Chapter 43: The Great Sandstorm
"These people have nowhere to go now, so it's better to take them to your village to rest, it just so happens that your village is also short of manpower now."
Triangle agreed, and began to call on everyone to follow her to the crypto village.
Andy saw that he had done his best to take Kurisu and the demon back to the car, and the people gradually moved away from the place, leaving only a few corpses on the ground that had been stripped of their clothes by the angry slaves.
Looking in the rearview mirror, Andy believed that the corpses would be feasted on by the scavengers tonight, and that the wasteland had devoured a few more lives today, but at the same time, more lives were born.
That night, Andy drove the car to a safer place to rest, and made a random fire to start roasting meat.
The food in the encrypted village is not enough to eat, and the beef purchased in Blackfoot Village before has now bottomed out, so if it continues, I can only find some other food to eat.
The demon was only a little dissatisfied, but it snorted a few times and didn't move.
Grilled beef to the outside and tender on the inside, Andy and Kurisu munched on the delicious food together.
"Hmm... The taste is not bad. β
Andy glanced at Pip-Boy's inventory as he ate and saw that there was no food left except for two boxes of canned food.
"I knew I should have taken Blackjack's food with me... Do you have any clue about finding food? β
Kuruisu was also munching on beef, and replied: "You can't find any plants in this desert, so you can only try hunting, and during the day those animals all hide underground to avoid being turned into jerky by the scorching sun and heat, and at night they will come out to move, and at this time it is easy to encounter some." β
She ate the meat and wiped it clean and leaned against a stone.
"You shouldn't have thrown those corpses out there, at least some of them could be used as bait."
Andy shook his head repeatedly.
"No, no, no... Don't use this kind of bait, anyway.."
There was a roar, and Andy saw the demon barking in one direction.
"Looks like we've got enough of our own bait, so that's not it."
Andy pulled out two pistols and walked over to the demon's side, the big dog had blown up and seemed to feel threatened.
Kuresu drew his throwing knife and scanned the darkness there.
"What's coming?"
Andy's eyes searched for traces in the darkness, if it was before, he could only be ready to fight back passively, but now it was different, he felt that his ability to distinguish had improved greatly.
"I seem to see something moving under the sand over there, and I'm afraid it's a scorpion..."
He lifted the rhinoceros and shot it into the distance, and something burst out of the sand as it flew from the bullets.
The brown carapace resembles graceful armor, the pincers and poisonous needles are terrifying, and the dense arthropods move rapidly, and the predator no longer disguises itself, and rushes out of the sand to attack.
A barrage of red lasers shot the seemingly unstoppable giant scorpion backwards, and with a slight cracking sound, its pincers were snapped to the ground.
The demon roared and ran over and bit the scorpion's tail, flicking it from side to side, and finally biting off the scorpion's tail alive.
By the time Kurisu finally ends the monster's life with a knife, it is already mutilated....
Andy put away the self-charging pistol and looked at the huge scorpion that looked like a papier-mΓ’chΓ© under his weapon.
"I think I almost died at the hands of this kind of thing."
Kurisu had already begun to disassemble the scorpion's carapace with a knife.
"This thing is dangerous, if a caravan with a normal weapon encounters this thing, it is naturally thick armor except for its face, pincers can tear off human legs, poison needles contain deadly poison that can quickly paralyze the enemy... Fortunately, they only live in desert areas and do not appear during the day. β
Kurisu pried the scorpion's carapace open and removed the tawny flesh from the inside, and the demon was already tearing at the trimmings.
"But in our case, it's only worthy of meat, isn't it, Kurisu..."
Andy took out Craig's machete and began to help Kurisu dismantle the dead scorpion, judging from the time he ate it before, it still tasted delicious, and the food for the next few days was settled this time.
An hour later, all that remained on the ground was useless carapace and water, and the flesh and venom glands had been scavenged.
Andy closed the trunk and yawned.
He was almost sleepy, and the rituals of the crypto tribe made him feel a kind of mental exertion.
Sitting in the saddle, he fell asleep with his head tilted.
...........
When he woke up again, it was almost noon.
Kurisu was playing a game of throwing darts with demons..... She threw out a piece of wood and told the demon to pick it up, and the demon picked it up back and forth several times, and soon became reluctant to move again.
"Let's go...."
Andy drank a bottle of water and felt like he still hadn't slept enough.
"I don't know how long it will be delayed."
So the car started again and continued to drive west.
The vegetation became scarcer, and the car began to drive into the desert area, and the sand changed rapidly from white to red.
"What the hell is this color?"
Andy drove the car and looked at the endless red desert in front of him, almost dizzy.
Kurisu had already begun to close his eyes and recuperate.
"I've heard that the sand in the northeast is all this color, and the red ones are like they're soaked in blood.... It's very different from the yellow sand on the west side. β
From time to time, some strange-shaped stones began to appear on the road.
Andy could see that those traces were caused by long-term wind blows, but the current wind didn't seem to be too strong, and I am afraid that the formation time was very long.
In his boredom, he glanced to the east, and this moment froze him.
In the far east, there is something that obscures the sky.
"Hey! Kuruisu, wake up, what do you see in the east? β
Kurisu opened his eyes and looked over, and immediately sat up.
"It's a red sandstorm! Let's go! β
Andy stepped on the accelerator to the end, and the car drove forward frantically, the sandstorm in the distance looked slow, but it was actually quite fast, and if it was swallowed up in this case, I don't know what would happen in the end.
"Whew-"
A gust of wind was blowing with sand, and the car was already running as fast as it could, but the sandstorm behind was still chasing closer and closer......
Andy looked nervously in the rearview mirror, this kind of posture connecting heaven and earth is really terrifying, if you are buried under the sand and die, it is really one of the worst ways to die.
He thought that the so-called spiritual disaster that the Dog Village encountered back then was nothing more than the huge sandstorm now.
There was no other way but Andy continued to control the car and sprint forward.
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