Chapter Twenty-Three: The Denver Salvage Mission

"Okay, then lead the way, but do you have a place to park my car?"

The salvage man took one look at Andy's car and responded, "You'd better stop over to our camp because I can't guarantee what will happen to you when you're not here.... The car you can drive is worth a lot of money, isn't it? ”

Andy turned around and got into the car, and the car followed his ass so slowly.

After a while, Andy couldn't help it.

"Why don't you get in the car and show me the way."

The salvage man stopped and leaned next to the car, shaking his head firmly when he saw the demon in the back seat.

"I hate dogs."

Unable to do anything, Andy had no choice but to let Chrissy sit in the back seat with the demon, and then let the salvage sit in the front seat.

"Continue on Route 25 and our camp is right at the bend in the road ahead."

The salvage man removed his goggles to reveal a vicissitudes of male face, and he later removed his hood, which was actually what resembled a fireman's helmet.

Andy glanced at him and asked, "What's your name, buddy?" ”

The salvageist's face was serious and a little haggard.

"Marshall."

His slightly chapped lips opened to say the name.

Then he didn't say a word, and it seemed that the man was a bit old-fashioned.

Andy was bored driving along the road for a while, surrounded by wild dogs running around except for huddled cars.

"Marshall, what are you doing here? Looking for valuables to make a fortune? ”

Marshall patted the ash on the helmet he was wearing.

"Yes and no.... We're not the scavengers who dig through the ruins just to make a fortune for themselves, don't call us that, we're people with decent jobs. ”

What do you mean by that? You seem to be just looking for valuable garbage in an abandoned city surrounded by no people, right? ”

Marshall saw several vicious wild dogs passing by with a straight face, and subconsciously folded his arms.

"That's not the same, what we found.... It's not about selling it for our own money, we're actually working for NCR. ”

This statement really shocked Andy and Chrissy.

Chrissy asked curiously, "So you were sent here by the NCR.... Salvaged? NCR signed a contract with you or something, right? ”

Andy also asked, "The NCR's closest stronghold, Fortress Arashid, has been abandoned, and you are too far away from the NCR's sphere of influence, right?" Is this appropriate? ”

Marshall opened his mouth, but said nothing in the end, as if he didn't want to discuss the topic in question.

And so the situation fell silent again.

The car drove slowly through the ruins of the city, which was littered with wild dogs, and sometimes some crazy wild dogs tried to rush up and bite the tires, but they were immediately run over by the car.

Most of the ruins are the ruins of the old world buildings, some resembling a hill of concrete fragments, others resembling the remains of some kind of creature, such as the half-collapsed ten-story building that appeared outside Andy's right car window, which almost completely exposed the metal bones inside it, like a huge corpse lying on the ground.

Andy could see a trend that as they moved in the direction of the road, the old world buildings were getting taller and taller.

This only shows that they are close to the central area of the city.

Marshall glanced over there, turned back to Andy, and said, "Let's get out of here quickly." ”

Andy stepped on the gas pedal and honked his horn to scare away a few wild dogs that were eyeing him.

"What's the problem here?"

Marshall's gaze was fixed again on the direction that was about to pass.

"It's close to the ruins of a police station in Dog City, and the neighborhood is full of old-world riot robots, it is said that someone has entered and seen a huge robot inside the underground of the police station, and I don't know if it's real or fake...."

Andy listened with interest to the information about the city, then casually pointed to a few buildings in the distance outside.

"What are those few? It looks very strange. ”

Marshall glanced at it and replied, "The one you're referring to is the town hall in Dog City, and the other one.... I don't know, there are robot guards. ”

The car continued on its way, and suddenly passed by a forest of dead trees.

Among the dead trees, there are rockeries and artificial lakes that have been abandoned for many years and buried in the red sand, and it is obvious that it is a park.

After driving for about half an hour, Marshall finally said that he was almost there.

There are many high-rise buildings here, each of which is about 30 or 20 floors high, although it has been more than 100 years, but these behemoths are still standing there.

Andy looked up and saw that there were several steel beams and other things extending from the top floor of one of the tall buildings, and there was a wooden bridge on the side, which connected several buildings that were relatively close to each other in the sky.

"Yo, handsome!"

He whistled Marshall.

"If I'm not mistaken, is your camp in one of those tall buildings?"

Maher nodded.

"If you live on the ground, sooner or later you will be defeated by a pack of wild dogs.... This is the lesson of blood. ”

The car moved on, and with Marshall's instructions, the group approached a building, and outside the first floor of the building, there were a lot of car tires and other things that were piled up into a small mountain and ignited and burned.

Looks like it was supposed to be used to repel wild dogs.

When the car drove past and stopped, two men poked their heads out of the second-floor window with shotguns in their hands.

"Who?"

The janitor on the left is tall, thin, with long hair and sunglasses, and one arm covered in tattoos, looking like a cool man.

The doorman on the right, wearing a large goggle that covers half of his face, is the one who shouted. Marshall got out of the car and responded to the gun-wielding doorman above.

"I'm Marshall, and there are a few outsiders here who are willing to communicate, so I brought them here."

The doorman called by Marshall looked at Andy who got out of the car and smiled, and then said to the doorman next to him, "Jeb, put the ladder." ”

The cool guy on the side bent down and threw a soft ladder down from the second floor.

Taking off his goggles, he looks like a talkative middle-aged man.

"Hey, come from outside, climb the ladder to come in, the first floor is sealed."

He noticed the dog in the back seat again.

"Remind you, some of us here hate dogs to death, so you'd better not bring your buddies in, okay?"

Andy beckoned.

"Got it, your accent is so familiar, isn't it from the west side of NCR?"

Laugh.

"Oh, it seems to be a fellow, come on, we'll watch your car for you, and the tires won't be removed."

Andy turns around and opens the car door to find the demon pulled in the car.... In fact, this dog is relatively clean, usually not like this, but occasionally it has this kind of head-wrenching situation.

After shoveling away the dog shit with an unknown bone on the ground next to him and feeding the demon some food, he locked the dog in the car.

Andy and Chrissy then began to climb the soft ladder, which went smoothly due to the fact that both of them were in good shape.

It's just that when Andy climbed up first, he found that he and Jeb were staring at Chrissy in a daze.

"Hey."

Andy walked over and patted him

"Too lonely?"

Scratching his head in embarrassment.

"Alas.... I've been here for a few years, and except for some old men, only the dog is female.... You don't even know.... In short, some guys are not as good at talking as I am, and they know how to restrain themselves, and you and your friends should be careful. ”

Chrissy climbed up from below and patted the dust off her hands.

"It's been a few years since I did this kind of thing, which is how I used to climb this kind of thing when I was training... I miss it. ”

Chriss, dressed in a dirty wasteland-style leather coat, made her way to the second floor, and Jeb swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Chrissy looked at it and said with a little amusement.

"Don't look at me like an animal seeing hay, okay? I've seen people like you in the barracks, and they didn't end well, and I was nicknamed Chrissy the Egg Breaker at the time. ”

Hearing the word barracks, he frowned.

"You... Was you a former NCR soldier? ”

Chrissy nodded in acknowledgement.

Looked at her and Andy seriously.

"You two listen, don't tell the rest of the people inside about this, some people hate NCR soldiers so much that they don't know what they would do if they found out."

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