Pasha is a very capable woman.
She is about 1.72 meters tall and weighs about 60 kilograms. She has a well-proportioned figure but strong muscles. She should exercise a lot in daily life. This means that she will not be a burden to Su Ziyu, but it also means that the demand for food for the two people will increase significantly.
They quickly found a water source that looked quite clean, but when Pasha put a pointer of the mechanical watch into the water source, it showed "slightly polluted water."
"There shouldn't be any cleaner water nearby." Pasha licked her dry lips.
A person needs at least 1,500 milliliters of water a day. A person can go without eating for several days, but he will die as long as he does not drink water for three days.
Su Ziyu glanced at her and nodded slowly, and the two of them leaned down at the same time to replenish the missing water in their bodies.
Vigorous exercise will increase the body's perspiration. It may not be a problem for a short period of time, but as long as symptoms of dehydration appear, the entire person's condition will decline rapidly. The water here is very clear, and there is no peculiar smell when drinking it. However, after two people drank it, their radiation pollution index increased by about 1%. The mechanical watch on Pasha is very interesting. It looks like a high-tech personal terminal. It can not only detect its own status, but also store some data and have certain analysis capabilities. What if some skills are added to it? It looks like a physical version of some system.
Before dark, they finally found a prey.
The prey looked a little scary. It looked like a deer, but it had two faces, as if the heads of two deer were squeezed together and then part of them was cut off and sewn together. But fortunately, its body is still normal, except for some mottled patterns on its body. Otherwise, the perilla fish would really not know whether it would dare to eat it.
"Radiation distortion." Pasha explained to the fish while using a tactical dagger to handle the prey in front of her: "Eating it may cause the radiation pollution index to increase, but we can't find better food."
"Is it right?"
Su Ziyu felt that she seemed to be aware of something, because he was indeed a bit out of tune with this era and everything here.
The meat is very fragrant.
It tasted pretty good, but the radiation pollution index rose again after eating. The radiation pollution index of perilla fish was close to 2%.
The two of them chose a relatively safe leeward place to spend the night. After lighting the bonfire, Pasha kept looking at him up and down. Only then did Su Ziyu have the energy to carefully observe the woman in front of him. She looks quite beautiful. Westerners look similar in his eyes, but he can still tell whether she is good-looking or not. Her skin is a little dark, wheat-colored, not as fair as Su Ziyu, and there is a small scar at the corner of her eye, but It doesn't affect the overall appearance. He still has a sharp aura, there are calluses on his hands, his abdominal muscles are more obvious than him, his arms and thighs are very strong, and the whole person looks a little cold and murderous.
"I'm waiting for you to ask me the time." Pasha stared at Su Ziyu for a while and said suddenly.
Su Ziyu's expression was stunned, but he didn't speak.
He spoke very little the whole way.
Because the more you talk, the easier it is to expose yourself.
"It is now 20:45 on January 25, 2169. More than a hundred years have passed since the Great Disaster Day." Pasha stared closely at Su Ziyu's eyes, seeming to observe the changes in his expression, concentrating. The voice said: "You are not actually a wilderness hunter, right?"
"You just came out of the shelter."
Su Ziyu couldn't help being startled when he heard this, but slowly asked: "How did you know?"
"I have seen people who came out of the shelter. You have an aura that is incompatible with this era." A smile appeared on the corner of Pasha's mouth, and she gradually looked confident, and said slowly: "It seems that you came out alone. , and you just lived in the wilderness, otherwise you wouldn’t have entered the Southern Cross! All the scavengers nearby know that it is a place of death!”
"Although you hide it well, you can't hide it from an experienced hunter."
The corners of Pasha's mouth raised slightly, as if she was happy to see through Su Ziyu's identity. She continued: "There is a malfunction in your shelter? Are you the only one still alive?"
People who come out of shelters are generally well-equipped. Su Ziyu looks like a savage. It is very likely that he escaped from the shelter and did not have time to pick up the equipment inside.
Su Ziyu said nothing because he didn't know how to answer.
But Pasha seemed to think that he didn't want to say more, so she hesitated and said: "I am a member of the [Freedom]. This time I entered the Southern Cross to complete a very important mission. Don't worry. We are committed to the shelter. I have no interest in the wealth inside. If possible, I would like to invite you to join our organization."
"Free man? Join you?" Su Ziyu frowned slightly.
"Yes." Pasha's expression gradually became serious: "You have been sleeping in the shelter for too long. You have no idea what earth-shaking changes have happened outside!"
"Civilization has left us."
"It was a barbaric time."
"For more than a hundred years after the Catastrophe, those plutocrats gradually took control of our world. They enslaved others to work for them, and at the same time controlled the most important resource in the world today - medicine!"
Pasha's tone gradually became a little excited, and she gritted her teeth and said: "This is an injection to eliminate radiation, and these are pills to reduce radiation."
"These things are firmly in the hands of those plutocrats!"
"After the catastrophe, the entire world was completely changed by the huge radiation. Now everything around us is contaminated by radiation. Even if we eat clean food and drink purified water, our bodies will Radiation contamination accumulates bit by bit, and only these drugs can eliminate it."
"My parents died because they had no money to buy medicines. They left their last injection of medicine to me."
"We are free and we are rebels!"
Su Ziyu couldn't help but fell silent after hearing this. He seemed to be digesting the information. After a moment, he raised his head and said, "What are you doing in that city?"
"Looking for the formula of a medicine to eliminate radiation." Pasha's voice gradually became lowered: "If you want to return this world to civilization, you must first break the monopoly of the plutocrats on medicines. It is said that there is a method to eliminate radiation in a laboratory in the Southern Cross. Radiation Potion Recipes.”
"But we failed. There were too many wights there!"
"Ghoul?" Su Ziyu asked doubtfully.
"A kind of monster that appears after the catastrophe. It is difficult to deal with. If you get close to them, you will be seriously contaminated by radiation." Pasha smiled and said: "By the way. You are very skilled. Those corpses are very strong and can move easily." Swift, I rarely see anyone kill them with cold weapons.”
Su Ziyu asked: "Can't you research the formula of the medicine yourself? Why do you have to find it in such a dangerous place?"
"It can't be done." Pasha shook her head and smiled bitterly: "One of the ingredients in these potions involves genetic programming. It was the top technology of the old era. We can't decipher and synthesize this substance at all."
"Their core technologies are firmly controlled by chaebols."
"All drugs circulating on the market are controlled by those chaebols. They are expensive and limited in quantity. Many people have died because they cannot buy the drugs. Ordinary people, even if they work hard for a whole year in the factories of those chaebols, In addition to the most basic survival needs, the remaining money is only enough to purchase a small amount of these medicines. If you accidentally become infected with a radiation source, you may have to wait for death. "
"Those chaebols are simply exploiting us as slaves!"
A dark wasteland era.
Su Ziyu thought for a while, then raised his head and asked, "What are your plans next?"
"Go back to the camp." Pasha said softly, "Do you want to come with me?"
"Okay!" Su Ziyu nodded.
The woman opposite couldn't help but raise her head when she heard this, her expression seemed to be a little surprised.
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(End of chapter)