After two bloody battles, this chaotic battle ended in a crushing victory on the part of the Podonk, Andy let the Big Bear keep two Rocket Gang members in Podonk is a symbolic response, as for the Big Bear himself has to return to Bloomfield to sit down, relying only on Sid and Gillian I don't know what will happen, whether it was before or now, the Big Bear is still the indispensable soul of the gang.

The ghouls of the reserve recklessly began to set up shacks and checkpoints, dividing the remaining men into groups, some going in and out of the mines to keep notes, and others beginning to collect samples of the corpses of the dead creatures.

There weren't many townspeople left in Podunk, and no one could have imagined that just because of the presence of some gold mines, this otherwise prosperous town would become what it is in a matter of days, and the survivors would have to say goodbye to the deceased, because the long accumulation of corpses would surely attract the endless man-eaters under the mines to attack, and many of their corpses had been torn apart, mixed with the flesh and blood of the golden lizards, man-eaters, and tribesmen, and it was like hell.

Andy is working with Big Bear to find the bodies of the Rocket Gang, hoping to find them and send them back to Bloomfield for burial.

"They died for me.... If you have dependents, I will pay a pension. ”

Andy lifts open a dead lizard and finds a mutilated corpse under the corpse, but it is not a member of the Rocket Gang, and two of the dead are missing, most likely having been melted by stomach acid or sliding to the bottom of the Grand Canyon in the explosion, and if these speculations are true, the bones of these people will be gone.

"There's no point in saying that, boss."

Big Bear was very calm.

"For bandits, fighting and dying are commonplace, where will these people have relatives? They have almost nothing but the friendship of their companions, and which one of them would follow Kyle all the way from Phoenix to the Great South? Don't be sad about this, you should focus more on the living, the brothers don't want to get nothing good after the fight. ”

Andy stopped and thought about it for a while, and found that Big Bear was right, he subconsciously used the thinking of the settlement residents to think about the aftermath of this matter, but the members of the Rocket Gang were still a group of marauders not long ago, but the right situation does not mean that the right approach is also right.

"No, it can't be left at that, it's true that they used to be marauders, but they can't continue to be in the future, I admit that the living need to be rewarded more now, but the dead can't forget them. You take these 1,000 bottle caps, you can use them as you like, take them to find a place to be chic for a while... You can go to the Hoover Dam or whatever, just don't go too far or too long... The two men who had arranged for you to stay here will also go with you, and then let them go back to Podunk later. Remember the names of the dead brothers, and when I go back to Bloomfield, I will hold a funeral for them, and I will go back to mourn when I have dealt with these things. ”

Big Bear looked at Andy in surprise, and finally took the bottle cap without any objection.

"So, as you wish, Boss."

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

After a busy moment, Andy noticed a commotion.

A Podonk resident angrily questioned Jack.

"Why are those disgusting ghouls destroying our property?"

It turned out that the few remaining houses during the demolition of the shacks in the town of Podunk for construction were now being demolished by the ghouls on the reservation and used as building materials for their new shacks.

Jack looked at him and muttered something under his breath.

"Because... In order to borrow troops from the reservation, I have signed an agreement with them, and from now on our settlement will only be near the gold mines. ”

The townsfolk with their faces covered in dried blood suddenly turned red with anger.

"You! You didn't even tell us about it! ”

Jack defended himself aggrieved.

"At that time, the situation was urgent, and it was still a question of whether it could be held, but if you take your time and talk slowly, then everything will be over."

He stretched out his hand to the gold mine.

"We still have at least gold, I have seen the data on the mineral detectors of the old world, the reserves are enough, as long as we can dig up gold, we will not lack anything in the future."

The townsfolk clutched their hair in frustration.

"It's up to a few of us to dig until long? And I don't know how long this news can be kept secret, what if an outsider comes? Stop them? Are we on our own? Those rotting corpses won't help us, and... The thought of being a neighbor with these horrible monsters in the future makes my hair stand on end, and I die of discomfort! ”

Jack immediately motioned for him to speak softly, as a green-robed Dharma Protector not far away had clearly heard it.

"Slippery..."

He walked over slowly, and without waiting for Jack to say anything, he fired a shot.

Luckily, the shot wasn't aimed at anyone, just at the clearing.

"If you dare to say these words again and let me hear them, I promise I'll find a chance to give you a taste of a monster massage and make you feel refreshed."

Several nearby townsfolk immediately grabbed their weapons and confronted them, and the ghouls reacted in the same way, and the two sides shouted at each other with their guns at each other.

Andy immediately ran over to stop them.

"Stop arguing, put the gun down, there's no point in you doing this!"

The townspeople of Podonk gradually shut up after witnessing Andy's heroic battles on the battlefield, and the ghouls looked at each other and gave in when Andy, the Messiah's hand-picked "ambassador of goodwill", stood here to mediate.

Jack stopped in front of the townsfolk to explain further.

"Shure has cracked those terminals, and robots can help us mine and maintain law and order, and when we make a fortune on our own, we can find a better place to live, will it be comfortable to stay here?"

Jack said that Shure was the young man who was self-taught to crack the terminal to control the mining robots left over from before the war, and his intelligence was the best among the half-grown children of Poldonk, speaking of which, these children were also involved in the melee, and the people of Potunk, who had nowhere to place them, could only leave these children at the back of the fortifications, and they did not realize that the man-eating ghosts that suddenly poured out of the mine caused them a lot of casualties, which is one of the reasons why the townspeople were out of control at this time.

The townsfolk who had questioned Jack lit a cigarette in a rage, took a puff and threw it on the ground.

"I shouldn't stay here, I should just leave! You nasty creature, what's the use of us keeping this? Everyone is dead, Burnham Springs has been blown up by NcR, and now even Potunk has become someone else's territory, who can I sell this gold to, and where can I go? ”

Jack fell silent at the question.

Andy makes a tentative suggestion.

"The city of Hoover Dam is not far away, there are many merchants there, living conditions are much better than here, as long as you have bottle caps, you can live there safely, eat and drink, there are many kinds of entertainment to choose from, and there is an army to protect you from those monsters and marauders..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was rudely interrupted by the townspeople.

"Don't mention NcR's shit in front of us! We would rather die than submit to their rule again! ”

Andy immediately turned the conversation.

"In that case, you can go with me to the south, where one of my settlements is now short of manpower, and you can go and live there, I promise it won't be under the control of the NcR, because it's too remote."

While everyone was in tension, the Glenn brothers, who were hiding and peeking on the side, were snooping and planning their next plan of action, and during the melee, these thugs not only did not participate in the fight, but hid, and they even drove away some of the Podonk children to take better positions, and due to the chaos of the situation, no one noticed what they were doing.

"Those ghouls are so disgusting that they will be forced to live with them in the future, yoke!"

"And Jack's gang, they don't treat us as their own, and we won't be able to share much gold by then..."

"It's better to slip away quickly and go outside to find some helpers to come back, so you can be strong."

The group discussed a few words and quietly left Podunke.

After some mediation, the humans of Podonk and the ghouls of the reservation finally put aside the conflict for a while, but anyone with a discerning eye could see the disgust and contempt in the eyes of both sides.

Measles didn't come to Andy until the two sides dispersed.

"Finally, it's all over, and now with our efforts, we have the capital to continue to thrive in the future, and I believe that my father will not treat you badly, so it's better to... As soon as the first batch of uranium ore from the Grand Canyon is mined, we will follow the train back to the reservation to report the good news, and I guarantee you will receive our highest courtesy. ”

Andy sighed, showing a lack of interest, feeling uncomfortable being caught between the two sides of the argument when the argument broke out before, and the ghouls and the Potunk people on the reservation were all looking at him with strange eyes, which made him feel that he was not human inside or out.

"Thank you, measles, but I'm in a hurry right now, and my friends told me not long ago that they wanted me to go down to the Grand Canyon looking for something, and I'm going to finish it as soon as possible. After that, I'm going to take a trip to Burnham Springs, which you may not know where it is, it's far to the north-west.... So, I can't stay here all the time until you're done mining, and I can't go back to the reserve anytime soon. I appreciate the kindness, and I guess this is the end of our cooperation in the short term... I want to be clear, I don't need any courtesy, I just want you to fulfill your promise, which is to close the Green Room, to stop using human slaves as experimental materials for breeding protocols forever, and to abolish slavery, and if I can, I will discuss with you in the future about the joint defense of Caesar's Legion. ”

After listening to Andy's response, Measles stared at him for a long time with dim eyes, during which his mood seemed to have changed, but Andy was not in the mood to understand this change at this time, the reservation was already the biggest profiteering, and he was probably trying to persuade Andy to support his previous proposition, and let the Potunks leave the south shore of the Grand Canyon as soon as possible and give them this place completely, but Andy didn't bother to care what he thought.

"If it's okay, I'll go, and I'll have to go down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, it's not a good place."

The measles' expression immediately returned to normal.

"Got it, you said Burnham Springs is northwest of us? It's a shame that if I didn't have to stay here to oversee the first uranium production, I would have continued to travel with you to the fabled New Canaan, to trade with the slippery skins on behalf of the reservation, then... Let's talk about it when we have a chance, and I wish you all the best. ”

Andy ignored him and turned away, the ghoul had traveled with him for a while and was a companion, but he cared more about his father, Dr. William Clark, whom the ghouls of the Reservation called the Messiah, than their relationship with each other. The two were able to travel together on the orders of Dr. Clarke, in order to help obtain the benefits of their reservation, and this awkward relationship was of course impure and unsustainable, and it was better to separate as soon as possible.

Speaking of which, it feels easier to travel with animals.

He thought about it, but suddenly the sound of measles came from behind him.

"Goodbye, Andy."

Andy turned his head strangely, and saw Measles standing in the distance and simply waved his hand at him and turned away, I don't know if it was an illusion, his goodbye actually revealed a sincere emotion and complex meaning like never before.

Shaking his head, Andy didn't think much about it, walked to the place where the power armor was parked, put on the T-51C, and then found a mine and walked in, it seemed that it was because of the previous melee that killed a lot of man-eating ghosts, there were no monsters in this mine marked as a skeleton, he followed Jack's instructions all the way down this mine, along with the worse and worse environment around him, the bottom of the Grand Canyon is getting closer and closer, thanks to the complete air circulation system and temperature control system of the power armor, This time, Andy didn't feel any discomfort.

After a bit of turning around with the Beep Boy's mapping function, Andy suddenly walked out of the mine.

There was a steaming pale green miasma mixed with gray poisonous smoke, even if the headlights were turned on, the visibility was amazing, and the thermometer built into the power armor told Andy that the temperature here was even close to sixty degrees, and the humidity and radiation were quite alarming.

A gust of wind blew suddenly, making Andy's eyes light up.

The wreckage of the crashed .m.b-002 left at the bottom of the valley and the deep water at the bottom of the valley at a depth of more than ten meters combined to create this eerie picture, the huge fragments of broken hollow rings shimmering with rusty metallic luster, overgrown with strange things stacked on top of some kind of plant or some kind of fungus, all of which were black-brown accumulations.

A deep strange sound came from the air, and Andy looked up to see a huge snake with a flat body gliding through the air, piercing through the mist and poisonous smoke without a trace.

Just as he was drawn to the alternative scenery of the Grand Canyon floor, some footsteps slowly approached him.

Andy immediately looked cautiously in the direction from which the voice came, and the compass told him that there seemed to be three biological targets approaching over there, and that the biological targets in such a place were most likely just a few man-eaters or golden lizards.

He raised his pistol and wanted to shoot three times, but after those guys slowly approached, Andy could see that their figures were normal human figures, could it be that these were a few scavengers? How is that possible? The South Shore of the Grand Canyon is in full swing lately, so it's not going to be outsiders or San Diego who come down here before the fight starts, right? But looking at their strong bodies and light steps, they don't look like those people who live around the Grand Canyon and beg for a living, so who are they?

Andy put away his pistol and stood in place, where he could finally see the men, dressed in bloated radiation suits and gas masks, like scavengers who had come down in search of high-value items.

"Who are you? What are you doing here? ”

The man at the head of the three looked at Andy's power armor.

"Who are you? Get out of the way! ”

Andy felt that this person's voice was somewhat familiar, and was thinking about it, when a strange thought suddenly popped into his heart.

"You.... Is your name Pierce? The man before Helen? ”

The man was also obviously a little surprised, and he also began to think about Andy's voice, and after a while, he actually remembered.

"You were the guy outside the dome before? Dr. Prest mentioned your name, Andy Arendall... I really didn't expect us to meet again in a place like this. ”

The three of them brushed their weapons together, clearly not meaning to be friendly.

"Are you here to stop us? It's a shame that it can't be done. ”