Betty, who was fiddling with her armor in the carriage, suddenly saw Andy reappear.

"So fast? It seems that Slippery has always been handy with killing his own kind. ”

She said this with a narrow, mocking expression and tone, but Andy didn't care what the arrogant racist was talking about.

"No, I didn't kill her."

Betty's face changed in an instant, and before she was about to scold, she saw Hank walking by, which made her suddenly at a loss.

"I... You...."

Hank stood in the doorway of the carriage and watched, and finally greeted her casually.

"Hello, Betty, the number of times the two of us have faced each other for so long, I'm actually... I've actually been wanting to ask you something, do you have time now? ”

Betty lowered her head and looked forward to Ai Ai's, and that face made Andy feel unbearable to look at it.

"There is.... Yes, of course...."

Hank hesitated for a moment, then said bluntly.

"Why the hell are you doing that?"

Betty listened and snapped Andy in the eye.

"Damn slippery, your mouth is like a broken pocket in the garbage, you..."

Hank interrupted her nagging.

"Enough, Betty! It doesn't matter, the only thing that matters now is that you have to tell me right away why the hell is this? Otherwise, you know the consequences of such a thing, and you are harming my private property! ”

Betty was at a loss for a while, and finally she had an unbearable outburst.

"Well, then there is only one reason, and that is that I like you, I love you, it's been a long, long time, I really can't ignore this feeling, it's something I haven't experienced in all my years of life, and I've been trying to find the right time to make it clear to you. But.... But that slippery... You've had her all in your eyes since that slippery skin came to you a few months ago, and I know what you mean by that look, and I know it doesn't matter what I say as long as she's around! ”

After confirming that Andy's speculation was true, Hank was shocked again.

"This! ..... But, have you never behaved so well? You've been standing far away looking at me with that horrible look, and every time I tried to talk to you you avoided it, I thought you.... I thought you looked down on me as much as the children of the wasteland, but why are you? ”

Betty lowered her head again in that writhing gesture.

"I noticed you when you first came to the reservation, I've lived here for decades, but no one here likes normal laughter as much as you do, you.... It's like a different color that attracts me, but... I'm afraid to talk to you, I don't know what you think of me. It will take a long time for the 'newcomers' to gradually change their aesthetics to normal, and I know you too, you won't be able to accept me so quickly, I wish I could have taken my time... But that slippery skin makes me feel desperate, you are so captivated by her, so much so that you can't help yourself, it's so obvious! ”

"So.... If the only way to pull you out of this undeserved obsession is to kill her, then I'll do it! ”

Hank scratched at his hairless head and grinned helplessly.

"Well.... Well, I know what you have in mind, Betty.... You're crazy, and if this gets out, you'll never get back! Not to mention my interest in Gillian... She did help me a lot, but I now know that the two of us are really not suitable, how could she be willing to be with such an ugly guy as me, Betty, even if you don't do it, I'll understand sooner or later, I'm just... I just..."

A pair of hands suddenly grabbed his hand, looking at Betty who came to him all at once, Hank was of course taken aback, on the one hand, her movements were too sudden, and on the other hand, it was based on the physiological level....

"Then don't worry about that Bichi slippery, I can do what she can do, and you are the most handsome in my eyes! I would like to be with you forever! ”

Betty grabbed Hank's hand a little frantically and shouted hoarsely, Hank was stunned for a moment, and then there were some tears in his only remaining eye, and his hoarse voice was involuntarily choked.

"I've never said anything like that to me in my life.... You're the first, Betty.... I didn't expect your feelings for me to be so intense, even if I'm much younger than you, even if I'm a 'newcomer', don't you care? ”

"Of course, of course!"

The two exchanged intimacy for a while, until Andy coughed twice, and the two were willing to come out of the two-person world, but even though Hank tried to pull his hand, Betty still clung to it.

"Alright Betty! I can't run, you're about to pull my hand off..."

Andy stood aside and took the opportunity to interject.

"Hank said he was willing to sell the slave to me for four thousand caps, but I don't have enough caps."

Betty immediately screamed and shouted.

"You take her away immediately, immediately! It doesn't matter how many caps Hank wants, I'll pay for them all! ”

Hank sighed slightly as he was being dragged by her.

........................

Andy stood in front of Gillian and raised the sales contract in his hand.

"You're free, Gillian."

Gillian, who was wearing a black radiation suit and couldn't see her face clearly, didn't show much excitement.

"Thank you for your efforts, but in essence, I'm not free, I'm just your slave, right? So.... What do you want to do after that? What is your purpose in doing this? ”

Andy shrugged and motioned for her to take it easy.

"First of all, as an NcR, I am a staunch opponent of slavery, and this contract is nothing more than a compromise based on the rules of the reservation, and I don't have the heart to enslave you or be a slave trader whom I hate the most; Secondly, I do have my purpose, and I will make it clear to you, Gillian, that I made a special trip from Hoover Dam all the way to here for you. ”

Gillian was stunned for a moment, then said something that Andy didn't understand.

"How is that possible? Could it be Kyle who called you.... No, it can't be, or could it be Sid? ... Did you come to me because of any commission? ”

"Kyle?"

Andy asked quirkily.

"I don't know who Kyle is, is that your family? It's a shame I don't see anyone offering bounties to hire someone to save you, or that the average person won't have a chance to know where you are, because it's so remote. ”

Gillian was silent for a moment, noticing the oddity.

"That.... Andy, how did you know I was here? No one would believe how bizarre my experience was, and in the months I couldn't have predicted where I would go and what would happen to me, let alone anyone else, but you said you came straight here from the distant Hoover Dam, how did you do that? ”

Andy patted his arm.

"You have something like that, don't you? A small device that snaps to your arm? ”

Hearing this, Gillian was struck by lightning and immediately took a few steps back.

"What? What do you mean? ”

Andy immediately took a few steps forward.

"Don't be afraid, Gillian, just let you go back to Tibbetts Prison for the time being, believe me, this will not affect your life, and it will not allow you to be held there forever.... If you'd listen, I can explain why that pre-war automated prison captured you, and why you had to go back. ”

Gillian shook her head repeatedly, turned around and was about to flee, but suddenly stopped where she was.

Andy followed her gaze, and a ghoul who looked thin and emaciated, with a clumsy cloak in a burrow, was standing, his presence blocking Gillian's escape.

The ghoul was purple all over, with the usual scars and scabs on ghouls, missing hair and teeth, no eyelids or lips, and a pair of large yellow eyes.

"Oh... Hello, sorry to bother you, I thought I should introduce myself, my name is Measles, I just visited Hank and Betty. Oh, you may not understand that men and women who are united in the reserve will receive the highest blessings, and I am really happy to see them come together. I've heard that a visitor named Andy has made an effort to make this happen, and I think it's you. ”

He spoke in a modest and polite tone, appearing to be a friendly ghoul, but Gillian's reaction made Andy slightly suspicious. The ghoul had a large red rash on his neck, and one or two of them had grown to the point of being almost a tumor, and from that he was a fitting name, and measles was one of the main elements of his appearance.

Andy immediately nodded his head in acknowledgment.

"Come to me? That's right, I'm Andy, and I've only been here for a short time. ”

Gillian stood between the two of them, unable to move or retreat, so she had to move to the side.

The measles didn't seem to take Gillian seriously, and his big yellow eyes just looked straight at Andy, as if he was interested in him.

"Oh... Fortunately, I actually communicated with the guards at the gate before I came to you, and I heard that you brought a magical seed to trade here, can you show me? ”

Andy takes out some seeds of miraculous wheat and gives them to Measles, telling him how amazing this crop is that Pierre has been perfected, absorbing radiation, growing at high speeds, and tolerating extremely poor soils, eventually producing edible crops.

Measles took the seeds in his hand and looked at them over and over again, even licking them with his tongue.

"Never before has this unique cargo been seen in this trade area. I may not know the goods very well, so you can give me some more seeds, and I will take them for testing. If you can prove that what you say is correct, then I guarantee that the reserve will buy all the seeds in your hands at the right price. ”

Andy complied, and the measles was seeded and promised to write back to Andy later, and he glanced at Gillian next to him and smiled.

"Forgive me for hearing your conversation, what is Tibbetts Prison?"

Andy glanced at Gillian as well, and thought that it was just right to ask.

"Tibbetts Prison is an automated prison located far to the west, and it existed long before the war. It was originally built for a complex purpose, but its last mission before the outbreak of the Great War was to prevent the spread of a plague, and this mission has been maintained to this day, that is, to bring all infected people infected with the virus to quarantine there. But a few months ago, there was an escape that allowed many of the prisoners to escape. ”

"The AI that manages there is programmed to capture the target identified as infected, and if it is not met, it may send an army of robots to attack everywhere, and if it wants to avoid this from happening, it must let the escaped fugitives go back, but it will not endlessly imprison the prison inmates now, because the virus that caused the plague has been defeated, and it is no longer incurable."

Andy looks at Gillian and tries to convince her to let her guard down.

"I did come here to find you on behalf of Tibbetts Prison, but no one wants to do anything to you, for yourself and for everyone, you have to go back there, after that you can return to your life normally, if you refuse now, the virus in your body cannot be resolved, sooner or later it will harm yourself and the people around you, and the next time you come to you may be a military robot who can't communicate and do it when you meet."

Gillian stood there and pondered for a moment.

"So, will you go with me?"

Andy looked at her and nodded firmly, while Measles kept an interested expression and listened to the conversation between the two.

"Oh... It's such a big topic, and the more I listen, the more interested I become... Andy, you're not a simple person, haha. ”

After a casual goodbye, the self-proclaimed ghoul of measles left, and Andy hurried over to Gillian to continue to reassure her.

"You don't have to run away or resist, you're not the first fugitive I found, to be honest, you're actually the last one I've found, and I'm also a fugitive from Tibbetts Prison, I was in Tibbetts Prison and escaped with the others on the day of the Great Escape, we're all the same."

Gillian looked at Andy in disbelief.

"What? So why are you working on that AI you said again? ”

Andy thought back to what Odysseus had found.

"I was captured by the robots it had sent, but at that time it realized that it was too strong to capture the few fugitives who had run the farthest away, and that the robots were so dull and obtrusive that it needed a human to be its partner, or in its own words, 'The Commissioner', which is me."

Gillian touched the head of her radiation suit, reeling from her capture in Tibbetts Prison.

"I used to live in a settlement south of the Hoover Dam, with a bunch of friends and friends of mine, and we all really liked to tinker with machinery, so I kind of understood a little bit about mechanics and science, but what I didn't expect was that one day I went out to pick up waste, and suddenly a group of robots came out and attacked me, and I didn't even have time to react before I passed out, and by the time I woke up again, I was already in a prison cell."

"Later, I took advantage of the chaos to escape from that cell, all the way in the direction of home, you don't know how difficult it was for me at that time, the wasteland was too dangerous, I walked alone, I didn't even have a gun on my body, I couldn't tell the direction, I could only hide in a safe place during the day and look for the direction of the stars at night, every time I encountered those monsters that were like nightmares, I could only dodge or escape."

"When I was finally back near my house, I was approached by a gang of slavers full of ghouls, who took me and sold me as slaves on the reservation... At that time, the guy named measles just came to me and told me that I had only two options, either to work as a laborer in a forge or to participate in a human experiment, and I was reluctant to show him what I was capable of, but luckily he sent me to Hank. ”

Andy couldn't help but feel sympathy for her life of exile when he heard Gillian's own account, and was taken from his home to Tibbetts Prison, and after leaving Tibbetts Prison, he risked great danger to cross the wasteland and was finally caught by slave traders when he was about to return home, and was escorted to a reservation far from the populated area, where he lived as a slave ever since.

But at the same time, he was surprised by some of the elements of Gillian's words.

"If the leader of that gang of ghoul slave traps is a guy named Ingmar, then that group of slave traders has been wiped out by me, and Ingmar's head has been handed over by me to the Bounty Hunters Guild at Hoover Dam, I hope you are happy to hear the news.... Also, I want to ask you, about that human experiment. ”