The camp of the border guards is located on the edge of the Karakum Desert, and it is scattered in the form of outposts along the border on the western side of Grells.

Grells is one of the new countries established by mankind in a few places that have not been affected by nuclear contamination after the nuclear war, and its predecessor is a large country in the East, and its people are also characterized by black hair and yellow skin.

The Karakum Desert blocked Grells' path to the west, preventing it from bordering another country, Danze. Separated by this vast desert between the two countries, in addition to mutated creatures, there is also a group of sand people.

The Sandfolk are the thugs of the desert, these creatures run rampant in the desert, and they seem to have a knack for hiding from mutated creatures.

From time to time, the sand people come to the border to harass them, and the border guards are tasked with guarding against the invasion of the sand people, not only to keep these rioters out of the country's hinterland, but also to warn the towns around the border when danger is coming.

Ding Xiu's camp number is W47, and there are more than 100 similar camps on the border.

"Ding...... Ding Xiu! You're alive?! The guards at the gate of the camp recognized the dirty young man in front of him.

"...... It's a hard life, all the people in his team are dead, and he is the only one left. This time, after spending one night in the wasteland, he was able to come back alive......" It wasn't just the guard who was surprised, Ding Xiu's return also alarmed the rest of the camp.

Everyone was talking, but Ding Xiu was in a hurry to find the leader of the camp, and he wanted to report to the boss about his encounter with strange mutant creatures.

"What did you do with you?" A sergeant stopped Ding Xiu who was walking through the corridor of the barracks, he frowned, and the smell of Ding Xiu's body made him a little uncomfortable.

"What's in the body of a mutant creature, blood or something, I don't know."

"Mutant creatures? What mutated creature are you talking about? The sergeant's eyes widened with an expression of disbelief.

"I don't know." Ding Xiu shook his head.

"Come with me." After a brief moment of shock, he motioned for Ding Xiu to follow him to the camp leader's residence.

The leader of the camp, surnamed Zhang, is Zhang Zhixiong, who is a second lieutenant in the border guards and a protector of the camp.

Zhang Zhixiong is about sixty years old, tall and majestic. His residence was in the middle of the camp, the only duplex building in the area.

The small building was once the personal property of Wen Pengzhan, a material merchant, but it became Zhang Zhixiong's house after the Wen family left the camp.

Wen Pengzhan and his daughter Wen Ya are the envy of everyone in the camp, and the two lived here for a while before moving their family elsewhere.

The Wen family's departure is a mystery, some say they went to a better place to enjoy their happiness, others say that someone from outside the family came to pick up the father and daughter.

Who knows, anyway, on the day the Wen family left, Ding Xiu was patrolling outside, and when he came back, he had missed the opportunity to say goodbye to Wen Ya.

Wen Ya is the most beautiful girl in the camp and the object of Ding Xiu's crush, the two have a good relationship, but Ding Xiu never had the courage to confess.

And this time the difference may be goodbye, the world is so big, the wilderness is so chaotic, maybe it is very possible to die in the sand sea tomorrow.

Tomorrow?

Who's to say?

……

The sergeant took Ding Xiu to the outside of the duplex house and went in alone to report to Zhang Zhixiong.

Zhang Zhixiong's camp is small, with a total of about 500 people. Excluding civilians and small traders, only about half of the border guards are stationed.

He had previously divided the team of more than 100 people into 12 squads, each of which was responsible for patrolling an area.

Ding Xiu's squad is the fourth squad and the squad with the highest mortality rate among the twelve teams.

The other squads privately called the fourth squad "Death Squad", which meant that the Grim Reaper liked to visit this team the most, so the newcomers were reluctant to go to the fourth squad, and the other squads were not willing to accept Ding Xiu.

"Ding Xiu." A loud voice sounded in front of the small building.

"Here." Ding Xiu hurriedly straightened his chest and responded.

The sixty-year-old man who called his name walked down the stairs quickly, and he looked at the young man standing upright in front of him, with a slight surprise in his eyes.

"Where did you go last night?" Zhang Zhixiong asked.

"The wasteland, that's where I usually patrol." Ding Xiu said, "On the way back, I encountered a monster. ”

"What monster?"

"I don't know, something like an insect and a beast?"

"You said you met a monster and then you spent the night in the wasteland?"

Ding Xiu nodded.

"Ridiculous." Zhang Zhixiong was a little angry, "Boy, don't make up stories in front of me." ”

"I didn't make up a story!" Ding Xiu retorted that he was just about to tell Zhang Zhixiong about yesterday's situation when he suddenly saw a soldier running over in a hurry.

The soldier leaned into Zhang Zhixiong's ear and whispered, Zhang Zhixiong nodded, his gaze becoming much more serious than just now.

"Let's go to the camp gate." Zhang Zhixiong said to the sergeant and the soldier beside him, he turned his head and glanced at Ding Xiu again, "You come with you too."

The entrance of the camp was even more lively than when Ding Xiu came back just now, and everyone's eyes were focused on the corpse of a mutated creature.

The people who brought back the body were from the seventh team, and they got out of the car, and some climbed on the roof of the car and shouted with the onlookers, which was quite a bit of a show off.

"What kind of monster is this?"

"What a big guy!"

"You see, it's all scars."

"It looks like a big meat worm, is this a broken foot?"

Someone tried to touch the corpse of the mutant creature, but before they could reach for it, they were chased away by the members of the Seventh Squad.

"What's the fool's errand, the monsters that Lao Tzu was born and killed in death, just dragged back, you have to pass the addiction of your eyes?"

The man was kicked to the side and didn't dare to make a sound, and the people around him broke off the idea of touching it.

"Here comes the head." I don't know who in the crowd shouted.

"Wu Mo." Zhang Zhixiong saw the captain of the seventh squad standing on the roof of the car from afar.

"Yes!" Wu Mo heard Zhang Zhixiong's voice and quickly jumped off the roof of the car.

"Head, look what the brothers have brought back." Wu Mo said excitedly, he separated the people next to him and let Zhang Zhixiong to the back of the body, wanting his leader to see it more realistically.

"What is this?" Zhang Zhixiong glanced at the monster corpse they brought back, and then asked, "How did you kill it?" ”

Zhang Zhixiong asked out loud, and Wu Mo hurriedly told the story he had made up on the road.

The corpse of the mutant creature was only "picked up" by the members of the seventh team in the defense area patrolled by Ding Xiu, because Ding Xiu did not return all night, so the team went to his defense area to check the situation. As a result, he didn't find any trace of Ding Xiu, but ran into this mutant creature that had died.

On the way back, Wu Mo unified his voice with the other members of the team, and made an appointment to go to Zhang Zhixiong to say that the mutant creatures were killed by them together. Although everyone failed to find the crystal nucleus in this creature, as the first batch of people to bring back the corpse of the mutant creature to the camp, in addition to getting everyone's admiring gaze, they will also receive a good reward.

After Zhang Zhixiong listened to Wu Mo's report, he saw Ding Xiu looking at the corpse of the mutant creature, so he turned his head sideways and asked him:

"This monster can't be the one you met yesterday, right?"

When Zhang Zhixiong asked this, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and his gray beard also curled up with the curvature of the corners of his mouth.

"It's the one I met yesterday." Ding Xiu nodded, and there were people around him who let out exclamatory sounds.

"It's the same one I killed yesterday."

Ding Xiu's next words were like detonating a barrel of explosives, and the crowd was in an uproar, and the people of the seventh team looked sideways and glared at him angrily.

"Ding Xiu, what nonsense are you talking about!" Wu Mo shouted at him.

"This is the spoils of our life, and you want a piece of the pie when you come and see it?"

"That's it, Lao Tzu was almost injured when he killed it, if it weren't for the car in the way, his life would have been confessed."

The people of the seventh squad came forward one after another to stand up for their captain Wu Moming, they brought back the corpses of mutant creatures, and planned to shape their team into heroes who killed monsters, so naturally they would not let Ding Xiu take the credit.

Ding Xiu's words seemed to them to provoke public anger, originally no one liked the "broom star" of the fourth squad, but now it involves a conflict of interests, so the contradiction quickly escalated.

"I killed the mutant creature, and you just picked up its corpse." Ding Xiu's words were very resolute, without the slightest intention of compromise.

Zhang Zhixiong glanced at Ding Xiu, and then looked at the faces of everyone in the seventh squad, he frowned, and a mystery had already condensed in his heart.