Chapter 45: The Black Market in the Central District
At this moment, Dusty and Andy are in a simple private room.
"So, you're looking for a toad..."Dusty smoked a long cigarette, a high-end product with a brand name called Fiber Cigarette, which is very rare, and it is impossible for a rich person to give up the cheap and choking Big Boss brand cigarettes in favor of this luxury that even the cigarette rolls are engraved with beautiful verse excerpts.
"Let me start with it, the toad is not one of those monsters with more eyeballs jumping around under the Hoover Dam, but a person's name on the road, and it happens that the people who use this name are also one after another, but there are not so many activities all the time, and the others have probably really become part of the toad...... So, what are you looking for him for? Andy sat across the table, eating a simple plate of noodles on the table.
"There's something I need to know about him, just little things that don't matter." Dusty smiled.
"A trifle? What's the little thing that has anything to do with you? You've only been at the Hoover Dam for a long time before you've become famous, and I think your favorite thing is to do big things, okay... I don't care what the hell you're going to do with him, I guess it's asking him for an account? I've heard that he's been hiding from the debt collectors of the Crimson Caravan for a long time. Andy rolls the last bit of noodles with a fork and eats it, tossing the fork back to the plate.
"Okay Dusty, I can't figure out if you care or not, all in all, where is that guy?" Dusty smiled silently, obviously not wanting to say it, and given her profession, Andy couldn't help but have some guesses.
"What? Does he have anything to do with you that I don't know about? Isn't that guy a gang leader at best? Dusty pointed a finger at the plate on the table, which still had some traces of noodles.
"It's not just the gang leader, that guy is the most important thing..... Oh, I almost said it, you see, information is the most valuable asset, and few people except me know about such important information, so if you want to know, you have to pay me somewhat, right? Andy casually threw out a small bag.
"How's that?" Dusty looked at it and shook his head.
"It's too little, you can't even see all my girls at this price, so I can only give you incomplete information." Andy shrugged and stood up from the table, followed by Beatrice and Mark, who were waiting next to him, and Dusty was a little shocked when she saw this scene, and a hand had already touched the handful she called hanging from her waist
The pump-activated shotgun with the name "Dusty's Little Gun" also became nervous behind the two security guards.
"Hey..... Don't you think this is a good opportunity? The guy who was beaten up by your subordinates before has been talking about you looking good, if there are some small problems that are not good for you under his influence, it will also affect your business, right? Why not save on this part of the savings now? Dusty was silent for a moment, and finally sighed and took the cap bag from the table.
"Well, if you find him, remember to tell him to weigh himself.... Toad was originally a guy who was messing around all day long in the Bading District to engage in all kinds of contraband and contraband, but at that time he still had his own store in the Bading District, and he was also doing serious business on the surface. But once he went to New Vegas and gambled most of his wealth, so he directly took a batch of goods from the red caravan and left the dam crest area, and ran to the central area to hide debts and become a complete smuggler by the way; To put it bluntly, there is no bigger deal in Hoover Dam City than he is in this regard, all black market circulation is under his control, and he is the largest supplier to Hoover Dam other than the Crimson Caravan, although it is an underground supplier. Andy was in a good mood when he heard this, so that the two things were actually one thing, since the toad controlled the black market at Hoover Dam, then the smuggled water flowing from Jericho should also be under his control.
"Doing this kind of thing, with the good relationship between the Crimson Caravan and the NcR, that guy is actually okay?" Dusty placed the cigarette butt in the ashtray and spat out a puff of smoke from his mouth.
"Or how could others say that he was lucky, it was not that he wanted to hide in the center from the beginning, but that he had no way to escape at that time, and the Crimson Caravan reported to the mayor of Dodge that he was smuggling and embezzling goods, and the toad plunged into the dam was just a stupid choice to wait to be caught in the urn, but no one expected that the group of barbarians from the east would suddenly attack..... First the Arashid Fortress fell, and then they even hit the Hoover Dam, but fortunately they were finally defeated, otherwise I can't imagine what the consequences would have been. ”
"After that, the Brotherhood of Steel ..... There are also marauders in the back, and I heard that there is also an external military stronghold that has been attacked by monsters, well, you should understand how many disasters the Hoover Dam has, and these disasters are the opposite for toads. The NcR no longer had the energy to give the Crimson Caravan a scene, they had now exhausted all their energy just guarding the top of the dam and some of the surrounding strongholds, and the Crimson Caravan had to keep hiring freelancers to come down and find people, but it was never to avail. The two chatted for a while, and Dusty mentioned that in a dark, damp clearing in the easternmost part of the central district, it seemed to be empty but it became lively every once in a while.
People who are hungry for cheap and powerful goods will flock there, waiting for the toad's men to ship there, and everything will go very secretly and quickly, and someone has reported it to the deputy sheriff in charge of law and order.... But the guy refused to admit that such a thing could happen in the central area under his rule, and instead arrested the whistleblower on charges of spreading rumors and causing trouble.
"The next time the black market opens is at 2 a.m. in two days, and it will only last for an hour, and there may be a toad boy asking you to report the code... Mine is the [Tavern], I have a good supply lately, the Crimson Caravan just signed a new contract with me, but I still have to get some goods from them sooner or later, if you really can find the toad, make it clear for me. The two talked for a while, and Andy mentioned the girl just now.
"Oh, by the way, you have a girl here named Mary, right?" Dusty gave a meaningful look to his eyes.
"Oh~ Isn't it, Mary Jo, my cutest little daughter, innocent and cute, that look is the first class in Hoover Dam City... What, do you have an idea? Andy was just curious if there was something hidden here, but now it was a bit rippling when Dusty said this, and he also glanced at the girl in a hurry, and the biggest impression was the snow-white skin, which was simply milky white like Brahmin milk......
"Ahem, well, she's very beautiful and moving, but why was your attitude so strange before?" Dusty's expression became a little serious, and the two of them were the beautiful Dusty
"Little daughter" chatted.
"If you have an idea for her, you have to follow the rules, or the fat boy will end up..... Okay, maybe you won't get that end, but trust me, the consequences of messing around are serious, for everyone. ”
"Oh, I'm not averse to following the rules, but you can tell me the rules first; In addition, when you say that the consequences are very serious, your face is really a little too serious, why do you let her in a small room if you love her so much.... Job? ”
"The rule is, first of all, 600 caps start, and only one person can see her in a day; Secondly, keep your mouth tight, bring her a gift, not something you choose, treat her like a lover, she will definitely agree to your request, but never say that she is a bitch or a slut or anything like that..... If she says she doesn't like you later, you can't go see her again. Andy gasped at the price.
"Hey.... Could it be that spending a night with her can prolong life? Your entrance fee plus the gift fee is afraid that it is a small 1,000 bottle caps, even if you go to the wasteland outside to live and die in the merchant can't earn these bottle caps, and.... IMHO, even if the price is not ordinary, isn't this still a leather and meat business? I really don't understand, if you really cherish her so much, then you should get her out of here as soon as possible and do something serious. Dusty took out a second cigarette and lit it.
"You don't understand, but given the good things that fool did before, I'll try to explain everything to prevent you from messing around. Mary Jo is certainly not my biological daughter, you can understand that by the color of her skin, right? She..... It's a caveman, or the new title promoted by Mayor Dodge, the albino man, I don't know if you get it a little bit by now. Andy had heard the word, but he still didn't understand what Dusty meant.
"I've heard that before the NcR arrived here, the natives who lived here were divided into two groups, the inner and the outer, the outer ones formed the town under the unity of Sheriff Ralph, and the natives who lived inside seemed to be a closed community that had continued from the pre-war period to the present, they were what you call the cavemen or albinos, I know that. But then again, even if Mary Jo was one of those kinds, so what? Dusty raised an eyebrow.
"You don't live at Hoover Dam or haven't even been to the center of the city, have you? I'll tell you, those cavemen weren't like Sheriff Ralph, who gave the Dodge Mayor a warm welcome when they came here. On the contrary, the cavemen are extremely xenophobic, they call all outsiders surface people, and they are full of disgust and suspicion. ”
"So you know that Mayor Dodge encountered resistance when he took over the interior of the Hoover Dam, and those cavemen are not very good at their brains, but they are amazingly hot-tempered, and they don't take life and death seriously when they get angry, and they have some good guys in the Hoover Dam in their hands..... The group only listened to their leader, a big-bellied, bearded-faced, meaty guy, his name was Billy. ”
"And Mary Jo, oh lovely Mary.... Who could believe that such a cute girl is the daughter of that kind of guy. Andy's eyes widened, not expecting things to get more complicated.