Heavy nuclear trucks roar north, and Andy, dressed in power armor, is sitting in the RV bed with more than a dozen Rocket Gang members and Big Bear enduring shaking and jolting.

This is a green-looking power armor model: T-51C Air Force Power Armor, according to Gillian's data found in the database.

Originally a bold experiment by the SA Air Force, the T-51 power armor has been praised for its powerful performance since its inception, and the sophisticated design of the legs allows the power armor to protect the driver and cushion most of the impact when jumping from a height.

The SA Air Force was attracted by the design potential in this area, and they hoped to upgrade the T-51 in all aspects, so that this mass killer that originally belonged to the SA Army could meet the needs of the SA Air Force, so they made a lot of efforts and attempts, and the result was the power armor that Andy is wearing now.

Compared to the original T-51 power armor, the T-51C has significantly reduced the defensive armor in non-essential areas, and the helmet part adopts a more powerful airtight structure, the eyepiece is more robust and equipped with an independent circulating oxygen supply system, and the shape of the limbs and torso is aerodynamically designed.

Coupled with a special jetpack and reinforced leg-cushioning hydraulics, this power armor can help the pilot leap from a high-flying military transport aircraft downwards to catch the enemy by surprise or engage in lurking operations behind enemy lines, with many powerful advantages over traditional paratroopers.

Speaking of which, it is more embarrassing that now there is no transport plane that can drop Andy in T-51C from a high altitude, and he will have to use this set of SA Air Force power armor in the manner of the SA Army, but it is better to have power armor than no ... At least this set of power armor integrates temperature controllers, air self-circulation devices, etc., better radiation protection and high-altitude fall cushioning capabilities than the T-51, and retains a certain degree of defense.

Speaking of which, in order to resist the high temperatures generated by the friction of air during the fall from a height, the surface coating of the T-51C's armor also uses some aviation technology to withstand the high heat.

Speaking of which, this set of power armor is simply tailor-made for the Grand Canyon.

The SA Air Force would certainly not have imagined that their creations would work in strange territory years later.

Although the members of the Rocket Gang did not gather around Andy to watch up and down as they did at first, they still kept their eyes on the power armor he was wearing from time to time.

Andy didn't have the heart to show it, now he was thinking about what he wanted him to do, he thought that he didn't need to go down to the dangerous place at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, but he didn't think that he had to go down in the end, as for Burnham Springs, it has always been rumored but never been there, the closest time to that should be when he went to Jericho Town before, the ruins of Burnham Springs are located not far south of the New Canaan ruins, and it is said that some New Canaan refugees have been displaced to the south after the city of New Canaan was broken.

What would it be like there? Mayor Dodge said that the NcR soldiers of the 5th Engineering Company had detonated a stockpile of explosives hidden in the mines by looters during the battle, causing a chain reaction, and that the site of Burnham Springs was still a scene of black ashes, cracks, smoldering ore underground, and poisonous smoke in the sky.

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As the sun set westward, the truck finally stopped near the town of Podunke on the south bank of the Grand Canyon.

Andy drove the power armor and jumped out of the truck, it was really uncomfortable to wear this thing for a long time, that is, he had amazing endurance to endure it, in order to catch up with it as quickly as possible, he couldn't make the truck stop from time to time and let him get out of the car and take off the power armor to rest for a while, the speed of this truck was completely inferior to his atomic Humvee, which led to his miscalculation, and he knew that he drove the atomic Hummer alone and fixed the power armor on the shelf, and went back to Podunk alone.

"Everyone, get ready, we don't know how fast those marauders are moving, maybe they are already fighting, ready to fight at any time!"

He shouted, asked the bear to examine it again, and then led the group to dismantle the musket and push it in the direction of Podunk.

After a long period of effort, they finally arrived at their destination, at this time, the original shanty town of Bodunke had been demolished, and all the building materials had been moved to the vicinity of the gold mine and turned into fortifications.

Before, they couldn't do this because they couldn't find a lot of mines right away, but thanks to the detection equipment they had found in the mines, the Podonks used it to find a lot of mines left in the mines, originally intended to provide safety for future mining of minerals, but on second thought, it could be reused.

"What's the use of this big thing? What about Andy? ”

Jack looked suspiciously at Sid's large musket and looked around for Andy in the crowd.

"I'm standing in front of you, Jack."

Andy, who was wearing power armor and pushing the musket forward, responded to Jack's question a little helplessly, this set of power armor helmet is difficult to take off independently, so he can't be honest.

Jack looked at the steel giant in front of him, which was more than two meters tall, and opened his mouth wide in shock.

"I thought... I thought you were a robot! ”

Andy and the others pushed the musket into position, and after letting the others find the trash, the wheel was jammed, and he turned back to Jack and did a few muscle-flexing movements.

"No, it's power armor, Jack, you used to be in New California, why didn't you even know about this?"

Jack wiped his eyes.

"Oh... I'm sorry, but my impression of power armor is just the gray metal stuff that the Brotherhood of Steel guys wear, but you're wearing this green one..."

Andy glanced down at his arm, it was indeed a green paint, God knows why the SA Air Force painted this power armor green, is it because of the material nature of this heat-insulating coating?

"All you need to know is that this big thing is useful, anyway, have the marauders sent someone in my absence?"

Jack shook his head.

"No, we've been nervous, and we've sent some people to scout nearby, but no outsiders have found out, in fact, Phoenix City is not close to here, and they still have to prepare to go out, and we don't know how long it will take to get here, and we're all a little scared and too anxious."

A group of people were busy arranging defenses, and it was only in the middle of the night that Andy found an opportunity to take off his power armor and rest in Jack's room for a while.

Before dawn, an explosion suddenly woke everyone up.

A mine in the northern minefield was suddenly triggered, and a tattered searchlight was pushed out to shine several times in that direction, and the people of Podonk eventually did not find out who had triggered the mine.

While everyone was in shock, a series of mines were triggered, and they were in opposite directions.

Everyone held weapons in their hands and climbed to a high place to patrol the surroundings to be vigilant against the enemy, some figures seemed to be shuttling in the dark, until they were close enough, and finally someone used a flashlight to shine on the unknown creature, it was actually some lizards and coyotes, these mutated creatures were originally some distance from Podunke, why did they suddenly appear here, or at such a strange time?

In the darkness, on a hill east of Podunk, Cersy and Faust and the others were standing there watching, surrounded by marauders brought from Phoenix and the tribesmen that Cersei had temporarily recruited in the Grand Canyon area by virtue of her status as the daughter of Hekate, although Faust and Cersy were unable to maximize the power they could mobilize due to the lack of time, but even so, the total number of people on their side at present was more than sixty, far more than the thirty or forty people on the side of Podunk-Bloomfield.

"My beast inducing drug has already started to take effect, I was just trying to make a test, but I didn't expect those people to actually set traps around, what is this kind of thing that can explode and emit fire?"

Cersei looked at the beasts that had been blown up from time to time, puzzled, and couldn't understand what caused the explosions.

"It's a landmine, you don't even know this... It's a kind of iron plate buried in the ground, and if a living creature steps on it, it will explode, and with a bang, it will be torn apart. ”

Faust looked at the general distribution of those minefields, and there seemed to be no dead ends, which was really difficult.

With a grim face, he told his men to bring the mole over.

The two vicious predators immediately took the order, and soon the panicked mole was caught in front of Faust, and the mole looked at the large group of fierce gods in front of him, and fell to Faust's feet with his knees weak.

"Boss.... Top dog.... I..."

Before he could stammer, the predator on the left with the head of yin and yang went up with a fierce big-eared scraper, knocking the mole to the ground and moaning repeatedly.

"Still here nonsense! Say! Why do those hillbillies have landmines? You didn't say a word before, and if we weren't careful, many people would have been killed by the bombing! ”

As he spoke, he kicked the mole on the ground a few times.

"Ouch! Don't fight, don't fight.... I really don't know, they couldn't get a few mines before, so it doesn't make sense to lay minefields in just a few days, ah——! ”

Faust raised his hand to signal the marauder to stop, and then he smiled sinisterly.

"You said you don't know where these mines came from, really... Well, I can forgive you, it's just that you need to do one thing for me; Now, take your people to the gang and tell them that you want to help, that you have important news to tell them, so you need to talk to their leader face to face..."

The mole looked up stunned, and was pleased to get a big-eared scraper.

"Are you fucking deaf? Do you not understand or can't hear what our boss is saying? If you dare to do this, I'll chop off all your two little ears one by one with a knife! ”

As he spoke, Yin Yang stretched out his pincer-like hand and grabbed the mole's ears and dragged him left and right, until he screamed again and again before letting go of his hand.

The mole covered his ears and cried and mourned.

But they couldn't believe it! Before us.... We've all torn our faces before. ”

Faust walked over to the mole and crouched down and grabbed him by the chin.

"Didn't you use to be a family, what tearing your face was? Kneel down and ask for forgiveness, it's very simple, it's better to be aggrieved for a while than for me to let you do it yourself, so that you will never be able to stand up, right? If you hear that, then hurry up and bring your people over. Remember, we're going to keep an eye on you, and we're not allowed to run in any other direction, and we're not allowed to look back, and you don't want to know the consequences. ”

The Mole had to lead his men towards the Potunk people's defenses, and there were disagreements within the small group over whether to abandon the gold and leave the Potunk once and for all, or to make peace with the murderous Phoenix Marauders, resulting in very few people around the Mole who were willing to follow him.

And the last few of them got the consequences of what they were doing, and under the undisguised threat of the marauders, they made their way to the Podunk stronghold, which was clearly alerted by the beast's strike.

"Who?!"

A townsman with a shotgun raised his hand to aim and shoot, but a familiar voice sounded in the darkness.

"Don't! Don't shoot! It's me, I'm not a bad person, we all knew each other before, didn't we? ”

When Jack heard it, it was actually the voice of a mole.

The searchlight was turned in a way that illuminated the darkness ahead, and it was really a mole standing there.

"Do you still have the face to come back? I've heard that you dare to run to cooperate with those marauders, and now what are you doing here? You're all not Podonkers anymore, get out! ”

Jack didn't give the mole and the others any face, although his nephew Krimson died at the hands of the tribesmen, but if it wasn't for the mole and his gang to intensify the conflict, things might not have gotten to that point.

Mole's wrinkled face was covered in sweat, and he had no choice.

"I know it's wrong Jack, I know I'm wrong, I'm here to get you on your knees."

He fell to his knees with a thud.

"I have abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, I have something important to tell you, please give us a way to live!"

Looking at the crying mole and others, Jack was speechless for a while, just when he was a little shaken, a lame coyote that was blown up by a mine suddenly came out of the darkness and pounced on the mole, this group of people were disarmed when they were forced by Faust to come and surrender, at this time they could not resist the beast at all, seeing the mole being bitten and falling to the ground, a person was finally frightened and screamed and fled to the rear.

Before the Podunk could do anything, several gunshots rang out in the darkness in the distance, and the fleeing man was instantly shot by a bullet and fell to the ground in a twitch in the blood mist.

Andy hurriedly put on the power armor and rushed over, and after turning on the V mode, he saw that the darkness in the distance was full of hostile targets, and after being taken aback, he hurriedly called the others to prepare for defense.

"The enemy is coming!"

Jack also came to his senses immediately, and after scolding, he raised the bow and arrow in his hand and shot an explosive arrow, which exploded immediately after the explosives landed, turning the mole group on their backs.

A fire suddenly flared up in the darkness, and a coalition of marauders and tribesmen under the orders of Faust and Serhi slaughtered the area.

A large number of grenades were thrown straight ahead, and after exploding, the mines planted there were also detonated.

Using this method of violent demining, they successfully approached the stronghold that the Podonk people had set up hastily, and the tribesmen only had a small number of firearms in their hands, which were not only very accurate and time-consuming to reload, but they used their own spears and throwing knives were completely different, and these flying props, which were difficult to detect in advance because they did not emit fire in the dark, pierced into the bodies of some unlucky eggs with a low sound of wind.

The heavy spear not only pierced the target's abdomen with the strength of the tribesmen's strong arms, but also sent the hit Podonker flying straight out, and finally crucified to the rock behind.

The Podonks in the darkness couldn't figure out why they could hit themselves with such precision, and it was actually due to the fact that Sehi, the daughter of Hecate, had given all the marauders and tribesmen a drug before the battle began, which gave them a certain degree of night vision and paralyzed their pain.

Named the Night Raider, the drug is a combination of cat's eye medicine and a pain-relieving plant, and has been so powerful that the tribesmen worship the daughters of Hekat as the hounds of Hekate's hounds break down the tribe.

Cersei looked at the battlefield in front of her with a little pity, if it weren't for the urgency of this matter, she could have used the means of poisoning the water and attracting the beasts to slowly disintegrate Potunk, so as to be foolproof.

Although this is a little more efficient, despair is the most effective weapon to defeat the opponent.

Faust drank a bottle of whiskey in one gulp, raised his horn and shouted ahead.

"Surrender ants, you are no match for us, if you are willing to become slaves and mine for me, I will spare your lives!"

The rudimentary bunkers were shattered by bullets and grenades, the defenders of Podonk were unable to distinguish the enemy's position in the dark, and their searchlights and other lighting had been destroyed as quickly as possible.

Jack pressed a 9mm submachine gun with his prosthetic leg in vain and fired into the darkness, not knowing if he was wasting bullets or not.

At the precarious level of battle, Andy and his Rocket Gang unleashed muskets and aimed them at the attacking enemies.

"Ignition!"

Andy gave an order, and the Rocket Gang pressed the switch, and the rare pre-war aviation fuel in the fuel tank was instantly pumped into the rocket engine, and the high-temperature flame tail instantly sprayed out dozens of meters away at the nozzle of the engine.

Under the desperate eyes of the marauders and tribesmen, the orange and blue terrifying fire dragon swept in, burning everything in front of it, although the flame did not last long due to fuel limitations, its power had left a permanent imprint on the hearts of all those present, and those who were lucky enough to survive on the edge of the fringe were rolling on the ground with flames and howling wolves in all directions.

Faust and Cersei looked ahead in amazement, their seemingly foolproof attack had vanished in an instant, and at least half of them had died in the flames or fled out of fear.

"How can this be..."

Cersei looked at the cheering Podonkers with a gloomy face.

Faust angrily shot into the air, gathering the remnants of the defeated army and retreating for the time being, and Podunke's side was unable to pursue them, so they could only let them leave.

As the sun gradually rose, no one noticed that the smell of the burnt corpses that had been roasted by the flames mixed with Sercy's beast-attracting medicine spread in the hot wind, and the cranky creatures in the mine were attracted by the indescribable smell, and they began to get ready to move.

On the other side, during the scuffle, three strange NcR soldiers in NcR uniforms suddenly appeared on the edge of Podunk, they did nothing superfluous, and they had no interest in this life-and-death battle, they just quietly walked into a mine.