Doomsday Totem

Chapter 368 Wasteland
While Brown and Susan were playing various small games, Iron Slag entered Huita Town.At this moment, he was wearing a loose gray cloth robe and a hood covering his tarp military uniform and face.This is a common attire for travelers in the cemetery, because going deep into the radiation zone will cause skin ulceration to varying degrees, so they are like lepers in ancient times, wrapping their whole bodies in cloth robes, and some even wear masks. so as not to arouse the resentment of the local residents.

Along the way, he found that the houses in Huita Town were mainly made of stone, and a few were made of wood and iron sheets. The overall appearance was similar to that of Tieshan Town.

After walking for a while in the cold neighborhood, he came to a large semi-open-air square.Looking up, there are endless stalls with shade cloths of various colors, and vendors and travelers in different costumes are busy among them, like a colorful ocean.According to Uncle Nuo, this place is called "Hui Du Market", and it is the largest trading place in Huita Town.

Walking into the market, vendors kept yelling at him.

"Sir, do you want healing powder? Anti-inflammatory and hemostatic, remove pus and blood stasis..." "Canned food for military use, canned food for civilian use, luncheon meat, braised pork, fried dace, pineapple in syrup, orange meat made with honey..." "Various lubricants , fuel, car oil, gun oil, sheep oil, kerosene..."

"Sir, what do you want? I'll take you to see..." "Sir, is this your first time here? The things here are very good." Some children followed behind, chirping and asking non-stop, wanting to do something his guide.

Iron Slag walked between the stalls without saying a word, occasionally raising his head to look around.After a while, he found the first target of the trip - a second-hand car shop.The store consists of three large tents, with dozens of old and new locomotives parked in the middle.At a glance, there are "Sand Sea Flying Fish" from Wilderness Heavy Industries, "Hanover Warhorse" from Central Heavy Industries, "Cruiser" from Western Heavy Industries, and various unlicensed locomotives.

"Boss, what do you need?" The owner stepped forward, rubbed his hands, and asked enthusiastically.

"Buy a locomotive." Iron Slag said.To travel in the wilderness, you must have a car, otherwise you will not know when you will be able to reach your destination with your feet alone.

"What price do you want?" the shopkeeper asked.

"Sand Sea Flying Fish." Iron Slag asked, pointing to a locomotive that was about [-]% new, painted in silver and white, and looked like a blade overall.Sand Sea Flying Fish used to be his dream when he was a teenager, and it was very cost-effective, but since he met You Ge, Sand Sea Flying Fish has become the lowest-end type, so he has never owned it.

"Boss, you really know the goods. This car is the best product in this store, and it only sells for 890 gold..." the owner introduced.

"What!" The brand-new Sand Sea Flying Fish only cost more than 500 gold, and the owner's offer simply took him for a fool.Tie Slag narrowed his eyes, raised his head and stared at the other party, two icy eyes shot out suddenly, the shopkeeper staggered in fright, and almost fell to the ground.

"Old...boss...here...here is the same price, if you don't believe it...you can ask around..." Under his gaze, the shopkeeper stammered and explained.

"Why?" Tie Slag asked.

"You just arrived here, right?" After the other party nodded, the shopkeeper continued, "This is the southern cemetery, and the car is several times more expensive than outside." He pointed to the Shahai Feiyu and said, "This car The cost price is more than 200 gold, but we have to pay a commercial tax of more than 500 gold when we disembark, there is no way we can sell it so expensive."

Hearing this, Tie Slag had no choice but to give up Shahai Feiyu, and asked the shopkeeper if he had a locomotive worth around two hundred gold.

"How about this?" The shopkeeper then pointed to a dark green wheeled locomotive with a bulky shape and outdated style and said, "The big iron cavalry of the Great Wall Company has durable leather, but it consumes a little fuel, and it only costs 210 gold."

Looking at this locomotive that only sold for 100 gold in the Northern Wilderness, Tie Slag felt uncomfortable all over.The big cavalry has no jet bags and can only walk on two big wheels, which is very inconvenient.The only good thing is that the power is not bad, and it can carry goods.As for the speed of the car, it can only reach more than [-] kilometers per hour at most. In this era of explosive aerodynamics, it can be described as a turtle crawling.

"The great cavalry of the Great Wall, a good friend of the wilderness traveler, I will go wherever you go, and follow you to the ends of the earth..." While Tie Zha was hesitating, the shop owner who was waiting by the side read the advertisement for this motorcycle.Those words are catchy, with a tone of yin and yang, it seems that he often repeats them.

Tie Slag felt goosebumps all over his body, waved his hand, interrupted him and said, "Okay, this one." Then, he took out his money bag, counted 210 gold coins, and then ordered, "Hang up two spare fuel tanks. , two canvas bags, and fill me up with gas."

"No problem." The shopkeeper said as he accepted the gold coin.

"I don't know much about cars, pick a good one for me, if something goes wrong along the way..." Tie Slag threatened in a deep voice.

"I know, I know..." the shopkeeper quickly nodded and said, "You are a big shot, so I will open a small shop, how dare I lie to you!"

Half an hour later, Iron Slag pushed a heavy iron rod out of the second-hand car shop and came to a white tent painted with a red cross.Various potions are displayed here in glass cabinets. A pretty girl in a pure white nurse uniform stepped forward and bowed to salute, and said, "Good morning, sir. May I help you?"

"Let me take a look first." Tie Slag said casually.He knew that medicines were usually very expensive, so he didn't ask random questions, so as not to be looked down upon by the little nurse.Afterwards, he passed the girl, walked into the store, and browsed the medicines on the shelves.

Due to the last injury and the stray into the heavy radiation area, two of the four emergency medical kits he carried were used up, and other medicines were also used up.There are mainly three kinds of medicines he wants to buy this time, namely small healing needles, fortin and various toxin neutralizers.The small therapeutic needle is a red serum injection containing one milligram of "Radium 2315". After being injected into the blood, it can provide energy and accelerate the recovery of body tissues.It is the same type of therapeutic injection as "Fire of Life", but the content and purity of radium 2315 are different.In addition to healing wounds, healing needles can also quickly restore physical strength.For example, now, Brown, who was playing various small games with Susan, gave her an injection to prevent her from passing out too quickly.

Fordling is the most common potion in southern cemeteries, and its main function is to neutralize the radiant energy in the body.As for various types of toxin neutralizers, they are used to resist various mutated organisms, such as tomb man-eating ants, corpse parasitoids, black soil centipedes, fungus-eating poisonous scorpions, etc., all of which have various poison sacs in their bodies.

Judging from the price tag, the medicines here are much cheaper than those in the Northern Wilderness, even cheaper than the pharmacies in the western continent.It seems that the World Council and the Temple have spent a lot of thought in order to control the number of mutated creatures by using the worms.The locomotive is a means of transportation and will speed up the flow of people, so it must be strictly controlled. Medicine is a necessity for survival. In the southern cemetery, it is almost the same as food, so the price has been reduced.Iron Slag couldn't help thinking that if vehicles were smuggled from the Northern Wilderness, and then bought a large amount of medicine to sell back, the huge profits would be unimaginable.

Before thinking, a male voice came from behind.

"If you see the person in the portrait, please let us know. There will be a reward of two hundred gold."

"Okay~ sir." The little nurse's obedient voice came from behind.

After the man walked out of the pharmacy, Tie Slag walked over seemingly casually, glanced at the portrait in the little nurse's hand calmly, and was suddenly surprised that the person in the portrait was himself.He didn't expect the arrest warrant to come so quickly, it almost made him breathless.He cursed You Ge secretly, then turned around and left the pharmacy, hurriedly bought a few boxes of canned food and a tent, as well as kerosene stoves, military shovels, marching cups and other outdoor survival supplies, and bought a hundred rounds of shotgun Bullets, and left Huita Town in a big cavalry.

Not long after leaving Huita Town, he suddenly remembered that he hadn't tried those shotguns, so he stopped the car, took out the Gale Gun, opened the magazine with a "click", loaded two shotguns, and tried to fire a shot. .

"Ka Ka Ka..." The trigger was pulled a few times in a row, but there was no response.He was in a bad mood all of a sudden, scolding the profiteers and resenting You Ge, he got on the motorcycle and continued to set off.

About an hour later, he crossed the bridge in Waterwheel Town and drove into the middle radiation area south of the Sewage River.When crossing the bridge, the four guards on the bridge were all playing cards, and no one paid any attention to him.The reason why they didn't step forward to question them was because most of the travelers in the southern cemetery had certain combat power.These people not only like to cover up their appearance, but also have a particularly violent temper, which is very troublesome to check, so they usually turn a blind eye and ignore it if they can.

Not long after crossing the bridge, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, stopped the locomotive, took out the map and compass, and looked at them carefully.

This map was given to him by Ethan, with a lot of information marked on it, but wherever Ethan has been, there will be a simple explanation, local basic rules, stability and evaluation of local leaders.This is a compulsory course for traveling in the southern cemetery. The situation here is changing every day. Maybe the place that was friendly last time will change to a leader next time, and strangers should not enter.

Travelers and travelers often exchange information in order to avoid danger and increase the probability of survival.

Generally speaking, the higher the stability of the gathering place, the lower the probability of leadership change, and the safer it is.

Iron Slag noticed that there was a stronghold called "Straw Nest" near where he landed last time, the rule was "Wasteland Law", the stability was high, the leader was Scarecrow, and the evaluation was lustful, cruel, and basically trustworthy.After some browsing, he found that "lust" is not the highest level, there are "lewdness" and "lewdness" on it, and "bloodthirsty", "killing" and "cannibalism" on cruelty, and "basic trustworthiness" "Depending on the mood", "unbelievers" and so on.

Looking at the whole map, the scarecrow is not bad...

(End of this chapter)