Members of the Rockets are nervously patrolling the area around Bloomfield. Big Bear was standing near the gate and asked a few small leaders how his confession was being carried out.

"A team of three people, patrolling back and forth, and those who don't see the successor are not allowed to leave their posts, and they are not allowed to take a detour."

"All sentry posts must be manned 24 hours a day."

"The businessmen have been notified, they won't come this month, don't take it lightly if there are any idle people approaching, no, it is impossible for there to be idle people approaching at this time, if you find something abnormal, shoot quickly!"

"Check all the traps, don't break down."

"Is the Reconnaissance Tower ready?" ....................... Andy stood next to Big Bear and watched him talk very carefully about the defense line all over Longfield, feeling that he must be in his heart, this level of arrangement, plus its own power grid and some internal automatic turrets, even if the Marauders of Phoenix City went crazy, it would be difficult to attack, and as for the NcR and the Brotherhood of Steel who had been notified, it was unlikely to interfere with it, so there was nothing to worry about too much.

Next... Looking back at the huge rocket standing on the launch platform, Andy stared at the magnificent creation of the old world for a long time, or it would not be long before he would be the first and only batch of astronauts to fly into space on it, flying to the destination that had been booked before the war but had been delayed for more than a hundred years for various reasons.

On the fixed stand next to the rocket, some people are going up and down, and while the software status of the shuttle is corrected and adjusted by Diana, and the hardware is repaired by the maintenance eyeball robot, who can't help but be curious about the most cutting-edge technological creations of the old world.

Presumably, Isaac and Goddard disliked each other with disdain as they threw themselves into the shuttle and slammed into the panels and circuits.

Andy has been in it once before, and it is obvious that the interior of the shuttle has been hastily transformed, in addition to the abbreviated storage space and the addition of seats, there are also a lot of equipment that I don't know what to do, and there are many complex buttons, pipelines, indicator lights, armrests, and panels all around, nothing is simple, and the material and structure have been refined design.

The Followers of the Apocalypse are exchanging with Pablo, the agronomist sent by New Canaan, about the rapid production of fuel using variant salt algae, arguing that the rapid growth of the algae could be accelerated by using the scrapped fuel rods from the Bloomfield reactor and some junk nuclear waste, which should be a substitute for some residual expired jet fuel.

Diana did the calculations and agreed with their theory. Yes, the fuel of the Hermes rocket is not particularly sufficient, and Prester deliberately concentrated the fuel of the two rockets on one as much as possible, on the one hand, the fuel has been seriously degraded over the years, and the stock of only one is not enough, on the other hand, this is also one of the obstacles left by Prester to the pursuers later.

Fortunately, the Bloomfield Space Center still has fuel production equipment and some raw materials, and if you work overtime, plus some experimental self-generated fuel semi-finished products brought by Pablo, it is theoretically enough for the Hermes rocket to fly into space, and the shuttle can successfully reach .m.b-001 to complete the docking.

Originally, everyone was still worried about the return trip, but Xian took out some data records from the robot she and Andy encountered before and landed on the escape pod from .m.b-001 and the black box data in the escape pod as evidence, confirming that the current capacity of the escape pod on the space station is greater than the maximum number of passengers on the shuttle, in other words, they don't need to think about how to return, they only need to think about how to arrive.

Although the speed of the maintenance eye robots to repair the rocket is amazing, it still takes some time, which is something that cannot be rushed, Diana has provided some examples of pre-war launch failures, due to the thrust required for the rocket to lift off, it is necessary to store a large amount of high-grade fuel in the fuel tank, in the event of an accident, the fuel originally used to help the rocket lift off will turn the rocket into a large bomb or a surface-to-surface missile.

This happened in the SA's space experiments in the past, taking the lives of many astronauts and staff, and more than once.

While looking at Rocket and thinking about it, suddenly some voices came from behind him, Andy looked back and saw that Big Bear was nervously directing several members of the Rocket Gang to go over to check.

As far as the eye could see, it seemed that a group of merchants was approaching. But as the big bear said before, how can there be a caravan approaching at such a time?

Unless it's a daredevil, who just heard some rumors and rushed over to break through, is there really such a coincidence?

The Rocket Gang members quickly stopped them in place with guns and shouts.

"Who are you? What are you doing here? The leader of the caravan raised his hands and looked nervous.

"We... We're just here to do business. "The Rocket Gang members did not let their guard down, but sternly asked them to leave.

"Now that Bloomfield is closed, no business, hurry up and leave, come here again and we'll shoot!" The merchants all looked strange, and after a moment of stalemate, they began to turn away, but only after a few steps back, they saw that these people suddenly disappeared one by one, leaving only the two-headed cow standing in place in a daze, but after a while, I don't know what those people had started to set up in advance, the two-headed cow screamed and suddenly turned around and ran towards the gate of Bloomfield.

Andy immediately felt anxious, but before he could speak, the bear had already given the order.

"Fire!" The Rockets opened fire, knocking the two-headed cow to the ground in an instant, and several bullets hit the cargo box on its back, causing an explosion that left the poor beast with no bones left.

"They may have used Stealth Boy! Close the door! Sharp eyes! "Big Bear can see this without Andy's reminder, when he was in the Bishop's super mutant army, he was deeply impressed by the Praetorian Guard's special forces 'Nightcrawler', who used stealth boys all year round, and he immediately thought of this device after witnessing the mysterious disappearance of those unknown merchants.

Andy activated the helmet's eyepiece, and his eyes turned red. In this field of vision, he could see some footprints that appeared abruptly on the ground.

"Bang! Bang! Two guns fired a volley, and two blood stains suddenly appeared on the ground, but it wasn't just two people who came.

A loud bang suddenly sounded in the other direction, and it was at this time that Andy noticed that Blomfield's power grid had been shut down again.

Realizing that the situation was critical, he explained that the bear continued to guard the gate, and he himself ran quickly in the direction from which the sound came.

The cacophony of sirens echoed throughout Bloomfield, some emergency mechanism was triggered, and Diana's voice was heard on the radio.

"A large number of armed personnel have been detected, and the area is about to be designated as a war zone, please go to a safe area to take shelter as required, repeat..."Andy panicked while running, a large number of armed personnel invaded?

Who could it be? The beep-beep boy sent a communication prompt, and he picked it up, and it was a string.

"We're retreating into the basement of the command center, I'll see if I can use the terminals here to activate some security robots and automatic turrets that are still online, Andy, be careful!"

"Got it, take care of yourself." Andy runs to the open space where he parked his Atomic Humvee, climbs the anchor to unlock his power armor, and enters Athena's power armor as fast as he can.

He looked at the self-check that popped up in front of him, and looked up to show that he must have thought in his heart, and ran straight to the source of the sound.

With the help of the power servo, he ran as fast as he could, even crashing into some obstructive debris along the way.

Eventually, Andy arrived at the relatively weakly defended southwest corner of Blomfield, an area far from the east near the Hoover Dam, which was relatively safe, and completely protected by the power grid.

The fence has been violently smashed by an armored vehicle, and more than a dozen soldiers wearing T-45 and T-51 power armor have broken into Bloomfield, and the paint on the armor on their chests is clearly a ring of steel.

"Damn it!" Seeing these guys with rocket launchers and revoltors starting to rush towards the building where the command center was located, Andy didn't dare to be careless, activated the jetpack and flew directly into the air, aiming at the place where they had to go, and landed on the ground with a bang, causing a cloud of dust, blocking their progress.

The Ring of Steel waited vigilantly for the dust to clear, and the sight of a man in power armor they had never seen before standing in front of them, holding a strange large toothed saw in one hand and a strangely shaped laser pistol in the other, attracted their attention for a while.

"Who are you? ... Forget it, whoever you are, get out of here! The Paladin, who was the leader, raised the laser rifle in his hand and spoke unceremoniously in a commanding tone.

Andy stared at the Ring of Steel sign, not wanting to reason with them, but he gave an ultimatum.

"You still have a chance to live, turn around and leave now." The paladin Garlan didn't say a word, he directly pulled the trigger, and the red laser immediately shot towards Andy, but it was directly blocked by the Tesla energy defense field activated by Athena's power armor itself, and it didn't even hit the armor.

The other Ring of Steel soldiers began to open fire, and for a moment there was a rain of bullets and explosions. Andy pumped in the combat potion to increase the reaction speed to the limit, and quickly approached the nearest Ring of Steel soldier with the thrust of the jetpack, and the Apollo laser pistol in his hand fired a yellow laser, which directly shot the automatic grenade launcher in the man's hand and began to melt, the high temperature caused the grenade in the magazine to explode, and the T-45 power armor armor worn by the soldier who exploded was shattered in a large area, and he suddenly lost his combat effectiveness.

With the help of the smoke from the explosion, Andy continued to rush, a Steel Ring soldier was using the revolter machine gun in his hand to fire, but the target suddenly appeared from its side, the Ares proton tooth saw sword in his hand had been raised, and in the piercing buzzing sound, the Steel Ring soldier's T-45 power armor helmet was cut off with a sword along with the head inside, and his headless body slowly fell forward to the ground, blood flowing freely.

This brutal scene did not shock the soldiers in front of them enough, and they continued to use all means to defeat Andy.

Paladin Garan dropped the laser rifle in his hand and replaced it with a rocket launcher, and the rocket shot out of his hand and flew towards Andy, who couldn't dodge it, and Andy saw the rocket explode not far from him, and the shockwave, loud noise, and flames immediately swept him.

Two more rockets were fired, and the paladin Garan gestured to the nearby command building for the other soldiers to get there as soon as possible and take control of the situation, according to the plan of action he had drawn up before the battle, the members of the Ring of Steel must immediately take all necessary measures once they enter the core area of Bloomfield, including killing all outsiders who encounter them, regardless of whether they appear to be combat units or not, to avoid mistakes.

But in the next second, a yellow laser shot again, and a knight of the Iron Ring let out a scream in the helmet, and the powerful beam of light directly burned through the armor of his right arm, making him instantly smell the smell of his own skin and flesh being burned, and the severe pain directly broke his will to fight, he took off his helmet and fell to the ground crying in pain.

Paladin Garan was shocked to see Andy burst out of the smoke of the explosion again, his purple power armor with only a few more scorched black marks on the armor.

He knew in his heart that the success or failure of this operation depended on this person, and immediately made a tactical gesture to ask the others to gather fire first, and if they could not solve the target in front of them, they could not do anything.

As soon as this thought was confirmed, the paladin Garan rose into a life-and-death passion, and he dropped the rocket launcher in his hand and picked up a steel bar from the ground with a large piece of concrete attached.

Andy saw the high temperature warning prompt in the power armor and decisively put away the Apollo laser pistol for the time being, replaced it with a plasma pistol and continued to shoot, the miraculous thing is that the plasma shot by the plasma pistol actually seemed to be somewhat 'enhanced' when it left the Tesla energy defense field shrouded in Athena's power armor.

The plasma wrapped around Tesla's arc became powerful, and a few shots pierced the armor of the Ring of Steel soldier who was holding a three-eyed laser rifle not far away, and the plasma hit his torso immediately caused it to spontaneously combust the human body, and in his screams, the green flames burst out of the gap in the helmet, and the whole person quickly turned into a puddle of viscous green liquid.

"Invincible!!" A loud roar came from very close, and Andy was not surprised to be reminded by Hull.

The Ares Proton Tooth Saw Sword in his hand instantly turned on the anti-proton mode, and he turned to look at the paladin Garlan who rushed over with a piece of reinforced concrete and wearing T-51 power armor.

"Buzz ——!!" Andy strode up his tooth-sawed sword, and the two charged at each other as fast as they could, exchanging blows the moment they made contact.

Andy, who slowly stopped, glanced down at a trivial scratch on his chest armor, causing Hel to stop the antiproton mode of the Ares Proton Tooth Sawblade to reduce the cost of the weapon's durability.

Behind him, the paladin Garan fell to the ground, split in two along with the power armor on his body.