Chapter 8 - Eight: Finishing the Brahmin Pen

After a few hours passed, I switched my vision back to the Vault and began planting a few Mutfruit trees.

The small mutfruit trees that would only grow up to someone's waist should be able to effectively absorb a whole lot more energy from the sun than the grass.

Of course, I used even more energy just to increase the speed of growth, don't want to wait too long after all.

I watched as saplings grew from the ground before growing at a rapid pace until small waist-height trees grew before me.

While grass absorbed [0.01 Energy] every 10 seconds from a single patch of grass, I was shocked and happy to see the rate of absorption of the Mutfruit trees.

[1.0 Energy] Every 10 seconds from each individual tree!

With my 6 Mutfruit Trees I would earn 6 Points of energy every 10 seconds!

With vigor, I continued to expand and grow.

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One Week Later.

[A/N: Expect some time skips, because we literally have centuries ahead of us...]

Of course from playing Fallout New Vegas I learned that Vegas was never hit by the bombs due to Mr. House's interference, but a few missiles did still make an impact, specifically in Nelis AFB, and several other locations a good distance away from the crumbling city.

So quite a few people still live in the great city, but with House not doing anything, New Vegas, as it's been called since the bombs dropped, is rampant with Crime, Theft, Murder, and Cannibalism.

Sadly, Ghouls are killed on sight due to the misgivings about their nature, Ghouls are just people who have been heavily irradiated and mutated.

Their flesh is usually falling off their bodies, they lack hair, and their voices become rough and rigid.

But, they become almost completely immune to Radiation, can heal from radiation, and have an increased life span.

But not everyone who becomes heavily irradiated becomes a Ghoul.

Some die, some turn into the Ghouls, and the rest...become Feral Ghouls...

A Feral Ghoul is a ghoul whose brain became so damaged by the irradiation that they become Mad and attack everything on sight...

And it's precisely because of these Feral Ghouls, which are the majority of the Ghouls, that Ghouls are usually killed on sight...

Well, let's get off that topic, with the Brahmin now feeding on the nice, fresh grass in their pen, they should be much healthier than any other Brahmin in the Wasteland.

And, I also started Growing Spore Plants around the Pen so I can guarantee the Brahmin's protection.

And if the Spore Plants happened to fail, then it would give me enough time to send my Spore Carriers.

So, with my Brahmin project done with I decided to start a new project, scavenging parts off cars on the Highway, I know for a fact that most of the cars on the highway haven't been looted, meaning that their engines and other important parts should still be in decent condition.

I know that parts like these would be of great value in the future, and should go around for a couple of hundred caps for each individual part or who knows, I may even find a use for the parts in the future.

Who knows, I may even be able to construct vehicles in the future!

But...I would need people for that...

No... too risky, I should at least wait a couple of years and grow in strength first...

I would prefer to be able to defend myself first before I have contact with people, well at least no more than Randall...

But it's just one of the ingredients for most of those things...

So, just by its self, it would bȧrėly help someone heal and it is edible but not very nutritious.

Night soon arrived and I sent a small group of Spore Carriers to scavenge more parts from the wrecked cars on the highway.

Before long a few more days passed and I managed to scavenge a few engines from a few different vehicles and what surprised me was that these engines were powered by six Fission Batteries which I found that I could recharge with my energy with Energy Projection!

This means...if I could somehow repair a vehicle I could easily get it working!

From the Engines I got 24 drained Fission Batteries and four engines in decent condition.

Of course, I would have to do some small maintenance but they should be in working order, sadly do not have the necessary tools to even start the maintenance, by that I mean I won't use the clumsy and stiff hands for such a delicate situation.