Did no one find this? Serpent's cookbook (Radiophobia 3)

[The.Spaz.]

Since Radiophobia changes the gameplay and adds additional missions, I am unsure if this quest is part of the orignal game or not. In the starting camp you come across an experienced stalker named Mentor. He will give you a quest to find a guitar and a large list of stalker names to locate. The second on the list is a stalker named Serpent. You can find his body inside a large metal crate in the middle of the tunnel infested with anomalies that leads to the other side of the railway tracks (next to the dead journeyman's body). On his body you find a quest item called "Serpents Cookbook". Using this item updates your PDA's diary entry with some story and a hint that Serpant has hid his stash in the north side of the beginners camp, next to the fences under a large dry bush. I have not been able to find it. It's not an active quest and there is no marker. Almost all the videos and guides tend to avoid using the tunnels to cross so it doesn't seem like anyone has really ever found this body. Does anyone know where it is?

PS: There is an even easier way to cross to the other side instead of having to go all the way around to find the gap in the fence on the railway tracks. You can crawl under the tracks where the stone foundation makes a bridge over the military checkpoint and get to the other side.

[Hipster Doofus]

Go to the rookie village. Come out of Sid's & follow the outside of the fence of the village to the left toward the road. Stop about half way (opposite Mentor). Turn left toward the bridge. Find the bush. As for the tunnel once you get a detector it might be worth going thru it from time to time.
Go to discord & search for 'seekers'. You should come across a map the shows their location & that of the cache.

[The.Spaz.]

Originally posted by Hipster Doofus:

Go to the rookie village. Come out of Sid's & follow the outside of the fence of the village to the left toward the road. Stop about half way (opposite Mentor). Turn left toward the bridge. Find the bush. As for the tunnel once you get a detector it might be worth going thru it from time to time.
Go to discord & search for 'seekers'. You should come across a map the shows their location & that of the cache.

Thanks for the info. Was beginning to think this was bugged.

[The.Spaz.]

Okay, wow! After countless tries, I finally found Serpents stash. It took me days to actually find it even with the map from discord and even then it was just a fluke when I walked into a random bush and gave me the option to search. The others were very easy to find mainly because there is a backpack to locate where as Serpent's stash does not have any. It was just a black void in the middle of the bushes that I got lucky aiming at it to get the option. Maybe its an asset that failed to load or is missing for that particular stash. It was worth the trouble though as you get pretty decent weapon for your trouble. I just hope I don't encounter anything similar with the remaining seekers.

Thanks for all the help.