In the midst of the nightmare, Andy had a dream.

In the dream, Measles laughed wildly and said that he was going to detonate all the nuclear warheads hidden under the reservation, so that the entire Midwest Federation would be on fire, and the ghouls would be safe and sound in the radiation, Andy tried his best to stop him, but no matter how hard he tried, the nuclear bomb still exploded, he was drowned in the shock wave and nuclear radiation, and in an instant he turned into a puddle of ashes, accompanied by a breeze blowing, leaving only a shadow imprinted on the ground.

"Whew.... Call.... Whew...."

Andy struggled to get up, probably because it was too uncomfortable to sleep in a radiation suit, plus he was constantly thinking about those things related to the reservation during the day, and he actually had such a strange nightmare after falling asleep, not to mention whether there were nuclear warheads under the reservation, even if there were, if the ghouls directly detonated the nuclear bomb, then they would also die with the human race, and there was no benefit to them in doing this kind of thing, this nightmare had no logic at all.

But the sight of himself being reduced to ashes by the power of the nuclear bomb was terrifying, and within a few minutes of waking up, he could still smell an illusory burning smell in his nose, even though there was nothing burning in the room at all.

Now he lives in a private shack in the trade area of measles, Andy doesn't like it very much, unlike the shack in Gillian before and there is a radiation elimination facility, this place where the ghoul lives obviously has no reason to be equipped with that kind of equipment, so he can't take off the radiation suit when he sleeps here, otherwise he won't be able to get out of bed the next day.

Measles said yesterday that he was going to have a final discussion with his father about the collaboration, and that Andy was here to wait for him to return to confirm, and he hasn't come back yet.

After wandering around the house for a while, eating some jerky, vegetables and fruits, and drinking a few sips of water from the No. 13 kettle to replenish his hunger and thirst levels, Andy walked out of the shack, he wanted to wander around the reservation, and since Measles told him that the members of the Children of the Wasteland had learned about his peculiarity, it was believed that the number of ghouls who challenged him had greatly decreased, which also gave him a chance to walk around the reserve's trade area.

Looking around again, behind the locked gate to the north is the city of the reservation, which is the real reservation settlement area, Andy is not qualified to enter it yet, but when the measles returns, it should be fine, the south guard is the gate on the periphery of the trade area, and the well-equipped ghoul guards are on duty as usual.

At this moment, several gunshots were suddenly heard, and Andy's eyes were immediately drawn to see a ghoul guard a little panicked away from his hand-cranked machine gun, and several guards underground rushed out and yelled at him.

"You idiot! Tell you not to use that hand of yours to pull the trigger! Don't you know that your fingers don't listen? ”

The scolded ghoul cowered in apology, his right hand shaking as if he had some kind of disease, and it seemed that he had caused the misfire by holding the firearm with that hand.

After watching this farce for a while, there were some arguments in the east.

There was a tent for the slaves, Andy hesitated for a moment, then took advantage of the unattended tent door and walked in, and saw several cabinets inside, and the labels on the cabinets indicated that these cabinets contained radiation medicine, which should be for the slaves who had just been sent here.

Andy was immediately attracted to the businessmen in the radiation suits, these people were straight, they could be seen at a glance as extraordinary, standing and walking in a staggered and orderly manner, even if they were wearing heavy radiation protection suits, their unique temperament was difficult to hide, this kind of military discipline is rarely found even in the professional army of the NcR army.

The man at the head was close to one meter nine tall and physically strong, and he was standing in front of Horatio, the slave director of the reservation, with his hands on his chest and his chin raised in a proud and complacent posture, although Horatio was a rare big man among the ghouls, but now his momentum was obviously suppressed by this person.

"I said, we just need slippery slaves, and the reservation doesn't need ghouls and super mutants."

The hoarse voice came from a large ghoul with a skull ornament around his neck, wearing a dark purple tattered coat, and interestingly, his hair was well preserved, the locks of hair were dragged to his shoulders one by one, and there were some inconspicuous muscle outlines on his wrinkled and festering body like ordinary ghouls, which was rare for a group of ghouls whose physique could be described as "skin and bones".

The man standing in front of him replied in an arrogant tone through the radiation suit.

"Then we won't have any other way to compensate, we don't have those ridiculous caps on us, so you're going to have to pay for your losses! But we should be paid no less, weapons, armor, ammunition, these are these! ”

Several ghoul guards on the reservation hesitated at these slave traders with automatic rifles, and Horatio seemed to be wandering, these people were the largest slave suppliers on the reservation, and their attitude was so determined....

"Even if you don't have a bottle cap, you do have other kinds of currency, right?"

A voice suddenly interjected between the two, Horatio and the proud man turned their heads to look together, and saw Andy who made a sound just now, Horatio noticed that Andy's radiation protective suit was stunned for a moment, and then thought of something, instead of making a gesture to drive Andy away like last time, he let him continue to stay here, seeing that Horatio did not react, the proud man had to talk to Andy.

"Who are you? Are you qualified to stand here and talk to me? ”

Andy glanced at the man and the five entourages who were with him, these people were wearing radiation suits meant that they were all human, and the slave trade and the forbidden style....

"I'm Andy, and I'm a member of the reservation, and I happened to hear your conversation just now, so I'm here to ask, can you tell me your name?"

The proud man glanced back at Horatio again, and saw that he was still unresponsive, so he could only assume that he was acquiescing to Andy's words.

He lifted his chin high, and if it weren't for the radiation suit that wrapped around him, his chin could have been lifted even higher.

"Humph! - I'm afraid you don't deserve to know my name, but do you have any opinion on this trade? Tell me about it, if you talk nonsense, I promise you'll pay the price! ”

Andy rummaged through the Pip-Boy and found a Legion Silver Coin that he had gotten a long time ago.

"You're supposed to use this currency, right? If you're not mistaken, you're members of Caesar's Legion? Please look at this silver coin and answer my question, I'm sure you're not willing to lie at the cost of your honor, right? ”

The proud man was stunned for a moment, but soon returned to normal, only this time he was finally willing to lower his high head a little.

"Oh hey, be faithful to Caesar! It seems that you know something about us, and you are right, that we do use this metal currency, which bears the portrait of Lord Caesar, and I swear under the banner of the bull that I will always be loyal to Caesar, and that it is my honor, and I will defend it at all costs. ”

He lowered his arms and solemnly introduced himself to Andy.

"I'm Caius Druius, a centurion of Caesar's legion, I don't know how you got our currency, but it says Master Caesar, don't let me see you trying to insult him by destroying this silver coin, that would be tantamount to trampling on my dignity! As I said before, this is no joke, it's a solemn warning! ”

Horatio finally couldn't help but express the anger in his heart in a hoarse voice.

"Sure enough, you lied to me! You said you had no other way to compensate us for the advance, but you clearly brought the money with you! ”

Centurion Caius turned his head indifferently and glanced at Horatio.

"Humph! Don't talk nonsense, what the hell did I lie to you? I said, I don't know the reason why the number of slaves sent this time is insufficient, I am only responsible for raising half of the slaves that are delivered to the reservation, and the other half was originally responsible for the flag envoy Terrence, but I don't know why he has not arrived for a long time, I also gave you my compensation plan, and the slaves of other races in our hands can be compensated to your reservation, one ghoul slave is worth twelve human slaves, and one super mutant slave is worth twenty human slaves, but you say you don't want it, you just need the bottle cap, We don't have that kind of scrap metal in our hands, I told you! It's a fact, what did I deceive you? ”

Horatio clenched his fists and asked aggressively.

"But you can tell me that you have your own currency, even if it is not accepted and cannot be circulated with us, but it is different for you, and that for so long you have only insisted on bartering, and have never told us that you have a financial system and a rate of exchange corresponding to the bottle caps, so that the weapons and armor we have delivered to you, and the slaves you have handed over to us have always been valued by bottle caps, Isn't it a deception that you've been withholding this information so that you can trade your bargains for the real ones we have, and that keeps you secretly having an unequal advantage in the deal? ”

Caius laughed twice, full of disdain.

"I just didn't tell you everything and everything, and you call this deception? Are you a ghost? Do adult men have to tell each other the name of their grandfather when they meet and talk for the first time? We are just making a transaction, and the asymmetry between information and supply and demand is the biggest game in the transaction, which determines who is strong and who is weak, in the east we have a bigger partner than you, don't take yourself too seriously, the current situation is that more than half of your slaves here are supplied by us, and you can't produce anything without those slaves, what do you want? Are the ghouls as stupid as you? ”

Horatio gritted his teeth angrily, and suddenly grabbed the rifle next to him, and at this moment, all the soldiers of Caesar's Legion raised their weapons in their hands, they had shotguns and shotguns in their hands, even if they lacked armor because they were wearing radiation suits, they still showed unity and fearlessness of death, which made the ghoul guards who obviously had the home advantage cringe a little.

A crisp clapping of hands interrupted the tense standoff.

Surrounded by several children of the wasteland in green robes armed with weapons, Measles walked over.

"Put your weapons down, and we may revisit, Caius, and perhaps you are proud of your honor, but remember that you are now standing on the land of the reservation, and if your slaves are really so unsellable, if you do have more and better trading partners in the east, why do you have to go so hard to get them to us at certain times of the year through the radiant hurricane belt in the east? I suppose more important than your own opinion is the trade relations that your Caesar Legion maintains with our reservations, right? I think it's our reservation that is taking the initiative in this deal, and my companions have a lot of opinions about you, and if you dare to speak out again, I can't guarantee your safety. ”

Caius drew his .45 revolver and spun it in his hand, scoffing at measles.

"I am a centurion of Caesar's Legion! You rancid ghouls don't know how noble I really am! I tell you, if you dare to provoke us to kill the messengers of Caesar's legion, one of them will be slaughtered by our army, and if you have the courage to do it to me, you will end up ten thousand times more miserable than mine! ”

A member of the Children of the Wasteland was angered by Caius' phrase "rancid ghoul", and he immediately raised his weapon against Caius.

"You disgusting slippery! What do you call us? Do you dare to say it again? ”

Measles raised his hand to signal him to stand down, but his face became very ugly at the moment.

"Well, Caius... Next time we will renegotiate the price of the slaves you brought, as for the slaves you did not bring this time, you have to make up for it next time, we will not deliver the goods in advance in the future, but wait for you to deliver the slaves later, this is the reserved response to your breach of contract, if you have any opinions, you can go back and discuss with your Lord Caesar, and see what he has to say. ”

Caius stopped turning the revolver in his hand and stared at the measles.

"Hmph... Are you sure? It's going to complicate the trade, and next year if you don't have enough slaves, your factories will shut down, and I don't understand how you use slaves to make such a big consummation, but you're responsible for the consequences, right? ”

Measles looked at him indifferently and spat out a few words from between his teeth.

", Slippery."

Caius gestured, and the legionnaires stood in line with their weapons folded in order.

"See you next year.... You will regret your actions. ”

Centurion Caius let out a cruel remark and led the soldiers to turn around and leave.

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

Measles talks to Horatio for a moment, then turns to Andy.

"I saw you doing Horatio a favor on the side, in fact, we have already noticed that the Caesar Legion has been playing tricks in the trade, just like the group of scavengers who are used to stealing, we are not unaware that they have been secretly squeezing the blood of the reservation, but if we want to change all this, we need to wait for an opportunity, and now, the opportunity seems to have come, we have to cut off these annoying long-term problems one by one."

Measles looked at Andy meaningfully.

"I have reported your situation to my father, and he has agreed to provide you with lifting equipment to help you, but only if you become an official member of the reservation and are willing to undertake a mission that we have given you, and it is not too late for you to meet him about what that mission is, now... You have one last thing to do, and Dad says he can't believe that Slippery will offer to help us, and you need to prove it so that you can get his permission. ”

"Please don't be disgusted with the trouble, you have indeed impressed me, but I am me, my father is my father, and I have no possibility of making decisions for him."

Andy sighed in his heart, dealing with big forces is trouble, whether it is the Hoover Dam or the reservation, it is difficult to even meet the leader of the settlement.

"Okay then, what do I do?"

Measles touched his chin and suddenly came up with an idea.

"Well, Andy, I know that you helped us get rid of the scavengers and helped us see through the slave traders' tricks in the trade, and it stands to reason that we shouldn't be too you, but that's what I saw, my father didn't. If you think it's too much of a drag to go out and do things again, I can help you, you don't need to go out and do anything again, just identify one of our opponents here, and I'll vouch for you directly to my father, what do you think? ”

Andy frowned.

"But I've only been here for a short time, and I don't know a few people, how can I find your so-called opponents?"

A frightened smile appeared on Measles' face.

"Well, it's a coincidence, there's a guy I suspect you know, Hank, who seems to have always had some opinions about my father, but he doesn't show it. Do you think he's like that? As long as you give me some evidence, or simply identify him as a witness, you will soon be able to get your official identity and go to the city to meet my father, and we will not only help you out, but also give you all you want, which will come sooner than the other option, what do you think? ”

Andy thought for a moment and shook his head firmly.

"I don't know enough about Hank, and I don't want to give perjury."

Measles sighed and shook his head, and did not force Andy anymore.

"Well, then you need to do one more thing for us, some bold people have caused us damage not long ago, Horatio knows this, you can ask him later, and when you come back with their heads, we will continue to discuss the topics we talked about earlier, I believe it will not be difficult for you to complete this."