Chapter 15: Strange Machines from the Sky

The Atomic Humvee drove all the way along the railway to the southwest. Andy stepped on the gas pedal to the bottom, he could only pray that the steps of the Prest group were not so fast, or that someone could slow them down, the southwest end of the railway was the Grand Canyon, the railway bridge had been broken, they could take the cable car to continue to the southwest, but now the south bank of Pordonk was already a radiation area, if they didn't take the cable car, they would have to walk around the narrow Grand Canyon, so they might not have reached Blonnfield now, and they still had a chance to catch up by car.

Strings comforted Andy, who was full of seriousness.

"Don't be so nervous, Andy, we've done our best to stop them... Those old-world spacecraft weren't that simple, and even if they got to Bloomfield before we did, it was hard to say that they would be able to go to space right away, which sounded like a fantasy. Andy's hands gripped the steering wheel tightly, his brows furrowed.

"String, don't you understand that what may be a fantasy for others may not be for him... Even the slightest possibility is fatal, if he really lets him go to space, how should we do it? He was about to say something when he suddenly noticed something on the side in front of him.

"Wait, look at that." Andy took a look, there seemed to be a robot hovering in a sand pit in front of the right, not far from it was a strange 'metal box', this box had opened the lid, look at the marks on the ground, this thing seemed to have been smashed down from a high place and far away, the heat even melted the sand, and the traces of the shock wave formation were very obvious on the sand.

What is it? He slowed down in confusion, robots wandering around in the wild are very common, the old world is a world where science and technology are highly developed, and automated life is widely promoted, people are accustomed to the services of robots, robots can do almost anything, and even sometimes do better than humans on some levels, you can see them in hospitals, schools, military camps, scientific research sites, or just some shopping malls, hotels, etc.

These guys can clean, defend themselves, heal and save people, educate people... Or work in a harsh environment such as a mine.

But if you suddenly encounter a lone robot in the field, the best option is to stay away from it before it notices you, because it may be a 'wild robot' or the wasteland people also call it a 'mad robot', and the reason why this is the case is because the last program these robots executed before the war is completely unable to adapt to the changes in the world, and their combat suppressors have long since been damaged by the wind and rain, so these guys will go crazy to attack any target that comes close.

Such a robot that stubbornly guards the ruins of some pre-war military checkpoint or a broken house is often not easy to mess with.

Andy knew he should do the same, but the strange 'metal box' behind the robot and the impact marks around it were too eye-catching, and if you looked closely, the box was well-made, the surface coating had blackened signs but no substantial damage, and... The inside of this box is indeed large enough to accommodate the robot, does that mean there is a connection between the two?

He stopped the car, and at the same time, the robot jerked its head. The robot that had been moving around the box and the crater, constantly beeping and buzzing, turned the two tracks under its body and rushed towards the atomic Humvee, as if it suddenly realized that it was about to do something.

Andy noticed that the 'head' of the strange robot was a reinforced hemispherical container containing a biological brain soaked in yellow gel, a brain-controlled robot with four mechanical arms, the lower two arms ending in a grappling hook, and the upper two arms with two laser weapons mounted at the ends.

He locked onto the robot in V mode. 【. R-1000 Gamma] [Description: The full name is the Security and Service Robot, a special model of military brain-controlled robot, one of the early prototypes of a military robot project of the SA Army, equipped with two high-energy laser emitters and fully covered protective armor and high-power codE brainwave transmitters, cpU built-in tactical program and reconnaissance perception module and link to a special database, it is not recommended to contact, if you need to fight, it is recommended to use Emp] [Warning, this creature is a high-risk target, and a skeleton hazard warning sign has been carried out] Hurriedly disable the V mode, while the robot was still sprinting, Andy rolled over and climbed onto the atomic Hummer and ran into the power armor as fast as he could.

The robot's two arms emit a large number of red lasers, but all of them are intercepted by a purple energy field.

Hull's warning sound came from inside his helmet.

"Tesla's energy defense stance has been weakened." Andy was secretly surprised by the power of this robotic laser weapon, and without saying a word, he raised the Apollo laser pistol in his hand in return.

The golden laser carried a huge amount of energy, but the robot was actually burned out of some pits, and its metal body was made of unknown materials, which was incredible.

"Intruder Alert! Destroy the invaders! It was unclear what it was trying to protect, but it was clear that no one could make the brain change its mind, and before it continued to shoot the laser hazard string, Andy asked Hull to help launch an electromagnetic pulse, and the robot fell to the ground in an arc this time, and while it couldn't move, Andy immediately rushed over and cut off all four arms of the dangerous guy with a toothed saw sword, and then cut it indiscriminately until the robot didn't look like it could move.

String cautiously stepped out of the Atomic Humvee, walked over to the robot, and looked at the box again.

"Oh my God... Could it be that it fell from the sky? Andy looked up and thought that this scene could really be formed like this, in the desert in the northern part of the Grand Canyon, a black dot suddenly grew in the originally clear sky, and with a loud bang, the black dot finally turned into a metal box that fell to the ground, and then the box opened the lid, and a brain-controlled robot came out of it.

The robot looked at everything around it in confusion until someone approached.

"Heavenly? Where does it come from? Andy kicked the canister with the brain in it, the robot was unaware of its situation, and just kept shouting nonsense like 'destroy the intruders' and 'get out of here'.

String could only shake her head, and she took out some small tools to cut through the damaged pieces of armor near her head, and then found some sockets, which she looked shocked as she inserted them and used the pen computer in her hand to type some programs.

"This guy is... It came from .m.b-001. Andy was surprised by this, as this was the first time he had seen a portion of .m.b-001 with his own eyes.

"Really?" The string didn't answer, just squatted on the ground and operated for a while. After nearly half an hour of work, she finally looked up.

"I don't understand the specifics, but look at the records in the program, This brain-controlled robot was originally permanently placed in .m.b-001 to be responsible for Nissan maintenance, but recently for some reason it was mistakenly enabled and entered the escape pod of .m.b-001, and then for some reason the escape program was also activated, so it fell all the way from space to the ground, and it is estimated that because of these accidents, its internal program produced a large number of errors, resulting in the inability to judge the surrounding changes, and could only turn off the combat suppressor and turn on the automatic defense program. Andy looked at the high-tech metal box not far away, which turned out to be an escape pod from a space station.

"Why did it end up here so coincidentally?" The string looked to the southwest.

"According to the information in the big dome, the main launch site of the .m.b project is at the Bloomfield Space Center, so the default emergency landing coordinates will also be close there, usually this area of no man's land." As soon as Andy heard her say this, he immediately thought of .m.b-002, which crashed in the depths of the Grand Canyon, and it turned out to be the same thing.

"String, can you find any other useful clues?" The string continued to crouch on the ground and look through the data, finally drawing some conclusions.

"There is indeed a black box in the escape pod that makes it easy for ground maintenance personnel to access the situation, we have to find it." Andy immediately walked towards the escape pod, and under the guidance of the string, he violently dismantled some of the parts of the escape pod, and found a very sturdy small box in a mezzanine.

After connecting, the strings quickly found the relevant records.

".m.b-001 appears to be in good condition overall, but there is a damage in the north, which records say may have been caused by an out-of-control communications satellite impact, and now the hatch between the living quarters and the command center has been damaged, which makes it impossible to communicate directly between the two areas, and there are not many other problems." Andy shook his head.

"It's not good news, it means it's almost intact, and I wish this thing had fallen to the ground so that no one bothered to bother with it..."

"Good news... I did find good news, it seems that due to negligence in pre-war work, the .m.b-001 was not fully loaded with twenty nuclear bombs, but only eight, and from the records on the side of the dome, I guess that because the expansion of the nuclear bomb silo of the .m.b-001 at the request of the subsequent military was beyond the expectations of the ground manufacturing department, the number of nuclear bombs was not correct at all. Andy grinned.

"What's the good news? Maybe eight nuclear bombs won't be enough for Prest to start another great war, but destroying NcR is too much, and we need to move on quickly. The string sighed heavily.

"I'm not done yet, probably to compensate for the lack of numbers, each of the eight nuclear bombs is equipped with six nuclear warheads." Andy suddenly chuckled when he heard this, he had learned from Bloomfield and the reservation that the .m.b project was equipped with a quadruple nuclear warhead inside the standard nuclear bomb, but he didn't expect that the .m.b-001, which was first launched in this project, was equipped with a heavyweight.

The string face is also very unsightly.

"This means that if Prest succeeds in getting even one of them to fall on the west coast of the SA continent, it will cause a catastrophe, and if all eight nuclear bombs fall, then... At least on the West Coast, the world might really be forced to reboot and experience another great war. The two hurriedly got into the car, Andy fixed the power armor and drove towards the direction of the Grand Canyon, and soon they came to the scavenger stronghold on the north bank of the Grand Canyon, which was called 'North House' by Santiago and others, and the thick radioactive dust on the south bank still shrouded the former Podunke.

In front of the railroad bridge where Andy and Measles once fought to the death, the General train that had rushed all the way from Kansas was docked on the railroad, but it was not alone, and many scavengers were working hard to try to dismantle valuable things with various tools.

The Atomic Humvee slowly stops, and Andy sees Santiago, who is carrying a wrench, trying to remove the train door.

"Santiago!" He walked over and called out to the old man.

"What are you doing here?" Santiago wiped the sweat from his head a little embarrassed.

"Oh, it's you, Andy... Well, I don't know who suddenly stopped the train here, we think this thing is pretty good..."Andy looked at these scavengers a little speechlessly, they were really a little unsure of whether they were alive or dead, fortunately it seemed that Prester didn't put any traps or anything like that in the carriage in order to get on the road, and it was impossible for them to come back to find their own car from the purpose of their actions.

"This train belongs to a very dangerous group of people, do you see where they go?" Santiago points in the direction of the cable car.

"We thought the ghouls were back, so we ducked away, but then we saw that it was a group of NcR soldiers, and they took the cable car to the south, and there were radiant and mad ghouls over there, and we don't know why they were rushing to find death, but... This train that no one wants can't be wasted, it's good things up and down, inside and out. Andy waved his hand not wanting to continue discussing with Santiago what a treasure the train was in the eyes of the scavengers, and he turned to the strings.

"Xian, you drive my car around a long way, bypass the Grand Canyon from the side and then go to Bloomfield, I will first wear power armor and take the cable car to chase them, there is no way to pass quickly from north to south except for the cable car, if you leave my car here, I will be turned into parts by these people next time I come back." Xian nodded, grabbed Andy's hand and told him to stay safe.

..................... Dressed in power armor, Andy barely squeezed into the cable car, and the rickety stop car drove him over the Grand Canyon.

This time he was lucky, there was no sudden bad weather and strange creatures, and the cable car reached the south bank without any problems.

As soon as he stepped off the cable car, Andy was enveloped in the thick green radioactive dust in front of him. Geiger's counter was making a loud gurgling sound, the land was hopeless, but fortunately it prevented measles from continuing to fire dirty bombs at other large settlements, otherwise one would have become a forbidden area for humans.

Walking through the dust with somewhat low visibility, Andy took a lot of radiation pills to be on the safe side, despite the Athena Power Armor to help protect against radiation, and I really don't know how Prester and his gang passed through here.

Just as he was thinking, suddenly a lot of figures were shaking and running not far away. Andy was not surprised to see that it was indeed a group of glowing ghouls, all of whom had been residents of Podonk, and perhaps some of them were his acquaintances.

Soon after, he saw a figure that silenced him. It was a skinny, glowing ghoul with only one arm, and it was yelling at Andy with its mouth wide open.

The rampaging ghoul still had some healing bullet holes left on its body, in this environment, these monsters were almost immortal, the radiation surging nearby was their endless source of life, and the only hand of the mad ghoul was a fresh human arm, it seemed that the Prest group did not have a smooth sailing through the radiation area.

Andy watched as the mad ghouls raised the Ares Proton Tooth Saw Sword in their hands.

"Well, friends, let me give you a ride." The ghouls let out a furious roar, their sparkling eyes devoid of any reason, and across from them, Andy had already raised his weapon and rushed forward.