The Atomic Humvee started again after a long absence, leaving New Canaan, this time without the help of the train, and the journey back to the Hoover Dam may have been a little far, but at least this time it was not so anxious.

Andy sat in the driver's seat and looked out at the wasteland ahead, and Blackie slept on his stomach in the back seat, and Otto was probably about to return to Hoover Dam now, and he still had to drive for a while.

A small basket was placed in the passenger seat, and in it were a few bottles of nuclear cola and some fruit, which were a little parting gifts.

The scene in front of you is always the same, although sometimes there are some changes, such as the people who are now blocking in front of you.

"Hey! Over here! Help! "A woman with a dirty body standing on the side of the road waving, as if afraid that the person driving would not be interested, even left her clothes open.

Andy only felt sick to his stomach when he saw it, and by the way, he swept it in V mode, and sure enough, there were four or five people in ambush in the sand and gravel not far from the side, once the car was parked and attracted by this woman's attention, I am afraid that he would be shot in an instant, and then everything was plundered.

In response to the warm greeting from the woman with a ridiculous hairstyle like wings on her head, Andy slowed down slightly, then opened the window and dropped what looked like a grenade, and then kicked the accelerator and roared away.

The woman screamed in fright and fell to the ground, only to get up and look at it halfway through, and it turned out to be just an empty canned box.

She yelled angrily, annoyed by the marauders who were lurking in ambush not far away, but the rare car was nowhere to be seen.

Soon after, one of the raiders saw a group of merchants approaching from nearby, and the gang immediately forgot about the unpleasantness and tried the old way again..... Andy, who drove away quickly, only felt a little speechless, walking in such a ghost place is really pinning your head to the waistband of your trousers, even if you use the worst fantasies to speculate on others, sometimes it is not even enough.

He vaguely remembered the heyday of the NcR's eastward march with several sweeps, in which the army pursued and exterminated the bandits and beasts that were raging, eliminating threats along the way.

The purpose of this is to ensure the safety of residents and businessmen. However, the effect is very average, first, the attitude of the NcR politicians is simply to deal with the matter, the second is that the total number of troops sent by the NcR to the Eastern Special Region is not sufficient, and the third is that the scattered military discipline of the NcR leads to the inability to keep secrets before the operation, and after the start of the war, they are even more embarrassed to flee, and they refuse to pursue after victory, which leads to the fact that the NcR's highway patrol is not clean and the bandits cannot exterminate the monster community that attacks people.

By the time Fort Alashid was destroyed by the Legion and the NcR retreated from Hoover Dam, it was a complete mess.

Andy has encountered many strange people or things on the road, such as begging beggars, wandering refugees, vigilant scavengers, madmen who shoot at sight, predators who spend their days thinking about making people tricked, cultists who talk about bombastic things, hordes of wild ghouls, coyotes and wild dogs, deadly mutant insects, terrifying deathclaws..... He thought that even if he saw a strange guy, he wouldn't feel strange anymore.

In the evening, a group of people appeared on the side of the road and sat around the campfire. Before the car could get closer, Andy saw that the group of people had already gotten up, their vigilance was high, someone was keeping watch while the others were resting, and the atomic Humvee was exposed in the distance.

Through the headlights, Andy saw that the men were all wearing a strange armor and a nice sunhat, this combination was almost exactly the same as Ty's, he had said at the time that he had been an NcR ranger, he had not seen these NcR legends, could it be that these people in front of him... The men waved to stop the car, and Andy looked at it slightly, feeling that these people were not hostile, so he stopped the car and walked down.

The few people in front of him were all heavily armed and looked vigilant, which was not common.

"Hello! Your car is very good, we are NcR Ranger and would like to ask you a little bit about something. The man at the head walked up to Andy and introduced himself calmly, and then asked in a natural tone.

"Have you ever seen a group of people on the road, they look very strange, they wear all kinds of clothes and weapons, some are very advanced, some are patchwork, maybe there are people in power armor, at least judging by the traces we have found, how about it? Have you ever seen these people? I thought they should have gone further north, and you seem to have come from the north. Andy said he had never seen that kind of people, and that he had met some of the marauders and merchants along the way.

The NcR Ranger sighed.

"Did you lose it in the end?" Andy touched his head and felt strange.

"What...?" The Ranger thought about it and didn't hide it.

"Before we lost contact with the mainland, we received an order that a group of remnants of the enclaves who had survived and escaped from the Battle of Navarro were headed east, and the sergeant major ordered a group of rangers to divide into small squads to track down the remnants of those enclaves and try to intercept them..... Unfortunately, the Iron Plague broke out, and our connection with the homeland was cut off. The men in charge of this task had all gone west on their own to try to return to their homeland, but we happened to have made some progress by then, and we found traces of a small group of remnants of the enclave, which did not seem to be a large force, but even a small force was a breakthrough. ”

"That's why we've been stuck in the east since then, but we haven't given up yet, and not long ago we were finally catching up with those guys, but now we're lost again, and I think they've found out about our tracking and have been playing tricks on us." The Ranger was slightly depressed, then quickly regrouped his emotions.

"Alright, let's not talk about those who don't, since this mission has failed in the end, we are ready to return to Hoover Dam, and hope that Mayor Dodge will still accept us." Andy thinks so.

"I came out of the Hoover Dam before, there is a shortage of professional military personnel, you will definitely be reused when you go back, as for the remnants of the enclave.... To be honest, Navarro has been breached by the coalition forces for a long time, and the enclave has been completely finished, is it really necessary for you to pursue them so relentlessly? The Ranger nodded solemnly.

"Of course it is necessary! Those people are all anti-human elements with high-end pre-war technology, and if they have the opportunity to escape here and regroup at a pre-war military base left elsewhere, they will surely make waves again! Therefore, we will never miss any opportunity to stop them and eliminate them. Speaking of which, the Ranger still showed a strong reluctance.

"Whew—no, you can't just go back to the Hoover Dam, at least a few more days north." Andy admires these Rangers, who are as resilient and mobile as they are rumored to be, and who have managed to pursue the remnants of the enclave for so long without the support of the NcR mainland and without the support of the Eastern SAR government.

During the conversation, Andy talked about the armor worn by the Rangers. The Ranger Captain seems to be proud of this.

"The armor we're wearing is an upgrade of our pre-battle armor, it's lighter, more breathable, and more protective than it's combat armor, you see the vertical holes, right? They help us not get dragged down by our gear while crossing the desert, and even have a water bottle built into the back of this armor set so you can drink water at any time. Andy followed his show to look around the armor on his body, which was yellowish-black in appearance, covering the entire upper body and both legs, and had two built-in water storage layers attached to straws on the back, which was light and tough.

The hat on the head is called the Ranger Cap, and it is also a good piece of equipment for breathability and shade. Spending the night with the Rangers was a place where they felt a sense of security that had never been felt before, and Andy believed that the Rangers would be able to easily end the battle even if they suddenly rushed at a deathclaw or a large group of slavers.

The next day, saying goodbye to the Rangers, Andy continued to drive on the road. Today's road conditions are okay, except for a half-decomposed corpse lying on the side of the road and a small group of mutant lizards with their mouths wide open and standing upright in pursuit.

Towards noon, Andy decided to park his car on the side of the road and close his eyes for a while. I don't know how long it took to fall asleep, but Xiao Hei's screams woke him up.

He hurriedly sat up, put his hands on the two pistols, through the window glass, at the moment there was a group of people standing not far from the south side of the car, I don't know how long they had been standing there, they didn't speak or do anything, just looked at Andy and his car.

Andy looked at it, and the gang was a little embarrassed, as if they had been running around outside for a long time, and their clothes were torn and stained.

The clothes they wear are generally ordinary clothes that are common in the wasteland, with metal armor and leather armor, which is the kind of combination that mercenaries like, but the problem is that the dirty parts of these clothes have not been cleaned, the bad places have not been repaired, and even the clothes worn by some people are obviously not the same size, either too big or too small, which is simply .... It doesn't look like their own clothes.

The weapons they hold in their hands are also varied, ranging from laser pistols to iron tube rifles. There was a very tall man wrapped in a black tarpaulin, which looked more than two meters tall, and Andy even wondered if it was a super mutant, but the silhouette was different.

This appearance immediately reminded Andy of the remnants of the enclave that the NcR Rangers described yesterday.

The six people in front of him stared at Andy for a moment, and after a moment, a man wearing a gas mask standing at the front walked over slowly.

"Hello." He greeted in an unhurried tone, his eyes sweeping around Andy's atomic Hummer.

"Hello, what's the matter?" Andy said, ready to fire at any moment to blow the man's head out, and in the NcR propaganda, the enclave was a bunch of demons who ate people and didn't spit out bones.

It is said that they like to enslave the wastelanders, and are extremely arrogant at heart, even considering themselves only human, and the wastelanders only deserve to be called mutants.

This is because they feel that their genes are not affected by the radiation of the Great War nuclear explosion, yes

"Pure", while the wastelanders are filthy mutants who have suffered from the effects of Great War radiation. It's just that such a group of terrible guys still have those most cutting-edge pre-war military technology, energy weapons, flying birds, power armor.... Those pre-war military facilities scattered all over the SA that have long been forgotten, they know it all.

After the complete defeat of the enclave by Navarro, the Brotherhood of Steel and the NcR, it is really unknown whether this group of survivors will become more extreme and violent.

The man's eyes were almost on the Atomic Hummer for a moment before continuing the conversation.

"Hmm.... Actually, we got lost, I want to ask for directions, what is this place? Is it Utah? Colorara? Or Kansas? Andy looked nervously at this group of people, especially the tall existence draped in tarps, if his guess was right, it was probably a remnant army of an enclave wearing power armor, the combat armor of the enclave originated from the most cutting-edge military technology of the SA before the war, and continued to develop independently after the war, and its comprehensive ability far surpassed the conventional military power armor recovered by the Brotherhood of Steel from various pre-war military bases, and the same was true in weapons.

"Utah..."V mode swept over several people, giving a clear warning. [Unknown Power Armor Unit] [Warning, this target is judged to be a high-risk target, and a skull danger warning sign has been carried out] Andy answered this person briefly, and a drop of sweat couldn't help but break out on his forehead, the only strength he is sure to resist that guy now is the Hercules Power Fist, but until now it has not completed its self-charging, and can only exert less than one-fifth of its power, I am afraid that it will not be able to defeat the target wearing high-grade power armor with one blow.

Once the fight starts, the outcome is unpredictable. The members of the enclave, wearing gas masks, nodded slowly, their eyes twinkling.

"Thank you for telling me this, I have one more question, do you know of a place called MacArthur Army Base?" Andy doesn't know anything about the place name and tells him he doesn't.

The man seemed slightly disappointed, nodded, and pulled out a few miniature fusion batteries from the backpack he was carrying behind his back.

"These are for you, which is a reward for asking for directions." Andy took it and hurriedly launched the Atomic Humvee and drove away.

............... Looking at the back of the Atomic Hummer, the guy in the tarp spoke something mixed with electronic sound.

"That car is really good, why not just requisition it from that civilian?" He slowly lifted a weapon in his hand, the end of the weapon sticking out of the tarp, what looked like a silver metal tube, and the end looked like a metal claw.

The man in the gas mask shook his head.

"Those NcR Rangers have been chasing us, and even if the previous trick worked, they probably didn't go far, in case they made a loud noise and attracted more NcR troops, it would be more than worth the loss."

"We've fallen behind, but we didn't expect to be in Utah..... I know there's an old Army base facility called MacArthur that probably houses pre-war military vehicles, and you can take that one to the east quickly. A gust of wind blew and blew open the corner of the tarp, revealing the originally covered power armor helmet, which at first glance was almost an insect-like face, its mouth and nose were inverted, although it looked ugly, its air filtration ability far exceeded that of ordinary power armor, and the four pipes were connected from the back to the two protrusions on the forehead and the two protrusions on the cheeks, and with the two high-level optical sensor eyepieces, the face of this helmet became demonic.

The power armor's shoulders are exaggerated and widened, completely protecting the neck, which looks like a metal scarf.

The heavy energy weapon he was carrying in his hand scattered a faint green light from the magazine, like a huge single-grip suitcase with a metal fork on the front.

If the members of the Van Graaf family who had dealt with Andy before saw it, they would have recognized it as a plasma projector, a terrifying heavy energy weapon that could instantly eject a cloud of high-temperature plasma that could scrap the Atomic Humvee with a single shot.

If it hits someone, it will make that person disappear from the world in an instant.