"Do you want to know this? In fact... If you're in a hurry, we'd better get out of here. ”

Gillian looked around, showing no signs of nostalgia.

"It's dangerous to stay here, if you still have to wade into the deep waters here.... I would advise against that. ”

Andy was silent for a moment when he heard this, but his inner curiosity still prevailed over caution, or his subconscious was not willing to leave the reservation just like that, when he was in Ouroboros Village, watching the slaves there live like livestock, he always couldn't help but do something, but this impulse was eventually suppressed by his own reason, so that it affected his emotions for a long time, fortunately, he met the desert ranger from Mojave by chance, and with the tacit cooperation of the two, he did what he could at that time.

Now that he was on the reservation, it took a little time, but the goal was in place, and if he wanted to, he could take Gillian on the atomic Humvee and leave the reservation at any time to set out on the way home, all the way to Tibbetts Prison to get all the rewards promised by Odysseus, and then say goodbye to this bird thing that ran around the world to catch all kinds of prisoners, and began his own chic new life in the wasteland.

But.... Here, this ghoul colony called the Reservation, made him unable to take a step, and Andy had a hunch that this irradiating and radiating human inhabitable place was hiding, hiding, and burying something ominous.

"I'll make my own judgment, Gillian, and it's not me boasting, I think I'm still a little bit good at handling things and fighting, and I promise we won't get into danger easily. So, if you find out what you've seen here, you might as well tell me that although we haven't built any trust when we just met, at least we're both 'slippery' here, aren't we? ”

Gillian chuckled twice, then reached out to a small shack not far away.

"Go over there, that's where I used to inspect the goods for him under Hank, and no one is passing by."

.......................

The two entered the room, although it was a small shack, but a functioning radiation-canceling arch was installed at the door, and after the two stood underneath and were cleaned with some kind of transparent liquid, Gillian took the lead into the room, and then slowly took off his radiation suit helmet.

Andy looked up and saw that it was a dark-haired woman with slightly brownish skin, and her eyebrows and eyes were open.

She was probably in her thirties, and even though she was covered in dirt and unkempt because she had been working as a slave in a harsh environment outside in a radiation suit for a long time, she could still be seen to be a beautiful beauty, and it was no wonder that Hank, the 'newcomer' on the reservation, was so obsessed with her.

"Ahh This makes me a little embarrassed, I am indeed very dirty now, the ghouls here do not take a bath at all, after all, they are not much different from not washing, it is said that individual ghouls even give off a terrible smell after bathing, so they don't care if the slaves need to take a bath, in their perception this is as redundant as building a shower for livestock, so.... Oh, I do stink a little right now, and I hope you understand that. ”

Andy also took off his radiation suit.

"It doesn't matter, we're all wastelanders running around, where can we take care of this, it's pretty good to be able to save our lives."

He saw that the workbenches were full of tools and undisposed weapons.

"Do you want to do this here in addition to your usual chores outside?"

Gillian packed some tools into a toolbox, seemingly trying to take them with her.

"Yes, but that's what they arranged for me to do when I was sent to Hank, Hank asked me to go out and help out with him to give me a chance to rest, if I stayed here, the amount of work I was assigned would definitely keep me busy to the point of exhaustion and hard to complete, but on the outside I actually pretended to be busy most of the time, and I still want to thank him for always sheltering me, but let me accept his pursuit is really .... It's too strong to be strong. ”

As she spoke, she was speechless for a moment as she propped her hands on the workbench.

"Alas... I should actually thank you even more, Andy, if one day Hank tells me that I either accept his pursuit, or send me back to their hands and let them do it, then I have no choice, even if Hank wants to do something to me, I can barely bear it, but if it falls into their hands.... I'd rather kill myself. ”

Andy found a stool and sat down to kick away the mess on the floor.

"Who do you mean by 'they'? Is that one of them, called measles? ”

Gillian shuddered involuntarily.

"Measles is a high-ranking ghoul here, but he is not in charge of slaves, and the one in charge of slaves here is a big ghoul named Horatio, and he usually stays near the big green tents on the east side of the trade area, because that is where the reserve and the slave traders meet, and the slaves need to be registered and sorted in those tents after they are sent there... Thanks to the fact that measles happened to be there that day, I had the opportunity to show off my abilities as a mechanic, otherwise I would have been forcibly thrown into the reserve's lab by that terrifying ghoul like a super mutant to be used as experimental material. ”

"You asked what that experiment was, right? Actually, I don't know the specifics, after all, I'm just a slave, and when I was sent to the reservation by the slave traders, Horatio came up to me and told me that if I went to the forge factory, I wouldn't be able to stand that kind of sin, even a strong man wouldn't live for a few years, let alone me as a woman.... Another option is to participate in an experiment on the reservation, which he says means that you don't have to work and eat and drink, but you have to be injected with some drugs and see what happens later. ”

Andy knew as soon as he heard it, it must not be so simple behind it.

"I've never heard of ghouls going to the doctor because they're sick, and ghouls don't need antibiotics or other cures at all, so what kind of medicine is the one they're experimenting with? What happened to the slaves who participated in the experiment? ”

Gillian's face was a little ugly, and she turned to check that the door of the shack was locked several times, and seemed to be very reluctant to discuss the matter.

"If you think about it a little, you know that those understatement words can't be true... I've heard rumors that the Children of the Wasteland have been organizing a secret experiment in the city, and that the ghoul inhabitants of many reservations, in addition to some slaves, have volunteered to participate, and the ghouls seem to be excited to participate in the experiment, and even they have to go through a screening process to join after signing up, but because of the Wasteland Children's request, they won't talk much about the experiment even in private conversations. ”

"I've never seen a slave come out of the city, and during the time I've lived on the reservation, the slaves have barely been able to get in..."

Andy frowned when he heard this, the same experiment, the two participants behaved very differently, what kind of experiment was secretly being carried out in this reservation? No matter why the ghouls involved in it seem excited, there is only one possibility that the human slaves can only enter or not out, that is, they have lost the ability to get out, and further speaking, the slaves are very likely to die because of this experiment, no wonder the reservation has been purchasing a large number of slaves all year round, they not only put the slaves in a harsh working environment and endless high-intensity labor to squeeze their blood and sweat, but also directly treat the slaves as expendable experimental animals, which is really not enough for many slaves.

"Do you know who here can find out the inside story about? .... I also want to ask you, can you tell me more about the Children of the Wasteland and the so-called city, what are they? ”

Gillian pulled out a backpack and knelt on the ground and packed in the same clutter she had just packed from the various storage bins as Andy was thinking, some of which appeared to be tools, others of unknown metal materials or electronic components.

"The reserve is not monolithic, and the ghouls live here, but there are still many philosophical differences between them, and one of the most popular terms here is the so-called 'New Humanism', which is proposed by the current authorities on the reservation, and the ghouls speak of him with great reverence, calling him Clark the Messiah or William the Messiah. This so-called 'new humanism' means that the ghouls are new humans who have evolved to adapt to the drastic changes in the natural environment, and those of us who they call slippery are old humans who are destined to be eliminated sooner or later, so they believe that they are the only ones who can be called human in the wasteland after the Great War, and that we are just obsolete species that can be enslaved and used by them at will. ”

"The ghouls who embraced the ideas of 'New Humanism' formed a religious organization centered around William Clark under the control of the Reservation Leader, known as the 'Children of the Wasteland'. Of course, the word wasteland has also changed its connotation in their mouths, and it is no longer simply a wasted and abandoned land, but has a new meaning, which together means the meaning of those who were born in response to the birth of a new world. ”

"And by the city, I mean the boundary inside the north gate of the trade area, and from that gate onwards, the land behind it is considered a reservation in the true sense of the word, where only two kinds of living creatures exist, one is the ghouls and the other is their slippery slaves. For example, a free trader who comes in to trade is never allowed to set foot in it, unless that merchant also becomes a slave, then he will never get a chance to come out again, whether he is sent to a forge to be a cow and a horse or to be sent to a mysterious laboratory where I don't know where to be used as a guinea pig. ”

Putting her full backpack on her back, Gillian stood up.

"The members of the Children of the Wasteland are extremely aggressive, they don't have a good face for any humans who come to the reservation, and if provoked, their methods are extremely cruel, it is best to stay away from them, and ignore any of their words.... You asked who you were here to find out the inside story, but as far as I know, the only option you have is Hank, who is not a member of the Children of the Wasteland, and has an almost identical attitude towards humans as he does with ghouls, which is quite rare on the reservation. ”

"I once overheard him discussing the mysterious experiment with another ghoul, and while he superficially praised the experiment as much as the ghoul did, behind the scenes he was nothing like that, and I think he was probably a silent object."

Andy saw Gillian with her backpack on her back and walked to the workbench to get busy, I don't know what else she is going to do here when she is about to leave here, is it too dedicated?

"Silent opponents? What does that mean? ”

Gillian assembled some of the firearm parts in her hand, and took some equipment to reinforce and weld them, and sparks flashed for a while.

"William Clark did not allow anyone on the reservation to object to his policies and orders, let alone human slaves, and even full members of the reservation who dared to speak out against Clark would be sentenced to capital punishment for being an opponent of the Messiah, and there was no death penalty on the reservation, and the most severe punishment would be." Endless Exile', the offender will be stripped of all belongings, including clothing, and then forced to wear a collar that will explode after a period of inactivity, which can be remotely released by remote control or manually detonated at any time, and the victim will continue to be tortured in the area covered by the reservation signal, and then will continue to wander the wasteland, enduring an endless banishment.... This is where the name of the punishment comes from. ”

"So no ghoul dares to openly oppose Clark, even the ghouls who will not join the Children of the Wasteland will show absolute obedience and praise to Clark on the surface, but if it is in private, they will at least not even lie to themselves, Clarke's rule over the reservation is not flawless, there are always many ghouls who have a lot of opinions about him, just keep silent, this is the silent opponent... If discovered by the Children of the Wasteland, such a person will also be sentenced to 'Endless Banishment'. ”

"Hank hasn't been on the reservation long enough, and he's not a full member of the reservation, which makes him even more worried, and if you expose him, he'll be pressured to cooperate with you and answer your questions."

Taking off the goggles, Gillian handed Andy the gun in his hand, which woke up Andy who was contemplating as soon as he got his hands, it turned out that this gun was the one that Andy had taken a fancy to Hank and then couldn't afford because he didn't have a bottle cap, and finally he had to leave regretfully.

"Oh? You are...."

Gillian waved her hand for Andy to take it.

"It's my thank you, Hank doesn't know that I usually save up a little material, this gun was originally a defective product that was sent back for repair, but it has been repaired by me, and now it's yours. I remember you liked this gun, right? Originally, this was the weapon I brought with me when I was looking for a chance to escape, but since I don't need it anymore, I'll give it to you. ”

Andy couldn't put it down and played with this riot shotgun for a while, as Hank said, the feel and workmanship of the gun are simply first-class, with the set of fine metal armor that Betty gave him in order to thank him for helping to promote the relationship between him and Hank, not long after coming to the reservation, Andy got this set of equipment worth more than 10,000 bottle caps, and this trip was really not in vain for him.