"It's just ahead..."

Andy led Gillian in the direction of the atomic Humvee, and after leaving the radiation area, the two quickly took off the radiation suits, and the two people inside the clothes were already sweating.

"Here's for you to drink."

After throwing a bottle of Jericho water to Gillian, Andy took out his No. 13 kettle and took two sips, which was the new name he gave to the object that the Pip-Boy named "Strange Kettle", as for the reasons, first, the result of the chaotic naming rules of the Pip-Boy is really terrible, and the second-is that the only identifying thing on the Kettle is two numbers, so it is logical to call it this name.

"Do you quench your thirst by drinking the water from that little kettle?"

Gillian gulped down the water in the bottle as she looked at Andy's questioning questions.

Andy snorted happily, she didn't know, the water in this kettle is not only very thirst-quenching but also tastes great, you won't be thirsty after a good sip, and you don't need to bother to find a water source to fill it, it can automatically return to a complete state every day, it's so comfortable.

After walking for a few more minutes, Andy, who was in a good mood, couldn't be happier.

"Oh no!"

He was horrified to see that the atomic Hummer had fallen into the sand, and half of the car had been submerged in the sand, and Xiao Hei jumped up and down anxiously after seeing Andy in the car, but it had no choice, although it would open and close the door, but it would not be able to drive, and it would take great strength to push it open after the door was flooded by sand, and a small animal did not have this ability.

As soon as Gillian saw this, she immediately untied her backpack and crouched down to pull out a bundle of rope.

"Your car is stuck in quicksand, you have to find a way to tow it out."

Andy felt a little confused, he didn't act in the desert area once or twice, but in the desert of Arizonsang and other places, he was in a normal state after repeatedly stopping and returning.

Looking down at the fine sand, maybe the desert sand here is different from the previous ones, and when I parked the car, I felt that the sound of the tires was a little wrong, because I didn't care too much about the urgency of the reservation, and as a result, the critical situation in front of me finally happened, the atomic Hummer was not in a stationary state, it was still sinking slowly, if it was a little late, I was afraid that it would be nowhere to be found.

"How do I lean over and tie the rope?"

Andy said that he reached near the atomic Humvee and stretched out a leg and stepped on it, only to feel that the sand under his feet had become a beast that devoured people, and his legs were directly swallowed by the sand, not to mention that he almost fell into it on his stomach on a big horse, and the sand became fluid, and he could no longer carry him, where was still sand, it was almost a ball of paste.

"Be careful!"

Gillian was about to throw the rope to Andy and pull him up, but saw Andy take a step back and retreat directly.

Gillian, who was holding the rope, looked at Andy in surprise as she pulled out one of the legs that had fallen into the quicksand as if she didn't have much effort.

"This ..... How do you do it? Once you get stuck in quicksand, it takes several times more effort to pull it out.... Well, I'm sure you do have a lot of strength. ”

Andy stood in the distance and watched the sinking atomic Humvee scratch his head sharply.

"Since you can't walk around here, how can you get there?"

Gillian saw a huge cactus not far away, it was several meters high, thick like a big tree, and after carefully tying the rope to it, she handed the other end of the rope to Andy.

"You can lie on the sand and increase your contact area to reduce the pressure, if you slow down you can reach your car safely, and when you get there, fix the rope and at least don't let it sink again!"

Andy took the rope and estimated the distance, but instead of crawling on the quicksand and moving slowly, he retreated some distance and rushed towards the atomic Humvee, jumping as he approached the place where he had just fallen into the quicksand, and with this jump, Andy drew a parabola and finally landed on the roof of the atomic Humvee with the rope with a bang.

In the distance, Gillian didn't close her mouth for a long time, and she saw Andy Mari tying the rope to the front of the car, and the cactus temporarily stabilized the trend of the car continuing to sink after being stressed, but it was not so simple to let the car come up.

"And after that?"

Andy opens the roof of the Atomic Humvee and rescues Blackie, and although the car is no longer sinking, half of it has already been swallowed by quicksand. Gillian stood in a safe place, looked around and realized that there was really no possibility of helping the vehicle get out of the wilderness.

"After that, I'll have to find other external forces to help pull the car out of the quicksand, but here.... There weren't any other high-powered vehicles or robots to help, and I didn't know what to do next. ”

Andy thought for a moment and took Xiao Hei to stand on the atomic Hummer and made a standing long jump, and after landing in the sand, he grabbed the taut rope and crawled on the sand for a distance, and then took Xiao Hei who was lying on his shoulder to successfully get out of the quicksand, and after standing up, he grabbed the rope and roared and began to drag it backwards, the muscles of the whole body were tense, and the blood vessels that were so thick and terrifying after they swelled up all appeared on the skin, and the hideous expression made Gillian next to him take two steps back, But when she saw what Andy was going to do, her mouth, which had just been closed, opened involuntarily.

"Wait! Are you trying to pull your car up on your own? It's impossible, it takes as much effort to pull a person out of quicksand as it takes to lift a car, and it takes as much effort to pull a car out of quicksand..."

Ignoring what Gillian was saying, Andy gritted his teeth and pulled the atomic humvee out in the direction of the cactus, but just as he wanted to make further efforts, there was a terrible breaking sound in the middle of the rope.

"Stop, stop! If you pull it out again, the rope will break! ”

Gillian was already so shocked that she didn't know what to say.

"If the rope breaks, your car won't be saved!"

Andy also noticed that the rope was in jeopardy, and he had no choice but to let go, and the car slowly returned to its previous state.

"Whew..... Phew....."

He sat on the sand and gasped, and he was depressed that he hadn't tried so hard for a long time but to no avail.

Gillian stood by and looked at him with the eyes of a monster.

"You... You really don't know what to say, even if you have an extraordinary level of manpower, this rope can't carry it, and now you have to find a way to find a construction machine or a few cars and hang a few more ropes to help drag it, otherwise you have to give up this car. ”

Andy glanced at the butt of the Atomic Humvee, which had already sunk into the sand, where his power armor was still fixed on the outer shelf, and the car accompanied him on his adventures, how could he say that he would abandon it here. Also, how is he going to take Gillian back to Tibbetts Prison after abandoning the Atomic Humvee? Most of the supplies were in the carts, and there was no easy way to get another reliable vehicle in the wilderness, so it would be a thrilling and arduous expedition to cross the wasteland on foot.

"No, it's not going to work... Mechanical...."

He stood up and looked at the reservation.

"Maybe there's someone over there who can help?"

Gillian shook her head.

"Go find them yourself, I don't want to go back there, Measles doesn't look at me right, he knows how valuable my abilities are, so he definitely still wants me to continue to serve them as a slave on the reservation, those children of the wasteland can do anything, I don't know what will happen if I go back."

Andy glanced back at Gillian and saw Blackie, who couldn't tolerate radiation and couldn't wear radiation protection equipment, and suddenly felt a little headache.

"I can go on my own, but what about you two? It's not a place to live at all .... Are there any human settlements in the vicinity that are still passable? ”

Gillian looked down and pondered for a moment, then came up with an idea.

"The only sedentary human group in the vicinity is a group of scavengers, I don't know their exact nature, but I think they are a group of tribesmen with poor brains, and the reserve will buy the old world metal junk they picked up from the wasteland outside, and their settlement should be established somewhere outside the reserve, but I don't know exactly where they are."

When Andy heard this, he suddenly remembered the men he had mentioned when he was chatting with a passing caravan leader on his way to the reservation.

"Did those scavengers not speak the lingua franca, but rather a strange thing, and would be angry if others didn't understand them?"

Gillian nodded in acknowledgement.

"You're right, it seems you've heard of them, and if no one knows what they're talking about, they can't communicate with them, but they're maintaining a stable trade relationship with the reservation, and that's because there's a guy on the reservation who understands what they're saying, and that person we all know well, and that's Hank."

Andy sighed, and went back to Hank, fortunately because of the previous intersection, the two still knew each other, and I hope he can help in this regard.

"Okay then, I'll go back to the reservation and talk to Hank about those scavengers, I'll leave you some supplies, Xiao Hei has some combat power to protect you, you first find a place to hide around here, and then I'll come back and take you to the group of scavengers to stay there for a while, we have to find a way to get my car out first, otherwise we won't be able to get out of here."

After leaving behind some of the water and food he had purchased, Andy put on his radiation suit and turned back to the reservation on his own.

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

This time he was not stopped from entering the gate for interrogation, and the guards guarding the door looked at him with a strange look in their eyes, and Andy wondered if it was related to the previous measles? Although the ghoul seems to be weak, from his speech and demeanor and Gillian's description, this guy has a very high status in the reservation, and it is really difficult to figure out what the reason is that this weak guy is related to the William Clark who controls the extremist ghoul group 'Children of the Wasteland' and implements the reign of terror and coercion on the reservation.

Walking straight towards Hank's shop, coincidentally, there was a guy in fancy dress who was standing next to Hank and talking to him, this person was really unusual, because in the reserve with very serious radiation contamination, he was not wearing a radiation suit, and although his whole body was covered with armor made of various furs, metal fragments, and processed rubber products, including his face, it could be seen that this person was not a ghoul.

"Gurgling Records Gurgling and..."

The weirdo went crazy at Hank with an agitated emotion and spoke at a very fast pace, and his vocabulary was so strange that Andy felt like a coyote barking.

Hank stared at him with one eye sternly, then abruptly interrupted him and slapped the counter with one hand, as if to express his anger, before he began to say the same thing as the strange man in Andy's surprised gaze.

"Gugu Gululu, Gu Gugu, that is, a few goo...."

The strange man seemed to be a little unreasonable, and after a moment stopped talking, but just grabbed a large pocket at his feet and handed it to Hank, who took out another pocket and threw it to the strange man.

Nearly two meters tall, the man was a majestic man, with brown-black beast hair fluttering on his coat made of the fur of unknown wasteland creatures, and a full-coverage mask made of strange folded fur and the horns of some creature, all of which made him awe-inspiring.

He was about to speak to Andy when Hank rudely interrupted him, so he lifted the pocket in his hand and walked away.

Hank spat at the strange man who had walked away, and then turned his eyes to Andy.

"Oh, why did you come back so soon? What about Gillian? Don't tell me you sold her away. ”

Andy hurriedly shook his head in denial.

"No, no, my car is stuck in the sand, I have to find a place for her and my pet to stay first, I heard that there is a group of scavengers living outside the reservation, how do you find them?"

Hank chuckled twice and reached out to the figure.

"You've found it, that guy is the leader of the scavengers, her name is Klick, but don't talk to her casually, as soon as she finds out that you don't understand her, she'll start to attack you in a madness, not just for her, but for her people as well. In addition, I would like to correct your statement that the scavengers do not settle in one place, they are a nomadic tribe, although they often wander the area outside the reserve, but it cannot be said that they settle in that area, they may run far away at any time to find valuable garbage... But they will always come back and trade with me. ”

Andy also quickly glanced back at the stout back, and he was even more surprised that the person was actually a woman, no matter how you look at it, you can't see this.....

"Why do they always come back to trade on reservations? They're not ghouls, and there are a lot of people who buy garbage in the wasteland. ”

Hank slowly stepped out from behind the counter.

"Because they are addicted to a kind of thing, and we are the only one who has a stable supply of that thing, and even if they are lucky enough to meet other suppliers, those suppliers will not understand them, which will only provoke their desire to attack and cause no one to do business with them, so in the long run they have nothing to do but come here regularly to do business.... Then again, Andy, I really don't know if I should thank you or not. It took me a lot of effort yesterday to convince Betty not to stick to me all the time, maybe I should say it's a blissful annoyance, at least I'm not alone anymore, but... I'll have to resist looking at her face. ”

One of his eyes turned to look at Andy.

"You said you wanted to deal with those scavengers, right? Actually, I happened to be looking for a middleman to do the work recently, and you came just in time.... You should understand all the stuff I just told you, right? The first thing you need to do to deal with those bastards is to learn their language, or any attempt will only invite them to violence. ”