In Harold's account, Andy learns why he left before coming to the nursery. Ever since Harold left Gecko as Lord of the City, he had been inspired to travel through the wasteland, something he had always wanted to do but didn't have the opportunity to do, and now that he was finally alone, he planned to travel all the way east, even to the farthest part of the East Coast of SA, where he could see how different it was from the West Coast Wasteland where he was born and raised.

But just as he left New California and traveled east to the ruins of the pre-war city of Vegas, a bad feeling began to haunt him.

Weakness, extreme weakness. Harold felt that the strength that had kept him going was starting to wane, and at first he thought that he might be a little tired from not traveling long distances and getting older, but it wasn't long before he realized that things weren't that simple.

The little tree above his head, which he called Bob, was found to be a little wilted, first the leaves turning yellow, then the whole thing softening.

Harold wondered at first if this was the one that had burst on his head shortly after the accident had befallen him

The little plant that came out of the "soil" finally entered the end of his life, although the little friend who accompanied him day and night was about to die a little sad, but he was also looking forward to changing to a more normal hairstyle.

Unexpectedly, with the continuous malaise of Bob of Little Tree, Harold's weakness is actually getting worse day by day. Harold finally understood that it wasn't just a problem with Bob the little tree, and that if this sudden illness was allowed to progress, he would most likely die with the little tree.

A terrified Harold begins his search for a doctor in the wasteland, and he leaves the ruins of Vegas, where only a large number of bandits wearing bighorn sheep skulls are wreaking havoc, and continues eastward.

On the one hand, he hoped to find a doctor who could treat him there, and on the other hand, he also expected that if his life finally came to an inexorable end, at least he would die on the way east.

As he stumbled upon his stroll near the Mother Tribe, he was almost in a trance, the leaves of Bob had withered, and Harold could clearly feel the approach of death, which was not accompanied by intense pain and reluctance as death was common in the wasteland.

On the contrary, it was like a constant gust of wind that caused Harold to gradually distract from everything inside and out, leaving him feeling extremely tired.

He moved forward in a half-asleep dream, not daring to stop for a moment, because he knew that if he stopped to rest, he would probably have his own long sleep.

In the hallucination, Harold's chaotic mind only felt as if he had returned to the scene when he escaped from Vault 29, those memories were originally blurred by the accident he fell into the FEV vat, but now I don't know if it was because death was imminent, and those memories in the chaos came out one after another in front of his eyes like mud lifted from the bottom of the pond.

Young Harold's life in Vault 29 was boring and boring, as he was forced to huddle into a cramped Vault room with a large group of children, noisy, crowded, and lacking toys, and his peers had unbearable hobbies, such as smearing his boogers all over the place or deliberately burping loudly and farting.

Almost every day, Harold was tormented. The only thing that can soothe the children's hearts on days like these is that every night Mother Diana will appear in the shelter and tell them bedtime stories.

But as time passed, the children of Vault 29 became more and more unbearable to continue living in the Vault.

At that time, Diana's mother said that a suitable child would be selected to leave the shelter on a regular basis, and if he did not have an accident due to the danger of the outside world after a while, then he could come back and share with everyone about the experience of surviving in the outside world.

As a result, no one ever returned. The children enter a cycle in which every once in a while the child who wants to leave the most leaves the shelter, but he never returns, no matter how many months have passed, so that the thoughts in the minds of the other children who are afraid of it are temporarily extinguished.

But a few years later, with the passage of time and the rapid growth of the children, another child will resurgence the idea of leaving here and going outside.

Harold observed the cycle twice, and realized that the child who was allowed to leave did not walk out of the vault door in the midst of everyone's farewell, but was sent to another hidden place by the robots, and was announced to have left the vault by Diana's mother some time later.

While others were still debating what might have happened to those who had left, Harold was well prepared, and that confidence came from a strange card his parents had given him before he was sent to the vault.

Therefore, when Harold stepped forward to become the Leaver that year, he was taken deep into the main area of the Vault by the robots, and his heart was not happy, but all on guard.

Diana's mother appeared in front of him, first confirming that he did have a strong enough desire to leave, and that he had a preliminary understanding of the dangers of the outside world, and that he had also passed the basic combat test provided by Diana before.

"Very well, now that you're fully prepared, you're ready to leave after the final physical examination." Harold readily agreed, but in fact he was nervous to death.

He was taken near a machine by the robot and asked to lie down. Harold couldn't figure out what the machine was for, he just used the card to hack the robot with his own Pip-Boy, and then fled the vault in a hurry before Diana could react, hiding the card in the place agreed with his best friend before leaving.

He ran out of the crowded shelter and ran wildly towards the freedom of the outside world in the green mountains and green waters, the road was so familiar that Harold only felt that he was walking the same path he had taken when he left..... When he finally passed out, he was rescued by the Twin Mother's Tribe, a bowl of bitter drink poured into his stomach, and Harold miraculously regained some consciousness.

Soon after he woke up, he was asked by the natives to meet their so-called goddess, Harold thought it was ridiculous, along the way he had seen too many creatures, objects and even conceptual beings who claimed to be gods or called gods, and in fact they were nothing more than careerists or symbolic representatives of some kind of peculiar cult.

But when he saw Diana, he was stunned. From the other party's mouth, he learned that he had mistakenly embarked on the path of return when his consciousness was chaotic, and returned to Vault 29 where he had left.

Even though Harold has changed beyond recognition, Diana still recognizes him with the help of powerful facial recognition algorithms.

He also realized that the thing that Diana called a physical examination machine was actually a kind of thing called

The "constraint applicator" is actually an extension of codE technology, which can program complex mental conditionings and imprint this information into the human brain through optical input.

Once this is done, people will not be able to consciously act on the information that is entered by the outside world, and Diana has only programmed one

"Conditioning", that is, the location of Vault 29 must never be revealed to anyone and can never be returned.

Harold was invited by Diana to the nursery, where he subsequently arrived. In the nursery, Harold is free to live in this pleasant natural environment, and if he is bored, he can read and learn about the herbs provided by Diana.

The disease of the little tree on his head was also treated by Diana, and according to her, the little tree probably fused with Harold, who was judged to have failed his experiment and abandoned the wild after accidentally falling into the FEV barrel at the time, and with him he was affected by the dual effects of FEV and the intense radiation outside the ruins of science and technology in western California.

Originally, these two incompatible things would have created only death or aggressive monsters, as revealed in some top-secret experiments conducted by institutions such as Western Technology before the war, as Diana had learned, but miraculously Harold did not die, and after a long period of disease, a new balance emerged in his body.

Harold became a being who was neither a super mutant nor a ghoul, if he was a super mutant but his flesh was weak and even missing an eye, if he was a ghoul, but he had green skin and a powerful regenerative ability that only super mutants have.

Either way, Harold stayed in the nursery after that, and he felt that it must have been a fateful arrangement, otherwise why would he walk all the way back from New California and save his life after so many years of leaving Vault 29, even after he had almost forgotten about it?

It was here that he began a life that bordered on retirement until the earth-shattering earthquake destroyed everything.