A naked male corpse lay on the ground, with a bandaged wound on his abdomen that had been ripped open to reveal dried blood stains and a bloody hole-like wound.

His body was looted after his death, and even his iconic yellow hat was missing.

For the wastelanders, they don't know what is the greatest death, respect for the dead, the culture of digging graves makes it easy for people not to put burial goods in the grave, and even let the deceased go without any belongings, if a person dies outside, then everything he carries on his body becomes ownerless by default, and anyone can go up and "touch" a few times to take away what they want or simply take away everything, unless his friends, relatives, etc. happen to be around, and announce their feelings about the corpse to others in a timely manner"Sovereignty".

Sometimes there are people who steal corpses for a living, because some perverted cannibals have this demand, or there are also black-hearted merchants who process human flesh as beef or other meat and sell it for nothing.

Fortunately, this is at the Hoover Dam, at most there are thieves and hooligans who stripped the dead man naked and threw him in the corner, it should be said that those guys still have a little conscience, if they just throw the Hoover Dam and feed the fish, this person will not see the dead and the corpse.

A man who owned a small grocery store at the top of the dam stood aside and looked at the corpse with a dismal expression.

"When did you find out?"

Sheriff Ralph motioned for a nearby police officer to begin taking the transcript while questioning the man who found the body.

"While cleaning the toilet this morning... Scared the hell out of me, and I don't know which bastard stuffed this unlucky guy into my bathroom after touching the corpse, if I knew I would..."

"That's it! Don't talk nonsense! ”

The man pursed his lips aggrievedly, and began to think crankily about who he had made an enmity with not long ago.

Sergeant Ralph rummaged through the body and suddenly saw several needle holes in his arm, and then noticed that his face was blue, not like he had died of blood loss from his abdominal wounds, but as if he had been poisoned.

"How can you tell who he is?"

The man hesitated.

"It's just.... I just know him, I have a relationship so I can see it, I have to see who this dead man is, I recognize it, and then call the police, you have to quickly find out who did it, and now everyone is spreading all kinds of words. ”

As he spoke, it occurred to him that Sheriff Ralph might doubt himself.

"Also, don't think I'm suspicious, I was in the store all day that day, and there were witnesses all the time, this guy wasn't in my bathroom or nearby during the day, and there must have been a bastard who did it in the dark at night."

Sergeant Ralph frowned, wondering who had killed the drug dealer.

"I know, I've asked witnesses to confirm that you can't kill someone, and that he hasn't been dead for long depending on the state of this corpse."

As he spoke, he suddenly changed his words, and his sharp gaze looked into the man's eyes again.

"You haven't answered my previous question properly, why do you know him? A small drug dealer who usually wanders around the central area and the wasteland outside, and who has only one nickname that everyone doesn't even know, who do you think will know him? You put your arms and legs out for me to see..."

The man hurriedly stroked the sleeves of his double-headed cowhide coat to cover his arms.

"Hey——! Isn't it just a little entertainment? I'm not a prisoner, why are you interrogating me like that? ”

Sergeant Ralph unceremoniously took a step forward.

"According to the rules set by the mayor of Dodge, the crest area of Hoover Dam City is not allowed to buy and sell drugs for non-medical purposes, especially those 'entertainment' in your mouth. If you don't know, you know now, I'm thinking of searching your home to see if there's any surprise. ”

The man exaggeratedly spread his hands and opened his mouth to the sky.

"Hey, you're crazy, aren't you? Wasn't that rule you talking about always idealistic? If it's really that strict, why just eat it in the central area? Yes, I used it, but it was used in the central area, in line with the law, you can't control me! ”

Sergeant Ralph raised his eyebrows, he thought it was interesting today, the old snake in the central area didn't give himself face, and a hawker who came recently in the dam crest area didn't give himself face, and he didn't want to ask a small question from the truth, I really don't know how thick the sky is.

As soon as he gestured, several policemen began to rummage roughly in the hawker's shack, and was excitedly barked and sniffed around by a dog carried by one of the policemen, the hawker yelled excitedly, but as soon as he got close to the policemen, he was pushed away, and fell directly to the ground and couldn't get up for half a day, so in the case of him watching like this, a messy box of medicine was rummaged out.

"Where did you buy them?"

Sheriff Ralph picked up a syringe and shook it in front of the hawker's eyes, but his face was still stiff and his mouth was stiff.

"I bought it from Dusty in the central area, what's wrong? I didn't buy it in the crest area, and I didn't sell it in the crest area, I kept it for my own use, what do you want? ”

"Dusty bought it... Do you use it yourself? ”

Sheriff Ralph rummaged through a box of Mantate, then found a rare dose of sobering and finally some Hemp-X.

"You're a pig brain who hasn't read a book, you're going to want to use this? If you keep all these things for yourself, will you be able to survive until now? And this Ma Boil-X, Dusty will never enter this kind of expensive and inconspicuous goods, she likes Jett, Crazy, Zhuang and the like, the market is very effective and fast, she will never sell this thing, you tell me honestly where did this come from? ”

The peddler kept his head down and didn't squeak, Sheriff Ralph winked, and two policemen rushed over and handcuffed his hands.

Andy stood next to him with his chest crossed, and opened his mouth to say his guess.

"You killed him, didn't you? The yellow hat was stabbed with a screwdriver by an addict he didn't want to pay on credit in the central area and went up to the dam crest to find a doctor, but he didn't have enough bottle caps, so he asked you for it at night, and you didn't want to give it, because he threatened you that if you didn't help, he would leak out the things you bought from him and secretly sold in the dam crest area, so you injected him with a poison needle and killed him. ”

The hawker struggled a few times but was still cuffed to death, and seeing that there was nothing to hide, he finally gave up and continued to stiffen his mouth.

"I didn't kill him! He is... He killed himself. ”

In his description, it turned out to be like this:

That day, the vendor who ostensibly ran a small grocery store closed his doors late enough as usual, but in the middle of the night someone knocked on the door with a dark face, he opened the door and saw a yellow hat with a painful face, and when he asked, he knew that he was stabbed in the central area not long ago, thanks to the fact that he was not injured but fortunately he did not die on the spot, but the doctor in the central area liked to harm people more than saving people, so he came up to the doctor Yuri in the dam top area overnight with a bottle cap, His hospital is considered to have the best medical conditions in Hoover Dam and in the entire Greater Southwestern Federal Region.

Unexpectedly, he didn't have enough bottle caps, so he had to come in the middle of the night to ask for bottle caps, and threatened the vendors.

The peddler had no choice but to agree to borrow him, but he did not expect that when he entered the store and waited for the peddler to find the bottle cap, he suddenly screamed in pain, in order to avoid being found out that he was having an affair with the drug dealer, the peddler who wanted to hide his ears quickly found out a kind of native medicine collected from a merchant during the day, the native medicine is a general name for all kinds of herbs made by the tribesmen, with complex materials, complex preparation, and complex effects. It's hard to say exactly how effective it is and what the side effects are.

But it also has many advantages, such as low price and does have a certain curative effect, and sometimes it will have an effect beyond imagination, directly curing some wasteland incurable diseases that are helpless by treatment needles and doctors.

Although they don't know who Ms. Hecate is, it seems that the tribesmen believe that the local medicine related to her has extremely powerful curative effects and effects, so this reputation has also brought some effects after it spread to Hoover Dam City, whether it is true or not, there will always be people who are sick and rush to the doctor to buy it, so the vendor accepted this medicine mainly because he did not worry about selling, The merchant said that the drug was comparable to the efficacy of super treatment needles, and that it was much cheaper.

The yellow hat drank this earthy medicine, which seemed to have some effect at first, but then he turned blue all over, and his screams were even louder than before.

The hawker had no choice but to give him another injection of numbness-x to relieve the pain, and he finally stopped, and after the hawker breathed a sigh of relief and rested for a while, he realized that the situation was wrong, and he didn't know what was happening, and the yellow hat completely stopped now, and his body became as cool as the floor.

The startled peddler hurriedly threw the yellow hat outside, wishful thinking that the next day people found him and thought he was injured and bleeding to death, in the middle of the night he suddenly realized that this move was stupid, it was better to throw the body directly off the dam for a hundred, unexpectedly when he went out to look for the body, the body was gone, the next morning he thought wildly, took a tool to clean the small toilet set up outside, this kind of self-built small toilet is generally connected to the drainage system at the top of the Hoover Dam, but the Hoover Dam is in disrepair and often blockedIt can only be maintained from time to time.

This trip almost made him angry, and the stripped body was thrown in the toilet, as if someone was joking with him.

After shouting, the people saw the corpse, and the peddler had to go down the slope and call the police.

Sheriff Ralph listened to the story but didn't believe it all, and pointed out a loophole.

"How could the yellow hat not even be able to hold the cap for healing? The business he did was so lucrative that I think you saw the wealth and forcibly dragged him to your house to rest, and took the opportunity to kill him, and you were afraid that after his body was thrown into the dam with poison, the mireurk crab would not eat and float on the water, and eventually someone would find him, so he looted his things, threw the body in the toilet, and called the police to pretend to be innocent. ”

The hawker cried out again and again.

"Where do I have time to think so much, he is so seriously injured and spares his life, how can I be told not to go to the hospital for treatment but to come to my house to rest first? The reason why he didn't bring enough bottle caps was because he had all the money in hand, and the distance treatment fee was still poor, and he couldn't drag the injured body and carry a large bag of inventory to the bottle caps to see a doctor, but he asked me for 2,000 bottle caps at that time, saying that he needed 5,000 bottle caps in total. ”

Sheriff Ralph and Andy look at each other, and Andy moves on to pointing out the problem.

"I went to see Dr. Yuri, and I have to say that his asking price is indeed exaggerated, but he can't afford it to the extent that a drug dealer can't afford it, 5,000? He was only injured and didn't need as many bottle caps to treat him. ”

The peddler sighed.

"That's because others don't use so much, he can't, he's on Dr. Yuri's blacklist now, and you have to pay ten times more for medical expenses to go to him, of course you don't know about it, but I know it, because I'm also on it."

Sheriff Ralph and Andy hadn't heard of it and immediately asked.

"Blacklist?"

"Why did he blacklist Yuri with you?"

The peddler opened his mouth, looking a little hesitant, and finally spoke out with Sheriff Ralph's frank and lenient encouragement.

"The blacklist is only on the medical troubles and particularly difficult dangerous elements, but there is one exception, and that is... It is a drug dealer, especially to finance his competitors or compete with him for the market. ”

"Grab the market?"

Andy looked at the vendor in disbelief.

"You rob him? What do you mean? ”

Sheriff Ralph was not so surprised, and said one thing solemnly.

"We've noticed some problems for a long time, there are some poisonous insects hidden deep in the dam crest area, these people are using high-end goods that Dusty doesn't have, I originally thought that their rich people were all looking for itinerant dealers to establish dealings, anyway, I didn't care much about stealing and harming myself, but then I found out that this group of people has always had enough goods, even during the period when the Hoover Dam was completely closed to the outside world by the impact of the Brotherhood of Steel, this must have nothing to do with Dusty, it means..."

Andy understood what Sheriff Ralph meant.

"There is a big hidden drug dealer in the dam crest area, and the only person who legally holds a large stock of drugs is Dr. Yuri."

Sergeant Ralph nodded.

"This is still a speculation, some people say that Dr. Yuri will deliberately imply that he can have a stable supply of high-grade drugs to patients, but the price is much more expensive than Dastina's bargains, which seems to make sense, after all, although he is a follower of the Apocalypse, he is abnormally interested in money, but he does not show any evidence, and the Dodge Mayor also said that he is very important in Hoover Dam City, and those injured soldiers are all treated by him, and there is no better doctor than him in the entire Hoover Dam City since the severance of contact with the mainland, He is easily untouchable. ”

Andy was silent for a moment before making a decision.

"I'll have to talk to him."

Sheriff Ralph patted Andy on the shoulder.

"Don't be impulsive, a direct confrontation may not have a good result, now he is still the only serious doctor in Hoover Dam City, and this guy is very stubborn, it is impossible for him to admit his guilt, but he can't be hard, if things are shaken out, it is easy for everyone to not get off the stage."

Andy nodded in understanding what Sheriff Ralph meant.

"Don't worry, I know the measure, the point is that now we must stop the hot kiss from continuing to circulate in Hoover Dam City, and those who are already addicted, will the addiction solution work for them?"

Sheriff Ralph had a helpless look on his face.

"It's useless... It didn't work at all, the addicts were still clamoring for cigarettes, and I tried to lock them up for forced drug rehabilitation, but every attempt ended in failure, and they all died, so I reported the importance of this to the Dodge mayor, and if the kiss was allowed to spread, the city of Hoover Dam would eventually be completely destroyed. ”

Andy touched his chin and thought about the current situation.

"So, since Pierre left, Dr. Yuri is probably the only person left to figure out a solution to this problem, but now it seems that the hot kisses in Hoover Dam City are flowing from him, and his money-hungry nature will definitely not agree to carry out research on sexual addiction, which will destroy his own business and make him less capped..."

Sheriff Ralph made the decision on the spot.

"You wait Andy, I'll report this to Mayor Dodge and Candace immediately, and we'll put pressure on him together to stop selling this high-risk drug and start developing an antidote immediately."

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

A few hours later, the branch president Candace entered Dr. Yuri's hospital with Sergeant Ralph and Andy, which was still clearly divided into two parts from the beginning of registration, the poor without the bottle cap went to Dr. Yuri's pharmacist to prescribe medicine, and the rich with the bottle cap could directly make an appointment with Dr. Yuri for a personal consultation, and had the opportunity to use very advanced medical equipment to treat the disease.

Now it seems that the appointment is not necessarily just for treatment, but also for some people to come to Dr. Yuri as regular customers.

The three of them looked at each other, and the Candace branch president stepped forward to inform them of the situation.

"We have something to look for Yuri, and we're going to see him now."

The nurse at the reception desk looked embarrassed.

"But... The branch president, Dr. Yuri, is seeing a doctor, and he will not be able to get out of his body for a while. ”

Branch President Candace grabbed his blonde hair and tried to raise his voice.

"This involves his medical qualifications, this hospital is the property of the Followers of the Apocalypse, if he is stripped of his status as an organization, I have the right to demand that he hand in the medical qualification issued by the Followers of the Apocalypse to stop practicing medicine and ask him to leave this hospital immediately, and never set foot here again, do you think he can take the time to meet with us after hearing this?"

The nurse at the front desk was immediately frightened, and reassured the Candace branch president in front of him, and then called another nurse to tell Dr. Yuri what was going on.