Gradually, the dead branches of the firewood turned black and coal, providing a rare amount of heat, and occasionally "crackling" to produce some brilliant but blinking sparks.

I haven't seen the boy come back for a long time, Simon glanced around, the huge bear monster corpse blocked the cold wind, but it also blocked the view on one side, the bonfire was weakening, and he couldn't see his five fingers a few meters away, Simon rubbed his hands and exhaled hot air, and said intentionally or unintentionally: "Why didn't you see your son?" ”

"Huh?" Jonathan was chewing on painkillers, looking at his face full of enjoyment, but without a hint of pretense. The corners of Simon's mouth twitched slightly, this bottle of painkillers is military-grade, although the medicine is powerful, but the bitter taste can make people pour a Mississippi River to quench their thirst.

"Where's your son?" Simon repeated.

Jonathan came back to his senses, waved his hand nonchalantly, and said indifferently: "There will be no other large beasts in the territory infested by bear demons, Peter should have caught something, and you will have to taste my son's rabbit skewers in a while." ”

Simon watched as the big man stretched out his scarlet tongue and licked his lips, as if he wouldn't let go of even the slightest pill powder. He pulled his backpack by himself, unsealed Magnum bullets, reloaded the bomb nest one by one, and chatted: "At this time, what are you father and son doing in this poor mountain and remote place? ”

"The Imperial Cub has set up a checkpoint in the wasteland, and Joe doesn't want to be caught as cannon fodder, so he can only venture through Black Mountain to the north to earn a living." Jonathan sighed heavily, looked at Simon's revolver with interest, and said: "A real man should use a big gun, and if you can solve things with one bullet, don't use two bullets, tell Joe, how many people have you killed for this gun?" ”

Simon never calculated how many Imperials were killed in the war, and given that the python was a gift from Major McNair in return for saving his life in the Battle of Narvik, Simon casually said the number: "Not a lot, twenty or thirty." ”

With that, he glanced at Jonathan's chest, which was unusually exposed in the night wind. Simon swallowed his saliva unconsciously, in the old world, except for the Imperial Warriors, who would dare to confront an adult grizzly bear head-on? What's more, the bear monster encountered tonight was two or three times stronger than ordinary bears, and the man threw off his shawl and resisted directly, and was beaten by countless angry beatings by the bear monster, but he still sat beside him and was stunned.

Simon tightened his tongue, rested his left wheel on his knees, unscrewed two cans of pure water, handed them over, and said, "Thank you for your strength!" ”

Jonathan smacked the water quality, gave a thumbs up, raised the jug and said, "Respect for your marksmanship!" ”

It's easy to get closer to each other, Simon just pondered and wanted to ask Jonathan how to train his strong muscles, but the latter took the initiative to say, "Strength? If I had a choice, I'd rather cut off all my fat! ”

Simon glanced at Jonathan's hilly bulging arms, all tricks didn't have much effect before pure power, it is true that Simon is extremely accomplished in long-range sniping, as a ranger, Simon does not lose to any of his peers in melee combat, what he pays attention to is the word fast, accurate and ruthless, once he falls into a close-range battle, he locks his throat, inserts his eyes, and kicks his crotch...... But if you really want to face Jonathan, there is nothing else but to pull your legs and run.

Without waiting for Simon to be puzzled, Jonathan greedily looked at the very little clean water in his hand, shook it and put it down, and sighed: "Look at your brother, you are in normal shape, radiation sickness should not be serious, congratulations, the longer this world lives, the greater the chance, look at Joe, I won't tell you, Joe has a third-order radiation sickness, and if he stops anti-radiation, he will definitely not live for two months." ”

"Haha......" Jonathan said in a sad tone, tauntingly tapping his steel chest, "It's a curse, not a gift." ”

Chatting with Jonathan intermittently, Simon realized that in the last days, nuclear radiation is everywhere, subtly transforming people's physique, and the right amount of radiation can give people various abilities, once they can't withstand the accumulation of radiation, the gift of waste land immediately turns into a double-edged sword, the more intense the radiation, the stronger the ability, the shorter the lifespan, third-order radiation diseases like Jonathan are commonplace in the wasteland, and they work tirelessly just to ask for anti-radiation drugs to hang their lives, but anti-radiation drugs have always been priceless, even if they are lucky to buy them, they are nothing more than a few months of life. It is also necessary to be wary of black and black.

The law of the jungle.

"The supply of medicines in the Dahu Industrial Zone in the north is sufficient, and the environment is better than that in the south, so it will not be pulled by the neck of a gun frame to be used as cannon fodder on the battlefield." Jonathan took the cigarette handed by Simon in surprise, his Adam's apple twitched, sniffing the tobacco fiercely, Simon pulled a stick of burning wood, and lit it one by one, the birth of friendship between men is simpler, a cigarette is enough.

Jonathan's big sepiolite-like nose was dripping with some water and snot, and despite the bandages on his hands, he was still oozing blood, so he reached out and wiped it, and said angrily: "Brother, your marksmanship is very good!" If Joe guessed well, you should be a sniper, there is a shortage of snipers in the world! Give Joe a steel suit, with a sniper as support, not to mention the bear demon, the head of the sea crab queen, Joe also has the confidence to stew it! ”

Jonathan laughed again after a few words, and seeing Simon's lack of interest, he touched his nose and stopped his voice in embarrassment, and said carefully: "Dude, are you really going east?" ”

Simon nodded.

"To Washington?"

Still nodding.

The back was suddenly hit hard, Simon reflexively bounced up, subconsciously buckled the holster, the air was a little stagnant, and the trench coat boy walked out of the shadow of the campfire, Peter was holding a full of firewood, and a small hare was really caught in his armpit, and he was stunned in place.

Jonathan withdrew his slap in disdain and scolded: "The rabbit cub has been gone for so long, and the old man thinks that you have been caught and eaten, what are you stunned, hurry up and work!" Do you have to be pumped to move? After training his son, Jonathan reluctantly squeezed out a smile: "This kid just owes a beating, and he doesn't want to work if he doesn't fight." ”

The bonfire was lit, and the boy who was not afraid to die to get into the belly of the bear monster took out the same knife at this time, skillfully skinned the hare, but did not take out the internal organs and got on the grill made of branches, next to his father, and said something inaudiblely, Jonathan directly kicked back, took out a very sharp hunting knife from the luggage bag, and handed the pure water jug that he only took a sip to Peter, and the young man held the jug, and drank not a drop of it like a treasure, and followed the headless corpse of the bear monster, and then got into the belly of the bear monster.

"If the head is there, this skin can be sold for two or three hundred coins, and then as far as the big lake, the price can rise, and if you are lucky enough, you can save half a bottle of anti-radiation!" The neck hole was constantly throwing all kinds of internal organs, I don't know if it was the dark of the night or just like that, and the color of those things was red and almost black. Simon noticed that Jonathan's eyes were very pure when he looked at the bear monster.

Thoughts.

"Hayes, you contributed the most, it took several bullets, so you take sixty percent, and when the time comes, let the strong Joe lead the way, and make sure that the white-assed, big-breasted woman screams!"

Simon stared at the big hand that rose and fell, and Jonathan said cautiously, "I said dude, why do you want to go to Washington?" ”

"The army is calling, I am Sergeant Simon Hayes, and it is my duty to repel the Imperials invasion." Simon looked calm.

Simon's eardrums trembled with laughter, and Jonathan laughed out of breath and applauded, "Oh...... So dude, you're just waiting for a surprise attack? The jokes are great, really. The Imperials landed from Long Beach and then swept through the wasteland, hahaha......"

Simon suppressed the strong desire to learn in his heart, and rubbed his eyebrows as if to relieve his sleepiness: "What the hell is going on, that animal stinks so badly, I am about to lose my mind." ”

The bear monster did have a foul smell, which was nothing to Jonathan, who was accustomed to life in the wasteland, and Jonathan explained, "Dude, you don't think the empire was an empire a century ago, do you? Today's empire is in Long Beach City in the east, and the name used to be New York, Joe doesn't remember very clearly, anyway, the empire is at war with the Liberty League in the south, hey, war, if it used to be like that, the strong Joe would be happy to sell force, but now there is a new emperor, I have a son to raise, and the north is loose ......"

The more he listened to Jonathan's incoherent narration, the more Simon's heart became cold, and the truth was the exact opposite of what he had imagined. It's the year 2116, a full sixty years after Simon's familiar era. The Empire is certainly not the evil Red Empire on the other side of the ocean, but the Empire established in New York by the Wasteland Emperor. The only thing that remains unchanged is that the war continues, and it is nothing more than a different name.

The Freedom Alliance was not founded by Simon's wishful thinking that it was founded by the remnants of the Allied forces, but was in fact a spontaneous alliance of city-states formed by the human gathering place of the Capital Wasteland. In Joe's account, the Freedom Alliance is not much better than the Empire, which is accustomed to using the dead as military rations, and the difference between crows and black pigs is just that. The Great Lakes Industrial Zone he hoped for was not a paradise, but it gave him hope to at least live, as for living as a human being? That's not hope, it's an extravagant hope.

Whenever his heart was like ashes, Simon was accustomed to touching the pocket of his underwear, and he trembled and touched half a pack of crumpled and shapeless cigarettes, through the firelight, the red seven stars faded, and could not fade the sense of majesty, but who would have expected that this half pack of cigarettes would sleep with its owner for more than half a century.

There was a very clear sound of saliva next to him, Simon smiled, poured out another one and handed it to Jonathan, raised the fire-burning sticks and lit each other's fires, silent for many years, the tobacco miraculously maintained its choking strength, Simon swallowed the smoke, slowly filled his heart, and the stranger who met with Pingshui coughed violently, and did not spit it out for a long time.

His nose was scorched and turbid, Simon's heart was suddenly empty, he lost his home, his fiancée, and finally even his army, and he smoked the cigarette fast and hard, and there were several more cigarette butts on the ground, but Simon's face was always stiff.

It wasn't until half a pack of cigarettes turned into dust that Simon came back to his senses, and the young man squatted by the fire, his hands full of grease, glanced at him and said, "The meat is roasted, and if you don't eat it, it will be cold." ”