Early the next morning, Andy walked around Ouroboros Village with the refreshed Black. The slaves who cleaned up the garbage wore dirty face toils on their faces, and they worked bitterly under the rough supervision of the hounds, and the main content of the work was to use some rudimentary tools to collect the garbage left on the ground yesterday, and finally throw all the garbage into the moat outside, and in addition to the obvious garbage on the ground, there was also feces and urine in the toilet.... There was a rumbling not far away, and Andy looked over to see a corpse in the gutter next to a humble open-air restaurant, and the cleaning slave dragged the corpse up.

The corpse had some scars on its face, and it was not known if it was caused by himself or by a fight with someone at night.

The hounds shouted a few times, and the slaves reluctantly threw the carcasses into the iron boxes drawn on the carts that carried the garbage, and the two-headed oxen snorted a few times.

The corpse apparently received the same treatment as other garbage, being thrown directly into a ditch outside the city, where it dried and rotted and was visited by some of the desert's scavengers.

"Woo....." Little Black bared his teeth and let out a menacing growl, targeting several black vipers that followed the hounds.

After kicking it lightly, Andy continued to walk with it in the direction of the city gate, and the two old men gave two different answers to Andy's question last night.

The tall and thin old man thought that it would be quite difficult to hide in Ouroboros Village, so if such a person existed, it was almost certain that his best choice was to go outside near the garbage ditch, which was rarely approached by people except for the slaves who took out the garbage, and was not far from the city gate, so that he could easily enter and exit at night.

Groups of people gather to cook food together, and several Hecate hounds are using wooden skewers to skewer small desert lizards they catch, which they enter from their mouths and out of their butts.

This small lizard is only the size of a palm, and it is not a small difference in size from some predatory mutant lizards about the size of an eight- or nine-year-old child or even an adult.

In short, this method of baking is quick and easy and is very popular with wastelanders who survive in desert areas, and is called

"Bangbang Lizard". A hound hastily roasted it, sprinkled a little coarse salt and a black unidentified seasoning, and then opened his mouth to reveal a skewer, the lizard's flesh was still in a half-cooked state, but judging by his reaction, it seemed that it was the most delicious.

"Ouch, it tastes great!" Andy glanced at the skewers on the oven made of scrap iron buckets, in addition to lizards, there were some insects of unknown species, and some plants and mushrooms that I didn't know if they were poisonous or not... Well, visuals aside, the smell doesn't smell bad.

Slowly followed the garbage truck out of the city gate, the guard just asked casually and let Andy come and go freely, the ox cart full of all kinds of garbage creaked to the side of the ditch, and then the two slaves waved shovels to row all the garbage on the truck to the bottom of the ditch, and after the hurried completion, they immediately turned back, and did not look at Andy standing aside.

The sun had not yet fully risen, and the wind was blowing from the wilderness outside, and the surroundings could be seen by the light of the fire near the city gates, but after a few steps it was almost completely dark.

Luckily, Andy's Pip-Boy has always been very reliable when it comes to lighting, and with a buzz, the screen lights up completely, emitting a fluorescent green light.

As he moved away from the city gates, Andy saw that the ditch began to grow wider and deeper, and it was hard to imagine how much manpower and time it took to excavate it, although the soil here was mainly sandy mixed with stones, but there were still many difficulties in the most primitive way of construction under the premise that there was hardly any pre-war technology.

The Pip-Boy suddenly indicates that a new broadcast signal has been received, but Andy adjusts to hear an insignificant tapping sound.

Following this signal, Andy made his way down the ditch in a direction away from the city gates. When he looked down, it was about seven or eight meters deep underneath, and since it was far from any city gates or places where people passed, there wasn't a lot of garbage.

Slaves would never have been willing to go the extra mile to dump their garbage in a more spacious area unless they were under the strict supervision of the hounds.

Pip-Boy's light illuminates the scattered garbage below, including a robot half-buried in the sand, and Ouroboros probably didn't have anyone in the village who could fix it, so it was left here, is that where the signal came from?

After two glances, Andy was about to continue to look into the distance, but Xiao Hei suddenly began to yell downward.

Andy immediately turns on V-mode, but finds nothing, and there really doesn't seem to be anything down there except garbage and sand.

He pondered for a moment, then suddenly looked down to see if there were any distinctive marks on the ground around him. Eventually, a short metal rod that didn't seem to be here was found next to a rock, probably the length of a finger.

It's a little rusty, but it's still strong, and it doesn't get stuck in the crack of the stone for no reason, most likely someone deliberately nailed it in.

This thing can be used as a fulcrum, and if someone hides in the ravine below, he can use this inconspicuous little structure to go down with a rope at any time to dodge or climb back up to this remote corner that no one cares about.

"Phew...."Andillo sighed and pulled out a rope with a hook on it from the Pip-Boy, something he had gotten when he had been crawling around the nursery factory, but he didn't expect to use it again.

Little Black Heart comprehended and climbed onto Andy's shoulder, and then Andy grabbed the rope and slid down the dirt wall with both feet after fixing the hook.

But the rope is only three meters long, which is not long enough for Andy to reach the bottom. Holding on to the rope and temporarily frozen in mid-air, Andy looked left and right for a while, and finally saw a narrow triangular cavern formed by the collapse of a naturally formed diagonal rift in the east.

The cave is very inconspicuous and its location is so subtle that it is difficult to observe from any angle unless you come down and get up close, like Andy.

He made a gesture, and Blackie jumped into the cave with a leap of his hand, and Andy jumped into the cave with a swing of rope.

Tying the head of the rope to a stone, Andy didn't want to pull the top hook off as well, and if he wasn't skilled, he didn't know how long he would have to throw it in the air before he happened to hit the metal rod.

But if the man was still hiding in the cave, he seemed to have taken away the rope from the outside in order to maintain absolute secrecy.

It seems that he is very confident in his skills. The beep-beep boy lit up the dark cave, and Xiao Hei lay not far away and sniffed into the cave, constantly letting out a low roar.

This cave is so narrow that it is simply anti-human, Andy's strong physique can only go inside half-lying and rubbing the sand, and even if ordinary people find this place, they may not think that there are people hiding in the depths here.... But Andy has just found a piece of evidence.

"Don't move." He grabbed the eager little black and dragged it back. Just a short distance ahead, there is an inconspicuous tripwire.

God knows what will pop out if this thing is triggered, so Andy carefully grabbed the end of the tripwire that extended, cut the tripwire with a dagger, and then wrapped the end of the thread around the small iron rod that supported the tripwire.

It wasn't long before Andy saw the full extent of the trap, which was connected to a small trap that was mounted on the trigger of a shotgun and fired as soon as the tripwire was triggered.

There is no way to hide in such a narrow space, and anyone who rushes in will be shot on the spot, and at the same time, the sound of gunfire will alert those hiding inside.

Andy walked over and carefully dismantled the trap and put the shotgun into the beep boy. The signal was getting stronger, and someone must have been hiding inside and using some kind of radio device to send a signal outside.

The cave gradually widened, and Andy was now able to stand up and walk normally, but the more this happened, the more he should be vigilant, and it was difficult to say what kind of state the people inside were, although Dan Dai claimed to have injured him.... However, no one can say exactly what the injuries were.

Eventually, he made it to the deepest part of the cave. Some messy garbage was scattered around, including canning boxes and used needles; There was a dirty blanket on the floor, stained with blood.

In the corner was a rudimentary radio station, almost hand-made from all sorts of scrap parts, and judging by the strength of the signal, it was the source of the signal outside.

Needless to say, that person must have been hiding here, but what about people now. Xiao Hei roared violently and pounced to the side, but the moment he pounced, he flew back upside down and hit Andy hard.

A figure in a long coat limped towards the exit of the cave, trying to pull out the safety of a grenade.

In an instant of life and death, Andy put away the pistol and turned on the V mode, and then threw the man to the ground like a bolt of lightning, grabbing his hand that was about to pull out the grenade safe.

"You—" He had just said a word, and a merciless elbow hit gagged his mouth.