When Bona walked into the bustling bar, Chen Xing had already ordered a meal for her, including steak, toast, cream soup, fruit salad and red wine.

"You may be seated." Chen Xing invited. But there was still a hint of uneasiness in Kopona's eyes.

"Just treating you to a meal, nothing else." Chen Xing smiled slightly and said.

Bona hesitated for a few seconds, gently pulled back her chair, and sat down. His hands were clenched, looking a little nervous.

"Eat." Chen Xing said, then raised his wrist again and entered a series of commands on the black watch.

"Didi ......"

With a soft sound, a hundred gold coins were transferred to Bona's account. The latter's eyes widened and he looked at the former in a daze, clearly not understanding what he meant.

"This money is considered to compensate you." Chen Xing said.

"Compensation?" Bona wondered.

"You didn't complete the task, you should pay a certain amount of liquidated damages, right?" Chen Xing asked.

Pona was silent for a moment, then nodded and said, "Well, but just give ten percent." ”

The commission fee is 500 gold coins, and 10 percent is 50 gold coins.

"The rest, even if it's a reward for you." Chen Xing said meaningfully.

How could Bona not understand, two red clouds rose, her cheeks burned like fire, and finally nodded, and said in a weak mosquito voice, "Thank you." ”

After eating, Chen Xing let Bona go back. Before leaving, she told Charried, the leader of the caravan, that she hoped that they would stay in town for an extra day and wait for him to return with him.

Charried quickly sent a message saying that it was no problem. Although a businessman's time is precious, and every minute and second is gold, successful businessmen tend to be better at investing. The friendship of a future town-level powerhouse was obviously more valuable than a day's time, so he stayed.

The next day, Chen Xing's recruitment information was on the list. Since there were no "reserve garrison members" recruited this time, the quality of the applicants was obviously much lower. There are few with more than 10 single attributes.

However, compared to the homeless, citizens with black watches are still much more reliable. On the moral bottom line, there is still a fundamental difference between the two. People who have a black watch are still afraid of a decline in their reputation level.

The higher the social creditworthiness, the more privileges, the greater the proportion of government allowances, and the higher the price of employment. Conversely, the lower the social creditworthiness, the less popular it is and the more difficult it is to make money.

Under such a social mechanism, the road of the former will become wider and wider and enter a virtuous circle, while the road of the latter will become narrower and narrower, entering a vicious circle.

Chen Xing spent most of the day selecting five applicants, four men and one woman. Then they each bought two sets of tarpaulin uniforms, a military dagger, a Black Star pistol, and a marching backpack.

As soon as the sky was dawning, he took people to the grain exchange in Longshi Town, got on a truck, and returned to Orchid Town.

On the third day after leaving Dragonstone, the convoy suddenly encountered a torrential rain.

The soybean-sized raindrops, mixed with tiny hailstones, smashed the windshield at the front of the car crackling. Fortunately, Charried didn't save money, and used tempered glass. If it was ordinary, it would have been smashed through.

The wasteland was muddy, full of water and red mud, and the sky and the earth were vast. The wheels slipped in the mud and the convoy could no longer move forward, so it had to leave the main road and camp in a circle.

"Whoa......

The rain was so heavy that there was nothing to shelter from it, and all the people were soaked, trampling muddy water and warming themselves around kerosene stoves.

The rain in the western wilderness is very bad, either it doesn't rain, and it doesn't see a drop of rain for half a year, or it spreads all over the world, pouring down, and it rains for more than ten days in a row, as if the rain of the whole year is going to be concentrated together.

The soaked clothes were very uncomfortable, and the wind was cold, which made the snow worse. Charried asked the accountant to come over and invite Chen Xing to the big tent to take shelter from the rain, which was regarded as a special treatment as a distinguished guest. But Chen Xing hesitated for a moment and refused. He is leading his team now, and he has to set an example so that he can serve the public in the future. This is also what he learned from Tie Nuo when he was in the Thunder Light Regiment in his previous life.

Take the lead and share weal and woe.

This is an essential quality of a team leader, and those who can't do it will soon be eliminated. Unless it is those rich children who are born with a golden spoon, a noble young master, and a royal lady, wandering around and spending several times as much money as they earn.

Chen Xing has seen it several times in his previous life, here there is a lot of artillery fire, life and death, and there is actually a small flower umbrella, flirting while drinking coffee. Although they are also full of artillery fire, they have completely different meanings from each other. In my eyes, there is really an indescribable heart stopper.

If you talk about the charisma of the leader alone, even if he is a human being in the third life, he has never seen a few better than Tienuo. It's really the kind of person who raises his arms and responds in thousands of ways. It's a pity that Tieno came from a humble background, and like him, he was so poor that he had to exchange his life for every gold coin.

But the rules of society are like this, it must be that someone in front has shed blood, and those in the back can sit back and enjoy it. Therefore, Chen Xing's heart was unbalanced, and it was only for a short while, and he was relieved.

He didn't have a father who owned a mountain of gold, he didn't have amazing talent, and he didn't have a prominent family, so he had to go step by step.

"Boss, how long will it rain?" A reserve member asked.

"It's three days fast, and half a month it's slow." Chen Xing said.

"Ah......h The first day was a bit unbearable, and there are so many days to come, I really don't know how to get through.

"Xiao Qiu, we're not here to enjoy it." Another member of the team lectured. The two men came together and are said to be cousins.

"Yes." The female team member chimed in. She was not very old and had freckles.

"Keep warm, and change your socks when the rain is light, otherwise athlete's foot will kill you." Chen Xing said.

"Yes." The team members responded in unison.

At one o'clock in the morning, the rain finally lightened. The crowd hurriedly cleaned up the stagnant water, and then some people rested, and some people kept vigil.

Chen Xing is the captain of the team, so he naturally gives priority to rest. After setting up a tarp tent on the side of the truck and spreading a blanket, he slept with his hands on his chest and his eyes closed. Despite being wet and uncomfortable, he forced himself to fall asleep as soon as possible. Only when you have enough rest can you deal with the dangers that can occur at any time.

I don't know how long it took, Chen Xing was suddenly woken up by a commotion.

"Truck, there's something on it!" "Oh my God, what ...... that" "Be careful, don't go over!" "Guns, go get guns!"

Outside the tent, the sound of people, rain, and footsteps was chaotic.

"Quack!"

Suddenly, there were several more animal chirps. It was so loud that it instantly overshadowed all the sounds, shaking people's eardrums.

Chen Xing was startled, completely sobered up, and rushed out of the tent with a roll.

Turning his head, on the truck opposite, there was a huge creature lying on its stomach, its gills stirring, it turned out to be a giant toad.

"Bang!"

Just then, the door to the cab of the truck was kicked open, and a driver rolled out in a panic, calling for help as he ran.

"Wow wow, help!"

I saw that the giant toad turned its head, its wheel-like eyes blinked, opened its mouth, and with a "boom", a scarlet tongue shot out like lightning.

The driver's screams stopped abruptly, and his body rose into the air, and he was swept into the mouth of the toad.

"Quack ......"

"Gollum ......"

The toad screamed twice, and when he looked up, he swallowed the driver in his stomach. Everyone who saw this scene was terrified, and they all lay on the ground, for fear of being discovered by it.

Chen Xing leaned against the truck, slowly retreated, then twisted the door from the other side and got into the cockpit.