Chapter 47: Summoning Argos

When Andy communicates with Potter, he makes his way to the roof of the Salvage's camp.

Standing on a high place and looking around the dog city, it can be said that there is a different scenery, in the place where the red sand and dust in the low place spread, there are a staggered remnant buildings standing in it, and the surrounding is as if hell is coming....

When Andy saw the ghoul busily going up and down next to the giant signal transmitter, the feeling was undoubtedly at its peak.

It was an ugly-looking fellow, with ugly lead-gray skin, no hair, a nose that had fallen out, and a completely disfigured human skin.

One word: ugly.

He wore a huge pair of goggles that covered half of his face to cover his ugly face a little.

He was wearing a dirty pilot's suit, and he didn't know where he got it, and he was still twisting around there with a few tools in his hand.

As Andy approached, the ghoul looked back perceptively.

"Hey! Hello, you're Wagner, right? ”

Andy took the initiative to say hello to him.

"Haha... That's right, it's me, I'm a ghoul, you already know that, right, don't be so surprised. ”

Wagner looked grinning, his voice had the hoarse texture of a ghoul, and according to Potter, this man was the most skilled electrician among them right now, and he had assembled and repaired the transmitter.

"Potter told me, you're almost done with this, I agreed with Potter to use this once, do you think it's the right time for now?"

Andy pulls out a cigarette and hands it to him, but he shakes his head and refuses.

"Haha, your cigarette is not interesting to us ghouls, so I won't smoke it."

Wagner waved his hand to refuse Andy's cigarette, turned around and tapped the huge antenna behind him with a wrench.

"No problem, no problem at all, nothing at all.... It's just where do you want to go with this thing? ”

Wagner's eyes rolled slightly under the goggles, and he asked casually.

"I'm going to call a big guy over and send a guy away."

Andy gave an ambiguous answer.

"Huh?"

Wagner really didn't understand at all, but he didn't ask much in interest, and just pointed out the signal transmission operation terminal to Andy.

"It's a little troublesome to operate, so I don't need to teach... Oh, you've got a beep boy, that's easy, okay, I don't have to waste my tongue. ”

Wagner saw Andy's beep-beep boy with his left arm raised, and his expression was a little complicated for a moment.

Andy plugs the Pip-Boy plug into the terminal and then asks the Pip-Boy to send the programmed signal through the transmitter to Argos, a process that is fully automated, so he also has free time to chat with Wagner.

"Does that sound familiar to you about the Pip-Boy? Do you have one too? I didn't see you wearing it? ”

Wagner raised his withered arm to look at it and laughed twice.

"There used to be one..... Believe it or not, I'm from a Vault in New California in the west, Vault 12. So of course I, as a Vault dweller, once had a Pip-Boy...."

Andy's eyes lit up, and he was interested in the Vault.

"Huh? Vault 12? I've never heard of it, huh? Is it in New California? ”

Wagner smiled and nodded, revealing withered gums and unsightly teeth.

"yes, yes, of course you're unlikely to have heard of it, maybe it's only the old slippery..."

Wagner suddenly stopped, laughed twice, and continued to speak.

"Maybe only the elderly know about it, it's a very special shelter, because everyone has become this miserable like me... Ghouls, well.... It's a nice name, it's better than.... It's better than a stinker. ”

Andy looked at Wagner and said a little gloomy, but quickly got out of that state.

"Haha, it's actually nothing, I've seen a lot of it when I'm older.... How old do you think I am? You can't guess because I'm 200 years old... At that time, we all saw the propaganda of Vault Technology about how good and powerful the water purification device in Vault 12 was, and how many awards the designer had won. Unfortunately, we have all overlooked the most important point, that there is only one criterion for judging whether a shelter is good or not, and that is its ability to deal with nuclear bombs. ”

Looking at the old ghoul in front of him, Andy exclaimed in his heart, he was an old antique again.

The lifespan of ghouls is almost limitless, and many of them were born after the Great War, and they have survived until now, and it seems that there is such an elderly person in front of them.

Wagner sat on a piece of rubble and continued to ramble with Andy, who was standing next to the machine waiting for the signal to finish.

"Guess how I got like this? At that time, we swarmed into Vault 12, and we were told that the door to Vault was broken, hah! The door to the shelter is broken! It's hilarious..... So the bright green light shone straight in, and we desperately hid in the corner, and one after another died in human form, and their whole bodies festered. ”

Wagner gestured with his hands to his face and limbs.

"Have you ever seen a young man? You've never seen so many people, and in a split second, their jaws fall from their heads, their limbs fall from their bodies, their skin slides down like soaked red paper foam... I saw my hair and teeth falling out of my body, and finally my skin, my nails, my nose, and even my ears... I thought I was going to die. ”

Wagner pointed his hands at himself.

"I don't know why, some people just don't die, and I'm one of them, and these terrible symptoms finally came to an abrupt end, and we were in this kind of person-in-person and ghost-like state. We are unbeatably ugly, and there is never a need to take a shower, because no matter how we take a bath, there is a terrible smell of decay wafting from us...."There is no need for him to explain, Andy has actually smelled that smell for a long time.... In fact, I smelled it on Cito at the beginning, but the old guy in front of me seems to be a little better, the smell is not so strong, and it may volatilize a little more as time passes? ....

"But, Wagner, I've heard that there's some benefit to you being like this, right? Like immortality? ”

Andy tried to comfort a resentful Wagner.

"And that's not all... If you want to say that there are many benefits, we are no longer afraid of radiation, and even that is good for us. On top of that, our metabolism has basically stopped, and we may not eat as much in a year as you eat in a month, or in a week? I feel like if I stay in a place with a lot of radiation I'll be so refreshed all the time, I don't even need to eat or drink at all, we won't get sick or even poisoned... You know, somebody tried to kill themselves by poisoning, but it didn't make sense. ”

As Wagner spoke, he became happy again.

"Do you want to be like me?"

His ugly face approached, and Andy couldn't help but twitch the corner of his eye.

"Uh... I think it's a lucky few, and I'm not sure I'll survive that radiation, will I? ”

Wagner looked at Andy blankly for a moment, then laughed as if he had suddenly come to his senses.

"Yes, yes, yes, this is... Lucky for a few, so many died in Vault 12, but we're alive, aren't we... We're actually more comfortable with this wasteland, aren't we? than slippery skin. ”

He muttered something because it was too low for Andy to hear.

Andy's attention had shifted to the Pip-Boy at this point.

[Signal Transmission Completed]

[Feedback has been received from Argos, estimated arrival time is within 120 minutes]

[Please be prepared to receive prisoners]

"Alright... Come on, don't be scared, Wagner. ”

Andy half-jokingly talked to him, and Wagner scratched his hairless bald head in ignorance.

"Scared? I've lived for so many years, and I wasn't scared when that group of bastard super mutants under the bishop came in and went on a killing spree, what could I be scared of? Haha....."

An hour and a half later, Wagner's jaw could barely be closed, and the salvage bearers had the same expression as him.

Andy stood downstairs, dragging Daniel, who was about to faint in fright.

The huge Argos stepped into the streets of the dog city step by step in the midst of the incessant earthquake, and the wild dogs fled in the wind, and in the red sand and dust in the sky, this black behemoth squeezed in, as if it was a monster from another world.

"Ah-r-go-th!"

Andy yelled at it, his voice echoing through the empty dog town, and Argos then lowered his diamond-shaped head towards Andy.

Wagner looked at the scene in front of him, and felt that he had seen something that he had not seen in the past two hundred years, in front of a huge robot like a tall building with four legs walking vertically, a small human standing on the ground stretched out his hands and called, while the robot that looked like a huge black dog obediently lowered its head and looked at humans.

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