Two figures wrapped in spacesuits trudge through a sandstorm of Mars, looking for the location of the "Blood Eagle Clan".

Although he didn't know exactly where the tribe was stationed, Lin Chi decided to head towards a hill three kilometers away after checking the map.

- Judging from the location of Sasha's exile, the territory of the Blood Eagle Clan should not be far away, and the canyon is too far away. Moreover, if the Blood Eagle Tribe is really as weak as the introduction, there should be no way to monopolize a canyon.

With this in mind, Lin Chi relied on the map to weave through the sandstorm with extremely low visibility, walking towards the location of the hill.

"Is it over here?"

Frankenstein's voice sounded from Lin Chi's headphones, and even though the distance between the two was less than five meters, they were almost unable to see each other.

"I don't know, let's go check it out first." Lin Chi said as he quickened his pace, using the one-legged jumping method he had learned from Sasha to advance through the orange desert.

The spacesuit kept out the dust and noise in the air, but the oncoming wind still seriously affected the movement speed. Lin Chi and Frankenstein trekked in the desert for an hour before finally arriving at the hill three kilometers away.

"Hopefully this sandstorm won't last long." Lin Chi said with emotion.

According to what Lin Chi learned from popular science documentaries, Mars will have a global dust storm every three years (5.5 years relative to Earth time), and when a global dust storm occurs, the entire surface of Mars will be covered with sand and dust.

No matter how you look at it, this planet is completely uninhabitable for human habitation, and those who hope to "immigrate to Mars" after the deterioration of the earth's environment are probably going to be disappointed......

Grabbing the angular rocks on the ground, climbing up the not very steep peak, and walking around the slope for a long time, the two finally found a dark cave.

At the top of the cave, you can see a camouflage net similar to the color of the reddish-brown rock, but what was supposed to provide camouflage for the cave has not been put down.

- Is there something going on inside?

Realizing that the situation was wrong, Lin Chi took out the Tyrannosaurus Rex shotgun from his backpack and walked into the entrance of the cave vigilantly. Frankenstein also pulled out an M249 light machine gun with a shark painted on its body and quickly followed.

Lin Chi, who was walking in front, turned on the emergency light installed on the head of the spacesuit, and the dim pillar of light was cast into the dark cave inside, reflecting the originally dark cave wall.

Unlike naturally occurring caves, the stone walls of this cave are exceptionally smooth, and there seems to be some pattern on the walls. Lin Chi turned his head to look at the stone wall, only to see that the painting on the stone wall was a red eagle with wings spreading.

Needless to say, this should be the territory of the "Blood Eagle Clan".

After seeing the pattern, Lin Chi and Frankenstein glanced at each other, and they were much more cautious. Even though the criminals are supposed to only have melee weapons, it can still be a little dangerous to be ambushed in a small cave.

- Let's see what the Blood Eagle Tribe is capable of......

Lin Chi was walking slowly, and the light on his helmet suddenly found something shiny, and then the scene that came into his eyes surprised him slightly:

Reflecting the light was the glass visor of the protective suit, a large man with a broad-bladed butcher's knife in his hand, standing at the back of the cave, the silver-gray protective suit stained with speckled splatters of blood.

The terrifying slaughterer, carrying a corpse on his left shoulder, suddenly threw away the corpse and rushed out with a knife after seeing Lin Chi and the others, slashing directly at Lin Chi's neck.

Before he could pounce on Lin Chi's side, he was swallowed up by the flames that erupted from the muzzle of the Tyrannosaurus Rex's shotgun, and the whole person flew backwards, turning into a puddle of rotten meat and sticking on the stone wall.

"Who gave you the courage?" Lin Chi said with a smile.

Because it was too slow to change bullets in a spacesuit, Lin Chi decisively stuffed the shotgun into his backpack, took out the ACR assault rifle and held it in his hand.

Although the ammunition of these guns was not very abundant, it was obviously enough to deal with exiled criminals who did not have firearms.

Two more knife-wielding men rushed over and were knocked down by Frankenstein's M249, falling in a pool of their own blood. Two players with suppressive firepower, with their weapon advantage, made their way to the interior of the cave.

The constant echoing gunshots in the cave, isolated from the spacesuit, Lin Chi shot and killed a murderer with a stick in front of him, and looked at the guy's clothes as he passed by the other party's corpse.

The man had a cobra on the chest of his suit and was clearly not a member of the Blood Eagle clan. It seems that he took advantage of the sandstorm to rush into the territory of the Blood Eagle tribe and slaughter the members of this tribe.

After taking a few more steps, several corpses piled up together entered the sight of Lin Chi and Frankenstein.

Although it was difficult to identify, Lin Chi could tell that these blood-drenched corpses were all wearing the protective clothing of the Blood Eagle Clan, and among them was a small child whose head was ruthlessly cut off.

"It looks like the marauder's son is hanging." Lin Chi whispered.

- If it weren't for that idiot who rushed out in power armor to hunt down Sasha, the Blood Eagle clan wouldn't have been slaughtered.

The two of them walked a little further inside, and entered the wide cavern, where they saw several piles of corpses, scattered around the cave. Looks like all the members of the Blood Eagle Clan.

The battle was not a one-sided slaughter, as in addition to the members of the Blood Eagle Clan, there were also many members of the tribe whose clothes were painted with cobras.

In addition, there is another detail that caught Lin Chi's attention:

"No need for hazmat clothing here?"

Seeing that many of the members of the Blood Eagle tribe who had fallen in the cave were not wearing helmets, Lin Chi tried to take off the helmet of the spacesuit, but the imaginary feeling of suffocation did not appear, but was not much different from the earth.

In this way, there should be something like oxygen supply equipment in the cave, although the bloody gas is a bit too heavy, but Lin Chi is still very satisfied with the "fresh air" that he has not seen for a long time.

"We can live here." Frankenstein also took off his helmet at this point, revealing his bandaged face.

"Then I'll have to clean up the corpse first, I don't want to live with the dead." Lin Chi said with a smile.

Without the protection of his helmet, he could finally hear the outside world, and the whining of the wind outside the cave was undoubtedly caused by a sandstorm. And inside the cave, there were also some unusual cries:

"Squeak ......"

The sound resembling the sound of a rat's cry came from inside the cave shrouded in shadows, and unlike the rat's voice, it was much louder than the rat's, as if it had been made by some large animal.

- What is it?

Lin Chi and Frankenstein glanced at each other, and the two of them used their spacesuit helmets as flashlights very tacitly, and slowly walked in the direction where the sound came from.

The question of "Martian animals" is beyond the scope of Lin Chi's answer, after all, even in the real world of 2035, people have not yet raised animals on a large scale on Mars.

So, what exactly is it that makes the sound?

Lin Chi cautiously walked over, ready to shoot at any time, and ten seconds later, a metal cage with rough workmanship appeared in sight, and there were several shadows wriggling in the cage.

"Squeak!"

The shrill screams sounded again, and Lin Chi and Frankenstein stepped forward and stood next to the cage to observe the movements inside.

Then came into view of strange animals they had never seen before:

Several large animals with gray fur are kept in three-meter-high cages that look like a combination of a pig and a mouse.

Above their fat bodies, they had rat-shaped heads, their round black eyes spinning around, dodging the light of the emergency lights, and their mouths full of fine fangs squeaking incessantly.

"Holy, what is this?" Lin Chi asked in surprise.

Next to the cage, he saw some pale bone remains, shaped not like human bones, which were supposed to have been taken from the animals. But the scene inside the cage is a little wrong:

At the feet of those animals, there were a lot of white bones, among which several human skeletons could be seen, and there were many fragments of clothes and other things, scattered in the cages.

"Do you mean ......?"

Seeing the situation inside the cage, and then at the fangs of the animals that were taller than people, Lin Chi almost understood the situation here.

"They feed on people." Frankenstein said what Lin Chi was thinking.

"That's right." Lin Chi looked at those strange animals and said with emotion: "This place is really crazy. ”

It seems that the members of the Blood Eagle tribe should use the flesh of the dead human to feed these large animals. Then the animals are killed and their flesh is eaten.

No matter how mad they are, these criminals probably won't use members of their own tribe to feed animals. In this way, it is already obvious why this place is being attacked by people from other tribes.

- These people are not actually here to seek revenge, but to slaughter members of other tribes, and then use the corpses of other tribesmen as fodder to feed their animals!

Just by looking at the chisel marks on the cage door, you can know that the members of that tribe should also want to take these animals away, but unfortunately they didn't have time to leave, so they were bumped into by Lin Chi and Frankenstein......

Lin Chi looked around and found a thin stone slab next to the iron cage, on which were carved many strange circular characters.

——This strange text that I don't know what it came from should be called "Martian script" is more reasonable, and the game's built-in translation system played a role at this moment, translating the Martian script on the slate into Chinese that Lin Chi could understand:

Pig and Rat Cooking Guide:

Pigs and rats, edible and delicious. It tastes better than dry human flesh.

The head of a pig rat cannot be eaten, and there are too many teeth.

The stomach of pigs and rats cannot be eaten, and there is human flesh in them.

Raised by people.

Fry it in spaceship oil, or grill it straight.

"It's stupid." After reading the "cooking guide" of the elementary school literacy level on the slate, Frankenstein shook his head.

"It's all, but just know it's food." Lin Chi smiled, turned his head to look at the iron pot not far from the cage, and asked, "Are you hungry?" ”

Unlike NPCs, players do not need to eat in-game. But after finding the "food" from Mars, Lin Chi still wanted to try how this thing tasted.

"Nope." Frankenstein shook his head again: "I don't eat people. ”

"There's a difference between this and cannibalism...... right" Lin Chi looked at the iron pot next to him with some regret, then turned around and continued to look for available resources in the cave.

The people of the Blood Eagle tribe were all killed, but it saved him a lot of effort. The "robbery" that was originally planned before suddenly became a more civilized-sounding "scavenging".

In the innermost corner of the cave, Lin Chi found a locked cabinet, he used the key card in his hand to swipe the electronic lock, and the cabinet door clicked and unlocked.

After opening the cabinet, what appeared in front of the two of them were several spare sets of protective clothing, and the dark brown coat chest was hung with the pattern of a blood eagle.

"Let's put this on." He said.

Wearing an old spacesuit on Mars is not as convenient to move as this protective suit, and this protective suit also has a simple oxygen supply device built into it, so that the wearer will not suffocate directly outside.

After changing into this outfit, it is undoubtedly much more convenient to fight than now, and there is no need to worry about the fingers of the spacesuit being too thick to pull the trigger.

The two rummaged through the protective suits, found two outfits that suited their body type, and after taking off their spacesuits, they changed into the "battle robes" of the Blood Eagle tribe.

After changing clothes, he picked up the sharp broad-bladed broadsword from the pile of corpses and put it in his backpack, Lin Chi leaned on the stone bed in the corner of the cave with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Let's rest." ”

Seeing his lazy look, Frankenstein didn't say anything, just continued to look for usable props in the cave full of corpses.

Lin Chi stayed for less than two minutes before Frankenstein's voice sounded from the other side of the cave:

"Found it."

"What did you find?" He asked with his eyes closed.

"Clues." Frankenstein said.

Hearing this ambiguous answer, Lin Chi stood up and walked over, and when he came to Frankenstein, he saw a stone slab engraved with Martian inscriptions on the ground:

"Sasha, betrayer, banishment."

"Colforth, captive, fodder."

"Big fat, captive, fodder."

- It seems that what is written on this tablet is the way to deal with enemies and betrayers. However, if there was only this kind of content, Frankenstein wouldn't have called himself over......

Realizing this, Lin Chi skipped over a large number of names on it and directly focused his gaze on the bottom few lines of text on the slate:

"The scientist came and wanted to make a deal with us, and he said he could get out of here and go back to Earth. The Blood Eagle Tribe will contact the Scientist and get a chance to go back! ”

- Scientists plan to bring the criminals back? However, those scientists with strong firepower seem to have slaughtered criminals before......

When Lin Chi was thinking about it, a faint rustling sound suddenly sounded in the earphones around the neck of the protective suit.

He put on his headphones and heard an old voice come out:

"Are the people of the Blood Eagle here? Here are the scientists. ”

Hearing this, Lin Chi also immediately entered the role and replied, "Here, do you have something to do with us?" ”

"Come to coordinates 23, 14." The scientist responded: "I'll give you a second chance." ”