The sun rises and it's a new day.

The Atomic Humvee drove all morning, judging by the coordinates identified on the Pip-Boy map, and arrived at its destination by less than noon.

"If they're not here, where do you think they might be?"

Andy asked Gillian while holding the reverse disk and looking ahead, it is still necessary to do a good job in advance, although the Dodge Mayor also said that the Rusty Hook Gang is active in the south of the Hoover Dam, but the scope of this general direction is not small, the further south the environment begins to become more and more complicated, probably due to the combined influence of the river and the climate, green grass and sparse trees are beginning to grow here, and there are constantly strange-shaped mountain ranges undulating.

"I can't think of any other choice."

Gillian tugged at the mechanic's suit, which was convenient for work but uncomfortable after wearing it for a long time.

"There are some famous places here, except for the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon, which are all north of us, and further south... I can't really think of any other possibility than Bloomfield, and if they weren't there, it would mean that Sid couldn't handle the automated security system left over from before the war, and they couldn't get in. ”

"Who's Sid?"

"Sid... Sid is also my friend, he is also an old man in Phoenix, he was a mechanic of the Rusty Hook Gang before I came, and he took a back seat after I joined, so when I was captured by the robot, he should have taken my place, and he was the only one in the entire Rusty Hook Gang who knew mechanics except for me... Relatively speaking. ”

"You took his place, doesn't he have a problem with that?"

"No... It should be said that he is very happy, he is the kind of character who is happy when he has nothing to do, he does not like to work, and his skills... It can only be said that it is still done. ”

Andy glanced at the Pip-Boy map, Blonnfield should be in front of him, I don't know what it looks like, just as he thinks so, a dilapidated building complex rises on the horizon in the distance, on the west side are several old buildings that somewhat resemble those office buildings on the reservation, as for the east side...

He looked at the two Optimus Pillar-like things a little stunned.

The mottled white shell shows strong traces of time, taller than those office buildings, there is some kind of metal bracket on one side and several clamps stretching out horizontally to assist in fixing, the part near the ground is streamlined and very bloated, and in the middle there is also a fixed thing similar to a large airplane, the top or the front end of this ancient high-tech equipment is some opaque special glass, but from its extremely wide spindle-shaped volume, it is more like an airplane than a ship.... Spaceship?

"Oh my God, they're still there..."

Gillian covered her mouth in surprise, her eyes trembling with excitement.

"What are those?"

Andy pointed to the two pointed-tipped "tall pillars" in the distance.

Gillian rubbed her eyes in disbelief, and after repeated confirmation, she tentatively answered.

"Probably... Probably one of the highest scientific and technological crystallizations of the Old World, those were space launch vehicles that, once ignited, could fly straight from the ground into space and carry cargo off Earth. ”

Andy didn't seem to understand, only one "flying into space".

"So.... It's shocking, I thought they were two strange buildings, do you mean they can fly? Like those rotting and rusty iron lumps in the hangar on the reservation used to do? ”

Gillian shook her head.

"No, no, no, it's much higher than airplanes, they fly straight up, all the way to low earth orbit, these things are basically disposable, and the cost of manufacturing is sky-high, they are fixed on the launch platform after the manufacturing is completed. Do you see the planes fixed on those space launch vehicles? ”

Gillian pointed to the mottled ship that was fixed vertically to the middle of the rocket, and Andy looked over with a puzzled look in his eyes.

"See... What is that? If they can fly, why are they attached to those rockets? ”

"Those are space shuttles!"

Gillian cheered excitedly.

"They take to the skies on auxiliary launch vehicles, then travel through space, and finally return to Earth like normal airplanes... I've only seen this greatest creation of humanity in educational books in the Vault, and in the Old World, people flew it into space, carried out all kinds of scientific research activities, and took the damaged satellites and space stations that floated in space to repair them and return them to Earth, which was a real spaceship! ”

As the atomic Humvee approached, the two towering space launch vehicles and the space shuttle mounted on them were constantly magnifying in front of their eyes, believing that if the Buraku people came here, they would immediately kneel on the ground and shout miracles, and this was actually a kind of transportation vehicle that was once made by human hands, even though Andy had witnessed many incredible technological creations in the old world along the way, and now it still feels incredible.

As we get closer, we can see that there is a ring of iron mesh walls around the area, enclosing the buildings and the launch vehicles, and these iron mesh walls can be seen to be flashing with electric light when they are close enough, and it must not be rational to rush close to the contact, this is a veritable line of defense for the power grid.

The car slowly stopped in front of the grid.

"How do you get in?"

Andy got out of the car and looked at the iron net that was constantly buzzing and flashing, this thing would be dead if it came into it, for example, there was a charred corpse not far away, I don't know if it was a mad ghoul or a wasteland scavenger who couldn't help himself, in short, it must be dead.

Gillian stood in front of the grid and thought for a moment, her face growing more and more difficult.

"It's hard to deal with, we can't touch the control terminal when we're outside, if it's in the form of violent destruction... It's also very difficult. If I had insulated suits and some tools, I would have been confident that I could shut down a part of the grid and open up a passage at the end, but we didn't seem to have that at hand. ”

Andy looked left and right, the area of the gate was locked, and it was impossible to turn off the power grid, let alone unlock it, and it seemed almost impossible to overcome the obstacle in front of him.

"Are your friends just being blocked?"

Gillian doesn't think so.

"This place is more well preserved than I imagined, the nuclear bomb did not hit here, Bloomfield has only been worn out by time and bad weather, with Kyle's character, he will not give up as long as there is the slightest chance, since the power grid here is intact, maybe they have found a path to get around, I don't think the defense here is absolutely complete, because the internal members need to enter and exit every day, it is impossible to completely lock it down."

The two sat back in the Atomic Humvee and circled the power grid.

Soon they found a possible entrance.

It was supposed to be a multi-storey indoor parking lot, because there were a lot of old world nuclear vehicles leaking out of each floor of the collapsed building like toy cars, and a broken asphalt road connected from the perimeter to the interior of the Bloomfield Space Center, crossing the power grid, which was broken here, because the fragments of the collapsed concrete buildings had smashed this part of the defense, and naturally there were no maintenance personnel to repair it after the war, which meant that there was a path into it.

"They might get in from here, and they don't have to think about how to turn off the grid."

Andy stopped the car, because the path was full of rubble and besieged by the ruins of the parking lot, and the Atomic Hummer would definitely not be able to drive in, and the rest of the road required the two of them to enter on foot.

Gillian got out of the car and followed Andy, cautiously admonishing.

"Andy, be careful, maybe there's an automated security facility with no dead spots, maybe it's a military robot or an automated turret, or something worse."

"Got it, you're standing behind me."

The two of them walked on the ruins one foot at a time, and the concrete fragments and various broken concrete structures were piled up in a mountain, and as Andy struggled to move forward, Gillian suddenly let out an exclamation.

He looked back and saw Gillian lying on the ground, one leg dangling from a caving pit, which was clearly disguised by man, and on the surface was a dusty black tarpaulin, which at first glance looked like the ground next to it, and once stepped on it, it immediately collapsed, and then the whole person was trapped in it.

It seems that Gillian was lucky that she didn't fall straight in at the last minute.

Hurried over and dragged Gillian out, Andy saw through the hole that there were actually a lot of steel bars that had been sharpened at the tips of the hole, if Gillian was a little less lucky or slow to react just now, then he would be directly pierced through the body by these sharp steel heads and died, or at least he would be disabled under the leg tribe.

"Who did this?!"

Andy was a little angry, this trap was so vicious that V Mode couldn't tell it.

Gillian gasped and was stunned, and she was a little embarrassed to make a guess.

"Maybe it's... The trap that Kyle ordered was supposed to be the only way to get into Bloomfield, and it was crazy, had they given up trading with outside merchants altogether? It's impossible for anyone but the Rusty Hooks to get close to here, the trap... There must be more than one. ”

Andy frowned and shook his head, one hand dragged Gillian to move on, and soon they walked and noticed that something was wrong, Andy felt that he had stepped on something when he stepped on a place, and he quickly turned on the V mode to find out if there were any traps around, but he saw that in the hole in the building on one side, a string of steel bars that were tied together and hung in the air, and the very sharp steel beam on one side was already throwing towards them, presumably he stepped on the tripwire of this trap just now, The beam of steel struck like a sledgehammer, and if the two of them couldn't dodge it in time, they would definitely be embedded in it.

At the last moment, he lay on the ground with Gillian, and the sharp rubble hurt his body, but the sound of the wind coming from the back of his head proved that he had done it right, and the steel bundle narrowly slashed behind the two of them, and then swung back again.

The two of them hurriedly got up and dodged the trap, and the steel bundle that had not been released was still swaying left and right in the air.

The subsequent experiences are generally like this, such as a spring trap with a steel spear that is about to explode, the spring that is pressed together makes people feel chills down the spine, such a blow is enough to easily penetrate the human body, and some grenades that are hung in mid-air, if someone passes by below without a long eye, as long as the slightest touch will make the grenade fall out of the air, and the explosion will soon occur after using gravity to pull out the safe.

And mines ... This kind of inductive fragmentation mine does not need to be stepped on at all, as long as it is close enough to it, it will explode after a short warning sound, and the viciousness of the mine trap is that the person who is startled by the warning sound will immediately see a fragmentation mine with flashing warning lights as far as the eye can see, and if he feels that his hand is fast enough to calm the mine's anger, then he has been struck, because there is also a mine secretly flashing warning lights.

There are even traps with the help of nuclear car engines, and I really don't know what kind of bird will be blown up here if it triggers a chain of explosions.

"You Rusty Hooks like to set traps so much?"

Andy carefully pulled out a simple iron pipe from somewhere, this thing that was not a firearm at all, but a disposable bullet launcher, was loaded with a shotgun, and if he was not careful, he would be killed by a single shot.

"They... The old ethos in Phoenix, when the gangs were all in the vicinity of the place day and night, and the trap was a very deterrent defensive device, and it is said that they used to use springs and barbed planks as traps, and even the most rudimentary things could kill people. ”

"You might as well change your name to the Trap Gang..."

The two of them walked slowly for a while, and finally got out of the ruins that were full of traps.

Continuing along the asphalt road that continued into Bloomfield to the west, the two saw that next to the dilapidated parking lot was an oval-shaped building, which was relatively well preserved in comparison, and seemed to have been deliberately designed to be very artistic, different from the usual functional buildings.

A solitary, rusty sign stands that reads: Space Museum, Bloomfield Space Center.

It turned out that the front was a museum.

As Gillian and Andy stood watching, several figures suddenly ran out.

"Hey! Those two people over there, this is the territory of the Rusty Hook Gang, it's okay to get out of here! ”

Andy glanced over and saw four men, all dressed in tattered homemade metal armor, many of which looked like they were made of materials that had been removed from old car wrecks, and the sheet metal was welded with sharp steel bars, which had been spray-shaped using a kind of wasteland aesthetic remodeling.

In short, it is certain at a glance that it is a group of marauders.

The man at the head picked up a rusty 9mm submachine gun in poor condition and shouted.

"Can't you hear me?!"

Andy turned her head to look at Gillian, who took off her hood and waved at the Rusty Hooks.

"It's me, I'm Gillian!"

Several people immediately stopped in place, and then looked at Gillian with disbelief eyes, and after confirming that she was herself, several people immediately put away their weapons and rushed over with happy faces.

"You're not dead, Gillian, you're alive, great!"

"I didn't believe it when you said there would be a suitable place for us to settle here, but now I know it's true, we found a lot of old-world equipment here, all kinds of junk, and even an arsenal of weapons! Now we don't have anything to lose, and we don't have to go to a cave anymore! ”

Gillian and they exchanged eagerly for a while, the Rusty Hooks entered the place smoothly, no one even died on the way, and now the ruins of the Bloomfield Space Center have been occupied by the Rusty Hooks, they have become the masters of this place, and the first and second leaders of the Rusty Hooks are still Kyle and Big Bear as before.

"Has anything happened lately?"

Gillian asked curiously, and one of the Rusty Hooks members looked angry.

"Sid, that idiot! He actually activated some of the automatic turrets when he was restoring the power here, which not only prevented us from getting close to the launch platform, but also killed the two brothers directly! Sid, this idiot who didn't do enough to do something, what a damn thing! ”

Gillian reassured the man, saying that this would not happen again when she returned, and by the way she asked what the road would be.

"You can go into the museum and have a look, there are a lot of interesting pictures in it, and there are many words, we can't understand it, and then there is an exit to the north of this museum, and then you can see three buildings, two buildings and a small building, the two buildings are relatively close to each other It seems that the former transfer workshop, the far one is now used by us as a residential camp, and the small one I don't know what the use is."

"To the east are those two huge spikes, we wanted to get closer, but now thanks to Sid's messing around, no one dares to get closer, and those automatic turrets will shoot anyone who approaches into a sieve."

Andy and the two looked at each other and decided to go to the museum first.