The funeral was hastily resolved, Jack was extremely sad, and the people around him were also very sad, the town of Podonk was too small, and many people were related to each other, and the reason why they were willing to unite around Krimson and obey his orders to participate in the battle was also a blood relative, but no one expected that Krimson would be one of the three people who died under the crushing of equipment.

One was killed by the tribesmen using spears to pierce the abdomen, one was hacked to death by the tribesmen, and the rest were wounded.

The trio could not be buried near the Grand Canyon, and the corpses were simply cleaned up and then wrapped in a cloth and sent to the nearby wasteland to be fed to the beasts, which at least prevented their corpses from becoming abnormal or becoming bait to attract man-eaters, and the corpses left behind by the tribesmen were just treated in the same way.

"What do we do next?"

This question came out of many people's mouths, but it went unanswered for a long time.

For the time being, they have also guarded the mine to prevent the Mole and his men from encroaching on it or causing more serious melee due to conflicts of interest, but the scattered Podonks on the periphery are still waiting not far away and are unwilling to leave, and these people are also waiting for the final result of the change in the situation. If not, then it's better to go and see if the mole is still recruiting... They didn't think of themselves as Podonkers, and they didn't care who was in charge of the town, and the most important thing was how much gold they could get in their hands.

Jack was still drowning in grief when Andy suddenly patted him on the shoulder.

"You can't go on like this."

His old face was raised and he looked at Andy in confusion, his eyes were red.

"What?"

Andy repeated it in a serious tone.

"I said you can't go on like this, Jack, you need to pick yourself up and lead everyone here, it's far from over, is there anyone better than you to succeed Krimson?" If you think you're going to need some time, find that person first, otherwise... Stand up. ”

Jack was silent for a while, stood up and looked around, and found that the people around him were indeed looking at him and waiting for him.

As the former mayor of Podonk and the uncle of Krimson, he seems to be the most suitable person right now, and there is no one.

He rubbed his face and took a deep breath trying to get back to the way he felt.

The old man's eyes were firm again, and he stood on a high spot and waved to all the Podonkers around him.

"Everyone, listen up, I have something to say!"

He struggled to raise his voice, making his wrinkled neck vibrate and his gray bearded mouth wide open.

The people of Podunk gathered together.

"I now announce to you three things, the first, because my nephew Krimson has died as everyone knows, and I will take his place as Mayor of Podonk; The second thing is that his previous promise still works, and the Podonks have the right to share equally in the output of this gold mine, but I want to make one thing clear first, either the people who stand on the soil of the Podonks are the Podunks. ”

Jack paused deliberately, causing a lot of discussion among the people below.

"Quiet! Let me illustrate what I just said, who are the Bodonkers? I think we are hard-working, courageous, united, willing to abide by the collective covenant, we are willing to pay hard work in exchange for our own fair remuneration and are not willing to use unconventional ways to gain benefits by infringing on others by unfair means, I think this is the Bodonker, and the people who meet this standard are the Bodunkers, and I believe that everyone can recognize this, because many of us have a common ancestor, and I believe that our hearts are the same! ”

Some echoed this, but others remained silent.

Jack looked at them and said the third thing.

"The third thing, in order to protect the interests of Podonk from being violated, I am here to call on everyone to join my team to protect our common property, and really start fighting for Podunk, and anyone involved will have the right to share more benefits and have the right to mine more gold later! When we introduce ourselves to rare outsiders, we say we're Bodonkers, but we never realize why we call ourselves that way, just because we came here to build a little rundown town and give it a name? No, because Podonk is our homeland and we belong here, that's why we call ourselves that! ”

"Everyone knows what virtues the mole group has in their daily lives, do you really think that they will give you a little benefit after they occupy this place? He won't! Those people don't deserve to be compared to us, they're a bunch of beasts! Some of you may have seen before that everything could have been talked about peacefully, but they didn't want to, they wanted everything to go in their favor! ”

"If you understand, then come to me and stand with me, I promise that we will find more weapons to distribute to you, and you will never be allowed to fight the enemy with sticks, I promise that when everything is smooth, we can truly become a better collective, and that gold can help everyone have a better future, whether you choose to leave here or not, I hope you can all proudly say to others, I am a Podonk, I fought to defend my homeland!"

Andy was also a little excited when he heard this.

"I'll stay here and fight with you, maybe some people have heard of me, I'm the one who fell down the Grand Canyon and climbed up again, those enemies won't be our opponents, what are you waiting for?"

Scattered people gradually came to the area, some of them were touched by their kinship and homeland, but there was more to it than that, emotional value alone could not win over the majority, and Jack's declaration also meant that they agreed to expel the Mole and his gang from the Podonk area, and the gold mines would be occupied and divided among the people of the group.

A man shouted excitedly.

"We can't let the Burnham Springs incident happen again, none of us rely on it, this time we rely on ourselves to fight for it!"

This sound was like igniting a fire in people's hearts, so that no one hesitated anymore.

After calling a few people, Andy led them to follow the path of the Pip-Boy to the last place that the brain thought might be hiding a gun, which was a mine marked as a skeleton, and the terrible poisonous smoke spread deep in the mine.

Just when everyone was nervously marching in the mine, there was a sudden sound of fighting not far away, Andy cautiously turned on the V mode to look, and found that it was a strange robot that was being attacked by some man-eating ghosts, this robot is tall and thin, equipped with more than four arms, and the ends are all in the shape of drills or multi-purpose shovels, which looks like a pre-war robot used for mining purposes.

As before, these robots that have worked in high-radiation environments for many years have long since been damaged, and any living creature that comes close to it is an intruder trying to destroy production, which also causes the man-eating ghosts, who have no interest in robots, to launch a violent counterattack when attacked, but those claws and teeth that can easily tear human bodies apart do not take advantage of the thick iron body of this mining robot.

A drill that can penetrate rock formations to crush ore can kill a man-eater in a single stroke, and the bloody monsters have been inspired by their brutal tempers, and they are still fearless to pounce and bite in the face of such a desperate opponent, except for destroying some trivial exterior wiring and scraping off some corrosion-resistant paint.

Andy looked at the two sides who were fighting, and if it weren't for the fact that these monsters were blocking the way, he really didn't want to get closer.

"Get out of the way!"

Some gravel flew in, and everyone hurriedly dodged, only to see the robot waving its four arms and whipping indiscriminately, causing sparks to fly everywhere and the stones flew around, and the man-eating ghost who couldn't avoid it turned into a pile of minced meat on the spot.

Seeing that the man-eaters were almost wiped out, Andy pulled out his pistol and aimed at the relatively fragile lower joints of the robots, and led the people over the robots as they crawled to the ground, and successfully approached their destination.

The army-green metal door seemed to be extraordinary, after a few attempts to make sure that a violent break was unlikely, Andy pondered the security terminal on the wall, and after trying the crack mode of the beep-boy for a while, the door lock was finally fortunately opened, and everyone cheered, but Andy secretly rubbed his head in severe pain, this strange function always puts a lot of load on the brain.

As soon as they entered the house, a dazzling array of firearms and ammunition could be seen everywhere, and everyone immediately began to stuff their weapons into their backpacks, and most of the pistols, submachine guns, automatic rifles, grenades, and other weapons that people knew and excelled at were immediately divided, leaving behind some strange fellows, and the Podonks could not even determine whether it was a weapon or not.

Andy picked up a tube that had been discarded by the crowd.

Andy twitched the corners of his mouth after reading the instructions, he thought that he would no longer be exposed to these strange riot weapons after leaving the Dog City Police Department, but he didn't expect to see a pre-war riot bazooka today... How low is it to be considered "safe"?

The people who returned with a full load suddenly encountered several huge mutant lizards on the road, these mutant lizards with golden scales and skin were more than three meters long, similar in size to people, but they all looked very ordinary, their eyes were dull, their eyes were cloudy, and their skin was pitted and dirty, and they didn't seem to be very adaptable to the poisonous smoke here.

As they let out a menacing roar, the Podonks smiled at each other and drew their spears and cannons to fire in a flurry of fire.

The lizards, weakened by the poisonous smoke, collapsed to the ground, and some tried to harvest the flesh, but when the corpses were dissected, they appeared to have accumulated too much toxin, and the lizard corpses were eventually abandoned in the mines.

Upon returning to the surface, the newly acquired weapons were immediately distributed to the crowd, and the people remained outside the mine in full gear, and when the mole and the gang tentatively returned, they retreated because of what they saw.

Victorious, Jack immediately happily announced that from now on, the order and time of the people entering the mine will be allocated in an orderly manner, in addition to registering the names of all those present to screen those who are too timid to participate in the battle at the critical moment.

In the days that followed, Podonk became more busy than ever, from time to time some people successfully brought back to the gold mines and made a fortune, and some people died underground due to various accidents, and their bodies were missing, so they became one of the missing people.

Andy led people to explore around the mine, successfully found a regional control center that was still running, entered the code given by his brain, activated part of the exhaust system, extracted some toxic smoke from the mine, and found some mineral detection devices and the data stored in its automatic operation for many years, and learned that the mines of the Grand Canyon can produce more than ten different kinds of ores, although none of them can be compared with the reserves of uranium ore, but this is enough to bring about the continued prosperity of Bodunke after that.

A few Podonk miners worked together to create a simple monitor screen from the recovered junk and connect to an underground control center to gain control of some undamaged cameras, and even attempts to reprogram the runaway mining robots were still being heard, but enthusiasm was high.

According to the previous agreement, everyone involved in the battle was given the order and time to enter, and Jack and the others were in charge of the time, and if they were not confirmed to be in danger and returned late, they would have to pay an additional price, although this rule was criticized by some people, but people finally compromised, after all, it was not worth mentioning compared to the possible opportunity to make a fortune.

A large number of shacks were relocated to the vicinity of the gold mines, and people devoted almost all of their time to the search for gold mines except for eating, sleeping and resting, and there was inevitably a lot of personal friction in the process, but fortunately the situation did not expand under everyone's restraint and Jack's mediation.

Today, Jack was chatting with Andy while directing a few people to pull some large equipment out of a mine.

"I'm planning to form a police force in Podunke, and I can't always be in a state of disarray, especially now that many people have guns, and I hid the better ones in the batch of weapons I brought back, and it's time to establish a new order."

Andy agrees, and once two townsfolk fight over the ownership of a piece of gold, and the last one tries to shoot and kill, but fortunately Andy is present and shoots his weapon away, so it doesn't lead to a shooting or a chain of shootings.

There were pros and cons to Jack's decision to distribute the guns, but Podonk's current situation was such that he had to consider restricting it later.

"This is a matter of course, any normal town needs the sheriff and his police officers to maintain order, and if one day Podonk can continue to expand, it is also necessary to consider the formation of militia groups, and order will only be established if the armed organization is mastered."

While they were chatting, a Podonker came running up.

"Brother Glenn has something to say."

Jack pondered for a moment, asking to bring them over.

The arrogant and domineering Glenn brothers were already in a state of blue nose and swollen face when they met again, they claimed that they were beaten by the mole because they said the wrong thing during the period of following the mole, and they were locked in a cage after a beating, and finally took advantage of the guard's drinking and sleeping to pry open the lock and escape, this time they came in the hope of exchanging an information for them to participate in the mining of the gold mine.

"They're contacting people in Phoenix."

The Glenn brothers said it conclusively.

"They want to collude with outsiders to occupy Podunk."