Waking up from the darkness, the young Qin Ziyao sat up suddenly, his back already soaked with cold sweat.

"Brother, are you having nightmares again?" A little girl stood in front of Qin Ziyao's bed. Although he is only in his teens, his eyes are full of worry.

"Hmm. Only this time I was almost caught, and I was scared to death. Qin Ziyao said in a relaxed tone. But only he knew that he almost couldn't come back just now.

Since three years ago, I have had the same dream every three or four days. The dream world is an endless wasteland, and the earth is lifeless ash, only barren loess and dead weeds. The canopy of the sky was a thick cloud of smoke and dust, constantly tumbling, faintly red, as if something was shining behind it.

At this time, there will be a black shadow crouching not far away, and when he appears, the black shadow will quickly raise its head and chase after him. Most of the time he doesn't look back, just runs wildly.

Until one time he couldn't take it anymore, he looked back to see what it was that had been chasing him, and he almost lost his soul with fright—it was a three-meter-tall pitch-black demon, covered in black mist, with six arms, dragging long shackles, and his eyes glowing red, like the colors of the sky.

The next day, he was so frightened that he ran to a church a block away, only to be told by the pastor, "Son, you are sinful. This demon represents the wrong things you have done, and now it will come back to punish you. No, you see, here is our church's latest exorcism package, no 998, no 888, only 288! Holy water, chanting, and spells are three in one, and you will be treated with medicine to get rid of ......"

He was so angry that he almost went to Heaven to complain.

So he had to tell his sister that if she saw anything unusual about him at night, she would wake him up immediately! Don't hesitate!

Well, it didn't work.

But one night he dreamed of Sister Wang next door, wearing a bathrobe and scratching her head at him on the bed. As a result, just as he was about to pounce on him, he was shaken awake.

He sat up with his eyes blazing, and then his sister told him that he was upright when he slept, and she had to shake him awake because she was afraid that something might happen to him......

Hehe.

Qin Ziyao had no choice but to endure it, every time he had this evil ghost's dream, he ran fast, hehe, look at how you catch me!

For this, he even went to practice long-distance running after work, and the result was really effective......

In this way, he spent his fifteenth birthday in a timed mental devastation.

On his birthday, there were only himself and his sister in the small tin house, and even Professor Qin, who adopted them, was not around.

They all said that Professor Qin had gone far to the bottom of the sea to find his wife, and people praised the professor's courage, and they said that the professor would definitely come back.

But Qin Ziyao is not stupid. He could see the bitterness in the smiles of those men.

That day, my sister took out all the money hidden in the money jar and bought him a gift.

That's a dagger. That way, she said, he would be able to protect himself.

This era allowed a ten-year-old girl to see the true face of humanity, a true face that needed to be protected with a dagger.

Now two years have passed, and the previously thin child has grown into a thin teenager, and because of the years of practice, he runs fast.

He looked around for work, toilets, factory temporary workers, bodyguards, thugs, patrolmen, he dared to do anything, except for drug trafficking and human trafficking that violated his bottom line, he did most of the work in Vault 77.

But that's not enough. He has to support two people, and his sister is still in school. Although she once cried and asked him to help her go through the withdrawal procedures, Qin Ziyao refused. Because if you don't study, you can only live at the bottom of society like him.

He's not going to let that happen.

The days went on day by day, and as the day of the aberrant migration and siege came, the supplies became more and more scarce. The ground barrier is too busy to take care of itself, and the food that can be traded with the shelter is getting less and less, and the siblings often fall into the dilemma of having only one black loaf of bread to eat a day.

Qin Ziyao saw that it was not a way to go on like this, and it was only a matter of time before he starved to death.

So he began to travel through the rich neighborhoods, becoming a glorious Robin Hood - the kind that didn't share gold coins.

Well, to put it simply, it's a thief.

With the advantage of his thin size and fast running, he stubbornly survived the Great Migration. He and his sister survived.

Perhaps it was his amazing performance, that is, stealing three houses a day, and going wherever he was unlucky, that he successfully aroused the idea of special people.

It was a man in a beige trench coat.

He did not meet him on the rooftop, nor did he find him in the gloomy alleys. The man had just been guarding the door of his house for a day and a night, with his hands held high, and behind him was a little girl with a kitchen knife......

The man told him that as long as he could get a black box out of what was commonly known as Okura, he would give him five catties of bacon, the kind with oil.

The man said that since most of the soldiers in the vault had gone to the ground to fight the mutants, the guards there were now extremely weak, and with his skills, it was a breeze. Besides, the black box was not heavy, only about forty pounds, and those guards did not dare to shoot at the box.

In the end, after some fierce bargaining, the price was set at six and a half catties, and the delivery location was in a relatively safe market.

After the man left, he contacted the intelligence dealer and found an abandoned water pipe leading to Okura.

The next day, he climbed down the water pipe to the roof of the big warehouse.

He was lying on a huge pipe like a sculpture. It's three hours to lie down.

He was very patient, and he was waiting for the people below to leave.

It is a huge warehouse made of gray bricks, crisscrossed by pipes with a diameter of one meter on the ceiling. A lamp hangs from the ceiling emitting a dim yellow glow, faintly illuminating the large painted letters on the left wall: Vault 77. But if someone looks closely, there are a few red letters that have been gradually diluted by the years behind these big characters, and they say the dark blue plan.

The warehouse was empty, with only a dozen or so guards in black uniforms and submachine guns pacing back and forth. In the middle of the warehouse was a coffin-like box, all black, and I couldn't tell what it was made of, but it felt extremely strong.

He quickly forgot about it, because he had something more important, and that was bacon...... Oh no, the box.

Now he was lying on the water pipe and looking at the box below, thinking about the bewitching nature of bacon. He would be surprised to know that 159 Vaults around the world have such a box. After all...... That's a lot of bacon!

Qin Ziyao's saliva dripped down uncontrollably, and one of the guards below touched his bald head with a confused expression, thinking to himself Is this a water leak?

Soon the meal arrived, and half of the guards left the gate in a column.

Qin Ziyao looked at the hemp rope tied to his waist and grinned.

Although there is no day and night here, and everyone's biological clock is spaced apart in order to ensure everyone's work efficiency, it seems that the guards here have just been replaced, and they have not yet adapted to the 12 hours of continuous high-intensity mental concentration. Soon, after seeing the big man who seemed to be the captain leave, someone sat down muttering, and someone yawned heavily.

Qin Ziyao put down a canvas bag from his back, crept to a water pipe, and unscrewed the gate vigorously!

In an instant, the torrent rushed out, Qin Ziyao took the opportunity to untie the cloth bag, and a bunch of rats fell......

"It's a dead day, the rat has bitten off the water pipe!" A guard screamed in the dialect of an unknown shelter before being swept away by the water.

"Going north, what's going on? Call the captain! "Well, this one is probably a fellow countryman......

Qin Ziyao took advantage of the fact that everyone was staggering, quickly lowered from the ceiling, covered his face with his sister's Winnie the Pooh short sleeves, tied the box like a zongzi in three seconds, and then pulled the tiger claw he bought yesterday and quickly went up. He saw some of the guards raise their snatches, but looked at the box in front of him with some bogeys.

He knew that he had made the right bet, the man didn't lie to him, and this box really couldn't be damaged in the slightest!

He went to the discarded water pipe, stuffed the box in, and stuffed himself in it again. As he slid down the inclined pipe, he suddenly realized how beautiful the world was......

At the same time, the engineering team had rushed to the water pipe to seal it. The Commander stood gloomily in knee-deep water, and the captain of the guard shook like a punished schoolboy.

"Lao Wang, this technique looks like a watchman." The fat man next to the commander rubbed the man, muttering, "Damn, this is sweating." ”

"There's air conditioning here." The big man standing in the back complained expressionlessly, with three school stars hanging on his shoulders.

"Don't make a noise." The commander tried to pace, but found that the water was too deep to lift his feet......

"So how are we going to chase him? He ran into the pipes. The engineering team familiar with it is still on the way. ”

"Then wait."

So a group of people stood in the water and looked at the hole in the ceiling......