"I'm a businessman..."

Andy thought of the two-headed oxen that those who came and went, and thought that this settlement at least did not exclude traders from outside, so he could have entered it for the same reason.

"What did you bring with you?"

The two guards at the truck sentry post couldn't see clearly against the light, and could only see two figures.

Andy thought about it in his mind, this is a place where weapons and armor are produced, these two things must not be lacking in the other party, he is just a person and not a caravan, if he wants to make the other party tempted, he must ensure that the strange goods are liveable, of course, this goods are at least the kind that can be carried around.

As his eyes swept into the interior of the reservation, a green glow faintly emanated, indicating that intense radiation was emanating from it in all directions, even after more than a hundred years.

"I've got some grain seeds here."

Before Andy could finish speaking, a burst of mockery came from the sentry.

"Hahaha, stupid slippery! We are not like you, who will starve to death if we miss one meal three times a day, so we are not short of food at all. And ah, maybe your little bad brain can't understand it, we have a lot of radiation here, ordinary crops can't grow at all, even if you barely cultivate it, you can't harvest it, what do we want your seeds for? ”

Andy listened to the arrogant ridicule of the two guards, and it seemed that the ghouls had become superior people here, and the humans who thought they were superior to the ghouls on the outside had become what they called "stupid slippery skins" when they arrived at the reservation.

"Don't jump to conclusions, this is a special seed I brought from the west, it can absorb radiation and grow quickly, even if you don't have the high physiological needs of humans, but it would be okay to change the taste? Also, even if you don't eat, your slaves need three meals a day to work, right? ”

He tried to convince the two ghoul guards who were guarding the door according to the descriptions he had told him when he first communicated with Pierre, and that the Pip-Boy did have some magic wheat seeds in it, because after communicating with Isaac before, he was convinced that this crop could help farmers remove radiation from the soil, which meant that it had a very powerful cleaning function and the food produced was edible radiation-free food, and its yield and taste were excellent, and Andy was immediately convinced that he needed to get some magic wheat to prepare for the future. The seeds in the Pip-Boy were asked for by the Candace Branch President before leaving Hoover Dam City, so they were not afraid of the other party's request to take samples for inspection.

The guards at the truck checkpoint were silent this time, and after a moment of whispering, one of the guards let them go.

"Well, we always welcome new merchants with interesting gadgets here, go in and see what you want to buy, but remember not to break the rules, with us our rules are absolute rules, and you, a slippery skin, if you dare not take it lightly, then wait and see.... Hum. ”

Andy didn't take the other party's trash talk seriously, and walked straight towards the portal under the truck checkpoint, and the ghoul guards and automatic turrets in the towers on either side didn't move, and he walked smoothly into the reservation.

Looking back after entering the wall, the two metal towers are about four meters high, six meters apart, and the ladders up and down are at the back of the towers, guarded by two ghoul guards, they are wearing brand new heavy metal armor, and the towers are fixed with machine guns that can change the angle at will, but the power should not be underestimated.

The terrain of this place can be said to be easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it may be due to the impact of the nuclear bomb landing point that continues to this day, high heat and high radiation are the main tone of the environment here, if you wear armor, the protective clothing will be too bloated and inconvenient to move, if you don't wear protective clothing, the strong radiation will quickly make the approaching enemy suffer from radiation sickness, causing a fatal threat, and like Andy in order to wear protective clothing and ensure flexibility to give up armor, It will be shot one by one by the hand-cranked rotating machine gun on the top of the tower, or directly smashed into a sieve by the automatic turret.

He stood near the doorway and wondered, if it was a power armored force attacking here, would it be feasible?

The Atomic Hummer was immediately mounted with a T-45 power armor he got from Fort Maxson, this kind of pre-war military equipment was well sealed and equipped with a strong air filtration device, and after entering the interior to complete the closure, it also had a strong defense against environmental radiation, but the problem was that it was too eye-catching, and the huge power armor could not be hidden, and it was likely to be strictly interrogated by the ghouls and even directly cause hostility as soon as it got close.

Other than that.... Edward had talked to him about the heat dissipation of the power armor before, there are many skin diseases in the Brotherhood of Steel knights, the main reason is that most of the knights are equipped with the T-45 power armor because it is the earliest model in service and does not consider too many things about temperature regulation in the design, there is only a low-power radiator, the self-heating generated during action and the heat absorbed from the external environment will act together on the driver, except for the inner lining and radiator, there is no other better way to deal with the heat, This has led to many knights returning to the base after a long period of intense fighting, or other inflammations caused by frequent friction due to high heat and humidity in a confined space for a long time, and a few unlucky people have suffered heat stroke directly in the power armor after the radiator was damaged.

Based on various considerations, Andy decided not to drive the power armor over here, at least not until the situation was clarified.

"Hey! Don't look at it, they'll beat you up if you get in the way. ”

A voice came from not far away, and Andy saw that it was a man in a radiation suit, and a cloth was placed on the ground in front of him, and some drugs and clothes were piled on it, which were radiator and radiation suits.

Andy walked over, and since he was wearing a radiation suit, he could be sure that this person was also human.

"Hello, I'm here for the first time, is there anything I need to pay attention to?"

The merchant rose from the ground.

"Even if you don't say it, I know you must be here for the first time, right, otherwise why would you stand still at the door? After coming here, it's not as good as outside, running around and looking at those humans will directly start scolding, if you dare to resist, the end will be the pile of things in the corner of the wall.... Have you noticed? ”

Andy followed his finger and saw a pile of garbage in the western corner, and on closer inspection, it was actually a person, draped in a blanket, one hand in chains, and his blue face was covered in rotting red spots.

"He's..."

Just about to ask the man what was going on, Andy suddenly thought of something wrong.

"You said you were running around here and watching those 'humans' curse and do their hands?"

The merchant chuckled twice.

"yes, don't you feel uncomfortable? I felt the same way when I first came here, in this place called the reservation, as soon as you come in, then you're in the minority, you're 'slippery', and the guys we call ghouls outside are 'humans'.... Be quiet, some guys care a lot about this little title, and I advise you to accept it as soon as possible. ”

As he said this, two high-spirited ghouls passed by not far away.

"Hah! Another slippery skin! Look at what he looks like, I'm disgusting when he's ugly! ”

Andy looked over, and it was two monsters that looked like they had escaped from a nightmare, one of the ghouls had a face covered in patches of brown growths, and the other had a giant tumor growing out of its neck, although the skin was bright red, but the skin of the tumor was as black as ink and even faintly revealed some green light.

"What do you see? Slippery, your eyeballs will damage my handsome face, if you dare to look around, I will beat you! ”

The tumor ghoul raised his fist and waved it twice, then laughed and walked away from the other ghoul.

Andy turned to look at the merchant in front of him.

"Oh... Fuck, I'm really.... Boom..."

The merchant made a small gesture.

"Here, ugliness is beauty, and we're all ugly guys in their eyes, and I know you're going to be disgusted, but you'd better not show it, because if you do, the end result might be the same as that guy over there. He was caught by the children of the wasteland, stripped naked and clutched in the corner, they didn't give him radiation pills, they just threw him some canned dogs, and after a week the old man finally died of severe radiation sickness, and when he died, he screamed miserably because of the severe pain all over his body..."

Andy looked back at the corpse again, a little angry in his heart.

"How can they do that? And what are the Children of the Wasteland? ”

The merchant looked left and right, making sure that no ghouls were passing by.

"I don't think it's strange that ghouls living in human settlements outside are very likely to be treated in the same way if they are suspected of going berserk or just disgusting, I've seen it several times, and it's just a reversal of the positions of both sides.... Again, since we've come here, we've come to this place, we're definitely not here for a vacation, right? Earn some bottle caps and bring some good goods back to be chic, those rules and things should be obeyed, and they should be invisible. ”

"As for the Children of the Wasteland, I personally think they are a religious organization on this reservation, they believe in a man they call a savior, but I never had a chance to know who it is, these guys believe in a fanatical doctrine that the great war is a revelation from the Divine, and that only those who have evolved like them deserve to be called human, and we are just ancient apes abandoned by God. It is precisely because of this belief that they have an extremely bad attitude towards us, that is, what they call 'slippery', and if they catch something, they will be punished and attacked, among which the crime of 'disrespect' is used more often, and this is the case with the one over there. ”

Andy's brow in his radiation suit was already twisted into a ball.

"Hell, how did you stay in a place like this? Isn't this like a head pinned to the waistband of your trousers? Who knows what I've done one day and I'll be thought I'm 'disrespectful' by those 'human' adults? ”

The merchant sighed, and there was a lot of meaning in it.

"Food and clothing, forced for livelihood, do you earn more bottle caps from doing business here than in my hometown a year, those businessmen are killed and injured at every turn because of gangsters and monsters, as long as you wear radiation protection clothing and take radiation medicine regularly, and then ignore the insults and abuses of those guys..... It's fairly safe. ”

The merchant muttered a few words, and quickly stopped continuing.

"Don't talk about that, just like I said, if you find that the radiation protection suit is broken in this place, you have to deal with it quickly, if you are not careful, you will get seriously ill or even lose your life, if you don't wear radiation protection clothing and don't take radiation medicine, just like that old man, no matter how good your luck and physique are, you can't survive for a week, even if you don't stay here for that long, you have to work hard to seek medical advice after leaving here, why bother?"

He pointed to the goods sold at his stall.

"I'm a specialist in selling radiation drugs, both anti-radiation and radiation, one focuses on prevention, the other is timely detoxification, you will inevitably have to come to a few packs when you walk here, you can't completely offset the impact of strong radiation here by relying on your radiation protection clothing alone, if you are afraid that the clothes will be inadvertently damaged, I also have radiation protection clothing here that can be sold to you as a backup."

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

Andy walked away from the stall and didn't buy anything.

The radiation drugs he sells there are several times more expensive than those in the outside market, and although he says that the effect of the drugs is guaranteed, who can easily believe his words? If the effect of the drug is not good, the user will not have much chance to trouble him, it is estimated that it is either because the radiation protective clothing is difficult to detect when it takes effect normally, or it has already died because of radiation sickness. None of those drugs were original, they were probably recycled and packaged and used in the wasteland to find substitutes, such as luminescent fungi and other things mixed with some chemicals to make a beggar's version of the radiation drug, even then he sold it so expensive, if it was replaced with the original pre-war goods, I don't know how expensive it would be.

As for the radiation protection suit, he actually opened his mouth to have a thousand bottle caps.

With this method of selling, it is no wonder that he can earn more than ten times more in a month than in his hometown.

Andy was not short of radiation medicine at the moment, when he left Tibbetts Prison, Odysseus gave him some radiation medicine, although it was almost used later, but in the nursery Diana supplemented him with some special solvents from the nursery, which can provide radiation resistance and eliminate the effect of radiation poisoning, so he did not need to buy goods from this profiteer.

The yard was cleaned up fairly clean, there were two large military trucks that were supposed to be left over from before the war, one south and one north, and some idle merchants were also setting up their own stalls, but there were not many of them, and most of the merchants just went to the two military trucks, which had been completely scrapped and almost like metal garbage, to trade, because the bodies of these two trucks seemed to have been converted into shops.

On the east side was a large army green tent, and Andy saw that the slaves he had just bought were being carefully inspected and sent in, and the heavily armed ghoul guards sternly questioned the slaves and constantly warned them to be honest.

As he watched the scene, he suddenly saw an amazingly large ghoul wearing green heavy battle armor looking at him.

The ghoul was two meters in size, and his body was several times larger than the other ghouls, and compared to the usual skin-covered ghouls, this one was simply a giant of incomparable strength.

He didn't say anything as he saw Andy, just gestured to leave.