Chapter 34: Such a Soul
Loading the last eyeball robot into the car, Andy closed the door and walked to the cab. The cylinder brain was 'sitting' in the passenger seat of the cab and chatting with the two people in the back.
"I've never seen a robot like you, what would you do?"
"I can do what you can do, and I can do what you can't do, does that make you feel useless? I'm sorry, I think that's a fact. β
"In your head... Is that a brain? β
"What's there if you don't have a brain in your head? Do you only have water in your head? β
"Didn't your maker tell you to talk to humans, you abominable robot?"
"If you only say this kind of thing, I, a 'robot', will definitely not talk to you properly." ............ Andy shook his head silently, started the car and drove east.
This time when he went back to the nursery, he told Diana some ideas about the future layout, the large, central and western federal regions are being invaded by both the western and eastern forces, and many of their own forces are also intertwined and complicated, and this chaotic environment clearly does not have a bright future.
To this end, he proposed to Diana a special plan, although the destruction of the GEcK factory was already irreversible, but GEcK's stock was still in the nursery, and until the months before the war, all the orders placed by Vault Tec were still not completed, and even if they were completed, many were not shipped away.
Once these GEcKs are put into various settlements and tribes, they will be extremely effective in improving social productivity and the living standards of members, and accelerating the iteration of social systems.
In New Canaan, Andy saw the miracle of rebuilding the ruins overnight after three GEcKs were activated at the same time; In the Blackfoot Tribe, after convincing the chieftain Kurisu to shift the subject of tribal development from the slave trade to normal trade, the tribesmen there were quickly civilized by the development of trade at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Diana had chosen to let the surrounding human settlements develop naturally due to various concerns, and most of the humans had been stranded in the tribal society for a long time, and this situation seemed to Andy to have a need for change urgently: the Ouroboros, or Hecate Alliance, the most powerful force in the Great Southwestern Federation, was developing rapidly but also rapidly becoming extreme, and often launched violent attacks on the tribes that refused to meet its demands, resulting in many tragedies.
However, after Andy's on-the-ground observation and comprehensive analysis, he can only think that this form of organization is necessary for the time being, Hekat has contributed to spreading the fruit of hope to end the new plague, relatively speaking, neither the NcR in the west nor the Caesar Legion in the east have any bright spots in the response strategy of the tribal areas, the NcR adopted a strategy of 'marginalization' and 'soft assimilation' after the military annexation of the Buraku, while the Caesar Legion directly and brutally erased the tribal culture and forcibly turned the Buraku into soldiers or slaves.
In contrast, although Hekat used chemical mythology and violence to dominate the tribes, it did put an end to the protracted vendetta between the various tribes in the region, and objectively improved the medical level and birth rate of the tribesmen, and its response to the invasion of external forces was also relatively tough, especially against Caesar's legions.
However, limited by the level of productivity, Hekat's kingdom will be in a period of slavery for a long time, and the tribes are superficially subservient but in fact have their own evil intentions, and they are also very emotional about the blood-sucking actions of Hekat's daughters, both in terms of organizational tightness and social productivity, they are weak compared to the NcR or Caesar's legions.
Under the current situation of the shift of the focus of the NcR eastward movement, it is imperative to support Hekat to resist the invasion of Caesar's legion, and Andy does not see how much chance Hekate has to win, once the Ouroboros country fails and collapses, for the Caesar legion, which is accustomed to annexing and transforming the tribesmen for its own use, it is simply a fat meat to the mouth, and then the hungry legion will definitely continue to march westward, and the wheels of the chariot will crush all obstacles along the way.
So to make sure that doesn't happen, it's important to use something that can quickly transform Ouroboros.
Diana finally agreed to spread GEcK to parts of the outside world after chatting with him for a while, but she still needs to make some adjustments in terms of GEcK's safety issues, which Andy can of course understand, he has seen too many evil consequences after GEcK gets out of control in the nursery, this thing is not particularly strong, a person can destroy it with a heavy weapon, and once GEcK is destroyed, it is not as simple as leaking a little radiation, The subsequent effects of uncontrolled environmental modification and biological mutation are enough to be called a disaster.
As a result, Diana needed to make some security packaging modifications to the GEcK inventory at hand. She promised that she would choose a suitable time point after completion, and select one to three suitable targets to release these safe versions of GEcK as a pilot, although the effect will be reduced, but safety is the first priority.
That is, of course, for a later date. Andy spun the steering wheel to dodge a few spears, and several Buraku popped up high on the north side.
This situation is all too common, except for the daughter of Hekate, no matter who you are, it is a great courage to dare to cross miles in this area, there will always be a chaotic number of tribesmen who will attack you for various reasons, such as: 'invasion of territory', 'disrespect for gods', 'daily hunting', 'mistaking the enemy', 'disagreeing with you', etc... If you're a merchant with goods, the reasons become even more.
Alexandra opened the skylight and poked her head out to shoot a few shots with her shotgun in response, and Chrissy joined in the fun, and the sudden counterattack caused the tribesmen to shrink their heads in confusion.
"Stop." Andy turned back and admonished them.
"It's never a good thing to make a big splash in a place like this." Alexandra returned to the carriage at this point, and Chrissy was a little puzzled by her lack of knowledge to operate in this remote area, but her doubts were quickly answered.
Several monsters crawled out of the hole not far away, these huge mutant bears had sparse hair, revealing a disgusting and slippery black and green skin, a pair of cloudy white eyes full of rage and ferocity, their sharp claws and thick arms were enough to overturn the atomic Humvee, and the muscles of the tongue in their mouths alone exploded with more power than humans could have imagined.
"Oh my God!" Chrissy was startled by the monsters that roared down the mountain, and Alexandra hesitated with the shotgun in her hand and didn't fire.
"It's hard for a bullet to penetrate their skin, but it can provoke them." With a snort, he rolled down the window and fired several brain waves at the monsters, and these blue energy waves flew over, causing the hit monsters to scream, and then the monsters began to collide with each other and attack each other.
Andy took the opportunity to slip away with one foot on the accelerator. Chrissy looked back at the beasts with a shocked look on her face.
"Do you see these horrible things on your side often?" Alexandra nodded.
"Utah is rich in these, you haven't been to those places that are really beautiful, the more beautiful the environment, the more these things will be haunted... I once traveled to a place called Zion, which was really heaven on earth, and I even wanted to stay there until I ran into one of these monsters. Chrissy covered her mouth.
"Then you... How did you survive? Alexandra slapped the shotgun in her hand.
"By my old fellow, and... Luckily, the monster probably just ate it. β.................. In the evening, several people rested in the car.
Andy looked at the location on the map, there was still some way to go from the Dog City. It would have been best if Mayor Dodge had already made a move, but if not... I have to think of another way, even if I don't hesitate to spend the bottle cap, there are a lot of precious materials in the ruins of Denver, which is the most reliable source of garbage, and it must not be ignored, as for how to pull it back... I really can't buy another carriage.
Chrissy and Alexandra fell asleep next to each other, the cylinder brain didn't need to sleep, sleep could be done anytime and anywhere for him, and he only needed to turn off the machine regularly for maintenance, so he was drinking Coke there now, and it was a quantum coke, and the liquid in the glass bottle was pure blue and was emitting a dreamy light.
"I'll go to the bathroom." Andy casually threw some garbage out of the car and walked out like that.
"I'll go too!" Andy looked back at the brain-controlled robot in confusion.
"What are you going to do? Do you still need to go to the toilet? Tank Brain issued a serious protest.
"Why don't I need to go to the toilet? Didn't I show it to you? Andy thought about it, indeed, the bastard had drunk too much Nuka-Cola and sprayed the waste liquid at him.
"I forgot that you still need to 'put water' after drinking Coke, so don't pee on me." The cylinder brain jumped out of the car and slammed it on the door, not caring whether it would wake up the people in the car.
"Don't worry, I can still provide you with some lighting, you don't know, right, the urine that comes out of the urine after drinking Quantum Cola will glow!" The two walked to a corner and found a small ditch and began to pee, as the tank brain said, his 'pee' was indeed glowing...
"What the hell is this thing made of? Why does it glow? Andy looked at the glowing droplets with vigilance, not thinking that this thing was suitable for drinking, what kind of guy would have a clear conscience to produce such a horrible 'drink' before the war.
The tank brain waved an arm very proudly.
"Humph! Ignorant guy, Nuka-Cola, the manufacturer of Quantum Cola, is very groundbreaking in adding a certain amount of strontium-90 to the formula of the original Nuka-Cola, which can not only greatly improve the taste, but also bring customers a lot of fresh experience, after drinking it will have a refreshing feeling of soaring, and the most important point is that it is completely non-toxic and harmless, woohoo! "Andy doesn't know what 'seems to be 90', but he has reservations.
"Is it soaring or ascending... Forget it, I'm not going to drink it anyway. Pulling up his trousers, he was about to pull the waistband of his pants and take someone away, when he suddenly saw something unusual in the ditch through the light of the 'urine' of the tank.
Raising his hand and pressing the switch of the helmet, the special mode of the eyepiece was turned on, and his eyes became red, but the darkness was completely dispelled.
From this perspective, he saw a corpse lying there. The reason why it was certain that the corpse and not the unconscious person was because her head was so unsightly that the entire top of her head had been opened, and her head was stuffed with something.
"This isβ" The Tank Brain noticed Andy's strangeness, so he also adjusted the pattern of his electronic eyes to look at the place where he had been peeing indiscriminately, and then saw the miserable corpse as well.
"Oh!" He turned the crawler down the ditch and came to a conclusion after some inspection.
"Women, probably in their early twenties, have a lot of layers in their clothes.... What kind of weird thing is this, poison? Who lifted her skull... Oh, found it! He ran about two or three meters away and picked up a skull with hair.
"It's a funny hairstyle." Andy looked at the hair attached to the skull fragments in the hands of the cylinder clip, the braided hair...
"She's a daughter of Hecate, why did she die here?" Saying that, Andy also walked down the ditch, turned on the light of the beep boy and looked at the stuff in the corpse's head, which was actually some stones... He carefully took one out, and the stone was painted with some colored lines.
Dropping the stone, Andy grabbed the stiff limbs of the corpse and looked at it, all of which were traces of binding and struggle, this man may have been brutally tortured before he died, he was cranioped alive, his face was severely distorted by pain, his tongue seemed to be cut off in his wide open mouth, and the body was discarded in a ditch after death, and it was not too early to happen, because the meat had not yet been eaten by animals such as coyotes.
Andy didn't want to imagine, but he couldn't control the association, this daughter of Hecate, who was originally sent by Hecate to a certain tribe, should have enjoyed a pampered life, and the shaman who replaced the tribe relied on Hecate's prestige to do whatever she wanted, but she was tied up by the tribesmen for some reason, cut off her tongue with some sharp weapon, and then split her skull, and stuffed some painted stones into her brain alive until she died, I don't know what pigment the colored lines on those stones were painted with, but there were still scorched black marks on them, It was like it had been burned by flames.
"What a savage cannibal can do." The tank brain looked at the corpse and came to this conclusion.
Andy thought more.
"It's not that simple... This woman is the daughter of Hecate, she serves a woman who claims to be a god, and whose warriors are cruel, but these people dare to do such a desperate thing... What does this mean? Something had made them lose their fear of Hekate, so that they were no longer afraid of Hekate's revenge. Tankhead shook his arm to show that he couldn't understand.
"I don't understand what you're saying, it's all dead, let's get out of here quickly, that woman's expression is weird and terrifying." Andy took one last look at the body lying in the ditch and turned to walk up.
"You're still scared, you've 'urinated' her, and if she turns into a ghost, she'll definitely come to you." The cylinder brain spun rapidly and left the track.
"Don't listen, don't listen, there are no ghosts in the world!"