Chapter 4 Nuclear Bomb Town
If the place where they appeared in Leeds could be called 'Wilderness', then after a few hours of trekking, Leeds finally entered the 'former man-made area'. It's unclear how strong the erosion effect of two hundred years has been, and it's impossible to find out what other people have done in the area, but judging by the dusty concrete structure, they must have had buildings here today...... Moreover, cracked concrete roads in the ground and broken overpasses in the distance hint at the same message.
However, there is still something wrong - there is too little vegetation, and such a wasteland is generally covered by fungi, algae, mosses, herbs, and woody plants, right? Two hundred years is not a break, but there is still not much here. The reason is also to guess that it is not only humans who are affected by radiation in war......
"War, war will never change - pain!"
"Little ghost, why do you let out such a deep sigh as soon as you run out of front of your house, young people should be as energetic as me." Liz gave Poole a look.
"I think you should study Poole and improve your personal literacy." With that, Leon had already taken out a bottle of nuclear cola and a can of meat from his backpack and walked to give them to the wasteland vagrants who were sitting on the ground begging in the distance...... Indeed, he is the most ethical person in the team.
ββ¦β¦ I don't like wars involving other people, but I've always been a combat professional, and I'm here to ......" Klausa didn't finish his sentence, revealing his identity when he said the rest of the story.
ββ¦β¦ Well, can't you pretend what your dad said? "Poole always felt that this Traveler Squad member was super personal, as for himself? Uh, wearing a blue tights (even though they've been wearing them for more than a decade), is it a personality to be put together like a pervert?
After Leon and the Grateful Dade wasteland wanderers finished inquiring about the news in the town, everyone walked to the main entrance of Nuke* Town, where Leeds' Pip-Boy showed him information about Poole's father.
"Is this ......?!" Leeds, who has all sorts of strange common sense, is calm, as is Poole, who has similar things in the vault, and only Klausa and Leon are surprised.
[ββTourists from afar...... Welcome to Nuke* Town. Because a not-so-good-looking robot is greeting them.
How to say it, Leon and Kraussa saw that the world that had been blown up by nuclear * bombs was full of ruins, especially when they saw that the "walls" of the so-called "nuclear * bomb town" were built of rusty iron sheets, and he thought that the small pistol that Lez traded back was the ultimate in this world's post-war technology...... Looking at it this way, I'm scrubbing, just such a broken place of the welcome robot can't make its own world, right?
Although the end of the world has come here, they still feel that the scientific and technological route here is much more reliable than the scientific and technological route of developing biological and chemical weapons.
Liz waved to the guards with sniper rifles on the ramparts, who seemed to think they were harmless and flipped the switch, and the rusty gates on both sides of the town's main entrance slowly opened.
"How about it, the so-called unseen world~?" Liz laughed.
ββ¦β¦ It's completely different from what is inside the Vault. Poole, who thought Liz was talking to him, said.
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"Don't pretend you've been in this world."
"Haha, that's right," Liz just smiled in the face of the split complaint, "This is one of the great fun of my trip, taste it well and decide whether to follow me or not~"
Although there is a suspicion of pretending, but to tell the truth, you are not a "permanent teammate" without having a complete journey with Leeds.
However, Liz was still slapped in the face by the speed of light.
"Damn, can I not go down with you!"
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"Wait, I'm going to make a wave too! Poole, I'll wait for you outside the city to find out the information!? β
Why is Leeds, who has just finished pretending, so cowardly?
The town as a whole is in the shape of a bowl, and people use various steel brackets to build layers of iron houses along the walls of the bowl, which is nothing, the problem is that there is a nuclear * bomb inserted in the center of the bowl-shaped pit. Don't say that this pit is a nonsense that this nuclear bomb was blown up, have you ever seen a nuclear * bomb that has exploded and still retains the shape of a nuclear * bomb?!
The three of them can't even stand the bazooka bombardment in the face, let alone a nuclear * bomb, this can't help but coax!
"Calm down, distinguished guest from afar," at this time, a black man with a rifle on his back and dressed like a cowboy walked up from under the nuclear bomb town, "This nuclear bomb has been placed there for two hundred years, and if it was to explode, it should have exploded a long time ago, don't worry." β
"In other words, after two hundred years of rust, it's possible for this thing to explode at any time, right? The gentleman ...... "Leeds, they don't really just run away...... But if they spend the night here, probably no one will be able to sleep.
"That's fine, huh...... I'm Lucas Sims, the sheriff and mayor here, and of course, that's when others need me. "The mayor is not annoyed, he does have the demeanor of the mayor on the surface.
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Mayor, nice town......" Liz directly ignored the comments of the wasteland wanderer outside the main gate who didn't give them water to drink, and watched them die, "Except, of course, that nuclear bomb...... Honestly, living with this thing, absolutely no organization will try to launch a large-scale attack on this place, it is really safe enough. "If you don't agree with each other, you can blow yourself up, who is afraid of whom now!
"I see, this may be the reason why the people who were turned away from Vault 101 chose to settle here......" Mayor Mare's self-muffled words made Poole, who had just been nearly killed by his partner due to the extreme seclusion of the Vault, "but now we don't need it, we have enough weapons to defend it, and I'd like to find someone to tear it down if I can." β
"I really have someone here who can ...... Poole, show Mayor Mare your stats. β
"Is this the rumored Pip-Boy ...... Ah, you're still wearing Vault 101 clothes......" Mayor Mare seems to have only now noticed this, well, not surprisingly, he had been looking at the three Leeds who were dressed like the inhabitants of the wasteland, just like the citizens below.
"Well, I just came out of Vault 101...... Have you seen a middle-aged man passing by recently? He was most likely wearing a white lab coat. Poole asked.
"If it were a man with a determined eye that wasn't like the other wasteland dwellers, I remember going to Moria's Bar...... But then he left. β
"Bar......" Hearing that his father had left, Poole, who was frustrated for a while, could only say to himself that he was not in a hurry, and stretched out the beep boy to show the mayor his data certificate.
"Oh, I don't know how to look at it, the Pip-Boy is only something that only a few people will use in the wasteland," the mayor said with a wry smile, after all, this is a pre-war leftover, not a very effective thing, even if there is a chance, not many people will learn to use it, "but are you sure you can disassemble the nuclear * bomb?" β
"I haven't practiced it, though." Poole's face was full of confidence.
I've summarized the attribute tendencies of the three Leeds (in fact, there is Ada) before.,As a combat unit, they have been systematically trained to be considered a great cow in this world.,But that's just a combat attribute.,As for the academic attributes, it can only be said to be miserable.γ
Poole's words are just the opposite, after all, a guy who can only fight with rogues except for fighting cockroaches with BB guns and bats, has a ghost if his combat attributes can be high. However, the son of a scientist and a doctor in the Vault, supplemented by the information contained in the Vault, he 'inherited his father's business' and even 'came out of the blue' in some respects, and his knowledge of medicine, explosives, maintenance, and science was fully developedβyes, his attribute tendency could be described as a 'wasteland scholar'.
ββ¦β¦ If you can help me dismantle the nuclear bomb, I can give you 100 bottle caps. The mayor thought about it for a while, and finally decided to believe it.
"Well, don't worry!" Poole is a little excited to be able to apply what he has learned in practice!
"Wait...... Just in case, might it be better for us to call the citizens out? Leon hurriedly called out to Poole.
"Do you know that there is a new atomic religion in this town, and the object of their worship is actually this nuclear * bomb, if you know that someone wants to dismantle it......"
"Also, there's this religion...... Leon thought his RPG cult was powerful enough.
Liz said casually: "It's not easy, we don't want to be paid, you use those bottle caps to go to the snack bar in the town to buy goods, and then send someone to tell the residents of the town that 'there is a group of stupid overseas merchants delivering food outside the town, everyone goes first and gets it', and the people who are waiting to leave are gone, and Poole will quietly defuse the bomb, isn't that okay?" β
ββ¦β¦ Your Excellency is a merciful wise man...... "Yes, although people with heads and faces would not take such petty profits, such as bosses...... But most of the poor ghosts who worship the fools around the nuclear bomb don't take free food for nothing.
"Hey, what do you want?" Liz shook his hand in front of Poole, who looked 'can solve the problem so perfectly'.
ββ¦β¦ Well? β
"In the end, it's all up to you~ You messed up for a while, and the three of us were beaten by the townspeople~"
"......" At that time, it was the townspeople who would **** die...... However, "I won't be blown up by something so simple~"