Chapter Twenty-Eight: Beatrice
"Stop! Stay away from my security! The tall black woman with a large skeleton rushed out of the hotel with a pump-action shotgun, and before the three thugs who were still beating up the super mutants could react, one of their companions pulled out a pistol and pointed it at the black woman's head.
"Dusty, you're in a hurry, you're just a super mutant bastard. I tell you, my brothers killed him for your own good, without this monster your business would definitely be more prosperous, today, we will destroy it on behalf of humanity! .... Okay, put your gun down, or I don't know what I'm going to do, and the spirits you sell in your store are so strong that I'm a little too excited right now. A long-haired man with studs on his earrings stopped the rushing woman with a firearm, and from the conversation, it was clear that this woman was the owner of the shop, Dusty.
Dusty's eyes lit up with a real rage, and she glared at the man as she spat out the threat word by word.
"You miscellaneous fish, if you dare to kill my people, you will never want to set foot in my shop in the future!" The long-haired man burst out laughing, and his other hand swept towards everyone around him.
"Look at it, what is everyone's attitude? That super mutant has been beaten for so long, maybe he'll be beaten to death after a little longer? But who do you see is moving their mouths or hands? The answer is no! The super mutant species should disappear from this world when their vicious master perishes! Everyone agrees on that! The guests in the tavern sat on their stools, and they watched the door of the shop motionless, some even gloating and cheering, and those standing outside the door of the shop mostly walked away after giving them a cold look, muttering that Dusty's shop was so bad and angry every day.
Andy looked at the super mutant who seemed to be a little abnormally weak, if it was an aggressive super mutant that could be encountered in the wild, in this desperate situation, he would be completely mad because of the heavy blows, and become a bloodthirsty and crazy hungry beast that he did not recognize.
But at the moment, this super mutant not only doesn't look like he's going crazy, but it looks like he's about to be beaten to death by those three thugs at the front of the store and right under the nose of the shopkeeper.
He felt that although this super mutant was not Blackjack, he might know where Blackjack was.
So he suddenly took a big step, and Mark immediately followed.
"I don't agree." A low voice rang out, followed by three loud noises and screams. The long-haired man who was coercing Dusty with a pistol turned his head in surprise, only to see that one of the three people who were still majestic just now on behalf of humanity was falling from the roof of the shed and slamming to the floor, one had fallen to his knees with his stomach and trembling, and the other was held high by the neck, and the tall strong man who was choking his neck released his palm, and the thug who had lost consciousness was foaming at the mouth and was thrown to the ground.
With the power of V mode, Andy came to the back of the thug the moment after saying that sentence, the first one kicked directly upwards with his legs, and at the moment of disarming the V mode, he grabbed the neck of the other thug, and the force was so great that he instantly lost consciousness, and then threw it to the ground.
By the time he turned his attention to the last man, who had been knocked to his stomach by Mark's knee, he was on his knees in pain.
The long-haired man's jaw dropped in shock, it was only for a moment, why did things turn out like this? But just as he was startled, Dusty had already struck him with a vicious elbow on his temple and then the butt of a gun slammed into his head, and he fell to the ground without saying a word, like a rag doll.
There were exclamations and admiration from the customers and the crowd of onlookers, especially Andy, no one could see how he had knocked them down in an instant, as if one second he was still standing there, and the next he had already solved everything.
"It's just a group of people who eat overlord's meal, what kind of face is there to be murderous here? If you guys lived in an era when the Bishop's Army was raging, you wouldn't have had the courage to fight them, and still represent the human race? Phew! Dusty gasped for breath in anger and spat in the face of a comatose thug.
She thanked Andy with a smile.
"Thank you for standing up, unlike those cowards, some guys usually call me brothers and sisters when they ask me for wine on credit, and it is useless at the critical moment!" Dusty glanced at some people with a knife-sharp gaze, and a few of them looked down in embarrassment to drink or turn their heads to whistle.
"You're welcome... I just have something to ask him, what's his name? Andy pointed to the super mutants who were struggling to get up from the ground.
As soon as Dusty opened his mouth, the deputy sheriff ran over again with a few policemen.
"What? What's going on with you here, Dusty? I said don't always get into a fight with your customers, let alone shoot at the gun! He frowned as if it looked like the same thing, but he was once again hit by the hearts of everyone around him.
"Sheriff Silly! You're late again, and more than one step! ”
"It's a person who can deal with conflicts faster than you, a real policeman, you might as well go home and plant melons! Sheriff Silly! ”
"You're not going to hide in a corner again and wait until things settle down, are you? Needless to say! It's like this every time! The arrogant wasteland guests exhausted all kinds of bitter words to frantically mock the deputy sheriff, he blushed before retorting a few words and then drowned in the waves, and finally after simply understanding the situation with Dusty and learning that it was a few people who wanted to eat the overlord meal and were stopped, he could only take away a few thugs who had passed out in shame again.
Dusty, who was about to go back and continue the conversation with Andy, saw that Andy had already started talking to her super mutant bodyguard while she was talking to the deputy sheriff.
"Humanity .... Thank you. The stupid super mutant stumbled.
"You're welcome, what's your name?" The super mutant scratched his head.
"Beatrice.... Name, mine. Andy let out a sigh of surprise, not thinking that this was actually a female super mutant, although that meant little to this race.
Super mutants suffer from the FEV virus, and their secondary sex characteristics disappear, although the primary sex characteristics are somewhat reserved, but because of the influence of the virus, they have lost their fertility and libido, so there is not much difference between having and not having them.
Dusty walked over and warmly beckoned a few people to come in and sit down, and she wanted to invite a few people to drink for today's business.
So Andy took Mark and followed Dusty and Beatrice to an internal private room, which was said to be a private room, but in fact it was a small area improvised by several broken wooden boards that were not soundproof at all.
The table inside was a mess of stains and playing cards, and there were some small snack residues, fruit pits, and dried phlegm on the floor....
"You talk first, I've got something to do." Dusty threw a few bottles of liquor and some jerky on the table and hurried away, Andy took a sip of the wine, and couldn't help but be surprised by the strength of the wine.
As soon as he put down the wine bottle, he saw that Beatrice had already eaten almost all the jerky, and Mark, who didn't seem to like to drink much, had just eaten a piece and had no choice but to sit aside.
Andy glanced at the super mutant and started chatting with her.
"Beatrice, where are you from? When did it come to Hoover Dam? Beatrice's brow furrowed, as if she didn't know how to answer the question.
"From ...... Beatrice.... I don't know.... I..... Just go..... What is it.... Alive..... Kill.... Eat..... Lean in.... I'll come to the big earthen wall .... For a long time.... Before those yellow-clad helmeted people. When it came to eating, she seemed to suddenly get a little interested.
"I want to eat....... Ingenious..... But not come...... Stupid.... Come here..... I kill.... Eat. Mark turned slightly, his flat glasses glowing coldly.
"Have you ever eaten a human?" Beatrice replied earnestly and heartlessly.
"Cannibalism..... A lot! .... Humans are stupider than animals.... Animals run.... Humans came and hit me..... I kill, then eat! .... Delicious! I've been for a long time.... I haven't eaten it in a long time! I'm hungry...," the stupid super mutant said as he licked the corners of his mouth, like a clumsy child talking about his favorite food, and licking his fingers while talking about his favorite food, which would be better if it weren't human.
Mark's face was cold and noncommittal, I don't know if it was an illusion, Andy seemed to feel that Mark, who was bowing his head, was gradually revealing some terrible killing intent.
With that in mind, Andy pushed the last bit of jerky to the gluttonous drooling Beatrice.
"So, what would you do if humans ran away when they saw you, or if they came and didn't hit you?" Beatrice raised her head and let out a smirk.
"Hit me, bite me, I'll kill and eat..... Otherwise, I won't kill.... Those are kind of like... Sneeze? I don't want to kill... Even if it feels delicious. Mark tilted his head, the expression on his face seemed slightly soothing.
"Dusty.... Good..... Give me meat to eat.... I like her..... I think... I want to be her ..... Label ..... Wrong.... Exploding darts ....." she said several times in a row, but she didn't succeed in saying the word bodyguard.
"It's a bodyguard, so Dusty didn't let you be her bodyguard, but asked you to show the door to her store." Beatrice smiled and nodded again, and Mark took the opportunity to ask questions of interest to him.
"Do you remember how you got to be like this?" Beatrice was silent for a long time this time, as if trying to reminisce about the past years.
"Ahh I don't remember .... I.... A long time ago.... With a lot of people .... At.... In a cave underground..... I ..... "She didn't make it clear what she was trying to say, and she probably didn't have any specific memories left except vague impressions."