Chapter 152: Self-improvement (Part II)

Taking in Connie doesn't mean treating them like a group of weak women.

After agreeing, Chu Tianjiang set the rule, that is, in addition to doing some labor within their ability, Connie and the others must master the ability to protect themselves, that is, in addition to being proficient in the ability to use firearms, they must also learn fighting skills from Nichol.

Because it was already late at night, Chu Tianjiang did not immediately implement the training plan.

The priority is not to train Connie, but to solve the problem of heating at night.

Although the weather has warmed up, the night temperature is still around zero degrees Celsius. What's worse is that Perez didn't treat Connie and the others as human beings at all. In Perez's eyes, they were just cheap goods. When they left Las Vegas, they were wearing only a very thin dress, which was not only tattered but also very dirty, and some of the women's clothes were just strips of cloth. During the day, the problem is not big, the temperature is relatively high, and the white people are more tolerant of cold, and they can also dissipate heat from the body through exercise and labor. But in the evening, especially when they were tired, the thin clothes were useless. In addition, the camp was by the river, and the night wind blowing along the river was very biting, and even if they stayed near the campfire, they shivered from the cold.

After asking Connie and the others to stay together as much as possible to keep each other warm, Chu Tianjiang asked Chloe and Isabella to stay, and then took Nichol, Rachel, and Maya out to collect firewood.

It's just that there aren't many tall trees around here.

The four of them worked hard to ensure that the bonfire burned all night and that the fire did not abate. It's just that the next morning, there are still many delicate women who fall ill. Chu Tianjiang had to use the "trick" method again to clear the virus in their bodies with their energy body.

In the afternoon, Chu Tianjiang asked Rachel to lead the team to collect bonfires outside.

Before dark, Chu Tianjiang adjusted the positions of the four minibuses, and all of them moved to the upwind direction, blocking the cool breeze blowing from upstream at night.

Of course, during the day, Chu Tianjiang and Nichole also taught Connie and the others how to use firearms.

Because the weapons of the guards were seized, and the guards were also fifty people, there were enough firearms to arm Connie and the other fifty women.

Rachel and the others also worked hard, not only finding enough firewood, but also hunting a fat bison.

If you don't have enough warm clothing, you need to have plenty of food. The bison, which weighed more than 400 kilograms, was enough for Connie and her to eat for several days. Although Chu Tianjiang didn't have to eat, in order not to make Connie and the others suspicious, they also ate less.

Because there was enough firewood and a minibus to block the wind, Connie and the others were much more comfortable this night.

Chu Tianjiang was not idle, but took advantage of the rest time of the others to inspect all the captured guns and wipe all the parts with butter. In fact, most of the guns are intact, but they have not done the necessary daily maintenance, which has led to all kinds of problems. For example, the M4 carbines that jammed during daytime training were all blocked by the air duct, and it was no problem to clean up the dust.

When the sky brightened again, Chu Tianjiang began to conduct comprehensive training for Connie and the others.

The first thing that needs to be mastered is still the correct use of firearms, and then the shooting training, and the combat training with Nicol and her instructors is arranged at the bottom.

Although the training was boring and hard, Connie and the others worked very hard.

Before that, there was certainly no one to teach them how to use firearms, and it was impossible for anyone to teach them, because no one would let a slave have a firearm.

Fortunately, the United States is a country where all people have guns.

More than half of the 50 women had used firearms before the cataclysm, and had been trained, mainly with self-defense pistols, some had only used small revolvers, and only five of them had used rifles, including Connie, and they used small-caliber bolt-action rifles for hunting. Chu Tianjiang also learned that before the catastrophe, the rifles sold in the United States were bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles, and extremely aggressive automatic weapons, such as submachine guns, automatic rifles and machine guns, were prohibited from being bought and sold by the people, and civilians were also prohibited from possessing them.

At the end of the day's training, Chu Tianjiang appointed the five women who had used rifles before and learned the best, namely Connie, Doris, Helen, Lucia and Miranda, as squad leaders, and let them each lead nine women, and Connie was also the squadron leader of this team.

After dinner, Chu Tianjiang patiently taught Connie and the five of them how to disassemble, assemble and maintain firearms.

Nicol can't do these things for them.

Following Chu Tianjiang, Nicol and the others only used guns, never maintained firearms, and Chu Tianjiang did it for them, and now Chu Tianjiang obviously can't do it for fifty women.

Connie: They study hard and take it very seriously.

This is not only because they need to protect themselves, but also because Chu Tianjiang was the first to treat them as human beings and teach them how to protect themselves. In addition, Connie and the others knew very well that whether they could stay in this team for a long time did not depend on Chu Tianjiang's mercy, but on their own ability. Even a woman, if she wants to be a person in this troubled world, she must have enough ability. Although Connie and the others didn't know the true relationship between Nichole and the others and Chu Tianjiang, they knew that Nichole and the others were very powerful. As a result, in the eyes of Connie and others, the key to Nicol's ability to get Chu Tianjiang's attention is that they have enough ability.

In the past, Connie and the others did not have such an opportunity, but now that they have an opportunity, they naturally will not miss it.

Among these five people, Chu Tianjiang values not Connie the most, but Miranda, because Miranda is Chinese, the fifth generation of overseas Chinese born and raised in the United States, not only took a Westerner name, but also can only speak English, and his ideology has long been completely Americanized. It's just that in Chu Tianjiang's eyes, even if Miranda can't speak a word of Chinese and doesn't have the traditional concept of Chinese, she is still a compatriot, because her surname is Li and she has a Chinese surname.

When teaching Randa to disassemble and assemble the carbine, Chu Tianjiang asked some things that were not too private.

Miranda was born and raised in San Francisco, her grandfather's grandfather came to the United States more than a hundred years ago, participated in the construction of the Continental Railroad, worked as a cook on an expedition to find gold mines, and later settled in San Francisco, using his savings to open a Chinese restaurant and take a woman of Indian descent. In the next three generations, only Miranda's grandfather married a Chinese woman, her great-grandmother was a mixed-race black, and her mother was a white woman from Australia, so Miranda has Chinese, Indian, black and white blood, which is a typical mixed-race child, but according to the patrilineal inheritance custom, she is Chinese.

The pedigree of the person in charge gave Miranda an amazing beauty.

Before the catastrophe, beauty was definitely Miranda's most important asset, making her a star on campus and a leader in the cheerleading team. But in this troubled world, beauty is a woman's poison, and it is extremely poisonous. A woman who is only beautiful, but does not have enough ability, and is not protected by a powerful man, even if she is a free person, will definitely be miserable and will not have a good ending.

In Chu Tianjiang's eyes, Miranda is the most beautiful one among Connie and them, and she is also the one with the best figure, but her personality is relatively cowardly.

In addition, in Miranda, Chu Tianjiang saw some of Nicol's shadows.

Although Chu Tianjiang did not ask Nichol, and Nichole himself probably did not know, it is very likely that Nichole is also a mixed-race person, not a pure white man. The similarity between Miranda and Nichole is more in character, when he met Chu Tianjiang, Nichole and Miranda were equally weak and cowardly, but Nichole was wearing a seemingly powerful spiritual coat at that time.

After Connie and the others basically mastered the methods of dismantling, assembling and wiping the guns, Chu Tianjiang left the camp.

According to the agreement, Andre would rush over this night to inform the caravan of the situation and determine when and where Chu Tianjiang would return to the caravan. In addition, Andre will also ask Stewart to make adjustments to the personnel arrangement of the caravan according to the situation on Chu Tianjiang's side.

Chu Tianjiang didn't take Nicol and the others with him, leaving them all in the camp so that Connie and the others could feel safe.

At the agreed location, that is, near the section of the road where Perez's caravan was attacked, Chu Tianjiang found Andre, who had arrived a few hours in advance.

Andrey brought good news, but also bad news.

The good news is that the Las Vegas white group did not investigate the attack on the Perez caravan within its power range, although the director of the Denver caravan questioned it, and the spearhead was directed at Stewart, but the Houston Chamber of Commerce has come forward, and there is no evidence that it was the Stewart people who attacked Perez's caravan, and the Las Vegas white group did not embarrass Stewart, but only strengthened the patrol force within the power range, The protection money paid by Perez and the compensation equivalent to double the protection fee were returned to the Denver caravan.

The bad news is that the caravan is still in Las Vegas for a few more days. The reason is that the Denver Chamber of Commerce is auctioning off the female slaves that Perez bought before, and Chu Tianjiang clearly asked to buy all the female slaves. Stewart also specifically asked Andre to ask Chu Tianjiang if he wanted to buy these female slaves.

Chu Tianjiang's answer was very direct, since Perez was dead, and the Denver Chamber of Commerce did not send someone to take over the caravan left in Las Vegas, and the Las Vegas white group did not conduct a comprehensive investigation into the attack on Perez's caravan, so they didn't care about delaying for a few more days.

After agreeing to meet again in three days, Chu Tianjiang also told Andre to bring some warm clothes next time.