"Ah——!!h Even after beating Ma Boil-X, the battery still howled, and the maggots stabbed by the knife writhed in the flesh, the pain was simply unbearable, and before the battery was tortured to the point of shock, Andy used the knife to cut out the bug.

It writhes violently, its sharp and hard head can easily penetrate the thick skin of the Brahmin cow, the delicate skin of the human is as weak as a piece of tofu, once it enters the body, the larvae will begin to secrete neurotoxins, in order to paralyze the host parasitic to prevent it from trying to remove itself from the body, and then these toxins will completely incapacitate the host, allowing the larvae to devour flesh and blood in its body, and after the death of the host, it will cocoon in the corpse that begins to decompose, The metamorphosis is completed with the help of the heat generated by the corpse as it decomposes, and finally, a new swollen fly breaks through the cocoon and emerges from the corpse to complete the cycle.

It was stopped before all of the above happened. Throwing the half-dead maggot to the ground, Andy injected a therapeutic needle into the battery, the wound caused by the maggot was very amazing, in a short time it had gnawed some flesh and injected some toxins, if left unchecked, it would definitely leave a huge scar, and in severe cases, it could even lead to tissue necrosis causing sepsis and organ failure.

There are many wasteland people in the wasteland whose trauma comes from similar experiences. If the battery hadn't met Andy in time today, the best outcome would have been amputation.

After finding a tube of nursery solvent to detoxify the battery, and then bandaging the injured part of the arm with a dry leaf that he carried with him that could be used to bandage the wound, and a yellow powder that could stop bleeding, the battery's physical condition finally stabilized.

He picked up the little bottle, and the ordinary powder in it actually helped to heal the wound.

"Is this some kind of secret medicine of yours?" The battery shook its head while holding its injured arm.

"It's just a kind of healing medicine that is common in many tribes, we call this thing healing powder, it is ground with a combination of a plant tuber and a small yellow flower, although it can treat wounds, but it will make people sleepy after use." The two sat down on a rock to rest, and Andy saw the two dead swollen flies on the ground that still had their whole corpses, one was bitten to death by Xiao Hei, and the other was killed by the battery's tattered laser gun.

It is said that the muscle that controls the wings in the middle of the swollen fly's body is edible, and it has a strong texture and excellent taste, and if the meat is fresh, it does not smell bad but has a wonderful taste of sweet and sour, and it is a wasteland delicacy that is widely spread.

Andy thought about it, and then remembered the horrific case of some people with less experience in dealing with the body of a swollen fly who accidentally caused its body to explode while trying to dismantle it, and the corrosive bodily fluids splashed into the human eye, causing lifelong disability, but he silently gave up the idea.

"How did you get here?" He asked the young Buraku suspiciously, the last time they met was in Jericho Town, in the northwest direction, although the battery had left long before Andy left there, but it must have been a fast journey to get here, most likely because of the hurry to return to the Crypto Tribe, and the Crypto Tribe's food is not enough all year round, and the population that can feed is very small, and most people will only go back once a year or even many years.

However, there are always exceptions, such as the last time Hecate's hounds besieged the Crypto Tribe, the scattered inhabitants were summoned back to the village to defend their homes, but that time the crisis was defused by Andy.

Looking at the ashen battery in front of him, Andy couldn't help but guess why he was in such a hurry to return to the tribe?

Could it be that it can't be....

"I don't know exactly how, but Azqi is calling everyone again, and I heard from a tribesman on my journey." Andy heard this, and knew in his heart that it was eight or nine.

"I guess it's Hekate's men trying to storm the village, right?" The battery thought about it and wiped the snot with the back of his hand.

"Hecate... You're talking about the people who always have snakes on them, they're really scary, and they're going to put some snakes that are too big out into the wild, and I've seen people get bitten by that huge two-headed black snake and get poisoned to death. Of course Andy knew this, after all, he had been deep into Hekate's old lair, Ouroboros Village, and had even lived there for a while, but now he was not a popular person on Hekate's side, and of course, he didn't want to establish any friendly relations with a group of slavery cults that loved to slaughter innocent tribes.

Those huge two-headed black vipers seem to have migrated here from the west

The mutant species of poisonous snakes brought by the "poisonous snakes" eventually evolved slowly after being subjected to Hecate's special domestication methods, including feeding these snakes some complex herbs and some abilities that were explained by the daughters of Hecate with metaphysical principles.

These snakes tend to be about two meters long, have thick black scales, and their venom glands secrete a violent mixture of toxins that they inject when they bite enemies, or they can aim at the enemy's eyes and spray them in the air, and when they encounter a threat, they will inflate their heads and necks in a deterrent stance, and they also have rattles at the end of their tails that can make oppressive sounds.

They are enshrined as:

The "Holy Serpent" is regarded as a servant of the living god Hecate. Because of this special status, giant two-headed rattlesnakes that grow to a certain size are released into the wild, and these venomous snakes raised by the followers of Hekate may not attack them, but they are deadly monsters to those who pass by.

It's really a scourge.

"So you're going back to the village, so let's just stop by, and I'm going back too." Andy patted Battery on the shoulder and motioned for him to go on the road together, which relieved Battery's face to be relieved.

"Shall we rest here tonight?" He looked around, there was a small cave at the entrance of which they could set up a campfire, not only to keep warm at night, but also to cook food, and to act as a deterrent to the wasteland creatures who were eyeing them.

"No, you can't!" Battery shook his head repeatedly to dismiss Andy's plan.

"This is Scorpion Valley, those ground scorpions will come out at night to hunt in swarms, and they will die overnight here!" The two hurriedly got into the car before the sun went down, and continued to drive all the way to the east, until they were far away from the place called Scorpion Valley by the battery, and the two found a more suitable mountain depression to light a bonfire to rest.

While sharing the hot can with the battery, Andy asked him about his experience along the way.

"I rushed back in the direction of the village as soon as I got the news, and I was worried that I might encounter some terrible monsters on the way, so I repaired an old iron man using parts I found in a scrap trailer." Andy guessed in his heart that the so-called iron man was a robot that looked like a scrap iron doll....

"I wanted to go faster, but I didn't expect to encounter a group of bugs on the road, my iron man could help me solve these, but it didn't know why it suddenly didn't move, I guess it might be the iron man's organs broken." Speaking of which, the battery is in high spirits.

"According to the sacred kiva left behind by our ancestors...", Andy interrupted him.

"What? Can you say that again? I don't hear clearly, is it a ridge tile? The battery immediately corrected his pronunciation.

"Nope! It's kee—Vah, which is the word in our tribe's words, and it means the truth left by our ancestors. After correcting Andy, he began to talk about the so-called

The topic of "Iron Man".

"According to the picture left in Kiva, I used the logic of self-similarity to distinguish the internal structure of the iron man, and sure enough, I found that various traces inside it may be normally distributed...."

Multivariate Equations,

Function Space Coordinate Variables,

Variation Classification,

Quirky words like "eigenvalue decomposition". But when Andy singled out some of these words and asked about the meaning of the battery, he was vague, but he thought that it was a tool of truth recorded in the so-called kiva left by their ancestors, and every member of the crypto tribe should start to memorize and record these truth tools at an early age, and learn a set of extremely difficult tribal expression languages, which can make it easier for them to accelerate the mastery of the truth tool with other companions and be able to cooperate to teach it to the new generation faster.

The trade-off is that it is extremely difficult to learn, and there is no possibility for outsiders to learn it quickly, and in their opinion, the communication between the villagers of the crypto tribe is a code.

Andy looked at the very wasteland-style battery that was stuck on the belt around his waist

The "laser gun", this thing is not so much an energy weapon as a laser emitter that I don't know how to mash out of scrap, and it looks like it's of poor quality.

"This gun of yours is the same as the one you mentioned... Well, is it made by the truth tool in kiva? The battery nodded repeatedly.

"It's my pride, we call it a light gun, and I put a lot of effort into making a medium, then finding the excitation source, and trying my best to prepare an optical resonator for it, all in strict accordance with the records in Kiva. Sure enough, I succeeded. It's a pity that I don't have time to find materials to modify it out of Bangpu Source, I think the control sensor mentioned in Kiva is also a key, the countless truth tools left by my ancestors are so many that I dare not say that I understand even one percent. Andy was stunned when he heard this, and he picked out a so-called truth tool and asked the battery.

"Can you tell me... This, the source of excitation? What exactly is it? And what does that optical resonator mean? Battery became even more excited when he heard this, as if the people of the crypto tribe were like this, for them Kiva meant faith and endless treasures, and all of this could be implemented on a realistic level, so that they formed this worship.

"The excitation source, recorded in kiva, is like a big flash in the sky separating the clouds, and we use this... The battery, as my name suggests, is the key to storing the power of the flash, which releases the flash, separates the little balls in the medium, and allows them to escape from it... After that, the optical resonator, a large transparent sheet and a small one. It can shut up the light until it gets thick enough to escape from it, but my optical resonator doesn't do a good job, I don't have the right tools, so the light gun always can't shoot in the direction I want it to shoot, I think I can modify it with other truth tools in the future, and I can definitely make it better! Andy listened in a daze, but he had a vague feeling that the tribesman was saying something plausible, and that the so-called tools of truth recorded in the kiva that Battery Mouth spoke of seemed to describe how to make some objects interact with each other to achieve some specific purpose, compared to the shamans who were full of words such as spirit, spirit, and god, and armed themselves with unknowable theories.

Referring to the speculation of the scribe that Edward had told him when he was in Fort Maxson earlier, he felt that there must be an ancient and complicated story behind it.

But the question is, this description lacks standards and is vague, and even if those so-called tools of truth are true, how can the people of the crypto tribe use them in practice?

"You... How do you make sure what you're doing is in line with your Kiva? "The battery shows the number tattooed on its body.

"We learn a set of symbols from a young age, and this set of symbols needs to understand the truth that many numbers change from each other, and we have to study for many years, until we understand some basic rules, and then we can use numbers to measure whether we deviate from the truth tool, and then we can make sure that this is the case, make sure that our behavior does not deviate from the kiva, as long as we do not deviate, then the truth tool will work." Andy nodded, vaguely understanding some keys.

"So your understanding of the tools of truth is limited to the use of them?" The battery shrugged.

"Kiva says that as long as this and that thing are changed into a certain state or shape according to the description of the Truth Tool, and measured by symbols, they will produce new changes, and as long as the numbers are correct, everything is fine, as for why this is happening? Kiva has no records, so who cares? As he spoke, he took two things out of his leather bag behind his back.

"My other weapons are broken, otherwise I should be able to get back to the village without a hitch." Andy looked over and it was a stick with two batteries and some wire tied to it, and a small box with a button.

"What's the use of these two things?" The battery picks up that metal stick.

"This is what we call the flash stick, and we tie the battery containing the flash energy to it, haha, but it doesn't mean tie me to it, and then this stick can release the flash, and use it to touch those coyotes and wild dogs, and they will run away. As for this one we call it a soul exorcist, at the touch of a button it releases something magical that can dispel fragile souls, and although we can't see or hear, it does exist, because those terrible beasts run away as soon as we press the button. Andy took the two broken crypto tribal specialties

"Weapon" carefully observed, found that the so-called flash stick is actually a common cattle stick in NcR domestic pastures, the metal rod is tied to the battery and will be charged as soon as the switch is pressed, of course, the beast was beaten and fled in embarrassment, but the battery can almost be said to be a beggar's version in comparison, as for the so-called soul exorcist, he really can't understand what it means.

"I didn't stay with you for long last time, maybe I'll take a look this time."