Andy lowered his pistol and sweated from his forehead.

Not far in front of him was a strange corpse, which looked like a deformed dog, and said it was a dog, but apart from its general appearance, it was not a dog everywhere, but it was more like it was made of a large pile of twisted flesh and blood, and the head was actually a human head, of course, it was also very badly deformed.

Two powerful bullets have already destroyed this "dog", and it has turned into a pile of minced meat.

Strange things, Andy had encountered before, such as the so-called "centaur" that was fused with FEV and a variety of "laboratory animals" in the secret laboratory inside the Hoover Dam, which looked disgusting in appearance, but once it put away its hostility, as Beatrice said, "like a puppy".

This kind of thing in front of him is different, it reveals a kind of "evil aura" that has not been seen in the past, its actions and screams are full of an extremely strong malicious aura like the strange hemp man before, Andy is not sure what will happen if he is really bitten by the severely deformed teeth in the mouth of this monster, maybe it carries a terrible virus and poison, or....

Andy saw that at the end of one of the twisted limbs, in the fingers that had been glued together, there was a reflective thing, which was a ring, which had melted into the flesh and blood.

It was put on, and it was put on while it could still be put on.

So why is it the way it is?

Andy only felt terrified when he thought about it and thought of Hull telling him that there were unknown microorganisms in the air here, and a lot of associations popped up in his heart in an instant.

........................

Continuing to walk aimlessly in this colossal space, Andy has become convinced that the area here is almost infinite, there are no boundaries in the true sense of the word, and you can keep going in a general direction by constantly bypassing dead ends and obstacles, if you will.

This almost means that it is almost impossible to get out of here.

After walking for about an hour, Andy sighed and sat down by the wall.

Surrounded by a reassuring emptiness and silence, no matter how far you go, you can't see any suitable place to rest, whenever you want to stop because of fatigue, your mind can't help but recall the previous situation of the pockmarked man and the strange dog following the sneak attack, in case you sleep in this kind of place, it will be bad....

I wanted to think so, but there was no movement around for so long, and Andy finally couldn't help but sit on the ground and take a nap.

Just as he was drowsy, there was a strange crackling sound not far away.

The sound was like the sound of a firewood fire, not loud, but it was so noticeable in the silence that Andy felt that it was impossible to ignore.

He couldn't sit anymore, so he stood up and walked slowly to the vicinity of Shengyuan with a gun.

It was a dark corner, several pillars put together so that the outside light could not shine in, and just two steps into it, Andy noticed an ominous omen, it was a pool of blood on the ground, which had turned black.

After turning on the Pip-Boy's light, Andy walked in through the green light, and after two turns, he saw that in an enclosed dark space, under the wall opposite, there was a person with his head bowed and his back leaning against the wall, his palms spread upwards on both sides, or to be precise, it was a corpse, because the skin color of a living person would not be that color.

After a moment of cautious observation, Andy slowly approached, and the corpse was in a dry and semi-decomposed state, the overall color was blue-gray and black.

The corpse was undergoing some kind of change, a black fungus had grown on the wall against which it was leaning, like a black exploding blanket stuck to the wall, and some black liquid was surging from the disembowelment of the disembowelment, and the crackling sound was coming from inside, and it was unknown why this was happening.

Getting closer, the Pip-Boy's light shone out beyond the fungus-covered area of the wall in front of him, with some words and patterns painted in black paint.

Although most of it was covered, a few things were still exposed, and Andy could tell what it was, a face with a strange expression, and the eyes of this face were especially exaggerated, looking dull and indifferent. There are also some short sentences of unknown meaning under the face, such as: don't move, stay still, wait....

Andy looked back suspiciously, not noticing anyone, non-human, or humanoid.

He turned around and saw that the dead man was wearing a red jacket and black jeans, and it looked like he was at least a normal person until he was attacked by something and turned into a grotesque corpse.

That is, there are normal people here?

Just as he was thinking, suddenly two rope-like things strangled Andy's neck and dragged him all the way towards the wall.

"Whew-"

Caught off guard, Andy quickly put away his weapon and grabbed the two ropes with both hands and dragged them in the opposite direction, and the terrifying force came from the rope, and even maintained a stalemate with Andy for a while.

Gritting his teeth and exerting his strength, Andy shrank his head out of the rope noose, and took the opportunity to turn around, surprised to see that the two ropes actually came out of the wall directly.

On closer inspection, the thing was pitch black, with something like steel wire or hair wrapped around it.

This reminded Andy of the strange hemp man he had shot and killed before.

"Yikes! ——”

He pulled his arms back violently, only to hear two crisp sounds, and the pair of black rope-like arms broke directly, and some viscous black liquid came out of the fracture, and then the remaining arms disappeared into the yellow-green wall.

The severed limbs that Andy had grasped in his hand quickly lost their activation, and when he looked closely, they were indeed similar to the wreckage, looking like black branches, and to the touch of a flexible metal rod.

At this moment, he felt a tingling pain in the palms of his hands that had been clutching this thing, and quickly opened it to take a look, and saw that because of the excessive force just now, the palms of his hands had been strangled deeply, and the internal viscous liquid that burst out of the black severed limbs also flowed onto the palms, and this stinging sensation may indicate a bad change, whether it is the corrosion of corrosive liquid or some other toxin or virus.

Quickly throwing away the pair of severed limbs, Andy shook his hand, trying to take out a bottle of water from the beep boy and wash his hands, but the beep boy reported the error again, he quickly tried a few more times, convinced that he couldn't even access things from the beep boy now.

"Damn, what am I going to do now?"

Andy knocked on the beep-beep boy, which hadn't turned out like this at first, and the two weapons were successfully removed, but now the beep-beep boy was not only unable to map, guide and issue missions, but also couldn't even access items.

"You may need to rehydrate a little."

Hull's voice came from the back of his neck.

"How do I find water? Where will there be water here? ”

Andy muttered irritably, he didn't dare to speak too loudly, the environment here seemed to allow a certain level of sound to spread widely, and if it wasn't good, it would be the result of attracting more bizarre things.

Leaving this strange dark room, Andy walked outside to see some black liquid residue on the ground, and there were unusual marks on the walls, it seemed that the strange thing that had just sneaked up on him just now was here to put his arm through the wall and try to strangle him through the wall, but he underestimated Andy's strength, and after a wrestle, he lost the battle and lost his two slender arms and fled.

Judging from the reaction of the palm, hunting in this ghost place is mostly not feasible, those weird monsters themselves are harmful to people, what will be the consequences of eating them Andy doesn't want to know the specifics, anyway, most of the time there will be no good results.

Then the need to eat and drink must be satisfied, and now that the Pip-Boy has been locked up, he will have to look for something to eat and drink from the environment here, at least he has confirmed a little bit just now, this matter is not so easy to solve.

Wandering aimlessly, the scenery remained the same, the strange yellow-green and the humming of incandescent lamps still walking around.

The feeling of dry mouth is getting more and more intense.....

Andy moved tiredly, step by step, and suddenly seemed to see a figure in front of him.

I wiped my eyes and was sure that I was not mistaken, that there was indeed a person in front of me.

The man was scruffy and filthy, carrying a backpack behind his back, and slowly moving forward with his head bowed in heavy, dragging steps, like a common scavenger in the wasteland.

Andy shouted.

"Hey! Hello! ”

To his surprise, the man's reaction was so loud that he almost jumped up in fright, looked back and forth frantically, left and right, and then ran away in the other direction without looking at Andy.

Of course, Andy couldn't give up this normal creature he saw for the first time, he had to find someone to ask about the situation, so he forced himself to chase after him, but luckily he saw the man again after turning the corner, he seemed to be in a bad state as well, stumbling forward and stumbling into the wall several times, which seriously slowed him down.

"You wait! I'm not a monster! I'm a normal person! ”

He continued to try to shout at the man who had fled frantically, and after a while, the other party seemed to finally realize that what Andy said was not a lie, and gradually slowed down and stopped looking back at him.

Andy spread his arms and swayed up and down a few times, the man in the yellow coat and dirty approached Andy cautiously step by step, after observing for a while in a posture that could run away at any time, he finally seemed to be relieved, the man opened his mouth and spit out some dull voices, Andy couldn't hear what he was saying at all, until he took off his backpack and took out a plastic bottle from it, and poured out the only little water left from it to moisten his throat.

"You...."

He spoke with difficulty.

"Here you come.... Over here..... How long? ”

Andy thought about it for a while, the current time display of the beep-beep boy began to gradually become unreliable, and he clearly felt that another hour or so had passed, but it only showed that ten minutes had passed, and because there was no reference, he couldn't figure out whether the beep-beep boy's fault had worsened or whether he had a problem with his sense of time because he had been here for a long time.

"It seems like a few hours."

The unkempt man smiled and pointed his finger at himself.

"I.... Should be..... Five days, as it should be. ”

Andy looked at the man's face in surprise as the horrible dark circles under his eyes showed that he hadn't had a good time in the past five days.

The two of them moved as they continued to carefully find a suitable place to rest.

Andy looked at this man, not only was he not strong, but he even had a bit of a belly, how did such a physique stay in such a ghost place for five days? Any monster he had encountered before could easily tear this man apart and turn him into a pile of, but he was just as good as he was in front of him, and at best he looked a little haggard and tired.

"How did you spend the past five days?"

The man scratched at his beard, which he hadn't trimmed for a long time, which seemed strange to Andy, if he hadn't grown a beard before he came in, how could it have grown to such a knotted beard in just five days?

"Hold... Be quiet... Always... Walk. ”

He threw away the empty plastic bottle, then grabbed it in his backpack to make sure that there was no more bottle in it, and couldn't help but sigh slightly to express the anguish in his heart.

This action looks at Andy's eyes, so he seems to have eaten and drunk for the past five days by himself, Andy can't help but think that if he doesn't rely so much on the access function of the beep-beep boy but has to carry some necessary supplies on his back on his back, at least he won't have to spread his hands in this kind of emergency.

As he walked, the man looked around, and suddenly sat down with a sigh of relief, using his backpack as a cushion.

"Aren't you leaving?"

Andy looked around warily, and the environment didn't look any different than before.

The man shook his head silently, then reached out and motioned for Andy to rest next to him.

After Andy hesitated for a moment and finally sat down next to him, the man began to talk to him slowly.

"My name is Martin, what about you?"

"Andy."

Andy answered him simply, this man spoke the lingua franca with a round tone, obviously a well-educated person, which saved the step of guessing what the other party said, those Buraku people have always left a shadow on Andy in terms of communication, and the good SA language has been highly fragmented, abnormal and complicated in their mouths, coupled with some incredibly heavy accents, it has almost become another language, and even outsiders need to spend a certain amount of energy and time to learn it to master.

Martin nodded slowly, as if he was tired, but he didn't mean to close his mouth and sleep.

"Don't worry, you take a closer look at the color of the walls here, it's almost golden under the illumination of those lights, let me tell you a rule, the more yellow the surrounding environment is, the safer the environment, if it's the other way around, there will be monsters who will try to follow you, they are very patient, they can follow you for a few days without giving up."

Andy nodded, no wonder Martin suddenly relaxed, but it sounds like Martin was tracked by monsters, looking at this defenseless appearance, how did he survive?

"Martin, have you encountered any of those monsters?"

Martin barely opened his eyes, still looking a little apprehensive.

"In some dangerous places, where the walls have almost turned pure green, I have encountered it more than once, it is terrifying.... Luckily, none of those guys can move as fast as humans, and some of them will dodge or hide if you stop to make eye contact with them. If you encounter them, you either run desperately or don't panic, as long as you don't let up, they will give up sooner or later, but if you slack off... They won't miss a chance. ”

Andy felt even more strange when he heard this, co-authored Martin didn't close his eyes for five days in a row?

"How long has it been since you slept?"

Martin was silent for a moment, then shook his head.

"I don't know.... I didn't dare to sleep at first, but then I couldn't sleep, and I started to fall asleep, because once I went to sleep, I would dream, I would have some terrible dreams, and when I woke up, I would be more tired than before I had not slept. ”