Chapter 36: The Dispute Between the Parties
During this time, Jimmy escapes from the jackals and wanders around the Dome, where he meets the soldiers, Eddie and the others.
"I want to go to the south, there is a settlement there called Dog City...."
Jimmy didn't explain where he had gone since he left, or why he had suddenly come back to him.
Add is very interested in the information of Dog City, and if a trade link can be established, it can alleviate the problem of lack of supplies.
After some communication, Eddie agrees to take Jimmy to Dog Town to the south, but the soldiers are adamantly opposed, believing that this is a plot by super mutants and driving Jimmy away with weapons.
Luckily, Eddie remembered that he saved the child on the way, and after the soldiers left, he quietly took Jimmy back to Dog Town.
As a result, Eddie and Potter establish trade links, and Jimmy is able to return to Dog City to live with the other salvagers, never running around again.
The soldiers also maintain a fragile balance with the scientists of the Great Dome, who have no food or medicine, and the only way they can obtain them is to serve the scientists, keep them safe and banish the ghouls.
But two months ago, that balance was finally shattered.
Dr. Goddard's patience with the increasingly rough and neurotic soldiers had reached its limit, and he had the confidence to discover the blockade order for the Great Dome, but he still needed to figure out the actual operating procedures.
The explosion point of the matter was a sudden accident.
On that day, James was doing the work assigned by Dr. Goddard.
He hummed some songs.
The lab bench in front of him was smooth as a mirror, and he opened the terminal to type in the complicated codes. Every time he did this, he wondered how the computer scientists of the old world had built such efficient and easy-to-use systems, which NCR couldn't do now.
Just as he was wandering, he saw a strong reflection on the table.
"Huh?"
He turned around in surprise and saw a terrifying guy not far behind him.
"it!!"
James crawled and crawled, and the ghouls were about to pounce on him.
A metal stool was thrown at it and knocked it to the ground.
"Where's your gun?"
Paul shouted anxiously that if he hadn't passed by just now, James would have been killed.
"Drink .... Woo, roar! ”
The glowing ghoul scrambled and got up from the ground with his mouth open, his mouth full of intense glow.
James immediately pulled out his pistol after being reminded by Paul, but he couldn't pull the trigger when he looked at the target in front of him.
Beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down his forehead, and the trigger in his hand seemed to weigh as much as a thousand pounds.
There was an unforgettable scene in front of him, and there was blood all over the place.....
"I..."
James muttered to himself, stunned not to shoot a single shot from his good-looking pearl-grip pistol.
Paul groaned with a headache and yelled at him to run.
James turned and ran, jumping up and down like a monkey on the adrenaline spur, while the ghoul threw himself into a mess.
The gun went off.
Not James's, but the gun of the string that was alarmed by the sound.
A bullet full of condensed raditenin was fired into the glowing ghoul's body.
Miraculously happened, shortly after the ammunition was fired into its body, the ghoul's ** began to shrink and dent, and glowing bodily fluids continued to flow out of its body.
Eventually, the ghoul fell to the ground, his glowing blood all over the place, and a shriveled corpse in the middle.
Paul cheered and asked what it was that worked.
"It's a condensed Raditen, but the stock of the Great Dome is given to Larsen them...."
Xian said that he could no longer continue to make Radinine ammunition, and that he needed more patrols from those soldiers.
And this thrilling encounter was clearly a dereliction of duty on the part of the soldiers.
Dr. Goddard was furious when he learned of this, and he sternly questioned Larsen and the others after they returned to resupply.
"What's going on? Why do glowing ghouls enter the Great Dome? What are you doing? ”
Larsen looked unusually tired, his face flickering like a candle.
"Recently, there have been more and more ghouls, and we have been trying our best to deal with it, it was just a fish that slipped through the net, and it won't be next time...."
"Won't?"
Dr. Goddard interrupted him rudely.
"Even a fool can see that you are not in the right condition, pee on your own face, you don't look like a normal person, you look like a poisonous insect! The kind that is dying! What can you do? You can't do anything! ”
Dr. Goddard angrily blamed Larsen, completely unconcerned about his emotions.
In the face of Dr. Goddard's abuse, Larsen gritted his teeth angrily. In his opinion, if it weren't for the protection of these scientists, he wouldn't have had to take people to hunt ghouls, and if he hadn't come into contact with those intense radioactive sources, they wouldn't have become addicted to Raditenin.
Under the influence of drug-induced paranoia, he ignored the fact that his recent overdose-induced trance led to the desertion of his job and nearly killed an NCR key talent.
By the time they had gone out, they had used up the Raditenin they had taken with them last time, and now they were not only exhausted but also emotionally charged with withdrawal and Dr. Goddard's invective.
As the soldiers' eyes began to become dangerous, Dr. Goddard, who could not read the air, continued to point his fingers in a threatening tone.
Dr. Agnes was busy researching.
Larsen looked at the annoying braised egg head and suddenly raised the gun in his hand.
This time, Dr. Goddard knew something had changed, and immediately kept silent.
The two groups confronted each other, and Larsen looked at Dr. Goddard, who was staring at him gloomily, and finally didn't dare to fire.
Once fired, they had no way out at all.....
"Do you know what you're doing?"
Dr. Goddard uttered the words word for word.
"I know."
Larsen didn't put down his gun, but he didn't plan to shoot either, the withdrawal reaction was getting more and more violent, and all he wanted was the drugs.
"Give us the supplies that belong to us.... Don't you need us to go on patrol? Then give me the stuff now, and we'll go on patrol. ”
Dr. Goddard shook his head slowly.
"What are you thinking? I didn't allow you to leave like that..."
Larsen didn't back down, he pulled the bolt and pointed it at Dr. Goddard's bald head.
"I'm not cranky.... Dr. Goddard, give us the supplies and we'll patrol you.... Last patrol. ”
Looking at the muzzle of the gun, under this clear threat, Dr. Goddard finally relented.
The soldiers left the Great Dome with supplies and went to the simple camp they had set up earlier.
On the other hand, scientists are talking about the future with concern.
"Those people will come back, right?"
Paul crossed his arms and guessed.
"The last batch of Raditenin has also been given to them, and with their efficiency, they will be back in a few days to ask for more.... When the time comes, I can't satisfy them..."
Dr. Agnes was also very worried.
"What are we going to do with the ghouls without the soldiers? There must be some more who will wander to our side next..."
Dr. Goddard didn't say what he was going to do, only that he was figuring it out.
A few days later, Dr. Goddard suddenly found Dr. Agnes.
"I made it!"
He was very happy.
"I'll make peace for the rest of us!"
Dr. Agnes eagerly asked what he had done.
"I've activated the self-lockdown of the Great Dome, and then the doors will close one by one, and the stupid soldiers will be locked out... They don't have medicine and food, they will starve to death soon, and then we will be safe! ”
Dr. Agnes's eyes widened, she didn't expect Dr. Goddard to banish the soldiers who had been guarding them without a word.
"Yes..... What about the people out there? ”
Dr. Goddard shook his head to indicate that he didn't care.
"Edina's family couldn't come in, they couldn't get our disease... Anyway, he has a truck, and if he can't do it, won't he run away by himself? ”
Dr. Agnes didn't calm down.
"But.... We scientists..."
Dr. Goddard shook his head again.
"I told them not to run around lately, for the sake of secrecy... Lest they have any humanitarian opinions, so we don't say it explicitly, but James and Donald are obedient... Hasn't that student Paul been in his room for a week? ... Who else would..."
As he spoke, he froze.
Dr. Agnes anxiously searched for strings, and sure enough, she vanished...
"Strings are out, open the door!"
Dr. Goddard listened to the other man's request but disagreed.
"Your student named Xian is usually disobedient, but this time she did it herself... Larsen's gang will come at any time...."
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