Chapter XXIII: The Legion
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"The number of people is really small," He Xi sighed as he looked at the pattern on the map.
He roughly estimated the number of people, the number of people in hundreds of settlements combined, at most tens of thousands, not even 100,000, you must know that this is an entire state, an area of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, a state with a population of millions before the war, after more than 100 years of nearly 200 years of recovery, the population has not even recovered to 1 percent of the pre-war level, enough to see the damage caused to mankind by the war more than 100 years ago.
Point the beep boy at the map and enter the information on the map, so that you don't have to worry about getting lost after the map is lost.
These are the methods that were given to him before the tinder.
After recording, He Xi handed the map to Keith and Hall, and Keith saw a trace of surprise in his eyes when he saw the pattern on He Xi's beep boy, but then he covered it up well, after all, although the wasteland is full of dangers, but danger often coexists with opportunities, in his opinion, the beep boy in He Xi's hand may have been excavated from some pre-war ruins, and even the equipment in the bag.
Hale spread the map between the three of them, pointed to the red cross on it, and said, "Caesar's minions have reached this way, and this wave of people should be a reconnaissance force, maybe not even a reconnaissance force."
"Aren't they afraid that the Republic of California will declare war on them", the contradiction between California and the Legion has always existed.
Because of the different beliefs, one is the pre-war United States of America's capital-controlled state of government, through trade to suck the blood of various forces, in them, the development of the wasteland requires a huge amount of resources, and no one is willing to pay for this investment, which can be said to be a lifetime may not be able to recover the cost, but they make a deal with the people in the wasteland, while letting the people in the wasteland develop the wasteland for them, and at the same time through the transaction to obtain the resources in their hands, but also save administrative costs, it can be said that it is a few birds in one fell swoop.
And the legion, in their opinion, is completely a group of villains who are worse than the ghouls, at least the ghouls will not take the money in their pockets, and the legion, wherever they go, is inaccessible, and the population, is exactly what California needs the most, think about it, there are no people, how can they suck blood, how to develop the wasteland, do you want that group of merchants to wave goods and mutated creatures and say, "Hey, come and see, the best 10mm pistol, guaranteed to be able to knock out the brains of your enemies with one shot, now on sale." , five of your furs would be enough", if the merchants did, it is estimated that before they could finish their sentence, the sharp fangs of the mutant creatures had already cut through their soft throats and began to suck their blood.
Hearing He Xi's words, Hall looked at the maps marked with red marks with a serious expression and said, "The legion wants to sweep away the entire population of Arizona before California reacts, and at the same time use this as a springboard to launch an attack on California, of course, it may also be a test for California to see how California reacts, but no matter which one it is, it is not a good result for California."
Although the entire state of Arizona is only 100 percent of the pre-war period compared to the pre-war period, the total population of the entire California Republic is only about 700,000, and it is still based on the premise that it occupies the entire West Coast and continues to attract displaced people, and if the population of Arizona is added, it can increase their population by more than 10 percent.
"Then what are we going to do, let's escape to California together", Keith said to him after hearing Hall's words, hesitate for a moment.
"Going to California?!" Hall looked at Keith in surprise, his eyes full of incredulity.
"There are hundreds of kilometers in a straight line between the two states, not to mention the mutated creatures on the road, and the only way to get past it is to move your camp."
"Where to move?" , Keith only panicked when he heard that the legion was about to invade, and then he slowly calmed down when he heard Hall's words.
Hall shook his head, "I don't know either," he said, glancing at He Xi, who was carefully observing the map, not knowing what he was thinking.
After resting for a while, He Xi slowly followed Keith and his party towards their camp with the help of Hall.
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The air was filled with the stench of burning objects, and there was a flurry of gunfire mixed with screams.
A strangely shaped gun was aimed at the man in front of him who was running wildly into the wilderness trying to escape, only to hear a "bang", a special bullet into his body, staggered twice, and then fell heavily to the ground, behind him was a burning settlement, and from a distance, the air was distorted by the skyrocketing fire.
The huge two-headed cow fell to the ground with a wail, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Blood, flames, and screams mingled together to form the sole theme of this feast, one that gave everyone a chance to unleash the beast in their hearts to the fullest.
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After He Xi and his party left, Trick's body slowly leaned out of the gas station, and after confirming that the person had left, he slowly came out of the hiding place.
Holding the sniper rifle of the previous marauder leader in his arms, he leaned against the table and gasped fiercely, and hid under the table for more than two hours, so that the muscles of his body were already stiff, for fear that a face of He Xi would appear in front of him in the next second, this feeling had never been felt in his youth in the wasteland, after softening the stiff muscles of his body, he trembled and walked to the place where He Xi had been before, and looked at the corpse that had been unrecognizable with an ugly face, Staying inside the gas station, he listened to the conversation between He Xi and them completely.
He thought that he could use the power of the marauder to regain the long sword in He Xi's hand, but he didn't expect that the marauder was wiped out by He Xi alone, which also led to a shocking big secret.
At this time, there was only one thought in my mind, that is, to go back and tell the California government this information, otherwise with the speed of information transmission in the wasteland, by the time the California government found out about the legion, it would have been beaten to the doorstep.