Chapter 4: The Exploding Ghouls

"What's wrong?" Colonel Green shouted, and there was silence in the passage. After a while, a rickety figure approached, and everyone raised their weapons, until they were close enough, they lowered their weapons and helped them back to inject the treatment needle.

The ghoul soldiers, covered in shredded uniforms and armor, lay on the ground, one arm missing, and their bodies covered in explosive fragments.

According to his account, ten minutes after the advance team entered the maintenance passage, they encountered several madmen in the passage, and they wanted to ignore them and continue to move forward, but these lunatics suddenly ran towards them, and then an explosion occurred, killing all the rest of the soldiers, and he was the only one who survived because of his position behind the cover of others.

Colonel Green heard this and angrily denounced Clark as a crazed cult leader and terrorist, and although these madmen had lost their minds, many of them had been part of the reservation and contributed to the construction of the reservation, and since they had fallen into madness, they had been taken away by the children of the wasteland and disappeared, not realizing that they had finally been transformed into a 'secret weapon' and appeared here.

The scientists in Level 1's captive control were brought in at the behest of Colonel Green, and under the watchful eye of a group of armed men with guns, they were asked to come up with a workable solution to the ghoul bombs.

These ghoul scientists in white coats had no will to fight, nor did they believe in the teachings that Clark had founded, and looking at the corpses and gleaming guns scattered around them, they knew they had no choice, but the problem was that they couldn't figure out what these ghoul bombs were all about, even if everyone was highly intelligent, they couldn't come up with any ideas for a moment.

Marty looked at the others and walked out first.

"Colonel Green... These lunatics are part of the Level 3 defense system, designed and maintained by Measles and Dr. Sebastian, and are the best of the best, we—" Colonel Green interrupted him angrily.

"Don't talk that useless nonsense! I tell you, you egg-headed fools who choose to serve Clark in order to satisfy your own selfish desires, knowing what Clarke's nonsense will bring, I can sentence you to death! Time is running out right now, I can't continue to give William Clark time to do anything superfluous, it took me almost an hour to control the ground, I also spent about an hour controlling Tier 1 and Tier 2, and within the next hour, I have to go down to Tier 3 to kill that bastard, and if I can't do it, I'll kill you first! Marty shuddered with fright when a scientist stepped forward.

"Please be uneasy, Colonel Green, the reason why those madmen explode is because of the explosion collar around their necks, which was originally developed by military scientists before the war to reduce the cost of prison administration, it can be remotely controlled, or it can be triggered automatically by setting explosion conditions, such as a stationary countdown set in the collar around the prisoner's neck when the endless banishment is executed... Extrapolating from the number of captured madmen, there are many of these live bombs, and their behavior is unpredictable, so the collar must have been set up to trigger an explosion when close enough to the no-collar signal target to avoid chain mistouches. Colonel Green listened intently until the scientist stopped talking.

He looked up and asked suspiciously.

"Why didn't you continue?" The scientist's face was full of embarrassment.

"I'm the one who designed and made the explosive collar, so I know about these things, but what I don't know is why those crazy people came close to us, you see... We're not slippery, and if we're slicker, these live bombs can do a good job, but they shouldn't come close to us, that's the case." Colonel Green's face instantly turned ugly, and he drew his pistol and shot the ghoul at his feet, causing him to jump in fright.

"I thought you had some high opinions, but it turned out to be a piece of nonsense! According to what you said, if we get close to those crazy people, their collars will explode, but now we want to go in, even if they don't take the initiative to get us, as long as they block the passage piecemeal, we still can't get in, what I want to know is what can be done to make those bombs dumb out, or let those crazy people roll as far as they can! At this moment, String suddenly asked the ghoul soldier who was lying on the ground.

"Did you notice anything wrong before those guys came running?" The soldier pondered for a moment, and suddenly something came to mind.

"Those madmen were hanging out inside, but suddenly there was some strange noise, and then they suddenly ran towards us, and then it exploded." Xian nodded, and made a suggestion towards Colonel Green.

"If I had to say, there are two ways, one is to have the person who makes some signal transmitters that can emit collar signals, and the person wearing these should be able to pass through those live bombs and avoid the trigger conditions of those explosive collars, but there is a hidden danger, and that is that we are not sure if someone is using a remote monitoring device to monitor the situation down there, and then he will seize the opportunity to activate the manual control to trigger the explosion, and everything will be over; The second is... I think those guys must be controlled by some kind of sound waves, and the effect of sound waves on living beings is very large, as long as you have enough skills to use different sound waves to make creatures gather or disperse them, and for those who have lost their minds, this effect will only be simpler. Seizing this, we may be able to find a way to hedge their control sound waves with similar devices, and even drive these bombs to their side in turn... Moreover, they are not the only ones who can transmit manually trigger signals. Colonel Green listened thoughtfully, and turned to the scientists to scold again.

"You guys spend all day eating and drinking and having fun underground, enjoying the degraded brains! Look, all of them are 100 years old, and now they can't even compare to a little cub's slippery skin! Half an hour later, a sonic emitting device was rushed out, accompanied by a loudspeaker, and a terrifying noise wave swept through the entire maintenance corridor.

Although the wandering ghouls had almost no thoughts, they gathered together to develop a group reaction that was similar to the hive effect, so after the sound hit, these ghouls one after another, all turned around and ran towards the depths of Level 3, after confirming that these guys were all concentrated in the isolation door ambush, the scientist in charge of making the collar pressed the signal transmitter in his hand, and after an earth-shattering explosion, the new entrance to Level 3 was blown out alive.

Of course, the raghouls wearing explosive collars were all blown to pieces.

"Up! Kill those bastards! There is a reward for killing William Clark! Colonel Green shouted, and now all the members of the Green Guard were all gathered here, except for a few soldiers stationed on the ground and in Levels 1 and 2, and they were all gathered here, and they were pouring into Level 3.

...................... Tumor, Freckles, Belle, and Dr. Sebastian and a dozen or so of their most loyal protectors, as well as a few scattered remnants of the defeated generals who had retired from T1 and T2, were now all in T3, their last line of defense.

With the help of a covert maintenance access camera, the tumors watched as their line of draugar bombs was breached, and instead of killing a few of Colonel Green's soldiers, the bombs helped them blow up an opening into the area.

"These blasphemous rebellions! They don't know what they're all doing! They will be punished! The tumor that was already red all over his body clutched his head and roared, he couldn't figure out why things had suddenly taken a turn for the worse, yesterday everything was fine, the inhabitants of the reservation recited the scriptures in unison with reverence for the Messiah, and in the blink of an eye they had lost control of almost the entire reservation, leaving only a dark level3 for them to resist.

Freckles was sweating from the nervousness, and his hands shaking slightly as he held the gun.

"Measles... Big brother, why hasn't he come back yet? According to the plan, he should have successfully completed the bombardment of the slippery settlement, but the three targets of the abandoned fort, Hoover Dam and New Canaan, at the speed of the train, he should have returned a long time ago, could it be..."The tumor suddenly turned around and threw the freckles to the ground.

"What do you mean? You mean brother, he was killed by Slippery? No way! When pigs fly! He is invincible in the world with measles, only he kills those slippery skins, where is the slippery skin to kill him? Don't say anything like that to me again! Belle had been standing in silence in the corner, her belly had risen slightly, this time she had conceived successfully, unprecedentedly, it was originally a great event for the reservation, the difficulties of the ghouls were about to be overcome, but what was waiting for was not the dawn, but the deeper darkness.

Dr. Sebastian lowered his head and clenched his palms, his nails digging into his flesh.

"Stop making noise," his tired voice made the tumor let go of the freckles.

"You... Do whatever you like, I'm going to accompany Clark, he's not doing well. Regardless of the tumor's cries, Dr. Sebastian left the control room without looking back.

Freckles glanced at Dr. Sebastian's back and suggested the tumor in a trembling tone.

"Otherwise... Let's leave through the emergency exit first, and think about it in the long run? The tumor raised his hand and it was a slap, and the two scuffled together.

Belle gently stroked her lower abdomen, she saw Andy's figure flash in the surveillance screen, and after a moment of thought, she quietly left the room.

................... Dr. Sebastian walked into the green room and looked at the slippery slaves who had been inserted into the artificial womb in the jar and were still alive, in his past experiments, he had always believed that making these subjects feel pain as much as possible was an effective means of increasing the success rate of the experiment, and no one could tell whether this thought was due to the pragmatic ideas of scientists or his hatred of the slippery skins.

He pressed the button, brandished the scalpel, and mercilessly poked, cut, stabbed, cut... Whimpering and screaming, the swollen humans who had been drained of the nutrient solution were separated from the implant one by one, and Dr. Sebastian took all the new human embryos in a jar, leaving only a mutilated corpse in his wake.

After that, he went to Dr. Clark's room. A facial recognition system that required his personal confirmation scanned Dr. Sebastian, and the purple wall of stance was temporarily lifted, and reopened when Dr. Sebastian entered.

In the dark room, only a bed and a bookcase full of books could be seen, and a figure lay motionless on the bed.

Dr. Sebastian walked over slowly, took a potion from his lab coat pocket and handed it to Dr. Clark, but he waved his hand and refused.

After standing beside his bed for a long time, Dr. Sebastian finally couldn't take it anymore, and he fell on his knees beside Dr. Clark's bed, bursting into tears and weeping.

"It's over, it's over.... Green's men are coming in, and we've used all of them—" Dr. Clark seemed to be listening, and then like he was sleeping, before responding vaguely for a long time.

"Where's measles?" Dr. Sebastian covered his mouth and replied with difficulty.

"I don't know.... I can't get in touch—" Dr. Clark was silent for a long time.

"I had a dream... I dreamed that a caterpillar crawled on the blade ... Green blood flowed from the blades onto the ground...", and Dr. Clark didn't react anymore.

Dr. Sebastian wiped away his tears and walked out of the room holding the jar. ..................

"Bang ——!"

"Dada-da..."

"Bang bang bang!" Fierce fighting erupts in the dark level of Level 3, which is devoid of any lighting except for the glimmer of red emergency lights.

The children of the wasteland, who had no way out, almost frantically shouted the scriptures of the Preservation Sutra to launch a counterattack at a pre-selected location, by which time most of the people were holding energy weapons, the energy fired by laser guns and plasma rifles frequently and briefly illuminated the darkness, and all the automatic safety devices in Level 3 had been activated.

Colonel Green's men were once again hampered, and their advance slowed down at once. He yelled excitedly and excitedly.

"Grenade! Grenade! Don't keep what you have in your hand, call me all over! On the other hand, he yelled at the scientists who were trembling and operating the terminals.

"I've told you all about the emergency safety directives, what are you still grinding around? Shut down all those turrets and robots! A ghoul scientist who was operating the terminal suddenly jerked a piece of code into it, and the others noticed this and quickly pushed him away, Marty could barely speak, and he said to Colonel Green with trepidation: "Oh no, he started more instead!" Colonel Green looked back in disbelief to see the scientist who had just operated the terminal standing up straight and staring directly at him.

"Richard Green, you betray the reservation, you betray the Messiah, you will surely get the retribution you deserve, and you will die without a place to be buried! Come on, kill me, I'm not afraid at all! For I know that I have fought the good fight, when I have run the end of my race, and I have kept the way I believed, and from now on the crown of righteousness shall be reserved for me, that is, the day when the Lord shall judge according to righteousness..." Criticism', the scientists were so frightened that they couldn't stand still, and at the critical moment, the string walked over and took over and began to operate the terminal.

After a few minutes, the robots and auto-turrets were all silent. With the indiscriminate bombardment of explosives, the last of the Dharma Protectors, the armed forces loyal to Dr. Clark, the Messiah of the reservation, were wiped out, and in front of them was the deepest part of the temple, where William Clark's bedroom was located.

Andy followed the soldiers in the charge, because he still had someone in his heart who couldn't let go, Belle... According to Measles, she is also one of the 'new humans' born from the Green Room, almost a baby in terms of age.

Where is she now? What if she had to fight for Clark until the last moment with the other ghouls?

The thought of this made his mind tremble. A green-robed protector suddenly burst out of the corner, clutching a safe-armed grenade and lunging at Andy.

"O Wasteland Holy Spirit! Messiah! Punish these demons—" he shouted, and ran with his arms outstretched, even though there were many bullets piercing him.

Andy turned his head, and at this point, the ghoul was less than half a meter away from him.