Chapter 183: Synths and the Academy
It was also after Piper said this sentence that Tang Ming noticed that Danny was communicating with Piper through a loudspeaker outside the gate.
Zhou Wei does not have a camera, which means that the other party cannot see the situation outside.
Seeing this, Tang Ming also reacted immediately.
Immediately, his voice was raised a few points, so that Danny on the other side of the speaker could hear their conversation.
"yes, I've brought a lot of good stuff from there this time."
"Is there really a merchant? I'll open the door for you. ”
Danny, who was on the other side of the speaker, heard Tang Ming's voice, and there was obviously a hint of surprise in his tone.
It can also be roughly seen from here that the materials in this diamond city may be a little scarce.
When Tang Ming thought like this in his heart, the door had already been opened under the manipulation of the other party.
A structure that looks like a subway ticket gate is revealed.
When he came over before, Tang Ming found out.
The largest gathering of survivors in what Garvey calls is actually a large stadium.
The footprint is indeed huge.
But to insist that this is a city is a bit reluctant.
However, considering that this is a wasteland, the situation is exceptional.
It's not that it's incomprehensible.
Think of it this way.
Tang Ming and Nora also followed Piper into the so-called Diamond City.
However, as soon as they entered, the two saw a man in a suit.
"Piper?!"
When the man saw Piper, a look of surprise flashed across his face, followed by anger:
"That bastard let you in, I remember telling Danny that you weren't going to let you in."
"You alarmist demon!"
"Humph!"
Piper responded to the man's words with a grimace, and from this subtle little movement, it could be seen that the two should be very familiar.
Otherwise, according to what the man said, he should have stepped forward and kicked Piper out by this moment.
"This is the mayor of Diamond City, and these are two travelers from outside."
After grimacing, Piper didn't forget to introduce the two.
MacDonald showed a helpless expression when he heard this, and it seemed that there was nothing he could do about Piper, so he had to look at Tang Ming and Nora on the side.
"Welcome, you look like good residents of Diamond City, unlike some."
After the welcome, MacDonald did not forget to taunt Piper on the side.
"I'm reporting the truth, and you're going to restrict the freedom of speech of the residents of Diamond City, Your Excellency, Mayor."
Piper immediately retorted.
The two quarreled again.
And through the conversation between the two, Tang Ming also had a general understanding of the specific situation.
As mayor, McDonald didn't want some things in Diamond City to be reported, thinking that it would affect the stability of Diamond City.
But Piper doesn't think so.
"There have been many people who have disappeared inexplicably, and this kind of thing will only be guarded against after it is reported."
Piper sticks to his point.
However, the key word in the conversation between the two was noticed by Nora, who was eager to find her son.
"Someone is missing in Diamond City too?"
"This.." Interrupted by Nora's argument with Piper, MacDonald hesitated for a moment but nodded and said:
"Yes, there is such a thing, there have been several such incidents recently."
"My one-year-old son is also missing, his name is Shane, I came to Diamond City this time to hear about him here, have you investigated any clues?"
Nora became a little emotional when she heard this, and she was about to say it.
"This... There are no clues yet, but I will send someone to help you find it together. ”
MacDonald spoke.
"Help? It's ridiculous, but I don't see when the guards of Diamond City ever cared about these kidnappings. ”
Piper snorted, extremely dismissive of Macdonald's words.
"Pyp stop talking nonsense, I'll send someone to keep an eye on you and your sister, don't think about doing anything."
MacDonald seemed to be irritated by Piper's words, but he didn't talk to Tang Ming and the others anymore, and turned around and left angrily.
Seeing this scene, Piper was like a rooster in a victorious battle, and gestured a middle finger towards MacDonald's back, and then turned his head to look at Tang Ming and the two apologetically:
"Don't worry, I'll help you, but it will take some time, come find me in my office in the evening."
"For the rest of the time, you can go to the city first to learn about the situation, and maybe you can get some information that I can't gather."
With that, Piper hurried away.
Perhaps in addition to the information she said she wanted to help gather, she had some things of her own to do.
"He's a good-hearted person."
Looking at Piper's departing back, Tang Ming commented.
Nora nodded, then looked at Tang Ming:
"Now us?"
"Like she said, find the residents of Diamond City and inquire about the disappearance first."
In addition, he also wants to see if there is any black technology in the city.
With a decision, the two also walked quickly through the ticket gate and entered the city.
The city in front of you is more like a large garbage dump than a city.
The houses built in the huge stadium are made of a variety of materials.
So much so that the tallest of these houses is only two floors.
As soon as they entered the city, the two met Piper, who was talking to a little girl not far away.
Listening to the conversation, it was Piper who wanted to get out of the manuscript that was going to be published tomorrow.
And that little girl is the mayor's sister of Piper, named Cortana.
By the time the two approached, Piper had hurried into the two-story building on the side.
This is probably what the other party calls the office.
"Hey, you're the newcomer my sister mentioned?"
Xiao Na was wearing an orange leather jacket and a pink floral skirt on her lower body, and she was originally going to enter the newspaper sales office on the side, but when she saw Tang Ming and the two coming, she immediately walked out and said hello.
"You have this newspaper, if someone from the academy comes to kidnap you in the middle of the night, at least you can have some vigilance."
As she spoke, she pulled out a newspaper from the side.
Judging by how old the paper is, it should have been printed not long ago.
Tang Ming took the newspaper and took a look at it, and found that it was a very ordinary analysis of missing cases, and he looked at Xiao Na in front of him in confusion:
"Academy? What is that? ”
"It's a bunch of guys who come and kidnap people in the middle of the night."
Cortana doesn't seem to know much about the academy, only that the other party will kidnap people.
Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, Tang Ming thanked him so that Nora could separate.
Started asking for news in the city.
At the same time, he himself went into some of the surrounding shops to check out the items on sale.
After all, the stores in the game usually sell some items with magical effects.
"What? Want to pay with a bottle cap? ”
Hearing the shopkeeper's words, Tang Ming was stunned.
The currency of this game is actually the bottle cap!
Don't be so nasty.
complained in his heart, Tang Ming, who didn't have a bottle cap, could only do his old job, borrow it from the boss first, and come back when he had time.
"Are they all ordinary things?"
After checking the goods in the store, Tang Ming was a little disappointed.
But that's to be expected.
It's a wasteland game after all.
There was a beep kid who could add points, which was already very surprising to him.
"Huh? Robot? ”
Just as Tang Ming was thinking about where to go next, he suddenly saw a circular robot with some mechanical tails flying in front of him.
It is like seven or eight points with Ga grasping.
"Patrol robots?"
Tang Ming touched his chin when he saw it.
After looking around left and right, and seeing that there was no one, he walked up.
The robot must have been working non-stop for a long time.
Robots are also people.
And he is kind-hearted, and he can't see this kind of labor squeezing thing.
simply for the mayor of Diamond City, help these patrol robots take a holiday.
However, Tang Ming was not a big villain, in order to make up for the other party's lack of vigilance during this period of time, he left a pea shooter in place.
I believe that after MacDonald knew about this, he was already moved to tears.
After all, this plant, which can produce infinite food, is much more precious in the wasteland than any nuclear energy.
"I'm still too kind."
Tang Ming sighed to himself, and then began to continue wandering around the city, wanting to see if there were any good things.
However, after a long day of shopping, I didn't find anything.
I saw that the sky was overcast.
"It should be almost time."
Seeing this, Tang Ming also returned to the position agreed with Nora.
Underneath Piper's office.
"Did you hear any news?"
Tang Ming asked, but he didn't have much hope.
"No, the people here are a bit xenophobic, or a bit profit-seeking."
Nora shook her head, the inhabitants didn't even want to talk to her without money.
This result did not surprise Tang Ming.
Seeing this, he pointed to the newspaper office in front of Nora, "Let's listen to what this reporter named Piper has to say." ”
Nora nodded.
Without wasting any more time, the two knocked on the door and entered Piper's office.
The interior is very shabby, with some printing equipment on it, so it has a not particularly pleasant smell of ink.
"You're finally here, two little blues."
Piper, who was sitting on the couch, saw the two of them come in, and immediately got up and said.
"Little Blue?"
Nora wondered, wondering why the other party called her like that.
"You're the people of the Vault, aren't you? Only people from the Vault carry this thing. ”
Piper pointed to the beep boy in Tang Ming's hand and continued:
"Because the people in the vault are wearing blue onesies, people outside of us generally call you Little Blue."
After a brief explanation, Piper also explained his purpose.
Not only did he want to help Tang Ming and his wife find their missing child, but they also wanted to write a feature report about the shelter.
And in order to get useful information, before Tang Ming could speak, Nora had already agreed directly.
"Yes, you ask."
"How do you people in the Vault live?"
Piper was curious.
However, after learning about Nora's experience between the two, her curiosity turned to shock, and then to excitement:
"People from two hundred years ago! Oh, my God! There is such a thing! That's big news."
As soon as she finished saying this, she began to ask about the events before Nora's nuclear bomb attack.
The entire interview lasted about ten minutes.
After satisfying his curiosity, Piper nodded unsatisfactorily, and then his expression became serious, and he began to get down to business:
"During the day, you should have heard some information from my sister, yes, your child's disappearance, the academy may be the mastermind."
Hearing the name again, Tang Ming guessed that this was probably the villain organization of this game.
If there is any black technology in this game, it is estimated that it can be seen in this academy.
Thinking of this, Tang Ming asked:
"How much do you know about this academy?"
Piper shook his head: "This is the biggest mystery of the Federation, no one knows who they are or where they are, but they are everywhere. ”
"Do you know synths? It's the kind of synthetic creation of man and machine, who were born from the Academy's laboratories and help the Academy accomplish all sorts of dirty things. ”
Saying this, Piper's voice suddenly lowered:
"Sometimes, they will also make a living person into a synth, and turn it into a spy who will not be suspected by anyone."
"They're scary, and that's why that old McDonald didn't want to investigate, because he was afraid that he would become a synth that day."
"So in this case, are you going to continue to look for your children?"
Hearing this, Nora glanced at Tang Ming, and then nodded towards Piper:
"We're not going to give up on finding Shane."
She's not alone.
She also has Tang Ming.
With Tang Ming here, the unknown academy was nothing in her eyes.
This is the confidence that Tang Ming's performance has brought her in recent times.
"Well, I know someone who is not afraid of the academy and has also investigated a little clue."
"His name is Valentine, and he has a detective agency in the city, and he used to investigate missing persons."
Piper said as he opened the door and walked out.
Seeing this, the two quickly followed.
However, before he could reach the detective agency that Piper had said, he saw a crossroads that he had to pass through, surrounded by people.
In the midst of the multitude.
One man is holding a gun and pointing it at another.
Listen to the conversations of the people around you.
It seems to be the one with the gun, thinking that the other person is a synth.
"It's a pair of brothers."
Piper was well aware of the situation in the city, frowned and explained, then stopped talking.
It seems that the other party has seen this situation in the city more than once, otherwise it would not be possible to show such certainty.
"Peng!"
Suddenly, a gunshot rang out from the field.
It wasn't the man with the gun in the field, but the Diamond City guard on the side who fired the shot.
Directly shot the head of the man with the gun.
"Alright, don't look at it, there's no synths at all, it's all fantasy and your damn panic attacks!"
Several Diamond City guards began to evacuate the crowd.
Piper looked at the man who was suspected of being a synth, hugged his brother's corpse with a painful expression, sighed, and said to Tang Ming and Nora behind him.
"This kind of thing happens every few days."
"Let's get out of here."
With that, bypass the crowd and walk towards the back of the city.
Soon the three of them came to an alley with a neon sign with a red heart.
"Are you sure it's here?"
Tang Ming looked at the red heart that was shot by a bow and arrow, and felt that this place was not so much like a detective agency, but rather like a place to relax.
"It's here."
Piper was a little curious as to why Tang Ming asked like this, but he still replied, and then walked in with the two of them.
After entering the alley, pass through a closed iron gate.
A room full of small metal cabinets appeared before the trio.
A large number of documents are stored in metal cabinets in the room.
And in the middle of these cabinets, there is a woman with her back to them, who seems to be sorting out her hand Chinese pieces.