"Bang! Bang! Two gunshots broke the deadlock. The NcR soldiers looked back in surprise and saw a soldier in a military uniform and a black scarf walking at the foot of the hill, who was shooting upwards with two exaggerated large pistols, so the pressure on the soldiers who were struggling to move up suddenly dropped.

The commander of the NcR company, who was in command of the operation, shouted 'yes' and immediately asked everyone to seize the opportunity to charge.

Andy follows the soldiers to the top of the hill, where they trigger a trap set by the Dynamite Gang, a sensor mine hidden in a crack in the rock, a tripwire connected to a grenade, or... A stone ball was suddenly pushed down, and as it rolled, its speed became faster and faster, and none of the soldiers dared enough to stop it, and they fled to both sides, but this run was hit by several people, and some people were caught in the traps of the beasts, screaming and unable to move.

Andy watched the unstoppable ball of stone about to crush the soldier, quickly put away his two pistols, took a deep breath, ran two steps and stretched out his hand to resist it.

"Get out of the way!" After shouting, he found a direction where no one was around, and he pushed the stone ball over there.

The soldiers applauded his feat. Andy gasped twice, looked back and saw that the unlucky guy caught in the trap of the beast was still being clamped to death, he walked over and stretched out his hands to the sides to pull him directly.

"Thank you for your help." The soldier's comrade-in-arms immediately ran to thank him.

"You're welcome, let's hurry up and end this matter." Andy waved his hand, it was hard to say how the people in front of him would react to his face, and he didn't want to linger if it weren't for the fact that this battle really stopped his way.

Finally reaching the top of the mountain, there was no sign of the Dynamite Gang except for a few headless corpses left behind bunkers.

"What about people?" The soldiers searched in confusion with their guns in hand, and finally found a hollow passage in the corner of the humble camp, and when they went down, they found a dark hole at the end of the passage.

Andy was a step too late, and saw the two soldiers walk in first, and soon a flame erupted from the hole, so the two firefighters ran out of the hole screaming.

"Flamethrower?" Andy looked at the pitch-black hole strangely, how could a marauder have such level of equipment?

After a few moments of observation, he noticed the presence of tent rags and ancient metal bunkers that had long since been completely tattered, and the walls of the passage near the cave were mottled with white five-pointed stars, and even some remnants of an army-green coating.

Is this one of the many legacies of the military of the Old World? He found a corner for Hull to activate his invisibility, and then walked straight inside.

In the state of stealth, he turned on the night vision function again, and everything in front of him became extremely clear, just deep in the hole, behind the corner there were several people, one of whom had a flamethrower spout igniter in his hand and a flickering fire.

I wanted to walk over directly, but Andy hesitated, estimating that there was a trap ahead. There were some shouts from outside the cave, and then a few grenades were thrown in, and Andy had no way to retreat but to roll forward and get close to those marauders in an instant, and sure enough, there was the sound of tripwires being triggered in the process.

A couple of long-awaited explosives looters were whispering there.

"You'll have to wait for them to get closer, and then breathe fire, or what's the use of you? It can't burn them to death, and it also exposes the location. ”

"Got it, I just couldn't help but want to see those stupid Qiu Bashou... Give them a little lesson - wait, what sound? Did someone trigger the trap? You see—boom—" Several grenades exploded along with the explosives traps that had been placed, blowing up the entire underground space.

A moment later, one of the marauders coughed and got up.

"Hell, luckily it's at the mouth of the cave, cough cough... Otherwise, it wouldn't be good..."The flamethrower's eyes lit up in the darkness, he was a member of the Dynamite Gang who had been active in the area in the past, and before the NcR attacked Burnham Springs and blocked most of the gang in the Eagle Rock mine, he was one of only a handful of people like Sparky who managed to escape and survive the explosion, and that incident became a nightmare for him.

For many years, he had been plotting revenge against the NcR, and was eventually arrested and imprisoned in Black Canyon Prison for inciting a riot, where he would have faced a life sentence and become a labor prisoner forever, but Mayor Dodge's "Desire to Escape" idea to recover the gold after the 370 Heist helped him escape from there; The bandit leader chose to re-raise the banner of the Dynamite Gang in a high-profile manner, and his Dynamite Gang cut the way in the wilderness of Utah and caused trouble.

However, the cause does not seem to be going so well. A day earlier, he had led someone to stop a caravan and killed the rebels, and the caravan's ox carts and goods became their trophies, but he ignored the rut marks left by the ox carts, causing the NcR men to chase them all the way to their lair, and after identifying the target, he launched a siege, and he had to defend the place with no superior numbers and equipment.

The entrance to the cave at the top of the hill was connected to an old military bunker inside, which contained some weapons and ammunition, but the problem was that they were not the first to find out, and he first came in happily only to find that the contents had been almost emptied, and only a few remnants remained.

Since then, it has become an ammunition depot and storage room for gangs, as well as a place to hide from enemies in case of emergency.

The situation was truly desperate at the moment, NcR had successfully reached the top of the mountain, just outside the entrance to this bunker, and he had nowhere to go.

"Damn, fight with them, these dogs' NcR, one is enough for one, and two for one!" The gang, which had also been bombed, shouted like this, and everyone knew that the NcR would not be able to leave them any more alive, so they had no fear.

However, the leader with the flamethrower sensed that something was wrong.

"I heard the trap was triggered, something was coming in." Several of the bandits looked at each other.

"Boss, are you mistaken?" In the face of several people's doubts, all he could do was take out a flashlight and quickly look around.

Nothing... The leader of the Explosives Gang had no choice but to wave his hand.

"Take out all the explosives and prepare for the worst, we can't do it—" He stopped halfway through.

His face suddenly turned red, and he slowly rose into the air, and his throat gradually began to deform, and he was finally strangled to death.

The flamethrower and flashlight fell to the ground, and the surroundings became pitch black again, and when the darkness was dispelled again, there was only one living person left around.

Andy turned on the lights of the Pip-Boy, it was a small military bunker, but it seemed to be in a very bad state.

Utah is a predominantly tribal area, and settlements established by the inhabitants of the Vault like New Canaan are very rare, and it is estimated that the tribe who accidentally discovered this place took the weapons and equipment inside, or better, it is better than being occupied by this group of marauders and used to harm people.

Not far away, there was the sound of a soo, presumably the soldiers of the NcR who had once again been emboldened to come in to confirm the situation.

Andy turned off the lights, the entrance was too narrow for him to be untouched, so he simply went to the depths of the bunker first and waited for the soldiers to get out of the way before leaving.

Using the night vision mode, he went deeper and deeper into the bunker, and the surrounding rooms were littered with all sorts of garbage, and in one room there were many slain moles and cockroaches, and it was not clear whether it was the pests that the marauders had removed during their occupation of the area or the prey they had hunted in the wilderness outside, but in any case, the marauders were routinely unhygienic, with wine bottles and empty syringes.

"There is an enemy ahead~" Andy's footsteps stopped, he saw a corpse lying in the corridor in front of him, although he couldn't see it very clearly, but he estimated that it was a tribesman, the corpse had rotted into white bones, and the crotchcloth-like clothes left on it were too conspicuous.

The cause of his death was also obvious, and from the bullet holes in the ground and the direction in which he fell, it was possible to deduce that there were some automated defenses that were still functioning in front of him, which would have been difficult to detect if it had not been for Hull's reminder.

The automatic turret was locked using V-mode, and everything was safe after two shots. The NcR soldiers above fell silent for a moment, and the sound of the gunfire seemed to make them misunderstand something.

Without paying much attention, Andy continued on his way. At the end of the bunker is a locked door, and on the wall next to it is a terminal, using the crack mode of the Pip-Boy, Andy reluctantly unlocks the terminal, and opens the electromagnetic lock made of metal, inside is a narrow room, only a long table and a chair, and there is a person sitting on the chair, on which are a few old dusty weapons and some canned food.

Glancing casually at the old rifle on the table, Andy threw back the weapon he was not accustomed to, and ignored the tin cans that had long since expired for an unknown amount of time, and he came to the dead man.

A note was placed in front of him, and Andy picked it up and looked at it, and there was only a scribbled sentence written on it.

"I saw a mushroom cloud in Salt Lake City, and God had given up on SA." Dropping the note on the ground, Andy focused on the man.

He was wearing a brown trench coat that was almost knee-length, a pair of black boots, pants that seemed to be rotten, and a rather complicated-looking helmet of the same color, similar to a combination of a steel helmet and a full-face gas mask, as well as some electronic accessories, which was somewhat familiar to Andy, and after thinking for a while, he remembered that the wounded desert ranger he had caught on the outskirts of Ouroboros Village was wearing this outfit.

Slowly reaching out to touch it, the helmet fell directly to the ground, connecting the skull inside. Andy cleaned up and changed into his coat and helmet.

The coat is warm and light, and the appearance is also very majestic, it would be better if there was another pair of gloves, and the helmet is more interesting, Hull can actually connect with the electronic system inside, it claims that this helmet has a built-in red shape vision function and a laser-assisted aiming device, and can provide protection against toxic and harmful substances in the air and radiation, and its own material and structure are also very elegant, and it can also give the user a strong head defense in ordinary combat, and there is an integrated radio communication device.

There is also an interesting body armor on the upper body, but given that its defense is not comparable to the Leavenworth armor on his body, Andy did not change it.

"That's good." Andy sighed and looked at his newly acquired gear with the Pip-Boy.

[New Item: Desert Ranger Armor] [Description: A special reconnaissance armor set equipped by SAmc members, with low-light optics built into the helmet, it is said that the SA Marines made a green version for a small number of members during the Battle of the Other Shore for the landing combat environment, but this is not.

After reading the instructions, he pondered the name of the equipment, and the Ranger also said that he came from an organization called the Desert Rangers, which still seems to be an autonomous militia organization in the Mojave Desert region, and it seems that this name is not arbitrary, nor is it a copy of the name of the NcR Rangers, the most famous organization in New California, as some people think.

The Desert Ranger seems to have been a military unit that existed before the war, and those who came after the war may have simply inherited the name.

There was a sudden sound of footsteps, Andy quickly activated the stealth mode and disappeared into the air, and soon after a few NcR soldiers nervously kicked in the door with their guns, but with the light of the flashlight, they only saw a headless skeleton in tattered military pants sitting on a chair, and nothing else.

The two soldiers glanced at each other, and at the same time broke out in a cold sweat in silence. Not long ago, they saw a green light in the room, and they heard a voice like someone talking to themselves.

But now there is nothing here, could it be that the sound and light just now are all illusions?

Or... Is it the one sitting in the chair in front of you? While they were suspicious, Andy had already left the room.

Returning to the ground, he found a remote place to disable the stealth mode, and did not find out where Chrissy was, he pondered for a while and decided to go back to the Atomic Hummer first, and sure enough, he saw that Chrissy had returned to the car.

"Cool! Where did you get such a handsome set of equipment after such a while? Chrissy's eyes widened, and she didn't hesitate to praise her.

"If I hadn't seen the armor in your pants and coat, I wouldn't have recognized it." Andy got into the car, and it was estimated that the soldiers were cleaning the battlefield, and it was time to leave in a low-key manner.

"I picked it up on the road." Ignoring Chrissy's disgruntled yelling, Andy stepped on the gas pedal and continued north.

"Why did you go back to the car by yourself?" Chrissy pouted.

"Or else? Some people had already begun to question me as to why I was here, so I had to tell them that I was a soldier who was on a mission with Major Fleming, and that I had just come by and saw the wounded here... Anyway, Major Fleming didn't know where to go. I heard that the brigadier general had asked him to go out in search of coal, but in the end he did not wait for the result himself, and ran west first, poor Major Fleming. Andy listened to Chrissy's trivial speech, but he had a bad premonition in his heart.

If he were Major Fleming, where would he think to go to find coal? Major Fleming was the old man who followed Mayor Dodge, and he couldn't have been as ignorant of the Eastern District as the new officers, and instead of wandering around with the soldiers like headless flies, he would search for what he thought was the most likely.

That place is...