Two days have passed since that day, Andy has been running on medical supplies lately, given that the reservation has the ability to produce radiation pills and treatment needles in large quantities, after Measles has consulted with the Dodge mayor, it has been decided to use this deal as an addition to the arms and ammunition deal, they are building a liaison device according to Measles' requirements to try to get remote contact with the reservation, so that in the near future, the reserve's freight train will arrive at the abandoned fort by rail from the southeast, and then enter the Hoover Dam train station to unload their goods.

The other is to point out Dr. Yuri's new recipe for the treatment of disabilities.

"Most of the materials are not difficult to obtain, first of all, the several cave mushrooms you mentioned earlier, and secondly, the glands of the radiant scorpions, which can be purchased by the merchants."

Andy sat in his chair and appealed as he remembered the information about the elixir.

"There's only one ingredient that's the most crucial, and that's the blood of a snake-headed wolf."

Dr. Yuri looked up in confusion and pushed his glasses.

"What snake-headed wolf?"

Andy tried his best to describe it to him.

"They are about the size of a coyote, and their bodies and limbs are almost identical to that of a coyote, except that they have the head of a snake, and their tail is like that of a snake, and the fangs in their mouths can secrete poison... They live in caves like coyotes, and they are very dangerous wasteland monsters, and I have been bitten by them before, and if I hadn't taken the antidote in time, I would have been poisoned on the spot. ”

Dr. Yuri touched his chin as if he had thought of something, and then continued to write it down.

"Where can I find these monsters?"

"I've seen them in some caves in the east, and some people say they all migrated from the west, and there are no such things in New California, so maybe there will be more on the Mojave Desert side."

Speaking of this, Dr. Yuri suddenly realized.

"You're talking about night owls, there were once hunters from the west who brought the corpse of this monster to sell on the street, as if they thought that the monster's tail had some magical effect, but he sold it very expensively, and in the end no one bought it, and I have seen the shape of that thing, which is similar to a coyote with a snake's head and a snake's tail."

"Night Stalker... Why is the West called it that? ”

"Because these monsters are always roaming the wasteland in groups at night, silently following and launching sneak attacks, they will attack any creatures of the same kind that they see, which is very dangerous."

Andy nodded, then removed the remaining blood from the last time from the Pip-Boy.

"This is the blood of that monster, you can analyze its composition, theoretically it can be mixed with scorpion glands and cave mushrooms in a certain proportion to make a medicine that can cure disability, according to legend, this is a recipe passed down by a goddess named Hekate who is believed in by the northern tribesmen, and they all worship this man."

Dr. Yuri took the blood and said he would continue his research.

Andy was about to turn away, but before leaving, he remembered something.

"By the way, the shelf life of this medicine is very short, and the tribesmen say that once it is prepared, it should be taken immediately, and the medicine will be toxic after a long time, but the effect after taking it within the expiration date is what I have seen with my own eyes."

Dr. Yuri made a serious note of this.

"Okay, thank you for telling me this formula for free, if I can develop it successfully, you can enjoy the discount of my VIp customers when you come to me for treatment in the future."

He stretched out his arms and posed as a send-off, a man who was so ruthless that he only had a bottle cap in his eyes.

Andy was not in a hurry to leave, he sat in his chair and asked about the progress of other matters.

"How's the addiction solution for kissing going?"

Dr. Yuri put away his notebook and replied with a nonchalant attitude.

"It's coming."

Andy banged on the table dissatisfied.

"What I want is a detailed explanation, how much cap return this recipe might bring you doesn't need me to say, right? Not to mention the special funds promised by the Dodge mayor, when you complete the research and development, you will definitely receive a large military order, will you treat me like this? ”

Dr. Yuri stared up at him for a moment, and finally began to talk about the progress as Andy had hoped.

"In fact, the active ingredient in all the addiction solutions on the market is NFt blockers, and this ingredient is also found in the eggs of radiation scorpions, so some wasteland doctors know how to use this material to make home-made addiction solutions, but the effect is of course much worse. But hot kisses... It works on another level, I think some Atp mixing will work, it still needs some experimentation, and the crazy people who are locked up by Ralph must be perfectly acceptable, otherwise they won't survive for more than a few months if they can continue to get hot kisses to relieve withdrawal... This is not the crux of the matter, the crux of the matter is that the powder called Hot Kiss has begun to circulate in the wasteland, it is cheaper than Jett but more effective, even if the Dodge Mayor orders it, it may not be able to completely stop it. ”

He stopped talking and asked Andy rhetorically.

"How? That's what you're going to hear, so do you understand? ”

Andy didn't quite understand the chemical terms in his mouth, but he understood the last paragraph.

"I'm going to stop it from the source, because I know where the kiss came from and by whom."

Dr. Yuri gave him a surprised look and didn't say anything, just waved his hand again to signal Andy to leave.

Andy stood up, and before leaving, he looked at Dr. Yuri, the man in a spotless white lab coat who completely upended the world's perception of the Followers of the Apocalypse.

"I hope you don't sell those things secretly, you're not missing a few bottle caps."

Dr. Yuri looked at him with a cold face.

"As I said, an accusation without evidence is a false accusation."

Andy waved his hand to indicate that he didn't want to continue arguing with him about whether or not this was true.

"I just hope you have the compassion of a doctor, and it's just the two of us here, aren't we? Save all your, I'm not Sheriff Ralph or Candace Branch President, but I also know that people like you don't get enough bottle caps, even if the patient dies at the hospital gate because he can't get treatment, you don't care at all, like that yellow hat, he's been to you, right, just because you blacklisted him, so you asked him to see a doctor for ten times the price, his bottle caps are not enough, and he died at the top of the dam with a wound, after all... Don't you think there's something wrong with what you're doing? ”

Dr. Yuri gradually put away his cold face and turned to a strange smile.

"There is an old saying, medicine is three parts poison, and this can also be understood in reverse, it is poison and three parts medicine... You never knew how effective Zhuang Ling and Jet were for some diseases, but after I cured them, they always came over themselves and asked me to prescribe more for them under various excuses, depressed people want more Jet, people who are weak think that Strong Spirit will save them, those who are tormented by constant pain and repeated times can't do without Ma Boil-X, can they make them better if they are rejected by them? Is it benevolent to turn a blind eye to their needs? The yellow hat you mentioned is a typical example of making profits by selling drugs and harming others, do you pity this kind of person? ”

Andy realized that he couldn't tell him, or that this kind of person couldn't be persuaded at all, so he didn't waste any more time and walked straight out the door.

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

A few days later, Andy got the news that Dr. Yuri had completed the development of two new drugs.

Dr. Yury's special addiction solution has indeed worked on those addicts who have been kissed, and the madmen who walk with trembling legs are finally freed from that state of insanity, and I don't know if they can finally reflect on this ordeal, or if they fall deeper into it, as for Sheriff Ralph, he is recently leading the police to crack down on the vendors who have just entered the city of Hoover Dam, and once they are found to be in possession of hot kisses, they will be immediately confiscated and destroyed, and fines or direct arrests will be imposed according to the quantity, Let him reflect on himself in the Black Canyon Prison.

At the hospital, Andy also got to see what Dr. Yuri had developed based on the formula he provided.

The container of this drug is actually an old world glass drink bottle that I don't know where to pick up, judging from the remaining trademarks, it looks like it is called Supa Yum, most likely some kind of fruit-flavored sparkling soda, the special thing is that there are several small bottles tied with tape near the bottle mouth, and the small bottle has a slender plastic tube connected to the mouth of the large bottle, it seems that if you lift the big bottle to drink freely, the contents of the small bottles will also be mixed into the drinker's mouth synchronously with gravity.

"Did you name the drug?"

Andy held up the bottle, and this intricate composite design must have had a unique purpose.

"I'm going to call it... Hydra Elixir. ”

Dr. Yuri explains his name.

"In the old world books I read from the library, I once saw a legend that in ancient times, there was a strange snake with nine heads, the father of this strange snake was a hundred dragons, and the mother was a monster with a human head and a snake body, and every time the head of this strange snake was cut off, two would grow, and so on and so on, until a great hero named Hercules slashed him with a sword and a torch, and crushed under a boulder, and his weapon became poisonous because it was stained with the poisonous blood of this snake."

"The name of this nine-headed serpent is Hydra, and I think it's appropriate to name this potion, firstly, it can make people reborn like Hydra, secondly, if the slightest carelessness is disposed of, this potion will turn into a poison that can easily kill people, and finally, the bottles and tubes are intertwined to look like a multi-headed snake."

When Andy heard this story, he immediately thought of the story of the hydra told by Seler, the daughter of Hecate, and the Hercules power boxing gloves he got from Tibbetts Prison, so in the end, they all point to the same old world myths...

"So, you designed this bottle to extend its shelf life, right?"

Dr. Yuri nodded in acknowledgement.

"According to my experiments, as you said before, once several ingredients are blended, the effect will only last for a short time, and after half an hour, the potion will turn into poison, which will greatly reduce its practicality, and the on-site ratio will not work on the battlefield, not to mention that there is no time, and I can't teach everyone to do the correct proportion, so I designed this bottle, and the user can mix several ingredients by the way while drinking with his head up, They then react with the body of the drinker to promote the rebirth of the severed limb, which not only does not pose a risk of poisoning, but also increases the effectiveness of the drug, the only drawback is that it will continue to emit a pungent smell throughout the user's body. ”

Andy put away the bottle of Hydra Potion that Dr. Yuri had given him.

"You should have gotten a big military order, right?"

Dr. Yuri smiled, and at first glance he was satisfied with the harvest that was coming.

"Thanks to the fact that I have been studying the effects of those cave mushrooms before, so I was able to complete it in such a quick time, I simplified its recipe, only one cave mushroom is enough, you seem to have said before that those Buraku people claim that making it requires a delicate blend of multiple cave mushrooms, I think this is just a superfluous part of making it easier for the native shaman to make it more difficult and maintain his own status."

With that, he pulled out a box and pushed it towards Andy.

"This is 1000 bottle caps, the formula you provided really helped me, you seemed to be a little dissatisfied with the last meeting, these should be enough as a reward, I said before that the treatment of your VIP customers is also counting... The only problem is that the blood of those night owls is not enough, I am going to contact the Bounty Hunters Guild to launch bounty hunters, and buy them at a high price in the market, I heard that these monsters are strong in breeding, and they have been flooded in the Mojave Desert to the west, and I am also a victim of harm, right? ”

Andy wanted to say that he wasn't dissatisfied with Dr. Yuri because of the bottle cap problem, but he believed that it was a bad thing to say, so it was better not to say it at all, and he took the thousand bottle caps, and he left Dr. Yuri's hospital, this time he had nothing to worry about in Hoover Dam City.

When she returns to the house, she finds Gillian and tells her that she is going to leave for the south today, much to Gillian's heart.

The two of them bought some food and drink at the top of the Hoover Dam, which they bought at a discounted price because of Andy, and then they returned to the Atomic Humvee, and after feeding Blackie, the car started again, leaving the east gate of the Hoover Dam and driving all the way to the southwest, where the Bloomfield Space Base was located in a remote corner of the Arizonsons.

They were expected to arrive at the Bloomfield Space Center in two days, and Andy had a vague expectation that he would be able to see the highest level of technology in the Old World: space rockets? Gillian, on the other hand, was waiting to be reunited with her friends, and what she didn't say was that she was actually worried about the situation of those partners.....

Just as Andy and the two were driving all the way to the south in the car, in Fort Maxson in the east, a group of Brotherhood of Steel members were nervously looking at the display screen in the conference room, according to the scribe general, the Lost Mountain headquarters of the Brotherhood of Steel in New California finally sent a communication signal after many years, this will be a good news or a bad news, everyone is nervous, because good news is not necessarily "good news", and bad news is not necessarily "bad news", it is this ambivalence of psychology, Many of the people present often sat and lay down in between trainings, and now, it is finally time to reveal the answer.

After a burst of noise and snowflakes, a middle-aged man with a beard and a tired face in a blue elder robe appeared on the screen.

When everyone saw this man, they all stood up and saluted.

"Invincible! Fight for Maxson! ”

The few elders of the Fort Maxson Iron Brotherhood who stood at the front could not hide their excitement in their eyes, because the man who was communicating remotely with everyone on the screen was none other than the Supreme Elder of the Iron Brotherhood at the time: Jeremy Maxson.

Elder Jeremy looked at the crowd and nodded slowly, then squeezed a forced smile out of his stiff face.

His gaze swept over several elders before finally stopping at Elder Blixley.

"Blixley, it's been a long time since we've seen each other, and it's nice to see you all right... What about Niels? ”

Elder Blixley sighed.

"Elder Nils... He was wounded in the head during the battle and is still unconscious. ”

Elder Jeremy lowered his head as if thinking about something, and after a moment, he looked up again and said what he wanted to say in this communication.

"Everyone, stand upright!"

Everyone in the room put their hands behind their waists and their legs apart in a high-head and chest-raising posture, which was a standard gesture for members of the Brotherhood to listen to the teachings of the higher-ups, especially when meeting the Supreme Elder directly.

Jeremy Maxson spoke slowly.

"Since 2242 began to officially send soldiers to Fort Maxson, time has flown like a white horse, and it has been more than ten years in the blink of an eye.

Half an hour later, the Brotherhood soldiers left the conference room and returned to the dormitory, some of them seemed to breathe through a breath, their faces were full of relief, and some of them were just the opposite, their faces were gloomy, and some even hid in the quilt and cried, which was completely unacceptable.

In fact, this half-hour speech is condensed into a paragraph.

The armistice with the NcR has been signed, and the Holy War has come to an end.

This means that the Brotherhood of Steel has given up their previous claim to independence and remains in the Republic as a member of the NcR, just knowing that the only area they can actually control is the Lost Mountain and the military outposts scattered on the outskirts, and most of the administrative divisions of Maxson State will be taken over by the NcR army.

This kind of ending is already decent.

At this time, there were only a few elders left in the conference room.

Jeremy Maxson looked at all the Fort Maxson elders speechless for a long time, and suddenly coughed violently.

"Are you alright?!"

Brixley and the others asked anxiously, and Jeremy Maxson on the screen looked like he was twenty years older than before.

"We tried our best... Countless warriors have paid the price of blood, the sacrifice is enough, I must not let the Lost Mountain become a second Navarro, I can bear this infamy... I was just... It's just that I'm deeply embarrassed about dishonoring the sacred surname of Maxson. ”

Elder Blixley clenched her fists, and she couldn't tell what she was feeling at this point.

"From now on, all military operations will be completely stopped, disengagement with the NcR, and the next directive will be awaited."

The words were dry and difficult, and the half-hour speech that had been before seemed to drain the strength he had left.

Elder Blixley made a report informing Jeremy Maxson that a packet edited by Fort Maxson Scribe had been transmitted to Lost Mountain, containing a statement of a series of rebellions by members of the Circle of Steel during the loss of contact with the Lost Hill headquarters at Fort Maxson, detailing that the members of the Circle of Steel had conducted research on biological and chemical weapons that had desecrated the Codex, colluded with hostile outside forces, violated the Codex Chaining Guidelines, and attempted to subvert There were even incidents such as sending assassins to secretly poison the food of the commander, Elder Blixley.

Elder Jeremy's face was full of sadness when he heard the words "Ring of Steel", and he even said that he knew, and then cut off the communication.

Standing in the dark conference room, the four elders of the Fort Maxson Steel Brothers looked at each other, and no one dared to say what was in their hearts, not even the most arrogant Brixley.

With the final defeat of the protracted sacred war, a political storm will inevitably erupt in the Lost Mountain, and it is extremely scary to think about what the outcome will be.