Chapter 24 Small groups in tall buildings
"Go up to the twentieth floor, our boss is there."
Say so.
Andy looked around and saw a stairwell and a closed elevator.
"Won't let us go up to the twentieth floor?"
Haha, I walked to the elevator and pressed the button, and then the elevator inside opened.
"Don't worry, we repaired the elevator, you can just take this."
The two of them walked into the elevator and pressed the 20 button, and the elevator then slowly began to stretch upwards, making people feel their gravity gradually increasing.
Chrissy looked a little worried.
"Hopefully this thing is good enough..."
Andy looked at some of the welding marks and traces of use around him, and he was a little unsure... But fortunately, after a few moments, they made it to the top floor smoothly.
The elevator door opened, and a bearded man with a big belly looked at him not far away.
"Oh, the face."
The big belly shook and walked over.
"And there's a beautiful woman, whoops, that's so rare."
Andy looked around, it was relatively clean, the windows were sealed, to keep the dust out, but it also made the room dark.
Even though it's daylight, there's not enough light.
Big belly pointing in one direction.
"Go find our head, he's over there."
"Thanks, my name is Andy, what's your name?"
Big Belly laughed twice.
"My name is Michael, and I'm kind of a mechanic."
He turned away, sneaking a few sneaky glances at Chrissy.
Andy feels interesting and the people here are very quality.... This is different from the guys he met before, not the simplicity of the natives, but the quality of a large settlement residents, the origin of the connection, he guessed that most of the people here are from the native area of NCR, but they would be willing to run to such a distant place for NCR, it is incomprehensible.
The two followed the direction Michael pointed out, ending up in a large room.
It was filled with all kinds of messy dilapidated equipment and a bunch of workbenches with various functions, and about a dozen people were scattered in various corners of the place, some alone, some in groups.
In the center of the room was a shabby table, where a man in a shabby green cap was talking to two men, and Andy's entry attracted almost everyone's attention.
The emaciated old man in the shabby green cap, who looked to be in his forties and full of exhaustion and vicissitudes, lifted his unshaven face, and the beard on his face was also white.
"Oh.... Hello. ”
He looked at Andy calmly, his face was a little confused whether it was calm or dazed, Andy stared at him for a while, and found that he could barely catch any micro-expressions... It's actually pretty impressive.
"I am. . . The head of this group of salvagemen, sort of... My name is Potter, why don't you introduce yourself as an outsider? ”
Andy then briefly introduced himself.
Potter stood there unresponsive, and then said something that made Andy's blood pressure rise a little.
"Hmm... Sorry, my ears aren't too good, can you make a louder sound? ”
Andy had no choice but to increase the decibel level again, and this time Potter seemed to hear clearly.
"Well, it's nice to meet you Andy... Now that you're here, I have something to say ahead of me. ”
Potter stepped forward from behind his desk and walked up to Andy.
"We're a bunch of pragmatists here, and we welcome useful people to join us, or... We're also willing to help people who don't get into trouble, but in that case we'd love to see you leave as soon as possible. So, what I can tell you is that we need people who are good at explosives, we need people who are good at using machinery. So, tell me why you want to stay. ”
Andy thought about it for a moment, and his explosives skills and mechanical skills were really a bit out of his hands.
"Well, what if it's someone who is good at fighting?"
Potter's flat eyes looked at Andy from top to bottom, pausing for a moment on his toned muscles and the gun around his waist.
"Yes."
He gave his approval, and then noticed Chrissy next to her.
"Looks like there's a lady coming."
He looked around.
"You're all going to have to behave well while this lady is here."
A sparse response appeared from all around, and many people looked at Chrissy sneakily, giving her goosebumps.
Potter looked at Andy.
"Since you're going to stay here, tell me what you want? Is it money, or something else. ”
Andy glanced at the Pip-Boy's map, and the current final goal was to head to Boulder City, and then take a detour to the nursery.
"Do you know how to get to Boulder City up north? I have something to go over there. ”
Potter explained a few words to one of the people next to him, and then responded, "If you're going to make some contact with the people over there in Boulder City, then I can help, but... This is not a gratuitous information, you have to do us some favors. ”
Andy twitched, and he felt something for excrement storage run towards him not far away.
"Can't you buy it with a bottle cap?"
Potter hadn't spoken yet, and there was laughter all around him.
Andy looked at the people around him strangely, is there anyone who doesn't like bottle caps?
Potter explained, "Look at the rubbish piled up in the corners of this room, how much do you think it's worth?" ”
Andy looked at the piles of things in a corner that looked a little tattered and scrapped, some looked like car engines, some looked like parts of generators or something, and many mechanical parts that didn't tell what they were.
"It's... Probably, it's worth a lot? ”
Andy didn't have much contact with the scavenger industry, so he was really unsure about the market.
Potter shook his head, seeing that Andy was a layman.
"I'll tell you, the rags around here are actually mountains of bottle caps, but does that make sense to us? It doesn't make any sense! Who do we trade with with the caps? There are no tribes or settlements around Dog City except for the people of Boulder City, and the environment here is really harsh. Andy sighed and found that the toilet could not be hidden.
"Okay, so what do you need to help with?"
Potter didn't rush to say this, but began to explain the precautions.
"I need to explain something to you... First of all, as you may have noticed, our bunch is a bit special. In order to prevent you from continuing to think cranky, I will tell you directly. ”
Potter's green overalls are dirty, and it seems that the environment is barely able to take a shower or wash clothes....
"We were all NCR inmates, and we were held at Black Canyon Prison."
Andy's heart jumped, Black Canyon Prison? That's not the beginning of myself....
Potter didn't notice Andy's mental changes.
"A few years ago. NCR is asking all Black Canyon prison inmates to participate in one of their projects, which is to send someone to escort us here to recover valuable pre-war relics in exchange for reduced sentences and money. More than half of the people died on the way from the prison to Dog City alone, and many more died after coming here because of various things. To this day, there are no more than 30 people here. ”
Potter's face grew serious, and the words were heavy for him, making him think of many faces that had passed away.
"Don't ask anyone what he's done before, that's taboo... Unless you're familiar with him. Also, you have to be careful of certain people... You've noticed that I'm probably just about a dozen people here, and the rest aren't on this level. To put it simply, it's much harder than we can speak. ”
The light in the room gradually dimmed, and someone started a small machine to make a loud noise, but to Andy's surprise, all the light bulbs in the room came on, and it turned out to be a generator.
Low-power bulbs provide not so good illumination, and today passes quickly.
A big man with black hair and a round face wearing denim overalls, about 1.9 meters tall, suddenly walked in, he had black hair and a round face, and looked simple.
He glanced at Chriss, then smiled friendly.
"Oh... I heard that there is a beautiful woman, hello... My name is Sluggish Old Joe."
This man is tall and muscular, but he speaks slowly, as if he is a good person.
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