Chapter 374: An Atmosphere of Restlessness
The miners collectively have a quarter of an hour's break after breakfast, and when the time is up, they have to start work as soon as the time comes. During this time, Morley summoned all the guards to the camp tent and arranged for the new day's position change.
The main part of the new arrangement is to reorganize the overall layout of the soldiers, filling the void exposed by the four soldiers who died and were seriously wounded last night, and Morley is familiar with this.
After listening to Morley's arrangement, the other soldiers rushed to their posts, and when only Morley, Miranda, Doon, and two seriously wounded soldiers were left in the camp, Wu Qi remained in place.
Morley glanced at Wu Qi, ignored him, and walked straight out of the tent, followed by two cronies, Miranda and Doon.
"Please stay, Captain Morley." Wu Qi said suddenly.
Morley paused and raised his tone: "What are you going to say?" ”
Wu Qi turned around: "I have something to talk to you, can you give me a little time." ”
The corners of Morley's mouth rose slightly, and he sneered unkindly: "Really? You two go first. ”
"Yes."
Miranda and Doon glanced up at Wu Qi, lifted the camp curtain and walked out. Only the people standing in the tent remained, and only Wu Qi and Morley remained.
"Say it."
Wu Qi single-handedly went straight to the ground: "Captain Morley, after last night's battle, I think that if there is an enemy attack of the same intensity in the next six nights, the current strength of the mining area will not be enough to resist. I propose to send a hunting party to take the initiative to clear the mountains and forests of the powerful plague species, and reduce the pressure of the enemy attack on the mining area. ”
Morley's scarlet eyes were full of contempt, and he said, "Whimsical. The mines are already understaffed, and even if they can send a team, the members of that team will have to fight against them on the home turf of the plague species, and they must be the best of the convoys. Under the double reduction of combat power, who can guarantee that during the day when the enemy attacks are strongest and most frequent, the escort team can defend the mining area. ”
"Captain Morley. Do you want to hope for the luck of the enemy's attack that is not strong? Escort missions have always been to anticipate the worst-case scenario in order to ensure the success of the mission. Wu Qi stared into Mo Li's eyes and said.
Mo Li took a step forward and collided with Wu Qi's face only 20 centimeters away.
"Wu Qi, when did this captain allow you to teach a newcomer? Just a third-class soldier, put you in your place for me! Morley said in a loud voice.
There was no trace of turbulence on Wu Qi's calm face, he took a step back instead: "Then no matter what, may I ask Captain Morley, when will the reinforcements arrive?" ”
"Heh, you do your job well, the reinforcements are sent by Li Fushan to contact the base headquarters, you don't need to worry about it." There was a palpable boredom in Morley's words. As he spoke, he turned around, intending to ignore Wu Qi and leave the camp.
"Captain Morley, you've been targeting us at every turn since my teammates and I joined the Mine Guard. I asked someone about it, and I realized that you minded that we belonged to a team that wasn't broken up. I don't want to comment on this kind of behavior. Wu Qi's voice suddenly raised an octave, and his words were as sharp as a knife, and the muscles in Morley's face twitched when he heard it, and the hands on his legs clenched into fists suddenly, and he was about to explode in the next second.
But Wu Qi's next words directly sealed his mouth.
"It's just that I want to tell the captain that the five of us are already reinforcements urgently sent by the Dawn Base."
Morley turned his head suddenly, and the chill in his eyes reflected in the eyes of the two mercenaries who were sitting on the ground and resting with serious injuries, making them tremble.
Wu Qi said very seriously: "Captain Morley, you are a senior, I respect your experience and ability, and I believe that you understand Joestar's operating logic better than me." Joestar's assignment is the most complete calculation made by combining the personnel situation of each soldier team, and if it were not for the urgency of the situation, Joestar would not have temporarily assigned all the people in our entire team who volunteered to choose 'soldiers' to the escort team to carry out the same task. ”
"At first, I was puzzled by Joestar's assignment, and it was the same when I arrived at the mine, until I saw that the escort had paid a heavy price for resisting the enemy attack last night, and I suddenly realized that there was probably a big gap between me, you, and all the guards here in terms of intelligence and knowledge of the mine escort mission. Joestar has information that we don't know, and this information is very important and may affect everyone's lives! ”
Wu Qi's words were loud, and he couldn't hear the slightest hint of falsehood and deception. Although Mo Li hated Wu Qi from the bottom of his heart, when Wu Qi said this, he first believed forty percent, and when Wu Qi finished saying all the content, his belief in this soared to sixty percent.
However, as soon as Morley opened his mouth, his words were diametrically opposed to what he thought in his heart: "Wu Qi, you are blatantly suspecting that Joestar is using soldiers through intelligence dispatches!" If you say that at base, you'll be court-martialed the next day, charged with sedition! ”
"I'm just sharing my intelligence perspective with you on a mission and in the same boat, as for the crime of rebellion," Wu Qi suddenly took a step towards Mo Li, his two faces were close to the side, his lips were close to Mo Li's ear, and he said extremely softly, "Do you know why we fell into the Fall Zone before we joined the Dawn Base?" Because we rebelled against the will of the Supreme Third House, we were hunted down by the major of the Hanging Eagle Force. ”
Morley's pupils contracted suddenly, and his vermilion eyes looked ahead in a daze, as if he was shocked by Wu Qi's words.
Wu Qi returned to his original position after speaking, his expression was the same as before. He wasn't worried that this sentence would leak any secrets, because even if Morley spoke to the others, not one out of a hundred people would believe it.
There was no one in the team with third-order combat power, but he said that he had rebelled against the Supreme Third Courtyard, and he was chased and killed by the third-order pioneer level Hanging Eagle Major and could still escape. It's all drunken rhetoric that makes people laugh.
However, not only did Mo Li not show disdain, but the shocked eyes that did not recover in time were also captured by Wu Qi. This illustrates an ironclad fact: Morley believed, rationally or not, emotionally he already believed.
Now that the "thorn" on Morley's body has been pulled out by him, the next thing he has to do is to stretch out his "hand" to guide Morley's thoughts.
"Captain Morley, we don't know exactly what Joestar is hiding, but it's better to trust yourself than to trust that reinforcements will arrive at the mine immediately. Actually, when I made this proposal to you, I didn't expect to be taken out. If you agree with my proposal, I'm willing to be the captain of the hunting party. Wu Qi threw out his real request.
Mo Li came back to his senses, listened to Wu Qi's words word by word, and asked in disbelief: "You have to bear this responsibility?" ”
"That's right, I'll just bring one of my teammates and it won't cost too many mine troops. Of course, if the captain wants to give us help, I'm happy to accept it. ”