The landmark event at the end of NC-13 was that Eclair's operation was successful. Relying on the mechanical resonance ability given by his supernatural ability, Ethan surpassed all living doctors in operating the surgical instrument.
Even the people who designed and manufactured this equipment from the Lazarus Group couldn't do it better.
Ethan temporarily relieved Eclair's symptoms of lung failure and replaced the distorted natural lung with a piece of labor removed from a deceased prosthetic veteran.
After Anthony successfully arrived at the Davis Mountain Shelter with a carload of children, they teamed up to conduct a consultation with Eclair.
Due to a natural defect at birth, the blood vessels that supply blood to the left and right atria of Eclair's heart grew in reverse, and the ventricular septum was also damaged. Before a suitable artificial heart was available, they could only risk a six-hour operation on Eclair.
Cardiopulmonary bypass surgery.
Fortunately, Anthony's superb medical skills gave Ethan great confidence, and they finally succeeded in overcoming this operation, which was extremely dangerous even before the apocalypse.
Not only that, they also performed a rhinoplasty surgery on Eclair, using Wu Qianying's plan to create an entire respiratory system from scratch, with artificial lungs as the core.
But even so, the various malignant and conscience mutations that happened to Eclair still caused the entire girl to have limbs, skin, and glandular systems that were very different from ordinary people.
According to the complete plan given by Wu Qianying, they need to undergo nineteen surgeries in the next five to ten years based on Eclair's physical condition to finally completely reverse Eclair's mutation.
But the good news is that by Christmas of NC-13, Eclair was able to go to school at the Davis Mountain Shelter like an ordinary child.
Although she still has a distinctive appearance, at least she is no longer scary, and Tannin, the little bully, has been protecting him.
In addition to Eclair, the superhuman children brought by Anthony have also been properly accommodated. Compared with the Palm Springs shelter, the space here is larger, and the people here also have other refuges to deal with superhuman issues.
Incomparable advantages.
Back then, Tang Ji's team members dared to mock even the Seven Deadly Sins level superhumans, let alone these little brats, but Martin alone taught these uncontrollable superhuman children what it meant to be obedient.
But the world is not always a place of laughter, and despite Anthony's advance warning of the dangers of being a prisoner in a Palm Springs asylum, Kona escaped.
God knows how the predator leader did it, but he did eat the prison guard who was guarding him alive, and then feasted in the shelter for half a month before escaping back to the surface through the exit deliberately left by the overseer.
What you have experienced in the Palm Springs shelter during the past half month can be roughly compared to the classic old movie "Alien" series. The only difference is that at least Kona does not give birth to babies in human stomachs. He is just a simple habit.
It's just cannibalism.
And in terms of combat power alone, Kona who enters the shelter and is not suppressed by the big storm should be much scarier than the alien thing.
The Palm Springs shelter, which has basically no superhuman presence, is like a girl without clothes in front of Kona. Any resistance is ineffective. The only thing they can do is to keep closing the shelter area and hope that the opponent will be completely sealed.
Can't get out of a certain area.
As for the refuge residents in the area who are dancing with wolves, they can only hope for their own good.
Mario Domingo, a man from Valentino, was the bravest person in the entire shelter. He organized a group of brave enough guards to use flamethrowers and homemade Molotov cocktails to successfully repel Kona's attempt to storm the central control room of the shelter.
plan.
But he also paid a price for it. Kona removed one of Domingo's arms and two legs. It's hard to say whether Kona did it on purpose. He might have blamed Domingo for being crushed by Beamon.
Because Domingo was the shelter resident who provoked him most often.
However, Kona did not kill Domingo, but threw his body back to the guards, and then left the shelter crazily.
Not only was he full, he also learned the exact location of a shelter.
The fear left by Kona in the Palm Springs shelter was so strong that even in NC-14, more shelters went to the surface and began to expand their influence in an attempt to rebuild human civilization.
Remaining in a closed state and refusing to show his head.
But time will not wait for anyone. When NC-14 arrived, the big storm weakened again as expected, and even appeared for 18 days in the traditional weak wind season in various places, with wind levels lower than level 13.
Calm window period.
During this rare window period, those relatively close refuges have established trade routes one after another, and the fuel vehicles that have returned to the classic mechanical era are once again full of vitality, shouldering the responsibility for the revitalization of human civilization just like they once did.
Especially in the Night City area, as the connection between Valentino Shelter and Heywood Shelter continues to strengthen, the Afterlife Bar located in the middle area has become mankind's first semi-permanent bar after the New Hope Era due to its unique geographical advantages.
surface gathering point.
Valentino's Afterlife Bar has reopened and provides free water, paid wine, and food to passing travelers.
Rogge, who lives in Vault 97, generously expressed his willingness to temporarily lend the Afterlife Bar to the other party for free to support the return of humans to the surface.
Not only that, the people of Valentino are also planning a new big project - they want to reopen the old city subway line.
As an international metropolis, Night City's underground transportation pipelines are as complex as a spider web. In addition to subway lines and sewer pipes, there are also a large number of underground structures of buildings connected in series.
After the Apocalypse, this vast underground space was divided into smaller spaces due to the collapse of some nodes. After the Valentino people established a large number of surface transportation lines, they were no longer satisfied with the transportation capacity of human walking.
Although they also have some well-preserved and running cars, and have been recycling various valuable vehicles and parts from the confined space on the surface, the use of these vehicles for exploration is one concept, and the use of these vehicles for logistics is another concept.
Already.
Most of the time, this kind of behavior is loss-making. Even the Valentino people cannot consume the gasoline and diesel that have become non-renewable resources on logistics.
