Chapter 5: The Brain of the Great Dome

"Going the wrong way.... No, actually, you seem to be on the wrong side, right? "Squatting in front of the Cylinder Brain, staring at this brain-controlled robot, although it looks like a robot, but it is loaded with the brain of a somewhat crazy pre-war scientist, although he has not been very intelligent, but if you think about it, the Cylinder Brain is probably the most familiar existence of this facility in the Great Dome at present.

Of course, there is a premise for this conclusion, and that is

"Organic" exists. The cylinder was about to turn around and leave, but was stopped by the strings again.

"Wait, some questions for you." Xian instructed Andy to stop the cylinder brain with his eyes, and looked at the exposed handles of the two large pistols that Andy hung in the holster on his waist, and the cylinder brain hesitated for a moment and finally stopped in place.

"Do you know what that place is?" String pointed to the unidentified space behind the slightly pulsing blue curtain of light.

"It's probably a place to control the pipe gallery floor, I can't remember it for too long, have you ever been there? I don't know what's in it if not, I just came down here to wonder if I could find a crate of nuclear Coke that I hid here, you know, I've hidden a lot of it and it's hidden, maybe here..."

"That's enough, you're clearly lying, you want to go in, right? What do you want to go in and for? Did you get Paul in? The electronic eyes of the cylinder brain turned left and right, repeatedly expressing their denial.

"What.... I don't even know what kind of place it is, is Paul in it? How do you know he's there before you go in...", he noticed the dog meat lying on the ground sticking out its tongue on the side, it was staring blankly at the blue light curtain at the moment, even from behind it had a silly feeling, it was hard to believe how fierce it was in the past.

"So you have a dog here, but he doesn't seem to be smart, what did you let him smell to find Paul?" Andy held up the small pillbox in his hand.

The cylinder brain glanced at it twice, a little contrived, ahhh

"I see, I forgot about this little thing, so you just relied on it to get here, didn't you...... So how do you get in here? I remember that the blue thing was not something to be touched. Xian stared at the cylinder brain for a while, but found no flaws.

"I hope what you say is true, I'll be staring at you.... You should get out of here. The tank turned and turned the track away from the sight of the two.

Andy still had a skeptical look on his face when he saw the strings.

"What's wrong? Such a big reaction? Do you think that guy is secretly thinking about something bad again? After thinking for a moment, he turned around and looked back at the huge curtain of light behind him, everything in it was shadowy, and Paul didn't know what he was doing inside.

"We're not careful, Dr. Goddard hasn't been in great health lately, and he doesn't have as much control over the dome as he used to.... Should have guessed that this blind spot was, it was a secret area, and James, Donald, and Paul didn't even get permission to enter it. Andy was a little surprised, and he continued to listen.

Xian stared at the unknown area in front of him, his gaze quite serious.

"You listen well Andy, the Great Dome is actually more than four floors, there is a fifth floor at the bottom, the entrance is in front of us, once we enter this door, we will come to the place with the highest security level of the Great Dome, and there will be a large number of automatic security mechanical units around, ready to eliminate intruders who carry out illegal actions, after so many years, it has actually become quite dangerous."

"On this fifth floor, there is a very important thing to place, and that is the brain of this facility called the Great Dome." Andy frowned and looked ahead, imagining a huge glass jar containing a huge brain.

"What? Is there a brain in it? String rolled her eyes and shook her head.

"You don't understand how much computation it takes to keep the dome running, it's not something the human brain can handle. Even if all the brains stored in the think tank were formatted and programmed as organic cpU, it would be useless in the face of this computational pressure.... The only solution is to use something beyond the human brain, which has countless times the computing power of the human brain, condenses the wisdom of countless geniuses, and can persist for a long time.... Supercomputers. With that, she pulled Andy forward, and there was a depression in the wall next to the light curtain that was not easy to find, and the string found an Id card and placed it on it, and the light curtain slowly disappeared.

"Let's go, go in and find that bastard." String tugged at Andy's hand and walked forward, and it was obvious that she was a little nervous and a little excited.

The metal passage is relatively open, and there are a large number of pipelines connected around it, and it is impossible to see where it comes from and where it eventually ends.

"Don't act rashly, don't fire..... That will hurt the two of us in an instant, and so will your dog, so must be taken care of. She looked up at the metal ceiling overhead, which was lit by faint emergency lights on the walls on either side and pipes that glowed blue from time to time, and the overall atmosphere was dark.

In some hard-to-see places, as they walked, there was a faint sound of mechanical operation.

Andy couldn't see what those things were, but his keen perception made him feel like he was on his back. All the way forward, in the empty and dark corridor, a white coat was reflected in the faint light.

Andy saw that the dress was not covered with dust, and it seemed to be something that had recently been abandoned here, and if he looked closely, he could see that it was the clothes Paul was wearing.

"He's here." String picked up his clothes, looked at them twice, and then tossed them aside.

"How is that possible... He didn't register his biometrics at all, unless...."

"Unless someone leads the way, like us?" Andy and Chord looked at each other for a moment, and the chord understood that this speculation was quite likely.

"Who would be this person?" String looked ahead into the darkness and knew it would only be one person.

"Dr. Agnes.... She has the best relationship with Paul, and she has access to this place, why did she bring Paul here..."Xian's expression looked a little anxious.

Andy looked up to the side, in the corner of some metal beams, a red point of light lit up at this moment, he raised the beep boy on his arm to turn on the lighting function, and found that it was actually an automatic turret mounted on the side of the wall, like a large metal bowl fastened to the wall.

Two barrels protruded from the crack, and the small red light in the middle had silently locked the two people passing below.

Once its AI determines that the target is a threat, or if its Combat Suppressor component has been in trouble for a long time, it will not hesitate to fire a 5.56 Burst Bullet.

If it was such an existence, maybe the two of them would still have a chance to dodge and escape, but Andy took a picture left and right, and the number of such things in the dark was incalculable, weaving a dense network of firepower.

"It's really risky to come in here with a withdrawal addict, so what's it for?" The string was silent for a while, and continued to walk ahead to lead the way.

"There's nothing else important here, their goal could only be.... ZAx。 Andy was startled for a moment, remembering what had happened to him in the shelter near the village of the Mother.

"ZAx again?" This time it was the string's turn to make a surprised sound.

"You actually know ZAx? What is it called? Have you ever encountered ZAx before? ..... Also, you're from NcR, too, and you're probably there..."Andy firmly dismissed the string's speculation.

"No, it's not! It was on this land that I came across a ZAx, a supercomputer, in a... Probably the place called Vault 29. Xian looked at Andy with a stunned frown, she didn't expect Andy to have such an experience.

"Vault 29? Another ZAx..... We don't really know these things yet, we've been stuck in the dome for too long, and hopefully in the future we will have the opportunity to visit the place you said too... Speaking of which, do you know what ZAx is? Except that it was a supercomputer that was built before the war? ”