Chapter V: Intelligence
"!" "Don't move!"
"Outsiders, lay down your arms!" "Nova, hurry up and call the mayor!"
A shootout seems to be about to break out at Moriarty's Bar...... It seems.
"A misunderstanding, a misunderstanding...... Divide your head, Brother Bing, although this knee-jerk reaction will never be wrong, and there is no need to be timid in the future, but this time I have to put down my gun and apologize," Liz came to the bar empty-handed, that is, in the middle of the confrontation between the two sides, and explained to the old man who seemed to be the store manager who had just ordered, "We are tourists from overseas, and the people we know who look like that are not only irrational and aggressive, but can also make the people he attacks the same, which is the so-called virus infection...... So there was some overreaction just now, I'm really sorry. β
ββ¦β¦ It's not a zombie. β
"I'm sorry, but we're so rare."
Krausa and Leon are still very obedient, and besides, they have also discovered that the 'monsters' they subconsciously aim at with their guns do not attack people, and even the eyes hidden in the disgusting eye sockets are bright.
"Tourists from overseas...... I don't believe that, but I don't think you look like wasteland dwellers, Nova lay down your arms. β
"Now I look at it~ Aren't there two super nice men~~ It's completely the same level as everyone else~"
In this world, everyone except children and those who cannot afford to buy weapons carry weapons with them, and in the same way, it is necessary to be vigilant for survival if the enemy does not lay down his weapons first...... Thankfully, owner Moriarty Collin hasn't gotten mad enough to take the opportunity to give the order to attack.
Originally, he was only raising his gun for self-defense.
"Hey, I haven't seen anything like this in years...... Slippery, tell me about the people you know who look like us 'zombies'? Gabriel, the bartender in question, was actually quite calm, "Oh, and by the way, we are people who were not able to enter the shelter before the war and hid and were mutated by the effects of radiation, but we are not contagious, but some of our brains are also affected...... Whatever you say about the rampaging zombies, you're at your disposal. β
In fact, this statement is not accurate, these 'zombies' are citizens who were infected with the FEV virus and received a large dose of radiation at the same time. In this case, the FEV virus forces the organs to atrophy and freeze their metabolism, making them live a long life, but due to the slow metabolism, their muscles begin to atrophy and their skin becomes susceptible to deformation and even shedding under external influences - that is, they are also carriers of the virus, but they are not aware of it, and they are indeed not as contagious as the biochemical viruses of Lyon's world.
"It's hard to elaborate, but it's a much worse disaster than you think...... As an apology, give me some snacks and a drink of the bar. To calm the mood, Leon forced himself to sit at the bar and threw down several bottle caps to consume.
The customer is as effective as God in this world, at least the bar owner has to relax his eyes.
"That is to say, you ...... There are a lot of zombies out there? Poole asked curiously, with an unbearable expression.
"Boy, you can see you just escaped from Vault 101, right?" The outfit says it all, "But it's better to be tactful, and it's easier to make things better with false compliments than bad words...... Write about the white-haired slippery skin just now. β
ββ¦β¦ I'll take notice. Accused of being polite, Poole was somewhat embarrassed.
"In addition to zombies like me, there are super mutants, centaurs and other mutated creatures out there, and even the most terrifying deathclaws, boy, if you want to survive in this wasteland, you'd better go to other places and inquire about these things."
"Thank you." I didn't expect to get a kind hint from this kind of ...... 'person', it's really unseemly.
This is especially true of Leon and Kraussa, who were pointing guns at them just now.
"Boss, Mayor said you seem to have met a middle-aged man who seems to have come out of Vault 101 recently, and now that someone's child is looking for his father, can you tell him how to find his father?" With that, Liz stepped out of the way, and Poole had already run over to take his place.
"God, you were the little baby boy back then...... Your father got what he wanted and left, and so did you? Moriarty Colin looked very touched, but it wasn't clear how sincere it was.
"You must be kidding, my dad and I were both born in Vault 101, you can't have seen me."
"Huh? That's what your dad said?! β¦β¦ Well, it's understandable that he wanted to live in the Vault," Moriarty laughed, "Your father, his brotherhood, and you used to live in this bar...... It took me a long time before I was accepted into the vault overseer~"
"What?!" This is not in line with what Poole has learned since childhood!
He wanted to suspect the other party and lied, but his father suddenly ran out of the shelter without permission, which was already a very abnormal situation, faintly reflecting his words.
"Let me guess that the incomparably closed shelter is still a 'long live overseer' brainwashing education, right? That's what the guy who escaped five years ago still says. β
............ "It turns out that it's not the overseer's mouth that 'no one has ever left the vault', it's just that they have been kept in the dark all along, as for those in the know?" Could it be that he was cleaned up like he was half a day ago? But he was lucky to escape......
"Ah, that's the end of the recollection, news is a commodity, and if you want to know where your father went, you have to pay for the bottle cap, I hope you just came out of the wasteland to understand that." That's a nice thing to say, but in fact, I just want to make a profit, right?
"How much?" Poole, who had just received the shock, didn't feel anything, he didn't think of this man as his father's friend at all...... In fact, it is not, it is just the relationship between the store and the consumer.
"300 caps~"
βοΌβ It takes a nuclear * bomb to get a reward of 100, this offer is too fierce, right?
"By the way, can I change the payment method?" As Poole tries to use his near-zero bargaining skills (since there is no currency in the vault), Liz chims in.
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"Because the young man over there has done something, the mayor of the town has given us a small house...... "100 bottles of food bought are all given to the townspeople, the mayor seems to be embarrassed, or maybe he wants to leave this group of talented and generous passers-by behind, so that this special benefit can be achieved, "As you can see, we are about to leave for his father, and the house is empty, so why don't we leave it to you?" Of course, the best thing to say is to use the lady over there as a staff dormitory, and Poole doesn't want his house to be used by other men all the time. β
ββ¦β¦ That's an acceptable offer," Moriarty glanced at Nova, the employee, "and I mean renting it to guests." β
"Of course, we're going to stay overnight tonight...... How many days will it cost to rent 300 bottle caps, and what should we do if we haven't come back after the expiration date, after all, Poole has just left the shelter, and the world is so big, the possibility of making this place his home is very small...... "In fact, Poole has never regarded it as his home in his life...... However, Moriarty didn't really have a message to change the big house, and the mayor later took it back~~
"Well, I'm convinced by you."
"Heh~"
"What is the so-called eloquence and trading skills...... "The Wasteland Scholar has learned something again.
"Then I'll tell you that James wentβ"