"Who are you?"

Nick was surprised by Tang Ming's words, and didn't answer the rhetorical question.

His radiant eyes turned slightly, thinking about the identities and intentions of the two.

"Your assistant Ellie told us you're here, and we have something we want to ask you about."

Seeing this, Tang Ming briefly explained the situation.

Then he looked at Nick, waiting for his answer.

"I was originally a synth, but I was just the first generation, an experiment abandoned by the Academy, you can rest assured that I have the legal right of residence in Diamond City."

"Didn't Ellie tell you about my situation?"

With that, Nick pressed down the cowboy hat on top of his head.

"She's looking anxious about your disappearance."

After receiving the answer, seeing that there was no problem, Tang Ming continued.

"Is that so? Also, I've been locked up here for weeks, and it's normal for Ellie to be so anxious. ”

"Originally, I had already found the employer's daughter, but after I found it, I found out that she was not kidnapped at all, but ran out by herself, and mixed with Ma Long, that character.."

Nick said this, and he had a feeling that he couldn't put it into words.

It seems that he has suffered a lot of losses at the hands of the other party.

"We came to you because we heard that you were investigating the kidnapping case, and our son was also kidnapped, so I wanted to ask you about some specific circumstances.."

Nora saw that the two of them had finished speaking, and immediately spoke.

"This, Ma Long, this guy is not so easy to deal with, while he hasn't found out yet, let's talk about it first, and then talk about it when we go back, my detective agency has all kinds of information I have found over the years."

Nick interrupted Nora, a little embarrassed.

Nora opened her mouth at the words, but finally nodded.

I've been waiting for so long, and I'm not in a hurry for this time.

And what the other party said is also right.

With the help of information, the more likely they are to find clues about Shane.

"Then let's go back first."

Tang Ming didn't say anything when he saw this, and walked in the direction he was leading people back and forth.

"It's too late to leave now!"

However, after only a few steps, the voice of a middle-aged man came from a corner in front of him.

Then, under the gaze of several people, Marlon, wearing a tuxedo, walked out of the corner, his arm was held by a woman carrying a baseball bat, and the woman glanced at Nick with a look of disgust in her eyes.

In addition to the two of them, there were many bodyguards in suits behind them, which should be all the remaining bodyguards in this shelter.

Seeing this, Tang Ming's eyes lit up.

Originally, these bodyguards provided too little experience, and he was too lazy to waste time looking for them one by one, but now...

Good guy.

Tang Ming looked at the skinny horse dragon and generously issued him a good person card.

The skinny Malone didn't look at Tang Ming, or that after he walked out, his eyes kept falling on Nick.

"Nick, my old friend, these brothers were hired by me at a great cost, and the friends next to you have killed so many of me, I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate for you to want to leave like this now, right?"

Skinny Malone behaves like a gentleman.

Hearing Ma Long's words, the light in Nick's eyes flickered, and his tone was quite helpless:

"I'm not here for the woman next to you who cracks her legs with you, Ma Long, you asked her to write a few letters to the family, and it won't be like this."

"My poor Nick, it looks like you haven't been beaten enough."

At this time, the woman next to Malone spoke, waving the stick in her hand, and there was a feeling that she was ready to step forward and swing it at Nick.

The other party seems to be the daughter of the client in Nick's mouth.

"You know."

Tang Ming saw that the two seemed to have some friendship, and he didn't know whether to do it for a while.

If you do it, you won't be able to complete the next task.

"Yes, of course I do, Nick didn't cause me much trouble in the first place."

Ma Long opened his mouth at this moment and answered Tang Ming's question for Nick.

"Okay, I told you before, kill him, how can there be so many things now."

The woman said impatiently.

"Okay, I'll take care of that."

Malone scolded, then raised the rifle in his hand and pointed it at Nick:

"Alright Nick, looks like I'm going to say goodbye to you."

Seeing that the situation was not good, Nick immediately dodged and hid behind the cement pillar on the side, and then quickly said to Tang Ming:

"Hide first, there are many of them, and then we will look for opportunities to break out from other directions."

"Da! Da! Da! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a shuttle bullet hit the stone pillar in front of him.

Xu saw that none of the three had guns in their hands.

The woman with the baseball bat rushed straight over.

Seeing this, Ma Long, who knew his girlfriend's temper, also waved his hand to ask his subordinates to stop firing.

They have guns in their hands, and the initiative is on their side, so they let their girlfriends have fun.

"Smack!"

However, the woman who had just rushed in front of Tang Ming and was about to hit Tang Ming's head with a baseball bat felt a pain in her cheeks.

She stopped moving, touched the swollen right side of her face, and looked at Tang Ming in front of her with some incredulity.

"You hit me? I'm going to put your hands and feet.."

"Puff~"

Before he could finish the words in his mouth, his entire body turned into a blood mist and splattered out in an instant.

Tang Ming waved his hand expressionlessly to dispel the blood mist in front of him, and looked at the people behind him who were frightened and stunned.

Starfury appeared from his hand and swung his sword out.

Suddenly, the whole space fell into an eerie silence.

After a long time, Nick, who was hiding behind the concrete wall pillars, walked out tremblingly.

With a horrified expression, he looked at the pile of flesh on the ground, as well as the star fury that emitted a strange light in Tang Ming's hand.

After coming over for a long time, Nick, who was recovering from the shock, looked at the flesh on the ground and frowned.

"This... If only my employer had known that their daughter had become a pile of meat foam..."

As a synthesizer, his receptivity is not bad, but the Star Fury in Tang Ming's hand is a new type of weapon.

Some radiation-type weapons in the wasteland are also capable of turning people into blood clots in the blink of an eye.

"Let's go back first."

Taking back the Star Fury in his hand, Tang Ming glanced at the extra skill points and said.

Neither Nora nor Nick made sense of this.

Soon the trio returned to Nick's detective agency.

After Nick and Ellie's-for-tat greetings.

The two also began to mention that Tang Ming had done what he had promised before.

"Sit down and tell me about the situation."

Nick motioned for Tang Ming and Nora to sit down across from him.

"That's it.."

Nora tells her identity as a resident of Vault 111 and what has happened during the freeze.

"Your child was only one year old before he was kidnapped, but judging by your description, it may have been a long time since your child was taken away."

"So the characteristics of a baby alone are not enough for Shane as you speak."

Nick said this, lost in thought.

After a moment, he asked:

"Did you see his kidnapper, or did he hear his name?"

"There's a scar on the left eye, it's a bald head."

At this time, Tang Ming opened his mouth and said, he had a deep memory of the guy who shot himself.

"Bald, scar... The opponent is likely to be a marauder, mercenary, super mutant, or someone from the Academy. ”

Nick was lost in thought, as if searching for information in his head.

"Could it be Kroger?"

At this time, Ellie, who was standing aside, suddenly spoke:

"I remember Kroger with a ten-year-old."

Ellie said, and began to rummage through the iron cabinet next to her, and soon she found a file:

"He's a mercenary, and no one knows who hired him is."

"The place to live is in the west side of the stand."

"It's Shane, it must be Shane!"

Nora heard Ellie's words and was immediately sure.

Tang Ming stretched out his hand and patted Nora's shoulder, calming her down, and then said to Nick:

"Can you take us to see it first?"

Not necessarily, but there are certainly clues.

Nick nodded:

"Come with me."

After finishing speaking, he got up directly, waved to the two people in the seat and walked outside.

Tang Ming and Nora immediately followed.

Soon he followed Nick to the west side of the stand where Ellie said Kroger lived.

"Dongdong, Dongdong!"

"Is Kroger there? I have something to ask you about. ”

Nick knocked on the door first.

Seeing that there was no response inside, he looked at the door lock.

"I remember the key to this side in the mayor's office, and here I am.."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Tang Ming take out a set of tools for making eucalyptus, and Kaka opened the slightly complicated door in front of him in two clicks.

This left him in a brief silence.

Then he stood up and patted the dust on his knees, and when nothing happened, he pushed open the door:

"Let's go in and see, maybe we'll find something."

Tang Ming shook his head and followed, if he hadn't been worried about finding the wrong person, according to his temper, he would have already kicked the door open.

There was no furniture in the room, just a table and a few sofas.

"White orchid, cigars, wine... There's something wrong with this Crohn. ”

Nick's gaze swept around the room again, and when he found a large amount of alcohol and cigarettes, he confirmed his suspicions.

Because these can be said to be luxury things, but they are not something that a mercenary can afford to use casually.

One or two pieces, it may be said that it is lucky, but such a large number cannot be explained by good luck.

"Someone else isn't here, where are we going to find him?"

Nora clenched her fists, a little emotional.

"I remember you didn't have a dog?"

Nick said.

When he returned to Diamond City before, he saw a wolf dog following behind Tang Ming and the others.

Hearing his words, Tang Ming looked behind him.

The dog Nick was referring to was the wolfdog named Dog Meat they had encountered when they had just come out of the shelter.

"Will it work?"

He remembered that this kind of tracking required special training.

"Try it."

Nora just wanted to find the guy named Kroger as soon as possible, and pick up a half-smoked cigar on the table and put it in front of the dog's nose.

"Good dog, help me find the owner of this cigar."

I don't know if it's needed by the plot, but after the dog meat smelled the cigar, it immediately reacted.

Run in the direction of leaving Diamond City.

Seeing this, the three of them glanced at each other and immediately followed.

After a long period of tracking, Dogmeat led them to a place called Hagen Fortress.

"This should be it."

Seeing that the dog meat was circling around this, there was no other work, and Nick spoke.

"Go in and have a look."

Nora walked eagerly towards the fortress.

"Be careful, there may be enemies."

Nick reminded.

Tang Ming didn't say anything, took out Star Fury and followed him into it.

The first entry point is a spiral-up staircase.

There was a corpse at the staircase.

"This is also a synth?"

Tang Ming looked at the corpse on the ground that looked like there were more people than machines, and asked Nick beside him.

"These are the third generation of synths, or you can call them anthropomorphic humans, and if you don't dissect them, you can't tell if they're human or mechanical from the outside."

Nick shook his head, this synth was much more advanced than him.

However, the appearance of such a synthetic corpse at the moment also shows that the place in front of you may really be related to the academy.

Continue up to the very top, where there is an elevator that leads below.

The elevator is powered and can still be used.

"I'll go take a look first, no problem, you can take the elevator down again."

After Tang Ming finished speaking, he walked directly into the elevator.

He already has more than 100,000 armor at the moment, and even if there is something wrong with the elevator in front of him, it won't hurt him in the slightest.

"Then be careful."

Nora spoke.

Originally, Nick wanted to say something, but when he saw that Tang Ming's wife said so, he swallowed what he wanted to say.

There was no problem with the elevator.

Tang Ming took the elevator smoothly and came to the floor below.

At the moment, it seems that the floors of this fortress can only be accessed by elevator.

After waiting outside the elevator for a while, after Nick and Nora both came down, Tang Ming continued to move forward with the two of them.

In front of them at this moment was a long aisle with flashing red emergency lights.

"Be careful."

Nick spoke suddenly, as if he sensed something.

Seconds later, a robot with a gun appeared in their field of vision.

[Synth]

The synth in front of him was different from Nick and the corpse of the third-generation synth he saw before.

It is a completely robotic body, with a metal shell that has no skin modifications, and is completely exposed.

When it saw the three invading trio, the light in its eyes immediately turned from blue to red.

"Peng!"

The next moment, he pulled the trigger on the trio.

The energy bullet instantly hit Tang Ming's forehead.

Then it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there were no ripples.

"Thirty-two damage.."

Tang Ming made a simple calculation, and found that the power of the gun in the hand of the synthesizer in front of him was not bad, several times more powerful than ordinary guns.

"Their bodies are mechanical, radiation-type weapons, and they can't do much damage to them."

Seeing that Tang Ming was fine, Nick breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he also opened his mouth to remind.

He still thought that the sword in Tang Ming's hand was some kind of radiation weapon.

Tang Ming just nodded at Nick's reminder, and then took out a switch with a fixed face, and pressed it on the wall next to him with a snap under the gaze of Nick and Nora who were both a little puzzled.