Walking in the encrypted village, all the caves here are connected to each other, and the places where people live are almost not separated from each other, at most, the curtains hung with homespun cloth can distinguish this from your home and my home.

People are discussing, most of the people are talking about whether to leave, some people say that the outside has gradually begun to be unpeaceful recently, crypto people generally wander around for a long time, they have a certain understanding of the power changes of the Great Southwest Federation, they know that the "two-headed bear tribe" is no longer as strong as before, many places have become chaotic, and some people mention that the "iron beast" galloping on the "iron bar" has reappeared, and things have probably changed again.

The rest of Andy doesn't understand well, and the crypto people have developed their own language like other tribes, and their daily words are divided into three parts, the first part is the lingua franca part, which is not much different from the outside world, so they can also communicate with outsiders without barriers, and the second part is the terminology part, which is why other tribes named them encrypted in the first place, this part Andy used to think was the weird native language invented by the tribe itself, Now Andy knows that it is the "tool of truth" they have learned from Kiva, and because of the reverence for this kind of thing, they do not leave these difficult words to understand.

The third part is the real encrypted words, such as Azqi, which originally means the counter, and Nemonek, which originally means memory guard, these two words are just transliterations of the lingua franca for their pronunciation, and the pronunciation is actually subtly different, for example, the pronunciation of Azqi should be AZ-kee, and the pronunciation of Nemonek should be Nee-mon-ik.

Nemonek finally chose to hand over the key, seemingly angry at Azqi's questioning, and he told everyone that there was indeed a thing in the storage cave that should be taken by Nemonek to see it after the new Azqi took him inauguration, and that the new Azqi would be able to learn everything about the village, and then become the real Azqi who was in charge of the entire tribe, and the reason why Nemonek did not do that, he himself said, was that the machine had broken down completely many years ago, So this process was carried out for the last time when his predecessor Azizqi took office.

Regardless of whether he said it was true or not, Azqi insisted on asking for the key, and he felt that he had to go and see for himself.

Aziqi took the key and led Isaac and Andy to the storage hole, and when he opened the door of the storage hole, he could see that there were three holes extending inside.

After opening the door to the second cave, the three entered it, and the room was covered with dust.

Andy fixed his eyes and saw that there were many huge iron cabinets in the room, which were connected to each other by pipes, and in the middle was a terminal, which Isaac guessed correctly, this was indeed a computer.

Azqi exclaimed in surprise and stepped forward to touch here and there.

"Iron Box!"

Isaac walked over and flipped the switch, but the computer didn't respond, so he opened some iron cabinets to examine them, and after a few moments came to his conclusion.

"Nemonek didn't lie to you, this thing should be out of power, the environment here is not suitable for long-term storage of the machine, the power supply inside has failed, it has been almost one hundred and eighty years, and it is normal to break it."

Azqi anxiously grabbed his arm and asked what to do.

"How's that for good?"

Isaac opened another iron cabinet and looked at it.

"There shouldn't be much of a problem with everything else, the key is the power supply, if you want to replace it with a new one, it will be a bit troublesome, this computer is a product of Vault Technology, it should belong to the scientific research computer ..... that was specially supplied to large institutions before the war."

He paused, then pointed to a vacancy.

"No, there's one thing missing here."

Azqi hurried over to check, and after his initial surprise, he suddenly remembered that the structure here was similar to some of the records in Kiva, and after comparing them, he slowly pronounced a word.

"Memory.... Core? ”

Andy looked at the vacancy for a moment, there were a lot of cylindrical things lined up in this cabinet, and the vacancy meant that someone had taken one of them.

"Who can take this thing? What's the use? ”

Isaac patted the iron cabinet, or rather, the chassis.

"Yes, the memory core, which stores the important data in this computer, this thing is a key, it can be installed in a large device as a storage medium, or it can be taken out and used separately, it just needs a reader... Who took it? Who else? ”

As he spoke, Isaac suddenly looked at Andy's beep-beep boy.

"Hey, borrow that Rocco gadget on your arm."

Andy looked confused and inserted the plug behind the beep-beep boy into a cylindrical metal device taken out of the chassis under Isaac's guidance, and a prompt immediately popped up on the beep-beep boy's screen.

A whole bunch of dazzling things popped up, some were large chunks of data, some were extremely complex drawings.

Isaac grabbed the beep-beep boy and stared at the screen above.

"Yes.... That's right, that's it.... This is the complete version, there are less than a tenth of what is in those caves, so subtle and profound, so many valuable pre-war technologies... Very few people understand the value of these things. ”

He muttered obsessively, as if he saw the truth.

Andy felt uncomfortable being grabbed by the arm, so he coughed twice and pulled his arm back from his confinement.

"So what's next?"

Isaac woke up from his obsession with pre-battle technology and looked at Azqi.

"I'm going to find Nemonek, the part he took should be the most important part, the beep-boy can only read one at a time, if we want to find out everything inside, we still have to change the power supply of this Vault-Tech computer, and I'm sure there is the same model of equipment in Fort Maxson, and you will be able to see the real Kiva when the time comes."

The three immediately left the storage hole and returned to Nemonek's house, only to see that he was not there.

Azqi thought about it and said several possibilities.

"Nemonek .... He's busy, as if it's been going on for years, since he was younger, he's in charge of teaching kids how to learn kiva, and making things out of those tools of truth, he's also in charge of handling patients in hospitals, and finally he's in charge of maintaining kiva.... I regret talking to him like that, he meant so much to the whole village. ”

The group then found the "school" and "hospital" of the crypto tribe, which were actually two caves, one for teaching children and the other for dealing with the sick and injured.

Eventually, they found Nemonek in the Kiva Cave.

The old man was laboriously applying some paint to the stone wall.

After the few people came down, Isaac saw this scene and showed a really like this.

"It's not set in stone, is it? If no one had maintained it, all the records here would have been wiped out with time, but you did something to maintain it, right? You.... Some information is omitted, so that the smartest people can't go too far into their learning, and I noticed this when I was teaching the triangle, those missing... Hit the spot. ”

Nemonek looked at Isaac coldly, and then went on to do his own thing.

Azqi stepped forward.

"Nimonec, you took one of the most important memory cores, didn't you? Why? ”

The old man did not answer, and continued to painstakingly apply paint to the stone wall.

Isaac froze as he saw the two of them freeze and stood aside and broke Nemonek.

"You're subtly restricting crypto people from gaining deeper knowledge, limiting their application level to a certain level, and there are a lot fewer design drawings in Kiva than in the computer, such as about weapons. I guess... It's not just the blueprints of the laser rifle, right? There should have been more variety, more powerful weapon blueprints, but you tampered with or hid them. ”

Nimonek threw the small brush in his hand to the ground and turned to look at the people in front of him without saying a word.

Isaac suddenly pointed his hand at him.

"You're also the murderer of Triangle, her misconceptions about technology all stem from you, you know she can't do her ideas with the simple blueprints recorded in Kiva, but you just watch everything happen."

Nimonek grimaced, as if he had decided to ignore Isaac entirely, and only looked at Azqi after a while and asked.

"Are you sure? In any case, are you going to stand with outsiders today? ”

Azki was speechless for a moment, but in the end he nodded firmly.

"We have to make a change, the greenhouses have been polluted by invisible fires, there are no more soybeans, pumpkins, cabbages and carrots, we have to find new food sources instead of driving more people out of the village, I have calculated, and now if we are on our own, there is no way to solve the food problem, either everyone leaves the village, the tribe lives in name only, or everyone starves to death here in the near future, I don't want to choose either."

Nemonek finally let out a long sigh.

"You're too young... A lot of things in the past are not known. ”

"Decades ago, Azqi felt that we should go out and get involved in the outside strife to get more resources, because the tools of truth in Kiva made him ambitious. I was about the same age as you at the time, and I stole the key to my predecessor Nemonek and went into the storage hole, when the machine was not broken, and I found a weapon diagram that was not recorded in Kiva, according to the description, the power of this weapon can destroy countless enemies in an instant, and the components of the weapon are in the storage hole. ”

"I told him about it, and he was ecstatic, believing it to be a weapon of godly power, and we opened the innermost cave in the storage hole, the most hermetically sealed cave with a large iron door. As soon as we opened the door, there was a terrible noise, and Nemonek, who heard it, rushed out and told us to stop..... But we didn't listen, and behind the door was a kind of sealed black metal box, which was heavy. ”

"He took one of the boxes with a group of fighters and left the village, never to return."

Nimonek said this, a look of pain on his face.

"I searched for a long time, and at last I found them, and in a valley I saw from afar that they had opened the box, and it was full of stones that glowed a fierce green, and most of them were dead nearby, their bodies as if they had melted. And there .... I'm not sure if they're dead or alive, they're still moving, but it looks like corpses. ”

Andy listened to the story and felt his hair stand on end.

"That's.... What is it? ”

Nemonek didn't want to say more, this story seemed to be the deepest scar buried in his heart.

Isaac reached out to touch his beard, but when he reached out and remembered that his beard had been burned, he put it down again.

"I know what you are talking about about those glowing stones, they are indeed valuable items, and even before the war they were very useful and important resources, but they do pose great danger if used incorrectly. But on the other hand, it could have been used to make a lot of great things, whether it's weapons, or energy, but whatever you do, you need to..."

Nimonek roared almost hideously this time.

"Shut up! Shut up! Don't think about it anymore! ”

He pulled out a metal pillar from the inside pocket of his clothes, which was the memory core he had taken, and he threw it to Azqi, then grabbed his hand with a serious face.

"I'll hand this thing over to you later, even if I complete the ancient rules, from today onwards, I will no longer be the Nemonec of the crypto tribe, and from today onwards, the future of this village will be completely handed over to you. Whether you can make the crypto tribe thrive or let it ruin, I don't care anymore... Square, no, Azqi, you yourself go and appoint the next Nemonek. ”

After that, he left without looking back.

The three of them looked at each other, and Andy inserted the plug into the metal pillar.

After reading it for a while, the beep boy showed that the memory core was full of recording information.

Open the first one, and the time of the recording is marked as February 20, 2078.

Andy hesitates to click on the recording, and after a beep, the recording starts playing.

A young male voice sounded, and Aziqi looked at the beep boy in surprise, as if he couldn't understand why someone was talking in this metal box, and Isaac explained to him that it was supposed to be the voice left by the ancestors of the crypto tribe, which only surprised him even more.