Chapter 40: Operation Save Dog City
When Andy told Loery all about it, he wept bitterly, and it seemed that he had been depressed for quite some time, and he quickly promised to return to Potter with the group that was with him.
A standoff soon erupted in the salvaggers' new camp.
Through word of mouth, the true face of Reilly's gang was soon known, and many of the neutrals who had wavered out of fear of violence turned into staunch anti-Reilly, and Potter distributed weapons, and Reilly's gang was ostracized by almost everyone.
"Don't you want gold anymore? Oh gold! ”
Reilly hysterically tried to die, but the people just looked at them angrily, not letting go of their weapons.
"Why don't you believe me? I've inquired about it, there's a place called the Box in Dog City, which contains quite precious pre-war items, and that place is the mint of Dog City, do you think there will be a shortage of valuable things there? What if you can't go back to NCR? We can go and live where we are not controlled by the NCR. Can we go to the Mojave and get out of this place? ”
The people loudly refuted his words.
"Shut up Reilly, you've been exposed, no one will believe that you will really give us money, and no one will believe that you will lead us to a better future!"
"You've got to be responsible for a lot of things in the past, Reilly, get out of here!"
Waves of sound were fired towards Reilly's group.
"Get out! Get out! Get out! ”
Reilly and the others looked at everyone uncertainly, Harding once asked Reilly with his eyes if he wanted to do it, but Reilly watched Lowry jump against his own number again and fell into a disadvantage again, and Potter didn't know where to get enough weapons to distribute to everyone, if it started fighting now, I am afraid that they would lose in the end.
“... You'll regret it, and we'll go find gold! ”
With a wave of his hand, Reilly turned and left the salvageists' new camp.
The salvage men raise their guns and cheer to chase away a group of scum, and Andy's beep-boy also arrives with the news that the mission is complete.
[Mission: Set things right, completed]
Andy returns to Potter, who greets him warmly.
"Next, we have to do something that we should have done a long time ago."
Potter was as happy as if the big stone in his chest had been removed.
"I think it's time to reinstate contact with the NCR, which is something that Reilly has been threatening against, and now we don't care about their feelings, and we even need to improve our situation and increase trade with the outside world."
"But there's one thing I have to tell you."
Potter leaned over and whispered.
"You agreed with me to arrest that later guy named Daniel, and I looked for someone to look for him, but I didn't find him with us.... Later, I heard that someone had seen him taken away by slave traders who lived on the eastern side of the city, and if you wanted to find him, you had to go there. ”
Andy was embarrassed for a moment, but he didn't expect it to be a surprise, he thought that he had nowhere to escape from such a harsh environment in Dog City.
"So there is a group of slave traders in Dog City besides Anton's group of marauders?"
Potter affirmed that.
"Of course, those slave traders... It's quite special. ”
He described what the group looked like.
"They wore a peculiar form of standard armor and no pants... The clothes at the waist look like some kind of skirt-like structure, and some people are wearing something like the protective gear of a rugby player, and the discipline and combat effectiveness seem to be quite strict. I've heard from the guards that there have been a lot of clashes between that group and the NCR, and it seems that Ashrid Fortress has also been captured by them, but then they have retreated most of them, and there is a fixed camp for them. ”
"You've got to hurry up..."
Porter reminded Andy.
"Those slave traders... It should be from the Midwest in the east, and like Anton and them, I guess Anton should have been driven from the east, and there will be seasonal radiation hurricanes there, so you need to find the right time to come here and go back there. If you delay too long, they'll return with the slaves, and you won't be able to catch up with your target. ”
"Thanks for the reminder."
Andy hurriedly said goodbye to Potter and prepared to drive to the camp set up by the strange slave trader to the west, Daniel seemed to be captured as a slave and sent to the far Midwest.... I can't figure out what this guy thinks, isn't it even worse?
But as soon as he walked to the car, the beep boy suddenly lit up.
[Note, signal link detected.... Analyzing.... Confirm that the source of the signal is Odysseus .... The communication link has been established]
Andy raised an eyebrow as he looked at the screen of the beep-boy and Odysseus' face appeared after a burst of snowflakes.
Or the face of the bearded curly-haired Greek.
He looked at Andy solemnly, spoke coldly under Andy's inexplicable gaze.
"Prisoner 13013, my commissioner, I have something to inform you."
Andy swallowed, it felt like he hadn't done his homework all the holiday and was approached by the teacher...
Wait, what are the holidays, homework, and teachers?
Strange ideas pop up again.
"What's the matter, Odysseus?"
Odysseus' face looked a little dissatisfied.
"I have completed the link with the pre-war automation facilities here via a remote connection and am now preparing to take over, but there are some obstacles .... But that's not a problem. Anyway, it won't be long before I'll be taking control of all the automated units in Denver, and then they'll be able to search the entire city of Denver! It's probably too late to tell you, and if you don't want to be killed by a robot and sent back to jail, get out of Denver! Andy had a cold sweat on his face, and it was over, and the warden himself had gone down.
"No, boss, give me a little more time and opportunity, why bother so much!"
Odysseus was even more annoyed.
"Number 13013, I don't have many opportunities for you? After all this time, you're going to get me back? I'm telling you, I would have had a way to get everyone back without you! ”
Andy hurriedly said good things in a low voice, patted his chest to ensure that he had obtained a definite clue, and promised that he would be able to arrest the next prisoner immediately.
"Don't worry, Odysseus, you tell Argos to wait outside Denver, and when the time comes, I'll arrest someone and send it a signal to come and receive it, and then send it back to you."
After a good meal, the angry Odysseus calmed down.
"Okay, I'll give you another half a month... I'm not going to stop taking over the process, there's a little stubbornness that has been trying to break free of my grip, but it's a pity that it's not worth mentioning in my eyes, how a mere ZAX can compete with me. ”
Odysseus's signals fluctuate between strength and weakness.
"Hmph... It looks like it's going to exert its strength again, and I'm going to break off my connection, so you're doing it yourself. ”
Andy hurried to ask one last question.
"Where are you in control? When the time comes, we'll meet there and talk about something else. ”
Odysseus' face began to fluctuate with various disturbances, and it seemed that it was not all smooth sailing for his control of a facility in Dog City, although he expressed confidence in the eventual victory.
"There are several automated facilities in Denver, but the largest of them is the box I'm trying to hack right now, which is a defense facility disguised as a mint... Until I take full control of it, I advise you not to rush in, as it will trigger its defense pact and will most likely cause it to try to send automated units to carry out the counter-attack defense procedure, which is simply to send bots to indiscriminately attack all humans in Denver. ”
Andy was stunned, box? Isn't that the place where Reilly's gang babble?
"Wait, Odysseus, can you send me the coordinates of the box?"
Odysseus's face flickered, the signal became weaker and weaker, and it seemed that he was still scolding Andy for his incompetence, and soon the picture went completely black.
[Signal Interrupted]
[Received new location coordinates]
Andy looked at the signs marked on the map, feeling a little anxious, how to trouble one after another.
There was still time to deal with Daniel's capture by the slave traders, but it would be scary if the box started to run amok, and judging by what Reilly's gang said when they left, they were ready to storm it.
In that case, he would have to make a trip.
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