Chapter 33: 200 Years After the War

It is no longer possible to know who pressed the button first.

In short, with the launch of the first nuclear bomb, all the nuclear forces launched a counterattack. All of a sudden, the entire world was covered in flying brutal killing weapons, and countless mushroom clouds rose into the sky. Huge shock waves and nuclear fusion reactions cast the Earth's skies a blinding white.

Everywhere he went, no one was spared.

A tiny fraction of the humans on the surface survived and mutated, turning into sane and emotional ghouls.

The underground shelters and bomb shelters have become the last bastions of pure-blooded humans, and the only remaining seeds of hope for the Terrans.

When the ghouls reopened their eyes, the humans walked out of the shelter. It was more than a decade after the nuclear war.

What appeared to everyone was a scorched earth. The air is still filled with nuclear radiation, and the once high-rise city is in ruins. Plants, animals, and insects have all mutated, with two-headed deer, swamp crabs, man-eating flowers, and so on.

Even cute rabbits have grown fangs and claws, and the recipe has changed from carrots to human ribs.

These mutated creatures have been roaming the surface for more than a decade, and the return of humanity has once again upset the balance.

With intelligence far superior to other creatures and pre-war technology, the survivors built villages and cities, purging mutated plants and animals to thrive.

In a short period of time, humanity is back at the top of the food chain, and everything is going in a good direction.

However, peace is short-lived after all.

In the beginning, people came together to fight, farm, and live in this wasteland.

But as the pressure to survive gradually decreased, pre-war technology was further explored. The intelligent life on the surface is divided into multiple groups, and once again caught in the battle for the chassis.

Marauders, Gangs, Brotherhoods of Steel, Ghouls, Super Mutants......

Over the past 200 years, new forces have been constantly emerging. In this wasteland, the pre-war laws of society have become a joke. The surface has become a paradise for warriors, and the law of the forest is the foundation of survival.

But for many people who just want to live in peace, this world is a luxury to survive. Either they are attached to a big force and pay ninety percent of the harvest every year. Either find a place where no one is there and grow your own food, and pray every day that you won't be shot in the head.

Levy is the second type of person, who has been wandering on his own. Until a few days ago, he had overheard a recruitment announcement for Vault 118 over the radio. Tired of the last days, he wants to take refuge in a pre-war shelter with no worries about food and clothing. Even if you are transformed into a ghoul, you can do it, as long as it is not life-threatening.

"Hey, I heard my mom say it, and she listened to her mom too. Anyway, this bastard world has become like this for as long as I can remember, and those pre-war technologies are useless to us ordinary people, and this shelter is not bad. Levy spoke for more than ten minutes in one breath, and there were many complaints mixed in it, so I won't repeat it here.

"Huh," Lu Buping sighed, it was also the end of the world, but this world was very different from his original world.

His own world collapsed four years ago, when the virus dropped by the Old Gods infected humans into living corpses. And this 1514 world was actually destroyed by humanity itself more than 200 years ago.

Moreover, listening to Levy's description, many surviving creatures in the surface world have undergone varying degrees of mutation due to radiation, and the entire power system is significantly higher than that of his own world. The giant cockroaches and mosquitoes I've seen before have proved this perfectly, but I don't know if there are any other threats in this shelter.

Now that I've finally figured out where I am, it's not much of a help to the mission, but it's dispelling the fear of the unknown.

Lu Buping looked at Levy: "You said that you came from the main gate, and then you were brought here." Can you find your way back, I want to take refuge with you. ”

Levi nodded: "Yes, our location is in the lower storeroom. Did you come in through the other side door? ”

Seeing that Lu Buping was noncommittal, he didn't mind: "This shelter shouldn't be full of radicals, we can find gentler ghouls, maybe we will stay." ”

"No problem," Lu Buping patted his waist, and Gloko 18 was safely pinned there. "You lead the way in front, and I'll solve the problem."

Lu Buping is new to the city, and it is naturally good to have such a guide. The two of them began to walk towards the upper level of the vault, one after the other.

Levy is obviously an idle character, and from time to time he turns around to talk to Lu Buping, and Lu Buping is also happy to have some information.

"You beep-beep boy is a good thing, technology that only existed before the war. I can listen to tapes and play games, if I had one, poof......" Levi said, smashing it on his lips.

Lu Buping raised his wrist and looked at the screen: "Listen to the tape?" Anyway, this monitor does look quite old. If there were cell towers, they would have been able to use both the pre-war mobile phone and the MP4, but were they all destroyed? ”

"Hand ...... machine and what? Levi was visibly stunned and asked suspiciously.

"Mobile phones and video playback devices, this beep boy was also a retro product before the war, I saw that the display inside was mainly lines and outlines."

Levy looked at Lu Buping with that strange look again: "The beep boy is the top technology product before the war, although it has been more than 200 years, but a lot of technology before the war has been excavated, this is also one of the most high-end equipment, it seems that you have never heard anyone talk about the pre-war things." As for what you said about mobile phones, I haven't heard of them, so don't be deceived. ”

"Don't have a cell phone? So what do people use to communicate remotely? ”

"Radio, kids know it." Levy returns.

Lu Buping felt a little inexplicable, and then shook his head and skipped the topic.

The two chatted as they walked forward, and after walking for a while, they finally saw an open door.

Lu Buping preemptively said: "Let's try not to clash with the ghouls inside, although I have a weapon, I am not here to kill." ”

"Rest assured, as long as they don't tie me up anymore, I don't want to have a conflict." Levy agreed.

As soon as he entered the gate, Lu Buping found that there was a strong smell of blood. When I looked closely, I realized that this room was a large meat storage yard, with unknown animal meat hanging from iron hooks. The head looks like a cow, but the appearance is very different from that of ordinary beef cattle, at least ordinary cattle do not have three heads.

On one side of the room, a blender is constantly running, mashing the beef into a puree and filling it into a container before transporting it to a machine in the distance. The machine is also running at full power, and as the track rotates, cubes of ingredients are processed one by one, exuding the aroma of food.

It seems that the food processing of the entire shelter is already perfect, and there should be a breeding ground dedicated to raising three cows. As for what the main material of this square-shaped food is, Lu Buping is still unclear.

There were also three ghouls in the house at this time. Wearing a white chef's hat and an apron tied around his waist, he is wielding a meat cleaver. If it weren't for the fact that their faces had been severely corroded and withered, the current scene would be no different from the pre-apocalyptic meat factory.

The three ghouls were stunned when they saw Lu Buping and the others coming in from the door, and the meat cleavers in their hands also stopped waving.

"Who are you?" One of the ghouls asked, in a suppressed voice.

"Wait, aren't you a human who was brought down by Westin to purify, how did you come up, who is next to you?" The other ghoul said and picked up his knife and walked over, "Where did Westin go?" Answer me, bastard! ”

"Wait, I can explain......" Levi began.

"Go to hell and explain, for the sake of God Hans!" The knife ghoul obviously didn't intend to listen any further, and rushed at the two of them with a meat cleaver in hand.

Lu Buping had already ejected his Hidden Blade and waited to meet the enemy, and he couldn't help but make a mistake in secret. I knew that I wouldn't come up with Levy, and I only thought that it would be more convenient for him to lead the way, but who would have thought that I would meet the enemy. As for the moderate ghouls who said yes, they all looked like fanatics, and they waved their knives without saying a word.

Just as the battle was about to break out, a female voice sounded: "Stop it!" ”