Chapter 22: The Prairie
The Atomic Humvee galloped, and finally, the environment around us today was transformed from the terrible scene it had been before.
It's green everywhere.
Andy sticks his head out of the car window, his sunglasses reflect the sun, the ground outside turns from red to white, and the weeds grow wildly, there is no doubt that this is a savannah.
At the end of the horizon more and more mountains appeared, all wrapped in green.
"The environment here is really much better, so Mesa Verde is not far from here, right?"
Kurisu nodded, but looked a little preoccupied.
Andy was busy looking at the road and didn't pay attention, and it happened that a group of people with two cows passed by in the distance, which seemed to be a caravan, and they also noticed Andy's presence at the same time.
"Hey!"
Andy drove over and said hello to them.
"Hello! Where are you going? ”
The merchant leader and bodyguards were a little frightened when they looked at the Atomic Humvee, and stuttered for a moment before answering Andy's question.
"Well, we just passed by the periphery of a tribe in the east, we can't go there, I heard that the Blackfoot tribe has started foreign trade recently, we also want to go and see, but we are not particularly familiar with the route, do you know what direction that place is about?"
Andy raised his hand to look at the beep boy.
"You're a little out of the way, due west."
Looking back, he still needs to hurry.
But just as he was about to start the car, the beep boy suddenly shook.
"What?!"
Andy saw a message pop up.
[Note: The data update is complete, and the machine can currently calculate and quantify the epidemic intensity status, the current epidemic intensity: 17%]
[Hint: When this stat exceeds 50%, the boost rate will be accelerated.] When this number reaches 100%, the new plague will complete the spread of the region, and the mission will automatically fail.
Andy looked at this mediocre data, and a cold sweat broke out in the back of his head, he didn't think it was serious enough before.
"What's wrong?"
Kuresu looked at Andy strangely.
"Nothing.... It's just that something is getting more and more urgent. ”
Andy smiled bitterly, at this moment, he was about to start racing against time.
I didn't have time to think about it, and as soon as I kicked the accelerator, Andy sprinted towards the east.
After about half an hour, he finally entered a canyon area, the mountains on both sides were very steep, and there were many green plants growing in suitable places for growth, which formed a contrast with the white ground and mountains.
Due to the narrowness and ruggedness of the canyon, Andy had to slow down.
After a while, two forks in the road appeared, one to the left and one to the right.
Kurisu looked at the road ahead and said, "Now we are basically in the Mesa Verde area, as far as I know, one of these two roads leads to the tribal gathering area, and the other leads to an unknown place, according to my analysis, the road on the left should be the direction you should go." ”
Andy stopped and looked down, and then raised the beep boy to compare, it seemed that the anchor point was on the right, and the left side was not the positioning area.
"I think it's still..."
As soon as I was about to go back and start the car, an arrow was shot not far away.
Andy looked at the obviously warning arrow for a moment, and looked at the fork in the road to the left, where three or four natives in black strange patterns and open-arm leather clothes were already standing there at some point.
If you look closely, the tattoos on their bodies look familiar.
Andy thought about it for a moment, and suddenly realized that it was related to a group of mysterious people he had fought with in the village of the dog, that is, these people were very suspicious of Ouroboros Village, the eagle dog of the rumored goddess Hekater.
The native who shot the arrow did not hide his intentions, the outline of the strong muscles bulging from under the clothes, the serpentine lines on his arms and face were extremely conspicuous, and he was so stabbed and several other companions with the same style blocked the fork in the road to the left, silently watching Andy and his car.
Kuresu stepped out of the car and looked at the natives side by side with Andy.
"Be careful.... It's Hekate's vipers, these guys are so fierce that they don't fear death, and it's very troublesome to fight with them. ”
Andy nodded, then yelled.
"What do you mean?"
The archery native, who was standing at the front, put the bow in his hand on his back and looked at Andy with his arms crossed and a little arrogant.
"Outsiders! This is a poisonous snake business, if you don't want to die, don't go this way, otherwise.... The consequences will not be unclear to you! ”
Andy looked at those guys and said to himself, what is this? I didn't plan to go that way.
"If you don't go, you won't go, I didn't want to go over there."
Hearing this, the coercive posture of the natives relaxed a little, but they still stood there staring at Andy, as if they had made up their minds to never allow anyone to go there, Andy couldn't figure out what they wanted, but now that they were in a hurry, there was really no way to entangle here.... Maybe I'll talk about it later.
Kurisu looked at Andy with some confusion.
"Aren't you going to Mesa Verde?"
Andy closed the door.
"To be precise, I'm going to find someone in the Mesa Verde area, not necessarily going there, who should be on the right right now."
Kurisu glanced at the vipers and didn't say anything, just got into the car.
Andy started the car and drove off the right side of the road.
The location sign on the Pip-Boy was getting closer and closer, and he thought that the next fugitive was on the way.
Soon after, Andy noticed that the car had driven into a closed canyon with no road ahead.
He stopped the car and went inside, because the Pip-Boy's target was to point inside, and although it looked like it was a dead end, the person was definitely there.
After a while, he did see a person.
It was a woman, wearing a dirty T-shirt, a cowboy hat on her head, and a golden ponytail falling from the back of her head, but it seemed that she had not washed her hair for a long time, and her face looked beautiful, but her face was as cold as a piece of ice.
She had a shotgun in what was supposed to be a .233 caliber in her hand, and she was engrossed in aiming somewhere ahead, and Andy looked over there, and there was only a large rock there, and it looked like something had been driven to death by her firearm.....
"Get out of here and surrender, you stupid mutant!"
Indifferent words erupted from her mouth and forward.
"Don't push me! Otherwise, the two of us will die together! ”
A rude and rough voice came from behind the large rock in front of it, and it was impossible to see what the people there looked like.
The sound of Andy and Kurissu's footsteps approaching alarmed the woman who was threatening the unknown person in front of her, and she turned to stare at the two men walking by with those pale blue eyes, like two ice blades.
She looked at Andy and Kurisu with a wary face.
"Who are you? Be nosy. ”
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