Chapter XXXVIII

Several people stood in the boat, stunned as they looked at the huge corpse that was gradually sinking into the water after it overturned not far away.

The face of the giant crab had turned into a large pit, and a large amount of dark green crab roe crab paste came out of it and flowed into the water, which made all the mutated creatures around it go crazy, and they rushed to the wound of the giant crab and tried to get into it to try to eat it, and for a moment the green water seemed to be boiling.

"Boss.... That's amazing! Beatrice raised her arms and cheered.

"I'm not very good at flattering people, but this time I honestly think that even the barbarian Guguna can't compare to you..."Mark said as he looked at Andy, who had just jumped into the boat, and the muzzles of the ship maggots and rabbit-eared ghouls on the side still hadn't closed.

Andy looked back at the huge corpse, his head was almost blank the moment he jumped down, and the Hercules fist in his hand erupted with terrifying energy, even scorching his sleeve, but the palm inside did not feel the slightest temperature.

After smashing the cancer's face like smashing a melon with a punch, the huge recoil force caused him to fly upside down in the air, but fortunately the place where he landed was not on the surface of the water.

"Are you all right, I just wanted to ask, what's that thing over there? Are there any other guys who hid and didn't leave? Andy pointed to a corpse that had been randomly left on the side of the cabin, the corpse in the form of charred flesh and a mixture of pitch-black skeleton and an unknown green goo, although it was unrecognizable, but from some of the bone details it somewhat resembled a person's appearance, but on closer inspection there were obvious differences, such as the number and shape of the ribs.

"No, I don't know what it is, it should be a monster that suddenly jumped out of the water.... I'd probably heard of this stuff at Hoover Dam, but this guy looks a little different than the one over there. Mark glanced at Andy and replied, although he said it lightly, the sudden appearance of the guy did startle him a lot.

As soon as he saw this guy, he rushed over and attacked with his sharp claws and teeth, not only immediately scratching the caught off guard, but then he puffed out his neck and tried to spray something, thinking of the tragic situation of Beatrice after being sprayed in the face by the large crayfish, Mark immediately hit the guy in the head with a shot of plasma.

When the plasma hits its head, it immediately dissolves its entire body, turning part of its flesh to ashes due to the heat, and another part being ablated into a green radioactive substance, both of which are entangled in the pitch-black skeleton that makes the corpse indistinguishable and miserable.

Beatrice's wound healed quickly after receiving the needles given to her by Mark, and the damage caused by the acid erosion on her face was close to healing, only her face became uglier because of it, but she didn't need to care about her appearance.

The settlement of the Water Tigers was completely destroyed this time, but most of those guys fled, and I am afraid that it will not be long before they regroup and make a comeback, but that is none of Andy's business.

"What about these two captives you captured?" Mark points to ship maggots and rabbit-eared ghouls. Beatrice held out her hand to the maggot, causing him to retreat in fright.

"Hey! ...... Come.... Little Human ..... You're still delicious! Her hideous smile forced the boat maggot to almost jump out of the boat and escape, but unfortunately the current turquoise water did not support him to do so, and if he jumped, he would die a tragic death.

"No, no, no, don't eat me! Why don't you go and eat him.... He..... Ghouls are tastier than humans! Rabbit Ears looked surprised and shrugged.

"Please, everyone knows that ghouls are not good at all, even those crazy cannibals will not eat ghouls, this ...... Foodies, too, should have understood this a long time ago. Beatrice nodded approvingly.

"I ..... Kill a lot .... Wrinkled without a nose... They... Bite me, I eat..... Bad..... Like dog dung...."The corner of Rabbit Ears' mouth twitched when he heard the word dog dung, but he was glad that at least he didn't have to fight with the guy next to him for the right to live.

"Yes, uh..... Ghouls are indeed quite unpalatable to eat, ahem.... But why do you know what dog poop smells like? Forget it, I shouldn't have asked, when I didn't say...."Mark pinched his nose with one hand and operated the boat out of these filthy waters, and he tried not to hear what the living treasures said, in his opinion, these stupid topics were too vulgar and filthy, and it was easy to cause him a physiological reaction when he heard them, and frankly the biggest urge in his heart now was to pick up a flamethrower or other humane destruction device and burn all three bastards over there to ashes.

Andy stops Beatrice, convincing her that this is not a bad meal, because she has already eaten a full meal anyway.

The Hanhan super mutant readily agrees, Andy is not like Dusty, Dusty rarely gives her food, Andy finally makes her eat so quickly, making her feel that this new boss is very satisfying to her.

"You two.β€”" he looked at the tattered military uniform worn by the ship maggot.

"You.... You killed an NcR soldier and stolen clothes? The ship maggot had just breathed a sigh of relief that Beatrice had let him go, and he was relieved to hear Andy's inquiry.

"Of course not, it's me...."He was stunned for a moment, and quickly changed his words.

"This is the clothes I picked up on a corpse, you know that when the barbarians suddenly attacked the fortress of Alashid, many NcR soldiers scattered and fled, and many of them were badly wounded and died on the way in places where no one cared about them, I just think this clothes are at least better than those rags made of scrap fabric." Andy didn't let him go, and grabbed him.

", you're a deserter, aren't you? Where were you stationed before? Dog City? Or is it a settlement to the north? If you don't tell the truth, go down and take a shower! He searched his body and pulled out an NcR dog tag in one of his coat pockets, with the name Claude written on it, but the two-headed bear mark on the front of the dog tag was deliberately crossed.

The gnawed toothy ship maggot finally had to admit that he was indeed a deserter under severe pain, when he and other comrades were on the way to the garrison bunker, unexpectedly encountered an attack, he was timid and took advantage of the officer's inattention to quietly escape, and later heard that the NcR settlement network in the east had suffered a heavy blow and the situation was turbulent, and he didn't want to go back to die again, so he simply came here to fall into the grass.

Mark couldn't help but get a little annoyed as he listened to his boring story.

"You coward, if I were your commander, I would give you a shot in the back of the head when you turn and run away, shameful deserter!" The ship maggot stiffened its mouth and returned the mouth.

"You know what! Have you ever been a soldier? You don't know how terrible it is to fight, it's not like you're fighting a few marauders or a few monsters in the wasteland! You have to tighten your skin at all times, and if you don't pay attention, you'll have a miserable end just like those broken guys! You..... You don't even know how much torture those who were captured by the barbarians before they died! Mark was even more angry when he heard this, and the expression on his face was a little broken, seeing that if he hadn't been going to sail, he would have rolled up his sleeves and started fighting.

"Shut up! You damn coward! You become a soldier with this level of consciousness? Do you think being a soldier is a privilege? All your excuses are to cover up your cowardice! As a soldier, seeing the death of your comrades-in-arms not only does not inspire your fighting spirit, but makes you retreat and turn your head and run away? If the NcR army is all people like you, what kind of war can they fight? Are you worthy of your country and your people? The ship maggots also became excited.

"me! I've seen a lot of over there in New California! I'm not one of those elite troops who eat and drink all day long, and their equipment is more expensive than the bottle caps I've earned all my life, but they know all day long to help those big ranchers look after their cattle, and just because of the stupid political campaigns of those politicians, I have to take a few bottle caps and wear this rag that can't stop anything to run to this faraway ghost place to die? Why? I know, I know it all! None of those who have connections will be sent to the east, only fellows like us will be sent to suffer all day in this hell, and even if we can go back one day, we will not get anything, where we are soldiers, we are clearly prisoners! The more the two argued, the more angry they became, and Mark finally suddenly said something inexplicably strange.

"I really don't know how you guys won in the first place...."The ship maggot's expression changed slightly, but before he could say anything more, the argument was interrupted by Andy.

"Enough! No more! You have two options now, either you can jump off now, or you canβ€”" Andy took out a bundle of rope.

"You just follow us back to Hoover Dam, and the military court of the NcR will decide what you should bear, whether it is to be shot or to be a real prisoner or lucky as you say, it is all you deserve, you choose." The ship maggot lowered its head and was silent for a while, but finally did not have the courage to jump.

........................ The disposal of the rabbit-eared ghoul is much simpler than that of the ship maggot, and after changing into a normal set of clothes, he claimed that he used to be a member of a caravan on the side of the Great Salt Lake in the north, and was inexplicably favored when he came here to trade with the water tiger, and then.... was sold by his teammates.

As a result, it was impossible to go back to the north, and he hoped to go to the Hoover Dam in the south to see if he could find a new opportunity.

The metal box under the shark's bed that flew out earlier actually appeared on the boat, and Beatrice said that the box fell from the sky and scared her, and she wanted to throw the box directly into the water, but Mark said that there might be something good in it.

Andy remembered that he had obtained a key in the safe before, and after trying it, he actually opened the lock on it.

What appeared in front of me was....