Approaching the Grand Canyon from north to south again, Andy looked at the scars of the earth in front of him and was a little stunned.

Chrissy sat on the sidelines, worried.

"I know why you're doing these things when you hear you say this, God, if it were me, I'm afraid I'm going to go crazy, after all, it's all too much... It's too heavy and urgent, haven't you thought about running away? Andy shook his head, his mouth feeling a little tired, these things he had already repeated four times in a short period of time with four different people, at Hoover Dam and the head of the Candace branch; Speaking at Black Canyon Prison with the mayor of Dodger; In the field and Mark said; In the car and Chrissy said...

"I've never thought that way in this matter, but not necessarily in other things, the ugly political struggle of the NcR, as long as it is involved, nothing good can be done, I tried, and it is not the right path for me." He took out his non-commissioned officer badge and the medal that Mayor Dodge had given him earlier, and threw it to Chriss.

"Let's keep these as souvenirs for you, it's useless for me to keep them." Chrissy hurriedly took it, put it in her hand and saw that it was genuine, and after making sure that Andy was not joking with her, her expression became a little complicated.

"Maybe it's just temporary... Although I, as a former deserter, am not qualified to tell you that, that's it. Andy denied her in all seriousness.

"In fact, it seems to me that this kind of internal struggle has not ceased for a moment since the founding of the NcR, and the greater the order, the more these shadows will breed, and people did not think of it in the past, but it was they who beautified the republic in front of them based on their trust in President Tanti in their hearts. Look at it... The more obsessed they are with external expansion, the more they prove their inability to resolve internal contradictions, and after President Tibbert's resignation, no one will repeat President Tandi's ideas, and perhaps everything is doomed. The two were silent in the car for a long time, and Chrissy didn't know how to respond to Andy's negative opinion, which she thought deep down, but didn't want to think about it, because she knew that even that would only add to her annoyance.

"Where are you going next? What to do? Andy lifted his chin to the south.

"Go to the Grand Canyon, have you been here?" Chrissy shook her head blankly.

"Haven't been... Here, as if others say that this is like those Jedi that often appear in the wasteland, it is not a suitable place for human life at all, and there is nothing valuable to be found here, or it is too difficult, only some natives think that there are some so-called 'gods' here, and it is estimated that some mutated creatures are just some mutated creatures, and you know that most of them are ignorant and unpresentable. ”................... A group of people from San Diego came out to greet Andy, they had already dismantled the train on the reservation, and then re-spliced some scrap metal back to make a 'scrapped' version of the train, it seemed that this was the most cost-effective Grand Canyon North House freight train, not only could it be loaded with items to move on the railway, but the high-value parts on it that could be used to sell bottle caps were not 'wasted', the main functions were still there, and at the cost of only slightly reducing some appearance scores, it was perfect.

Retracting his gaze from there, Andy and a few people began to talk about their needs.

"Specialty steels and advanced polymers....", Santiago had a puzzled look on his face.

"This... This is a very rare and expensive goods, if it is ordinary scrap metal, we can give you as much as you want, but these, you can also understand, it is not so simple to let everyone take things out of the hiding place. Chrissy frowned, trying to reason with the old man about the necessity of donating materials, but was stopped by Andy.

He licked his numb lips, he really didn't want to repeat why he came, and even if it was a waste of effort and time to say it again, the Santiago gang might not believe it anytime soon, so it was better to keep it simple.

Looking down at the beep-beep boy, there were probably more than 8,000 bottle caps left in it, although every time he went to a new place, he could get some rewards by helping those in power, but he couldn't stand the expense of all the way.

"All the garbage you have here, I mean all the garbage that meets my requirements, I want it all, how many caps do you need?" Santiago scratched the back of his neck in embarrassment.

"It's hard to say that you've emphasized the word 'all', after all, although we go down to scavenger less often, we're not fully retired. Occasionally, someone will find that kind of good goods, but that kind of thing is very heavy, and the surrounding environment is very dangerous, and it is difficult to get out of it and change a few bottle caps..."

"Since you're willing to take out the cap, we're willing to go down a few more times to get some more, but it takes enough momentum." He rubbed his fingers.

"In this case, we need about 5,000 bottle caps, and we can get you a train in a week, and it just so happens that we now have our own train, and the freight is also saved." Andy felt unacceptable when he heard the price, and he might need a bottle cap to open the way later, how could he spend it all as soon as it came up?

"The price you ask for is too high, how about 2,000 bottle caps." Santiago immediately spread his hands in frustration.

"My brethren don't drink the northwest wind to live, they are not my subordinates or slaves, they need to be paid enough to make them move, I don't know if you have ever gone down, it is quite dangerous under the Grand Canyon. In addition, we agreed to open up a new trade route to connect the north and south of the Grand Canyon, and now the south side is completely impossible to walk without wearing radiation protective suits after the explosion, and the news will soon spread among the merchants, and most of them will definitely find it too dangerous to come back after knowing it, so our income in this area will also be cut off..."Andy held up a palm and motioned for him to stop first.

"San Diego, I've been down to the Grand Canyon, and it's on the South Shore, and it's much more dangerous than yours." Then he pursed his lips and thought of a way to get the best of both worlds.

"I can only produce 2,000 bottle caps, but I can give you the rest with some information, Podonk, the village south of you, there are some old world mines near it, one of which was unearthed for gold not long before it was bombed by those ghouls with dirty bombs, although I don't know how much the total reserves are, but it is definitely not a small amount if they are all dug up." Santiago immediately became a little agitated.

"Do you know the location?" Andy knew, of course, that he had fought there to unite the inhabitants of the area to protect the gold mines.

"If you agree, I can tell you where it is, and you can see how bad the situation is through the Grand Canyon, so I don't need to say how dangerous it is to run around in the radiation zone, right? Once you know where you are, you can wear armor and go to the mines to the south to mine and pan for gold, and remember not to be greedy, and come back as soon as you see a little at a time, and take it when you see it..."Santiago immediately ran out to call his friends, and he announced the matter after the scavengers had gathered.

There was a cry of consternation, after all, no one had ever thought there was any point in revealing this to their old scavengers, so neither did the people of Podonk who had colluded with the marauders to let the news out, causing the San Diego gang to be unaware of the discovery of gold mines in the south just across the Grand Canyon.

When they learned of the situation, the old men began to dig out all kinds of garbage of various sizes from the corners of the shack where they lived, some of them were bags of bits and pieces, and some of them were used as foundations and beams, and for a moment they jingled and were very lively.

Andy personally dragged Santiago to carefully identify the ones he really needed in the mess of garbage, and finally picked out about half of them and sent them all to the train.

"You find some more to fill this carriage." Andy kept admonishing.

"I won't pile things up first when they are delivered, but I'll use them right away, and if something doesn't go wrong, I'll come back to you, don't forget how I helped you deal with the mercenaries hired by the Crimson Caravan, don't play tricks on me." Santiago's representatives smile and agree and start asking Andy about the gold mines.

"I'll tell you, but not now." Andy glanced at the sun overhead, and then at the bottomless Grand Canyon not far away.

"I have some business to go down to, and when I get back, I'll tell you where the gold mines are." Without waiting for Santiago to speak, he added it.

"Assuming you've filled that train as I asked." Santiago consulted with a few old friends and finally agreed.

"Got it, but you'd better not come back too soon! Haha, kidding, we'll do it. Andy nodded in satisfaction, then walked over to Chrissy to explain to her.

"I'm going to go down for a walk, you just stay on it first, I don't think it will take too long, about one to two days will be enough... Those scavengers are cunning but not bad, and you can help me monitor whether they are cutting corners or fishing in troubled waters, in short, when I come back. Chrissy looked at the bottomless abyss, and felt a blackness in front of her eyes.

"You... Are you sure you want to go down there? God, there's no bottom down here, right? Whoever falls down here... I can't imagine how scary it would be. ”

"There's a bottom, I'll go down and take a look." Andy replied to her briefly, then climbed onto the mount behind the Atomic Humvee to untie the power armor, and then opened it from the rear into the power armor.

After a series of dazzling self-test interfaces, the Athena Power Armor was officially launched. The walking purple steel giant surprised both Santiago and Chrissy, and the scavengers whispered and pointed and could guess that they were discussing how much the power armor would be worth.

Andy turned and walked towards the rim of the Grand Canyon, where thick radiant vapor and toxic smoke were drifting up from below, and with the help of Athena's power armor helmet, he could see something looming in the vapor and toxic smoke deep below.

"Remember, do as I say." Handed Santiago 2,000 bottle caps, and with one last sentence, Andy made a jaw-dropping choice in front of everyone's eyes, he took two steps back and sprinted towards the Grand Canyon, then jumped.

The powerful power source drove the power servo into the air, and then the jetpack behind him activated in the air, sending him flying like a meteor towards the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

"Oh! He jumped! ”

"He's crazy, if he hits a stone, it's over!"

"It should be okay to wear that iron armor, right?"

"He could have found his way down, why would he do that?" The crowd gathered around the Grand Canyon with a deep sense of surprise and admiration and discussion about Andy's actions.

Chrissy looked twice and then looked back at the old and weakened scavengers, with whom she would spend the next few days.

"Uh... Hello. The scavengers looked back at Chrissy in embarrassment.

"You.. Hello, you look like a soldier. Chrissy looked down at the military uniform she was wearing, how could the NcR two-headed bear logo be so unrecognizable here?

What kind of backwoods is this, not very far from the Hoover Dam, but it feels like it's in two worlds.

"Yes, I... I'm a soldier, and Andy is in a hurry for a reason, and I can tell you if you want to. Santiago walked over and asked another question, nonchalantly.

"Kid, since you're a soldier, you must know how to fight, can you do us a favor?" In front of Chrissy, the group of elderly people talked about their plight.

"Sometimes we have to choose to fight, and those marauders and the monsters below will covet us, sometimes they want our garbage and bottle caps, sometimes they want our flesh and blood, so we want to get some guidance from you about fighting." Chrissy took a look at these old people, although her physical fitness was better than that of those old people in New California because of her long-term scavenging, but it was not much better, so it was no wonder that she was always targeted because she looked too easy to bully.

"What weapons do you usually use?" Hearing her ask, the scavengers took out their side-worn weapons, most of which were made from recycled garbage, such as iron knives, screw cones, and lead pipes, as well as some homemade iron pipe firearms, which were not only mediocre but also difficult to use.

But it just so happens that Chrissy really has some experience with it. She glanced at the Grand Canyon behind her, nodded solemnly and agreed to the men's request.

"Well, I'm going to teach you how to hit the groin with a lead pipe, and I'm going to teach you how to counteract the recoil of these iron guns with the most appropriate position to improve the accuracy of shooting, and I'll try to teach you from the perspective of your physical condition."

"In exchange, you'll have to work hard to get the materials together, okay?" A group of scavengers agreed.

At the same time, Andy, wearing power armor, was falling rapidly against the howling wind, and after using the detection of his helmet and the constant adjustment of direction with the help of his jetpack, he successfully avoided the undulating rocks of the cliffs on both sides, the reason why he chose such a dangerous way to go down to the bottom of the valley was because it was the shortest way to go down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and with the help of this set of power armor, he was confident that he could do it.

The poisonous smoke and fog continued to pass through him, and a strong gust of wind blew him away slightly, but fortunately, Hull automatically helped Andy make corrections.

He was figuring out how deep he could drop at this speed and start adjusting his posture to use the jetpack to thrust backwards downwards when Hull suddenly issued a warning.

Turning his head to the side, a large serpentine black shadow loomed in the mist, wingless, but traveling through the air with the help of its flat body and the strong winds and clouds of the Grand Canyon.

And it was clear that it had spotted Andy and was moving towards him with a clear purpose.

"It's you again." Andy looked at the approaching behemoth, this mutant monster was called 'Valley Dragon' by the inhabitants of Potunk, it was one of the most terrifying predators in the Grand Canyon, whether it was on land or in the water or in the clouds right now, it moved freely, this monster seemed to be an ordinary poisonous snake, but it had undergone serious mutations in the environment of the Grand Canyon, and finally became like this.

He immediately found a rotten mining platform nearby and landed, and the force of the impact caused the rusty iron to shatter and slide down one by one.

After standing up, in the thick green mist directly in front of him, two huge black snake heads suddenly poked out.

The green glowing blood basin opened its jaw, threatening to bite Andy in the air, a pair of glowing eyes almost revealing furious flames, a huge snake head almost the size of a truck, and pieces of charred black scales like iron and stone, wrapping the hideous muscles below.

In response, Andy raised the toothsaw sword in his hand and pressed the switch.

"Come on." A green thunderbolt exploded in the fog not far away, temporarily illuminating the Gu Dragon's almost indescribable deformed body hidden in the mist, compared to Andy's figure was extremely small.

But there was no fear in his heart at this point, and he even knew why the monster looked so angry, because the edge of the mouth of one of its heads still had the scars he had previously punched with the Hercules Power Gauntlet.

"It's time for the two of us to wrap up, you monster!" One of the snakeheads snapped at him, Andy leaped high with his jetpack, and the other head followed him upwards, while the previous head recklessly overturned the already crumbling metal platform and plunged into the depths of the Grand Canyon.

Andy used the Apollo laser pistol to hit one of the eyes of the head of the snake, and landed on top of the head while it screamed in pain, raising the toothed saw sword and falling heavily, and the thick black scales suddenly burst out with a large number of sparks.

Feeling threatened, Gu Long shook him off. Andy landed on a rock and grabbed an ancient steel pipe stuck diagonally into it before he stood firm.

I can't cut it, what can I do? The huge two-headed serpent snaked through the mist, turning its head and biting again.

"Whatever." Andy activates the jetpack.

"One more time."