At this time, more than a dozen combat vehicles outside the camp slowly drove in, neatly parked at the gate of the camp, nearly fifty stragglers walked towards the pile of people in the middle of the camp with guns on their backs, four stragglers walked at the front of the team, it can be seen that they are the heads of the four straggler regiments, the four of them walked to the saber regiment and stopped, and then a black straggler looked at the straggler who was tied up behind Zhang Ran, it was the straggler who contacted them, the black straggler said respectfully to the saber team member sitting on the ground: "Is it a mercenary of the saber regiment?" ”

Kuaishou stood up and said with a smile: "You guys are still coming so fast." ”

The black straggler also responded with a smile: "Our camp is not far from here, and we have come after receiving a notice from him that the people of the Saber Regiment want to see us." The black man pointed to the stragglers behind Zhang Ran and said.

After looking at the four leaders of the mercenary group, Kuaishou said: "It seems that your life is not good, this equipment can't even catch up with the ordinary mercenary group." ”

Zhang Ran also noticed that the guns in the hands of the leaders of these scattered mercenaries were very old, the handles were yellow, and the combat uniforms on their bodies were also full of holes and worn.

The head of the black straggler smiled awkwardly: "Well, this is the best equipment in our camp." ”

Quickly pointed to the equipment on the controlled mercenaries behind him: "How come these people's equipment is not on the same level as yours?" How can they be so much better? ”

The black straggler said, "They take on a lot of tasks and get paid a lot of money. ”

"Then why don't you take on the same mission as them? Are you lazy to such an extent? ”

The black straggler hurriedly shook his head, a little hesitant, Zhang Ran looked at the black man's expression, stood up and said, "Say, why is there such a big gap in your equipment?" ”

The black man looked at Zhang Ran suspiciously, and Kuaishou immediately said, "This is the commander of the saber regiment." ”

The four leaders of the mercenary group stared at Zhang Ran in surprise, and the mercenaries behind them also discussed, they thought that the fast hand who had been talking to them was the leader of the saber regiment, and ignored the real saber.

The black straggler bent over and bowed: "Hello, honorable saber commander. ”

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "Don't have any worries, just say it." ”

The black man plucked up the courage to speak: "We, like them, had been taking on the task of 'smugglers' in a nearby bar, and then due to the many ' The tasks of the snake head were taken over by a formal mercenary group, and some low-end tasks were given to us by the formal mercenary group, and these tasks were far from satisfying the lives of all the scattered mercenary groups here, and then they began to intercept the task, and directly chose to do it against the formal mercenary group, and some tasks were forcibly obtained by these people before they were released, and even the formal mercenary group did not know, and we were reluctant to do this because we didn't want to offend the formal mercenary group, after all, their strength could not be borne by our door, so now we rely on some very few tasks to survive。 ”

Zhang Ran turned to look at the scattered mercenaries who were controlled behind him and said with a smile: "You are very courageous, you can win in danger so you can get a better life than them." ”

The mercenary smiled awkwardly, and the black mercenary lowered his head and did not speak, Zhang Ran walked to the black mercenary: "Why don't you choose to be like them, everyone unites to fight against the official mercenary group, improve your strength, and when the time comes, your strength can also become a formal mercenary group." ”

The black man said, "Honorable Saber Commander, that official mercenary group is something we can't afford to provoke." ”

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "I haven't heard of any official mercenary group around here that is so powerful. ”

The black man said embarrassedly, "Night Rain Mercenary Group." ”

Suddenly, everyone looked at the black mercenaries in surprise, Zhang Ran also stared at the black mercenaries in surprise, the black mercenaries smiled and said: "We chose not to fight against the Night Rain Mercenary Group at the beginning, because we knew the relationship between the Night Rain Mercenary Group and the Saber Regiment, so we intercepted the task like them, so we did not participate in this operation, we knew from the beginning that the construction here was the power of the Saber Regiment, and I also reminded them, but they didn't believe me, so the attack happened." ”

Zhang Ran relieved himself and smiled: "Hehe, tell me how did you know that this is the Saber Regiment responsible for the construction?" ”

"As the lowest-level stragglers, we naturally have many ways to get information from the lowest and most primitive information network, and the ten 'wolf fang' mercenaries are here, which is not enough to prove whose territory is here?"

Listening to the words of the black mercenary, Zhang Ran said: "So you have the information of the Saber Regiment?" ”

The black man nodded, and Zhang Ran pointed to the little soldier and said, "Who is he?" ”

The four leaders of the scattered mercenary group said in unison: "Assault creeps." ”

Then he said one by one: "Sniper cold-blooded, fast hand, Lin Feng, black knife, old knife." ”

Zhang Ran looked at the mercenary in surprise: "Your news can be said to be the top in the mercenary group." ”

The black mercenary said: "We don't have the communications and high-tech information technology that can compare with the official mercenary group, but we are familiar with the most primitive information. ”

Zhang Ran nodded and said: "In this information age, although your methods are primitive, they are also the most safe and secure, there are tasks and activities, and there are activities and whereabouts, and you can train those local people in your place to become your informants, I believe that now you have built a very powerful civilian surveillance system here, and the sources are also real." ”

The four scattered mercenaries smiled, and Zhang Ran continued: "Now tell me, how big is this information-gathering network you have established?" ”

The black straggler said: "Let Port Til get here, our civilian informants are deployed along the way, and we go regularly to collect information and pay them according to the value of the message. ”

"Hehe, let Port Til come here? Isn't this the area of my saber regiment? ”

The black mercenary immediately explained: "Let Tilport have our informants when the Nightrain Mercenary Regiment was not established, and here is also, these informants have been there since you came here, and we don't have surveillance for the Saber Regiment." ”

Zhang Ran looked at the nervous black mercenary and smiled: "Let's talk about it, we have gained some news about us." ”

The black man said slowly: "You meet a white-haired old mercenary in the bazaar tavern near the Saber Regiment, the battle on the second floor of the tavern, you defend the camp battle"

Zhang Ran looked at the black man in surprise, although his plan was not discovered by these surveillances, but his actions were exposed, Zhang Ran said: "It seems that I still underestimated you." ”

The black mercenary said: "It's not that you underestimate us, it's that you have a good heart, the members of the saber regiment in every battle did not affect the civilians, and the other mercenary regiments did not care about the lives of ordinary civilians, and many of our informants were shot directly while observing the battle between the two sides." ”

Zhang Ran suddenly said: "I really want to know how powerful is the information network you have established? ”

The black straggler smiled: "In our area where informants exist, as long as you appear, we can have your information, or rather, as long as you exist and are seen, we can know." ”

Zhang Ran asked again: "If you are asked to set up this kind of underground information network in a completely new place, how long will it take you?" ”

"With financial support and military equipment support, and according to the size of the location, you can know exactly when it was established."

Zhang Ran said slowly: "If you let Port Til come here and give you sufficient funds and advanced equipment, how long will it take for you to re-establish it?" ”

The four heads of the stragglers began to discuss, and then the black stragglers said to Zhang Ran: "One month is enough." ”

Zhang Ran looked at the four of them in surprise: "So fast? ”

The black mercenary smiled: "You may not know, as the lowest stragglers, we can get closest to the bottom of society, and the people there almost all survive by selling news, and harvesting news has become their only job, although this job is very risky, but you can also get a little income, it is better than no harvest at all." ”

Zhang Ran understands that people from different walks of life have different contact areas, and the World Saber Regiment that the mercenary group contacts cannot get involved.

Zhang Ran turned to look at the scattered mercenaries who were being controlled: "When you intercepted the mission, you knew that the official mercenary group was night rain?" ”

The straggler nodded and did not answer.

"You are really bold enough, fortunately you didn't secretly attack the people of the Night Rain Mercenary Group, otherwise no one would be able to protect you today, go back and tell Dilna, I can catch her for the first time, and there will be a second time, don't fight the idea here in the future, otherwise she knows my means, you go."

The scattered mercenaries looked at Zhang Ran in surprise, they never thought that they would be able to return alive from the saber, Zhang Ran nodded, the ten 'wolf fang' mercenaries let go of the scattered mercenaries under their control, and several scattered mercenaries walked up to Zhang Ran and bowed and ran frantically outside the camp, for fear that Zhang Ran would change his mind temporarily.

And Kuaishou walked up to Zhang Ran: "Boss, why are you still so soft-hearted?" What's in it for the people you let go of before? ”

Zhang Ran said slowly: "The two brothers 'Tiewu' and 'Gangwu' were also put by me. ”

Kuaishou was speechless.

Zhang Ran turned around and came to the black mercenary group and looked at the four leaders of the mercenary group: "What are your plans today?" ”

The four of them lowered their heads and fell silent, a feeling of resignation.

Zhang Ran continued: "You want to live like this? If I'm not mistaken, you're having a hard time living even the most basic, are you? ”

The four responsible persons all had tears in their eyes when they heard this, and the black mercenary choked up and said: "Well, you are right, now we all rely on the food of the nearby prey to satisfy our hunger, and we don't even have the money to buy bullets, and some people have even left the team to find other ways out, but you also know what the mercenaries can do if they leave the team?" It's hard to integrate into society, let alone live, some of our companions don't even have weapons, we are nominally scattered mercenaries, but in fact even some local underworld forces can't compare, as the tasks become fewer and fewer, we are all discussing whether it is time to disband the mercenary group, at least don't be trapped alive in the mercenary group that has no future. ”

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