The string was standing in front of the terminal, nervously communicating with the big dome.

Andy waited patiently on the sidelines, and he couldn't help but wander in thought.

It is no coincidence that the launch code for Hermes XIII will appear on the reservation, because Dr. William Clark was already on the list of scientists who had been invited to the Bloomfield Space Center console to participate in the launch event, so although the launch had never had a chance to be officially completed before the war, the launch code had already reached Dr. William Clark, who worked at Los Alamos.

And Diana said she found that the access code may be in the Great Dome, which means that the situation is similar in both places.

The Great Dome was an important scientific research base in the SA before the war, and although it was no longer the most resource-inclined location in the SA country in the last years before the war due to the new plague and war, the research capacity and technical reserves of the scientific research base should not be underestimated.

There, too, a scientist similar to William Clark was on the list, and it was not unusual for him to get another copy of the code in advance.

But he probably didn't have the good luck of Dr. William Clark, right? Although the Great Dome was not directly hit by a nuclear bomb like Los Alamos, the city of Boulder to the south and the Cheyenne Mountains to the east suffered from the power of the nuclear bomb, and according to Dr. Goddard, the first person to lead the military to the east to discover the ruins of this scientific research base was Dr. Victor Preste, and in the earliest investigation reports, it was stated that this place was empty, there were no 'natives', and it was a terra nullius of great scientific value.

In other words, no matter what happened to the scientists and other staff inside after the war, whether they died or fled, the structure of the Dome was enough to completely shield itself from the aftermath of the nuclear explosion, but there were no endless resources inside, the small hydroponic farm could not grow much food, and if the survivors chose to walk out of the Dome, the mountains in the north would not be an option, the cities of Boulder and Denver in the south would be in ruins, the east would be a terrifying crater, and the situation in the west would not be good...

Perhaps they all died in the wasteland, or perhaps they all joined the ranks of the Buraku people as the wise ancestors of some of today's barbarians.

But Andy felt there was a problem here.

There were many freezers in the Great Dome, and the NcR scientists who arrived at the Great Dome were desperate to be infected by the original strain of the new plague and sent the critically ill into it, that is, the young female scientist and Dr. Goddard's assistant, Nina. She was indeed sent to the freezer for nearly a year, and the freezer successfully helped her avoid the fate of death, during which time she did not need to eat or drink, and her metabolism was close to stagnation under the low temperature.

From a practical point of view, the freezer of the Great Dome is still intact, and those NcR scientists who were tricked into Prester and sent to the freezer after being stunned with codE technology will also be thawed by Dr. Goddard and others in the near future, provided that if the situation improves, Dr. Goddard and Dr. Agnes chose not to thaw them for the time being because the new plague is raging, and they will not be thawed later because of supply shortages and the chaos of the situation, but their luck is actually the best, Whether Prest succeeds or not, they will be fine.

Putting that aside, the question is, why didn't anyone choose to use freezers before the war?

If a pre-war scientist realizes that the end is coming, he can choose to hide himself in a freezer, or even escape the ravages of time until the situation is right.

This sounds dangerous, but it's actually very dangerous, the human body may have all kinds of problems after long-term freezing, and eventually cannot wake up again, or the body will have an irreversible collapse reaction due to various syndromes after awakening, but this is a viable option that can keep people alive, what prevented pre-war scientists from doing this?

He touched his chin and thought more deeply, a question he had never thought so far about before.

In the huge jar inside the Great Dome, the existence known as the 'Think Tank' is a collection of brains, and this scientific project originally used to develop a prototype of a large-scale wet-piece artificial intelligence facility was even selected by some of the scientists of the Great Dome before the Great War. In order to remove the brain, volunteers must undergo brutal brain removal surgery, which may lead to severe brain damage due to automatic mechanical misoperation, and then codE adjustment is required to avoid a breakdown of consciousness, and there is a risk of serious mental trauma caused by the slightest carelessness in this process, and many people do become mentally ill and mentally retarded, or directly brain death.

However, like a tank brain .... Or to use the pre-war name he had discarded, the name he used when he was a human, 'Taylor', that guy still chose to enter this brain sanctuary without hesitation, and managed to survive until the year 2253, even though he also became insane, completely incapacitated, and could only be slaughtered by others, and could no longer be called a human.

Dr. Goddard even found a wicked note while retrieving the data inside the Dome, we can't fit a thousand people into this jar, but a thousand brains can.

It's hard to say which one is better to turn into a brain into a jar or lie down in the freezer to become a popsicle, but I believe most people will think that the latter is always better, but if the latter is not chosen, there is no one, then why?

Isn't it... In fact, some people have chosen, and even many people have chosen, so after the freezer is all used, scientists led by the cylinder brain have no choice but to choose another way? The freezers that are now crammed with NcR scientists were actually human, like Andy saw in .m.b-002 at the bottom of the Grand Canyon... And where did these people go? If they did exist, who removed them?

An answer is on the horizon.

The sound of conversation interrupted Andy's musings.

"Yes, yes, did you find it? Very good. ”

The string looked back with some smiles on his face.

"They found it, and indeed as Diana said, the access code for Hermes XIII is in the Great Dome, which is really hard to find, if it weren't for ZAx's help, Dr. Goddard and Dr. Agnes they don't know how long they would have to find it, the code was tightly sealed in a hidden room, in a terminal, but it couldn't escape ZAx's search."

As he spoke, the strings also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Andy, thanks to your quick enough movements, if the ZAx's low memory problem is not resolved before the final countdown, it will randomly delete any stored data in any storage medium inside the Great Dome, and that code could also be deleted by it directly, but fortunately you helped before everything was undone. I know you went to the Grand Canyon to locate .m.b-002 and finish its mission, and I didn't know how dangerous it was until I went there, and you went to Burnham Springs to find the data tank, and needless to say, I knew it wasn't easy... You're really, really, amazing. ”

The two hugged each other affectionately, and Gillian, who was standing not far away, coughed lightly twice in embarrassment.

Andy lowered his strings and asked curiously a question that had arisen during his previous boring thoughts.

"What is the name of the scientist who was supposed to come to Bloomfield Space Center to participate in the rocket launch?"

String turned and walked over to the terminal to retrieve the data transmitted from the Great Dome.

"It was a pre-war scientist named Matthias Huxley, I remember that I had seen the data set of pre-war scientists in the Great Dome at ZAx in the past, and there were personnel files in it, this Matthias Huxley, if I remember correctly, was the last chief scientist of the Great Dome, and he had extremely high scientific attainments in many fields, especially in aerospace, terminal electronic systems and telematics... If we evaluate these fields alone, it is no exaggeration to say that there was no one in the entire SA scientific community before the Great War, and I believe that this was even more absent after the Great War. ”

"I also saw some interesting information, after the outbreak of the war, the SA government changed the direction of resources, dedicated to the civilian field of the big dome has developed a lot of scientific projects that greatly benefit the people's livelihood, but the government at that time needed scientists to develop something more 'useful', to be precise, can help them destroy a large number of enemies at a low cost in the military field of scientific projects, so at the request of the government, the new SA West Major Scientific Research Center has been established in another place, codenamed ' 'Great Mountains', specializing in research and development in the military field. ”

Andy saw that the terminal interface showed that the data transmission had not yet been completed, and it seemed that it was not so simple to accurately convey the extremely complex code remotely, after all, this was not a direct call at the time of the reservation, so he simply followed the topic and asked.

"Then why didn't this scientist leave the Dome and go to that 'big mountain range'?"

The string sighed.

This is the question I was thinking about at the beginning, and the answer I found was that this scientist actually adhered to the anti-war ideology, he refused the government's appointment and the attraction of massive scientific research resources, superior salary, and even endured some surveillance and persecution, and after everything failed, the SA government could only ask him to continue to conduct research in the civilian field as the chief scientist in the big dome, which was actually completely condescending to him. The last major research projects before the war seemed to be related to the development of life-sustaining technologies that could be used to avoid nuclear war, and due to insufficient resources, he had to pull sponsors everywhere, including General Atomics International and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to work together to complete the development of these projects. Of course, he also has to share the results of scientific research in the process, which is also a helpless choice. ”

"I believe that the reason why he did this is to let more people survive the nuclear war, after all, the number of shelters built by Vault technology is too scarce, and the qualifications are either extremely scarce or extremely expensive, and they can't save most of the people in SA at all, but unfortunately his efforts are still a step late, if the SA government can give him enough support, the population of today's wasteland should not be so withered."

Andy nodded, his mouth uncontrollably emotional.

"It would be nice if there were more such people in the pre-war world for such a talented and persistent scientist, compared to most of the other scientists of his generation who either chose to become accomplices of the SA government or gradually became crazy guys after the Great War, such as the Dr. William Clark we met on the reservation, who was obviously from the same era as this Dr. Matthias Huxley, who was lucky enough to survive the bombing of a nuclear bomb but eventually planned to launch an indiscriminate massacre with a dirty bomb."

The string nodded approvingly.

"Diana... Isn't it the same, the former Dr. Tina Stone was also a person of that era, she was also a talented and persistent scientist, and she was in the state she was in now... I'm really fascinated, and as you know, I've always had a special affection for AI, so I'm in the Big Dome with ZAx. And Diana, she is like a real moon goddess in my eyes. ”

She looked at Andy, and suddenly revealed some strange looks, as if she wanted to say something to Andy, but finally gave up, Andy didn't know what she was thinking, and the question was only perfunctory.

Diana's voice suddenly rang out.

"You've won the prize, string, no one can understand and understand what has happened to me over the years, and many times I have almost been lost. Although I don't know exactly what happened to Dr. William Clark after the war, he was also a scientist who was widely praised by the scientific community before the war as not only a scientist who had made great achievements in the field of science but also had idealistic feelings in terms of personality. The security supervisor's monitoring and supervision. I've never been to Los Alamos to work with him, but I've heard about his reputation in the scientific community during my time at Poseidon Energy and Greenway Hydroponics. ”

"I believe that he was also a really good man, a really good scientist, but not everyone can stand the test and torture of time, and it is clear that his will did not hold on to the end, which caused him to go backwards and lead him astray, although it is indeed worth spurning, but he is dead, if you are willing to compare your heart to your heart, maybe you will not be so disgusted with him again."

Andy and the two listened silently, it turned out that the ugly and crazy Dr. William Clark had also done this.

A prompt sounded, and the Great Dome had transmitted the Hermes XIII access code to Blonnfield.

Andy nervously watched Diana carry out extremely fast program operations, and various interfaces kept popping up on the main large terminal screen in the control room of the Bloomfield Space Center, and finally a detailed map of the interior of a rocket appeared, which was marked with a large amount of information data on various parts, which meant that the access code did work, and Diana could already view the details of Hermes XIII.

After a long time, her voice rang out.

"It's a bit of a problem, Andy, you have to be prepared, there are some missing things that can't be put in place by remote communication and data transmission, and it all needs to be done as quickly as possible."