Chapter 61: After waking up from a dream
Lying on the soft bed, Andy stared at the unfamiliar ceiling, a warm, soft body was sleeping tightly in his arms, last night was a little crazy, causing Mary Jo to sleep very hard, the girl's physical strength could not keep up with him, which caused the fun to be reduced a little.
So far, if there is anyone who can be a perfect match in this regard, it is actually the somewhat crazy existence in a certain fantasy world, which is really unforgettable.
"........." Andy's lips moved, but he still didn't make a sound, originally he just wanted to rescue the lost girl and resolve a bloody conflict that might break out by the way, but in the end... How could this be the result.
So he waited a little longer, until the Pip-Boy's time display indicated that he was no longer fit to wait, and he patted Mary Jo, who was still asleep, to wake her up from her sleep.
"What .....? I ......" she muttered indiscriminately, barely opening her eyes.
"Oh, Mr. Andy, I'm sorry I was a little tired yesterday..."The sweet smile made Andy look at the instinctive impulses in his brain again, but he stubbornly restrained these things that tried to disintegrate his sanity, and if he didn't get up, he was afraid that some people outside would laugh out of their big teeth.
"Mary, I have something to tell you." He leaned against the head of the bed and looked serious, but it was hard to maintain because the girl next to him put her hand on his face.
"Huh....? What.... Then you smile..."Andy had to smile, then took her hand and stared into her eyes, and officially said what he should have said yesterday.
"Mary, you have to listen carefully to every word I say next, it's a big deal, promise me?" Mary Jo still looked confused, and reluctantly agreed for a while.
Andy hesitated for a moment, but still made up his mind, no matter what.... The girl's dreams are now coming to an end, and if they continue like this, it will not only be of no benefit to her life, but no one else will end well.
"You've got to get out of here." As soon as she said that, Andy felt that this was a bit cruel to her, and she must not be willing to wake up from the drunken gold and go back to the cave where her father lived.
Sure enough, Mary Jo's face was full of confusion and bewilderment.
"Why? ....." Andy pondered for a moment and began to narrate everything.
"You don't know what you're doing, in fact what you're doing here is being a prostitute in her shop, and you probably don't understand what that word means, it's a woman who is willing to trade physical interaction for bottle caps.... I know you always think that the men or women you meet are just here to play games with you, but in fact, they all gave Dusty a lot of bottle caps before they came in, and you are just being taken advantage of.... Commodity. ”
"I've already talked to Dusty, and she agrees with you to leave, and that jewelry is actually her attitude, even though I bought it and gave it to you." Mary Jo was stunned for a moment at these words, her lips trembling a little.
"..... so? But, but I think everything is fine .... I.... I also hope that one day I can leave here and go to the NcR that the guests say, and they say that everything is infinitely better than here, full of great facilities, beautiful parks, beautiful buildings..."Andy was silent for a moment, and could only choose to shatter her dreams and fantasies.
"There may be people who want to take you away, no matter what despicable way he uses to make up rhetoric, you should be wary.... I've lived in NcR, and some of the areas there, like some of the cities in Shady State, are really perfect. But the problem is that not everyone can stay there, and the cost of living there is very high, and the people who come to Hoover Dam so far away to make a living simply can't afford to take you there to live comfortably. ”
"In most parts of the NcR, chaos is as much of a theme as poverty, and most of the children in the Boneyard State are completely sunk in the sludge of gangs and drugs before they reach adulthood, and the insurgent groups in Maxson State are now waging a war that is sweeping across the NcR, killing countless civilians and causing a large number of casualties.... There are also many people who are hidden in the smoke and dust of the day-to-day toil, working in the factories of the big capitalists in the central states, or as cowboys and sharecroppers in the industries of the big ranchers and big farmers, earning very little bottle caps. ”
"Maybe there are more opportunities there than here, but now you can't go there, the route to the west has long been cut off, and no one knows when it will resume..... It could be tomorrow, it could be many years from now. Looking at Mary Jo, who was gradually falling silent, Andy knew that no one had said these negative words to her, and most of the clients who came to her complied with her and boasted about the beauty of the outside world, weaving beautiful lies for her.
He stopped talking and turned to her father.
"Actually, I also got your father's Billy's request this time." Mary Jo glanced up at Andy, then turned her head sideways.
"I don't want to go back and continue living with my relatives, they like to stay there, I don't." Andy sighed, even if she didn't say anything, anyone could see it, but now.... If Mary Jo really relied on her own abilities to live on her own in the wasteland, perhaps he would in turn convince Billy that her children had grown up and should not continue to bind her to find her dreams.
It's a pity that Mary Jo can't reach that level at all, she is too immature, and if she blends into the wasteland that can swallow her life alive, there is a high probability that she will have a tragic ending.
"This.... I can see that. But one thing you need to understand now is that the impact of your running away from home is not just as simple as making your father Billy have nightmares all day long because of worrying worries, you are doing a very dishonorable profession, and once your father finds out, he will only feel that it is a deliberate persecution and insult from what he calls us 'surface waste'. ”
"They're going to rush out of the dwelling with guns in hand, and a lot of people are going to die, the ones you knew before, like that Mr. Rabbit... And Dusty, people will be killed by your father and relatives without saying anything. Eventually, the soldiers at the top of the dam will come down to quell the chaos and kill all your family members..."
"There will be corpses all over here, and all the people you care about will die, you don't want to see that, do you? You don't want all this to happen because of you, do you? Mary Jo lowered her head and sobbed a little, and Andy sighed with a headache again, hugging her and comforting her.
He told her that if the road to the west was reopened one day, the fate of the albino might change if her relatives were willing to get out of Hoover Dam; Perhaps then everything will have a better ending, and Mary Jo's long-held dream will naturally come true, and it will not break her father's heart at the loss of his daughter.
After a while, Mary Jo finally agreed to leave Dusty's desire to return to the baseline where the albinos lived, but Andy looked at the gloomy look in her eyes and knew it wasn't to her liking.
But this is not something that Andy can solve in a short time, the key to the problem is whether the albilist people can reverse that autism and xenophobia, as for whether Mary Jo can be willing to stay with his father and family after he returns, it is not something that Andy can control.
When Andy finally walked out of the room with Mary Jo who had packed his things, it was almost noon the next day.
At this point, Beatrice and Mark sat at a table and had a conversation of nonsense, and most of the conversation consisted of Beatrice's muddy, confused speech and Mark's perfunctory reply.
When he saw Andy walking out with Mary Jo, Mark couldn't help but close his eyes and let out a deep breath from his nose, he was fed up with continuing to talk to this stupid super mutant around him
"Chat" to pass the time. Mary Jo ran to Dusty's side to say goodbye to her, and such a sincere expression of affection made Dusty, who had long been accustomed to rolling in the wasteland bastards, tears in her eyes.
While Andy stood by and watched the scene, an angry bearded man rushed from the side.
"Hey! Are you going to take little Mary? I will not allow it! Dressed in a fancy white suit, he threw a punch at Andy, but Beatrice grabbed him by the back and couldn't move.
"You.... You filthy and savage super mutant monster, let me go! With Beatrice's strength, the mustache was caught in the air, waving his limbs in vain.
Andy looked at the mustache a little speechlessly, and he was carrying a bag in one hand with a stuffed animal or something.
It's not easy to find this kind of pre-war relic in the wasteland, and if you want to find someone to buy it, you have to pay a bottle cap, and judging by the way this guy dresses, he seems to have a lot of money.
"What do you mean I'm going to take her... I'm telling you, this is her father's request, and if you have the guts, go down to the baseline and talk to Billy, the leader of the albinists, to see if he will shoot you for the courage to spy on his daughter. Hearing this, the mustache immediately calmed down.
When Mary Jo finally waved goodbye to Dusty, the mustache suddenly ran out of the store and shouted at Mary Jo.
"Wait, my dear little Mary, one day I'm going to take you away, and we'll go to the most scenic place on the West Coast, and I'll sell all my things, and we'll both of us..." Fell to his knees and cried.
As he walked on his way to the baseline area, Andy glanced back at the mustache and asked about Mary Jo curiously.
"Is that guy the same Mr. Rabbit you said?" Mary Jo laughed a little, and then some sadness welled up on her face.