Chapter 42: A Chance Encounter with a Slave Trader

The car was speeding west, and the car was moving away from Mesa Verde, and the demon was lying in the back seat and falling asleep.

Blowing the wind outside the window, Andy felt his mind clear a little.

The environment outside is very unique, like a mixture of grasslands and deserts and mountains.... Sometimes it feels magical.

In the boredom on the road, the two began to chat.

"Andy, you said you saw that plague outbreak in Crosstown, what the hell is that?"

Rubbing his eyes, Andy struggled to remember the situation in order to answer Kurissu.

"Hmm... The first is that many people will have a unique reaction, similar to a cold, and then blue blisters on their body, but the number is small at first. The onset of the disease is very random, and some frail people may fall into a critical state within a few weeks, but they may also go without seizures for a long time.... Once the attack occurs, the person will fall into severe pain, difficulty breathing, abnormal body temperature, severe headache, and eventually lose the ability to move or even lose consciousness, and then die. ”

As he spoke, Andy realized that he actually had such a time bomb in his body, but he would not infect others after being injected with that reagent by Odysseus.

"And that's not the worst part, in the final stages of the patient's life, they will have a lot of blue blisters all over their bodies, and after death, the corpse will quickly have a chain reaction, and the virus in their body will spread everywhere with the rupture of those blisters... Therefore, the disposal of the corpses of the sick and dead is a key. ”

Kurisu pondered for a moment.

"So it's only for the infirm?"

Andy shook his head.

"It's hard to say whether the frail are the first to get sick, and whether the rest of the people have been living with the virus or are just in a long-term incubation period.....

As he spoke, he couldn't help but feel pessimistic about the future of the epidemic in the wasteland.

"Nowadays, people are moving around irregularly, the transmission of a message is very slow, and the area around here is basically a tribe, all of which are working in their own way..... What if the disease does spread? The current situation is that it is good not to spread, but once it spreads, it will be completely finished, and I don't know how many settlements that have been developing for many years will disappear. ”

It was the first time he heard Andy explain the problem in front of him in such a systematic way, and he began to think about the problem from the perspective of a leader.

"Maybe to stop everyone from going out and deny anyone in? But that can't be done, and stopping trade and entry and exit is tantamount to starvation and imprisonment, and the only way to do this is to keep the censorship intensifying, and to isolate the unqualified outsiders from the problematic villagers and the majority of the population in a timely manner... But it's easy to say. ”

"That's right, it's easier said than done.... How do you screen those people? By the time the blue blisters on their bodies can be easily found, they have already infected a lot of people, and there will definitely be people in them who don't know about it, and would rather die than cover themselves up until the last moment... There is no peace in this way. ”

Andy looked into the distance and pondered, finally coming to a conclusion.

"To solve the problem from the root... So I'd like to go to Dog City to find out if there was a cure for a new plague before the war, and if I can get the antidote, everything will be solved, otherwise..."

Andy raised his left arm to look at the Bip-Boy epidemic intensity indication, which had risen from 17% to 20%.

"Otherwise, sooner or later, humanity will face a catastrophe."

The two sat in the car in silence, feeling that the future was very heavy.

Kurisu suddenly turned his head to look to the side.

Andy didn't notice this and continued to look ahead and drive.

"There's enough rotten stuff in the wasteland, isn't it? Why is there such a plague? I...."

Kurisu interrupted him abruptly.

"Andy, there's a bunch of slave traders over there."

Andy hit the brakes, and the demon woke up and screamed a few times, but no one cared about it now.

Looking out the window, he could clearly see a group of people who were roughly driving a group of people with their hands tied together by ropes to the front.

"Those who are going northeast should be preparing to sell slaves to the Legion, and the Legion should have sent someone this season...."

Kurisu looked at the men for a moment and made this judgment.

"What are you going to do?"

Andy watched in silence at the miserable slaves, who were walking in the desert with great difficulty, and were about to be whipped every now and then.

Among the slaves, there was one man who was noticed by Andy.

"There's a crypto tribe in there, since you saw it... You can't take it as if you can't see it, come on Kurisu, let's teach those slave traders how to behave. ”

Andy sprinted the steering wheel and kicked the accelerator in that direction, and the slavers in the distance were quickly alarmed by the roar of the atomic Humvee, and they all looked at the behemoth that was rushing straight towards them.

"Hit him!"

The captain of the slave trade team, wearing a motorcycle helmet, raised his lever rifle and fired first at the glass of the atomic Humvee, but the bullet could not break the bulletproof glass.

The Atomic Humvee drifted in front of the slavers, and then the door opened to create makeshift cover, and Andy and Kurisu hid behind the door and attacked from the window.

Andy raised the self-charging pistol that had just been transformed to turn on the V mode, and a series of red high-temperature lasers shot out like raindrops, cutting off the limbs of the slave traders or directly triggering a violent burning reaction, the metal motorcycle helmet of the leader of the slave traders who took the lead in the attack was directly hit, and then the high temperature melted the metal, and he rolled on the ground silently, and soon died.

The throwing knife thrown by Kuruisu was unreserved this time, and the person who was stabbed into the body screamed and fell to the ground, and someone dodged the oncoming flying knife thinking that he was all right, but he didn't expect this thing to spin, and he was immediately stabbed and killed in the heart.

The well-rested demon ran out of the car and let out a furious roar, and in the blink of an eye it was in front of a slave trader, and before he could pull out his dagger and pounce him down, the bloody jaw bit his throat and tore left and right, killing one in a short time.

The slave traders, who had been viciously escorting a few slaves forward just now, were all dead in a few moments.

Andy searched the body, put some bottle caps and supplies into the Pip-Boy, and threw the weapon into the trunk.

The slaves were freed, and they thanked Andy, but then they were confused, most of them had been caught from far away, and they had no idea what to do next.

"Let's continue to the east... At least it wasn't that hot there. ”

Andy points to a female native.

"You're from the crypto tribe, right? I see your digital tattoo. ”

The other party nodded in shock.

"I wanted to go back to the village, but I was caught halfway through...."

Andy looked at the girl... Although it doesn't look ugly, it's stupid.... And it looks a bit sloppy.

"Well, what's your name? I've actually just returned from your village, and the situation there has eased for the time being. ”

The girl suddenly showed a happy expression.

"Huh?! Really? That's great, I'm so worried about everyone in the village.... My name is Triangle. ”

Andy felt that it was as expected when he heard this name, fortunately, the encrypted village was not like the Dog Village, so he had to give himself a tribal name... Otherwise, wouldn't I have an extra ghost name such as square, quadrant, prime number, etc.

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