Chapter 19: The Past (7)

"What's the good news?"

Potter looked at Loria quizzically, and she pulled out a new piece of paper from her briefcase again.

"This is the latest policy plan to be issued, called "Denver Labor Reform Special Policy Implementation Measures".

She shook the slip.

"Plainly, you know Uncle Potter, there's an old-world city northeast of Hoover Dam."

"Did you say Burnham Springs?"

"No, no, it's too close and too small, I'm talking about a real big city...."

Loria drew a circle with her arms outstretched.

"The scouts have been able to determine that there are a huge amount of pre-war relics left in that city, all of them are priceless good things, and by recovering them, we can get the cost of continuing to implement the eastward expansion strategy, and maybe we can make up for it?"

She pointed to a clause.

"You can sign up with NCR and be part of the Denver Salvage Crews, under the watch, of course. Each of you salvaged pre-war valuables in Denver will be converted into points, which can be exchanged for a chance to reduce the sentence, and even after that you can be exchanged for payment.... Uncle Potter, not only will it be enough to pay off your debts, but it will even make you a lot of money, and your brothers will be able to get out of prison and return home, right? ”

Potter's eyes lit up, but it soon occurred to him that it was not going to be so simple.

"So what's the price, Loria, that place is dangerous, isn't it?"

Loria nodded in affirmation.

"Of course, if it was as safe as the Hoover Dam, people would have flocked to it, and maybe the poor people in New California would have to do anything to get a ticket to Denver, but alas... It's not all that pretty, it's covered in red sand, sandstorms from time to time, and countless wild dogs roaming around, as well as some elusive slave traders and marauders..."

The more Potter listened, the more he frowned.

"You'll need to work there for a few years to find as many pre-war items as you can, and I mean valuable pre-war items, in exchange for your freedom and money."

Loria said this, and Potter felt like she had overlooked the most important point.

"One more thing, Loria, we have to keep ourselves alive before we have anything else to talk about."

Loria smiled and nodded.

"Eyes as a torch, Uncle Potter, eyes as a torch.... Again, the case committed by your 370th engineering team has had a very bad impact, and even though there is no conclusive evidence that you have a direct connection to the theft of the vault, the current president of the NCR, Tibbet, has signed the Eastern District Criminal Amendment Act at the beginning of the Eastward Movement, allowing local governments to act cheaply during the state of emergency. Given the recent Brotherhood of Steel attacks on the Hoover Dam, and the severe lack of guards, it's a serious resource strain to keep so many of you in for long periods of time... If it continues to drag on, I am afraid it will not be a good thing. ”

After a long conversation, Potter began to think seriously about this choice.

After returning to his cell, he began to talk to other workers about it.

Everyone looked at each other, wondering whether they should take the NCR's word for it, and if everything they said was true, then after participating in this so-called Denver special team, they could not only be free, but even rich.

"What do you think?"

Potter leaned into the corner and asked the others.

"NCR is playing tricks on us, it's probably a Jedi there, tricking us to die."

A man with a whiplash said this, he had hated NCR all this time.

"But what else? We continue to stay here to save air, or to crouch here until our bodies decompose. ”

There are also people who make a contrast with a rotten attitude.

"It's better to be able to go out and have a chance to turn over than here."

Everyone is silent ....

Potter spoke suddenly.

"I'll join this salvage team."

Potter looked at all 370 people and said this firmly.

"I brought all of you all the way from New California, we ended up like this, and it is my responsibility to be in it, I can't let you go home with money, then I can't hold my head up alive.... So if you voluntarily make a decision to fight with me again, let's sign this agreement with NCR.... The worst outcome is still death, and I will always be with you. ”

Hope reignited in the eyes of the workers, who expressed their willingness to follow Potter.

.........

On the other side, the administrators of Black Canyon Prison are arguing fiercely about one thing.

"I've used everything I can do, and I've got nothing at all."

Lieutenant Hayson looked at Mayor Dodge, who also served as the warden of Black Canyon Prison, but it was only a temporary position. In fact, he was loved in the city, but in New California, this chubby, middle-aged man with a mustache didn't have a very good reputation, and when he was a member of the NCR Congress, everyone called him Dodger.

"If you think about it any more, everything will be over if you go on like this."

The chubby mayor of Dodge has said this sentence no longer than how many times, and the mysterious emptying of the NCR Eastern Bank vault will have a series of ripple effects in the next few years, and he can already see that in the future, the chess pieces that he has managed to fall into the eastern region will turn into powder one by one.

Lieutenant Haysom looked at the Dodge Mayor and shook his head for an unknown number of times.

"None of the NCA guys are getting anything, can we do anything better than them?"

Dodge walked around with his hands behind his back a few times, and suddenly came up with an idea with a pat on the head.

"Yes, since they don't want to passively reveal where the gold is, let them actively confide it, we can arrange a prison break, and then see where they go, if they know where the gold is, they will definitely try to find it."

Hasten central defender looked at the cute Dodge Mayor with humble eyes and came up with a strange idea, but he couldn't do anything about it, fortunately, it was better to try this method again.

"If you hope that's the case, Mayor Dodge... However, the group of people from the 308 engineering team has been thoroughly interrogated, there is no other possibility, if there is any possibility of concealment, it is only the 370 engineering team, they have not participated in those bad incidents in the past, so they have not been taken care of by the people of the National Anti-Terrorism Bureau. ”

Mayor Dodge was already proud of the "good idea" he came up with a pat on the head, and his confidence was strengthened by Lieutenant Hazen's words.

"Then hurry up, you can arrange for me to let the prisoners of the 370 engineering team escape from prison, and then follow them to see where they have gone, so that I can definitely find gold."

Lieutenant Hayson still found this unreliable, but he had no reason to stop Mayor Dodge.

"Alright, Mayor Dodge, as you wish."

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