Chapter 60: The Assassins
"Are you kidding me?" Major Fleming's forehead burst with bruises.
"Hoover Dam to be buried? You can also say what you think? Well? I've known for a long time that you're an unstable bunch, and I didn't know much about it before, but now I know who you are, you cavemen! I said I was just going to take her to investigate, what do you mean? Shameless for face? If it weren't for the kindness of Mayor Dodge, you would have been thrown into the dam to feed the fish, and you? Send someone to assassinate him? Billy's chest heaved and heaved, roaring with a decibel that shook people's eardrums.
"Mary never hurt anyone! Believe it or not! We've lived here much longer than you, and you're just a bunch of robbers! So I don't need any mercy from you bandits, phew! As I said, my daughter has to finish her wedding here today, and no one can stop her! All the hydro generators have been bombed, and all the remaining bombs are in the slag pit, guess what happens when these bombs are detonated together? You won't get anything, you .....," cried Mary Jo as she cried and cried out hoarsely.
"Don't say it, don't say it, Dad..... If they're going to take me to do some investigation, I'll go. Billy glanced back at his daughter, then turned to answer in a firm tone.
"Nope! Never! No one can take you today. Andy stepped forward and grabbed Major Fleming's arm.
"Wait, calm down, look at the wound on the girl's hand, it's not a new injury, and as far as I know, the girl can't even shoot, how can it be an assassin?" He turned to Billy and asked.
"How did your daughter's hand hurt?" Billy gasped and replied dullly.
"A week ago, I knew she was pregnant, so I pressed her to ask her who the man was, and I hired someone to look for him, but I couldn't find him, but they told me a lot about Mary. I lost my mind, and by the time I came back to consciousness, her hand had been scratched by the glass bottle I had thrown out..... That's when I realized how hateful you bunch of surface waste really were. Mary Jo lifted the gauze, and the wound was not new, let alone a gunshot wound.
Major Fleming's arm gradually relaxed, and Andy patted him.
"There's also a slag pit below the baseline area, and there's room to hide there." Sheriff Ralph touched his chin and asked a question.
"It's really strange, everyone here knows each other, and there's no possibility of getting in, but if that assassin did it, how did she do it?" Andy has already guessed the answer.
"The people of the Three Brothers' caravan have told me one thing before, the people who have been attacking their caravans will use something that temporarily makes their bodies transparent, and I guess it's the Invisible Kid. With that thing, she can come and go here at will, she must have been hiding in the slag pit farm now, we can stop her there, Mary Jo can't be an assassin. Major Fleming calmed down and told the soldiers to lay down their weapons, and they followed Andy into the slag pit.
After going down, Andy found that this place was very different, all kinds of building debris and garbage were gone, and the corpses of mutant creatures had been buried in the soil, and the soil came from the extra rows of boxes full of soil in the slag pit, and some crops had been planted in them, which must have been the hard work of farmer Dave, but he was blocked outside for many days and could not come in to take care of it.
A group of people immediately began to search the slag pit, and although they did not see anyone, they did find a lot of explosives installed by the albino people, which made Sergeant Ralph and Major Fleming look full of horror, the structure here has become fragile due to age and lack of maintenance, and it is really easy to go wrong if you don't do it well.
"Nobody..... "Sheriff Ralph stood still, and they rummaged through the slag pit, and there were only a few hydroponic crates and soil crates with magic wheat and mutant corn and some mutant fruits.
Andy scanned the V mode several times, but did not find any hostile targets, and at this moment, he looked down and saw a half-bitten mutant fruit in the soil, and when he picked it up, he found that the fruit had just fallen to the ground, and there were tooth marks on it.
He immediately searched the vicinity, and finally pulled out a sleeping bag from under a half-hidden steel plate in a hidden corner, along with some medical supplies and blood-stained bandages.
"She's right here!" Andy threw away the dirty bandage in his hand and looked around with wary eyes.
"She's alarmed by the movement of us coming in, and uses the Stealth Kid, that thing has an expiration date, or it won't be long before she will be exposed and watch the entrance!" The police and soldiers immediately blocked the only entrance, and about ten minutes later, one of the policemen suddenly noticed a crouching woman emerging from the air not far away.
He rubbed his eyes in disbelief and immediately pulled out his pistol and rushed over. The woman was wearing a clumsy wig, some black hair peeking out of the white wig, and her face was coated with a lot of white powder, almost like a clown.
"You surface people, get out of here, this is the territory of the cavemen!" She muttered a few words in a pretentious tone, and wanted to pretend to be an albino person, but she couldn't even figure out how an albino person called outsiders and herself, and at the same time, her whole body was flawed.
"Here!!" He shouted, pulled out his pistol and fired at the woman, but before he could pull the trigger, the sniper rifle in the opponent's hand had already sounded, and the policeman was immediately shot in the chest and fell to the ground.
A group of police and soldiers immediately opened fire on it, but the mysterious guy had already thrown a grenade, and the people fled in all directions, and after a moment of confusion, the man disappeared again.
Andy stepped out of the smoke and saw that there were still a lot of people standing still near the entrance and exit of the lower baseline zone, and the assassins wouldn't choose to run that way, so did she have any other choice?
At this point, he looked at the hallway that led to 1C. Running over to see that the door had just been opened, he immediately entered Laboratory 1c, where the water was still very deep.
The small 1C is almost unobstructed, and since it was completely cleaned up not long ago, it is now dead silent.
"Detects the presence of a stealth unit nearby, turns on stealth mode." Hull's voice came from the back of his neck, and Andy disappeared into thin air in an instant, and a slight thud was heard not far away, although it was small enough, it was still too obvious in this cramped and silent laboratory.
Andy simply told Hull to temporarily close his mouth and nose and reduce oxygen consumption, and dived into the water.
"Can you find her?" He fumbled in the water, but the V mode had no effect, and it seemed that it had no effect on stealth units.
"According to the sound information just now, the target is about 5 meters away from your northwest, and the probability of misjudgment is not higher than 45%." The corners of Andy's mouth twitched a few times because of this probability, anyway, his stealth is not time-limited, and he can completely waste time with that assassin.
At this moment, the assassin who remained invisible was anxiously counting down in his mind, and once the time was over, the Invisible Boy would be invalid, and this was her last Invisible Boy.
I thought it would be a piece of cake to complete this task, but when I got here, I realized that things were very different from what I imagined, and the environment was completely different from that of the Hoover Dam, with a lack of commanding heights or suitable shelter at the top of the dam, and too many soldiers around Mayor Dodge.
Fortunately, there seems to be an internal presence within the Hoover Dam, and some information is given to the Iron Brotherhood assassin known as Nancy Hagot, which is in fact a well-designed assassination plan.
It contains a pattern of Dodge mayors' activities, the location and appearance of a worker who will soon be invited to the NcR Hoover Dam military headquarters to repair water pipes, a set of remote-controlled bombs, and an overview of some of the circumstances surrounding the Hoover Dam.
As long as she successfully infiltrates the military headquarters according to the intelligence, and then plants the bomb in the marked area, and after leaving the military headquarters, she can easily press the button to detonate it to complete the assassination.
The first time she tried to disguise herself as a plumber to infiltrate the Hoover Dam military headquarters according to the plan, at that time the soldiers were not as vigilant as they are now, and let her in easily, but she still ushered in a big failure, mainly because she did not know how to repair the foul-smelling sewer pipe that had been blocked, and the soldier who brought her in happened to be thunderous because of her butt when she went to the toilet, and dragged her to repair the pipe as quickly as possible under her supervision, and when she was in a hurry, a dagger on her body accidentally fell to the ground, The air froze suddenly, and she was immediately sternly asked by the soldier to put down everything she had and be searched.
Nancy knew that she would be exposed immediately if she didn't need to be searched thoroughly, and the crux of the matter was that although the plumber was not well-known, he was at least a middle-aged, bearded man, and the fact that the soldier would immediately find out what was the problem would be when he got his hands on it, and her disguise was too easy to reveal at close range, so she simply shot the soldier and fled.
Nancy was very depressed when she escaped, but this plan was not without preparation, at least Mayor Dodge's daily action information and the remote-controlled bomb wanted to complete the matter, as long as she patiently waited for the frightened Mayor Dodge to return to normal after a while, she also made up her mind to lurk here for a while, and even started to do small business to dump some e-waste and small accessories.
She actually earned some bottle caps, an experience that was new to her, but she didn't indulge in it.
When she learns that Mayor Dodge insists on going to the city council regularly despite the lack of city councilors, she prepares to carry out a second assassination, intending to plant a remote-controlled bomb near the Dodge mayor's path, but she doesn't know why the remote control has a problem when it comes time to do it, and the bomb doesn't explode until the Dodge mayor and the others are far away.
Looking at the remote control in her hand, Nancy guessed that it was the first assassination attempt, and the water sprayed during the water hose seeped into her bag, and the remote control may have been damaged by the water at that time, causing the detonation to be slow.
After two failed attempts, she had all but given up, and it was now impossible for any stranger to approach the Dodge Mayor, who no longer left the military department, not even the city council that he had been to regularly.
When she thought that she would never have the face to go back to her life and would be a scrap dealer at the Hoover Dam for the rest of her life, things suddenly took a turn for the worse, and when she witnessed her companions being killed by the shelling of the NcR, the anger in her heart could not be calmed, which made her realize that she had always been a Brotherhood of Steel person, and also reminded her of the oath she had made under the banner of the Brotherhood of Steel.
She was looking for an opportunity, and at this time she suddenly found that she had collected a piece of paper in the shell of a waste electronic product, which said that Mayor Dodge would hold a meeting in the city council, and when he left the city council, there would be many people who wanted to come close to the city because of the rumors that the mayor of Dodge had died, which was also arranged by the mayor of Dodge himself, in order to dispel those false rumors, but it also gave Nancy a golden opportunity.
On the back of the note there were even instructions on how to get into trouble and hide afterwards. So Nancy bought a white wig and some white ash to disguise herself as an albino to carry out the assassination that day.
Originally, everything was fine, but there was one guy with amazing reflexes and accurate marksmanship, and he interrupted her assassination by force, the laser pistol was lost, and her hand was seriously injured.
This was followed by an earth-shaking investigation by the police in the central area, and she had no other way but to use the invisible boy to hide in the caveman's territory, and then hide in the corner of the slag pit, feeding her hunger with those fruits and crops, and waiting for the limelight to pass while healing.
And then all of a sudden, it was in such a bad state. The man who chased him disappeared in the blink of an eye, how could this be?
Could it be that he also has a stealth kid? In that case, it would be a big problem. She was there with a sniper rifle and thinking wildly, but the Invisible Boy finally failed, and when her body was exposed to the air, the stagnant water below exploded, and a figure burst out and grabbed her, and the weapon in her hand flew out in the meantime.
Andy bent the arm of the struggling woman back and pressed it against the experimental table, controlling her tightly, the wig had completely fallen off, and the white ash on her face was washed away by the water, and the person in front of her was not an albinist at all, but a woman with blonde hair and a red scar on her face, judging from the muscle mass and skill on her body, she could not be said to be an ordinary person, but it was all for nothing in front of Andy's strength.
"What other words do you have?" Nancy, who was dying, flashed in front of her eyes, and she raised her head and shouted.
"Invincible! You will eventually fall to your knees under the banner of the Brotherhood of Steel, and I will be waiting for you in hell! Andy spat out the dirty water in his mouth and smiled.
"So you're an assassin sent by the Brotherhood of Steel, right? It's really easy for us to find.... You actually tried to stir up internal contradictions at the Hoover Dam, and I have to say that this was indeed a good trick, but you failed. He watched as the Assassin's tattered clothes for camouflage fell off, revealing a silver-white hooded jumpsuit that was almost identical to the one worn by the Brotherhood of Steel who had attacked Hoover Dam before, but what made him concerned was that the Assassin's clothes also had the same pattern found on the power armor fragments.
Since it was not destroyed by the explosion this time, it can be seen that this pattern is still the pattern of the Brotherhood of Steel, but the outermost ring is emphatically outlined, and the main pattern inside is all blurred, once the composition is damaged, it does look like there is only the outermost ring, then this can also prove that she is indeed a member of the Brotherhood of Steel, but this pattern is very different from the common sense.
"But why isn't the pattern on your body quite right? Are you from the Brotherhood of Steel? With a slight exertion of force, a terrifying gurgling sound from the bones and the screams of the Assassin followed, and the Assassin wailed out the reason in the unthinkable pain.
"The Ring of Steel.... That's the sign of the Ring of Steel.... Yes! With that, she seemed to faint.
Andy continued to restrain her for a while, and when he saw that she was indeed lying on her stomach, he was about to turn her over and judge it, when the assassin slipped out like a loach.
Seeing that she wanted to run, Andy didn't even have the heart to shoot her in V mode to stop her, he only needed to use the lightning raid to get close to her in an instant to capture this assassin again, which is an important source of information.... Several policemen and soldiers happened to jump down, and Andy hurriedly shouted at them.
"Wait a minute, catch it alive!" But before he could finish speaking, one of the policemen had already fired, and the assassin was shot in the stomach and fell to the ground.
Andy snorted and tried to rush over to see if the assassin was still saved, but the policeman fired several more shots until he was stopped by the soldiers next to him.
He trembled exaggeratedly, and in the face of Andy and the others' questioning, he only reasoned that he was taken aback, and his fingers were not controlled, so he went crazy for a while.
Andy looked at the policeman twice, turned around and dragged out the assassin who had been shot several times in the blood-red water, looking at the gunshot wounds that had severely damaged the organs and the chest that did not rise and fall at all, everyone knew that the treatment needles could not save her at the moment.
The female assassin died.