While proving that the United States could indeed destroy a city with an atomic bomb, a scientist turned back to my father and said:

"Now science is in the same league as sin."

But do you know what your father said?

He said, "What is sin?" ”

- Kurt Vonnegut, "The Cradle of Cats"

***

Long before the war between China and the United States, relations between the two countries were strained over the last remaining oil resources in the Pacific.

While U.S. spies sabotaged Chinese oil wells and related technology to give the U.S. control of most of the Pacific's oil resources, tensions between the two countries eventually prompted China to attack Alaska, turning the U.S. Anchorage frontline established in 2059 into a real battleground.

In 2066, the squadron successfully captured Alaska under the leadership of General Jingwei and took control of the local oil resources.

In 2067, Operation Anchorage began, and the United States put the first batch of T45D power armor into service.

In 2073, China will begin to use biological weapons aggressively.

In 2074, the United States began to attack the Chinese mainland, and during the Battle of the Yangtze River, the United States invested a large number of T-45D power armored units on the Chinese battlefield, but due to wrong tactics and terrain problems, the front advanced extremely slowly, which exacerbated the consumption of domestic resources in the United States.

In 2076, the development of the T-51B power armor was completed, and the T-51B unit, which was put into combat for the first time, successfully broke the defense line of the squadron. At the same time, China's supply lines began to crumble.

In 2077, a nuclear exchange began.

It is no longer known who first pressed the button for Pandora's box.

Countries that saw missiles flying in the air launched their own nuclear bombs in desperation. The air raid sirens sounded, but most people thought it was a false alarm and very few people entered the shelter.

The faults in the earth's crust moved violently, and the originally fertile land turned into a rocky mountain, and flooded much of the land.

The civilization that mankind has spent thousands of years building has been almost wiped out in just two hours.

But there was one person who anticipated the coming of nuclear war and prepared for it.

The famous pre-war entrepreneur devoted all his energy to protecting his hometown, then known as Las Vegas.

He poured all his resources into a fortress on the Lucky 38 casino on Las Vegas Avenue, with enough firepower to shoot down or hack any missiles that came close to the city. He even built a stronger, smarter, and only at his command

An army of private security robots were used to cope with the post-war situation.

With all this in place, Mr. House locks himself up in Lucky 38, planning a new world while waiting for the destruction of the old one.

But there was a slight glitch in his plans, and Mr. House and his army of robots were silent for two centuries.

He saved the city from the destruction of a nuclear bomb and then disappeared. His towered fortress was transformed into another lifeless structure standing in the middle of the desert.

Las Vegas then declined, and the tourists on the long street were gradually replaced by barbarian tribes.

Mr. House had no interest in these savages until the NCR scouts first arrived, and the lights of civilization were finally lit up again in Lucky 38. House's army of robots is finally starting to do their part, and the first thing these powerful robots do is tame the surrounding tribes.

These barbarians have only two choices: either they are wiped out, or they are reformed by Mr. House.

What kind of choice will be made in the face of absolute force is obvious. These barbarians put on their pre-war suits and sang old pre-war songs. After this, a brutal tribe engaged in the slave trade and a number of unscrupulous beasts in order to survive were also joined.

Before that, though, they were just barbarians, slave traders, and cannibals......

But in any case, they gave the city a boost.

The three families ensure that Mr. House is the center of a city that is thriving from the beginning, and despite the near-endless conflict between these tribes as past rivals, they also have to be restrained in the face of Mr. House's security robots.

Shops, casinos, prostitutes. The yard remains open, and by wasteland standards, New Vegas is a legendary utopia, attracting wasteland dwellers from all over the world like a magnet.

Of course, this also attracted the prying eyes of another force dedicated to expansion, the NCR and Caesar's Legion.

But at least for now, Mr. House is still in his fort. Behind the scenes, everything in this "hedonistic paradise" is manipulated.

***

New Vegas is divided into several areas by a wall made of scrap steel and cement blocks.

The outlying part of the city of Liberty is a paradise for thugs, addicts, and beggars, with no laws, no rules. No one cares what you do, and no one cares what others do to you, it's a real "free place".

After passing through an iron gate converted from a carriage, you will find a relatively "safe" and "prosperous" free city.

"Hope for good luck? Try it at Atomic Cowboy! There are cheap and good wines here! Friendly betting! There are also beautiful women like spirits~! ”

"Do you want someone's life? Here are the best weapons in Liberty City! Whether it's laser, ionic, pistol or grenade - the Silver Shock has you covered! ”

It was already night when Long Jing entered the Free City, and the few dilapidated pre-war buildings in the night glowed neon, adding a touch of life to the ruined city.

Scantily clad women on the street wink at passers-by, and strong men with loud voices shout advertising slogans to attract customers.

If you look along the main street, you can see the lights of civilization at the end of the spectrum of preserved buildings, which are the best part of New Vegas, the casino city.

The President's Gang, White Gloves, Mafia...... and the lair of Mr. House, the big boss behind New Vegas, is also the purpose of Longjing's trip.

"Are you going to go in and kill House?"

The Flying Boar was lying on top of ED-E's back armor plate, and since ED-E had joined, it had finally found a moving platform that was wider than Long Jing's head and shoulders.

Next to ED-E, another eyeball robot is hovering.

Aside from the paint and the lack of stickers that I don't know who put them on when I travel all the way, and "external plug-ins" such as license plates, it looks basically the same as the ED-E, and even the layout of the antennas on both sides is exactly the same. And the most obvious difference between the two is the weapon system installed underneath. The ED-E is equipped with a laser emitter, and underneath it is an electric spray gun wound with an electric arc.

This eyeball robot is not just that the ED-E belongs to the same model. Because everything from the data to the intelligence framework is completely copied from ED-E, it is a clone of ED-E in a way.

In order to distinguish the two sides, Long Jing gave the new partner a new name: Edna.

That's right, as you can tell from a few recordings of Edna, it's a girl and ED-E - at least that's what their makers set it up that way.

Edna was originally placed on standby at the U.S. missile launch base beneath the "watershed" of the Rift Valley, west of Prim. It is not until the protagonist enters the watershed and faces off against her old enemies that she has never met before is released. As for the final ending, it depends on the choice of the protagonist.

But now that Long Jing had brought it out in advance, and made it a god - of course, if Miss Mary Sue was going to fight her old enemy, Long Jing would definitely let Edna help her.

Well, it's just to thank her for giving ED-E a thank you gift to herself, and it's definitely not for anything like that to make things go in the direction she wants.

"Mr. House, there are three more families...... It's not hard to kill them. ”

Long Jing looked towards the casino city, and the "Lucky 38" casino could be seen in a distant place, and the tall body was particularly conspicuous.

Mr. House is mysterious to the people of the wasteland, but Long Jing knows that he is not as powerful as people think. At least until he gets back that all-important "platinum chip", it won't be difficult to take him down. The three major families are nothing more than a rabble.

But just as Mr. House needs the manpower of the three families to serve him, Long Jing can't rely on robots to get the rule of New Vegas, he also needs some people to do things for him.

"But before we clean up Mr. House, it will help us in our future operations by winning over a snake or two."

Long Jing retracted his gaze and turned to a five- or six-story building at the crossroads of the main street of Liberty City.

Above the main entrance of the building, flashing neon lights form a big word - KING.

"Let's start with him."

Long Jing stepped forward.

"Elvis Presley's Gang—Elvis!"