"No. 16? That should be a number assigned by homeless people. I've never heard of it." After staring at the map for a long time, Jack nodded affirmatively, "Yes, this is it."
"Let's go then." Qiu Yu put the things left by the woman into his big bag, and then handed the bag to Jack. After thinking about it, he simply gave Coulomb's bag to Jack. Anyway,
Supported by futuristic low-friction universal wheels, these things together won’t be too heavy to pull.
After a while, the medicine given by Qiu Yu really took effect, and coupled with the mutant's good physique, just walking was not a problem for Coulomb. After picking up the submachine gun that seemed to be undamaged, the three of them
Finally embarked on the normal trajectory of destiny again.
When the RV became a tiny black dot in his sight, Jack relaxed and said to himself, "Is there something in the RV..."
"Yes." Qiu Yu never hesitated to share his knowledge with others. He looked at the map and said, "Did you see the bent iron rod in the hand of the beastly mutant? That is what makes women suddenly lose their minds.
thing."
Jack asked curiously, "Is that iron rod special?"
"It's quite special. There is a machine that can pump up water from the ground as long as it is twisted hard, and the iron rod is an important part of this machine."
Qiu Yu's tone was completely as if he was talking about a topic that had nothing to do with him, but to Coulomb and Jack, it sounded like he was saying that he had just picked up a box of bullets, but he threw the box away because he thought it was troublesome.
.
After confirming that Qiu Yu was not joking, Jack breathed heavily and said, "You mean, that RV is a cover to cover the underground water source?"
"Yeah, don't you think it's strange that the car would be parked in the wilderness far away from the road? No one would put that effort into putting the car in such a conspicuous place and exposed to direct sunlight, right?"
Qiu Yu still looked at the map carefully.
"Then tell me, is there still water there now?"
Jack's voice has completely changed its tone. In this era, the value of a low-radiation water source is more fatally attractive than a national treasury before the war.
"The beastly mutants have been occupying that place, and the woman didn't look disappointed at all, and was quite anxious to drive us away... There must be water there."
"Then let's..." Jack's hand was tightly on the gun, and when he turned around to look, Coulomb also had a strange expression.
"Let's forget it." Qiu Yu looked away from the map and looked back with squinted eyes, "Even if you kill her, you won't be able to get the water source. Instead, you will risk your own life.
"
"What do you mean?" Jack's heated brain immediately calmed down.
"If what she said about Bergondo is true, then where do you think the people who found the things and left with her are?"
After Jack was stunned for a moment, he suddenly looked around nervously.
Qiu Yu smiled and said, "Don't look at it. If you could really find them, they would have been discovered by nomads who are more adapted to the wilderness than you."
Jack was unwilling to say, "Then how can you be sure that the female vagrant is being followed?"
Qiu Yu asked, "Then how are you sure she is not being followed?"
Jack was choked by the question and speechless.
Qiu Yu studied the map again, "So don't risk your life on things you are not sure about. Stay with me. As long as I am still alive, I will definitely give you a satisfactory reward."
After Jack and Coulun looked at each other for a while, they could clearly see that the remaining heat in each other's eyes was quickly disappearing because of Qiu Yu's words.
"Huh?"
After Qiu Yu turned to a page of a map of the seaside, his face was filled with various complicated expressions in an instant.
"Any questions?"
Coulomb and Jack both moved next to Qiu Yu and looked at the map.
On this page, a big black arrow was drawn pointing to the sea. The person who drew this arrow should have used a very thin pen, but the person who drew it seemed to emphasize the importance of this arrow, so he carefully drew it.
The arrows are painted the thickness of a thumb. Next to the black arrows, there is a row of words also painted thickly.
Knowing what the two wanted to ask, Qiu Yu read out the words, "Go straight from here and you will reach the paradise of dreams, the city of ashes."
Hearing the words "City of Ashes", Coulun was okay, but the expression on Jack's face immediately became richer than Qiu Yu's just now, "City of Ashes! It's actually the direction of the City of Ashes!"
"What is the City of Ashes?" Coulomb asked.
"The City of Ashes is said to be built on a small island in the ocean, far away from radiation and mutated animals. Everything there is as it was before the war. Almost everyone who has heard of it dreams of going there.
"
Qiu Yu slowly said, "This legend should have been circulating for a long time, right?"
After experiencing the blow from the gray ball of light, this city should no longer be able to develop peacefully. And from the last game, it seems that the material conditions there are not very good, and it is difficult to complete the natural development in a small area.
cycle. In addition, radiation cannot be completely blocked by the sea.
"It's been some time." Jack found that every time he got excited, he would always be brought back to reality by Qiu Yu's simple words or two, "Forget it, why am I excited? Just knowing a direction may not make it possible."
Get there. What’s more, the mutated creatures in the sea are countless times more powerful than those on the ground. Even if they can know the exact location, few people should be willing to risk their lives. I think since this legend appeared, no one has ever been able to actually go there.
Get there."
"You said the sea is much more dangerous than on the ground?" Qiu Yu suddenly closed the map manual.
"Yes." Jack nodded blankly, "The creatures in the sea have mutated to the point of being completely unbelievable. A few years ago, when we were in the settlement we are going to now, we often heard about mutated creatures in the sea.
. Some people say that there are big fish in the sea with bodies that are harder than steel, and even grenades cannot damage them. Some people say that they have seen groups of small fish coming out to hunt collectively, and the entire sea surface has been dyed in a few minutes.
Dark red. The most outrageous one is a man who claimed that he used to live on an abandoned giant oil tanker. The reason he was forced to leave there was because the tanker was bitten in two by a snake several hundred meters long."
Qiu Yu frowned and reopened the map, and turned to the page where Bergondo was located, "Have you ever heard of a powerful creature that looks like a mutant coming out of the sea?"
"I've heard." It was Coulomb who spoke this time. "There was a kind of sea monkey that could leave the water for a short time. Although it was only half the size of a normal person, it was quite ferocious. Two or three of them could kill one.
A beast-turned-mutant. However, the appearance and size are more like that of a monkey, so it should be impossible for people to recognize him as a mutant."
"Speaking of mutants..." The question is rather complicated. Qiu Yu paused and then said, "Not only mutants, but also all kinds of creatures on land should be able to recognize their pre-war prototypes at a glance, right?"
"Listen to what you said, it is true." Jack nodded repeatedly, "In the underground shelter, no one had time to teach me how to read and write, but there were survival lessons, and one of them was to let us watch the war.
The previous animal maps. Although all animals have mutated, as long as you compare it with these maps, you can recognize it at a glance."
"That's right. Mutation is not the rebirth of a new species. No matter how the mutation is, it is just equivalent to adding or subtracting flesh and blood and functions to the original skeleton. Even if it is really possible to make one animal completely different due to radiation mutation
species, that is definitely not something that can be achieved in just a few decades.”
"What happened to the things in the sea? Even if those legends are exaggerated, they are not completely unbelievable. So according to what you said, those fish..."
"Because they did not mutate due to radiation...at least not all of them." Qiu Yu turned his head and looked to the west, but it was still too far from the sea and could only see a vast wilderness. At the same time as he looked away, Qiu Yu opened his eyes again.
He picked up the map in his hand and said, "Judging from the introduction on the map, although the place where Bergondo is located is surrounded by the sea to the west and north, the west side is full of impassable cliffs, while the north side is a beach that protrudes into the sea.
The homeless man said that the mutants who attacked Bergondo left from the north. Normal thinking would naturally lead to thinking that they continued walking from the beach to the north. However, if those things started from the north when they attacked, the attack would end.
If you leave from the north again..."
"They emerged from the sea and returned to the sea!" Cullen exclaimed, "They are not mutants at all, they are probably sea monkeys or other sea creatures!"
This speculation caused both Cullen and Jack to fall into great uneasiness. Although too many incredible things have happened in this end of the world, humans are still barely the masters of the entire world. If Bergondo was destroyed by mutants
, this is still a war between humans. But if it is really caused by monsters with unknown prototypes coming out of the sea, then this will be a comprehensive confrontation between fragmented human society and emerging species that may be highly intelligent. More
Sadly, humans seem to be at a comprehensive disadvantage in every aspect.
"Let's go to the beach and have a look." Qiu Yu suddenly said.
"No..." Jack realized his gaffe after he yelled. After trying to relax for a few seconds, "If it's really like what you said, you may encounter those monsters at any time on the beach. Even Bergondo will be killed in an instant.
If we are destroyed by them, it will be even more impossible for us to escape. And if you guessed wrong and those are indeed mutants, then they are coming to the north now. We will definitely run into them as we walk towards the seaside, which is also very dangerous.
"
"I think Jack is right. We don't need to take risks. When we get to the settlement ahead, a few bullets will be enough for us to find out everything we want to know." Cullen responded nervously.