Chapter 42: Collision Before and After

"You're discriminating! Why?! The tank brain was noisy in the trunk, and Andy plucked his ears and didn't hear it.

With the addition of batteries, the Atomic Humvee did not have enough seats, and the only solution to this problem was for one passenger to use his or her own strengths to make concessions for everyone's next move.

In human terms, it's to stuff the tank brain into the trunk. Elder Billings is a humble man, one of the few people in the Brotherhood that Andy can trust, believing that he will find a place to dispose of the enriched uranium as he says, so as not to bring it back to Fort Maxson and become a hidden danger, and no one knows what those crazy Rings of Steel will do, assassinating the Dodge Mayor, robbing caravans, financing marauders, and finally even poisoning his own elders... The probability of something happening has to be made zero.

He drove the car, thinking that since he had finally come to Mesa Verde, he might as well take the opportunity to take a trip to the Twin Mother Tribe.

But as she approached the valley, Diana's communication suddenly rang on the Pip-Boy.

"Andy..."

"What's wrong?"

"No need to go in to see my kids, I've asked ZAx remotely to sort out all the unnecessary materials and send out a robot to transport them, which may be a little slower, but it's even slower if you do it alone."

"That's great, I've got one last place to go, and I'll be back to Bloomfield after that."

"As soon as I could, I found out that Prester seems to have made a breakthrough lately, and I was no joke when I said a month, we still have work to do in Blomfield." Andy put down the beep-beep boy and turned the steering wheel to drive back to the west.

A few of her teammates chatted boredly as usual, and Chrissy curiously asked the battery about the Buraku people's lives.

"I've heard that your lives are very... Uh, raw? I don't know if that's the case. Battery touched his head, he actually didn't understand some of the words in Chrissy's lingua franca sentences, because they weren't common words.

"Do you mean the environment in which we live? Yes, I have traveled to the western part of the country where you live, and it is always yellow, full of sand and dust, and there is hardly any green to be seen. Chrissy was full of embarrassment, and Alexandra next to her chuckled and said what Chrissy meant.

"She is asking you if you live a very primitive life, except for planting some drought-tolerant potatoes in the fields every day, feeding bighorn sheep with leftovers, living in tattered leather tents, drinking some muddy and dirty water, and treating illness as the punishment of the gods, and only knowing that they beat their heads and bleeds in order to fight for women and other people around them, or rob people with good things when they see them, they are a group of completely ignorant fools and depraved scoundrels."

"Do you want to ask that?" The look of embarrassment on Chrissy's face intensified.

"I... I don't think so," Alexandra snapped disdainfully.

"Forget it, how can you NcR people not think so, you will always think that you are the only one who is the most civilized, I have been in contact with NcR soldiers like you, and all of this I said is an excerpt from what they said themselves, you know, especially in the NcR army, frankly, terrible... in every sense. Hearing this, the battery froze there on the spot, and only after a moment did he retort angrily.

"Not really! We're not like that! We have our own greenhouse, we have our own condenser, we eat our own radishes and potatoes, we drink pure water, we don't raise those bighorn sheep who and mess with people, but purified breeds of moles, which taste great, are clean, and have super reproductive ability... We know that people get sick because of invisible bugs, and we even know what they look like, because the kiva left by our ancestors is recorded, we know how to deal with them, we are never jealous of other people's wealth, we don't attack other people for no reason..."Chrissy was stunned for a moment, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

Alexandra sighed and patted Chrissy beside her.

"You NcR people from the west always think that those natives are wild monkeys rolling in the mud, in fact, they are also human beings, and they have the same thoughts and feelings as us, but they may develop a little slower in the group and as a whole, but there is a chance to catch up, don't be brainwashed by the statements of those politicians... The missionaries sent out by New Canaan in the past had the same conjecture as you before they left New Canaan, but all the people who went out deep into the tribe had a drastic change in their minds when they returned, without exception. Before Chrissy could say anything, Battery continued.

"I've been in contact with you westerners, right there... It's called Jericho, you're not smart at all, many of you don't even understand what invisible fire is, you eat all that filthy stuff every day, you don't care for your people, you use them as tools and possessions, you can do anything to get those weird metal gadgets, you often send armies everywhere to occupy other people's land, you... You guys... Why do you think so of us? Chrissy leaned back and explained.

"Oh, no, no, no, I'm not, I haven't seen you like that... Well, I've been influenced by a few other people, but, we've seen firsthand those since we came to the East... The slave trade and looting, especially among the very large tribes, I remember one was called... It's called the tribe of blackfeet, oh no, the tribe of blackfeet, they're justโ€”" Battery scratched his head and shook his head irritably.

"Blackfoot doesn't represent all of us, they're notorious even among us... We may have been beaten down by Hekate's mad woman in this regard lately, but that doesn't mean we're all like that. Andy added in the car.

"Blackfoot has taken a turn for the better, though it may not have been all smooth sailing, and I had persuaded their chiefs to abandon the slave trade and hunting system, and to break with Caesar's legions." Chrissy was clearly unaware of the incident and shrugged her shoulders to show her innocence.

"Sorry, I don't really know that, I've never been so deep into the east, actually... This was also the first time I had a face-to-face conversation with an easterner. There was silence in the car for a while, Andy drove the car and thought, this car is really amazing, there are pure NcR people like Chrissy who are soldiers of the NcR army, there are pure tribesmen like Battery who are born in the remote eastern crypto tribe, and there are also wastelanders like Alexandra who are sandwiched between the two, not NcR people and not Buraku...

"Everyone, I still have a place to go, and it may be inconvenient for you to go in at that time, so you can wait for me in the car for a while, and you can take the supplies in the car yourself." Andy had just finished speaking, and the trunk was heard again.

"Humph! I'll drive away while you're away! Andy smiled and didn't take the words to heart.

"When this is over, we'll go back to Blonnfield at once, and then again, which of you would like to go to space with me? Now there's still ... Well, there are four more slots. Alexandra expressed her attitude first.

"Of course it doesn't matter if you need me, I'm here to be part of the plan to save the world." Chrissy hesitated.

"This.... It sounded dangerous, but it was the same if I stayed on the ground and did nothing, and I was just worried about whether I would be able to get used to flying that high. The battery looked at the three people with a confused expression, and didn't understand what it meant, wasn't it going to repair a 'big iron arrow' from the old world?

Why do you talk about flying to the sky? Andy briefly explained to him, and his eyes widened in fright.

"You say... You said you want to fly all the way to a very high place with that big iron arrow? Is it as high as a cloud? Andy nodded.

"Taller than the clouds." The battery made an exaggerated wow sound.

"Taller than the clouds! You... Do you want to be with the sun? Andy couldn't help but laugh.

"No, no, no, you're exaggerating, we're far from the sun, not to that extent... We're just a little bit out of this planet. Battery clutched his forehead and slumped in his seat, as if he was going to pass out.

"Oh my God, oh my God, you know what you're going to do, right? Fly so high, you will be engulfed in invisible fire, the kiva left by the ancestors reads, in the extremely high nothingness, filled with invisible fire, a thousand times more terrible than what we can touch on the ground! 10,000 times! There was a laugh from the trunk.

"You stupid native, don't you know how to shield yourself from radiation? Ah, yes, you can't help it. "The battery was already confused about the existence of the tank brain, and now it is even more skeptical.

"That talking tin can must be one of the many demons created by the people of the old world, I have seen that kind of green muscle monster with my own eyes, it is very scary, it should be the same existence, I think we should throw it away as soon as possible." When the tank brain heard this, he suddenly lost his breath.

"I think you're the only one who should have been left in this car! You idiot knows what science, I don't know why someone would have to take you! You don't even understand what I am, you ignorant primitive! Andy laughed twice.

"Don't be nervous, the battery, the cylinder brain is just a machine... Well, how can I say that you can understand, an iron man, like the kind of machine that can move itself as recorded in the kiva of your ancestors. The grunt of dissatisfaction came again.

"You're the robot! Your whole family is robots! Battery pointed his trembling fingers in the direction of the trunk, and his face did not dare to turn away, as if he was hiding from something unclean.

"Oh, it's impossible, it's not going to be an iron man, although the iron man can move on its own, but it completely conforms to the law of numbers, you see this demon, it's... It has its own evil thoughts, Iron Man won't be like this, you don't want to be deceived by it! Andy couldn't help but continue to explain to Battery what exactly a 'brain-controlled robot' is.

"Actually, he is really not an iron man in the full sense of the word, his head was originally a human head, but he used tools to transfer his head from the human body to the iron man's body, so that he can live from the old world to the present... That's not quite right, it should be said that after his head was removed from his body, he was soaked in a kind of... Something that kept his head from rotting, until someone took him out of that thing and put him on the body of an iron man, so he was still a man in a sense. "The battery is full of incomprehension.

"It won't rot... Stuff? Someone soaked it in salt water? Or worse, something poisonous! God, I can't even imagine a human head being pulled out, this is really a demonic act, only a demon would do such a thing, this is a way to tear people's souls apart and make people feel restless forever! That crippled soul soaked in something poisonous is bound to be severely distorted, and then combined with Iron Man, oh my God, it's against all numbers, I don't know how to describe it..."The Tank Brain shouted angrily again.

"You stupid monkey, someone who knows nothing about great science thinks like you! I have abandoned the useless biological body to complete a great transformation that can be completed with the help of machinery, because of this transformation, I have no limit on the life of the body, I am immortal, my mind will remain normal after your primitive body turns into a puddle of pus for hundreds or even thousands of years, as for you, you brute monkey, you will be forgotten by this world, like a touch of dust that no one cares about, and I will never! The battery also became agitated, and he spoke out loud what he had to say in his worldview.

"Nope! No! No! You demons are all fallacies that poison people's souls, they are all misled by you to be with you, but you don't want to mislead me, you are not what you used to be, the moment your head was torn off and soaked in salt water, you have become a monster, you are a monster that should not exist! You have broken the rules of numbers, you want to run away from 0 and 1, deceive the world and create more pollution, and my children and grandchildren will live forever and remember my name in their souls after you are discovered that you have poisoned and destroyed you, and your broken soul will be forgotten by the world after being judged, and will be burned forever by the invisible fire! Cylinder yelled and banged the lid of the trunk with his arm.

Andy immediately stopped the two from continuing to spray each other, and it was a long time before they finally truce. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, he really didn't expect this fierce quarrel to happen between such two people...