Chapter 46: Departure

When Andy woke up again, he woke up because of the harsh light outside the car window.

Looking at the empty desert in front of him, he only felt that he was lucky, this sandstorm could be active for a long time according to the Dog Village, but this time what they encountered did not last that long... This only means that either it had been active for a long time before Andy encountered it, or it would have lacked stamina on its own.

Turning his head to look to the side, Kuruisu was not in the car, turning his head to look behind, the demon was not there...

Andy immediately pushed the car door, and the billowing red dust slid down from the car, leaving him all over, and the outside of the car was already covered in a thick layer of red dust.

"Oh my God, ahem, ahem..."

Andy waved his hand to disperse the dust, and soon found Kurisu with the demon looking into the distance.

He walked over.

"What are you looking at?"

Kurisu pointed to several locations.

"I found something falling there, and... That lost ghost you talked about yesterday. ”

Kurisu pointed behind him again, and Andy followed her instructions, revealing the corpse of a red, shriveled mad ghoul lying in the red sand in front of the car, with only one leg exposed.

Andy walked over and kicked the dried ghoul out of the way, the one who was playing tricks on the outside of the car yesterday.

"This kind of thing... Something without a brain, swaying in the desert, this sandstorm can be regarded as a pest. ”

After walking around the car to check the situation, Andy also saw that the big lizard they had been here when they came here yesterday had become a dried corpse. Its mouth was wide open as if it were silently accusing it of being murdered by something, and its skin was severely cracked, as if it had been skinned, and then the flesh underneath had been beaten to a dry red by the red sand.

Andy stared at the corpse for a long time, and began to wonder what had happened outside yesterday.... It didn't seem like much like he thought.

"Andy!"

Behind him came Kuresu's voice.

Andy turned his head to see Kurisu waving at him.

Leaving the dead lizard in front of him and ignoring it, Andy walked over and saw the demon running around in a circle not far away, as if he wanted to go over and see it but didn't dare to go in.

"It seems like a normal person, even though he's dead."

Kuresu pointed to the place, and Andy saw that there was a guy in a yellow trench coat carrying a huge package half-buried in the sand in a kneeling position, and from the head, he had hair, which could prove that he was not a mad ghoul.

Andy walked over with a frown, first dragging the eager demon back to Kurisu, and then slowly approaching it himself.

A gurgling sound suddenly came from his left arm.

[Warning: Geiger counter detected ambient radiation, current intensity: 1]

Andy glanced at the tip of the Pip-Boy, and suddenly found that he had stepped into the area where the dust storm raged yesterday, and the red dust around him was amazingly thick, and because of the wind, sand dunes several meters high had formed in some places.

He took out a bottle of anti-radiant and ate a few tablets, and the instructions on the bottle also stated that it was recommended to take a few tablets in moderation before entering the radiation field, because too little would not be effective, and too much would cause thirst and other negative reactions.

Walking slowly, he finally came to the corpse.

It was a man, wearing goggles and a face scarf, with withered yellow hair, and from the side it could be seen that the flesh on his face had disappeared, and the sand was embedded in the cracks in his skull....

Andy walked behind the big package he was carrying and stretched out his hand to open it to see what else was there, but he didn't think that this big leather bag had actually cracked a few big holes, and it was directly torn apart on the spot by Andy's drag, and almost all the contents were gone, except for a few cans of canned food.

He tore open the broken backpack completely, and was disappointed to find that there was not a single bottle cap.

"Poor ghost."

Andy didn't want to stay in the radiation zone any longer, but suddenly found a question, why was this man in this position when he finally died?

He walked over to the side of the stiff corpse and pushed him away, finding a small cloth bag under the corpse, and when he pulled it out, he saw two bottles of water and a notebook inside.

Andy picked up the notebook and flipped through it.

This appears to be a diary written by a man named Smith.

[Today I finally found a suitable job, success or failure in this move, those people are chasing my debts and are eager to kill me... As long as this trip to the east goes smoothly, the problem is solved. 】

The next few pages were filled with books and the like, and Andy hurriedly flipped through them.

[I'm a little worried... Last night I heard the people in the tent next door talking about the fact that although going to the east at this time of year is the most profitable, it is also the most risky, and if you meet that, it will be over.... I don't even know what that is, or maybe I didn't hear it because of withdrawal when Spencer told me about it? 】

Andy flipped through a few more pages, and found that it had turned into stick figures, and this guy named Smith was really bad at drawing, like a three-year-old kid's drawing, which was roughly some beast or landscape he saw.

Frowning and hurriedly flipping through, the notebook had come to the last page.

It's scribbled, it's not even grammarly, and there's a lot of blur.....

The few sentences that can be distinguished are:

[Gone]

[Chasing me something]

[Don't want to die]

Andy closed the notebook, threw it next to the corpse, looked at the two bottles of dirty water, unscrewed the caps and sprinkled them in front of the corpse, then threw the bottles and turned away.

Kurisu watched as Andy walked back from there and opened his mouth to inquire about the situation.

"Don't go there, there's a lot of radiation over there."

Andy glanced at the Pip-Boy, and the radiation warning finally stopped when he got here.

"When I saw the demon and didn't dare to go over, I knew there was a problem."

Kuresu tugged at the leash, and the demon wandered restlessly around.

Andy looked at the demon and muttered to himself.

"Dogs can't detect radiation, otherwise the dogs in the Dog Twist Village wouldn't have died of poisoning by eating a mad ghoul by mistake... So what do you perceive? ”

Andy walks up to the demon and grabs its head and ravages it, causing the demon to shake its head and bared its teeth in impotent rage.

Looking back at the dead guy who couldn't die anymore, there seemed to be some bumps buried here and there under the sand, but Andy had no interest in going over and checking what was going on. Andy doesn't know how long he walked to get here after getting lost in the sandstorm, or what was chasing him in the sandstorm... He thought it might be some of those abnormal-looking ghouls.

Taking the leash from Kurisu's hand, he beckoned Kurisu to get into the car.

"Let's go, don't stay here, it's better to hurry back early, I don't know what the situation is over there now."

Andy closed the door and started the car, and the Atomic Hummer drove off from under the boulder towards the far west.

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