Chapter 24: After the Interview
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Ms. McClofdie." At this time, Andy had already arrived at the Crimson Caravan's store again, and the obvious difference from the last time was that he did not stop at the first floor this time, at the moment he was on the third floor of the Crimson Caravan Building, where the decoration was not as ornate as below, and even the guards standing in the corridor were wearing good condition heavy combat armor and holding battle shotguns or submachine guns, and the equipment was simply better than those NcR soldiers.
"Oh, don't be so rusty, just call me Alice." Behind an extravagant solid wood table sat a fair-skinned young woman with short white-blond hair and bangs slightly covering her left eye.
Jewelry can be seen everywhere on her body, on her neck, wrists, earlobes, fingers, and her whole body can be described as jeweled and extravagant.... The black tight striped suit wrapped around her hot figure, and she always maintained a kind and vaguely unpredictable smile on her face.
This woman is the head of the Hoover Dam branch of the Crimson Caravan, or in a nutshell, she is the owner of the Crimson Caravan.
After being introduced by the gentleman's hat, Andy meets for the first time with this important figure in Hoover Dam City, a woman named Alice McClofdie.
"It may seem abrupt, but I'm sure you can understand my daily busyness, as the Crimson Caravan is not only busy feeding and feeding the entire Hoover Dam City, but also helping the army raise arms and prepare for a possible water shortage. I have to be busy every day for a long, long time, and I can't do everything that the people below deal with, but I didn't expect such a misunderstanding to happen all of a sudden. Alice made a gesture, and the gentleman's hat immediately handed over a paper bag, and when it was opened, there were several NcR 100 yuan bills.
It seems that this compensation seems to be very generous, but in fact, due to the serious depreciation of the current NcR yuan after the destruction of the gold reserves, the conversion of the 400 NcR yuan into bottle caps is only about 280 bottle caps, and it is foreseeable that this proportion will continue to decrease if it is not exchanged sooner.
"It's okay, I believe it was just a special situation that happened by chance, the strength of the Crimson Caravan is something that everyone can see, although I haven't been here for a long time, but I can also notice this." The two sides talked for a while, and finally got to the point.
"Mr. Andy, our company has a very important list to do recently, and this trip will be relatively long, so the danger is relatively large. Of course, the rewards will naturally go up, and if you can complete this mission, everyone will get at least 500-600 bottle caps.... To be sure, we need to find the most reliable guards. I've heard about your track record and I'm sure you'll be the right person to be a part of it. Andy's mind moved.
"Where, if Lady Alice is so sincere to me, I am of course willing to reciprocate. And frankly, I'm still quite short of money right now, and it's not easy for Dr. Yuri to go there, I mean my wallet.... It's just that I have one more request. Alice continued to smile without any flaws.
"Please." He looked at the woman in front of him, and felt a little shaken in his heart that he couldn't open his eyes, she must be able to take on this position not only because of her radiant appearance, but also because of her inner true ability.
"I hope to get a letter of recommendation from you, I have something I want to interview with Mayor Dodge, and you know that it is not so easy to meet him now because of the special period, so I hope to have your trust Ms. Alice." Alice raised an eyebrow, a slightly surprised expression.
"Oh.... Is that your purpose? Okay, but I can't do it right away, because it's a responsibility to nominate someone to the mayor, isn't it? As you said, we need a little bit of time to build up friendly relations between us, and when the conditions are right, won't everything fall into place? Uh-huh-hmm...."She turned her head to turn her attention to Mark to the side, her eyes lit up with her hands folded.
"This looks like a follower of the Apocalypse, although I'm just a small businessman and don't know much about your organization, but it's said that the branch leader Candace has a very masculine handsome guy next to him, and it really makes people admire him today... Do you have time for a cup of tea together? Mark seems to have gotten used to this calmly.
"Mark Gannon, thank you for your kindness, Ms. McClofdie, but I beg your pardon for refusing, lately I just want to go out for a walk, maybe another time we can do something in a more appropriate place to enhance our relationship, so that we can get to know each other better."
"Just call me Alice, really, if you have time to enjoy it later, you must come to me." Andy twitched the corners of his mouth secretly, seeing that things were going to develop in the direction of talented men and women, and rich princesses chasing middle-aged high-quality handsome guys, it can only be said that high charm is to often encounter this kind of good thing for no reason, but even if he makes some manual adjustments, he can only say that he is standing on the passing line.
"Then we'll follow the arrangement, and we'll both be absolutely good at fighting as far as the battle is concerned." After a pleasant goodbye, the two left Alice, the owner of the Crimson Caravan.
After all the outsiders left, the bright smile on Alice McClofdie's face gradually changed slightly, although she was still smiling, but it seemed to have a chilling feeling.
The gentleman's hat walked over and handed over a few pieces of paper, and took advantage of the beautiful boss to look through the words.
"Things have developed to this point, it can be said that the right time and place are about to be on your side, Ms. McClofdie, there are a few important things that we really have to put on the agenda soon, and things will change later..... If you want me to say, what we need most now is loyal and strong people, this Andy and the three brothers have a serious quarrel, I heard that he was scolded by the stinky mouth of the military department before I didn't know if it was a lesbian, I think he is a good choice. Alice glanced at them a few times and threw them on the table, the expression on her face almost smiling.
She took a deep breath by pulling open a few buttons on her neckline, then took out a box of expensive cigarettes from a drawer beside her, and borrowed the fire from the lighter handed by the flattering and even obsessive gentleman's hat with her legs crossed, and with the slowly rising white smoke, the woman's body gradually revealed a more terrifying momentum.
"This pig-like ghost place is becoming less and less welcoming, and those stupid fat pigs are not cute at all, and although I have never seen pigs, I believe they are more abominable than real pigs.... I didn't go to great lengths to get admission to this Eastward Movement because I was trapped here and tormented like I am now. Everything is the same here, and the few broken money I earn is not even anything to me, far from satisfying me.... I've got to find a chance to take the initiative, get a higher power, and sweep away all the things I don't like for a long time, those damn pigs! Alice said as she glanced at the gentleman's hat, and was so frightened that he immediately knelt on the soft and beautiful carpet of luxury.
"Poofโ" She chuckled, holding her half-smoked cigarette between her two white jade-like fingers, tilting her head to look at the gentleman's hat that was wiping her sweat with an embarrassed smile on her face.
"Of course, you are not the one to be swept away~ Why do you see me so scared? Do I look terrible? How could someone as beautiful as me be some kind of conspirator, careerist, or something? Whoever looks at it will only think it's impossible, right? The gentleman's hat nodded and quickly came out of the afterimage.
Alice took a puff of cigarette and changed her leg, sitting at her desk all day today really made her sore all day, and frankly she was confident that she could not lose to anyone in Hoover Dam in terms of thinking hard and doing things hard, and because of this, she expected far more in return for what she had done.
She has become the richest person in Hoover Dam City and the entire Eastern District of NcR, although this is not worth mentioning compared to the old monsters of the capital community in the New California NcR, but now in such a special place at such a special time, she has never had the unprecedented opportunity to achieve whatever she wants to achieve, such a situation would never have happened in NcR homeland if she had not made a desperate choice to go to Eastern Hoover Dam as the head of the branch of the Crimson Caravan.
"What are you still kneeling there for? It looks like an eyesore, alas.... Could it be that you're peeking? If that's the case, you're disgusting. There was a look of disdain in her blue eyes.
The gentleman's hat was flushed and stammered, saying that he couldn't stand up with a little weak leg for some reason, and when she heard this, Alice couldn't help but laugh suddenly, and took off a high heel on the crossed leg and stretched it out to the gentleman's hat.
"Since you can't stand up, then crawl over and pinch my feet, you can do this, right?" The picture then becomes a little ambiguous, with the gentleman's hat pinching Alice's stockinged feet almost with a fascinated face, while reporting to her on recent developments on some of the matters of particular concern to her.
"The water in Jericho is more competitive than the water we bring from the tribes in the east, and we have tried to reduce the cost of loss on the road as much as possible and do everything we can to lower the price offered by the natives, but Jericho has a pre-war desalination plant and an inexhaustible supply of water from the Great Salt Lake, and I am afraid that they will take the lion's share of the profits later." Alice was enjoying the massage with one hand on her face, and the fingers of the other hand tapped a few times on the table.
"It's really annoying, I didn't expect such a situation to happen, if I have the chance, I really hope that the broken place that should have disappeared with New Canaan is completely finished." She tilted her head to look at the guy who was kneeling and pressing her feet.
"You're right?" The gentleman's hat was now unaware that the hat on his head had fallen to the ground, and he was even more deaf to Alice's inquiries.
She got a vicious and playful look at the corners of her mouth, kicked him in the face of the gentleman's hat, and then stomped on his chest to make him unable to move.
"You must understand what I say at all times, otherwise you will know the consequences, there are a few iron buckets filled with cement in Lake Mead, and no one will ever be able to find out, do you know what I mean." The condescending threat sobered up the gentleman's hat a little, and kept saying that he knew, and deferentially put on high heels for Alice after she lifted her legs.
"I'm tired, get out." Hearing the sound of the door closing behind her, Alice looked at the window and walked slowly.
There was some damage at the eastern end of the Hoover Dam that was visible to her, and the damage was not done by the Brotherhood of Steel or the barbarians from the east, but by the NcR stationed here.
She stretched out a hand, clenched her fingers into a fist and placed it in that position, then slowly opened it.
"Bang! โ" A pleasant female voice came from her rosy lips. When she was done, she looked at the reflection of the glass and couldn't help but laugh at her childish behavior.
"Looks like I've been in a bit of a hurry lately."