Chapter 40: The Pod
The group walked through the selected hole, which was not wide or narrow, and on the oblique side was the remains of a concrete building, just to block the sand.
It seems to be quite stable to look at, but Andy just feels unlucky when he looks at it, and he always feels that after entering, the rubble next to him will collapse and be buried directly by a sandstorm.
"Was it okay for you to go down through this hole before?"
"No problem."
Sito took out a flashlight from the backpack he was carrying behind his back, this flashlight was a bit outrageously thick, probably thicker than a normal person's waist, and could only be carried with both hands. However, Sito did not carry it, but ran to the green-painted robot called the little donkey, found a card holder on its right shoulder, and plugged a flashlight into it.
The bright light suddenly illuminated the road ahead.
"How long does this last?"
Cito glanced at Andy and pointed at his beep-boy.
"How long does a nuclear flashlight last? As long as it doesn't break, it lasts as long as you want. ”
The others also came up with some strange things one after another, but in general, they were all things that could be lit continuously, and Andy thought about it and turned on his own Pip-Boy lighting.
The little donkey with a high-power flashlight on his body staggered slightly in front of him step by step, and the others followed behind with colorful lights, although the fear of darkness was completely gone, but because the surroundings were too bright, the sense of oppression and depression brought by the surrounding environment was also increasing.
Bomby, with a cold face, walked behind Andy, always feeling the cold air on her body overflowing.
Cito and the other old man walked in front, the black-faced young man in the back, and the others crowded in the middle.
After walking for an hour and a half, Andy couldn't remember how he walked in, all the way to this cave was excavated by unknown creatures, up and down, left and right, and there was a connection with other caves in the middle, fortunately all the routes were recorded by the mapping function of the Pip-Boy, at least there was no need to worry about how to return the same way.
Pip-Boy's Geiger counter is ringing all the time now.
[Warning, Geiger counter detected ambient radiation, current intensity: 6]
Looking around, Andy didn't see any other changes, but if someone rushed into here, I'm afraid it wouldn't be long before he was completely finished.
At first, Lucas behind him would make boring jokes about Bonby, and then the two would argue, and Cito would even hum some strange little songs sometimes, and only Johnson and the old man Asley would be silent.
Now as we go deeper and deeper, everyone begins to turn old, staring around suspiciously, and their mouths are tightly closed.
Suddenly, the two men leading the way in front stopped and looked at the darkness on the right.
"Go in and see, donkey."
Johnson said to the robot at the front.
"Instructions have been received to carry out reconnaissance missions."
The electronic voice uttered the response verbatim according to the procedure, and then it shifted its course to the right.
Andy saw that there was now an extra hole in the rubble on the right, which seemed to have been dug out by something, and there was a lot of crumbling construction debris around it.
In the light of the little donkey, everyone saw the scene inside the black hole, and strangely, there were many things hanging inside.
Johnson watched for a moment, then followed the donkey inside, holding out a glow stick for light.
Andy could clearly see that it was actually the so-called soul floating chamber that he had seen in the newspaper before, and the reason why it was hung in mid-air was because the room had completely overturned and rotated after the building collapsed and fell into the ground, and the ceiling became the floor, causing those mechanical warehouses to be suspended in mid-air by their own power cords.
"Isn't this thing valuable?"
Andy pointed to the mechanical bins.
Cito nodded.
"There are a lot of precious electronic components in it, and if they are all taken out and dismantled, they should be worth a lot of money..... Johnson, how's it going? We're going to come down much deeper this time than the last time, or let's pick these white eggs first and send them out for dismantling? ”
Everyone stood in this dark underground room, which was supposed to be part of a certain floor of a building, and the other parts had been completely separated from this part, and it could be seen that the other half of the space where these soul floating chambers were stored had been completely crushed by the earth and rock, and the only remaining half of the space seemed to be crumbling.
Andy looked up at the metal instruments hanging above everyone's heads, and felt a sense of magic.
"No.... There are not many valuable originals in these things, and it is very difficult to drag them up, almost like dragging scrap iron to sell.... The ratio of give and return is too bad. ”
Lucas was already a little tired from walking, looked at the seemingly ruined walls around him, and couldn't help but complain.
"Oh, what are you doing in such a hurry? Wasn't it safe to do it twice before, anyway, everything down here is ours, so you can take your time one at a time..."
"Shut up!"
Johnson turned back and scolded.
"You say this is yours and yours? After tossing for so long, you have only gained so much, and if the news spreads, you will wait for hordes of chaotic people to come and grab things from you! We've got to get enough hard stuff this time, and who knows what's going to happen in two days? ”
Johnson is a little irritated in a rare way, Andy is a little strange.... Thinking of the scene when he first got into the car and saw everyone sleeping, I am afraid that the previous activities of these people were carried out continuously in a short period of time.... But what he said is also reasonable, there will never be a shortage of people to explore and excavate this kind of thing in the wasteland, even if there is only scrap metal, it will be completely removed over time, Johnson has already sent some goods out to exchange for money, I am afraid that the news is already leaking at this moment.
Everyone was a little silent for a while, no one went along with Lucas, after all, after walking for so long to see something of average value appear, everyone was unwilling, this time there was a beep boy to help map the route without worrying about getting lost, most people felt that they could stop wasting time and continue to go deeper now.
"Heh~Hmm~"
At this time, for a while, the sound of phlegm from an old patient came not far away.
Andy immediately used V mode, and saw a mad ghoul standing in the corner of the light before the others, but the strange thing was his posture, in V mode, Andy saw him standing against the wall..... How crazy those berserk guys are Andy has seen it, why is this one so calm on the wall?
Johnson picked up the glow stick and looked around, and soon spotted the mad ghoul, who was not so surprised to come across it, but turned back to question Sito.
"Why didn't the donkey notice?"
Sito scratched his head, walked over and kicked the robot twice.
"I'm afraid it's the intense radiation down there that interferes with its sensors..... It hadn't come down so deep before, and now the radiation...."
Cito didn't wear a radiation suit because of his racial advantage, but just stretched out his arm to feel it.
"If the previous two times were just a warm breeze, now it's almost like soaking in a hot pool."