The wind blows through the land of Colorara, and following the railroad tracks, the Atomic Hummer makes its way north. Passing by Dog City from the west again, everything is like a video played upside down, or rolling red dust, or a vicious wild dog pack, watching it for a long time makes people feel bored and restless, I don't know if it's a psychological effect or that there is an unspeakable curse in this place, so people just can't accept the environment here.

There is no need for the salvage workers to hide in the building, and it is a kind of penance to go out. The process will not be detailed, in short, following the guidance of the Pip-Boy, Andy drove the Atomic Hummer in a direction that he had not driven into before, just east between the ruins of Boulder City and Dog City Denver, the railroad unusually turned that side, and as soon as he got closer, he could see that in addition to the one that connected with the north-south railroad between Dogtown and the Great Dome, there was also an east-west railroad leading there.

The railway continues westward, and I don't know where it ends, but further west in this area... Andy stopped the car and opened the door to look west.

In the middle of that mountain is a nursery. He looked at it for a while, and then looked thoughtfully to the east, where as far as his eyes could see, there were many silhouettes of abandoned pre-war buildings at the end of the railroad, these buildings looked a little strange in style, certainly not the wreckage of residential buildings common in Denver and Boulder City, those rolled metal and box-like buildings, full of rusty iron and machinery... Industrial.

It is somewhat similar to Fort Alashid, but the difference is that the two intersections of Fort Alashid are in an X-like direction, connecting the end settlements in the four directions of the Great Southwestern Federation, namely the Great Dome, the Reservation, New Canaan, and Blomfield, and the branch lines and along the way are also connected to Hoover Dam, Grand Canyon, Dogtown Denver, Burnham Springs, Tibbetts Prison, etc.

The situation is somewhat similar here, with one railroad leading to the Great Dome-Dogtown-Arashid Fortress, which is roughly vertically distributed in the northeast, which is also connected to the main rail network in the area, and the other to the east and west, where the end is unclear, but Andy guesses that the west will lead to the nursery, and the east will lead to his destination, Leavenworth Prison.

Another unique feature is that the east-west railway is actually a combination of three railways, with three railways of six tracks running parallel to the east, which means that in the past, the number of trains here was not small.

Andy touched his chin and looked at the wide railroad not far away, although this railway has only one section in the Great Southwestern Federal Region, but the railway network itself is probably more complex and large than the railway network centered on the Alashid Fortress, the three railroads are connected into one, although it is full of rust, it still shows the great power of human industry before the war.

Xian also followed him out of the car and observed for a while, and said a guess.

"I think there's a rail junction ahead." Andy casually leaned against the hood of the Atomic Humvee and talked to the strings with his thick arms.

"What is a railway hub? The first time I heard the term. Xianyu explained by pointing to the railroad not far away.

"Before the war, people invented railways and trains, trains can only run on railways, but railways are only two rails, and trains can't change direction on the asphalt road at will like cars, nor can they stop directly on the rails for maintenance after a breakdown, so serious accidents are very likely to occur, in order to solve these things, several railways may meet in some places close to each other, and this intersection is the railway hub." Andy nodded knowingly.

"So, then the fort of Arashid is also a railway junction?" The string nodded.

"Yes, and it should be the largest railway hub in the Eastern Special Administrative Region, and this small railway hub to the east of us looks like it can go all the way to the east, and those buildings may be warehouses for temporary storage of goods for easy switching of trains, and workshops for train maintenance and overhaul." The two got into the car again and drove all the way east, and as they got closer, the scene was exposed to them.

A withered river flows through the periphery in the east, but it has been cut off, and the climate here is not humid.

The railroad connecting the Great Dome and Dogtown runs from northwest to northeast, while the wide, three-way railroad you saw running parallel runs through due west and east.

The place where these railways meet is a magical thing, Andy has never seen anything like it or a building so it is difficult to find an accurate adjective to describe it, in his opinion, it is a huge 'disk', the outline of the disk and the deconstruction below means that it can be turned and turned, there are also railways on the disk, and it can coincide with the surrounding railways that meet it, there are three parallel railways in the east-west direction, and there is also a railway diagonally.

The train will not be hindered when it passes by, but not necessarily if the plate is turned in the right direction.

In addition to this most striking rail disc, the buildings that had previously been seen in the distance were scattered at the north and south ends of the three parallel railways to the west.

To the north is a wide rectangular workshop, full of black holes and windows with missing glass, and some lifting equipment that seems to have been used for lifting operations in the past, such as iron chains and lifting keels.

To the south were many smaller fragmentary buildings, some of which looked like delicate little storehouses, some of which looked like metal cans for some purpose, and many pipes connected to the place, and the dry river ran diagonally to the south of these buildings, and of course there was almost no water, and only the old riverbed existed.

Andy and Chord were aware of the inhabitants of the buildings coming in and out, and as they approached, several tribesmen armed with spears and bows and arrows ran out, all of their brown skin with two parallel black lines painted with a black paint, which seemed to be some kind of mark for distinguishing friend from foe, and was part of the tribal culture, which was quite common, such as the black-footed tribe's blackened legs or the curly hair of the daughters of Hekate.

The tribesmen looked nervous, stunned when they saw the two visitors, and the Andy chord struck them as surprised and unfamiliar, so they slowly lowered their weapons, looking helpless.

Andy looked at the fur-like stuff they were wearing, and knew that these Buraku people were definitely the completely uncivilized type, which meant that they should have completely lost all the cultural relics of the pre-war period, and did not learn these things after the war with the contact and communication with other settlements in the outside world.

He tried to say hello.

"Hello, I'm not your enemy, we're just passing through." The tribesmen were taken aback, staring at each other with wide eyes, apparently unable to understand the lingua franca.

Andy's cheeks twitched twice, this is a bit difficult to do, the tribes he met along the way are more or less in contact with civilization or at least have ancestral inheritance, such as the members of the crypto tribe learn the pre-war cultural knowledge left by their ancestors from kiva, the blackfoot tribe has been in contact with the followers of the apocalypse and the missionaries of New Canaan, and the double mother tribe is remotely monitored by Diana in real time to provide various education.

And these Buraku people probably don't have that luck and opportunity. One of the tribesmen suddenly patted his companion, turned and ran back.

A moment later, a man was hugged by the tribesmen. Andy looked at it, and it was still an acquaintance.

"Is that you? Library.." The man jerked his hand up.

"Don't call me by that nasty name, I've discarded all that Caesar gave me, just keep calling me the hangman." Andy looked at the hangman dressed as a tribesman in front of him, this guy dressed like this makes people feel more suitable than him wearing a formal suit, the long oily hair is casually curled behind the head, the hairstyle is different from other tribesmen, those tribesmen all divide their hair into two strands parallel to the sides, at first glance it makes people feel a little nervous and want to laugh, it is estimated that this is also related to the painting totem with parallel black lines on their bodies.

"Why are you here?" Hearing Andy ask the hangman, the hangman smiled weirdly.

"Following this iron path, I wanted to go back to the east, but I happened to meet these bewildered natives, who had only recently escaped from the hands of the bull, and who were full of hatred for Caesar, which was exactly what I wanted." String looked at the hangman, feeling a little uncomfortable with the evil aura and madness that revealed his strange scarred face, and leaned over to Andy's side.

Andy patted her soothingly, and continued to talk to the hangman in front of him.

"What are you now? Became a chief? The hangman smiled noncommittally and spoke of a custom of the natives.

"You know Andy? The tribes of the wasteland have a system in which their chiefs seek the help of shrewd and powerful outsiders who can lead their troops and fight their enemies to victory when faced with a powerful enemy. For this reason, the chiefs of the natives will be willing to give up their chieftaincy for a while, and instead give it to an outsider they trust, and the outsider will become a temporary chief... The official name of this temporary status is: War Chieftain. Andy nodded knowingly, it turns out that there is such a thing, so to speak... In the story that Blackfoot heard, the two men had the opportunity to lead the besieged Blackfoot tribe to turn the tide and defeat all enemies in the Grand Canyon, also because of the help of this tribal tradition.

"Well, it looks like you've finally found a place for yourself, congratulations." Saying this, Andy's tone and expression did not reveal any congratulatory meaning.

"We're just passing through here, and we want to take advantage of the road to continue east." The hangman played with a string of skewers in his hand, which looked like some kind of bone product, Andy didn't want to guess what kind of bones it was, he saw a very familiar tooth...

"Oh... It's simple, if a merchant passes by, he must leave something behind for the toll, but you are my friend after all, and I will not stop you. He suddenly changed his words.

"But, for the same reason, I wouldn't advise you to continue walking east for now." Andy immediately frowned, and his fists clenched subconsciously.

"Be clear." The hangman raised his arms and motioned for Andy to look at the Buraku people around him.

"The natives of the Iron Wire tribe originally lived in the east and belonged to a large tribe called the Iron River tribe. See the paintings on their bodies and the hairstyles on the top of their heads? This stems from their culture of worshipping railroads, believing that these old-world transportation infrastructure is a miracle, that the train is the god of roaring power, and that the railroad is the footprint of the gods, and that the place where the railroad leads will be the promised land given to them by the gods... They could have continued to live in this ignorance in the east, until one day the bull discovered them and crushed their original great tribe. ”

"Since then, these natives have fled along the railroad to the west, where they have been ostracized by other local tribes... They also went to Dog Town to the south, but there they saw the banner of the bull again, so they retreated and chose to settle here. Andy immediately understood what was wrong.

"What do you mean... The Legion has already chased them to find this way? The hangman nodded, then pulled a machete from behind his waist and showed it to Andy.

Andy could tell at a glance that it was a weapon used by the Legionnaires, who were armed with it when he encountered them in Dog Town and on the reservation.

"It's... Legion's knife? They're already here? The hangman stroked the square-bladed machete in his hand, and turned a few knives around, and it seemed that he was very familiar with this weapon, and he really did not know how many people he had killed with the same weapon in the past.

"Maisheti... It's a machete, a symbol of bull violence, a tool for harvesting heads, which was once a mechanical part used to cut weeds in the old world, but now it is used to cut another kind of 'grass'. ”

"Two days ago, a group of scouts came, a total of five people, all of whom I killed... But that's just the beginning, and now that the bulls have sent out spies, it means they've discovered it and decided it's what they need. This road can avoid the dead wind that rages on the road between east and west. Andy guessed that the dead wind in the hanging's mouth was a radiant hurricane that blocked the passage of things in the wasteland, which echoed his previous fears that once the road was in the hands of the Legion, they would lose their seasonal access restrictions.

"What's next for you?" The hangman sneered as he faced east.

"Since the bulls are destined to swarm from here, I will wait for them here with my knife." Andy looked at the dozen or so scattered Buraku people, including the elderly, children and women, what kind of combat power could this have?

"You won't do it on your own... Although I have not seen the Legion with my own eyes, I have come into contact with the slave catchers they sent to the west, and it depends on you men—" The hangman straightened his chest and did not seem to be worried.

"You underestimate me, what Caesar could have done in the Grand Canyon, I can do it too, wait and see... I will gradually annex the surrounding indigenous tribes. The weak natives around them did not understand what was going to happen to them, and when the iron hooves of the bull set foot on the road to the west, everything about the natives would be crushed, leaving their soulless shells to become part of the bull. ”

"Until then, I'll make a move." Andy didn't know what to say about the Hangman's plan, he was going to do the same thing as the Legion in order to defeat the Legion, but he had a tendency to be hostile to the Legion, and that was enough.

"Well, whatever you want to plan... If you can keep the Legion out here, then I'll support you too. He thought for a moment, then said.

"If I have the chance, I'll contact the other big tribes to see if I can agree with you on the fight against Caesar's legion."