A signal tracker was recovered from Captain Cliff's body. It constantly shows the location of a signal source.

After fiddling with the tank for a while, he understood the situation of the equipment and began to lead the way for everyone. Some of the Brotherhood of Steel and others stayed behind to take care of the aftermath of the two sacrificed comrades and clean up the battlefield, while the rest continued to advance towards the depths of the cave with Elder Billings and Andy, and from time to time someone on the road glanced at Chrissy with strange eyes, making her scalp tingle, and the emotional gaze of the Brotherhood knights wearing power armor and holding heavy weapons was really unbearable.

It wasn't until Andy noticed this and told the other soldiers that Chrissy was his friend, that the gaze began to wane.

Chrissy cowered beside Andy, afraid that some of the Brotherhood knights would shoot the two-headed bear in her chest in a moment of rage.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know they were coming—" Andy patted her on the shoulder to signal that she didn't need to be so nervous, and then he walked away and made small talk with Elder Billings.

"When did you find us?" Elder Billings chuckled.

"Those crypto tribesmen always say that they don't know where the enriched uranium is now, I don't believe it, so I sent scouts to keep an eye on it, and as soon as you go to that village, someone will report to me, hmph, I know they are still wary, you see, as soon as you pass, don't they tell you the location, tell me, do they want to hide from us and take back the enriched uranium and re-offer it as some so-called 'ancestral holy relic'?" Andy shook his head repeatedly, he felt that this was a complete misunderstanding.

"No, you guessed Elder Billings wrong, they want me to retrieve the enriched uranium and deliver it to you, as for why don't they tell you directly... First of all, the information that the crypto tribe knows is very vague and not necessarily correct, and they are afraid that it will anger you if they let your efforts go to waste, so they want to find out the exact location themselves, but this attempt fails, partly because the only people who know the location have been stubbornly refusing to tell the truth, and on the other hand, they are extremely afraid of radiation, and they are afraid of being contaminated by radiation during the search... And I happened to arrive at this time in the crypto tribe to let them see another possibility to solve the problem, so it was a coincidence. In addition, I think these are two things, directly telling you the location of the enriched uranium and then asking you to take it away, which is like handing over contraband, but if I go and find the enriched uranium and then hand it over to you on behalf of the crypto tribe, it will be like a tribute treasure, isn't it? Elder Billings laughed.

"These natives still have a lot of thoughts, making so many twists and turns, we agreed to form an alliance with them, this is a formal decision, it's not a situation where the allies of the tribal alliance suddenly changed their minds with each other after only three days and four nights, okay, I will go back and say that the people from the crypto tribe brought us here and helped us obtain those enriched uranium, I can be honest." Several people followed the signal quickly, and soon the cylinder brain stopped.

"It looks like it's right ahead." A group of Brotherhood knights turned on their headlamps one after another, and for a while the inside of the cave was brightly lit, and there were many holes of different sizes in the wall in front of them, which were a little disgusting to look at.

Elder Billings was about to give orders for his subordinates to search for the enriched uranium, when he suddenly heard an angry roar. Look closely, a guy in a mask and a strange garment made of animal and tree bark, holding a toy gun that looks like it was made out of garbage in one hand and a sharp spear in the other.

Before anyone could say anything about the inexplicable man, several more wild ghouls sprang out of the area, ignoring the masked freak and lunging straight at the crowd, but they were killed by the firepower of the Brotherhood knights.

Andy looked at the strange man, the toy gun-like thing in his hand was rusty, but the structure was somewhat familiar, and then he looked at the fragile mask on his face, which was presumably made of some kind of dry earth, and the mask was engraved with a large number of numbers and symbols, which were combined with each other in some strange pattern, and it was clearly the things in the kiva that the crypto man had been tinkering with all day, some kind of pre-war style.

Thinking of the often maintained crypto tribal murals on the cave walls, Andy immediately raised his hand and motioned for the other Brotherhood soldiers not to fire yet.

"Wait, don't touch him yet!" After making eye contact with Elder Billings, Andy walked over to the strange man alone.

"You're from the crypto tribe?" The masked freak spun the spear in his hand as if he were doing some kind of dance, and responded in an extremely hoarse voice.

"I am, you don't understand how terrible the dangerous numbers in this cave are, if you don't want to be roasted by the invisible fire, get out of here!" Andy thought about it and asked Hull to reveal his digital tattoo.

"I'm also a member of the crypto tribe, you put down the weapon in your hand first, don't shoot people with that light gun." The masked monster's eyes suddenly widened in the hole of the mask, revealing an expression of disbelief, and after confirming it repeatedly, he slowly lowered the weapon in his hand, but his eyes were full of doubts.

Andy couldn't understand the words behind "You...", all of them were a lot of crypto tribal ciphers, one-third of which were diacritics of unknown origin and original vernacular, one-third of which were everyday words derived from the content of the Kiva record, and the last third of the lingua franca was generated on his extremely hoarse and heavily accented vocal cords, which almost became noise when spit out.

"Wait, you'd better listen to me." Andy stopped him from continuing with the words he didn't understand and began to tell some of the current facts.

"I joined the village later, and I don't know how to encrypt words, but as you can see, the numbers can't be faked. These people behind me are now allies of the village, and the current Azqi asked me to bring them here to take those green stones for the benefit of the rest of the village, these iron men know how to avoid the damage of invisible fire, and how to keep them from harming people again. After some talking, the masked man was silent for a long time, and suddenly took off his mask.

Underneath was the face of a ghoul, I don't know if it was because he had been near these enriched uranium for a long time, and had lived in a cave for a long time, this ghoul had deep wrinkles on his face, and his skin and flesh were extremely black.

"I am.... I was an Azqi of the crypto tribe many years ago, and I made a big mistake that turned my relatives, friends, and myself into evil spirits, and the precepts left by my ancestors were right, and these things should not be taken out. He pressed his spear against the rocks on the ground and repeatedly scanned the Brotherhood.

"Since my people trust you so much with the current Azqi, then take away the scourge." With that, he sat down on a nearby rock and stopped it.

Andy watched as the Brotherhood knights began to search for targets in a bunch of small caverns with the help of Geiger counters and the reservation's signal detectors, and instead walked over to the former Azqi to talk to him.

"So you're the one who opened the village treasury with Nimonek and took the black box... But I have some doubts, are you really just living here alone for so many years? The ghoul sat down on the stone and glanced at Andy, not hiding it.

"It's not... My name is Yuanzhou, since the village has now changed Azqi, then my friend Duality should no longer be Nimonek, when the two of us agreed to become the person in charge of the village together, to obtain more resources for the village, so that the clansmen do not have to continue to wander all year round, I successfully got those black boxes, but I didn't expect that the things in the black boxes were not some magical weapons, but a pile of green stones, and by the time we noticed that there were traces of burning by the invisible fire, it was too late... Although I survived and didn't burn my brain out, I became an evil spirit and couldn't go back to the village. ”

"Later, I secretly found Binary and explained the situation to him, which almost scared him to death, but he did agree with me, the location here must be kept strictly secret, and it can no longer be known by anyone who thinks the same way, he still came to see me from time to time in previous years, and in recent years... I guess his health is starting to deteriorate, so he barely comes anymore. ”

"Is he still alive?" Andy talks about the previous Nimonek and invites him to go back to the crypto village.

Yuanzhou shook his head again and again in refusal.

"I'm a cursed evil spirit, and I will only bring bad luck to the village, and I won't go back...", knowing that this was his fear of the tribesmen, Andy added.

"You can sneak back, your old friend, don't you want to see him again? He still has a heavy knot in his heart, and he always feels that it is because of his disobedience to the rules of his ancestors that he has caused all the troubles, and perhaps this is also the reason for his poor health in recent years. Yuanzhou looked up at Andy for a moment, then lowered his head again, but his attitude changed somewhat.

"So? Maybe I should have taken the initiative to talk to him, I don't know how many years I haven't left this hole, and after this happens, I don't need to eat or drink much....................." The Brotherhood members used some special boxes to pack all the enriched uranium, and Andy approached Elder Billings and suggested that he might as well throw the enriched uranium into the Grand Canyon.

By the way, he also brought up the matter of Prester, and the more he listened, the more stunned Elder Billings became.

"This happened?!" He could barely speak, and for a moment continued with anger on his face.

"This Preste... Really, it is no longer enough to describe him as a terrorist, it should be called the enclave in the first place, 'enemy of humanity'! He even wants to make the world experience a great war again? The reason is that he wants to reshape the world into a so-called 'new world' according to his ideals? I thought the enclave's plan to use FEV poison to clean up the wasteland was outrageous enough, but my imagination was always refreshed by reality, and this man... He's the chairman of the NcR's scientific advisory board, and now he's going to destroy the NcR first? I...."After a moment of calming down, Elder Billings thought of something, and his face became even more gloomy.

"The irony of the NcR people themselves wanting to destroy the NcR is aside, the point is that our headquarters... It must also be within the scope of his attack, not only that, we have just completed the ceasefire and truce with the NcR, and many people find it difficult to accept that the truce decision of the Supreme Elder is noisy there, if this matter is spread, coupled with the intricate struggle within the Lost Mountain, I am afraid that things will get out of hand! Andy understood this as well, and was fortunate to speak with Elder Billings before heading to Lost Mountain.

"The Ring of Steel has been largely wiped out, at least in Fort Maxson, hasn't it?" Elder Billings shook his head.

"A group of men were sent by Lost Mountain to arrive at Fort Maxson almost simultaneously with the three infantry battalions of the NcR, and it is no longer a question of whether there are people in it who are doped with the Ring of Steel, the question is how much. If this news is heard by everyone at Fort Maxson, and with all the enriched uranium, oh my God, I really don't know what will happen, maybe someone will go to Hoover Dam the next day to assassinate them, and if the news reaches Lost Mountain, it will be even worse—" He stopped talking abruptly, looked left and right to see if anyone was too close, and lowered his voice.

"Listen, Andy, for everyone's sake, first, the enriched uranium we found, I will certainly not bring them back to Fort Maxson, but will find a place to destroy them as you said; Second, you must not publicize the anti-human behavior of this person Prerest, especially not to the ordinary people of our Brotherhood, etc.; Thirdly, you should go to Fort Maxson as soon as possible to speak with our commander and ask her for the personnel and supplies you need, and she is reasonable enough to know that she will not refuse you these things. Andy sighed.

"In order to raise materials and personnel as soon as possible, I have communicated with the followers of the Apocalypse, the NcR government, the NcR scientific community, and even the people from the outer settlements such as New Canaan, this is no way to do it, otherwise they will not realize the danger of the current situation, whether you people in Fort Maxson will also take the opportunity to know about this matter during foreign trade and foreign espionage in the later period, I can't be sure." Elder Billings was stunned for a while, as if he subconsciously felt that Andy would only go to the Brotherhood for help in the face of this level of problem, but he didn't expect the Brotherhood to be thrown aside by Andy at the beginning.

Andy saw this and quickly explained.

"I've been involved in the internal strife of Fort Maxson as a chivalrous knight, don't blame me for not coming to you in the first place, the Brotherhood of Steel's faith in the Codex gives you unparalleled courage in the fight against evil, but it also limits your minds, this thing... It's complicated, and it has to involve many things, and it's not something that the Brotherhood can do on one side, and if some of you are radical and do something reckless... I have a lot of time right now, and I really can't afford to waste my energy in this situation. Elder Billings waved his hand for Andy to say no more.

"I understand, I understand your thoughts.... You're right, I'm taking it for granted. Alas... If the Brotherhood really functioned in the ideal form as it was when the original Maxson was established, how could we at Fort Maxson have the exodus of the scribes and the Ring of Steel rebellion? It's all .... There are serious problems in many places that cannot be treated, but none of us can think of a way to solve them, so we can only sit back and watch the problem get more and more serious, and even in the end, we need to expect new changes from outsiders like you. There was a sad look on his face.

"I'm really sweating for the prospect when I heard that Elder Jeremy Maxson was under tremendous pressure after the armistice, and that some people in the Lost Mountains began to deny the special political status of the Maxson family name in the Brotherhood in order to seize power, but that's for later... No matter what means and methods are used, it is imperative to stop that evil guy from destroying the world as soon as possible. He bowed.

"Invincible! On behalf of the Brotherhood of Steel, I would like to express my support for your plans, let us get out of here now, and then you can hurry to Fort Maxson. ”