A man in a yellow radiation suit walked in the desert, and after a moment he stopped and began to undress.

Andy was sweating and panting, walking in the desert in bloated clothes on a hot day was self-inflicted, and if there was no accidental error in the positioning of the Pip-Boy, then the merchants who had stolen from the reservation were not far away, and he guessed that there must be a place to cool off, and at this distance, the radiation from the craters around the reservation had gradually subsided, and any normal person would try to undress and recuperate as soon as the Geiger counter was quiet.

Putting the radiation suit into the Pip-Boy, Andy saw that something was not far away, as if something had moved from under the sand, so it left some marks.

"Is it a scorpion again..."

Andy took out the kettle and took a sip of water, scanned it in V mode to make sure that there were no targets around him and continued to move in the direction of the indication mark, as for what to do after finding those people, Horatio said that the requirements were very simple, get their heads, this operability is not so great, if it is just to find the supplies and give a lesson or something.

He took the task at just the right time, judging by the map markings, in a few days these people will completely leave the signal coverage of the reservation, and the collars on those slaves will also lose their positioning function, and then these thieves will really escape smoothly, looking at their style of doing things, these people may not appear in front of the ghouls again in their lives, the vast wasteland, they will be nowhere to be found.

But now....

On the other side, a group of people were gathering in a cave about a hundred meters away.

It stands to reason that there should not be such a hole in the desert that can be convenient for passers-by to take a cool breath, but several abandoned vehicles overlapped each other due to the impact of the aftermath of the nuclear explosion to build a gap, and later the businessmen who came and went from generation to generation expanded, transformed and strengthened this small gap, and gradually turned this place into a shared resting place for businessmen, it was just right in the position where you could safely take off the radiation protective clothing, and the temperature was very cool after hiding in it. And the shells of those cars and the metal waste that they fill in afterwards can stop radscorpions from invading from underground.

A grizzled man was wiping the gun in his hand, showing that he couldn't put it down.

A long-haired man next to him who was wiping his neck with a torn towel was really upset and pushed him.

"Can you stop wiping it? The gun oil is almost on fire by you! ”

The gray-faced man glanced at him silently, and continued to do what he wanted to do.

Not far from the two of them, a bald woman with a fierce face looked at the two slaves in front of her with a contemptuous expression, both of them were Buraku, their skin was dark and coppery, their faces were full of horror and they kept gesticulating as if they wanted to explain something to the woman in front of them, but the other party obviously did not have the patience to figure out what they meant.

"If you two natives don't know how to be quiet anymore, I'm going to teach you a lesson."

A woman with a large tattoo on her arm scratched her bald head, and after warning that it had no effect, she took out a finger tiger and grabbed it in her hand, and threw a few fists at the two slaves, and the slave with a blue nose and swollen face had to kneel without saying a word or moving.

"That's right, don't worry, in two days you will be sold to the right people as farm tools, it's better than staying in that stinking and radiant place full of rotten ghosts and doing hard labor, hahaha-"

The captain of this temporary small caravan was a man of five big and three thick, he opened the box and counted the harvest of this trip, which can be said to be quite rich, originally they were just a group of idle wanderers wandering around, doing everything in order to earn a few bottle caps, and by chance I heard in the tavern that there is such a place in the south that is very suitable for traders, and all the things obtained from trading there are hard currency, bullets, armor, firearms, whether these things are used or sold, they are the best.

But they didn't have the heart to be merchants, and after intercepting a group of caravans and stealing all the goods, the marauders who were worried about how to maximize the realization of the goods reluctantly delivered the goods to the reservation for the bottle caps, and then they couldn't help but move their crooked thoughts, and the three trade directors in the trade area were all stolen by them, pretending to be a test gun from Hank, took a batch of shotguns and left, turned around and stole a few pieces of metal armor from Betty while not paying attention, and took two slaves from Horatio, and these things can be sold for a bottle cap after they are brought back, And before going to this cave, I did another ticket by the way, and I really won three times in such a trip, and I really won hemp.

All the booty was distributed among all the members, with the two slaves receiving the heaviest portion, which was the main purpose of their captivity, and the secondary purpose was that the slaves could carry the goods to the target location and sell them as accessory goods.

The leader of the marauders with messy hair is thinking about what to do next, maybe they can find a small place to repair the stockade and become a soil emperor... No, just recruit troops and buy horses to grab a ready-made settlement to live in, and then lie down every day while drinking and taking drugs while collecting tolls, who dares not to give a full bottle cap first smash the butt of the gun in the face to warn, and then if he doesn't give it is a headshot, he has to buy a few more beautiful slaves to do whatever he wants... Live a good life like those bastards in Phoenix.

The leader of the predators, who was thinking wildly, suddenly heard the sound of punching and kicking, and when he looked back, he saw that it was the gray-faced man and the long-haired man, and after a while, the two of them suddenly became one, and after punching and kicking each other, they directly took out a small piece of knife and lead pipe and began to eagerly escalate this brawl to the level of a fight, once they were emotional, they would not mind cutting each other's throats with that knife or denting each other's heads with that lead pipe, Even if they had just made the trek to and from the reservation as companions, it wasn't a friendship.

"Stop fighting, what are you fighting?"

The leader of the Marauders, who had a skeleton tattooed on his face, angrily scolded the two, but the two who had torn their faces did not die at the moment.

"Fuck, I've long seen that you're a sloppy ghost, and you stinky every day to compete with those ghouls, and as soon as you get the things around you, you wipe and wipe them endlessly, fucking neurotic! After killing you, all your stuff is Lao Tzu! ”

The long-haired man grabbed the knife in his hand and played with it, his thick nostrils and thick lips making his hideous expression even more vulgar.

The gray-faced man spewed a hot breath from his nose, the lead pipe in his hand was tightly gripped, and his mouth made a thick and savage sound.

"Look who killed who today."

Both of them are holding weapons in one hand, and the other hand is quietly hidden, and the marauder leader standing on the side sees that this real man 1V1 weapon fight is about to turn into a sneak attack competition that does not talk about martial arts... Or maybe not a sneak attack, who doesn't know who? This might be closer to a cowboy duel.

"Stop it!!"

The leader of the marauders rushed over and forcibly pushed the two men away.

"What are you doing? Fighting in the nest? What's the use of this? Two people's luggage is carried by one person, can you carry it out? When the time comes, you will be shot in the body, and you expect me to save you? Don't daydream, I won't bring you such stupid use when I insert a treatment needle in the soil! ”

The two of them listened to the leader's words, took two steps back, and gradually lowered the weapons in their hands.

"That's right, give me a good treat from now on! When we've replaced everything with bottle caps, let's go back to Phoenix for a while! ”

The two men were silent, and finally turned their heads away from each other and sat down on either side of the cave.

The leader, who had just enjoyed a quiet moment, was about to go back and count his loot when suddenly a scream came.

The bruising leader angrily walked towards the place where the two slaves were being held, the two tribesmen who had been captured by them were bound in chains, the other end of the chain was tied to a scrap metal bulge, and at this moment the bald woman was frantically pumping the mouth of a slave while constantly pointing and making him kneel, and she had already lowered two bottle caps with sharp edges facing upwards on the ground.

The emaciated slave was overwhelmed by the beating, and slowly knelt on the bottle cap, and his knee was immediately punctured by the edge of the bottle cap and let out a miserable howl.

The other slave had already knelt down, and seemed to have suffered the same thing, and was crying incessantly.

"What are you doing?!"

The main reason for his anger was that the screams were dangerous in the wasteland, and the ferocious monsters and beasts that roamed the wasteland were easily attracted and provoked by the noise, which eventually led to a disaster.

"Boss, these two native slaves are disobedient and have been screaming and moving around there, I'm telling them to have a longer memory..."

The bald woman defended like this, but the expression of pleasure at the corner of her mouth because of the abuse of others had not been completely retracted, of course, this could not escape the eyes of the leader, this woman was originally a sadist.

"I want to be quiet! Be quiet! Do you understand this word? Don't tell me that not only do you not understand the word silence, you don't even know what it means to be quiet, are you a fool? You broke the knees of these two slaves, and who will carry the goods back next? I told you that if they can't walk and can't carry the goods, I'll take off their collar and put it on your neck and let you carry it, and if you dare not walk, I'll stick the barrel of the gun in your asshole! ”

The bald woman nodded and gave all kinds of fleshy praise, and kept promising to serve the leader well tonight to relieve his anger, which made the angry strong man marauder gradually calm down.

As soon as he was gone, the bald woman changed her face in the blink of an eye at the two slaves.

"Stand up, keep your mouth shut, can you understand my gestures? Hurry up for me tomorrow when I carry something, and if you dare to walk a little slower, I'll shove a stone into your asshole and let the two of you compete to see who walks faster, and the slower one, I'll follow that, ah, you don't understand what I'm saying, it's okay, I'll let you understand tomorrow, hahaha..."

There was a rustle of metal clashing from the side, and the bald woman looked in amazement at the side wall of the cave made of discarded car shells, and pulled out her 9mm submachine gun to get a look, but a shout stopped her.

"Someone's coming!"

A man wearing a goggle helmet who had been silently guarding the entrance of the cave turned back and shouted to his companions, and in his binoculars he could see a man approaching slowly, showing a clear and purposeful appearance.

The five marauders immediately gathered at the entrance of the cave, and after taking turns changing binoculars, everyone expressed their opinions.

"It's just one person, it's easy to kill, don't make a noise for a while, just give him a shot..."

"Look at the armor on his body, and those two guns, fat sheep, our luck is really good this time!"

"Why did you kill him? There is a lack of a sturdy slave like him to help us carry the goods, and the slaves on the reservation don't know what's going on, all of them are a bunch of skinny chickens, and those ghouls can only accept slaves who are in the same shape as them? It's funny to talk about. ”

"Oh~ It's a handsome muscular guy, I'm already a little reactive, I'm going to strip him naked, hang him up, and whip him hard with my treasured iron thorn whip..."

The leader stared at the figure in the sunlight, he walked unhurriedly, his direction never changed in the slightest, and he did not have the slightest intention of hiding his figure or stopping to detect the movements around him, is this normal? They were able to come to this place because they were following a caravan that had left the reservation, the merchants were now buried in the sand, the goods were already in their possession, and the lone wanderer was also a traveling merchant? Dare to act alone in the terrifying wasteland, which means that this person must be very confident in his skills, and he does have the ability to be confident, so since he is here to do the right, how to deal with him is the problem he is currently facing.

Thinking about it, some terrifying legends in the wasteland kept pouring out of his mind, such as the dozen or so marauders who were brought down by two people with three punches and two feet, and the entire bandit village was reduced overnight, and it was said that it was only because he offended three or four people, and so on, and so No one knows what the outcome of what happens in the wasteland.

In addition, although the telescope is not so real, the man's face....

At the same time, other marauders were expressing their opinions.

The Marauder in the goggle helmet has always played the role of a scout, and he advocates killing the man with one shot before talking about anything else.

The gray-faced man's eyes were staring at those valuable and high-quality equipment, and his saliva was about to flow out, and he also agreed to shoot first before speaking, but it was best not to hit that expensive armor, if he could directly blow the fat sheep's head was the best choice, so that those precious equipment could fall into his own hands without any damage, yes, it must be in his own hands.

The long-haired man didn't covet equipment or see the single-handedly man as a threat, he just wanted his burden to be lighter, so when the man got close to him, he quietly went over and put him down with the butt of his rifle, and with such a sturdy slave, maybe he wouldn't have to carry anything for the rest of the journey, he was tired of carrying a heavy backpack through the desert.

The bald woman is already drooling in the physical sense, and her mind has been difficult to contain the scene of her abusing that person by various means, she turned out her poison dart gun, which is actually a special slingshot, and the poison dart shot can quickly paralyze the target, and then she has a way to completely control the person, such as using a powerful and highly addictive drug....

At a time when everyone was thinking differently, the leader of the Marauders suddenly made a decision that surprised everyone.

He walked straight out of the hole.

The two walked towards each other, and soon reached a distance where they could see each other's faces up close, when the leader of the Marauders suddenly had a strange look in his eyes, and he stared at Andy's face as if he was a little puzzled.

Andy didn't want to waste time and said his opening statement bluntly.

"You took something from the reservation that doesn't belong to you, right?"

The leader scratched at his head, the familiar voice making him even more puzzled, the knotted hair almost preventing him from retracting his hand.

"What do you mean?"

Andy had already made sure that this man had nothing to do with the group he was chasing, and the man with the skull tattoo on his face came out of the cave, and the slaves' signals stayed inside, and in V mode, he could also see a few people near the entrance of the cave not far away, who were eager to try with weapons, and they thought that they had not been discovered, which was really ridiculous....

"Five shotguns, ten cartridges, three pieces of metal armor, two slaves .... and, a few human heads. ”

The leader blinked his eyes, and suddenly a question came out that surprised Andy.

"You're Andy? Andy Allendoyle, you were a bounty hunter, and once at the Gambler Casino in Phoenix, there was a guy who shot and killed people indiscriminately, and you and I killed him, do you remember? ”

Andy gave a strange look back.

"You know me?"

The leader hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"You've become so different... But the mole on your head and neck is impressive, is it you? ”

Andy's face twitched a few times when he heard this, what do you mean? A random person who pops up recognizes himself? Is your face white? Obviously, Sheriff Ralph was... Wait, did you know him well before? Or is it even more... It's a bit of a bad thing, how can you come across a place like this?

As soon as he thought of this, a cool air suddenly rose from his toes to the top of his head, and his hands were already involuntarily put on the gun.

"You, did we know each other before? The one who shoots indiscriminately with red eyes .... Did he start the assault in the toilet? ”

The leader's face was full of incredulity.

"How is that possible... I'm just trying to ask, is it really you? How did you.... Have you forgotten when we used to fight together in Bullhead City and play with money in Phoenix? I heard that you drank too much at the Hoover Dam and killed Qiu Ba and were sentenced, you must know that no one in the Black Canyon Prison in NcR has never been able to come out with all the beards and tails, either exhausted or crippled, why are you here now and your face has changed so much? ”

Andy frowned and thought for a while, he didn't know anything about this person, but listening to the other party tell these past stories so conclusively, it seemed that the two had indeed known each other.

"I..."

Before the words could be spoken, Andy had to interrupt the bizarre conversation, because at the entrance of the cave behind, a bald ugly woman had already raised a strange weapon in her hand and aimed it at Andy.