"President Hinckley, these items are too precious for me to have. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Don't be in a hurry to refuse, these items are not just thank you gifts, I hope you can accept them first, and I will explain the reason to you."

Simon frowned and looked at Sinclair, and Vanessa next to him said a little anxiously.

"Take it, Simon, you deserve it."

“…… Okay, so is that clear now, President Hinclair? ”

Sincley smiled and stood up.

"Vanessa is right, you deserve it, you not only saved Vanessa's life, but you also lured the corpses away to save the Brotherhood of Steel from a catastrophe, and you can't thank you enough."

"Christina, Vanessa, and Simon, I hope you'll keep it a secret from what I'm going to say next."

The three nodded.

"In fact, although the Brotherhood of Steel escaped this time, the situation is not optimistic in the long run. First of all, we don't have much food in storage, but the supplies in Silver City are getting less and less, sooner or later we will never find food again, and this land is also polluted, and we can't grow food at all, which means that we will starve to death sooner or later; Secondly, our manpower has been reduced but not replenished, and this time we have lost many brothers, and even the logistics personnel have had to go to the battlefield, and we have not many people to use. Hey, it looks like the Brotherhood of Steel will hold out for a long time now, but it won't be long before it reaches a dead end. ”

"President!"

Vanessa grabbed Hinclair's arm worriedly, while Christina fell silent.

"I've heard Vanessa say that you've met a wandering paladin, haven't you?"

Changing the subject, Hinclair asked Simon.

"That's right."

"So I have a request, I want you and Vanessa to take me with you to meet this paladin."

"No, President, that's a paladin?"

Vanessa objected vehemently.

"Compared to everyone's future, my personal safety is nothing, let alone seeing the holy warrior, even if I go to see the demon, I won't back down, so you listen to me first."

"There is a temple of the sun in the central square, and there seems to be some signs of revival now, no monsters have ever come out of it, and there are no undead creatures around who dare to approach. I suspect that there may be a way to disperse the undead and purify the land, so that we can live here in peace and without worries. ”

"But what does this have to do with the Paladin?"

"I've gone in alone, and there's a skeleton in it that's so powerful that I'm no match for it, but luckily I escaped in time to save my life. I think that paladin should know more about the undead and maybe find a way to deal with that skeleton. ”

"I see, okay, we agreed, why don't we go now!"

Vanessa said hurriedly.

Simon had a helpless expression on his face, I haven't said anything yet.

"Haha, don't be in a hurry, it's not early today, rest well at night, recharge your energy, and we'll set off early tomorrow morning."

Sincley patted Vanessa's head and said with a smile.

At first, it was obviously asking my opinion, but in the end, it was Vanessa who was the master?

Simon discovers that both Sinclair and Vanessa are the kind of people who don't care about other people's reactions and talk to themselves, worthy of the Brotherhood of Steel, and people here can't all have this kind of personality. The scene of Vanessa, who has a muscular body, and calls him a brother suddenly appeared in his mind, and Simon couldn't help but feel sick to his stomach.

In the end, they agreed to leave for Aphrodite's residence at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning.

After a hearty dinner in the evening, Simon went back to his room to get ready to rest.

"Knock Knock"

Simon opens the door and finds Vanessa outside.

"I can't sleep, can you talk to me?"

"Let's talk about it first."

When Vanessa came in, she walked over to the chair and sat down a little wrigglingly, while Simon sat on the edge of the bed.

"I deliberately interjected when I was talking to President Hinkley just now, and I'm afraid you won't agree. If you don't say yes...... I don't know what to do, you won't blame me, will you? ”

Vanessa's eyes were slightly moist and her expression was pleading.

"How can I blame you? Your life is all saved by you, and you can tell me what you want at any time. ”

"Hee-hee, how can you be so exaggerated, you say that you are like a puppy."

Vanessa breathed a sigh of relief and teased with a grin.

"Puppy? Why don't you say it's a dragon, haha. ”

Simon pointed exaggeratedly at himself.

"That's you, return the dragon?"

"Don't underestimate me, I must catch a dragon to be a mount in the future, how majestic the dragon knight is!"

"If you want to be beautiful, I guess you can only be a dragon knight in your dreams."

The two talked and laughed, and the atmosphere became relaxed.

"Speaking of which, I have an idea that I just said, in my opinion, the skeletons and zombies all over the city are not really strong, and we can set up a trap or stronghold to clear the city of the undead. For example, can't you use a spell to dig a big hole and lure the undead into it? I think the intelligence of these undead creatures is basically equal to zero, and it is not difficult to deal with. And there seem to be very few high-level undead creatures like vampires, so why doesn't the Iron Brotherhood clean up the low-level skeletons in the city on a large scale? ”

Simon slowly spoke his thoughts.

From the beginning, I felt strange, obviously the monsters outside were not strong, but the Iron Brotherhood had no intention of cleaning it up, and there were skeletons hovering around its headquarters, which was really unreasonable. What's more, the strength of the Brotherhood of Steel can be seen from the golems seen outside, it is definitely not weak, what is the reason why the Brotherhood of Steel chooses to retreat here.

Vanessa sighed and looked up at the ceiling.

"I'm afraid you've noticed it Simon, the sky outside is full of lead-gray clouds, and you can't see the sun at all. Although there is still light during the day, there is still light that penetrates the dark clouds and brings a little light, but it is too little, and at night it is even darker outside. ”

Vanessa's voice was sad and helpless.

"This land has been cursed since the beginning of the invasion of the evil gods, and the power of desecration has made it a veritable place of death. I don't know what else is going on, but Silver City is shrouded in a dark cloud that never dissipates, and this dark cloud is full of negative energy, which also makes every rain become a veritable poisonous rain. All the corpses that were once buried here are all awakened to become undead, and if the fresh corpses are left unchecked, they will become a member of the undead within a day, and the most terrifying thing is that every 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, all the undead will be resurrected! ”

"What did you say?!"

Simon stood up in shock.

"That's right, only cremated corpses or ashes of the wreckage will not be reawakened by the power of the curse, which is why we are not keen on destroying the undead. We're short of priests, and there's nothing we can do about these monsters other than to burn them to death with fire, and their numbers have been growing over time. Even if we have a powerful golem but are still defeated by an endless stream of bones, we have tried to bury these monsters alive, and we have used huge cages to lock them up, but it is useless, these undead creatures will evolve together once they stay together for a long time, and a large number of undead creatures will be recombined into a powerful monster, which we call the Calvary Giant. ”

"Calvary Giant?"

Vanessa nodded solemnly and continued.

"That's right, the Calvary Giant is a giant monster made up of countless skulls, extremely powerful, and can constantly regenerate and repair, and the most terrifying thing is that it can also summon all the skeletons around it to gather around it, and constantly absorb new skeletons to become stronger. The battle with the Calvary was a true tragedy, with the Brotherhood of Steel suffering heavy casualties and even the Hexagonal Golem being destroyed, and still not fully repaired. ”

"After that, we tried to keep the skeletons and zombies scattered around the city so that they didn't have a chance to evolve. While we don't know if zombies will have similar abilities, we don't dare to bet and can't afford it. Now you know how difficult it is for the Brotherhood of Steel to hold on until now. ”

Simon was fascinated by the past, he could feel the feeling that he would never be able to kill the enemy, and he had a little to look down on the Brotherhood of Steel, but now he had completely changed. Simon admires the Brotherhood of Steel from the bottom of his heart, not everyone can survive such a desperate situation.

"Why don't you get out of here, I mean maybe somewhere else isn't as bad as here, and there might be survivor groups in other cities, wouldn't it be good for everyone to join together?"

"Do you think we don't want to leave? We sent six squads out one after another to find other possible places to live or to be organized, but none of them returned, not a single one. ”

Vanessa clasped her arms in her hands, like a night sparrow in the cold wind, looking blankly ahead.

"Sometimes I feel like we're on an island, surrounded by an endless black ocean, and we don't know where we are or what's waiting for us outside. If you leave this isolated island, will you encounter a storm at sea? Are there terrifying monsters lurking in the dark? What if the outside is a hundred times more cruel than here? I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it. ”

The heavy reality is in front of everyone, and perhaps only in the darkness of the dead of night will all kinds of thoughts in people's hearts surface.

Simon has always believed that only by living can there be a future, and there are countless possibilities, but only a smile can bring hope, so Simon doesn't like sadness, and he doesn't like despair, even if he dies, he has to smile, this is his insistence.

Perhaps, the current situation is not the so-called evil gods, but the revenge of the world itself against humanity. I once heard a story about the world being a beautiful place full of life and abundant resources, but greedy human beings destroyed the natural ecology without restraint for their own development, and countless species were extinct. Finally, one day the world got angry, and it punished human beings with floods, typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, sandstorms, etc., and it was only then that human beings discovered that their proud power was not worth mentioning in front of nature. ”

Simon's eyes were misty, and he fell into memory.

"And then?"

Vanessa asked curiously.

"Later, well, human beings changed their ways, chose to live in harmony with nature, and in the end, of course, they lived happily ever after."

"What, it's such a boring story, it's not interesting at all, you can tell a separate story."

"Stories don't have to be better than what happened. Well, let me tell you another story about Cinderella, there was a girl named Cinderella, and she ......."

Simon smiled and looked at Vanessa, who listened with relish.

Reality is more bizarre than the story, for my own sake, I still don't tell her the story of mushroom clouds and radiation cockroaches, after all, this story is a bit long, and I don't know where to start.

You never know what you'll encounter the next day, whether it's a super mutant with a heavy machine gun or an undead black knight in armor, and that's how wonderful fate is.