Kicking open the door panel pressed against the skeleton, he could see that it was a utility room around, and there were many metal boxes piled up on the floor, and the skeleton was on top of the box, which kept him from the erosion of the stagnant water.

The tattered white coat was still worn, and the dead man must have been one of the four scientists before he died.

The name tag on the clothes, though rusty, could barely be seen as the words, and it was Dr. Paul Stephen, the name of the skeleton.

This room is very cramped, and it is obvious that it was not designed for other purposes, so normally people will not have the idea of coming in here, since this guy in front of him is here, it means that he probably has to come in.... In other words, he came in and hid, and it was self-evident who he was hiding for.

Andy looked left and right, most of the metal boxes had been soaked into a pile of rusty iron, and most of the contents had been completely turned into garbage, so he had little incentive to disassemble the boxes and search them one by one.

But just as he was about to turn away, he suddenly saw a yellow square object pressed under the skeletal palm.

When I walked over and pulled it out, I realized that it was a holographic cartridge. Intrigued, Andy inserts the cassette into Pip-Boy to play it, and these holographic cartridges can be used to enter all kinds of data, including pictures, tables, audio, and even mini-games.

When opened, Pip-Boy reveals that the cassette contains a recorded audio clip.

"Noisy ......"

"Ang ——!"

"It seemed to be the sound of running, followed by the sound of the door slamming down." Andy listened silently for a moment, it was full of strange ambient sounds, but it could be heard that if the audio had been recorded in Lab 1c, there would have been a problem with the lab by then, and the strange roars in the recording sounded like they were made by those FEV mutant monsters known as the Floaters.

After a moment of respite, someone finally began to speak.

"Phew—oh my God, he really did, old Smith.... Haha...."A young male voice came out, sounding extremely nervous.

"I am... I'm Paul, Dr. Paul Stephen, and I'm affiliated with ..... Forget it, if you can find this holocassette and hear what I say, you'll definitely understand who I am. Listen, whether you're an SA soldier or another investigator, I'm going to document what happened to us here, before I get killed by the monsters that old Smith let out or the bA people who broke in. A fierce non-human cry came from outside, and Dr. Paul was silenced on the recording until the sound gradually dissipated.

"Oh my God.... Oh, my God..... ..... "He breathed heavily, sounding like he was choking in fear.

After composing for a while, Dr. Paul continued to speak.

"Today is the year 2077.... , I don't know what day it is, I'm already dizzy.... For the 2-phase development plan proposed by Old Smith, I have been working continuously and intensively.... A week? Or a month? ..... Now that I think about it, I should have applied for a transfer directly at the completion of Phase 1, instead of being tempted by his description of the prospects for the results of the experiment to stay in this place, at least I might have a chance..."

"Ahh - Who?! Who are you? You..... Not ——! Screams came from outside the door, sounding like someone had been killed.

"Oh my God, Joey is done..... Well, I'm not going to continue the nonsense, listen well. About two hours ago, there was an explosion outside of us, and no one could figure out what was going on, but because of the unknown explosion, the guards outside were mobilized, and there were gunshots everywhere, and we were ordered to stay in place in the lab. It didn't take long for Smith Sr. to say that he had received information from his superiors that a bA had invaded the Hoover Dam. ”

"To be honest, I don't even know what to be surprised about, why are bA people in this dam? Maybe it's because they somehow learned that our lab was trying to create a biological weapon that would destroy their ecosystem? So how did this leak out? And what is the reason for the explosion outside? Oh... Could it be that they want to blow up the dam outright? What a hellish idea, but since I'm not swimming with the fish in Lake Mead right now, they seem to have failed. Suddenly, a burst of gunfire came from not far outside the door.

After a moment of silence, there was a sound of soak in the recording, and Dr. Paul seemed to lean over the door.

"What's going on... Let me see, no——! Ah——!h The recording ceased shortly thereafter, and in the last few minutes Dr. Paul's screams were recorded from strength to weakness, judging by the marks on the door, and as he was about to peek inside the door, he was impaled through the metal door by a sharp object, a fatal wound that soon caused him to die of blood loss.

Taking out the holographic cassette and tossing it aside, Andy left the cramped storage room. So that's what happened in the first place, and it seemed that the BA people wanted to destroy the Hoover Dam by planting bombs, but the operation ultimately failed.

He guessed that this was probably due to some accident, and since the fighting was so fierce, there must have been a large number of bA men who broke into the Hoover Dam, and the explosives they carried were certainly enough to complete the mission.

But the sudden explosion and the eventual intact Hoover Dam can only say one thing, most of the bombs planted at the Hoover Dam by the BA people exploded prematurely after installation due to malfunction or misoperation, which led to the failure of the sabotage operation and the vigilance of the Hoover Dam defenders, and the plan to destroy the Hoover Dam turned into a fierce battle.

1c should have been locked down in the first place due to security regulations, but it was too late, and bA agents had already broken into 1c before the lockdown was complete, easily killing the guards outside the lab door, and then blocking the four scientists in the lab.

Things have come to this point, which would have been the end of the burning of jade, and the scientists had nowhere to escape and were not good at fighting, but would only be killed; Everything here is then destroyed, preventing the results of this lab from being sent to the other side of the ocean as originally intended.

But now this is not the case, the monsters have lived in 1C for more than a hundred years, living by eating fish and leeches that come in from the cracks in the walls, and the bones of the three scientists have also been found by Andy and others one by one, and the rest of the scientists and other intruders are nowhere to be found.

He turned his head to look at the locked metal door, the only enclosed area in 1C that had not been set foot in, and the only possible location for the missing was here.

But opening it doesn't seem that simple. There was a sound of dripping water coming from behind, and Andy looked back to see that it was Mark.

"Is it clean?" Mark nodded, but with a serious expression.

"I noticed something when I was deleting the data, the data seemed to be split into two parts, they called it Phase 1 and Phase 2, where the data from Stage 1 showed signs of being sent elsewhere.... I can probably guess where the data was sent, there's an area to the west that is still tightly cordoned off by the NcR, with only a few stupid super mutants and crumbling buildings, but it's the root of all evil. Andy searched his mind and couldn't think of any relevant impressions, so he couldn't answer, but he was interested in the Phase 2 data that Mark mentioned.

"If their so-called Phase 1 results are those ugly monsters, then what do Phase 2 mean?" Mark pushed his glasses and glanced at the small storage room that had been violently knocked open not far away, and the bones inside.

"These scientists seem to be intent on further strengthening the monsters they have created, and the military has sent them a lot of biological tissue samples of unknown origin, whew.... It appears to have been collected from a number of mutated creatures found underwater in Lake Mead, who intended to mix the genes of these samples with the so-called centaurs. The goal is to create a powerful monster that can wreak havoc on ecologically polluted water bodies in large bodies of water and is capable of reproduction without sex. ”

"Did they succeed?"

"I can't say this, it seems that the research data in the last period of time has not had time to be summarized." Andy sighed and turned to look at the large metal door, which was still securely locked.

There was something on the side that looked like an identification device, and when Andy tried to manipulate it to open the door, it constantly emitted a red light and a warning sound, and Beatrice swung a hammer to try to open the door again with violence, but the door was no thinner and more brittle than the door in the storage room, and it didn't move under the heavy hammer blow of Beatrice.

Mark pondered for a moment, then walked to the storage room and removed the metal tag from Dr. Paul's shirt and brought it under the identification device, and with a crisp dripping sound, the metal partition door began to slowly open in both directions.

The stagnant water outside the door poured into it frantically as the door opened, and Andy immediately saw the huge glass jar in the middle, which surpassed all the previous jars of the same type, and the width alone was about four meters wide, and it was also open.

Then, not far in front of the jar was a skeleton, but his fate seemed to be more miserable, for his bones were scattered all over the place, and the ends of the broken bones were smooth, as if he had been chopped alive before he died.

"Goo ————"

"Goo-" A strange voice came from the dark corner of this room, Andy and the three immediately pulled out their weapons, three pairs of eyes stared at it, under the gaze of everyone, a large unknown shriveled thing in the corner of the wall was rapidly expanding with the inflow of water outside.

The metal isolation door was completely opened, and the waist-deep green stagnant water no longer had any obstacles, and rushed in one by one, forming a wave that temporarily obscured the vision of several people.

"Where's that thing?" Mark nervously aimed around, surprised to see that in the blink of an eye, the corner of the wall was empty.

Andy decisively turns on the V mode, and in this special state where the sense of time is greatly extended, a huge object is marked from under the water in the form of a luminous outline, and the target it is approaching is himself.

Bullets and lasers were fired into the muddy green water, and before Beatrice could figure out what was going on, Mark had already picked up the assault rifle he had picked up outside and fired at the water where Andy had shot, and under the crossfire between the two, a behemoth leaped out of the water.

A huge black humanoid unidentified creature about 2.6 meters tall and as thick as a wall stood not far in front of the three of them, and under the light of the internal lights of the laboratory, its skin was as black as the night sky, and it seemed to be able to absorb light completely.

Hideous to the point of almost exploding and jumping out of the skin-enveloped muscles, the contours of the muscles are revealed beneath these pure black skins, but what catches the eye more are the growths of various sizes, scales, carapaces, flippers, dorsal fins, and claws at the ends of the fingers.... It opened a bunch of its arms towards the trio, four of which were thick, and the rest of the dozen or so arms were shriveled, twisted, and mutilated.

The eerie sculpture-like face has many eyes and no chin, replaced by a large number of black-red tentacles sticking out of its mouth.

【？？？？ [Warning: This creature is a high-danger target, and a skull hazard warning sign has been made]

"This thing.... The bullets don't seem to have much effect. Mark held the assault rifle in his hand, and he saw that the bullet holes that had hit the giant monster had become imperceptible, and the craters formed by the laser burn were healing rapidly.

The monster stood in place with all its arms open and confronted the three of them, but Andy suddenly realized that something was wrong, the monster's size was still gradually expanding and increasing, and some of the shriveled and deformed parts of its body were recovering, and it looked like a sponge absorbing water.

"Wait, this guy is buying time! It is to want to be fully restored! Beatrice was impatient, and she raised her super-power hammer to make a splash of water from her feet, and charged at the monster.

All the eyes on the pitch-black giant's face turned to Beatrice, and then all the black-red tentacles extending from its jaw opened like a brush.

In the next second, a terrifying shock surged in front of the three of them, and a roar that almost pierced the eardrums and shook the soul pierced through the entire underground laboratory1c, and even several albino people in the top baseline area who were standing near the entrance of the slag pit talking about whether Andy and the three could come back alive heard the voice, and they fled in fright.

Andy lost consciousness in an instant, until a suffocating pain woke him up, he struggled to get up from waist-deep green water, and found himself flying at least four or five meters away, at this moment he saw that the huge black fish-man had become almost three meters tall, and it was using several thick arms to hold the struggling Beatrice in the air, acting like a child playing with a life-size doll.