"Welcome to the reservation."

With that, Measles led Andy forward, and Horatio left with the slave in the other direction.

Looking at the empty abandoned pre-war military base in front of him, Andy only felt that the scene here was very different from what he imagined, first of all, it was too open and flat, but there were towering rocky mountains on the edge, and the combination of the two gave people a sense of insecurity, and secondly, it was deserted, originally he thought he would see a scrap iron fortress full of ghouls, but the number of members of the reservation he saw after entering here could be described as scarce.

Looking around, there are a few abandoned buildings still standing there to the west, which feel like some kind of large storehouse, with some vehicles scattered around, and of course none of them look like they can move; The situation seems to be much better on the east side, where you can see in the distance many buildings that have not yet collapsed, including a building, and the remains of many more collapsed buildings than that.

"Come with me."

Measles beckoned, heading east.

"Father feels very novel, for whatever reason, it is really rare that a slippery skin is willing to help us so dedicatedly, he will meet you, but not really face to face, but through electronic instruments to do this, this conversation is crucial, I need you to maintain the respect he deserves..."

"Electronics?"

Andy said as he followed the measles towards the buildings to the east.

"Do you mean communication through some kind of terminal or something? Similar to a video call? ”

Measles looked back at him in surprise.

"I thought the slipperies had completely forgotten about that now, but it seems that at least you still have some knowledge of the old world's technology, and you're right, we're going to enter the temple on the reservation and start a video call with the help of the devices there."

Andy chews on the word temple that comes out of his mouth with measles, what does it mean? I didn't see the dilapidated buildings in front of me from afar, and what the words "saint" and "temple" had to do with them, even the temples made by guys like Hekat out of scrap metal were a bit stylish, and the ones in front.... It's a whole big ruin.

From time to time, a pile of scrap metal debris appeared on the crumbling asphalt road, for example, now Andy saw three or four old tanks crowded on the surface of the asphalt road that had been shattered into debris in the eastern area as far as his eye could see, some of which had been lifted and looked empty, and some of which were still covered with it, which should have been completely integrated.

Andy couldn't help but look at it twice, the tank is almost a legend in the wasteland, this kind of military vehicle in the old world is invulnerable and has a powerful main gun, this kind of combat vehicle can exert extremely powerful lethality and deterrence on the battlefield, but these are all just speculations, the vast majority of wasteland people can't even understand what the word tank can refer to except the water tank, NcR people because they have followers of the apocalypse to keep a lot of pre-war literature and widely promote general education is still a little insightful, But they still haven't had the chance to see a real tank.

Thanks to the educational materials provided by Tibbetts Prison, Andy didn't scream at the sight of these big iron bumps.

They were once the property of the SA military, or perhaps some experimental model kept secret from the public, pure killing machines, but now they are a pile of scrap rust that even scavengers are not interested in.

Thinking of this, Andy suddenly noticed that the tanks had been disassembled, and it seemed that someone had used a cutting tool to cut open the tanks and remove something from them not long ago, but for what? Is it just a conventional recycling? Perhaps this is where Betty and Hank's goods come from.

Moving past the tanks, Measles led Andy down the asphalt road to the east near the building.

It is three storeys high, covers a large area, and is essentially part of a series of buildings, with many wide windows, but the glass on these windows has long since been shattered, and most of the entire building has collapsed or deformed, some of which seem to have collapsed naturally with the passage of time, and the rest have left traces of horror, which means that the building has been destroyed by an external force majeure.

Under the destructive power of nuclear bombs, specially reinforced military-standard reinforced concrete buildings are nothing more than cookies.

Rolled rusty steel heads, spider web-like cracked concrete, steel that seems to have melted and re-solidified, only deformed window frames remain, and misaligned load-bearing beams barely continue to support the remaining little corner of this dilapidated building, in the scorching sun and the sand particles flying in the wind, the vast years and history are unreservedly displayed directly on the surface of this building, which seems to have never been repaired, transformed, or dismantled since the outbreak of the Great War. Everything has been preserved as it was to this day.

"It used to be an office building, and Los Alamos' military, scientists, and staff worked mainly in it."

Measles saw Andy staring at the ruined building, and said a few words about the history of the place.

"They used to work around the clock in this building to make drawings, calculate data, improve recipes, carry out experiments, and now, all of them have disappeared, and now there is no use here, only three or four people stubbornly continue to live in it, in some offices in this office building that have not collapsed, they don't fit in very well, they don't like to deal with other people and have a weird personality, you better not go in and talk to someone, they won't give you a good look."

With that, Measles continued north along the asphalt road, where military vehicles were still everywhere.

For example, the jeep has been completely lying on its stomach, and several skeletons are still lying on it, which has been well preserved by the dry weather here.

After walking for a while, the two of them walked around the huge office building, Andy saw a shanty town in the north of the office building, he could only describe this area as such, everywhere was a dilapidated and ruined, the metal plates and metal poles that had been recovered from the ruins of this military base had become shacks, low buildings, and shacks, and the rusty state made people suspect that these materials would shatter at the slightest touch, and individual residents did not seem to like metal buildings, they just used shabby canvas and other fabrics to build small tents.

The ghouls of the reservation seem to live mainly here, most of them seem to be idle, their eyes are numb and sluggish, a few ghouls see Andy from a distance and immediately turn their heads to avoid or spit arrogantly, and several heavily armed ghoul guards come out of the shanty town with weapons and armor, and turn back to their previous idle state after the measles waved at them.

Andy looked at those people and wondered a little, the scale of trade in the reserve is not small, and the various materials exchanged for the funds should have allowed the ghoul residents living in the reserve to live a high-quality life far beyond the level of the wasteland nomads, why did the ghouls living here look almost indistinguishable from the wastelanders outside, they had exactly the same dilapidated dwellings and the same numb eyes.

There are also those ghoul guards, Measles said that these guards do not directly obey him, nor do they belong to the children of the wasteland, but these ghoul guards are indeed the most important armed force on the reservation, the children of the wasteland is a ghoul religious organization founded by William Clark, the current leader of the reservation, since these ghoul guards are also part of the reservation, why do they seem so maverick, based on the situation that Measles called William Clark his father, his status is almost the same if not the second-in-command of the reservation, And although those ghoul guards are only small soldiers on duty, they are neither humble nor arrogant in the face of measles, where does their confidence come from?

Andy frowned and thought about these things, the situation on the reservation was likely to be more complicated than he thought.

Measles notices Andy's gaze again and immediately speaks out his advice.

"It's another person's territory over there, even my father has to give him face, if you rush in, I don't know what kind of treatment you will suffer, maybe you will be beaten for nothing, don't come near if you have nothing to do."

Andy glanced at measles, there is nothing interesting in this reservation, the asphalt road is so dilapidated that it is impassable, the office building is seriously collapsed and damaged, the shanty town is extremely bad, and the strangely shaped warehouses on the west side do not know what they used to contain, and they are also in a dilapidated state, so what else can be called a "temple" in this clearing in the mountains?

Unable to think of an answer, Andy could only continue to follow the measles towards the north, and the two skipped the shantytown, and then Andy was presented with a railroad in front of him.

"Here... Is there a railway? ”

Andy looked at the well-preserved railway in amazement, and there were two train-like vehicles parked at the east end of the railway, but the part of the locomotive seemed to have been seriously modified, and there were many traces of welding.

Measles pointed to the southwest.

"This railway was a pre-war military railway, and it has always been kept secret from the outside world, so you can't find it on any map left over from before the war, and the area it passes through is inaccessible, but as far as I know, eventually it can stretch all the way to the southwest, connecting with the outside rail network."

Andy lifted the beep-boy and glanced at it, heading southwest from the reservation, wouldn't that be the abandoned fortress? In this way, it is indeed the most important transportation hub of the Greater Midwest Federation, with the abandoned fort as the center, extending to Dog City and even the Great Dome to the northeast, to the outskirts of New Canaan to the northwest, to the Hoover Dam in the southwest, and directly into the interior of the reservation in the southeast.

"Anything else, when I see my father, he will talk to you in detail, now hurry up."

Measles beckoned to Andy, and the two of them made their way from the main entrance on the south side of the reservation to the northernmost area near the mountain wall, which was actually very nice, surrounded by brown rocky mountains without inconvenience, and the wreckage of the airfield runway and the hidden old railroad showed the ingenuity of the designers, who quietly hid this entire huge military base in a safe place, which could not be detected by outsiders, but they were able to take the initiative to contact the outside world at any time.

There were no craters in the reservation, and the violent green radiance was on the periphery of these brown mountains, and it was their shelter that prevented the aftermath of the nuclear bomb from completely bulldozing the reservation, but the mountains were helpless against the spread of radiation.

Glancing at the Pip-Boy, Andy used some radiation-resistant nursery solvents, and the radiation dose here reached a new level.

"That's the entrance to our temple."

Measles pointed to a concrete square building in the northwest, with a square metal platform not far from the railroad tracks, surrounded by handrails and a metal ramp to facilitate vehicle access.

Andy looked at it twice, this thing can't be raised higher from the ground than the structural design, so it can only descend below the ground and go back and forth, in other words, judging by the railroad tracks and trains next to it, there seems to be another mystery in the underground here.

Measles led Andy into the concrete square building, where several members of the Children of the Wasteland were on duty in green robes and armed weapons, and they immediately saluted respectfully when they saw Measles, a far cry from the attitude of the ghoul guards before.

When the two of them entered the building, they saw that there was an elevator in addition to a small security room, and the buttons of the elevator had password buttons, facial recognition devices, and voice communication devices, painted with blue and yellow paint, and there were additional cameras and a laser turret shrunk into the shell.

This elevator was obviously built to the highest specification, including the concrete building on the outside, which should be an important underground bunker entrance, and it seems normal for Los Alamos to have an underground bunker of the same size as a large pre-war military base, so.... The ruler of the reserve should be located in it.

Measles entered the password, and put his face in front of the recognition device to be scanned, after a drop and flashing green light, the elevator door slowly opened, the two walked into it, the elevator door slowly closed again, and there were only three elevator buttons inside, marked with 1, 2, and 3 respectively, which means that this underground bunker is similar to Fort Maxson, with a total of three levels, and after Measles pressed the button 1, the entire elevator car began to go down.

"Like I said before, take this conversation seriously, the opportunity is very precious, think about everything seriously."

Measles muttered what he had said before, and he seemed to have a heartfelt respect and adoration for his father, who was also Dr. Clark in Horatio's mouth, William Clark, the head of the reservation, known as "Savior" and "Messiah".

The elevator door slowly opened, and Andy followed measles out of the elevator car, looking up but couldn't help but be stunned.

The neat white floor and blue metal walls are spotless, and every corner of this underground world is completely illuminated by bright lights, and the metal floor is glittering, with almost no signs of wear and tear left by time.

Some ghouls passed by near the elevator hall in the corridor, they were wearing neat and clean white coats, some people looked at Andy curiously, but quickly lost interest, and continued to look at the paper sandwiched between the clipboard in their hands, on which a large amount of scribbled text was densely written, the difference between this environment and the shanty town on the surface made Andy unbelievable, in the same settlement, it was just the distance between the ground and the underground, the difference was so big?

"Keep up."

Measles continues to take Andy deep into the bunker, and he doesn't need to say much, this must be the so-called "temple" of the reservation, but why don't all the ghoul residents of the reservation live in this beautiful area?

Andy thought of the details he had observed since entering the reservation: the "newcomer" system, the constant pursuit of opponents, the harsh legal penalties, the armed forces that did not directly obey the orders of the chiefs...

As he was thinking, Measles led Andy into a room, which looked like a conference room, but now there were only Measles and Andy, and the other ghouls left respectfully after helping Measles with some preparations, and did not forget to close the door as they left.

A huge monitor hanging on the wall began to flicker after a button was pressed.

Measles stood aside, and Andy found a chair to sit down, and as soon as he sat down, there was a picture on the monitor.

That's a mouth.

This is an accurate description, it is a mouth, and the details of the small amount of facial skin can be seen that the man is also a ghoul, although his skin is in decent condition.

Andy looked at the mouth on the screen and said to himself, what is going on.

After a brief silence, a hoarse, magnetic voice was transmitted into the room through an electronic microphone with the wriggling of the mouth.