Volume 2: The Stairway to Heaven (6)
"Can you let me keep it? It's important to me!"
While speaking, Liu Yuxin had already gotten out of the car and walked in front of Hans, staring at Yu Jian with confusion in her eyes.
Why do you want to keep it? Even to lie to other people?
Hans looked at Liu Yuxin, who suddenly came out, with a stunned look on his face.
What did this kid do? I don't know how to survive in this cruel world! One thing is that you can't just say it if you want it! Isn't the other party's sky-high asking price just waiting for you to pay back the money on the spot? If you just say how important this thing is to you, how will you play it later?
Hans frowned, and handed the jade slip in his hand to Liu Yuxin:
"Are you sure?"
Yu Jian started to warm up, and a warm current flowed from Yu Jian to Liu Yuxin's body, and he shivered. But these are not the point, the point is that he has obviously never seen that kind of thing, but subconsciously has a familiar feeling and has been urging him to leave this piece of jade slip, which makes Liu Yuxin want to reveal the secret.
"I want it! May I? ”
Liu Yuxin nodded seriously and looked at Hans eagerly.
"This ......"
Hans was speechless for a moment.
Liu Yuxin was certainly a rare help to the team, but his contribution to the caravan was very limited, and it was a matter of supplying hundreds of people for a day, and Hans had to carefully weigh the gains and losses.
"President, just say yes! If the transaction is successful, those people will be able to stop for a few days, and they will no longer want to take risks, and we can also have peace of mind! The cost of the box of supplies was deducted from my salary. ”
Seeing where Hans and Liu Yuxin froze, Yun Kite spoke.
"In that case......
Hans changed his words and commanded loudly:
"Uncle Li, you move a box of supplies from the convoy and hand it over to them"
The yellow jacket saw that the deal was unexpectedly closed, and his face was also overjoyed, this jade slip was accidentally obtained by their team when they were scavenging, except for a little hand warming effect, he really didn't find any other great use, I didn't expect to sell it for a good price today! The yellow jacket was busy and took out a few other messy things from his arms:
"Everyone, everyone! I still have some things, do you guys like that? ”
Uncle Li and another caravan member took out a large aluminum box two meters long, 0.5 meters wide and 0.5 meters high from their cart and put it in front of the yellow jacket, spat heavily on the ground, and shouted angrily:
"Put away your! Get out of here!"
"Don't be angry! Let's go! Let's go!"
The yellow jacket hurriedly beckoned a few people to carry the box back, and did not forget to bow to the caravan before leaving.
"I'm causing you a lot of trouble!"
Seeing everyone's demeanor, Liu Yuxin also knew that she was not beautiful enough in this matter, so she quickly apologized first, and then sincerely thanked Yun Yuan:
"Yun Kite, thank you so much today! I'll pay you back as soon as possible!"
"Hee-hee~"
Yun Kite smiled happily and continued:
"Just spend money to buy peace, don't take it personally."
The Yellow Jackets had now returned to their convoy, and the arrival of a box of supplies caused the whole convoy to burst into loud cheers, and contentedly they pulled up to camp on the other side of the open to show that they had no intention of offending the caravan.
The tension that had been exerted by their arrival immediately collapsed, and the rest of the caravan, except for a few sentry posts, began to continue the unfinished work.
Ten minutes later, Yun Kite, who had taken off his uniform, walked to Liu Yuxin's side with brisk steps, and stabbed him with his hand, who was helping Uncle Li, and said with a smile:
"Idiot! Show me what kind of rare thing this rare thing I paid for a lot of money is!"
Liu Yuxin took out the jade slip and gave it to her:
"Nothing special"
Yun Kite looked incredulous:
"Nothing special, you still buy? Don't lie to me! Let me see ......"
After looking at it a few times, Yun Kite, who didn't know why, quickly lost interest in Yu Jian, she was originally a drunkard and didn't mean to drink.
"Hey, you're really weird!"
"Strange?"
"Yes, you don't have the decadence of the end of the world, you're pretty, clean, courteous, just like ...... It's like the children of those big lords in the alliance! No, it's not right...... You don't have that kind of disdainful arrogance in your eyes......"
Yun Yuan looked at Liu Yuxin who was working and was very fascinated, and her words made Liu Yuxin blush bluntly - isn't this obviously saying that she likes it?
"Hey, are you guys when we don't exist? Dog abuse is forbidden here!"
"It's, it's just, it's too bad for us!"
A few troublemakers around who were afraid that the world would not be chaotic began to make trouble again.
In order to improve the defense capability of the camp as much as possible, the entire convoy was still arranged relatively tightly, and the few friends of Yun Kite coaxed the whole camp to make a fuss, and the enthusiastic everyone hoped that this pair of golden boys and girls could make some sparks out, and kept joking and laughing on the side, but it made the thin-skinned Liu Yuxin embarrassed.
"What's the fuss? Don't get a break yet! A nap on your way tomorrow might cost you your life!"
In the end, it was Hans who put an end to this.
After everyone dispersed, Hans beckoned to Liu Yuxin:
"Liu Yuxin, you come with me"
Liu Yuxin and Hans walked out of the camp and came to a secluded corner.
"Who the hell are you? Are you from the original church? What is the purpose of your involvement in our caravan? ”
After making sure that the people in the camp could not hear the conversation between the two, Hans threw out his own questions in succession.
It seems that President Hans suspected that he had another purpose!
But Liu Yuxin can't figure out what her current situation is, how can she give Hans an answer?
Primitive Church? What? Can you eat it?
Seeing Liu Yuxin's confused face, Hans was also dumbfounded, it stands to reason that only the people from the primitive church can come out alive from Dongshan District, but the person on the other side has a look of wonder what the hell is it? As far as I know, the people of the primitive church never disdained to achieve their own ends by hiding their identity.
"Aren't you from Dongshan District?"
"I grew up in Higashiyama!"
Liu Yuxin pressed the guilt in her heart, she did grow up in Dongshan - but a hundred years ago!
Hans observed Liu Yuxin carefully and felt that he did not speak, which made Hans have a headache even more!
"Actually, I don't mean anything else, I don't dislike the primitive church, but the people in Area C have a certain prejudice against the primitive church to a greater or lesser extent, and I don't want to cause unnecessary trouble!"
"I'm not from the original church!"
Liu Yuxin said affirmatively.
"That's good! Let's go back, we have to go tomorrow!" In addition, when you are interrogated by the alliance, don't say that you came to Dongshan, that sentence can cause unnecessary trouble than your face! You just said that you are from the gathering place of Tiandu District, as long as the people of our caravan do not reveal it, no one will be able to debunk you. ”
"Got it!"
"Okay, you go to sleep too......"
Nothing happened overnight.
The next morning, Liu Yuxin, who was still asleep, was woken up by Uncle Li:
"The bridge is repaired, it's time for us to go!"
Liu Yuxin sat up with a spirit, because he was rather sleepy and had not been able to get used to the routine of the caravan, he was woken up almost every time.
Liu Yuxin stood up and put away the sleeping bag, and asked embarrassedly:
"Uncle Li, are they waiting for us again?"
Uncle Li angrily slapped a wet face towel to Liu Yuxin:
"It's not us, it's you! It's you! So unvigilant! I don't understand how you live your current ......."
Liu Yuxin smirked twice and walked out of the tent.
Outside, the sun was already rising, and the broken bridge didn't know when it had been repaired.
"Huh? What about yesterday's convoy? ”
"Leave early! We also had to hurry to go, or we wouldn't be able to get to the next gathering place before dark. Camping in the wilderness where there are no Union soldiers is gambling with your own lives!"
At night, the satellites in the sky will no longer monitor the ground, and the Xenomorphs will be active again, and no place will be completely safe except for the outposts and gathering places set up by the Alliance.
Soon the Tenglong caravan continued on the road, and when passing the bridge, Liu Yu also saw the traces of the battle that had not been completely erased yesterday - a section of more than 200 meters was obviously different from the color of other positions, and it seemed that the patrol encountered yesterday was not a small scene.
The convoy continued to drive, the bridge was soon left behind, and the caravan returned to a road, this highway that used to connect several provinces, and now the road was so potholed that the convoy could only move on it at a turtle speed of tens of kilometers per hour, but fortunately there was nothing to do on the road, except for a few blind beasts that were killed and skinned, adding some dishes to the convoy's next lunch, but there was no phenomenon worthy of everyone's vigilance.
"Boom!"
A muffled sound came from the front, and it was especially interesting in the wilderness where there was only the sound of vehicle engines.
"Quick, speed up, all vehicles pay attention!"
Hans's voice on the radio was a little anxious, and although it was unlikely that there would be a large-scale xenomorph invasion during the day, the loss of any car was an immeasurable loss to the comptoir.
The convoy accelerated at Hans's orders, and in a few minutes reached a fork in the road, one leading forward to their destination, and the other connecting downward to the former national highway, by which time the convoy could clearly hear the dense gunfire coming from the other side of the national highway.
"It was yesterday that the group was ambushed! I just don't know if it's the xenos who are doing it to them or the humans who are eyeing their supplies."
The personnel sent to investigate the situation saw burning cars and corpses lying on the ground in various postures from telescopes
"I guess I was attacked by xenos. Ignore them! Speed through here now!"
A second later, Hans gave the order decisively, and the convoy drove straight through the intersection as he did.
Liu Yuxin was a little unbearable, turned her head and asked Uncle Li who was in the commander's observation position:
"Aren't we going to help them?"
Uncle Li shook his head again and again after hearing this:
"Help? What to help? You have to get used to this kind of thing, or you'll get yourself into it sooner or later! !"
Uncle Li, who was teaching Liu Yuxin a lesson, suddenly cursed and picked up the heavy machine gun in front of him.
Behind them, a jeep writhed wildly and rushed towards them, and the yellow jacket, which had only separated from them yesterday, shouted with all his might:
"Help me!"