Thanks to Captain Vincent's strong sense of direction and intuition, a team composed of twelve volunteers, eight immortal army elites and two two-headed oxen quickly found the derailed train under a cliff.
Behind the damaged nuclear-powered locomotive, dozens of paint-peeling carriages lay quietly on the side of the railway track, like sealed treasure boxes waiting for treasure hunters to open.
Worryingly, however, when everyone dispersed to search for the weapons carriages, fresh Deathclaw footprints and feces were found next to a carriage containing a large amount of pre-war canned food, confirming that there were indeed a number of them near the sheltered hills. Unknown deathclaw.
"Hey! Come to me, everyone! I've made a big discovery!"
Before they had time to rejoice at the volunteer soldiers' decision to move all the residents of the settlement, everyone heard Milia's greeting coming from not far away.
As several people quickly arrived in front of an overturned iron-gray carriage, Vincent knocked on its airtight door and outside with his knuckles, and then immediately shook his head, obviously not thinking about their crude cutting equipment. Such a thick armored carriage can be cut through in a short time.
But as a wasteland scholar, Ms. Hall's rich knowledge reserve allowed her to find a terminal for entering the password at the back door of the carriage. Although they don't have much confidence in their decoding abilities, for now, the volunteers may not have any more options.
Glancing calmly at the hacker in the team, Fritz shook his head slightly, signaling the other party not to rush to take action. Past experience tells him that when trying to gain the trust of others, providing help in times of need is much more effective than adding icing on the cake.
As expected, within a few minutes, Ms. Hall was defeated in front of a military-grade encryption terminal. Just when she was dejected and was about to let Vincent try to break the door violently, Fritz let the hacker who was already itching to come on board.
Taking a closer look at the terminal's unpretentious appearance, Changsheng Army hacker Anderson Bowman, who had received professional training from the group, found that the technology it used was very backward. Not only was the entire machine running based on transistors, but even the data relied on tapes. This product from unknown years ago is stored.
But how can professional hackers be defeated by this small difficulty.
Bowman took out a universal decoder that looked like a USB flash drive from his pocket and plugged it into the terminal's only external interface. In order to be literally universal, the decoder came with a decoder consisting of hundreds of thousands of The induction interface composed of nanorobots allows users to access the device at will under any circumstances.
Although he has always criticized the fact that universal decoders may squeeze the living space of hackers, when the need arises, Bowman has to admit that this thing is indeed useful.
Inserting, parsing, deciphering, opening, everything is so natural and smooth. At the moment when the code was unlocked, technologies from different eras were perfectly combined by the nanorobots, without any sense of forced fusion.
As the carriage door slowly opened under the drive of the motor, Captain Vincent took the lead and threw a lighting rod into the dark carriage, raised the laser gun and walked in carefully.
Turning on a switch at random, when the light illuminated the dazzling array of goods in the armored carriage, the heartbeats of all the volunteers present slowed down for half a beat, as if they were in an unrealistic dream.
Even if those locked metal weapon boxes have not been opened, the three powered armors with cold light on the side of the carriage are already a rare treasure. Especially for the volunteers who are in desperate need of heavy weapons to support the scene, any piece of powered armor may change the outcome of the battle.
Ms. Hall's eyes sparkled when she saw the power armor. She didn't bother to discuss the short-lived universal decoder with Bowman, so she walked into the carriage and murmured to the three armors: "Oh my God! Three Intact power armor!”
"A T45, a T60, and a T51-B! Look at this thick anti-explosion coating. I dare say the Brotherhood of Steel doesn't have many T51s. I didn't expect that we would find one today!"
With slightly trembling hands, he picked up a weapon box randomly from the weapons boxes scattered throughout the carriage. When he came outside and pried it open, everyone was surprised to find two plasma rifles neatly placed inside. After opening several weapon boxes one after another, everyone realized that all the boxes in the carriage were most likely filled with plasma weapons and matching plasma ammunition.
You must know that even before the war, plasma weapons were considered high-tech, and they could only be seen in elite troops and laboratories that had received special training. As for the wasteland two hundred years later, plasma weapons are even rarer. The vast majority of wastelanders will never have the opportunity to come into close contact with these crystallizations of pre-war technology in their entire lives.
Although it was unknown why there were so many plasma rifles in this carriage that was originally scheduled to be sent to Boston, the volunteers at this time were too lazy to discover the truth.
Regrettably, after inspection, Ms. Hall found that none of the three power armors were equipped with nuclear fusion cores to supply energy, so how to transport them immediately caused confusion among those present.
As if he had thought of some good idea, Hall suddenly slapped his head and shouted: "Go and see if there are any remaining nuclear fusion cores in that locomotive! I remember that each locomotive of this model consists of four It is driven by a core, which means that if we are lucky, we will still have one nuclear fusion core left."
As a unique technology in the radiation world, nuclear fusion core, as the name suggests, is a portable nuclear battery the size of a can. It was widely used in industrial, commercial and military fields before the war.
After the nuclear fusion core is activated, its internal conversion device will capture a huge amount of radioactive energy produced in the micro-fusion reaction, and provide a steady stream of power to a variety of equipment through a unified standard interface at the tail of the core.
For example, in civilian use, there are nuclear-powered cars and generators. In military use, the most representative ones are naturally the power armor and the heavy weapons used in supporting armor, combat robots, etc. in front of everyone.
Although small in size, each nuclear fusion core with qualified quality can provide sufficient energy supply for a single power armor for more than a hundred years before stopping working.
However, Fritz is no stranger to this basic information about the core of nuclear fusion.
Because Hoover in the water world once exchanged hundreds of tons of fresh sea fish from General Nora for a nuclear fusion core and supporting generator to provide power for his beloved ocean-going fishing boat "Lucky", this information naturally also It was recorded in the archives of the Eternal Life Army for the advance team to review.
However, as a soldier, Fritz was still more interested in the three powered armors in front of him that were similar in shape but had their own characteristics. After all, the imperial army was also equipped with a large number of powered exoskeletons produced by the group.
And purely judging from the shape, he believes that the power armor in the radiation world is more inclined to "humanoid tanks", so except for mobility, these armors should be superior to low-cost light exoskeletons in all aspects.
Finding Fritz staring intently at the three power armors, Ms. Hall, who had a crush on the handsome blond guy, came over. Before the volunteers who went to search for nuclear fusion cores had returned, she took the initiative to introduce him to them. The models and general differences of Taiwan’s power armor.
This is knowledge that is not commonly used in the wasteland. It can be said that except for wasteland scholars like Hall, not many people can tell the differences between various models and versions of power armor.
Speaking of power armor, we have to mention West Tek. The company was a major defense contractor in the United States before the war, and the T-series power armor was produced by them.
Since non-renewable resources such as oil and coal in the radiation world have been exhausted before the outbreak of nuclear war, the American government in 2065 had to find substitutes for their armored forces that had not yet completed nuclear power modifications, and Western Technology was The U.S. military, which is about to be imminent, has provided a production plan for the T45 power armor.
The T45 power armor in the compartment is not the earliest T45-A type, but the later improved T45-D type power armor. The latter has better protection capabilities and comprehensive performance than the former, and its excellent combat effectiveness helped the US military win many battles during the nuclear war.
However, the heat dissipation problem caused by the nuclear fusion core has not yet been solved. If they need to rely on power armor for a long time to fight, soldiers need to wear special jumpsuits to avoid being burned by the high temperature inside the T45 power armor that is difficult to reduce.
Of course, jumpsuits can also make soldiers feel more comfortable and provide some bulletproof capabilities.
For a complete T45 power armor, the insulating jumpsuit is only the innermost layer. The second layer is the main body of the power armor, a basic skeleton made of alloy materials, bulletproof fabrics and metal plating. The third layer, which is the outermost layer, is the turn of the heavy external metal armor, hydraulic system and servo motor.
At the same time, taking into account the needs of the combat environment, the T45 power armor's helmet has a built-in filtration system that can effectively filter radiation dust and a high-brightness headlight. The legs are integrated with a hydraulic shock absorption system, allowing soldiers to move from a height of more than ten meters. You won't be hurt if you just jump off.
After becoming the largest defense contractor in the United States with its T45 power armor, the ambitious Western Technology immediately began the design of the next generation of power armor. However, due to various complex reasons, it took nearly ten years for the T51 power armor to turn from drawings to reality, and the performance of the prototype was quite average.
It was not until Western Technology improved several models during the war and added gyro stabilizers and shock absorbers to the T51 power armor that the US military solved the problem of the T51 easily rolling over due to its own weight during a hard landing.
From the appearance, the armor part of the T51 power armor is more rounded and composed of improved multi-layer composite materials, which is enough to protect the soldiers inside from radiation and some weapons.
Although many people think that the overly rounded design makes the T51 look much less attractive than the T45, on a battlefield filled with bullets, soldiers must still prefer the T51 power armor.
The most noteworthy thing is that the T51 power armor's integrated liquid cooling backpack solves the heat dissipation problem that has plagued the old model for ten years, allowing some soldiers with unique tastes to even enter the power armor without wearing clothes, greatly reducing the cost. It reduces the tediousness of the wearing process and improves the combat effectiveness of power armor in disguise.
As a result, the T51-B type, which comprehensively surpassed its predecessor T45, became the most equipped power armor in the US military at that time, and made great achievements in combat all over the world.
However, what surprises many wasteland scholars is that the latest T60 power armor to appear is not an improved version of the T51, but an improved version of the T45.
Although there is not much difference between T60 and T45 in appearance, the former has a slightly larger size and stronger bulletproof performance. And the radiation filtering ability of the T60 power armor is quite powerful, enough to allow soldiers to charge into battle with the super radiation after a nuclear explosion.
As the last type of power armor deployed before the war, due to frequent wars, domestic resources were extremely scarce. Although the overall performance of the T60 power armor was not as good as the T51, the cost was lower. Therefore, it was purchased in large quantities by the Ministry of National Defense to supplement frontline losses.
At the same time, the low cost of the T60 allows the government to equip domestic police with power armor so that they can better suppress riots caused by years of war.
After learning the stories behind the three power armors, Fritz nodded and secretly said that if he had the chance, he would get a few power armors back for the empire so that the designers could design and create better armor based on the power armors. Bone armor, thereby enhancing the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army.
As the volunteers who collected the nuclear fusion cores inserted them into the sockets on the back of the power armor one by one, the power armors that were carried outside the carriage immediately opened their back armor, obviously waiting for their new owners to enter and enjoy a battle. The fun of pre-technology.
While the team was discussing endlessly about the candidate for the power armor operator, the sharp-eyed Milia and Erwin simultaneously saw a huge head protruding from the edge of the cliff above their heads. And after it, there are the second, third, and fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth.
Without enough time to think about a response plan, Millia realized that her side was probably surrounded by death claws. She immediately pulled the bolt of the sniper rifle and shouted at the top of her lungs: "Everyone gather! There are death claws!"
"Wori! What are you afraid of?"
At this time, Captain Vincent also discovered a large group of Deathclaws running down the slope and rushing towards them from a short distance away. Looking at the laser blunderbuss and gunpowder firearms in their hands that were seriously lacking in firepower, he had an idea and jumped directly from the cliff. He took out a plasma rifle from the box at his feet. After clumsily changing the bullets, he tentatively fired a shot at the rubble beside him.
"biu~"
With a spiritual gunshot, after discovering that the stone was almost melted into a pool of green magma by the hot plasma, Vincent was overjoyed and immediately ordered all the volunteers under his command to change their clothes, and he himself entered a T45-powered A, standing at the front of the team, preparing to face the fatal impact from the death claw.
A few seconds later, when the Death Claws were only a few dozen meters away from him, Ms. Hall and Fritz drove T51 and T60 power armor respectively and came to Vincent with heavy steps. I saw the plasma rifles in the hands of the volunteers firing one after another, and the blazing plasma instantly struck the violent deathclaws in the head. The painful roars of their companions quickly extinguished their desire to kill.
As Ms. Hall said before, Deathclaws are highly intelligent and cunning predators. When they realized that the "food" in front of them didn't seem to be easy to mess with, these social creatures had no choice but to turn around and leave after leaving three corpses, and disappeared from everyone's sight after a while.
After realizing that his side had easily won this battle with advanced weapons that might have cost a lot of casualties, Vincent looked at the plasma rifle and power armor with even more intense eyes, as if they were his only companions in this life.
"Pack all the weapons and take them away. If the two-headed ox can't carry it, two people will carry it in one box. Don't leave these treasures here under any circumstances!"
After standing in the power armor and giving the order to clean the battlefield, Vincent smiled and said to Milia: "Go and see if there is any good meat on the three death claws. I think there is a high probability that we will not need to eat fish tonight. ”
"When we get back to Concord, I will roast the deathclaws for you all with my own hands!"
