Last Totem Novel - Chapter 368
Chapter 368 Waste Soil
While Brown and Susan were playing various games, Tie Zha entered Graytower Town. At this moment, he wore a loose gray cloth robe and a headband, covering his tarpaulin uniform and face. This was a common attire for cemetery travelers. Because deep into the radiation zone would cause skin to rot to varying degrees, they were like lepers from ancient times, wrapping their entire bodies in cloth robes and even wearing masks to avoid causing disgust among the local residents.
Along the way, he discovered that the houses in Graytower Town were mainly made of stone, and a small portion of them were made of wood and iron. The overall appearance of the houses was similar to Tieshan Town.
After walking through the cold neighborhood, he arrived at a large half-open plaza. Raising his eyes, he saw that the stalls supported by various kinds of sunshade cloth were endless. Stall vendors and travellers dressed in different clothes were busy, like a colorful ocean. According to Uncle Nuo, this place was called the “Graysoil Market” and was the largest trading place in Graytower Town.
Walking into the market, he was repeatedly shouted at by vendors.
‘”Sir, do you want to treat powder? Anti-inflammatory, hemostatic, purulent and stagnant …” “Military canned food, civilian canned food, lunch meat, roasted pork, fried mud carp, sugar pineapple, honey orange meat …” “All kinds of lubricants, burning agents, car oil, gun oil, sheep oil, kerosene …”
‘”Sir, what do you want? Let me show you …” “Sir, is this your first time here? The things here are good.” There were still some children following behind him, chattering and asking nonstop, wanting to be his guide.
Tie Zha walked between the stalls without saying a word, occasionally raising his head to look left and right. Moments later, he found his first target for the trip-a second-hand motorcycle shop. The shop consisted of three large tents with dozens of old and new motorcycles parked in the middle. At first glance, there were Sandsea Flying Fish from Wilderness Heavy Industries, Hanover Horse from Central Heavy Industries, Cruiser from Western Heavy Industries, and various patchwork unlicensed locomotives.
“Boss, what do you need?” The shopkeeper walked forward, rubbed his hands, and asked enthusiastically.
“Buy a motorcycle.” Said Tie Zha. To travel in the wilderness, you must have a car, otherwise you will not know when you will reach your destination on your own feet.
“What price do you want?” The shopkeeper asked.
“Sandsea Flying Fish.” Tie Zha pointed at a 70% new, silver-white-painted locomotive that looked like a blade on the whole. Flying Sand Fish had been his dream in his youth, and the price-performance ratio was very high. However, ever since he met You Ge, Flying Sand Fish had become the lowest-grade type, so he had never owned it before.
“Boss, you’re really smart. This car is the best in our shop. It only sells for 890 gold …”
“What!” The brand-new Sandsea Flying Fish was only five hundred gold. The shopkeeper’s offer was simply treating him as a fool. Tie Zha narrowed his eyes and raised his head to look at the other party. Two cold gazes immediately shot out, scaring the shopkeeper to the point that he staggered and almost fell to the ground.
Under his gaze, the shopkeeper stammered, “Old … boss … this … this is the price here. If you don’t believe me … ask around … if you don’t believe me …”
“Why?” Tie Zha asked.
“You’ve just arrived, haven’t you?” “This is the Southern Cemetery. Vehicles are several times more expensive than outside,” the shopkeeper continued after the other party nodded. He pointed at the flying fish and said, “The cost of this car is more than two hundred gold, but when we get off the ship, we have to pay a business tax of more than five hundred gold. We can’t sell it at such an expensive price.”
Hearing this, Tie Zha had no choice but to abandon the flying fish and ask the shopkeeper if he had a 200-gold motorcycle.
“How’s this one?” The shopkeeper then pointed to a dark green, heavy, backward-looking wheeled locomotive and said, “The Great Wall Company’s cavalry is durable and leathery, only consuming a little bit of fuel. It costs only 210 gold.”
Looking at this Northern Wilderness locomotive that only sold for 30 gold, Tie Zha felt uncomfortable all over his body. The cavalry didn’t have an airbag, so they could only rely on two large wheels to walk. It was extremely inconvenient. The only advantage was that the motivation was not bad, and the goods could be transported. As for speed, it could only reach at most 100 kilometers per hour. In this era of aerodynamic eruption, it could be described as turtle crawling.
“Great Wall Cavalry, good friend of the Wilderness Traveller, wherever you go, I will follow you to the ends of the earth …” As Tie Zha hesitated, the shopkeeper waiting at the side read the advertisement for this motorcycle. The words were straightforward, and his tone of voice was full of Yin and Yang. It seemed that he often said it.
Tie Zha’s entire body froze when he heard this. He waved his hand and interrupted him, “Alright, this one.” Then he took out his purse, counted two hundred and ten gold coins, and instructed, “Hang two spare tanks, two canvas bags, and fill me up.”
“No problem.” The shopkeeper accepted the gold coins and said.
‘”I don’t understand cars. Choose a good one for me. If something goes wrong halfway” Tie Zha threatened in a low voice.
“I know, I know …” The shopkeeper hurriedly nodded and bowed. “You’re a big shot. I’ll open a small shop. How dare I lie to you!”
Half an hour later, Tie Zha pushed the heavy cavalry out of the second-hand motorcycle shop and arrived at a white tent painted with a red cross. There were all kinds of potions displayed in glass cabinets. A beautiful girl dressed in pure white nurse’s clothing bowed and greeted, “Good morning, sir. May I help you?”
“Let me take a look first.” Tie Zha said casually. He knew that medicines were usually expensive, so he didn’t ask randomly to avoid being looked down upon by the nurse. Then, he passed the girl and walked into the shop, browsing through the medicine on the shelf.
Due to his previous injuries and his accidental entry into the heavy radiation zone, he had used two of the four emergency medical kits he had brought with him, and he had also used seven to eight other medicines. He wanted to buy three kinds of potions this time. They were small needles, Fordling, and various toxin neutralizers. A small needle is a red serum injection containing one milligram of “radium 2315”. After injecting into the blood, it can provide energy and accelerate the recovery of the body’s tissues. It is a type of therapeutic injection that differs from the Fire of Life except in the content and purity of radium 2315. In addition to healing wounds, acupuncture can also quickly restore physical strength. Now, for example, Brown, who was playing all kinds of games with Susan, gave her an injection to prevent her from fainting too quickly.
Fordling was the most common potion in the southern cemetery. Its main function was to neutralize the radiant energy in its body. As for the various toxin neutralizers, they were designed to resist all kinds of mutated organisms, such as the tomb man-eating ants, corpse parasitic wasps, black earth centipedes, bacteriophagous scorpions, and so on. There were all kinds of poisonous sac in their bodies.
Judging from the price tag, the potions here were much cheaper than those in Northern Wilderness, and even cheaper than those in the pharmacies in the Western Continent. It seemed that the World Council and the Temple had put in a lot of effort to use insecticides to control the number of mutated creatures. Motorcycles were vehicles that would speed up the movement of people, so they had to be strictly controlled. Medicine was a necessity for survival, and it was almost the same as food in the southern cemetery, so the price was lowered. Tie Zha couldn’t help but think that if he smuggled cars from the Northern Wilderness and bought large quantities of potions to sell, the profits would definitely be unimaginable.
Before he thought about it, a male voice came from behind him.
“If you see the person on the portrait, let us know that there is a reward of 200 gold.”
“Alright, sir.” The nurse’s obedient voice came from behind.
After the man walked out of the pharmacy, Tie Zha casually walked over and quietly glanced at the portrait in the nurse’s hand. He was immediately shocked. The person on the portrait was him. He hadn’t expected the wanted poster to arrive so quickly that he almost couldn’t breathe. He cursed You Ge, then turned around and left the drugstore. He hurriedly bought a few cans and a tent, as well as supplies for survival in the wilderness, such as kerosene stoves, military shovels, marching cups, and so on. After buying another 100 rounds of shotgun bullets, he drove his cavalry out of Graytower Town.
Not long after leaving Graytower Town, he suddenly remembered that he hadn’t tried those shotguns. He stopped the car, took out the gale gun, and with a “cracking” sound, opened the chamber, loaded two shotguns, and tried firing one shot.
‘”Ka ka ka” He pulled the trigger several times without any reaction. He immediately felt bad, cursing profiteers while hating You Ge, and rode on the motorcycle to continue his journey.
About an hour later, he crossed the bridge at Waterwheel Town and drove into the middle radiation area south of the Sewage River. When they crossed 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 interrogate him was because most of the travelers in the southern cemetery had a certain combat prowess. These people not only liked to hide their appearance, but also had a temper that was extremely irritable and troublesome to examine. Therefore, they usually closed one eye and ignored it if they could ignore it.
Shortly after crossing the bridge, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. He stopped his motorcycle, took out a map and a compass, and began to carefully examine it.
This map was given to him by Ethan and was marked with a lot of information. Wherever Ethan went, there would be a simple description of the basic rules of the area, the stability and the evaluation of the local leaders. This is a compulsory course for traveling in the southern cemetery. The situation here is changing every day. Perhaps the place that was friendly last time will be a new leader next time. It will become a place where strangers are not allowed to enter.
Travelers often exchange information with each other 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.
Tie Zha noticed that there was a stronghold called “Straw Nest” near where he landed last time. The rules were “Laws of Wasteland”, and the stability was high. The leader was called the Scarecrow, and his evaluation was lecherous, brutal, and basically trustworthy. After browsing for a while, he discovered that “lecherous” was not the highest level. There were also “lecherous” and “obscene” on it, while there were “bloodthirsty”, “bloodthirsty”, “cannibalism” and so on on on top of brutality, while there were “watching the mood”, “untrustworthy” and so on under basic trustworthiness.
Throughout the map, that scarecrow is pretty good …