Chapter 44: Celebration

The sun is gradually setting. Bonfires were lit in Jericho town, and people carried torches around searching for looters who might still be hiding in the town, and if they found them, they were immediately executed.

By the time Tai arrived at Jericho with the remaining reinforcements, the battle had largely stopped, the marauders were dying, fleeing, and their leader was found, the guy wearing a miscellaneous power armor wielding a flaming knife, he was shot by Tai's anti-materiel sniper rifle and fell from the car, he was not dead when he was found, and although the power armor was pierced by armor-piercing bullets, it still protected him.

The weary people were reluctant to chase the fleeing marauders, and some of the surrendered marauders took the opportunity to turn around and flee, some were killed by bullets fired from behind, and some disappeared into the distance.

The bodies of the looters were piled up, the bodies of the looters were discarded haphazardly in the corners, the bodies of the townspeople and members of the Hand of God were properly placed, and there were bursts of cries of the relatives of the deceased weeping over their deaths.

The newly built wall had gone from brand new to dilapidated in just one day, full of bullet holes and scorched black marks from the explosion, and the wreckage of the modified car was everywhere near the gate, some as motionless as stones, some twisted and deformed by the heat after the explosion, and the car was even inlaid with marauders who had not had time to escape, and their whole bodies had been turned to char.

The coyotes watched the corpses from a distance, howling and wandering. Alexandra searched around the piles of people and corpses in and around Jericho Town, but couldn't find the familiar figure, and according to Sheriff O'Connor, he saw Andy jump into a dynamite truck, which then drove off into the distance, and there was a violent explosion behind it, and the terrible mushroom cloud could be seen clearly from the fence, and no one knew if Andy was still alive or if there was still a part that could be found.

"Damn, you don't want to die." She stared anxiously at the darkness around her.

"I haven't even given me the caps that should have been given to me." At this moment, a staggering figure slowly walked by, Alexandra at first thought it was a ghoul attracted by the noise, but when she looked closely, she realized that it was Andy.

She rushed over and looked at him in disbelief. Andy stopped, his face shagging.

"Hi.... Did we win? Alexandra nodded, her gaze gradually calming down.

"I thought you were dead, the plunderers were all finished, we found their leader and hanged him on the gallows, which is also in line with the creed of the Post-Holy Church, 'The blood of a sinner should not be sprinkled on the earth, so that he will not be redeemed and will not ascend to heaven after death'." Andy sighed with relief, and then suddenly seemed to lose consciousness, his body fell straight down, Alexandra hurriedly hugged him, because it was too heavy, she stumbled and fell on the sand with Andy who had passed out when she retreated, she looked at Andy's broken trench coat by the moonlight, and was surprised how he survived.

What she didn't know was that thanks to Hull's help, the clothes were almost kneaded like mud by the torn Andy again, but it was not strange that if she changed someone, she would die a dozen times.

Thanks to Hull's temporary shutdown due to the high energy consumption today, it would have had no idea what it would have done when it executed the proxy program.

Two men were called over, and the three of them dragged Andy back to Jericho Town. This sleep was dark, and when he woke up, he only felt like a world away.

Pushing away the blanket on his body, Andy walked down from the bed, and saw that the room he slept in was probably a room at the Jericho Town Police Department, and before going out into the hallway, he saw a new set of trench coats and leather pants hanging on the hanger next to him, so he put them all on his body, the tattered clothes he was wearing before had turned into rags, and it was estimated that someone had thrown them away in his sleep.

It seems to have been rubbed all over again. There must have been an attempt to get rid of Hull, but that attempt was not destined to succeed.

There was a commotion outside, and Andy walked out to see a large crowd singing and dancing around the campfire, both the Latter-Saints and the townspeople of Jericho, everything had been cleaned up, except for the indelible terrible marks on the walls of the wall, which silently told of the terrible battle that had broken out a few days ago, which had nearly destroyed the town.

He had just watched happily for a while, when he suddenly sighed in his heart, the problem at the Hoover Dam had not been solved.

Just then, he saw Simon, who was sitting at a table drinking with two bodyguards.

"When did you get here?" He walked over and asked curiously. Simon raised his head, his face was actually wrapped in a large piece of gauze, and the two bodyguards next to him were also on crutches and one arm was bandaged.

"Ahh Are you awake? The business has been negotiated, I found a few caravans to carry Jericho's water to the Hoover Dam, and now I guess it's almost there.... Thanks to your contributions, Sheriff O'Connor is willing to sell this batch of emergency water to the City of Hoover Dam at cost price. Of course, as part of the exchange, I also signed a power treaty with him on your behalf, and the town of Jericho will pay to use the electricity transmitted from the Hoover Dam in the future, do you have no problem with this? Andy waved.

"Originally, you were in charge of these things.... I don't care about that, but why are you here so late? Simon's face was depressed.

"Don't mention it... Ever since we parted at the station, I had a sudden upset, first the car broke down in the wilderness for some reason, then I got lost, and then I encountered terrible beasts.... When we finally arrived at Jericho on foot, we ran into this terrible battle, and we were swept into it before we had time to react, but fortunately we were not dressed as marauders, otherwise we would have been greeted with bullets as soon as we approached. After saying goodbye to Simon, Andy followed the sound to Anson's tavern, which had been transformed into a place to celebrate the victory, where people drank and binge.

On the gallows in the center of the town hangs a corpse, probably the leader of the marauders. The noose hung around his neck, his head tilted to the side, the goatee fluttered in the night breeze, his clothes were stripped clean, and there was a huge bullet hole in his stomach, the man was dead.

He looked twice, then walked into the bar. Deputy Sergeant Calville was standing on the stage swaying back and forth and dancing wildly, while others shook their heads along to pre-war music played on a music player, and the drinks seemed to be unlimited, and the people were drunk and drunk, and there was only joy between the cups and the glasses.

Dodging the two men and women hugging each other, Andy saw Alexandra lying on a table, surrounded by bottles and glasses, and holding a bottle of beer in one hand, the contents of which had been spilled.

"Hey! Wake up! Andy nudged Alexandra a few times, finally waking her out of her slumber.

"Dry ..... Hm. She looked up, her face flushed, and she smelled of alcohol. Andy had to repeat what he was going to say to her repeatedly, because every time he finished speaking, Alexandra snorted, and then asked in a daze what Andy had just told her, and she didn't hear clearly.

After a few times, he gave up. Seeing this, it was impossible to ask something out of her mouth, Andy had to be about to ask another person what had happened after he fell asleep, but suddenly there was an indescribable soft mass attached to his arm, and when he turned his head, it was the blonde Marianne from New Vegas who had put her arms around him.

"Honey~ You finally gave it up? I have a lot to say to you. Andy was blown by her breath so much that half of his head was numb.

"Marianne? Did you drink too? She smiled for a moment, then leaned into his ear and spoke in a whispered tone.

"Why don't you drink when you're so happy? You see your friend drank a lot more than I did, huh? As she spoke, one of her hands began to become restless, Andy couldn't bear this, grabbed her wrist directly and leaned over, Marianne just smiled coquettishly and did not dodge, and even put her arms around his neck in turn.

After a long time, the two people who hugged each other tightly separated. Gasping for breath, Andy looked at the beauty in front of him and put his arm around her shoulders.

"What do you want when you're close to me? Marianne? I know you must have something in mind, right? Marianne smiled, showing her white teeth.

Why do you ask such a thing at such a time? Honey~ I don't want anything now, I just want ...."She held out a finger and pointed at Andy.

Andy smiled and didn't speak, it seemed that he was going to have a happy time tonight, but he subconsciously glanced at it and saw that Alexandra had woken up at some point, and was looking at the two people who were coming in front of her with hazy eyes and a red face.

This made Andy feel a little embarrassed, but then he shook his head again, in fact, there was no embarrassment at all, who knows if she drank too much when she was confused and sober for a while, and.... Is it normal for people to be human?

"You've drunk too much, I'll send you somewhere to sleep." Andy stood up and helped Alexandra up, turned to ask Marianne.

"Which room here is vacant right now? I'll send her in first...."Marianne looked at Andy with a resentful cheek, and after a moment pouted and pointed to the penultimate room inside the bar, Andy took a look, remembering that this seemed to be Marianne's own room before, so he didn't think much about it and helped Alexandra to walk over, and after entering the door, he found that the surroundings were quite interesting, and the big bed with pink mattress was loose and soft, not to mention lying on one person, even three people.

As soon as Alexandra was put on the bed, Andy was about to go out to talk to Marianne, but she had already entered the house and turned around and closed the door.

“?” Marianne suddenly walked over and hugged Andy, and after a brief interaction, pushed him onto the fluffy bed.

"Wait.... That's it? My friend is still lying next to him. Although Andy asked, he couldn't help but start to relax with Marianne's movements.

Marianne glanced at Alexandra, then casually threw her clothes to the floor.

"Do you mean her? Didn't she keep watching but didn't say anything, and I was very much in favor of the three of them, and she didn't seem to object to it, right? Well, just lie down. Andy turned his head in surprise to see that Alexandra really didn't close her eyes at this time, and sat up and took off her coat, which really didn't mean to object.

Marianne didn't know what she was doing, Andy couldn't see what she was doing now, because Alexandra suddenly came up to his face and completely covered his vision, looking at Alexandra with a confused expression in front of him, Andy suddenly had a different throbbing, as if he had returned to the feeling he had when he first saw her when he was in Mesa Verde.

"I have to thank you, Andy." She untied her hair and stroked it.

"Thanks to you, a piece of my heart has finally been cured this time, and O'Connor has held a ceremony that will henceforth change the town of Jericho back to its original name, New Canaan. All the Post-Saints agreed to merge with the people here, and many people, including Mayor O'Connor, were willing to be baptized and converted in gratitude for the help of the Post-Saints, and soon.... New Canaan will be restored to its original state. Andy was about to say something that was great, but it came out of his mouth involuntarily

"Oh oh". Marianne's voice came.

"It's strange about this dress of yours, but at least it separates itself and exposes the most important places, how about it? I rarely have a trick to go around the wasteland, hey, if it were a vase cap, it would be hundreds. Andy was curious to look up to see what was going around the wasteland, although he could guess by feeling, but he still couldn't help but want to confirm it with his own eyes, but as soon as he moved, Alexandra forcibly dragged him back.

"Can you ignore her for now, I haven't finished yet." Alexandra was lying in front of Andy with a mouth full of alcohol, and it was really hard to tell how sober and drunk she was.

"Okay, okay.... You name it, Alexandra. Andy sighed, it stands to reason that this should be a dreamy moment of happiness, why did he just feel very strange.... Alexandra was almost going to put her face completely on Andy's face.

"I don't have to give the bottle cap, in fact, I should give you some reward in return, I think so, although we are destined to meet only briefly, but.... I can't deceive myself, and I don't want to owe anyone else, so...."Her words were interrupted again, as Andy couldn't help but say it

"Oh oh" sound, so she was silent for a moment, and suddenly lowered her head and bit down.

"Hey! It hurts, what are you doing Alexandra, it's just revenge. He clutched his chest and gasped.

Just as Marianne's voice came again.

"Hee-hee.... I've got some magical gadgets, and you don't have any problem with that, right? I'll be careful~" Alexandra turned her head in a daze.

"What magic.... Oh..... This is really interesting, it's the first time I've seen it.... Well.... Why don't I help you? ”

"That's good." Andy looked at Alexandra's back in confusion, and always felt a chill coming from below.

"Wait! What, can you explain clearly? I...... Ah..... What is this...."Hull's voice came from the back of his neck.

"Detected.... Oh wait, based on the database records and model analysis results, the alarm is dismissed. Andy asked quietly through gritted teeth.

"What? Hull, what's going on? There was no answer, and the strange feeling only intensified.

The night that followed went by quickly and frantically, and when I came back to my senses in the blink of an eye, it was indescribable.

Anyway, by the time the three of them got dressed and left the room, it was already noon the next day. Some passers-by complained when they saw them.

"Hey, you guys were really noisy yesterday."