CHAPTER XX

"I got it.... But..."Candace looked a little embarrassed.

"As you can see, while nominally I'm the leader, our organizational structure isn't that tight, and the weighty followers of the Apocalypse who come here tend to go their separate ways, especially after the break from the Western Headquarters. I've been reading history here since the school was closed because there were no students, and I can't recommend you directly.... All I can do is help you persuade someone who has weight. ”

"Well, thank you anyway." After waiting here for a while, Candace returned, and his face did not look very good.

"Ahh As I guessed, Dr. Yuri had no interest in this at all, and didn't even want to believe your opinion on tonic creams, and that guy must be hoping to continue selling tonic creams to make money. Andy frowned.

"Isn't there anybody to control this guy?" Candace shook his head.

"Dr. Yuri is one of the few doctors in Hoover Dam right now, and it's safe to assume that he's the best doctor in the field of medical technology. He is well-versed in general medicine, and has a way to deal with any kind of illness and injury, and when the Brotherhood of Steel attacked and injured people in the past, many seriously injured people were able to recover with his help, so he has a high prestige. ”

"I also told him not to pay so much attention to making money to the point of ignoring medical ethics, but he didn't listen at all, and he was still selling drugs in private.... There was once an outsider who tried to steal business with him, and he was so angry that he forbade that person to enter the hospital. ”

"I had a big fight with him before, and the conclusion is that it is impossible for him to help selflessly." Andy sighed inwardly and turned his attention to another way.

"I heard that Pierre Labelle from the engineering department also needs it, as if he wants a blueprint for a high-grade water purifier?" Candace sat down in his chair and seemed very knowledgeable about what Andy had mentioned.

"Yes, this is also the biggest headache for us now, since not long ago, the water quality of Lake Mead has been declining, and the pre-war water purifier left inside the Hoover Dam has plummeted after long-term use. We have enough materials to make a new water purifier that works better, the problem is that we don't know how.... Drinking water reserves are on the verge of being put on the verge of being left to drink, and if they continue like this, there will be poor people who cannot afford to drink the bottled water sold by caravans and drink the contaminated water produced by old filters. ”

"At best, the water is used to scrub things or irrigate crops, and the Mirko at the top of the dam is delirious and insane after drinking the sewage." Candace was frowning when he talked about it, because of the assassination of the Brotherhood of Steel, Mayor Dodge had recently appeared to be inactive, and spent his days in the military headquarters heavily protected by NcR soldiers.

Pierre, the director of the Hoover Dam Engineering Department, was one of the first to identify the problem and discussed the seriousness of the matter with Mayor Dodge.

But the Dodge mayor rejected the offer to send soldiers out to look for blueprints, because he felt that if the army made any moves, it would inevitably lead to the Brotherhood of Steel taking advantage of the situation, and the water reserves would not be in a hurry for a while, and could be delayed for a while.

"Pierre was very smart, he seemed to know everything about technology, and he was actually the first person to figure out how the vast array of facilities inside the Hoover Dam worked. Without him, the Hoover Dam would not have been able to provide the resources that so many people can live here for a long time, water, electricity and even food, and he is the most important person in the Hoover Dam, and if he is willing to recommend you, Mayor Dodge will not refuse. Andy knew that this path was more likely to work than Dr. Yuri's, but the key problem was that he didn't know where to find the blueprints for the advanced water purifiers.

"So... Do you know where to find the drawings of the water purifier? The yellow-haired woman smiled, not seeming to be in a hurry to give an answer.

"Perhaps, but I can't just tell you that, you know? My greatest hobby is to collect the historical stories of this land before the war, and those information are my precious collections, and if you can bring me something new, I am willing to exchange it with you for the possible location of the water purifier drawings. Andy pulled up some of the data he had gotten from the ruins of Denver from the Pip-Boy and showed it to Candace, her eyes lit up.

"Very well, the city of Denver... Now it's called Dog Town, and it's said that Mayor Dodge had sent a train along the railroad to reclaim that distant place, but because of the recent assassination, there hasn't been a train there for a long time. I was very interested in the largest and best-preserved pre-war city in the East, especially the Denver Massacre, which was the most shocking truth. ”

"What's an amazing method?"

"The unidentified red fog that caused countless casualties may not have accidentally leaked from a pipeline attached to a military base, but a vicious experiment that had been premeditated for a long time, this is a conspiracy theory speculation, I have not found any evidence of this, but I have at least found the remnants of some of the internal investigation files of SA government scientists after the accident." Candace used a cassette to export the precious data inside Andy's Pip-Boy and carefully stored it, then took Andy to a locked cabinet, opened it, took out another cassette and gave it to Andy.

"Take a look at your beep boy." Andy heard the words and inserted the cassette into the holographic cassette slot of the Pip-Boy, and soon the screen was there.

[Investigation Report on the Abnormal Changes in the Deceased No. 425, Category: Top Secret] [Data Corruption] [Of the 12 bodies brought back from the Z-43 gas leak accident by the SA Army Special Issues Disposal Team using highly corrosion-resistant material body bags, there was an unidentified body of the deceased No. 425 About 11 hours after the body was recovered and stored in the Morgue No. 2 of the Great Dome Biolaboratory, the detector detected an abnormal temperature change inside the body, and detected that the corpse was emitting radiation.

[After discovering the abnormal data report, the staff immediately took No. 425 out of the morgue wearing protective equipment and found unexplained signs of activity and sounds inside the body bag, and inferred from the autopsy results of other corpses, other tissues in No. 425's body except for the skeleton have been transformed into a slightly toxic viscous substance with a pale yellow appearance and a pungent smell similar to that of cross-linked polyolefin after burning, and should be completely incapacitated and in a state of death.

[Further investigation revealed that No. 425 was recovered near the site of a nuclear leak caused by a vehicle hitting a nuclear power generator in the accident area, and the body had been under the influence of strong radiation contamination and Z-43 gas corrosion.

[Attempts to inject more Z-43 gas into the body bag have had a striking effect, with the movement of the corpse inside the body bag becoming noticeably more violent, but immediately ceases when Body Bag 425 is opened, suggesting that one of the key factors in maintaining this change may be the stable external wrap.

[Data Corruption] [Note: Since the washing liquid provided by the Great Mountain Scientific Research Base can have a significant alleviating effect on corroded body parts only within fifteen minutes of contact with Z-43 gas, the soldiers involved in the handling of the accident should pay attention to the state of their protective clothing at all times, and withdraw from the accident area as soon as the problem is discovered.

Z-43 gas has strong corrosiveness and toxicity, the appearance color is scarlet, the smell smells similar to copper and sulfur, once inhaled, it will feel a sharp burning pain in the lungs, in addition to the respiratory tract, it can also be absorbed through the skin, and the initial symptoms include: dizziness, suffocation, vomiting, blurred vision, the above precautions should be notified to all accident handling personnel, please know.

Andy was so absorbed in his gaze that he didn't even hear Candace greet him.

"Hey!" He hurriedly looked up.

"I'm sorry.... The information you get is interesting. Candace lifted his chin proudly.

"Bought from a scavenger who used to operate in the east, I am also a little famous in Hoover Dam City, only I am willing to buy those holographic cartridges and terminal hard drives that others think are useless at a high price, although the probability of winning the lottery is not large, but I have gained a lot for so long." Andy just wanted to praise Candace for his tasteful hobby, but suddenly a question came to mind, since the information was marked as top secret before the war, it means that it has been strictly encrypted.

"Are you still a good hacker? Otherwise, how could you crack such a classified document of the pre-war military? Candace smiled a little awkwardly.

"It's not me... I'm just a teacher who likes to collect information about pre-war history, and there are other masters who crack this thing... And he told me before that he had a clue about where to find the drawings of high-grade water purifiers. She turned to look at the Followers of the Apocalypse in the corner.

Andy looked up, and there was a middle-aged man in the iconic white lab coat of the Followers of the Apocalypse.

He has blonde hair combed back and a hard-contoured and fair-skinned face, the contours of the muscles on his body are slightly visible through his clothes, and he also wears a pair of flat glasses, and his whole body looks serious and full of intellectuality, which can be said to be a beautiful man.

"Hey, stop sitting there and be a silent handsome guy, might as well tell this guest what you know." The man calmly put down his book and stood up calmly from his chair, and then walked towards Andy with his head held high, much taller than the morale-free NcR soldiers outside.

"First meeting." The other party reached out to shake Andy's hand, and Andy immediately felt the strong wrist strength of the other party and the calluses on his palms due to long-term use of the gun.

"Mark Gannon, just call me Mark." Andy looked at him, and even though it was a man, it made him unable to take his eyes off it for a while.