Chapter 29 Sources of Radiation

"Do you have a Geiger counter?"

Andy asked as he peeled the patient's eyelids.

"No... Before, only the NCR guards had it, and we didn't find it in Dog Town after they left. ”

He replied, revealing that the salvage men had been wandering around blindly for a long time.

"But we all know that things like broken nuclear generators can't be near for too long, and it shouldn't be... I haven't been exposed to anything radioactive. ”

Chrissy tossed the Geiger counter in her hand to Jimmy.

"You have to have at least one of these, or no one knows when you'll be in the radiation zone."

Jimmy thanked him and put it away.

Andy confirmed that the man was indeed mild to moderate radiation poisoning, but the more important thing than curing him was to find out where the radiation source was and prevent more people from getting sick.

"Remember, where exactly did you get the radiation? Also, are there any people with symptoms similar to yours? ”

The patient recalls that he has no clue about the former question, but is able to answer the latter question.

"Yes, there is a symptom that is very serious, and now I can't get out of bed."

So, several people went to the room of the person with more severe symptoms.

Once there, there was a terrible smell in the room that I don't know how long he had been in this state, probably because no one was taking care of him.

Andy asked, pinching his nose.

"What's going on? His radiation poisoning was really serious, and half of his teeth were gone. ”

The patient from before pointed to a small pot on the floor.

"At that time, we went to kill the lizard that climbed the wall, and he saw a dead one, and he had to bring it back to eat for himself, and no one could stop it.... After eating, it becomes like this. ”

Andy brought the beep boy closer to the pot of meat.

[Warning, Geiger counter detected ambient radiation, current intensity: 3]

Quickly taking two steps back, Andy looked at the stew that didn't look amazing and said to the bottom of his lungs, just such a pot of meat actually emitted terrible radiation like some kind of nuclear waste.

"This meat... What do you call wall-crawlers? ”

The patient replied, "There is a large lizard in Dog City, there are no small number of them, and this creature also climbs walls, sometimes they climb very high and high, and then they come into the building to attack us, so all of us, including me, go to clean up these monsters from time to time." Normally, the dead lizards are thrown downstairs by us to feed the wild dogs, but this guy doesn't like dog meat, so he has to try something else when he gets the chance..."

"The radiation source is actually alive."

Chrissy couldn't stand the smell anymore and turned away.

The two then instructed Jimmy outside the door to use radiatine to the two patients, and discarded all the stew with radiation, warning them to use a Geiger counter to test for entering the radiation field.

"What's next?"

Chrissy follows Andy down the hallway, many of which are empty or sealed.

"Look at those lizards... They're all cellmates, even though we've never met them before. ”

"You've been in jail?"

Chrissy was a little surprised.

"Because of what?"

Andy rubbed his chin, thinking that answering the serious reason might be hated by her.

"Anyway, I was wronged, I just had a fight with someone, and then that person died inexplicably, and I was arrested and put in prison..."

"And you escaped from prison?"

"Uh..."

Andy recalls the spider-robot that stunned himself...

"I guess I was attacked by someone from another prison and taken away, and then I escaped from that prison that wasn't part of NCR because a group of people attacked that prison, but it's funny that the person I remember helping me escape was someone from NCR."

Andy casually uttered a series of tongue twisters, making Chrissy pout repeatedly.

"If you don't want to say it, forget it, why lie to me."

Andy shrugged, he knew what he said was true, even if it was magical, and he didn't expect Chrissy to believe it.

The two quickly stopped near a window.

"Did you see that? That thing. ”

Chrissy pointed to a window at the end of the corridor that had long since disappeared, and several sharp claws were now clutching at the window frame next to it.

"See."

Andy raised his self-charging pistol and raised his hand to shoot several lasers through.

"Hissβ€”β€”!"

The laser hit the lizard screamed and angrily crawled into the house from the outside wall.

Andy only thought that this thing was quite familiar, it looked like the kind of giant mutant lizard he had encountered in a pile of abandoned cars in the desert shortly after he had just left Tibbetts Prison, and the stripes on this one were all dark green, and the Pip-Boy's built-in Geiger counter was also starting to cluck.

"Find one."

Chrissy picked up the submachine gun, and the 10mm bullet was fired at the thick skin of the huge lizard with a click, because of her skill, the gun was pressed very steadily, almost shooting a blood flower vertically connected into a line on the lizard's body.

The giant lizard roared, twisted around with its injuries, and continued to lunge towards the two of them.

Chrissy threw the submachine gun to the ground, pulling out the military dagger from the scabbard behind her back, but was grabbed by Andy.

She was surprised to see Andy actually make a strange movement on all fours, rushing over in a position similar to that of a lizard, and then a volley tumbling to avoid the lizard's bite, and from the side was a stumbling leg that made the lizard lose its balance, and it flew out and hit the wall next to it, making a bang.

Listening to the dull crash, Chrissy felt only a phantom pain in her forehead.

The lizard barely got up, green blood was bleeding from the wounds on its body, and as soon as it looked up, it was shot to death by Andy's two-gun fire in V mode. Jimmy, who heard the voice, came out of the house.

"Oh... Awesome, you killed a big lizard, this thing is not easy to deal with, many times I take a few people to kill the guy who climbs up. ”

He walked over to the lizard and dragged it away.

"I remember you said this thing is not good for humans, right, it would be better to throw this lizard away, I wanted to keep it for myself."

Jimmy's muscular body lifted the lizard, the size of a small half-headed cow, and threw it straight through the window, leaving the body on the ground after a period of free fall.

The wild dogs, who smelled the blood, gradually approached in groups of three or five, and then feasted on them.

Those terrible irradiant meats that humans can't consume are a rare delicacy for them.

"Very good Jimmy, I forgot you're not afraid of radiation... Let's walk around a little more and see if there are any other lizards, there will still be people in the province who are poisoned by radiation in the future, have you used radiating Ning for those people? ”

Jimmy nodded.

"I don't even know what that plastic bag with the red liquid is used for this, can you tell me what the little red bottle with pills inside is for?"

Andy guessed that he was probably talking about anti-radiation.

"That, you need to eat when you have to enter the radiation zone, according to the intensity of the radiation to decide how many tablets to eat, generally speaking, about three tablets can cope with the moderate intensity of radiation, but after all, it can't completely resist the radiation, or you can't stay in the radiation area as long as you want."

The trio searched up and down the salvageists' buildings, eventually killing three giant wall-climbing lizards.

"Very well, there shouldn't be many lizards in this case, thank you for your help, I'll tell Potter about it."

Jimmy dragged the wall-climbing lizard he had just beaten to death in hand-to-hand combat, and then threw it out of the building.

"It's a small thing."

Andy looked at Jimmy, this guy was too strong, and he hammered the big lizard that pounced on him alive with his fist.

"It's almost time, do you have any other patients here? Remember to tell that guy who is so bold as to eat stew of unknown creatures that he doesn't take his life for his life anymore, humans are not as powerful as you, and that kind of meat will die if you eat it. ”

"Haha, yes, there are no other patients now."

Jimmy's throat is rude, but this super mutant is actually a nice and nice person.

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