"We need something from you here, speaking of which, I have a companion named Simon, who should be walking faster than me, have you seen him?" Andy subconsciously glanced out the window, although he hadn't walked around the town yet, it stands to reason that even if Simon didn't want to get close to Otto, there was no need to hide and not see each other after arriving in Jericho Town..... In terms of Andy's own trading skills, he thought it would be better to leave the negotiation and signing of commercial trade contracts to him, after all, the guy claimed to be a professional.

After the province returned to the Hoover Dam, he made some comments, such as that he could have saved more bottle caps for the city of Hoover Dam.

Sheriff O'Connor looked dazed.

"No, there's never been a Simon here." Andy and Otto looked at each other suspiciously, and asked again.

"Are you sure? He must have arrived yesterday, not just him, he was also driving a rusty Kevega sedan with two bodyguards, wearing a suit and sunglasses, did you notice that so many people came in? Sheriff O'Connor shook his head firmly this time.

"No, I'm pretty sure no, according to your description, it's impossible for such a unique group of people to come into Jericho Town without attracting the attention of me and my deputies, but as I said, we didn't see them at all. If you're sure he didn't get lost along the way, maybe they were delayed by something, or maybe ..... For some reason, I didn't get close to this place at all. Andy sighed, hoping that the worst wouldn't happen, and that it would be hilarious if the group died on the road shortly after they parted because of a marauder or a beast..... Regardless of why they didn't arrive on time, it didn't matter for now, and he had to complete his mission first.

"I'll just say Sheriff O'Connor, we're here for two things, one, we need a drawing." Sheriff O'Connor stretched out a finger and curled his long black curly hair, then cocked Erlang's legs, the expression on his face seemed to say that he couldn't figure out what medicine Andy was selling in his gourd.

"Well, if you don't understand.... Whether it was books, drawings, or other paper products, everything that had been collected and stored in the library of New Canaan by the Latter-Saints was burned to the ground on the night of the fall of New Canaan. So, if you had to look for it, you would only find some ashes in the charred ruins; We hadn't tried to recover something from the ruins that hadn't broken down, but it turned out that outside of Jericho, everything in the ruins of New Canaan was completely destroyed. Otto immediately opened his mouth to add an explanation.

"Oh, I think you misunderstood Sheriff O'Connor, in fact, the thing we need is a drawing of the industrial-grade water purifier of the Jericho Salt Water Desalination Plant, although the name of this drawing is called a drawing, but the medium of preservation should be in the form of terminal data, it is an electronic drawing that has been preserved to this day." Sergeant O'Connor shifted his seat, looked at the two of them for a moment, and put his index finger to his face in thought.

"I think I can understand what you're looking for and where it is.... But before we go any further, let's talk about another thing you've been here for. Andy thought about it, since Simon didn't come, he couldn't just ignore the issue of buying water, what should be promoted is still to be promoted, it's a big deal not to talk about the price first, and see what price can be obtained at the bottom.

"Actually, it's the same as what the merchants who came here wanted, and you heard it from the salt ghost before, Hoover Dam City is now facing a water shortage, because of an accident, the already overwhelmed water purifier is now not far from completely failing, and there will be turmoil in Hoover Dam City when the time comes." O'Connor thought for a moment and gave a price.

"20 caps in a bottle, 120 caps in a box." Andy knew that this was about the same as the market price when he heard it, and when he was looking for a toad in the black market in the central area to collect the debt, he heard that the price of the clean water produced in Jericho Town was this quotation, to be specific, this price was probably higher than the purchase price of the toad at that time, and the reason why I said this is because the toad will definitely raise the price in order to make money on the bottle cap, and the price that Sheriff O'Connor is giving now is no different from the two dealers.

But if you add in the cost of shipping on the road, the residents of Hoover Dam will eventually be able to buy clean water that will be more expensive than the black market for toads.

Andy was disgruntled at the thought.

"Sheriff O'Connor, we are here with great sincerity, you know how big the market is in Hoover Dam City, although I am not a full-time businessman, but I still have an idea of what the market price of clean water in Jericho Town is. Not to mention that I helped you in the battle before, but with so many residents at risk of drinking water because of the poisoning of the marauders, you should help somewhat. Sergeant O'Connor looked helpless.

"I know, I know.... I am very grateful for your good deeds, but first and foremost, I am the sheriff of Jericho Town, and I must put my town first and foremost. To tell you the truth, I've already discounted you, and you may think it's more expensive than before, but that's normal. ”

"As we've talked before, the water plant in Jericho town has to be driven by manpower, and it takes people to fetch water and fill in coal. But recently, there have been a series of accidents in the water plant, and in a few weeks, three workers have suffered from strange diseases, and two workers have died inexplicably.... The efficiency of the plant's output is directly related to the number of workers and the status of the plant, and I haven't had time to find new personnel to replenish it, so raising the price of water is a last resort, which is the same for everyone in the wasteland. Andy listened to Sheriff O'Connor's words and suddenly remembered the harsh environment in the waterworks that he had heard from Ivan when he was talking to him outside.

"Well, then, how about I go to the waterworks for you and see what's going on?" If I can help you solve the problem, you should give you a better price, right? Sergeant O'Connor said with a cheerful look on his face.

"Not only discounts, I can even give you some bottle caps to thank you, and I'll tell everyone in town about your contribution, but.... If you can really help, what do you do? If you're just three mercenaries, I'm really uncomfortable about handing you this task, maybe you're good at fighting, but the problems in the waterworks are more than that. Andy glanced back, making sure Alexandra hadn't come back to the house, and immediately began to brag at Sheriff O'Connor.

"Let me introduce you to my team, this is Otto, the most important engineer in Hoover Dam City, and I'm not talking nonsense. Although he may not look good, Otto is the manager of the Hoover Dam water purifier, and the water supply of the entire Hoover Dam has been stable thanks to his efforts. ”

"And the one from before... Uh, ma'am, she's actually a doctor, is she.... It's also good, definitely much better than those wandering wasteland quacks. Sheriff O'Connor's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he looked at Otto, there was no such rare talent as engineers in Jericho Town, and the police officers he led might be good at law enforcement and combat, but they didn't know how to repair and maintain the backbone of the town, that is, the old desalination plant machine.

He immediately stood up and shook Otto's hand cordially, not thinking about Otto being a ghoul with no skin on his hands.

"Great! We need people like you to help us, and now the machines are having a lot of problems, and the efficiency is getting lower and lower day by day, but none of us can figure out what is going on. If you can help, it's all well said, and the machine is at the heart of our town of Jericho, and we're not going to skimp on that. Otto repeatedly motioned to Sheriff O'Connor not to be so excited, but he was also a little suspicious.

"Didn't I have an engineer before to help you maintain the machine? If this has always been the case, how did the machine help Jericho survive for seven years? As you said before, the machine was destroyed because of the riots. Sergeant O'Connor calmed down from his excitement and mentioned a man.

"Oh, I almost forgot about him.... A few years ago, the machine was indeed on the verge of collapse, but from outside came a native man named Battery, and he came up to me and told me that he would like to be a volunteer and work in the water works in Jericho. This kind of request is simply unprecedented, and I have never been the only one who forced others to work in the water plant, and I didn't think that there were still people who took the initiative to ask for it, and even proposed not to be paid. ”

"The native called Battery squatted next to the machine every day in addition to participating in the work, and it was thanks to his suggestions that our production could continue. I once asked him if he would accept my employment as an engineer at the Jericho Town Waterworks to help us repair the machines; But we couldn't understand the idea of the native, and I wasn't even sure if he could fully understand what I was saying, so he rejected all offers and just continued to work unpaid at the waterworks and walk around the machines every day. ”

"Lately he seems to have finally lost interest and is doing almost nothing at the water plant, and I think he's about to get out of here." Andy thinks that the style of the name battery is very unique, and generally speaking, in the indigenous tribes that lack communication with the outside world, the members are named with a strong tribal cultural style, such as the one in the Dog Village.

And the ordinary illiterate natives of the lingua franca of the battery will not even have a chance to know that the word itself symbolizes a technological creation of the old world, and what tribe would use this advanced word as the name of its members?

He couldn't help but think of a tribe in which the important token that the chieftain wore around his neck was actually a calculator.

Sergeant O'Connor gave another remonstrance, and it seemed that he had high hopes for Otto, saying that he did not know much about the specifics of the problems in the waterworks, after all, he had to deal with external threats and trade on a daily basis.

He said that the specific matters of the water plant, including the management of the workers and the internal production schedule of the water plant, were all handed over to Calville, the deputy, so Andy and the others needed to go to that person to understand the situation first.

Hurriedly saying goodbye to Sheriff O'Connor, Andy saw Alexandra waiting outside as he left the Jericho Town Police Department.

She looked like she had reverted to her previous cold state, leaning against a pillar with her shotgun on her back and not saying a word.

"Gone." He greeted, and on the way he told Alexandra about the origins of Jericho, including the fact that Sheriff O'Connor had sheltered some of the Neo-Canaanites in the first place, and that they had always maintained a guilty attitude towards the Latter-Saints.

Alexandra's expression didn't change much.

"You don't have to explain this to me, I just lost control of my emotions just now.... I do feel sad about the death of my parents, but it's not as serious as you think. In fact, long before New Canaan was destroyed by the mob, I had severed ties with my parents, was excommunicated from the Church of the Latter, and left New Canaan. Andy looked at Alexandra in surprise, he didn't expect things to take such a turn.

"Why is that? I've heard from Sheriff O'Connor that the New Canaanites are helpful and a good people, and that your parents, who are also members of the Post-Saint Church, should be the same, what is the reason for your relationship with them to be so bad? Alexandra had a sarcastic smile on her face, followed by a helpless sigh.

"Why, you ask? Didn't you say it yourself? Of course they are good people, and even more so, if a new Canaanite has a hole in his head, then presumably goodness will flow out of their head. Anyone who passes by and asks for help will not be rejected by them, and they will always take this person in, feed him and clothe him; He was allowed to live in New Canaan indefinitely until he himself was embarrassed to leave. ”

"They even planned to help the natives, sending missionaries to go deep into the eastern tribes, learning their language, teaching them knowledge and culture, telling them how to heal and how to write..."Andy stopped and looked at Alexandra, still a little puzzled on his face.

"So you even broke off your relationship with your parents because you hated this kind of culture?" Alexandra also stopped, and seeing the confusion on Andy's face, she closed her eyes and said something unknown to outsiders.

"The post-holy scriptures encourage believers to have children, so my parents had six children, and New Canaan had no shortage of clean water, but not abundant food, because the land here was barren. But the perseverance and hard-working spirit of the New Canaanites allowed them to stop worrying about food, just as they did before the war. ”

But they are willing to give away these hard-won food for nothing, even if the other party has no appreciation in their hearts.... As I grew up, I came to understand why we, the children, who had been involved in heavy labor since childhood, still did not eat enough, because a large part of the food was given to outsiders. ”

"I am getting more and more unbearable, I feel that it is not fair, the harvest should be exchanged for hard sweat, and the parasites only need to reach out and they are never satisfied .... So I had heated arguments with my parents and priests, and sometimes I forgot to be respectful in my words because I was so grumpy. And I could see that because I was a woman, my behaviour which seemed out of place to them had become worse. ”

"I finally chose to leave from here, I took nothing with me but the clothes on my body, and I laughed at them when I left that something big would happen to them one day because of the way of such rotten good people, but I didn't expect that I would hear the news of the complete destruction of New Canaan not long after I left home, and I hurried back, and there was only black everywhere." Otto listened to Alexandra's story and couldn't help but feel sad for her.

"Oh my God, kid.... I don't know how to comfort you, but it will all pass. Alexandra didn't appreciate it at all, just rolled her eyes.

"You don't need to comfort me, I'm not a little girl! As I said, I had renounced my family and my faith before the destruction of this place, and it turned out that I was not right at all, and I had done everything in my power to persuade them.... They are only to blame for this outcome. That being said, Alexandra couldn't hide a little sadness on her face.