The scenery on the road has obviously begun to change, from a predominantly desert to a predominantly valley, and the color of these stones is uniquely pitch-black, and the black stones form a series of valleys, and the valleys crisscross to form canyons..... Black Canyon, this name has a very long history.

As old as the name is the Grand Canyon area further east, and while it sounds similar, it's really two different things.

After leaving there, the barbarian social environment gradually faded, and the civilization brought by the NcR immigrants increased more and more.

The most notable are the merchants who run around, driving two-headed oxen, some of which are really difficult to transport, so they simply use two-headed oxen to pull half of the carts recovered from the wasteland as ox carts.

There are also idle guys who wander around with evil eyes, and in terms of experience, this is not necessarily necessarily a predator, or some opportunistic scavenger or so-called

"Treasure Hunter". Pre-war items, especially high-tech items, were expensive in the Wasteland and became increasingly scarce as the Wasteland developed, and how to find them and bring them back to sell for money is a matter of knowledge.

"How far is the Hoover Dam?" Andy drives the car to avoid a guy who is lying on the ground for some reason, maybe he's drunk, maybe he's dead, or it's another common human scam in the wasteland.... The poor man lying on the ground hoped that the good Samaritan would take him to a place, but if anyone listened to him, the end would be miserable.

"It should be almost there, before the sun goes down today." Siris glanced at the outside environment and replied, which was agreed by Bridge and Alidean.

"It's my first time.... Well, it's your first time here, what is it like there? Andy thought as if he had been here, and although the memory was not very clear, it was certain that before the Tibbetts Prison sent a robot to knock Andy unconscious and forcibly bring him back, he was summarily convicted of a drunken disturbance in Hoover Dam City for suspected deaths of soldiers, and was then sent to the Black Canyon Prison built by NcR near the Hoover Dam.

But that's all in the past, and Hoover Dam is a whole new place for him. Thinking of this, he immediately took out a pair of sunglasses from the car and put them on his face, along with a gas mask covering the lower half of his face, hoping that this would help him hide from people who might know him.

"It's a dam, you know the dam, right? .... No, the NcR people have never bypassed the Hoover Dam when they come here, why don't you know? Bridge reacted as she spoke, looking at Andy suspiciously.

The corners of Andy's mouth twitched, and he couldn't say that his previous memories were not very clear.

"Actually, I didn't have much money at that time, so I came here in some unorthodox ways, so I left as soon as I arrived here, and I didn't have the opportunity to stay longer." Bridge accepted the explanation.

"Oh.... It's not like I've heard of anyone in this situation, but you're bold enough to be stuffed into a military supply box by a smuggler and sent here from New California or the Mojave... No one knows whether those guys have bribes in place, and if one can't do it well, it's the line between life and death. He thought about it for a moment and began to describe the situation at the Hoover Dam to Andy.

"It was a huge dam that had been built before the war, and it was erected in that valley to hold back the big river and create a huge lake called Lake Mead upstream, and it also made the water level very low downstream, and the flow was very gentle. With a height of more than 200 meters and a length of nearly 400 meters, the dam connects the Mojave to the Grand Canyon. ”

"It's made entirely of concrete, so it looks pale, and the workers gathered to pour the parts of the dam piece by piece, and then put them together seamlessly. In order to resist the tremendous pressure of the water, it is designed to be curved to one side and narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, which is an arched dam in technical terms. ”

"Downstream of the dam, a power plant has been built at a height of tens of meters above the water level downstream, as well as outfalls on the east and west sides, which connect to four hollow water intake towers upstream, allowing the water to pass through the hydroelectric generators to generate electricity. The dam is not solid, there is a lot of space inside, people mainly live on the west side of the dam crest, where the black and red rocks meet the white dam, where they build their own buildings to form settlements, and many people choose to live in the space inside the dam or simply live in the lower part of the dam. Andy imagined for a moment, and was afraid he wouldn't be able to understand how majestic it was until he saw it with his own eyes.

"It seems a little difficult to get there from the east, though." Andy was stunned for a moment, and they were to the east.

"What do you mean?" Bridge scratched his head.

"You know that, too.... It was when Fort Alashid fell, that barbarians not only drove the NcR away from there and completely destroyed it, but later even continued to launch a pursuit, they planned to fight from the east side of the Hoover Dam crest, and that posture really scared people out... So the buildings on the eastern side of the crest of the dam were badly damaged at that time, but fortunately the people were finally repulsed, but the area to the east of the crest was also blocked by the rubble. ”

"Since then, the NcR soldiers guarding the town have basically tacitly acquiesced that anyone who comes from the east side of the dam crest is an aggressive barbarian, who will not be checked at all, only greeted by bullets."

"The only way to get to the city of Hoover Dam on the west side of the dam from the east is the bridge to the south, called the Hoover Bridge or the Hoover Dam Bypass, which is a concrete arch bridge that spans the Black Canyon. The bridge is now entirely under the jurisdiction of the NcR, and after the crest road of the Hoover Dam is impassable, it is the only road connecting the east and west sides in the nearest range..... Frankly, crumbling, I don't know how long I can hold out. Andy felt a little troublesome when he heard this, it seemed that he would have to take a detour to the south at that time, and he didn't know what the situation of the bridge was now, if half of the road flew out of the bridge, there was probably no hope of survival.

He thought of Siris.

"Cialis, did you come this way the same way?" Siris shook his head casually as he put away the new gun he was playing with.

"I'm from somewhere further north .... The road to the Hoover Dam from the west has also been cut off, and some militants have been active, but the NcR of the Hoover Dam is almost isolated. "Bridge: Yes

The description "in isolation" could not agree more.

"You're right, it's an island. The militants were the rebels of the Brotherhood of Steel, and we didn't even have time to recover from the inexplicable barbarian attacks, and the terrorists followed suit and began to attack one after another, making everyone anxious. When you arrive at the Hoover Dam, don't be surprised if you meet people who are negative and indifferent, because after all this time, there is no hope to be seen... New California seems to have forgotten about us. "In this chat, the journey is almost at the end.

More and more towering black and red boulders appeared on both sides of the road, and after a period of driving, they got an incomplete view of the dam that was so large that they couldn't see the whole picture.

From such a distance, they could only dimly see the crest of the dam, which looked like a wide concrete road, and was blocked by a lot of broken construction debris.

The Atomic Humvee continued southward and soon reached the east side of the Hoover Bridge, where they were able to pass the NcR check-in and get on the bridge with relative ease due to the identities of Bridges and the Followers of the Apocalypse.

The bridge spans so high that it's almost like you're flying through the air. Turning their gaze to the north at this point, they were finally able to see the huge ancient building in its entirety with the naked eye.

It traverses both sides of the Black Canyon and intercepts the huge river, so that the water level between the upstream and downstream levels is almost more than 100 meters apart, and the visual impact is worth a thousand words.

The dam is not pure white, it is composed of huge concrete blocks of varying lengths but roughly square, each of which is distinctly demarcated by the color of each piece, and the front of the dam is a rounded arc, as if a giant had gently inserted a seashell into the water.

Four massive concrete hollow towers rise in the water upstream, connected to the crest by narrow bridges, which are the water intake towers of the hydroelectric generators inside the Hoover Dam, and they have pipes connecting to the downstream outlets.

This is the Hoover Dam, which makes people wonder if it was done by man.