Chapter Fifty-Four: One Hundred and One Shelter

"My father...... Ever since you and your father escaped, you've been very ...... Irritable and irritable. He objected to our demands and forced us to go back to our old lives...... We didn't want that, but the riot ...... I know you shouldn't be blamed, mutant cockroaches have bitten a lot of people, we need medical care, we need doctors, but ...... Not here. We asked the robot steward to treat her, but ...... Oh my god it sawed off her feet entirely...... She just got bitten on her toe......"

Yamata's words were a bit messy, but they were enough to make the two of them understand a lot of things. Su Jing walked into the operating room next to her and took a look, there was a middle-aged woman lying on the operating table who had been dead for a long time, her eyes were wide open, her hands were tied to the hospital bed with a belt, her right foot was sawn off at the ankle, and on the edge of the hospital bed, a housekeeping robot of a similar model to Mr. Hurricane was humming happily. His detection probe turned around sensitively a few times, saw Su Jing, and greeted happily:

[Good afternoon, sir.] Do you need surgery or similar medical services? Ha Lu Ha, just kidding, I've been banned from medical procedures, I really don't understand. I still miss the wonderful time of healing and saving people, this young lady had a serious foot injury and I had to have to have her leg amputated, but unfortunately she didn't make it...... Want a drink? 】

“…… Next time. Su Jing stiffened his face and gently patted the round head of the machine butler.

Su Jing, who walked out of the operating room, saw that Adam was finishing his conversation with Yamata, and turned to probe a wounded man lying on a hospital bed. He frowned and lifted the gauze, the smell of rancid and blood came to his nose, and the wound that looked like a bullet had begun to reveal a black and purple color, and the situation was not optimistic.

"I need medical equipment, it would be nice if there was a treatment needle or a strengthening spirit, but the medicine stock here is ......" Adam turned his head to look at Su Jing, who shrugged his shoulders, then took a syringe and a bottle of pills from the medical pouch around his waist and tossed them to Adam.

Adam first wiped the patient's wound with an alcohol swab, and then used tweezers to extract a brass bullet from the wound. Then he removed the sleeve of the treatment needle and injected it into the patient's vein, and after completing the initial medical treatment, Adam took out a round piece of strong spirit from the bottle, broke it into two pieces, and put half of it into the patient's mouth, and half of it was crushed into powder and sprinkled evenly on the wound. After that, he redressed the wound with a new roll of gauze.

"In two days, I will be able to get out of bed and walk."

While Adam was concentrating on healing, Su Jing noticed that Yamata was staring at Adam's focused side face, and he didn't even need to release his telepathy to know what the little girl was thinking.

Yes, telepathy.

After completing the second layer of analysis in the Bannister Fortress, Su Jing began to initially possess telepathic ability, which is still very immature, but can vaguely perceive the emotions of others within three meters. As well as the intense hostility of others can be felt within ten meters, like the feeling of a needle stuck in the back of the neck. It's a simple ability, but it's also handy to use at the right time.

At this moment, he quietly released his telepathic ability, sensing the emotions of this girl named Yamata, and then Su Jing tasted it, it was a sweet and bitter mood. Su Jing guessed the source of this mood, the sweetness was naturally bitter because of his love for Adam...... Is it because of what?

Is it because Adam can't stay here forever? Su Jing raised her eyebrows slightly.

"I really don't see that you still have such a hand in medical care." After the medical treatment was completed, Su Jing was the first to applaud.

"I used to learn it from my father, and when I was a child, he taught me about human health and some computer skills." Adam smiled a little shyly and stood up to look at Yamata. Su Jing felt that for a moment he seemed to want to take a step forward, but for a moment, he turned around without a trace and walked towards the door.

"I'm going to talk to the overseer. I feel that this matter will have a happy and peaceful ending. Mr. Su, you can stay here and rest for a while. Adam put down his backpack and weapon, and walked out empty-handed.

Ignoring the strange eyes of the people around him, Su Jing found a chair and sat down, and his telepathic abilities didn't need to be specially expanded to read the thoughts in their hearts: curiosity, doubt, fear, hatred......

[Someone from the wasteland? [Either a robber or a barbarian, why will Adam bring him back?] ], [Does he eat people......], [A person who seems to be quiet, he must know a lot about the outside world......]

It was nothing more than these thoughts, these simple thinking waves combined with their eyes, Su Jing could guess what they were thinking.

"Mr. Su, Adam said you helped him a lot out there." Yamata moved a chair over and sat opposite Su Jing, "Xie Lu, thank you for taking care of him outside,"

"It's a gesture." Su Jing smiled.

"Mr. Su, maybe you already know the Tao, we really want to get in touch with the outside world and see the sky outside...... Can you please explain what the world is like now? ”

Su Jing thought for a moment, cleared his throat, and then he began to say aloud:

"More than two hundred years have passed since the end of the Great War, and a new human civilization has gradually emerged in the wilderness. The glory of the old days is still glinting, and the ambitions of the new era have risen; The banner of justice is still flying, but the army of evil is gathering momentum...... It all starts with the rebels at a secret experimental base before the war, who discovered that they were guarding an inhumane human virus experiment, so they gave up their evil mission, declared themselves out of the control of the U.S. government from that day, and called themselves the Brotherhood of Steel......"

As he gave his oratory-like history lesson, many of the listless young men pricked up their ears, and slowly, someone approached the place, all listening intently to what he called the post-war legend.

"Yes, that hero flew to the headquarters of the Enclave army at sea, he defeated the Enclave's army, killed the Enclave's Grand President Richardson, and persuaded the scientist Dr. Goranling to destroy this evil government together. On the cruise ship escaping from the sea base, the hero witnessed the explosion of a nuclear bomb and a mushroom cloud of destruction rising into the sky, destroying the criminal careerist along with his dehumanizing army and his plan to slaughter an entire race—"

"Gentlemen, ladies, do you know what the hero was able to accomplish such a miraculous feat? Single-handedly crushing an entire army and doing something that many people would never have been able to do in a lifetime? ”

"Uh...... Is it because he's amazing? A young man replied.

"Yes. But that's not true. He's great on the one hand, and on the other hand, it's because of ...... The times need heroes, and heroes will always respond to the times! Countless times in the history of mankind, we have faced the crisis of total annihilation, but we have persevered tenaciously on the earth. This is because whenever the world world is on the verge of crisis, there will be a person, or a group of people, who shoulder the mission of saving the world world, and bravely stand up and declare war on evil and destruction! He will never let us down, because heroes are cast to shoulder responsibility and strength! Heroes will never die, because justice will never die!! ”

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"I didn't expect you to dare to come back. Is it my control over the Vault that low, or are you stupid enough to think I won't kill you? ”

The Overseer sat in his back chair and looked at Adam gloomily.

After only a few weeks of not seeing him, Adam felt as if he didn't know the old man in front of him. In his impression, the superintendent was always a dignified middle-aged figure, with a deep and powerful voice, a always clean uniform, and piercing eyes, which could scare the person into speaking at a glance...... But the old man in front of him had wrinkles on his face, half of his hair was white, his hair was seriously lost, his clothes were a little wrinkled, and there was a smell of alcohol on his body...... Is it because he is aging too fast, or has he lost his reverence for him?

Adam put away his thoughts, stepped forward solemnly, stood at the overseer's table, and said, "Mr. Overseer, I think we can talk...... About this time, my friends' thoughts ......"

"Thoughts? What's the idea? I need to hear what you children who don't know what the world is doing? I'm here to protect you, the world outside is too dangerous, bandits, mutants, and everywhere radiation...... That's what your father, James, told me! Only in this refuge can we leave a pure fire for humanity. The responsibility we shoulder is far greater than your narrow-minded imagination! Freely? Right? In the face of this great responsibility, these are nothing! I know what you're thinking, I'm a dictator, yes! I am indeed a dictator! But this is because only a dictatorship can accomplish this task! This is the mission of generations of overseers! My father did this, my grandfather did this, and in the future, when Yamata inherits my power, she will do the same!! ”

The old man gasped excitedly under a series of excited tirades, stroked his chest, took a wine glass from a drawer, and poured himself a glass of whiskey.

Adam was speechless for a moment, he took two steps back, silently pondering the overseer's words.

Yes, the people in the shelter are much happier than the people in the wilderness, and they live in the shelter without thinking about the effects of radiation on their bodies and genes...... What the overseer said was right, scientifically right. Adam was educated by his father's rational thinking since he was a child, and he always habitually used the way of thinking of a scientist to understand the world, and after some painful thinking, Adam painfully found that the overseer was right.

"But the power of freedom ...... They have the right to choose their own lives......" Adam said weakly.

"Freedom? Human rights? At both ends of the scale, one end is the seed and hope of all mankind, and the other end is the so-called freedom and human rights. The Overseer scoffed as he cupped his glass.

Adam left the overseer's office in silence.

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By the way, I would like to recommend a friend's novel, "Daming Eagle Dog", history. The story of a North Drifter who crossed over to the Prime Minister's Mansion.