Bloomfield Launch Center, near Kyle's bedroom.

The Rockets are busy cleaning up the house, such as empty syringes, empty whiskey bottles, meat skewers, and some vomit... and remove the terminals and other gadgets that Kyle had broken in the first place.

Big Bear was standing next to him commanding the crowd.

"Don't leave any dirty things, pick out the bad things and send them to Sid, and say you, don't put the garbage in your pocket!"

The crowd was quite attentive, after all, they all knew that they were involved in a very crazy plan.

Boss Andy has publicly announced his decision that he will soon be flying into space on another rocket.

The last rocket launch had gone on inexplicably, and the NcRs knew more about Bloomfield than their 'natives' who had been living in it for a while, and it was as if the rocket had been ready for them to hit the ground running.

But this time, they will be involved in the rocket launch program themselves.

Gillian is standing next to the main terminal knocking and knocking, next to it there are a lot of messy items connected by wires, this largest terminal was selected by Kyle as the 'main target' was very badly damaged, fortunately Gillian's mechanical skills are high enough, and she knows enough about the technology before the battle, this talent is almost natural, after all, the environment in which she was born and raised is incomparable to others present.

But even she found it difficult at this point.

Andy stood with his arms crossed, his face serious.

On the day the Hermes XIV rocket was launched by Prester and his gang, his final attempt to stop his plan before Prester left Earth failed, and he later found the bodies of the NcR rebels who had been punched away by him, wearing a species of armor called ' Needless to say, the origin of the strange armor of the Fort Leavenworth armor mK1' is not only unique in material and powerful in defense, but also inlaid with a lot of Tesla energy defense stance generators similar to those on Athena's power armor.

These armors have a strong defense against energy impacts, which is why Andy's full strength with Hercules Power Fist to make a blow is big enough, if you change to a plasma weapon or laser weapon, you can't hurt them, and at the same time, a large number of rockets fired by the rocket launcher in their hands will bring great damage to the other party, Andy has personally learned that without power armor protection, he is afraid that he will be blown up on the launch platform by the rocket set launched by these four people.

Unsurprisingly, Prester also left some distracting back-hands, just like when he left the Dome, he used his secret hand to turn off the combat suppressors of all the brain-controlled robots inside the Dome in order to use these robots to enter the Dome in his eyes. The occupiers attacked, and now he's done something similar here at the Bloomfield Space Center, such as reactivating the launch platform's automated safety system that was previously shut down by Gillian after the reactor power was restored, and some military robots and automatic turrets indiscriminately attacking anyone who came near them after the combat suppressors were turned off, and of course these guys were completely turned into metal trash by Andy that day, and there was no need to shut down and start again.

After solving these small things, he immediately ordered all the members of the Rocket Gang to move and prepare for a big thing.

The big thing was, of course: he was going to heaven.

Well, a very precise and short explanation.

Although Diana swore that according to her precise calculations, it would take at least a month for Prester to complete the manual procedure for entering the nuclear bomb launch key, and to readjust the signal of the final procedure for the launch of Tibbetts Prison to automatically aim at the nuclear bomb targeting points of the settlements of the Great Southwestern Confederacy, so as to calibrate it to the main populated areas of the NcR in New California, and finally complete his goal of destroying the NcR, And that's not even including the travel time to .m.b-001 and other contingencies, but it's all theoretical, and the actual condition and progress are now unknown, so maybe Prester's luck is like a god's help? If you guess wrong, the end will be very miserable.

"How's it going?"

Andy asked.

Gillian wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead, her expression solemn.

"There are a lot of questions... First of all, this machine is very important, it stores a whole set of special programs for launching, I don't know what means Prester uses as a replacement, but we definitely can't get around, this terminal must be repaired, with this foundation we can discuss the next problem, this is just the first level... I'd say I'm not sure I'm going to fix it well. ”

A woman's voice suddenly rang out.

"So, can I help?"

Andy hurriedly turned his head to look, it turned out to be a string, and he even forgot about her for a while...

The strings of the car after driving for a long time were a little tired, but their eyes were still shining.

"I think I have the ability, I had a lot of experience with this type of terminal when I was on the big dome side, so I have some experience... You may not know where the dome is, but that's okay, I'll prove what I'm saying. ”

Gillian turned her head to look, her eyes wandering between the strings and Andy, trying to say something, but in the end she just said yes dryly.

String walked over and operated for a while, and after a moment's wordless look at the large pile of 'rags' that Gillian was messing around and sighed.

"That's... What's your name, please? ”

Gillian had only watched it for a short moment, but she could tell that Xian was right, and that she was indeed quite experienced with such large terminals.

"Gillian McKinley, just call me Gillian, I'm as... Well, he's the chief mechanic here. ”

Xian looked at her and nodded.

"You can just call me strings, I won't talk nonsense, I suggest you stop working on this machine yet, I'll fix it, you... There is one important thing that you need to do at the same time. Bloomfield's communication satellite antenna, still needs some adjustments, we have a very strong foreign aid can help us a lot remotely, but her communication intermediary node is now a little out of shape, I will send you the relevant parameters, I hope you can properly adjust the communication satellite antenna according to those parameters to increase the stability of long-range communication as much as possible. ”

Forced by her momentum, Gillian subconsciously swallowed saliva.

After staying in the Rusty Hook Gang for a long time, she was used to being the only technician and Sid, and she suddenly felt a little pressured when a scientist with good roots came.

"Well... Okay, I will. ”

Xian looked at her and added a few more words as if to make up for it.

"If there is anything bad in my attitude, I hope you will understand, there is not much time, it is better to have the most suitable person to do the most suitable thing, we must distribute all the work, so that there is hope to make the rocket fly."

For the next two days, Andy was a little idle, and String and Gillian were busy, but he couldn't even understand what they were doing.

On this day, the large terminal of the launch center was finally restarted smoothly, and Blonnfield's communication satellite dish was also adjusted, and in summary, a new situation appeared here, that is, Diana appeared on the screen.

Her avatar is a little noisy and fluctuated, and it seems that the video communication is still not stable due to the distance.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Diana, and as you can understand it or not, I'm going to try to take over the entire automation system and all kinds of automation in Bloomfield, and believe me, there's nothing like me in that regard."

Gillian stared at Diana on the screen with some confusion on her face, she seemed to think that this was an AI, but Andy couldn't explain anything to her in detail for a while, it was not entirely wrong to say that Diana was an AI, in her current state, although she still has the main part of a human being, that is, the brain, but the two ZAx connected to her left and right brains respectively definitely occupy a large proportion in proportion.

Andy stopped thinking about what he had and didn't have, and stepped out as the de facto controller of the current Bloomfield Space Center.

"No problem, all fine, Diana, you just do what you think is appropriate, we only have one goal now, and that is to get that iron guy moving, send me up.m.b-001 to flatten that old headache in Prester!"

Diana blinked, and all the appliances in Bloomfield stopped for a moment, and after a few seconds, they were restarted.

All the terminals in the entire control center, to be precise, those that can still start normally have all started at the moment, and a large amount of green data flows from top to bottom on the screen, this dazzling scene that outsiders can't understand seems to be stunned by Xian and Gillian, both of whom are very shocked, and it seems that Diana has inadvertently shown some otherworldly points.

Five minutes later, Diana stopped doing so.

"I've come to the conclusion that, listen, if you want to launch the Hermes XIII space launch vehicle, the first thing you need to do is to get the two codes left over from before the war, which are the launch code and the access code, which will help us access the internal operating system of the Hermes XIII rocket, and if you want to launch it, you have to manually enter the corresponding launch code in the last step of the launch process. Both of these codes are designed to be highly complex due to security considerations, and it is almost impossible for them to be cracked or calculated by computers, not even supercomputers, such as ZAx, or even I can figure out the correct answer in a month. ”

As she spoke, she muttered to herself.

"So I don't understand how those people managed to get Hermes XIV to launch successfully, they shouldn't have done that."

String listened to her words and immediately thought of one of the codes, as if she had already gotten them.

"Pre-war code? Coincidentally, we found a password in a place called the Reserve, and it seemed to be the launch code of the Hermes rocket, although I don't know why it was in one of the terminals there. ”

Andy hurriedly pulled out the code from the beep-boy, and Diana instantly hacked into it and copied the code to her 'brain' for detailed identification.

"That's right."

She looked slightly relaxed.

"Very good start, you guys have solved half of the main problem, this is indeed the launch code that was originally planned to be used for the launch of Hermes XIII, the so-called 'reservation', in my opinion, is the pre-war Los Alamos, where it was originally with . There are many connections to the M.B project, and even the main production sites of the nuclear weapons needed for the project, and in some trivial accounts, I saw that one of the original launch operators of Hermes XIII was a man named Dr. William Clark, who was based in Los Alamos. ”

Andy and Chords glanced at each other, and many words were unspoken.

In order to make it easier for Diana to understand, Andy explained briefly.

"Diana, remember the terrorists who used dirty bombs to bomb everywhere? They came from Los Alamos, and the weapon that fired the dirty bomb was a pre-war prototype experimental weapon left behind in the military base, called Nuke Nelly, a cannon that was planned to be used to launch nuclear bombs, and the plan was made by Dr. William Clark... But now the problem has been completely solved. ”

Andy paused and came to a conclusion.

"William Clark is dead, and I killed him with my own hands."

Diana inquired at length about the reservations' plans and about William Clark, and finally sighed.

"I see, I still wonder who is still fighting the idea of using nuclear weapons after the Great War brought so much devastation to the world, it is a great irony that he was in charge of the work before the war, that what was claimed to be used to protect the whole SA has the opposite effect, and now it seems that all of us who have survived from the old world to the present day should be withdrawn from the stage of history, and all the existence that rebels against the laws of biological survival will eventually become a reactionary part of the historical process that hinders progress, Because the people who have destroyed the world are destined to do the same thing. ”

She was silent for a moment, then plucked herself out again.

"But I can't, I still have to guard the nursery, that is the only hope for the world's ecology to recover, until humanity is qualified to accept this gift, I have to watch over it, this is my destiny."

Andy interrupted her self-pity, he felt a little strange, Diana had changed a little bit compared to before, he couldn't say what the specific change was, the intensity that seeped out from the inside out when they first met in the nursery. The 'sense of inhumanity' seems to be beginning to fade in her, which may also be explained by Diana's change from the habit of living alone in the nursery and autism, before the earthquake at the nursery she had only limited communication with a few trespassers and the children of the two-mother tribe, but now she often wanders around the pre-war facilities throughout the Greater Southwestern Federal Region, and even takes the initiative to contact Andy to ask him to act according to her instructions to stop the 'environmental pollution'.

"Okay, Diana, what we are doing now is to prevent the world from being destroyed again, this thing is absolutely correct, absolutely righteous, there is no need for any superfluous self-doubt and ideological vacillation, we must use every strength and every second of time to achieve it."

Andy's focus fell on another piece of code that hadn't yet been settled.

"Diana, you said that in addition to the launch code, you also need an access code, how can this code be obtained?"

Diana gave a straightforward answer.

"I think it's more likely that this code will be stored inside the dome, and it should be stored in the storage array by the ZAx there."