The car drove out of Hoover Dam City and headed north, and he had already explained everything to the Dodge mayor, but now he was more concerned about whether his political life could be continued than the layout after that.

It can be seen that he does not have any confidence at all, as the old man named Colemans said before the deputy director of the National Anti-Terrorism Bureau of the NcR, the crux of the problem has never been in one thing, but in the tendencies of some superstructure, as an important figure who was "trusted" to hold all aspects of power in the entire Eastern District during the time of President Tibett, Mayor Dodge is now precarious in the new political environment of the NcR, The unexpectedly butterfly effect of the Niutoucheng massacre brewing in the Eastern District eventually led to the resignation of President Tibbett under public pressure, and Mayor Dodge will eventually have to face the consequences, and after the new president announced that he would not abandon the Eastward Movement and send troops to the East, this previously unwanted position quietly changed.

However, this is not for Andy to deal with, he has never been a politician, and the next thing to do is to go to Burnham Springs to see the survivors there to do the Dodge mayor a favor, and get the rumored data tank in the secret laboratory deep underground there and send it back to the Great Dome to save the ZAx from collapsing in a few months.

The railroad from Fort Alashide, which runs northwest to Union Station on the southern outskirts of New Canaan, also has a branch directly to Burnham Springs, which could have been taken by train, but Mayor Dodge has repeatedly asked Andy to keep a low profile, for fear that the news of his sending Andy to Burnham Springs will leak.

As usual, there is a large desert stretching endlessly, with the occasional cactus and agave growing in the corners as green accents, and some earthy yellow towering peaks on the sides.

The wind swam through it, whistling with eerie noises and whirling stones and bones.

I don't know what's going onAndy has a faint feeling that something is not good, this feeling comes very suddenly, and it is unfounded.

“.....”

As he was looking left and right, a rock suddenly came down from the cliff next to him, and the Atomic Humvee was too fast to hit the stone directly, but fortunately it was strong enough and Andy hit the direction in time, and the impact of the stone made a loud noise on the front of the car, leaving a small pit and bounced away.

"I'm X!"

Andy was taken aback, and immediately stopped and turned on the V mode to find out which bastard dared to sneak attack him, and after a search, he found nothing, and there seemed to be only wind and sand all over the mountains.

Was it just an accident? .....

Just as he was suspicious, another stone fell from a great height, this time aimed directly at his head.

One dodged to the side, looking at the stone that had smashed into the ground, and Andy only felt his anger rising.

He turned on the V mode again to search for the enemy, but still didn't find anything.

"Hell... Hull, detect hostile targets nearby. ”

As soon as he said this to himself, a voice immediately came from the back of his neck.

"There is an enemy in the rear~"

Andy rolled forward, only to hear a gust of wind behind his head, and immediately turned on the V mode, but this time as usual, he still didn't find any hostile targets, and looked back at the air, he knew in his heart that this person might have used the stealth boy.

"Hull, turn on stealth mode."

"Understand~"

Andy disappeared in the air, he squatted on a relatively high stone to stay still and scan the surroundings, Andy calculated in his heart, if that guy uses the stealth boy, the stealth time competition will definitely not be able to compare with himself, if he doesn't want to be exposed, he can only get away from here quickly, in that case, he can't maintain a stealth posture, the sound of running and the traces left on the sand will become obvious, then Andy will use the python to give him a hard blow, if he is very confident and does not escape, Then wait and eat the fist.

Sure enough, a figure appeared not far away after a while, this person was wearing a dirty leather coat, a pair of black shorts underneath, long hair was messy, and the muscles on his body were very strong.

He looked up at the neighborhood, his face covered in scars, and the expression under the scars seemed to have a strange smile.

Andy had long been furious because of the few rocks that had been poked and smashed over, and as soon as he saw him appear, he turned on the V mode without saying a word, and he came to the man in an instant with the blessing of the lightning raid, and banged two old fists towards his face.

The mysterious man who ate his fist in the face fell directly backwards, but the two punches that were enough to kill ordinary people on the spot did not cause enough damage to him, the man covered his head and seemed to be a little dizzy from being beaten, but he quickly stood up, this degree of cheekiness made Andy slightly surprised, but it was really not an ordinary anti-beating, although the punch he hit was not full force, but it was not deliberately left at all.

"Who the fuck are you! Why litter stones! ”

Andy stood there and asked angrily, but the man suddenly pulled out his trouser belt and threw it over, this trouser belt seemed to be made of the skin of some kind of wasteland creature, and the iron head in front of it was hard and heavy with sharp blades, Andy's breastplate, which was not checked for a while, was slashed, and a spark burst out directly, and there was a faint pain in his chest. If you hit it right this time, I'm afraid it will break your muscles and bones.

“！”

Andy was about to continue punching his fists to the flesh, when suddenly the man waved at Andy in greeting.

"It's been a long time, but this opening sentence is so familiar that it feels a little kind... Hehe. ”

The man threw his hand and folded the belt of his trousers, and he could see that there were two knives stuck in their scabbards and something like that.

Andy was stunned for a moment, noticed the scar on his neck, and suddenly realized that this person was actually the hanger.

"Is that you? Why are you here? ”

The hangman wiped the nosebleed.

"On the same land, the opponent I have defeated has beaten me in turn this time, ironically, and fairly."

Andy then remembered that the Hangman's Hangman's Hanged Gang and the Hanged City had been destroyed by the NcR, and he had inquired about it before.

"You deserve it, if my investment hadn't been kicked out by you, with my current relationship with NcR, I would have helped you mediate, maybe your gang and settlement would have been saved, and you wouldn't have become a loner again."

As he said this, he knew in his heart that even so, the probability that the city of the hanging corpse would not be destroyed was not very high, because it was not the mayor of Dodge who advocated the recovery of Arashedburg, but the new brigadier general, and this person was obviously a hardliner in his thinking, and the recovery of Arashed Fort meant completely restoring this place to the former state of military control, and turning that ruined town back into the former NcR Eastern Military Bridgehead, a large barracks.

The hangman shook his head, his scarred face still pouting with a strange, abstract smile that the more he looked closely, the more he felt a little crazy.

"No, you're talking nonsense, the bear will never allow any other beast to sleep in its lair."

Andy shook his head and didn't bother to say anything, since this guy understood this, why didn't he plan earlier, whether to leave with someone and go elsewhere or whatever, it was better than what he was now, but he stubbornly chose to come with NcR, with a group of bandits and the regular army as enemies, and he was lucky not to be killed on the spot by NcR's bullets.

"Enough, don't talk about it anymore, anyway, you're back to what you used to be.... No, it's worse than before, I used to be a bandit, but now? A homeless man? A raider? ”

The hangman's nosebleed quickly dried up, as he used to be, with strange self-healing abilities and never using any drugs.

"I think I'm a free person now, like a coyote roaming the wilderness, acting only to satisfy my simple desires, without worrying about others and tomorrow."

Andy automatically ignored the man's nonsense, and when he saw the hangman suddenly sit on the ground, he walked up to him.

"So why did you attack me? Well? Attack as freely as a dog? ”

The hangman cracked a smile, revealing a mouth full of intact teeth.

"It was like that at first, but after I saw that it was you, I decided to play the game with you."

Andy reached out and grabbed him by the collar.

"Games? I was almost stoned to death by you! What do you think you're doing? Do you hit other people in the head when you play games? ”

The hangman smiled weirdly, Andy's heart moved, and he let go of his hand directly, only to see him pull out a bayonet from his back like lightning and slash ahead, and then stand up again with a backflip.

Looking down at a faint mark of blood that gradually appeared on his hand, he couldn't help but clench his fists and make a squeaking sound of air crackling, and finally relaxed again.

"Get out of here, for the sake of our acquaintance, you don't have to die this time."

The hangman put away his bayonet, stuck his trouser belt, and laughed in circles not far away.

"Oh, that's tough... You look a lot different from before, but it's still the same person, yes, I have a good thing for you to see, you might be interested. ”

Andy scoffed at this.

"Good stuff? Leave it to yourself. ”

He was about to turn around and get into the car, but he saw the hangman take out something and shake it, and after glancing at it, Andy stopped where he was.

It looked like a dog tag, and not a shoddy NcR product, but a Brotherhood of Steel product, a holographic dog tag that stored a lot more information than an engraved iron tag could store.

"A few people passed by the other day, and I opened a scoop for them with a stone, leaving a living mouth to play with, and she said that they all belong to an organization called the Ring of Steel, hehe... They have gadgets that can make people invisible, and I've used this thing in the east, it's called Stealth Kid, right, it's a fun toy, you know these guys? ”

Andy walked over and snatched the holographic dog tag from the hangman's hand, and after using the beep boy to distinguish it, he was sure that it was indeed a holographic dog tag of the Brotherhood of Steel, and there was a special mark on it, confirming that it was a member of the Ring of Steel, an extreme faction within the Brotherhood of Steel.

But wasn't the Ring of Steel that had betrayed Fort Maxson already in the hands of the Brotherhood branch and the NcR forces at Hoover Dam? Even if a few survivors were lucky enough to escape the pursuit, encirclement, and suppression, what did they come all the way to the northwest for?

"Did you ask where they came from?"

Andy put down the beep-beep boy, and a lot of speculation was breeding in his mind.

"West."

The hangman said with his neck moving.

"Maybe it's been recently, and now that NcR is back here, they're making a move."

Andy looked down at the holographic dog tag in his hand, and wondered even more, which west is it? New California? According to the brigadier general, after four large-scale battles, the headquarters of the Brotherhood of Steel in New California has lost its combat effectiveness against the NcR army head-on, and the scene of the Brotherhood of Steel abusing the NcR army by relying on equipment superiority and technological superiority is gone forever, and the terrorist attacks since then have had little effect.

A large number of casualties + material blockade trade sanctions + long-term multi-directional advance of the NcR side of the crowd tactics with the gradual scorching of the iron brotherhood's various advance strongholds and military fortresses on the periphery of the Iron Brotherhood to carry out scorched earth tactical encroachment, many disadvantages after the Lost Mountain side decided to concentrate all forces and the NcR government army in the front of the strategic decisive battle, the results of which are well known, the Iron Brotherhood launched this huge and multi-party holy war has now died down, The steel plague that ravaged New California for years was subdued with guns.

In such a bad situation, could it be that the Brotherhood of Steel still wants to continue to compete with the NcR on this side when the NcR has already sent three additional infantry battalions to the Eastern Special District? Or is this yet another assertion by the extremist faction Ring of Steel?

If the so-called west does not refer to New California, it is likely to be the Brotherhood of Steel in the western Mojave Desert region, where the current NcR side is not very active for the time being, and it is far away from the New California headquarters, and the possibility of retaining more living forces is indeed greater, and the distance is also closer than rushing from the Lost Mountain, the capital of Maxson State, but even so, what are they doing here?

"What about that person? I would like to ask some questions. ”

"I can't do it."

"What do you mean?"

"It's just that she can't answer your question anymore."

Andy looked up at the hangman.

"Make it clear."

The hangman had a look on his face that could be called evil.

"I kept screaming, I cut her tongue, and then I was hungry and didn't hit the prey, so I had to eat her."

Andy's eyes were cold, and he said his opinion bluntly.

"You're disgusting!"

The hangman was still the same old look, and his eyes were dark and terrifying.

"Hey, hey... I just don't want to have unlimited self-restraint, you also have the same desires I have, but I satisfy myself, and you will never have that opportunity, this is the essential difference between the two of us, don't you feel sorry? It's like wild beasts and domestic animals, which are obviously a thing, and the domestic animals that have been destroyed by their instincts have lost their fate as predators, how sad it is that those domestic animals remain in their sleep at night and struggle with the ugliness of their remaining desires until they are brought to the table and become the tooth sacrifice of others, while they can only passively accept the hypnosis of others to comfort themselves, claiming that it is a relief. ”

Andy was unmoved.

"If your ambition is to be a beast, then there is nothing else to say between us in this regard, and a beast should also have the fate of a beast, that is, to be alone and become a pair of white bones lying in the desert, this is not sad or hateful, goodbye."

He was about to turn back when the hangman stopped him.

"Wait, Andy, you can't ask her, but you can still ask me, I've already asked everything for you."

Andy slammed the newly opened car door back, startling the little black inside.

"Okay, that's what you said, right, now tell me everything."

The hangman held out a hand.

"If I continue to be hungry, I won't have the strength to think about it, like a shriveled lizard that doesn't have the strength to chase bugs."

Andy sneered twice.

"Why can't I arrest you and torture you to get an answer, isn't that safer and cheaper?"

The hangman pointed to his face, which was covered in scars.

"It doesn't make sense, trust me, a lot of people have tried, they've never succeeded."

Andy nodded, threw out a can of canned food, which rolled on the ground a few times to the hangman's feet, he unceremoniously picked it up and pried it open with a bayonet, then pulled it out with his hand, grabbed it and stuffed it into his mouth, and devoured it like a tribesman.

It wasn't until he saw him swallow the last bit of broth that Andy spoke again.

"Tell me, what are those guys doing here?"

The hangman tilted his head and made an explosive gesture.

"They're going to a place and destroy that place."

Andy tapped his fingers and asked impatiently.

"Where are you going?"

The hangman smiled, his expression not looking like he would cooperate with the answer, and before Andy's last patience ran out, he made his request.

"I know where that place is, I've been there... I can take you there, and maybe help you, just like we used to do when we traveled together. ”

Andy's fingers tapping on his arm paused, and he slowly walked over to the hangman, one hand resting on his shoulder.

The hangman looked at Andy in front of him, and the weird smile he was pouting on gradually retracted.

"Okay, but you hear me clearly."

Andy didn't know what the expression was on his face at this moment, but the negative emotion in his heart hadn't been so strong in a long, long time, or rather, he had almost never had such a strong killing intent towards a person so far.

"If you dare to play any tricks with me on the road, I mean any trick, even once..."

The sunset was red like blood, shining on the side and back, and the light made the depressions on Andy's face all pitch black, like a skeleton with flesh and skin, and the invisible dark aura seemed to gush out of every pore of him, and these coincidences came together to make Andy at this time very "convincing" in the eyes of the hangman.

"I'll kill you."