Adam opened up his pip-boy and immediately got a notice that he leveled up which once again took him to that familiar green screen.

Well it's no wonder really, he gained 1145 XP by doing various actions, mainly killing raiders, so it was about time he leveled up, and with that XP, he had reached level 4.

Looking at his stats Adam thought about where to put the points into, and Adam did consider that question quite deeply for quite some time before he decided as to where to assign those points, this is his future we are talking about after all.

He has 60 skill points at his disposal which is pretty wild if you think about it, with that many skill points he very well could max out one of his skills, but he won't do that since it would be foolish.

First Adam assigned 22 points to small guns bringing the skill up to 60 which is exactly what Adam wants, that skill is going to be crucial for his survival although he does plan to stop investing into it after this, after all, skill books exist for a reason and they can increase skills by over 50 points, investing too much would be a stupid decision, sure he may be a little more vulnerable in the beginning but once the late game comes up, he will be a god among men.

Next Adam invested 10 points into medicine, bringing it up to 40, although this perk isn't going to be all that useful to him since he can just eat to heal, if he ever needs to patch someone else up it's going to be a lifesaver, and since he plans on having companions, many of them, then this skill will be very useful for the long run.

Next Adam invested 10 points into lockpicking bring it up to 25, the reason being that at 25, 50, 75 and 100 of lockpicking or hacking Adam will be able to break into higher difficulty computers or better locks so this will be useful, there are more locks in the wasteland than terminals so this is an easy pick.

Finally, Adam invested 18 points into repair bringing the skill up to 41 allowing Adam to better repair items, this is his money shot, the skill that he is counting on to help him out a lot.

Now that that was out of the way it came time for Adam to choose his perks and really he doesn't have a lot of options, after all, he is only level 4.

For level 2 and 3 perks, Adam chose Lady Killer and Intense training putting the point into Agility, with 6 points into agility a whole world of possibilities has opened up to Adam, it also raised his small guns to skill up to 62 and sneak to 17.

Everything else was more or less trash during the late game and Adam treats this life pretty much like a game so the only 2 logical options are Lady killer and Intense training since both of them will be useful later down the line.

As for his level 4 perk well that really should be obvious, Adam chose Educated since 3 more points per level up is a very big deal especially with Adam's 10 intelligence, Adam now gains 23 points per level up, this alongside the skill books, will allow Adam to easily max out all of his skills and attributes by the time it was time to fight the Enclave.

Now with that finally out of the way it was time for Adam to get busy, to get down and dirty, to rustle his feathers, to just do it and believe in himself so that he forgets the traumatic memories of how his family never believed in him.

Adam dismantled, dissembled, reassembled and repaired things for 2 whole hours non stop without eating or sleeping, it was a really tiresome but fun thing to do, it's a very nice hobby like a skill that will help out in real life.

In end, regarding the armors, he had 3 perfectly fine raider outfits and 1 in poor condition.

There remained 2 submachineguns in perfect condition and 1 in poor condition, the laser pistols were also merged and now only 1 laser pistol in good condition remains.

As for the hunting rifles, well they were a bit more complex so only 2 rifles remained one in perfect condition while the other is in a bad condition.

The things that are unrepairable were thrown away, while everything else was kept in parts, that way when it came time to repair stuff once again Adam had the spare parts and didn't have to disassemble another weapon.

With all of the work out of the way, Adam loaded up all of the loot he had gotten into the backpack and started his march towards Megaton, among that loot is the skill book which he will not read right now, it's better to wait for his next level up.

This walk took Adam 3 hours, mostly because the corpses would sometimes get stuck or caught on things so Adam had to retrace his steps and make sure the corpses don't get stuck or unstick them from things, or they are just slowing him down due to friction and physics.

Along the way, he sometimes had some stray thoughts, like why didn't he find any knives in the Mart? Or why didn't he find places where fires could be kept? Were these people such savages that they ate raw flesh? Is he just insane for observing every detail so closely and methodically? Probably yes, but you can't survive in this world without being a little crazy.

In the end, Adam arrived at the Megaton gate at around 14 PM, the trip combined with the fight and all of the other crazy things that had happened made sure Adam arrived at Megaton quite late, but the sun was still out so no harm has been done.

So there he was, Adam like a fool stood in front of the gate for a minute or so, he thought that the gate would automatically open like the first time he came but it seems he was wrong, well it does make sense that he can't be really seen but he hoped that the gates were automatic, at last, his hope was betrayed and he was left standing there all on his own.

"Open the gate!" Adam shouted out loud enough for all of the surrounding people to hear, the gatekeeper too heard him as soon the loud rumbling of the gate awoke any sleeping fellow, although if you are sleeping at 14 PM during the nuclear post-apocalypse you really have too much time on your hands or you are filthy rich so don't complain you, fat motherfucker, some people have to work hard just to survive out here.

Adam waited there for about 15 seconds before the gate was fully lifted so Adam just walked on inside of the city, he doesn't really have to wait for the gate to be fully lifted but he doesn't want to get accidentally injured while the gates are opening, he doesn't have the level of confidence in post-war tech as he has in pre-war tech, and this is for sure post-war.

"Hello there." When he entered Adam looked around and saw Lucas sitting in a chair nearby him so he greeted him.

"Hello Adam, I see you had quite a good day." Lucas greeted Adam back and gestured towards's Adam's backpack which looks likes it's ready to burst and at the mole-rat corpses Adam is dragging along.

"Well, it is quite a good hall. But now I gotta go, have a job to do after all. See you, Lucas." Adam nodded with a smirk on his face, even if he didn't kill these mole rats he did fight against raiders something which is arguably harder to kill, the loot is good and so is the haul, now he can get some caps.

"Well, good luck. See you, Adam." Lucas nodded back at Adam with a kind smile on his face as he waved Adam goodbye, not like they won't meet again soon but Adam still has work to do and experience to fetch, the experience is just wonderful isn't it?

Adam walked along with the dirt floor as he soon came upon the metal platforms that lead up to the higher parts of the city and honestly Adam wasn't too thrilled with having to walk along with those unstable and unsafe platforms with an extra weight strapped on himself that changes his center of gravity, but it's not like he has any other choice.

So Adam walked alone the platform very carefully, even if the platforms were wide if, by some chance one of the mole rat corpses fell over it would pull on the string attached to it and bring Adam down alongside it.

Although Adam wouldn't die a few broken bones and a whole lot of pain was guaranteed and since Adam wasn't really a masochist he would much rather try to not fall, also he isn't really sure if just eating some food will heal broken bones, that might just not be possible.

So Adam treaded along the platform slowly and carefully, spreading out as much as possible, basically occupying the whole platform not allowing other people to walk on it but that really didn't matter to Adam, if other people are inconvenienced it isn't his problem.

Within a minute or so Adam had finally arrived at Craterside supply and once he stood in front of the shop he just slammed it open with his foot he really doesn't feel like having any tact after that minute-long walk that should have taken a few seconds at most, also he really doubts that Moira would mind.

But it seems that the people inside of the shop disagree and they all looked at Adam with panicked eyes before they realized who entered and then they became angry almost shouting out at Adam's sudden entry, it scared them half to death.

Of curse that was the reaction of almost everyone inside of the shop but not exactly everyone, since it was the general reaction to get scared and angry you know that once certain crazy redhead won't react the same way, she practically bounced over to Adam in joy once she saw him.

"Did you find any food? Or medicine? Or a dangerous deathclaw looking to rip you to shreds?" She immediately started to ask Adam questions about his trip which is something Adam didn't really like.

It wasn't that the questions were hard or that the information was private, no it's that with each passing second the questions became stranger and stranger, an example would be she asked if Adam was confronted by rolling pin wielding gangbang rapist grandmothers, which is something Adam definitely never expected to be asked about.

Also, it's hot, it's bothersome, and the people inside of the shop are choking him with anger, can't he just relax for a second?

"Slow down there Moira, I ain't a robot for god's sake." All of those questions and Moira's enthusiasm lead to Adam developing a severe headache real fast, which lead to Adam admiring in a strange, twisted way Moira.

Who besides her can make someone develop such a headache so fast without even needing to do anything besides talk for a minute, it really is a remarkable skill, from which it can be concluded that Moira has much more wisdom and knowledge to teach and pass on to the people around her, if only she wasn't so crazy, or she is actually that smart exactly because she is crazy, sorta hard to tell.

Thankfully after Adam reminded her that he isn't a robot and that he is actually a real human being, with physical limitations that he currently isn't free of, she calmed down by breathing deeply in and out.

"Are you feeling better now that you are out of your crazy scientist induced hysteria?" Asked Adam with heavy doses of cynism and sarcasm lacing his tongue, this woman is batshit insane so thankfully her good morale, stunning looks, and somewhat intelligent/working brain make up for her lack of sanity, also her insanity does provide some amusement in this post-apocalyptic wasteland.

"Yes! Thanks to you Adam, I'm free from the confines of my mind! Not really, I just calmed down after remembering that I couldn't just suck all of the information out of your brain. So, did you find any food? Or medicine?" Her morbid yet cheerful personality returned once again as she calmed down which is something Adam isn't even surprised to see, he had already given up on trying to understand a woman's thought process, so let's not even talk about Moira's thought process.

"Well, yes I did find the food and medicine, but I will tell you this it wasn't easy to get them, so I wouldn't recommend going to get neither food nor medicine in one of those places," While telling her that Adam took out the food he had raided from the fridge stored in his backpack and the medicine to show it to Moira.

"I see, so could you tell me more about what happened?" For once the words that came out of her mouth actually seemed normal which is a miracle innit of itself at least that's what Adam thought when he heard a normal question from Moira, the heavens really must favor him for allowing him to see such a rare and sacred moment, it likes triple rainbow just appeared.

"Well, I came in guns blazing, only to unexpectedly stumble upon a raider party apparently one of their own was celebrating his birthday, too bad I ruined it. But I must admit they had one hell of a surprise cake, a robot jumped out of it." Adam said with a monotonous tone as if he really was a robot and all that he sid actually happened, but everyone could clearly see that Adam was just being sarcastic.

"Really, how great for you, to be able to enjoy some cake and a party, I bet you that everybody was happy! After all, everybody likes cake. Except for the robot he probably likes pie a bit more, or rather he likes pi." Moira of course also caught on to Adam being sarcastic so she played along with it, or at least that's what Adam hoped was happening, he really, really hoped that Moira didn't take everything he had just said seriously but knowing her that might very well be the case, in which case anyone who reads the Wasteland survival guide is probably going to get a headache bigger than the one Adam is experiencing right now.

"Moira that pun was so bad that even a feral ghoul in this post-apocalyptic wasteland would most likely prefer for his ears to be sliced off that listen to your puns." Besides the matter of if Moira took what Adam had said seriously or not, he really had to tell her something about that pun, it was just so tempting and irresistible.

"How mean! And I thought hard about what you know! Luckily for you, I forgive easily and don't really care about stuff like that. You can keep what you have gotten, and coincidentally I also just traded for a big food shipment myself so you can take some for your hard work!" Moira, of course, felt gravely insulted by Adam words before she bounced back and didn't care for what Adam said instead she gave him some more instamash for his efforts and she also gave him some iguana bits, which are probably human bits instead, but for some reason to Adam doesn't feel anything from that new information, he will probably eat this later.

"Oh, and you can also have this, a food sanitizer! I found it a while back and it might be useful to you! It doesn't really remove radiation or stuff like that from the food but it does make the food better so to say." Says Moira as she reaches below the counter for the damn thing before she pulled it up and gave it to Adam.

"It's a machine that keeps food fresh and healthy, adding flavor to it as well. You just turn it on and it will do its job, all you have to do put it next to your food and hope it doesn't irradiate it. It doesn't require batteries since it's solar-powered, so make sure to get enough of that big ball of irradiation every day!." Said Moira again being very cheerful, literately nothing could bring down her spirits, especially not after Adam busted down her dream and then built it up again.

As for the food sanitizer, it's quite big, basically a metal box with a vent in it, that's the best description that Adam can think of, but for it's the size it's quite a lightweight item weighing around 7 kilograms so Adam didn't really have trouble carrying it, he just put it in his backpack and turned it on.

"Thanks, this is gonna come in handy, now what is my next task?" After thanking Moira for her gift Adam immediately jumped to the next quest, he doesn't want to waste too much time here, after all, time is money and experience, he doesn't have much time before the Lone Wanderer emerges from the vault and by that point he has to become decently strong if he wants to fight the Enclave.