barbarians of Caesar's legion.

Judging from its fragmentation, it is not difficult to see the accuracy of Tang Xiao's previous conclusion.

Caesar's Legion had a deep grudge against all electronic devices.

Then came the third and fourth floors, where there was also only a mutilated corpse. The newcomers had seen a bigger scene, and they were barely able to get used to this level of gore, but they still felt very angry and sad.

No matter how many people Ling Qi kills, they are also soldiers with guns, and even thugs and bandits.

And the people of the legion, they tortured and hanged those bomb gangs, and even ordinary citizens and weak women did not let go, they were simply barbaric beasts to the extreme.

On the fifth floor, in the largest room at the end of the corridor, Ling Qi and the others finally found the cleanest and most neat room they had seen so far.

If you don't count the head nailed to the desk, it's comparable to the office of government officials before the nuclear war.

Probably because of the victory banner of Caesar's legion on the wall, probably for posterity, the barbarians did not make too much of a mess in this room.

Of course, judging from the secret room that was pried open on one side, and the safe that was violently opened behind the only desk, the really valuable things in the room should have been taken away.

Ling Qi stepped forward, examined the white male skull, which was still "fresh" and showed no obvious signs of decay, and found a sinister mechanism near the skull.

He lifted the short knife with the human head strung with it, then walked to the window and threw it out with the knife on his head.

He walked over to the banner of victory, which symbolized Caesar's legion, and this time, sure enough, he found a delicate boxed bomb that had been covered behind the flag!

He believes that anyone who tries to remove this flag will be blown to pieces!

It was obviously not his style to keep such a dangerous thing around, and although he didn't have much research on explosives, he could still do something as simple as breaking the red thread behind the flag that connected to a certain link of the bomb.

He didn't take the flag because of any sense of justice, but instead put away the flag and bombs, these things may be useful in the future.

After doing this, several newcomers also hastily searched the house, and Liu Yun, whose face was still a little pale, handed Ling Qi a stack of documents that looked very important and formal.

The three newcomers were illiterate, and only Ling Qi could understand this kind of large text.

Don't doubt that although Tang Xiao is a famous college student, the words in the fallout game he plays are not a language called "English" in this plane, but an international lingua franca. In his original plane, the whole world has long used one language, no dialects, no mother tongue. This is a kind of leapfrog progress, and it is a pity that any progress and development is full of blood and tears, which is called sacrifice in the beautiful name. This is the same everywhere, including Tang Xiao's former plane, including the world they are currently in, and even the city under their feet.

In fact, to understand the history of a place and the major events that have taken place, physical documents are far from enough. The emergence of the concept of electronic data interchange has completely solved this problem. And the electronic terminal on the mayor's desk should have been better equipped for this task.

However, Caesar's Legionnaires' hatred of electronic technology was probably a bit paranoid, and the only visible signs of destruction in the room were the solid wood desk, which was about to fall apart.

After a cursory glance at these documents, Ling Qi suddenly deeply admired the "character" of the current local mayor.

The city, under the leadership of a certain mayor, has interpreted the word absurdity to the limit.

Large-scale eroticism, drugs, human trafficking, as long as you come here, no matter what you used to do, women only have one way out and one occupation, and men are only allowed to have the identity of consumers.

The mayor of Neptune took advantage of the harsh surroundings to turn the place into a private domain, a nest of gold, and maintained ambiguous relations with many surrounding forces, trying to get right and left.

Of course, this guy doesn't seem to have much in mind to make Neptune a Second Vegas.

If New Vegas is the capital of desire, it's the land of filth. New Vegas is also a place where pornography, gambling and drugs are available, but it has order and rules, so it has become a painting boat on the Qinhuai River. And this is the Qinglou of the next three indiscriminate, the so-called red card is just a thousand people riding thousands of people to press the goods, the price is 30 bottle caps~

This is not a disparagement, but the mayor used to be the most prosperous woman in the local business, and he really bought it from the slave traders for 30 bottle caps.

The specific situation of Neptune is not clear, and there are not many things recorded on paper, most of which are all trivial things from the past. For example, how many women have been sold and how many children have been abducted today. For example, what fool was played by him today because of the woman who was only worth 30 bottle caps, so much.

As for what happened recently, there are actually only two cases, one is that someone bought him with 6,000 bottle caps to do one thing, and the employer is from Caesar's Legion. The other one seems to be about the guys who were crucified on the wood. Those poor fellows had just arrived, had been entertained by the Mayor, had enjoyed a free Gentle Township service, and were sold again.

And the mayor who made a big deal for this and imagined a bright future...

After casually telling Neptune about the situation to everyone, the fat man's pity for those townspeople suddenly diminished, and Tang Xiao didn't react, maybe he already knew.

It was getting late, and there was no doubt that the mayor's office had become the best place for the reincarnators to rest.

As for Ling Qi, after eating with everyone, he came to the small secret room that was separated by himself and took out his PP boy.

When they arrived in Neptune, it could be said that they had already traveled a little way through their journey, but they still did not get any clues about Benny and his party.

Ling Qi even began to suspect that Tang Xiao had concealed some key information, or that the original plot of the game was far from the future direction of this world.

After all, it is unlikely that a world will exist on the basis of a game, but the reverse makes sense, maybe the creator of the game suddenly got "inspiration", and those "inspirations" are a few drops of water splashed in the long river of fate of a real plane, so there are some so-called classic games.

In short, there are three paths in front of him now, first, continue to follow the route provided by Tang Xiao and planned by him alone. Second, turn back, go to Qingquan Town, and enter the casino one step ahead of Benny. Third, completely abandon Tang Xiao's proposal, still adhere to the main purpose of the detour, do not take Novak and Boulder City, but take a shortcut from the other path shown on the PP kid map, and rush directly from Neptune to Route 188!

The first road is the safest, at least for newcomers, and it should be the easiest and safest, with a few ready-made neutral strongholds on the way, so you don't have to worry about supplies or anything like that.

The food and water in the storage space are not infinite, they have been used up a lot in the past few days, and they have not been replenished much in Prim before, and Neptune is what it is now. The rest of the canned food is probably only enough to last for two or three days, and then everyone should gnaw on the fruit.

And this path is also recognized as the best to take, the route that Benny is most likely to take.

The second path seems rather absurd, coming and going. Not recent, because that's still recent. The only thing that was wrong was that group of deathclaws, Ling Qi didn't dare to guarantee that he would be able to beat them, after all, he had never seen them before, and he couldn't compare them.

The third path is mostly the choice of smart people, but the unknowns are too great.

Ling Qi sighed, put away the pp boy, and sat on the ground against the wall in his clothes.

He hadn't closed his eyes for three days and three nights, and while the night kept him energized, the tiredness of the day was becoming more and more apparent. He is also a human being, and he also needs to rest, and this is not a reincarnation space after all.

Ling Qi clasped his hands around him, felt the cold dagger in his arms, and slowly closed his eyes.

Leo, at some point, had already arrived at the door, standing like a loyal guard, until Ling Qi's command sounded in his head, and Shi Cai sat down like him, leaning against the wall and resting with his eyes closed.

There was no word for another night, and there was finally no sound of crying wind outside the window. However, in the first half of the night, there were intermittent noises downstairs, like a crunch sound made by monsters chewing human bones, mixed with rustling and grinding teeth, which made the newlyweds' hearts furious.

Especially a certain woman, even if she has covered her ears with a piece of cloth, she still feels that the sound keeps getting into her head, even if it disappears in the second half of the night, it still remains in her heart...

The next day, the newlyweds were noticeably in a bad state of mind. Relatively speaking, on the contrary, Tang Xiao, the youngest, looks better, at most he is a little sleep-deprived. The fat man Li Qiang had double panda eyes, yawned again and again, and the whole person looked like a decline. As for Liu Ying, who is sick, her state is no different from before taking medicine early yesterday morning.

The energetic Ling Qi is still the old way to care for and help his teammates. Three capsules of raditenin, a pack of anti-radiation agent, eat it!

There is no special stop for someone to rest, and no one makes such a suggestion that will inevitably be opposed by everyone, let alone choose to leave alone.

The group hit the road again, considering the physical fitness of the newcomers, Ling Qi did not choose a more adventurous shortcut after all. He wasn't sure what he would encounter if he walked down the road that was basically unmarked, and sleeping in the open was just the most basic test.

If, for this reason, the newcomers are brought down, what is the difference between going back and fighting deathclaws? The latter can be faster, and the newcomers will die simply and suffer less.

It was sixty or seventy kilometres from Neptune to Novak, with a large mountain range in between, but several abandoned villages along the way.

This world is no worse than it was before the nuclear war, and even worse than in the days of the medieval city-states. The population is sparse, there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, and the white bones are exposed in the wild. Only the occasional remnants of reinforced concrete machinery prove that the wastelands were once conquered by humans.

After leaving the area covered with yellow sand, the chance of encountering mutant creatures along the way increased significantly, and they were attacked by no less than three waves of mutant monsters after walking for a morning.

If it weren't for Ling Qi's amazing perception, Godzilla would have become more ferocious, and the newcomers' firepower would be ferocious, so I was afraid that even if the ordinary team didn't fight in groups, they would have to reduce their numbers.

It's still the best way to go!

Seeing Godzilla again, even a few newcomers almost didn't recognize him.

I don't know if it's because of eating too many mutant creatures, Godzilla, who originally resembled a lizard monster and an ancient tyrannosaurus, actually became "thin", but instead of the fierce rex when it was young, it became more and more weird and hideous!

Originally, Godzilla also walked upright on two legs, but just like its mother, its forelimbs were extremely short, and its hind limbs were thick and powerful, and its back was covered with some stegosaurus-like bone fragments, but they were not obvious, just protrusions.

Now, it also walks on two legs, it has become more human-like, its forelimbs are obviously elongated, its hind limbs and waist and abdomen are gradually decreasing, but its mouth and face are becoming more and more terrifying, it does not look like a human at all, it is basically a ghoul, with a bloody mouth and fangs.

Two small bags protruded from its head, which looked like they were about to sprout horns. The rib of bone on the back of its back also became a sharp bone spur, which stood up to the end of the long tail, turning into a jet-black barb, which was chilling just to look at!

If Ling Qi recognized one of the most terrifying mutated creatures in the world, he would definitely be able to see at a glance in which direction Godzilla was changing. It's a pity that he doesn't know it, and even the page is missing from the Monster Book on the pp boy. Tang Xiao, the only one who might recognize that kind of monster, probably thinks that Godzilla and deathclaw are not similar enough!

Deathclaw, it is the most terrifying and successful mutant creature in the world, there is no one, it is the king of the land, the overlord of the mutated creatures on land.

Its parent body is also the only special individual in its plane that has successfully mutated due to radiation, and it is the direct cause of a catastrophe!

Probably even true biology experts can't tell what will eventually become when Godzilla from another world comes to this world full of radiant energy.

Ling Qi didn't care that it became uglier, but was relieved that it was no longer crying hungry all day long.

With these changes in appearance, the rate at which Godzilla "develops normally" seems to have entered a certain stage of stagnation.

Compared to its mother, it is less than a quarter of its mature height. Compared to it at the same height before, judging from the data given by the Juggernaut, its agility has increased by two to three percent, and the strength of the dominant attribute that had been steadily growing has stopped increasing like its height. This situation is not normal for a healthy Godzilla.

Fortunately, these changes, combined with the current actual situation, are benign.

If you really throw an adult Godzilla into this barren plane, it will probably starve to death before it can show its strength.

Accidental variation always has various shortcomings, which are congenital defects. Otherwise, if only strength is considered, a Godzilla egg score will be at least 2000 or more, not a few hundred for poor Baba.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest.

Even if Godzilla, who has really entered the mature stage, can stomp on the emperor's claws, but from the perspective of the entire race, as a synonym for existing and dominating the wilderness, the deathclaws have thrown off the former for many streets. At least in general, there will be no deathclaws that starve the streets.

"Natural Selection~"

In the evening, facing the deserted village in front of him, Ling Qi ordered Godzilla to drag out all the mutant lizards that were seriously injured or dead and eat them.

Then, he didn't care about the blood on the ground at all, and walked directly towards the largest "room", an abandoned bus car.

The village may have once flourished, or it may have been a short-lived flash in the pan like many other human settlements in the wasteland, and it made no difference to those who came after it.

How many people live in such a precarious world, and have the leisure to remember the past of others.

At least what Ling Qi saw was just the shabby shackles made of iron sheets and wooden strips, large boxes and small boxes.

As for his teammates, they are still staring at the flesh of the mutant lizard on the ground, so as not to accidentally step on it.

In order to save materials, everyone's clothes didn't want to be changed in the past two days, and as soon as the newcomers had opinions, they were also vetoed by Ling Qi.

In the evening, I ate grilled lizard ribs and drank a thick soup made from canned soybean and pork, with diced sour nuts cut into it.

These things are far worse than the food of the previous days, and Tang Xiao and the others finally knew why the residents of the wasteland dared to eat such disgusting things, they were all forced.

Ling Qi didn't think that the treatment he provided to the newcomers was so bad, he didn't eat these things as well, and nibbled on a few more pieces of lizard meat that must contain a radiation source.

The poor fat man had already let himself out, his size destined him to be more impatient and hungry than the emaciated Tang Xiao, except for Ling Qi, the roasted lizard ribs belonged to him the most. Tang Xiao and Liu Yun were not interested in the meat pieces on this erect animal, so they could only pour fruit, soy, salty and astringent fruit, soybean and pork chowder soup into their stomachs one by one.

One night passed, and then two days later, when Tang Xiao saw Godzilla for the third time, even he inexplicably connected this four-like monster with the strongest land creature in this plane.

Mutant Deathclaw Knight?

The college student casually glanced at Ling Qi, and thought thoughtfully:

"It's worth the name. ”

Ling Qi jumped onto Godzilla's shoulder, then grabbed a pair of curved corners that were more than two feet long that stretched out from his forehead, and stood up straight and looked into the distance.

There is a garbage dump-like ruin, and in the center stands a huge "dinosaur", or "dinosaur model".

Seeing this kind of "mascot" that should appear in Disneyland in the wasteland, Ling Qi couldn't help but feel a little funny.

He looked down again and touched Godzilla's bumpy head, the touch of his fingertips felt like he was touching a stone.

"Deathclaw Knight?"

"Lynch Nirieva Seindu!"