"Come on, faster!"

Jack commanded the men to carry their belongings, and the rudimentary bunkers he had built would work well against the mole gang, but he had no chance of winning if they were replaced by the vicious Phoenix Marauders, so he called for the demolition of their shacks for the time being, and sent the materials to the vicinity of the mines to be regrouped into forts and fortifications.

"If you let that group of people take down here, it's all over, you all know what kind of people Phoenix is! Even if those madmen don't kill you, your fate will be even more miserable! ”

People were busy in silence, some mining robots that had been re-entered with simple commands were helping to carry something too heavy, and thanks to a bright young man among the Bodonkers, no one would have understood the machinery and procedures.

Andy also did his part, but as he did it, he suddenly had doubts.

Although he had never been to Phoenix, this was not the first time he had helped the settlement defend itself against the looters who were about to invade him, and the great battle he had fought in Jericho Town in retrospect, if he hadn't enlisted the help of the survivors of New Canaan, he would not have been able to protect the town even if he had exerted his combat skills far beyond the average person.

In the middle of the bloody battle, he was injured and unconscious, and if it weren't for the reinforcements of the survivors of New Canaan, I am afraid that by the time he got up, Jericho Town would have merged with the ruins of New Canaan next to him.

This time, Poldonk's strength is even weaker than Jericho's, and there are only about twenty people who can fight here, and there is no result in rushing to build bunker fortifications in a few days, and the enemy is in the dark, and Pordunk's position has long been exposed, and the answers to these questions are unknown to the other side of the enemy, how many guns, where they will attack from, and how they will attack.

Can you win? If all the Podonks died after the war, what was the point of holding on here?

Just as he was thinking this, a Podonk man suddenly walked outside with a backpack on his back, and someone stopped him when he saw it.

"Where are you going at this time?"

The man paused and sneered.

"Go where I can live."

The Potunker who stopped him grabbed his backpack and saw that there was a nugget inside.

"You took Poldonk's gold, but you didn't want to fight for it?"

The man saw that everyone was staring at him angrily, and he took off his hat and threw it on the ground.

"Fighting for Podunk? Looking for death? A few half-men are still fighting, and the madmen in Phoenix City are what you can stop? Are you still here waiting to die? Hurry up and count as much gold as you can in the mine, take this gold and leave quickly, this is the most correct choice! Feel free to go or not, I'm leaving! ”

His shouting made many people put down what they were holding, and their faces were confused.

Jack's face flushed with anger.

"Don't go! If I say no, I don't want to! The gold belongs to the Podunkers, if you leave you are not a Podunker, put it down for me! ”

The man snorted unconvinced.

"You didn't say that when you divided the gold before, why? Is the concept of a Bodunker defined however you want? Even if you're the mayor, you're too domineering and unreasonable, right? You can use this word however you want, I'm just an ordinary person, I'm still good at picking up garbage and mining, let me take a gun and fight those Phoenix madmen, you're too strong! ”

He turned to look at the others.

"What about you? Are you all willing to go for it? If gold is not gold, what is the use of gold when your life is gone? Break up as soon as possible, we can earn some money and not lose our lives! ”

As soon as these words came out, the scene fell silent.

Jack angrily tapped the iron sheet with his prosthetic leg and stamped his lame leg.

"You capitulation faction! Don't you want to get out of Podunk today, I think you're going to take refuge with the marauders, and tell them all about our defenses, and think I can't see it? Get him! ”

Several men with rifles and shotguns grabbed the man, and the man turned and ran two steps before he was frightened by the gunfire, his arm was twisted and pressed to the ground, his backpack was confiscated, and the man was dragged into a room.

He was still shouting and screaming through the completely unsoundproof door.

"You're crazy! I know that I can't beat it, but I'm still here to fool people to die with you! Let me out! ”

Andy walked over to Jack, and the two looked at each other worriedly.

"On our own..."

"I understand, so I have a plan, I'll go back to the south and bring some of my men to support you."

"How many people can there be?"

"Probably... It's about the same as yours, uh, I guess it's less. ”

"Ugh..."

Jack scratched his beard, still unable to feel reassured.

"Thank you for your kindness, Andy, but how many days will it take you to come and go? What's more, even if we add your people, it's probably still not enough, do we still have reinforcements that we can strive for? ”

"Look at NcR..."

"No, stop, don't mention them, don't mention Joseph Dodge and his big men, they won't do anything good but blow up our homes or exploit our blood and sweat."

Andy pondered for a moment and realized that there was only one option left but to ask NcR for help.

"Yes, remember the ghoul called measles before?"

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

Measles looked at the two people in front of him, his expression a little sarcastic.

"Oh? - What's going on? Didn't you say before that the affairs of the Podonk people were good, and Podunke took care of it himself? The marauders wouldn't be interested in uranium anyway, and I don't care if they come or not. ”

Jack made a difficult request.

"Podonk is in danger, my nephew Krimson is dead, now I'm Mayor Podunk, we all agree to your previous requests, we only want to keep our dwellings and gold mines, and the rest... We can all discuss, don't you want those uranium mines, we can give up the mining rights, and from now on we in Podunke will cooperate with your reservation to develop the resources in the mines. ”

Measles lifts the chin and sits directly on the ground.

"We can provide some armed men stationed here to help you defend against foreign enemies, or we can provide you with a batch of weapons and equipment for free, as a replacement for the bottle cap that was agreed to buy the land."

"On the other hand, we need to take permanent and exclusive ownership of the uranium mine and all the local mines that can produce uranium, and you, you Bodonk's slippery skin can stay here, and the residential area must be moved to the vicinity of the gold mine, and it cannot be mined indefinitely, once the gold mine is emptied, you must leave."

"How? Are you okay with that? ”

Jack's face was full of confusion, and if that was the case, how would he explain it to the townspeople of Pordonk...

After he looked at Andy with a pleading gaze, Andy walked over to the measles.

"Why be so aggressive, they have agreed to give up the right to mine uranium, why do they have to rush to kick them out of here completely?"

Measles stared at Andy with a strange gaze for a moment.

"It's just a town we've only been in contact with for a few days, and you're so concerned? Listen to me, Slippery and our new humans can't stay together for long, either they give in, or we give in. Since Podonk needs us to shoot people, we can give it, but we can't make any more concessions on that basis, right? As I said before, the environment here dictates that Slippery will only kill himself if he continues to live here, and leaving is the only option for Slippery Skin, this is not my idea, but the reality determined by the will of the Holy Spirit in this wasteland. I know they'd rather die for the gold mine, which and the gold in it can be left to them, but other than that, don't be greedy. ”

Andy glanced back at the dejected Jack, and then thought about the approaching large number of marauders, and the more he thought about it, the more bottomless he became.

"It's better to take a step back, you also said, you don't lack time, there is no need to rush this time, just let them settle near the gold mine first, don't set the time limit and conditions for them to leave, we can be considered friends, count me begging you, give them some time and space."

Measles suddenly laughed.

"You're such a nice guy, Andy, even with such a group of people... What is your reason for helping them in this way? ”

Andy glanced back at Jack.

"They were all NcR people, and they have suffered a lot of trauma because of what NcR did, they shouldn't end up like this, I'm also an NcR person, at least I saw it, then I want to do my part to help them get out of a better way."

The measles eyes scanned him up and down.

"Is it possible that you, as a slippery concern, will take full control of the south shore of the Grand Canyon and affect your north-south trade routes? Well? I'd rather believe that than the bastards you just said. But in any case, as you wish, since you have shown our personal friendship to talk about the matter, I can also grant your request on behalf of the reserve, and we will wait and see what the final outcome of this matter will be. ”

After convincing Measles, Andy hurriedly beckoned Jack to sign an agreement with Measles as soon as possible, although an agreement in the wasteland is similar to a butt wipe, but this can be used as a token to boost the spirit of resistance of the Bodunques, bring them hope of victory, and reduce the probability of the appearance of the previous escapees.

He also immediately took the cable car back to the North House on the north shore of the Grand Canyon, and after saying hello to San Diego and telling them not to go near the south to avoid the upcoming battle, Andy hurried back to the Atomic Humvee and drove towards the south of the Grand Canyon, aiming at Bloomfield, where he was going to pull some reinforcements, no way, the small cable car certainly couldn't carry the weight of the Atomic Humvee, but the advantage was that the car was fast.

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

A day later, on the way to the south, Andy's beep boy on his wrist suddenly vibrate, and a prompt popped up on it saying that he had received a remote communication signal, and after clicking to accept, a string's face appeared on the screen.

"Strings?!"

Andy couldn't help but be shocked, he hadn't seen her for a long time, and he didn't want her to take the initiative to contact her first.

"Andy, long time no see, it's me."

String looked a lot thinner, but at least she was alive, the first strain of the new plague she had contracted in the Great Dome could cause death within days according to pre-war records, and she was able to hold out until the end, hoping that the success of the research and development would have an element of luck in addition to the scientific research equipment of the Great Dome and her own biological skills.

It's just that the damage to body organs caused by the virus was permanent, which greatly damaged her health, and if it weren't for Diana, she would have faced an inevitable death.

"Great, did Diana cure you completely?"

Andy felt that he wanted to say a thousand words to her for a while, but when the words came to his lips, he felt that it was not the right time, he was now anxiously rushing to help Podunk, and in the past few days, according to the foot, if it was by car, the marauders would launch an offensive before he returned, although Measles promised to provide protection and then claimed that the reservation would use trains to quickly drop people along the railroad to the vicinity of the Grand Canyon area, but Andy still felt unsafe.

And, as he pondered alone on the way, he also realized that he was still full of jealousy of the reservation, a slave settlement that pursued the supremacy of ghouls and extreme racism, and even used slaves as breeding material in a terrible place, what would they do to the people here in Potunk? It was this thought that gave him a faint urge that he had to be involved in this matter.

"Sort of... Anyway, I've left the nursery to return to the Big Dome, and I've been calling you for a while now, but I can't reach you through your Pip-Boy because you're far from any signal repeaters, and luckily you're suddenly moving south... Now the signal is still not very stable... I...."

Communication was cut off.

Andy slammed on the gas pedal in a hurry, and after driving south for two hours, communication resumed as if it had been close to Bloomfield.

"Andy? Can you hear me? ”

Andy quickly wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied to her.

"Yes, I can hear you, Xian, you said you called me for a long time, what's wrong? What's wrong? ”

The sound of strings came a little noisily.

"Something big, it's the big dome, ZAx to be exact, it's... It's going to die. ”

Andy could barely believe his ears.

"The master control AI of the big dome, you say? It... How could it die? Can it die? ”

String is very excited, which may be as she said before, as a member of the Shi Clan, she has an unusual affection for AI, which is more directly reflected in the large dome ZAx that she has been with for a long time.

"It's going to die! .... Oh my God, anyway, you've got to find a time to get to a better signal, let's go into detail, if one doesn't get it right, the big dome will be completely finished, ZAx is the big dome itself, if it dies... It's all over. ”

Communication was interrupted again.

Andy had no choice but to continue to speed towards the south, he didn't understand what was going on at all, and things followed, one thing was more anxious than the other.