Chapter 154: The Clash of the Regular Army

"Someone's coming." Liu Feng still underestimated the greed of the other party, Liu Feng saw that there were people moving on the opposite ridge, and he could see the other party on his side, but he couldn't see the other party below the valley.

If Liu Feng had definitely taken advantage of the fire to rob in the past, of course not now, how many people will be saved by these materials?

Sometimes, people's concepts are changed by such a small thing, but Liu Feng said that he was moved by the baby's crying God, which pure and flawless eyes.

They are innocent, and they have the right to live in this world and experience a colorful world.

Maybe ten years, maybe twenty years, maybe even a hundred years.

They didn't deserve to lose their mothers or fathers.

Liu Feng still remembers that a terminally ill mother gave birth to a child, and after staying with the child for more than ten minutes, the mother left.

The mother said that she had lived for more than 20 years, and it was enough, the child had not seen the world at a glance, and let the child come to see the world.

Because people only have one life, and the ups and downs are all life.

Of course, many people objected to it, thinking that it was harming the child, but now Liu Feng understands that when you see the child's flawless eyes and innocent actions, you know what you should do.

It is undeniable that some people will pass on their own pressure to their children, leaving the child prematurely from this miserable world.

But more children are living a life of various tastes, the rich have the difficulties of being rich, and the poor also have the happiness of the poor.

Everyone's different life is life.

Bang!

Liu Feng clearly saw that someone below was approaching the camp, and the gun in his hand opened fire.

At most a distance of more than a thousand meters from the bottom of the mountain, there is a farmland at the bottom of the mountain, and in the farmland there is a stream, and a group of people are following the stream to the camp.

Bang bang bang!

Bang bang bang! It doesn't matter who it is, even if it's Antonio's people.

Although the chaos of this world has something to do with him, it is undeniable that Liu Feng has also created more super soldiers, immune drugs, and a clear conscience.

The sound of gunfire immediately moved the camp below.

The people on the opposite hill began to suppress Liu Feng.

"Haha, haha!"

"Haha, haha!"

As soon as the fire opened on the opposite hill, Liu Feng turned his head and ran, and ran back to the cave before laughing.

Wu Ya looked at Liu Feng with some doubts.

Half an hour later, the sound of drones rang out.

Rumble!

Rumble!

There were also violent explosions.

"It seemed like a convoy carrying supplies, and someone wanted to attack them, and I shot and killed a few, and they fought back and I ran away." Only then did Liu Feng open his mouth and say to Wu Ya.

After dawn, the sound of two drones appeared in the sky.

It was gone at noon, so Liu Feng took Wu Ya and continued to move north.

In a village, the village has been abandoned, and many things have been left behind.

However, there is still a lot of food that has not been harvested, and it can be seen that the people here used to be very happy, and the garden needs to be taken care of.

This may be the place where a person has lived all his life, but now he has to leave.

Finding a pickup truck, Liu Feng took matters into his own hands and began to repair the pickup truck.

If you don't have the parts you use, you can find them, but fortunately, there are a lot of garages here, and pickup trucks are very common cars.

I got some diesel fuel from a few farm machines and added it to it, and I brought two barrels with me.

Whew!

The car started.

At noon the next day, Liu Feng drove a pickup truck, and the second row was Wuya and the little doll, and he had to leave, the little doll's milk powder was insufficient, and Wuya's milk ~ water was not much.

Liu Feng didn't know what was going on with Wu Ya, maybe it was caused by being overly frightened.

The road is not very smooth, but fortunately, the four-wheel drive pickup can be passed as long as it is not a trench.

A drone hovered in the air, and then left, and Liu Feng saw that the drone was full of **.

Uya didn't come out, and wrapped herself in a camouflage suit.

Another detour, itself to Croatia, now decided to go to Montenegro.

The military of a strong country immediately manifests itself.

The drone came three times, and Liu Feng was more than 300 kilometers away from the incident site, so the drone did not appear.

The city, the barren city, is in ruins.

Liu Feng saw the familiar scene again, the abandoned city was full of garbage, abandoned vehicles everywhere, and many of them were still burned.

The buildings were also scorched black, and the cars could not be driven.

The huge department store has become a scorched black.

There are also traces of sub ~ bullets, and the wreckage of the ~ armor ~ car.

Obviously, there has been a fierce battle here, and Liu Feng doesn't know what exactly happened here.

Others dare not approach the building, but Liu Feng is the opposite.

Poof!

The muffler's pistol, which accurately hit two huge rats, like two pigs, was lurking inside the ruins.

These strange beasts obviously regard people as prey, in fact, those strange beasts in the wild, as long as they have not eaten people, are very afraid of people, people have ruled the earth for so many years, the strong at the top of the food chain.

Even tigers and lions, as long as they are not too hungry, they will generally stay away from people.

However, it is different if you have eaten people, these strange beasts will take the initiative to attack people.

Wu Ya only now realized how powerful the man in front of him was.

Hospital!

The hospital was also abandoned, giving people an eerie feeling, and Liu Feng looked around.

Then I chose a building and went in.

Rats, cockroaches, bugs are constantly fleeing, and there are some birds.

Bang dang!

Bang dang!

Somewhere I don't know what a sound echoed inside the dark building.

Wu Ya leaned closely towards Liu Feng, who swore that he was definitely not that kind of person.

Milk powder cans.

It's broken, though.

It's dark here, but Liu Feng doesn't have much of a problem, he can see things in the dark.

Uya could only look around with some peripheral vision.

"Be careful." Wu Ya almost tripped over a wire and was hugged by Liu Feng.

The first floor is not, the basement is flooded, the basement is mostly equipped with pumping motors, there is no power, and these control systems do not do much.

The second floor was in a mess, Liu Feng swept through it with his mental strength, and in a pile of garbage, he turned out a pack of intact diapers.

Wu Ya looked at the black pile in front of him, why he could find out.

Changed diapers for the little things and found another pack.

Also in a fallen rotten cabinet, I found a satchel, a luxury bag with a limited edition.

Inside there is a beautiful women's watch, as well as rings, gemstone rings, and a Porsche key.

"Here you go." Liu Feng dropped the things, then stuffed the diapers into them, and said to Wu Ya.

Uya's lips moved.

Liu Feng said: "You can take ...... if you want." ”

Wuya moved quickly and quickly picked it up.

Bottled purified water, and a secret room, immediately with some money, documents, and some collectibles.

They are all very valuable things, Liu Feng didn't like them, and Wu Ya was entangled in the one with high value.

Liu Feng put the mineral water in his backpack, and the rest of the jewelry was dismissive.

came to the top floor, which was also smashed, Liu Feng was in a mother and baby room, and found milk bottles, milk powder, etc., which seemed to have expired for half a month.

Two boxes of milk powder, I don't know who they are for.

Wu Ya's satchel is already two, one is stuffed with all kinds of luxury goods, and it can be seen that the people who worked here in the past were definitely rich people.

The other one was stuffed with diapers.

Liu Feng mixed some milk powder with pure water and drank it himself.

Boom!

Wow!

Wow!

Liu Feng was stunned, the helicopter, there was actually a helicopter hangar on it, and there was a helicopter in it, a small one.

The door was buckled from the outside, but Liu Feng didn't find any monsters, or he turned into a monster and smashed downstairs.

Closing the door again, the telekinesis swept away.

There are a lot of equipment on the roof, including several stainless steel water towers, and there is a lot of water in it.

Inside the hangar, the hangar is semi-open.

There are people living in the hangar, and it looks like there is a duty in it, and there is a lounge, and there is red wine or something.

"Take a break." Liu Feng found some canned food and convenience food, which seemed to have been left by the guards here.

Half of the floor here is a helicopter platform, and a house of about 500 square meters, with rooms for guards, rooms for masters, and some equipment, of course, this is only a temporary resting place.

There are also cigars and so on, but because there is no air conditioning, many of them are no longer usable, but some potato chips or something, no problem.

There was nothing that could not be eaten, Liu Feng took out a gas stove and lit it to get milk powder for the child to eat.

Wu Ya was sorting out her trophies, five watches, necklaces, gemstone rings, and a lot of gemstone necklaces.

It's all from the secret room below.

"Wuya, you can take a bath, the water temperature is okay." Liu Feng opened his mouth and said.

It's not okay not to take a bath, Liu Feng's sense of smell is too keen, not to mention any interest or something, if he doesn't take a bath for a day, Liu Feng feels very uncomfortable, just like putting his nose in the middle of a tire that has just left the factory.

However, Western Europeans are not afraid of the cold, and now at noon, the temperature is not low.

Inside a large bucket, Wuya jumped directly into it, and then took off her clothes, and then chose some new underwear or something.

Instant noodles were boiled in cans, Liu Feng used a stainless steel bucket to cook them, and the eggs were already spoiled when the potato chips were combined.

There are also some baguettes that can be eaten.

"It's time to eat." Liu Feng opened his mouth and shouted.

Uya got up from the bucket, looked at the black water in the bucket, shook her head, then put on her clothes and went outside.

"Front." Wu Ya came behind Liu Feng and shouted.

Liu Feng opened his mouth and said, "It's time to eat." ”

"Front." Uya shouted again.

"I have a wife, more than one." Liu Feng put down his chopsticks and looked back reluctantly.

Although the telekinesis knows what it looks like, it is the same when he sees it with his own eyes.

Sentiment

Eiki.

"I don't care." Wu Ya twisted~ and moved her body to Liu Feng.

Liu Feng hugged Wu Ya, and then entered the guard lounge next to him, the baby on the sofa was full and already asleep.

When it was all over, Uya felt that her body was no longer her own.

Liu Feng is also rare to be refreshed once, this time he has given birth to a child is different, and his endurance is much greater.

"Get up and eat." Liu Feng looked at the sweaty Wu Ya and said.

Wu Ya shook her head: "I want to sleep, you eat first." ”

Liu Feng had no choice but to make some milk powder for Wu Ya, and then ate a pot of cold noodles by himself.

Wu Ya was woken up by hunger, it was already dark outside, Liu Feng took a big bowl of noodles and said, "Eat." ”

"Thank you......." Wuya spoke.

"Feng, who are you?" After Wu Ya finished eating, under the bright starry sky, Wu Ya leaned on Liu Feng's body and felt a strong breath.

Liu Feng was a little baby in his arms, and the baby was sleeping soundly.

Liu Feng turned his head to look at Wu Ya, Wu Ya is a pure Eastern European, tall and tall, compared with ordinary Eastern European women, Wu Ya's face is softer, her skin is fair~fair, and more importantly, it is not an airport, of course, it may be the reason for childbirth.

The face is not as sharp as the melon seed face, slightly rounded, although the nose is high, but not so pointed, the mouth is not very large, and the skin of the mouth is thin.

"I'm a man." Liu Feng looked at the dark city, and occasionally some unknown beast let out a strange cry.

Wu Ya angrily hammered Liu Feng.

"Let's go, go back." Liu Feng felt a little inexplicably dangerous, and there were many creatures at night.

Liu Feng and Wu Ya had just entered the house, and a black shadow in the sky passed silently.

I exercised again, slept until noon, had lunch, and went downstairs to leave.

Bang bang bang!

When I walked to the middle of the building, I heard a burst of gunfire outside, coming from a few blocks away.

Two groups of people, five in front and eight in the back, shot at each other.

The five people were hit one again, and then got into the building where Liu Feng was.

Wu Ya also saw that the eight people who were chasing behind fired a signal flare.

There are only four of the five people in front of them, and the one who was knocked to the ground was directly re-shot by the people behind him.

"Front." Wu Ya squeezed Liu Feng's hand tightly.

Liu Feng shook his head at Wu Ya, and then quietly walked up with Wu Ya.

Thundered!

Thundered!

There was a rumbling sound on the side of the road, wheeled ~ armor ~ car, three.

Liu Feng looked at this ~armor~ car, and felt his scalp tingle, isn't this the ~armor~ car of the camp he saw a few days ago.

Hurry down.

Liu Feng took Wu Ya and walked down quickly.

Of the four people who came in, two of them were guarding the staircase that came up below, and the remaining two were on the third floor.

When he came to the fourth floor, Liu Feng put his arm around Wu Ya, and his mind found that the other party was injecting outside, and he came to the staircase with a flutter.

You can see the two people below staring down.

The four of them were also talking hurriedly on the pager.

Liu Feng saw that this side was not working, so he walked in other directions.

This is a commercial building, there is more than one escape passage, Liu Feng came to another passage, which is also a staircase.

Knock knock knock!

The artillery on the ~armor~ car fired, and the characteristic sound of a thump was made.

There was a loud explosion throughout the building, and the baby had ear tips on it, but he could still hear the sound and was woken up directly.

Fortunately, there is a pacifier to gag the mouth.

Descending to the first floor, there were eight people on the opposite side, but most of them were attracted by the fire on the second floor.

Liu Feng saw a soldier fifty meters away, and the moment he turned his head, he took Wu Ya and hid behind a car.

In the distance, the ~armor~ car crashed into other abandoned vehicles, making a loud roar.

Apparently to enclose the building.

As soon as the soldier turned his head, Liu Feng avoided the front line of sight and went to the back of a car on the side.

The soldier, perhaps tired, felt for something, and then bowed his head.

Liu Feng dodged again and landed directly in the back bucket of an abandoned pickup truck.

Wu Ya's whole nerves were tense, and she had to cover her mouth, although she knew that Liu Feng was already very strong, she didn't expect it to be so strong.

The soldier was drinking water or something to replenish his strength.

After taking one sip, move on to a second sip.

Rumble!

In the distance, the ~armor~ car didn't know what it was hit, and there was a huge explosion, and the soldier hurriedly raised his gun in the direction of the front and the ~armor~ car.

A newspaper was blown up and flew over the side of the soldier.

Liu Feng left quickly, and then came to the opposite building.

After the newspaper fell, the soldiers did not find the slightest thing.

After leaving the battlefield for a kilometer, Liu Feng found a place to rest.

"Sharp ......." Wu Ya was put down by Liu Feng at this time, and only then did she recover her strength.

Ten minutes later, the drone arrived.

Rumble! Rumble! A ** shot directly at a floor of the building~

Then there was fierce gunfire, and Liu Feng felt that things were not so simple.

In modern warfare, the power seems to be very great, unless the entire building is blown up and collapsed, street fighting is the most difficult.

Liu Feng looked here and there, and sure enough, an armed man with portable air defense ** appeared on a building on the side, hiding on the penultimate floor.

Then the drone seemed to have noticed something and flew in this direction.

Just as the drone flew over the building, a flame rose from a building in the distance.

The drone immediately lifted off into the air, and then this one also launched ~ on this side.

Three man-portable air defense **, which launched an attack behind the drone.

Rumble!

The drone falls directly, and the tide of battle is reversed in an instant, unless there is a drone coming back immediately, this is impossible, and there is generally a time limit.

Buzz!

The whistling sound of motorcycles, dozens of motorcycles with armed men, quickly came to a few hundred meters away, and quickly moved forward.

These people are disorganized, and there is no uniform logo on their bodies, but there are no super soldiers among these people, and this is not Antonio's men.

"It's supposed to be a local chicken." Wuya whispered.

Wu Ya then explained: "The local chicken has been in conflict with the Greek side for many years, and now that it is so chaotic, maybe someone will be sent to make trouble. ”

Liu Feng nodded, this makes sense, generally speaking, even if the major countries are so chaotic now, apart from Liu Feng, who else can move the regular army.

Liu Feng is more likely to dismantle a certain base from within, and he won't do it like this.

Liu Feng touched downstairs and grabbed a live mouth, sure enough, it was the native chicken person, the native chicken person is very easy to know, and the language is different from what is spoken here.

Liu Feng came back twenty minutes later, with a sniper~hit~gun, and the sniper~hit~ gun was owned by the other party's people.

Liu Feng is waiting, why are these people doing this?

What do these people rely on, and do they have follow-up means?

Three off-road vehicles appeared on the side of these people, and after the door opened, two people came down, and these two people were dressed very conspicuously, all of them were camouflage uniforms, body armor, and the two of them were dressed in outfits, one of them had sneakers, a sports suit, and the other was wearing a motorcycle suit.

The Awoken!

Liu Feng saw it at a glance, and then shook his head.

No wonder the other party has strength, the two are followed by several people, and the person in sportswear took four people and walked towards a building, and it seemed to be a sniper ~ shooting ~ gun behind him.

The other was followed by five people who were carrying a box and I don't know what it was.

Liu Feng settled Wu Ya in the middle of the floor, and then went upstairs.

Liu Feng took a sniper~shot~ gun, only to find that the sniper was not more than 100 meters away from him.

With a sneer, the Awakened are superhuman in front of ordinary people.

But the Awakened is very ordinary in front of the Psychic Master, but an Awakened Person who is proficient in shooting talent actually has such a big pomp.

If the other party is really a native chicken, then Liu Feng certainly has his own plans.

The sniper actually made a beach chair to lie down, and two observers watched on one side, then chose a suitable position.

Liu Feng came to the other side, looked in the direction of the battlefield, and found that which woman was actually carrying all kinds of hand ~ thunder, humanoid bomb throwing equipment, and the talent among the awakened was also relatively low-level.

The awakened can throw his hand ~ thunder accurately at a bowl mouth two or three hundred meters away.

But if you have a talent for shooting, as long as you find you, the moment you throw it, it will explode directly, and you will suffer yourself.

This is also the general awakened in the later stage are reluctant to get close to these people, because it depends on luck, if you are unlucky, you will play yourself to death, and if you are lucky, your combat power is limited, after all, the flight speed of the projectile, for the awakened, it is just like that.

In the distance, a battle ~ bucket ~ plane flew over, and Liu Feng dodged from a distance.

Rumble!

The entire block was hit by a huge **.

Look at the Awoken Sniper on the roof of the building next door, it's gone.

The militants below fled into the building.

Liu Feng muttered in his heart when he saw this battle ~ fighting ~ machine, and then took out a special communicator and turned it on.

"Boss, these are all rookies, like a bunch of mice."

"Continue the cruise, strike at enemy armor, pay attention to the opponent's anti-aircraft weapons."

"Understood!"

Liu Feng heard Antonio's voice, and had a guess in his heart, that is, the German material team was attacked, so he must ask for support from the surroundings, and O'Antonio estimated that he was getting the air force to support Italy.

Drop by and strike at it.

Rumble!

Rumble!

The militants' motorcycles were too conspicuous, and there were off-road vehicles, which were hit by two **, and then the plane moved towards the rear, looked at it from a distance, and fired ~ shot **.

Liu Feng felt that the other party was simply unlucky, and he actually encountered the plane driven by the awakened, and the plane driven by the awakened person, it can be said that within a few kilometers, there is no need for any auxiliary equipment at all, and you can see whether the people on the ground are holding weapons or not, and they can see it clearly at an altitude of 1,500 meters.

The battle~fight~ machine returned a few minutes later and engaged in a series of cannon strikes on the ground.

And then it flew away.

The other party's sniper did not dare to show his face anymore, so he found a sniper point on the upper floor of the house.

This kind of high-tech combat, which was rarely seen in the previous life, left at least more aircraft in this life.

Liu Feng didn't know what was going on ahead, and now Liu Feng could only wait.

After dark, Liu Feng decided to leave, this may become a place of conflict, and the drone has arrived.

As soon as the telekinesis moved, a hand ~ Lei flew out of the window and flew to the place where the sniper was more than eighty meters away.

The sniper and the assistant were eating in a spot in the middle of the house.

The sniper is an awakened after all, and it feels that something is wrong, and then take a look.

Rumble!

Hand ~ thunder exploded, and then the second, the third!

There was a shout from the others below, and Liu Feng took Wu Ya and left here.

The movement of the soldiers attracted the drone, and the drone shot ~ at the moving soldier.

A series of explosions, Liu Feng's heart trembled when he heard it, the awakened must not think that they are superhuman, otherwise they will die a miserable death.

took Wu Ya into the mountains, Wu Ya was taken by Liu Feng, walked more than ten kilometers, found a motorcycle, and then left on a motorcycle.

Ljubljana is the capital and political and cultural center of the Republic of Slovenia. Located in the northwest of the upper reaches of the Sava River, in a basin surrounded by mountains, there is a lot of fog. Ljubljana covers an area of 902 square kilometres and has a population of about 272,000 people.

Liu Feng came to Ljubljana, which is the capital of a country, and it is heavily guarded, but Liu Feng and the three of them did not enter the capital, but found a town on the side to rest.

There is no problem with Liu Feng's physical strength, but Wu Ya and the little baby can't, if you want to awaken Wu Ya, there is not enough nutritional supplements around you, which is not enough.

Inside the settlement, Liu Feng took out two bottles of honey, which he took off on the way.

The town became like a steel fortress, and Liu Feng's honey was exchanged for a container house.

Such settlements are already common in Europe.

Wow!

Wow!

Wow!

Compared with other babies, the little things are very happy, at least they can eat all the time.

In the area between the container and the tent outside, there is a barbed wire fence, inside a tent.

A baby's heart-rending cry attracted a lot of attention.

An old man was holding a baby, and the bottle was filled with that cloudy liquid, like starch or something.

It's not very thick, and it's not allowed to make a fire in private in the tent area.

Wuya looked in the direction of the baby's crying and hugged her daughter tightly.

Liu Feng was about to deliver milk powder to the baby, when the people in the settlement behind came out and took the baby and the elderly into the settlement.

Liu Feng's heart was heavy, and there was no way to do it.

Even if it is the production of the awakening potion, the original alien beast as the main material is definitely not so easy to find.

And to make it, it also needs a lot of nutritional supplements, and more awakened people can only bring chaos, and the awakened must maintain a certain proportion.

The production of immunotherapy is more difficult, unless the properties of various energies can be clearly identified by instruments, and the production of assembly lines can be carried out.

At night, Wu Ya slept in Liu Feng's arms, Wu Ya has been a little crazy in some aspects recently, I don't know what to think.

The little thing was holding ~ a pacifier on one side and was covered by a thin blanket.

Liu Feng guessed that Wu Ya was afraid that he would leave her and regarded himself as a dependent.

As for what to do in the future, Liu Feng didn't think about it, and Wu Ya didn't seem to think about it either, it is estimated that it will be a day by day.

Liu Feng couldn't sleep, his heart was heavy, and the night was not so calm, and there were gunshots everywhere.

Now, the probability of monsters appearing is getting higher and higher, and the people in these countries are very free, and personal protection doesn't care at all, which has led to a lot of accidents.

Bang bang bang!

There was a barrage of gunfire from inside the container next door.

The guards soon arrived.

Manslaughter!

There was a family inside, and a teenager screamed, and then when the grandfather jumped up and shot at the father next to the teenager.

The family was kicked out of the settlement, and Liu Feng's scalp was numb because the people in another container were shot.

Liu Feng also left overnight, which was more dangerous than the wild.

I still plan to take a look first, and then I will talk about it, more and more things have made Liu Feng have a little sense of responsibility.

Liu Feng's destination is Vlora in Albania, which is only a few dozen kilometers away from Otranto, Italy.

However, after Liu Feng left Slovenia, he found that the closer he was to the local chicken, the more chaotic it became, and he encountered several robbers on the way.

All of them are in mountainous and dangerous areas.

Through Slovenia, through Croatia, through Bosnia, through Montenegro, into Albania.

More than 1,000 kilometers, how many countries have been passed, this is in the interior, maybe just two provinces apart.

Vlora is south of Albaria.

Port city in southwestern Albania, capital of Vlora district. On the northeastern shore of the Bay of Vlora in the Adriatic Sea. Outside the bay, there is Sazan Island as a barrier, the port is wide and deep, and it was once an important military port. It has a population of 61,000. The 2nd century is documented. The independence of Albania was proclaimed here in 1912. There are bituminous mines in Northeastern Selenitse. Transportation hubs. Industries include petroleum refining, chemicals, cement, food, wood, textiles, etc. Export of oil, asphalt, olive oil, etc. There is an independence memorial hall and an ancient castle. There is a beach and is a sightseeing and health resort.

The city of 60,000 people is still an important port city, and half of the port has been abandoned.

But obviously, Liu Feng felt that something was wrong, and some of the people here had a fierce atmosphere, which was the breath of a soldier.

"Is it so lucky?" Liu Feng muttered in his heart.

Because Liu Feng is also trying to find the logistics route of the local chicken, but there are many countries and ports on the opposite side, and it is impossible for him to look for them one by one.

For a distance of tens of kilometers, it is most cost-effective to use a boat, and the load capacity of a few tons at a time will be reached in more than an hour.

"No traffic is allowed ahead." Liu Feng tried to follow the coastline to Orikum, which is a natural port and surrounded by mountains, and on the other side of the Oriental Greece, one of the routes from the native chickens, the seaside is dangerous for others, but for the soldiers who are as equipped as possible, it is not very dangerous.

And there are a lot of special fogs in the army, such as poison as bait.

These people are not military police, Liu Feng decided to find someone to ask.

Entering the settlement again, Liu Feng keenly found that many people in the settlement looked at him with some scrutiny, not guards, but people in the settlement.