Fallout 4: The Wasteland Life of a Pillager

Chapter 368 Novak's Day (1)

Time passed quickly and it was August 2283.

With everything going well, Novak was finally successfully transformed into a commercial town and officially opened for business.

This is where a busy day begins.

In the early morning, Mist yawned, dragged his lame leg and walked out staggeringly. Looking at Novak who was full of vitality, he smiled with satisfaction.

Merchants were happily trading with others, and the town was filled with the sound of bottle caps colliding, which sounded extremely pleasant.

The guards patrolled the road in an orderly manner, and would greet Mist when they saw him.

The members of the Khan Gang, who used to love to speak with their fists, now have bitter faces and carry the price list of goods to prevent themselves from being cheated by unscrupulous foreign businessmen.

Even children carry a bag and walk among the crowd selling matches, hairpins and other sundries, and they no longer need to carry guns in fear as they did before.

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a lively scene. It’s great.

Mist was holding a cup of coffee and was about to go out for a walk when he was surrounded by the talents he had recruited.

Accountant Gold, detective Pinkerton, killer John, the ordinary old man Dodge... they all hope to do something to show their abilities.

Mist sighed, realizing that he would not be able to rest today, and began to assign tasks.

First, use the gold coins to assist merchants in connecting with foreign caravans, help with accounting, and settle them in a unified manner.

Then he asked Pinkerton to wait in his detective agency and help with some miscellaneous tasks such as finding cats and dogs.

As for Killer John, Mist had other plans.

He has transformed a hotel. On the surface it is just an ordinary hotel, but secretly it is a hotel exclusively for killers.

John selected a group of killers to maintain the operation of the hotel. He also installed many radio stations in the hotel to allow Pinkerton to collect intelligence from all directions.

The purpose of the killer hotel is to take money from people and help them get rid of disasters.

As long as he has money, Mist would dare to sell his underwear, even though no one is likely to buy it.

At the same time, he also set up a monitoring hall under the killer hotel.

Some time ago, Yi Beiwang gave him a lot of pinhole cameras, and Mist directly installed them in various hidden corners to monitor the people of Novak.

When I have nothing to do, I can hide in the dark basement, watch the screen and peek at the people coming and going, just like a bystander in the dark.

By the way, we can categorize the killers later, such as bronze, silver, and gold... I always heard the leader say these words before, so we can put them to use now.

After leaving John to manage the hotel, Mist looked at Dodge again.

As the former manager and maintenance engineer of the Hoover Dam, this old guy has quite a lot of experience.

The problem is, there doesn't seem to be anything for him to do in the town, and they are not planning to attack the Hoover Dam, so the old man's knowledge is useless.

Mist thought for a long time and finally arranged for Dodge to draw the blueprints.

The main thing was to draw a structural diagram of the Hoover Dam, to see if there were any weaknesses inside, if there were any shortcuts to capture it...all of these had to be written down.

Mist always had a feeling that these things might be useful in the future.

After arranging the four-person team, Mist looked at the time, walked into his office leisurely, and began to review documents.

Originally, Yi Beiwang should have been responsible for these matters, but he handed them over to Mist and no one knew where he went to play.

Sometimes Mist really wanted to point at Yi Beiwang's nose and curse him.

But he was a little worried. With Yi Beiwang's petty temper, he might kick his good leg hard.

What a black-hearted boss! Do you think that you can make me work honestly by paying me a salary of several thousand bottle caps and a position as deputy mayor?

It really works!

Mist was quickly reviewing the documents on the table, cursing Yi Beiwang in a low voice for his laziness from time to time.

Regarding the reconstruction of Novak, the focus in the future will be on building railways.

If they want to build a railway now, they need a lot of people and materials, which require a lot of bottle caps to support it. The problem is that Novak is also short of bottle caps now.

Mist circled the document and stuffed it into the box at hand, preparing to hand it over to Yi Beiwang for processing later.

He is already in charge of organizing these documents, so he can't be responsible for raising money too.

Then there are matters related to cooperation with NCR.

There is basically no problem with this, as Mist knows more details than Yi Beiwang.

It's really amazing, I was still from NCR a few years ago, and a few years later I came here to work in a business group.

I have to work wherever I go anyway, so when will it end?

Regarding the reconstruction of the industrial zone, this has to be put on hold for the time being. They are struggling with the entire light industry now, not to mention the real industrial system.

There are also minerals. The reconnaissance team has discovered some coal mines and iron mines. They can try to recruit some scavengers to become miners and dig them up for use.

It would be great if there were some gold mines. If there were, we wouldn’t be so short of money.

Even in the wasteland, gold is still valuable, after all, it is needed to make certain high-tech products.

Oh, what are you thinking about? Gold mines can't appear out of thin air...

At this moment, the office door was suddenly pushed open by a scout, who shouted to Mist, "Second Commander, something bad has happened!"

Mist frowned, patted the table and corrected him, "You should refer to my position when you are working. Call me Deputy Mayor."

"Tell me, is there another caravan from outside causing trouble? Or are there another blind plunderers coming to provoke us?"

The scout shook his head and gasped as he replied, "Neither, we found a gold mine outside of Novak!"

What?! Gold mine!

Mist stood up suddenly, and with the help of crutches, he quickly followed the scout to check the situation.

We learned from the scouts that a few fearless young men came here to pan for gold after reading the newspaper, and they actually found some.

Mist hurried to the gold mine and found that Rana was coming faster than him.

At this time, Lana was wearing power armor and holding an impact drill to dig out the location of the gold mine.

This scene instantly reminded Mist of a scene from Operation Rising Sun.

It's just like those Brotherhood Knights carrying revolving machine guns and covering us with fire.

Mist only felt a dull pain in his lame leg. He squinted and stared at Lana, as if he could see through him through the power armor.

Rana didn't notice Mist's scrutiny and concentrated on drilling for gold.