The Atomic Hummer begins its return journey, leaving Mesa Verde for Fort Maxson.

"Isaac, I have come up with a solution to the greenhouse pollution of the crypto tribe."

On the way, Andy said this.

"In Hoover Dam City, I saw Pierre working on a new crop that they called Miracle Wheat, which could be watered with very dirty water, and it could absorb radiation, and if the seeds were given to the Crypto Man to plant in their rooftop greenhouse, that crop might be able to restore the contaminated soil very quickly."

Isaac was fiddling with a strange miniature terminal with his head down, and he replied without raising his head.

"I know that, Pierre used to like to study food-related technology, and the so-called magic wheat is probably a technology he improved on the Shi people, who have been researching how to use phytoremediation to remediate nuclear-contaminated land. But if they were to use that, the crypto people would only use it and not eat it, they were terribly afraid of radiation because of Kiva, and they had always eaten greenhouse crops that had been passed down from generation to generation, unlike the foolish wastelanders at Hoover Dam. ”

Andy didn't know this, he had thought that the magic wheat was developed by Pierre himself, and the result was the result of someone else's research results.

"I've been in contact with the people of the Shi people before, is their level of technology very high?"

Isaac looked up and replied solemnly.

"It's quite high, but they're relatively closed, I think this leads to their technical skills being a little bit behind in areas where they don't specialize, the members of the Shi rarely go out and don't get involved in the strife outside, and their leader is said to be a supercomputer, I don't know what the specifics are."

Along the way, the two of them didn't say a word, at first Isaac could still say two, and then he began to say nothing, thinking of the reason why he had said before that he preferred to communicate with people on the terminal, Andy simply gave up trying to provoke the conversation.

This dreary journey suddenly changed at night, and in a small village along the way, Andy saw some people in mercenary clothes coming in and out, about seven or eight people, who raised their weapons and stood guard after seeing Andy driving over.

"Who?"

Seeing this, Andy stopped the car and walked down, and Isaac sat indifferently in the car motionless, as if he thought that this kind of thing was not worth his attention at all.

"Who are you?"

As he spoke, Andy, who approached a little closer, saw an astonishing scene with the help of the light from the lighted torches, those who stopped him with guns were very terrifying, some of them had faces like a red skeleton, some of them looked like deformed freaks, and their bodies were covered with strangely shaped growths, and some of them had their whole faces distorted and unsightly, and there was no good skin at all, and the pair of big cloudy eyes were even bigger because of the lack of eyelids. These faces glowed in the firelight, and those who were a little brave would scream in fright when they saw it.

Anyone who sees such a scene will have a sudden shock, but the more knowledgeable wasteland people will guess that these people are probably ghouls.

The common ghouls are often those who wander the wilderness and lose their minds, and after being devastated by radiation, they can no longer be called human due to severe degenerative lesions of the brain, but have become a kind of walking corpse, their clothes reduced to nothing after the wind and sun, roaring after any living creature that is not a ghoul around them, trying to kill and devour them. Because of this horrific situation, many people in the wasteland suffer from ghoul phobia, whether they are sane or not, they don't want ghouls to come near them, even if the ghouls haven't gone berserk, just watching that ugly face dangling around them is already torture.

In the east, it's not just people like Simon at Hoover Dam who are actively opposing the mixing of ghouls with ordinary people, but even in tribes, such as the Blackfoot tribe, who consider ghouls to be "evil spirits", and they treat all ghouls as inhuman monsters indiscriminately, and severely reject them, forbidding any ghouls from approaching the village.

"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask!"

A ghoul mercenary with a green face said coldly, motioning for the other ghouls to follow him away.

Andy looked at the heavily armed group, all of whom seemed to be ghouls, and just as many settlements did not allow ghoul residents to live, some of the ghouls gathered to form a group that was "pure" and refused to allow non-ghoul members to join.

Just then, a ghoul addressed the leader, catching Andy's attention.

"Ingmar, it's all done."

The ghoul known as Ingmar nodded, and looked at Andy vigilantly with his gun, and several of the ghouls kicked and kicked some of the hands tied backwards, each of whom was driven out of the small village by a line of ropes.

Seeing this, Andy frowned and immediately questioned these ghouls loudly.

"What are you doing here?"

Ingmar sneered, the thin muscles and twisted skin on her face spelling out a terrifying smile

"Slippery, I'll tell you one last time, be less nosy, and get out of the way."

Andy had no intention of leaving, staring at the head of the ghoul in front of him.

"Your name is Ingmar, isn't it?"

The ghoul looked into Andy's eyes and suddenly became alert.

"Shoot!"

The surrounding ghouls raised their weapons at the test, but Andy was one step ahead of any of them, and the extremely powerful lasers and plasma lit up the darkness, burning through their fragile bodies, cutting them off, or incinerating them to ashes.

Ingmar's pistol was melted by a shot of plasma, he hurriedly threw the hot thing away, and then saw that his companions around him had all fallen to the ground and died in the blink of an eye, and the unrestrained tribesmen broke free from the rope and fled, while Andy had put away two energy pistols and walked slowly towards Ingmar with a long sword instead.

"You ....."

The green-faced ghoul retreated in horror.

Andy instantly turned on the V mode to approach with a lightning strike, and then kicked it directly to the ground, the ghoul's fragile body could not withstand the terrifying force, and he collapsed to the ground and screamed at the sound of a click.

"You're slave traders, aren't you? It's rare to be all ghouls, I've seen your wanted warrant at Hoover Dam, it's famous, Ingmar, it's a good thing to be so lucky to meet you today. ”

Ingmar struggled to move backwards with her arms, but was rewarded by Andy with another kick before giving up her flight.

"Ahh - Don't kill me, don't kill me.... Are you a bounty hunter? I'll give you bottle caps, bottle caps that are higher than the bounty. ”

Andy looked at his ugly face indifferently.

"Changing the cap with your head is just incidental, what really matters... I hate slave traders. ”

Before Ingmar could say anything more, a cold light crossed his neck, leaving him scratching his head any longer.

Back in the car, Isaac ignored himself and continued to go about his little work, where he kept sorting through the various data recorded in his portable terminal. Andy put his head in the beep-boy and thought that the next time he went back to the Hoover Dam, he would be able to exchange this for a bottle cap, he really lacked this thing now, and he had to think of more ways to do it.....

After a casual night's rest in the car, the next day the car drove all day, and in the midst of boredom, Andy began to talk to Isaac about the southeast side.

"Have you heard of any large settlements in the southeast direction?"

It took a while for Isaac to respond.

"I talked to a merchant who was passing by when I was crypto, and it was said that there was a very powerful guy over there, and there were a lot of merchants who were willing to walk a long way to get there to do business, and they sold everything that was in high demand, weapons, ammunition, armor. I think it's a little weird, I'm afraid they're not selling inventory, I think.... Most likely, they still have some degree of production capacity preserved. ”

As soon as Andy heard this, he immediately thought of the military supplies that the Crimson Caravan didn't know where to go, could it be that the settlement in Isaac's mouth was the existence of doing business with the Crimson Caravan? It seems that I will definitely go there when I have the opportunity to go there later, and it just so happens that the last fugitive is also in the same direction.

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

Finally, the car drove back into the valley where Fort Maxson was.

The two walked into the cave, and the camera noticed the presence of the two and immediately opened the door.

The gear-shaped door slowly opened, and Elder Dyson and other important people in Fort Maxson appeared behind the door, and when they saw Isaac, everyone had a different expression on their faces.

Elder Dyson seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, Billings greeted Isaac with a smile, and Jerichosetti's gaze wandered back and forth between Isaac and Nils, who were clearly not happy about Isaac's return with a slumping face.

"You're finally back, we really need you, and I hope you can get those scribes who left Fort Maxson back."

Elder Dyson walked over and made a request, but Isaac just shook his head quietly.

"Gone is gone, even if I call one or two, they can't all come back."

Nils' triangular eyes narrowed, and he pointed a finger at him.

"What are you talking about? You were the one who got things to this point, and now that our equipment is almost broken, and you say you can't get all your people back, don't you think you have to take responsibility? ”

Isaac looked at Nils almost unable to hide his expression.

"I have my own way of repairing equipment, but you say I got it to this point? Hum.... Triciniels, it seems to me that Brixley is better than you, no matter how unfit she is to be the commander here. ”

Nils was half angry at this sentence, and she gritted her teeth and stared at Isaac angrily.

"What do you dare to say again? I'm an Elder, and you're not, I'm telling you, when contact with the Lost Mountain Headquarters is restored, I'll report everything you've done to Fort Maxson as an Elder, and then the Council of Elders will sentence you to the punishment you deserve! ”

Isaac sneered.

"Is the so-called elder like you? If you can do it to this extent, then I can do it too, and you say that you want to report me, that's a coincidence, I will do the same thing then. ”

Cosetti, who was beside Nils, scoffed.

"What are you talking about, you are a scribe, you can't be an elder! Only Tracy who works so hard to prove that he deserves to be promoted. What about you, you runaway, how can you be an elder, it's a joke. ”

Isaac was about to say something when he heard this, and Elder Billings hurriedly interrupted these unnourishing and endless sharp conversations.

"Brixley is still unconscious, let's go check it out."

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

The next day, Andy was woken up by a soldier in the small room assigned to him, and he slept very comfortably, although the bed was a bit hard, but it was better than the real stone bed of the Crypto Tribe or sleeping directly in the car.

"What's wrong?"

The soldier in the silver-gray battle armor saluted before speaking aloud.

"The elders are waiting for you at level 3, this is your key card, and you will have the right to enter the level in the future, invincible!"

He took the key card and left the room, and then took the elevator down to the level 3 that he had not been allowed to enter before, and when the elevator door opened, he found that the size of this floor was smaller than the previous two floors, and when he walked in the corridor, he could see that this floor had a very large and luxurious foyer, offices, and even Andy saw a library equipped with a large terminal, which seemed to be designed for the most honorable people at the beginning.

Elder Billings beckoned to Andy with a smile on his face.

"Come on, here."

Andy hurried over, and Elder Billings spoke to him with a smile on his face.

"She woke up, it was amazing, we just saw him make something called methylene blue out of a jar of paint, and then mixed it into a super therapy needle and injected Brixley, and she woke up very quickly."

"yes, that's great, what does Elder Brixley think about the proposal to make peace with the Hoover Dam?"

"She couldn't agree more."

The two of them opened the door, and the door plate of this room read, and as soon as they entered, they saw that the room was full of a large number of chaotic collectibles, such as various maps, various flags, specimens made of the heads of various wasteland creatures, armor and clothing piled up like a hill... The most are photos, a mess of photos, many of which are simple landscape photos, which can be seen to be taken around Fort McXson, and some photos are selfies of a blonde woman.

This room looks like a Elder of the Iron Brotherhood, Supreme Commander of Fort Maxson, and more like a wasteland explorer.

Turning his head again, Andy saw a woman sitting on the bed surrounded by four elders, although her face was blue but she was already conscious, the woman looked about forty years old, tall and fair-skinned, with long blonde hair on her head, her eyebrows and eyes were open and calm, and at this moment she looked at Andy with a peaceful smile on the corner of her mouth, this woman was the protagonist of some of the selfies on the surrounding walls.

"Hello, I'm Andrea Brixley, the supreme commander of this place, you're Andy, right, I heard Glenn say that you helped us a lot, and I wouldn't be better without you coordinating my body from it, I really appreciate you."