Chapter 24 (II) Undisclosed Negotiations
Sirens sounded in the fort, and four medium shore defense guns on either side of the gate were already aimed at the torpedo boats that were about to land.
Under Bosen's command, the rest of the soldiers were also in their positions, holding grenade launchers and RPGs aimed at the shore, and they could destroy the torpedo boat in an instant with just one order from Bosen.
In the central control room, Tang Shuxing stared at the picture, but Gu Yan on the side was looking at Dong Sanlu's back, I don't know why, he always felt that this old man was a little wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
Dong Sanlu kept asking his men to adjust the footage in front of him, while warning the others to cycle through the cameras around the island, fearing that the pirates were using torpedo boats as bait and were actually just trying to sneak in.
"You've been on this island for at least five years." Tang Shuxing suddenly spoke, Dong Sanlu said "um" in front, still looking at the picture attentively.
"It's been almost five years since pirates came here." Tang Shuxing said again, at this time, Dong Sanlu's gaze left the picture, looked at Tang Shuxing slightly backwards, and said "um" again.
Gu Yan already knew what Tang Shuxing was going to say, and now that Bosen was not here, maybe this was a good opportunity for him and Dong Sanlu to explain a lot of things clearly.
"The first time you were attacked was four years ago, or three years ago." Tang Shuxing looked at the picture, and at this time, several soldiers in front of him subconsciously looked back at Tang Shuxing, and this subconscious action made Tang Shuxing realize that his guess was correct.
Dong Sanlu finally turned his wheelchair and faced Tang Shuxing. Then he left in a wheelchair and walked outside, after Dong Sanlu left, Tang Shuxing glanced at Gu Yan and motioned for him to keep an eye here, and then walked out of the central control room himself.
Leaving the central control room, Tang Shuxing saw Dong Sanlu going directly to the corridor of the room where he lived, and he slowly followed, and then Dong San walked to his room, where Tang Shuxing stood at the entrance of the room. saw Dong Sanlu looking at himself in it. Then he said, "Close the door." ”
Tang Shuxing entered the house and closed the door, Dong Sanlu said calmly: "What else do you want to say, say it." ”
"You came here five years ago, and you came to this place with a lot of hard work. There are others with you. There are people you know. Some didn't know each other, but then everyone dispersed, after you came. In addition to the people you brought with you, you also took in a group of soldiers from the defeated Eurasian forces and came to this island to hold on. Tang Shuxing leaned against the door and analyzed, "Half a year or a year later, many people outside this fortress froze to death and starved to death, very miserable, but you are still alive, others will definitely be curious, and some people come to ask for help, but you didn't take them in, just gave them some food and let them go, and then the news of eating and drinking here kept coming, and people kept coming to the door, but you still didn't take those people, and then begging turned into an attack, but unfortunately they couldn't attack this fortress." ”
Dong San looked at Tang Shuxing expressionlessly, and did not comment on Tang Shuxing's speculation.
"In a bad environment, one group of people wants to attack another group of people, the reason is simple, because the group of people who are attacked are better off than the attacker, they have enough food and clothing, they eat well, they sleep well, and the others are greedy, and that's the reason for the attack." Tang Shuxing leaned against the door and continued, "But this place is so big, and you don't take in anyone else, why?" ”
Dong Sanlu still looked at Tang Shuxing calmly, and Tang Shuxing smiled at him: "Yes, why?" Why can you go out hunting polar bears and fish and survive, but why can't others? Why should others only plunder? How many polar bears are there in the Arctic Circle? How many animals such as seals? How many people are there now? With so many people hunting together, there are probably not many living creatures on the periphery of the Arctic Circle, right? It's been 5 years, and you're still alive and well, not to mention the people outside, I think it's strange. ”
"Tang Shuxing, I will ask my men to help you find that woman, and then you will leave here." Dong Sanlu said coldly.
Tang Shuxing nodded: "Yes, but I have to tell you, as long as we leave here with our front feet, you may be attacked by Chi Chen immediately, you know Zhan Tianya very well, maybe Chi Chen's current strength is still impossible to deal with, but it is easy to capture this fortress, the person who can keep you is me, I know you hate Zhan Tianya, but Zhan Tianya is precisely the nemesis of your alien magicians, you are also counted?" ”
Dong Sanlu closed his eyes and said, "Tang Shuxing, what do you want?" ”
"The secrets in this base, all the qiē, because I need to know if the secrets here have anything to do with what I'm investigating." Tang Shuxing's tone also deepened.
Dong Sanlu opened his eyes and looked at him half-squinted: "What are you investigating?" ”
"About Shangdu, about ancient humans, about a qiē." After Tang Shuxing finished speaking, he turned around and opened the door, "Master Dong Sanlu Dong, you think about it, there are only a hundred people left in your entire fortress, all of them are ordinary people, for me, they are not even as good as rats, I don't want to use force to solve this matter." ”
"Tang Shu Punishment!" Dong Sanlu suddenly stopped him, "Some things are different from what you imagined. ”
"I never imagined, imagination is out of thin air, I always speculated, speculated on the premise that seeing is believing and there is evidence." Tang Shuxing stopped at the door and left.
Dong Sanlu stopped there, watched Tang Shuxing leave, and waited for Tang Shuxing's footsteps to disappear, Dong Sanlu pressed the button on the intercom on the armrest, and said to Bosen on the other end: "Your secret, Tang Shuxing has been discovered." ”
Bosson, who was closely watching the torpedo boat in the outer fortress, was silent for a while, and then walked into the corner and whispered: "Sooner or later, it is impossible for someone as shrewd as him not to find out about it." ”
"He seems to have other requirements." Dong Sanlu said again.
Bosson asked, "What requirements?" ”
Dong Sanlu said: "He wants to know a qiē, but I personally feel that he needs to win us over, needs us to be his backup, to be precise, he needs our satellite." ”
Bosson smiled and said, "Would you like to give it to him?" ”
"I don't want to, I can't, he said, as long as he leaves, Chi Chen will attack here, what he said makes sense, Zhan Tianya asked them to come here, which means that Zhan Tianya knows about our existence, maybe he doesn't know that I'm here, but he knows what is here, don't forget, Zhan Tianya is also from intelligence." Dong Sanlu said calmly, "I also believe that Zhan Tianya can capture this place with more clever means, and we can't do anything about him, so at this point, I would rather choose to make a deal with Tang Shuxing than become Zhan Tianya's subordinate." ”
Bosson immediately retorted: "Sir, I don't want to believe Tang Shuxing, let alone Zhan Tianya, I only believe in you and myself, if we can't be the master in this place, then the next step, we will only have a dead end!" ”
"You have a grudge against Tang Shuxing, it makes sense for you to say this, but I still hope you better not do it." Dong Sanlu persuaded him, "You think about it, I will hold off Tang Shuxing for the time being." ”
"Okay." Bosson turned off the communications and looked outside at the torpedo boat.
The torpedo boat had docked, but there was still no movement on board, no one showed up, and the engines were turned off, but according to Bossen's previous observations, it seems that the torpedo boat was not propelled by the engine, but by something else that pushed it to the shore, and there was nothing else to do it except for large underwater animals.
"General, I don't think we'd better take any risks and just blow up and sink that torpedo boat, right?" An officer next to him whispered.
Bosson shook his head: "We have limited ammunition, and the ammunition of the shore defense artillery is even more limited, and a lot of shells are unusable, so we can save money." ”
The officer stared outside and said, "But I always feel that something is wrong, it is too unusual." ”
"Listen, everyone, don't shoot without my orders, save ammunition, even if you see pirates appearing, don't shoot rashly, there are also heavy guns on the torpedo boats, which will pose a certain threat to us, if they fire......" As soon as Bosson said this, he suddenly saw the barrel of the torpedo boat twist, and then aimed at the shore.
"Don't fire, everyone! Don't be afraid! There was only one small-caliber gun on the torpedo boat! Steady! Bosen said as he dodged to the side to observe carefully, continuing to soothe the feelings of the others, "At best, there are less than 30 people on the torpedo boat, and 30 people will definitely not be able to break through our defenses, calm down!" Give me calm! ”
This group of soldiers who experienced the battle with Shangdu many years ago have long been war-weary, and now they are basically eating and waiting for death, if it weren't for the food and drink here, I'm afraid they would have been pirates a long time ago, and there is no need for Bosen to say calm, in fact, everyone is extremely calm, it can be said that they are loose, except for a few officers with a slight sense of responsibility, everyone else just looks at the torpedo boat with a lazy gaze.
In the early years, there were also pirates who attacked here, but many times they did not return fire, and after the pirates could not break through the gate, they had to turn around and leave in order not to waste ammunition, so the soldiers were not worried about the pirate attack.
"Bah-" The only cannon on the torpedo boat fired, and everyone in the outer fortress subconsciously crouched down, but then they heard a small explosion, and when they got up to look down, they saw that the shell had landed somewhere on the shore, and then a huge amount of smoke was raised.
"Smoke bombs?" Bosson frowned, "What do they want to do?" ”
Immediately afterwards, the torpedo boat fired smoke grenades in all directions, at which point Bosson immediately grabbed the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Anyone who has a thermal imager put it on, hurry up!" They should be taking advantage of the smoke to get under our fortress, hurry! ”
After Bosson's order was given, many soldiers of the former Eurasian and European forces who still had thermal imagers put them on with their hands and feet, and then carefully poked out to look into the smoke, but they did not see anything in it. At this time, the smoke had been blown away by the sea breeze, and Bossen raised his binoculars to look at it, and found that there were countless messy footprints in the snow, but he did not see anything in his own right.
"What the hell!?" Bosson put down his binoculars and muttered to himself. (To be continued......)