Radiation Secret

Updated: 2012-08-23

Although this exploration of the wasteland has not yielded any obvious benefits, it is already very good to be able to come into contact with humans in this world.

What needs to be considered now is whether to return to the main time and space immediately, or to stay and observe for a few days?With the loss of the motorcycle and its contents, he's in a bit of a rut.Thinking of this, he took out the map he bought from the old man Buckley at the hotel and spread it out.

According to the map, Ed Town should be located in the northwest of the United States, west of Salt Lake City, near Ontario. Zhou Qingfeng first appeared in the north of Ed Town, which is now a piece of Gobi. off the beaten track.

Zhou Qingfeng raised his head and asked the prostitute with the broken arm: "What's your name?"

Xu Shi felt that there was no danger. The prostitute with a broken arm was sharing condensed milk with her daughter beautifully. For those who lived at the bottom of the wasteland, this was a rare luxury.

Hearing Zhou Qingfeng's inquiry, she regained the enchantment of several professions, and said with a smile: "My name is Naomi. Like my daughter, I don't know who my father is, so I don't have a surname. I don't want to know either." What should my last name be? What about you? What is your name, Mr. Generosity?"

"Me? Uh?" Zhou Qingfeng scratched his head.

"If you don't want to say it, forget it, you are already the most polite man I have ever met."

Zhou Qingfeng said in his heart that I don't have an English name at all, how can I tell you?He shrugged and said, "Call it whatever you want, I'm trying to get a name too."

"Let me name you?" Naomi was surprised.

"Yes." It's cool to let a pure wasteland man choose a distinctive wasteland name, isn't it?

Naomi giggled, "How about calling you Victor Hugo?"

"Victor? Seems good." Zhou Qingfeng lowered his head and thought for a while, it seemed to be the name of a great writer, "How did you come up with this name?"

"Ah," Naomi sighed deeply, looking out, caught in some kind of memory.

After a while, Naomi said slowly: "At that time, my mother hadn't passed away. I was a little girl who didn't understand anything, just like Emma. Whenever I cried because of the hardship of life, my mother I would find a book found in the ruins of the city and read the sentences to me. I once asked my mother, who wrote this book? My mother also said that she didn’t know, so we read the book together. , I thought it was written by a guy called 'The Publishing House', and my mother said no, it was written by a guy called Victor.

I don’t know where that book is long ago, and I have long forgotten the contents of the book, but I still remember that afternoon when I flipped through the book and argued, my mother and I were leaning against the corner of a ruined building, and the sun was shining on us. Warm and hungry, we leaned together weakly until a radiated rat appeared in front of us and became our dinner.

That winter afternoon appeared in my dreams several times, as did the happy quarrel with my mother and the name Victor.

Would you like to be called Victor?gentlemen. "

Zhou Qingfeng stared at the woman in front of him for a long time, with mixed emotions in his heart, and felt unspeakably uncomfortable, "It's a great honor for me to get this name, thank you, Ms. Naomi."

"You are really special, in this town, no, not only here, I'm sure, in this world, at least 90.00% of people have a painful memory, for anyone else, there is absolutely no interest in listening to me Memories, because they all have similar memories themselves.

But you listened quietly, you are such a strange person. "

Zhou Qingfeng didn't want to discuss this. He stretched out his hand and frowned, adjusted his emotions, and said seriously, "Naomi, are you familiar with Edtown and its surrounding towns?"

"Of course, my customers live in these towns, and they always like to chat with me after every business. Although I seldom leave Ed Town, I'm still very well informed, um, There is less news this year. Because my business is not good." When she said this, Naomi reached out and touched her broken arm unconsciously. [

"Can you tell me about it?" What a surprise, Zhou Qingfeng had already prepared the recording pen.

"So you are a strange person. I have never seen anyone go to a place that I am not familiar with easily, and it seems that you are alone. Let me think, the way you look this morning, are you in trouble? "

Zhou Qingfeng just raised his eyebrows and didn't speak.

"It's quite mysterious!" Naomi opened the canned fruit, shared it with her daughter, and told what she knew.

Ed Town is an agricultural town mainly engaged in animal husbandry. Its main salable commodities are beef, cowhide and a small amount of crops.The entire town is controlled by the Ston family in the town, but the person in charge of the family is not surnamed Ston.

William Hudgens, the actual controller of Edtown, the son-in-law of the former patriarch Normanston, has been working hard for the growth of the Ston family for nearly 20 years. They all believed that without his leadership, Ed Town would not have developed from an ordinary village with only about [-] people to a town with a population of nearly [-].

Mild temper, flexible, very popular.

But this old man is over 70 years old this year. In the wasteland, 70 years old is already a very long life.It is said that when he was born, the nuclear war had not yet broken out, and the world was still so beautiful!But it also means that he might not wake up that day to meet God.

In the past, it would not have been a big problem who would lead Ed Town, but now, nearly 3000 people live in Ed Town, dozens of surrounding villages, and seven or eight towns rely on Ed Town to supply meat.The leather processing industry in the nearby town of Enid needs cowhide raw materials from Ed Town, and the grain, wood, and daily handicrafts produced in Marion Town need the market of nearly 3000 people in Ed Town, while Newburgh, a gathering place of bandits, is coveting The wealth accumulated over the years in Edtown.Case Firm, which is now in the same situation as Zhou Qingfeng, was opened by a retired bandit leader in Newburgh.

Merchants from Martinborough in the west also often come here to do business.

Another thing to note is that the area where Ede Town is located belongs to a loose regional regime called the Northwest Alliance. Ede Town provides this regime with a lot of tax revenue and output every year. It is the development of the Northwest Alliance to the north. an important support point.

The Northwest Alliance has proposed to William Huggins several times to strengthen cooperation and integration, such as accepting the sheriff sent by the alliance, building roads according to the alliance's plan, or accepting loans from the Northwest Savings Bank, etc.

There is both interdependence and conflict between the Union and Edtown.But generally speaking, the league definitely does not want major changes in Edtown.

If William Huggins dies, according to the oath he made to his father-in-law when he took over Edtown, he will guard Edtown and return the power to his brother-in-law Celeston in the future.

It's a pity that what Normanston did not expect at the time was that his son-in-law was so capable, he forcibly developed a small village of cattle raising into a vibrant town, let alone It turned out that although his son Celeston was more than ten years younger than William Huggins, he also went to heaven with him ten years ago.

So, who is most likely to be Edtown's heir?

Celeston's son Billiston?

Do not…

Miller Hudgens, son of William Hudgens, of course.

Miller Huggins, who is in his forties this year, is in his prime. He has helped his father deal with various things since he was a child. He is almost a replica of his father. He is elegant, confident, and young. Almost everyone supports him to inherit William Huggins s position.

Almost all..., that is to say, there are always some frustrated people who are not reconciled, and Billiston is not reconciled.

"There has always been a rumor in Edtown that Billiston didn't want Miller Huggins to become the ruler of Edtown, so he did not hesitate to cooperate with the bandits in Newburgh in exchange for the other party's money. Support, but after this rumor was known by Billiston, he once beat up several businessmen who discussed this rumor in a bar, and denied the authenticity of the rumor. Unfortunately, few people in the town believe him now "The condensed milk and cans have already been eaten, Naomi shook the empty cans, and smiled at her daughter Emma, ​​both mother and daughter looked very satisfied. [

Emma didn't look at Zhou Qingfeng with the same fear as before. Children who grew up in the wasteland can almost naturally judge who is good to them and who is malicious to them.

"Emma, ​​go and boil some hot water and make some dinner. I think this Mr. Victor is going to stay at our house tonight. After all, this man has paid so much money, we also need to provide corresponding services. Okay." The little girl jumped off her mother, went to the kitchen, and deliberately made a face when she passed by Zhou Qingfeng.

By the way, since Zhou Qingfeng took off her clothes when Zhou Qingfeng broke in in the morning, she has been naked all the time. Even if the situation in the room has eased now, she has no intention of putting on her clothes at all.

He just sat naked on the edge of the bed, crossed his legs, and calmly faced the unscrupulous gaze of the man in front of him. "Do you still want to hear from me?"

"Of course, you say."

There is a militia of more than 200 people in Ed Town. It may not be as equipped and trained as the regular army, or even the bandits in the wilderness, but even so, it is the most powerful armed force in the area around Ed Town. , the commander of this militia organization is Miller Huggins.

But even so, the threat of mutant creatures in the wild and wandering gangs is real. In order to balance defense and commerce, Ed Town built the model of inner fortress and outer market.