Chapter 17: The Enclave
Rivet City is divided into two parts: a spacious working area and a narrow living area, according to the original structure of the aircraft carrier, the working area is about the warehouse where the ordnance is placed, and the living area is about the dormitory room where the crew lives. The work area is divided into two floors, the upper floor is the market, and the lower floor is the laboratory crammed with various instruments; From bottom to top, there are bars, churches, documentation rooms, hotels, clinics and security rooms in the living quarters - this is just to express the characteristics of this rivet city built on the wreckage of an aircraft carrier, at least there is a feeling of 'sparrows are small and all kinds of organs'.
Living in a cramped and secure place, and then dividing the types of work to improve the quality of life is the way of life of the villagers, townspeople, and citizens who can be called pacifists in the vast majority of the wasteland, and the inhabitants of the so-called largest city in the Washington area are most appropriate.
For visitors from other worlds like Leeds, life here is characteristic, and it's a good way to spend an entire day chatting with the nervous uncle-like priest of the church about the 'very wasteland faith' - in fact, both Leeds and Kraussa have done it. But now something more interesting beckoned them, so the Leeds five left their accommodation money behind and ran down Rivet City.
"I'm sorry, we're going to grab the power armor later, and it looks like we'll have to separate for the time being."
"Well, thank you for taking care of you along the way...... I now feel like I'm fit in with this wasteland. ”
Poole followed the clues provided by DJ Three Dogs to find Dr. Lee in Rivet City, only to learn again about the fact that his father James had come and gone and where he was going next. Through a conversation with Dr. Lee, Poole finally learns that his parents have been living outside the wasteland and that they are scientists who have been doing research with Dr. Lee. Before his mother's death due to his difficult birth, they and Lee had been working on the "Clean Water Project" to purify potable water...... However, due to his mother's birth and financial interruptions, his father gave up his studies and took him to Vault 101 for 19 years.
NOW, POOLE FINALLY UNDERSTOOD THE MEANING OF HIS NAME, PURE, AND BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND HER MOTHER'S FAVORITE WORDS - I AM ALPHA, I AM OMEGA, I AM THE BEGINNING, AND I AM THE END. I will give freely the water of the fountain of life to those who are thirsty to drink.
"Scrappy, Poole...... But if you have any questions, you can wait for us in Rivet City, your father's "Clean Water Project" is a good thing for the benefit of the wasteland, and I will help as much as I can. Such a righteous remark was naturally said by Leon, well, in fact, other people also mean the same thing.
"Well, I will, Leon!"
"Hey, boy!" Liz shouted suddenly.
"Huh?!" Poole subconsciously caught what was thrown over...... It was a sniper* rifle.
"In this world where sniper * rifle * guns are scarce, don't solve problems that can be solved with sniper * shots with medium and short distance shooting~" Liz threw another box of sniper * shotgun ammunition over.
"Leeds ......!" Poole already knows the human relations in the wasteland, not to mention that if you want to get anything, you have to give the bottle cap if you want to get information from your mouth...... In the end, it was only this group of very strange, very strange, very strange people who called themselves 'overseas tourists' who helped him for free along the way.
"Oh oh ~ don't show this expression, it's disgusting...... Really, I was going to use this thing to educate the Waste Bandits or something...... Let's go, let's go, the next time we meet, we will appear in power armor~" I didn't expect Poole's father to be where the script is not over yet, and he also ran out of "Water Purification Plan", a term that sounds lofty and awe-inspiring.
“…… We've only been together for a few days, but once again I want to thank you for your assistance along the way. With that, Poole walked in the direction of his father with his sniper rifle held high.
"Looks like we can expect a man to rise~" Ida snickered.
"At least you won't be the bad guy...... "Krausa was a rare disagreement with the agent girl, "So, Liz, what do you want to do about robbing the Enclave's power armor?" ”
"I've already thought about the specific implementation plan, and I need a beautiful woman to help me implement it." Liz laughed.
"Huh~?"
"But before that, in order to deal with the sense of justice of the separation, let's get in touch with it a little bit~"
“…… How can I say that I am like a cancer on the team? ”
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It's very simple to get in touch with the Enclave soldiers, and the Pip-Boy has marked the Enclave soldiers wandering outside, and you can know by comparing it with yesterday's coordinates that this is still real-time monitoring.
So Leeds and they "fast traveled" directly to the Farragutsi subway station, which has a mission target nearby...... Oh, and Leeds has discovered that this 'fast ride' is neither 'teleporting' nor 'passing so much time you spend running through it yourself, just saving you the physical labor of running there', this time, for example, the time consumed is about the same as driving a car from Rivet City to the subway station.
…… Well, whatever, the Enclave soldiers they locked on didn't go far anyway, and after spending about two hours on the road, they finally saw the Enclave soldiers wearing the "Advanced Power Armor MKII", which is the power armor that the Brotherhood members call "Dark Demons".
"They can't get any closer, if they're also better than the Brotherhood's T51b in terms of detection performance, this range is already a bit dangerous, just look through the binoculars here." Under Liz's instructions, everyone looked for cover, took out binoculars, and peeked at the four-person team.
"Well, it's okay, it's much stronger than the bloated form factor of the T51b."
“…… The size is not the same, but there is a more mechanical structure like a pattern and it looks thin and capable. "Klausa is helpless about his captain's behavior that always pays attention to appearances.
"Well, everything else is fine, but am I the only one who thinks the helmet looks like a pig's head? Especially the two things that looked like ears. "Well, there's one more Ida for those who care about their appearance.
"I think it's more ugly without those ears...... Wait, someone's coming. At Leon's prompting, the contents of the binoculars shifted to the front of the Enclave soldiers.
Oh, it turned out to be a group of ragged wasteland wanderers, and although I couldn't hear what they were saying, they followed an Enclave eyebot to find the soldiers, probably believing the propaganda played by the eyebots......
But
"What-!?" Instead of bringing the wastelanders back to the base to live happily ever after, as the propaganda slogan suggests, the soldiers of the Enclave did not hesitate to attack! And even the seemingly harmless eyeball robot joined the attacker!
The unarmed and literally only one-handed, wastelanders were slaughtered in a matter of seconds, and then the Enclave soldiers burned their bodies with flamethrowers.
“…… Well, I think the wastelanders must have offended the Enclave soldiers," Liz put down his binoculars and suggested, "Why don't you walk over and talk to the Charm 10 Pip-Boy with the title 'Eight-Faced Exquisite'?" ”
“…… You want me to die!! ”