The sun was still scorching the bare fields without a trace of green, and as the end of summer approached, the daytime of the wasteland was still a large steamer that was extremely difficult to endure, and it was difficult for people to feel cool even when they stood in the shade.

"Sir, the convoy has arrived, and it is still ten kilometers away from us."

Ajax raised his hand to sweep away the buzzing flies, and the fan wind quickly turned into a hot wind and hit his face, glanced at the subordinates who came to report, and said: "Okay, let the boys be smart, let the team refill the fuel first, and take care of the rest." ”

The tanned subordinate opened his mouth to show his white teeth, grinned, and said with a thumbs-up, "Don't worry, everything will come according to the old rules." "It's just a trot until it's lost in the dust.

"When will it rain on this damn day, it will take two months before a rain star falls." Ajax lowered the brim of his hat, went into the outpost, picked up the kettle and poured it, and glanced at the clock, it was only more than 10 o'clock in the morning, and the outdoor temperature soared to almost 40 degrees Celsius, and at about 2 o'clock in the hottest afternoon, the temperature could easily exceed 50 degrees.

The crowd in the outpost was shirtless, either fiddling with rifles or squirting with barbells, and they didn't even notice Ajax coming in, but Ajax didn't intend to spoil everyone's interest so quickly, after all, it was just an ordinary convoy handover, at least four or five times a month, loaded with outpost supplies and general cargo. The boss said that he should be cautious every time, but the towering sentry tower was pointed at the muzzle, and a few of the wasteland homeless people did not dare to fight the idea of the interstate sentry town.

As the commander of the garrison in the town of Venat, Ajax naturally had to maintain the majesty he deserved in front of his subordinates, even if the summer heat was so hot, he still wore the summer military uniform of the wasteland meticulously, the buttons were not fastened, although the chest was not full of combat equipment, it was still inserted in a magazine, and he would not give up the outer belt for comfort like others, and the tight belt was somewhat buckled into the flesh, always maintaining a little vigilance. This habit is all maintained by Ajax in the Iron Army, and it is convenient for the army to deal with people, but if it is a mutant monster, it must not be relaxed for a moment.

There is a 20-meter-high watchtower built next to the outpost, and the identical watchtower has one at the east, west, north, south and north corners of the town of Venat, and the tower overlooks the town, a circle of stone walls surrounds the town, enclosing it into a rectangle that appears wider in the southwest direction, and inside the stone wall is the low stone houses that make up the majority of the town, and several concrete bunkers stacked with HESCOs (a common modular bunker with a square grid surface, used for semi-permanent fortifications, which sounds very awkward, but are actually very common in games and movies). , and the most obvious is certainly a large clearing area southwest of town, which is reserved for helicopter landings. It's a pity that Ajax has only seen a few times in the more than three years since he came to Venat, where the family's helicopter deigned to come.

Pulling on the dust towel and hanging down his sunglasses, Ajax squinted at the potholed dirt road that stretched out to the east of the town, cutting down the trees had the advantage of leaving the enemy with nowhere to hide, but the dust also obscured the vision, and the convoy that should have set off a striking tail smoke could only be faintly seen in the dust and fog.

"Tower No. 1, the convoy will enter immediately, be careful." Ajax said a few words to the walkie-talkie over his shoulder.

"Roger, understood."

Scratching the itch on the back of his neck, Ajax simply sneezed, this ghost place is difficult in summer, and it is not much better in winter, one eats sand and the other suffers from freezing, if it weren't for the fact that everyone is responsible for the interests of the family and the salary is really good, what's wrong with being invited to Longhu as an instructor? Retired soldiers who have received a B rating or above in the Iron Army are sought-after characters everywhere, so why squat in this shabby place?

Whining to complaining, Ajax finally waited for the convoy, as if it was a ditch flowing out of a flash torrent, Ajax watched the soldiers move the barricades, a six-wheeled heavy truck followed by five medium-sized trucks to the sentry town.

"Have a nice trip, brother." Ajax greeted him and grinned.

The lead driver who jumped out of the car enthusiastically gave Ajax a bear hug, opened his mouth to spit out sand, pointed to the bloody corpse dragged behind the truck bed, and said: "The tailwind is the tailwind, there are unsightly untouchables on the road to ambush the mountain pass outside, lead to the open road to clean up, delay for a while, didn't let you wait?" ”

Every truck is equipped with steel plates, even if it reduces the load capacity by a few hundred kilograms, after all, the value of a truck is much higher than the cargo, especially now that the number of trucks is very small.

"I've been waiting for half a month, it's not like that." Ajax took the cigarette from the driver and followed the convoy all the way to the landing field, a large open space that is not needed once a year, but is suitable for use as an unloading yard. The soldiers who were not on duty also came out to prepare for the event when they heard the movement, and looked at the people or corpses dragged behind the cargo bucket with interest. Some of the soldiers laughed and picked up rocks and threw them at the few exile captives who ran and died of their breath.

The lead driver drank directly at the water press, and finally bowed and poured the water on it, and then shouted and exhaled.

"Cool! Oh, Lao Tzu drove all the way from Ford City for almost two days, and he didn't even mention that someone was going to shoot a black gun, and he dared to take a big breath when he came to you. ”

"I'm not a place for you to pee." Ajax twitched the back of the driver's head and said, "Brought something this time." ”

"There's nothing new about things, after deducting your quarterly supplies, what is left is basically dried herbs, plasters, sweet sugar pills, and other worthless things."

There are almost no Aboriginal people in the town of Venat, and there are soldiers and families of Sentinel towns, who were also born and raised here. There would certainly be no such thing as a forklift, but the wastelanders had a natural thirst for supplies, and idle soldiers, women, and even children who were not as tall as tires began to unload on their shoulders.

The lead driver dusted off his cigarette ashes, took a deep puff, sprayed a smoke ring, and said: "Now the road is not easy to walk, winter is coming, there are more and more homeless people who are anxious, I have been beaten three times in just two days, and I have injured several young men, and the seriously injured one has to be put here to raise for a while, and I will take it back on the return trip." ”

"Little things." Ajax said without thinking, then approached and whispered, "How do you divide this time?" ”

The lead driver smiled "hehe", stretched out two fingers, and pouted at the truck that had not yet moved.

"Cooperate with you to report, I have to get some more people to cover my head, otherwise I will go up

Check it head, check it carefully, how do you explain it to the people around you? Ajax pouted. This kind of loss of goods is a normal loss, but there is no way to control the ambush of the homeless, and it is very understandable that one day the bold roar gathered to storm the sentry town and was destroyed.

The lead driver endured the pain and said: "Give you two more boxes of penicillin, and I'll catch it myself, and I'll hang two strings of people in the back." ”

The mixed breed dogs who smelled the blood had already gone to share the corpses dragged after the food bucket, and the few homeless people who were lucky enough not to be dragged to death and tired to death were kicked and dug by the idle and bored soldiers of the outpost town, first digging a big hole, and then forcing the homeless people to fight each other desperately, promising that those who won in the end could leave.

"Bang~" and the last outcasts escaped from the stone wall, and the guard tower immediately started a new round of bets, and after a fixed-point competition of more than a dozen bullets, the dogs also started a new wave of food grabbing competition. The soaked blood will be buried in the yellow sand in less than half an hour.

"Not going to rest in town for the night before leaving?" It would not take a few hours to unload the two truckloads of supplies and then load them onto the "local products" of the sentry town, and the convoy had lunch in the sentry town and set off again just after 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

The lead driver spread his hands helplessly and said, "I want to too, but the top is urging me to hurry up and deliver the things." ”

Ajax knew that the final point of the shipment was in the nearest town of Webley, where the freight would be stocked up and the train would be sent to the west, which was one of the rare pre-war railways in operation.

"Why are you so tight?"

"God knows, it's not just my convoy that has been ordered to speed up its arrival, it's all the convoys running in the wasteland, as if the wasteland is going to war."

"When won't there be a war?"

The truck turned on its headlights and roared out of the outpost. Ajax pondered for a moment, called his subordinates, and ordered: "Raise your vigilance these days, I think there is a chance that something big will come this time." ”

"You're saying there's a big group of homeless people coming to mess with us?!" The subordinates spoke without a trace of fear, but with excitement on their faces. Also, for the homeless people who can't get together a tattered and smelly air gun for three people, the town of Weinat, which has strong fortifications and a large number of light and heavy weapons, does not care at all about the impact of the tide of displaced people.

"It's also ...... from the last shock It's been half a year, and it's normal to calculate the impact of time, just don't let others take advantage. ”

The subordinates comprehended, and the others were nothing more than those wasteland towns that wanted to fish in troubled waters, saying that they were towns, but in fact they were no different from bandit dens, the city-states had no motive or courage to touch the interstate stronghold, and the wasteland guests who were not afraid of the sky and the earth could smell the fragrance of the bottle cap from a kilometer away, and a penicillin was two hundred yuan, and grabbing a box was a windfall.

Ajax's concern is for the Wastelanders. Unlike the wastelanders, who are not accepted by the settlements due to severe radiation sickness, wastelanders are often born in settlements, and they are familiar with the way of survival and hunting in the wasteland.

"I wish it rained." Ajax muttered to himself as he looked at the convoy with the smoke clearing.