Chinese Takeout pt. 2

I was merrily following the main plotline, and checking off my little To-do's, when I come to a part where I have to rescue some kids from some slavers. Here are the little twerps:


Yeah, they're cooling their heels in a slave pen. That's fine. I could just walk through the camp gunning down all the slavers and set them free (that's what Joe did, except with his sledgehammer), but I have to go around and talk to all the slavers first. I find out I could go round up some slaves. Heck, I could even just go out and capture "evil" people (and I get to determine who is evil), and sell them into slavery. I don't want to have anything to do with slavery, aside from freeing slaves, but wanton slaughter seems to lack finesse. I can sneak into the somewhere and hack a computer and that'll probably work (I'm very good at both sneaking and hacking).

But first I meet this guy:


Yeah, I know. Vanilla Ice is now starring in his own videogame. It turns out that Pronto here runs the local gun shop. It's kind of a crappy gun shop, but he's got grit and spunk, and the boy wants to make something of himself. If he could only get his hands on 20 Chinese Assault Rifles, he could break them down for parts, and he could expand the business.

1. Get 20 Chinese Assault Rifles
2. Break them down for parts
3. ...
4. Profit!

A little bell goes off in my head (ding!). "Why Pronto, I know exactly where a wasteland wanderer could get 20 Chinese Assault Rifles. I've got a friend who found a whole factory full of Chinese zombies who were all armed with Chinese Assault Rifles. I'll bring you the rifles lickety split, and we'll be in business together!"

Now, faithful reader, Chinese Assault Rifles are pretty scarce in the wasteland. Basically every small gun seems to have a Chinese counterpart that does a bit more damage. The history here seems to be that America went to war with the Chinese when they invaded Alaska (via Russia? Who knows!) and there are Chinese infiltrators lurking about. I could just wander the wasteland and hope that I'll run into things (some Super Mutants can be armed with CARs) that shoot me with them, but they're really few and far between.

No, I'm going to head down to where Joe found the factory. From watching over his shoulder I remember it was even somewhere along the southern end of the wasteland. I even remember finding a radio signal that was broadcasting in Chinese when I was trying to get to the Arlington Library. I'll start at the library and work my way west.


I do so. It takes me a week of real time. Along the way I find a Nuka-cola plant, a hotel, various Enclave camps, another Vault, a metric butt-ton of Raiders, and even some zombies. What I don't find is a radio signal broadcasting in Chinese, or a single Chinese zombie.

This is going to require some research. I can't just go wandering the wasteland willy-nilly. I'm going to need some help.