It's none of my business. I'm just a lunch box seller.

But once dead, they are dead, and their honor belongs only to what they did in life, as well as to their parents, spouses, children and relatives.

However, if we look beyond the scope of one or a few people and look at the gains and losses from an overall perspective, this was an extremely successful evacuation operation. After all, this was a shameful sneak attack without any signs, but a sneak attack that should have led to the annihilation of the wasteland research station ended up with only 5 deaths. And the culprit who launched the sneak attack was completely wiped out!

The alien race called Zeta was massacred by one person, but there was never a "spacecraft launch" in the incident report, and the origin of the spacecraft that massacred the alien race was unknown. As for the alien spacecraft south of the Red Rocket Gas Station, it also fell from the sky after being attacked by a mysterious spacecraft.

"Seven Fleet" or something like that doesn't exist. If you insist that it does exist, go find Tsui Hark.

In a report of less than 10,000 words, there is a perfunctory attitude everywhere, but it also shows the core of putting the overall situation first. In short, it can be summed up in one sentence: we must unswervingly continue the general strategy of the "Moving Mountains Plan".

Since ancient times, China has always emphasized the principle of "standing up from where you fell", which is true in the face of war and disaster. It is also true even in another world!

Two days after the "Zetas' surprise attack but annihilation", an engineering surveyor had come to measure the pit outside Cheng's wasteland store. However, because the pit walls and bottom had been vitrified by the high temperature, and because the vertical height difference from the edge of the "crater" to the bottom had reached 40 meters, the surveyors could only rely on helicopters to smoothly travel back and forth in and out of the pit.

"Is this vitrification?" Zhou Zhezhi, who was standing at the edge of the pit, picked up a piece of lava solidified about 6 centimeters thick by the pit. "This is the first time I've seen such a scene."

“I haven’t seen him in many years.”

Zhou Zhezhi threw the half-glass, half-rock thing in his hand aside and said, "The people from the surveying team said that the glass at the bottom of the pit is thick enough and has excellent waterproof properties. If you plan to build underground facilities in the pit, it will save a lot of effort. At least you don't need to dig earth and do waterproofing anymore."

"Let me pay for it this time!" Boss Cheng requested, "At least I will pay for the ground part, and everything will be built according to my wishes."

"Hey, what are you going to build on the ground?"

Boss Cheng said: "I am going to build a pyramid, but this time I want to put my store in the center of the pyramid."

"Pyramid?" Zhou Zhezhi smiled and joked, "Isn't that still a tomb?"

"Eh?" Boss Cheng finally realized, "Yes, the pyramid is also a tomb."

"I think you should change to something else."

"So what do you think of Gothic steeple church-style buildings?"

Zhou Zhezhi laughed again after hearing this. He asked Boss Cheng in return: "Do you know that many churches have cemeteries under their basements? Some celebrities or saints are even buried directly in the church."

Boss Cheng: ...

"Why don't you take a look at the Aztec-style pyramids?" Zhou Zhezhi suggested, "At least those flat-topped pyramids are temples for worship, not tombs."

"Then you can help with the research. I promised little James that I would send him back to Washington."

Zhou pointed to Boss Cheng's school playground and told him, "Think of the two parked Quinjets as a thank you for what happened two days ago. The cockpit is spacious enough to ensure you won't feel cramped when you sit in it. In addition, the flight control system is a one-to-one replica of the Falcon. People at the Flight Control Center praised the Falcon's system as 100 times better than the Quinjets' original flight control system. I think you won't even need time to get used to the aircraft with this system."

"And where's my Falcon?"

Zhou Zhezhi didn't say anything, but just looked at Boss Cheng quietly, as if saying with his eyes "Sorry, I don't know either."

Boss Cheng didn't say anything else. After all, Zhou Zhezhi would rather choose silence than make up nonsense to deceive Boss Cheng. So Boss Cheng naturally needed to respond with silence and understanding.

The speed of the Quinjet was not very fast, but in the wasteland of 2282, a speed of over 800 kilometers per hour was definitely second to none. Boss Cheng took little James and flew to the sky above the headquarters of the Eastern Brotherhood of Steel in just one hour.

However, when the Quinjet appeared near the Brotherhood of Steel, all kinds of air defense alarms rang out instantly. Less than a minute later, Boss Cheng and Little James on the plane saw dozens of Brotherhood Knights wearing power armor, carrying various light and heavy weapons and rushing behind the bunkers of various fortifications.

Unfortunately, the Quinjet didn't have a megaphone or horn installed, so James couldn't show his identity to the Brotherhood. So Boss Cheng could only park the plane far out of the Brotherhood's firepower range, and then the two of them walked towards the power armored knights holding heavy weapons at a pace that was about the same as taking a walk, with a relaxed pace that would not make people feel hostile.

When the two men came to a horizontal line with the word "STOP" written in white paint, Little James raised his head in a French military salute and shouted to the Brotherhood Knights a hundred meters away: "I am Little James! Long Wande! 101 Boy! Do any of you know me?"

"Long Wande?"

Apparently, this name caused quite a stir among the knights of the Brotherhood. Not long after, a young man wearing Enclave-style power armor but without a helmet came trotting to little James.

And when he saw that little James looked the same as he had in the past five years, he suddenly hugged little James in his arms.

"I knew it! You will be fine, you will not die so easily!" The knight laughed while crying, "How can a great hero of the Brotherhood die so easily! But where have you been for the past five years? In the last battle, Sister Sarah died, and you also disappeared. We searched for you for a very long time. Many people thought that you abandoned the Brotherhood and abandoned us. But I know that you did! You must have something very important to do!"

"Actually..." Little James smiled, "It's nothing important."

Boss Cheng suddenly interrupted and said, "Yes! He was abducted by aliens for 5 years."

"Eh?"

At this time, other members of the Brotherhood of Steel rushed to the side of James and the Power Armor Knight. They complained to the Knight: "Elder Maxson, you ignore your own safety and lead the charge all day long. It is easy to put yourself in danger. Do you know?"

"But our Wasteland Legend is back!" The young Elder Maxson patted little James on the shoulder, "Look! Long Wande! He didn't abandon us! He's back!"

Then, the Brotherhood member hurried back to the headquarters. After a while, the veterans who had the honor of attacking the Enclave headquarters with the Wasteland Legend and survived rushed out of the headquarters and surrounded James. Even a strong man like Boss Cheng was pushed to the outermost circle by these passionate old men.

Fortunately, it was not only Boss Cheng who was squeezed out. Even the elders of their fraternity were "ostracized" and even squeezed out of the "core circle."

Elder Maxson couldn't help but laugh as he looked at the ridiculously strong man in front of him.

"It seems we have all been squeezed out of the inner circle."

"Yeah, it's really uncomfortable to be excluded, even if I'm wearing power armor." Elder Maxson took the initiative to extend his right hand, "Hello, Arthur Maxson, elder of the East Coast branch of the Brotherhood of Steel."

"Oh!" Boss Cheng held Maxson's glove and introduced himself: "Tianyan Cheng, I run a restaurant in the Boston Wasteland."

"Restaurant owner?" Maxson glanced at Boss Cheng, then at the black fighter jet in the distance, and asked, "Do all of you restaurant owners in Boston fly airplanes?"

Boss Cheng stared with his eyes wide open and thought for a moment, then nodded and said nonsense: "Ah, business is good, we have to open it."

Maxson squinted his eyes and thought to himself, "I don't trust you, you are such a bad old man!"

Yes, in front of Maxson, the 36-year-old Boss Cheng is indeed a bad old man. Although Maxson looks a little anxious, he is just a 17-year-old boy!

"No, you just said you won the big one?" The boss asked Maxon with an incredible look on his face.

"17, what's wrong?"

“Is this 17 years old?”

"Ah, Arthur Maxon is really only 17 years old this year!" Little James squeezed out of the crowd and punched Maxon in the chest, "Brat! When I was kidnapped, you were only 12 years old. But who would have thought that in just 5 years, the little brat has grown into the youngest elder in the history of the Brotherhood!"

"No, that's not right!" Boss Cheng asked Maxon to take off his power armor, and then fiddled with his body, looking for traces of the operation.

"I ask, did you undergo surgery or inject special drugs? Which company are you from?"

0200 A deal I can't refuse

Boss Cheng dared to guarantee with his character that Arthur Maxson was definitely the most anxious-looking person he had ever met outside of Alpha Company. In addition, Maxson's height and physique were larger than those of ordinary wastelanders, so Boss Cheng suspected that Maxson was also a Spartan warrior who "survived a disaster".

But Arthur Maxson is not a Spartan who traveled through time, he just grew too fast. Just like a high school student in the professional basketball world who is about the same age as Boss Cheng, with that height, physique, and forehead wrinkles.

Yes, that's you! Greg Oden!

Arthur Maxson was envious of Boss Cheng's big physique, after all, not everyone's arms can be thicker than a woman's waist. But Boss Cheng told Maxson earnestly that if he didn't want to be able to fit into the power armor, he'd better not be envious.

However, in addition to the joyful reunion, James also noticed a very unusual problem. If the Brotherhood of Steel had not undergone a qualitative change during the five years since he disappeared, the elite soldiers would have suddenly transformed into the kind of divine soldiers sent from heaven.

The fact that they were able to take incredibly fast defensive measures immediately after Boss Cheng's plane appeared could only prove that the Brotherhood of Steel was guarding against some enemies that might attack at any time.

"You guessed it right, Long Wande (Little James). In the past month or two, we have been on guard against the group of super mutants migrating south from New York."

Little James asked in confusion: "Why don't the super mutants in New York just stay in New York? Why do they have to come south to Washington, where the living conditions are even worse?"

Hearing this question, Boss Cheng silently raised his head and began to appreciate the "unique" scenery around the Brotherhood of Steel headquarters.

Maxson replied: "According to civilians who moved to our area from New York, Manhattan in New York was suddenly attacked by the Afghan Communist Army in flying spacecraft."

"The Communist Party? An attack? How is this possible?"

"But New York residents did witness some people wearing pre-war Afghan Communist power armor appearing near the pier on the South Island of Manhattan, New York."

Boss Cheng: ...

"But what I care about is not Manhattan, nor the Communist Party of Afghanistan." In an instant, Maxson's aura as the Grand Elder of the Brotherhood of Steel suddenly emerged, and he told little James: "What I care about is the rumored spaceship that can fly in the sky and dock in the harbor!"

"spaceship?"

Little James turned his head and cast a suspicious look at Boss Cheng.

Boss Cheng ignored James and Maxon. He just picked up a 300-year-old broken brick from the roadside and threw it into an abandoned subway station more than 200 meters away.

Suddenly, a roar mixed with pain came from the abandoned subway station. Then, seven or eight green-skinned big guys rushed out of the subway station and rushed straight to Boss Cheng to kill him.

"Enemy attack, prepare to fight!"

"Don't be nervous."

Boss Cheng saw a knight in power armor holding a .50 large-caliber rifle, so he took it after obtaining the other party's consent. Then he aimed the gun, pulled the trigger, pulled the bolt, aimed again, and pulled the trigger. The whole set of actions was completed in one go, and except for the first bullet, every bullet could accurately hit the green big guy's collarbone, breaking the big guy's neck and head.

When the last headless super mutant stumbled and fell about 30 meters in front of Boss Cheng, all the fraternity members cheered and shouted. In their opinion, Boss Cheng's shooting skills were not only accurate, but also fast, which made people excited.

When returning the rifle, Boss Cheng said in a cocky voice, "Sorry, I wasted a bullet in the test firing. But the trajectory of this gun will deviate 3 to 4 centimeters to the right at a distance of about meters. I suggest you adjust the sights."

The original owner of the .50 rifle had stars in his eyes at this moment.

Little James was also surprised and asked, "You easily dealt with eight green guys?"

Boss Cheng shrugged and said, "This isn't a narrow area like a room or a safe deposit box corridor. How can they act so recklessly?"

Maxon glanced at Boss Cheng and wondered if there wasn't an extra-large safe in South Island, Manhattan.

Then again, the reason why Boss Cheng took the initiative to attack just now was because the Quinjet was parked in the open space next to the subway entrance. Boss Cheng was really afraid that some guy from the Brotherhood who was not good at shooting would shoot down his plane again. If that happened, Boss Cheng would probably have to walk back to Boston on his own.

So, when Boss Cheng followed James Jr. into the Brotherhood's headquarters, he also parked the Quinjet inside the Pentagon. Then, Boss Cheng took out his Z50Ultra and took a photo of the Pentagon, which had been transformed beyond recognition, and prepared to take it back to show off to Captain America and Tony.

When the Brotherhood members saw Boss Cheng's Quinjet, they couldn't help but compare it with their own "Flying Bird" twin-rotor aircraft that was in trial production. However, after any Brotherhood made a comparison, even a blind person could see how backward their proud "Flying Bird" was.

It is true that "comparing people will make you die, comparing goods will make you throw them away."

On the contrary, Boss Cheng praised the "bird" on the apron. Because this was the first time that Boss Cheng saw a newly produced aircraft produced by humans since he came to the wasteland.

Kecheng also pointed out that the strange-shaped nose of the Flying Bird was not conducive to the stability of the aircraft at high speeds. He even volunteered to borrow paper and pen to help Flying Bird redesign a nose.

However, when the scientists and engineers of the Brotherhood saw the "masterpiece" of Boss Cheng's scribbles, they were all silent. It was not that Boss Cheng's improvement was not good enough, but they could not tell what Boss Cheng had drawn on the paper. However, in order to save Boss Cheng's face, they had to keep praising Boss Cheng's design for giving them great inspiration.

But in fact, the inspiration that the Quinjet gave them was greater than that brought by Boss Cheng’s scribbles!

Then, accompanied by scientists and engineers, Boss Cheng walked around and discovered that the Brotherhood of Steel’s small factory could manufacture fusion cores on a small scale!

"Can you still make the fusion core from before the war?"

Who would have thought that the engineer would ask Boss Cheng: "Why not?"

"It was indeed impossible before." Another person explained: "The entire set of equipment for producing fusion cores was seized from the Enclave factory after we destroyed them. It was because of this set of production equipment that we solved the energy problem that once plagued the development of our Brotherhood."

"So..." Boss Cheng asked curiously, "Do you still have this kind of equipment for producing fusion cores?"

Both engineers shook their heads.

"If there is no equipment, then do you have the blueprints for manufacturing the equipment?"

The two engineers still didn't speak, but from the looks they gave each other, Boss Cheng was certain that they must have a complete set of drawings!

"Take me to see Elder Maxson. I think I have a business matter to discuss with him."

"Business?" the two engineers asked in confusion.

"Yes, business. A business he couldn't refuse."

When Boss Cheng was taken to see Elder Maxson, no one knew what they talked about. Anyway, when Boss Cheng left the elder's reception room, Maxson immediately gathered the people. Then he took the knights, clerks and several scientists of the Brotherhood. The knights without armor boarded two "Flying Bird" gyroplanes, and Maxson and the scientists entered Boss Cheng's Quinjet. Then the three planes took off and flew northeast, flying to Boston more than 2 kilometers away.

On the plane, James joked that he thought he would stay in Washington safely after returning. But he didn't expect that he would be on another plane less than two hours after returning, and he was back to where he came from.

"Actually, I've always wanted to go to Boston." Maxson told James on the plane, "Ever since I integrated the divided Eastern Brotherhood together, I've always wanted to go to the North. But the news of the Afghan Communist landing in Manhattan was too horrifying, so I had to bring the Knights back."

"But the Communists didn't wait for them. Instead, they waited for the New York refugees and super mutants who fled south and were scared away by the Communists, right?"

Maxon nodded at Little James and replied, "That's right. But it was also because I withdrew the knights in advance that the predators and super mutants didn't have any chance to take advantage. Especially the predators who escaped from New York. We have killed no less than 100 of them in this period."

Eliminating the plunderers and super mutants in the Washington Wasteland and maintaining order in the Washington Wasteland are the current main responsibilities of the Brotherhood of Steel.

Although Maxson has been much more relaxed in maintaining order in the wasteland and protecting the residents of the wasteland than the previous elder Leon, the Brotherhood is still the biggest guarantee for maintaining the safety and order of the wasteland Washington.

But this is not because Maxson is too young or incompetent. In fact, it is the opposite. Maxson's leadership ability is comparable to that of the old Leon. It's just that the situation and environment Maxson faces now are obviously much more complicated than when he just needed to unite against the Enclave.

But no matter how complicated it was, Maxson used his outstanding personal abilities to reunite the Eastern Brotherhood that had been split during the time of Old Leon.

Today, Maxon follows the teachings of the Brotherhood of Steel, collects various high-tech strands in the wasteland, and maintains order and peace in the capital area. He strives to find a balance between the two that most people can accept.

But as the controller who holds the balance, Maxon knows the fragility of this balance. It was not until the emergence of Boss Cheng's "one" business that Maxon realized the problem of the Brotherhood of Steel!

0201 Bright and hot

Let's go back to an hour ago, when Boss Cheng offered "a deal he couldn't refuse."

"Sorry, we don't need your material support and advanced technology. We are the Brotherhood of Steel, and our purpose is to recycle, manage and control all dangerous science and technology in the wasteland that should not be mastered by ordinary people. Instead of developing military force and fighting for territory."

"Dangerous science and technology?" Boss Cheng asked, "What is dangerous science and technology?"