Running all the way back to the Atomic Hummer, Andy wiped the sweat from his forehead and finally felt safe.

"Mark, didn't you say you're gone?" Wearing Tesla enclave power armor, Mark was cautiously observing his surroundings with a plasma automatic rifle.

"I did go west before, but the sudden return of the NcR to the east caught my attention, and recently they have suddenly massively increased their troops into the Mojave Desert, which has put a lot of pressure on my people... That's when I came back from the west, and you wonder why I came to save you so coincidentally, right? Actually, it's because I'm listening to NcR's radio communications, so I know something might be wrong with you. Andy chewed the 'my man' in Mark's mouth, and then looked at the power armor he was wearing, he really didn't care if he wanted to, the overall structure of the power armor and the appearance of the helmet are now a well-known 'devil' shape in New California, not only have been made up into various miraculous stories that have been widely circulated, and have even become a means to make children stop crying.

The phrase 'a crying child will be taken from an enclave' has become a source of nightmares for generations of New California newborns.

"So you really are—" Mark didn't hide it, anyway, it was self-evident at this point, he raised his hand and saluted.

"The leader of the Gannon Special Tactics Squad, Mark Gannon, as you can see, I was a member of the enclave, and on the day Navarro fell, I ordered all the members of my squad to escape from there in flying birds... I told you that I had abandoned my honor as a soldier for my life, and now I am only a deserter. Andy suddenly remembered the enclave team he had met earlier.

"I... I don't know what to say, but I've met some of your companions who claim to be going further east and looking for a place called MacArthur's bunker. Mark was silent for a moment, then sighed.

"You know, actually, before the last minute, Dr. Otum ordered all the soldiers to leave Navarro on their own and regroup at the Raven Rock military base on the east coast, that MacArthur military base... It was a stopover on the way, and we were supposed to leave the west coast of SA and continue eastward like them, but—" he struggled to explain why he was still stranded.

"So what? Even if we make it to the East Coast across the SA continent, we still have to obey the same commander and do the same thing. Rather than that, I'd rather stay on the West Coast than join the larger forces, even if doing so would be under the pressure of being pursued by the NcR..."Andy immediately understood the dilemma faced by Mark and the others, now on the West Coast controlled by the NcR, the members of the enclave have become street rats that everyone shouts about, and the central region of the SA is sparsely populated and decivilized, full of dangerous marauders, slave traders, tribesmen, and legionnaires, and finally Mark is no longer willing to go to the east to continue serving the enclave as a soldier in the enclave, Then there aren't many living areas he can choose from.

The Mojave region is in a delicate situation, first, due to the great western divide and the northern mountains, the pace of NcR's eastward expansion has slowed down, and the area has not been controlled by the NcR for a long time, President Tibbert, who initiated the Eastward Movement, respected the opinion of the local self-government organization and did not station troops there, but directly shifted the starting point of the Eastward Movement eastward to the Hoover Dam, which until recently began to be infiltrated by the order of the newly inaugurated President Peterson; Second, the Mojave region was barely hit by a nuclear bomb that fell during the war, and it is said that this was due to the fact that a local pre-war magnate had done the decoration, and the local architectural legacy and knowledge transmission were relatively good, so the area was not tribalized as in the east, but was predominantly inhabited, and the living conditions here were relatively good, at least compared to other areas on the west coast that were not controlled by the NcR.

Combining the above two points, we can know that the Mojave region is a rare retreat for Gannon and his party.

Recently, however, things have not been as good as they used to be. Andy thought of the marauders who had suddenly broken into the Black Canyon prison, and if it weren't for the fact that the very powerful Ranger happened to be here, the marauders would have helped the prisoners escape after causing a lot of damage.

Thinking of Mark, who suddenly ran out, he couldn't help but guess.

"Mark, those marauders—" The other party immediately understood what he wanted to ask.

"That's right, the guys who played with explosives did get some help from me, I gave them the coordinates of a small pre-war arsenal, and they got high explosives and gun bullets from it, and in exchange they did what they wanted to do, giving the NcR a little trouble." Seeing that Andy was about to stop talking, Mark immediately added.

"I'll have to figure out how to make some noise in the east to see if I can get the attention of the NcR, and I happened to hear them talking over the radio about arresting you, so I thought it might as well be two things in one... You may think I'm doing more bad things for them, but I don't have a choice. ”

"And, a lot of people have done this kind of thing, you know the Brotherhood of Steel, a few years ago when they were fighting the NcR at Hoover Dam, in order to drain the NcR's strength and fill their weakness due to lack of manpower, those guys distributed a lot of weapons and ammunition from their warehouses to the marauders in this area, which is why the bandits in the eastern district of the NcR have always been so bad."

"Also, you know how those self-proclaimed explosives guys got up, right? If it weren't for the NcR deceiving the railroad workers and mobilizing a large number of criminals from their country to mine and build roads, these people would not have existed, they brought it on themselves. Andy did know what Mark was talking about, so he shook his head and motioned for Mark not to say any more.

"I understand... Anyway, I should thank you for rescuing me from Black Canyon Prison, I'm really short on time, you shouldn't know yet, I'm going to do something crazy right now. The two stood next to the Atomic Humvee, and Andy took a moment to make things clear, and Mark was speechless for a while, and he took off his power armor helmet to reveal that familiar face.

"It's more than I could have imagined... I do know that there are still countless artificial vehicles for various purposes launched by the SA government and military before the war in the sky orbit, and many of them have intelligent platforms that can drop space-based weapons, but what you are talking about.m.b... God, this is the first time I've heard of it. He didn't hesitate and immediately offered to join.

"I'm the one to count on for this kind of thing, I'll pack up my things and wait for you in Bloomfield at once." Andy was a little worried.

"Are you alright? Those Rangers have been tracking you down, and now that you're exposed to them, there's going to be a lot of people in Bloomfield who I've been looking for, and I can't be sure that none of them will reveal your whereabouts to the NcR, and you're likely to be in danger after that, I've never heard of a single enclave member or even their family being pardoned by the NcR, not a single one. Mark shook his head disapprehantly.

"Don't you think I don't know? Please, the world is going to be destroyed, and you still care what will happen in the future? And... That's actually what I wanted, I was active at the Hoover Dam in the hope of monitoring NcR's movements at the Hoover Dam as a follower of the Apocalypse, and distracting my comrades in the west, who now know that the remnants of the enclave are in the east. It's good that they're safe so they are. ”

"When I tried to persuade them to stay in the west, it took some effort, some people understood me, some people didn't, and some people didn't say anything because of the relationship between me and him. I owe it to all of them, they are my own brothers and sisters, it is because of me that they are in the dangerous situation they are in, for this I am willing to take the risk outside alone, anyway, my children have been entrusted by me, there is nothing to fear now. The two parted for a while, and Mark, wearing power armor, disappeared into the field, while Andy also took the time to clean up the mines that had been laid out, and left in the atomic Humvee towards the north.

Shortly after the two left, on a hillside in the distance, Han Long slowly lowered his binoculars.

He squinted his eyes in the direction Mark had left, he was a little impressed by this face, during the screening of the Hoover Dam file he noticed that there was a person who later joined the Followers of the Apocalypse, this person had disappeared, the contents of the file were blurred, after a brief scrutiny, he knew that most of them were made up, and now it seemed to be a big fish.

During the investigation in New California, he found out that some Remnants of the Enclave tried to join the Followers of the Apocalypse under a pseudonym to hide, after all, the Followers of the Apocalypse have always been tolerant and open, especially willing to accept high-quality talents to join, as an independent organization within New California and not completely obey the government, so it has become the first choice for the Remnants of the Enclave to be divided into pieces, and these anti-human war criminals try to integrate into the NcR in vain.

"Don't you want to run, I'll catch you sooner or later." Hanlon muttered to his feet, and looked back at the dust kicked up by the Atomic Humvee in the distance.

After a few moments, he turned to leave. ....................... Andy slammed on the gas, and his mental destination was Burnham Springs and New Canaan in the north, as well as the nursery.

Compared to the settlements in the southwest, these places are more dispersed, which means he will spend more time on the road, Andy thought, and by the way, he raised his arm to glance at the mission record in the beep boy.

[Mission: Hermes] [Description: You need to go to various forces to gather their manpower and material resources, raise a ground team and accompanying team that can help you fly into space, and obtain the key internal code of the Hermes XIII rocket] [Progress: 1. Go to the Great Dome to convince the scientists to become ground operators, take them to Bloomfield 1/7, and have them provide the mapping equipment needed to repair the rocket 0/1.

2. Go to the Hoover Dam to convince the scientists of the Eastern Branch of the Followers of the Apocalypse to become ground operators and pick them up at Bloomfield 3/3.

3. Go to Fort Maxson to convince the scribes of the Eastern Division of the Brotherhood of Steel to become ground operators 0/3 and have them provide the three catalysts needed to repair the rocket.

4. Go to the reservation to find the disarming chip for the Hermes XIII rocket clip, and bring it back to Blonnfield 0/1.

5. Go to the reservation and look for the special code 0/1 that is used to turn off the automatic security system inside Hermes XIII and use it to disarm the automatic security system.

6. Go to the nursery and get some self-maintenance eyeball robots and bring them back to Bloomfield 0/6.

7. Go to where possible and search for metal materials and e-waste that could be used to repair rockets, and bring them back to Bloomfield0/13.

8. Find any five teammates who are willing to travel with you on a Hermes XIII rocket to the .m.b-001 space station to stop Prester 4/5.

9. Go to the bottom of the Grand Canyon to find the main wreckage of .m.b-002 and obtain its CPU in order to obtain the .m.b-001 docking code 0\/1.

Andy oops, sure enough, he forgot one thing, but fortunately he took a good look, he hasn't been to the Grand Canyon yet.

Not only did a group of scavengers from San Diego provide some materials, but there was also the key .m.b-002 CPU that needed to be obtained, and if he drove north, he would have missed this relatively close place, just in time to drive east from the Black Canyon prison for a while to reach the North House on the north shore of the Grand Canyon.

Hurriedly slamming the steering wheel to the right, the Atomic Humvee quickly turned around and drove east. Half an hour later, Andy saw a NcR patrol team appear at the checkpoint not far away, and he sighed in his heart, now he is still wanted, and the atomic Humvee is estimated to have been highlighted a long time ago, so that those soldiers will immediately raise their guns and fire as soon as they notice him, will they fight or not?

The soldiers didn't mean to raise their guns, and an acquaintance was greeting him.

Andy slowly stopped the car and saw that it was an old friend.

"Chrissy?" Chrissy's face with heavy dark circles collapsed instantly.

"You should call me... Forget it, you can call it whatever you like. I heard you've recently made a name for yourself at Hoover Dam, Sergeant Andy, what's going on? Andy felt a little emotional, but he didn't have time to waste here.

"It's a long story, anyway... I'm not doing anything bad, I'm even about to do something good that is important to everyone, and if you believe me, don't stop me. Chrissy made a cut from the corner of her mouth, and a soldier behind her stepped forward.

"Please don't worry, Sergeant Andy, we are all veterans of the Hoover Dam, and we all remember the contributions you made to everyone, although we don't know why there has been all the noise at the Hoover Dam recently, but you must have your reasons for doing things, so get out of here, while the newcomers to the west are not here." Andy was a little touched and was about to thank him for his understanding, but Chrissy suddenly walked to the passenger seat and opened the car door and sat down, which he didn't expect.

"You... Chrissy, what are you doing here? Don't you want to go on a mission? Chrissy made a silent gesture with a nonchalant face.

"If you don't say it, who will find out that I am a deserter." As she spoke, she looked at the other soldiers, and everyone smiled.

Turning around, she grabbed Andy's arm.

"Didn't you say it was a long story? Then along the way, you will tell me all your long words clearly, I have heard all kinds of rumors about you recently, each of them has a nose and an eye, like what you are a murderer who has been absconding for many years, you are a terrorist who violently escaped from prison, and what else is your collusion with the underworld gangs and so on... I just want to hear from you personally, which of these rumors are true and which are false, and what are you going to do now? Andy smiled helplessly, waved goodbye to the soldiers, and started the car again.

"Well, Chrissy, I'll tell you everything as you wish, there's nothing to hide from it, I just hope you don't fall asleep halfway through."