Elder Joseph held his breath, but when he calmed down, he was even more puzzled. From what his subordinates saw, www.biquge.info Pen Fun Pavilion analyzed that this sudden appearance of the armed convoy had quite mature and strong logistical capabilities, which was quite unusual.

The Brotherhood of Steel, which controls the northern part of the United States, does not dare to say that the troops they sent will take a bath if they want to! Especially in this nuclear winter environment, you still want to take a bath? It's good not to freeze to death.

"They have more than twenty vehicles, among which there is also a large-caliber howitzer, which is massively armed with heavy weapons. We'd better not get into trouble with them. ”

"There are more than a hundred of them in total. Divided into two groups, the equipment and morale of the core personnel are extremely high, and there are also a large number of handymen who work. I asked, and the handyman seemed to have been recruited from a nearby settlement. ”

"They took about five or six houses to the north of us, and then they used those houses as the center to cut down the surrounding trees with chainsaws to build camps. The work was completed in a few hours, which was quite efficient. ”

The more information he learned, the worse Elder Joseph's face became. It seems that the other party has a plan to stay with them for a long time, but the shelter can't have a large number of people outside for a long time.

The Granite Vault was originally only able to house about 2,000 people to survive inside, but at its peak it was crammed into more than 5,000 people. With so many people crammed into the underground city, the living conditions are so terrible that drinking water in the shelters alone is scarce, and even breathing is a problem.

In the closed environment of material scarcity, many inferior human beings continue to attack. Various vicious incidents continued to occur in the shelter, and eventually the population was reduced to more than 4,000 before it stabilized. The more than 1,000 people who disappeared were the tuition fees paid to build the Vault's ruling system.

If a defensive ring with a radius of two kilometers were to be laid out, more than a thousand people would be active on the surface. For the shelter to keep so many people out there from freezing to death, the extra food consumption alone is unbearable.

"Don't worry, we're difficult, that team is even more difficult. I don't believe they'll last much longer. "The next day, inside the shelter. Elder Joseph spoke at the elders' meeting, confident in his own safety.

Another elder asked, "Can we take the initiative and drive this group away?" ”

It's not easy. Elder Joseph shook his head, "The people in this convoy are very vigilant, and they are very mobile and firepower, and the drones are always watching us. If we do it rashly, we are afraid that we will lose four or five hundred people. ”

Although the loss of four or five hundred people can reduce the pressure on the Vault's survival, the loss of so many backbones and soldiers is enough to make the Vault's vitality greatly damaged. In the end, the result of the Senate deliberations was to be vigilant and look at the situation again.

"I believe that as long as it drags on for a few days, this team will still not be able to stand it." Elder Joseph was sure of this, "They were alone in such a convoy, and there were so many people, that they couldn't hold out for long. ”

In order to confront the armed convoy of unknown origin for a long time, Elder Joseph still ordered the defensive ring to be retracted, reduce the vigilant population on the ground, and reduce consumption. Then he passively waited for the other party to get out of the way after he couldn't stand it.

But the next day, a shout came over the intercom, "Hey! Turtle in the Vault, I can make a deal with you. ”

"Get out! I will never sell you anything. When Elder Joseph cursed this, he felt relieved. He thought to himself: Let you bastards go against us, or obediently blow the cold wind outside.

But the intercom continued to shout: "I don't need your supplies, I just want to ask for manpower, for example, how about selling me a little people?" I can trade it for medicine or weapons. ”

Population for medicine?

There is a shortage of everything in the shelter, but there is no shortage of people, and in fact, the underground space on the fifth floor is overcrowded. In the crowded environment, more than half of the patients are mild or severe, and medicines and medical equipment are scarce than food.

"We can change them one by one to ensure that you don't suffer losses and don't pose a threat to you." continued on the intercom.

Elder Joseph had to seriously consider that there were a lot of dispensable people in the Vault, and it didn't seem like a loss-making deal to trade them for much-needed medicines. After consulting with the other elders, he decided he could give it a try.

A scrawny woman was singled out, and her eyes glazed over her eyes were pushed out of the shelter like a puppet. The soldiers in the shelter felt that this was just a temptation, and no one thought that such a useless waste could be exchanged for valuable medicines, and it would be nice to be able to figure out the exchange price of the population and medicines.

However, the Baltimore Squad always did things in a way that was beyond imagination, and the person who came to negotiate was a butcher, and this ugly rough man did not get angry or scream when he saw the woman as a bargain, but instead made detailed inquiries after carefully examining the woman's physical condition.

"What's your name?"

"Patty."

"Ms. Patty, what was your previous occupation?"

After a moment of silence, the woman's rigid brain thought for a long time before giving an answer, "I was an air traffic controller at Baltimore Airport before. ”

"Oh...... there aren't many people in this profession. How many years have you been a controller? ”

"Fifteen years."

"Then you must have a lot of experience in airport aviation management. Your body is weak, severely malnourished, plus multiple chronic diseases. But don't worry, it's useful to have a professional like you, and our airports are lacking in professional managers. ”

After the butcher patiently asked, he straightened up and said to the escort: "This woman is for us, we can pay for her medicine." What kind of medicine do you need? You should often encounter diarrhea in the shelter, norfloxacin or montmorillonite are good medicines. ”

Is it really a change of medicine? It's not a joke!

Diarrhoea is a seemingly inconspicuous illness that can easily kill people in the last days. In the enclosed environment of the shelter, once the hygiene is not done well, diarrhea can pull people to death from dehydration.

The butcher simply exchanged a box of norfloxacin for a sick waste woman who was about to hang. When he left, the soldiers of the shelter who had escorted the woman over froze one by one, and no one thought that the deal was so easily completed.

"This medicine can't be fake, right? How could it be so easily handed over to us? The soldiers looked at each other, but did not know what to do, so they had to return to the shelter and hand in their medicines.

And back at the shelter, several elders also looked at the medicine that had been exchanged with stunned eyes. Elder Joseph looked at the English label that was specially posted on the medicine box, and said very suspiciously: "A woman who is about to die has changed the box of life-saving medicine, do these guys have a problem with their brains?" ”

Diarrhoea is a common disease, and there are patients in shelters who have diarrhea and weakness in their limbs. Norfloxacin is very effective in treating diarrhea and is fast-acting. In order to induce the people in the shelter to have more contact with the outside world, the butcher also specially presented a box of montmorillonite powder, which was used in combination with the two medicines, and many patients suffering from diarrhea recovered within a few hours.

Seeing that several people in the shelter were saved because of this, the elders who came to see the effect were all greatly amazed - this exchange is really not a loss! (To be continued.) )