Back in front of the monitor.

Looking at the mouth in front of him, Andy's eyes were complicated.

"You've got it all, now tell me what you think."

Dr. Clark's voice echoed through the room.

"All I can say is that it's beyond my imagination.... All of them, I can't take it. ”

Andy said in a heavy tone, the people and meat in those jars, the green room, only made him feel twisted and hateful.

"But you're standing here, aren't you?"

Hearing this, Andy took a deep breath.

"It's hard, as you might have guessed, I've put a lot of effort into keeping myself rational, and I've done everything I can to understand you guys because... As is well known, reservations are not the tribes that have developed their civilization from scratch in the wilderness, and most of you have seen with your own eyes the beacon of civilization that has truly stood on this land, and you are by no means ignorant of civilization, but, on the contrary, understand its value and significance more clearly and directly than we do. ”

"So I just want to say... Will you be able to make a change in the future? ”

Dr. Clark smiled.

"Of course."

He began to describe the future.

"If we can establish a trade relationship with the Hoover Dam, we can get pre-war materials from Dogtown Denver from them, and I believe that then the production lines inside the reservation will have a chance to restore the automation of the old world, that is, robots do a lot of low-difficulty and high-intensity labor, such as shoveling coal, so that the miserable situation of the Level 2 slaves you saw will not be repeated one day."

"I have to say, these filths are ugly but necessary, long before the outbreak of the Great War, when mankind first began to try to establish an industrial system, those extremely bad sweatshops were also established, which is an inevitable part of social development, when the primitive accumulation is completed, those sweatshops of the past are naturally replaced by more efficient machinery and more formal management models, in 2077, automation has swept the entire SA, A large number of factories are using robots as a substitute for traditional workers, which is the result of the development of productivity, and humans no longer need to engage in low-end labor that is seriously harmful to the body. ”

Andy closed his eyes and sighed.

"So... What about breeding protocols? ”

Dr. Clark replied calmly.

"It will also be terminated, in fact, for now, the breeding agreement has achieved the goals and results we wanted, and the 'source of life' that we need has been born, Belle.... As long as she can conceive, we will clone the fetus in her womb and give birth to a large number of fertile women, and at that time, we will be completely free from the dependence on Slippery Skin in the field of fertility, and the Green Room will be permanently closed, and there will be no more slaves to be consumed as materials. ”

"You know, I'm not lying, racism is at the heart of our philosophy, everyone on the reservation knows and affirms it, and if we can't get rid of the slippery skin and reproduce ourselves, isn't that a betrayal of our own ideals?"

"In view of the attitude of Caesar's Legion and the possible shortage of slaves next year, I promise you: within two years, slavery will be completely abolished in the reservation, and no more slippery slaves will appear on the reservation, and I believe that this will also help us to deepen our trade relations with other slippery settlements, and we will gradually become a prosperous, civilized, intelligent, and friendly race, so that the flame of civilization that is on the verge of extinguishing in the old world can be passed on and carried forward, and finally... We will help the world and rebuild SA. ”

Andy is speechless, this narrative of the prospect is truly perfect.

Dr. Clark was silent for a moment, then continued to persuade him.

"The hoisting machinery has been repaired, you can go to your car to save it at any time, you should have something to hurry to get on the road, as our ambassador of goodwill, you are undoubtedly our nobleman, you will always be our guest, countless bottle caps and status second only to me, these things are at your fingertips... Belle is a stunner who can make people dream, isn't she? Don't you want to spend the night with her? ”

"I see...."

Andy eventually chose to compromise.

"I will remember what you said, and I will always stand here to see if it will come true."

Dr. Clark smiled in relief.

"Of course."

Measles walks over and signals Andy to get out of here, and Andy asks one last question as he leaves.

"What if Belle still doesn't get pregnant?"

Dr. Clark showed no concern.

"So what? It's normal to miss once, just come a few more times, and our cooperation in the future... There is still a long way to go. ”

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

Andy and Measles walk down the dimly lit hallway, and Measles is the first to speak.

"Something for you, Andy."

"What's the matter?"

"Tomorrow morning, I'll send someone to pull your car out of the quicksand, but I'll be on the road with you, as I said before, but you don't need to take me with you all the time, just drop me off when you're near the Hoover Dam, because I have a little extra to do at the Hoover Dam first, and you can do your own business first."

"What are you doing at Hoover Dam yourself?"

"I've got to go there and buy something, a cable to be exact, and since Dog City regularly makes deliveries to the Hoover Dam by train, their junk store must have one of them selling what I want."

"Cables? What's the use of that? ”

Measles stopped and pointed to the west.

"There's a passage over there that leads to a lift platform, which can go directly to the surface, and there is a railway nearby, but this lift platform has not been used for too long, and it was found that it was broken during the previous maintenance, and the mechanics could not repair the damaged cable, the only way is to find a similar thing to replace the broken one, so that the lift platform can work normally again."

"Lift?"

Andy immediately thought of the one he had seen before, and it was indeed connected to Level 3.

"What's the use of this lift even if it's repaired? Is it worth your solo trip with such fanfare? ”

Measles smiled, his expression unrecognizable in the dark.

"Come to think of it, Andy, with the current production volume, if you were to ship boxes of goods from Tier 2 to the surface trade area, you could still do it with that old elevator, but what about after that? We may establish regular business contacts with large trading settlements like Hoover Dam and New Canaan, and we may also set up automated assembly lines to greatly increase the production of those weapons and armor, and then we will not be satisfied with just the slow transportation of boxes to the trade area like in the past, we will have to transport a large number of goods by rail to all the places where there is a need as quickly as possible, so that it can be called efficient. ”

"And this lift is the key, the product produced from Level 2 is packed and sent to Level 3, and with this lift platform our goods can be delivered to the station on the surface in less than a minute, and loaded into the train car, isn't this kind of use worth the trip?"

Andy also had to admit that what measles said was very reasonable, although he didn't know if it was a psychological effect, and always felt that measles had a very strange attitude when he spoke, but at the moment these explanations were based on reality and interlocked, so that he couldn't find fault at all.

"Okay, I see, so I'll get you off first on the road near the Hoover Dam, and then what? Are we rejoining at Hoover Dam? ”

"Nope."

Measles' answer was not Andy's expectation.

"Why? Aren't you in a hurry to establish trade relations with the Hoover Dam? ”

Andy still hopes that the two can communicate with each other, because what Hoover Dam lacks most now is all kinds of military supplies, armor, weapons, and ammunition, which were brought from New California to the east and are now almost all used up, and he has seen the inventory of Hoover Dam, which can only be described as pitiful, too many things have been consumed in the long years of fighting with wasteland monsters, steel brotherhoods, marauders, and tribesmen.

"Of course this has to be done, but we are not fully prepared until then, as my father told you before, our industrial upgrading is not yet complete, and the reserve still lacks some important raw materials as a driving force, which is uranium."

Andy frowned, suspicious.

"What? What else do you want that stuff for? Isn't that the material for nuclear weapons? ”

Measles wagged her fingers.

"No, no, no, first of all, uranium has to be highly enriched to the level of weapons-grade material, and that process is no longer reproducible, and secondly, uranium is not only useful in weapons, in the old world, people preferred to use it as a fuel rod, that is, a consumable for nuclear reactors to generate electricity."

"The nuclear power generators on the reserve have been working continuously for nearly 200 years, and they have long been overwhelmed, not to mention the need to provide additional energy to the plant, which is limiting the future prospects of the reserve, and now it is a prerequisite to have sufficient energy to promote more efficient automated assembly lines."

Andy thought for a while but couldn't figure out anything wrong with measles, or that his knowledge of pre-war common sense was so poor compared to these ghouls that he often had nothing to say.

Measles saw Andy's doubts and vacillation, and further persuaded him.

"Don't you want slavery to be abolished here? This is the first step before that goal is achieved, if we can't get enough uranium to replenish our energy, then I'm afraid the abolition of slavery will have to be postponed, we can't stop production, it's in our fundamental interests, and then those slaves will continue to prolong their bad lives, you don't want to see that happen, right? ”

Andy glanced at measles with a slight disgust, even if objectively he was right, this kind of remarks that were more like demagoguery than persuasion still made him feel unpleasant.

Seeing this, measles did not stop there, and he continued to persuade him from a different angle.

"You don't like Caesar's legion, I guessed right? That slave country produced so many slaves and sold them far away, they were the root of evil, weren't they? We know their temperament very well, the aggressive desires of those fellows are engraved in their bones, and the regions they conquer will have to submit to their will, and sooner or later they will attack their west..."

Andy's heart sank when he heard this, yes, this was what he was most anxious about at the moment, he had worried that the uncontrollable outbreak of the new plague would deal a devastating blow to the thousands of seeds of civilization in the wasteland, and after the fruit of hope was born and widely spread, this worry retreated to the anxiety that Caesar's legion, the representative of slavery, might launch a large-scale westward crusade in the future.

Of course, this expression can't escape the eyes of measles.

"You see, Andy, this is the situation, we can be the eastern front line of the anti-Caesar Legion Alliance, delay their attack, and we can also send weapons and equipment along the railways and trade routes to support our allies against Caesar's Legion, after all, it is definitely not our reservation that hates them in the wasteland, if we can mediate from it..."

Andy was really moved by what he said when he listened to what Measles said, in fact, the foundation of this alliance had been formed in the process of his journey, and the NcR side, who had suffered a big loss at the hands of Caesar's legion, needless to mention; In the eastern tribal region, the leader of Ouroboros Village, the core of the tribal alliance in the north, is said to have an old enmity with the Legion, and Hecate, who pretends to be an arrogant and arrogantly calls himself a god, even lists the Legion as a divine enemy; The chieftain of the Blackfoot tribe in the south, Kuresus, has also been persuaded by Andy to cut off communication between Blackfoot and the Legion, and according to the style of the Legion, it will be difficult to bridge the two in the future.

There is also the traditionally trade-rich settlement of New Canaan in the northwest, where the New Canaanites are religious, have always despised the legions of ideological barbarism and brutality, love war and slavery, and even excommunicated the former New Canaanite, now named Malpes, as a disgrace and traitor to New Canaan, and they will certainly not be willing to obey Caesar.

If you add to this the reservations in the southeast ...

The more Andy thought about it, the more feasible it became, if such an anti-Legion alliance was established, then in fact, nothing would be lacking, and under the influence of a united front with the outside world, it would be possible to let go of the contradictions and prejudices between the Burakurens, the Wastelands, and the NcR.

The easternmost reservation and the dogtown of Denver can be built as a qualified first line of defense, relying on the harsh natural environment and making full use of local resources to build a strong defensive wall to resist the first wave of the Legion's onslaught; The tribal alliance led by Ouroboros and Blackfoot has enough manpower to form a second line of defense, and those brave and warlike tribesmen can form a huge combat force as long as they are equipped with advanced equipment and sufficient supplies; The remaining NcR side and New Canaan could form a third line of defense, providing a steady stream of logistical supplies to the first and second directions, and continuing to replenish forces to the allies in the east if necessary.

What if you go deeper to make a plan....

The NCR can also unite with other forces to project forces from the third line of defense directly to the dog city of Denver at the first line of defense, such as transferring pre-war garbage and metal materials there to reservations in the south, and the weapons and equipment produced can be sent back to enhance the combat effectiveness of various places.

Once fully restored and widely connected, the railway network around the abandoned fortress has an immeasurable capacity to deliver food, pills, and anything else to various locations quickly.

Therefore, if it is an ideal situation, if all the wasteland forces of the Great Southwest Federation are united, the invasion that the Legion may launch in the future can not only be repulsed, but can even truly promote the unity of all the people in this area, and truly achieve the ideal result that the NcR originally wanted to achieve in the eastward movement but ultimately failed.

The more Andy thought about it, the more he felt that there was a fire burning in his heart, weren't these things obvious and close at hand? But after calming down from the excitement a little, he also thought that he couldn't say that, the authorities were confused, and there were very few people in the wasteland who traveled all over the world like him, and because of the lack of information and the prejudices between each other, many people still had no understanding of many superficial and easy-to-understand state of affairs.

His eyes began to sparkle again, as he had found his next goal in life after ending the new plague, which was to unite the people of this land in the face of foreign enemies....

Arizonsan, Colorara, Utah, New mS.

Perhaps, this organization that does not exist in the world can be called....

Quad State Union.

Or, a united front against Caesar's legions.