The tribesmen of the Sandman tribe and Andy and the others are digging for sand at the moment.

"Bell!"

At the end of the bunker, an iron plate was revealed, and when several people pulled it up, it revealed an irregular pothole, surrounded by what appeared to be a concrete space, with a lot of sand but all damp.

Andy put down his shovel.

"Is that where you get your water?"

Before the words fell, Andy suddenly remembered that the shaman Gula did not accompany him because of his poor health, and quickly repeated it in gibberish.

"You, water, drink, here?"

Klick's leather-masked face was expressionless, and her thick arms pushed the iron plate aside, then pointed to the dark space below to speak.

"Bugs, this, down there."

Yes, they came here to find bugs.

According to Shaman Gullah, the sandman tribe usually obtains water from several water sources hidden in the desert that they have found before, and these so-called water sources seem to be ancient ruins before the war.

And the kind of bug they are looking for today is called "yellow shell worm" in gibberish, and the more popular name should be: cockroach, or rather, the offspring of the mutant that has bred after its genetic mutation caused by radiation, that is, the radiation cockroach.

Radiation cockroaches are not very well adapted to the desert environment, and they hide in relatively cool underground areas under the threat of lizards and scorpions, especially in areas with water.

Klick was about to jump when there was a commotion around him, and when he turned his head, he saw a bulging sandbag moving rapidly from far and near, which made the sandmen look terrified, because this situation meant that the most ferocious predator in the desert had set his sights on them, the radscorpion.

"Hit! Kill! ”

The sandmen rushed to the battle, most of them armed only with rudimentary crossbows and bows, or even knives and darts sharpened from scrap iron, these extremely primitive weapons posed no threat to the radscorpions that hid under the sand and were rapidly moving towards them.

Kleek took off a shotgun from his back, and shot it out with a slight aim. The well-made .308 caliber shotgun from the reservation immediately exerted its power, and the battered radscorpion immediately emerged from under the sand, and with the blowing sand in the sky, it lifted its retreat mode, and quickly charged at the crowd on the sand with its arthropods, the rustling of footsteps was as terrifying as a reminder, and the pair of pincers that could cut limbs and poison needles that could easily poison humans shimmered in the sunlight.

It had a gunshot wound on its back with yellowish blood, but that wasn't enough to stop it.

Klick fired another shot, but this one missed, and the radscorpion nimbly panned left and right as it advanced, even deliberately raising sand with pincers to obscure its vision.

Seeing that there was no way to avoid it, the sandmen pulled out their knives one after another, and Klicker once again set up the crossbow he had installed on his arm and prepared to start fighting at close range, but a huge gunshot suddenly rang out, and the face of the radscorpion bloomed directly like a blooming dragon salan, and its whole body twisted into a ball and struggled wildly on the sand for a moment before it was motionless.

Andy slowly put down the rhinoceros in his hand, with the help of the accurate shooting in V mode, it was pointless for the radscorpion to move and play tricks, if it happened to hit a critical hit and was in a stealth sneak attack, this shot was enough to beat the giant mutant insect into a pile of minced flesh instead of just headshot.

The physical strength consumed is not much, and because of the effect of the Grim Reaper's raid, the physical strength consumed has been instantly replenished, such as the radscorpion, which was extremely difficult to deal with in the past, is now really as long as the bullet tube is enough to kill as many as possible.

There were exclamations one after another, and even Klick was dumbfounded.

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

In the dark and damp underground, Andy pulls out his self-charging pistol and shoots lasers that kill the radiant cockroaches without smashing them.

Kleek, who had little knowledge, looked at the gun in Andy's hand that could shoot a deadly red light without blinking.

"Knives, you, do you have them?"

Andy kicked a dead radiation cockroach over, making its stomach face up, Kleek slowly pulled out a sharp blade and handed it to Andy, he got his hand and turned the knife to cut the dead cockroach's belly, pulling out a large pile of dirty water, these green things are the internal organs of the radiation cockroach.

After dissecting a sufficient number of radiant cockroaches and obtaining enough internal organs, the other sandmen also picked up some green-fluorescent fungi in the vicinity, as described by Gillian, and these were the materials.

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

After returning to the Sandman's village, at Gillian's request, Andy struggled to describe the containers and items needed by the Sandmen in gibberish, and finally made up some gasoline cans and glass bottles, and the rest was up to Gillian, she first mashed the glowing fungus and then mixed it into the internal organs of the radiant cockroaches and stirred it well, and then sealed this large pile of mixture in the gasoline barrel.

Andy relayed in gibberish to the sandmen the materials and manufacturing methods of this home-made radiation drug.

"Find, green mushrooms, yellow shell worms, dirty, grinding, stirring, burying, sand, a day...."

"Usually, mushrooms, three, yellow shell worms, seven, sick, mushrooms, seven, yellow shell worms, three...."

After tirelessly saying it over and over again, the sand people finally said that they all understood, this kind of recipe on the wasteland is everywhere, circulating between people's mouths and ears, and is often an alternative way found by the wasteland people by chance during the struggle to survive in the last days, the focus is on practicality and simplicity, a small amount of luminescent fungi are ground and mixed into a large number of radiant cockroach viscera and sealed and fermented, after the production is completed, the effect is similar to that of radiation, and if the proportion is adjusted, the effect is similar to that of anti-radiation, These local medicinal materials are easy to obtain and simple to make, but the effect may be far less than that of the imitation of chemical drugs, and the side effects are more direct than those of pre-war chemical drugs, such as.... Severe diarrhea for a period of time.

Gula had been seriously ill during their trip from the village to the water source to find materials, and after much persuasion, Andy was finally allowed to enter the shaman's tent to check on him, he seemed to be unconscious, according to the other sandmen, Gula had been coughing and fever lately, and after hearing this, Andy immediately lifted his clothes to see that the old man was covered in blue blisters.

"The New Plague...."

Andy restored his clothes to their original state, such a remote place has actually been spread, I am afraid that those sandmen came into contact with the merchants who traveled to and from the reservation, although the hope fruit has been deployed and spread in several central settlements such as Hoover Dam, New Canaan, Ouroboros Village, etc., but it is still not so easy to quickly achieve the effect in the wasteland with difficult and complex traffic conditions.

Stepping out of the tent, Andy explained to Kleeko, who was feeling emotional again.

"Gullah, get sick, heal, or die."

As soon as he heard this, Klick immediately began to dance and start talking.

"Gura, die, no, sandman, Gura, he, shaman, tell, we, no, my, mom, he, will, I, can't, I, you, really, I ......."

After a lot of grunting, Andy didn't quite understand what this guy was trying to say, even though he learned the language of the sand man, but now she doesn't speak according to the rules of grammar at all, and in many cases it's just a wave of emotions, and it makes no sense to tell what she's talking about.

"You, calm down..."

Before he could finish speaking, Klick, who was on the verge of an emotional breakdown, screamed, first holding his head and slamming around, and then suddenly without warning a big pendulum towards Andy.

Andy was caught off guard and took a direct hit, and the big arms that were as thick as him were unreservedly powerful under the uncontrollable swing of Klick, knocking him to the ground.

Gillian screamed, and Blackie jumped out of her body trying to bite Klik, and the sandpeople around her were in a mess, some of them were crying and screaming because they heard the news that Shaman Guru was critically ill, and others immediately raised their rough knives and bows to aim at Gillian, Andy, and Blackie and other outsiders.

Andy, who was sitting on the ground, was a little stunned, how long had passed, and one day he was actually knocked to the ground by a normal person.

He first stopped Xiao Hei, who wanted to rush over and bite, and then stood up without hurrying.

"Klick, I, can, cure, Gura."

A few sandmen tried to come over and drag Klick, but they were also knocked away by her crying, and in the chaos, no one heard what Andy said, and some sandmen even became infected by this atmosphere and began to punch and kick the people around them as if they had lost their minds.

Seeing a sandman pick up a crossbow and aim it at Gillian, Andy instantly turned on the V mode and stopped in front of Gillian, reached out and grabbed the bow and arrow, and then kicked a scrapped induction cooker on the ground towards the crazy sandman, the induction cooker spun and flew out and hit him accurately, smashing him backwards to the ground, and the tent behind him was crushed by him.

This time it seemed to detonate a powder keg, and three or four more sandmen pounced on Andy, and he kicked them out one by one like kicking a ball.

Kleek was hit by a person, turned around with red eyes like a crazy two-headed cow rushed over, Andy squatted slightly and lowered his center of gravity and stretched his arms forward, resisting the crazy woman, but unexpectedly, a sharp blade popped out of the bracer with a turn of her wrist, thanks to Andy's quick reaction, she was not scratched by her radiation suit and scratched her stomach, was so messed up, Andy also got a little upset, he threw Kleek to the ground with a force of both arms and kicked her wrist blade, Seeing that she still wanted to get up and mess around, Andy straddled her directly and slapped her one after another, and the fan made a snapping sound, and Kleek screamed and struggled on the ground, but he couldn't break free no matter what.

"I, say, I, can, cure, Gura, you, listen, understand?"

During the first ten slaps, Klick was still mindless and scolding, and after ten slaps, her eyes gradually cleared.

"I.... Understand. ”

Andy slowly put down his large, thick slap, and looked up to see that the sandmen around him were all looking at him with awe, and stood not far away as they watched.

He looked down and saw that the leather mask on Klick's face had slipped to the ground, revealing a very young and masculine female face, only a little swollen from the serial slap he had just made.

Now Andy sensed that something was wrong, could it be that this leather mask was still so exquisite? The sandmen all watched this scene with shocked expressions, sometimes focusing their eyes on Andy, sometimes focusing on Klick, and Klick regained his composure, covered his face and picked up the leather mask on the ground, and began to look at Andy with strange eyes.

Just when Andy thought she would say something, she picked up the leather mask and walked away without saying a word.

As soon as Klicker left, the sandfolks began to talk again, and Andy listened carefully for a moment, only to hear the odd-tempered and not-so-intelligent tribesmen say something as they looked at him.

"Yes, he is."

"Klick, choose..."

Andy eventually gave up, not because they didn't want to talk well, but because their mouths, heads, and words didn't support them in doing it.

"Gura, sickness, you, body, also, have, I, cure, you, you, listen, me."

After talking out loud to all the sandmen until they were more or less clear about Andy's thoughts, he took out a few Hope Fruits, which were the few remaining stocks he had, and luckily the task of distributing them was almost complete with the new mS. After asking the sanders to remove a dirty water tank, Andy crushed the fruit and put it in it, and the pieces of the fruit began to melt on their own as soon as they entered the water, and disappeared into the water after a while.

The sandmen drank the water in disbelief, and Andy walked to Gulla's tent with a tattered cup to help him drink it.

After Gula drank the water, things gradually improved in the evening.

Kleek was completely relieved to see the shaman turn around, she didn't show the composure and sanity of a chieftain at all, and although she was the strongest individual among the sandmen, she was furious and irritable and easily out of control.

Andy looked at her worriedly, the loss of the reserve really doesn't seem to have too strong a desire to go out to fight, otherwise these sand people have been insatiable for many years to steal in the reserve must have led to the disaster of extermination, judging from the equipment generation gap between the reserve and the sand tribe, it is really a modern army with machine guns to shoot bows and arrows primitives, as long as the ghoul guards in the reservation area stand on the commanding heights and pose in a posture except for their fingers, they can eliminate these tribesmen without injury, and the internal organization of the sand tribe is chaotic, The members are highly dependent on radioactive drugs, and if Measles were to come here and see for himself what they call the scavengers, he would surely put behind all the fears of raiding the Sandman tribe and cutting off the trade routes, they would not be 'sleeping giants' at most 'drowsy dwarfs'.

Klick looked back suddenly.

"You, follow, I, go, come."

Andy is confused and tells Gillian to go back to the tent he agreed with the sandmen to rest for the time being, and that he will probably have to live with the sandmen for a while until he finds a way to save the atomic humvee from the quicksand.

Klicker and Andy walked into her personal tent, which was larger than the others, and was full of shells, skins, and furs of all sorts of wasteland creatures, some of which seemed to have been deliberately made into some kind of taxidermy ornament to show off their strength, and on the inside of the tent was a particularly large bed, covered with fluffy fur, and it looked like it would be comfortable to lie on.

"Klick..."

Andy told Kleek what he thought, he came here at the behest of Hank and Measles, and he couldn't forget that the tribesmen couldn't stay here any longer, and after teaching them how to make their own radioactive medicine, they no longer needed to rely on the reservation's supplies, and could leave here to live in other more habitable places.

"To the west and to the north, there is, treasures, you, go, you, medicines, have, go, prosper..."

After saying this a few times, she still seemed to understand at first, but then her eyes gradually changed, and it seemed that she finally realized that they could now go to areas far from the reserve to make a living, thus changing the living environment and lifestyle they had always had, which would probably have a significant impact on the future of the entire Sandman tribe.

Because of the thirst he said halfway, Andy wanted to drink the water in his kettle to quench his thirst, but Klee suddenly slapped the kettle in his hand and handed him a strange drink in the jar, at her insistence Andy did not refuse, after a few sips, it felt like a strange taste of wine, I don't know why I felt a feeling of dizziness soon after entering the mouth, and even there was an indescribable change somewhere.

Streams of heat continued to pour from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and Andy, who was so hot that he had to eat a few pieces of anti-radiation, took off his radiation protection suit, and Kleek kept looking at him with a strange look. Just when Andy noticed that something was wrong, Klick closed the door to the tent, turned around and walked over to Andy, and began to talk like she was pouring again.

"You, say, funny, I, listen, good, you, no, go, you, pick, me, mask, I, today, you, sleep, clothes, take off, I, and, you, together...."

Andy looked at Klick in disbelief, although he barely understood what she meant, but when he saw this muscular woman who was almost the same as himself began to take off her armor and leather clothes and gradually reveal her muscular body, he still felt incredible from the heart, how could the pleated leather mask that she had been wearing on her face still have such a meaning in it? This is the result of his own daytime being caused by inadvertently, so this is what Klick's silent departure and the gossip of those sand men actually mean? Hank also said that the chiefs of this tribe have been women since three generations ago, and the current Klick is no exception, so....

Klick threw away the last obstacle in his body and reached out and pulled Andy hard against the bed, then blew out the candle.

The armor on his body was forcibly pulled off, and in the struggle, there was a sound in the back of his neck, it was Hull's voice.

"Special case detected..... In the implementation of the response procedure, part of the regional integration has been lifted...."

Gillian was a little worried about not knowing where Andy had gone, and she didn't sleep well until the next morning, because there was a sound like a two-headed cow barking somewhere in the Sandman tribe's camp all night, except for Andy missing.

I don't know what this is going on, but it's terrifying, and I have to find Andy quickly.....

Just then, Andy appeared, just looking a little tired, and even yawned involuntarily.