Chapter 53: Sighting
The group left the Boardwalk Distillery after some disposition, which was to be temporarily mothballed until the first supplies arrived.
Andy sits on a bumpy bus, which is accompanied by the dog's barking as usual.
"Do you know what Jimmy is doing?"
He turned back to ask about the clay in the back seat.
The taciturn clay replied briefly.
"I don't know, he sometimes disappears out of nowhere."
Andy shook his head and raised his left arm to look at the Pip-Boy.
"How can I get more information about the new plague?"
After a few seconds, the screen popped up with a response.
[Hospitals and police departments in Denver may be a good choice]
Andy zooms in on the map of the Pip-Boy and sees that the police station is on the way. He remembered that Odysseus had said before ZAX blew himself up that ZAX had initiated some kind of procedure in the police station... However, when the car passed by before, he didn't notice that there was something wrong over there, could it be that the head of the machine was wrong?
Just as I was thinking about it, the bus passed by City Hall, where various important buildings in the city of Denver are concentrated, including City Hall, police stations, boxes, etc...
Speaking of the box, Andy suddenly thought of something.
After he returned to the salvage's camp with the only survivor from the box, many people chased them and asked them about the experience and fate of Reilly's gang, among which Jimmy, a neutral who always didn't care much about the two factions of the salvage fighters (although he couldn't tolerate the behavior of some scumbags, but he didn't object to Reilly's claims and was the only doctor and super mutant, so he had friends in Reilly's gang) actually asked questions unusually.
He asks Andy Reilly where the gang died, and Andy tells him truthfully that most of them died in the depths of the box, and have been wiped out by the nuclear explosion. In addition, there are a small number of people who have died outside the box, I am afraid that the corpses have been eaten by wild dogs, or they are still in the wilderness, and Potter will definitely not bother to collect the corpses.
Jimmy was a little unusually excited at the time......
The more I thought about it, the more Andy felt that something was wrong....
Suddenly, there was an exclamation around him.
"Wow! ——”
"What?!"
Andy turned his head like an electric shock and saw a behemoth suddenly appear outside the east window of the bus (the glass had all been shattered), which is a common street with ruins in dog towns.
It appears to be a bionic robot, with a rectangular head, four slender metal limbs, four strange structural parts on the feet that look like discs with long metal teeth, and a "body" on the back that appears to be a merger of an integrated transmitter and a signal receiver.
The color of the silver-gray unidentified metal material makes it quite sci-fi, especially when it moves its limbs quickly through the streets, which is more like something from a science fiction comic.
To put it more figuratively, this thing looks like a large mechanical dog that is three meters tall and five meters long, but it is still small compared to Argos, but it is significantly lighter and more flexible, unlike Argos's giant robot route that takes heavy containment and sub-signal receiving transmitters similar to mobile fortress positioning.
"You don't know what that is, do you?"
Andy looked at the clay, his face dazed.
"Never seen... I thought there were only real dogs in Dog Town, but I didn't expect there to be such a big robot dog...."
The large mechanical dog in the middle of the run got closer and closer, as if it was chasing some target, it easily dodged several street lamp poles that were leaning down, and stepped on an abandoned car with a light jump, directly stepping on the roof of the car into the depression.
The unique foot structure gives it a crisp metallic sound when it runs and lands.
Interestingly, when it got close to a certain point, Andy saw that it had two police lights on its back, and even played sirens....
"Di Hmm~-Di Hmm~Di Hmm~Di Hmm~Di ——!!"
The mechanical dog's face is encapsulated with an advanced vision sensor, which constantly rotates itself as it moves, making it a bit scary.
"You have been convicted of violating the City of Denver's Epidemic Prevention and Quarantine Law, give up resistance immediately!"
The speaker built into the head of the mechanical dog uttered the cold words.
At this moment, Andy finally saw who the person running wild in front was... It was Jimmy.
His stout body ran desperately, but he still couldn't outrun the light mechanical dog behind him, and a launcher suddenly popped out of the "rib" part of the mechanical dog, followed by a slight popping sound, and two connected things shot out from there, and pierced Jimmy's back at once.
"Oops!"
He panicked and tried to remove the thing, but the next second the thing exploded with a bang and turned into a large net that entangled Jimmy, followed by a violent electric shock, which burned Jimmy's thin, homemade tattered clothes.
Andy immediately thought of Argos' electric shock device, but this was a simplified version, and it was not integrated into the capture tentacles, similar to a combination of a taser and a capture net.
Although it was enough to make ordinary people faint, Jimmy actually stood up forcibly after convulsions for a while and tried to tear open the capture net, but unfortunately the mechanical dog behind him had other tricks.
"Refuse to cooperate, use tear gas!"
A metal canister shot out with a clink from a launch slot behind the mechanical dog, and a thick cloud of white smoke immediately swept through everything around it, making it impossible for Andy to see what was happening after that.
The people on the bus looked at each other.
"What should I do?"
"Something that big... There's no way I'm going to save him, that thing can't be beaten. ”
Everyone was talking, and the hunchback Stu wanted to speak and stopped. Andy looked at the long-lasting white smoke and thought to himself that he had the intention of going to the police station, so he might as well go over and have a look.
"Stop, I'll go down and have a look."
As soon as Andy's words came out, everyone else suddenly shut up.
The hunchbacked stu glanced at him with an admiring look on his face and parked the car on the side of the road.
Clay saw Andy get up and leave, glanced back at the others who didn't intend to move, and his ass was halfway up, but eventually fell back again.
"You guys go back first, you're running out of bullets, don't worry about me."
Andy waved at the bus behind him, put on his gas mask, and approached where Jimmy was last seen.
The white smoke cleared, and both the robot and Jimmy were gone..... Andy stood there for a moment, bowing his head and talking to the Pip-Boy.
"Show me the way, don't be so lazy."
After a jolt, new information popped out.
[New Mission: Save the Medic]
[Description: To find Jimmy who has been captured by a mysterious robot, you must find out the clues of where he was captured, tracking the robot will be a good choice]
[You can also go directly to the Denver City Police Department, which is larger than you think, and it is a complex of buildings]
Andy put down the beep boy. Now he is in the southeast of Dog City, which is also the central area of Dog City. Unlike the eastern suburbs, where the legions were stationed, there were also a large number of pre-war buildings, which were often black and stood in red dust.
The streets have become potholes and difficult to see, and the scrapped cars that have been rusted into scrap metal and then dismantled by salvage workers form a unique streetscape, and the street lamp poles fall in the middle of the road like dead trees.
The most conspicuous thing in front of Andy is.... A helicopter that crashed to the ground.
It was a blue-and-white painted helicopter, and Andy walked around it twice and saw a unique logo painted on the side with a line of small letters underneath.
"Denver City Police Department."
He pinched his waist and looked at it for a moment, wondering if there could be some clues? The previous robot may have been inseparable from the police department.
Pulled open the helicopter's deformed door, there were several skeletons inside, looking at the traces around them, they may have been wearing some tactical equipment, but now they don't know when they were taken by someone, only the bare skeletons are left and no one cares.
The helicopter's panels show signs of being damaged, but this appears to indicate that the person trying to disassemble the equipment did not complete the operation for some reason, and it appears that some parts are still intact.
Andy casually pressed a few buttons, and I didn't know what was going on, when suddenly a voice sounded.
"Eagle E, Sheriff ordered you to go west to David Street to suppress the riot, there is a group of saboteurs there, the lockdown order has completely failed, but we still have to do what we can."
"Roger, we immediately... What is that? ”
A cacophony of electricity ended the sound.
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