Andy walks in the underground bunker level 1 of the reservation, according to the ghouls, this place is called the "Temple", it is indeed very clean, and occasionally you can see the guy in the green robe reverently chanting religious scriptures, the content is nothing more than singing the praises of the Messiah William Clark and praising the ghouls' chosen destiny, in Andy's opinion, although this can lift the spirits of the ghouls and promote their unity, but if such endless self-hypnosis is too much, I really don't know what the consequences will be....

Several of the ghouls looked up at him, muttered a few words, and then lowered their heads again.

Since accepting the appointment of "Goodwill Ambassador" proposed by Clarke, the leader of the reservation, Andy has been granted full membership of the reservation, he has also been given a key card to enter the temple, and he has been able to enter and exit the trade zone and the reservation city freely, and his prestige relationship with the reservation has increased to the level of acceptance.

Currently, all areas of the reservation are open to him, with the exception of Level 3 of the Temple, where Dr. William Clark lives.

Stepping on the metal floor, walking in the corridor without even dust, it still gives people a feeling of being in a different world, those dirty, dilapidated shantytowns on the surface and the clean and refreshing shelters underground, there is a huge contrast, yes, the shelter, the style of building materials here is really like a shelter, that is, those shelters built by shelter technology, a high-tech, stable, dust-free style.

There was a sparkle everywhere, and even the traces of wear and tear could not be seen, at this moment Andy came to the area where it should be a dormitory, because he saw that the rooms here were all a pattern, after opening the door, there were two beds in each room, spacious and clean, and there were two storage boxes in the corners of the walls on both sides, which should store the personal belongings of the ghouls, which were of course locked, and the room was even equipped with a separate bathroom, and the ceramic toilet and shower faucet inside should be relics from before the war, Today, however, they remain in brand new condition.

Maybe the ghouls really don't need to go to the toilet and take a shower very much, so those items are a bit redundant.

Andy stared at the room, he had been running outside for a long time, looking at these standard pre-war accommodations and really couldn't move a step, now he didn't wear a radiation suit, the bunker still had the ability to resist a certain degree of radiation, after more than a hundred years, the radiation on the surface of the reservation had subsided a lot, and he only needed to take some anti-radiation drugs, and in this underground world, even human beings who were not immune to radiation poisoning did not need to wear radiation protection clothing at all times as they did on the surface.

With such a clean bed, it must be very comfortable to sleep in, and the clean toilet is really fed up with the dry toilets in the wasteland or the old toilets that are dirty to a certain extent, and it is said that some perverts will use those old toilets left over from before the war as a source of fresh water, and will use their hands to hold the water in the toilet bowl and put it in their mouths to drink, and they don't even care how many people have used the toilet.

Thinking of this, Andy couldn't help but feel a little disgusted and hurriedly walked away from those toilets.

A large group of white-coated ghouls walked by, they carried some books and papers and talked in a low voice, after seeing Andy, they all showed surprised expressions, and the words they were talking about suddenly turned into silence, and after staring at Andy, the two sides slowly staggered left and right in the corridor.

Looking at the backs of those white coats, Andy felt a little strange, the underground bunker of this pre-war military base revered by the Children of the Wasteland, known as the Temple, was currently inhabited by two kinds of ghouls, one was those fanatical religious people who wore green robes and chanted all day long, they were often armed with weapons, except for praying and forming squads to patrol the temple and the surrounding surface, but they were never seen in the trade area and shantytowns.

The other is those white coats just now, no matter how you look at these people, these people are just researchers, scientists, they always seem to be busy with some research, and their status seems to be higher than those guys in green robes, and the strange thing is that the number of these white coats seems to exceed the green robes, and this underground bunker called the temple seems to be pushing for some kind of advanced scientific research project, the importance of this project even exceeds safety considerations, and it stands to reason that the number of security personnel should at least exceed that of scientific researchers.

But considering the ghoul guards stationed at the gate of the Reserve's trade zone and the gatekeeper of the Reservation, as well as the innermost part of the Templar Reserve, it was indeed quite safe, so it didn't make sense to see the sheer number of green-robed ones, which was probably the reason for this strange situation in front of us.

"Hey..."

Andy looked back and saw that it was measles.

"Father told me one thing, and I will follow you as an assistant to complete your mission."

Andy frowned, he didn't like measles as a ghoul very much, he always felt that there was a strange, demonic abnormality in him, even if this guy was weak and decadent and harmless to humans and animals from the outside, but he just felt this way.

"Why didn't you tell me before? Dr. Clark had previously allowed me to move freely around the reservation. ”

Measles reached out and pressed down on him, signaling him not to get excited.

"You talked for a bit of a long time, there were some important things he forgot to say at the time, I won't follow you in the reservation, of course you can choose to look around, I will find you when you leave, you know that the slippery skin outside may indeed be more accepting of your words, but after all, it is we who want to reach a trade relationship with them, so it is only natural for us to send a representative, I can guarantee that I will not hold you back, if you feel it is necessary, I will also wear a mask to hide my identity and listen to your command." ...”

After talking for a while, Andy had to accept that he would have to accept a guy who was doing this job, but he had already said that he couldn't go and bargain with Dr. Clark at this time.

With that, the measles monster smiled and prepared to leave, but before leaving, he said one last thing.

"If you find another silent naysayer, don't forget to report them to me, and you'll be rewarded."

Andy replied in a foolish manner, and Measles looked at him with a strange look for a moment.

"I don't know if you understand what I mean, Andy, you're important to us, and if you visit us without me, you'll probably meet some people who make you less pleasant, and don't forget what I told you."

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

After wandering around Level 1 for a while, I saw dormitories, locker rooms, security rooms, prayer rooms, armories, locker rooms, and some well-guarded laboratories, even without the electronic locks that required a special pass to unlock, the look of a white-coated ghoul passing by was enough to stop Andy....

A green-robed ghoul suddenly walked towards him with an assault rifle.

"Slippery!"

Andy turned away dissatisfied.

"To put it mildly, Dr. Clark has endorsed me as a Goodwill Ambassador on the Reservation, how can you call me that!"

The green robe suddenly seemed to have eaten a fly, and its mutilated face twitched a few times.

"Well, Mr. Ambassador, I didn't mean to offend you... I just wanted to tell you a few words, I see you've been hanging around this level, so there are a few things I feel compelled to make clear here. The storage boxes in those rooms are full of valuable personal belongings, and generally no outsiders come in so the rooms are basically unlocked, but this is not to say that anyone can take this opportunity to steal as they please, I am not wrong to say so, right? ”

Andy scoffed at his bizarre remarks.

"Well, but I'm not interested in helping you catch the thief, because I'm busy with measles catching the hidden opponents, and you don't go to the prayer room with your companions to pray, and come out to me alone and gossip about something, is it because you don't think you want to do it, don't like it?" You think you're tired of it all, don't you? ”

A look of jealousy suddenly appeared on the green robe's face.

"I.... I don't! I just think you.... Okay, I'm sorry, I'll go..."

He put the gun on his back and turned around and left.

Looking at his back, Andy snorted coldly.

Refreshing!

After walking for a while, there was some noise coming from a nearby room just when Andy was feeling a little bored.

"Are you 'new' sneaking in something that you are not allowed to do?"

A hoarse question came from behind the door, because the door was not closed, Andy was able to stand in the doorway and watch, the room was set up like a place for chemical experiments, full of all kinds of complex high-level instruments, of course, the most important source of this realization was the "Chemistry Laboratory 03" written on the door sign, so of course this is a chemistry laboratory.

A ghoul with a missing face revealing a large white oddity and red muscle sitting in a chair with some test tubes in front of him is being questioned by another standing ghoul wearing white lab coats, implying that both are researchers here.

"I didn't! You're being framed! ”

He screamed.

"You're jealous of my talent! Without me, how could the potion production on the reserve be as high as it is today? You just want to knock me down and hide in the corner by yourself and snicker, not caring what a blow this has to our collective prospects for the future! ”

The ghoul who questioned him frowned, and threw a beaker on the table to the ground and shattered it.

"Marty... You don't talk nonsense here, I'm jealous of you? ... I have not denied your contribution to the reservation since you arrived here, and I admit that you are the number one person in the field of chemistry. But this is all off topic, and I'll tell you one last time, don't give me another chance to find out you're sneaking up on something shady, and don't let me find hard evidence that you're doing it! Otherwise, I'll denounce you, and imagine what will happen to you? You'll be stripped bare, put on an explosive collar and thrown out for endless banishment! ”

The ghoul turned around and walked away after the cruel words, almost hitting Andy at the door, he glanced at Andy and his mouth moved, but he just snorted and walked away.

Andy avoided him, then looked at the ghoul in the room who was sighing.

"Marty?"

The ghoul immediately turned his head and was a little surprised to see that Andy was a human, with normal skin.

"You.... How could they allow you in? ”

Andy calmly walked over to him and pulled a chair and sat down.

"I thought Dr. Clark should have informed everyone about this, and that I had been chosen as the Friendly Ambassador of the Reservation, so I could now come and go as I pleased."

Marty's face was full of disbelief.

"What's that? Ambassadors? What's that? ”

Andy briefly explained to him that this position was responsible for bringing goods for reservations, gaining the trust of large outside settlements, and establishing trade relations, similar to a diplomatic ambassador or salesman.

Marty pondered for a while, still looking puzzled.

"It's... I can't believe it, their gang..."

Halfway through his sentence, he quickly silenced himself, then carefully looked left and right to make sure that the door to the lab was closed.

"Forget it, I shouldn't have said it... How do you know my name? ”

Andy cocked Erlang's legs and explained briefly.

"A slave named Gillian approached you before and wanted you to tell her the recipe for making the home-made radiation potion, didn't she? I heard that companion of yours call you Marty just now, so you're Marty, the genius apothecary of the reserve, right? ”

Such a flattery made Marty feel very useful, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl.

"That's right, it's me, I saw that she was pitiful and told her a few recipes, of course, those recipes won't be used after I come to the reservation and have these resources, I can now use the equipment here and the raw materials they sent to make replicas of pre-war chemical drugs, and there is no need to make those local medicines with general effects and side effects."

Andy saw some test tube racks and instruments of unknown purpose on the table in front of him, which were connected to electricity and working, and the red liquid in them was gushing non-stop.

"So you made all the radioactive pills on the reservation, such as the anti-radiant and radiant drugs stored in the cabinet in Horatio's tent."

Marty nodded proudly up and down.

"Yes, and that's not all, I'm also improving the production of treatment needles for the reserve, increasing the yield and efficacy, hum... It won't be long before the profits of the chemical trade on the reservation can be compared to the profits of the trade in weapons, armor, and ammunition, and although it will take some time, I believe that day will come, and because of me! ”

Andy sat on the sidelines and listened to Marty brag about how talented he was, and couldn't help but ask a question.

"Marty, you've done so much for the reservation, how much have you gained from it?"

Marty's face froze for a moment, and after a long time, he stood up and locked the door before returning to continue the conversation.

"I shouldn't have told you this, but you're not their person, and they can't really allow you to join them, because... I don't need to say why. It sounds like you're going to go out to talk about business on behalf of the reservation, and I think it's a rare opportunity... Hey, let me ask you a question, do you want to get rich? It's the kind that makes a lot of money, starts in thousands, and once you start doing it, the bottle caps start to drill their own long legs into your pockets as soon as you lay at home. I'm not exaggerating, okay? Would you be interested in hearing me about this plan that will make the two of us rich together? ”

Andy examines the ghoul named Marty, who doesn't seem to fit in with the other ghouls.

"Are you a 'newcomer' like Hank?"

Marty scratched his head and smiled a little embarrassedly.

"Yes, and I've only been here for ten years since I've been on the reservation, so I've been troubled all day long by those who came early, and their minds are full of distrust of people like me, and they've gotten to the point of being terrified."

Andy looked at this ghoul who was a little out of character and not so discriminatory against humans, sure enough, he was a new entrant who had not yet had time to be poisoned by the atmosphere of the reservation, if from the perspective of the ghoul's concept of time, Hank, who had lived on the reserve for 20 years, had only been here for a long time, then Marty, who had only lived here for 10 years, was basically equivalent to just coming yesterday.

"Are you missing a bottle cap? I thought the people on the reserve wouldn't be short of bottle caps. ”

Marty smiled as she talked about it.

"If I could go to the trade zone and be a trade director like Hank, I would still be able to earn some bottle caps, but they didn't agree with me going to the trade zone, saying that I wouldn't do business, funny, I used to be a wandering merchant in the wasteland, they just didn't trust me, Hank was able to go to the trade zone because Smith was really stupid at buying and selling things, and I didn't have his luck."

"I've earned countless caps for the reservation, but I don't get half of it."

"Before I came here, they told me that life on the reserve is based on the public system, and everyone can share the property of the settlement and live a good life. When I got here, I found that the situation was completely different from what they said, here, people with no qualifications were bullied all day long, and people with no talents had to live in the dilapidated shanty towns on the surface, even if I relied on my real skills to live in the temple, this ghost place did not even have any privacy, everyone lived in a dormitory, the furniture was only a few cabinets and a box, not to mention that I was just working for nothing all day. ”

Marty hesitated for a moment, and solemnly proposed cooperation to Andy.

"I've had enough, I've always felt like a robot who creates value for others for the past ten years, staying in this underground prison and being watched and interrogated all day long by a bunch of guys who are not much better than the prison guards... I want to get out of here. But I need a bottle cap to mix outside, you and I cooperate, let's make a deal together, and the sales will be divided equally between the two of us, of course... You can't reveal this, those guys don't allow it, what do you think? ”