Dave looked at the rest of the room with some anxiety, these were the core members.

The residents who settled here formed their own small armed forces, with weapons dealer Justin providing weapons, grocer Bob providing food and water, and Dave making contacts around to gather a group of men.

But it's probably not enough to run a town on these fronts.

"What are we missing now?"

Bob asked.

"There is a shortage of things, a shortage of people, a lack of weapons, a lack of materials .... Since we are going to build a regular town, we need to build a ring of walls to defend against foreign enemies, we need to have a security team to protect the security and order that people like, and we need to be able to bring more vitality to the town..."

Dave was silent for a moment, then finally concluded.

"No matter what is missing, in fact, the most important thing is the lack of one thing, the lack of money."

There was silence in the room.

"Hey.... We've all taken a lot of money, and we can't ask for more. ”

"I know, and even if you take out the rest, it's not enough at all..."

Dave scratched his head, now he had to see if he could narrow down the town first and gradually increase the size of the town from scratch. Otherwise, it is likely that you will not be able to do both, and it will not be long before the marauders will try to come in and burn and loot, and then the new town will inevitably face a huge challenge.

"I have an idea, maybe you can restart those train lines?"

Andy stood up, in fact, he had long been curious about this matter.

"There's a train line that's a huge capital these days, and Crosstown even has two railroad tracks passing through it, so why not take advantage of that profit?"

Dave shook his head.

"There are too many places that need money now, and it costs money to do this, and the railroad tracks do exist, but you need to have a train to do it.... The previous train had already been sabotaged by them when the NCR was withdrawn... If we want to repair it, we need a lot of money, but now there is not enough money, let alone use this investment to make money, we can't make a few bottle caps. ”

"What if I say I'm rich?"

The people in the room looked at Andy in unison, watching him take out a gold bar from somewhere.

“.......”

Dave looked at Andy in shock and carefully tested whether the thing was pure gold.

"You got this stuff there, Andy?"

"You don't care about this, you just say it's enough."

Dave nodded, his eyes still full of shock.

"This gold bar is worth about 10,000 caps, and we can exchange it for materials and manpower, and hire laborers, mechanics, and bodyguards..... In this case, maybe we don't need to start from scratch and accumulate again. ”

Andy sat down at the table, casually looking at everyone present.

"I want to make a deal with you, this gold is my investment, and I am very optimistic that you can develop a better economy with the help of the railway line, so if you are all willing, I will need my share of the dividends after you build the railway trade in the future."

The crowd didn't discuss it much, but they quickly agreed to the matter.

No one asked Andy what would happen if they were treacherous, after all, everyone watched Skarna be beaten to pieces by Andy's punch.

[Hint: You have established an investment relationship with Crosstown, and your reputation in Crosstown has reached acceptance]

Bob says he knows a great mechanic who might try to fix the train that was blown up by the NCR after using some discarded components.

Justin said he knew of a place where an old world ruin, a former military facility, had completely collapsed, and that there were still large pieces of pre-war building wreckage in that area, and that there would be many people willing to transport and build the walls of Crosstown if they could pay for it.

Andy approached Dave to ask him how confident he was in finding enough mercenaries and bodyguards.

"I know some people, some of whom used to work in the mercenary guild of the NCR, and they are probably still at Hoover Dam, I can talk to him and try to get a group of cheap and useful guys..... Not slaves, of course, I mean the retired old guys, who are older, but more experienced than the younger mercenaries, and don't ask for too much money. If Crosstown can meet their settlement needs, it won't even cost them money to help protect the town. ”

"Mercenary Guild? I'm really curious, I've heard of an organization called the Treasure Hunt Guild, which doesn't sound like an organization that would be built in the Savage Lands, but more like the ones in the NCR precinct. ”

"You're right, the three major guilds are all the brains of NCR, but with the eastward expansion of NCR, the three major guilds have gradually spread here to establish a branch of the three guilds, although NCR has retreated back to the edge of Nevada, but the mercenary guild still has considerable human and material resources, if we can get the money, they can provide enough manpower."

Andy feels that something is wrong.... For Ang, why did the three guilds mention only two?

"What is there a guild besides the Treasure Hunt Guild and the Mercenary Guild?"

Dave picked up the bottle and took a sip of it.

"Ha~ The third guild is the famous bounty guild, haven't you heard of it?"

Andy was stunned for a moment, feeling a thunderbolt explode in his head, he felt that he was very familiar with this word, and he cared very much, as if he had been in the same weal and woe with this organization in the period that he had forgotten, but his memory was now a mess, and he couldn't continue to think about what he could do.

“... Hmm, what's the difference between a bounty and a treasure hunt? ”

"The difference is big, treasure hunting refers to the implementation of a deep discovery of the ruins of the old world in various places to find more advanced pre-war technology and rare pre-war items and materials.... But the bounty is not about eating the scavenger's meal, the bounty refers to the bounty list, which is an independent system for dangerous fugitives who cause great damage and threats without being caught by the police, and if you can kill them and then cut off their heads as proof, the bounty guild will give you a bounty. ”

Dave exhaled and scribbled a few lines of words on a piece of paper.

"Now that I have your help, I hope that Crosstown will be able to complete better reconstruction activities in the near future, most of the buildings in this abandoned fortress are in ruins, we should not waste land resources so much, I plan to organize people to repair them step by step."

"On the other hand, I am also prepared to have people go to the north and south to actively eliminate the remnants of the marauders who are still wandering around."