With his headlights on, Andy walked through the dim sewage, and from time to time he could see some badly sealed barrels or fragments of their packaging and the debris of their contents floating around, and the Geiger counter was constantly ringing, all of which were estimated to be radioactive contaminants such as nuclear waste.

I found a new mark left by Frank, the power armor moves very slowly underwater, and without Frank's markers, I can only find a way forward alone, Frank has shared a map of the water hole with Andy, but the bad thing is that the explosion arranged by the Ring of Steel not long ago must have changed some underground structures, so all I can count on is the experience in Frank's head.

While walking on the road, out of boredom, Andy kept thinking about the Trident sign, and finally realized that the last time he saw this sign was in the Grand Canyon, where it was found on mining machinery, and earlier Andy had happened to see the same thing on the walls of some vehicles or facilities.

Poseidon Energy, a large pre-war company.

Although this is Utah and not the Arisansan where the Grand Canyon is located, it is normal for a company with influence throughout the SA and even internationally to be able to project its power to any area if necessary, and in the former Eagle Rock Town, or now Burnham Springs, it is obvious that it will attract ore.

Similar to the uranium mines in the Grand Canyon, the coal mines in Eagle Rock Town are also an underground mineral with high economic value.

The difference is that Eagle Rock is small, nowhere near as large as the Grand Canyon, and... Why dump this nuclear waste into a water hole in a nearby mine? What are the benefits? This act of polluting the environment will inevitably have a negative impact on the workers working in the Eagle Rock mine, and the nuclear waste must have been transported in a relatively distant area, where there are no conditions for the production of such an order of magnitude of nuclear waste, and the garbage has accumulated almost in the water into walls and hills, and its outer packaging is very fragile, and most of it has leaked.

Andy's train of thought finally came to an irrepressible conclusion, Poseidon Energy's coal mining activities in Yingyan Town are most likely just a pretense, the real purpose is to use the underground caverns here as a secret storage site for nuclear waste, and most of the benefits generated by the small Yingyan mine will not be taken into account by Poseidon Energy at all, but if it is replaced by a 'high-efficiency' and 'low-cost' nuclear waste disposal site, the nature of the matter will fundamentally change.

"Whew-"

Andy sighed in the oppressive sewage.

"It's really a messy thing done by people who are not afraid of retribution, and this nuclear waste has something to do with the monsters on the other side of the fire hole? Hopefully there's no mess here. ”

In the ominous atmosphere, things are going abnormally smoothly, following the mark Andy found Frank wearing scuba, the body of the ghoul makes him not afraid of toxins and radiation in the water, and even oxygen is dispensable, the reason why Frank is still wearing scuba is purely because he doesn't want something to run in and out of his nose.

"What's next?"

Andy's voice echoed through the water with the help of the speakers of the power armor helmet, and Frank couldn't speak, so he could only use his arms to make constant gestures.

He looked at it for a while and understood what Frank meant, there was a rusty machine not far away, like a large jar with yellow paint connected to a lot of thick pipes, several iron plates that could be opened by Frank, replacement elements had been installed, and several pipes had been removed and replaced, but some of the fixing screws were not tightened.

Frank shows Andy the wrench in his hand, and he doesn't know how many years ago the old object has broken.

Andy walked up slowly, stretched out his hand and grabbed the screws and twisted them hard, because of the help of the power servo, he didn't even feel that he was exerting force, but the screws were indeed fixed on them.

After repeating this several times, Frank made an oK gesture, and Andy replied with the same gesture, but as soon as he put down his hand, he thought that something was wrong, Dante came down earlier than himself, and moved faster than himself, why wasn't he here?

"Fran..."

Before the words fell, a loud rumbling sound came from the machine in front of him, and the surrounding water was originally just dead silent, but suddenly it became disordered with the restart of this machine, and the strong water flow was running around, Frank grabbed a big rock and didn't dare to let go, and even Andy, who was wearing power armor and sinking to the bottom, had to stand firm.

"Boom ————"

A long sound of water sounded overhead, and looking up, Andy saw that the water level was rapidly decreasing.

The stagnant water here is being quickly drained by the pipes, and some of it has been sprinkled into the fire hole, which is believed to suppress the flames in some parts of the area, and even disperse some mutant monsters.

If everything goes well, wait a little longer for Andy and the others to complete the mission of this trip.

About half an hour later, the water level had dropped to a height where Andy could not be submerged, and half of his body was asleep, and Frank had already plucked his scuba and sat on a rock, holding a flashlight to watch the water flow around him.

"Frank!"

Andy took a few steps towards him.

"What about Dante?"

Frank looked at Andy with a puzzled expression.

"Didn't he stay on it? He must have been hesitating to go into the water, and finally the sleeping pills I fed him should have worked, was it in the wrong proportion? ”

Andy looked at the ghoul in surprise, it turned out that there were sleeping pills in the large pile of pills he fed to Frank before he came down, did he think Dante was too much of a drag and wanted him to stay on the water? But why don't you ventilate yourself in advance?

"Why don't you find a chance to explain it to me? I saw him jump down at the end, and if he fell asleep halfway through, wouldn't he just suffocate in the water? ”

Frank slapped his forehead.

"How do you explain that the three of us have been together, didn't I wink at you a few times before I jumped into the water? Can't you see what I mean? ”

Andy looked at him speechlessly.

"You were wearing goggles at the time, and I was wearing power armor, so many barriers, where can I see what you mean with your eyes?"

Frank was a little distracted.

"Oh my God... I always subconsciously thought that it was Phil or Sparky who came down with me, and they had a tacit understanding with me, and I can understand this level, sorry. ”

Andy scanned left and right with his headlamp a few times, and couldn't see anything like Dante around, this guy was afraid that he was more than lucky now, and he didn't think that he didn't die in the hands of dangerous environments and monsters, but that Oolong's death was due to a mistake between teammates.

"There's no way, let's look for it when the water recedes completely, if we can't find it..."

Frank waved his hand unconcernedly.

"If you can't find it, you can't find it, don't you see Luke and think he's a madman, it's normal to run around the wasteland and die, he could have slept on the shore, the monsters in the fire cave won't come near there, and the water hole has no monsters, it's the safest place... Who knew that his courage was a little more than I expected. ”

The two waited for another ten minutes, and according to Frank, Dante's scuba had basically run out of air by this point, but the water had subsided, and he would not necessarily be drowned.

Andy and Frank just walked in the wet cave, listening to the sound of water dropping like rain, and calling Dante's name everywhere in the hope of finding him, but it is estimated that he has fallen asleep due to the effect of drugs at the moment, and it is unlikely that he will be called out, if the two of them are negligent, this guy will be left here forever, after all, he can't deal with the monsters in the fire hole, and the exit of the water hole has been blown up.

After turning for more than ten minutes, there were many collapsed breaks in the water hole, and the fractures were very new.

"There are no roads here.... Where else could he go? ”

Frank grabbed his hairless scalp and kicked the barrel of nuclear waste next to him.

"Isn't it going to be pumped into a water pipe and sprayed into a fire hole to become a monster for barbecue, right?"

Andy looked at the dead end ahead with empty eyes, and only felt tired.

Frank sighed and shook his head, and suddenly he noticed that the water on the ground was not flowing normally.

"Andy, look at the flow of water here."

Andy immediately shines his headlamp and sees that the water is rapidly flowing towards a dark place, which is not the direction of the pump.

The two of them walked quickly in the direction of the leak, and actually saw a door in a hidden place, this door was a huge gear shape, made of all-metal, and the thickness was amazing.

It seems that due to the relationship between the blasting and the erosion of perennial sewage, the door frame on the right side is rotting and deformed, and a gap has appeared that is just right for people to enter sideways, and the sewage is flowing down this gap to the bottom.

Frank stood in front of the door for a long time, and Andy's shape immediately reminded him of the Vault-tech Vault Gates he had seen beneath Salt Lake City and in the Mesa Verde Mountains.

"This.... A refuge? ”

Frank seemed to be thinking about something, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.

"I think it just looks like it's a modular Vault-Tec building block for Vault-Tec, but it's unlikely to be a Vault in the back, with no numbers on the gates and no Vault-Tec logos. This is the Eagle Rock Mine area that belongs to Poseidon Energy, Eagle Rock Town is very remote and sparsely populated, and there is no value in building shelters underground here, and it does not meet the construction requirements without economic returns. ”

Andy walked to the crevice, and if he had taken off his power armor, he would have been able to get in.

"And what do you think will be next?"

Frank shook his head and said he couldn't imagine it.

"I don't know, I've lived in Burnham Springs for so many years, and no one has ever noticed it, there's nothing in the hole, it's all radioactive poison, and no one has come in here but me, and I've never wanted to get close to it. If you have to say, maybe there is something to do with Prometheus Mining here, and they may be conducting some secret research under some guise .... It's a real feng shui treasure, full of radiant deep underground that lives deep under the coal mine and is pumped without being submerged. ”

Andy turned his head in confusion.

"Frank, tell me about Prometheus Mining, what kind of company is that?"

Frank picks up a stone and draws a torch-like pattern next to it.

"Prometheus Mining Company, a subsidiary of Poseidon Energy, can also guess from the name that they were sent to all parts of SA to develop mineral deposits for Poseidon... The company had a bad reputation before the war, and they were always engaged in dangerous and radical scientific experiments, which made the name of this company a great irony. ”

Andy looked at the gate, so what kind of tricks was this a bunch of pre-war mad scientists?

"Can you explain something about sarcasm?"

Frank stared at the crack in the door, his eyes not rolling.

"Prometheus, you have forgotten this name now, in ancient stories, this is a god who has a good impression of humans, when humans have not yet mastered fire, and the gods forbid to transmit fire to mortals, this Prometheus took matters into his own hands to spread the flames to mortals, so that mortals have the power to drive out wild beasts, slash and burn, process cooked food, warm and ward off the cold, and He was punished for this, locked in the mountains and pecked by eagles all day long."

Andy felt a little embarrassed when he heard this story.

"So, that Prometheus is still being punished?"

Frank shook his head.

"Then the great hero Hercules passed by and rescued him."

Andy looked down at his Hercules Power Gland, feeling that fate is really wonderful, although his Power Glove was obtained from Odysseus in Tibbetts Prison, but the predecessor of Tibbetts Prison also has an inexplicable relationship with Poseidon Energy, and I really don't know if it was an accident that he came here today.

Frank walked slowly towards the gap.

"Prometheus Mining always claims that they are stealing fire from the Celestial Realm for humanity, but... People think they're just trying to make a fire, and what is the purpose of the set-up? I knew it... I knew that...."

Andy frowned, Frank's appearance reminded him of some bad past.

"Frank!"

The old ghoul turned his head slowly.

"Andy.... We'll have to go in and take a look, there's got to be something big in there. ”

Andy glanced at the crack in the door, which was as black as the mouth of a beast.

"You think it's a good time?"

Frank looked at Andy faintly.

"Didn't you come here looking for something? Where else could that thing be but here? ”

Andy was stunned when he heard it, too, Dr. Goddard said that there is a secret research facility underground here, and there is a rare pre-war technology item data tank in it, so isn't the secret research facility right in front of you?

He was still hesitating when he heard a cry for help from the crack.

"Oh... Sky.... Anyone.... Save..."

The sound was long, it seemed to come from a deep place, I couldn't hear whether Dante, who had disappeared before, ran inside, although the gap was not big, but there may have been a lot of suction here when the water was drained before, and if Dante was weak because of lethargy at the time, he might indeed have been sucked in.

"Alas... Well, go in and have a look. ”

He took off his power armor and followed Frank through the gap.