"Ahem, Hank's class has started, and you usually have to add a preposition to pick up rags, that is, chatter, what does this mean?"

"Forehead ....."

In the carriage, Hank, wearing a pair of glasses with no lenses at all, carries a book and explains a language to Andy that he has never been exposed to.

"I have an idea, or Hank, you can show me your book."

Hearing Andy say this, Hank took off the frame of his glasses and raised the dirty thread-bound book in his hand.

"Yo, it looks like you dislike my teaching ability? To be honest, although their language is not complicated or even rough and simple, if they do not have language talent and a certain level of intelligence, it will take a long time to understand and master all the knowledge points. This book is indeed a key one, and I compiled it on my own for decades of idle boredom in order to fully understand what those bastards were talking about, and it is probably the only book in the world that studies the language of those scavengers, which is a little treasure of mine.... I'll show you a few days, and be careful not to spoil it. ”

Andy took the dirty thread-bound book, which was written in a variety of handwriting, apparently written at different times with different types of pens, and would have been difficult to read without Hank's explanation.

But can the Pip-Boy help him once?

Storing the book in Pip-Boy will result in a new hint popping up in the inventory.

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

After saying goodbye to Hank, Andy found a corner and began to use the quantum reading function of the Pip-Boy to start reading.

With his fingers touching the screen of the beep boy, a large stream of information suddenly poured into his mind, and he only felt dizzy and his head hurt a little, but he did have a preliminary understanding of the content of the book after it was over.

Andy shook his head a few times, now he knew what he meant, it turned out to be the meaning of please listen to me, in this Buraku language that Hank named gibberish, this preposition means that the person speaking is communicating with the target person very solemnly and seriously, if the other party refuses to answer or gives some incomprehensible answer, then it is a serious provocation.

This is undoubtedly a strange custom, outsiders outside the tribe have never learned this language, and of course they cannot give the answer they want, and no one can understand what they are saying, even if they have a good attitude, and they will not pay attention to this objective fact, and will only fight at each other after not getting the response they want.

I really don't know how Hank mastered the language in the first place.

"Boom, boom..."

After a dry attempt to speak half a sentence, Andy found that he was still unable to speak the language, although he had understood most of the meaning and grammar rules, and was confident that he could understand what the Buraku people were saying, but he had not developed the oral skills needed to speak in gibberish, and if he did not try to continue to read quantum to deepen his understanding, then he would only be able to listen but not speak.

Despite the discomfort in his head, Andy opened the book again in the Pip-Boy.

But considering the intelligence requirements mentioned in the description, his fingers hesitated, and the intelligence judgment required to understand this book reached more than 4, so the intelligence required for further progress would definitely not be low...

In light of this speculation, Andy took out the board of Mantater that he had picked up in the Ring of Steel Underground Bunker Laboratory, looked at it twice, and chose to use it in the Pip-Boy.

After eating Mantat, the world in front of him instantly became clear, and the brain discomfort caused by quantum reading before also dissipated, taking advantage of this good momentum, he immediately chose to read again.

It was another sensation of a flood of information coming into his mind, but this time it was like a stream of water coming from his left ear to his right, and it didn't help Andy except for some mental exhaustion.

"Damn... What to do? ”

Andy thought about it for a while, but he had to go back to Hank.

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

"2,000 caps is already the lowest price, and this is still for the sake of our regular customers."

Hank is haggling with a businessman, and when the two finally come to an agreement and close the deal, he sees Andy returning.

"How's it going? Do you feel dizzy? Haha, my handwriting is indecipherable by ordinary people, this is your own choice, isn't it? Come on, let Mr. Hank teach you, at most it will be a short week, and I believe you will definitely have results. ”

Andy twitched the corners of his mouth, wouldn't Gillian, who stayed in the desert in a week, turn into coyote dung, what is a short week? The ghoul's concept of time is too much...."generosity"?

"Actually, I can already understand this nonsense."

Hank's mouth suddenly opened in an O-shape, but he waved his hand in disbelief.

"You're kidding me, aren't you? Even if the language isn't that complicated, it's not something you can understand in less than an hour. At the beginning, one of our guards caught a scavenger who stole from us, and it happened that he joined later, so he knew a little bit of both languages, and it happened that I knew about this again, and every time someone was caught, the guards would let me communicate with them in the cell for a while and then kill them, and it was by prying a little bit from the mouths of these thieves that I finished compiling the book. ”

Andy recalls the tension between the scavenger leader and Hank.

"Aren't they already trading with reservations on a regular basis? Why steal anything? ”

Hank shoved a few boxes of bullets into the box and walked around the counter to Andy's side.

"Because those fools don't seem to be worthy of their respect if they don't understand their words, everyone else in the entire reservation except me can be treated by them with the support of this logic, thanks to their not big enough heads to understand that the hand-cranked machine guns in those towers can shatter their bodies with a single shot, they don't dare to organize large-scale looting, but they always send some quick guys to hang out with us and steal anything they can if they find the opportunity, No one can remember how many times this happened. ”

"As soon as I asked Klick, she said that it was all the personal behavior of those people, and it had nothing to do with their group, bullshit, I had asked the thieves who were caught before, and this was a clever strategy she had devised herself, and the thieves who had not been caught all these years did not know how much they had stolen."

Andy's understanding of the scavengers deepened when he heard this, but it also made him think of something else.

"Hank, you said you had one thing you needed someone to deal with with those scavengers, what was that?"

Hank looked around left and right, then leaned over and muttered.

"As despicable as those guys are, I'm a soft-hearted person, and maybe I've not been here long enough to make them treat slippery skins as livestock. Klick's mother and grandmother used to be my collaborators, and that stupid kid didn't understand... She didn't understand that if the reservation was really provoked by them, they would face ruin. Kleek only thought that the reservation's long-standing ignorance of their theft was a sign of weakness, so she allowed it to happen more often after she became chief, and I heard some voices above that someone had already sensed the situation and was planning to act on it. ”

With that, Hank suddenly thought of the previous topic.

"Okay, don't interrupt, back to what we just talked about, can you really understand the gibberish? I'll test you: the twitter, the roadbed and the gourd. Do you understand? Now tell me what that means? ”

Andy immediately replied.

"You mean... Please listen to me, I want to buy your skin... That's what it means, right? ”

Hank took two steps back in shock.

"How is this possible! It really didn't take you an hour to understand this level? Have you spoken to them before? It's impossible, unless it's a newcomer they've taken in.... Have you ever had that experience? After being caught by a slave trader, he escaped halfway and then joined a group of Buraku people in order to survive. ”

Andy shook his head repeatedly.

"I didn't..."

On the other hand, he muttered in his heart, although he had never been a runaway slave, he did facilitate the smooth escape of many slaves.

Hank glanced at Andy suspiciously for a moment before continuing to speak in a sighing tone.

"Unbelievable.... It really doesn't bother me, but I've had to accept it at this point, and I even feel like all my previous efforts have been in vain, and in front of a true language genius, an hour of learning is worth ten years of my exploration... Alas... Okay, so are you fully aware of the language now? ”

Andy made a request.

"Not yet, but I'm sure it's going soon. Hank, do you have any medicine here? I mean, Mantat, it's better to be better at improving intelligence. ”

Hank wasn't too surprised, he went back to the counter and fumbled around it, then pulled out a pill box.

"You want to be clear-headed, don't you? I do have a little left here, and when I used to compile that book, I had too much brain power to eat, and I went to manage a guy in charge of entertainment in the city to ask for it better than ordinary Mantat. ”

Andy took it and looked at it, it seemed to be a box of Mtart, but the surface pattern of the box had changed.

"Thanks Hank, I'll be back later."

Andy took the medicine and ran away, Hank looked at Andy's back with that one-eyed, suddenly noticed a person next to him, and turned his head to see that it was actually measles, this silent approach suddenly made Hank tremble, and then made him even more afraid.

When did he come over? If he had come over a long time ago, did he overhear the whispering between himself and Andy just now?

Measles slowly turned around and withdrew his gaze from Andy, showing great interest in Andy, he looked at Hank, the big yellow eyes on his purple face revealing some deep questions.

Hank pretended to be calm on the surface, and one hand had quietly reached for the gun under the counter, if Measles really heard him and was serious about it, instead of waiting to be sentenced by the children of the wasteland, it would be better to find an opportunity now....

"Measles? What are you doing here? ”

Betty smiled and ran over to Hank and saw the two of them looking at each other.

Measles immediately smiled and said hello to Betty.

"Nothing, just to check how our all-important 'newcomer' is doing, after all, as a father's son, I have to be worthy of his trust in me, and if Hank is not good enough, then I have to make it clear to my father! Ha, Aunt Betty, I heard that you have been very close to Hank recently, you must take the opportunity to mention him more, he is far less timely than you, and many things are not particularly understood, which is very important..."

Betty suddenly stinked.

"When did you little cub learn to talk like that? As a side note, let me tell you, Hank is now vital to the entire reservation, and without his customer network, the reservation's revenue would have been reduced by more than half. It's true that Smith was the one who made those weapons, but there's nowhere else to find someone else who is so good at trading, and that's what you need to understand! Now, if you have nothing to do and want to wander around, get out of here somewhere else and don't delay me talking to Hank! ”

Measles didn't show any emotion, just smiled at Betty, then nodded at Hank, and walked in the direction Andy had left.

Hank stared at the measles and walked away until he was out of sight, and the hand holding the gun slowly let go.

Betty stepped into the carriage, noticing Hank's expression, and grabbed his hand and pulled him closer.

"Don't get too close to those slippery skins, aren't you afraid?"

Hank was scared, of course, but he just pretended to smile fearlessly.

"Oh, I'm scared to death, where do I have you the audacity to be, Betty."

Betty shook off his hand and snorted and turned around to ignore Hank, but before Hank could say anything, she turned around and threw herself directly into Hank's arms, which made Hank's body stiffen, and he didn't know how to respond.

"They do whatever they want, I know you can't look past those things, I don't want to make any comments on your opinion, after all, everyone is different.... But people have to learn to protect themselves in the face of the general trend, if I want to say that I have lived for so many years, what life principles are the most important, that is this, what views do you have in your heart, don't say it. ”

Hank's one-eyed eyes flashed with mixed emotions, he had been in the land for so many years, although he was still a "newcomer", he was already a little disillusioned, maybe there was no real ghoul paradise in this world.

Betty, who was in his arms, suddenly whispered again.

"I can guess what you think, because I see you every day and miss you and live longer than you, believe me, I know what to do.... There is a place in the west, where the living environment is also good, although it is said to be more self-reliant, but the pressure is not as great as here. If there is a chance, the two of us will go to live there, I have already completed the things and routes to be brought, but now the two of us can't go, the two of us are cash cows on the reservation, and it is impossible for them to let anyone go. ”

Hank's eyes jerked down at Betty, as shocked as if he had seen her for the first time.

Betty looked up, her face was still as ugly as before, but now Hank only had her eyes.

"So, you remember, don't say it, at least until the time comes."

Hank let out a sigh of relief, his mind a mess.

"I see... Thank you Betty. ”