It's now the third day of Andy's drive east.....

For three days, there were almost no special encounters, not even too many wasteland creatures.

But the surrounding geography has changed dramatically again during this period of time.

The earth turned red, and many large rocks began to appear around it, and these rocks had very unique shapes, some like arched bridges, some like mushrooms... It's all caused by wind erosion.

The vast sky is boundless, and the fierce sun and the red dust in front of you give people the illusion that they are about to be ignited.

"God, that's too hot, isn't it? I think it's hotter here than in the west. ”

Andy opened the window, his arm outstretched, one hand holding the steering wheel.

The land outside is almost barren, and sometimes the wind blows with red dust, which is also a heat wave, and everything around is an extremely contrasting dark color, which makes the eyes hurt after looking at it for a long time.

Occasionally, desert plants pop up, but they are also shriveled.

Kurisu wasn't too surprised by these things.

"That's how it is here.... The Mesa Verde you're looking for is in this place where birds don't, a rare and strange oasis. ”

The car drove past the edge of a huge rock, and a wide canyon appeared not far away.

This is no longer unusual.

"Why a strange oasis?"

Andy took out a bottle of clean water and poured it in.

Kurisu also took a bottle in his hand and drank it.

"You see a lot of canyons starting to grow around here, right? In the area you're going to in a place called Mesa Verde, in an area surrounded by a canyon, there's a strange hill.... It was like a square table set up in the middle of the canyon, covered with green plants, and the tribesmen built stone houses on the cliff face of the square mountain..."

Andy imagined it in his head, and couldn't help but be amazed.

"So are they the cliff houses they built themselves?"

Kurisu shook his head.

"How is it possible.... I've heard that it was like that before the war, and it's impossible to determine when the earliest cliff houses appeared. ”

The two continued to look boredly at the scenery speeding by outside..... Although Andy had been impressed by the spectacular scenery for the first few days, he was now completely visually fatigued, and he was eager to see something that wasn't wind-blown sand, canyons, or strangely shaped rocks, but there were only those things here.

Half an hour later, Andy saw a group of quadrupeds passing by in the distance.

The animals looked similar to some kind of sheep, but the larger ones were almost the same size as the two-headed cows, with huge horns and a few cubs following the nearby adults as they passed by.

Blown by the wind, their bodies are dark red and covered with sparse withered grass-colored hair, and from time to time they look down for food from some roadside weeds.

Andy stared at the creatures, reluctant to look back....

"Hey, it's going to crash!"

Cruzus's reminder woke Andy, and he turned his head to see that there was a Optimus Pillar-like ghost in front of him, and he was rushing towards it, slamming the steering wheel in a hurry.

The car narrowly dodged the boulders.

Kurisu was a little shocked, and looked at Andy reproachfully.

"Fortunately, I took a look, otherwise today would be the end of the two of us, what the hell are you looking at?"

Andy rubbed his head in embarrassment.

"Ah, I saw a herd of huge goat-like things passing by high up to the west, as if I hadn't seen them before."

Kuresu mocks Andy's obscenity.

"A herd of bighorn sheep can make you so fascinated, haven't you ever seen those animals?"

Andy shook his head.

Seeing this, Kuruisu had to simply popularize science.

"Although Blackfoot is not in the habit of raising those livestock, many tribes in the west and east breed that kind of big sheep, which have a strong digestive capacity, and they are full of treasures, and the skin can be used to make clothes and blankets, and the meat is delicious, and they can also produce goat's milk..... They are also very fertile, and I've heard that some tribes even like to ride bighorn sheep to fight, but I don't know if that animal has that ability. ”

Andy imagined a group of people riding on top of a sheep the size of a cow wielding machetes or shooting, and for no reason he just wanted to laugh.

"Sheep cavalry, haha...."

Andy laughed, and a strange memory flashed through his mind, in which people liked to ride a very tall and strong quadruped animal without horns on its head, and they ran very fast, and he remembered that animal was called ......

"Have you ever heard of horses?"

Kuresu's face was full of confusion.

"What do you call a horse?"

Andy didn't know how to answer this question for a moment.

"It's a big livestock that doesn't have horns, runs very fast, has four hooves, and eats grass....."

Kurisu thought for a moment, then shook his head.

"I've never heard of what it is, it can't be something you've imagined yourself, right? Does the term make sense? ”

Andy is also a little unsure.

"Uh..... Maybe I'm mixing up some rumors. ”

There was a whooping sound from the back seat.

Andy stopped the car, and not far away was a huge rock more than ten meters high that looked like a teapot, and he opened the back door to release the demon to let it deferate and eat, and by the way, also to rest his tired body.

"By the way, do you know what the tribes are like over there? Kurisu? ”

Kurisu got out of the car, unwilling to sit any longer, and just stood on the ground and looked into the distance.

"I don't know much... There was more than one tribe in the Mesa Verde area, and many of them were seasonally mobile nomads, if you say the tribes that settled in Mesa Verde..... The most unique one is called the Tucai tribe, but this name is also a record of blackfoot a long time ago, and it is still a problem that it is not there. ”

Andy muttered the name, thinking to himself that could it be a bunch of colorful people who painted themselves?

"So do they spend half of their day coloring themselves?"

Kurisu dismissed Andy's speculation.

"No, the Painted Tribe is called that, according to records, because they would have their younger members smear strange marks on themselves.... The meaning of those marks has never been known. ”

Andy looked at the vast expanse around him, there was a strange atmosphere here, as if some unknown being had deliberately kept it that way, although there was no radiation and no other harsh environmental conditions, but everything was decaying under the scorching sun and red dust.....

"Is this all like this?"

"No, it's a little better to go further east."

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