Following the direction Thaler had instructed, Andy and the three drove to the cave.

At first glance, it looks like an ordinary cave, but upon closer inspection, you can see some bones that have been discarded near the entrance of the cave, and these bones are full of traces of gnawing, such as bighorn sheep, two-headed cows, and... Human.

"Snake-headed wolf... I haven't heard of this creature, what about you? ”

Andy closes the car door, wondering if the monster he is talking about is something he has never seen before, or if it is another name for some monster he already knows.

"Nope."

Measles was a succinct response.

Gillian knows a little better.

"I've heard rumors that this creature is regarded as a terrible scourge by the inhabitants of the west, and that they are nocturnal and fond of sneaking up on their prey, and that they are rumored to be highly poisonous, but I don't know what special effect the blood of these monsters has."

"Poisonous..."

Andy pulled out his twin guns and prepared for battle.

"Gillian, you stay in the car with Xiao Hei first, it may be tricky if you are poisoned."

Gillian nodded in agreement without saying anything, as a mechanic, the battle was really difficult for her, and she maintained several of his pistols for Andy during the few days on the road, and also tried to slightly repair the cholered armor that was shot by the aliens with only materials and tools, which can be regarded as helping as much as she can.

Measles and Andy slowly walked into the dark cavern, and the dark cavern was illuminated by a green light as the Pip-Boy lighting turned on. The cave is gloomy, with a lot of dry excrement and food residue in the corners, which is a distinct feature of the hideouts of social predators, and the wise wastelanders know not to go near such places.

But now they not only want to get closer, but they also want to go deeper, and even plan to collect some blood from the occupants inside.

The more he walked inside, the damper it became, and the rancid smell kept rushing into Andy's nose, making him envious that his nose was just a hole in the measles, and that the ghouls never felt sick or sick from radiation, toxins, filth, and odors, and that they were far more adaptable to the wasteland world than humans.

"I'm not very afraid of poison, and all the chemical stuff doesn't work on us very much."

Measles walked indifferently in the dark, and those dim cloudy eyes actually glowed faintly in the dark.

"Do you have an antidote? I can't save you if you get bitten by that thing. ”

Andy flipped through the beep boy, as if he had given him a few bottles of antidote a long time ago, he didn't use it much at that time, and he didn't know if it had expired, and if it hadn't expired, he didn't know if it had an effect on the poison of this unknown creature, so he could only act as if he didn't have an antidote on his body....

Wait, it doesn't seem to be able to say that.

He searched and found the batch of solvents that Diana handed him at the beginning, the Heben solvent that can replenish his physical strength has long been used up, and the rute solvent and umbrella mushroom solvent that have an effect-boosting effect on V mode shooting have also been drunk a long time ago, leaving only the gourd solvent that can improve perception and... Compound solvents.

Take out the container with the colorful solvent and shake it.

"I have an antidote, this thing is very powerful, it will definitely work."

Measles looked suspiciously at the colored paint-like thing.

"If you think you can, I'm not afraid anyway."

The two continued to go deeper, turning around the cave, and after walking a few dead ends, strange noises finally began to come from the darkness ahead.

A figure about the size of a coyote slowly walked out, under the light of the beep-boy boy, the two saw that it was a strange-shaped creature, it had a snake head, a very large snake head, the volume was about the same size as a normal coyote head, and the strange thing was that there were two coyote ears on the snake's head, and its body was indeed seven or eight points similar to the coyote's, that is, there were some scales dotted on it, and there was a strange tail, which looked like a snake's tail, but the shape was very peculiar, it was a short thick tail that circled one by one.

Identical creatures slowly walked out one after another, their long, narrow forked tongues moving in and out of their mouths, and the largest one at the front opened its mouth wide open, baring a mouthful of sharp fangs and neighing menacingly, while its strange snake tail vibrated rapidly.

Rustles and roars followed, and in a trance, Andy felt like he was almost facing a group of venomous snakes.

But they are not poisonous snakes, but a pack of wolves with snake heads.

"Don't you think that's unnatural?"

Measles took a few steps back and disappeared into the darkness, only the sound could be heard.

"It's like some nasty guy put two creatures together like puzzle inserts, and ended up creating this bunch of deformed monsters, which are too crudely put together, I don't think it's a radiation mutation..."

Andy didn't have the energy to think about the origin of these monsters, he just immediately turned on the V mode and shot repeatedly, those strange snake-headed wolves had already pounced on him, such a narrow space and the disparity in the number of comparisons, the idlers who strayed into the cave would inevitably suffer, even if they were only bitten by one of them, something would happen.

"Bang-bang-"

The large-caliber ammunition fired by the python could make the heads of these monsters burst with a single blow, but they continued to rush forward as if they didn't feel fear.

Under the slow time vision of V mode, Andy watched as the snake-headed wolves behind him stepped on the corpse in front of him and approached his position step by step, their sharp teeth struck at his wrist.

V mode was lifted, Andy fell backwards at the last moment, the snake-headed wolf's big mouth closed fiercely, biting into the air, but one after another monsters from the depths of the cave continued to rush out without hesitation, and some were killed by measles in the shadows and fell to the ground on the way, causing a little chaos for a while.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Andy quickly reloaded and distanced himself.

Another round of shooting, and the scene fell silent.

"Whew-"

Andy put down his pistol, and there were many corpses of snake-headed wolves lying in the cave, and Measles walked out with a dead snake-headed wolf with his arm moving, and there was an obvious bite mark on his right arm.

"You have to be careful, this arm of mine can barely move now, this thing is quite poisonous, the teeth in their mouths are connected to the poison glands, and they are all barbs."

He raised his arm to show it, the wound was completely open, it should have been torn, and it was very deep.

Andy took out a bottle of compound solvent and handed it to him, but he waved his hand and refused.

"No need, I'll recover soon, I guess there's no more panting here, you hurry up and collect blood and mushrooms, I'll sit and rest for a while."

"Okay then."

Andy walked into the cave alone, first carefully cut open the carcasses of the snake-headed wolves with a knife, took out enough blood from a small bottle that Sailor had given him, and then put the bottle into the beep boy and went deeper, his target was a mushroom that grew in the cave, and according to the description, it was very stout.

A skeleton appeared at his feet, Andy took a look, the dead man's clothes had been torn to shreds, there was no flesh on the skeleton, the bones of the torso were still intact, and the other parts were obviously treated as corpses, and every part was eaten by the snake-headed wolves.

On the remaining pieces of clothing, Andy notices a mutilated mark.

After crouching down and observing it for a while, he suddenly realized that it seemed to be the symbol of the Ring of Steel.

He didn't expect to find the corpse of a member of this group here, the original location of the Ring of Steel was not too far away, and it was normal for scouts or scattered deserters to come here, so did he want to find a hiding place but strayed into the beast's lair? No... Anyway, the members of the Ring of Steel are also good scouts, so they don't go unnoticed about the strange state of this cave.

Therefore, it is likely that he was attacked outside the cave, and his body was dragged into the cave and eaten.

Andy left the corpse and continued to walk into the cave to look for cave mushrooms, the light of the beep boy suddenly shone on a small object on the ground, and stopped to take a closer look, it was a small metal box with a few buttons on it, and a torn canvas bag was lying not far away.

He picks it up, and Pip-Boy tells him it's a damaged Stealth Kid.

Of course this thing is broken, it is full of bite marks, and I don't know why those snake-headed wolves are attracted to a metal box, does this thing taste good when biting?

"There are enemies~"

Hull's prompt came from the back of the neck, Andy swept the beep boy left and right twice, and found nothing, he suspected that this was Hull making enemies out of nothing, occasionally it would still do this kind of thing, at most, it would add a sentence later: Oh, sorry to make a mistake, it must be a malfunction of the enemy seeking module~.

As he re-weighed the damaged stealth boy, a sharp pain suddenly came from his leg.

"Huh? ——”

Andy was startled by the sharp pain in his leg, the left part of his calf was bleeding at the moment, and a terrible scar was left on it, but he couldn't see what caused the damage.

Under the light of the beep-beep boy, although he still couldn't see anything, Andy just felt that the thing still didn't let go, he subconsciously reached out and grabbed it, and actually felt that he had grabbed something.

Angry Andy went up and punched the invisible guy, only to hear a wail, the monster let go of the mouth that was biting his calf and retreated not far away, a white arc flashed, and a snake-headed wolf actually emerged from the air.

Andy looked at the beast in disbelief, why did this ability to stealth sneak attack appear on it?

Without waiting for him to do anything, a feeling of dizziness came to his brain, and he knew that this was caused by the toxins secreted by the poison glands in the mouth of these snake-headed wolves, Andy immediately took out the solvent and swallowed it, and as soon as he lowered his head, the snake-headed wolf suddenly flashed all over his body with a translucent energy fluctuation, and his body disappeared into the air.

"Damn it!"

Andy turns on V-mode to seek enemies, but V-mode feedback tells him that no targets have been found in the current scanning range, and this stealth can actually counter the Vault Technology-assisted aiming mode.

casually fired two shots in front, turning off the lights of the beep boy and telling Hull to turn on the stealth mode, since he couldn't find the other party, he could only let the other party not find himself.

Maintaining stealth mode, Andy looked at the darkness in front of him, and he really couldn't see anything clearly.

There was another voice in the back of the neck.

"Turn on Night Vision Mode~"

A burst of green light enveloped everything in front of him, and Andy suddenly regained his vision, and now he saw the snake-headed wolf reappear in the dark, its stealth ability did not seem to be stable, and it had also shown this situation before, sometimes appearing and sometimes stealth.

After a few gunshots, the monster's head was shattered.

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

Andy limped and handed over a few jars of blood and some mushrooms to Thaler.

"It doesn't seem to be going so well, those snake-headed wolves are indeed very vicious."

Sailor took the materials and walked to the secluded place, mysteriously tinkering.

Eventually, she handed out several small clay bottles filled with a mixture of liquids, and the contents of these bottles exuded an extremely strong strange smell, spicy and pungent, with a unique fishy smell.

The tribesman first kowtowed reverently to Sailer, the daughter of Hecate, before drinking the liquid in one gulp, and even the tribesmen grinned at the smell of the liquid, and almost endured it to spit it out.

In the wound where he was smeared with healing powder, it was obvious to the naked eye that there were sprouts slowly growing.

Andy watched in amazement, and then Measles also got a clay vial.

He looked at it twice and drank it without hesitation, and when he unveiled the gas mask, Thaler glanced at it and didn't say anything more.

Drinking the so-called "hydra", Measles looked at his fingerless hand, he originally thought that using this thing as a ghoul with great resistance to chemicals must have limited effect, but he didn't think that soon after the severed finger began to numb, obviously starting to change.

"Interesting."

He looked at Thaler.

"Is it just the blood of that monster and the mushrooms that grow in these caves that do that?"

The other party smiled mysteriously.

"This is a gift from the goddess, I can tell you bluntly, the material also includes the venom gland of the radscorpion, and four other different kinds of mushrooms, but I can't say anything deeper, whenever a warrior suffers a physical injury in battle, this secret medicine needs to be made to help them, but this medicine must be made and drunk, and if it is stored for a long time, it will turn into a real poison."

Andy asked curiously.

"Why do you call this Hydra?"

Sailor began to tell the guards around him to pack up and get ready for the road.

"The goddess said that in legend there was a monster with nine heads, called Hydra, and this monster would grow another head when it was cut off, so she gave this secret medicine this name."

Andy thought to himself that this style must be Diana's favorite extremely old mythological tales, probably heard by Hecate during his studies in the nursery, and now no one will know about these myths except for the followers of the Apocalypse who collect knowledge of the culture of the Old World and the ancients like Diana who have left over from the Old World.