Bring Interstellar to the end of the world

Chapter 160
Of course, the more life-saving things you have, the better.

If he can make Merlot crystals by himself, the improvement of his own strength will not be measured by steps, but should be accompanied by adjectives such as "swinging up to the blue sky".

In the peninsula area, the only person he knows who has researched Merlot crystals is Han Xin's father. Xia Xin learned from there that there is no information that can contribute to the reproduction of Merlot crystals.

In this way, to obtain the technology to prepare Merlot crystals, one must either catch Fan Changfa and obtain the key data stored in the computer of Han Xin's father in the supervisor's room, or find Han Xin's father himself and let that person work for him.

Judging from the current situation, he has no clue about which of these two paths.

Back to the telegram.

The bounty hunter union learned that he had the body of the mud crab king in his hand, so he sent a telegram asking if he had any intention of selling it, and if so, would the bounty hunter union need to contact the buyer for him.

Gao Kai's explanation for the behavior of the Bounty Hunters Union is that the transaction of the body of the Bounty Crab King involves a large amount of money, the union can get considerable commissions, and the leader who facilitates the transaction can also get huge bonuses, so those groups are only interested in profit. Only the guys will deliver services to your doorstep and take the initiative to send telegrams to inquire.

Zang Feng asked him what he planned to do.

Tang Yan didn't answer right away. He glanced at Caiwei who was standing on the balcony watering the azaleas. He picked up the cigarette case on the coffee table and lit a Taishan brand cigarette. He squinted his eyes and took a deep puff.

On the night he returned from the sea, he did not hide the existence of the dead body of the Mire Crab King from the night watch guards at the pier, in order to increase the popularity of the Pandaren Legion.Now the regiment has less than 70 members at full capacity, which can barely meet the security needs of Maxim's Cannery. If they want to continue their work as mercenaries, there is a serious shortage of manpower.

If you don’t continue your job as a mercenary (entrust the market in Gem City to pick up looters, eradicate raging beasts, escort items to their destinations, etc.), and stay idle for a long time at Maxim’s Cannery, your combat effectiveness will inevitably shrink significantly.

In order to get out of this predicament, he plans to issue a recruitment announcement at the right time to recruit new people.

Letting the night watch guards at the pier see the body of the mud crab king is that he is laying the foundation for this matter. Only by showing strong combat effectiveness can it be possible to attract experienced mercenaries to join, rather than those who can't even hold a gun. rookie.

He wanted to give the people in the peninsula the impression that the Pandaren Legion was not a nursing home. Under the conditions of generous treatment and high wages, the enemies they faced were far higher than ordinary mercenary groups.

How could he know that he hadn't started thinking about recruiting yet, but the Bounty Hunters Guild came to him first and wanted to introduce a business to him.

What are the forces that want the body of the Swamp King Crab?
Yanhuang Brotherhood, Jiankang City, District 21... These are the organizations that directly issued rewards in the Bounty Hunters Union. Presumably there are some people or organizations who are not comfortable revealing their intentions, coveting the corpse of the mud crab king.

To be honest, under the condition that the CMC300 power armor has not yet been established, he is unwilling to contact the powerful organizations in the inland area prematurely, which will involve himself and the Pandaren Legion in the vortex of power struggle.

Before the nuclear war, the coastal areas had the most population and the strongest economy. Because of this, compared with the sparsely populated and economically backward inland and western areas, which suffered from a large number of nuclear bombs, the closer to the capital area, the more serious the damage to the land.

Like Qindao City, it used to belong to the central city of the peninsula region.Today, more than 100 years later, it is regarded as a desolate place by the people of the Western Alliance. If it were not for the surrounding area, there are facilities such as No. 1087 Vault, No. 1001 Vault, and the Institute of Physics, as well as pre-war scientific and technological materials, like the Western Alliance. How could such a behemoth attach importance to a "small border town" like Gemstone City, and work hard to support Luo Zuoming to the top?

Tang Yan is very self-aware. Although the special version of the StarCraft system has made his future infinitely bright, he is still very weak now. If those big forces are alerted, he only needs to send one or two planes to the Maxim Cannery to drop a few fat people -Type II nuclear bomb, he can only stare blankly, if he is unlucky, his life will be lost.

"Leader, leader...some people came outside the gate." Tokuko's voice came from outside, interrupting his thinking.

"What's going on?" Tang Yan recovered his thoughts and flicked the ash column between his fingers into the ashtray.

Sanpao next to him interrupted and asked: "Are those dealers in Yuan City and Jicheng coming to cause trouble again?"

Dezi hurriedly came over to report the emergency, so naturally it couldn't be a trivial matter.

"No, it's not people from Yuancheng and Jicheng, it's... some outsiders who want to see the deputy head."

"Who do they think Tang Yan is? See you whenever you want? Others don't need to rest or work?" Sanpao complained from the side.

Tang Yan was struggling with the telegram sent by the bounty hunters' union. He was a little annoyed, and waved at Tokuko: "If it's not a big deal, you can take care of it."

Dezi was very happy to hear him say this, because it represented the trust of the deputy head in him.

However, he hesitated for a while and couldn't help but express his opinion: "Tang Yan... I think... you'd better go over and take a look."

Zang Feng raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, not knowing what happened to Dezi today.

Tang Yan held his chin and thought for a while, then got up from the sofa and walked outside.

Tokuko breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had finally let go of the boulder weighing on his heart.

Sanpao was very curious about what kind of guy came outside, Tang Yan and Dezi left, and he followed behind.

The weather in the afternoon was not very good, the sun was covered by dark clouds, and the wind from the sea was blowing against the factory building, whining.

Tang Yan took Dezi out from the south gate and came to the road that had been filled and leveled.

He saw thirteen people and three rickshaws.The two people in the front were wearing tattered clothes and loose straw sandals. There were visible bruises and scars on their bare skin. There was only sparse hair left on their heads. Their faces were pale, and there were little blood stains under their nostrils.

In terms of age, the two are the oldest, and the youngest is fifteen or sixteen years old.

However, they are the two in the best condition among the thirteen people.

Of the remaining eleven people, four were under the tricycle and seven were on the tricycle.

Among the four people under the tricycle, there was a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old. When he came out, he was holding on to the wheel of the tricycle and vomiting. The saliva mixed with blood fell on the newly built dirt road in bright clumps.

Three tricycles carry seven people. They are all very small, the oldest is no more than 15 years old. They are all thin. Their arms and legs look like slightly bent bamboo poles, so they are not very crowded in the narrow compartment.

Mud and soot were smeared on their faces, and it was hard to tell who was a boy and who was a girl without looking carefully.

Bloodstains spread all over **'s body, the inactive flesh fell off one by one, festered and fermented at the corners of the mouth, scalp, back, thighs, etc. Most of them were infected, and many places began to suppurate with yellow-white mucus.

In the compartment of the last tricycle, Tang Yan saw a little girl wearing sackcloth that could not even cover her private parts. Her chest had stopped rising and falling, and corpse spots began to appear on her body. Ulcers and peeling skin look good.

Her hand tightly grasped the little boy next to her who was in a severe coma. He might be her brother or younger brother. It seemed that as long as two people held hands, they could give her the courage to overcome her fear and endure the pain.

Yet courage has never conquered death.

Pfft!
It was the sound of knees hitting the ground.

The two children with the best mental state in front knelt in front of Tang Yan.

"Please save us..."

He saw scars on the younger boy's head, showing signs of infection.

He saw the shaking arms of the older boy, and the clothes that could not be washed out were stuck to the festering wounds, and the cloth pieces after the pus had solidified were like iron.

Tang Yan withdrew his gaze and glanced at Dezi behind him. Unexpectedly, this guy was unexpectedly caring.

Killing people is the job of mercenaries. Death in the wasteland world is happening every day. Human sympathy has long been obliterated by reality, or ordinary people simply don't have the capital to pity the weak.

Even if you don't have enough to eat or keep warm, your life is in danger at any time, so you can't care about others.

He sighed, looked at the two teenagers kneeling in front of him and said, "Tell me, what do you want me to do?"

He didn't ask how they became like this, because this was a miserable world.

"It's the people from Yuancheng... They killed those who dared to resist in the village, and forced us to mine uranium in the mines in the north." The older boy said with tears: "Without protection and anti-radiation drugs Now, people in the village either died in the mine, or died in the wasteland outside the mine."

"Not only adults, but children in the village were also driven into the mine. They will give us a bite of food only if we hand over the full amount of uranium ore every day."

"No one can come out, except for those who are dying or already dead. Those who forcibly escaped are killed by them."

When the young man said this, the children who could still stand around the tricycle began to cry, and the tears mixed with the dust and blood on their faces and flowed down.

After all, they are children. Even in this era, even if they are used to death, it is difficult to erase the unique fragility of children.

Tang Yan didn't ask what happened to them, what he asked was what they wanted him to do, but for the two teenagers, they not only wanted redemption, but also wanted someone who could listen carefully to what happened to them.

At this time, Tokuko, who was standing behind and whispering to Sanpao who had just arrived at the scene, took a step forward and helped the older boy up.

"Do you want us to drive away the Yuancheng people and rescue the villagers from the mine?"

The young man shook his head: "They will come back, and no one will be able to survive by then."

Sanpao whispered from behind: "Yuan City is also a settlement of wasteland residents after all, why are the people inside more vicious than wilderness predators?"

The boy said: "Because the villagers have led the way for the merchants in Gemstone City many times to avoid the Yuancheng soldiers who blocked the way and charged. We did this only for one bite, because the food produced in the field can last up to half a year after the protection fee is paid. , the next step is to face a life of freezing and starving, if there is no bounty from the merchant, the villagers would have starved to death."

Tang Yan didn't speak.

What can he say?He can't say anything.

The people of Gem City looted Vault 1019, obtained soil improvement methods based on microbial technology, and built Xinghui Farm and Xinghui Ranch near Laoshan. However, even so, the food production could not meet the living requirements of the residents in the city. If necessary, some of them must be imported from the Western Alliance.

From this, we can know how severe the situation faced by the wasteland residents in the Yuancheng area is.

Dezi wanted to let them work in Maxim's Cannery so that they wouldn't have to be bullied by the people in Yuancheng, but he swallowed the words alive.

There are only so many jobs in Maxim's Cannery. If they are recruited, what will the people in Gem City do?What's more, there are old and young people in the village, men and women. It is true that Tang Yan wants to do charity, but it is not the kind of charity that has no bottom line.

Did he save one village, two, three, four... or more?There are hundreds of such medium-sized farms with hundreds of people in Yuan City alone. Can he save them?
"If you didn't come to beg us to send troops to rescue the villagers, why did you come to Maxim Cannery?" San Pao repeated this crucial question.

The young boy said: "We heard that the deputy head of the Pandaren Legion has a very effective anti-radiation potion in his hand, please give us some, so that the villagers can persevere, and there will be another two or three The crops in the field will be ripe in a month, and the Yuancheng people will let us go back to harvest."

"Regeneration injection?" Tang Yan narrowed his eyes, "Where did you hear this news?"

Not many people know that he has a powerful anti-radiation + regeneration potion in his hand. At most, it is spread by drug dealers in Gem City, Allied Forces, Pandaren Legion, Warrior Company and other groups. These teenagers went straight to the door and told him that he had the regeneration potion, how could he not be surprised.

"She is a very good-looking sister... Xiaoyun escaped from the mine a few days ago. We thought she would die outside. Unexpectedly, she came back two days later and miraculously recovered. In her hands Taking an injection and using only a quarter of the dose, she cured the radiation sickness, and she gave the remaining three-quarters to the sickest people in the mine."

"We saw with our own eyes the people who were about to die getting better day by day. The adults asked her where she got the potion, and she said that a big sister who drove by saw her lying in the grass on the side of the road and was about to die. I stopped to take care of her for half a day, saved her life with this potion, and left some food for her."

"She said that the big sister told her a name, saying that he was the deputy commander of the Pandaren Legion, and he was a very good person. Because of the medicine he gave, she was able to save her, and more people suffered from radiation sickness. tormentor."

(End of this chapter)