Just on the asphalt road between several buildings on the west side of Blonnfield, a fight is taking place between two pre-war security robots covered in mottled rust and a group of living people, led by Andy and Big Bear.

The Rusty Hooks gang hid behind the flower pots and fired a single shot with their spears and cannons, and the few two who didn't know whether to call them stupid or brave were ready to rush up to help the big bear, but the laser Gatling on the robot's arm cut their flesh into a pile of cooked pieces of minced meat with a random strafing shot, and with these two lessons from the past, the marauders no longer dared to rush out of cover.

Da Xiong, who had already cut off one of the arms of the robot in front of him with the iron claw in his hand, wanted to make persistent efforts, but the robot suddenly lowered his head and rushed forward at the moment when his movements were stiff, and the tracks of his lower body rotated wildly, and the powerful kinetic energy directly knocked Big Bear, a tall and strong super mutant more than two meters high, into a stagger, but fortunately he reacted quickly and stepped out with one leg to withstand the pressure, so that he was not knocked over to the ground and trampled back and forth by this robot with a set of combos.

The security robot, which was too close to continue shooting, simply changed to melee combat, and smashed its arm into the bear's head, breaking the bear's head in two blows, which aroused his ferocity, and after a roar, he puffed out his arms and lifted the heavy metal creature up, and the robot that could not provide the power to move after the track left the ground in vain idled its tracks in the air, and then was thrown out of the air.

The robot slammed into the concrete floor, and it immediately tried to get up, but as soon as it moved, it lay back down.

A loud bang came from his side, and Big Bear turned his head to look, only to see Andy wearing a strange metal fist glove and punching the head of another security robot, its head shattered and melted, some sparks and arcs scattered, and black smoke came out.

Gillian's voice came from behind.

"Don't hit those robots in the head, that's just their main optical sensor, and it won't affect anything without that head!"

Andy was stunned for a moment, then realized that he subconsciously made a mistake, the head of most creatures is where the brain is located, once this most important nerve center is destroyed, the other party will die on the spot, but the robot is not a living thing, although it is designed to be a bit similar to a human shape, its head may not be as important as a human, and it can even be said that this is a trap.

Sure enough, the robot waved its arms and knocked Andy away.

"Shock detected... Start inflation. ”

Hull suddenly snorted and swelled slightly, which absorbed a lot of power, coupled with the sturdiness of Betty's metal armor outside, the robot's ferocious arm sweep only made Andy roll on the ground twice, and he stood up as if nothing happened.

Da Xiong wanted to go over to help, but unexpectedly, the one-armed robot that he threw out just now was injured in the waist and tried to get up several times after failing to get up, so he simply stretched out his one-arm and fired a laser at Da Xiong in a position of lying on the ground, and several high-temperature red lasers directly hit Da Xiong's body, shooting several holes in his dark green body, and these high-energy energy easily pierced the fragile scrap iron armor on his body, burning through his thick skin and muscles.

If it were a human being, it would have become two deaths at this moment.

"Hmm!! ——”

Big Bear screamed in pain, but strangely covered his chest first, and then raised the self-made shield on his arm and rushed over in a few steps, smashing the body of the robot with this shield, the terrifying power combined with the weight of the shield itself smashed the robot sparks, and the rusty shell was finally smashed out of a hole, he stretched out his right hand wearing a metal claw sleeve and reached in and took out a flashing electric part.

Pulling off the wires attached to it, the robot was completely motionless after the parts were pulled out.

“.....”

He breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a pain in his abdomen and waist from the lasers fired by the robot, the area around the craters that had been burned out had been roasted and scorched by the heat, which was not a good thing, the super mutants' powerful healing abilities were trying to heal these wounds, and the tissues that were burned by the laser to carbonization would hinder the process, which in turn would cause continuous severe pain.

There was another loud bang, and the bear looked back and saw that Andy seemed to punch with the punch again, this time the robot was hit in the abdomen, and there was an explosion that broke into two sections, and Andy was also disgraced by the explosion, coughing and coming out of the smoke.

The Rusty Hooks gang stepped out from behind the flowerpot and cheered for the great bear's bravery, which in their opinion was faster and more decent, in contrast to Andy, who had been knocked out and was now dusting his body with a black face.

Big Bear stood in the middle of the gang and responded simply, but he was a little silent, although Andy looked a little embarrassed, but obviously didn't suffer any injuries...

On the top floor of a two-story building, a head sticks out of a window.

"What are you doing?"

Big Bear looked up in response.

"Those two robots suddenly went crazy without knowing what's going on, and we've already killed them."

The questioning member of the Rusty Hooks took two glances at the battle marks and the two broken robots underground, and gave the bear a thumbs up with his amazed gaze before retracting his head.

Having the Rusty Hooks gang carry the two robots away and dismantle them, Big Bear slowly walks up to Gillian and Andy.

"I'm sorry, but these two robots haven't moved, and no one knows they're actually broken, which is weird. I suggest you go see the boss immediately and explain the situation, but I can't accompany him, I need to... Go take care of it. ”

Gillian tentatively asked the bear if there was anything wrong, but he firmly said that there was nothing wrong.

Looking at the back of the big bear leaving, Gillian still had some worry on her face.

Andy stood next to her and interrupted her gaze with a remark.

"Let's go meet your boss Kyle in a moment, what are the precautions? Is there any chance that this will be complicated? ”

Gillian's eyes rolled.

"Only a little bit . . . I've told you before that don't expose his pretentious words or actions, or he'll get angry and lose his mind, as I've experienced. The other thing is that you can't threaten him, if you threaten the boss within the gang, it is equivalent to declaring that you want to usurp the throne, which means an invitation to a duel, and he won't allow the person who does it to still be alive in front of his eyes, as long as you don't do this... Kyle is also a person who can communicate. ”

After the conversation, the two walked towards the white two-story building, the plaque on the door also marked the name of the building: Bloomfield Space Center Office and Communications Building, it seems that this building is the core building of the space center, and now it is mostly the dormitory of the Rusty Hook Gang, judging from the traces of destruction in the museum, the situation inside is probably not very good.

Andy walked into the first floor, the first thing he saw when he entered the door was the reception desk, the surrounding dusty furniture was messed up, and there was even a dry dead fish left in the huge fish tank, of course, the fish tank itself had been smashed to pieces, judging from the traces that the destruction had happened recently, in addition to the fact that there were a lot of finished beer bottles, sunset salmon bottles, whiskey bottles, bones with shredded flesh remaining, a few extinguished campfire traces were very eye-catching, and the one that fell over in the corner was a half-dismantled leather sofa, The other half has probably turned to ashes in the campfire.

On the background wall of the reception desk, a few large words were painted in red paint, stating that there was a hook on the side of the "Rusty Hook Gang", which was the Marauders' territorial claim logo, which was a common occurrence in the wasteland.

The two of them walked inside through a doorway with almost no place to stay, and on either side of the hallway were offices whose terminals had been violently dismantled and smashed, and many of the parts had been removed, leaving the remaining parts to be discarded in these rooms at will.

"It's like a ghost town."

Andy covered his nose to avoid the flying dust, and it was hard to contain his complaints.

Gillian was speechless, and the two found the stairs and walked to the second floor, which was really unable to stay.

As soon as I came to the second floor, the situation was much better, at least there was no strange garbage on the ground, most of the furniture showed no signs of destruction, and the offices everywhere were quite clean, but judging from the placement of items and the sundries on the ground, it was obvious that it had become a private bedroom, and some sleeping bags and tents that were probably brought all the way by the Rusty Hook Gang were also arranged inside, which was really absurd compared with the dusty pre-war tables and chairs that were still fashionable and beautiful.

A Rusty Hook gang got up drunkenly from a table stained with some vomit, he rubbed his red eyes, and after confirming that it was Gillian, he cheered and wanted to run over and hug her, Gillian's frightened tactics leaned back, thanks to Andy's lifting of the back of his neck collar like a chick to prevent the guy from sticking the vomit to Gillian's clothes.

"Who are you!"

The Marauder who was mentioned in mid-air kicked his legs for a while, and turned back in a brutal tone, and Andy leaned in front of him with a black face.

"You really want to know? I'll tell you if you want. ”

The marauder was half awake from this start, and he raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead and smiled.

"No, no, no... I guess you must be a friend of Gillian's, a newcomer who wants to join, right? Put me down...."

Andy put him down, and after saying hello to Gillian, he quickly hid in an office not far away.

Attracted by the sound, several more Rusty Hooks came out of the other rooms, and they were very happy to see Gillian returning, and they all came over to greet them warmly, and Gillian quickly introduced Andy to them.

"Our smart-wise-extreme... The boss must be glad to know about this, after all, he has been scolding Sid for being useless. ”

After one of the gang members said this, subtle expressions appeared on the faces of the others.

"Yes, but he probably doesn't have time to listen to others now, because he's busy thinking about the universe-universe-philosophy-theory."

"Gillian, you don't know about it, do you..."

Andy glanced at them a few times, and felt that they all seemed to have some opinions in their hearts about the boss of the Rusty Hook Gang, Kyle, while Gillian curiously asked the gang what she didn't know about it yet.

Several people looked at each other a few times, and one of the people spoke.

"Kyle, after you disappeared.... Once he led a team out and hijacked a caravan and brought back a woman, whose name was Geralin, well.... Now the two of them have a very good relationship, and the woman yelled for something 'good' a while ago, so Kyle has been asking Sid to quickly turn up the power supply of the reactor and start those weird metal eggs, and then figure out what kind of big musket he is, and then everyone will be there to see how cool this thing is, but I think it's just for..."

The expression on Gillian's face froze a little, but after a moment she shook her head indifferently.

"I see... I only wish I could still convince him to stop messing around. ”

Andy stood with his arms crossed and listened to the farce of these marauders' circles, sighing that he was not willing to get involved, if only it would make Gillian agree to make the journey to Tibbetts prison sooner.

He was already thinking about what he would do after dealing with Odysseus, the first thing was to go back to the nursery to see if the treatment of the strings was completed, if it was done, he would take the strings to Hoover Dam City to settle down, and no longer pay attention to the outside, if the Dodge mayor said that the short restoration of contact with the local country really means the return of NcR in the near future, then it means that NcR has finally put down all the wars in the homeland, and then it is better to go back to New California with the chord, go to her house to have a look, and then .....

Andy's imagination was interrupted as Gillian was shaking his arm.

"Help me, Andy."

"What's wrong?"

"I've got to make it clear to Kyle... If he continues to do this nonsense, it will not end well. ”

"But he's the boss of the Rusty Hooks, doesn't that make him angry?"

"I've got to try... If I just watch everyone go down the wrong path, I can't help it... If you can convince him, wouldn't Mayor Dodge be happy too? ”

Andy looked at Gillian, his brow furrowed slightly.

Frankly speaking, no longer engaging in garbage sales but going out to plunder caravans with all their might is not a crooked path for the marauders, this is the main business they originally relied on for a living, and the Dodge Mayor did not take his instructions to heart, this trip was actually just to find out the situation, after all, there was no way to take Gillian to do anything, and he would think about dealing with the Rusty Hooks after sending Gillian to Tibbetts Prison.

Although he doesn't know much about the so-called "Rusty Hook Kyle", he is a Marauder leader from Phoenix, and it is unlikely that he will be able to convince him to abandon the darkness and follow the light.

Sighing, Andy nodded.

"Then let's try it, but you also understand Gillian, no matter what, now I have fulfilled all my promises to you, it was I who rescued you from the reservation, and I also sent you back, so you must also fulfill our previous agreement in the future, this matter is very important to me, for the sake of our friendship, I can continue to help you again, but if he doesn't agree or whatever, I can't continue to waste time here, and neither do you."

Gillian nodded tangledly, and the two of them walked to the southeast of the second floor, guided by the other marauders, where it was said to be the bedroom that Rusty Hook Kyle had chosen for himself.

The two of them finally stopped at a door with a sign that read "cEo Office", this was the largest room on this floor, and its current owner was undoubtedly Kyle, the leader of the Rusty Hooks, and there was an equally large room on the opposite side of this room, and since the door was not closed, Andy glanced at the room by the way.

A huge floor-to-ceiling window occupies almost the entire area of the east wall, which allows the sunlight outside to shine in without reservation, Andy was attracted by the scenery outside the window at first sight, in this direction, the room is facing the launch platform where the two launch vehicles are located, and the room is densely packed with terminals and other complex advanced electronic equipment, the sign at the door states that this room is the so-called "control center", after seeing the two big guys facing the huge glass window, It's self-evident what this house is designed to control.

The Rusty Hooks didn't get near the boss's house, so most of the damage in the control center was caused by Kyle alone, with some bottles being discarded indiscriminately, and precious pre-war electronics painted on the target, then smashed by bullets or blunt objects.

It is clear that he did not cherish these precious pre-war relics at all, and only used this place as a playground for his drunken venting.

After looking at the control center, Andy and Gillian looked at each other and pushed open the cEo office.

In the middle of the inside, there is a large soft bed that I don't know where to get, a man and a woman are lying on it, the man is about thirty years old, his skin seems to have been exposed to the wind and sun, some dark and rough, his figure is quite strong, his long messy hair looks like it hasn't been washed for a long time, and he has a mustache on his mouth.

This is rare, and most of the predators have their teeth severely damaged or even lost most of their teeth early due to their extremely poor habits.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, the man's body stiffened, and his wide face with an unhappy expression slowly turned around, showing a surprised look after seeing Gillian, and then his eyes shifted to Andy and looked at him for a while, let go of the woman in his arms and slowly got up from the bed.

Bottles and empty cans that had been thrown on the ground were thrown around as he got off the ground, and there was a clanging sound.

"Ah..... Sizzle.... Well.... Gillian? You're still alive, you don't know how much I used after your disappearance, it's like a coyote being bitten by a swollen fly and then being forced by a wild dog, I don't know how to describe it, my brain is like a big rock falling from the sky, colorful, these feelings are like those smart people in the past wrote in books. ”

"I gallop the ripe tequila so fiercely; Thou bitter thief, where did thou steal this cause of warmth, this color is regularly obtained from the back of my lover's head, and the color of the back of the head is the sunset explosion variant fruit blue with the yellow of the gray night moon..."

The corners of Andy's mouth twitched when he heard this, although he didn't know where he was talking about the poem he was talking about, but the wrong words could already be piled up in a basket, mixed with some long words and difficult sentences that were completely made up by himself, although there was some preparation, Kyle's outrageousness still gave Andy a great shock, what is the point of these nonsense? Is it just that he wants to appear that he is smart?

The woman lying behind Kyle has an unhappy expression.

"You said yesterday that you were glad that stupid Gillian who was a hundred times smarter than her could get out of the way on her own!"

With these words, the scene was so quiet that even a pin could be heard dropping on the ground, and Andy watched as Kyle, who was staring at the silent Gillian, gradually put on a mask of pain on his face, and his face turned red and then white in a very short time, and finally even a little purple.

"Oh, Geralin, you're stubborn and you're smarter than me, aren't you?"

Without waiting for the woman behind him to reply, in Andy and Gillian's shocked expressions, Rusty Hook Kyle's left hand suddenly pulled out a pistol and turned around to the butt of a gun, a large piece of blood directly stained the white bed red, and then he calmly used the iron hook in his left hand to hook the clothes worn by the woman who was hit in the head, and threw it out of the second floor along the broken window.

"Kyle!"

Gillian was so excited to witness the scene in front of her that her body was shaking, and it wasn't because she was happy, of course.

"You.... You...."

Kyle shook off his long filthy hair and walked back with a flat face like he had killed a fly, and continued to talk to Gillian, the two Rusty Hooks were startled by the sound, and after taking a look at the boss, he shrugged his shoulders and went back to the distance to drink.

"Oh, don't get so excited, Gillian, you know, it's all for you, it's like a deathclaw grabbing an iron skin, it's something I have to do, right? I really feel happy for you to come back, it's all that woman who takes advantage of you to no longer seduce me. ”

He walked over slowly with an affectionate expression, but Gillian just shook his head and kept retreating.

"You're too much Kyle! Are you crazy? You...."

Kyle tried to get closer, but was pushed away by Andy, he looked at Andy and Gillian in a daze, and just as Andy kept an eye on the pistol in his left hand and was about to pull out the gun to kill him, he actually sighed and slowly pinned the pistol back.

"Well, I see, don't be angry, um.... I seem to have been taking too much medicine lately..."

Kyle kicks the debris on the ground, and Andy sees that some of the trash looks like it has been used...

"I just want you to help, hey, look how awesome it is here, do you see those two big pointy guys in the east?"