Chapter 45: Let There Be Light

In the ruins of New Canaan, a group of post-Saints are searching. Andy and Alexandra are also in the group, their goal today is to find some key pre-war technology, no one knows exactly what it is and what it is called, the only thing that is certain is that there is a magical device that will help the post-Saints who have come out of Vault 70 to quickly build a sizable urban settlement on the ruins of Ogden City.

Bishop Mordecai volunteered to lead the way, wondering if the old and dizzy fellow would be able to find his target, since they had been wandering around for nearly a morning.

The scorched black of the roll washed away the joy that had risen in everyone's hearts because of the victory, and the ruins of New Canaan were still crying silently.

Andy walked and walked distractedly, thinking that his wallet had a heavy hemorrhage this time....

"Ahh

"Looks like you've really given her a lot, you're really crazy, she's just a prostitute." Andy was a little speechless for a while, maybe he was a little coaxed by her sweet words at that time, and actually promised Marianne to provide her with sufficient travel expenses, and those bottle caps were his hard-earned money.

"She kept talking, sometimes saying that she had lost her job after Anson was captured, and sometimes saying how much her family in New Vegas longed for her to be reunited..."Turning to Alexandra, Andy had tentatively talked to her about bottle caps, and she rolled her eyes and choked back at the answer that she didn't like that kind of bitch.

After walking for a while, Bishop Mordecai finally stopped.

"Probably this is it." He pointed to a ruin at his feet.

"When we left New Canaan, in order to prevent the wicked people from destroying them and causing greater consequences, we closed the way in, and it seemed that no one found out about it, and everything was still the same as it was at the beginning... Almost, come, children, dig out the road, and the treasures of the old world are hidden underneath it. Jeremiah picked up a shovel and began to dig, and the huge pieces of construction and large iron plates were carried away.

A short time later, a locked door appeared on the ground. Bishop Mordecai rummaged for a while to find the key and unlock it, and when he opened the iron door that was fastened to the ground, everyone rushed in, and miraculously, there seemed to be electricity underneath, so the light bulbs around him lit up.

"What the hell is it?" Andy asked Alexandra curiously, but she shook her head as well.

"I don't know, but when I was a child, I heard some adults talk about it occasionally, and they also thought it was amazing, and it is said that New Canaan was built overnight under God's blessing, but from their words, 'God's blessing' may not be an ethereal mantra, but something real." Hearing her say this, Andy suddenly vaguely thought of something.

When everyone came to the inside of this basement hall, what was in front of them confirmed Andy's suspicions.

There is actually quite a high-tech wind, a large number of pipelines from the ceiling to the ground connected to strange places, there are three pedestal-like devices in a triangle placed in three directions, each of them has a large number of thick and thin length and color of pipeline connections, on the three pedestals are placed three open suitcases, the suitcases are densely packed with highly integrated complex high-tech devices, there are all kinds of incomprehensible instruments, buttons, lines, some things seem to be still working, and even constantly emit electric sparks and light, Others were silent, as if they had not been turned on.

Andy even saw a silver metal suitcase with its back to him with a clear logo on the lid, a gear-shaped pattern that had been stretched from side to side to flatten, according to the text he had seen in the Vault earlier, which was the logo of Vault Tec, the largest company that had taken over the Safe House program as a defense contractor before the Great War and built most of the shelters in SA, including Vault 70 outside of Salt Lake City.

“.? Or three? He blurted out in surprise, and the other Post-Saints looked at him blankly, except for Bishop Mordecai who nodded unexpectedly.

"You know this, too...."The old bishop walked over to one of the suitcases and began to operate.

This miraculous device must be a treasure given to mankind by God, otherwise how could mankind have acquired the ability to build the Garden of Eden? It is this Garden of Eden Creator; Where they exist, even if it is a barren land, it can suddenly begin to turn into a Garden of Eden with abundant water and grass and a pleasant climate; It was with them that the brothers and sisters who came out of the shelter built our own Garden of Eden on the ruins of the city of Ogden. New Canaan. "As Bishop Mordecai operated the three GEcKs, strange fluctuations continued to spread out in all directions, and a large amount of energy began to flow in an orderly manner in those connected pipelines, which followed various procedures in various forms to exert influence on the ground.

Andy can't help but recall listening to Diana talk about GEcK when he was at the nursery, which was invented by a senior scientist at Vault Tec before the war to make up for the shortcomings of the Safe House program.

If the development of shelter technology can ensure that the inhabitants who enter it can survive the bombing and the ensuing long period of high radiation contamination, and survive in a safe underground environment for generations until detectors and sensors determine that the radiation levels have dropped, then people are going out

There will also be new problems in the "reclaim" of the land of the past. That is, the outside environment has changed dramatically because of the bombing of nuclear bombs, the air, soil, water, climate, everything has changed, and the people who walked out of the shelter saw that they were devastated, and the shelter behind them could not help them this time.

In order to avoid this situation,., the existence of the Creator of Eden is the only and best solution.

Inside, it integrates a variety of high-tech equipment with incredible ingenuity, including a seed gene database, a soil composition modifier, a miniature nuclear fusion generator, a matter-energy replicator, an atmospheric chemical stabilizer, and an incredibly powerful water purification device.

In other words, once properly activated and used, it can quickly reverse the local climate, transform the local soil environment, quickly purify groundwater and surface water, give birth to a large number of plants and crops that can provide food for ecological restoration, and even help people quickly build and power simple basic building frameworks according to preset procedures.

This is the Garden of Eden Creator, and there is not just one here, there are clearly three in good condition here, so what Alexandra said is really logical, the post-Saint believers who came out of Vault 70 came to the ruins of Ogden City and immediately activated three GEcK, and with their power, New Canaan was built overnight.

It was not a myth, but the power of pre-war human ingenuity. It's just that its name, borrowed from the romantic vocabulary of mythology.

Eden. Andy watched as the three GEcKs were put into operation, believing that the ground had changed dramatically, with clouds in the atmosphere, soil changing colors, dirty sewage being cleaned, and even the collapsed buildings being rebuilt at a rapid pace, as if God had created the world in mythology, as if doing whatever he wanted in a virtual imagination.

It's just that Andy also vividly remembers the terrible state created by GEcK after it got out of control, and the GEcK in the nursery that was destroyed by external forces and lost control created a large number of monsters, and the environment did become vibrant, but this is not very suitable for human beings; Plants that have always been eaten by animals have turned around and preyed on animals and devoured their flesh to nourish themselves, and the nuclear leakage of GEcK's internal nuclear power generator has ecstatic mutant creatures, and at the same time constantly threatens the genetic chain of humans.

Thinking of this, Andy is glad that the mob that invaded New Canaan did not find these devices, if they found three GEcKs, whether they were acting out of ignorance or out of fear, the GEcKs that were damaged by external forces would turn New Canaan into a green hell or a terrifying swamp.

After two hours of waiting underground, Bishop Mordecai temporarily stopped some of his functions, and the people returned to the surface, looking at everything around them in disbelief.

Although it was getting late and I couldn't see it clearly, the surroundings were noticeably cleaner, and in the hazy night, many things had changed, but I couldn't tell them all yet.

At this time, Bishop Mordecai, who was still in the ground, suddenly thought of something. He returned to the vicinity of the GEcKs and started working again.

"At first, God—" he muttered in a low voice. Turn around and flick a button.

"Create heaven and earth." He then continued in a low voice. Walking up to the other GEcK, looking at the numbers floating on the shiny little screen, he pulled open a small keyboard to enter the program, and his mouth was still chattering.

"But the earth is empty and chaotic, the abyss is dark, and the spirit of the gods walks on the waters..."

"Thank you to the Creator God." He slammed it down.

"Then God said, 'Let there be light!' The people standing on the ground were still carefully looking around, Andy had just turned on the lights of the Pip-Boy, and suddenly, there was a fierce sound of electricity around him, followed by a clean and bright pure light, they lit up instantly, expelled all the darkness around them in the blink of an eye, knocked the seemingly irresistible dark night sky back to the heights, and frightened the wandering beasts to run and flee.

"Oh-" people couldn't help but sigh in awe, and a large number of light bulbs appeared out of thin air, illuminating everything around them.

Bishop Mordecai came up from the ground and looked around with satisfaction. The charred earth was completely new, and most of the dilapidated houses were gone, replaced by many solid housing frames, the foundations of which had been laid and could be completed with only manual repairs, and even the walls of New Canaan, which had completely collapsed on three sides, were standing again, just a few close to the newly built ones in Jericho Town.

He continued to repeat the words.

"Then there was light, and God saw that the light was good, and called the light day, and the darkness night, and the night came, and there was morning, and this was.... Day 1. Many of the Post-Saints wept with joy and, led by Jeremiah, knelt down on the dirt in unison, drawing crosses and praying.

Only Andy and Alexandra stood still and did not move, they had no motive to pray.

"Aren't you with them?" Andy looked at the light bulbs with a smile, just such a small thing, such a simple thing, but it is the crystallization of the brilliance of human wisdom, it is more durable and dazzling than the flame, but it is more peaceful and more accessible, the light that illuminates the darkness is a symbol of human civilization, as long as there is a place in the world where the lights are on, human civilization will not be broken.

"I have broken my vows." Alexandra just stood side by side with Andy, refusing to pray to God with her head buried in her dark hands like Jeremiah, but simply gazing up at the light around her.

"So, I don't deserve and I don't deserve any mercy, and I don't need it." Andy smiled silently in the light.

There was a growing exclamation in the nearby town of Jericho, and people noticed the changes around them, and they ran out to look at the glowing ruins of New Canaan, and then someone noticed that the foul-smelling sewers were starting to clean again.

A few hours later, the sun rose over the horizon again, and in the new Canaan, the people began to work, and the post-Saint believers stood on their land with the same industrious spirit as they did hundreds of years ago, sweating their own houses, mixing stones and earth with water, and building their own houses and roads, believing that it would not be long before New Canaan was truly revived.

Pablo was busy digging a pond into which he prepared to fill it with salt water and grow salinis to produce biodiesel, which would not only reduce energy dependence on the Hoover Dam, but also sell it as a commodity to merchants who traveled there.

The battery and Otto instructed the workers to put the automatic pump back in place, and Otto was sure that the damage would be easily repaired.

The workers' dormitories have been demolished, the coal-fired boilers have been dismantled, the transmission line connecting the Hoover Dam to the Jericho Town Water Plant has started to supply electricity normally, and it seems that as Simon said, the Hoover Dam has received clean water from the past and letters about the electricity needs of Jericho Town, and those cheap clean water will alleviate the water shortage at the Hoover Dam, and when Otto returns with the drawings, the problem will be completely solved.

The news of the rebuilding of New Canaan spread rapidly by word of mouth, and more merchants who were skeptical of the business environment in Jericho were now dispelled, even if only because of the reappearance of the name New Canaan, who came here in batches to participate in the trade, leaving countless supplies and bottle caps here.

New Canaan.... After suffering and vicissitudes, it has finally been rebuilt. Only this time, people finally learned to take up arms to protect themselves.

Simon finds Andy to say goodbye to him, he is now in a hurry to return to the Hoover Dam, there is still a lot to do, and after communicating with Sheriff O'Connor he gets a Gang 215 abandoned nearby modified car as a means of transportation, the car is almost intact.

Otto decided to get out of here on Simon's ride, and with the Hoover Dam still worrying about him, he was worried about Diane's lack of learning.

Battery also waved goodbye after hugging Andy, as a member of the crypto tribe, the vast majority of crypto people have been running around outside all their lives, after all, the village of the crypto tribe is so small, and the resources are so scarce, if everyone settles in the ancestral land, then I am afraid that they will all starve to death there in the end.

The young Buraku said he planned to visit other places with pre-war technology and might meet Andy again someday, which Andy said he was looking forward to.

Alexandra was not in a hurry to leave, and it would take some time for the new Canaan to be rebuilt, and she was happy to participate actively, but she refused Jeremiah's solicitation, and was unwilling to reinstate the church and become a new Canaanite again

"Sisters". In line with this, there is a file called Neyfe's half-grown child goes missing in the chaos, but his parents don't care; They claim that this rebellious son who is like the reincarnation of a demon cannot be educated at all, and this disappearance must have been his opportunity to run away from home, so they should not have this child, anyway, the total number of children they have together is as high as 7.

It can be said that there is not much more of this one, and there is no less of this one. Given that this is a matter of his own business, Andy did not make any comment.

His body was still a little weak after the operation, so he couldn't immediately continue his journey to find the last infected person, and he planned to rest in New Canaan for a few days.

However, on this day, Sheriff O'Connor suddenly approached Andy, claiming that his men had found something unusual in Anson's shop.

Note: Some of the content is excerpted from "The Book of Genesis", which is also a meme from "The Hymn of Leibovitz".