Chapter 35: The Soldier's Past

Larsen is an NCR sergeant, and he has not been very comfortable in the army for several years, confronting his superiors, violating discipline, and fighting....

This has something to do with his childhood, Larsen's childhood was of course tragic but also strong, and it was not easy and fortunate for an orphan wandering in the wasteland to be able to grow up instead of becoming a puddle of beasts.

All in all, Larsen took advantage of the lack of NCR troops to pass the military inspection and become an ordinary soldier, but he didn't cherish this opportunity too much, or rather, he was inherently inextricable.

Although this style helped him to achieve some strong friendships, these also made it difficult for him to advance in his career.

When Thorn Larsen finally became a sergeant, the NCR began the Eastward Movement.

The military top brass began to demand that all units send personnel to the eastern SAR, and actively encouraged soldiers who voluntarily went to the eastern region to leave immediately.

I don't know how much "voluntary" took it, but in short, Larsen went to the distant Eastern Special Administrative Region with a couple of brothers.

It's more barren than it is home; Even more savage, dangerous natives and beasts crush their nerves at all times.

Larsen felt at home because it was far away from the NCR's military law and gendarmerie, so... He made a lot of fuss.

So when the Hoover Dam garrison was tasked with leading the contracted prisoners to Dog City, Larsen was immediately dispatched.

The road was very difficult, and many soldiers died on the way, and of course, many more prisoners died in labor camps who were not treated as human beings.

It didn't take long for Larsen to get tired of them after they arrived in Dog City, and his daily entertainment consisted only of abusing prisoners and hunting wild dogs.

On top of that, there is the same dreary scenery, and the labor prisoners who are even more bitter and hateful than their soldiers.

"Let's slip away."

Larsen put forward this initiative, and several staunch followers agreed.

The personnel management of the Eastern Special Administrative Region is complicated, and there are not a few cases of soldiers running around.

Maybe they'll show their feet, but maybe there's nothing, and even if there is, it's a small thing.

Without them, NCR would not have been able to expand its territory.

So Larsen and his gang quietly ran back to Hoover Dam, completely ignoring whether Dog City's forces were too weak or not.

They falsely claimed that they had lost their way to the Marauders on the way and had managed to find their way back to the Hoover Dam, which caused some confusion and cross-examination.

Someone with a little experience will be able to tell that there is something mixed in these clumsy lies...

Harsh ingredients.

But.... This is not NCR home, this is the Eastern Special District.

The environment here is extremely harsh, and there is a terrible shortage of soldiers, so the military law has also been adapted.

Adhering to the principle of special affairs where one person can have a role, the desertion of Larsen and his gang was tacitly ignored by everyone.

Really?

As Larsen and his gang cheered at the Hoover Dam bar to celebrate their escape from having to go to Dog Town again, a special mark was placed on their files.

Very few people know what that mark represents.

Soon after, the Hoover Dam was in a state of emergency, and the Brotherhood of Steel branch near the Eastern District began to attack the transport caravans like crazy, seemingly in an attempt to completely turn the area into an island, and even more paradoxically, at about the same time, many groups of marauders or tribes of indigenous people who made a living of plunder increased in strength overnight.

Under tremendous pressure, it was difficult to allocate the guards needed to ensure the safety of Dr. Goddard and his party, so the officers immediately thought of Larsen and his group.

They were told that there was no third choice between going to participate in this long-distance but relatively less dangerous job, or going directly to the front line to fight the most vicious enemies.

Larsen felt that neither of them was a good choice, but he had only two options, so he agreed to take his five brothers on the mission.

Dr. Goddard was a big man at Hoover Dam or in the NCR, and before Larsen went on a mission, he was frantically told by the leaders of the National Counterterrorism Agency and his superiors that everything must be subject to Dr. Goddard's arrangement, and if Dr. Goddard made a bad comment after returning or Dr. Goddard did not return alive, then Larsen and his gang should not come back at all.

Along the way, the group had a difficult trek, but the scientists were always in trouble.

When the first hapless ghost appears who was killed by the natives for going out to the bathroom, Dr. Goddard becomes agitated, and he unabashedly shows contempt for Larsen's gang and reprimands them for their poor work.

Larsen and the others were holding back their fire at that time, but they had nowhere to vent, and sometimes they could only torture and kill some enemies who fell into their hands to vent their emotions.

After finally arriving at the Great Dome, Larsen and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief, because it meant that the escort mission was over.

The land was completely destroyed, and there weren't even any indigenous tribes around, except for a few small villages dotted in the distance, and the wasteland creatures seemed to be afraid of it......

An encounter a year ago made them understand why.

That time they were on patrol when they suddenly saw a dazzling bulb-like presence pop up, and the large bulb was quickly identified as a glowing ghoul, with thick skin and flesh, and a strong self-healing ability and radiation contamination levels.

Although it was troublesome to kill it, Larsen and the others did it anyway.

Fallen glowing ghouls are still emitting constant radiation, and they have been trained in the military to stay away from such enemies, or to wear protective equipment and anti-radiation medication if they have to make close contact.

This situation was reported to Dr. Goddard by Larsen and the others, who then held a small meeting and finally decided to ask Larsen to start regular patrols, because the glowing ghouls were a deadly threat to the scientists, and it was important not to let those monsters enter the dome and cause casualties, and the task of disposing of the corpses should also be handed over to Larsen and other soldiers, and the way to deal with them was to bury them with cement on the spot. In order to be able to eliminate the radiation suffered during the battle, some of the Raditenin were collected by the scientists of the Great Dome and handed over to the soldiers.

In the months that followed, at least one glowing ghoul roamed the patrol circle of Larsen and the others almost every week, causing the soldiers to become more and more tired, and they were constantly exposed to the effects of radiation from the outside, so they used Radinine more and more often.

At first, Larsen would make vague judgments based on his Geiger counter, but later on, like the rest of the soldiers, he began to become psychologically dependent on Watten.

Even if they have not yet been exposed to severe radiation, they tend to use raditnine first to avoid severe radiation sickness.

Four months had passed, and the soldiers had been completely unable to leave Raditenin, who were obviously addicted to Raditenin, and what was worse was that they had become strange because of the effects of drug addiction on their brains, and some strange fantasies appeared in their minds one after another.

Sergeant Larsen came to Dr. Goddard and asked them to leave the Dome for a larger patrol, as two glowing ghouls had appeared in the last three days, and some soldiers had gone mad claiming that they were in a terrible ghoul hell with a steady stream of ghouls coming from all directions.

They asked for more supplies and medicine from the Dome because they might stay there for a long time when they were out on patrol, and there were plans to build a rudimentary camp outside to better maintain the Dome's safety environment.

Dr. Goddard could tell at a glance that Larsen was a drunkard and wanted to rebuke Larsen for his hasty plan and refuse their request, but Dr. Agnes convinced him that the soldiers were on the verge of collapse due to the stress had worried her.

She said, "Whatever they want, if you don't let them vent that steam, the pot will explode." ”

Dr. Goddard eventually agreed.

After another two months, the Soldiers' addiction became more pronounced, and the amount of raditine they used each week began to increase exponentially, which was now used not to eliminate radiation but to relieve stress.

Once again, Dr. Agnes was the first to spot, and she explicitly informed Sergeant Larsen that the massive use of radinine over time would inevitably lead to undesirable consequences, and that the soldiers who were becoming more and more languid and neurotic were already standing on the edge of the precipice.

But at this moment, Larsen and the others could no longer listen to those words, in order to get Raditening, they no longer cared about lying, Larsen exaggerated the "proud record" of his group, and used these fictitious things to trick the scientists into continuing to provide them with Raditening.

After another two months, everyone could see that Larsen and others had a haggard face and abnormal mental state caused by a long-term overdose.

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