Chapter 21: The Past (9)

The torture of 308 people continues.

A man named Victory was now cuffed to a chair, and several jailers forcibly pulled out his tongue with tongs, and a pair of tongs hovered over his tongue with a piece of coal.

"I guess you don't want to say it, do you?"

Victory let out a muffled exclamation, and of course, he couldn't say anything with his tongue clenched.

Of course, the jailers knew all this, but Lieutenant Hayson took care of them as they pleased, and it had been almost a year since the 370 robbery in the first place.

The reason why it is called the 370 robbery and not another name is because among the prisoners, the 370 engineering team workers are the largest, and the 308 workers brought by Hardin do not account for the majority, because Harding only trusts a few old subordinates who are in the same gang as he used to be.

The coals were thrown into the tongue of victory, and he let out an inhuman scream, and the jailers let out a terrible mockery.

Things like this are going on and on.

In the next cell, Murphy was pinned to a chair.

"You bastard killed our people, didn't you?"

There was no smile on the faces of the NCR jailers this time, as the hateful prisoner had killed their companion during the last escape.

"That's right, Lao Tzu killed me with this arm, and the dog like you died without saying a word!"

Murphy was sure of his fate, but he was undaunted, his dirty face flashing with excitement, and his mouth began to spit fragrance as soon as he opened his mouth.

A mass of rags was shoved into his mouth, and an NCR jailer approached with an iron bar.

"It's this arm, right?"

He stared into Murphy's eyes, then picked up the iron rod and slammed it into Murphy's arm.

One, two, three...

In a short time, Murphy's arm was badly deformed, and the man passed out completely.

In the opposite cell, Val, who shot and killed hostages in full view of everyone, did not escape.

One of his hands was pressed to death on the table.

A jailer looked at Val with red eyes.

"You damn scumbag, Johnson is only nineteen, and I promised his mom that I would bring him back to New California safely..... But you killed him! ”

Val looked at the jailer and laughed.

The jailer stared at him in silence, then drew his military dagger and chopped off Val's thumb in one fell swoop.

"Ahh Well chopped! Anyway, that Johnson's head is already broken, you and his mother can have another one, hahahaha! ”

Vaal's hands were bleeding, but the murderer was just laughing maniacally.

The jailer let out a hysterical roar, snatched the baton from the hand of one of the jailers next to him, and hit Val with all his might, hitting it with all his might, blood splattering, and even the sound of bones shattering, until the hand had almost turned into flesh.

..........

"So that's what happened so far, right?"

An investigator asked, sitting in front of the Dodge mayor as he looked at the notes in his notebook.

"That's right... I'll admit that I'm not doing a good job, are you going to transfer me back to New California? ”

Mayor Dodge sat there in despair, and since the 370 robbery of the NCR Eastern Bank caused the loss of gold reserves, this news has triggered a chain reaction that is even more powerful than Dodge expected, and even led to a further depreciation of the NCR's domestic currency, and many people have begun to question whether President Tibbett is dragging the NCR into hell and whether the Eastward Expansion Movement is a doomed gamble.

After learning of this situation, Dodge was ready to be transferred or even dismissed.

It's just that he still has a little joy in his heart, thinking that this time he can finally leave this ghost place in the east.

"No, Mayor Dodge, while it does degrade you considerably, you know that you didn't have much of an opinion in the first place."

The venomous investigator "comforted" the Dodge mayor in this way.

"Please put your mind on it, after this incident comes out, it is even more unlikely that there will be politicians in the country who will try to compete with you for this position, and you will probably complete the binding of the two identities of the mayor of Hoover Dam and the mayor of the Eastern District, because no one wants to come to this crater to bury their political career, you remember how you got this position in the first place, right?"

Dodge smiled wryly, of course he remembered.

At that time, he was still an ordinary congressman, and suddenly one day a group of soldiers came up to him with an official letter and said: "Congressman Dodge, Congress has unanimously decided to appoint you as the supreme administrator of the Eastern Dispatch Team, and you need to immediately set off with the Eastern Dispatch Team to the Eastern Region, and the destination is the Hoover Dam on the Nevada border determined by the scouts." ”

Dodge looked horrified at the official document that the soldier was holding, and the so-called congressional unanimous agreement had not consulted him at all.

"I... I am incompetent, and I am really not worthy of such an honorary position of going abroad to win glory for the country, so please forgive me for refusing here. ”

The soldier seemed to have known that Dodge would give such a reply, and unhurriedly took out another official document.

"Congressman Dodger, you see, Congress has issued an executive order, if Congressman Dodge you refuse to be the mayor of Hoover Dam, then you have committed treason immediately, and we will arrest you according to the law."

Dodge's eyes widened and his mouth widened, he never expected those people to be so ruthless, although he had long known that the real people in power in Congress had divided the members into two groups, "developable" and "expendable", and he was in the second group...

"It's... All right. ”

The soldiers left some letters of appointment and the like, and soon after that, Dodge went from being a councillor to being the mayor of a place he had never heard of....

Since Dodge became mayor, it can only be said that there has been a slight improvement, and later Congress posthumously recognized him as the mayor of the Eastern District.

But this isolated territory outside of NCR territory is still a fire pit.

The men sent by the Brotherhood of Steel have taken root in the region, and in the war, which is known as the Iron Plague by the NCR folks and officially known as the Maxson State Rebellion, these Brotherhood fanatics have carried out a horrific siege of the Hoover Dam without psychological pressure, and Dodge, as the mayor of the Hoover Dam, has even suffered several assassinations.

Coupled with the fact that many things did not go well, the economy of the Eastern Special Administrative Region was hovering between flat and deficit until the 370 robbery brought the economy here to an end.

In summary, the investigators have long been informed of the key investigative spirit: it is not easy to be as considerate as possible for Mayor Dodger, because no one in the NCR Congress wants to replace him.

Seeing off the investigators, Dodge sighed and shook off the idea of escaping and continued to deal with the endless chores.

A soldier knocked on the door and walked in.

"Is there any progress on Hayzen?"

The soldiers shook their heads, the brutal torture of the members of the 308 engineering team meant nothing but to vent their anger, they did not get any valuable information.

Dodge lowered his head in frustration, he knew that there was no other possibility for the matter, whether it was gold or those absconding 308 fugitives.... At this point, we can only look forward.

"That's it, don't talk about that, the above recently introduced a new policy for our full cooperation, I think it's not bad."

He handed some documents to the servicemen.

The serious soldier in his thirties, Major Jack Fleming, the supreme commander of the Hoover Dam garrison and the deputy of the Dodge Mayor, looked at the documents with serious eyes, which recorded a number of requests, including a request for Hoover Dam to send a sufficient number of soldiers to lead all the inmates in the Black Canyon prison to the ruins of the distant city of Denver to recover the pre-war relics.

"It's good, this project can alleviate the resource strain in our Black Canyon Prison, and it can also provide some turnaround for the current poor economy, plus... I think we can get the inmates to do some infrastructure in the city of Denver so that we can add Denver to the territory of the Eastern District in the future. ”

Major Fleming affirmed the project and was ready to support it.

"But those preferential policies... Are you sure you want to? ”

Dodge was silent for a while, then replied: "There will be brave men under the reward, if their recovery amount is really up to the standard, the value created will far exceed what they get, as for those prisoners, they are ready manpower, now we have been resisting the attack of the Brotherhood of Steel, manpower is really insufficient..."

Major Fleming nodded, stood up and prepared to make arrangements for this.

A few days later, all the Black Canyon inmates received the news that all of them had to be forced to participate in a program called the Denver Special Labor Camp Program, and that they would be escorted by the military to a distant place to find pre-war relics.

Potter and the others, who had been prepared for a long time, and Harding's gang and other prisoners, who had not been expected at all, were gathered by the military and police in a short time, and then began to move in a northeast direction.

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