Exiting the temple and crossing the railroad, a number of ghoul guards could be seen patrolling the neighborhood, especially the large platform area.

For Andy, who had already entered the temple, he was curious about where this lift platform led, and there was no place for level 1 to connect with this thing, so the underground area connected by this lift platform was either level 2 or level 3, because one of the two floors had not yet gone and the other had not permission to go, so it was not clear where it led to.

The old railroad has signs of being recently renovated, just like those trains.

Andy stared at the railroads and trains, everything seemed to have suddenly started preparations in a short period of time for some reason, his own arrival on the reservation and being discovered by measles was not the key to triggering all these changes, but this time point was indeed very accurate, the reservation should be a big move now, if what William Clark said was true, then he wanted to make his settlement enter the next stage of development, that is, from a lonely marginal settlement to a prosperous commercial hub facing the outside world, And in doing so, change people's stereotypes about ghouls.

There is nothing wrong with this approach, not only is it in line with the development trend of the reserve, but if it is carried out, it will also realize the ideal of eliminating racial discrimination and achieving racial equality, and it will also have the effect of striking at the signs of extreme racism within the reserve, so that the future road of the reserve will be smooth.

But it's certainly not that simple.

A gust of wind blew through the shattered pavement and turned the shattered pavement into dust, and Andy lowered his head to avoid the wind and sand, thinking about what he had learned so far.

The reservation has been presiding over a project presided over by Dr. Sebastian, an important member of the reservation that Andy has not yet had a chance to meet: the breeding agreement has skewed an unusually large proportion of resources, and those slaves, especially the able-bodied slaves among them, are given priority to do this rather than being sent as productive labor.

The nameless ghoul says that he thinks the slaves will be sent to the factory if they don't work out after participating in the breeding agreement, but the data recorded in the form that Andy cracked in the computer room says something, if all the slaves ended up in the factory, then why bother to separate the slave information sent to Dr. Sebastian?

How exactly does the breeding protocol work? Is it really just a purely semi-coercive attempt to encourage ghouls to participate in lascivious parties, or to force slaves to exercise with ghouls and try to reproduce the ghouls, as has been revealed so far?

As he walked towards the shantytown, Andy pondered these questions in his mind, and it didn't take long for him to see the shantytown.

The ghoul guards were still on duty, just a little lazy, and I am afraid they had not faced any decent threat in more than a few decades, and the invasion of the hinterland of the reservation under such heavy radiation would be a highly dangerous loss for the human forces outside, and there may be savage tribes and marauders who covet the products of the reservation, but at most they are just intercepting the caravans that pass by on the trade routes.

That being said, if they had swaggered in, they would not have been able to turn a blind eye to the reaction of the guards when they passed through the shantytown the last time they had entered the interior of the reservation with measles.

So...

"Hull, turn on stealth mode."

"Roger."

A voice came from the back of his neck, and after a strange fluctuation, Andy became an invisible man.

Deliberately stepping on some of the debris of the building to avoid being noticed by a few sharp-eyed guards with the help of footprints in the sand, Andy soon approached the edge of the shantytown, and no one noticed it.

Not far away, in a sentry post made out of garbage, two gun-wielding ghoul guards were chatting.

"You say, is the big one coming?"

Another ghoul guard is wiping his gun.

"I say that every day, when will the big one come? Yesterday said today, today said tomorrow, tomorrow said the day after tomorrow, if I continue like this, my sensitivity will be worn out by time, and then I will become like those dull fools, thinking that ten years is just a month, fifty years is about the same as a year, if I become like that, it is really better to die. ”

The ghoul who asked the question shook his head, his expression serious.

"I mean really, something hasn't been right lately."

The ghouls wiping their guns remained unmoved, still full of resentment.

"Have you ever been right in this dog-day place? Why does Lao Tzu blow the wind and eat sand here? It's been almost 200 years! ”

Andy crouched down and listened for a while, just riddles or boring complaints about when something they kept saying was going to happen, and why they had to stay here and eat the northwest wind while some guys could hide in underground bunkers and so on...

Passing the guards, Andy walked into the shantytown.

The situation here can be described in two words: very broken.

The materials and design of the shacks are full of personality, you can hardly see two similar rooms or similar two walls, some ghouls live in it, their bodies are as dilapidated as those shacks, some are even naked, just like a madman or a fool sitting with their faces facing the walls in a daze.

The suffocating atmosphere was unbearable for Andy, and the only energetic group in the shantytown was the guards, who were neatly dressed and lined up with guns on their backs to patrol or do physical training, and although they were ghouls, their eyes shone sharply, which was really an impressive team.

There was a rush of fighting and noise.

"Take it out!"

One draugr rides on another and beats wildly, while the one on the ground just holds his head.

"I told you to take it out!"

The ghoul guards, who heard the sound, ran over and separated the two ghouls without saying a word.

"What's going on? What's the fuss? ”

The captain of the guard shouted, ran over and waved his big hand, and pointed two big mouths at the face of the draugr who beat people, and directly slapped him with a tooth.

The ghoul who had been slapped was very aggrieved and immediately complained to the guards.

"Why did you hit me? I'm just catching a thief and he's stealing my books! ”

The captain of the guard turned to look at the draugl lying on the ground, pulled him up from the ground, and then kicked and beat him and snatched out the book he was holding in his arms.

"Reservation of the scriptures...."

He glanced at the book and muttered, then with anger on his face, he directly carried the book left and right with his bow, and beat the two ghouls indiscriminately.

"Colonel Green said that you are not allowed to look at this thing here! Whoever likes it, get out! See if the children of the wasteland are willing to take you two pieces of waste! ”

The two ghouls dodged again and again, and were hit by the scripture and thumped.

"You illiterate person who doesn't even dare to shoot a gun, tell me what you think this thing is for? Yes? If Colonel Green hadn't graciously given you a place, you'd go with the strange birds to the rotten building to the south and find a place for yourself!" How many times have I told you, burned and thrown away your hidden books, you don't understand people's words, do you? ”

The captain of the guard turned his face and changed the focus of the blow to the one who stole the book.

"You still dare to steal? Fat guts, isn't it? Do you know what happens to stealing here? Hang it up and fight! If I use steel to pump your little arms and legs, two sticks can whip you into a caterpillar, where the do you get the courage? ”

The ghoul who stole the book held his head, but his mouth was not soft.

"I didn't steal! I just borrowed, borrowed his scriptures to see, can borrowing books be called stealing? At most, I didn't tell him in advance, and besides, why didn't I read the Sutra? We're all members of the reservation, and we all honor the Messiah, don't we? ”

The captain of the guard laughed angrily, scolding as he beat him with the butt of his rifle.

"You dog can't change what eats, what kind of reader are you pretending to be? Isn't this the time for you to use books as firewood? You like William Clark so much, can I send someone to send you to the Children of the Wasteland? Do you know what they do with thieves? Hmph...."

Andy watched the drama of the shantytown on the reservation for a while, and it seemed that the people who controlled it, the guards, were subordinate to a ghoul named Colonel Green, and the shantytown was in a kind of autonomous area on the reservation, and the ghouls who remained here seemed to be "defective" products that had not been chosen by the children of the wasteland.

Continuing inside, a large, striking military tent came into view, similar in shape to the one Horatio had in the Trade Zone.

Despite wearing a radiation suit, Andy's stealth is still going well, and so far no one has noticed his presence.

A few of the ghoul guards stood straight outside the tent, Andy bypassed them and found a corner where no one was around, and lifted the tent cloth and got in, the tent was stacked with a large number of ammunition boxes, equipment boxes, and crates of supplies labeled with different types of military cans, and in a relatively comfortable corner, there was a sand table, a map, and a hammock, and next to these things lay a rotten wooden chair, on which a ghoul in a green military uniform was sitting.

He was reading a magazine, although the magazine had been mottled like waste paper, he could still vaguely see that the cover was very hot, and there was smoke coming out of the back of the magazine, he should be smoking while reading the magazine, this little life is really delicious.

An alcohol stove was lit, and a can of food was heating on it, and next to it was a jar of freshly boiled water, and steam was coming out of it.

Andy slowly approached the ghoul who was reading the magazine, but the other party seemed to notice something, and suddenly put down the magazine in his hand, and now there was no cover, Andy could see his face directly, an extremely thin face, almost a skeleton wrapped in skin, the green skin was full of damages, revealing the red dry flesh inside, and the blood vessels and bones were clearly visible.

A pair of white eyes gurgled in his sockets.

Looking at the uniformed ghoul in front of him, Andy guessed that he should be Colonel Green, so he wanted to play a prank, since he sent someone into the temple to invite him and pretended to be a test, then what was his expression when he suddenly noticed that he appeared behind him?

Slowly walking behind him, Andy, who was about to pat him on the shoulder, was startled by the face that suddenly turned his head to look at him.

He took a hard puff of the cigar in his mouth, white smoke leaking through every hole in his face, and then he slammed into Andy's area.

The smoke drifted towards where Andy was, revealing his figure at once.

The ghoul had a wonderful expression on his face, and he jumped up from his chair like a beast that had found its prey, and then drew his pistol.

"I thought I would never meet you again in my life after I left the Northern Battlefield, bA, but you were so tender that you didn't avoid the steam and smoke that made me sense that something was wrong, almost 200 years later, and you still miss Los Alamos? ... Fortunately, as the head of security here, it is my destiny to fight to the death with you! Don't run, wait for Uncle Sam to kick your ass! ”

Andy asks Hull to disarm stealth mode.

"Colonel Green, you asked me to come, you misunderstood."

Colonel Green, who was wearing a military uniform, was stunned for a moment, and sat back with a disappointed face.

"What the hell, did you use the Stealth Kid? Cut.... It really makes me happy in vain. ”

But as he spoke, he turned his head again.

"No, even if you give up stealth and run all the way, the duration of the Stealth Boy won't allow you to walk through my well-trained soldiers' lines all the way to me, how did you do that?"

Andy didn't bother to explain to him, so he found another chair to sit down.

"With the help of some advanced equipment... But that's not the point, are you Colonel Greene? ”

Colonel Green removed the cigar from his mouth and shook the ash.

"Commander of the Operational Security of Los Alamos, Commander of the 102nd Infantry Regiment of the SA Army, Captain of the Armed Guards on the Reservation today, and the administrator of this shack, Colonel Green, you just call me that... So, you're the celebrity chosen by William Clark's guy recently, what kind of friendly ambassador, Andy, I'm right? ”

Andy listened to Colonel Green's self-introduction and thought of something.

"The 102nd Infantry Regiment of the SA Army?"

Colonel Green snorted coldly.

"What? Incomprehensible, right? Although they are all old yellow calendars before some bombs fell, but these affixes used to be my honor, and now the slippery skin has forgotten the glory of SA, and no longer even thinks that the word SA has anything to do with themselves, which in my opinion is the most direct manifestation of the slippery skin's depravity! ”

Andy hesitated for a moment and told Colonel Green what he had learned about the Crypto Tribe.

Colonel Green listened to the story and was silent for ten minutes.

"Derricks. Nice little ghost, that day I sent him to escort those eggheads with enriched uranium to the nuclear weapons test site on the other side of the Mojave Desert, but I didn't expect that as soon as they left Los Alamos, the air defense sirens sounded, and the last of our servicemen entered the bunker and watched the bunker gate close with their own eyes... And the light that fills the surroundings, dazzling, like stars falling to the ground. ”

"I thought they were dead, but I didn't expect them to survive, and even leave offspring? I'm not dead... I wasn't dead, the light pierced through my body, making me half-dead. The nuclear bombs dropped by the bA people destroyed everything, and I knew then that SA was a thing of the past, and the world would return to the primitive and chaotic stage. ”

Andy listened silently and asked a question.

"It is said that there were a total of twelve people who followed Dr. William Clark out of the reservation and went to the wasteland, and he was the only one who survived, Colonel Green, you didn't go with him, why?"

Colonel Green began to smoke again, and as soon as he smoked, smoke came out of his whole head.

"Because I think that's what a fool would do, crossing a dangerous wasteland to find some survivors? How do you know that a survivor needs your help? This futile move seemed meaningless to me, so I made a pact with Clark at that time that I would stay here and lead the people to rebuild, and Clark would leave here to do what he wanted, and if Clark came back alive he would be the leader of the reservation, otherwise I would lead this poor little settlement. ”

"When I saw them come back a year later, I knew that I could not be the leader here, maybe God was helping him, and when he came back, the whole person was really like some kind of messian, and almost everyone was saying that he had returned from some kind of holy pilgrimage, and was destined to be the leader of this Promised Land... Then I knew that I could not compete with him in this area, and that I could only use my strengths in military command to build an elite armed force. ”

"Without me, the reservation would have been looted many times, and the slippery skins on the wasteland are not a good thing, and those merchants who asked for the price with a hippie smile yesterday could have changed their faces and led the raider gangs to loot today, but they didn't dare to do that, just because my boys had turned their guns on them."

Andy said that this is the case, no wonder those guards do not obey and even worship measles like those members of the Children of the Wasteland, because they belong to another faction in the reservation, Colonel Green's faction, the predecessor of this armed team can be traced back to the SA army that was stationed here before the war, then they must have followed the training methods and organizational forms of the previous armies, and their combat effectiveness still seems to be very strong.

For now, the surface of the reservation is almost entirely controlled by Colonel Green's guards, who, as he says, are well versed in military command, so the security of the reservation naturally falls into his hands, and the children of the wasteland are largely armed in underground bunkers.

"So... What did you call me here? ”

Andy asked this question, but he already knew in his heart that he might have inadvertently stepped into some kind of political battle.

Colonel Green looked at Andy for a moment and nodded in satisfaction.

"You're a slippery skin, but you've passed my test, and you're almost touching me, without alerting any of my guards. People say that I am an absolute pragmatist, but I am also a strict person, I don't think so, my style is to do things or not to do, to do the flower can be successful once it can be a success, and the excuse of bells and whistles has no meaning in my eyes. ”

He got up from his chair.

"More than 10 years ago, there was a daring slippery man who ran in the ranks of slaves and was caught by my men, and instead of killing him, I cooperated with him, but unfortunately he was unlucky and fell into the hands of those sons of the wasteland... Today you have become the messenger named by Clark, and I am also a member of the reservation, and I have asked you to come here to test your abilities, just to tell you something you have not thought about. ”