Andy is lying on the big bed, the sheets and furnishings have been changed, and he has also been the boss one day, which is really unexpected.

The blue sky and breeze outside the window make people feel comfortable, and he doesn't have to worry about other things, Gillian goes down to the basement to operate the reactor, if everything goes well, the reactor's efficiency can be increased to more than 50% today, according to her, further adjustments can be made later.

Big Bear and Sid go to the assembly shop for surgery, and according to Sid, Kyle covets Big Bear's power and wants to find a way to make Big Bear work for him, so he forces Sid to plant a C4 bomb they grabbed while raiding the caravan into a wound on Big Bear's chest near his heart.

Sid states that Kyle held his .44 pistol to Sid's head and demanded that he carry out his orders, ignoring Sid's doubts about the stability of the C4 bomb after it was planted in the living organism and his confession that he was unable to ensure that the complex operation was completed perfectly, and that his mind could not handle the explanations that dismissed it all as an excuse for Sid's weakness, so he used a threat to counteract Sid's excuse.

If the operation fails, Sid is free to choose between being thrown into the Witch Serpent's Cave or being thrown into the Scorpion's Nest.

All in all, the idea was whimsical, but it fit Kyle's style, and the strange plan worked out miraculously.

The super mutant's super physique allowed the bear not to die after undergoing poor medical conditions and Sid's extremely poor surgery, and the C4 bomb, an explosive weapon that was not developed as a human implant at all, was not rejected by the bear's body, and this heart bomb, which would be detonated by a radio signal at any time with Kyle's fingers, became a nightmare for the bear.

In fact, no one knows what the state of the bomb planted in the bear's body is, and perhaps a blow from an external force can detonate it, so the bear has always been careful, and even used a shield that he did not bother to use to protect himself from exploding on the spot.

Sid has always felt ashamed of the big bear, plus Kyle's threat is afraid to meet the big bear, he learned that the big bear has been worried all along, and told him that it is indeed possible to accidentally explode because of external forces, but that is difficult, even if the bullet penetrates the skin and muscles, it will not detonate the C4 bomb, but if it is some kind of current pulse impact hit the big bear, there is a high probability that the bomb will be directly detonated, causing the big bear and the people around him to die because of the explosion of the C4 bomb.

After Kyle's death, Sid and Big Bear are finally freed from the shadows, Big Bear no longer has to fear that he will explode in place, and Sid no longer has to feel guilty.

He woke up like this for the day, and at night a bright light suddenly lit up outside the window.

Seeing the light bulbs that weren't working before come back on, Andy guesses that this is due to Gillian's success, that the reactor at Bloomfield Space Center has returned to more productive work, and that now, more power is allowing more equipment to work again.

Walking to the basement on the first floor of the office building, the basement doors are made of two very heavy concrete protective doors, which protect the reactor deep underground from serious damage.

Walking down the corridor into the dark underground, and then there was a light in front of him, and Gillian and the two Rocket Gang members were standing in an operation room, full of machines and equipment that flashed with strange lights, and the two illiterate people obviously didn't know what these things were for, but only mechanically operated according to Gillian's instructions.

Gillian stood in front of a terminal, a large amount of data tumbling across the screen.

She turned around when she heard footsteps.

"It worked..."

Her face was still a little gloomy, although she knew in her heart that everything was doomed.

Andy walked over and hugged her for a few words of comfort, pointing to the terminal and asking Gillian.

"How productive are you now?"

Gillian waved for the two men to leave, and they immediately walked out playfully.

"60%, Sid's previous efforts to restore the reactor to 45% also have his part, but I think the limit can be further restored to about 80%, which will be the highest, and in this situation, it will be quite dangerous to continue to improve efficiency, so..."

She was gagged before she finished her words.

It was a long time before the two separated.

"Well done, they wouldn't have been able to do it for the rest of their lives without you, right?"

"You can't say that... If he gave Sid more time, he wouldn't be able to. ”

"What's more time?"

"Well... It's almost a lifetime. ”

"Haha, that's been a long time, let's go Gillian, it's a little cold here, isn't it."

"Hey... You..."

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

Andy got up from the big fluffy bed and looked out at the morning sun in a daze.

Glancing back at Gillian's smooth back, he tugged at the quilt to cover her.

After a while, he stood up alone and got dressed and walked out, and saw that the big bear outside was explaining something to the gang, his chest was wrapped in bandages, it seemed that Sid's operation was a success, presumably with the physical strength of a super mutant, the possibility of the operation failing was really unlikely.

"Good morning, Boss."

Big Bear turned his head and said hello.

"I hope you had a good day, I'm feeling relaxed."

Andy tilted his neck and moved his body a few times.

"Hmm... I also feel relaxed, is there anything new? ”

Big Bear beckoned a few of the gang to convey what he had said to the others, and then explained it to Andy.

"We can't keep it the way it was before, we have to make this place new, first of all, remove all the messy traps at the entrance to make it easier for people to get in and out; Secondly, we must clean up all this garbage, it is dirty every day like a cattle pen with two cows, what can we do if we can't even clean the garbage? ”

Andy agreed, the change of boss is to have a new atmosphere, maybe he will go to the Hoover Dam to talk to the Dodge Mayor to see if he can outsource some business, on the way south he seems to see some traces of the railway, if the Hoover Dam can help repair the railroad and connect Bloomfield to the rail network, then the trade here will flourish in a short time, and he can profit as an old nature.

"In the future, we will completely stop the predatory behavior and move to normal life, Blonnfield will not become a second Phoenix but a prosperous settlement, although there are only about twenty people now, but I am optimistic about the potential here, there is energy, there are machine tools, and piles of high-grade scrap metal."

Big Bear nodded approvingly.

"That's how I see it, boss, we can live a better life, and the machine tools here can produce all kinds of metal components in exchange for all kinds of necessities that we need, and these metal elements can be used to make all kinds of things, guns, armor, electronics, anything."

Satisfied, Andy pulled out a cigarette and lit it, then handed it to Big Bear.

"Thank you, boss, but I don't smell like this cigarette."

He took out a homemade dry cigarette thicker than the sum of two human fingers, and lit it with a spicy smell wafting around, normal people probably find it difficult to accept the smell of this thing, but it may be just right for a big bear.

"Do you think people can accept this change?"

The two sat on opposite sides of a desk, soot drifting out of the window in the wind.

"It will take a little time, but Kyle's reckless command has brought the future of the plunder industry to a dead end, and anyone who is a little sensible knows that this is not the way to go, and most of them trust me, and I think I can persuade them all to accept the new way of life, and the stubborn diehards, I will make him disappear."

After the two finished their plans for Bloomfield's future development, they began to chat.

"Since Gillian restored the power to the reactor, I've noticed that some of the terminals that used to be turned off are now operational, Sid's side has cracked some of the terminals and read the contents, have you seen the three hollow surfaces in the assembly workshop where he lives before?"

Andy put the cigarette butt between his fingers and put it on the table, knowing what the 'hollow noodles' in Big Bear's mouth meant.

"You mean the wheeled space station that wasn't assembled? I've seen descriptions of it in museums, what's wrong with it? ”

The bear spits out a yellow smoke ring.

"We used to think it was a rag, but Sid read the description of it and told me that it wasn't simple, it was designed to be something that could carry a lot of nuclear bombs, and after launching, it was suspended in space and ready to launch a nuclear bomb somewhere on the ground, right?"

Andy was stunned, isn't this what he said... Originally, he thought that the warehouse was throwing Courage 1 for scientific research, but now that he had heard about the Bloomfield Space Center on the reservation, he had heard that the Bloomfield Space Center was one of several space centers in the .M.B series of space stations responsible for transporting nuclear bombs to space by launch vehicles, and since launch vehicles can be responsible for transporting nuclear bombs, transporting space station components to space can also be done.

The thing that wasn't assembled in that workshop was actually a .m.b, which is also really normal.

"You mean that space station is an o.b?"

Big Bear was also stunned at this moment.

"Oh? Boss, you even know this? This strange name is the first time I've heard it from Sid, and he said that according to the information in the terminal, the big guy lying in the warehouse is codenamed .m.b, and I told him that the name was really apt, a super-sized space nuclear bomb launcher called a bomb. ”

Andy hurriedly asked.

"Did Sid say the number of this .m.b?"

Big Bear scratches his head.

"If I'm not mistaken, he said it was 003."

Andy bowed his head in deep thought, and as expected, the last nuclear space station in the .m.b program, the .m.b-003, which was not finalized before the war, was discarded in the assembly hall of the Bloomfield Space Center for more than a hundred years.

So, have both .m.b-002 and .m.b-001 been built and launched? This is not a good thing, no one has ever operated or maintained these high-tech devices for so long, and the worst thing is that they are all full of nuclear bombs, and if there is a malfunction and error that causes the space station to finally fall from the sky, it will be a devastating disaster for people on the ground, and it is conceivable that this kind of thing will happen sooner or later.

The change from three to two unpredictable super dangerous items is good news, but just one is scary enough.

"Is there a reason in the terminal that it was not manufactured?"

Big Bear shook his head.

"Sid didn't mention it to me, I suggest you go over and see the information in the terminal for yourself, it seems that you are very interested in these things, Boss, but... I am only suggesting that the great creations of the old world are in full play with great danger; It seems to me that the human desire to explore can only be compared to their desire to expand, but if you compare these with their need to kill and conquer, everything seems insignificant and no offense, Boss. ”

Andy sighed as he looked out the window.

"So, war never changes."

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

Gillian arrives at the assembly hall with a little messy hair, where Sid is lying on his stomach in front of a terminal, unaware of what attracts him to it.

"What's wrong, Sid?"

Sid replied without raising his head.

"Gillian? That's right, the terminals here are all turned on after the energy supply is restored, I noticed that this one was hidden by the operator at the time, hey, it's really hard to crack, but I think I'm almost successful, just give me a few more hours...."

Andy wasn't happy with the time, so he walked over to dissuade Sid from continuing to crack it, pulling him aside to ask.

"I've heard Big Bear say you've seen something here about this..."

He pointed to the space station parts.

"I'm interested in telling me about this station, this thing called .m.b-003, or any other relevant information, if you know."

Sid grabbed his bird's nest hairstyle and began telling Andy what he knew.

"The terminal here says that the first space station in the same series as this pile of parts, the one called .m.b-001, was launched from other space centers in August 2073 and successfully completed the assembly and start-up in space, and the space station has only a temporary nuclear power generator, providing only enough energy to operate part of the system, and the maintenance and operation are all done by robots."

"Of course, this is not the final state, so they ordered a special reactor to be used as the main energy source of this space station, and the space station was also programmed to be blocked in case of sudden uncontrollable conditions, and personnel had to enter it to manually enter the launch instructions before the nuclear bomb could be allowed to be launched from above."

"So in July 2074, what was originally a military base here was converted into the Bloomfield Space Center in front of us, which launched several rockets to send some nuclear bombs into space from the Los Alamos military base, but it eventually took over an important mission, which was to prepare for the launch of two heavy launch vehicles. One of them sent the reactor needed for .M.B-001 to the space station, and the other was responsible for sending several astronauts and some other parts to the same place. “

"If these people get on the space station as planned, they will start to enter various manual commands and install the reactor to completely activate the entire space station, and they will also carry out a thorough renovation and inspection of the entire space station inside and out, especially the correction and testing of various safety devices and procedures."

"The two launch vehicles, which were announced to be completed in August 2076, were named Hermes 13 and Hermes 14, respectively, and they... We've all seen it, and they're still standing on the launch platform outside, and they can still fly into space if they are activated. ”

Andy sighed, and said it was so.

So the space shuttles on the two launch vehicles are not empty, at least one of them contains a reactor that was originally intended to supply the space station with energy.

"But why weren't they fired? I guess the war didn't start until the end of 2077. ”

Sid spread his hands.

"I don't know, it's not said in it, that's all I know."

At this time, Gillian, who had replaced Sid in front of the terminal, suddenly spoke.

"I cracked it successfully... The hidden messages do say something terrible. ”

Andy hurried over to her to check.

Hidden in the dense text is a story, although the recorder of the story does not mention his own name, but from the details it is clear that this is a pre-war rocket scientist, he claims that he is one of the few people left at the Bloomfield space center after October 2076, but does not say why, after which he stayed here alone to continue his research.

A month later, however, the change occurred suddenly, and scientists claimed that a group of armed men dressed in black leather suits, suits, or strange gray armor had broken into Bloomfield without saying hello, acting as if they were intruders and more like they were returning to their homes.

Some of them are like pampered officers, some are like resolute agents, and some are special forces soldiers, and the guys in their hands and bodies are so advanced that scientists can't understand them.

A few days later, the group issued a statement demanding that all remaining personnel, including but not limited to scientists, cleaners, guards, and other members of the Bloomfield Space Center, leave.

Only the scientist who left a hidden record was left behind by the group for a few days because of the rocket handover problem.

The story he recorded is what he saw and heard in the past few days.