"Andy? Andy? ”

Andy opened his eyes in a daze, and found Stephen, who was coughing, calling him.

"What...... What's wrong with me? ”

He struggled to his feet, and found that he was still the same place as he had passed out, lying on a sand dune, with few vultures left in the distance, and in the dim moonlight, the corpses seemed to have been devoured at a great speed, leaving only scraps that no creature cared about.

"You passed out, it should be... Cough, excessive blood loss. ”

Stephen held up an empty syringe and shook it in front of Andy's eyes.

"Thank me...... That's all I have left..... cough cough cough .... I was supposed to save my life. ”

Andy squinted at the syringe, and some information appeared in his mind, he remembered that the liquid in this kind of thing was yellow-brown, and after use, it could quickly heal wounds on the body, this thing seemed to be quite common in the wasteland, and there were merchants and doctors everywhere making and selling this kind of thing.

"Oh..... A treatment needle.... Thanks Stephen, but why does it work so well? ”

He touched his abdomen, the wound was all scabbed, not even painful, Andy felt completely healed.

Stephen looked a little angry.

"Ahem, ahem..... Why? .... It's not.... cough cough cough .... This isn't the wasteland people you're used to... Cough.... The homemade color of the goods made by myself with brocade flowers and Shandegen, this is ..... This is the legacy of the Old World... Ahem... Real Therapeutic Needle ....."

Andy looked at the empty needle and knew that it was worth hundreds of caps.

The demand for treatment needles in the medicine left over from the old world has always been large, the risk of walking in the wasteland is too great, and it is a common occurrence to be injured and dying, and everyone wants to have an extra life for themselves.

There aren't many stocks left of the old world, and the wreckage of hospitals that can be scavenged in at will has been turned over for years, and the probability of randomly picking them up in the wild is about the same as looking for a needle in a haystack. In addition to the usual ingredients for hemostasis and healing, the most important thing in those pre-war treatment needles was the addition of a diluted mysterious biogel.

No one ever knew what it was, but when injected into the body, the wound began to heal almost immediately and at a rate visible to the naked eye, with the only problem being that it could not regenerate the organs. In addition, if you already have a physical disability, the hasty use of this thing without first correcting or operating on the limb will cause more damage.

"Looks like I'm embarrassed to ask you for more this time."

Andy grinned at Stephen.

"It's okay.... cough cough cough .... Actually, I didn't hide any bottle caps at all....."

The two paused, laughing at the same time.

But smiling and laughing, Stephen began to lie on the ground and cough frantically again, and Andy stood up, surprised to see that the number of blue blisters on Stephen's body had increased again, and this time his neck and chin had been completely occupied by those blisters.

He took a bottle of water from the Pip-Boy and handed it to Stephen, and the two of them sat down beside the sand dunes, the moon shining a silvery white light on the desert.

The two sat side by side in silence, and the night sky was beautiful tonight.

"It's a pity that there is no smoke ....."

Andy smashed his mouth, feeling a little lonely.

Stephen glanced at him, as if he didn't understand.

"That doctor friend of mine told me... cough cough cough ..... Smoking is not as good as drugs, but it is not much stronger. ”

Andy smiled.

"I know.... It's just that sometimes people always need to rely on something, after all, people's psychology is actually fragile, people who are facing the test of life and death every day will inevitably have an emotional breakdown after a long time, at this time people will be very easy to fall into some strange things, they don't care whether they are harmful to themselves, just pursue a spiritual .... Prop up. ”

Stephen shook his head, still disapproving.

"Ahem.... Many of us who do serious business are like those who go through the test of life and death every day, but.... Ahem.... As long as you have family or someone you care about....."

Andy looked up at the galaxy, and recalled some cruel images in his mind, those experiences pierced into his mind like nails, and he knew that these memories had changed him badly, but now he looked back on it with a strange feeling of a different life.

"You don't understand Stephen... There are people who can't have important people, they have seen too many betrayals and tragedies.... They don't deserve it anymore. ”

Stephen was silent for a moment and sighed.

"Time will give you an answer.... Ahem, I've seen a lot of people get older and become the people they never wanted to be. ”

They ended up sitting in the desert looking at the sky, silently celebrating that they had survived another day.

...........

There was no word for the night, and the next day the two of them went on the road as usual.

After a few days of trekking, people began to appear around, Andy saw a few people sitting around a fire not far ahead, eating and drinking, from time to time there was laughter, some men and women with exaggerated hairstyles were indulging in merry, all kinds of wine bottles and cans were piled up one by one around the fire, and the garbage was discarded to the ground by them at will.

Stephen glanced at it, a little jealous.

"Be careful.... Ahem..... We're almost there, those guys.... Cough.... Probably scarier than those monsters. ”

Andy glanced at those people quietly, and there was no more reaction, he naturally understood the reason that Stephen said that most of the current wasteland was completely devoid of order, and all of them were pursuing the primitive law of the jungle. Many bandits gathered not far from the settlement, looking for an opportunity to attack any target they thought they could get, killing each other and taking everything from the other party, and then exchanging those things and money for living supplies in the settlement.

If the settlement is in a special state for various reasons, it is even possible that it will be attacked and plundered by groups of bandits, and then it will inevitably be a human tragedy.

These creatures are more insidious than monsters and beasts who don't know how to hide their intentions, and they are good at torturing captives, forcing them to tell everything they know or just for fun.

Murder, rape, kidnapping, extortion, fraud, intimidation.... They do all kinds of evil, they despise all order and morality, and they do everything for their own benefit.

Thinking about it, Andy was getting closer and closer to the camp fire, and some guys in road leather jackets, ugly hairstyles, and all kinds of messy shiny metal ornaments finally noticed Andy approaching, and then began to greet his companions. So one unidentified person after another stood up with strange expressions, staring at Andy who was walking over with a strange smile.

A gray-faced, dirty-faced guy got up from the ground with a bottle of wine and walked slowly towards Andy, then stretched out a hand to stop him.

"Yo~ Where are you going, strong man?"

Andy stopped, and it wasn't until the other person spoke that he realized that the other party was actually a woman.

A yin-yang-headed woman with half long hair and half bald head, her whole body is visceral, and there are several lip studs nailed to her lips.

"Go north."

Andy looked at each other while being wary of the messy guys standing not far away.

"Where is the north~Those who come here and pass by are all going to the north~"

The woman pursed her lips, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth, her long tongue licked her lips, and her tone was very greasy.

It's just that Andy clearly saw that the other party's eyes were somewhat similar to those lizards before.