Airplanes...... The Atomic Humvee sped through Arizonsan's land, eventually reaching the southern part of Colorara, and thanks to the broken road, the road had been smooth before, but the rest was a different story.

Andy had to dodge left and right in a pile of rocks, and his head hurt from the bumps of the uneven ground.

Xiao Hei kept screaming at first, and then finally fell silent. A large radiant scorpion emerged from a crack in the mountain, almost the size of an atomic Humvee, its thick blue carapace giving the impression that it was impossible to penetrate, a wasteland creature of this size was already a regional hegemon, and if it were a heads-up, the deathclaw might not be able to win its large pincers and tail needles that could inject a lot of venom.

However, this large body also caused it to have limited mobility, and it could not ambush in the sand to launch a surprise attack, nor could it move quickly to pursue the enemy, so by the time it slowly crawled out, the atomic Hummer was nowhere to be seen.

The giant mutant scorpion's two small eyes looked left and right, then turned around to return to its nest. Andy is fully focused at the moment, and with the driver assistance functions provided by V mode, his driving skills can calmly deal with the complex terrain in front of him, and as for the wild ghouls who are chasing behind the butt of the atomic Humvee with a dry howl, he doesn't even want to pay attention to them, these brainless walking corpses will stop after a while, wander aimlessly again or lie on the ground and pretend to be dead.

On the way, a small village suddenly appeared, inhabited by a few people, and the buildings were all simple tents and shacks.

Andy stopped nearby and got out of the car, there should be an entrance to the valley nearby, but the Pip-Boy didn't tell him that the specific road could lead to the destination, maybe the locals here knew a thing or two.

Several people came out of the residence vigilantly with guns and weapons, and the woman and the child stayed away.

"What's the point of going against the trend?" An old man, almost dressed in a crotch cloth and tanned by the sun, now stands at the front, with several colors of oil paint on his face, in a manner that is clearly a tribeamen.

Andy said he had no ill intentions and put some water and food on the ground, and the tribesmen gradually let their guard down and took the supplies away and distributed them, their faces starting to become less tense than they had been at first.

"I want to ask for directions." Andy sat on a dry tree trunk, something made by the tribesmen

"Bench," the man who called himself Chief Tubala after questioning sat at the other end of the trunk, smoking a strange-tasting dry tobacco with a pipe with tobacco leaves in his hand.

The old chieftain squinted in the fierce sunlight.

"Mud Invitation?" Andy points to the mountains to the east.

"I'm going into one of the valleys, and there's the occasional strange person coming in and out, do you know how to get there?" The old chief turned his head and looked at him solemnly for a moment before answering.

"Oh.... ....."In the chief's staccato description, Andy learned the general direction of the valley, and what he said was difficult to understand, but it probably meant that some rough people would come out of the valley, and they had also arrived at the small village for harsh interrogation, and those who tried to resist were burned to ashes on the spot with their guns that emitted red light, and then they took away some of the metal gadgets that the villagers had picked up when they were out scavenging.

The nearby chiefs also said that he had witnessed a group of businessmen coming from afar being blocked by those who had come out of the valley, and a massacre ensued.

After getting some information, Andy said goodbye to the small village and drove back into the mountains.

As the wheels run over a narrow valley, Pip-Boy's map shows that he is now near his destination.

As far as the eye can see, there is pale sand and yellow weeds everywhere, and occasionally a few small mutant scorpions and mutant lizards roam nearby, and when they see the atomic humvee from afar, they immediately stay away vigilantly, without the slightest intention of coming forward to ask for trouble.

The valley here is very peculiar, the east part is almost a dome, the west part is like a maze, even with the guidance of the beep boy Andy has taken the wrong road a few times along the way, and the mountains in this place seem to contain magnetite, the Atomic Hummer, the radio that was smashed by Andy on the way to Dog City and then repaired in Dog City began to make strange noises, but this time Andy was able to turn it off smoothly and shut it up.

It is almost impossible for a dazed and ignorant person to find this place, not to mention that even if a wasteland man came here by chance and stood in the valley like him, then where is the so-called Fort Maxson Gate?

He gets out of the car with Blackie, and the logo on the Pip-Boy just tells him that Fort Maxson is right next to him.

Andy scanned the surrounding cliffs left and right, and suddenly he saw an incongruous spot on the north side of the cliff, so he walked towards it, careful not to fall off the cliff halfway, and when he got close enough he was sure that it was not a normal rock, it seemed to be a very clever camouflage, and under the fake rocks that seemed to be made of some kind of concrete was a steel barrier.

He tried to look around for anything that might help him get in, but there was nothing, no doorbell, no interactive terminal, no keycard identification or keyhole, the door seemed to exist only and was not designed to open.

"Damn.... How to get in? Andy looked at the door with a headache, and Xiao Hei, who was walking around, suddenly screamed to a place in front of him, and he followed the sound to see that there was a naturally occurring rock crack a few meters in front of him.

Turning on the light of the Pip-Boy and taking out Glock 86 in his hand, Andy cautiously walked into the chasm, which was barely large enough for the two to walk side by side, but the inside was much wider than the outside, and it was actually a natural cave.

There were many footprints on the sand, some of them were normal, some were large and deep, and Andy guessed that they were probably the footprints of someone equipped with power armor.

Some metal pipes appeared in the cave, and Andy leaned over to observe a pattern, which appeared to be a blue trident.

Either way, there are signs that the inside of this cave must be unusual. After a few more steps, a skeleton appeared on the ground.

The corpse had been completely ossified, the skull and sternum were missing, and it seemed that there had been an explosion at the position of the neck, which immediately reminded Andy of the story told by Major Fleming before, imagining the scene before the explosion, it must have been extremely desperate.

As he looked away from the bone, his eyes were drawn to what was directly in front of him. Obviously, in front of you is a standard Vault Tech style Vault Gate, it is shaped like a large round metal gear, about three to five meters in diameter, and next to it there is a yellow metal interactive device that is standard with Vault Tek, this device has a socket, and the specifications of this socket are the same as the plug behind the Pip-Boy, next to the socket is a red button with a transparent glass shield, anyone who looks at it understands that this button should be a button that can control the door switch in front of them.

Unlike regular shelters, there are no numbers painted on the gates, which means that the shelter in front of you is not a government-purchased numbered vault in the safe house program, but it is a creation of vault technology in various details.

If according to the information that Pierre told Andy before, then this shelter is the shelter shelter that Todd Peterson, a member of the SA parliament before the war, got in exchange for secret transactions with certain forces, although Pierre told Andy at that time that the builders of this bunker included Vault Technology, Poseidon Energy and the military, but now when he looks at this gate, Andy understands that this bunker is built according to the highest standards, and the facilities inside the bunker will be readily available, and it is a piece of cake to save the lives of residents from the war. It could even play a much larger role, such as being a base for a paramilitary group, and it certainly deserves it.

Andy looked left and right, pulled out the plug of the beep boy and inserted it into the socket, after the screen lit up to identify the interface, the glass cover on the side immediately lifted up, revealing the big red button, but before he could press it, the sound came from the speaker on the side, which stopped his movement.

"Hey, wait, stop me." A red dot lit up, and a camera appeared to be activated above the Vault door.

"Who are you? What are you doing here? Andy looked up and replied.

"A passerby, but I'd like to go in and talk to your Elder Blixley about something." The speech made the voice pause for a moment, and it seemed a little shocked.

"What? Civilian, I don't know how you learned the name of the Elder, but you're curious, how did you find the location here? Also, what exactly are you here for.... Never mind. The door to the shelter in front of him slowly opened, first panning inward, and then slowly turning to one side after moving into the track, all with the help of a motor-driven device behind the gate, opening the heavy special steel gate to reveal a gap into the interior of the bunker, and it seemed that the gate could not be completely removed, only half of the gear-shaped entrance could be exposed.

Silently watching a few people come out of it, it was three members of the Brotherhood of Steel in silver-gray power armor, they were holding laser rifles or plasma rifles in their hands, and the one standing at the front of the three was holding a strange rifle with many coils, Andy had seen this weapon for the first time, but according to the Brotherhood's equipment style, it must also be an energy weapon.

An electronic sound comes from a power armor helmet.

"Let me see your hand, and don't act rashly, civilian. Your trespassing is already putting you at great risk, so don't make us nervous, or it won't do you any good. The member of the Brotherhood of Steel in front of him, who was supposed to be the leader, said this, the power armor he was wearing was obviously not the same model as the two people around him, the power armor of the two people was more angular, the eyepiece on the helmet was divided into two pieces, the mouth was raised and there were two plastic pipes, and it should have an air filter and electronic speakers integrated inside.

The power armor of the man in the front is significantly thicker and more integrated than the armor on the chest and abdomen than the other two, his helmet is more rounded than the other two, the eyepiece is horizontally not divided into two, and the mouth and nose also have similar characteristics of an air filtration device, but it is more complicated, and there is something similar to a light above the side of the head.

When he finished speaking, Andy didn't look hostile, and reached out a hand to take off his helmet. It was a man in his thirties, who didn't look very old, but the wrinkles on his forehead and the nasolabial folds on both sides of his nose could confirm that he was probably almost forty years old, and he looked very ordinary, and the expression on his face was not friendly but not vicious.

"Make it clear what you're here for, and then say anything else." Andy sighed and showed Pierre's badge to the people in front of him.

"I'm here with good intentions, on behalf of Pierre, and on behalf of Mayor Dodge, and I want to speak with your Elder Blixley, and here is a letter from Mayor Dodge himself, and I hope that our exchange will bring peace later." The male Brotherhood of Steel member who had taken off his helmet handed it to his companion, then walked over and took the badge, his expression changing after a brief recognition.

"I see.... The stakes are indeed high. He muttered a few words and returned the badge to Andy.

"My name is Glenn Downson, you can call me Elder Dyson, look at what it means, Pierre actually went to the NcR at Hoover Dam, and he really has his style." Andy was a little surprised.

"I thought there was only one elder in your branch...," Elder Dyson gave him a surprised look.

"Do you know anything about us, have you heard of it from Pierre? In case you know, I was part of the expedition that came all the way from New California to here, and there were more than a dozen of us when we set out, and there were only five of us left. After we successfully captured Fort Maxson and regained contact with the Lost Mountain headquarters, Supreme Elder Jeremy Maxson promoted several of us paladins to the rank of Elder in recognition of us members of the expedition. So, there are now five genuine Elder of the Iron Brothers in this branch, and one of them is standing in front of you, but our leader is still the captain of the expedition, Elder Blixley. ”

"Speaking of which...," Elder Decon had a momentary look of anxiety on his face.

"You can't talk to Elder Blixley just yet, as for the reason, let's talk about it slowly when you come in, but first, you must undergo a medical examination."