"Sometimes strange things happen there."

Kuruisu said in a daze.

"There is a huge lake near our tribe, and its water is salty ... There are a lot of animals living there, and there are even many huge islands in the lake, but it is said that there are terrible things on it, and no one dares to go on a boat..."

"There's a big fishy smell around there, it's the smell of water evaporating, there's no fish in it.... But there was something else, something indescribable, like some kind of giant worm, I think we called it Artemia, and they were thicker than the black snakes we had seen before, and there were surprising numbers. ”

Andy was a little absent-minded, because just now another lightning bolt cut through the darkness, and he seemed to see that figure again... Not only that, but it's getting closer.

With his left hand, he quietly pulled out the rhinoceros and pulled the hammer fingers on the trigger, and Andy quietly echoed Kurisu.

"It sounds like a wonderful place in your hometown, and I'm sure it's more than I could have imagined. But what do you mean by all the oddities? ”

Kurisu kept his head down, not noticing what Andy was noticing.

"The water there is interesting, it's almost impossible for people to sink in it, so there are always little kids who sneak away to swim.... Although the shaman has been preventing this from happening, over time everyone has gradually relented. One day, a few children who went to swim in it swam too far and saw a monster, right under the water of the salt lake .... They said that they saw a huge monster more than ten meters long under the water several meters deep, which seemed to be made of countless brine worms. ”

Andy listened to the story as he stared at the dim ahead, and there was another flash of lightning, and the figure had come a few meters in front of the car.

"Sounds like something disgusting, is there anything else interesting?"

Kurisu thought for a moment and said one more thing.

"There are always a lot of bugs gathered around the Great Salt Lake, so sometimes the nights are very torturous, and we have to do everything we can to get rid of those bugs, and some people even claim to have seen bugs bigger than dogs flying in the sky with a bright green light... No one can confirm whether it is true or false. ”

"Boom! ——”

There was a thunderclap, and the figure finally hit the front of the car, and with the help of a flash of light, Andy saw that it was a blood-red, withered body, and dull white eyes, his whole body skin was torn by the dust storm, and his face that was already like a rotting corpse became even more hideous.

"What?"

Kurisu looked ahead at the impact, but saw nothing but darkness.

"It's okay, a lost ghost."

Andy put away his pistol, opened the door a small crack in the lightning, dropped the cigarette butt, and waved for Currysu to continue.

Kuresu looked at Andy suspiciously.

"I always feel like you've changed something after that weird ritual of the crypto tribe."

Andy looked up at Kurisu with some of his head wrinkled.

"Is there one? How do I not think? ”

Another flash of lightning, and the figure standing in front of the car disappeared at this moment.

The two looked at each other for a moment.

Kuresu was silent, then finally turned his head to close his eyes again.

"There are a lot of interesting things .... For example, some people claim to have seen monsters with huge horns roaring in the sky at night on a huge island in the middle of a salt lake, but no one knows what it is... The shaman would always explain these strange things in this way, and he said that they were all manifestations of the spirit. ”

A gust of wind whistled, and a large cloud of sand and dust directly stuck to the car window, Andy turned on the lights of the Pip-Boy, and under the dim green fluorescence, the outside was almost like an underwater world.

"Do you believe that?"

Andy took out a bottle of water and took a sip.

"It's hard to say."

Kurisu moved his shoulders, looking a little uncomfortable, and Andy manipulated a button on his side to make the saddle backrest fall backwards.

"Oh? Interesting, can it still be like this? ”

Kuresu lay on it and sighed.

"Anyway... I'm believing that there's something strange underneath the Great Salt Lake, and I've seen it with my own eyes... One year on my birthday, my brother said he was going to take me on a boat to a small island to see something beautiful, and that day we arrived at the island and saw a huge tree, I had never seen that kind of tree, and it was full of blue flowers, and those flowers were constantly emitting blue light... I had a great time that day, but on the way back by boat for the two of us, I saw something strange. ”

"When the boat returned, I saw that the surface of the lake, which had been a little blurry, became transparent under the light of those flowers, and I knew that the Great Salt Lake was very deep, but I didn't expect it to be so deep.... As deep as a bottomless abyss, I saw something at the bottom of the distant lake, most of which I couldn't see clearly, but I could confirm that for a moment I saw an obelisk, a great obelisk... Completely encased in a salt crust. ”

Kurisu lay there drowsy, neither of them knowing how long it would take for the natural disaster to end.

"You know... Does that big bone on the nose mean anything? Is it a decoration? For example, everyone in the Salt Lake tribe will have to be like that sooner or later? ”

Andy suddenly thought of this, and the image of the native man in his impression was too shocking.

Kurisu muttered and struggled to open his eyes, and replied in a somewhat apocalyptic voice.

"Ancestral bones... Not a decoration, only a very small number of people who are considered gifted are qualified to wear it, and my brother is. The tribe has knowledge that has been passed down through generations of shamans and is believed to help a person communicate with the spirits around him... You know, they think that there is a spirit in nature, and the deceased will also become a spirit. Spirits are constantly thinking and observing the beings around them, but people cannot see them or feel them, and all they can see is certain phenomena caused by spirits or meet them in dreams and hallucinations......"

Andy looked at Kurisu who was about to fall asleep, and he couldn't help but have his eyelids sink.

"The person chosen by the shaman undergoes an initiation ritual when he reaches adulthood, after which he wears a special bone on his nose... The bone is usually the bone of the wearer's ancestor, preferably from the grandfather or father, and after being processed by a shaman, it becomes a medium, a medium that leads one to hear and see the spirit. ”

Kurisu glanced at Andy and saw that he didn't know when he had fallen asleep, so he shoved him awake.

"Ah, I'm sorry."

Andy rubbed his eyes, the scene in front of him was still the same.

"And after that?"

Kurisu looked at him with some dissatisfaction, but continued to speak.

"My brother's temperament changed dramatically after that, he became active and talkative, and always told me what spirit he saw today and what information he received from him..."

Andy still felt extremely sleepy and asked casually.

"Have you ever thought about doing that ritual as well?"

Kuresu shook his head.

"Tribal tradition says that women are easily polluted by spirit bewitchment after performing that ritual, so I can't do that ritual... Some people say .."

She turned her head and found Andy asleep again.

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