Chapter 10 Iron Flow Iron Wire
Blood splattered on the ground, and headless corpses fell prostrate to the ground, a head clutched in his hand. The legionnaire looked at his captain with Maisheti and the head in his hands.
Just now, he suddenly raised his gun and fired a shot into the distance.
"....." though puzzled, he and the other legionnaires didn't say any nonsense or stand dumbfounded, these well-trained soldiers drew their weapons in unison, put on a fighting stance, watched vigilantly in the direction of the bullets, and with the help of their sunglasses, they were able to avoid the harsh Kansas sun to see a parked vehicle in the distance and two strangers who were standing up.
The regimental officer, with the special decoration on his helmet, put down his gun and looked at Andy and the two indifferently.
"Go take a look, it should be two Discord people passing by, and ask them what they're doing here." The two soldiers standing at the front immediately strode towards the place where Andy and the two were with machetes, their muscular and strong thighs were exposed to the air, and a pair of rough double-headed cowhide shoes under their feet, Andy just pulled the string and got up from the ground, watching the two legionnaires arrive from far to near in the blink of an eye, this terrifying running speed confirmed the terrible individual physical fitness of these soldiers from the side, at least Andy had never seen any NcR soldier close the distance so quickly.
The legionnaire at the head stopped about two meters away from Andy.
"Hey, loyal to Caesar, Discord, what are you doing here?" Andy looked at the two people in front of him, and then at the tribesmen who were kneeling under the butcher's knife, and secretly made a decision.
"Hey, loyal to Caesar, I'm Lord Terrance's man, and I have something to say to your leader." The legionnaires looked at each other as if they couldn't judge, and a moment later the soldier pointed again.
"You come with us, but this breeder slave is not allowed to pass." Andy could hardly believe his ears, although the other party had some central accents, they still spoke the lingua franca, and the word breeding animal was skillful and natural, as if they had always used this word to refer to women.
Xian also raised her eyebrows, and just as she wanted to speak, Andy grabbed her arm and pinched it gently.
"Okay, I'll go alone." Andy followed the two legionnaires to the vicinity of the destroyed village camp, the blood on the ground had not yet coagulated, and many of the tribesmen were so frightened by the terrible situation that they urinated, tears and snot dripping from their faces.
He looked at the legionnaire with a lever rifle, who was wearing wide black goggles, a brown scarf on his face, a helmet on his head with many black and white feather decorations, silver-white spiked shoulder armor on his shoulders, a black armor with silver nails on his upper body, a somewhat tattered black leather skirt underneath, and a pair of decent black leather boots underneath, which was obviously a step away from those ordinary soldiers.
It was the guy who had just fired a shot at him. After whispering a few words to the legionnaires, the man who looked like he was supposed to be an officer of Caesar's legion spoke.
"Ah, hey, loyal to Caesar, I heard that you are a friend in the service of Lord Terrance Standard-bearer, you said you have something to say to me, now say it." Andy looked at him as if he wanted to confirm his identity.
"Can you tell me your name?" The officer shook his head.
"My name doesn't matter, I'm just one of the many legionaries who are loyal to Lord Caesar, as you can see, I'm a decanus, I'm the leader of this team, these five recruits are under my command, you can rest assured that I'll report the situation if necessary." Andy was bewildered by the strange words that popped out of the Legionnaire's mouth from time to time, not words in the lingua franca, but words from some specialized language used in the Legionnaires' realm.
"Lord Terrance has agreed with me on the west side to bring me a piece of information here, it's very important, so it needs toβ" The Legion officer stared at Andy, and instead of listening to him, he was interrupted by a sudden question.
"Master Terrance said he'll be coming back with some barstools soon, do you know exactly when?" Andy was stunned, is this some kind of temptation?
"Well, Lord Terrance is still raising slaves for the reservation in the west, and he may not have time recently..."
"Kill this fraudster!" The two legion recruits closest to Andy immediately drew out Maisheti and slashed at him, the speed and force of the knife were shocking, if he counterattacked in V mode, even if he could kill the two of them first, Andy would inevitably be slashed by the machete at the same time, not to mention that the officer in front of him had raised the lever rifle in his hand again.
The battle potion was pumped into the body, and the time slowed down suddenly, as if it was soaked in glue. Slowly withdrawing between the two machetes, then walked behind a recruit to avoid the gunline, and after a few seconds the pressurization was lifted, the machetes in the recruits' hands slashed into the air, and the officers' bullets missed.
They immediately look for Andy's figure, but before they can find it, the bullet has already hit them.
Monty pythons and rhinoceros roar and shoot bullets, killing the slave holders and executioners of these legions with the blessing of V-Mode.
The tribesmen kneeling on the ground stared up blankly at the mutation in front of them, and in the blink of an eye, the six legionnaires had turned into six corpses.
A silver coin slipped out of the officer's pocket and rolled all the way to Andy's feet, where he picked it up, and sure enough, it was a Legion silver coin.
This metal coin symbolizes the achievements of Caesar's legion in building an economic system in the east, and the obverse of the coin bears a profile portrait of a man with handsome facial features and short hair.
The top and bottom of the portrait are also engraved with letters, which together mean: Emperor Caesar. And flip the silver coin over, the back is printed with the full-body portrait of three people, the one in the middle is still the face of Caesar on the front of the silver coin, and the two people next to him are unknown, as usual, there are letters printed on it, and the meaning of the connection is: The Great Abyss, Andy guessed that this must refer to the Grand Canyon where the Blackfoot tribe was besieged at the beginning.
He kicked the silver coin into his pocket and exhaled, he almost overturned when he first arrived in Kansas, and if it wasn't for the help of the supercharger, he would have been injured even if he could have won just now.
String rushed over to ask Andy if he was okay and was relieved to make sure he was indeed unscathed.
"Why are you so close to them? These people... It's belligerent and cruel. Andy had wanted to talk to the soldiers to get information, but now he couldn't, he looked at the tribesmen in front of him, these guys were just as big as the previous members of the Iron Wire tribe, and it was clear that they couldn't communicate, and just as he was thinking this, one of the tribesmen suddenly opened his mouth and spoke a lingua franca with a thick accent.
"Ni... Ni needle Li Hai, long nest stuffy. Andy fixed his eyes on a young female Buraku and hurried over to untie her.
"How do you speak the lingua franca?" The female tribesman struggled to get up, but her knees, which had been broken by the stones, nearly collapsed.
"Nest, nest sit on the provincial doctor, and nucleate people's blood." The strings looked confused, but Andy was already a little used to it, and he could barely understand the other party's outrageously heavy accent.
"What's your name?" The female Buraku said a name, thought about it, and said another version.
"Alkaya... Pleats... Teach Nest Ashley. Andy told her to untie her kindred, and after a few moments the tribesmen were all free, and they fell to their knees respectfully and thanked Andy for their help.
"What's the name of your tribe?" Ashley replied with a name that Andy expected and was not expected.
"Womb... , sticked. Andy immediately thought of the history of the Wire Tribe that the hangers had brought up before, that the name of the large tribe they belonged to was Tieliu, but after being attacked by Caesar's legion, they split into small groups and fled along the railroad to the west, and changed the name of the tribe to Ironline.
And these people in front of them actually claim to be from the Tieliu tribe...
"I heard that your tribe was destroyed by the Legion." Ashley's face immediately showed a sad look and even tears.
From her utterance, which was extremely difficult to fully understand, it was that a year earlier, the Ironstream tribe, who had settled somewhere in the east and believed in their railroad myth, had been subjected to a devastating raid by Caesar's legions, and a small number of them fled along the railroad in handcarts, while the rest were slaughtered and enslaved.
Ashley's group didn't have time to escape, they were captured as slaves, and the legion drove them to build a new camp, so Ashley and other slaves of the Tieliu tribe moved to the west with a group of other tribesmen who were captured and enslaved by the legion, and a tribe attacked the legionnaires on the way, so Ashley and other Tieliu tribesmen took advantage of the chaos to escape en masse.
A few months ago, they came here along the railroad and stationed there, and according to the prophecy of the shaman among them, the railway would soon be passed by the gods and show them the way forward, so they have been waiting here... But what I was waiting for was a legion squad.
They had no power to resist, they were beaten to their knees on the spot with their hands tied, dragged to their knees under the scorching sun with their hands tied, and after a few hours of exposure, the leader was dragged out and beheaded on the spot.
As a result, Andy happened to run into it. He thought for a moment, and tried his best to explain to Ashley that those of their people who had fled earlier had now arrived at a ring junction in the west, or as the Iron Wire tribe called it in their own vernacular, the 'Great Circle', and that Ashley and the others could quickly take supplies and continue westward along the railway, and when they reached there, they would join their people.
But Ashley stubbornly refuses, claiming that the shaman's prophecy is absolutely correct, and that only the gods can guide them, and only by following in the footsteps of the gods can they reach a place where they can live and work in peace.
Andy is troubled by the primitive religious beliefs of these Buraku people, how can he explain to them that the so-called 'gods' are actually a means of transportation?
To the west, the gods in their eyes were running on the railroad every day, and if they chose to follow each one, they would be too tired to find a place to live.
He tried to say a few words, trying to make Ashley realize that there could be no 'gods' in the east, that no one knew how to repair and run trains here, that there were empty railroad tracks on the ground, that they would never wait for the gods to show them the way, that they would only stay here and die, and that the legion would send someone over.
But Ashley doesn't accept this argument at all, and she even gets angry at Andy for denying their beliefs.
In desperation, Andy had to leave a few words for the tribesmen to fend for themselves, and he had to continue his march towards the Leavenworth prison in the east, but Ashley still seemed unconvinced, telling Andy that someone had witnessed the gods appear on the railroad just a few months ago, which is why they chose to wait here.
Andy frowned and couldn't figure out why there were still trains running on the railroad in Kansas, and if the Legion was trying to restore the rail network?
Impossible, right? Sitting on the atomic Humvee, the string suddenly made a guess.
"Andy, do you think the train they saw could be Prest?" Andy was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized.
Prest and Kollezage did have a train that served as a means of transportation, and it was the same train they had taken to the Dome to get there, and Andy had seen it on the platform when he first approached the Dome area, when he walked into the platform with his dog, only to see the ground full of messes, which had been left behind by Prester's soldiers after fighting the jackals blocking the Dome.
Since scientists such as Dr. Goddard have used ZAx to calculate that Prester may be near Leavenworth Prison right now, it must have been their best choice to travel along the railroad by train, which is why the survivors of the Ironstream Tribe had the opportunity to see the train passing by on the railroad.
Of course, even if they told Ashley about this speculation, they wouldn't be able to understand it.
"It's hard to say, I think it might be like this, then they must be hiding somewhere in the east now, let's hurry over and have a look." Andy thought about it and admonished him again.
"It could be very dangerous... If you really can't, you must stay away and protect yourself. The string shook his head firmly.
"What nonsense are you talking about, I told you before, if we fail, the NcR and the whole world will be destroyed, what else can I talk about to protect myself?" Andy sighed.
"Even if my strength has improved greatly, I am not absolutely sure of defeating a group of them, those soldiers are estimated to have accepted Prester's transformation, and the weapons and equipment should not be bad, if I fail, someone needs to pass on the news, gather more people in the west to stop him, and must not let Prester achieve his goal." String covered his mouth, and the two kissed each other.
Moments later, the two separated.
"I'm sure you can do it, and if you can't, I can't think of anyone else who can."
"If his ambitions are not stopped in the end, and the world repeats the chaos of destruction and social collapse, then there is no need for me to continue to live, so this time, even if it is the worst outcome, at least we will have to die together." Andy looked at the strings in front of him and was really moved by what she said, and in the car, the two hugged each other tightly.