Chapter 112: Finding a Settlement
"Alaska ......"
Inside the moving armored car, Lin Mu stared at the map unfolded on the table, his brows slightly furrowed. A month ago, the guy I met named Enforcer Wren, although he only talked for twenty minutes, he got a lot of useful information.
Evra's location, as he and Carl Sr. once speculated, is located in the northwest corner of the North American continent, in Alaska, which was formerly part of country M.
There, Iron Sword built a sprawling settlement on the edge of the mountains and man-made walls. They even hollowed out part of the strata and created several underground cities.
"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"
With a heart-rending cough, Lin Mu sighed in his heart and turned his head to look to the side. On the flat folding bed, Sophia curled up in a blanket, her pretty face covered with a sickly white.
Disease is a very common phenomenon for living beings. With the history of mankind, many diseases that were once fatal have become treatable with just a few pills.
Even, ten years after the Great Apocalypse, as a highly evolved enhancer of the body, it is possible to completely ignore almost all types of diseases with strong immunity alone.
But Sophia still fell ill a few days ago, and the three of them were completely helpless about this. There were no doctors among them, not even the medical tests that are common in the settlements.
Weakness, drowsiness, some slight fever in the body. Faced with this symptom that looked like a cold, Lin Mu tried to make her take several healing pills, but the result was that her condition did not improve at all.
"BOSS, SHOULD WE TURN AROUND? If we turn around now, we expect to be able to return to the previous settlement within a week. ”
Old Karl, who was driving, gave advice. At present, the armored vehicle has driven to the territory of Ghana, is there a settlement ahead? It is completely unknown to them.
As for returning to the last settlement? With the speed of the forest curtain, it is completely possible to take Sophia at high speed, but ...... Her body couldn't handle that jolt anymore.
"Keep going! It's too late for a week! ”
After a long silence, Lin Mu shook his head. He stretched out his hand to wrap Sophia tightly with the quilt, stood up, and said in a deep voice: "You continue to advance along the main road, I will keep a distance of no more than fifty kilometers from the armored vehicle to reconnoiter around!" ”
Fifty kilometers, this is the maximum communication range between the White Hornet and the armored vehicle, and if the armored vehicle encounters any danger, he can also return in a short time.
"Have a nice trip!"
Without much to say, Carl Sr. stepped on the brakes, turned around and waved his hand. Lin Mu opened the car door, and before getting out of the car, he turned his head to look at the reconnaissance console behind him.
"Pay attention to your surroundings, and if anything is wrong, contact me immediately!"
David blushed, sat in front of the console without saying a word, and then nodded for a long time.
This guy has become like this since he learned from a convoy two weeks ago that his only relative, his sister's family, had been killed.
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All the way, Lin Mu concentrated on observing the surrounding situation. In the white world in front of you, it is easy to encounter mutant beasts that use their coat color to lurk in the snow.
While the thermal imager is capable of spotting most species of mutants, it is powerless against some particular insect mutants, who can make their body temperature almost indistinguishable from their environment.
Compared to the territory of country M, Ghana is undoubtedly a sparsely populated place, and in the three days since he entered here, he has not found any traces of human activity at all.
Of course, this does not include Iron Sword and Silver City, which are at war. Destroyed multi-legged vehicles, power armor, bionic robots, and human corpses in standard combat uniforms...... Almost every now and then, he could see the remnants of the land left behind because of the war between the two sides.
"Whew!"
With a sharp roar, an ugly insect suddenly jumped out of the snow in front of him and pounced on him.
But from the outside, it must have been a mutation of bed bugs, with a flat brown body, a small head, sharp limbs, and that foul smell.
Thinking about the stench that the white bee had washed several times before it faded, Lin Mu kicked hard with his left foot, avoiding the attack of this bed bug and continuing to run forward.
Although this thing was not a threat to him, if it was touched, the disgusting stench would last for a long time.
"Help! Help me! ……”
As soon as he climbed a hillside, there was a cry for help not far away, and Lin Mu turned his head, and the vision in front of him immediately enlarged.
At the edge of a snowy larch forest, a snowmobile is speeding and driven by a tightly wrapped man with two grizzly bears chasing him.
As if he had spotted the forest curtain, the snowmobile swerved sharply and drove straight at him.
"Finally, I saw a living person!"
Pulling out the broad-edged sword from his back, Lin Mu kicked it at his feet, and his body rushed down the hillside. Miserably dodging the snowmobile, he leaped high and swung his sword in his right hand at the grizzly bear in front of him.
"Bang!"
There was a muffled thud, and the splash of snowflakes obscured the forest curtain and the grizzly bear. With a 'squeak', the snowmobile slowly stopped, and the people in the car looked back nervously.
"Roar!"
The other, slightly larger grizzly bear suddenly stopped, and the crouched man let out a threatening roar in front of him. Suddenly, its nose twitched twice, as if it smelled something, and it turned and ran.
A gust of wind blew, and the white mist of snowflakes was blown away, revealing the white bee standing in place with his sword in hand, and the grizzly bear that had been almost split in half.
"Saved! Whew......"
Seeing this, the person on the snowmobile patted his chest and let out a long sigh. She raised her hand and pulled down the scarf on her face, revealing a face that was red from the cold.
"Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! ……”
With a heavy step, the white bee controlled by the forest curtain laboriously walked to the snowmobile. Without the assistance of jets, slightly heavy power armor is completely unsuitable for action in snow.
"Is there a settlement around here?" There was no extra nonsense, Lin Mu said in a deep voice.
Hearing this, the red-faced woman showed a hint of vigilance in her eyes, looked at the hideous-looking white bee a few times, and asked, "Who are you?" What to do in the settlement? ”
"I have a partner who is sick and I need a doctor!"
As he spoke, Lin Mu raised his broad-bladed sword, and in the woman's nervous look, put it into the card slot behind his back.
In the face of Lin Mu's words, the woman frowned slightly, showed hesitation on her face, and did not speak for a long time.
Sophia's sickly little face flashed in his mind, and he felt a sense of anxiety in his heart, and he couldn't help but take a step forward, raised his hand and grabbed the woman's body, and said in a deep voice: "I don't have time to waste here with you, now, take me to the settlement immediately!" ”
Grabbed by the white bee's broad hand, the woman twisted her body twice, and after finding that she couldn't break free, she shook her head and said, "I have to confirm your identity before I can decide whether to take you to the settlement or not?" ”
"Confirm my identity?"
Being held up in front of the white bee's hideous head, feeling the hand that grabbed her body tighten a little, the woman's eyes showed a trace of fear, and she gritted her teeth and said, "I have to make sure that you are not Evra's person before I can take you to the settlement!" ”