Once I reached a majority of super mutant corpses, I sorted through them and checked for any loot while ignoring the blood, guts, and chunks of flesh spread about in the general vicinity of the bodies.
It took 10 minutes for me to sort through most of the corpses other than the super mutant master that is located a bit further down the road. And what I managed to loot from the shredded corpses was 6 R91 Assault Rifles, 3 Type 93 Chinese Assault Rifles and 2 5mm Miniguns. As for the state of the weapons, they were all in various conditions of wear and tear, with some of them being in pretty rough shape thanks to my Gatling gun spray, but that can be fixed when I get back to my new home.
Alongside the weapons, I scrounged up 36 drum magazines for the R91 Assault Rifles, 18 drum magazines for the Type 93 Chinese Assault Rifles, 8 magazines for the 5mm Miniguns, 5,533 rounds of 5.56, 3,627 rounds of 5mm, 26 frag grenades, and 2 mininukes which luckily didn't go off. So all in all, not a bad haul to say the least.
Finished going over my haul, I stored away the two mininukes and the 26 frag grenades in my item box. I then had 2 of my robots equip the 5mm Miniguns since they were still in functional condition and would be much better suited at dispatching larger groups of enemies than the AER9 Laser Rifles.
For the rest of the gear, I had my robots load up with whatever wouldn't burden them too much and what was left of the loot I dumped into my item box, increasing my weight by quite a bit. Though not my felt weight since I had that toggled off right now due to me being in an environment that wasn't exactly safe to train in.
With that taken care of, I made my way down the road to the super mutant master and picked up what I wanted from him as well. Netting myself a Browning M2 Machine Gun along with 3 magazines for it, 297 rounds of 50 MG, 5 frag grenades, and another mininuke that was immediately put away in my item box for safekeeping. Following that, I stowed the rest of the gear away and spent the next few moments scanning the area for any potential threats. Which there ended up being none, thus I continued going down the road heading eastward with my robots following right behind me.
...
20 minutes of travel later, we arrived at the outskirts of the Fairfax Ruins. Knowing danger was likely right up ahead of us, I brought out my anti-material rifle to scan the area with the optic mounted on it. A few minutes passed by as I scanned the area and what I found was a heavy presence of raiders spread throughout the collapsing urban environment all the way from the streets to the tops of the buildings.
This is going to take a while, but I'm sure the xp return will be well worth the time investment.
Continuing to look down my rifle's sight, I began looking for a building that my robots and I could use as cover to start clearing them out from. I searched the area for a few minutes and eventually set my sights on a very tall building on the outskirts that would suit my needs just fine. So with our firing spot found, I had my robots follow me on my six while I deployed my presence hiding field around us to ensure we could get to the building without being spotted.
Shortly thereafter, with a bit of sneaking, we reached the side of the worn-out gray concrete building and circled around it to the back of the structure, where I saw a back door previously when I was searching the area. The second we made it to the door, I gave the handle a jiggle to check if it was unlocked and it wasn't, thus I used my lockpicking ability to open it. Hearing a click from the door a split second later, I cracked the door open a smidge and took a look down the hallway since my perception field only extended down it part of the way.
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Mm, it looks to be clear. Time to head inside and see if we can't reach the upper floors of this building or possibly get up on top of the roof so I can start causing some mayhem for the local raider population.
Just as I finished that thought, I entered inside with my robots trailing me closely and when all of my robots were inside the building, the last one in shut the door behind it quietly to not give away our position. After that, we headed further into the many story building to find the stairs or some other way of getting up to the upper floors.
Minutes into our search, I found a stairwell with my perception field, so we headed in its direction. Once we arrived in front of the stairwell door, I tried the door handle to see if it was locked or not and it wasn't this time, thus we headed up the stairs. We climbed a dozen floors' worth of stairs and eventually found ourselves on the highest floor in the building. Sadly, the place had no roof access due to said access being blocked by a partial roof collapse.
Seeing how the roof wasn't accessible, we made our way through the stairwell door to the 12th floor and headed towards the northwest side of the building, which should provide a good view of the Fairfax Ruins. The instant we got close enough to the broken windows, I scanned the surrounding streets and the dilapidated structures for any raiders carrying potentially lethal weapons such as Sniper Rifles, Missile Launchers, and Fat Man mininuke launchers.
At the 10-minute mark, I had a good portion of the surrounding area scanned, and what I managed to spot in that period was about a dozen raiders spread across the area on the tops of the buildings equipped with Sniper Rifles that were likely chambered in the standard 7.62. Adding on to that further, I could see that they were relaxing and not on high alert. Thus, it shouldn't be all that difficult to get the jump on them and have a good portion of them killed off in a moment.
Other than the sniper wielding raider, I also managed to spot a handful of raiders with missile launchers equipped. Those guys will be slightly more difficult to deal with given they are in the surrounding buildings behind cover and spread out between floors three through five.
I don't particularly want to get blown the fuck up by a bunch of missile launchers, so I might as well use those three Mini Nukes sitting in my inventory. As for how I'm going to do that, I think I will just arm them and chuck them at their positions, which should have no problem killing the ones behind cover immediately. It'll also have the side effect of scaring the shit out of the rest of the raiders in the zone. But before I begin putting that plan into action, let's have my robots set up to take out the surrounding raider snipers.
When I was done planning out how I wanted to start out the upcoming battle, I got all my robots with AER9 Laser Rifles set up in position to take out the surrounding snipers. Including the two robots wielding the 5mm Miniguns who were now temporarily using their AER9 Laser Rifles again for the moment since it will be easier for them to accurately hit the snipers located further away with them. But once all the snipers are dead, they will pick their 5mm Miniguns right back up and start spraying the surrounding raiders that will most definitely be in a panic. Probably in a similar manner to a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off.
As for my other 8 robots that aren't using the 5mm Miniguns, they will start chucking half of their MFC Grenades right after the snipers are taken care of, which is 5 grenades each. So a total of 40 grenades are about to go off along with the mininukes.
The fireworks should be pretty impressive. I honestly can't wait.
With everything set up, I brought out my 3 newly acquired mininukes out of my item box and armed each one of them. As soon as they were all armed, I took a pitcher's stance and started chucking the football like bombs in rapid succession at the buildings that the missile launcher equipped raiders were hiding in. The instant the mininukes were airborne and were sailing towards their intended targets, they started producing a sound that I fondly remember from my time playing Fallout 4 back in my old world.
*Whistle*
*Whistle-...Whistle-...*
*Whistle-...Whistle-... Whistle-...*
"Ahh, I haven't heard that sound in years. Thankfully, it's not coming towards me." I thought aloud gleefully before a moment later, everything in the surrounding area started rumbling and shaking.
*BOOOOOOOOOM...BOOOOOOOOOM...BOOOOOOOOOM*