Faust and Cersei, who had retreated to the eastern no-man's land of the Grand Canyon, stopped in a disgraced and breathless manner.

Everyone didn't know what to say, everything was too unbelievable, and in retrospect, from the sudden emergence of a minefield, this small town of Podonk began to surprise again and again, a group of well-armed people suddenly appeared among the defenders, and it was even said that the marauders saw a guy in green power armor, and finally the fire-breathing thing was even more amazing.

"What should I do?"

Faust counted the number of people, and there were nearly twenty marauders and more than a dozen natives who had not died or run, and sixty people could not beat the other side, and thirty people, mixed with the wounded and frightened, how could this be victorious?

Cersei stood gloomily on the edge of the Grand Canyon staring into the abyss below.

"We have another way, with the power bestowed by the goddess, I can summon beasts and control them, or I can turn people into beasts.... Defeating an enemy doesn't necessarily take our own hands, and sometimes making good use of what we have can make it easier to achieve our goals. ”

"Victory is not the problem, the problem is after the victory."

She turned to look at Faust, her braided hair and black robe swaying in the wind.

"Those guys can't surrender, even if we do, we can't accept it, what about your people, it's impossible to be willing to go into the mines to mine later, even if we win, what are we going to do with the gold? Scream and let them run out of the hole on their own? ”

Faust gritted his teeth and felt unwilling.

"Go back now? No, it's hard to get out and there's no point in going back... I think that there is still a way to mine slaves.. If I can't do it, I'll go to Bullhead City and ask that disgusting guy, he might be able to send enough slaves to help us mine, and he can keep it a secret from Phoenix, but..."

Sercy's serpent poked its head out of its robes, spitting out letters.

"It's good if you have ideas, as long as he is a human being, I have a way to make him obedient, and we can control him by putting something in the wine and medicine, then next, this time it must be successful."

Sehi gave some orders in tribal words, and the tribesmen fell to their knees, and then offered many strange objects.

The gold and silver objects were all strung together in her hand in a fan-like object, and she began to drive everyone around her, and in the wind of the Grand Canyon, the dark woman sprinkled the powder from nowhere into the brazier and fanned the brazier with the fan that made a strange noise when it moved.

Faust accidentally smelled the smell and almost vomited his stomach.

She continued to perform strange rituals in this strange dance posture, until half an hour later, there was a strange movement in the Grand Canyon, and the sound of a large number of rocks rubbing sounded, and one of Faust's marauders poked his head out curiously, and he screamed on the spot, it turned out to be a large group of golden mutant lizards crawling from the bottom of the Grand Canyon towards the top, and at the back of these monsters there was a huge figure faintly moving at a slow speed.

"All backwards!"

Cersei shouted, but without her shouting, the others had already run far away.

The lizards climbed up and gathered around Cersei, constantly putting their heads close together to sniff the smell with their nostrils, and the stench emanating from the large mouths of blood basins gave Cersie several pills to protect himself from the attack.

A moment later, a huge figure three or four meters tall also climbed up from below, and brutally grabbed several lizards that were in the way and threw them down the Grand Canyon, its blue-gray eyes larger than the wheels staring at Cersei in front of him, and the back of its head and its entire back extending to the tip of its tail were spikes that could freely control whether it was erected or flattened.

"Goo...."

The huge golden lizard shimmered dreamily in the sunlight, because it was emitting a foul-smelling gas all over its body, and this gas could make the light twist and turn, and the tribesmen in the distance watched this scene and even many people knelt directly to the ground to worship this monster, such a degree of creature has reached the level of being listed as a god by the tribesmen.

Faust hid in the distance and opened his mouth in an O-shape.

"What is this? Godzilla? ”

The marauder on the side asked strangely.

"Boss, what did you say?"

Faust didn't bother to bother with him, not long ago, he grabbed some pre-war comic books in Phoenix, one of which depicted a huge lizard monster that lived before the war, he thought it was the boring childish imagination of people before the war, but he didn't think that they were not scribbled, and that such things really existed in the world.

Cersei looked at the behemoth that was close at hand for a moment, and suddenly closed her eyes.

According to Lady Hecate's teachings in the past, talented people can pass on their ideas to the lower beings in order to establish a bond with each other, as she herself often performs, and Cersei believes that she also has this talent.

After a while, the upright Godzilla lifted one of his forelimbs and scratched the scales of his neck with his fingernails, and then stuck out his tongue and licked his eyes, and then walked towards the west, where the other small lizards followed in his footsteps.

Sweating profusely, Cersei fell to her knees, only to feel a throbbing pain in her head, which was still far from comparable to Hekate's ability to make a hundred beasts follow her with her gestures.

Faust hurriedly ran over to shush the cold and ask for warmth, but was pushed away by Cersei.

"It's not over yet... Those brutes alone are not enough. ”

She beckoned a few tribesmen to set up an iron pot and mix handfuls of hay with oddly shaped rhizomes and fragments of the carcasses of various insects and animals mixed with irradiated dirty water.

Eventually, Cersey took out a clay jar and poured a viscous blood-like liquid into it.

In the iron pot, where the color and smell have become indescribable, this mysterious thing is churning.

The tribesmen looked at each other, and suddenly became excited.

Under the astonished gaze of Faust and the marauders, the tribesmen took out their knives and made holes in their arms, leaned over to the iron pot and dripped blood into it, and then divided the bowl of food with the unknown liquid inside.

Sehi clasped his hands together and whispered in tribal language like a shaman.

"I, daughter of Lady Hecate, hereby ask the Goddess to show grace and sacrifice a part of your life in the presence of Lady Hecate, in exchange for you being one with your weapon, your eyes will be sharp, your limbs will not break, your hands will be as fast as thunder, and you will feel the glory of waving your fist or weapon at the enemy, and I will perform this bloody knife ritual before the battle."

The tribesmen drank the medicine, and one by one they became extremely excited, and their eyes became cloudy.

Sehi watched with satisfaction as the tribesmen entered the state.

"Now... Go fight for me. ”

The tribesmen, as if they had lost all fear and pain, drew their machetes, raised their spears, and even threw away their bows and arrows, and ran again with their fists towards the town of Podunk, which had recently broken them.

Faust watched the Buraku run away and asked Sehi curiously.

"What are you, it feels better than madness."

Cersei looked indifferently at the backs of the Burakure.

"The Bloody Knife Ritual, a ritual created by Lady Hecate, this potion can paralyze pain, exuberant fighting spirit, and can even quickly heal injuries in hand-to-hand combat, at the cost... Their vitality will also pass during this period, which is nothing, just a group of natives, and their lives are not worth anything at all. ”

Faust muttered a few words, although the power of madness medicine is not necessarily so exaggerated, at least it will not kill easily.

He turned around and gave the order, and some of the medicine was unlocked from the car's storage compartment and distributed to the remaining marauders.

"This time, let's go back, we have to win! I want all of you to fight hard! ”

The marauders also regained their fighting spirit after taking or injecting them, raising their weapons and shouting.

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

After the catastrophe, the people of Podunk are still celebrating.

The Podonks quickly mingled with the Rockets, and they gained friendship as they fought side by side.

The musket was watched by many onlookers, this magical weapon played a decisive role in the battle, but it seems that it can't be fired again, the whole engine is pitch black from the inside out, and the precious aviation fuel in the fuel tank has been incinerated out, because this time the fuel is not only too full, the power is extraordinary, but also the main component of the musket: the rocket engine, this ancient gadget left over from before the war is overwhelmed, even if you can find fuel here, unless you pull it back to Sid for a while, Otherwise, don't think about using it again.

Andy's power armor is another object to be watched.

The power armor stood silently in place, its head slightly bowed, like a metal statue.

At this moment, Andy is enthusiastically discussing with Jack what will happen next.

"You Blonnfield people are too powerful, in the future, I hope you can send some people here for a long time to protect the safety of Podonk with us, rest assured, we will not let you do it in vain, Andy You mentioned the Grand Canyon North-South Trade Route, that matter is also very simple, we will fully cooperate with you."

He took out a suitcase, which contained a suit of clothes and a strangely shaped fist glove.

"These are the things I used when I was young, and I don't need them anymore, so I'll give them to you, thank you for helping you this time."

Andy took it.

"You're so kind, Jack, isn't that what we agreed on?"

As he spoke, Andy turned things into the Pip-Boy and talked to Jack about something else.

"Did they send weapons and men for measles?"

Jack shook his head and sighed in disappointment.

"Maybe they're far away so they haven't arrived yet, I looked for him, he just said that the reservation would crush our enemies after arriving as promised, no matter what he asked, he just repeated this sentence, and in the end I didn't bother to go to him again, just let those ghouls come or not, since we won the battle without using their strength, the previous agreement naturally doesn't count."

Andy, however, is not very happy with Jack's attitude.

"Don't be careless, Jack, those Phoenix people have only been repulsed, maybe they will come back soon, we can send only a limited number of men and weapons to bring, if we want to maintain long-term security and stability, cooperation with the reservation is completely necessary; You must know that the weapons and ammunition they produce there are not only of high quality and quantity, but also that their armed forces are highly combative, and you will also use them to clean up the uranium mines that have exploded in radiation and get a share of the profits, all of which are not negligible. ”

Jack nodded earnestly, then sighed again.

"I've thought of what you've said, I'm not old and confused, and I know what is best for Potunke, but... You know, ever since I promised to work with the reservation, there has been a lot of opposition among the Podonques, and they all think that the ghouls are a filthy and untouchable group, and that voice is so loud that I can't ignore it. ”

"If I force everyone to make a decision, then the people of the reserve will appear in Podunk, and there will be endless conflicts here, isn't this contrary to my original intention of asking them to come over? I'm hoping they can make it more stable, not the other way around. ”

Andy was silent for a while, on the issue of contradictions between the races of the wasteland, Jack's opinion is deeper than him, although backtracking is not a proper choice, but Andy also has some bitterness about the reservation, it is nonsense to persuade Jack and the Potunks here to retract their idea of embracing racial harmony, even President Tandi of the NcR can only maintain a superficial racial equality in the country during his lifetime, how far can the people of this small place go?

"What you said... It also makes sense, alas, I thought that when I came here you were already standing with the reservation, and when the time comes, our three forces will fight together against the foreign enemy, and after the battle is over, we will have a good start. ”

Jack was about to say something when a shout interrupted the conversation.

They hurried out, and as soon as Andy went out, he saw a golden mutant lizard about the size of a man lying on top of a man who had fallen to the ground, scratching frantically and biting at his flesh and swallowing it.

Before he could draw his gun, Andy ran over and punched the monster to the ground, screaming and covering its face, and crawling away in a daze after several failed attempts to get up.

"Monster! Lots of monsters! Those lizards..."

A Rocket Gang was firing with a submachine gun in their hands, but the bullets didn't hit the big lizards very much, the golden scales were incredibly hard, and even if there was a blood line on their bodies, the lizards still did not lose their mobility.

Andy ran to the side of the power armor as fast as he could, twisted the valve on his back to enter it, and then ran out and shot with two guns in hand, with the blessing of two large-caliber pistols and V mode, the lizards were killed by headshots, and several lizards that rushed over to scratch and hit were blocked by the power armor, Andy put away the pistol and alternately used back Papa and Bang Papa, and for a while, the lizards were rolling all over the ground and hugging their heads.

Hull's voice appeared directly in the power armor this time, and even animated the states on the screen, and the beep boy was also connected to the power armor's internal electronic system.

"Warning, there is a dangerous target ahead~."

Andy threw away the lizard that had been smashed in the head by his punch and looked not far away from Hull's prompt, where a large cloud of gray smoke appeared at some point, similar to the poisonous smoke he had encountered in the depths of the underground mine.

Because of this smoke, the V-mode function of seeking enemies also failed.

He turned on the power armor's headlamp and could vaguely see something moving in the smoke.

Andy frowned in his helmet, pulled out the python and shot at the smoke, and after a huge roar, a behemoth came out of the smoke, its chest was covered in scales, and it could only be said that the skin was broken, and it looked like this guy's defense was surprisingly high.

The big blue-gray eyes stared at Andy, even though he was wearing power armor, the monster in front of him was more than a meter taller than him.

This time, V-mode succeeded in locking in the target.

A skull appeared on the head of the monster called Godzilla by V Mode, a behemoth nearly four meters tall and as tall as a hill, like a smoking stove, emitting eerie gray smoke from all over its body, and it stared at Andy in power armor until Andy shot it in the eye again.

"Roar!! ——”

The shot didn't blind it, it only made its eyes quickly bloodshot and blood-red, and the huge monster opened its mouth and spat out large puffs of gray smoke, and the lizards that came into contact with the smoke became sluggish, and the humans fell to their knees and coughed.

Andy didn't react to the smoke with the help of his power armor, but then he didn't know what the monster had done, and the smoke suddenly turned into a raging fire that erupted from its mouth.

Andy's eyepiece was lit up by fire, and the screams of charred creatures were heard around them.

Just as the behemoth monster wantonly spewed flames and burned everything, against the firelight, a dazzling blue light suddenly lit up, followed by a powerful pulse of blue energy that interrupted the source of the flame's birth.