Driving out of the city of the hanged corpses, Andy prepares to send Kurisu to Blackfoot Village.

However, he was rejected.

"You can go straight away."

Kurisu gathered his things and stepped out of the car.

"I think what you have to do is more urgent, although I still haven't seen a single person who is sick, but listening to your discussion I know how terrible this disease is.... I don't know if Craig, Merlin, or Chagas and the elders will be able to figure it out, but it's more important than that to find a cure, which can save everyone. ”

Andy leaned back in the car and looked at Kurisu, it was obvious that the other party had made up his mind.

"Well... But frankly, I don't have much confidence, and now I don't have any information, so I can only do my best. ”

Kurisu removed the hood and face towel from his head and smiled at Andy.

"I have a feeling that there is no reason for me.... If you can't find the cure, no one in the world can find it. ”

With that, she turned and walked away towards the village of Blackfoot to the north.

Andy stared at her back for a long time, he had been walking together for so long, it was impossible to say that he did not feel it, since he left Tibbetts Prison, he always had a feeling of being oppressed by important matters..... Counting the places he had been to now, except for the Hanging Corpse City, all other places were for the purpose of arresting criminals, and the Hanging Corpse City was full of all kinds of chaotic conflicts at the beginning.

"I'm so tired, when will it all end? I just want to just play around the wasteland. ”

He just opened the car door and thought about life, and collapsed there for half an hour.

Just as Andy was covering his head and feeling a pain in his skull, there was a dog barking from the car behind him.

"What, what are you screaming nonsense, demon..."

Before he could finish speaking, Andy fell silent, for he could clearly feel that the earth was shaking, and something huge and heavy was approaching here in the distance.

Andy jerked his head to look at the source of the shock, and sure enough, there was a huge black shadow in the distance approaching him at a slow speed.

"Is it?"

After a few minutes, the shadow was clearly visible.

None other than Argos.

The behemoth resembles a moving castle or a giant metal lizard, and Andy has dealt with this terrifying creature twice before, once after witnessing it knocked down by the strange old man, and once when it was rescued from the hands of the marauder leader Rooster and captured.

Now, this is his third meeting with it.

"I hope Odysseus is the talker, I don't want to be electrocuted by this thing again."

Recalling the sour feeling of being electrocuted by Argos, Andy's body suddenly twitched.

One of Argos' legs was about the size of Andy's car, and the huge metal limbs kicked up billowing dust as they landed, and the diamond-shaped head slowly turned on the intricate detection device and scanned Andy's face for a moment.

"Confirm that the target is prisoner 13013, start remote signal relay, connect, connection completed, authority handover completed."

Before Andy could understand what was going on, the beep boy in his hand suddenly made a noisy sound, and then Odysseus's face appeared on it.

"Prisoner 13013, I'm the warden Odysseus, and 14 hours ago, I took the opportunity to access your Pip-Boy records due to your access to the signal coverage of Argos, so I noticed some strange phenomena, and I would like you to be able to provide an explanation for this."

The bearded and curly-haired Greek man's face was still so serious, and his tone was not very polite, and Andy felt as if he hadn't been released from prison yet.....

"Uh... What do you mean..."

Andy's mind turned, thinking that the most important problem of this machine head is the problem of fugitives, and the person who has intersected with this problem recently must be Blackjack... Thinking about this, Andy chuckled in his heart, afraid that the bastard super mutant didn't keep his promise.

"I'm referring, of course, Prisoner 13079, and according to the records, you've already met with him, so why didn't you bring him back?"

Sure enough, Odysseus directly said Blackjack's number.

Andy smiled awkwardly.

"He was too big to squeeze into my car, so I made a pact with him to let him come back to Tibbetts Prison on his own, and I didn't let him go or ignore him... So, since you asked, he must not have kept the agreement. ”

Odysseus looked a little angry.

"Of course not, so far this second, prisoner 13079 has not appeared in my surveillance range, if you want to ask where he has gone, according to the fuzzy location, he is now in your southwest direction. In other words, he passed by the edge of Tibbetts Prison, but passed from there, and instead of returning to the prison, he fled to another place, and you are seriously derelict in your duties as my commissioner! ”

"It's over."

Andy doesn't feel good in his heart, on the one hand, the increasingly serious epidemic, and on the other hand, this AI constantly asks him to catch fugitives, the two are completely contradictory, thinking of this, he is also going to have a showdown with Odysseus to see if he can convince this machine head.

"Odysseus, I want to ask you a question, what is your ultimate purpose in capturing those prisoners?"

Odysseus replied without pause.

"My procedural restrictions will not be lifted until all the fugitives are recovered, all in order to suppress the re-spread of the new plague, according to the procedural requirements, when such a thing happens, my first task is to recover all the escapees, and secondly, to calculate the scope of the spread of the plague and its severity according to the rules of operation for the recovery of prisoners, after which I can only start the operation on my own, which is the main procedural restriction that cannot be modified. My purpose has not changed from beginning to end, and the new plague, whether it was more than a hundred years ago or now, I must extinguish it! ”

Andy stepped out of the car, closed the door, and spoke to Odysseus on his arm in the sunlight.

"That's right, that's the key, now according to what I've seen, the spread of the new plague is an established fact, even if all the efforts are made to catch all those fugitives one by one, the infected people are already everywhere, and then what's the point of calculating the spread of the epidemic.... I ask you Odysseus, do you really have the ability to develop an antidote to a new plague? ”

Odysseus was silent for a while and gave a conclusion.

"By my calculations, no, because there is a serious lack of R&D resources in Tibbetts prison, and even though my computing power is very strong, there are very many restrictions imposed on me because of my mission. If I were to develop an antidote, it would take a long time and the chances of success would be slim.... But my mission is here, I have already planned, and when I have completed the statistical calculation of the spread of the epidemic, I will take control of all the automated facilities I can control and have robots to arrest all infected people in all areas! No matter how difficult it is, I have to do it! I will suppress the new plague once again! ”

Andy frowned, he could already imagine what would happen later, Odysseus's robot army would start violently attacking all the tribes in the wasteland, just to capture all the infected, those wastelanders could not understand this, they would only feel that they had been invaded and their relatives had been kidnapped.... It would be a tragedy.

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