"I've traveled a lot and seen a lot of tribes, but never one tribe is as unique as crypto."

As the Atomic Humvee continued eastward, the environment around them had clearly changed dramatically, from valleys and deserts to low mountains and grasslands, and as the Old World was called, they had now reached the Colorara Plateau.

Andy watched ahead and chatted with the battery while driving, and it took a lot of effort to wake him up in the morning, probably because of the side effects of the treatment powder, the battery became very drowsy.

"Don't you think so? When I went to your village before, I saw some of your skills that have been passed down from generation to generation, and there are some old people teaching children a special way of boxing and using daggers, do you still do it now? ”

The battery looked around through the window and marveled at the speed of the vehicle, which was lightning fast compared to his own slow walking.

"Of course, it was a compulsory course for each of us when we were young, although those combat skills were not profound, but they were very useful as a starting point, after all, due to the small size of our tribe and the shortage of resources, there was never a way to feed everyone for a long time, and most of us had to leave the village and travel into the wasteland when we reached adulthood, and we would not return home until we were too old to walk anymore."

Andy couldn't help but compare the fighting skills of the Crypto Tribe with the drills he saw the Brotherhood of Steel soldiers in Fort Maxson, and there were many similarities between the magical.

Pierre seems to have mentioned that the origin of the Brotherhood of Steel was a group of SA soldiers before the war, so their customary equipment and fighting skills must be inseparable from the armies of the Old World, but it is no accident that the Crypto Tribe, a group of tribemen, has some similarities with the Brotherhood of Steel.

The scribes in the Iron Brotherhood advocate the study of pre-war technology, and every day they are looking through all kinds of knowledge of the old world to record the archaeological past and use it in practice, renovating and maintaining the high-tech equipment of the old world that they find to the extent that they can continue to use, while the villagers of the crypto tribe are also learning the kiva left by their ancestors since childhood, remembering and understanding the truth tools contained in them, and the tattered version of the laser pistol in the battery hand is their successful practical results.

The scribe thought that the ancestors of the crypto tribe might be survivors of a military research base in the surrounding area, and this guess now felt that Andy was quite likely to be correct, and among those survivors there might be SA soldiers stationed at the base, and there must also be scientists in the base.

"Today is a good day to go back."

The battery pulled out a notebook from his leather bag, and the numbers were densely written on it, but the numbers were arranged according to the rules.

Andy glanced at it, and although it was full of strange markings, he thought it was a calendar.

"Do you have a special idea about this?"

Battery immediately started talking to Andy about it.

"Of course, in our view, numbers can be applied to all aspects of life, and according to the old world calendar, each day has a unique number name, because of this difference, every day is different. We think that the odd days of an odd-numbered month or the even-numbered days of an even-numbered month are good, and on the contrary, we should be cautious about that day. ”

"The first day of the month is good for repairing houses and doing business, but we don't think it's a good day for medical treatment and marriage. The middle day of the month is suitable for learning to worship ancestors, but it is not suitable for burying the dead; The last day of the month is a good day to bury the deceased, but not to visit friends. ”

"And so on and so forth, and if we can arrange a plan of action after that, we will abide by that."

Andy sounds a little inexplicable, how much difference is there between the first day and the last day of the month? He had lived so long and had never thought about what he did and what the date was, and he found this belief in numbers odd.

"Let me guess, since you think everyone has a number, then everything else has to correspond to that number, right? For example, a certain day is a lucky day for some people, but not for others. ”

"That's right."

After another half a day, you could faintly see a mountain range in the distance and some valleys in the distance, among which there was a unique shape of the mountain, its top was flat square, surrounded by green plants, and it looked like a green square table.

Mesa Verde.

"It's almost there."

Andy looked at the rather peculiar shape of the mountain to confirm this, there is more than one tribe in this area, each tribe is quite peculiar, the tribes here are not like the western ones who like to hunt slaves and plunder, on the contrary, they are mostly peaceful and have developed quite unique post-civilizations according to their own conditions.

..................

After parking the Atomic Humvee in a secluded spot and leaving Blackie in charge of guarding it as usual, Andy and Battery got out of the car and walked the last mile.

There were already signs of irregularities on the ground, such as messy footprints and rats that were supposed to have been killed by snake venom and were covered in pitch black.

"Sure enough, they're here again."

Battery pursed his lips and anger appeared on his face, it was not the first time that Hecate's hounds had tried to violently destroy the crypto tribe.

After walking for a while, a corpse appeared on the ground, the corpse was dark-skinned and dressed in simple leather armor, and there was a deep pit in its chest, which looked like it had been burned, and this person should have been killed by a laser.

The tattoo on the arm meant that it was a Hecate hound, and the laser marks appeared to have originated from the light guns of the crypto tribe.

Standing up, Andy turned back and asked about the path to the village.

"The last time I came here, these snake charmers also surrounded this place, and that time I followed the sharp angle of your village to the mountain on the cave where you raise moles, but that road is probably impassable now, do you know what can sneak around the valley mouth to the path to the village?"

This question also stopped the battery.

"I ...... I don't know. ”

Andy's mind turned, if there was no road to detour, then simply walked over directly, he took out an invisible boy and handed it to the battery.

"One moment you press the button and you hold it, and then you go as fast as you can, without bumping into anything."

"What's the use of that?"

"It's something that makes people invisible to you."

Battery fiddled curiously for a moment, trying to press the button, but he was stopped by Andy.

"This thing has an expiration date, and once it's over, it's going to be garbage, so I'll use it when I let you use it."

The two quickly sneaked to the mouth of the valley, which is the only way to enter the encrypted village, the narrow valley mouth is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but if the difference in strength between the enemy and us is too large, this place will turn into a place of death that is easy to be besieged for a long time.

This is the case in the current scenario.

The Hekate hounds had set up camp at the mouth of the valley, black tents had been erected, and in the center of the tents there was a large tent, its dark glow that looked like it was made of several large black snakeskins, and near this tent there were several cauldrons of boiling things, and the contents of which were tumbling and emitting brown smoke.

Judging by the sight, there were twice as many Hekate hounds this time as they had been last time, and they had learned wisely, there were no loose rocks around the camp, and it was impossible to repeat the attack of the last time.

A gust of wind blew, and the strange smell of the cauldron was blown into the noses of the two, spicy and disgusting.

"Let's go, be careful, be fast."

Andy helps Battery activate the Stealth Kid, and then asks Hull to activate the Stealth Field, and the two of them instantly dissolve into the air and touch towards the Hecate Hound camp.

They walked through the tents, unnoticed by the people in the vicinity, but when they reached the tent, the door of the tent was suddenly opened, and it was a woman with braided hair, dressed in a rich fur robe and a black snake wrapped around her shoulder, who was walking out of it.

Andy took one look and was sure that it was the daughter of Hecate, whom he had never seen before, with long, venomous eyes like the snake on her shoulder, and a spear in his hand, a rare and well-preserved sniper rifle.

In order to avoid the battery being exposed, he did not stay to look more, and the two of them passed through the blockade of the Hecate hounds without danger.

Crossing the valley and following the familiar path upwards, past the crumbling rocky cliffs, Andy saw the familiar suspension bridge, which was now pulled up so high that it was impossible for outsiders to continue across the valley.

The two stepped forward in shape, and a young villager appeared on the tower, pouting and holding a homemade iron pipe rifle in his hand to look at the two below.

"Who are you?!"

Battery and Andy show their tattoos.

"My own people!"

The boy looked at it for a moment, his face full of doubt, but he flattened the bridge.

The two hurried through, and the boy also walked down from the top of the tower.

"Batteries? How did you get in here? Also, I haven't seen you, who are you? ”

Andy smiled, looking left and right to see the old man before.

"I remember the last time I came to stand guard, not as young as you."

The boy patted his chest.

"He has died in battle, and now I have taken his place to guard the entrance of the village, my name is hexadecimal, why have I never seen you?"

Andy lifted his clothes and revealed the tattoo of the "13".

"My name is Andy, and I joined later, because last time I helped you fight off those poisonous snakes, or call them Hecate hounds, at that time Azqi and Nemonek both admitted me, it seems that you didn't have time to come back last time, as for how we got in, we found a way to sneak in, and those enemies who were guarding outside didn't notice it at all."

The boy turned his rifle back suspiciously.

"Okay then, you guys go in, our situation is really dangerous now, to be honest, the most scarce thing right now is food, we can't sit still, we have to find a chance..."

There was a loud shouting, followed by a shrill siren.

Hexadecimal turned his head sharply, he wanted to pull his legs and rush there, but in the end he chose to continue to hold on to the entrance of the village.

"I can't go, go and see what's going on."

He sat back at the tower's sentry.

Andy and Battery hurriedly continued towards the interior of the village, and the two climbed the ladder that led to the part of the living platform above the cliff, and when they reached the top, Andy saw several members of the Crypto tribe running anxiously towards the east, one of which was Sharp Horn, the young man who had hugged Andy's thigh and begged for his help.

"Hey, Sharp Angle!"

The young man immediately looked back and was overjoyed to see that it was Andy.

"You're here Andy, great, I was thinking yesterday that if you could come at this time..."

He was halfway through his sentence when he heard a shout from ahead.

"Get on stage! There are monsters! ”

Sharp Angle hurriedly continued to run towards the east, Andy and Battery saw that these people were so anxious and curious to follow them, after walking through a section of trestle bridge connecting the east and west sides across the cliffs, several people arrived at the eastern area of the Crypto Village, yes, Andy still remembers that the entire Crypto Village was built on the shady cliff plane of this square top mountain, and the middle cliff divided the village into two parts, the west and the east.

Arriving in the east, the tribeamen rushed up a winding path with all sorts of improvised weapons, believing to be the road to what they called "the top of the platform."

On the way, Andy asked about the battery suspiciously.

"Is there anything out there where monsters could possibly appear?"

The battery also looks inexplicable.

"There are only a few pieces of equipment left by our ancestors, the most important thing is our greenhouse vegetable patch, there is no other road or cave to lead to this flat mountaintop, Hecate's minions are blocked under the mountain, how can there be monsters?"

As he spoke, a wounded member of the Crypto tribe was carried down by the two of them, one of his legs dripping with blood, and he groaned as he shouted to the others.

"Ahh It hurts, and whoever has a gun takes a gun...."

After hearing this, some people took out what they called the zipper gun, a "gun" made of scrap iron and wood wrapped around the chain, not to mention the accuracy and durability, even if it can hit the target, the damage is very limited.

The battery also pulled out his "light gun", Andy shook his head secretly, the broken thing in his hand probably missed the enemy, but it was very likely to hit his own people.

With this thought at this point, he pulled out Glock 86 and the giant python to squeeze away the few crypto people in front of him and rushed towards the top of the stage.

Walking to the top, the view suddenly opens up, the top of this mountain is flat like a table, so you can see everything around you at a glance when you walk up, whether it is the old windmill full of traces of wind and rain, a row of strange iron cans connected to the windmill, and a simple house not far away, which looks like a simple building made of transparent plastic sheets and wooden frames, I am afraid that this is the greenhouse vegetable field that the battery said.

At this point, the crypto folks are in full swing fighting some weird guys.

Andy looked at it, and it was a mass of plants moving on their own attacking the people around them, like black-brown grass balls with limbs.

In V mode, the name of this strange plant life is also very simple.