After an inexplicable chat, it was Andy's turn to ask what he wanted to ask.

"Dr. Clark... I have some doubts about what you said earlier. ”

"Ask what you want to ask, I heard Measles say that you have turned Tier 1 and Tier 2 all over again, and the distance will give people some unrealistic illusions, and after closing the distance, these illusions will eventually be shattered, I believe that with your experience of traveling around the wasteland, you will understand and understand this, this is not necessarily a bad thing, in any relationship between the two parties, this is a step that must be experienced."

“..... It is said that you secretly organized the manufacture of artillery shells. ”

"That's right."

That mouth didn't mean to hide it at all, and admitted it in one bite.

"What is this for?"

"For self-preservation, of course."

"But.... There is no shortage of soldiers or fortifications in the reservation, and the equipment is one of the best in the region, is it not necessary to make additional weapons with higher lethality? ”

Dr. Clark shook his head slowly, then the camera turned to measles.

"Measles, our friendly ambassador seems to lack understanding of the malice of the outside world, you can explain it to him."

Measles first said yes respectfully to Dr. Clark on the monitor, then at Andy.

"There's a longitudinal area to the east of us, which we call the 'Hurricane Belt,' and for only a few months of the year it's allowed to pass through the east and west, and if the timing is wrong, those horrible radiation hurricanes will kill anyone passing by, and of course, there are no intact buildings or roads in that area, and even if you try to build it, the results will be destroyed the next year."

"Further east in the 'Hurricane Belt,' it is a land of pure barbarism, where all the intellectual heritage of the pre-war period has been evaporated, and where the slippery skins who inhabit it have joined together into a large number of tribes, each savage and murderous, who know nothing but killing, enslavement and plunder, stupidity, extremism, rejection of anyone other than the race, and it is in this terrible environment that a powerful power is rapidly rising."

"Caesar's legions, who practiced a slave militaristic system, were led by a dictatorial emperor who called himself Caesar, who not only achieved complete secular control over the behavior of his subordinates, but also used a primitive religion to present himself as the son of the god of war, through which he deified himself, and with cruel means to make the soldiers who obeyed his orders give everything they had."

Andy crossed his arms and listened silently to Measles's evaluation of Caesar's legion, in fact, he knew almost all this basic information, in Blackfoot and Dog City, he had contact with people close to Caesar's legion, and even included one of the leaders of the legion's western slave catcher, Terrance, the flag bearer.

"I've heard of them, so do you think Caesar's legions will launch an assault on the reservation sooner or later? But the radiation here is lethal to any slippery skin. ”

Measles had a very jealous expression on his face.

"It was not enough to rely on the residual radiation emitted by the surrounding craters as a means of defense, and the soldiers of Caesar's Legion always maintained an almost incomprehensible fanatical belief in their leader, Caesar, and a frenzied enthusiasm for battle... The general ignorance of their rank-and-file soldiers led them to unconditionally obey orders from their superiors, including attacking at the cost of their lives, and it is said that Caesar's legions often demanded that newly untrained recruits charge at the enemy in droves without any cover, even if they were only assigned primitive tribal weapons. ”

"They seem to think that this is a better 'training', even if they don't wear radiation suits, Slippery can move around the periphery of the reserve for a few days with some simple radiation pills, and if they solve the problem of radiation protection, with the aggressive desire of these people and the strategic value of our mass production of weapons and armor here, they will attack here sooner or later, and those scrap metal walls and a few hand-cranked rotary machine guns are certainly not enough to defend against their attack."

Andy listened to the analysis of measles, and some of the hidden worries that had been temporarily put aside in his heart also surfaced again, Caesar's Legion had reorganized the first batch of soldiers from the Blackfoot Tribe and left east, judging from the Caesar's legion spies, slave catchers, and co-opted puppets scattered everywhere, as well as the fact that they had raided Alashid Fortress and stormed the eastern part of Hoover Dam, Caesar's legion had never forgotten the Great Southwestern Federation, and they had been preparing to make a comeback from the east.

A numerous, united, fierce, belligerent, ruthless army.

"So you're going to use cannonballs as a weapon against them, but how are you going to fire them? Colonel Green told me that all the artillery on the reservation had been completely turned into scrap metal. ”

Measles glanced at Dr. Clark, as if to confirm something.

"No, Colonel Green's knowledge of the reservation is not as comprehensive as he thinks, and in level 3, we also have a cannon that can be fired, this cannon was a weapon that was still being tested and verified before the war, but if the Caesar Legion did attack, it would make them understand how wrong they were."

Andy thought it might make sense, it was normal for this kind of thing to be highly secretive, but it didn't solve all his worries.

"I'd also like to get an answer about... Nuclear weapon. As far as I know, the reservation used to be a nuclear weapons manufacturing base, have you been secretly resuming production? ”

Measles smiled disdainfully and tried to say something, but Dr. Clark interjected.

"What you have learned is indeed a fact, it is undeniable that until 2077 the reservation still follows the order to produce nuclear weapons for the SA army, but listen to me tell you about it in detail... The nuclear weapons we produce were never stored inside the bases, they were regularly shipped away before the war, and they were used in a top-secret space weapons program initiated and chaired by the Joint Chiefs of Staff before the war, codenamed .m.b. ”

Measles immediately retreated, and Andy was drawn to the attention of this so-called top-secret pre-war military project, which was too blunt in its name to be called the bomb project.

".m.b, this is just an abbreviation, the full name is ballistic orbital missile base. The project envisages the launch of multiple large wheeled space stations into geosynchronous orbit, each with conditions that allow for long-term residence of 6-8 crew members, and the ability to reserve and launch a total of 24 nuclear-warhead ballistic missiles for a long time. ”

Andy was dumbfounded, he didn't expect this matter to unfold to this extent... Space-based nuclear weapons orbital launch platform? What the hell, so right in the sky, out of sight, in the middle of space, there are some huge, nuclear-laden man-made metal devices that have been hovering there since before the Great War and still exist today?

"Have people in the old world advanced to this extent in technology? They... And for what purpose? ”

"Of course, in order to counter the long-standing nuclear threat from hostile countries led by bA, nuclear-carrying bombers may be shot down before they have even broken into enemy territory, and there are many ways to intercept land-based nuclear warhead ballistic missiles... The probability of achieving important results by these means of delivery is not very high, we know that the technology of bA in nuclear submarines has far surpassed ours and is very likely to have begun to prepare to send nuclear submarine forces to infiltrate the east and west coasts of the SA, in order to strike a balance safely, the concept of a space-based nuclear warhead ballistic missile launch platform has also been born, and the expected range of .m.b covers the whole world and is extremely powerful and difficult to intercept, so it is also called the scepter of God by some people.

Andy imagined the sight of a huge space station in space firing a nuclear bomb on the ground to destroy the target, which was truly a god-like power, and this power was actually controlled by humans.

"So those things were really launched? How many of them are there? ”

"As far as I know, the initial manufacturing plan for the .m.b project was to build three nuclear-powered space stations, which were codenamed .m.b-001, . m.b-002、. M.B-003, they should have been launched into space by 2077 if the plan had gone well, and to this day they are probably still hovering around in low-Earth orbit with those nuclear bombs, or have crashed somewhere on Earth due to lack of maintenance, none of which anyone will ever know... But how many of these stations exist in the air is not necessarily just three, because there must be more than one top-secret project like .b. ”

Dr. Clark calmly said terrible words, these ancient space facilities that have been unattended for more than a hundred years stuffed with nuclear bombs will cause a catastrophe if they crash to the ground, even if there is only one sword, it is a sword hanging over everyone's heads, and now Andy knows that there is no limit on the specific number of such swords.

Maybe in the next second, the catastrophe will come.

It's terrifying.

Dr. Clark: They don't have to worry about this, since the reservation has been turned into this by a nuclear bomb, they are not afraid of being bombed again.

"I know what you're worried about, you think we're still producing nuclear weapons and we're going to launch them against others? Kid, you're actually thinking too much about it, the process of making a real nuclear bomb is very complicated, the automatic assembly line here has been badly damaged, and even if we make great efforts to repair it, the most critical raw material: uranium, we can't get enough of it. ”

"According to the records and archives left at the last moment before the war, the last batch of weapons-grade enriched uranium in the reserve was sent to the Mojave Desert by the SA military before the outbreak of the war, and now we have no enriched uranium that can be used to produce nuclear weapons, and we have no nuclear bombs, and we have no way to make nuclear bombs."

After a pause, Dr. Clark thought of one more thing.

"Oh, by the way, you're probably still a little worried, after all, not all of the nuclear bombs that were produced before the Great War were taken away, and I'll be honest with you, we do have a few nuclear bombs in our warehouse, but the question is, how do you launch them? As I told you, the nuclear bombs produced on the reservation are used in the .b project, and the special nuclear bombs produced by several SA nuclear weapons production sites, including the reservation, will be distributed to the various SA space centers and delivered to the space station by rocket. ”

"These nuclear bombs are produced as orbital weapons, and even if we still have them, how can we launch them? These big guys aren't kids who can shoot them with a mini-nuclear bomb launcher, so why don't we design and build an oversized humanoid robot to throw it manually like some whimsical idiot? No... If it were not launched from the air, not to mention whether it could hit a hostile target, its power would have destroyed the launcher along with it. ”

Andy can't refute it, the wastelanders know about nuclear bombs, but they don't know much about what they are, and when they think of nuclear bombs, they only think that they are powerful radioactive bombs, how to make and how to launch them, these are even more unknown, and what about Dr. Clark... A pre-war nuclear physics scientist, this title makes people not have any doubts about it.

"Okay, Dr. Clark, I'll admit I've been overthinking about this... But I have other questions. ”

He shuddered at the thought of the human bones he had found in the incinerator.

"I... Inquire about something about Dr. Sebastian. ”

As soon as these words came out, measles raised its head suddenly, as if shocked.

Dr. Clark's mouth on the monitor certainly didn't make any expression.

After a brief silence, Dr. Clark broke the silence.

"Dr. Sebastian, yes, he's here, he's one of us, he's a MD, do you mention anything about him?"

Andy glanced at the measles.

"I've heard he's the lead on the reserved breeding protocol... The able-bodied slaves were all with him, right? I can see... The Green Room? ”

Measles couldn't help but open his mouth directly.

"How do you know? What the hell are you in..."

"Measles, shut up, I'll tell you."

Dr. Clark interrupted him.

"I can meet all the requirements you said, I also have a request, I hope you can look at everything you see with a rational mind."

Andy subconsciously clenched his fists.

"Meaning. Can I see something that makes me irrational? ”

Dr. Clark's lips twitched slightly.

"Yes."

"But I'm not going to hide it from you, I said before, I will give you permission to walk around Level 3 at will, you can go anywhere here except my private area, this is my sincerity, some people have told me that you can be replaced, but I don't think so, I think your arrival is a gift from fate, so since you know these things on your own, you have the right to know everything."

The purple face of the measles looked even more terrifying in the darkness, and he looked at Andy uncertainly, not knowing what he was thinking in his heart.

"They're all dead, aren't they?"

Dr. Clark did not answer directly.

"Since you've decided to use your own eyes to find out, then you might as well find the answer yourself, measles, take him around here, no matter what the end up, I respect your choice."

The monitor was turned off, and Measles slowly walked over to him and gestured.

"Let's go."