When the last of the serpents was reduced to ashes, there was a moment of silence. Andy put away the self-charging pistol and Pip-Boy illuminated the darkness around him, it's not that there is no lighting here, but none of the lights are on, which is a matter of course, because the nursery is now short of electricity.

But some of the terminals are still on, which seems to mean that the automatic control system is still functioning, and the energy they use is likely to come from a fusion generator somewhere here, which is not affected by other influences as long as it has not been damaged by an earthquake and exploded, and can always provide a stable source of energy for the electronic equipment here.

Some of the collapsed corridors and entrances loom not far away, all of which have been completely destroyed by the earthquake, but there are still several huge water pipes that are extremely thick and stretching into the interior not far away.

The water on the concrete floor is sometimes deep and sometimes shallow, and it is one foot deep and one foot shallow. Based on the location of the damaged water pipe that Akisha had told them before coming here, they quickly found the location, which was a large composite water pipe, and one of the pipes inside had been destroyed, causing the water to slow down and start leaking.

At this point, String realizes that there is a new trouble in the matter.

"How do we go about replacing the water pipes?" She wordlessly observed the complex plumbing structure for a moment, although there was a narrow passage that was supposed to be used for maintenance, but that size was by no means accessible to humans, and even a relatively small robot like the tank brain was not large enough to enter it.

"Don't worry about this, according to what we saw before, there must be that kind of special-shaped robot installed here as an important part of the automatic maintenance system, and these narrow passages are designed for them." The cylinder brain saw a terminal on the side, so he went up to operate it.

Moments later, a swift robot crawled out of the narrow maintenance opening, a metal spider-like iron bug robot that was small and adept at crawling on a variety of surfaces with magnetic feet.

The robot still had a piece of debris between its forelimbs, and it looked like they were still maintaining various parts of the facility, but those actions didn't help the power plant actually restart.

The Swiftfoot Robot stared at them, and after a while, gave a dull warning.

"Please be careful not to attempt to damage the facility, any violation will result in a warning, and those who fail to heed the advice many times will face unpredictable dangers." The tank brain looked at the robot for a while, and suddenly shouted.

"What are you waiting for? Grab it! Andy was stunned for a moment, then immediately walked over and reached out to grab the swift foot robot, the robot reacted violently, it frantically twisted all its metal feet, but was grabbed by Andy's iron pincer-like hands and held in the air.

"Come and help." The Cylinder Brain Conductor String came with him to the terminal.

"Find a way to reprogram this robot, maybe it can put that jar on it, or there's no other way." The two of them were busy for half an hour, Andy was already so tired that he was panting, this guy has been struggling all the time, and there may be a nuclear battery installed inside it, so even if the conditions are so bad now, there is no need to worry about charging and the power is very powerful.

"Alright... Let it go. The cylinder-brain chord left in front of the terminal, and the Swiftfoot Robot stopped struggling.

"Execution..... Execute the fix, target location E87-1.... A replacement part was detected. After about an hour of waiting, the condition of the pipe has improved significantly, and the exposed water has been greatly reduced, and it seems that the repair of this pipe has made the water flow direction correct again.

Several people hurried to the area around the cistern mentioned earlier, and this time they found it easily because one of the signs was not damaged.

It's almost a small reservoir, and it's incredibly deep. A large number of witch snakes roamed in the water, just those

The guy who "greeted" them came from this water, which was not calm at the moment, and there was a noticeable whirlpool on the water.

The state of the reservoir as a whole is a bit weird, with water levels rising and falling, but in general the water level remains generally stable.

The water pipes on the side continue to feed the reservoir, and it is unknown where the water comes from, but the upstream river does not seem to be so abundant, and one possible speculation is that the water source may also contain underground rivers.

As they approached, a large number of witch snakes were disturbed and jumped out of the water, opening their sucker-like mouths and revealing large teeth to bite at the trio.

String threw out a biochemical grenade, and the snakes began to bite each other. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Cylinder Brain and Andy shot lasers and arcs in succession, killing or repelling the Witch Snakes.

The three of them stood at the edge of the reservoir, looking at the reservoir that was still leaking water from the pipes, and they didn't know where to start, it seemed that because of the earthquake, a crack had opened in the huge reservoir, allowing it to communicate with the water veins outside, causing the snake to invade through the crack.

The leak in the reservoir made it impossible for the geothermal power plant to continue, and the computer seemed to have calculated that there was not enough water and turned off the pumping and only controlled the water inflow according to the predetermined procedure, although the pipe repair measures just now had increased the amount of water inflow, but it was not fast enough compared to the leakage.

"Akisha said before that we need to turn off the water before we can see what's leaking." Andy looked left and right and soon spotted a nearby pump room.

He kicked open the deformed metal security door, revealing a number of swift robots coming in and out of the honeycomb-like maintenance openings around the room, all stunned as Andy broke in.

Andy noticed signs of an explosion in the room, which seemed to be Akisha's previous efforts, and she seemed to have tried to blow up the pump with some kind of explosive so that the computer could not control the water and close the main valve, but from some clues, the damage was completely repaired by the Quickfoot robot shortly after the explosion, causing her plan to fail.

"Looks like we're going to have to do a big job." Andy pulls out his self-charging pistol and intends to destroy the water pump, along with all the Swiftfoot robots.

"Maybe it won't be that much trouble." The strings stop Andy, who is about to do it.

"It's controlled by a computer, and in theory the computer is good enough to determine how to deal with the problem that is currently occurring, and now this state may be adjusted by program input, which will be faster than if you could move it directly." They ignored the swift robots, and when they came to the terminal, Andy couldn't understand how they operated the terminal, only that it was a dazzling expanse...... Although Pip-Boy has built-in easy cracks and convenient operation programs, he almost never touches the terminal because it makes his head uncomfortable to use.

"It looks like the computer here isn't aware of the leak in the reservoir due to some sensor damage, we can submit an error log to it, and if it's not broken, it should understand it thoroughly." The cylinder brain calmly operates the interface, which is still trivial for him.

After Andy had already started yawning, the computer finally reacted. With a rumbling sound, the water pipes that had been supplying the water seemed to be shut down from the inside, and after losing the power provided by the pumps, the water gradually stopped flowing into the reservoir, and then the water level in the reservoir began to decrease steadily as the unblocked crack was still leaking outside.

The three of them stood as they watched the bottoming of the cistern, and a very large crack appeared in a corner, which caused the geothermal generators to shut down and the snakes to invade.

"What to do? This thing doesn't seem to be something that can be solved by operating a terminal. The cylinder brain looked helplessly at the gap at the bottom, and the computer should be powerless to do anything about this damage.

"Maybe the machine left over from the factory above can make a metal patch, but we need to go down and carefully measure the exact area of the crack, and then we need to find a few more Swiftfoot robots to reprogram them, and then let them take care of installing the patch, so that the reservoir can finally return to normal." String has a proper plan, but Andy thinks it's a waste of time.

He glanced at the rocks above his head, and since this was a place that had been converted from a natural cave, there were a lot of extra protruding rocks nearby, which might be used as filling.....

"Maybe there's a simpler and quicker way." Andy told the other two to get out of the way, took out a grenade and threw it upwards, turning on V mode in mid-air to detonate the grenade directly.

With the violent explosion and the dangerous impact of fragments, the rock, which had been unstable due to the earthquake, fell from above into the crevasses below, filling many gaps.

"This time it should be almost... Maybe a little worse? ”