Stopping the demon from biting there, Andy walks over to the unidentified woman in a bloated hazmat suit who falls unconscious.

Judging from her face, she was about the same age as Andy, both of whom were very young, and very clean, not the weathered wasteland or natives, but more like a large settlement.

For some reason, Andy's heart raced a little at the sight of this face, a feeling he had never experienced before.

There is a natural charm to this face.

He thought of Eddie and Helen saying that the secret passage was told to them by a woman named String among the scientists, so maybe this was her?

Andy shook her a few times and shouted at her, but she seemed to pass out for unknown reasons.

Scratching his head, Andy pulled her up halfway, and then found the opening of the suit on her back, but just as Andy was about to take it apart and pull the woman out of it, she seemed to wake up.

"Stop."

A weak female voice came from inside the hazmat suit, sounding muffled.

Andy stopped his movements and came to the woman to look at her, at the moment she was weak and sweaty, and it looked like she might pass out again at any time, but now she did wake up, probably caused by the action of dragging her up just now.

"Why? Are you called a string? ”

The woman nodded weakly in acknowledging her identity, and then continued to ask Andy not to open the suit.

"You... You can't open this dress. ”

Andy looked at the woman's face suspiciously, her lips and face were a little blue, which was clearly a symptom of lack of oxygen.

"So why, if I'm looking right, you're about to suffocate, right? If you don't open this pocket, you'll suffocate inside. ”

The string still shook his head firmly.

"Can't.... You... You can continue to take me outside, in... There is a medical room on the south side of the outside where oxygen is available. ”

Andy barely hesitated, he picked up the woman on his back and squeezed it out as fast as he could.

On the way, he almost didn't think about anything, just wanted to save her quickly.

It didn't take long for Andy to walk out of the pipe gallery and find the medical room outside.

Under the guidance of the strings, an oxygen tube was connected to the protective suit, which made the suit larger.

The suit appears to be very malleable, and the garment is completely airtight, as if it was made to completely isolate the user from the outside world.

After inhaling oxygen for a while, Xian's complexion finally improved, and he gradually stood up on his own.

"Thank you..."

She looked a little scared of what had happened before.

"I thought the air was enough for me to go outside... My prediction was fatally wrong, and without your help I would have died there. ”

For some reason, Andy felt so happy that he couldn't wait for the chords to start chatting, without even thinking about asking for anything in return.

"You must be one of the scientists inside the Dome, right? I heard Helen say you're a good person. ”

Strings smiled weakly.

"Since I was a child, my empathy has been stronger.... And I felt that Dr. Goddard and Dr. Agnes treated Helen unfairly, although they were not very smart and knew nothing about science, but if it wasn't for their help, they wouldn't have been here, and they wouldn't have been able to last for 3 years... Maybe I didn't come from the mainstream NCR scientific community after all, and I didn't think like them. ”

Andy became more and more curious about why he was reluctant to take off his suit.

"Why the hell are you wearing this dress?"

String's body appears small in the increasingly inflated protective suit, like a child in a giant mascot costume.

"I have a disease.... I don't know if you can understand, a few months ago we accidentally opened a laboratory while exploring in the big dome, but the process was so weird, it seems that someone was deliberately sabotaging the equipment and causing some kind of virus to leak... Soon after, someone was dying of a virus attack, and her name was Nina. It was then that we found out that we were all infected with a terrible virus, which we found in the database of the Great Dome, called the New Plague. ”

Andy nodded suddenly, it turned out that she was reluctant to open the protective suit because she didn't want to be infected with the new plague, even if she was about to suffocate to death, she didn't want him to open the protective suit for her, such a personality made Andy secretly admire in his heart.

"It's okay, ah, I've been infected with the new plague for a long time.... So I'm not afraid. ”

Xian looked at Andy questioningly, wondering if he understood what he was saying.

"Are you sure? That's a very scary virus. ”

Andy takes off his armor to show the back of his neck, where there are several blue blisters, the virus seems to have stopped working since he was released from Tibbetts Prison and found them, creating no more symptoms or marks.

"You saw that, didn't you? Those blue blisters .... I'm sure you will have these things on your body inside your suit, and as far as I know, anyone infected with this virus will grow this thing on their body. ”

Xian looked at the blisters on Andy's back in shock, his face full of shock.

"What? ..... How so? You've never been to the Big Dome before, have you? ”

Andy giggled and explained to the strings in a strange excited tone.

"Actually, this disease is very widespread outside, is it the reason? I can only say that it is to blame for an old man named Dr. Prester, in short, the disease does not seem to be particularly severe, and although its transmissibility is strong, the fatality rate is not particularly high. ”

The string shook his head frantically.

"No... What the hell is going on? Dr. Prester? What does this have to do with him? Are there a lot of people out there who have this disease? Isn't that a corpse all over the field.... After our research, we are convinced that the lethality of this virus is very terrifying, once infected, it will become violently ill after 3-5 days, first there will be a large number of bruises and blood spots on the body, followed by blue blisters, and all the organs of the body will be damaged, especially the lungs, it is easy for people to suffocate or die of organ failure..."She stared at Andy for a while, and suddenly thought of another possibility.

"Wait, we found out in the ZAX database that there are three strains of the new plague virus, and the virus we are infected with should be different strains."

This was the first time Andy had heard of it.

"So many differences? What's the difference? ”

String thought for a moment and spoke to Andy about his opinion.

"The new plague virus was in the old world, in the 21st century, by the way, it is now the 23rd century, and it has had three outbreaks, the first in the 50s, the second in the 60s, and the third in the 70s. Each outbreak of the virus strain is different, and this is because the virus also undergoes a large number of mutations over time. ”

"The first two outbreaks, the lethality of the strains was very strong, and they soon killed almost 200,000 people in SA, but... In the third outbreak, the virus seemed to weaken the probability of lethality and increase its ability to be infectious. Unfortunately, the strain we were infected with was the original new plague virus strain of the first outbreak, and it was the most lethal strain. ”

Andy listened with relish, and he didn't know if it was because of the content or simply because of the voice, and he found that he seemed to have a little heart for this girl.

"But I shouldn't be fine, right? I already have antibodies. ”

String hesitated and asked Andy.

"How long have you been infected with this virus?"

Andy thinks back to when he left Tibbetts Prison, and if he had been in custody at Black Canyon Prison before... He vaguely remembered that he had gone to run errands somewhere east before he was imprisoned by the NCR, and that he had come across a dead body on the side of the road, with blue blisters on it.

If that time is the cause of the infection, then it will be quite a long time.

"About a year... The symptoms didn't get worse, and after half a year a guy injected me with a drug that seemed to inhibit the spread of the virus, and I don't know if it had anything to do with that. ”

String was silent for a moment, then said her conclusion.

"You're probably fine, there's a chance that you'll become asymptomatic after contracting the new plague, and you won't be infected by the virus again and won't have another attack... The New Plague Virus has so far had no way to eliminate them, and all known means of doing so are to temporarily dormant the virus and prevent it from continuing to replicate itself and spread with your bodily fluids, which is probably the same thing you are talking about. ”

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