It is probably not often to meet a young man like Simon who is vigorous but has been through the vicissitudes of his life, Collins does not hesitate to talk about it, rattan tea and sugar brewed several pots, and the contact area of the industry master is naturally much broader than Adofina's. At the age of sixty-five, Collins has witnessed the evolution of Steel City from an isolated and crippled sanctuary to the largest integrated industrial city in the Northern Wastelands, spearheading the Great Lakes Alliance to fight the East Coast Empire and the Capital Wasteland Alliance.

The basic public facilities of the steel city are quite complete by the standards of other city-states, each stacked living area is equipped with a large water supply station, and the generator set of the small nuclear power plant expansion of the shelter can provide the power required for the factory area, water purification plant, black wall area, and urban defense at full capacity at the same time, and has spare power to stagger the peak power supply of the living area, although it is not easy to make a living in the steel city, but a city with water, electricity, safety and even some slight rising expectations, it is no wonder that it is recognized as the "northern star" by the wasteland. ”

Simon recalls the scene of a heavy escort of missile launchers at Boston's Logan Airport, and all-out nuclear war is not unpredictable. And the large-scale shelters in the homeland also prove his point. Within the direct jurisdiction of Steel City alone, there are three proven medium-level shelters that can accommodate thousands of humans, and as many as half a hundred private shelters. As the radiation from a nuclear explosion fades much faster than expected, more shelters hidden underground are popping up.

"When I was thirty-two years old, when I stepped on the ground in full protective clothing, I saw the blue and terrible Lake Erie at a glance, and the team leader led us deep into the ruins of the city, and finally verified the information in the vault of the old city government site, young man, you have experienced war, but you are fighting people, our compatriots, human compatriots!" Collins picked up a honey-wrapped biscuit and chewed it carefully, and rushed down with vine tea. The biscuit was very astringent and very hard, and an excessive amount of preservatives was deliberately added for the sake of quality, and even so, this was the regular quota of the guild masters, and a jar of honey biscuits that had expired for half a century was simply a delicacy in the eyes of the low-level residents.

The Imperials on the other side of the ocean treated their lives as indifferent as snow, and treated their enemies even more ruthlessly, although sixty years was almost a full three generations, but Simon was sleeping in a frozen cabin, and his actual age was only twenty-four and a half years old. The old man always likes to reminisce, and Collins's face flushed all over the old age spots: "Rats as tall as humans swagger through the market in groups, chameleon lizards that dissolve in the rubble of buildings, hash that grew up with me was swept away by this beast spitting out letters several meters long, wriggling mimic slimes, killing their own kind is not a big ability, really capable men should hunt these beasts that threaten the survival of our race!" ”

"I agree." Simon's stomach gradually adjusted to the wasteland diet, and knowing the price of steel city, he realized how foolish it was to add granulated sugar to the blade porridge, and that spoonful of sugar alone was enough for ten kilograms of cereal flour......

"Young man, one day when you go into the dark ruins, no matter how much it costs, you must inject yourself with septic blood vaccine in advance and bring enough antibiotics, otherwise you will be bitten by that thing, and before you die, you will beg your teammates to give you a shot in the head." The old man's voice gradually deepened, obviously involving some unbearable memories.

"Stuff?" Simon asked.

"Theoretically, you're a round older than me, and doomsday movies are banned in the Vault, including zombies and weird movies, you're from before the war, have you seen it?"

Zombies like to eat their brains as jelly, Simon used to hold a bucket of popcorn alone to watch the longest series in history - AMC's "The Walking Dead", to be honest, zombies eat happily, Simon's appetite has also increased a lot...... "The Walking Dead" and "Resident Evil", I have read all the famous series, and I also wrote a zombie novel when I was sixteen years old. Simon shrugged.

"At most, it can be regarded as beating a side drum, unlike a ghoul whose body is rotting and san, the shadow living corpse smells a trace of blood and encounters a wound, only the vaccine has no antidote, and in the last long painful time of life, he will either try to commit suicide or become infected into the next living corpse." Collins put his thin palm into the cup, and the water rippled. "It's my first time exploring the city subway on a pioneer team, and it's a good ending, young man, fighting in the open. Five kilometers, twelve pioneers, I got out alive because the captain blew up the tunnel, the last survivor. Since then, I'd rather be a coward and be a logistics staff than go to the front line. ”

"Kid." The corners of Collins' eyes were full of wrinkles, and the vines that were clinging to the detached house were not as withered as the old cheeks, and the gray-blue eyes that had long lost their sharpness looked at the scorching steel blue, "Take care of your life, and wait until the moment the new century comes, and to live is victory." ”

The remaining bit of the sunset dragged the tail flame away, and every dusk, Adolfina was about to set off, saying goodbye to the Collins father and daughter, and the red-haired girl patted Simon on the shoulder in an old-fashioned manner, and said: "Alas, even if the old lady is unlucky, I didn't stuff you into the meeting in person, as an eighty or ninety-year-old scholar and a five-car antique, what are you going to take to lubricate the parts that are about to get stuck?" ”

"I guess, it's easier to take the apprenticeship exam than the military academy...... I didn't expect Adolfina to laugh out loud and say disdainfully: "Just you? You carry a gun, forget it. ”

Simon choked on how to say that he had received an Ivy League offer, and perhaps the voluntary military service documents in triplicate were still locked away in Philadelphia and Washington. Feeling that his IQ had been insulted, Simon touched Adolfina's head with a smile and said, "What about you, read a song "Daisy", or cry." ”

The attention of women, especially girls, is easily distracted, and Adolfina is not averse to the act of being smoothed, but "cry out? So she smirked and said, "After a while, I'll see you crying." ”

Iron City is definitely a long life when he moves a gun in the open, but there is a big difference between a long life and not being killed on the spot after all, and the aquatic product shop in Area F fired two shotguns, even if the madman left Area F. Don't provoke a man who has been beaten by a girl has become a consensus criterion.

The next day, instructing Peter to wipe down and maintain his guns and equipment, Simon went to the management committee of the stacked building area, Simon, of course, did not complain about the neighbor's overly frequent nightlife, but the management hall issued updates with all kinds of official and private tasks. Citizenship pathways, caravan travel, recruiting guards, clearing mob forts, dock fishermen, factory recruitment, the city's smallest basic unit bursts into incredible energy at full speed. At the top and bottom of the huge LED screen, the recruitment notices of the Imperial Corps and the Alliance Corps are scrolled and played, and the warring parties coexist harmoniously on the same screen.

"Clean up the mob dens in the northwest of the city, pay 2,000 yuan, organize your own team, and the acceptance standard is 50 mob heads." Simon swept a column of mercenary tasks on the outskirts of the city, everywhere is the killing skills are more valuable, the work of the long-term war mercenaries is not Simon's turn, the lucrative tasks are naturally taken away by the mercenary group with a way, leaving some remuneration Weibo, gnawing hard bones of the idea.

The management hall was in good order, and everyone was sure to follow the rules in front of the assault rifles of the city guards, and Simon waited in line for an hour, paying five coins to buy the details of the mission.

According to the priority of demand, the task is divided into ABCD files, although the clean-up task is in the D file, but the reward is at the level of the C level, the K82 gathering place is one of the countless settlements attached to the steel city, to grow crops for a living, because of the proximity to the lake bay, the harvest is good, but half a year ago a group of armed cross-border mobs looted and occupied K82. If the new settlers paid their taxes on time and continued to be safe, the East Coast mob was so keen on the king's free hut that not only refused to resist the taxes, but even the tax collectors got into their stomachs, and the matter turned into a riot, which should have been razed by the steel soldiers to prove their authority. However, in recent days, the main trade routes leading to the Iron City have been raided by the Scarlet Crusaders, who have garrisoned the fringe fortresses in droves. The K82 mission was taken over by the civilian sector.

There are many people in the management hall who make a living by reading newspapers and periodicals, Simon waved his hand to drive away the vulgar fans who took the opportunity to be close, and the more he looked at the mission profile, the more he frowned, K82 is a typical East Coast armed mob, evading the empire to capture the strong men and moving the clan, in the long and bad migration, the rest are all strong young and middle-aged people, with tacit understanding in battle, many guns, and it is not good to have machine guns, counting Jonathan, who is working outside the city, no matter how strong the three of them are, they are outnumbered.

Simon glanced at the crowd outside the hall, all of whom were urban outcasts waiting for temporary employment, who had not been renewed after their residence permits expired and should be evicted according to the Steel Code, but there were so many that in the end, Steel City simply turned a blind eye. These displaced people have lost all their rights to residence, and the only way out for the industrial workers is to hope to participate in expendable tasks and exchange their luck or life for ten or twenty yuan.

"K82 mission, I took it." Simon showed his resident card, and the administrator squinted at Simon, who was single, "Ten percent of the remuneration paid in advance is a deposit, and it will not be returned if it is not completed within the specified time." ”

When he got out of prison, his personal belongings returned, and one or two thousand coins in his wallet were gone. It's annoying to say that Simon's money at this time is still kept by Adolfina, and Simon took several bullets to make up the deposit.

Stepping out of the management hall, a black wall blocked the stacked building area, and the towering radio transmission tower flashed red day and night. A wall, before and after the war, heaven and hell. A wall, several kilometers, but 99.9 percent of them will not be able to enter a step in their life.

Simon unconsciously clenched his fists, and the ants grew wings and attacked people, no one dared to stop the path of marching ants, but it was no better than a cloudburst bomb. He had not forgotten the dark day before the moon, and he was almost alive. It's just that he recognizes himself, survival and revenge, first of all, he wants to live and go on.

Simon pulled the revolver and the Magnum Dito was yellow.

"If you can't knock down the wall, step into it."