Chapter 16: The Past (4)

Today is the day to get started, and the workers of the 370 engineering team have already prepared everything, and a handful of pickaxes, hammers, and some pistols and rifles brought by Harding have been distributed, and everyone has taken off their overalls and changed into clothes that can be disguised as citizens.

All of the explosives of Project 370 were taken out, some of which were given to Harding, and the other part was in the hands of the 370 Engineering Team demolition workers, who were ready to be used to blow open the vault doors of the Eastern Bank of NcR.

Potter and Harding have had four or five rounds of discussions and revisions on the specific process of the robbery, and finally determined that all the details have been mastered, and the remaining uncertainties can only be left to God to decide, they have no other way out, in order to get back their own money, they decided to give it a go.

Lohery looked nervous and returned to the construction site.

"Where have you been, Lohery?" Potter looked at him suspiciously, and since that day, Potter had asked no one to go out, because someone might not be able to resist the pressure to snitch secretly.

"I went to buy a batch of food, and the day before yesterday I said yes, and... I also bought some wine, which can be used to make Molotov cocktails or to strengthen our courage, so we have to eat and drink first. Potter walked out the door and nodded to see the workers happily sharing food and drink.

"Well done Loherry... I know you're a little scared, but we have no way out, and if we retreat, what will we become? A dog? Sometimes, you have to make a decision on the spot. Lowery smiled hard and nodded yes.

"Lowery, you also helped me to keep an eye, if anyone suddenly disappears from the construction site, they must be planning to escape, maybe they want to tell the truth, if we are caught, they will be killed directly! All the brothers will not let him go! Potter gave Lowell this sentence uncomfortably and turned away, not seeing Loery's feet tremble and fall directly to the ground.

The time was fast approaching, and Potter and Harding finally confessed a few words, and all the workers in civilian clothes looked serious and excited, hiding their picks and shovels, sticks, hammers, and other things in their clothes or backpacks, and a few of them carried full of explosives in batches, and some were silent with guns and knives.

After the order was given, the workers entered in groups from outside the city of Hoover Dam. The city had only been under construction for a few years, and soon after the first NcR troops carried out the order to march eastward, the legacy of the Old World was discovered and transformed into a city belonging to the NcR territory as a basis for continued eastward expansion, and it is said that the soldiers were already building a new fort further east.

It was originally built into a small settlement by some wastelanders, but when NcR arrived here, it was quickly renovated further, and there were buildings on top of the dam, and there were also architectural expansions inside the dam, although the whole Hoover Dam City looks small, but because of the internal dungeon-like division, it is actually a city at all.

The workers passed through the checkpoint in groups and entered it, and no one noticed anything abnormal. Soon, they gradually gathered at the gate of the NcR Eastern Bank, where five or six NcR soldiers were standing guard.

Potter and Harding stood in a secluded spot and watched through binoculars.

"It's pretty much the same as what I learned before, so it's not a problem." Harding looked excitedly at the target in front of him, as if gold was waving at him there.

Potter looked at the telescope for a moment, only to notice something strange.

"Why doesn't anyone come in or out?" Potter felt that this situation was a little strange, although there were not many people who frequented it on weekdays, but he just felt strange, and the more he thought about it, the more suspicious he became, why did those guards seem a little extra nervous?

Why are there some people around the bank who look like they're looking around?

"Usually there is no one in and out, don't be nervous, there is nothing wrong with the left and right, the bank is in front of you, you must not retreat anymore, otherwise this thing will not be done." Harding didn't think so at all, he just thought that Potter was nervous in the face of the big scene, and he had done this for the first time when he took someone to do this kind of thing, but in the end nothing went wrong... Of course, that was when he was younger, and in the end he wasn't even wanted, and he confidently believed that this time would be the same.

"Go up, go up, follow the plan!" Harding hid his pistol in his trouser pocket and walked towards the bank with a couple of 308 gunmen.

Potter saw that Harding had taken the lead, and let go of the hesitation in his heart.

"Brother 370, prepare!" Lowery suddenly sprang over and grabbed Potter's hand.

"Don't! Harding's kind of guy is going to kill him, we can't wade through this troubled water. Potter angrily broke free from Lowery.

"Halfway to, you said you were going to get out of the toilet? Stop it! Potter and his heavily armed workers watched Harding nervously, and several of them hurried to the door of the bank, where the guards shouted at the odds.

"What do you want to do? I'll stop any longer—" Before the young soldier could finish speaking, a bullet had pierced his chest.

With a bloodthirsty grin, Harding beckoned the others to shoot in quick succession, and several of the guards fell to the ground, while others fled in a hurry.

He kicked open the door, and Potter and the others saw that everything was going well, and they took out all kinds of weapons they had hidden, brought the explosives in their backpacks, and followed Harding's group to rush into the NcR Eastern Bank.

But as soon as Potter ran into the bank, he froze. The bank was not a frightened clerk, but an NcR soldier with a loaded gun aimed at everyone, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at everyone.

"Surrender at once, criminals, you are already surrounded." The officer at the head shouted this sentence through a loudspeaker, and Potter turned around to find that a group of soldiers had suddenly appeared outside at some point, blocking their retreat.

Harding glanced back and forth, scolded and was about to continue shooting, but found that his bullets had all been shot just now, he looked down to get the magazine, and a soldier rushed up and smashed him with the butt of his gun.

Someone desperately rushed towards the soldier next to him with a shovel, and was shot on the spot, blood flowing on the ground, and the sun was extremely dazzling.

"I'll give you a minute to surrender immediately, or you'll be executed on the spot!" The officer's indifferent voice came from the loudspeaker again.

Potter looked left and right at the dazed workers, all of whom looked at Potter and didn't know what to do, and all the plans were not in line with what was actually happening.

"How is that possible... Potter finally closed his eyes and sighed as he looked at Harding, who was handcuffed after being captured, and several 308 workers who had been shot with rifles by the soldiers for resisting.

He threw the gun in his hand to the ground.

"We surrender." The workers threw down their weapons and knelt on the ground with their hands raised in despair, and the soldiers swarmed up, punching and kicking everyone to their feet.

A week later, the blockbuster news that shocked the whole NcR was widely disseminated, and the news of the 370 robbery was learned by countless people.