"What happened to Burnham Springs after the explosion?" Andy and Sheriff O'Connor sit at a table smoking cigarettes and gossiping, the defeat of the 215 Gang and the return of New Canaan have made business better here, and the merchants are attracted by the reputation of the New Canaanites in the past and impressed by Jericho's victory over the raids of the Marauders.

When the newly built New Canaan from the ruins merged with Jericho, the town expanded several times over, and is now almost a small city-state.

"I guess a lot of the veins there have been ignited by the explosions, and people who have escaped from Burnham Springs have told me that there is now billowing smoke from the depths of the earth, all of which are deadly gases, and the threat of a ground that could crack and collapse at any moment, and if you accidentally fall down, you will be greeted by a flaming abyss.

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"There are even people who say that a few years after the explosion, monsters began to appear in the ground there, I don't know if it's true or not, but I've heard that some refugees who fled to Burnham Springs when New Canaan fell named the monsters there based on their stories in their scriptures, and maybe Jeremiah and someone on their side knew better than I did about the state of Burnham Spring." The two then changed the subject and chatted for a while.

Sheriff O'Connor began to complain about Jeremiah, the prophet who ruled over the Latter-Saints.

"Rigdon.... I think I should call him Prophet Rigdon or Brother Rigdon now, after all, I was washed by him... I don't know why joining them did such a strange ritual. In short, that guy seems to have an unimaginable attachment to personal morality, and he really cares about it, and some of the misbehaving people under my command were ordered to leave. Andy's eyes moved, although the Jericho and the New Canaanites were like a family after the victory, the two sides were not fully integrated, which may lead to some problems.

"Exactly?" Sheriff O'Connor spread his hands and began to hold up examples: "Gambling and selling meat are fine, and no one has taken over this since Anson ran away, so it's easy to ban." But he can't accept that someone touches the medicine, although I don't touch it either, but before.... You know, there was a lot of internal pressure in Jericho at the time, and how would it work if you banned drugs again? So there are a lot of people, including the police under my command, who have become addicted, and many of them are willing to convert and repent of their past sins after seeing the New Canaanites' miraculous overnight rebuilding of the city, but their physical needs can't be cut off in a moment, so eager..."Looking at Sheriff O'Connor's eyes, Andy understood.

"Then I'll go and talk to him about it, and sometimes you have to take it step by step to avoid problems." Sergeant O'Connor immediately laughed.

"Thank you Andy, I'm not going to say that to him directly, besides... Thank you for all your help all the time, this thing is given to you, it is a small reward; I'm sorry I don't have more caps for you, I'm sending them all to the people who fought before or their families, you know... Some of them have died with loved ones, and some of them have become crippled, and I have to deal with them. Andy said it didn't matter, and took the little thing.

It looked like a claw, with a perforated end and a rope that could be hung around the neck.

"Is this a little charm?" Sergeant O'Connor smiled a little sheepishly.

"Haha, it may not be worth a few bottle caps, but it's also my baby, it's one of the few things my parents left me, I once looked for someone to see, and they said it was an amulet made of a monster's claws... I don't think I'll need him anymore after this fight, and we'll enjoy peace for a long time, but you don't look like someone who will stop, so... I'll give it to you. Andy thought it was a good workmanship, so he put it on.

The beep kid immediately updated his status. [Bear Claw Talisman] [Effect: Luck +1] [Description: A talisman made by an unknown craftsman using one of the claws of a mutant brown bear, in addition to being used as an ornament, it can also be taken off as an emergency weapon when necessary] Andy raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect that there would be such an unexpected gain.

After saying goodbye to Sheriff O'Connor, he walked to the area next door where the Latter Syndicates were toiling, where houses were being rebuilt, roads, gardens, farmland, and even playground rides for children, such as a swing made of thick rope and iron racks and a scrap tire.

Many of Jericho's townspeople have begun to work with the Latter-Saints. Andy sees Jeremiah leading the ploughing with a hoe, and despite being a prophetic leader and wearing bandages from his guns, he does so.

As he walked over, Jeremiah stood still with his hoe.

"See Alexandra?" The other person nodded.

"She's taking someone to find the radscorpion's nest." Andy was stunned for a moment, and his heart said why.

"That thing is quite dangerous, it was hard to defeat the Marauder, why do you want to risk it so quickly?" Jeremiah took off his straw hat and sweat covered his head.

"Ahh Since we merged with Jericho, she has made a lot of suggestions to me, including that I need to slow down, and I have figured it out, the original Jericho people must not be able to get rid of the poison of drugs for a while, I have to give them some opportunity and time to do this, so she said that she will take people to find radscorpion eggs to make earthwork addiction. ”

"But after a while, New Canaan will no longer allow people who are addicted to pornography, gambling and drugs to live here, that's for sure, I talked to Sheriff O'Connor before, and he also supports that, saying that now that the waterworks no longer need workers, and no longer need those draconian laws, then there is no reason to continue to indulge anywhere." Andy breathed a sigh of relief, the matter had been settled before he came, and he handed Jeremiah the holographic cassette he had gotten from Vault 70 earlier.

He listened quietly before letting out a sigh after a long time.

"I know who recorded it, he was originally the same person as Prophet Black, but everyone thought he was missing, and he died at that time... Although we were not near the shelter at the time and did not experience it firsthand, we knew how terrible the sudden earthquake was, and I heard that even the mountains in the east were shaking. When Andy heard this, he suddenly thought of the earthquake at the nursery, although the time was not right, but maybe there was some connection between the two, the mountains on the periphery of the nursery stretched to the west, and the end was not too far from the place where Vault 70 was located.

Using geothermal energy as an energy source for power generation can be said to be inexhaustible, but Andy always feels that this seemingly perfect choice must have imperfections, whether these earthquakes are caused by nurseries.... He didn't think too much about it, anyway, now that the surface world has been destroyed by nuclear war, even if the geothermal mining of the nursery can really induce earthquakes, it is likely to have too much impact.

"So what do you think of this?" Andy looked at Jeremiah expectantly, and he lived up to that expectation.

"Alexandra was angry with me before because I wanted to restore the ideological system of the first prophets, and I understand her very well.... Now that the proportions of the population have been restored, and the cassette you brought with you explains why the ancestors of the past changed the scriptures of the past when they were in the shelter, there is nothing more for me to hold onto, as the ancestor said, the essentials must be exterminated. Jeremiah's gaze was calm, and it seemed that he had no intention of lying.

"Very well, I can rest assured." At this moment, there were suddenly bursts of exclamations and screams nearby.

The two immediately turned their heads to look and found that the people who were working in the fields were scattered and fled, Pablo had fallen several times in the soil because of his wide body and fatness, and due to the transformation of GEcK, a lot of sand in this sand has been consolidated, and it has been transformed into soil, which also causes him to be covered in dirt all over his body, and he can't shoot it no matter how he shoots.

"What's wrong?" He shouted at Pablo, who was running away from wiping his face, and he pointed to the west behind him in horror.

"There are so many cockroaches! Big cockroaches! Andy and Jeremiah immediately pulled out their guns and hurried towards that side, and the members of the Hand of God who were one step later also drew their weapons and followed closely.

When they finally saw the bugs, they couldn't help but be startled by these guys, mutant cockroaches were widespread in the wasteland, and these insects, which had shown a strong tolerance to radiation long before the Great War, were even more unscathed after the Great War, and not only that, but their average size changed from the size of a fingernail to the size of a small dog later.

But these cockroaches in front of me don't live up to Pablo at all

"Big cockroaches" describe each of them as being nearly one meter long and half a meter wide. Although they lie on the ground, they are not slow at all, and they can easily catch up with people.

A woman who fell to the ground was screaming as the cockroaches surrounded her and gnawed hard.

"Damn pests!" Jeremiah raised the pistol in his hand, but he couldn't fire immediately, the cockroaches were entangled with the woman, and if they missed, they would kill her, but while he was struggling to adjust the angle of the shot, Andy had no hesitation to pull out two pistols and fire.

With the help of V mode, two powerful pistols smashed the two cockroaches at just the right distance and scared off the other cockroaches, and one of the members of the Hand of God immediately rushed over with three steps and two steps, using the knife to force back the bugs in their way and drag the woman who was attacked all the way, dragging her from danger to safety all the way.

Everyone opened fire in unison, and the cockroaches were immediately killed and wounded, their fragile exoskeletons could not stop the bullets, and even small-caliber firearms could still kill them easily.

"Where did these things come from?" Andy looked at the bitten and scarred woman.

"I don't know... Whining... Suddenly... Suddenly a big crowd rushed out, oh my God.... Whining. The frightened woman spoke intermittently, surrounded by a group of huge cockroaches and tore indiscriminately, this terrible scene that can only be encountered in a nightmare has now become a reality, and it is no longer terrible to describe.

Just when everyone looked at the corpses of those cockroaches and didn't know what to do next, a little girl probed her brain not far away.

"Who are you looking for, little friend?" Andy walked over, and the little girl grabbed her clothes and spoke in a childish voice.

"Hmm... My good friend, well... Xiaoton, he said he found something interesting, but he didn't come back after he went there, you say... Well... Did you think he was eaten by a big bug? Everyone looked at each other a few times, and hurriedly ran in the direction pointed by the little girl, and soon saw that there was a partially lifted shaft cover, and a stick was thrown next to it, and at this moment many cockroaches were busy escaping into it, although the gap was not large, but with their flat bodies enough to climb in, the little ton in the little girl's mouth was nowhere to be seen.

The adults stopped in front of the shaft cover, and Jeremiah lamented, and everyone knew that the child was more than lucky.

"Why are there so many big cockroaches popping up here all of a sudden?" Andy was puzzled, there had never been a sign of cockroaches in Jericho Town before, this sewer should be part of the sewer system of Ogden City in front of the station, and he also went in the sewer for a turn, there were only rats and leeches.

Jeremiah pondered for a moment and uttered a guess.

"This kind of thing also happened in the records of our ancestors, when we first arrived here to build New Canaan with GEcK, and suddenly a lot of huge bugs came out and attacked.... At the time, it was said that it must have something to do with GEcK's modification of the soil. Andy listened, and suddenly realized that this speculation was very reasonable, but at the moment their more important question was whether to go down to find the missing child.

Jeremiah thought for a moment before deciding.

"I'll go down and see, the kid might still be alive," Matthew immediately stopped him.

"Prophet, your gunshot wound is not healed." John walked directly over and lifted the shaft cover, leaking out a black hole at the mouth of the well, and some cockroaches that had just climbed into it were still climbing on the wall of the shaft, and after seeing the light, they quickly crawled towards the shadows, and soon disappeared.

The blue-skinned super mutant scratched its hairless blue head, and then suddenly jumped straight down.

Jeremiah and the others hurried to the mouth of the well, and looked at it and hesitated. Seeing this, Andy didn't talk nonsense, left a sentence and went down to have a look, grabbed the rusty escalator and climbed down.

When he finally climbed to the bottom, he turned on the light of the Pip-Boy and saw that there were already several cockroaches around him that had been killed by John with his fists and farm tools, and Andy quickly found John underground along the dead cockroaches.

He stood there as if thinking about something, then looked back at the sound of footsteps.

"Huh? I didn't expect anyone to dare to come down, and it was only you. Andy ran over, and there was darkness ahead of John.

"No one expected you to come down directly, and it's so dark down there, can you see it?" John pointed to his eyes.

"Have you forgotten? I used to be a Nightcrawler, and the names of our team are not called for nothing, and the darkness cannot blind our eyes... I stopped here because I seemed to have seen a child just now, but the child seemed to be riding on a large cockroach. Andy looked at John strangely.

"Uh, did you smoke? Are you sure that wasn't your hallucination? John scratched his head in annoyance.

"Hell, I just couldn't figure this out before I stopped, after smoking I felt that my mental illness was better, but not completely, sometimes I could still see and hear strange things, such as a cow's head telling me to go west, and saying what it was called.... Hell, I couldn't figure out if it was a pipe dream or something. Andy looked past him into the deeper darkness, the dirty sewers, the sewage had dried up for a long time, and there was only a few silt on the ground, on which there were many clear traces of mutant cockroaches crawling.

"Those cockroaches are as violent as other mutant creatures, and when they see people, they only attack them as food, how can they not eat that child and let him ride on them? You must be mistaken. John was noncommittal, but only asked Andy if he wanted to keep chasing deeper.

"......," Andy held up the beep boy and looked at the map.

"This part of the sewer should be connected to the bottom of Jericho Town, but the pipe corridor connected to the outside of the town has been blocked in order to prevent some marauders from making plans to carry out the central flowering strategy, and now the remaining part is not too big, we can go inside a little more, and maybe there is a chance to find the child.... Part? ”