Walking out of the museum, the closest building to the two of them is the northern building, this building looks more like a giant white toast bread, Andy can tell one thing from the appearance, that is, this building is definitely not a residential or office building, it may function more like some kind of huge storeroom, because there are almost no windows on it, and the area of the gate on one side is the same as the side area of the building, which means that once the huge building is fully opened, Its interior will be completely exposed.

This design is definitely designed to accommodate large objects.

The Rusty Hook Gang said that this was an assembly workshop, but what kind of assembly workshop would be built so huge?

The west side of the building collapsed badly, and the east side cracked several large cracks, barely being used as a "door".

Gillian showed great interest in it, so Andy simply went with her to check it out.

As soon as they entered here, the empty indoor space gave the two of them a great shock, it turned out that the whole building was a huge empty shell, and the so-called assembly workshop before the war did not complete the project also appeared in front of their eyes, it was three huge metal hollow pipes with a certain arc, but its structure was extremely miscellaneous and integrated a large number of electronic equipment, each of the three sections of the pipe has a length of seven or eight meters, and the width reaches three or four meters, If you look closely, you can see that these three tubes, if spliced together, can be turned into a perfect doughnut-shaped object.

"Oh my God! ...”

Gillian covered her mouth and let out a cry of surprise.

"Did you find out? This is almost exactly the same as the wheeled space station in the museum before! ”

As soon as Gillian said this, Andy realized that the models in the museum were so small, and the huge fragments of the facilities left behind from the pre-war period in front of him were so large that it was really difficult for him to connect the two.

"Could it be that this thing is the so-called Courage No. 1?"

Before Gillian could answer Andy's question, a weak, slightly uplifted voice rang out from not far away.

"Gillian, is that you..."

Gillian immediately turned her head away, then let out a cheer.

"Oh my God, Sid, it's great to see you again!"

Andy also turned his head to look, and there was a man dressed as a mechanic, and his presence here meant that he must also be a member of the Rusty Hook Gang, and Gillian called him Sid, indicating that the unkempt man in front of him was the mechanic of the Rusty Hook Gang before Gillian joined, and the person who was evaluated by Gillian as having average mechanical skills and did not like to work.

He was wearing a blue overalls, his blond hair was like a fluffy chicken coop, his body was dirty, and he probably hadn't taken a shower for a long time, which was also the normal life of the marauders, a pair of eyebrows were naturally sad, his rough face was a strange red, and the whites of his blue eyes were also congested, although he had a smile on his face at the moment because of his reunion with Gillian, but this smile was so haggard by other features.

"Great... Kyle won't be pushing me so much if you come back, I really am..."

He almost choked up as he spoke.

The two chatted for a while, and Andy, who was listening to the chat, also learned a lot of information, such as after the Rust Hook Gang occupied the Bloomfield Space Center, Rust Hook Kyle announced that this place would become the property of the Rust Hook Gang forever from now on, and all outsiders would no longer be allowed to enter, so he ordered a large number of traps to be laid in the only gap in the power grid, which were basically all designed and manufactured by Sid under his verbal abuse and violent coercion, and were arranged by a group of gangs, which were numerous and varied, Even the Rusty Hook Helper, who knows where each trap is placed, sometimes gets hit.

In addition, since Gillian was taken away by the robots, Kyle declared that he would vigorously restore his old business, that is, the work of plundering caravans, a month and a half ago, at Kyle's strong request, Big Bear as his deputy sent the gang to scout the surrounding trade routes and resting places, and after getting enough information, he formulated a series of raid plans, and the gang won many battles under his command.

"We don't have a shortage of weapons and ammunition now."

Sid pulled a rudimentary pistol out of his pocket.

"There are a lot of metal parts and lathes in this assembly shop, and in the north building we also found a gun storehouse..."

The two chatted endlessly, and Andy coughed.

"Ahem... Hello Sid. ”

Sid glanced at Andy, then didn't say anything, and Gillian hurriedly introduced Andy to Sid in order to break the embarrassment.

"His name is Andy, he is my savior, I was captured by those robots and escaped, but on the way back I was captured by slave traders and sold to a settlement far to the southeast, thanks to Andy I was able to come back."

Hearing Gillian say this, Sid nodded and responded to Andy simply without interest.

"Hello... You know my name, I'm the chief mechanic of the Rusty Hooks, but I guess I'm going to abdicate to make way for Xian. ”

Gillian quipped.

"Aren't you doing a good job? It seems that the Rusty Hooks still need you to be the chief mechanic, and even if I come back, I will only be your assistant, hey, tell me about those objects here, Sid, what is this huge curved hollow pipe? And that thing on that truck over there, did you make that? ”

Andy looked over, and it turned out that there was a heavy truck parked in the east side of the room that he hadn't noticed before, and there was a huge mechanical device dragging on the body of the truck, according to what he had learned in the Space Museum before, this thing should be a rocket engine, and from all points of view, it was definitely not an ornament or a replica artifact, it was a real rocket engine, the kind that could be started.

And apparently there was some effort to get the engine to actually start, because now the engine is connected to a huge metal box through a tube, and Andy thinks it's probably a tank full of fuel, and if you start the engine, it will instantly consume the fuel stored in the tank, and then shoot out a terrifying flame, after all, this is what was once designed by scientists in the old world to send huge launch vehicles into the sky.

Sid had some of Ai's head down.

"Hmm.... I didn't build it, I just connected it to a fuel tank and made a control device, and it wasn't what I wanted to do, Kyle kept asking me to make a 'super killer' that matched his imagination, and I scratched my head so quickly in order to figure out a way, but luckily I finally found this rocket engine in this assembly shop, and I named it 'The Big Musket'. You can tell, right, Gillian, if it works, it can burn a whole bunch of enemies to ashes in one go. ”

Gillian's brow furrowed immediately, and she walked over to Nasid's so-called 'Great Musket' and looked up and down for a moment, then returned with a worried face.

"It's... Are you sure all the parts are okay Sid? ”

Sid let out a long sigh.

"Yes, I'll admit it's rudimentary and problematic, but I've done my best, and Kyle has been unreasonably asking me to do this and that since we've been here, I... There are a lot of things I don't understand, but everyone thinks I should, and I'm the only one here who understands, which is clearly not the case. ”

His unnaturally ruddy face flushed with grievance.

"As soon as we entered Blomfield, he clamored for me to restore the power here immediately, and I did it, and I had already told him that the power supply would reactivate some systems that we didn't want to activate, but... But he just didn't care about telling me to do it immediately, and the result was that the automatic safety system of the launch platform was also restarted, and the two brothers died there, and now everyone thinks it's my fault, especially Kyle, who scolds me almost every day, and sometimes beats me..."

Gillian lamented and comforted him, this was indeed Kyle's way of doing things.

"So then he started pressuring you to do this... Big muskets? ”

Sid nodded frustratedly.

"He said that if I didn't meet the deadline, I would be a useless person, and it would definitely be more than just kicking me out, you know? He was still waving his big iron when he said this, and I was so scared that I almost peed my pants..."

Hearing this, Gillian turned back to Sid's creation with concern.

"This... Forgive me for doubting you, Sid, have you done prototype testing and theoretical demonstrations? Do you know if it's dangerous? I'll be blunt, it seems to me that there is a high probability that it will explode once it is activated. ”

Sid spread his hands like a rotten one.

"No... Nothing, a terrible mess, but it can at least let Kyle spare me for a while, this thing at least looks a lot like what he wants, phew.... I understand what you mean, what can I do? If I told Kyle that I needed a few months to test and perfect it, Kyle would have eaten me raw. So I can only make it in such a hurry... He's not a good guy with patience and a good temper, and everyone knows this, and I can only take risks. ”

As he spoke, Kyle suddenly turned to Gillian for help with a pleading expression and tone.

"Help me, Gillian, you're going to be able to fix everything, Kyle is going crazy again, he's not happy with the reactor's efficiency, I'm just getting the reactor back to 45% at the moment, so there's still no power in many parts of Bloomfield, he threatened me yesterday and said he'd give me a good look if I can't get the reactor back to 100%..."

Gillian was surprised.

"Why is he asking so much of you? 45% of the electricity supply should be able to maintain the basic functions of the facility, what does he want to do with it? ”

Sid looked like he wanted to say but didn't dare to say it, and he twisted it for a long time before finally spit out a few words.

"Kyle... Kyle wants to use the space flight simulator here, which is very expensive. ”

Gillian just thought it was even stranger.

"When did he like to play with these things? In the past, he didn't have the slightest interest in high-tech that couldn't explode or breathe fire and wasn't worth the bottle cap, and he just drank and drugged or muttered some weird sentences all day to pretend to be smart, why did he still want to be an astronaut? ”

Sid struggled to open his mouth when a member of the Rusty Hooks walked in, first with a disdainful look at Sid before shouting at Gillian.

"Gillian! When Big Bear hears that you're back and wants to talk to you, he's waiting for you on the road to the north! ”

Gillian responded and patted Sid on the shoulder.

"Next time, you tell me in detail, I'll help you with this."

Sid nodded in relief, then slowly walked over to the machine in the corner and knocked on it.

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

Walking further to the north, you can see another large concrete building on the north side, which is only two stories high but still imposing, and this building must have played an important role in the old world.

Between the building to the north and the assembly shop to the south is a broken asphalt road flanked by large, long-dried and broken planters, some of which have now been adorned by the Rusty Hook Gang with 'scarecrows' made of metal waste as new decorations.

There are also two buildings on the west and east sides, but they are relatively small, the one on the west side is said to be a building, and it is more accurate to describe it as a facility, which is a large white antenna device, somewhat similar to the one Andy saw in Vault 29, and on the east side is a low building, which has completely collapsed.

About seven or eight Rusty Hook Marauders were standing not far to the north, and an extremely tall and strong figure stood out, he was looking at Gillian from a distance, it was obvious that this was the 'Big Bear' in her mouth, the second-in-command of the Rusty Hooks, the former captain of the Three Brothers Caravan Company in Hoover Dam City, a super mutant who was very brave and very intelligent to listen to.

Just behind the group of marauders, in front of the gate of the two-story building, two robots stood on both sides of the gate with their heads bowed and their arms hung in a shutdown position, these two robots were also the models Andy had seen, he had encountered a large security robot with tracked legs and a human-like upper body in the automated defense facility "box" in Denver, Dog City, if I remember correctly, it belonged to a product made by Acme.

On the road, I also saw a lot of robots that had long been turned into scrap metal and completely broken.,These two look motionless.,If you don't distinguish carefully, you think it's two sculptures and works of art.,It's probably the same garbage...

Retracting his attention, he followed Gillian along the road north, and when he was close enough, the bear began to speak.

"Welcome back, Gillian."

The thick voice made the gentle greeting rude as well, but as soon as it came out, Andy knew that the super mutant named Big Bear was more like Black Jack than Beatrice or the like.

Gillian was also a little moved, the road can be described as difficult and dangerous, and now it is almost like a dream to return to her friend.

"Thank you... I'm glad to see you all again..."

Big Bear turned his head to look at Andy, his gaze resting on his strong physique and two large irons.

"Who is this?"

Gillian quickly introduced Andy to Big Bear and the Rusty Hooks as she had introduced Sid before, and boasted about his battle deeds, causing the marauders to exclaim.

Big Bear listened to Gillian steadily, and finally walked up to Andy and stretched out his hand to him.

"Hello, nice to meet you, I'm Big Bear, and I'm in charge here except for the boss Kyle."

Andy also stretched out his hand, and when the two hands were held together, the bear suddenly secretly exerted force, and the corners of Andy's mouth hooked and quietly shook it back with the same force.

"I'm also glad to meet you.... They're saying they've been doing a good job lately, and I think it's all thanks to you, right? ”

The muscles hidden under the rudimentary metal armor on the thick brown arm of the big bear slowly tightened and bulged one by one, I didn't expect that the human in front of him actually had such terrifying strength, maybe if he continued to exert his strength regardless of his appearance, he still had a certain chance of winning in this grip competition, but that would be too much, and it didn't seem dignified enough.

"It's over, I just follow the boss's orders, if I have any achievements, it's the boss's wisdom."

Big Bear looked at Andy's eyes and responded meaningfully to his words, and then took the initiative to unload his hand, and the two of them immediately let go of their clenched hands, acting as if nothing had happened.

Just as everyone was talking to each other happily, the two robots on both sides of the door of the building suddenly seemed to wake up, the upper body of the rickety machine slowly stood upright, the dim optical sensor also flashed red again, and their two mechanical arms were raised, which were equipped with two laser Gatlings.

"Target detected .... The target has been confirmed..... Execution of the Tibbetts Manhunt Agreement.... The combat suppressor is turned off ...."

A sonorous and powerful electronic sound came out, and the two robots turned their tracks into a posture of looking directly at everyone, and a rusty hook gang accidentally turned around and saw the two robots turning their bodies and raising their arms, he was so surprised that he rubbed his eyes to be sure that this was not his hallucination, the two robots have been motionless for a year, and no one has ever realized that they have not become scrap metal garbage, but have been in a shutdown state waiting for the activation command.

Not long ago, a command was transmitted to the processors of the two robots via telematics, asking them to execute the attack as soon as they discovered the target task.

And today, they are waiting for their goal.

"The robot is alive!!"

The Rusty Hooks gang screamed, startling everyone at first, but the smile evaporated as their eyes followed the man's fingers to the two droids.

"Spread out! Find cover! ”

Big Bear immediately made a decisive command, and as soon as everyone hid behind the big flower pot next to them, the four lasers of the two robots Gatling had already fired, and the red lasers like raindrops came to their faces.

Andy pushed Gillian to safety as soon as possible, and he rolled and hid behind a flower pot on the other side of the road, these robots obviously had priority targets, and the lasers they fired were concentrated on one side of Gillian's place, and the other side was directly aimed at his side, those high-temperature red lasers hit these large pottery flower pots full of scorch marks, and the places that were concentrated many times eventually began to fall apart.

Just as he was about to pull out his pistol and turn on the V mode to counterattack, the bear suddenly screamed and raised a flower pot and threw it at the two robots, which spun and smashed heavily on the body of one of the robots, causing it to fall to the ground unbalanced.

Seeing this, the other robot immediately turned its gun and shot at the bear, but he raised a piece of metal plate tied with leather fixed on his arm and rushed over with his head, and after approaching the target, the other hand put on a strange metal claw sleeve at some point, and the shining metal claw sleeve did not know what material it was, and the big bear grabbed it and let several arms of the robot burst out with sparks and fall to his side.

Seeing that the big bear is so brave, Andy is also ready to help, but he saw that the robot that was smashed to the ground by the flower pot was trying to stand up with his arms on the ground, seeing this scene, he also learned from the big bear to raise the huge flower pot with both arms and throw it far away, and the robot that had just gotten up was hit hard by the same projectile before it could stand firmly, and the head made of metal was smashed into a dent and fell to the ground again.