"I'm pregnant." Mary Jo sat on the bed with a complicated face, her head bowed face down, and her right hand wrapped in a piece of gauze, as if something had happened before.

"At first I just felt a little unwell, but my dad was wary and he got a doctor from outside, so it seemed like this." Andy sat on the side and felt a little mixed, what does this mean, he is going to be a father?

But after thinking about it, why is he the one who likes to be a father?

"Hmm... I just wanted to make sure that before our night, wasn't it—" Mary Jo shook her head, which made Andy's heart sink, but what she said made Andy's heart even more uncomfortable.

"I know what you're trying to ask, it's not.... It's not just you, in fact.... I can't remember exactly how much. There was an awkward silence.

Andy looked at Mary Jo's belly, this is troublesome, there is a group of people standing outside who are about to rush in, and there is also a group of guys standing inside who are ready to die with the people outside, at this critical juncture, he was asked to marry a woman who only had a one-night stand, although Mary Jo is absolutely first-class in terms of appearance and figure, but to this extent of marriage, the relationship between the two is not up to it at all, not to mention, the timing is not right at all.

In addition, it is impossible to confirm whether the child is your own.

"You, didn't you think this was going to happen?" Mary Jo sat on the bed with her legs crossed, looking very confused.

"Alas..... It's hard for us to have children, and my births are very rare, and as you can see, there are no young people among us except me. My mother was an outsider who had strayed into the area, and my father was the strongest man in the area, and my birth was almost a miracle at the time..... But it was almost at the cost of my mother's life, who died when she gave birth to me. Andy looked at Mary Jo and felt more and more pitiful for the girl.

"Is this how your ancestors continued? Bonding with outsiders? Mary Jo shook her head slowly.

"No, it is said that there were many people who hid in the Hoover Dam at first, but for various reasons, it may be a problem caused by living inside the dam all year round, the fertility rate began to decrease from generation to generation, and it became more and more difficult to get pregnant, and we used to intermarry internally, but until my father's generation, because of the imbalance between men and women, he could no longer find a suitable spouse among his own people." As she spoke, she looked up, her eyes a little red.

"My dad and they have adapted to living in a dark and damp place, but I can't, I feel like it's a dead spot forgotten by the world, so I always fantasize about something outside; One day, I sneaked out while others were not looking, and the people outside seemed to like me, and at that time I met a man who taught me a lot of things and bought me a lot of things...."

"Since that day, I've been more eager to get out of here and live outside."

"Later when I ran out again, I was really happy outside, but I didn't have a place to live and nothing to eat, and I didn't want to go back. Luckily, Dusty took me in and just needed me to work for her. I.... I really like that job, I think everyone I meet is more interesting than the people in my family, they think and see things that I haven't thought or seen.... I was worried about pregnancy at first, but Dusty said she had a way, and then I never got pregnant, and I thought...," Mary Jo said on and off, and finally stopped.

The two were silent for a few more moments. Andy finally broke the silence.

"I know, I admit that maybe I have to bear some responsibility to you, even if no one knows who the child is, but we have been together for such a short time, even if I am willing to marry you, you must have someone you care about in your heart, right? Let alone... I'll be blunt, I still have a lot of things to do, and it's impossible for me to stay here with you, and there's no way your father will allow you to leave here and follow me. Mary Jo put one of the fingers of her left hand in her mouth and bit it.

"I understand.... Not..... I first told my dad about Mr. Rabbit, but the mercenaries hired by my dad didn't find him, and they said that Mr. Rabbit didn't seem to be at Hoover Dam anymore. He kept asking me if I had anything else, and then he guessed about you... We had blocked the entrance because we didn't know why so many angry people were running in and making noise. At that time, I thought that even if I said it was you, there would be no chance that this matter would involve you, but I didn't expect you to find it yourself. Andy was speechless for a while, and as a result, he fell into the net, knowing that he was not a peacemaker, and now it was too late to say anything.

"Do you know that Mr. Rabbit's real name?" Mary Jo scratched her hair and thought for a moment.

"It seems to be.... Roman Cathcart, if I'm not mistaken. She got out of bed and stood in the corner with her arms crossed.

"I understand what my dad thinks, he really just wants me to have a wedding ceremony, in our tradition, it is ominous for a woman not to have a wedding.... When that's over, I'll persuade him to let you go. I knew that this place was as unbearable as a sewer compared to the outside world, and that it was not right to force anyone to stay here. Andy stood up and wanted to say something to Mary Jo, but when the words came to his lips they were all shattered, what should he say?

Those words of comfort were all nonsense that had no real meaning.

"I'm going to talk to your dad, even if I won't stay here, I'll be.... Do the best I can. With that, he turned away, not daring to look at Mary Jo again.

As soon as he walked out, he saw albino people putting up lanterns, many old lanterns that he didn't know where to find them were pulled everywhere, some people brought out dusty and strange instruments to try out, some people put all kinds of food and drinks on the table, and he even saw a high platform made of waste wood being quickly erected.

These rude albino people had changed their old ways, and all of them had happy faces. Billy yells and asks for all sorts of things while picking through a large pile of old boxes.

Andy watched this scene, and a ripple rippled in his heart, and the atmosphere was so different inside and outside the baseline area that was blocked by the pile of garbage.

Outside, the slaughter of people standing with guns ready to rush in, inside, people were already in the joy of blessing the two newlyweds, and they didn't care about what they were about to face.

He walked over to Billy and saw Billy open an old box with only a mess of cotton wool inside, which he fastened and threw away, then lowered his head and picked up another box.

"Ahem...," Andy coughed, and Billy looked up.

"You're here, how are you talking to my daughter?" The bearded leader of the albino known as Billy Daddy now had lost his violent mood and became as calm as a stagnant water.

Andy opened his mouth, but finally forced himself to speak.

"It's ok.... Well, Mary Jo she, um.... I'm ready. Billy nodded slightly, he looked at Andy, the hidden thoughts in the expression on his face were now indistinguishable, as if his face was expressionless, and as if he had done all kinds of expressions.

"That's good, a decent wedding, she deserves it. Either way, my little Mary has to have it, and she has to be the protagonist of this ceremony today. Andy sighed in his heart and gritted his teeth, he had to say it, otherwise the two people outside would think that something was wrong with him for a while, and someone would rush in and shoot at that time.

"I need to get out." Billy jerked to his feet, and the albino people around him froze.

"Why?" Andy met Billy's beastly gaze that was about to spiral out of control, and at this moment, he had nothing to back down.

"As I told you before, the people out there, what you call the surface waste, their leader almost died, the Assassins fled into the dam, and now they've searched everywhere except the baseline zone, and they can be sure that the person is here, they wanted to rush in, but I stopped them." Billy looked at Andy with burning eyes, and he casually threw several boxes in his hand to the ground.

"So?" Andy's gaze crossed over the faces in front of him.

"I've got to go out and tell them you agree to the search, or even if they don't rush in today, at best, you won't get supplies in the future, you know what that means.... I know the newly built farm will provide some food, but what about the rest? Everything will run out, and the people out there won't keep the generators in your hands, they'll still come, and they'll never have the idea of negotiating with you again. Billy was silent, and after a moment he picked up a box on the floor, opened it, and took out a few candles from it, and with those candles, he turned his back to Andy and placed them on the table one by one.

"Then go ahead, if you don't come back....." He casually took a remote control from his trouser pocket and tossed it aside under Andy's terrified gaze.

..................... By the time Andy squeezes out of the crack in the garbage heap again, Sheriff Ralph and Major Fleming's patience has reached its limit.

"What do they say? ... Forget it, I'll ask redundantly. Andy, come with us, destroy these cavemen, end the biggest hidden danger of the Hoover Dam, and avenge Mayor Dodge. If you wish to do so, I will grant you permission to join the NcR Army, give you the rank of sergeant and then be my deputy, and Mayor Dodge will not object. Major Fleming was ready to act, but he was stopped by Sergeant Ralph.

"Wait, Andy looks like he has something to say." Andy looked at the two people in front of him, and didn't know where to start for a while.

"Well, those albinos have agreed to let you go in and search." Major Fleming and Sergeant Ralph were both surprised.

"Impossible, right? Those paranoid stubborn and stupid guys can also be persuaded by you? What do they want in exchange this time? Is it asking us to return a part of the central area to them? Or do they want more supplies? None of this is possible, you know it, Andy? The convenience that Mayor Dodge had given them before was already maximum. Andy, of course, denied this speculation, and the albino did not mention any conditions at all, if it must be said that there is.... That condition is....

"No, it's just that I have to marry the daughter of their leader." Both of them were stunned. Major Fleming asked Sheriff Ralph as he plucked his ears.

"Is there something wrong with my ears or is the world crazy? Or am I finally going crazy? Sergeant Ralph looked at Andy and thought for a moment, and at a glance he saw through the essence of the matter.

"Chief.... Daddy Billy, his daughter .... Mary Jo, the one who had been working on Dusty's desires before.... I'm guessing you've purchased her services before, right? Andy's face was a little embarrassed, although Sheriff Ralph only stayed at the top of the dam all the year round, it seemed that he actually knew everything about the big and small things inside and outside the Hoover Dam.

"Sheriff Ralph, have you heard of Roman Cathcut?" Sheriff Ralph looked a little surprised.

"I know this man, because one of the few bodies we found was inferred by the letters in the corpse's clothes, and I heard that he used to be a small family in New California, but his business has been failing since coming to Hoover Dam; All his remaining savings were spent in Da Siqi's hands, and I am afraid that he was too generous, and some people mistakenly thought that he was a rich man, and then killed him. Andy just felt his breath suffocate.

...................... After that, the garbage heap at the entrance to the baseline was removed, the police and military entered the baseline, the albino people busily set up the wedding scene, turning a blind eye to the intruders, and the outsiders looked at the decorations strangely, and they quickly searched every room, but the end result was nothing.

Billy was still rummaging through a pile of old boxes and chests, and now there was only one thing left on his mind that mattered most.

The police and soldiers finally left the room, leaving behind the mess they had turned up and gathered around Sergeant Ralph and Major Fleming, all of whom were unanimous in their answers, that there was no such young woman with a wounded right hand in the baseline zone, and that it was probably unlikely, as to whether there were pretenders among the crooked-looking albino people.

Sergeant Ralph shrugged at Major Fleming, to which Major Fleming looked serious.

"Impossible.... I saw with my own eyes that the Assassin had followed the fleeing crowd into the central area, and now the only elevator had been blocked by us, and even the upper farm in the central area had been turned over by us, and the central area itself was even more scraped, unless she committed suicide by jumping into the river valley, otherwise she had nowhere else to go but here, then she must be here! Major Fleming looked eagerly at the faces of each of the albinos, some glaring at him and some glaring at him.

He searched frantically, and suddenly he saw a woman standing on a high platform made of wood, dressed in a dirty wedding dress, holding a bouquet of fake flowers in her hand, and her right hand seemed to be wounded, and it was still wrapped in gauze.

"Isn't this here?! Get her! The soldiers immediately rushed forward, and the albino raised their weapons to stop them in front of the platform, especially Billy, who stood at the front of them with a shoulder-mounted heavy machine gun with blood-red eyes.

"If you want to grab my daughter, then you have to step on my corpse!" Major Fleming gritted his teeth, pushing away the soldiers who stood in his way, he walked up to Billy and looked at him directly.

"I'm not trying to hurt her, I'm just going to take her out there to investigate, you know? There was a female assassin who nearly killed Mayor Dodge, and her right hand happened to be injured! And she's definitely around here, that's too much of a coincidence, right? Get out of the way! Since we have come in today, we must take an account with us, and there is a limit to our tolerance! Billy pulled out the remote control with his other hand, and his body didn't move.

"I didn't know before, but I know now, you bastards are not trustworthy at all, you always compare us to animals, but you yourself are not even as good as beasts. You say you don't want to hurt my little Mary? It's ridiculous, you hurt her again and again, because her purity and kindness hurt her without a bottom line, disgusting..... I stand here today, and even if I die, my daughter must complete her wedding today. ”

"If she can't, the Hoover Dam will bury her." He said in a calm tone, and Mary Jo, who was standing on the high platform behind him, looked at her father and relatives who were desperately blocking the muzzle of the gun, she closed her eyes, and a tear flowed down her pale face.