24. Welcome ceremony

Half an hour later, about ten miles outside Devon, a rusty railing was kicked open in an abandoned drain.

After opening a manhole cover in Devon, Rayson and Maurice followed the sewers all the way to the city, where the city's sewer system was unmaintained and long abandoned, but it also had the advantage of walking through the sewers without having to endure the stench of filth except for darkness.

In the night, two figures were heading towards the main road not far away. Rayson also thought about it, no matter how much the forces in Devon City surged, it didn't have much to do with him; All he wanted was clues about Su Ling, and at present, in addition to the Saints Society, the slave auction was the most valuable for investigation.

But Rayson didn't think that Saito would allow himself to come into contact with this level easily, especially today when he was still rejecting him on the radio; In that case, it is better to take the initiative and attack the slave traders who come to participate in the auction.

Since Durant can get the news in the surrounding area and come to Devon City early, there must be other slave traders who will do the same.

Rayson ended up in a narrow spot on the road, a little ahead of which was a bend, and those who had just turned the corner were likely to lose sight of the road. Rayson took out a cloth bag and poured the pre-prepared broken stone glass pushpins and all kinds of hard things on the ground. The road is much harder than the surrounding sand, and these things should do the trick.

Maurice next to him looked at it with a blank expression: "Boss, what are you doing here?" ”

"You'll find out later, hide first."

The two of them came to some place below the main road and hid. It's like a sand dune, the top of the dunes is the only road that allows cars to pass, a little lower in the dark where you can hide, and the bottom is a quicksand area, as long as you stand on it, you will sink, if you don't get help in time, soon the whole person will sink and be swallowed by the desert.

Rayson took off his coat and threw it to Maurice, revealing the exoskeleton underneath and slipping on his monocle and headphones.

AI reacts: "Wearer reaction detected, enemy analyzer activates ......"

At night, Rayson's exoskeleton was faintly reflected in the moonlight. Maurice saw Rayson's metallic texture, rubbed his eyes, and it took a while to see clearly: "Boss, you are ......"

"Why, haven't you seen it?"

Maurice's face was full of smirk: "I've seen it, but it's rarely ......"

He just didn't expect that Rayson still had this kind of thing on him, and for a homeless person like Maurice, high-end mechanical equipment such as exoskeletons was a treasure that he couldn't even think of.

"Alright, quiet." Rayson raised his hand and pressed it, signaling Maurice to be silent: "Someone is coming." ”

Not far away there was a commotion, heard a few men complaining, and it seemed to be mixed with women's wailing.

"You stay here, and come out when I call you." Rayson commanded, and with a dodge, he disappeared.

Maurice didn't know what Rayson was going to do, so he was extremely nervous and quietly looked up to observe the movement. On the main road, lights flickered at the other end of the bend, and soon several people with flashlights appeared.

A donkey cart slowly walked through the curve, and six men with guns protected the donkey cart in the middle, and a person sitting on the donkey cart was gnawing dry food, which should be the leader. He sat under his ass with his luggage, and behind the donkey cart was a huge iron cage that took up two-thirds of the donkey cart.

There were several women in the cage, unclothed, and from time to time there were weepings, all of despair.

"! Cry, cry, cry! Just know to cry! Wait until Lao Tzu sells you at auction! You will annoy other men's ears. ”

The man sitting on the donkey cart cursed, waved his whip, and whipped the big black donkey that pulled the cart again. The six big men around the donkey cart each tightened their thin clothes. Their outfits vary greatly, and they look like they should be improvised teams.

One of them approached the donkey cart: "Boss, Devon City is not far ahead, but you can say okay, settle the bill as soon as you arrive in Devon City." ”

"That's it! I've said it all! The man on the donkey cart said impatiently: "Ten cans, ten bottles of water, and one pill for each person, and I will give them to you when we arrive in Devon City!" I won't owe you anything. ”

"Damn, I was escorted here from Sand City, and I just gave such a thing, it's really a bloody loss." One of the people at the back of the team complained, and kicked the donkey cart quite dissatisfied: "Boss, let's take a ride too." you come here on two legs, and everyone is wasted! ”

"Sit sit, sit sit, sit!" The man on the donkey cart scolded unceremoniously: "You guys are sitting down, and you still have to sleep?" What if a robbery comes and my goods are gone? Are you responsible? ”

"What the hell are you......" The man with the gun seemed to be about to run away, but a person next to him hurriedly went up to stop him: "Forget it, you will reach your destination in front, there is no need to quarrel with him." The corps commander values the reputation of our corps very much, and if he knows that we have a conflict with our employer, he will definitely clean us up. ”

It seems that these men with guns and the men pulling the donkey carts are not the same group, the men pulling the donkey carts are slave traders who are going to Devon City to participate in the auction, and these men with guns are from a mercenary group. There is an employment relationship between them.

The night was deep, and the black donkey almost melted into the night. Before he had taken a few steps further, the black donkey suddenly stopped, and then kicked the donkey's hooves like crazy.

"Boom!"

The black donkey let out a hoarse cry and seemed to be in pain, and kept shaking its hooves in place, swaying left and right.

The donkey cart also swayed, the man pulling the donkey cart screamed again and again, and the gunmen around him were also at a loss.

What they didn't notice was that there was a figure not far in front of the donkey cart.

"Pulse Cannon, fire!"

A huge blue fireball, shot out of the figure's shoulder, and charged at the men with guns.

"Boom!"

There was a loud bang, and the night was lit up by blue firelight, and the man at the front was hit by the fireball, which exploded on the spot, turning into blood mist and minced meat. The black donkey was frightened and shook its body wildly, almost not overturning the donkey cart.

"Not good! There are enemies! ”

The remaining five men finally reacted, and they all raised their guns and shot in the direction where the fireball was coming. "Da Da Da!"

There was a burst of gunfire, a pile of shells on the ground, and the remaining five men all finished the bullets in the magazine.

But the direction of the shot, but at the moment it is empty.

One of the men looked around and saw no strangers, but found that the five of them were unconsciously standing in a row.

"Not good!"

The man suddenly realized that something was wrong, but alas, it was too late.

In the other direction, the figure just now reappeared, holding a python revolver in his hand, shooting in the manner of a western cowboy as he walked.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!"

One of the magazines of the revolver was just finished, and all five men with guns were shot in the head and died instantly. The last shot was on the shoulder of the man pulling the donkey cart. The man screamed and fell off the cart.

Rayson walked out of the darkness wearing an exoskeleton and shook off the magazine of his revolver, and six bullet casings fell to the ground.

The man pulling the donkey cart was lying on the ground, his shoulder was broken and bleeding, and when he saw Rayson approaching him, still holding a gun in his hand, he quickly begged for mercy: "Don't kill me!" Please don't kill me! Everything in the car is given to you, and the women are given to you! Please spare my life! ”

Rayson stood still in front of him, and said expressionlessly, "How many times have you participated in a slave auction?" ”

The man was stunned for a moment, and quickly replied: "First time!" I'm here for the first time! ”

"Really?"

"Really! I definitely didn't lie to you! ”

“……”

After a brief moment of silence, Rayson raised his gun at the man.

"Then you're useless."

Before the man could recover from his horror, Rayson raised his gun and shot him directly in the head.

Seven corpses, lying quietly on the ground, the black donkey would no longer struggle, the two eyes of the animal stared at Rayson stupidly, and for some reason they were trembling all over, as if it was the instinct of his beast, sensing some great danger.

Rayson walked to the cage behind the donkey cart, picked up the python's left wheel, and smashed the lock on the cage bolt.

Inside the cage were three poorly dressed women, all of whom looked a little older, thin, dirty and scarred, and looked like they had been abused.

"What is in this car and those people, you can take whatever you want, and when you finish it, you can go wherever you want."

Hearing Rayson's words, the three women were all stunned and looked at each other.

Immediately, the three of them knelt down towards Rayson in unison: "Thank you!" Thank you! ”

"Hurry up."

Rayson ignored them, let them do their own thing, and then walked to the side of the road and shouted in one direction of the night: "Come out and work." ”

Maurice quickly rushed out of the darkness and ran to Rayson: "Boss, you say." ”

"When they finish picking it up, you throw the corpse and the gun into the quicksand, don't let people see that there is a problem here, be nimble!"

"Okay."

The women quickly rummaged through a pile of supplies, put on a few overcoats and left, not forgetting to pick up two guns. Maurice dragged the corpse to the side of the road and pushed it hard, and the extremely steep slope of the ground below allowed the corpse to naturally roll to the bottom of the quicksand.

The flat corpse could not sink into the quicksand for a long time, and Maurice could only follow it and toss it for a while, and finally made the corpses into an upside-down posture before they gradually sank in.

Rayson untied the donkey cart from the black donkey, kicked it over, and rolled the wooden cart down the slope, breaking to pieces in the process, and sinking into the quicksand at the bottom.

But the black donkey stood still and didn't leave.

Rayson kicked the donkey's ass several times, but he didn't see it move, his eyes gradually turned cold, and he reached for the long knife.

"Boss, Boss! Don't kill! Don't kill yet! ”

Maurice rushed up in a hurry: "This animal is probably a foot problem, don't be in a hurry to do it, let me see." ”

Maurice grabbed one of the black donkey's hooves, and sure enough, a long nail pierced the donkey's hoof, and the blood was already dry.

"Boss, you wait for me, I'll deal with it soon,"

Maurice grabbed the spike and blushed before pulling it out. Then he tore off a piece of his own clothes and bandaged the black donkey with his hands and feet.

The black donkey didn't resist, and it was very quiet at this time, allowing Maurice to treat his wounds.

"Alright Boss!"

After bandaging, Maurice patted the donkey's buttocks, and the black donkey shook the donkey's hooves and left, no longer pulling the cart, its steps were much brisker, and its hooves were not injured at all.

Watching the black donkey walk away, Rayson inexplicably remembered that Maurice also had an orange cat: "You have a good set of these animals." ”

Maurice scratched his head embarrassedly: "When I didn't come to Devon City before, I helped work on a ranch, and the boss could give me food." Later, the boss took in a few refugees, but I didn't expect to lure the wolf into the house, and those refugees killed the boss's family in the middle of the night, and all the animals were eaten. ”

As he spoke, Maurice's eyes were a little sad. But he quickly regained his earnest smile and turned to Rayson: "It's far away." Boss, what are we going to do next?

"What you did just now, what you will do next." Rayson looked at the bend of the road: "It's not dawn yet, keep waiting to see if anyone will come." ”

And so on, for hours.

Maurice lay on the slope of the sand dunes, almost falling asleep several times, and was afraid that Rayson would not be pleased, so he could only force himself to keep his eyes open. Rayson was prostrate beside him, his eyes fixed on the road, and even though his eyes were bloodshot, he could still feel his concentration.

Eventually, there was movement on the main road, but it came from the opposite direction, from Devon.

It was a huge box van, and because of the small angle of the corner, I had to slow down and try to turn very carefully when I got here.

However, the driver's skills were obviously not very good, and the front of the truck deviated slightly, and one wheel slid off the road, which brought a huge chain reaction, and the front of the car rolled down with the whole car.

Rayson went over to look, and he just wanted to see that the car was coming out of Devon, and he was targeting slavers who had come to Devon from outside.

But at this look, Rayson found something of interest.

Two men crawled out of the cab, both of them wearing huge black robes that encased their whole bodies, so that their faces could not be seen clearly, except that one was a little taller, and the other was a little shorter, thinner, and hunched over.

"It's all said I'm going to drive! I'm going to drive, what can you do? Something happened! ”

"Less nonsense! Come out! Go back to town and find another car. ”

Listening to this voice, it turned out to be two old men!