Shadows of JiangXi

[Jansen]

Another ten minutes had passed and it was Marcias turn to find one of the settlements in the south. She checked the radiation meter and then started to walk through the rain, into a southern direction.
After some minutes of walking she looked back to the place where they ejected her, but she wasnt able to spot anything, not even the slightest hint of human beings.
The only things she saw were trees and some fog in holes.
Remembering the things a Zoner told her about radiation, when she visited the Freeport in Omega 3 she said to herself. "I should stay out of those holes, I'd bet that they have more radiation then everything else here in them."

She checked the radiation meter again, just to be sure that everything was alright, as alright as something could be at such a place.

A few minutes and roughly 2 kilometers later she reached a small glade with the remnants of three houses and a small barn. Everything seemed empty and left, the houses had holes in the roofs and one of them already collapsed. From what she could judge the barn would follow soon.
She continued to walk to the other side of the glade, as she realized a pair of green glowing eyes directed at her from the inside of a house. She started to run as fast is she could in the suit that she received at Zhukovsky and the eyes were gone, she left them behind.

And yet again Marcia checked the radiation meter, the Zoner told her that its possible that the amount of radiation could change rapidly, depending on the surface. Everything seemed to be good.

While looking at the small device she moved on, into southern direction. Then suddenly she saw something around 10 meters away. It looked a bit like a bear, but with a orange fur, which had a few dark red spots in it. The animal didnt move, so she prepared the AK to be ready to fire if it would stand up, but it didnt.
She stood right next to it when she realized that the dark red spots were nothing else then blood, caused by roughly 10 centimeter deep wounds.

"Great, if something can do this to such a big animal I better try to avoid it..." She moved on, her hand on the trigger all the time. She didnt want to end up as a lunch snack for some strange creature that most likely wouldnt even have a name.

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