Andy took the lame Jack to the front of those mines, where you can intuitively see that the uranium mining area of the Grand Canyon has been dug like a honeycomb in chaos, some of the mines are large and some are small, some go down to a dead end, and some go all the way to the bottom of the Grand Canyon... You can also see some ventilation pipes and drainage pipes left there.

"We've marked these holes, and you can see the symbols."

Jack pointed to the patterns carved on the sides of the caves.

Andy took a closer look, and it was X, O, or a skull-like mark.

"What does that all mean?"

Jack then went down and explained to him.

"X means that the environment is harsh and difficult to find, O means that it is generally safe and often people go down, as for the skeleton marking, it means that the following is impassable or extremely dangerous, it's as simple as that, and there are some unmarked mines, which means that no one has chosen, it is better not to go down to be a pioneer, no one chooses it for no reason."

Andy searched, the mine he came out of earlier was marked with X, and he used the wayfinding function of the Pip-Boy to find the entry route indicated by the mark made by his brain.

"That brain said that I have a record here, what are we looking for first? Munitions, exhaust or prospecting equipment? ”

Jack was a little elated, as if he was going on a spring outing.

"Find the gun first, of course! I've already found a group of reliable people, and if we can establish order, we can encourage more people to help us find our targets, and then it will be much faster. ”

Andy first found a mine marked O, and then changed into a radiation suit, and when Jack came, he put on a dirty and strange protective suit, as if he had used some scrap metal and animal skin modified equipment on the basis of a miner's suit, and it seemed to be carrying a large backpack on his back, but when he got closer, he found that it was not a thing for storage, there was some kind of equipment in it, and I don't know what it was used for.

"Did you find the miner's suit in the mines? I also have one..."

Jack puts on an ugly protective mask.

"Yes, this thing is a copy of Podunk, but it has to be modified to make it work, otherwise it will be a complete torture to wear, and it takes a person with stamina to walk around underneath in an unmodified miner's suit, ha, it's completely impossible to do."

Andy was embarrassed to be silent, he had been wearing an unmodified miner's suit and was scurrying around underneath.

Walking into this spacious cavern, it was indeed as marked by the markings, it was spacious and flat, and there was nothing to hinder movement, and after walking for a while, the Pip-Boys showed that they had reached their place.

Jack scratched his head in confusion.

"Why stopped, we just came in."

Andy confirmed, and the Pip-Boy's pathfinding system pointed to the wall, where there was some steel and debris that had been flattened by the collapsed rock, and there seemed to be an extra room that had now disappeared.

"One of the places that the brain said was here, has anyone tried to look inside before?"

Jack spread his hands.

"How do you check it? There's not even a seam here. ”

He took out a crowbar and tried to pry it a few times, but it didn't move.

Andy patted him and motioned him to get out of the way, he walked over and grabbed the crowbar and slowly exerted his strength, only to hear a tooth-aching sound, a crack really began to appear between the rock and the steel, Jack was shocked to see this scene, he quickly reacted and took advantage of Andy's prying open the gap to pick up a few large stones from the ground and stuff them into it and stuck it.

Pulling out the crowbar, the sturdy tool was visibly bent, Andy returned it to Jack, and put an arm into the gap and felt it for a while, and soon touched something.

A 10mm pistol and three magazines.

Andy took a few looks, this is the biggest road before the war, the durability is relatively low, and the state is average.

"N99, take it Jack, it should still work."

Jack immediately put it away.

"Nice pistol, but that's too little, I thought he could tell us where some of the big arsenals were... Hey, but also, you can't find anything good in this kind of safe area, and if you did, you would have been taken by someone long ago. ”

After finding their target, Andy and Jack leave the mine and enter a hole marked with X.

This cave is much narrower than the previous one, and the ground is rocky.

"Be careful."

Jack holds a bow in place with a prosthetic leg, and his only hand is used to control the strings.

Andy gave him a strange look.

"Jack, why do you use a bow and arrows? Didn't you just give you a pistol? The power of the bow and arrow is average, and it takes time to get on the arrow after shooting, and your hand is not very convenient, so it is better to use the gun directly. ”

Jack smiled muffled through his mask.

"Don't you know, Andy, the minerals in the Grand Canyon are not only uranium mines, but also some coal mines, in the past, someone accidentally ignited those poisonous gases and minerals when shooting monsters underground, causing heavy casualties, but you don't need to worry about this kind of thing when using bows and arrows, if the technique is good enough, shooting ordinary monsters is also very simple... The man-eaters and golden lizards have very hard skin, but their eyes are not. ”

As he spoke, he suddenly shot an arrow, and Andy saw a huge mouse in the corner not far away killed by an arrow in its head, and the arrow instantly pierced its head, and it screamed and died.

"That's a good archery."

Andy watched Jack slowly walk over and pull out the arrow, compared to the bullet fired by the gun, the arrow can be recycled in its entirety, making it more economical to use, while the bullet can only recover the cartridge case, and it is very troublesome to find it after falling on the ground, and it is necessary to remake the recovered cartridge case into a bullet with raw materials, machine tools and technology.

"It's a pity, the meat of this big squirrel is very difficult to eat, otherwise you can bring it and cook it."

Jack discarded the dead rat in disgust.

"And even fur is useless, it's completely useless."

Andy suddenly heard Hull's chime in the back of his neck.

"Be careful, there are a lot of enemies ahead."

He immediately activated the V mode, and the darkness was densely marked.

"Jack... I ask you a question. ”

Andy asked calmly as he pulled out two pistols, while Jack was still wiping the arrow.

"What?"

"What do you do if you encounter hordes of monsters?"

Jack pulled out a special arrow from a bag sewn on the side of his clothes.

"At that point, I don't have to think about anything else, I'll replace it with other kinds of arrows, like the one I'm holding in my hand now, and I'll name it Explosive Arrow."

Andy looked at the large group of rats in front of him, probably disturbed by the smell of blood after the death of their kind, these gray-haired rats about the size of dogs were quietly approaching.

"Then you have a chance to put on a show now, Jack."

Andy turned on the lights of the Pip-Boy, exposing the rats to the light, and the light-phobic brutes immediately screamed and retreated, and Jack was startled by the sudden appearance of the rats, and hurriedly bent his bow and shot the homemade 'explosive arrow', which was a few explosives tied to the arrow.

The arrow entered the swarm of rats and exploded immediately.

Andy used the V mode point shot to kill those fish that slipped through the net, and a swarm attack launched by rats was simply defused, and the power of the arrow was not small, and many rats were directly blown into pulp.

"Where did you get these explosives?"

Jack puffed out his chest proudly.

"Hehe, the Podonks are all former miners, how can they not use and make explosives? There is no shortage of raw materials here, and we have also found a stock of mining explosives left over from before the war in some mines, so explosives are the best weapons we can use, but the conditions for use are a bit harsh, and if you can't use them in a narrow place, you will end up with the monsters. ”

As he spoke, a puff of gray-black smoke suddenly spread, and Andy suddenly felt unwell, and quickly changed the radiation protection suit on his body into a miner's suit, and then he sadly found that because of the restraint of this clothes, his movement speed became similar to that of lame Jack.

The two of them continued to move towards their goal in the smoky mine.

"Have you been exposed to this kind of smoke before?"

"It's very common, and many people have serious lung disease because of the toxic smoke."

"Haven't you thought of a way to deal with it?"

"Except for wearing a gas mask... We also asked the natives for some earthwork, but it didn't work very well. ”

Walking in the smoke, Andy felt a little bottomless in his heart, not only the restraint of the miner's suit was too strong, but also the V mode was difficult to play a role in the smoke, at this time, if the clothes were damaged due to the monster attack, it would be very troublesome, and he might fall into a dilemma.

Fortunately, the two walked out of the poisonous smoke area without danger.

"Jack, aren't you thinking about starting some chemistry workshop?"

"What's that?"

"It's a convenient place for you to make all kinds of potions on it."

"We've found something like that weird word you said, and we've thought about what you said, but... The problem is that we don't know much about chemistry, and we found a trailer in the early days, which contained a lot of strange scientific instruments and test tubes and other things, and everyone didn't know what it was for, and several people claimed to be the owners, so I had to come forward and temporarily seal the trailer after making a fuss. ”

Andy took it to heart.

After walking down for a while, the two saw a man lying by the wall, looking like a recent person rather than a long-dead corpse.

The man was dressed in a dusty suit, his whole body was paralyzed, judging by his posture, he had passed out, Jack turned him over, and saw that the gas mask he was wearing had cracked several cracks, and it was probably because of this that he had fainted, and the poisonous smoke seeped into his lungs.

"Hey, wake up!"

Jack took off his armor and patted him on the face, but the man turned black and unresponsive.

Andy also squatted down to check, this person was seriously poisoned, his eyes were dull and unfocused, his eyelids were purple, and he was getting more air out than he was in, and he looked like he was about to be poisoned by the poisonous smoke here.

Jack struggled to remove some black particles and stuffed them into his mouth, but to no avail.

Seeing that it didn't work, Andy rummaged through the beep boy and found that there was only one nursery detoxification solvent left, he thought about it for a while, and finally chose to use it.

After taking it, the unconscious man's face gradually improved, but he still did not wake up.

Glancing at Jack's lameness, Andy had no choice but to carry the man on his back, and after walking for some distance, he finally arrived at the location marked by his mind, except for a door here, which looked strange.

The door has no keyholes or handles, and the material is very sturdy, and the curved crowbar is useless here.

The two of them groped around there, Andy was a little uncomfortable, but suddenly found that Jack didn't react, and even when he got close to Jack, he felt even hotter, and after careful inspection, he found that the bump behind Jack was releasing heat, and it sounded like a buzzing sound.

"Don't you feel hot? What the hell are you carrying behind your back? ”

Jack patted his back.

"Of course it doesn't feel hot, it's a simple air conditioner, although it doesn't work when it fails..."

The unconscious Podonker suddenly woke up, and after the two inquired, he learned that this man wanted to come down to scavenge but forgot that his mask had cracked when he encountered the monster before, and he was poisoned and passed out after encountering the poisonous smoke, and he came up with an idea after learning that the two wanted to open the door in front of him.

"There's a depression in the door, if you have a crank, maybe turn it."

Jack came to his senses, took out the two parts and put them together and inserted them into the hollow, and then tried to spin it, the machine filled with ash tried to make it difficult to move, Andy struck again, and turned it around, and after a few turns, the door made a loud noise, and then it became open.

When the door was opened, there was a small storage room, filled with a row of iron cabinets, in which two corpses were nested, one wearing a miner's suit and holding a sledgehammer in his hand, and the other lying against the cabinet, with nothing on his body.

There were some marks of smashing on the cabinet, and I don't know what happened here before.

Andy didn't think about it anymore after taking a look, he opened a cabinet, the rotten lock was torn off by his strength, and there were a lot of guns in it, including 9mm submachine guns, pistols, and some super power hammers and electric drills used by miners in other cabinets, but the state was relatively average, and there was some water seepage in this room.

Jack cheered, which was exactly what he expected.

The two took the guns and left the mine, and the Podonk resident they rescued thanked them for their help.

Andy finds the last mine that his brain thinks might contain a gun, and there are no signs here.

While he was discussing with Jack whether to go down, a few Bodunkers suddenly came out of the mine, and when they saw Jack and Andy standing at the entrance of the cave, they were stunned for a moment, the baskets they were carrying behind were covered with cloths, and the corners that occasionally leaked out were still shining.

Jack looked at them in surprise, and before he could say anything, the man in the lead suddenly raised his gun.

"Get out, this is our territory, let's explore this place first."

Andy turned to look at Jack.

"Does Podunke have such a rule?"

Jack shook his head firmly.

"All resources are shared by everyone, what are you talking about?"

The man at the head wore a tattered gas mask, and only a pair of cold eyes behind translucent lenses, and he continued to threaten impatiently.

"If you don't die, I'll send you away if you don't leave, and when you go out, you dare to tell others that I will definitely kill you... No, why should I believe that you won't tell others? Do it! ”

He suddenly fired, and the old pistol, which was in very bad condition, actually jammed, but after he gave the order, the other two had already pulled out their lead pipes and shovels and swung them at Andy and Jack.