Luo Shengdong's complaining didn't last long, and was interrupted by the sudden appearance of outsiders.

A guy dressed as a fisherman came out of nowhere, grabbed a shovel and began to poke it on the ground. Luo Shengdong hurriedly stopped him: "What are you doing?

Previously, it took Luo Shengdong and his subordinates a whole hour to level the land according to the level required by Shorthair, why did a guy suddenly appear to mess around? If it weren't for the fact that the labor camp was full of rules, and once he made a mistake, he would have deducted all kinds of points, Luo Shengdong would have greeted him with a big mouth.

The man looked up, his face unconcealed in his panic. Under the bright lights around the construction site, Luo Shengdong noticed that there were obvious traces of smoke and fire on his face, and then looking at this person's expression, Luo Shengdong seemed to understand something.

"You're the person they're looking for, right?" Luo Shengdong asked quietly, but his hand behind his back quietly grabbed a crowbar.

The man shook his head again and again, "I'm not a pirate, I'm here to work like you." ”

"I didn't say they were looking for pirates. The corners of Luo Shengdong's mouth suddenly showed a smile.

The man knew that he was in a hurry and said that he had leaked his mouth, but before he could react, Luo Shengdong had already swung a stick at his head. In a trance, he seemed to be able to hear Luo Shengdong's voice: "Hold this guy down!

At about 9 o'clock that night, the frightened Tao Donglai and others finally got a reply from Ning Qi, claiming that with the efforts of many personnel, they had captured the pirate remnants and successfully smashed the other party's conspiracy to sabotage the hydropower station project. Of course, the latter sentence was added by Ning Qi on his own initiative, hundreds of people worked hard to arrest such a guy and was almost fooled by the other party, and in the end he was actually captured by the Ming army, and it was a bit shameless to say it.

However, Tao Donglai and others here also automatically filtered the last sentence, a pirate spy knows what hydropower station projects are, and it is not Taiwan's reactionary spies who infiltrated the mainland to sabotage. At this moment, everyone would not deliberately sweep Ning Qi's face, and they also expressed their appreciation and condolences to the efforts of the commanders and fighters in the rear. But Ninkiki mentioned another thing, and everyone's attention immediately turned away from the pirates.

"You said that the Ming army officer applied to negotiate with us?" Tao Donglai asked in disbelief: "He, a man who has been captured for more than half a month, is now proposing to negotiate?"

And he asked to talk to the most senior person. Ning Qi's voice sounded helpless: "It's hard for me to explain to him what our collective decision-making system is. ”

"Lao Ning, you are really a nerd, what do you need to explain to him? Just tell him that he is not qualified to negotiate with us. Yan Chujie took the walkie-talkie a little unhappily and interjected: "I think this guy has probably eaten too much recently and can't digest it, right? Tomorrow it's time to ask Gu Wei to make up for him!"

"But I saw that he was serious, not like a joke, and he said that there was a solution to our problem of lack of labor. ”

"What?" Tao Donglai dragged the walkie-talkie back: "Labor?"

"After all, this guy is an official, and he can probably see what our problem is now, I think since he dares to open this mouth, maybe he is a little dry, right?" Ning Qi hesitated to express his opinion.

Yan Chujie didn't rush to speak now, the matter involved labor, which was currently the highest priority except for the war. Although the Executive Committee has formulated many plans for the introduction of population before the crossing, those plans are mostly focused on the medium and long term, and there has been no particularly good way to obtain population in this barren land in the early stage of the crossing, and the Executive Committee has long been prepared to face a shortage of labor in the early stage of the crossing for half a year or even a year. If someone jumps out at this time and says that it can solve the population problem that plagues the traversal, then it may be difficult for these people here to withstand this kind of **.

"Why don't you bring someone over tomorrow and listen to what he has to say first?" Even Yan Chujie, who had always been decisive, became hesitant at this time.

"Let's do it. Tao Donglai finally patted the board: "Ning Qi, we can't get out of our side for the time being, you can arrange for someone to send that officer to the No. 1 base tomorrow." ”

After Luo Shengdong made a request, he was quickly taken away from the construction site and locked up in a separate shack. Luo Shengdong knew that he had found an opportunity, an opportunity to get out of his current slave life, but how to make good use of this opportunity, he was not fully sure. He knew that some of the conditions he was about to put forward would feel ridiculous to Shorthair, and that they would most likely provoke Shorthair to be angry, with very strict consequences, such as causing his points to fall to the death penalty standard in an instant. But on the other hand, he may also be free, and if he is lucky enough, he may even have the opportunity to return to Yazhou and return to his old life.

Luo Shengdong spent the whole night repeatedly deliberating on his plan, deducing all kinds of uncertainties in his mind again and again, trying to win with one blow, and he almost didn't close his eyes all night. When it was dawn, Luo Shengdong suddenly thought of an irrelevant question The force of the short hair is so strong, if it gains more population, wouldn't it be able to train more firearms, and then Yazhou, which is three acres of land, who can have the strength to suppress them?

This question made Luo Shengdong feel more and more frightened the more he thought about it, and even regretted why he was so reckless in asking the short-haired leader for negotiation. But the matter has come to this point, there is no possibility of recovery, Luo Shengdong can only comfort himself with a pragmatic mentality in the end: "If something goes wrong, that's a matter of the future, first of all, I have to survive well, otherwise I won't even have the opportunity to face the problem." ”

Early the next morning, someone brought breakfast to Luo Shengdong, the content was the same as the past days, the difference was that this was the first time he had breakfast alone since he was captured for more than 20 days, and without the dozens of subordinates around him, Luo Shengdong actually felt that he was still a little uncomfortable.

After breakfast, Luo Shengdong was escorted to the dock, and he saw that the Gu Chief, Ren Chief, and the short-haired leader surnamed Ning, who was even higher than them, were all there. The eyes of these people looked at him meaningfully, as if they wanted to see flowers on his face.

Ren Liang stared at Luo Shengdong and said in a deep voice: "Luo Shengdong, I know that although you are obedient on the surface, you are actually a very restless person in your bones. Did you know that if you do something wrong this time, you will most likely be hanged in Victory Harbor?"

Luo Shengdong didn't know where the courage came from, and responded with trembling lips: "I won't die, I will survive!"

Ren Liang sighed and didn't say anything more, Gu Wei waved his hand, and someone came over and escorted Luo Shengdong onto the boat. Luo Shengdong saw that the other party took out that kind of white soft belt, so he consciously stretched out his hand and waited for the other party to put it on himself. Every time there was a long-distance movement, all the captives would be treated like this, and Luo Shengdong was used to such treatment.

The escort team consisted of three people, two of whom were responsible for guarding and one of whom operated the motor at the stern of the boat. Of course, the traversal will not waste oil and manpower, just to escort Luo Shengdong back to Shengli Port, and the ship is also loaded with all kinds of melons, fruits, vegetables, rice wine, and some personal belongings of the team that set off to rush back to Shengli Port last night.

Luo Shengdong was actually very interested in the iron box at the stern of the boat that could propel the boat on the water, and he had even thought that the big iron ships in Shengli Harbor were also propelled by similar devices to cross the sea. But Luo Shengdong didn't ask anything about it, not that he didn't dare to ask, but what Shorthair said made him not understand at all. What kind of "starting chicken", what "spiral sauce", Luo Shengdong doesn't understand what it is at all, could it be that there is still a chicken hidden in the iron box?

Luo Shengdong has seen a lot of similar things on the construction site, the four-wheeled monster car that can drag a thousand catties of boulders, the fireless lamp that emits dazzling white light at night, and the kind of black box that the short hairs carry on his body can transmit sound for thousands of miles, although Luo Shengdong does not know the reason, but as a grassroots officer who has read several military books wholeheartedly, he is very sensitive to the huge role that these strange items will play in the war, a strange car can top hundreds of people, and no fire light can solve the worries of night battles, and the small box of transmission is even more incredible, just imagine when attacking and defending the city, the leading generals of one side can grasp the real-time battle situation of the city gate at any time, what a thing against the sky？

As for the powerful repeating firearms that the short-haired soldiers were equipped with, they were almost insoluble in infantry field combat. Thinking of this, Luo Shengdong subconsciously glanced at the two short-haired soldiers sitting opposite him, who were holding this kind of big killing weapon in their hands. There is no arquebus, no throughbar, and no charge when firing, why have I never heard of such a powerful weapon before?

More than an hour later, the boat docked at a small trestle near Base 1, where some women were already waiting to help unload the cargo from the ship. After Luo Shengdong got off the ship, he was surprised to find that there were not many changes here, first of all, a circle of strange fortifications had been built around the periphery of the camp called "No. 1 base" by the shorthairs, there were many protruding and recessed structures, and there were obviously three retaining walls of high, medium and low, what is the mystery of this kind of fortification, Luo Shengdong couldn't see the clue for a while, but he knew that according to the habit of shorthair, he would never do anything useless, so he could only keep the appearance of this fortification in his mind for the time being, and then slowly ponder it when he had the opportunity to do so later.

Secondly, outside the gate of the No. 1 base, there were seventy or eighty people kneeling in Qi Shushu, and all of them held their heads in their hands. Luo Shengdong understood at a glance that these people must have been captives, and he himself had enjoyed the same treatment after he was captured. Most of these people are barefoot in short coats and shorts, with dark skin, and they look like sailors, Luo Shengdong said in his heart This is the pirate who came to this place yesterday to find death.

Next to the kneeling pirates, there was a large row of corpses with their heads covered with cloths, and I don't think they knew that these were the unlucky ghosts who had been sent to their deaths. When Luo Shengdong saw these corpses, his eyes lit up unconsciously, if these heads were taken back to Yazhou, they would all be real feats!