"This is...."Andy took a small box, along with several odd metal coins, which appeared to be made of sterling silver, and had a male head printed on them.

Looks like I've seen this somewhere a long time ago.

"Anson ran away from prison, I sent someone to look for him, and found that he had gone back to his shop to look for something, and there was a secret compartment that he didn't have time to close after opening it, and found the rest of them in it, and the rest was probably taken away by him." Andy stares for a moment, informing Sheriff O'Connor of the origin of these things.

"This is a stealth kid, a rather rare pre-war tech item, which can be used to make people temporarily invisible, as for these currencies.... I'm guessing they originated from Caesar's Legion, which was supposed to be a regime similar to NcR. It's located far east, even further east than Dog Town, and it's said that the roads between our area and that side are seasonally radiated by hurricanes, so there are only a few months of the year that are suitable for travel. Sergeant O'Connor looked puzzled.

"I, I've never heard of that." Andy thought for a moment and brought up the incident that became a household name at Hoover Dam.

"Fort Alashid fell, those attacking barbarians, they turned Fort Alashid into an abandoned fortress, and fought all the way to the east of Hoover Dam City, until now the eastern part of Hoover Dam is still closed, and people can only travel to and from the east and west banks through the crumbling Hoover Bridge, you know, the people who use the golden bull as their totem, although they are now gone." Sergeant O'Connor scratched his head, still confused.

"I'm sorry, I haven't paid much attention to NcR since I left NcR, I've heard of this for the first time, I do know the name of the abandoned fortress, but I just thought that the abandoned fortress was called this from the beginning, because it was a pre-war fortress.... It turns out that there are so many complicated things behind it. Andy knew it was impossible to explain to Sergeant O'Connor what Caesar's Legion was, but there was no need for him to figure it out now.

"Well, Sergeant O'Connor, in short, Caesar's Legion is a powerful regime, they have organized a strong army and practiced slavery, and they have actively sent a lot of spies to search for information for them, and it is hard to believe that they are not paving the way for the next military expansion.... I've walked through places where I've found Legion spies lurking in some of the native territories like Blackfoot or Ouroboros, and now, it seems, is still there in a more civilized place. Sheriff O'Connor was overwhelmed, and he immediately asked the officers to make a wanted warrant that Anson could be killed immediately if he found out that he had reappeared, and that the person who killed Anson could receive a bounty.

However, it is also clear that Anson is unlikely to appear again. They talked about being baptized and converted for a while, and Sheriff O'Connor didn't seem to care much about faith or anything like that, and he brought it up just to thank the Post-Saints, since they always said that they had to be consistent in their faith to be considered family, then Sheriff O'Connor was an example as the representative of Jericho Town, and it was also a kind of reparation for the mistakes they had made in the first place.

Sheriff O'Connor was surprised by the movement of GEcK at the beginning of the campaign, he had only heard rumors of the Garden of Eden Creator at that time in NcR, and this was the first time he had seen its power, and many Jericho townspeople were influenced to believe that the gods believed in by the Latter-Saints were real, and they asked to be baptized and converted, although their piety stemmed from ignorance, but it was beneficial to the unity of the two groups, and no one broke anything.

"I've heard someone talk about the Eagle Rock incident, what does that mean?" Andy suddenly thought of this stubble, so he asked by the way.

I didn't expect him to know.

"Oh, that's it, I've heard it, and although I'm not very interested in NcR things right now, there are some things that people can't help but drill into my ears when they talk about it, even if I don't want to know about it." He reminisced and began to tell the story he knew about the Eagle Rock incident.

"First of all, let's start with the name, the so-called Eagle Rock refers to a small town half a day to the south, that is, Eagle Rock Town, which was inaccessible before the eastward movement, and there was originally only a ruin. Probably a few years before we immigrants ran to New Canaan, probably around 2237, the NcR's army discovered it, and it was probably around 2239 that they rebuilt the infrastructure, and it was certainly not for nothing that they found coal there. ”

"That's why I know something, when we refugees gathered on the outskirts of New Canaan and had nowhere to go every day, and NcR was building a new settlement not far to the southeast, you know how attractive it was to the refugees, right?" Andy thought to himself, that must be a lot of money, that the new town in the NcR meant countless opportunities, and the refugees had nothing in the first place.

"Why didn't you choose to take someone with you?" Sergeant O'Connor sighed.

"As I said before, we basically lost trust in the NcR, and a lot of people hated the NcR because of it, and the New Canaanites had been providing food and water unconditionally, and allowing us to be stationed nearby, so we didn't go, but we kept an eye on it.... At the time, I was still struggling, but from the back of the day, this choice was undoubtedly the right one. Andy thought to himself, after the collapse of the eastern settlement network, the NcR garrison in that town must have also retreated or collapsed, and after the collapse of order, Eagle Rock Town must be miserable.

"The NcR is also unprepared for the sudden fall of the fortress of Alashid, and perhaps one day they will re-establish the connection with the settlements in the east, and they are now rebuilding the railway, especially the north-west-southeast one, and maybe it won't be long before it will be connected to Union Station, so that the railway can go directly to Jericho... Oh, New Canaan here. Sheriff O'Connor nodded.

"I'm optimistic about the future, but you're getting one thing wrong, Eagle Rock was completely finished long before the NcR moved the garrisons scattered around, and because of the NcR." Andy was slightly surprised, which was not his expectation, and he listened quietly to Sheriff O'Connor continue.

Sheriff O'Connor's face was a little solemn now.

"Hmm.... In short, in order to exploit the coal resources there, the NcR rebuilt the town of Eagle Rock, and after the initial construction was completed, they did not know whether it was for the purpose of winning the fortune or how, and the new town that they rebuilt from the ruins was named Burnham Springs, but the old coal mine there is still called the Eagle Rock Mine, which is the origin of the name of the Eagle Rock Incident. ”

"The NcR actually did a good job in the beginning, and the immigrants who went to Burnham Springs at their beckoning to settle there had a good start to it, although their job was mainly to work as coal miners for the NcR, but the income was very high, because the NcR's eastward movement had a strong demand for coal, which could drive the NcR trains, and the Eagle Rock Mine in Burnham Springs was also the first source of cheap energy for the NcR to control here."

"But around 2245, NcR decided to extend the railroad here, and then something went wrong." Sheriff O'Connor lit a cigarette, the smoke slowly dissipated on his face, and he continued with a few puffs.

"There weren't many refugees in New Canaan to satisfy the NcR, especially after learning that they had to dig coal for the NcR after settling in Burnham Springs, and everyone knew how dangerous it was to dig in those old pre-war mines, and even though the NcR was not paid a lot at the time, not many people were willing to go, and they began to forcibly recruit people from the interior of California to come here in order to get more coal for labor." Andy understood when he heard this.

"I'm afraid those who are forcibly sent here are not good stubbles, right?"

"Of course." Sergeant O'Connor extinguished the cigarette butt in the ashtray and pulled out another one and lit it.

"You know, they're basically criminals or people who have been marginalized, like the natives on the NcR border, who were included in the expansion of the NcR, but after President Tanti's death, the relevant policies changed again and again, so they couldn't adapt to the NcR society, so they had to try their luck in the east... These are people who are not afraid of things, and together with a small number of NcR refugees from our side, they make up the residents of Burnham Springs, or the Eagle Rock Coal Miners who have been employed by the NcR for a long time. ”

"That is, those years.... While the NcR hired a large number of railroad engineers from California to build railroads in the Eastern D.C., the NcR inexplicably began to have a financial crunch, and as a result, the conflict between many railroad workers and the NcR government erupted over the issue of wages. After falling out with the NcR, they began to ignore the laws of the NcR, gathered into gangs to storm the station and seize the key points of the route, robbed the NcR's supply trains, and exchanged fierce fire with the NcR soldiers. ”

"The group we just defeated was one of the groups that rose up during that time." Andy is clear about Sheriff O'Connor's past, the Dog City salvage crews were part of this history, and after knowing that they would not be able to get the agreed payment, they decided to take a risk and create the 370 Incident, throwing the last fig leaf of NcR's finances into the sky.

"And then? The railroad workers turned marauders are starting to settle in Burnham Springs, aren't they? Sergeant O'Connor sighed.

"Isn't it... And they soon grew stronger, and most of those who worked as miners under the NcR were willing to join them, because the NcR didn't care about their life or death when mining coal mines, and the remuneration for them became lower and lower, but the demand for their mining share was getting higher and higher, and many of them came from California with resentment, so how could they be loyal to the NcR? ”

"So, Burnham Springs soon became a nest occupied by bandits, who were constantly fighting guerrilla warfare with the NcR army, and the NcR was already very weak at that time, and every time they sent troops to no avail, once the army retreated, Burnham Springs was controlled by the marauders again." Andy touched his chin and frowned, thinking that no matter how weak NcR was, he would not just throw away Burnham Spring, which has an important strategic resource coal mine.

"But the marauders are only marauders after all, and the NcR has a huge army organized into formations, and they are unlikely to give up Burnham Springs even if their finances are tight and leaking from all sides, and they will definitely find an opportunity to give those marauders a hard time, right?" Sergeant O'Connor took a puff of his cigarette, exhaled a smoke ring, coughed twice, and then extinguished the cigarette and decided not to smoke it again.

"Ahem.... Yes, you guessed it right. The NcR Army, which was stationed near Burnham Springs at the time, was said to be part of the NcR Engineer Division, and was a company of its subordinates, like the Fifth Engineering Company, which had repeatedly suffered at the hands of the marauders, and was almost close to freeing Burnham Springs from NcR control. ”

"I don't know what happened, but I guess it may be that the commander of the military is shirking his responsibility... Maybe they told the heads of government of the Eastern Special Administrative Region of NcR at the Hoover Dam that it was because of the support of the residents of the Burnham Springs miners that everything had developed to this point, and that they were afraid of the miners so they did not dare to go all out to suppress the bandits, of course, these are just my speculations, and I don't know what the truth is. ”

"In short, the deputy mayor of Hoover Dam and some dignitaries suddenly planned to visit Burnham Springs to talk to the miners there, which was a very stupid decision, but the army did not dare to stop it, after all, they were probably always boasting that the marauders near Burnham Springs were not worth mentioning, and that the war was not good because of the rat traps, etc...."

"And so it happened, a group of marauders had been entrenched in the Hoover Dam to Burnham Springs for a long time, extorting and looting merchants or passers-by, and fighting with NcR soldiers, and when they met the team escorting the dignitaries of the Hoover Dam, a battle broke out, and the members of the dignitaries were killed by the marauders using explosives, including the deputy mayor." Andy listened and couldn't help but say a sentence in his heart

"Oh roar", this is really an amazing achievement for a marauder, but it is also a choice to find death, NcR has always lacked strength, what is lacking is a reason to concentrate on using power.

"So NcR decided to get revenge this time, right?" Sergeant O'Connor's eyebrows moved upwards and nodded.

"Yes, this is the beginning of the tragedy .... Carried away by his anger, the NcR decided to exterminate the Marauders entrenched in Burnham Springs in one fell swoop. Note that this was probably a death order from the soldiers to exterminate and kill all the marauders, not simply to drive them out of Burnham Spring. ”

"So in 2247, that.... Probably called Major Robert, maybe Robert Pragg's full name? I've heard of him, a former NcR officer in charge of military administration in the Burnham Springs area, and the attack on the dignitaries put him under tremendous pressure. He drew troops from all over his ranks, assembled a large army with equipment and drove to Burnham Springs by train, where the marauders were blocked in the town by the NcR's army before they could even hear anything. "Sergeant O'Connor made an explosive gesture with his hand.

"I don't know exactly what happened after that, but it was terrible, the marauders who were blocked there were almost all wiped out, the NcR's army also suffered heavy losses, and somehow there was a terrible explosion that turned Burnham Springs into a hell that has not subsided to this day." Andy thought of the guys who were wrapped up and frantically throwing explosives when they faced the 215 gang before, their physical condition was so miserable, could it be that they were the survivors of the looters who were almost completely wiped out in the Eagle Rock incident after taking Burnham Springs?

If that's the case, then it makes sense, and the dynamite death of the dignitaries is an indication of the marauders' adept at using explosives, which were most likely originally supplied to the miners for mining.

It is likely that the explosion in the Eagle Rock incident was also related to explosives, and the injuries on those who were physically unsightly were the injuries caused by the explosion in the Eagle Rock incident.

It's just that.... Why did the explosion happen? Could it be that the NcR pushed them too hard and decided to die together?