"Who are you?"

The mouth squirmed slowly, making a hoarse and magnetic male muffled voice, and the expression and movements of the person could not be seen clearly in the screen on the monitor, because there was only one mouth there, and the information it could express was pitifully small, making it difficult to speculate more through the subtleties, but the appearance of this mouth was just right to show a minimum degree of "face-to-face" sincerity, So that people do not have contemptuous contempt and neglect because they face and talk to an electronic screen that has no relevance to people, or they will not breed indignation and disgust because they perceive the inequality of the status of dialogue.

In the face of this somewhat inexplicable question raised by the other party, Andy was not too surprised, a person who was almost deified, a ruler who controlled the overall situation, since he decided to meet with an ordinary person, he must show guidance and confusion in the dialogue, in order to grasp the initiative and the initiative.

"I'm Andy, I'm sure you've heard measles mention my name before, I'm an outsider who only recently came to the reservation, uh... It's also a slippery skin in your mouth, I thought that measles would have told you all these things a long time ago, didn't he? ”

The mouth was silent for a moment, and continued the somewhat eerie conversation without hurrying, in a room in the underground bunker, the conference room that could have held dozens of people was now only two people, who were engrossed in looking at a mouth that appeared on the monitor, and trying to talk to it.

"Is that so? The child of the great Messiah William Clark on the reservation, measles, do you think so? ”

Measles looked at the monitor with a complicated face, but did not answer yes or no at the first time, and after some consideration, he gave a strange answer.

"I can't be sure if it's right or not, I can only follow his arrival, like picking up a shell that has been pushed up to the beach by the waves, I can only say that it is a shell, but I can't give an answer to what it is."

The mouth smiled.

"Idiot."

Measles lowered his head and stepped aside to say no more.

Andy frowned at the absurd scene.

"Aren't you William Clark? I thought you were Dr. William Clark, was I wrong? ”

The smile on that mouth was fleeting, and it returned to its usual state.

"Why do you think so? Is it just because I use the third person to refer to myself in what I say? ”

After Andy nodded, Clark gave his explanation.

"That's because I'm not really calling myself, that thing... No matter how deeply you think I am connected to it, even if we look and sound exactly the same, it is not me, it is just an inactive impression, an incomplete shadow hidden in your mind, and it is even difficult to define, because it looks very different in everyone's mind. This kind of thing, how do I see it as a part of me or even me? Actually, I don't want to, and I can't. ”

Andy's head was already starting to ache, and this guy was another top riddler.

But the mouth clearly didn't want to let Andy go.

"Well, then, answer my question, and don't be superficial this time, as I asked, you should answer me, who are you?"

Andy moved his fingers, listening to what he meant, wanting some in-depth answers.

"I'm a person who comes... People who ask for help, of course, on the other hand, I also want to find opportunities to make a profit, just like most people who come to the reservation. ”

The mouth was closed for a while, and it was half a day before it mumbled, but then the topic was quickly switched.

"Flowers, flowers are about to bloom... It begins in the state of a seed in the soil, develops continuously, stretches its roots in the earth, stabilizes its body until it has the ability to stand, and then insects and winds come and go here and far, bringing gametes. So, after the flowers withered.... The fruit will bear fruit, and in the midst of the fruit.... It will be a new seed. ”

Before Andy was so confused that he could barely hide his psychotic look, Dr. Clark completely washed away the expectation of normal conversation with a verbal mudslide speaking style.

"This was a dream I had yesterday."

Dr. Clark said this, and Andy felt sorry in his heart for him, could this dream be done in the daytime?

"I believe it's a... Wonderful changes, for many years I rarely sleep, and even less had the opportunity to dream, but yesterday's dream... It's beautiful, it's beautiful, it's got a thorough quality, it doesn't die out because of force majeure, it's just going to last forever. ”

The mouth pursed its tattered lips, and its teeth seemed to glow faintly green.

"Today, you came, and you said you came to get help, so why? How would you like to get help? What do you want this help to help you do? Or rather... Do you really need this help for your own sake? What drove you here? Alone? Something? ”

Andy subconsciously glanced at the beep boy on his arm, this kind of ethereal and inexplicable conversation made him a little uncomfortable, but he couldn't leave, in that case, it would be a waste of his previous efforts, but how should he answer this question.

Before he could reply, Dr. Clark followed his gaze to the Pip-Boy.

"An ancient tech product made by Rocco Industries and Vault Tec, Pip-Boy, you have it, you got it and didn't let it disappear from your arm, are you a Vault dweller?"

Andy quickly shook his head, he didn't have a good impression of the Vault and the Vault residents, although the only Vaults he had personally seen so far were Vault 29 in Mesa Verde and Vault 70 in New Canaan, but the Vault-Tech Vault still left a deep impression on him, don't feel grateful that these Vaults helped you avoid a nuclear explosion, the reason why he said this is because the Vault-Tec Vault experiment just started the moment the Vault closed its door.

"I'm not, I didn't snatch it from some Vault dweller, I didn't pick it up, it's someone else... Imposed on me. ”

The corners of Dr. Clark's mouth twitched.

"So, I dare to assert that you didn't come out of your own decision, you are like a fish washed to the shore by the waves, you are like a scarecrow posed in a rice field, you are like a marionette... Your mind is not fully aware of its situation, like it is stuffed with meaningless water, straw and wood, but your limbs, your body has moved spontaneously, not because you want to do this, not because you have made a deliberate decision to drive your body to act, and before that, something has taken your place, made a decision for you and driven you forward, all this means: you, lack of ego. ”

These words were like a thunderclap, which made Andy overwhelmed.

A voice came from the back of the neck.

"An abnormal heart rate has been detected and adjustments have been made."

Andy, who quickly calmed down with Hull's help, immediately figured out how he was going to refute him.

"You've heard measles talk about Tibbetts Prison, haven't you? Yes, I'll admit that I was suddenly caught up in chaos at the beginning, and I didn't have time to think about it before I became a... Puppets, are remotely controlled to go everywhere to do things, but in the process I have seen the meaning of these things and why they do these things, maybe you will not be sick again, you have already gotten rid of the pain from flesh and blood, but we are not, if I give up, if I refuse, then there will be countless people in this world who will die because of the missed opportunity, and may even let human civilization perish, I think that since this responsibility falls on my shoulders and at the same time I have the ability to bear it, It's my duty to take it upon me. Regardless of whether there is a good start or not, I now hope that everything ends well. ”

Dr. Clark was silent for a moment, as if thinking about something.

"Tibbetts Prison, an automated quarantine facility, was built by the SA Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with Greenway Hydroponics, based on the old human testing facility abandoned by Vault Technology and Poseidon Energy, since the new plague first broke out in Denver, preventing the spread of the plague to the densely populated western coastal areas and even destroying the heart of SA and destroying Liberia, this is a top priority for the SA government and its affiliates to work in the region, they have said in the past."

"Of course, those administrators are long dead, and they certainly haven't withstood the test of fate's blessings like us, but that prison has long been deliberately designed to be a high-tech facility that can operate fully automatically during the wave of automation, and even the collapse of human society in the event of a nuclear war cannot prevent it from continuing to operate according to its original procedures, which is like a prophecy, a prophecy of the Derek Greenway for the future. So... Are you a prisoner? ”

Andy was speechless.

He thought about it, the Dr. Clark in front of him was probably already an extraordinary person before the war, so he knew all kinds of pre-war things well, so it was better to simply tell the truth.

"Odysseus, the AI warden of Tibbetts Prison, appointed me as the commissioner of Tibbetts Prison, promising me high-tech equipment as a reward for assigning me to various locations in its location to hunt down the fugitives who escaped in the prison escape, a total of 6 of these fugitives are scattered throughout the Great Southwestern Federation, and I have recovered 5 of them so far, the last one is on the reservation, and I just took her out of here not long ago."

Clark immediately points to the point.

"I see, so all your busy work in the trade zone is to take her away, Gillian McKinley, the self-taught mechanic Slippery Slave who is proficient in weapon making and selling, Measles didn't want you to take her away so easily, because he thought that Slippery would be of great help to our trade in the future, but I told him to calm down, I understand that this matter is not that simple."

"I've known you for a long time, Andy, I actually knew you much earlier than you knew me, I know you're always helpful, and once you perceive a possibility that can make a group of people better, you will go out of your way to help them achieve it, sometimes even at the cost of bottle caps and lives... This is undoubtedly a manifestation of human virtue, and when the lines that control you are relaxed, you have already thought about it and you naturally make your own choice, which comes from the essence of your soul, which is your personality, and when you play your personality, you are yourself, you have yourself. ”

Andy had roughly guessed this situation through his previous conversation with Measles, Wagner was a spy sent by the reservation to the north to investigate, he directly infiltrated Dog City and became a salvage not to mention, but also controlled the most important communication equipment in Dog City and once got close to the big dome to reconnoitre, it was easy to understand and inform the reservation of everything, as a person who had stirred up trouble in Dog City, things related to Andy must not be reported to the reservation by him, and reporting to the reservation is equivalent to reporting to Dr. Clark.

With him collecting information in Dog City, he is afraid that he is very clear about what he did in Dog City.

"In that case, you're really powerful, and even if you don't leave here, you know everything about the outside."

In the face of Andy's insincere compliments, Dr. Clark did not show the slightest fluctuation of feelings.

"Measles said that you have guessed the reason behind this on your own, so you don't need to say that, the reason why our communication today happened is that I want to shorten the distance between me, the distance between my heart and soul, only when we get closer to each other, we really get closer to each other."

"You, and I, we have been closely connected at a certain level, maybe you haven't noticed this yet, what I'm doing now is to help you awaken, by breaking through the confusion that has shrouded you."

Andy has a bad feeling in his heart, along with the conversation between the two, some of the foundations of his thinking are crumbling, but he can't stop this feeling, just like the fear of high places engraved in the depths of his genes when he stares into the abyss, people are afraid of being in a high place because they are afraid of falling and dying, and in the face of irrepressible fear, the brain instinctively gives the answer to break the fear is to jump down, because that is the fastest way to reduce the altitude, but this is against rational judgment, This conflict between instinct and reason is enough to make people feel a kind of hysterical madness that comes from themselves, like an unsolvable program bug, and the dead loop of thinking is so terrible that a few people will be paralyzed into a mess at a high place because they can't extricate themselves from this extreme fear, and they dare not move a single inch when they have hands and feet, and if there is no one to help them, they will be trapped alive on it.

So what to do? Escape?

Andy closed his eyes for a split second, then opened them again.

If he escaped now, he might not dare to return here for the rest of his life, and at the same time, he would never forget this obsession, doing so would only give him an invincible demon.

"I want to hear about it."

Dr. Clark pursed his lips slightly, and suddenly asked a question.

"You say that if you don't work for Tibbetts Prison, human civilization may perish as a result, why do you think so?"

Andy stretched out his hands and gave an answer without thinking.

"Because I have seen it with my own eyes, heard it with my own ears, touched it with my own hands, I have experienced it myself, I have seen those records recorded in the record, about the tragic situation of the outbreak of the new plague before the war, and I have also participated in the handling of many crises of the outbreak of the new plague in some regions and settlements, the new plague, even before the war, people were unable to defeat it, and now after the war, the achievements of civilization that mankind is proud of: human society, has fallen apart and is shaking, and the comeback of this virus will be a terrible disaster!"

Dr. Clark cracked his mouth and laughed silently, and after a long time, he asked a rhetorical question.

"That's all that makes you come up with the answer? Child, you have been deceived, and this blinding, which spans more than 170 years, still accurately hangs over your mind. In the beginning, all the smart people in SA were nervously involved in the calculation of the plague, either directly or indirectly, and guess what the conclusion of our think tanks was in the end? ”

Andy looked at Dr. Clark's mouth, recalling the old-world records he had seen in Denver and in the Dome, and after the initial failed attempt to develop a vaccine for the new plague, SA had almost completely abandoned attempts at controlling the new plague, and people seemed to have selectively forgotten about the new plague that was still going on, except for some painless social initiatives that resembled urging people to abandon ice cream socializing.

In the later period, because of the tension of the SA's internal contradictions and the pressure of external war, some people even openly declared that only those who were poisoned by the bA ideology would be infected with the new plague, and this argument now seems to be so appalling.

"What do you think... Don't bother? Why? ”

Dr. Clark grinned and bared his teeth, their ugly gums and interlaced teeth that were nothing aesthetically pleasing to human aesthetics.

"What, why? When SA blockaded the city of Denver and found that Limit 115 had mutated in line with virological predictions after spreading to a certain order of magnitude, we immediately determined this answer, the lethality and transmissibility of the virus are the two ends of the scale, one end is raised, the other end will fall, as long as the natural immunity of the population nature is completed, it will gradually degenerate into a common virus with low virulence with iterative mutation, but in a few years, the subsequent strains of Limit 115 will no longer be able to have any strong impact on human society. ”

Andy frowned and thought about it, as if he could really say that, but it sounded too cruel.

"Then Tibbetts Prison..."

The smile on Dr. Clark's face faded.

"That's what's interesting, I think that Tibbetts Prison wasn't designed to play in the past, and although it was built in the past, it was planned to play a role now, to be precise, after the outbreak of the Great War and the destruction of the world."