Chapter 16: Strange Clothes
Looking at the face of Odysseus on the screen of the beep boy in front of him, Andy didn't know how to react for a while.
The impact of the mutilated illusory memories just now has not yet eased, and he doesn't know if the drugs that Alexandra injected into his body without authorization are working, and he always feels that his surroundings are still not completely back to normal.
"Are you listening?" The bearded curly-haired man's face was a little impatient. Otto and the others stared at the beep-boy curiously, unable to figure out what was going on.
"Hey, who's this? Why does it appear on the screen? Alexandra leaned over to take a look, then sat back in disinterest.
"It seems to be a remote communication, but the image feels a little weird..... Looks like you're involved a lot, boss. Otto looked at Andy thoughtfully, and the battery behind him muttered something nervously, wondering what the tribe native was shocked about.
It took Andy a long time to reluctantly react, and he motioned for his companions not to speak yet.
"Odysseus .... What's the matter? If I'm not mistaken, there is only one fugitive left, and I'll go and look for it as soon as I can. Odysseus looked worried, or rather it had always been like this, probably either worried about the immediate problem or worried about the future.
"Now don't mention the last fugitive, one of the fugitives you captured before is out of my control, called Daniel, according to the last traces found by the robot I sent, he should not be far from you." Andy tilted his head, feeling like he couldn't figure out a lot of things.
"What? .... Come to think of it, is that Daniel you talking about the one I caught in Denver before? Why are you still out of your control after all this time, and besides, I saw in Blackfoot Village that some of the prisoners I sent have been released by you, or did that person also escape from you? Don't tell me that the hole in the wall of Tibbetts Prison that was blasted out by Prest hasn't been repaired yet. Odysseus didn't reply for a moment, I don't know if it was an illusion, Andy felt that it seemed a little embarrassed.
"Are these things important? Go and bring that person back to Argos, the Hermes battle armor you gave me to upgrade before is now complete, I have integrated a lot of pre-war advanced technology crystals into it, and when you complete this task, it will be yours, now, give me a quick departure! As soon as the words fell, the screen of the beep-beep boy went black.
Battery asks Andy like a curious baby if all the high-end equipment he has on him is from this unknown person, Otto behaves a little unusually, he looks at Andy from time to time, as if he has some thoughts in his heart that he has not spoken, and Alexandra acts completely indifferent and keeps his eyes closed.
"Okay, okay, all in all, it's a dangerous place, I almost died there, and like many people who have been forcibly arrested together, I advise you to dismiss the idea of going over and seeing." Dissuading Battery from trying to get into Tibbetts Prison, Andy sees an extra map marker on the Pip-Boy, which is slowly moving and looks like he is about to arrive in Jericho.
Andy frowned, not knowing if this guy would attract the robot army of Tibbetts Prison later, that wasn't good, so he still had to go over and check it out before the worst happened, this guy named Daniel he didn't remember much, he only remembered that it was a slippery head with a flamboyant tongue and oiled soles of his feet.
The Atomic Humvee turned around and headed north, quickly returning to the town of Jericho. After getting out of the car, he quickly approached the map marker, and sure enough, he saw an embarrassed guy in the uniform of Tibbetts Prison near the entrance of the town, standing in front of an old ruin.
"Hey!" He shouted and grabbed the dejected Daniel, but the other party didn't react much.
"Didn't I send you from Dog City to Tibbetts Prison? How did you get out? He shook it twice, and Daniel stumbled and said that there was something wrong with Tibbetts Prison right now, and that the robots were starting to mess up or paralyze from time to time, and that many doors were starting to open and close on their own, and that he had taken advantage of this opportunity to escape, and by virtue of his eloquence he had set up a caravan to Jericho Town.
"That guy wants me to accept something.... I don't know how to describe it, it restricts me from going too far from this land, I don't want to, it just refuses to release me..."Andy frowned, Daniel didn't look injured or overly tired at the moment, but his mental state was average.
"What's the matter with you?" Daniel pointed with a trembling finger at the wreckage of a burned house.
"Here.... It turned out to be my home, where my wife and children are .... I fled from New Canaan because of an accident, and I didn't come back for years. I.... I heard in Dog City that New Canaan was destroyed, but I didn't believe it, I just wanted to see my family again, and now it seems... They were all dead. ”
"I was herding two cows in the desert, and there was a sandstorm, and I... There was some kind of sense that everything was real, but then I was knocked unconscious and put in that prison. Alexandra stared at him for a moment, but finally didn't say anything, but Andy could tell that there was something hurtful about her.
Regardless, Andy re-enters Argos' mobile cell with the man who has become half-dead after confirming that his family is completely gone, and the massive presence once again shocks the battery and leaves Alexandra dumbfounded.
Otto looked at the giant robot and then at Andy with a small hammer, his eyes showing some doubt.
"Recycling complete.... Reward is issued. A metal box was dropped from mid-air, Andy walked over and opened it, and saw a special folded garment inside, which looked like the general appearance of Hermes' battle armor, but seemed to have been added with a lot of new things, the most prominent being the darker silver-gray color.
Looking at Argos, who was about to turn away, Andy called out to him.
"Wait, help me contact Odysseus, I have something to ask." Argos stopped, and soon after, the Pip-Boy's screen lit up again.
"What's the matter with me?" Odysseus's face resurfaced. Andy quickly asked his conjecture.
"Tibbetts prison has been attacked again, isn't it? Have you lost control of that place? The prisoners you released before were injected by you because they agreed to be injected by you somewhat.... Something that restricts them from staying away, right? Odysseus was silent for a moment, and then finally answered partially.
"The hacking, the fact that someone, a very powerful guy tried to plant a virus and a Trojan horse in my system, and he seemed to have some key information from the pre-war period, which led to my response having little effect on him, but I believe I was able to completely rule out his influence on me."
"In the process, part of the Tibbetts prison facility has gone out of control, so I agreed with the inmates to inject a special tracking chip and release them if they agreed... It's all unimportant, I've already said it, you're going to bring back the last fugitive as soon as possible, and I've got the ultimate reward ready. After that, before Andy could ask anything more, the contact was cut off again.
Andy had to give up paying attention to Odysseus's current situation, and he was more curious about the clothes in front of him. Simply put on this strange material and complex structure, and before he could find a zipper or button that could be fastened, the suit squirmed like a mollusk to completely wrap Andy, and in the process adjusted to Andy's body adaptability, and finally made him feel light and almost no feeling of wearing anything on his body.
[New external device detected.... Connecting, the connection is complete. [Hermes Intelligent Stealth Armor] [Description: A special armor produced by Tibbetts Prison based on Hermes combat armor combined with a variety of scientific and technological achievements.
[Accessories: power assistance unit, nano adaptive impact resistance defense layer, personal health central control system, personalized AI core, terminal magnetic restraint device, motion data collection and transmission subnet, stealth field generation module, genetic information authentication module, self-healing system.
Andy looked at the description of the beep boy for a while, and couldn't understand what this did, but he felt that his body's feelings were very contradictory at the moment, on the one hand, it was obvious that the nerve reflex speed and muscle strength were strengthened, and this suit should be able to automatically adapt to the shape of the body to achieve the best wearing feeling, but .....
"Shhh.....h
"You.... What are you doing in this dress? He subconsciously asked, but he didn't expect to really get a response.
"Deep integration is underway~" seems to be a pleasant female voice from the back of the neck, but it doesn't look like a person, and it is full of inorganic texture.
"Stop, stop! You guy..... You..... Not.... Oh! Andy didn't know how to describe his feelings, and the garment began to pierce all over his body, and he even felt the strange garment squirming
"Eaten" off his underwear.
"I said stop!" He angrily wanted to reach out and forcibly pull off this strange set of clothes, but was stopped by severe pain, as if tearing the flesh and skin, the pain made him shake his hands again and again, and the three people on the side looked at Andy's strange behavior after wearing that suit with shocked eyes.
"You... Who are you talking to? Alexandra grabbed the shotgun and looked suspiciously left and right, but found nothing.
"Didn't you hear? There is a woman's voice.... I felt like it was the dress, I didn't know what it was trying to do, and I felt so much pain all over my body. ”
"I'm using bone conduction to talk to you, so others can't hear it~" A voice came from the back of his neck again, and Andy now understood why Alexandra couldn't hear it, but it only made things more troublesome, hoping that his companions wouldn't feel like they were going crazy.
"Your body is really strong, even if it's just a simple hug of you from the outside, it makes me feel excited, next, I will understand you from a more and deeper perspective, please don't resist, because it's pointless~" Andy felt that the voice he made was strange, but he couldn't explain the reason to others for a while, so he had to run into the atomic Hummer and lock himself up alone.
"He, what's wrong with him?" Battery spread his hands and looked at the other two, and it seemed to the others that Andy began to let out some weird moans as soon as he put on his clothes, then he shook his hands meaninglessly, and then suddenly walked away alone, and his behavior was completely confusing.
Otto scratched his hairless head and made a joke.
"I've seen comics of this genre before, cursed clothes, once someone wears it, the body will be taken over by demons and so on...."Alexandra shook her head, took out a bottle of wine, found an empty chair next to her, and sat down to drink.
"Maybe it's because the hallucinations caused by the previous poisoning and drug abuse haven't gone away, I suggest we stay away." .................... Sitting in the Atomic Hummer, Andy only felt that the suit on his body was like an unstoppable flow of water, flowing through every bone, muscle and internal organ of his body.
After about five or six minutes, all the discomfort finally subsided. Andy moved his hands and feet, and it didn't seem to be much different from before, but his attempt to undress was still unsuccessful, because it still hurt when he tore it, although it wasn't as bad as before.
"What did you do, you bastard?!" The woman's voice came from the back of her neck.
"As I said to you before, I have completed a deep integration with you, and now I have gained complete control over your physical condition. Trust me, user, I will do everything in my power to help you keep your vital signs stable and away from deadly threats in the years to come. Andy observed that he was stretched out by the dress
The "glove" covered hands have an astonishingly complex texture on their surface, and they are slowly squirming all the time, and changing with their movements.
"Please let me explain, I am the built-in AI of Hermes Intelligent Stealth Armor, you can call me Hull~!" Andy really didn't know what to say, although the discomfort had subsided, but the residual feeling of being pierced and infiltrated all over his body was really terrible, and he guessed that this suit was now deeply connected to himself in many places, which was quite a terrifying thing.
"It seems that the integration process has caused some minor damage to your body, and this is giving you the injection needle." As soon as the voice fell, Andy felt a pain in his left arm, and he opened the beep boy to look, and sure enough, a treatment needle was missing.
"You.... You can also call items in Pip-Boy directly? ”
"Of course~" An inorganic female voice came from the back of her neck.
"From now on, I will allocate all the drug resources for you reasonably, use them at the most appropriate time, and I have a large amount of relevant data stored in my database, which will definitely not have any negative effect on you." Andy has no trust in this guy, but he can't break free from it for a while, he knew that he shouldn't have put on this dress rashly at that time, and now it's too late to regret it, where is this clothes, it's like a living parasite....
"How do I know if this guy of yours is going to kill me? God, can you control my body? Are you trying to replace me? How can I take you off? Tell me quickly! Hull made a disappointed voice.
"Oh... Don't worry, you can choose to disarm after 12 hours, but remember, I will always be open to you~. ”