Chapter 53: Reunion

In the wilderness, a traveler is walking with a huge backpack on his back. He wears the most common wilderness mercenary suit, with a 10mm silencer pistol slung around his waist, a semi-automatic shotgun and a sniper rifle strapped to his backpack, and an electronic device on his left wrist, like a tablet.

As if it were too hot, the traveler lifted his hood to reveal his brilliant blonde hair and handsome face. He took the kettle from his waist, unscrewed the lid, and poured a mouthful of water into his mouth, which he swallowed in no hurry, but just held it in his mouth and moistened his throat until he was sure that his mouth was completely wet, and then swallowed it slowly.

This is Adam's third week in the ruined capital, and during those two weeks, this warm-hearted and kind-hearted young man has experienced things that no one else may have experienced in his lifetime: meeting a strange man, helping the Brotherhood of Steel defend the Galactic Broadcasting Building, then risking his perilous journey across the battlefield frontlines, finding antennas in museums after half-strength, half-luck taking out a dozen super mutants, and then climbing the monument to restore Three Dogs' radio station.

He then travels to Rivet City, a city built on a stranded battleship, based on the information he received from the Three Dogs, where he finds one of the participants in the Water Purification Plan twenty years ago, Dr. Lee, a woman over forty years old who is still charming, and one of the rulers of Rivet City. Under Dr. Lee's guidance, he went to the Jefferson Memorial Hall, where his father's laboratory was located, the water purifier.

From the Jefferson Memorial, he found his father's audio recordings, only to find out that his father and mother left the Water Purification Project twenty years ago and entered Vault 101, partly because of his birth, wanting to grow up in a safe and radiation-free environment, and on the other hand, looking for confidential information in the Vault. On the superintendent's computer, my father discovers that there is another place that may have the chip needed for the water purifier - Vault 112, where the famous scientist Brownie is located.

The record was interrupted at this point, and Adam determined that his father had most likely gone to Vault 112.

During these three weeks, Adam matured rapidly. Tribulations can make people grow quickly, and he has changed from an idealist with naïve wishes to a down-to-earth doer. During this time, he also met many new friends, some of them were radio DJs who wanted to change the world with radio, and some of them were Iron Knights who defended human safety with weapons; There are scientists who have always worked for the survival of mankind, and there are defective robots who have fought for the awakening of free will......

and an enthusiastic youth who calls himself a "prophet".

After more than a day of trekking, Adam could already see the cliff he was very familiar with, and the entrance hidden in the mountain wall was an inconspicuous shadow, Adam struggled to climb the cliff, and was surprised to see a man sitting in front of the gate of the shelter.

The "Prophet," or Su Jing, was sitting there napping, and his ears moved, and then he looked up, and when he saw Adam, he greeted him without surprise.

"Hi Adam, you're finally here...... I've been sitting here for two hours. How's it going, how are these days? I think Sarah from the Brotherhood of Steel is cute, but have you developed a pleasant physical relationship with her that goes beyond mere friendship? Or is your courtship technique so bad? Oh my God, friend, if you look in the mirror, you won't find anyone more handsome than you in the whole waste, except me, of course. I think your appearance should be hooked and fingered, and the girl climbed into bed on her own......"

Although he was surprised that Su Jing actually appeared here, Adam was much calmer than when he first walked out of the shelter, ignoring the nonsense of the madman in front of him, he hugged Su Jing who stood up gently, and then asked:

"Mr. Prophet, why are you here?"

"I also got the radio signal, from Vault 101, and as soon as I heard the voice of the little girl inside, I knew that you must be here—how, I guessed right! That girl is yours...... Childhood? I guess that's it! ”

Adam was silent, and it was only after hearing the radio that he realized that his hometown, Vault 101, had fallen into chaos. Thinking that Yamata was in great trouble, he immediately left everything behind and rushed back as fast as he could.

Adam and his father, James, stayed here for twenty years after entering the Vault. It wasn't until he was older that James was able to leave with the information stolen from the Vault 101 Overseer's computer with peace of mind. The 101 Vault is never open to the public, and all those who live here are supervised and educated from an early age: the world outside is dangerous, and as long as you stay in the Vault, you can have a happy and stable life...... Originally, this life had lasted for two hundred years, but the protagonist father and son broke this rule.

Adam caused a riot at the same time as he left, and under the strict control of the overseer, he could only find an opportunity to escape from here in the chaos. The aftermath of the riot has remained to the present day, with Yamata broadcasting on the radio:

Adam...... I know you won't die outside, please come back and help us......]

Adam's departure brings a new light to the residents of the Vault, and it turns out that the outside world is not a dead place, and the young residents have asked the overseer to open the doors of the Vault so that they can have access to the colorful outside world; The older faction, believing that opening the door would only bring danger, led to an opposition between the two classes, followed by an escalation of the antagonism. Under these circumstances, the overseers had to resort to forcible repression, bringing the two factions to the brink of violent confrontation.

"Do you know what the code is to enter the door?"

"Yes...... Yamata. ”

Adam stood in front of the password keyboard and typed six letters.

A shrill alarm sounded, and the circular door of the vault slowly swung open, then moved aside. The gate was several meters thick enough to keep the shelter and the outside world apart from the explosions and radiation, large enough to divide the sanctuary and the outside world.

"Mr. Prophet, or ......"

"Su Jing, you can know my name now, call me Su Jing."

"Hmm...... Mr. Su Jing, may I ask ...... Why do you want to follow me all the time? ”

"It's because I'm from ......"

"Don't move! Hands up!! ”

A gruff voice interrupted the conversation, and a vault security guard with a baton in his hand was looking nervously at the two.

"Mr. Su Jing, please don't do it!" Adam caught a glimpse of Su Jing as if he had clenched his fist, and hurriedly stood in front of him to stop his movements.

"Adam?! You...... You're back? ”

The security guard seemed to recognize Adam, and he frowned and talked to the blonde youth for a long time - Su Jing didn't pay attention to what the two were talking about, just looked around curiously.

Before the war, the U.S. government built hundreds of facilities called "shelters," which were ostensibly used as wartime settlements, but were in fact part of the U.S. government's social experiment program. Each shelter is an experimental field in a closed environment, some shelters are all men, some shelters play low-frequency infrasound waves that interfere with people's thinking around the clock, some shelters have only one person, and even Su Jingzhidao has a shelter full of people and their clones...... One of these human-twisting testing grounds is Vault 87, which nurtures mutants.

Vault 101 is one of the more fortunate experimental sites, where the people do not kill each other, do not have mental breakdowns or mutate creatures, they are merely experiments on "centralized rule under closed conditions". The Overseer wields supreme power in this vault, which was originally designed to never be opened until the arrival of James and his son.

In front, after Adam and the security guard finished negotiating, Su Jing followed the two to the depths of the shelter. Adam's expression was very serious, he slowed down a little and walked side by side with Su Jing.

"Mr. Su, my friends are in trouble right now. They have a slight misunderstanding with the rulers of the land...... I'm sure this misunderstanding will be resolved soon, so ...... Mr. Sue? ”

"It's okay, I'm listening." Su Jing's gaze swept over the inside of the shelter, the overturned tables and chairs, and the swear words written on the walls with spray paint...... It seems that what is happening here is much more than a "little misunderstanding".

Under the hostile eyes of the security guards along the way, the trio walked through the entertainment area, where the rebellious young men were now entrenched in the living quarters on the second basement level, and Adam decided to have a good talk with his former playmates first. The security guards encountered at the door quickly stopped, leaving only Adam and Su Jing to move forward alone. The terrain was all too familiar to Adam, after all, it was the home he had lived in for twenty years. After walking through the labyrinthine living quarters, the two find all the young people in the front medical room.

Adam suddenly quickened his pace, rushed up and pushed open the door of the medical room, and the people inside turned their heads in unison, each with different expressions, and only a blonde girl with some freckles on her face was pure surprise, she pounced and hugged Adam.

"Oh...... I know you'll be back...... Oh, my God...... Adam, I know you're going to come back and help us...... Oh my God, you look so much thinner. ”

"I'm back, it's okay, Yamata, I'm back, leave it to me." Adam held her tightly in his arms and combed her long hair with his hands.

Su Jing leaned against the door, watching the long-lost reunion of the pair of childhood sweethearts, and quietly showed a smile, and then he found that the other people in the infirmary were looking at him half fearfully and half suspiciously, and suddenly straightened his face again.