Chapter Seventy-Nine: A Town Surrounded by Poison Gas
New Vegas, which was built around Lucky 38, Vice City, Chao Mido, and Shanghaojia, and Madele, is a town of houses, shops, public facilities, and other buildings that have survived the war, and which are still relatively intact to this day.
However, it was not a paradise for the people of the wasteland, or even worse than the war-torn outskirts of New Vegas, which had become a pile of rubble, because the reddish-brown smoke wafted here rejected all living things, which, according to Fawkes, "smelled of copper," "burned your lungs," "penetrated into your skin," and was described by God as a poison gas of heavy metal properties developed by a major American businessman before the war.
It seems that because the reddish-brown gas is much heavier than the air, and because the Casino of Madre and the town are built in the valley, these gases have not dissipated for two hundred years like the residue that has accumulated at the bottom of the bowl...... However, perhaps due to the effect of time, or perhaps there was not much natural wind disturbance in the valley, these poisonous gases were not evenly dispersed throughout the town, and most of them remained quiet and scattered in the form of clouds of smoke.
Even so, the 'clean air' in the town still has a thin poisonous gas, and the air quality is very bad, but the air in Beijing is so bad that it is not a bunch of people rushing into it to become the people at the feet of the Son of Heaven? Therefore, Fawkes did not intend to abandon Liz and the others, he just needed to avoid the poisonous fog and move forward.
As for Leeds them? We've got power armor! Poison is inviolable!
…… Well, just kidding, the air filtration system of power armor cannot be useful for all poison gases. Especially when you bring it to another world, you will encounter a special "poison gas from another world". However, these reddish-brown poisonous fogs are probably pre-war American technology. The Enclave, on the other hand, has completely inherited that technology as the Enclave's most advanced power armor. It is quite normal that the X-02 is able to deal with this type of poison gas.
In this way, this poison gas, which looked very dangerous, but in fact only Fawkes found a little troublesome, could not be a barrier for Leeds and the others, and they continued to advance towards the center of the valley, where the terrain was suddenly raised, giving the impression of a castle in the style of a casino.
And then
[The soldiers of the Enclave, why did they appear on the West Coast?! As you pass by a fountain, a projector suddenly turns on, and the image of a white-haired old man appears above the pillar in the center of the fountain - holographic projection technology, which has been seen in the Assassin's world of Leeds. Nothing surprising.
“…… Well, this one we snatched from the soldiers of the Enclave, and in a sense I'm from the Brotherhood of Steel camp. Leeds thought for a moment, the Western Brotherhood didn't seem to have much of a better reputation than the Enclave, and added, "I mean the Iron Brotherhood on the East Coast." ”
[Owen Lane's subordinate ......?] The white-haired old man seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, obviously he was still nervous after only listening to the first half of the sentence...... Is it also a grudge against the Western Brotherhood of Steel, or was he infected by Elder Lane's charisma more than ten years ago?
"Well, it's a little different from that...... "Liz doesn't want to be anyone's little brother for no reason." After all, it doesn't matter who we are, we're here to grab gold, old man, don't stop us if you don't want to die...... I don't think you're more than 200 years old! ”
If he had lived for more than two hundred years in some way, like Mr. House, he would probably be the owner of this Madre Casino. The gold reserves here are probably also his legal property, and it is always a bit unreasonable to grab them. If he didn't have the ability to live for hundreds of years, the gold would be the ownerless thing he found first. If you grab it, there will be no psychological pressure at all!
[Hmph, there are greedy members of the Brotherhood like you. Ryan, how did he do the elder! The old man on the hologram said angrily.
"It's your business...... And no matter how much Elder Lane no matter what, he would not put hypnotic gas at the entrance for no reason, put an explosive collar on him and use it as a slave after putting someone down. "Even though I didn't experience it. But when I saw the corpse and those hypnotic gases, I could probably guess eight or nine times.
"I don't know who you are," I don't want to know who he is, "all we're interested in now is gold, so you can go to bed and sleep if you're fine." Liz grabbed the Gauss rifle behind him and aimed it at the hologram's projector.
[Wait a minute, Madre Casino has a special design, you can't even enter the door without my help-]
(Bang!) The projector, along with the concrete block on which it was mounted, was reduced to debris under a blow from a Gauss rifle.
"-I'm sorry, but I don't need a key to open the door." Liz replied lightly, not knowing if the old man who spoke in the tone of a big man of the Brotherhood of Steel just now could hear it.
"What if it's a gate made of obsidian?" Leon, pulling out his Gauss rifle, quipped, "We don't have diamond pickaxes." ”
"Then I'll unlock a bunch of hairpins for you, and I'll shoot you a JJ for encouragement." Liz didn't have a good airway.
"I only have one!" Is the spit point here?
“…… Isn't the MC system not crippled, and after being interrupted, eat a loaf of bread and grow back. Kraussa raised his fist and said coldly.
"God, even Krausa has become like this......" Leon said helplessly.
"Hahaha! My friends, do you all like to tease like this before you fight! Fawkes picked up the laser Gatling and aimed it at the enemy approaching.
Yes, it was because the sound of Liz's shot was so loud that it alarmed the "residents" living in the town, and now a bunch of people who didn't look normal were slowly approaching in a circle.
Perhaps this Madeleine Casino has a lot of secrets, as some members of the White Glove Gang in New Vegas intend to eat human flesh, perhaps this is a pre-war refuge built by a big merchant to give his lover, but because of the grudge and hatred, it has brewed a set of tragedies.
Perhaps the people who operate in Madele's Casino are also special, just like Mr. Postman once made the choice of where to smash the nuclear * bomb or sacrifice his robot to destroy the launcher, maybe the old man who showed his face just now is the former elder of the Western Iron Brotherhood, because he can't accept the defeat in the battle against the NCR and is here to find the secret revenge of the poisonous fog.
Perhaps the monsters roaming Madele's Casino are also special, just as the super mutants are actually the public enemies of humanity created by some people who hunt wasteland vagrants and inject them with the FEV virus, maybe the humans who are now surrounded by strange movements and wearing protective suits similar to diving suits are mutants infected with the red poisonous mist, and they don't even get a bento box by simply getting a headshot.
There are many secrets in the world, and it would be exhausting to explore them one by one, and this time, it seems that everyone has little curiosity about these secrets.
"Me! Fox! Become human! I want gold! Death to those who stand in my way! Ahhh!!h (To be continued.) )