Chapter 14 Heading North

After eating, it is a happy thing to sleep until dawn.

Andy spent the night making a small blanket out of two simple wolf skins next to the rock wall, and he really didn't want to go to the small cave that seemed more suitable for sleeping to sleep with the bones.

When he got up in the morning, Andy stood up and saw the sun rise over the horizon and begin to shine on the earth once more.

It's a question of whether to travel during the day or at night, but in reality people don't have a choice.

You'll be swoezed by the sun when you're walking during the day, but you can see anything around you, and the presence of wild animals will be greatly reduced, because they have the same idea as humans, so why stare at the sun during the day when it's cooler? Aren't you afraid of dying of heat?

Therefore, Andy speculates that if you walk at night in this environment, you will often encounter the same giant scorpion-like ghosts as before, and human eyes cannot reflect those faint lights, and in the night environment, wolves and insects can still see normally, but humans become blind.

It's foolish to walk with the lights on, and predators in distant areas will have to notice a little light in the night.

Andy didn't want to gamble like he did last time, he didn't feel like he was so big every time.

Most of them will end up with bones in a small cave not far away.

After moving his hands and feet for a while, eating the few remaining cactus fruits, Andy looked at his beep-beep boy and tried to find some good clues about where to go next.

Now he still has a piece of scorpion meat and a radiant scorpion's venom gland, and he can't figure out what the venom gland can do with it, so he plans to check it out.

[Radiation scorpion venom gland: contains biotoxin scorpion venom and trimethylamine, betaine, cholesterol, taurine, soft and stearic acid, lecithin, a variety of amino acids, etc., function: can be used to prepare scorpion venom for melee weapons quenching, can be used to prepare special drugs for the treatment of dysentery and convulsions, can be used for special cooking. 】

"Well.... I don't seem to know any of these uses, so I'd better find a place to see if I can sell them when I have time. ”

Andy opened the Pip-Boy's blank map, the geo-marker on it was only Tibbetts Prison, and the other areas were similar to rough satellite maps, although there was nothing strongly pointed, but some information could still be analyzed.

In this surveyed geographical area, the west is a large dense area of hills, and in the north is a complex mountain range, roughly showing an F-shape in the opposite direction, the most conspicuous is the two intersecting railway tracks, one connecting the east and northwest, the other connecting the northeast and southwest, and in the middle area the two rails meet not far from its north, forming a huge X-shaped pattern on the map.

Seeing this, Andy noticed that he had escaped from the northern part of Tibbetts Prison, and then ran all the way north in this direction, and was still about half way from the intersection of the railroads, which, according to some of his chaotic memories, must have had settlements, and if those rails were still functioning, there might even be more prosperous settlements because of the developed trade.

Whatever the case may be, Andy thinks he can sell the scorpion venom glands and coyote skins he got there for some money, or he can find some simple work to earn a living.... In short, it is absolutely impractical to be alone in this desert for a long time to survive in the wild, for example, yesterday Andy's sleep quality was very poor, and he always dreamed that a big scorpion ran out of the scorpion hole not far away.

Getting up and patting the dust off his buttocks, Andy faced the sun and went on the road again in wolf skin.

Vultures hover in the sky, and shadows fall on the earth.

Not far away, some coyotes stretched out their heads and looked at them for a while, then turned their heads and ran.

"If I lie on the ground, can I catch a few birds or wolves? .......”

Andy was thinking crankily while moving forward under the scorching sun, it didn't look far away on the map, but it was really a dead horse running in the mountains.

After a while, Andy looked up and suddenly noticed a scrapped truck not far ahead, which shocked his spirit, because the never-ending desert scenery in front of him was really tired of looking crooked.

The truck had been completely reduced to a pile of rusty iron, it still had something like a big oil drum on it, the window glass was gone, the cab was rightfully empty, and the rubber tires were gone.

After looking at it from a distance, the car didn't seem to have much value to get close to, except for the strange iron buckets piled up in the body.

“......”

Andy stared at the shadow of the scrapped truck, although the broken car left nothing to use, but at least it could cool off under its shadow, who knew that just when he got closer again, the beep boy suddenly came out with a burst of gurgling sounds.

"Giggle ......."

Andy was taken aback and hurried to see what kind of plane this thing was doing.

[Warning, Geiger counter detected ambient radiation, current intensity: 3]

[Note, if you do not stay away from the radiation source in time, there is a high probability of suffering from radiation sickness]

“.... No way?! ”

Andy hurriedly retreated frantically, who knew that when he retreated, he suddenly tripped over a piece of dead wood and fell directly on his back.

"Huh?! ——”

An upside-down onion, Andy's head was stuck directly into the sand, he quickly got up and shook the sand on his head, and then looked at the beep-beep boy, this time the radiation warning had disappeared.

Staring at the broken car with palpitations, who could have known that this thing was actually releasing invisible and odorless poison? Andy looked at the large pile of broken iron barrels that were piled up like a hill and thought to himself that the radiation source must be those..... Could it be that this is a truck transporting radioactive materials, but this is completely unprotected, it is an open-top truck.

Andy stretched out a hand to block the strong sunlight in front of him, and looked into the distance, there seemed to be a mark left on the door of the big truck, although it was blurred and not deformed, but it should be a trident.

"How many years has this car broken down here? ....... And where are you going to send these things? .....”

Andy stood there thinking about all this useless, but suddenly something seemed to move around the edge of his gaze.

"Boom! ——”

With a loud bang, a huge iron bucket suddenly fell from the truck body, and Andy had to notice it without paying attention, with the things in the car body trembling, a thing gradually stretched out from those radioactive material barrels in Andy's shocked gaze, thick and dark, with some tentacle-like appearance, at this moment like a black snake out of a hole from the cracks of those iron barrels, winding.

Eventually, a large black bud-like object stood up from inside the bucket pile.