Seeing the sun is uncommon after all, and the tone of the wasteland is always gray, both visible and intangible. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Before the scorching sun arrived, the sky was once again covered by dense clouds, and the darlings of darkness could hit the road in advance.

After another day and night, the dusty Ling Qi finally arrived at the Brotherhood of Steel Sanctuary that Veronica had spoken.

It was a basin in the Mojave Wasteland, and the craggy rocks that stood in the basin were covered by the yellow dust, and from a distance, the boiling dust storm covered the entire basin like a tide, as if it were a lake made of yellow sand.

"Such a big wind and sand, it shouldn't just be the role of a blower..."

Ling Qi asked lightly, and couldn't help but squint his eyes.

He learns from House's database that three blowers are in operation all year round outside the Angleson bunker, the last stronghold of the Brotherhood in the state, creating a dangerous area by manpower. First, it can stop the homeless and hide people's eyes, and secondly, it is also a defensive measure against those who have a heart!

If the wind and sand on the wasteland scratch your skin, bacteria and radiation will immediately invade your body, which is not something that can be endured, and it will immediately lead to a decline in combat effectiveness.

"Eh~ I don't know much about this, it seems that a document has studied it before, and it is said that it does have some relationship with the terrain, but it is mainly the role of the blower. ”

Veronica replied calmly, she had already told Ling Qi about this situation, and there was nothing to hide.

"Come, come with me. You can't see anything in there, so don't lose it. ”

With that, Veronica slammed her head into the sandstorm.

Ling Qi tightened his clothes, especially wearing the inner armor that had been recast in recent days, and immediately chased after him!

New Vegas, Lucky No. 38 Casino, the confinement room temporarily isolated next to the underground factory, Mo Mo hugged the equally helpless Liu Yun, and the two newcomers were already crying together.

"Woo ~ why ~ why! how can he be like this! how can he be like this!"

Mo Mo muttered words all night, and Cass, who was watching, yawned helplessly, and Liu Yun, who was held by her, had already regretted her intestines.

Why is she so hard, she has to get mixed up with them if she has a good life.

Yesterday, just as they were debating with great interest whether to oppose Ling Qi or whether to let him go, a large group of heavily armed mechanical guards stormed the Mormon Fortress and went on a killing spree!

I watched the beautiful female scholar who was said to be one of the most outstanding scientists of our time being shot in the head, and only an ugly and disgusting bloody hole was left in her neck.

Those cruel pictures are deeply imprinted in the minds of several people, and they are still vivid and lingering!

"Yawn~"

"I said, you two can't stop for a while, everyone is dead, what else can you do. I've said there's something wrong with this plan, and you're not listening—"

Seeing that Liu Yun didn't talk, Cass seemed to be gloating and ridiculed.

In fact, she has no malice, she has a very free and easy personality, and after a series of misfortunes, she has developed a personality that is at ease with what she encounters.

If it weren't for that, she wouldn't have been persuaded by Mo Mo to go all the way to New Vegas with her, of course, she also had her own purpose in this.

"Suck ~ suck ~ Cass ~ Sister Cass ~ Why do you say that!Then you~ Then you say, what should we do next~ What should we do!"

Mo Mo still has the previous wishful thinking, and she is completely a helpless girl.

"What should I do?"

Cass patted his forehead, walked over to the only low table in the confinement chamber and sat down cross-legged, picked up the half-eaten white bread from the plate on the table, and munched on it, muttering:

"How do I know what to do. Looking at this stance, it doesn't look like he's going to kill us casually anyway. Actually, I'm more curious about what you have to do with him now..."

......

After eating ash in the sand and dust for a whole quarter of an hour, even a non-human like Ling Qi couldn't help but cover his mouth and nose with his clothes in the end, and the two finally found an entrance like a manhole cover in a place where they couldn't tell their direction at all.

"Here it is, I'll go down first. ”

Veronica Ong said. With power armor protection, in addition to the instantaneous burst speed greatly reduced, she does have a great improvement in other aspects.

For example, the harsh external environment and cruel climatic conditions have made it difficult to affect her. Now don't say it's a sandstorm, it is estimated that even if it is a sea of swords, she will dare to break through.

"Am I going to learn how to handle the power armor too?"

Ling Qi suddenly had such a thought, everything must be compared to have a more intuitive cognition.

Kerala!

I saw that the power armor on Veronica's right arm changed for a while, and the arm armor with the thickness of an adult's thigh quickly became slender, and her five fingers were like wearing a thin layer of gloves, which was completely rough and rough.

She banged on the iron lid at the entrance, seemingly irregular, but the sound of metal cracking was evident from underground.

With a slight shaking of the ground, the manhole cover cracked from the middle, and shifted to both sides, revealing a black hole, and the surrounding yellow dust fell into it.

"Follow me!"

Veronica was resolute, and as soon as she finished speaking, she threw herself in, and in a moment she heard a bang from below, and the ground shook even more.

After a few seconds, Ling Qi jumped off after making sure that the Ice Guardian lurking in Veronica's shadow did not send a signal of danger.

Syllable!

Four headlights light up from all around, occupying exactly the four corners.

The yellow light source gave people a warm feeling rather than a scorching feeling, but when it shone on his body, it also made Ling Qi faintly tingle.

"Hehe, the Brotherhood's hospitality is not what I imagined. ”

Ling Qi, who was already scheming, instantly thought of a lot.

Hearing this, Veronica looked unhappy and immediately yelled in a certain direction:

"Damn! Which idiot is guarding the door today!I'm Veronica, idiot, don't hurry up and open the door!"

Ling Qi listened to her voice and looked in the direction she was yelling, and found that the other three sides were all concrete walls.

Probably too much light had interfered with his vision, and he couldn't find any gaps or traps in the wall.

"Ni~Nika? It's you? Wait, I'll open the door for you!"

A young male voice came out from the four corners of the light source at the same time, and Ling Qi squinted his eyes and barely saw a megaphone-like device under the headlights.

Thundered!

Veronica suddenly heard a landslide crack in the direction, and the wall, which looked so thick, rumbled and sank to the ground!

Drip!

"Warning! Warning! High Threat Unit Found! High Threat Unit Found!"

"Locked, High Threat Units: 1, Medium Threat Units: 1!"

"Someone please stop!

"Admin please! Admin please!"

Before Ling Qi could adjust to the sudden white light, the piercing alarm made him think that this trip might change.

When the dust settled, the wall in front of him completely sank into the ground, and a large deep and wide tunnel appeared in front of him.

From the direction of the broken wall as the boundary, the outside of the tunnel is still stone wall cement, and the inside is full of metal fluorescence, up and down and left and right are steel, up and down dozens of meters deep!

Rows of orderly automatic machine guns suddenly poked out from both sides of this passage, at least thirty or fifty units, and it was not an ordinary automatic guard, most of them were more advanced laser sentinels!

"Hmph, I've only been out for half a year, don't you know me? Stupid, Mark, you stupid!"

Veronica shouted, her visor adjusted slightly, and the metallic color of the front faded and became glassy, and she could already see the appearance of the internal controller.

This form of power armor looks a bit like a spacesuit, and it lacks the previous domineering at all.

"Di~Di~ Scanning, Scanning!Confirmed that the high-threat target is the Novice Rider Veronica, and the high-threat target is confirmed to be the Novice Rider Veronica. Threat reassessment... Under Evaluation... Alert lifted!"

Bang Bang Bang ~

With that burst of electronic sound, the automatic sentries on both sides shrank back in unison, but there was a messy footstep in the distance.

"Nika!Nika!It's really you!Haha!You're back!Hahaha!It's great!Great!Are you figuring it out~ You know that same-sex unions are wrong!By the way~ Nika, you don't know yet, I'm already official-"

The young male voice came from the rapidly approaching figure with many broken thoughts.

Ling Qi was very impatient to stand in front of Veronica, he was not used to being an invisible man.

"Eh~ you, who are you?"

The person who came directly stopped his feet and looked at Ling Qi blankly, a little vigilant, but more curious.

Ling Qi also looked at the young man who was standing five meters away, wearing a white retro robe, and estimated that this kid was probably not yet sixteen years old.

"Huh, Benn, you're still so short!"

"His name is Lynch, it's me~ my buddy, and the current de facto administrator of New Vegas, and I'm bringing him back to meet the elders. Little one, get out of the way!"

When the young man heard Veronica's words, he glanced at Ling Qi and couldn't help but be discouraged. He could hear her disdain for him from the tone of the person he loved, just as before.

As for Ling Qi's identity, in his concept, it was not a big deal.

"Nika, don't talk about me like that, even the elders have said that my talent is not in combat, so my body shape is definitely not comparable to you knights. ”

"Eh~ Also, the Great Elder is out, but the Second Elder and the Third Elder are all there. ”

The young man was completely unaware of the meaning of a personal visit by the head of one party.

Ling Qi glanced at him, he looked like a meter five, half a head shorter than Veronica, and he was indeed not suitable to be a warrior.

"The Great Elder is out?"

Veronica was stunned for a moment, then revealed a hint of unconcealable joy.

Ling Qi knew that what she had feared most since she was a child was the old-fashioned Great Elder, and she didn't have so much awe for the other two Elders, even the former Great Elder Ilya and her adoptive father, who were regarded as crazy.

Veronica had told him all these things, so when she looked at him in embarrassment, Ling Qi patted her on the shoulder and immediately smiled:

"It's okay, these things are the same for the other two elders. ”

Ling Qi said with a smile, secretly thinking to himself, this would save him a lot of trouble.

Originally, listening to Veronica's description, he also felt that the current Grand Elder of the Brotherhood in the state, Gianni, was a big trouble, and even had the idea of assassinating him if the negotiations did not work out.

He wants an obedient ally who can be guided and controlled, not an old-fashioned, iron-blooded, mean-spirited, old-fashioned diehard.

Seeing that Ling Qi talked about his own family and his old man in such a casual tone, the young man who was watching was already a little disliked, and looking at his intimate demeanor towards Veronica, the short young man's heart suddenly chuckled.

"Wait!Wait!Wait!Wait!Wait!Wait!T

The boy launched a feeble resistance, puffing out his chest in an attempt to assert his presence.

Syllable!

Veronica punched him in the chest, completely ignoring his instantly pale face, and laughed:

"Come on, it's not like you can't see it. ”

She finished everything Ling Qi wanted to say, and Ling Qi had no choice but to shrug her shoulders and grin at the young man who rubbed his chest and grinned:

"Yes, you see, you don't understand the meaning of this paperwork. No, the one who can call the shots is coming. ”

As someone finished speaking, at the end of the passage separated by an iron wall in the distance, two heavily armed power armor warriors suddenly turned out!

"When you come to visit, you don't welcome you from afar. The contemptible Thomas Young, currently serving as the Chief Paladin of the region, is pleased to meet you. ”

"Come, let me introduce you, this is the contemptible deputy, the high-ranking paladin Michael May. ”

"I have always admired the culture of the East, but I didn't expect to see a living legend from the East and grew up in the West today. ”

The power armor on this person's body changed little by little with his steps, and when he walked in front of Ling Qi, there was only a thin layer of inner armor left on his body, and there was an iron lump like a turtle shell on his back.

"Hello, it's also a pleasure to meet you, the great name of the Paladin of the Brotherhood of Steel has long been thunderous, and I didn't expect to meet the legendary Chief Paladin today. ”

Ling Qi's hand was clasped together with the visitor, and he only nodded to the other middle-aged man who had only removed the armor from his head.

"Ah~Uncle Michael, Uncle Thomas~"

Veronica only interjected at this time, apparently still with a little bit of political awareness.

The visitor laughed, enthusiastically grabbed Ling Qi's arm, and talked to Veronica.

Ling Qi tried to pull his arm away, but he didn't dare to push too hard, but found that he felt as if he was being held in an iron hoop.

He smiled coldly, glanced at the smile on the man's face, and then looked at the unsmiling senior paladin on the other side.

"It seems that there is not much difference in essence between those who can be in power, no matter which organization they are in. ”

He didn't struggle anymore, and seemed to really get used to the enthusiasm, which surprised Thomas.

Not to be outdone, the young man was directly sent by the unsmiling senior paladin to arrange the banquet, while Ling Qi and Veronica followed the two real management of the local Brotherhood in the other direction.

It wasn't until they had completely left that the light in the entrances and passages dimmed, and the seemingly dormant automatic laser sentries on the walls melted into the metallic hue, and the electronic eyes under the barrel of the guns lost their faint glow.

The deepest part of the Brotherhood of Steel's underground crypt, the Elder's Chamber.

Looking at the blackened screen, a white-haired old man in a blue trench coat asked another gray-haired old man:

"Elder Fawkes, what do you think. ”

This old man, who was dressed the same as the previous one, but had a very different appearance, shook his head and frowned:

"I can't see that I can be rated as a moderate threat by Mark, and this shouldn't be the only ability, but later, it's better for us to be careful. ”

As he spoke, he stroked his beard, his emaciated cheeks looked like knives, and his former heroic elegance had been erased by the years.

"Huh~ I'm asking you what you think of his intentions. As for the strength~ Could it be that the former high-level paladin Silver Fox, is he still afraid of such a descendant?"

The older man who had asked earlier, with a burlier figure and a rather square face, sneered disdainfully.

If it weren't for the fact that the two had known each other since childhood, they were afraid that someone with the same identity would definitely turn against him.

"Hehe~ Wu Fu, do you think you are still the violent wolf back then? With the strength of you and me, if you don't have the right power armor, you may not be the opponent of that little guy. Don't believe him, ask Mark for yourself and see what it will give you now. ”

"As for the intention, it's nothing more than a strong alliance, the intelligence of New Vegas, you haven't seen it, not to mention that Nika is pulling the strings in it. Personally, I think this matter is negotiable, for reasons I have already told you, in fact, even if he doesn't come, I plan to go to New Vegas to have a look. It's just Electric's side..."

As his name suggests, Elder Fox has the cunning of a fox.

Although the old man Wufu did not want to admit that Lian Po was old, he still agreed with the second half of his friend's words.

The Brotherhood has been closed for too long, and now is not the golden age of more than a hundred years ago, with the support of the California headquarters, it was possible to sweep all directions alone.

Today's fraternity is in crisis, except for those who flew to Washington, D.C., a hundred and fifty years ago to develop, which seem to have taken root there. Those who went in other directions by land were all like the California proper, and were slowly squeezed out by local forces and gradually fell into a state of isolation and helplessness.

Those of them who have taken root in Nevada have been fighting with the NRC for nearly a hundred years, and they are even more miserable to the point that only the last stronghold remains, and they are in turmoil, and they don't know when they will be destroyed.

It is estimated that the predicament they face is second only to the California headquarters, which is surrounded on all sides.

The philosophy and spirit of the Brotherhood cannot change, but they also need some "friends"!

"I can't care so much, since this person dares to come alone, I can see that my friendship with Nika should be good. Well, if he is really willing to cooperate, we might as well support him with some cutting-edge technology. If he's trying to empty the gloves of the white wolf, then we'll—"

"As for Electric, I'll talk about it then!Hmph, everyone says his brother Ilya is crazy, but I actually think he's even more crazy than Ilya!"

"At least Ilya is not hurting our own people by experimenting with it. And he really wants to wipe out the Brotherhood in Nevada..."