Of course, the more things that save lives, the better.

If he can make Merlot Crystal by himself, the improvement of his own strength will not be measured by steps, but with adjectives like "swaying up to the clouds".

In the peninsula area, the only person he knew who had studied Merlot Crystal was Han Xin's father, although the Gem City Academy of Sciences took away all the available data in the terminal after the accident in Vault 1001, as well as a large number of experimental materials, but he learned from Xia Xin that there was no information that could contribute value to the replication of Merlot Crystal.

In this way, to obtain the technology to prepare Merlot crystals, one must either grab Fan Changfa and get the key data that Han Xin's father stored on the computer in the Overseer's room, or find Han Xin's father himself and let that person work for him.

Judging from the current situation, he has no clue which of these two paths he has.

Back to that telegram.

The Bounty Hunter Guild learns that he has the corpse of the Mirelurk King in his hands and sends a telegram asking if he is interested in selling, and if so, if he needs to contact a buyer for him.

Gao Kai's explanation for the behavior of the bounty hunter union is that the transaction of the corpse of the mirelurk crab king involves a large amount of money, the union can get a considerable commission, and the leader of the transaction can also get a huge bonus, so the group of mercenary guys will send the service to the door and take the initiative to send a telegram to inquire.

Zang Feng asked him what he was going to do.

Tang Yan didn't answer immediately, glanced at Cai Wei, who was standing on the balcony watering the azaleas, picked up the cigarette case on the coffee table, took out a Taishan brand cigarette and lit it, squinted his eyes and took a hard puff.

On the night he returned from the sea, he did not hide the existence of the corpse of the mirelurk from the dock vigil guards, in order to increase the popularity of the Pandaren Legion. At present, the whole regiment has less than 70 members, which is barely enough to meet the security needs of Maxim's Cannery, and if they want to continue their own work, there is a serious shortage of manpower.

If you don't continue your job as a mercenary (entrust the market in Gem City to sweep away marauders, eradicate ravaging beasts, escort items to your destination, etc.), and do nothing in the Maxim's Cannery for a long time, your combat effectiveness will inevitably shrink significantly.

In order to get out of this predicament, he is ready to issue a recruitment announcement at the right time to recruit new people.

Letting the dock watchmen see the corpse of the mirelurk king is the foundation for this matter, and only by showing strong combat effectiveness can it be possible to attract experienced mercenaries to join, not the kind of rookie who can't even hold a gun.

He wanted to give the people of the peninsula the impression that ------ Pandaren Legion was not a retirement home, and that with their generous pay and high salaries, they would face enemies far above the general mercenary group.

Who knew that he hadn't started to think about recruiting people, but the Bounty Hunter Guild came to the door before he wanted to introduce him to a business.

What are the forces that want the corpse of the mirelurk king?

Yanhuang Brotherhood, Jiankang City, District 21...... This is an organization that directly issues bounties in the Bounty Hunter Guild, and there are still some people or organizations that are inconvenient to disclose their intentions to covet the corpse of the mirelurk king.

To be honest, with the CMC300 power armor not yet in its entirety, he was reluctant to make premature contact with powerful organizations in the interior, which would involve him and the Pandaren Legion in a whirlpool of power struggle.

Before the nuclear war, the coastal areas were the most populous and economically powerful places, and because of this, compared to the sparsely populated and economically backward inland and western regions, which suffered a large number of nuclear bombs, the closer to the capital region, the more serious the damage to the land.

Like the city of Kotoshima, it used to be the central city of the peninsula region. Today, more than 100 years later, it is regarded as a desolate place by the people of the Western Alliance, if it were not for the facilities such as Vault 1087, Vault 1001, and the Institute of Physics built in the surrounding area, as well as pre-war scientific and technological materials, how could a behemoth like the Western Alliance attach importance to a "small border city" like Gem City, and strive to support Luo Zuoming to ascend to the top.

Tang Yan is very self-aware, although the special edition of the StarCraft system makes his future infinitely bright, but now he is still very weak, in case those big forces are alert, as long as one or two planes are sent to drop a few Fatty-II nuclear bombs over the Maxim's Canning Factory, he can only stare dryly, and if he is unlucky, his life will be lost.

"Commander, commander...... Some people came from outside the gate. Tokuko's voice came from outside, interrupting his thoughts.

"What's going on?" Tang Yan retracted his thoughts and flicked the ash pillar between his fingers into the ashtray.

The three guns next to him interjected and asked: "Those dealers in Yuancheng and Jicheng are making trouble again?" ”

Dezi hurriedly came over to report the emergency, naturally it couldn't be a trivial matter.

"No, it's not from Kite City and Jicheng, it's ...... It's some outsiders who want to see the deputy head of the regiment. ”

"Who are they Tang Yan? See you when you want? Others don't have to rest, don't have to work? The three guns complained on the side.

Tang Yan was a little annoyed by the telegram sent by the Bounty Hunters Union, and waved his hand at Dezi: "If it's not a big deal, you can handle it with all your powers." ”

Tokuko was very happy to hear him say this, because it represented the trust that the deputy head of the regiment had in him.

However, he hesitated in place for a while, and still couldn't help but express his opinion: "Tang Yan...... I think...... You'd better go and have a look. ”

Zang Feng raised his eyebrows when he heard this, not knowing what happened to Dezi today.

Tang Yan pinched his chin and thought about it, got up from the sofa and walked outside.

Tokuko breathed a sigh of relief, as if she had finally unloaded the boulder that was pressing on her heart.

Sanpao was very curious about what kind of guy came outside, Tang Yan and Dezi left with the front foot, and he followed with the back foot.

The weather in the afternoon was not very good, dark clouds obscured the sun, and the wind from the sea whined the factory building.

Tang Yan walked out of the south gate with Dezi and came to the road that had been filled and leveled.

He saw thirteen men and three rickshaws. The two men in the front were dressed in tattered clothes, stepping on loose straw sandals, their bare skin with visible bruises and scars, only sparse hair on their heads, their faces were very pale, and there were traces of blood under their nostrils.

In terms of age, the eldest of these two is eighteen years old, and the younger is fifteen or sixteen.

However, they were the two best of the thirteen.

Of the eleven people remaining, four were under the tricycle and seven were on the tricycle.

Among the four people under the tricycle was a little girl of thirteen or fourteen years old, who was vomiting on the wheel of the tricycle when he came out, and the saliva mixed with blood fell on the newly built dirt road one by one, which was very vivid.

Three tricycles carried seven people, all of them small, the oldest was no more than fifteen years old, they were all thin, their arms and legs looked like slightly curved bamboo poles, so lying in the cramped carriage was not very crowded.

The mud and soot were plastered on their faces, and it was impossible to tell who was a boy and who was a girl without careful observation.

Blood stains spread in the body of **, the inactive skin and flesh fell off one by one, festered at the corners of the mouth, scalp, back, thigh roots and other parts of the fermentation, most of them have been infected, many places began to suppurate, and yellow-white mucus flowed out.

In the compartment of the last tricycle, Tang Yan saw a little girl wearing a ragged linen dress that could not even cover her private parts, her chest had stopped rising and falling, and corpse spots began to appear on her body, but even the piercing corpse spots were better than those ulcers and skin peeling spots.

Her hand was tightly grasped by the little boy next to her, who was in a deep coma, perhaps her brother or brother, as if holding hands could give her the courage to overcome her fear and endure the pain.

However, courage never prevails over death.

Poof!

It's the sound of your knees hitting the ground.

The two children in front of them with the best mental state knelt in front of Tang Yan.

"Please save us......"

He saw a scar on the top of the young boy's head, showing signs of infection.

He saw the older boy's arm shaking, the clothes that could no longer be washed adhered to the purulent wound, and the cloth after the pus had solidified was like an iron beating.

Tang Yan retracted his gaze and glanced at Dezi behind him, but he didn't expect this guy to be unexpectedly loving.

Killing people is the work of mercenaries, the death of the wasteland world is staged every day, and the compassion of human beings has long been worn out by reality, or the average person has no capital to pity the weak.

Even he can't eat enough and wear himself, his life is in danger at any time, and he can't take care of others.

He sighed, looked at the two teenagers kneeling in front of him and said, "Say, what do you want me to do?" ”

He didn't ask them how they came to be like this, because it was a miserable world.

"It's from Kitetown...... They killed the people in the village who dared to resist, and forced us to go to the mines in the north to mine uranium. The older boy tearfully said: "Without protection and without anti-radiation drugs, the people in the village either died in the mine or in the wasteland outside the mine. ”

"Not only the adults, but also the children of the village were driven into the mines, and they would only give us a bite to eat if they handed over enough uranium ore every day."

"No one can come out, except for those who are dying and those who are already dead, and those who forcibly escape are killed by them."

As the boy said this, the children who were still standing around the rickshaw began to cry, tears flowing down with dust and blood on their faces.

They are children in the end, even in this era, even if they are accustomed to death, it is difficult to erase the unique fragility of children.

Tang Yan didn't ask what happened to them, he asked what they wanted him to do, but for the two teenagers, they not only wanted redemption, but also wanted someone to listen carefully to what happened to them.

At this time, Dezi, who was standing behind and talking to the three guns who had just arrived at the scene, took a step forward and helped the older teenager.

"Do you want us to drive away the people of Kite City and rescue the villagers from the mines?"

The boy shook his head: "They will come back, no one will survive then." ”

The third cannon muttered in the back, "Kite City is also a wasteland settlement, how can the people in it be more vicious than the wilderness marauders?" ”

The boy said, "Because the villagers have led the way for the merchants of Gem City many times, so as to avoid the soldiers of Kite City who block the road and collect fees. We did this just to eat a bite, because the grain produced in the field would last for half a year at most, and then we would have to face a life of starvation, and if it were not for the bounty from the merchants, the villagers would have starved to death. ”

Tang Yan didn't speak.

What can he say? He couldn't say anything.

The people of Gem City ransacked Vault 1019, obtained soil improvement methods based on microbial technology, and built Starlight Farm and Starlight Ranch near Laoshan, but even then, the food production could not meet the living needs of the city's residents, and some of it had to be imported from the Western Alliance.

This gives you an idea of how dire the situation is for the inhabitants of the wasteland in the Kite City area.

Dezi wanted to say that they would come to work at Maxim's Canning Factory so that they wouldn't have to be bullied by the people of Kite, but the words came to his lips and swallowed them back.

There are so many jobs in Maxim's Cannery, recruit them in, what will the people of Gem City do? What's more, there are old and young, men and women in the village, Tang Yan wants to be charitable, but it is not the kind of charity that has no bottom line.

He saved a village, and he saved two, three, four...... Or even more? There are hundreds of medium-sized farms with hundreds of people like this, and there are hundreds in the Kite City area alone, can he save them?

"If you didn't come to beg us to send troops to rescue the villagers, why did you come to Maxim's Cannery?" The Third Artillery repeats this crucial question again.

The young boy said: "We heard that the deputy commander of the Panda Man Legion has a very effective anti-radiation potion in his hand, please give us some, so that the villagers can hold on, and in two or three months, the crops in the field will be ripe, and the people of Yuancheng will let us go back to harvest." ”

"Regeneration injections?" Tang Yan's eyes shrank: "Where did you hear this news?" ”

Not many people know that he has a powerful anti-radiation + regeneration potion in his hand, at most it spreads among groups such as drug dealers in Gem City, the Allied Army, the Panda Man Legion, and the Warrior Company, and the countrymen have no way to know about it, but these teenagers in front of him went straight to the door and told him that he had a regeneration potion, how not to make him suspicious.

"It's a good-looking older sister...... A few days ago, Xiao Yun escaped from the mine, we thought she would die outside, but we didn't expect her to come back two days later, and she miraculously recovered. She had a needle in her hand, and it took only a quarter of the dose to cure the radiation sickness, and she gave the remaining three-quarters to the worst people in the mine. ”

"We've seen people who are dying get better day by day. The adults asked her where she got this potion, and she said that it was a big sister who was driving by and saw her lying in the grass on the side of the road and was dying, so she stopped and took care of her for half a day, saved her life with this potion, and left her some food. ”

"She said that the big sister told her a name, saying that he was the deputy commander of the Pandaren Legion, and that he was a very good person, because of the medicine he gave her, she could be revived, and more people suffering from radiation sickness."