webnovelfull Chapter 38: Small Town, Artifacts and Volunteers
Chapter 38: Small Town, Artifacts and Volunteers
Two days later.
Yi Beiwang and others returned to Shelter Hill with many useful items in large and small bags, and stopped as soon as they arrived in Concord.
Huh? Did I have hallucinations from staying up late these past two days? Why did I seem to see a small town appear here?
If I remember correctly, Concord was desolate and no one lived there before. What's going on?
Concord at this time was very different from its previous dilapidated state. It was surrounded by simple walls built with stone and wood, and there was a gun platform every few meters.
There were caravans gathering at the gate to trade, and at first glance it looked like a night market on Earth.
Looking inside through the gate, the place was well organized, the buildings had been renovated, and there were shops there.
At the same time, there were also many unfamiliar people. They were all in high spirits and seemed full of hope for the future.
Yi Beiwang looked again and again and couldn't help rubbing his eyes.
Damn, did I fall into a time and space rift on my way back? What year is Concord this?
At this time, the guards patrolling the gate came over, and one of them, dressed as a team leader, rushed over excitedly and shouted, "Boss, you're finally back!"
"Stop, let me ask you first, how long have I been walking?"
"You've probably been gone... Let me calculate, about half a month!"
It's only been half a month and things have developed like this. Are there still such brave men among my subordinates?
Yi Beiwang recognized the captain as the predator killer who was in charge of patrolling at the beginning. He first praised him and then asked, "What is the current situation in Concord? Who is in charge here?"
"Elder Philip is in charge of this place now. Didn't you say that we should unite all the forces we can unite, store up food, and slowly claim the throne?"
"I don't really know the specific situation, but it gradually developed into this."
At this time, Philip didn't know where he got the news from, and ran over in a hurry and said, "Messenger, you are finally back!"
Seeing this, Yi Beiwang quickly made up a sentence and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Elder Philip. The God of Atoms can see your achievements clearly."
"Here you go. This is the reward that the God of Atom asked me to give you. You must keep it well."
After saying that, Yi Beiwang exchanged for a night-shining pearl containing radioactive material and stuffed it into Philip's hand.
Anyway, he lies in the nuclear waste dump every day, so this little radiation should have no effect on him.
Philip treated it as a treasure, patted the wrinkles on his body, took it solemnly, and held it in his arms, trembling.
At this moment, Philip suddenly remembered something and asked the believer who was following him to go back and get something.
Not long after, the believer came over with a sledgehammer.
The shape of this hammer is quite special. The hammer head is composed of four broken fusion cores, and a thruster is installed at the tail. It looks majestic just by looking at it.
Philip proudly introduced: "The God of Atom gave me a blueprint in a dream some time ago, and I made it according to it. Envoy Yi, you can find someone to use this weapon."
"Uh, okay, does this thing have a name?"
"Yes, it's called the Judgment of the God of Atom!"
Yi Beiwang thought about it and asked Mike, who was still eating next to him, to come over and try it.
Mike did not disappoint him and swung the sledgehammer with ease.
Yi Beiwang nodded in satisfaction and continued to ask, "Concord is developing well. Apart from that, is there anything else happening while we were away?"
"Let me think about it. The crows you mentioned have been cleared out. During this period, we also found some synths, but they said they were out of the control of the academy. I don't know what to do. I thought I would wait for you to come back."
"Oh, by the way, a group of very special people came here a few days ago. I don't know how to comment on them, but I just locked them up. If you have time, go and have a look."
Yi Beiwang nodded, turned to Piper and Kate and said, "You two go put your things away, I'll go see what's going on."
"Okay." x2
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Following Philip into the detention room, several synthetic humans who looked no different from real people were sitting in the cells.
Seeing Phillip coming over with his men, he quickly shouted, "We really have no ill intentions. We have long been out of the control of the academy. Please don't kill us."
Yi Beiwang wanted to kill them directly, but then he thought of Nick. Maybe not all synths deserved to die, so he asked, "How can I trust you?"
The leading synthetic human didn't say anything and took out a piece of paper. Yi Beiwang took it and saw several strings of numbers written on it.
"Don't read it. Don't read it. These are our recycling codes. If you input these codes to us through voice, we will die."
"If you don't believe me, you can read the string in the lower right corner. That's our hibernation code."
Yi Beiwang read it doubtfully, and as soon as he finished reading it, all the synthetic humans turned off and did not respond no matter how he fiddled with them.
After a few minutes they turned on automatically again, huddled together and looked at Yi Beiwang humbly.
"Why do you want to come here and seek refuge with me?"
"We heard from the caravan that there was a shortage of people here, so we thought we could try our luck here. We thought you wouldn't notice..."
Yi Beiwang was still worried, so he called Philip and asked him to observe these synthetic humans for a while and then give them some unimportant work to do.
After simply dealing with this group of synthetic humans, Yi Beiwang looked at another cell.
There were about ten people sitting inside, all of them looked dejected, and no one knew what was going on.
One of the black men, who was wearing a white military uniform and a cowboy hat, looked over here eagerly. When he saw Yi Beiwang coming over, he smiled and said, "Hey, brother, are you also from the Volunteer Army?"
"What kind of volunteer army? We are the Xinhuo Army, although we haven't been officially established yet... By the way, who are you? I heard that you guys came all the way here to cause trouble."
"Misunderstanding, all misunderstanding." The man quickly explained: "My name is Preston Garvey, I am a member of the existing federal volunteers, and the purpose of my existence is to help the residents of the federation."
Help? Especially inhumane help like the one provided by the academy.
Yi Beiwang nodded and said, "Oh, I don't think anyone needs help here. What do you want to do with so few people coming here?"
Preston explained: "We heard on the radio that there were looters here and many people were trapped here. We wanted to come over to help, but we were arrested by your people before we could do anything."
Damn, are there any other unincorporated raiders around here besides me?
Yi Beiwang frowned and looked at Philip beside him.
Philip explained quietly, "A caravan suffered a loss here, and then spread some rumors. I will deal with it."
Yi Beiwang waved his hand to indicate that it was not necessary, then looked at Preston and said, "Guess what we do?"
"Well, although I haven't heard of the Xinhuo Army, it should be similar to the Volunteer Army, right?"
"Then do you want to guess what the predecessor of the Xinhuo Army was?"
Looking at the plunderer suit that Yi Beiwang had not had time to change into, Preston had to admit that these people were probably a group of plunderers.
When did the looters become so orderly?
Although he looked down on the predators, Preston was in a bad situation now, so he could only give in and said, "Mr. Yi, I heard about you on the radio on the way here. I know you are different from other predators. We have no intention of offending you. How about we just let this matter go..."
"Don't worry, we are guests. As the saying goes, if you are here, you should make the most of it. Now that you are here, don't think about leaving."
"You...you want to kill us?"
Preston became visibly agitated and his attitude soured.
Yi Beiwang shook his head and explained, "Hey, that would be such a waste. I think you guys are in pretty good shape, so why don't you just stay and carry bricks and farm."
"Don't they say that the Volunteers like to help others? Just stay and help us. How many of you haven't come yet..."
Before he finished speaking, a bald head... no, an old lady in blue clothes came over with a crutch and stared at Yi Bei calmly.
Her eyes were so calm, without any emotion at all, but they made Yi Beiwang feel a little numb.
Yi Beiwang shook his body and said as gently as possible: "Old lady, is there any problem?"
"Just call me Murphy. I asked them to come here."
Murphy just stood there steadily, in stark contrast to the trembling people around him.
She looked at Yi Beiwang's face and said calmly, "Young man, can we talk?"
Yi Beiwang was a little surprised, amazed at how courageous this old lady was.
But he didn't care too much, after all, she was just an old lady. You know, his strength is as high as five points, and he can beat ten old ladies like her.
It's impossible that her strength is higher than mine, hahahaha...
(Note: Murphy's strength in the game is 19 points, and she also said that she killed the Deathclaw with just one bullet, which should be true.)