Chapter Seventy-One: Emptying the Slag Pit

Standing underneath the huge empty glass jar, Andy stared at the container that once contained the results of the scientist's experiments, if the monster just now really had the ability to reproduce asexually, once it completed the release or escaped halfway, it would actually cause a disaster.

Thankfully, nothing was done. Mark was working on a terminal next to him, which, according to him, was actually the main control computer of the entire 1C lab, from which all the data could be queried.

But before that he could do so, he needed to finish cracking the terminal, which must have been very difficult from the fact that he had been busy for an hour.

Beatrice finally came to his senses after devouring the giant's corpse, Andy didn't see what was happening, presumably while he was unconscious, and Beatrice, completely insane, killed his mortally wounded enemy, and then rightfully began to open his mouth and eat as he should.

Not to mention these, although this trip to 1C was almost dead, Andy still had a little gain, which came from the two corpses beside him.

It was the bones of two corpses dressed in special tight-fitting silver suits full of various shapes, intricate layers, and rare materials, and their remaining weapons, two sharp swords, and a specially made small sniper rifle.

But none of these things are in a very good state. The two special high-tech straitjackets were torn apart like their owners, and the weapons were similar, with the exception of a sword, which was fairly well preserved, and everything else was completely broken.

This was all due to the fact that they had been used in the heat of battle, with two bA agents slashing Dr. Smith to death with their swords after breaking into the Stage 2 lab in the deepest part of 1c, but that didn't stop him from freeing the monster in the glass jar.

Judging from the scratches and bullet holes left on the surrounding walls, the two bA agents did everything they could to survive from the giants, and the combat power of the FEV mutant monsters mixed with the genes of mysterious mutant creatures was so terrifying that the two bA agents were locked up in this cramped laboratory, and since there was nowhere to escape and no shelter to be found, their fate can be imagined.

Even if they were able to escape from here, a completely locked down 1c would trap them alive, as they had no food or water.

These items and bones were flooded by the stagnant water that rushed in from the outside, and Andy found them by accident, according to Mark, these things are all bA's top technological creations, and they are the best equipment that only the elite of the elite can equip, and the bA agents wearing these tights and holding these weapons have caused countless sabotage and assassination incidents within SA.

Andy put the broken special costume into the Pip-Boy, and the sword didn't fall. [Black Ghost Stealth Armor] [Description: SA's top scientists have tried to crack the working principle of this armor and replicate it through reverse engineering, but their efforts have failed, and it is said that the core technology contained in the stealth boy produced by Rocco is also related to these reverse engineering.

Wear it, you will disappear from this world, all detection will be ineffective in front of you, and you will be a dark ghost, and you will not exist in the eyes of your enemies until their last moments of life.

【bA Sword】【Description: A sharp sword, a military melee weapon made of special steel as a material and combined with a special forging technology, with the right strength and skill to penetrate the combat armor in one blow, it is said that some high-ranking bA agents also have a special version of this weapon in their hands, which can cut power armor.

A crisp ding-dong sound came from not far away, and Mark seemed to have cracked the computer. He stared nervously, and from time to time his mouth made a suspicious sound.

"What's wrong?" Andy walks over and sees Mark looking at a picture that looks green, but it can still be seen that the picture should have been taken underwater.

Not only that, but when he looked closely, Andy felt more and more that the place where he was photographed felt very familiar, as if he had been to the place in this photo before.

After a few moments, it dawned on him that he had indeed been to the place in this photo, the same place he had learned from the Water Tigers, when Mark had gone into the water in a diving suit to approach the underwater facility that was said to produce concentrated pollutants, and Andy had witnessed the underwater scene through the real-time footage transmitted back by the Pip-Boy.

However, the scene in the photograph is different from what it is now, and it seems that there were no artifacts placed there at that time.

There appears to be a huge crater underwater. Some unidentified green substances slowly crept out of bottomless pits, and the composition of those things should be roughly the same as the pollutants that pollute the water of the Hoover Dam today.

The next few images appear to be a follow-up to the same expedition, with the men in wetsuits putting some equipment into the inside of the pit, and it is unclear how deep the equipment was placed in the photos, but there is one photo that appears to have been taken from the inside of the hole.

The photo was surrounded by a violent glow, and since the terminal does not display colors, it is impossible to tell if the light is green as in the terminal picture.

In addition, at the bottom of the craters illuminated by the dazzling light, many strange traces were revealed, and it seemed that they were buildings and stone statues of unknown size.

Andy looked at this photo in disbelief, if this photo is true, there is a strange man-made ruin hidden somewhere in a huge underground cavern under Lake Mead?

So those pollutants gradually seeped out of this place into the waters of Lake Mead, causing some mysterious mutated creatures to appear under Lake Mead, which also led to the settlement of Lab 1c inside the Hoover Dam, and Andy remembers the specimen of the creature known as the Lake Mead Monster that he saw in the nursery..... That strange facility blocked the exit of the cave, so that the water quality upstream of the Hoover Dam gradually returned to clear after more than a hundred years, but because of the misdeeds and greed of the Water Tiger Gang, and the greed of some water sellers, the water quality of Lake Mead was once again polluted by those pollutants, which were even more than the purification effect of the Hoover Dam water purifiers, and the clean water produced by the Hoover Dam was no longer suitable for human consumption, and it would make people go crazy when they drank it.

Mark stood up from the terminal.

"I've pretty much read the data left here, and I think Pierre will be interested in some botanical research, and there's some pre-war history that Candace will like..... Put this lab in their hands and you'll be grateful to them. ”

"They can't give you a letter of introduction to help you meet Mayor Dodger, but they will help you when the time comes." Andy nodded, standing at the door of the lab and beckoning the two to leave.

Their main task has not yet been completed. The group left 1C and walked out of the nest of the giant mutant termites, and they headed in the direction of the main generator, and soon saw the huge space.

It's almost the same size as the baseline above, with a lot of large concrete grooves on the left and right sides, which seem to have been used for some large equipment, but are now gone.

These pits are currently filled with cloudy green slime. There were obvious signs of explosion around one of the craters closer to the entrance, and the rim of the pit had been blasted open with a huge gap, and the green slime that flowed out of it had flowed onto the ground, creating a puddle of green on the ground.

A large number of bullet holes and corpses were scattered in this area, most of them were huge albino rats and giant mutant leeches that had been shot and killed, and there were also many human bones full of gnawing marks and the remains of NcR soldiers who had been sucked into dried corpses.

In the heat of their battle, giant mutant termites poured out of their nests and attacked the soldiers from behind, killing them all.

The corpses of captured NcR soldiers or termites end up as food for termites, wrapped in cocoons with secretions and sent to termites' food storage sites.

This happened twice, and some of the bullet holes were fired at the rear, presumably the second group of NcR soldiers were attacked by the termites behind them shortly after they arrived, and the giant termites seemed to have a certain level of intelligence, and they understood that when they arrived, the hordes of humans would immediately think about what was wrong and attack before they lost the opportunity.

Andy picks up a piece of concrete, which appears to be the same as the one that was damaged by the BA men with a bomb, and the bomb's anomaly caused their infiltration operation to be exposed, ultimately leading to the failure of the entire operation.

Throwing the concrete shards into the puddle of liquid filled with green slime, a drop of the viscous liquid flew out and landed on the shriveled skeleton beside it, and then smoke erupted.

Seeing that the bones were severely eroded by such a drop of liquid, Andy understood that the things in those pits were things that could cause serious problems when touched, and if someone accidentally touched the slime with their feet while walking, they would disappear a few toes in an instant.

"So the generators in the main generator room have been removed, and the generators that were placed in the place where the cavemen lived should have been placed here in the first place." Andy touched his chin and made a reasonable guess, and Mark calmly added.

"There were explosions and spy incursions here before the war, and the hydroelectric generators in the slag pit should have been moved to the baseline area above by the pre-war people, and this project is not something that ordinary people can do..... It was even more impossible for the cavemen, so they once again took advantage of the people of the past. A squeaky sound came from all around, and the albino rats, which were bigger than dogs, stared at the trio in a hurry. Seeing that the rats seemed to be about to swarm up, Andy raised his gauntled hand. ....................... Half an hour later, Andy could finally breathe a sigh of relief as the last giant mutant leech died under the bullets fired by the N99; Not a single one of the mutant rats was banished. Mark noticed that there were some corpses around, which were leeches and rats, but the interesting thing was that the injuries on the bodies of these dead creatures were all left by each other, and the rats had leech bite marks on their bodies, indicating that these rats were once the blood bags that the leeches relied on for their livelihood, and the leeches that were also gnawed, and only a small part of the tissue was found, and the cause of their death was obviously due to the attack of the rats.

"It's funny." He muttered.

"The ecosystem here is very special, those rats and leeches feed each other, and the leeches will hunt the mice when they lack blood, and the rats will hunt the leeches when they lack food..... This almost leads to some kind of unique symbiotic relationship. Kicking away the scattered corpses on the ground, Andy looked around and was sure that all the mutated creatures here were dead, that Beatrice's hammer was almost a hammer, and that his boxing was quite successful.

"Go back, go on an errand." Andy lit a cigarette as he spoke, his clothes were completely damaged from the inside out, there was not a piece of good meat on his body, and his weapons and ammunition were almost exhausted..... This trip can only be said to be not very worthwhile, and I hope that the farmer Dave and Pierre can give a good reward.