Chapter 63: Jimmy
After seeing Andy nod, Jimmy fell silent.
He threw the leg of the man hidden behind him to the ground, which Andy presumably was someone from Reilly's gang.
"Yes... I'm a cannibal. ”
Jimmy sat on the floor with a sad face.
"I asked you about the corpse before, and it was also to eat.... It's not the first time I've done this, I can't control myself, I thought I could never be addicted, and the drugs that humans indulged in didn't work for me. But I didn't expect me to have this kind of fetish, that kind of ** is too strong. ”
Andy and Jimmy sat across the cell door, and he looked at Jimmy solemnly, suddenly wondering why.
"I've heard.... Someone told me in New California that super mutants are cannibals, so they should be completely wiped out, is this true? ”
Jimmy shook his head frantically.
"No.... That's all discrimination... Or a one-sided perception. In the unity of the Bishop, the super mutants who have been transformed by his own hands rarely regress intellectually, and I am the same, we are not different in mind than before, and even more intelligent. Only the super mutants who were later created by my kind, who we call the second generation of super mutants, who were formerly wastelands and couldn't adapt to FEV... They became like beasts, and some like to eat people, but I am not. ”
The two were silent for a moment, and Jimmy suddenly made a proposal.
"Maybe, I can tell a story."
...........
Many years ago, Jimmy fled from New California to the east with a group of remnants of the Bishop's command, decades ago, grieving the death of their spiritual leader, the Bishop, their ideals shattered, and the project of a new humanity failing forever.
Many of the cultists in the purple robes committed suicide, but the super mutants mostly continued to flee east after that.
Jimmy didn't know how many of his kind had left New California, but he knew that the number was definitely a lot, and some capable super mutants had become leaders, but Jimmy was not familiar with any of them, and the ones he was familiar with were either separated or killed by the NCR and the Brotherhood of Steel coalition, and he fell into a great confusion in life.
He walked eastward in confusion, this aimless self-exile had been going on for years, Jimmy walked east out of New California, over the Hoover Dam, through the desert, turning the sand from yellow to red, and finally into a mountainous field.
Jimmy couldn't tell where he was by now, and he killed monsters and bandits along the way, which was a no-brainer for him.
He eventually arrived in a small village.
It was there that he first thought about what he should do next.
The people of the small village had never met a super mutant and had never heard of the bishop and his plans, so they just thought that Jimmy was a patient with some strange mutation caused by radiation exposure, and accepted him after a long time.
During a village ritual, a young man falls from a height, and Jimmy sees the village at a loss.
The shaman simply applied some medicine that had no effect, and then danced and prayed wildly.
This, of course, did nothing to help his injuries.
As the young man was dying, Jimmy remembered that he had helped some of his own injuries before, so he volunteered to save people, but luckily his indiscriminate manipulation finally worked, although the key to the effect was Jimmy's treatment needles.
The people of the village cheered and called Jimmy "Doctor".
Jimmy first felt identified with humanity, and since then he has set his mind to become a doctor, even looking for pre-war medical books to study.
The village was so backward that even a guy like Jimmy, a medical enthusiast, was better than a witch doctor, and over time he became an important member of the village and became Dr. Jimmy.
I don't know how many years later, Jimmy could hardly believe his eyes when he saw NCR appear near this remote village and set up a stronghold, but it was all real. The two-headed bear banner said it all, these yellow-uniformed GIs were NCR soldiers, and they were more professional and tough than they had been when they had destroyed the Bishop's army.
After a moment of uneasiness, Jimmy happily learns that NCR does not intend to continue to exterminate super mutants, because the Racial Equality Act of the New Republic of New California, signed by President Tanty, clearly stipulates that "non-humans", i.e., sane ghouls and friendly super mutants, are recognized as citizens and enjoy human rights.
Many of the super mutants left behind in NCR have participated in social life, relying on their strong physique to become bodyguards, guards, etc., in exchange for their own living expenses.
Some NCR GIs told the villagers that the NCR had launched the so-called Eastward Campaign, which they would soon incorporate into NCR territory, and that they would be able to defend themselves against bandits and wipe out dangerous wasteland creatures as long as they paid their taxes.
Some people are against this, but their voices are too weak.
Jimmy seriously considered whether or not to continue his journey east, but in the end he decided to stay in this familiar village and continue to be his doctor Jimmy, which was already his hobby.
One year, there was a sudden heavy snowfall here, a strange heavy snow....
At that time, Jimmy went to the home of a lonely old man to consult him, but he was trapped in the old man's house by the heavy snow.
The super mutants were still afraid of the cold and hunger, and Jimmy spent his days in the house with the old man, but the food here soon dried up. The frail old man soon died, and Jimmy was left alone there for a whole month after that.
When the NCR army went to search and rescue a month later, they opened the door to the old man's house and found that the old man was not there, only Jimmy was left alone in the room.
"Where did old Kaliman go?"
Jimmy was asked this, and he hesitated for a moment, only to reply that he didn't know.
"I came to him too, but he wasn't here, I didn't know where he was, and then I was stuck here."
People looked at him suspiciously, searched the room, and there was still no trace of the old man.
"How did you survive?"
The NCR GIs arrested Jimmy and kept him in his cell in the colony.
"I... Ate the rest of the food in that room, and carry the rest on your own, I'm a super mutant. ”
When Jimmy was heard say the word, one of the soldiers was visibly disgusted.
"He must have eaten that old man, I know what those super mutants have in their bones, don't look at this one is not bad, he's still a beast."
The soldiers whispered that if it was certain that Jimmy was a murderer and a cannibal, he would be sentenced to be shot immediately, and that Jimmy might or may not be able to escape with the military rifles of several soldiers, but no matter what, he would not be able to stay here.
Jimmy was anxiously thinking about whether to try to escape in the future, the long-term hunger had made him weak, and the probability of success in resisting was not great, but if he didn't resist, he would only wait for death.
Fortunately, after a series of discussions, the NCR pronounced the final verdict.
Since there was no evidence that Jimmy had harmed or devoured humans, these charges were not established. However, Jimmy's long experience as a doctor was told to the NCR GIs by the villagers who had come to speak well of him after hearing about it, and they had fabricated a crime against him.
"You practice medicine without a license, you have to go to prison, you will be imprisoned in Black Canyon Prison."
The soldier who had always been suspicious announced the final result of his punishment to Jimmy, the soldier was actually very unhappy, and he wanted to sentence this disgusting super mutant to death, one of his relatives disappeared during the operation of the Bishop's army, which made him never let go of his hatred for all super mutants.
Jimmy accepted this punishment with ease, because he knew it.
He did eat the old man's corpse, swallowing every inch of bone and flesh, and the super mutant's terrifying digestive abilities wiped out all the evidence.
And more importantly, Jimmy ends up discovering something at Black Canyon Prison.
He began to become addicted to the taste of "people".
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