Lying in bed and letting time pass, this feeling...

The touch from the people around me is so dreamy.

He sat up slowly, and despite the ease of the motion, Belle woke up in an instant, and then wrapped around like a boneless snake.

No... It cannot be said that there are no bones.

Andy thought to himself as he responded to her.

Belle is undoubtedly a ghoul, but she is almost human, with scars, growths, and folds on her body that are almost very slight or non-existent, and her nose, hair, and teeth are all well on her body, the only problem is that some of her bones, including her ribs, are exposed, and these symmetrical bones are clearly different from those of humans.

But can such a ghoul still be called a ghoul?

Andy only thinks it's amazing, if a human bone is exposed from the body, he must not be far from death, if a ghoul shows the bones, it is just a missing scar that adds to the ugliness of his body, and for this wonderful existence in front of him, these bones only add to her beauty and have no effect on her life and health, it seems that she should have grown like this, there is nothing wrong with it.

"I almost thought you weren't real, I hope you don't get me wrong... I've come across some in the past, some of which I can't tell if they're real or not. ”

This kind of muddled nonsense just made Belle giggle.

"This... Like? ~”

Andy let out a groan of his own involuntarily.

The familiar temperature rises in the ears.

"I feel like I've fallen in love with you, it was really crazy yesterday and I'm sure I'll never forget it, your stamina is so strong that it never stops, and no one can compare to you so far."

Andy glanced at the Pip-Boy's status bar, which still had a hint on it.

To tell the truth, he didn't remember the details at all, after all, all his attention was focused on one thing.

"Belle... Belle, wait..."

Andy pushed her away slightly.

"What's wrong... It's still early~"

Belle was a little hard to get up and down.

"I want to ask you about Level 3, can you tell me?"

Andy asked with a serious expression, originally thought that Belle would be a little embarrassed, but she behaved very casually and enthusiastically, compared with the previous guys, her attitude was very approachable, of course, this attitude did not appear for no reason, if the judgment was not passed by him in the chaos last night...

"Of course. . . No problem~ Just ask. ”

Andy pinched the bridge of his nose and calmed down, the information he got from Belle should be credible. Probably.

"Is there some shelling being made here? I mean... Nuclear bomb? ”

Belle tapped a finger at the corner of her mouth.

"Nuclear bombs? No, there are no nuclear bombs being made here, although they were made in large quantities in the past, but now they can't be made anymore, the few remaining nuclear bombs left over from before the war have been made more than 100 years ago, and have been dismantled for safety reasons, the shells of these nuclear bombs have now become decorative souvenirs, they are placed in the northwest of Level 3, I have seen them many times, pure metal shells, nothing special except for some words painted on them. ”

When Andy heard this, he found that the situation was similar to what Dr. Clark said, and Belle even said that the current state of the remaining nuclear bombs seemed to be that there were indeed no nuclear weapons on the reservation.

"What's on it?"

Belle stroked her long hair a few times, and the ends of it swept across Andy's face, making him feel very itchy.

"It's just keeping the words of the scriptures and so on... But there are also parts that were engraved on it before the Great War, and I remember that there were... Something like .m.b-001. ”

Andy heard the familiar words again, .m.b-001, the first of the pre-war nuclear space station projects mentioned by Dr. Clark.m.b, which was built and launched, so the reservation should have been tasked with producing a special nuclear bomb for the space station to be placed on it.

Then everything corresponds.

Slightly relieved, Andy and Belle interacted passionately for a while, and then he asked about something else.

"I saw some blood on the ground and... I don't know what it is, Belle.. Have you ever heard what's going on in the Green Room? What's there? ”

This time, Belle didn't answer so briskly, but the expression on her face was not embarrassed but dazed.

"On the ground... Oh! Do you mean the flesh and blood? The room we're in is called the Red Room, so I don't need to say more about what it's used for, right~"

"But why... Will there be flesh and blood? ”

"Well, you know that not everyone's skin is perfect, and some people have a little problem, so when they get excited, they move more widely, and this often causes something to fall off their body, and then they forget about it if they don't notice."

Andy imagined the ghouls dropping parts while having fun in this room, which would have happened in hell...

"This... It's all falling, what about noticing? ”

Belle held out her two index fingers and put them together.

"If you notice it, you can take it back, and if you do it in an area with strong ground radiation, the possibility and speed of taking it back will be greater."

Andy listened dumbfounded at the description and looked at Belle's figurative figurative gestures, as if it were as easy as glue to glue the fallen parts of the toy back in.

"As for the Green Room. . . Sorry, I really don't know much about that place. ”

Belle cut her hair and opened one eye with a playful smile.

"I'm very young after all, guess how old I am?"

Andy touched his chin, ghouls' concept of time is very different from that of humans, and they are immortal, Belle looks a little weird, but guessing the age must not be too young, then it will fall into the prejudice of human concepts, centenarians like Betty abound in the reservation, and there are many people like Florence who are over two hundred years old, even if Belle says that she is young, she will definitely not be less than 50 years old, after all, if you can live here in level 3 for a long time, at least you will not be a newcomer....

"I'm guessing you're 60 years old?"

"Hahaha~ Of course, no."

"That's... 160 years old? ”

"How is that possible!"

"It can't be 260, right?"

"Hahahaha-oh my God, I'm not an old monster of Florence's level, I said I was very young~ Why do you always say it?"

She slowly approached Andy's face, close enough that they could feel each other's breathing.

"I'm probably not as old as you... No, it's certainly not as big as you. ”

"What? Are you only a teenager? ”

"No.... You're still guessing too big~"

She smiled, and in the midst of this close smile, Andy suddenly noticed a hint of inhuman charm.

Andy stared at the beautiful and fair-skinned female face in front of him, and suddenly felt a little numb, the creature in front of him was definitely not human, what was she? As soon as this inexplicable question popped up uncontrollably from the bottom of his heart, he felt a bone-chilling cold suddenly spread all over his body.

In his silent gaze, Belle slowly spoke the answer.

"I'm 2 years old."

Andy was stunned for a moment, then laughed.

"You're kidding me, aren't you? Even if women like to talk about their age, you can't talk nonsense to this extent. ”

Belle didn't say anything, she just smiled noncommittally, and then suddenly pounced, and the two rolled back together.

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

Finally coming out of Belle's room, Andy felt his legs fluttering.

Just as he subconsciously stretched out his arm to hold on to the wall, a voice came from behind him.

"Looks like you're finally done?"

Measles doesn't know when it emerges from the darkness.

"Yes... Ahem. ”

Hurrying back to his normal position, Andy looked at the measles, and then he had something to do.

"Now you can take me to the green room, right?"

Measles nodded slightly, and the two of them headed in one direction in the dark.

On the way, measles brought up some topics, intentionally or unintentionally.

"Do you think Belle is pretty?"

Andy scratched his hair, and now he couldn't continue to maintain the previous attitude of being wary of reservations, because this sugar-coated cannonball really pinched him, and now in retrospect, he still feels that he had a wonderful spring dream, and it can't be said that it is without a trace, after all, the fatigue in his waist can't be faked.

"She... Of course it's beautiful... Wait, I remember you don't seem to have the same aesthetic as we do..."

Measles walked in the darkness ahead, the red emergency lights illuminating his body and illuminating his purple skin in a patch of red, and he only chuckled twice at Andy's uncertain answer.

"When a person is called ugly by everyone, and it is difficult for him to change himself and reverse this evaluation, in order to avoid this kind of continuous harm from the outside world, he often tries to change his cognitive standard and tries to promote this cognitive standard, so that more people can agree with it, and even achieve the result of reversing black and white."

"But... Beauty is beauty, and beauty will undergo superficial changes to a certain extent, however... On a deep level, beauty is eternal, so those old-world artworks are still works of art today, and it is conceivable that this will not change easily in the future. The perception and evaluation of beauty comes from the depths of the human soul. ”

He suddenly stopped, turned to look at Andy.

"When the reserve was first established, the most important thing was to study how to restore our flesh to its original state, and Dr. Sebastian came up with a lot of options at the time, all of which turned out to be meaningless, and we had a fundamental difference with Slippery Skin, a difference that went so deep into the genes that our flesh could never be restored to the past."

"A hundred years later, people finally gave up on this idea altogether, and instead believed that their current status is beautiful, and their slick looks are contemptible and ugly."

Andy thinks back to his previous experience, and this change can be summarized simply as ugly as beautiful and beautiful as ugly, and the ghouls have established their own set of aesthetics, which is exactly the opposite of the humans in the outside world.

"Ahh Indeed, I guess I am hopelessly ugly in your eyes. ”

Measles shook his head slowly.

"No, you're not that level, if someone who is loved by everyone comes to the reservation in the middle of the slippery skin, I'm afraid someone will vomit on the spot, and you, I guess I should say... Slightly ugly. ”

The corners of Andy's mouth twitched a few times, and he really didn't know whether to be happy or sad given the completely opposite aesthetic concept of ghouls and humans.

There was no fluctuation on the face of the measles, and it was obvious that he was telling the truth.

"But what's interesting is that this aesthetic isn't as strong as people say it is, especially for men, and the new kid you've seen before, Hank, has a bad idea for the female slippery slave I've assigned him. I warned him that he should be put to good use of the slave because his skills were useful to his business, but he clearly didn't take my word for it, he had only those nasty and vulgar delusions in his head, and even though he knew that he shouldn't be like this as a newcomer, he blatantly treated the slippery slave as he shouldn't have done it. That's one of the reasons why I've been advocating for dealing with him... Of course, you later took her away and even helped him on the right path. ”

"The same goes for everyone else, Horatio once had a carnal deal with a sturdy female slippery slave, for which he secretly released her, he thought no one knew about it, but he was naïve, and my eyeliner reported it to me the same day... If it weren't for his father's magnanimity and the old love he had for helping, he would have become an endless walker by now, and the funny thing is that he was still drunk and took high blood pills and said it in public as a talking point. ”

"Finally, Belle..."

A strange expression appeared on the face of the measles.

"She's so similar to Slippery that if she's in a dark place, like here in Level 3, she looks like she's slippery... It stands to reason that no matter how hard she tries to seduce others, everyone on the reservation will only gag, but in fact? She's simply the most popular woman here. ”

Andy frowned.

"Did she do it of her own free will?"

Measles nodded as a matter of course.

"Of course, don't underestimate her, no one can force her... It's just that she has been told her greatest value and mission, which is to fulfill our ultimate ideal as the only hope of the reservation, to complete our evolution and the continuation of the race, and to this day there is no other existence like her, and her physical body is almost perfect, don't you think? Imagine the day when all the members of the entire reservation, both men and women, would be as otherworldly as she was. ”

Andy listened to measles' words and vaguely felt that something was wrong.

"I've always had a question about people telling me that in order to prove that your race really exists, you have to achieve the self-perpetuation of your race, but... Your lifespan is almost infinite, and if you do succeed one day, what do you do with newborns? Are the resources of the reserve really enough to sustain so many people? ”

The measles didn't make a sound, but suddenly reached out and opened a door.

A green glow spilled through the crack in the door.

Andy looked over, and even if he didn't say measles, he understood that this must be the so-called green room, a veritable "green room".

Seeing that Measles made a gesture to invite in, Andy no longer hesitated and walked straight into the room in front of him.

The room was filled with lab tables with equipment and utensils of all sizes, such as a large number of test tubes filled with unknown liquids, beakers, and things that resembled some kind of metal ring that could be discharged, as well as microscopes, glass tubes, and...

Andy's gaze stopped, it was a whole row of specimen jars, all of which were soaked in embalming liquid were a kind of aberrant stillbirths, these stillborns had ulcerated skin and lacked organs and limbs, and their faces were hideous, some of them looked like monsters from another world, and some of them were completely rotten flesh, and in the dim special light, there was a suffocating dead silence here.

"Ahh Forehead.... Woo.... Oh..."

A strange low moan interrupted his gaze, and he turned his head to see a table in the corner of the room, on which lay a badly swollen green corpse, and a man in a white lab coat was fiddling with something serious and intently with his head down.

It was as if he was dissecting the corpse.

But where did that faint moan come from?

"Whew...."

Andy's eyes froze, and the dead man who was clearly a dead corpse actually opened his mouth slightly and let out some slight screams, this person is not dead? How is that possible? He looked like he had been immersed in some kind of green liquid for years...

The white coat slowly turned.

He was holding a transparent tube in his hand, the tube was full of a green liquid, and as he turned around, the part of the man's stomach that looked like a corpse was also exposed to Andy's vision, his stomach was like a large ball that had swelled, and even there were many cracks formed by overexpansion on his skin, and at this moment his stomach had been dissected, and inside was a piece of rotten flesh drenched in blood, and what had been taken out of it had been placed in a container.

It was a specimen jar that had not yet been capped, soaked in a "fresh" stillbirth.

The white coat met Andy and looked at him, he couldn't see anything in his chaotic eyes, of course he was a ghoul, but his face was so terrifying, like a half-melted green candle head, even though he had seen a lot of ugly ghoul faces, this face still gave Andy a huge psychological impact for the first time, nothing else, he was too ugly!

Now, in one of his gloved hands, he holds a scalpel full of green liquid.

“.... Dr. Sebastian? ”

Andy asked hesitantly, and the other nodded.

"It's me.... I know you, so, are you here to visit? The Reserve Breeding Laboratory, since its inception, you are the first visitor to the outside world, welcome.... Sorry for the poor hospitality, but this little bit of work at hand will soon be over. ”

As he spoke, he pulled out the tube abruptly.

The man lying on the table jerked violently, and then stopped moving.