Chapter 13 (II) The Mud Monster
Gu Huaiyi and Ji Kefeng wanted to part ways with him and take different paths respectively, although it was also expected by Tang Shuxing, but he didn't expect things to come so quickly - Ji Kefeng has really changed, and few people can withstand the temptation in front of power and money; And Gu Huaiyi just returned to his former appearance.
However, now, they are just using each other, and they all hope to transform into dragons from the things in the pool.
One is a warlord with heavy troops, and the other is the controller of the new adaptation zone, both of whom are powerful guys, but Tang Shuxing has a lot of blank aura, no actual power, but it sounds imposing. But then again, even if he was really given power, it wasn't the team he pulled up with his own hands, and Tang Shuxing wouldn't want it.
Tang Shuxing jumped on the rock next to him, looked ahead, and then walked down, but a few hundred meters away from the border checkpoint, he pinched the document in his hand, and when he was still thinking about what to do after the past, a voice came from under the rock: "I know that the road will be like this." ”
Tang Shuxing squatted down and saw Gromov sitting under the rocks in the shade: "Aren't you leaving?" ”
Gromov got up and shook the dust off his bag: "What will you do if I leave?" You don't know the local language, you can't find a suitable means of transportation except on foot, and no matter how smart you are, you can't help when you encounter gangsters. ”
Tang Shuxing jumped off the rock: "So, I still have to thank you?" ”
"Thank me, let's go! I'll lead you away. "Gromov didn't talk nonsense, he packed his bags and walked forward." Tang Shuxing, I have checked your information, and among the three of you, you are the most interesting. ”
"The most interesting?" Tang Shuxing followed behind Gromov, "What do you say? ”
Gromov stopped, pointed to the previous rock and said: "Ji Kefeng, you can only see that rock, and after Gu Huaiyi sees the rock at most, you are different, you see a distance of ten times and a hundred times." ”
Tang Shuxing sneered: "Long-term vision can be summed up in four words." Why do you talk so much nonsense. ”
Gromov smiled. didn't say much, just led Tang Shuxing across the border, got into a broken car at the border station, and staggered forward. It was then transferred to a train to Russia. From its territory directly to the direction of Ukolan. But just as they were about to reach the eastern part of Ucuran, the train was forced to stop.
Tang Shu torture probe looked out of the window and found that it was except for his head. The heads of the other passengers also stuck out, and they didn't know what the train stopped for.
Gromov opened the canned fruit, sat there and ate it by himself, and said as he ate: "It's normal, what season is it now?" Once the first snow falls, the tracks can be covered in an instant, and the trains have to stop and wait for the snow clearers before the snow clears, and the eastern region has been unstable, and the skirmishes continue, and it is possible that someone blew up the tracks. ”
"Bomb rails? For what? Tang Shuxing shrank back, "Isn't the eastern region pro-Russian?" ”
"Not all of them are pro-Russian, and even if most of them are, there must be spies and the like, but the pro-Russian and pro-Western people who blew up the railroad tracks will do it, do you know what it is?" Gromov picked up the peaches from the canned food with a knife and ate them, and after swallowing them with great difficulty, he said, "The pro-Western people are worried that Russia will continue to transport weapons and equipment and even personnel that support the pro-Russia, while the pro-Russian people are worried that many mercenaries sent by the West will enter through this road." ”
"Even if it blows up, you can't stop it, right?" Tang Shuxing shook his head and said he didn't understand, "And why do the pro-Western mercenaries go around in such a big circle from this side?" ”
Gromov continued to eat canned food: "I'll answer your first question first, although it is not very useful, but you can blame each other, you say I blew up, I said you blew up, play the game of public opinion, because this railway hub, the most important thing is to transport food and medical supplies, which seems to be very important in the international arena." Let me answer your second question, many of those mercenaries accepted the contract in private and broke it into pieces, do you know the truth? A team of five or six people, a group of two or three people, or even a single person, mixed in, what to do, what to do, after doing the work, and then take the photos or videos taken back to get the final payment, it is much more convenient than going in from that end, who is not willing to cross the front line? If you're unlucky, you'll be gone. ”
"It's messed up, and the situation is much worse than before." Tang Shuxing shook his head.
"Before Shangdu announced the founding of the country, it was a little better, after the announcement, especially after the United States and the United States were forced to sign an alliance under the city, Ucuran became a battlefield for the exercises of the East and the West, everyone supported one side, and held a press conference every day behind the scenes to condemn each other, and there were people fighting in front anyway, today you capture half of my city, tomorrow I will take two towns, half a month later, everyone found that they were still wandering in the distance - in fact, no one dared to really pick out the matter and fight to the death." Gromov drank canned water, "The current government of Ukolan has not received very clear support from the old American monks, if the old American sends troops to gather on the border, you see if they can fight." ”
At this time, the captain's voice came from the carriage, he was very anxious, Tang Shuxing couldn't understand it, so he had to look at Gromov.
Gromov looked out the window and said: "Oh no, the car can't move forward, the snow in front of the mountain is closed, and a small station is also shelled, the train is going backwards and back, if we want to go, we can only get off and walk." ”
"Walking!? This kind of weather? And it's getting dark! Tang Shuxing looked outside, the clouds were thick, the clouds were very low, it had rained sleet in the place he had come before, it was so cold outside that people couldn't show their hands, and the ground was full of mud.
Gromov had already quickly packed up his things: "I have to go anyway, if you don't leave, go back." ”
With that, Gromov walked out of the sleeper room, and Tang Shuxing also stuffed things into it, and then followed him to get off the train at the end of the carriage, and when the two jumped out of the car, the train had slowly begun to reverse, and it should be slowly returning to the previous station, letting the other locomotive drag it back.
As soon as Tang Shuxing got out of the car, his feet fell into the mud, and when he lifted his feet again, he felt that his feet were heavy and it was very difficult to walk, but he found that in addition to him and Gromov, there were more than a dozen people who also got out of the car, and then divided into three groups of people and walked towards the small mountain station in front of him.
"Keep a little heart, those guys are all soldiers, either active or retired." Gromov whispered, "It seems that they are all Europeans, German, British, maybe mercenaries, but there are two people who are very strange, the two of us at three o'clock." ”
Tang Shuxing looked in the direction that Gromov said, and saw that there were two men there, wearing tight-fitting cold-proof clothes, carrying huge bags, which were very shabby, and looked like they had been going to walk for a long time, not to mention the long boots on their feet, and the boots were wrapped in cold-proof leggings up to the calf, and both of them were wearing hats, one resembling a top hat, with a silver ring around the brim, and the other wearing an old-fashioned winter ear protector for former Soviet soldiers.
Tang Shuxing paid attention to the footprints left by the three groups of people around him as he walked, judging from the footprints, they were all carrying weapons, which should have been disassembled into parts and packed in the bag, because the footprints were very deep. Several of them would tug on the shoulder straps of their backpacks from time to time when they walked, not tightening their backpacks, but definitely carrying their pistols under their armpits, which would make them very uncomfortable when the straps were tightened.
"Twelve people are carrying weapons, and three of them have heavy footprints, I don't know what Lu Dao is carrying, I don't think it's a heavy weapon, unless they are crazy." Tang Shuxing said as he walked, "Those two weirdos carry the most things and the deepest footprints, but their steps are not heavy, not just soldiers, it seems that the fist and foot kung fu should also be good, they walk the most steadily, in this case, the other ten people will slip down from time to time, but these two people are like walking on the ground." ”
Gromov nodded: "Keep your distance, have a chance to separate from them, I don't know what the road is." ”
Together with Tang Shuxing and Gromov, a group of fourteen people walked towards the mountain area in front, and it seemed that everyone's destination was the same, they were all heading to the small mountain station in front, but they saw the railroad tracks that had been pried open a hundred meters further, and the original place was also blown up a large pit with a diameter of four or five meters, and in front of the big pit was only a few dozen meters away, it was already covered with snow, and the muddy land with sleet they were walking on now was completely two worlds.
Except for the two men, the other two groups of centaurs immediately rushed over, as if saved, rubbing in the snow, rubbing the wet mud stuck to their boots, and the two men kept moving forward, without saying a word, maintaining a distance of about fifty centimeters between the front and the back, and did not squint, never looking at the others.
"Keep going and ignore them." Gromov walked through the group of people and walked forward, keeping an eye on the two people who were in the direction of 1 o'clock at this time, if there was a threat, the biggest threat was them, and the other ten people were just ordinary mercenaries.
"Hey, where are you going?" One of them rubbed his shoes and asked Gromov, "Are you following the Chinese?" ”
Gromov ignored him and motioned for Tang Shuxing to move on, the man felt very dissatisfied, stepped forward and walked a few steps, raised his hand to catch Tang Shuxing, and when he was about to arrive, the man suddenly stopped, looked down at his feet and said to his companion: "Landmine!" ”
The others immediately stood still, not daring to go over, although Gromov did not translate, but Tang Shuxing saw the appearance of the man and the frightened appearance of the others, and also knew that there must be a mine underneath, and immediately subconsciously stood in place.
At this time, the two people who were walking next to each other at 1 o'clock walked faster, and finally the man wearing the ear cap turned his head to look at them, and then Tang Shuxing found that the man was wearing a ski mask, and he could only see his eyes and mouth, from which he could be judged to have a thick beard.
Tang Shuxing also understood why the two of them had to walk aside, because the soil on the side of the mountain was the hardest, and it was not suitable for burying mines, and there was relatively little snow in that location.
"Keep walking! Don't stop! Step on my footprints! Gromov continued to walk one foot deep and one foot shallow, as if he knew the location of the mine. (To be continued......)