It's the second day, and the San Diego Gang has met with Andy.

To put it bluntly, this is a group of old, weak, sick and disabled.

Andy looked left and left and left and saw no one under the age of 40 who was physically disabled, and these scavengers who have been in the Grand Canyon all year round often face dangers, even if they are experienced, they will inevitably have dangerous moments, ranging from an extra scar or missing a few fingers to a chance to get up from the bottom.

Santiago said that his old brothers, most of whom came from the Mojave, had not had a new blood join in the years, leaving only a group of older people left, and since the NcR Eastward Movement, the NcR immigrants who have come here to live here have generally looked down on them and joined the small towns founded by the southern group.

Strange as this may sound, Hoover Dam is located north of the Grand Canyon, so this place that San Diego calls 'North Lodge' is closer to Hoover Dam City, so why would NcR settlers go so far as to go to the south shore of the Grand Canyon? Is it just because of Santiago that they are a bunch of old, weak, sick and disabled people who don't look attractive?

Andy thought to himself that there must be a deeper reason for this.

Santiago gathered the crowd and loudly announced his reasons.

"Listen up, everyone! The boss had enough bottle caps for us to do his job, and for one thing, he was going to get the flybox running again. I know that most of the parts on the flybox have been taken by everyone, and I know that most of you haven't sold them, and they're still under your storage box, right? Hurry up and get it out, and then let's get the flybox back to its original state! ”

The scavengers looked at each other, and after a few moments some began to go back to the hut to rummage through the boxes, while others stood still.

Santiago made a few strokes of his beard and made a supplement.

"In the future, the Grand Canyon may become a part of the trade route, the key place is this flying box, without it, this business will not be successful, so the person who takes out the parts will enjoy the shares, I guarantee that once the trade route starts to operate, the amount of dividends for each period of time is considerable, don't you believe me?"

Some of the remaining people began to rummage around, and most of the people who remained in place were not really involved in disassembling the cable car parts.

Two hours later, the pickers were delivering a large and small batch of parts to Santiago, and everyone was registered with Santiago.

From small screws to large gondola carriages... After taking inventory, San Diego thinks most of the parts are in place, and he calls for some missing parts to be collected and replaced, so that the cable car can be back in operation between the north and south of the Grand Canyon in a matter of days.

But of course, that doesn't mean it's all done, because the cable car will eventually reach the south shore of the Grand Canyon, and Andy, who is there, hasn't done it yet.

When asked where the ghoul who had recently come to see the robot was, Santiago said he was next to a "mascot". To the east of the shantytown is a robotic dormancy station, a dilapidated house left over from before the war, which houses a glass-encased tin box into which robots can enter the dormant.

The robot inside was an old guy who had been programmed to be used as a tour guide before the war, and at first the scavengers had the idea of it, but then they gave up and let the robot move on its own, just as a mascot, and it roamed the mountains for years, miraculously functioning normally.

So Andy walked towards the scavengers as they were directed, and after a while he saw a dilapidated hut with a robot standing in it, and the purple-skinned ghoul next to it was of course measles.

"Measles, you're here..."

Andy walks over and sees Measles crouching next to the robot tinkering with something.

"Oh yes, I'm trying to debug this guy's voice module to normal... You know Andy, this old robot seems to have been placed here decades before the Great War, and it was in a state of abandonment even before 2077, but no one had dismantled it. ”

Measles slowly stood up.

"Okay, it looks like it's been fixed."

The robot slowly straightened up.

"Protection-and-service, thanks to you-volunteer-repair-personnel."

Measles stood beside it and shrugged.

"The protector of the old style, strong and durable, is really not a joke, Rocco has always done a good job in this regard, I think it is much better than the products of General Atomics."

There are elements in the robot's egg-like brain that glow.

"Scanning... Hello - Mr. - or - Madam - Welcome - to Grand Canyon National Park. ”

"Uh..."

Andy looked at the metal egg in front of him, which looked like a metal egg with short and thick limbs, and when it spoke, it popped out word by word, although it could know if there was anyone around, but it couldn't distinguish between men, women, and children, and compared to the handyman he had met in Dog City before, who were also pre-war robots, it was simply mentally retarded.

"So you have and San Diego them... I mean, the scavengers are exchanging things about uranium? ”

Measles picked up a pair of pliers on the ground and threw it in his hand, nodding by the way.

"Yes, I've asked them since I came here, but they don't dare to mine the uranium mine at the bottom of the valley, they are afraid of radiation and there will be more and more monsters around the uranium mining area, and there are very few deposits that can be found after going down to the valley from the north side, if I want to get enough of them, I may have to go to the south to take a look, but it's not useless here, I saw this interesting robot here."

Andy knew that he was going to go to the south anyway, but if it would take too long to drive to the south, it would be better to wait for San Diego to repair the cable car in a few days before taking the cable car over... That way you'll soon be on the other side of the Grand Canyon on the South Shore, and hopefully San Diego will be able to get their craft done.

Tell me about measles, and measles agrees.

"That's right, so let's think about this guy first in the next few days when they repair the cable car... I think it would be a good source of intelligence. “

With that, he watched as the robot began to ask questions.

"Tell us about yourself, what you do."

The robot struggled to respond to the question, which took a few seconds.

"Hello - Tourist - This device - Yes - Guide Robot - Model - 01b - Current Primary Duty: Guarding the Location - Current Secondary Duty: Maintaining Lost and Found."

Measles touched his chin and continued to ask.

"Aren't you a tour guide robot? Why doesn't the duty include leading tourists? ”

In the translucent brain of the robot, some elements turned.

"Queried - Program Settings - Previous Versions - This Device - Past Primary Duties: Leading Tours of the Area - Past Secondary Duties: None, This Program Settings - Closed - Closed: 2057."

Andy and Measles glanced at each other, and Andy was the first to ask the robot in front of him who claimed to be 01b.

"Why is your tour guide program turned off?"

The robot was silent for a moment, giving a very 'precise' answer.

"Querying... February 1, 2057 - Pursuant to - SA Federal Government - Relevant Executive Decree - Grand Canyon National Park - Banned - SA National Park Service - Has - Announced - Will - Grand Canyon Area - List of National Parks - Removed - Warning - Tourists - This Unit - Regret - Notice - This Park - No Longer - Duration: Indefinite - Please leave as soon as possible - Such as - trespass - Consequences - Have a nice day. ”

Andy listened to its stumbling speech, his eyes wandered around the dilapidated house, and suddenly saw a poster on the wall of a corner of the room, the broken poster seemed to be a promotional poster for the Grand Canyon National Park, with some advertising slogans written on it and depicting the natural scenery of the Grand Canyon in a pictorial way, which was very different from the current state of the Grand Canyon.

Looking at the bottom of the poster, you can see a strange cow pattern, and based on the kid below, it should be the SA National Park Service logo.

Measles saw that Andy was distracted and didn't speak, so he continued to ask 01b.

"Hey, tell me about the Grand Canyon."

It seems to have entered the state, and this time the robot responds quickly.

"1919 - Grand Canyon National Park - Formation - Query Physical Parameters... Grand Canyon Length: 466 km - Extreme Depth - 1.6 km - Extreme Width: 13 km - Extreme Depth at the Valley Floor: 18 m - Average number of visitors per year: 5 million - February 2057 - Officially cancelled - National Park - Status - May 2057 - Grand Canyon uranium mining project - Launched - End of 2057 - The facility - Completed at the valley floor on the south bank. ”

Andy saw that there was a door behind the robot, which seemed to lead to another room inside, this door was electronically locked, and it seemed that ordinary lockpicking tools had no effect on this, and there was a skeleton lying next to it, wearing tattered clothes, which was interesting...

The measles side continues to ask questions.

"01b, you said earlier that your secondary duty is to manage the lost and found, show me what you have lost."

The robot lifted its neckless head and 'looked' at the measles for a moment.

"Scanning.... Warning - Lost & Found - Authorized Only - Ranger - Access - Comparison of your appearance parameters: Mismatch - Access denied. ”

Measles snorted coldly and raised his hand and walked towards the robot.

"If I can fix you well, I can naturally fix you better..."

Andy glanced at the bones lying on the ground, and suddenly had an idea.

"Wait, measles, does it mean that you're wearing a ranger's uniform? Look at this set on the ground, since it can't even tell the difference between men and women, its scanning function must be very primitive, so you can fool it by just putting on clothes, right? ”

With that, Andy picks up the tattered clothes and puts them on himself to talk to the robot again.

"I'm going to go in the lost and found, I'm a ranger."

The robot 'looked' at Andy for a moment.

"Your-Appearance Parameter Comparison Results: Match - Welcome - Ranger - Since Your Last Visit...... Hours - Access is allowed. ”

The robot staggered around and came to the electronic lock, and a moment later there was a sound of unlocking, so the door opened, and Andy just wanted to go in to have a look, and the beep boy jumped out of warning.

Andy could only retreat for a moment, and the lost and found office actually glowed green, and it was self-evident what was inside.

Measles walked in with a nonchalant face, and interestingly the robot ignored it, as if it thought it didn't matter when it opened the door, or that it didn't have it in its program.

"Measles, what's in it?"

Andy hides outside the house and asks.

Standing in the house, measles picked through the piles of debris.

"It's all rags, something that can be piled up for a hundred years and not break... There are still a lot of bones here, and I guess this guy has taken the pieces of the corpse as lost items... Well, that's interesting. ”

The Pip-Boy's radiation warning was further raised with a certain movement of the measles, and the bright green glow almost completely illuminated the cabin.

Measles looked at the glowing stone in front of him, it was almost as bright as a light bulb, it was like breathing and constantly emitting green light, there was no doubt that this was a high-quality uranium ore, which contained extremely powerful energy inside, and it was emitting... As for why it's here, I'm afraid it has something to do with the corpse that was brought back as a lost item by 01b during his wanderings outside, and it is believed that it was once the harvest of some scavenger.

His dull eyes and ugly face were illuminated by the light, and the palm of the hand where the measles was clutching it began to glow faintly, and then the light gradually faded into the depths of his muscles and bones.

He stared at the pearl of nature, his eyes full of mixed meanings.

Andy changed into a radiation suit and walked in, and saw the glowing ores as well.

"So that's why the SA government closed this national park before the war, and they wanted to dig up all the uranium ore down there and make it into a nuclear bomb."

The measles puts the uranium ore back in its place.

"We've got to get to the south as soon as possible, these things... You humans may not be able to avoid it, but it is a resource we need so much for the reservation. ”

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

Two days later, Measles and Andy stood by the 'iron wires' and watched as the scavengers installed the last element under Santiago's command, and a rusty 'flying box' reappeared on the north shore of the Grand Canyon.

In the past two days, Andy also drank and chatted with some scavengers to inquire about information, according to them, the road down to the Grand Canyon on the south bank is smoother than that on the north bank, but there are more monsters over there, and the probability of producing high-value garbage is also greater, a bearded man told Andy that he once went down to the bottom of the valley to pick up waste, and saw the wreckage of part of the big fireball that fell into the bottom of the Grand Canyon, although it has been unrecognizable, but it can still be seen that it is a very high-tech metal man-made object.

He had also discussed with others what the big fireball was, and the result of the discussion was that it was most likely a 'satellite'.

The uranium mine at the bottom of the valley reacted violently to the impact of its crash, creating continuous high heat and radiation, and the water of the Colorara River flowing upstream flowed into the valley floor after being affected by this and rising a large amount of radiant steam, and the hot gas and water vapor rose to the outside and collided with the cold air to cause intermittent radiation rainstorms, which gave birth to a large number of monsters.

"Do you want to try the first ride, I think this ride through the Grand Canyon must be a cool thing, haha!"

After Santiago finished directing, he motioned for Andy and Measles to enter the cable car, and Andy glanced at the bottomless abyss of the Grand Canyon and felt dizzy in front of him.

To his surprise, measles actually behaved positively, taking three steps and doing two steps before walking up.

Seeing that Andy was still there hesitating, he poked his head out and urged.

"What are you still grinding about, hurry up, is it possible that you still have to drive a detour? If you, the initiator, dare not take this cable car, how can the merchants of the caravan dare to take it? ”

Santiago on the side is also helping.

"Don't worry, there will be no problem, I personally supervise everyone to reassemble this 'flying box', that is, there are only a few parts missing, and they are all ready."

Andy swallowed and stepped onto the cable car, where Santiago pressed the switch as the door closed.

The cable car suddenly slid down the cable to the south, and Andy, who was sitting in the carriage, saw himself 'flying' in the air in an instant, and the Grand Canyon below was like a huge mouth with a faint green light in the darkness, like a monster waiting for the fool to throw himself into the net, waiting for the food to fall into its bloody mouth.

He couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his forehead, and could only pray mentally that the ropes would not break, and that the cable car would not disintegrate into a pile of parts halfway.

A gust of wind blew, the sky became dark in a blink of an eye, there was no glass at all in the cable car, Andy was blown by the strong wind and couldn't open his eyes, this narrow cable car was blown left and right in the air, there was a sound everywhere, and what was even more terrifying was that a new round of thunder had begun to brew in the inky clouds in the sky...

"Hell, why should I come up?"

He grabbed the chair with a pale face, trying to stay away from the window, if there was another gust of wind, he was afraid that he would be thrown out, then there would be no way to live, and he already regretted it to death, but it was too late to regret it.

Measles crossed his arms and calmly looked at the thunder outside the window, his sense of balance was ridiculously strong, and his body naturally drifted with the rhythm of the swing in this cable car that encountered big waves, and he was not shaken as sadly as Andy.

A pitch black sky began to rain rapidly, the thunder illuminated area in a green, that is the color of the radiation steam reflected in the strong light, the Grand Canyon below is like echoing the roaring sky, the green light reflected at the bottom of the valley actually began to intensify, when the cable car traveled to the air in the center of the Grand Canyon, accompanied by the deafening thunder in the air, the valley floor actually began to faintly sound a noisy roar.

Measles even stuck his head out of the gondola and glanced down.

"Andy..."

"What?"

"Maybe we'll fall."

"Can you fucking stop talking about it at this time?"

"But I probably won't die."

"yes, you're amazing, are you done?"

Measles pulled out a small bottle from his sackcloth cloak and handed it over, which contained a gray liquid.

"Here's for you."

"What's this? Anti-radiation drug or sedative? You'd better take it yourself. ”

"I'm serious, Andy, this is something that could save your life."

Andy took the letter suspiciously and glanced at the Pip-Boy's inventory.

There was a violent jolt, something at the edge of the canyon was struck by lightning, and there was a loud bang, and the wind almost blew the cable car around in a moving circle.

Measles was still expressionless in this environment that could scare people to death, and he continued to remind Andy very seriously about the strange potion he had just given Andy.

"If the two of us really fall down after a while, remember to hurry up and drink the medicine, you still have a certain chance of surviving, remember."