Chapter 67 - Tools for Controlling Refugees
Bai Ye lightly touched the antidote on the projection interface, and a cold glass touch immediately came from his pocket, and he reached in and touched it, it was the antidote.
After doing all this, he lay down and fell asleep, and soon his breathing was steady. The private soldiers who were with Leshan looked over here from time to time, and some even pointed their guns at him, their eyes full of vigilance.
If it weren't for Leshan who kept stopping this group of people with his eyes, it is estimated that he would have shot and solved the hidden dangers of this team a long time ago. In their opinion, the other party is just an ordinary person with better skills, and it is impossible to dodge it with a shot.
Only Xia Wei, who was beside the other campfire, calmly looked at everything in front of her, and she found that whenever a private soldier looked at Bai Ye, Bai Ye's breathing would become slow, and when the muzzle of the gun was pointed at him, his dagger was also aimed at the person holding the gun.
Could it be that the boy was pretending to be asleep? But the breathing was not at all like that, and the breathing of a person who was asleep was completely different from that of a person who was pretending to be asleep, and this was easily noticed by a trained person. And experience told her that the teenager opposite was really asleep.
She buried her head deep under her hat and watched curiously. It's just that what she doesn't know is that Bai Ye and Xu Lingshan have insisted on keeping vigil every day for the past eleven years, rain or shine, and they need to observe their surroundings at all times, exaggerating to say that they have to keep one eye open even when they are asleep, he has already formed an instinctive warning of danger.
Wherever the wind direction changes, where the breath is wrong, where there is murderous aura, these will be received by his brain, and then react as soon as possible.
In the end, this group of private soldiers did not dare to attack, and fell asleep one after another. Except for the faint sound of changing shifts with the private soldiers standing guard in the middle of the night, the only thing left in the forest was the crackling of firewood and the sound of distant animals walking among the jungle.
The night was peaceful, there were no animal attacks or poisonous insect bites, and in fact, many animals in the forest did not actively attack humans, except for the fierce animals of the white wolf. Species evolve, but their nature remains.
Shiraba woke up automatically when the sky was just white, and he added some firewood to the fire and roasted some bacon for breakfast.
At this time, he found a problem, he didn't have much water from Li Ergou, and he could barely drink it until tomorrow night, and if he wanted to survive the rest of the journey, he had to go to the wild to find water.
He looked at the private soldiers who had already risen on the side, took out their water bottles and ate dry food, and couldn't help but feel a little envious, the life of the consortium was good, everyone was equipped with sufficient drinking water and food, and there was no need to worry about survival.
Le Shan walked up to Bai Ye with a kettle and said with a smile: "Lord Overseer, we have to hurry, and we have to walk 20 miles of mountain road today." ”
As he spoke, he took a sip of water and put away the kettle, then handed the bow and crossbow that he had confiscated last night to Shiraba.
Bai Ye took the bow and crossbow, his face was a little hesitant, and after thinking for two seconds, he still whispered: "That, can you share some water with me, if you encounter danger, I will definitely help you." ”
Hearing this, Le Shanleng paused, from the perspective of the Yanchi troops, the overseer would definitely give it if he asked you for water, but he was just an imposter team, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, it was best to let Bai Ye leave the team to find water by himself, and it would be better if he died on the way to find water.
As for what Bai Ye said about helping, he instinctively ignored it, how can a person who doesn't have any supplies help and help digest food?
He pretended to be very embarrassed: "Lord Overseer, we have very limited water, and everyone is counting on this water to survive in the mountains." If I bring them in, I have to take them out, and if I give them to you, I will be irresponsible to them. ”
Bai Ye knew that the other party had plenty of water, but he just refused to give it. But he didn't feel angry at Leshan's refusal, these waters were people's wishes whether to give or not, and he was not qualified to ask for anything.
At this moment, Xia Wei took out a bottle of 1500 ml of water from the supplies on the side and walked over and handed it to Bai Ye, Leshan looked at her differently, as if to say Are you crazy to help an outsider?
But his eyes were directly ignored, Xia Wei handed the water bottle to Bai Ye, and at the same time pointed to the dagger on his waist and said, "The water is for you, and the dagger belongs to me." ”
Bai Ye is not a character who will extinguish the sun without him, no one is obliged to help unconditionally, and if you want water, you have to exchange it at the same price.
Although the importance of the dagger in the field is much higher than the 1500 ml of water, this act is enough for him to be grateful.
He threw a grateful look at Xia Wei, but still shook his head and said, "No, I still use the dagger, and I will find the water myself." ”
This was undoubtedly the answer that Leshan wanted to hear the most, and he hurriedly took out the map and unfolded it to Bai Ye: "Lord Overseer, there is a small river in the direction of the five miles to our left, which is one of the main water supply lines of our consortium in the past, and you will definitely find water there." ”
Bai Ye nodded, but his eyes were a little questioning: "There is a problem with your words, what you said was before, which means that it is not now." Water is such an important resource, how could a consortium give it up?"
"That's because monsters often use this water source to enter the consortium and hurt people. Le Shan said with a smile: "And water is not so important to the consortium, it is just a tool used by the consortium to control the refugees, which you and I should be very clear about." ”
Leshan said lightly about a natural thing, but it brought a great shock to Bai Ye, is it just a means to control refugees?!
He also remembered that Wang Ye had said that the standard of their combat troops was only 400 milliliters of water a day, and now that he thought about it, it should only be a standard in a combat environment. After all, when Wang Ye said this, his hair and clothes were clean.
In the past, he told Green Leaf that the consortium controlled more than 99% of the resources, but he didn't understand why the consortium did this, after all, everyone just wanted to survive.
However, when he saw Leshan's understated smile, he seemed to understand a little......
He wrote down the location of the river on the map and ran into the forest alone, the sky was still gray, and when he ran out of everyone's field of vision, the shadow maneuvered, and his originally slow body instantly left several afterimages in the jungle!
After about five minutes, he heard the sound of water in his ears, and he began to slow down, and finally the cat slowly advanced under the clutter of foliage, and even the footsteps were low.
Ahead was an open field, and in front of it was a river with the constant sound of water, and on both sides of the river were posts built at intervals, but these posts were now abandoned and covered with bird droppings.
He raised his vigilance to the highest level, and while he walked slowly, he observed his surroundings, where there was a water source, there were often all kinds of animals congregating, and this was the most dangerous place.
And he remembered that Leshan said that this river was abandoned because a monster entered the consortium, which means that this river is even more dangerous!