Vault 32

Chapter 47
Old Kyle is about 50 years old, and his strong figure once retired from the army has slowly lost its shape in more than ten years of life, but now he still looks like a good-looking uncle.Although I like to drink some spirits on weekdays, and when I am drunk, I like to swear at people and take the initiative to find trouble in bars, but in some aspects such as work and emotions, I am really quite self-conscious and self-disciplined, just like in the army. Let Liszt and the retired guys in the army feel a sense of intimacy.

But now this sense of intimacy has turned into a kind of sadness in Old Kyle's words. Even though Liszt was prepared, he still felt a slight throbbing in his heart.But he looked up at the familiar repair shop in front of him, but he couldn't help shaking his head slowly, and asked bitterly, "Is it really going to be disbanded?"

After he was forced to retire by the military court, he came directly to this auto repair shop. He spent nearly a year getting along day and night, and he had already become friends with this group of fellows with similar personalities.Including Old Kyle, who is more than [-] years older than them. Although he secretly complains to him on weekdays, he is more regarded as a strict superior commander, and they are old Kyle's subordinates. Few soldiers.

"Maybe we can pull ourselves together, at least this garage is your brainchild, isn't it?"

Gary's dark face was already covered with sweat, and his nervousness and sourness made his words somewhat incomplete. However, his trembling lips were still looking at the old Kyle in front of him, and his voice was almost pleading: "Maybe we can also It can lower the salary, but since we don’t even have girlfriends, it’s useless to ask for such a high salary.”

"Well, Gary, that day will come eventually."

Old Kyle pursed his lips slightly, trying to raise a smile, but looking at the heavy faces of everyone in front of him, he couldn't maintain that reluctant smile.Taking a deep breath, he let his restless heart gradually settle down, looked at Gary, Liszt and the others, nodded slowly and said: "We used to be soldiers, but now we should go back to the army , the United States of America needs us now."

"Are you going to fight? Who are you going to fight this time?"

A colleague next to him spoke slowly, but directly inserted into the topic.As a member of the elite special forces, he still has a keen sense of war, especially considering the crisis of shortage of oil resources, he couldn't help but looked up at Old Kyle and asked: "We retired soldiers, Will you be asked to return to service?"

If you really want to prepare for war, even retired soldiers will require re-military training in case of emergency and to fill the gap in active troops.And the employees in this auto repair shop can be said to be all retired soldiers from various units of the U.S. Army, and several of them have been on the frontline battlefield in Mexico a few years ago.When they heard the word war, they immediately raised their heads sensitively, and looked at the colleague who spoke in surprise, as well as the old Kyle who was frowning beside him.

"Maybe, but who knows."

Smiling slightly, Old Kyle managed to put a smile on his face. Looking at the employees who had been with him for a long time, he suddenly felt as if something was lost.This auto repair shop has devoted almost all of his hard work, but now it seems that he has given up on his own child, which makes him unable to lift his mood.But he still stuffed the pipe into his mouth, waved his hands at the others and said, "Someone from the Veterans Association will find you at that time."

But while he was talking, he couldn't help but clenched his back molars slowly, looking at the heavy crowd in front of him.His teeth seemed to be gnawing on bones, biting the mouthpiece of the pipe in his mouth, and the mouthpiece of the good pine wood and silver pipe had a little mark: "This is really a disappointing banquet." Old Kyle endured He couldn't help cursing softly: "The bastards of those dogs."

The war will start eventually, but not now.Liszt is quite sure, because according to the chronology known in the previous life, the Soviet Union, which replaced China, is almost exactly the same as China in the radiation of the previous life in this world.Moreover, the United States and the Soviet Union have also launched energy negotiations. Although the two sides signed certain non-aggression and non-war treaties that are not nutritious, this kind of thing that is no different from waste paper has been maintained for several years. Certain effect.

Perhaps both sides are concerned about each other's strength. There may be some small-scale conflicts or battles between 2060 and 2066, but the world has fallen into a strange silence because of the increasingly depleting oil resources. There is almost no A large-scale war occurs.And the only ones that can cause so-called large-scale wars are the Soviet Union and the United States, because these are the only two superpowers and military powers on the earth today.

The European Union collapsed due to the depletion of oil resources, and even Germany has hooked up with the Soviet Union, almost without concealing it on the bright side.The Middle East United Army, which was formed due to the invasion of the European Union, has also automatically disintegrated with the depletion of oil resources, and has returned to those poor days.As for the still uncivilized places in Africa, where warlords are still struggling and people are struggling to survive, compared with the so-called wasteland in later generations, except for the lack of radiation and mutant monsters, it is not far behind.

"It shouldn't be that bad. The Mexican battlefield has come to an end."

Shrugging his shoulders slightly, Liszt took the initiative to speak, letting the dull and depressing topic go away.Looking at the old Kyle in front of him silently smoking a pipe and meditating, he couldn't help laughing at his colleagues beside him: "Are there any unrivaled opponents in the United States in North and South America?" He paused, then continued to laugh. : "Obviously not, let's go to the bar and have a good drink, maybe it's much better than here."

"Then it's my treat. No matter how much you drink today, it's all mine!"

Liszt's words undoubtedly broke the stiff air. Old Kyle put down the pipe he was biting, and expanded his hands to the sides as if exercising. Then he looked at the colleagues in front of him, his face But he showed the same laughing expression as in the past: "Looking at your appearance, you are just like a girl!" He hammered the chests of the staff in front of him one by one, and said with a big smile, "Let's go, take advantage of this!" And we still have gas in our car!"

"This is our old customer, a parting gift from Stephen." While speaking, Old Kyle threw the key out of his trouser pocket to Gary, and at the same time pointed to a van not far away with his chin. In the RV, he said to the black boy who still had red circles under his eyes: "This time, I will drive it for you. As long as I don't blow it up, I will do whatever I want."

"Of course, trust my skills as much as I can down a dozen of the best cocktails!"

Gary also sorted out his emotions and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes. He gritted his teeth, held the car keys in his hand, and walked towards the van.He quickly got into the car and started it, roared the accelerator and drove directly in front of them. He said loudly to Old Kyle: "I remember that stingy guy Stephen, and now he gave this RV to you. I will never give up. He knows what it means to be bold!”

"It's up to you." Old Kyle shrugged, as if he felt sorry for Stephen's van, but he smiled at Gary indifferently: "But one thing, remember to send us back safely Home!" Several people around him suddenly laughed, and at the same time they entered the familiar rear compartment one after another.But when Liszt also wanted to go up, Old Kyle stretched out his hand to hold him, and whispered in his ear: "Someone asked me to inform you, the Black Oak Bar in the east of the city, at seven o'clock in the evening, go alone."

"what?"

Liszt was slightly taken aback, but the action of the two lasted no more than a second, and when old Kyle said this sentence, he had already pulled Liszt behind him and got into the rear compartment first.Just when Liszt was a little dazed, he found that the old Kyle, who was pretending to be laughing, shook his head slightly towards him, making him turn around when he reached his mouth, and said in a helpless tone: "Hey, don't be like this, let me I'll go first."

"Our best car mechanic is now going to eat ashes on the back of our ass!"

Seeing Liszt clearly understood what he meant, the smile on Old Kyle's face became brighter and brighter.He nodded to Liszt in satisfaction, and at the same time stretched out his hand to pull him up on the carriage, then patted the cab in front and said loudly: "Gary, you goddamn lazy, let's get drunk today!"

Everyone cheered for a while, but Liszt's smiling face suddenly showed a little more surprise.He looked at the face of old Kyle who was talking and laughing freely as usual, but for some reason, the slight words just now gave him a little bit of chill in his heart.Thinking of the deathclaw leak a month ago and the perverted scientific experiments of the US Federation in his previous life, he couldn't help pursing his lips, looking at the city street scene that had been repaired outside the window, as if it was no different from before, but in his heart It was a sudden: "What will happen?"

(End of this chapter)