By the time Andy finally arrived near Dog City with his teammates, another few days had passed. Alexandra, who was here for the first time, was amazed and couldn't believe that there was such a strange place in the world, while Tank Brain and Chrissy mocked her for making a fuss.

Packs of wild dogs grinned after the Atomic Humvee. The tank brain weirdly opens the window in response to them.

"Woo-woo-woo-" Chrissy cried in the back seat, covering her ears.

"What are you calling a dog?" The tank brain responded in a very serious tone.

"Those wild dogs are scolding us, of course, in a language they understand." Chrissy laughed.

"You're such a freak, there's no 'dog talk', you're just making noise." The cylinder brain made a disdainful sound.

"Cut, who said no, if you don't believe it, look at those guys outside, are they in a hurry to be scolded by me." Andy's eyes widened as he glanced in the rearview mirror when he heard this.

I don't know if what the tank brain said is true, but the number of wild dogs chasing the atomic Humvee has multiplied several times.

"Damn! You don't mess around. In the midst of a frenzied chase by a pack of wild dogs, they followed the railroad to the train station in Dog City.

The sky is shrouded in red dust, scattered with the wind, the old viaducts are stuffed with scrapped rusty iron cars, the dilapidated high-rise buildings still stand in the ruins of the city, and there are endless wild dogs roaming around the city.... Dog City Denver.

A shrill whistle sounded suddenly. I don't know what instrument was used to blow it, but the sound traveled extremely far.

The wild dogs suddenly changed their attitude and gradually stopped chasing. Andy looked at this scene in amazement, turned his head to look for the source of the sound, and then not far away saw the Buraku standing on a stone and playing a small musical instrument, he was wearing a crotch cloth, brownish-red skin, all the hair on the top of his head was shaved, his emaciated body lacked muscles, and the thing in his mouth was only half the size of a finger, and he hung a rope around his neck, but the sound of blowing was amazing.

I don't know why, he just feels that this figure is somewhat familiar. As he drove closer, Andy could see the Burakuren's face and realize that it was an acquaintance he hadn't seen in a long time.

"Huhu?" Huhu responded with an unfamiliar face, and after exchanging for a while to confirm that it was Andy, the tribesman put down the whistle in his hand and showed a bright smile.

"Hello, square face, but your face has completely changed." The two immediately started talking.

"Is Blackfoot Village okay?"

"I don't know, because our dog tribe has moved to Dog City."

"Why is that? The environment here is much worse than in Blackfoot Village. ”

"We've lived here for generations, and when we left here to escape the disaster brought by the dead wind, the old people supported the return... And...."Huhu had some hesitation on his face, but he said it anyway.

"Moreover, I must be responsible for the tribe, the Blackfoot tribe has already had serious infighting, and if we continue to stay there, I am afraid that we will be involved in strife." This sentence is a bit informative, and Andy doesn't know which point to grasp for a while.

After a few moments, he asked.

"Have you become the new chief of the Dog Village? The Blackfoot Tribe is infighting? Huhu smiled, nodded, and then his expression became solemn again because he remembered the events of Blackfoot Village.

"Toothy... He's sick and we've had internal discussions about who will succeed him as chieftain, and I thought Grinch would be a good fit, but he said he was too old to be suitable. I was the only one in the village who always took the dog to all kinds of places, so later the teacher wanted to support me as a chief, he said that the dog needs a well-informed young man to lead, at first I... I was a little scared, but then Mary supported me, so I finally accepted everyone's election as the new chief. ”

"Soon after I took over, a fierce conflict broke out between the Blackfoot tribe, Chagas asked us to provide them with enough war dogs and manpower, I think they just wanted to use us as a tool to deal with the war, Blackfoot took us in and the dogs were kind to us, but after so many years we have repaid them, so.." Andy frowned.

"Chagas? He's just a black-footed gunsmith, so why can he ask you to give out a dog and a man? Huhu smiled and shook his head.

"It's been a long time since you've been back to Blackfoot Village, where a lot has changed. Since you persuaded Chief Kurisu to abolish the slave trade and actively trade with the people of the west, the village of Blackfoot has become much richer than before, the people are well fed, and all kinds of interesting things are constantly being transported from the west, but the people of the village have become more and more decadent and weak, first many people are addicted to alcohol and cannot extricate themselves, and then the harmful drugs passed on by the people of the west... I've seen people who are addicted to people as terrible as if their souls were sick. Andy was silent, he had seen the signs of this change the last time he went back to Blackfoot Village, and Blackfoot Village was indeed a follow-up chain reaction caused by his suggestion, while the Blackfoot tribe was civilized, the stubborn diseases that entangled in the civilized world also invaded the bones of the Blackfoot people with the development of trade.

"I... I know this, but does this have anything to do with Blackfoot's civil strife? Huhu nodded.

"The respected elders of the Blackfoot tribe, as well as the more conservative-minded, often lashed out at Chief Kurisu for her actions, believing that her decisions had destroyed the spirit of Blackfoot. Other than that... After she decided to turn her back on the Legion and go completely to Hecate, Merlin, the daughter of Hekate, became more and more arrogant in her behavior at Blackfoot, which also attracted a lot of criticism, such as some people breaking her secret replacement for Blackfoot's newborn during midwifery with a weak baby of unknown origin, and others saying that she had been quietly pushing the spread of the medicine of the westerners in Blackfoot to further weaken Blackfoot, all of which were considered to be her harboring evil intentions. However, all attacks and suspicions against Merlin were suppressed by Chief Kurisu, further sparking the Blackfoot's resentment against her. Andy knew several keys to the trouble as soon as he heard it, first of all, the Blackfoot tribe has always been brave and martial, when they were still settled in the Grand Canyon area, they dared to start a war with seven tribes at the same time, and their influence once shocked the tribesmen in the south of the Great Southwest Federation, and the Ouroboros village in the north was faintly confronted, and now it has not only officially become a vassal of Hekat but also has been weakened, which will definitely cause the worry and dissatisfaction of most conservatives.

Although the entry of the daughter of Hekate will effectively improve the tribe's medical level and generating power, it is also something they will do to replace newborns and borrow drugs to further weaken the power of Blackfoot to further bind the Blackfoot tribe to Hekate.

On the premise of the above two things, Andy also has a real sign of concern. The Blackfoot tribe has a deep relationship with Caesar's legion, and it can even be said that Caesar's first soldiers were composed of elite warriors in the Blackfoot tribe and some captured prisoners from other tribes that were defeated, even if the legion later left east under Caesar's command, the Blackfoot tribe still maintained the habit of regularly offering slaves to Caesar's legion, so it is natural that a considerable number of people in the Blackfoot tribe have deep feelings for the legion.

An important reason why he was able to convince Kurisu to completely lead Blackfoot to cut off contact with Caesar's legion was that the legion completely denied the equal social status of women, and the women in the legion only had a few optional jobs, most of them were responsible for logistics, handymen, etc., and the most important obligation that was imposed was to give birth to the legion, but no matter what they did or how far they did, they would always be despised by the legion, Andy once listened to the dwarf holding the flag in the legion camp in Dog City and scolded Kurisu for not being qualified to be the blackfoot chief, Later, during his trip to the Legion-controlled Kansas region, he heard from a Caesar legionnaire that he referred to women as 'breeding animals'.

As a female chief of the Blackfoot tribe, these Caesar's claims were all about her death.

If, however, the conservative forces within the Blackfoot tribe are making a comeback, as Huhu says, it will be against peaceful trade with the NcR merchants, against submission to Hecate, and therefore fiercely against Kurissu's rule, and a brutal fight will eventually seem inevitable.

In this way, once Kurisu loses the struggle, the Blackfoot tribe will completely decouple from the NcR and Hecate and resume hostility, and may also restart the hunting system to go out to raid and hunt slaves regularly, and even start to contact Caesar's legion who is trying to return west, if this is the case, things will be very bad.

The more he thought about it, the more his brow tightened, but the problem was that he was short on time, and these chores could not be compared to what he was going to do, so he could only leave it for a future that might exist.

"So that's the case, but Chagas... Was he elected leader of the opposition? Huhu whistled to bring back the drooling dog that circled around the tank, Chrissy was curiously greeting the big dogs with bared teeth, and Alexandra stood beside Andy and listened solemnly to the conversation between the two, looking thoughtful.

"Yes, Chagas is the son of Ramon, the previous chief of the Kuresu chieftain, and he could have succeeded him as the chief of the Blackfoot tribe, and many people from the Blackfoot tribe also secretly supported him, especially... Mistress Craig. Since the two sides tore their faces apart, Chagas has begun to claim that he is the true chief of the Blackfoot tribe, and he has the support of Lord Craig, so most of the Blackfoot warriors are on their side and no longer obey Chief Kuresu. ”

"But Chief Kurissu also has a lot of supporters on his side, and there are hounds sent by Lady Hecate to help, so Chagas... Almost threatening me to help them with the whole hound, he seems to think that we can't be neutral and will only choose a side between him and Chief Kurisu, which is not what we really think. He sighed, his voice full of sorrow.

"So I took my people back to the ancestral land, and not long ago we met with some people who separated from us many years ago, who... I don't know what to say, but I think we've gone our separate ways. ”

"It's good to live in this dog town, we all like dogs, we can communicate with dogs, those wild dogs that you are afraid of can be our friends, here, we can at least avoid war for the time being, we just want peace, why is such a simple thing getting harder and harder now?" Andy didn't know what to say to him, so he patted Huhu's arm and revealed some of the more brutal future to him.

"Dog City... Be prepared, Caesar's legion will pass through here if it returns, I have already been in contact with some tribes here, and there may be some possibilities for you to unite to resist their attacks. Peace is not something that can be picked up casually, peace is not easy to come by, it is a precious wealth that can only be won out of war, and everyone has no way to enjoy the benefits it brings forever. The two hugged and then said goodbye.

................... After returning to the car, the cylinder brain was the first to attack.

"What does that wild man call you? Square face? Hahaha-" Chrissy followed the topic as well.

"Hey, the first time I met him, he had a square face, hahahaha.." Alexandra also found it interesting and joined the conversation.

"You don't know what it was like when I was confronting a super mutant in the valley of Mesa Verde when I suddenly saw a man with a square face that looked like it had been carved and suddenly came running up to me and talking to me." The three of them were happy, and Andy, who was a joke in vain, drove with a black face.

"What are you laughing at? That's just... It was just a nickname given to me by the Buraku people to show closeness... Don't make fun of you, you won't get any good names! In the midst of this ecstasy, they finally arrived at the platform of Denver, the dog city, where there were significantly more NcR soldiers stationed there than before, and a train happened to be parked there.

Andy walks over to ask if Mayor Daoqi has sent a train to the Dome, and happens to see Dr. Agnes come out and ask a soldier for water.

After talking, he had to know that Mayor Qi was moving very fast, this train was sent to the big dome to transport the scientists, Dr. Goddard successfully found the mapping parts and obtained a lot of information about the rocket launch with the help of ZAx's computing power, now all the scientists of the big dome are on this train, and they will soon arrive at the Hoover Dam, where they will wait for the armored truck driven by Mustang Eddie to come over and meet them, because they also found some materials from the big dome that can be used, the train can't fit, Eddie can only be transported by truck.

As he spoke, Dr. Goddard ran out.

"You guy, I told you to stop those Prest bastards, and you made him run to Blomfidel and fly into space!" Andy scratched his head in embarrassment.

"I'm sorry, a lot happened on the road, I really tried until the last minute." Dr. Goddard touched his big bald head, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"Okay, I'm going to try out what it's like to launch a rocket, humanity has been silent for so many years since the Great War, it's time to add some human footprints to the universe again!" After speaking impassionedly, Dr. Goddard's expression changed and his face became gloomy again.

"There's one more thing you have to do, Andy, the reason why we asked our driver to deliver the goods collected at the Great Dome is because we wanted to let the train deliver the materials from Dogtown, but what are these idiots... Can't just give away the garbage they've worked so hard to collect, huh? Can you believe it? If they grind any longer, the world will be destroyed, but they still care about those bottle caps! Andy touched his chin as he listened to Dr. Goddard's shouting.

"I see, you guys wait here a little longer, and I'll go talk to Potter, the leader of the salvagers."