Chapter 35: Confrontation

The soldiers rushed into the Crimson Caravan Company building, and after the bloodshed at the door, no one dared to stop in front of them, and the company clerk who happened to bump into the soldier crouched in the corner with his hands raised and wailed.

When the toilet cubicles were opened one by one, they were all packed.

"Attention! McClavdy must not be let go, and must be caught alive! ”

Major Fleming shouted to lead the charge, and the soldiers controlled the entire building floor by floor, and people were constantly disarmed and escorted away.

Andy followed the other soldiers to the top floor, where Alice McClofdie, the manager of the Crimson Caravan Hoover Dam Branch, was in the private office, and finally two bodyguards loyal to her stood guard at the door, leaning on the corner of the corridor to stop the onrushing soldiers from moving on, even though they knew it was futile, but they still refused to give up.

"Lay down your arms! Do you know what you're doing? Your boss is already a traitor! ”

Major Fleming corrected the green beret on his head, and one of the soldiers was hit by Thompson's .45 bullet and fell to the ground, and his comrades immediately dragged him back.

The two bodyguards just stood there in silence with their guns in hand, and the two huge weapon bags at their feet and the makeshift table bunker meant that they were going to fight a protracted battle here.

The situation is frozen here, several times Major Fleming commanded the charge to be forced back by the powerful firepower, the length of the corridor is just right, if you throw a grenade, you have to probe, but a probe will be baptized by the bullets of the two bodyguards, if you don't probe, the grenade thrown can't roll behind the table bunker erected by the two bodyguards, it will only explode on the outside of those extremely heavy wooden tables, and the effect is almost nothing.

"Damn, is there any way to get around...."

Just when Major Fleming had a headache, there was a sudden sound of broken windows in the room guarded by two bodyguards, and the two bodyguards immediately turned around and opened the door and rushed into the house, and after a short but fierce fight, the door was pushed open again.

The light shone through the windows of the house into the hallway, and against the harsh sunlight, everyone saw several rangers wearing sunglasses standing in the room, with a few dangling ropes hanging from the violently broken windows behind them, and two bodyguards lying on the ground, already two corpses. One was stabbed in the eyeball, the other seemed to have his neck pinched, and the submachine gun in their hands did not fire a single shot during the entire short process.

Alice McClofdy, with messy hair, obediently raised her hands and knelt on the ground under the threat of two large-caliber revolvers that could knock half of her body away with a single shot, and she didn't know why she ran into the corner of the wall with one high heel, and it seemed that she was not so good in the first place.

"Oops..... Miscalculation, why did the Rangers suddenly appear in the city of Hoover Dam? I thought there weren't a single Ranger here, but I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it.... Where did Joseph Dodge get you guys from? ”

It was clear that it had reached the point of exhaustion, and McClavdie, with his messy short hair, was still there asking in a soothing tone.

"We've only recently returned, and we're just in time to surprise you, ma'am."

The Ranger at the head bowed his head in response to her in a deep tone, and then he looked up at Major Fleming.

"Our mission is complete, you will take over this place, be careful, there seems to be a dark room in the house, this woman was about to enter with something when we came in, but she was still a step too slow."

He gestured, and the two Rangers who had put their guns to the back of McClofty's head pulled her up from the ground, then brutally handcuffed her to a nearby chair, grinning in pain.

With all that done, several Rangers gathered their weapons and jumped out of the window, then grabbed the rope hanging outside and slid down, disappearing in the blink of an eye. Their movements were so fast that the NcR soldiers couldn't help but rub their eyes and wonder if what they had just seen was not a hallucination, and when they were sure that it was not a hallucination, the Rangers couldn't help but exclaim in admiration as the legends that had been widely circulated within the NcR for a long time came true. The soldiers involuntarily began to praise the Rangers' combat ability and admired the Rangers' handsome style.

Major Fleming shouted that this act of demoralizing others would destroy his own prestige.

"What? Without us controlling the outside, is there room for their rangers to play? Don't be led astray by the of the ignorant! No matter how good the Ranger is? Fighting the Brotherhood of Steel depends on them to win? Did they beat Navarro on their own? Who is the last person to rely on in the war? Not yet! ”

He turned to McClofty, who was cuffed to his chair, and walked over to the woman with a loud laugh.

"Yo! Isn't this the big boss of the Crimson Caravan? Why are you sitting here? Those guys of yours are warriors, huh? How many guys in their hands dare to play hard with our regular army? Look, look, what's the use of those stubborn resistance in front of you? All this just makes your guilt heavier. ”

Major Fleming smirked at the soldiers behind him.

"Alright, kids, put down your weapons, we'll talk to this lady in Black Canyon Prison about the rest of the rest, and I promise you'll explain all the mistakes you've made in your life, so that the people of Hoover Dam City can see you as a bastard for what you really are, and your delusions will only be delusions in the end, or are you dreaming."

Major Fleming walked over to his chair and patted McClofty on the shoulder.

"You're right? Hahahaha! ”

No matter how much the city government was treated like this, McClofty finally couldn't help but show a look of disgust and hatred on her face, but then she suddenly looked in front of her and showed horror.

Andy's heart jumped suddenly, he turned his head to see that a black muzzle suddenly appeared among the soldiers who had laid down their weapons, and above the muzzle was a pair of indifferent eyes, someone was mercilessly staring at McLoufty who was handchained to a chair and could not move, what was he going to do now......

At this moment, the scene that happened when he captured the Brotherhood of Steel assassin under the pseudonym Nh flickered before his eyes, and right before his eyes, the same thing was about to happen for the second time.

He instantly turned on V-mode, and with the help of a lightning raid, he moved McCloav and the stool with a speed that surpassed human reactions, and a bullet narrowly grazed past her, leaving an imperceptible bullet hole in the soft carpet.

Major Fleming, who was about to slap it a few more times, pressed down only to hit the air, causing him to fall to the ground with an unbalance.

Looking up, Andy was slowly putting the chair holding McClofty behind him, and he couldn't help but be stunned, then pulled out his pistol and questioned as he got up from the ground.

"What are you doing here? I've heard that you've worked for the Crimson Caravan before, so do you still have any problems with her at this point? ”

Andy looked at him a little speechlessly, because of the commander Fleming drew his gun, the soldiers in the rear had already drawn their weapons again, and it was impossible to tell who was trying to shoot McLafdie just now, no matter what the motive of the person just now, at least his goal was clear, that is, to kill this woman when all the dust settled.

"Someone wanted to shoot her."

Major Fleming didn't believe it, and he waved his hand to signal Andy to step aside.

"Stay away from that woman, or how can I make sure there's something wrong with you?" Why didn't I hear the gunshot? And you said that the shots were fired, what about the bullet holes? What about bullet marks? There's nothing here! ”

Before he could continue his questioning, Alice McClofdy, who was pale and sweating profusely as she watched herself pass under the sickle of death, suddenly let out a hysterical scream.

"If I'm dead, the whole Hoover Dam will be finished! What I'm saying is true!! ”

This voice startled everyone present, and Andy glanced at the soldiers, and the expressions on everyone's faces seemed to be so dazed that everyone couldn't understand what was going on. The narrow corridors were simply not enough for all the soldiers to flood into the office, and quite a few were blocked behind the others.

There are a lot of people and things, and whether the person is still here just now is a matter of two words, let alone find him out, I should have known that Major Fleming should have prevented too many soldiers from coming to the office together, maybe the kind of thing that someone tried to fish in troubled waters just now would not have happened.

Andy looked at Major Fleming, who was full of suspicion, and for now, he had better get rid of him first.

"Someone did try to shoot her just now, probably a .22 pistol with a silencer, Major Fleming, the reason why you didn't hear it was because you were laughing at that time, and you laughed so loudly that I guess no one else could hear the gunshot... As for why there are no bullet holes, you can look for them on the carpet for a while. I'm sure there's a bullet hole in it, a little smaller at best..... Mayor Dodge's order was to capture McClofty alive, wasn't it? If she died, wouldn't the crime she had committed be untestified? You all know that, right? ”

With that, the frightened Major Fleming turned around and ordered all the soldiers behind him to lay down their weapons, shouting that those who fired indiscriminately without his permission would be court-martialed, Andy looked at Alice McClavdie, who was protected by him, the woman seemed to calm down a little from the panic just now, and she looked at Andy with an ambiguous smile.

"I think I'm going to thank you this time..."

Andy shook his head, he was more concerned about the words that the woman had just shouted hysterically.

"What do you mean?"

A strange smile suddenly appeared on McClofdy's face, she looked at Major Fleming and the soldiers, and deliberately said in a very high voice: "It means that if I die, six C4 time bombs will explode in 1 hour, and the bombs will be placed in the pit east of the Hoover Dam, and you will never be able to find it in 1 hour, that is, in the big pit where Joseph Dodge ordered to mine concrete, and he tried his best to hide the big scandal, Guess what happens when that bomb explodes? Boom, it's not just that the crater will get bigger, and the Hoover Dam will burst because of it. ”

She burst into a mad laugh that frightened Major Fleming back.

"The Hoover Dam will collapse! The walls of the old world will crack with huge cracks, huge pieces of concrete mixed with millions of tons of dirty water full of mutated monsters and toxic pollutants will pour down from upstream, and they will tear the entire Hoover Dam apart, and all the people in the crest area, the center area, the baseline area, all the places will not be able to escape, Joseph Dodge, you, and me, all of them will die in this great flood! ”

Andy's eyes slowly widened when he listened, this woman was really not small.

"Where's the bomb, you madman? How do I cancel it? ”

Alice McClofdy seemed to be out of her mind, her face distorted.

"It seems that I have indeed lost, and after this time I guess I have nothing to do with politics, Joseph Dodge, just an incompetent person, God actually favors him so much, and the strange good luck will fall on him again and again. Why? If it were me, I would have all this in order, but it seems that some of them would like to have the leader of this place called Mayor Dodger, not Mayor McCloftie..."

She looked gloomily at Andy and Major Fleming beside her, and the expressions on her faces were really chilling.

"You want to live, don't you? What a coincidence... I also thought, then, let me talk to Joseph Dodge alone, even if I'm a loser now, I'm not someone you can do casually, I'm going to negotiate with him. ”

Major Fleming grabbed the hair from his head, feeling unable to understand the woman in front of him.

"What else do you want to do? Pulling the mayor of Dodge to his death? Even if you were to meet with Mayor Dodge, how would you stop those bombs from exploding? Even if you tell us the location of the bomb, it will be too late to defuse it! ”

McClavdie motioned with his chin to look at a device on the ground.

"It's a remote transmitter, I've tested it, it's all right, just enter the correct password and start it, those bombs will stop counting down, don't think about any other option, this is the only way... I was going to explain this to you in the dark room in the back with a terminal across the wall before coming out and surrendering, but the Rangers were unexpected. ”

She squinted at the soldiers blocking the doorway.

"What I didn't expect was that some people were so anxious that they didn't want me to say two more words and would kill me."

With that, Alice McClofty stared at Andy with a swaggering look.

"Now, it's less than an hour."

Everyone present felt a chill in their backs, if this woman was really dead just now, then the city of Hoover Dam would be wiped out of the world in an instant with a loud bang not long after, turning into a pile of silent ruins made of broken concrete and broken steel bars buried deep in the river.