After tidying up his full body equipment, Lu Buping rushed to the passage back to the shelter. Walking all the way through the space tunnel, Lu Buping appeared in a warehouse.

Look at the blue and white walls and a large poster on the wall. Lu Buping knew that the place he had returned to was in the warehouse when he first came to Vault 118.

Thinking of the many experiences he encountered in just a few days in the shelter, Lu Buping couldn't help but feel that things were wrong.

I walked through the second floor and followed the stairs to the living quarters.

The equipment along the way in the living quarters had not changed twenty days ago, but the strange thing was that the ghouls they saw along the way all looked panicked, as if they had suffered a major accident.

They saw Lu Buping coming up like a tide, and the stars surrounded him like the moon: "Lord Saint, great, Lord Saint is back!"

"What's going on?" Lu Buping was squeezed into the crowd and puzzled, when did he become so popular.

"Get out of the way." A hoarse voice was heard, and then the crowd was pulled apart, and a muscular figure was squeezed into the crowd.

"Bailey?" Lu Buping saw the person coming clearly.

This person was Diana's right and left hand, the leader of the escort, Bailey.

In Lu Buping's impression, this person has always been calm and light-hearted, and no one listens to anyone except Diana's orders. He has also helped Lu Buping get out of danger many times, and he is not afraid even if he confronts Garble head-on.

But now his eyes are blank, his expression is gloomy, and his whole person exudes an aura of anxiety.

"Mr. Zhang San, come with me." Bailey grabbed Lu Buping's wrist and walked towards the leisure area.

Lu Buping let him drag him through the crowd, and then asked in a low voice, "Bailey, what happened?" ”

"Well, just come and see." Bailey sighed.

The two of them came to a separate lounge, where several members of the escort patrolled the area with guns in hand, as if they were facing a great enemy.

"Go in, I'll be waiting for you here." Bailey said with a gesture of please.

Lu Buping didn't doubt him, and directly pushed the door in, but the scene in front of him surprised him.

On the bed lay a man with all kinds of healing equipment. Seeing Lu Buping enter the door, he nodded slightly and motioned for him to come over.

This person was none other than Ms. Diana, the leader of the Vault.

What is really frightening is that Diana's legs are no longer there, being cut off from the base of her thighs. At this moment, she was lying weakly, watching her chest rise and fall, and even breathing was a little difficult.

"Zhang San, you're back." Diana said with difficulty.

"Diana, who hurt you like this?" Lu Buping asked in disbelief.

Diana shook her head slightly: "I'm not sure, you sit down and listen to me first......"

More than twenty days ago, that is, on the day Lu Buping left, another hidden danger in the shelter [Gayber] also disappeared. The entire sanctuary can be said to be truly in Diana's hands.

During Garble's time, the two were divided into rivalry. Due to Garble's extreme hatred of humans, all small settlements in the vicinity were swept away, and large camps had to be traded to the top camps. Not to mention the long distances, they are also full of disgust for the behavior of ghouls, and often have to pay a greater price in exchange for what they want.

So when Diana came to power, the first thing she did was to expand the recruitment of radio and attract more people to the shelter.

According to her vision, the outside ghouls lived directly inside the shelter. Humans, on the other hand, were stationed around the Vault, with Diana providing weapons and production equipment. In this way, it can not only strengthen communication and transactions with the outside world, but also play a certain preventive role. The best outcome is to turn the perimeter of Vault into a trading hub, with the abundance of supplies and weapons in Vault 118 attracting other gathering places.

In the first week, the effect was remarkable, and Diana promised to give free human supplies, which attracted more than 100 scattered people. They set up improvised gathering points around the perimeter, spontaneously cleaned up some mutated creatures, and began to grow plants. It looks like everything is going in a good direction.

However, just a week later, the displaced people who had gathered suddenly became wary of the shelter, and the two sides continued to clash with each other. Rumors began to circulate that the shelter was distributing supplies free of charge in order to trade humans as slaves.

And so the tension continued for another week. Until one night, the human gathering place was attacked.

Diana personally led the convoy to the rescue, but was mistaken for the attacker at the gathering place, and a shootout broke out. The Vault side is relatively restrained because of Diana leading the team. However, the human side believed that the other side had launched the attack, so they poured ammunition uncontrollably.

In this battle, several fighters of the escort team were injured.

"Then your legs ......" Lu Buping frowned, Diana is a ghoul physique, and it stands to reason that as long as her head is not hit hard, she will not die. But how could her leg be amputated?

Diana's words cleared his mind: "My leg was cut with a venom-laden knife. The poison was so hard to get rid of it, it cut through the muscles of my hind leg and completely necrosized, and then extended up my calf. In order not to affect the upper limbs, I ordered people to cut it off. This poisonous knife is not among the weapons we provide to the humans in the gathering place, and I suspect that a third party is instigating it. ”

Lu Buping took over and said: "Are you saying that someone deliberately walked among the homeless people to spread rumors, and then attacked the gathering place at night and then blamed you, and then attacked secretly when you brought people to rescue." But why would they do it, it's like a bureau set up specifically for you. ”

Diana shook her head, the weakness of her body made her speak a little hard, and she needed to slow down: "I don't know, it happened too suddenly, and it became the current situation before I had time to investigate." Bailey, because they were worried about me, had begun to hate humans, and it took me a long time to persuade him to suppress him.

Zhang San, now you are the only one who can stabilize the situation and investigate the truth.

The fundamental conflict between us and the Gathering is that we are ghouls, and preconceived notions prevent them from maintaining their sanity to communicate with us.

But you are different, you are human yourself, and you can be more convincing to human beings when you speak. At the same time, you are the only sane saint.

As I have already explained, as long as you return, the Vault will be in your hands, and I don't want any more conflict between the two sides.

You are the hope of peace. ”

Lu Buping nodded, it was already his plan to treat this place as a territory, and he would not allow unstable factors to disturb the stability of the refuge. Moreover, Diana's idea is also very suitable, once a trading center is formed around it, it will also be a big help for Lu Buping.

The only problem now is that Lu Buping only has 24 hours. It is really difficult to find out a third-party force to resolve the contradictions, and to accomplish it within one day.

"You can rest first." Lu Buping said, "Leave the rest to me." ”

Diana nodded lightly, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Walking out of the room, Bailey leaned over and said, "Mr. Zhang San......"

"I've got an idea of the situation, and now I need to sort out the information I have. By the way, where is Levy going? Lu Buping found that he hadn't seen Levy since he came back, and after Garble disappeared, this kid should be living quite nourishing here.

Bailey replied, "After one fight that night, we had a temporary truce. Because Levi is human, he applies to go to the gathering place to appease the other party. Come back once a day, it stands to reason that you should be back today? ”

Speaking of this, Bailey was also a little uncertain, his mind was on the injured Ms. Diana, and he didn't pay much attention to the situation outside.

"In that case, I'll go up to the surface and find out what is going on in the gathering place." Lu Buping said.

Bailey was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the other party to be so decisive, and said with some confusion: "Then I'll transfer some of the escort team to you, but not all of it, I want to leave some people to protect Ms. Diana." ”

Obviously, although he received orders to obey with full authority, in the eyes of the convoy, only Diana could command them.

Lu Buping didn't care, he didn't come to seize power, he smiled and said: "No need, I'll do it alone, it's cumbersome to have too many people to inquire about intelligence." Besides, if I am discovered, I will be able to maneuver around as a human being. ”

Bailey no longer insisted, but took a rectangular metal box from his subordinates and handed it to Lu Buping.

"What is this?"

"After you left, Lady Diana instructed us to prepare, and this time it is for you."

Lu Buping opened it and took a look, and the most eye-catching thing was the Grote 18 style placed in the middle.

This gun was left here last time during the forced teleportation. At this time, he was sent back, along with a few magazines.

Under the barrel of the gun, there were ten treatment needles lying flat in the box. To his surprise, there were two round oval spheres next to the treatment needles, covered with pale blue inscriptions.

"Grenade?" Lu Buping raised his head in some surprise.

"Well, plasma grenades, to be exact. There are only two of them in the entire Vault, and I gave you all the ones I found when I counted the equipment last time. ”

In Lu Buping's world, there is no such thing as a "plasma grenade", but looking at the appearance, it is much more powerful than ordinary shrapnel grenades.

In the face of the windfall, Lu Buping was a little happy. Immediately opened the storage strap and put the entire tin box inside, then said hello and left.

The method of putting things out of thin air and disappearing out of thin air frightened Bailey and the members of the escort next to him, and they did not dare to ask, so they automatically classified it as a miracle of saints. When Lu Buping left, he felt that the eyes of the people around him looked at him with a little more reverence......

All the way to the main entrance of the shelter, two guards respectfully pulled the door open.

As the door slidied, a smell of mud and rust filled his nose, and Lu Buping frowned slightly and walked towards the door.

This was the first time Lu Buping had left Vault 118 to go to the surface world.