Chapter 55: The Ballad of the West

Pip-Boy's map automatically opens, tracking down to a coordinate location.

Andy looked over and found that the location was not far from the crypto tribe he had been to before, all of which were in the Mesa Verde area.

"It's dangerous... I almost went further afield. ”

Andy muttered.

"So what's there to pay attention to when you get there? You know, it's supposed to be a closed underground building, and if I can't even blow up a nuclear bomb, I'm unlikely to go in violently. ”

Odysseus's face appeared on the beep-beep boy.

"You just need to be cautious and find the entrance, this machine in your hand has been injected by me with a decoding software that can crack some of Dr. Derek's encryption, in addition to it has a Vault-tech emergency mask, the two work together to insert the Pip-Boy into the Vault's general external control panel, even if you can't open the door due to the interference of the internal Vault residents, you can still get in touch with the residents inside."

"Let's get it done as soon as possible."

Odysseus stopped the conversation and disappeared from the screen.

Argos, who had been as motionless as a statue, suddenly got to his feet, turned around and returned to Tibbetts Prison, disappearing from Andy's vision in a short time.

"Well.... It's going to be on the road again. ”

Andy got back into the car, started the car, and turned back to the east again.

In the middle of the desolate desert, the atomic Hummer rode in the dust....

The surroundings were plunged into nothingness, with nothing but the occasional desert plant and desert animal...

The demon made some noises occasionally, but these movements were not pleasant to the ear at all.

"If only it sounded as good as singing."

Andy looked in the rearview mirror and said this, but of course the demon didn't understand, and replied with a few low barks like a roaring dog, which made Andy's head hurt.

"Well, I knew I shouldn't count on you."

He held the steering wheel with one hand and turned on the music playback function of the Pip-Boy.

"Which one is better.... This "Big Iron"? [Note 1]

Hesitated... He thought it was probably a cowboy song, so he clicked on it.

The beep boy immediately began to play the music, and a soft male voice came out of it, and the melodious melody immediately spread around, as if to take away the troubles in people's hearts in an instant.

In the melody, the man seems to be telling a little story briskly.

"One day, in the small town of Agua Folia~"

"A stranger came~"

"He doesn't say anything to others, he's really a taciturn ~"

"No one dares to ask, and no one dares to mess with ~"

"Because of what~"

"Because this thing is on the ass~"

"There's a big piece of iron hanging from it~"

"There's a big piece of iron hanging from it~"

Andy was humming along to the melody there, and it felt quite top-notch, he wasn't talking about it in the west, and he really had a "big iron" hanging on his ass.

"This man visited Agua Town in the early morning of a small morning~"

"Walk in from the south and look around slowly~"

"The townspeople, I'm scared~"

"It's a ruthless man, they say so~"

"They say so, he wants to do bad things with big iron~"

"With the big iron hanging from his buttocks~"

The sun shines diagonally through the car window, the atomic Hummer kicks up dust, Andy hums along to the melody, and the boring journey suddenly becomes interesting.

"There's an outlaw in the town, his name is Texas Red~"

"How many people want to get rid of him, all of them have become red under his gun~"

"Insidious, cunning and evil~"

"Only twenty-four years old~"

"Ask him how many he killed~"

"There must be one and nineteen~"

"One and nineteen~"

Andy thought to himself, awesome boy, but it's fun to change twenty to one and nineteen for the sake of rhyme.

"Our Stranger ~"

"Confessed his identity to the town~"

"He's an Arizona Ranger~"

"I won't be able to stay long and leave immediately~"

"Came here for the outlaws~"

"Reward for arrest, regardless of life and death~"

"He said he didn't think ~"

"What a powerful person is Texas Red~"

"Not a great person~"

"The word quickly spread to Texas Red~"

"He didn't take it to heart~"

"Because of the people who are chasing him in front of him~"

"None of them live~"

"Twenty people want to catch him~"

"There are twenty more reds under the gun~"

"The Ranger is just becoming twenty-one~"

"It's the one with the big iron on the ass~"

"It's that Ranger~"

Andy thought to himself, after so long of foreshadowing, the next cowboy duel is going to be, right? Looking at this posture, Texas Red is afraid that his life will not be long.

"Morning rushes by~"

"The two bumped into each other~"

"Time is blackjack~"

"Face to face on the street~"

"The townsfolk hide behind the window~"

"Hold your breath~"

"This handsome Ranger~"

"I'm afraid I'm going to die~"

"It's time to die~"

"It's only forty feet away~"

"It's game time~"

"The Ranger's Heroics~"

"Today is still humane~"

"Texas Red hasn't cleared the skin yet~" [Note 2]

"The bullet hit him~"

"The rangers' marksmanship is accurate and fast~"

"With the big iron hanging from his ass~"

"With the big iron hanging from his ass~"

Sure enough, Andy thought, this kind of thing is actually quite common in the wasteland, those murderers are all famous, but even if they live for a while, they can't live for a lifetime, even if they kill twenty, they can't escape the twenty-first.

"Duel Instant Knot~"

"The townsfolk cheer~"

"Lie in front of them~"

"Texas Red~"

"Oh, he could have lived~"

"It's a pity that I made a fatal mistake~"

"The mistake is to fight with that ranger~"

"Fight with a Ranger with a big iron on his buttocks~"

"It's that Ranger~"

The story has finally ended, and the song has come to an end.

The man's voice has that rich western style, and he gently sings the last stanza.

"Big Iron ~ Big Iron ~"

"He shouldn't have fought with the Rangers~"

"Fight with a Ranger with a big iron on his buttocks~"

"It's that Ranger~"

The song is over.

Andy's heart still has an aftertaste, he is thinking, I don't know when this song came from, maybe it has been circulated in the old world for a long time, probably because of a small town incident, a bloodstained murderer with blood on his hands at a young age finally died at the hands of a brave ranger who was not favored by everyone, in fact, just such a sentence of the matter, was made into a long ballad.

"It's pretty good, and there's a chance to cycle the single."

As he spoke, several people suddenly appeared on the side and were facing each other there.

Andy noticed that a woman seemed to be in some kind of trouble.

"Hand over the money."

The two bandits who surrounded her looked at her with fierce looks.

The woman looked at the two bandits a little speechlessly.

"I don't have any money."

Note 1: "Bigiron" is one of the music used in Fallout New Vegas, I translate it here very directly, Big Iron is the dialect of Western slang for a revolver, after all, it is indeed a large piece of iron, and the lyrics of this song are written here because the place where the story takes place is the same as Andy's place is Arizona.

Note 2: "Qingpi" is also a slang term, leather refers to the leather holster, which refers to the skill of quickly drawing the gun. The song is quite appropriate for New Vegas, as the Ranger mentioned in the song is the twenty-first man to hunt down the murderer Texas Red, and Twenty-One corresponds to the Vault 21 uniform given by Dr. Michelle, which is worn by the main character, the Postman.

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