Chapter 22: Little Black
A small brown bear-like creature scurried at Andy's feet. Of course, this guy is much more agile than a bear, alert and agile.
"Come here, Blackie." He held out a hand with the beef jerky he had just taken out of the Pip-Boy, and the wolverine immediately leaned over and made a snorting sound, and then quickly ate all the beef jerky.
"I hope I won't regret choosing you in the future...."Andy said, he hesitated for a long time between the gray wolf and the wolverine, but in the end he still thought that his fighting style was not very compatible with stealth sneakers like Black Panther or Gray Wolf, and as for the grizzly bear, it was the choice that Andy ruled out in the first place, so after thinking about it, this guy was a good choice.
Its appearance is hardly aggressive, and even a little cute, except that when it grows vicious and grins at its enemies, it is no less intimidating than any beast.
"Hum-snorr-" Blackie ate the meat, not looking full, it shrugged its nose and sniffed everything around it quickly, showing great interest in the xenomorph corpses that hadn't had time to be disposed of by the maintenance robots.
"Don't eat that!" Andy shouted at Blackie, who was about to open his mouth to eat, and the devil knew what would happen if the corpses were eaten, and Andy hoped that the old habit of the demon eating everywhere would not be repeated in his new pet.
Xiao Hei was very obedient and immediately walked away from the corpse, which was a world of difference compared to the demon.
The reason for this is not because the animal is more spiritual than the dog, but because Tina uses codE technology to adaptively program its brain, which can understand most of the instructions given by Andy as its owner, and can also carry out shallow thinking after a certain degree of run-in over time.
This makes it never betrayal, and it is forbidden to enforce it, and there is no problem with loyalty.
"It's time to go back.... However, there seems to be one more place where there are some minor problems. Tina has rebooted the console, and the facility is once again under her control, and in time, the nursery's habitat destroyed by alien mutant creatures and native mutant plants will be restored with the help of this equipment.
Andy touched Blackie's head, and when he heard this, he raised his head and said his guess.
"Do you mean the garden area? I've almost died over there several times, it's full of monsters. Tina nodded.
"It seems to me that this is the root of the mutant plants that are rampant all over the nursery, and the harmful individuals there must be eradicated as soon as possible, but not eradicated, and I have observed a lot of mutant plants with miraculous properties, which will definitely lead to a lot of positive results... Get that out there, and we'll start developing a vaccine. ”...................... With a flash of blue light, the two appeared near the garden area.
"It was originally a giant botanical garden, with plants from all over the world before the war planted in four areas with different environmental conditions." Andy was startled by a terrible scream from the side, and turned his head to see that the deer's nose and eyes had been pierced and torn apart by a mutated plant that looked like a thorn monster.
From this point of view, the poor herbivore must have hastily stuck his head in the thought that the plant was edible food, and never thought that he was actually the food.
Blackie let out a vigilant roar, and after Andy didn't object, he ran over like a black shadow in an instant, his sharp teeth biting down on a part of the mutated thorn, and then tearing it fiercely, dodging the counterattack like lightning after he succeeded.
The mutant thorn does not make a sound, and when attacked, it waving its branches around, but still unwilling to give up its prey, the branches wrapped around the deer's head quickly tightened, and the deer's head was completely pierced and tied to death.
The deer, whose respiratory tract and brain had been destroyed, whimpered and fell to the ground as a corpse, killed by a grass that it wanted to eat.
After that, Xiao Hei repeatedly attacked like a ghost, each blow was causing more damage to the enemy, and it didn't take long for the mutated thorn to be completely unbearable, and he had to abandon the prey at hand and plan to escape, but this gave Xiao Hei a bigger opportunity.
It pounced, tearing the core of the mutated plant to pieces in a few bites, killing the monster completely.
"Snorr—roar." Blackie threw away the dead plant, which was unattractive to him, and far less delicious than the dead deer on the side, and the reason why he attacked so manically was entirely due to his aggressive nature.
Looking at Xiao Hei, who was lying on the deer's corpse and feasting, Andy was really a little embarrassed, as if this guy would never be able to eat.
"Wolverines have a fast metabolism and are sometimes more gluttonous, which is why its scientific name is gulogulo, which means gluttony in Latin, but if you look at it overall, the cost of feeding it is still less than that of a grizzly bear." Tina answered Andy's doubts and turned to look at the large, slightly broken artificial greenhouse.
The two stepped into it again, and Xiao Hei reluctantly tore off a deer leg and bit it in his mouth to eat it slowly, everything in the desert was still the same as before.
Andy glanced at the gluttonous fellow, as if it didn't feel any heat because it was addicted to eating.
"There's a very large mutant plant here that likes to hide under the sand to catch prey." Andy looked suspiciously at the desert around him.
"That's what you say?" Tina calmly pointed to a sand dune that seemed to be fine, and Andy hurriedly used V mode to seek the enemy, but found nothing.
"What?" Tina didn't explain too much, and in her perception, there was indeed a huge life response beneath the dune.
It's not so easy for such a hidden-hiding behemoth to be violently destroyed, especially if it's also good at operating under the desert, but Tina has a way to do it....
"Be careful, if it's the last time I met that guy, its blood is very corrosive, and it also emits strong radiation, we have to think about how-" Andy could finish his sentence when he saw Tina raise her hand.
The special lenses above the glass dome for light collection underwent a series of flips, actually focusing all the sunlight, and the terrifying heat energy was instantly concentrated on one point, and with this amazingly bright light slowly moving, the sand that was illuminated began to crystallize rapidly.
Sensing the threat, the presence beneath the dunes jerked up from beneath the sand, trying to dodge the terrible solar cannon, but it wasn't moving fast enough... Andy covered his face with his arm, and Blackie had already dropped his deer legs and hid behind Andy, shivering.
A blinding light shone over the giant mutant plant like a god's punishment, and almost instantly, the terrifying light wiped it out.
"There seem to be a few more." Tina said calmly, manipulating the light to keep moving, and after a while, there were several loud noises in the distance, and finally everything fell silent.
When they left the desert area, it looked like sand had been smeared with glue by young children, and the remnants of the completely carbonized and solidified sand of the surrounding melted sand were the last evidence of the existence of the giant mutant plants.
"It seems that the progress is much faster than I expected." Andy walked forward easily, thinking that this time it could be said that he had taken revenge, he had escaped from here in embarrassment before, and this time he had killed back.
"How much time does it take to renovate a forest in your backyard? Rest assured, it will be done soon. Tina looked at the plains in front of her, which were littered with a large number of mutant plants.
A gray-white miasma enveloped the area, Andy put on a gas mask early, and Blackie looked very uncomfortable and kept sneezing.
"It's time to clean up the grass here." Tina made that strange and funny move again, and Andy knew what she was going to do at a glance, and quickly hid away from Xiao Hei in his arms.
A torrential rain of lasers seemed to perpetuate almost the entire plains, cutting and burning mutated plants and ordinary weeds, and huge creatures erupted from a distance, spewing thick poisonous smoke and a large number of poisonous spikes at Tina, but none of them posed any threat to her.
"Turn on the ventilation." When Tina stopped, the grass around her had been cut away, and the huge mutated plants in the distance fell to the ground, crushed by the laser.
The ventilation system in the plain area starts operating at maximum power, and here the miasma begins to be quickly discharged.