Andy was standing on a high spot with several Rangers at this time, using binoculars to reconnoitre.

According to the results of the discussion between Major Fleming and Elder Blixley, the combat troops were divided into two routes, the southern main route led by the Brotherhood of Steel gathered high-level equipment units to prepare for a strong attack when the time came, and the northern route led by the NcR army was dispersed and controlled, and the two Fort Maxson Brotherhood scouts planned to infiltrate the Ring of Steel stronghold along a small road to create chaos, and the inside and outside should cooperate to help the outside forces defeat them more easily.

The two Brotherhood Scouts are knights, but they are not equipped with power armor, they only wear armor with armor plates, and are armed with rifles and sniper rifles, although most of the scouts are members of the Ring of Steel, but not all.

"You can walk this path in a moment."

The Brotherhood of Steel scout, who claims to be named Yorkson, points out a path that appears to have been recently discovered by them, so it is not on the previous map, saying that it is a road, but in fact it is almost a gap between the mountains.

"This road is the most difficult path among several paths, but it is also the most difficult road to be trapped, the others must have been deployed by them all kinds of traps, we found animal traps and tricks when we were scouting before, these traps can kill and cripple if you are not careful, it is extremely difficult to avoid in that narrow environment, in addition to the deployment of the steel ring, it is easy for outsiders to miss no matter how cautious they are, if there is also a steel ring of the dark post ambush nearby, then our end will be very miserable."

After a moment's discussion, they all felt that Yorkson was right, and they immediately began to count their belongings.

Under the cover of some withered trees, several people quietly touched the target location.

"That's it."

Yorkson pointed to a mountain crevice in a hidden place.

Several people stood aside and watched, they couldn't help but feel difficult, the mountain on both sides of the slippery autumn, the gap in the middle can not pass people at all, want to use this to enter it, you must make people like a spider left and right to try to find a foothold, the gap is narrow outside and wide inside, but the widest place can not accommodate people to move normally, if one accidentally falls into it and causes it to be stuck, it will be extremely difficult to rescue.

In short, it is not the path of man at all.

"We tried to walk a little bit inside, leaving some nails and ropes on the stones, and my opinion is that with a little care, we can finally reach our goal, and I believe that with the abilities of you, the famous Rangers, this kind of path is just a piece of cake."

Yorkson said this, looking at the Rangers with an agitated gaze.

"Of course."

Sass replied with his chin held high, in a tone that he deserved.

"Naturally, you don't need to say much about this kind of thing, since we are all here, no matter what difficulties we face, we will definitely complete the task."

A few people said to go, each took out some mountaineering aids and began to climb, because everyone's physical fitness was relatively good, those steep and smooth rocks could not stop their footsteps, a group of seven people lined up in a row with the help of Yorkson and others The foothold left by the last reconnaissance quickly before walking, quickly climbed to the top of the mountain crevice, and then arrived at the position where Yorkson stopped last time.

"The road ahead will be harder."

Yorkson wiped the sweat from the top of his head, and several people stepped on the top of the dark mountain crevice for a long time, during which some people had slippery feet many times, the gap was full of sharp rock edges and corners for some reason, and some places did not look smooth, but after stepping on it, they realized that it was because the surface was covered with a dry plant, similar to some kind of moss, which would crush and fall off on the spot once the force was applied.

Sass took the initiative to ask to go to the front, and the others followed behind, and the speed of action suddenly slowed down a lot, and the gap in the mountain below him was twice as wide as at the beginning, and from time to time there was a strange smell of yin wind blowing out of the darkness below, it was really a double torture for the body and spirit, but they had all come here, and the only choice was to move on.

An extremely ugly squirrel was standing on a tree on the cliff and staring at the crowd, this thing had no hair on its body, its skin was full of growths or pus like tumors like toads, and two cloudy eyeballs bulged out of its sockets, and if it were night, ordinary people would be so frightened that they screamed.

"After watching this, I really don't want to eat squirrel cookies anymore."

A ranger humorously complained.

Sass grinned, recalling that he had eaten the same little jerky, although the squirrels were not aggressive and were better caught than those moles, rats and other animals, but the unskilled people couldn't even find these gadgets in the wasteland, so although many people had eaten meat products made from this mutant rodent, most people didn't know what the raw materials of this food looked like.

Andy walks in the middle of the group, and although his skills are not as good as the others, thanks to Hull's help, the gloves on his hands and the boots on his feet can change the protrusions at any time according to the terrain to gain extra friction, so he is relatively easy to climb.

"Oops!"

One of the rangers accidentally stepped into the air, and the others didn't have time to react, and by the time everyone looked over, he had slowly crawled out of the gap on his own.

"Be careful..."

The Brotherhood Scout in front of him tugged at him and pulled him up.

The group continued to move forward, and suddenly Sass at the front stopped and gestured.

After a while, people learned what Sass saw, and there was a very dilapidated looking log cabin on the cliff not far ahead, could this be the sentry of the Ring of Steel here?

"Watch out for everything around you, those guys have stealth kids."

Yorkson whispered a reminder to everyone, leaning against the mountain wall, raising his sniper rifle and using his scope to look at the broken wooden house.

In the scope, the wooden house had almost collapsed naturally, and the old wood was so rotten that it seemed impossible for anyone to stay in it.

"I'll go check it out."

Andy said hello, and suddenly crawled quickly towards that side.

He quickly arrived at the front of the wooden house, and pulled open the broken wooden door, which turned into flying ash as soon as it was touched, and after fanning off the dust, Andy fixed his eyes on the strange "god statue" in this wooden house the size of a toilet, which seemed to be a combination of stones, mud, feathers, and the dried corpses of some animals, and due to the collapse of the roof of the wooden house, it had been partially destroyed, and it was completely impossible to see what the creator originally wanted to create an image.

Whatever it is, whatever age it is, it's unlikely that this is the Ring of Steel outpost.

Andy crawled out of the hut and turned back to tell the others about the situation.

"It's okay, a strange thing, not a Ring of Steel."

Sass leaned over in confusion.

"What's weird? I'll take a look too. ”

Andy moved out of the narrow way, and just then he suddenly looked down and saw some faint marks on the cliff face, like pits at the same distance, all the way from the log cabin to the dark mountain crevices below.

This made him feel extraordinary, so he turned on the Pip-Boy's light and leaned into the gap.

With the peep boy penetrating, the light began to illuminate the darkness below, faintly, Andy was surprised to see that there were some vague murals carved on the stone walls on both sides of the gap below, the width of this gap is barely enough for people to lay down and crawl down, and the area of those murals is definitely not a day or two can be completed, although it is just some stick figure works painted with paint, but the difficulty of creation is really moving.

"What's that...."

Andy took a closer look at the murals, throwing out some of the parts that had been blurred, most of which depicted a humanoid creature with slender fangs and black feathers.

Just as Andy wanted to continue looking at the details of the murals, Saas patted him on the shoulder.

"Don't look at it, I've seen these things in New California, and most of them are weird things left by natives, and I've seen a lot stranger than this. Can you believe it? Some tribes believe that radiation has the potential to bring people back from the dead, so they have designated a cave full of nuclear waste as a sacred site, constantly throwing corpses or dying people into the cave, and then running ladders into the cave. If someone is resurrected, then that person can climb up the ladder, but this has not really happened except in their legends. ”

"They began to wonder if the legend was true, so they engaged in a so-called trial, in which young men who wanted to challenge the village rulers, sinners who had committed mistakes, and prisoners of war who had been captured during the tribal battle went down ladders to explore the caves, but none of them ever returned."

"Later... There was an earthquake, and the cave above the cave opened a crack in the side, and a large number of glowing ghouls ran out of it to attack the village, and they had to ask for our help with heavy casualties, and we had a great deal of effort to put down the monsters and seal the cave with cement. “

Andy turned his head to look at Sas, and felt that what the natives in this story did was not entirely unreasonable.

"If radiation can really turn dead people into ghouls..... Is it the slightest possibility of creating the illusion of resurrection? ”

Sass shook his head.

"I don't know if dead people can turn into ghouls, but I've dealt with a group of cultists who thought ghouls were sacred new humans, so they looked around for something with radiation and concentrated them in a room, and then kidnapped people around and threw them inside, testing how to turn into ghouls without losing their minds.... Those who were thrown in by the cultists were either forcibly swallowed large amounts of anti-radinine, others were injected with several bags of radinine, and others were forcibly injected with large amounts of drugs and even injected blood drawn from the ghouls. ”

"By the time we finish these guys, the room is full of miserable dead corpses and a few wild ghouls gnawing at them."

When Andy heard this, he only felt that these people were really a bunch of crazy people, and if they wanted to turn into ghouls, they would simply test it themselves, and they would actually harm innocent people.

How exactly the ghouls happened and what specific process they went through is almost a metaphysics in the wasteland, and many ghouls themselves don't know how they are transformed, and it is usually related to exposure to high radiation, but even if the experience is repeated perfectly, everyone's reaction will be different.

Some died from severe radiation sickness, others did not respond, and others descended into madness and eventually became beastly ghouls.

Therefore, it is the common perception of people in the wasteland to avoid radiation and regard radiation as highly toxic, and most people who have been exposed to radiation for a long time can only choose one of the ends: illness, death, or becoming the walking dead.

After walking past the strange little temple, after walking for a while, Sass at the front suddenly stopped again.

Several people asked why Sass stopped again, but he was silent, and after a few moments, he led the team forward again.

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

It was a difficult crawl for half an hour, and there were no enemies or traps along the way, and the Ring of Steel didn't think anyone would really crawl through here, but this mixed special forces team created a small miracle.

Standing on a high place, the camp of the Ring of Steel was visible to several people.

"This used to be a native village?"

Sass put down his binoculars and turned his head to ask Yorkson, and the other party also had some surprise on his face.

Previously, the scouts of the Brotherhood of Steel could only observe from a distance because they were obstructed by the dark sentry of the Ring of Steel, and there was no way to see it at an ultra-close range like the few people now, but now it seems that the Ring of Steel has realized that they are about to be attacked by the outside world, and a large number of metal bunkers, sandbags, scaffolds, towers, and automatic turrets have been deployed, echoing some of the pre-war ruins that originally existed in this native village, which is really like an iron bucket.

The offense was more difficult than previously thought.

"They.... It seems to be prepared. ”

Yorkson said this in a dry throat, pointing his fingers to several places.

"Do you see those? The square concrete building, which may have been a pre-war military bunker, may have been a secret military base, and the metal gadgets in the middle were freshwater condensers, which could collect clean water from the air, and these natives relied on this thing to get water, and now these devices have become a ring of steel..... There must be a water storage tank nearby, and there will also be a grain storage for agricultural products from the farmland next to it, so we can think of a way. ”

Andy looked at the familiar devices, and suddenly realized that these condensers were very similar to those of the crypto tribe.

He took out a bottle of colorless and odorless liquid from the beep boy, the poison that McClofty had given him, could it be useful this time?