Chapter 9 Troubled Times
Because of An An's relationship, Chi Hua temporarily stayed in the team to recuperate.
In the first few days, Chi Hua's heart was still hanging, worried that Jin Fei's people would chase him and bring trouble to the team, but it seemed to disappear out of thin air, and he didn't see Jin Fei's shadow for a few days.
"Is it a throw-off? Or did the other party give up? Chi Hua speculated wildly all day long, but after a long time, he gradually relaxed.
The convoy headed all the way west. After a few days, Chi Hua also had a general understanding of this mysterious convoy walking in the last days. The predecessor of the Shun An caravan was the famous Shun An Express before the end of the world, and An An's father was the chairman of Shun An Express and the top 50 people on the Forbes China Rich List An Jiacheng.
As a well-known entrepreneur in the country, An Jiacheng has a wide range of contacts and resources in both political and business circles, and it is said that his tentacles have begun to extend to the military circles a year before the outbreak of the nuclear war.
Although the sudden outbreak of nuclear war destroyed the entire enterprise, what could not be destroyed was the core resource of the express delivery company in the hands of Anjiacheng - the big data information of the location, production and population distribution of various communities and villages in China.
As a successful entrepreneur, Anjiacheng sniffed business opportunities again shortly after the end of the world. Although the nuclear war destroyed the entire logistics system and made each camp a closed island, but the camps also needed to circulate goods between them, Anjia City quickly established a caravan, spent a lot of money to hire evolutionaries and mercenaries, opened up the connection between the camps, and made high profits from it.
In less than a year, Anjiacheng has built a larger business empire than the pre-apocalyptic Shun'an Express, and there are nearly 100 teams of the scale of Chi Hua's team.
Chi Hua's injuries healed quickly, and on the third day, the external injuries on his body had healed and scabbed, so that Hu Bo, who had changed Chi Hua's dressing, looked at him as if he was looking at a monster, that is, it would take some time for the fracture of the arm and the crack of the sternum.
In the next few days, every time he stopped to rest, Chi Hua could also get out of the car on his own, and he gradually became familiar with the guards of the team.
Chi Hua found that this caravan composed of two off-road vehicles and twelve large trucks had a strong escort lineup, the guard captain Lao Ghost who sat in the first off-road vehicle and his apprentice named "Little Ghost" were both evolutionaries, the deputy captain of the second car, Hu Zi, and his partner Mantis, who had not spoken much, were also evolutionaries, and the riders on the other four Harley-Davidson motorcycles were also evolutionaries, not counting An An and Huber, this caravan actually had eight evolutionaries, almost equal to a medium-sized force.
There were also eight heavily armed guards on each truck, all of whom wore the uniforms issued by the Shun An caravan, with bulletproof vests and a fully automatic rifle. The side wall of each truck is reserved for shooting holes, and the roof is not only equipped with a stand for a standing person, but also a stand for a machine gun, except for the two trucks at the end of the convoy are equipped with heavy machine guns, each car is equipped with two light machine guns as standard, and by chance Chi Hua also saw the beard fiddling with a single rocket launcher on the car.
With such a powerful firepower, any force that does not think of the idea of a caravan will be ruined.
During this period, Chi Hua followed the convoy and really encountered a robbery, a medium-sized force thought that the caravan was a big fat sheep, and arranged a team of more than 300 people to set up an ambush in the canyon in advance, blocked the mouth of the valley with boulders, and attacked the caravan from both sides at the same time, as a result, more than 100 long and short guns fired a salvo, and more than 300 people who robbed were half dead before they rushed out of 30 meters, and the rest of the people turned around and ran.
The daily march and escort of the caravan were handled by the old ghost and the beard, but the real person in charge of the caravan was Huber. Hu Bo is a slightly chubby old man who is nearly 60 years old, the old man's hair has turned gray, but his eyes are extraordinarily bright, and his eyes reveal a wealth of life experience and the unique shrewdness of an old man.
Hu Bo was said to be a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner before entering the Shun'an caravan, and the medicine applied to Chi Hua's body was all said to have been developed by Hu Bo himself, and the bones of his two arms and even the bandaging of the splints were all professional techniques.
Hu Bo usually rarely shows up in the caravan, always gets off a truck in the middle, and when he eats, he is sent to the car by the guards, and the old ghost and the beard also go directly to the car to ask for instructions, if it weren't for the fact that he saw Hu Bo twice when he changed the dressing, Chi Hua even suspected that this Hu Bo was also a vampire who couldn't see the light.
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Twelve large trucks joined each other and formed a circle in the open field beside the road, forming a simple camp.
A few bonfires were lit in the middle of the camp, except for a few guards standing guard on the roof of the car, the guards and evolutionaries of the convoy all sat around the bonfire, and naturally the evolutionaries such as beards and old ghosts sat in a circle, and the guards of the convoy sat together.
In the evening, Beard and Mantis went out to hunt two goats and returned, and the smell of mutton roasted on various fires was already emanating, and the atmosphere of the whole convoy was extraordinarily relaxed.
Chi Hua and An An also got out of the car and went straight to the bonfire where the old ghost and the others were and sat down together. For An An and Chi Hua to sit over and eat with everyone, the old ghost and the beard and others were very enthusiastic, only the little ghost had a calm face and didn't say a word, and everyone else seemed to turn a blind eye to it.
Only An An asked with concern, "Little ghost, why are you unhappy today?" ”
"Oh, it's fine." The little ghost replied without being salty.
Everyone else looked like they wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, and it seemed that only An An was still in the dark. Before Chi Hua entered the convoy, the imp, who was also a young man, walked closest to An An, and the imp liked to go to An An's side if he had something to do. But since Chi Hua came, An An rarely got out of the car, and even when he got out of the car, he was always with Chi Hua, and the little ghost naturally thought that Chi Hua had taken away the opportunity to be alone with An An. The young man's little concern couldn't be hidden, and it was easy to hang it on his face, which even Chi Hua could see later.
As a master, the old ghost has also persuaded the little ghost several times in private, it is impossible for you to be an ordinary guard and the daughter of a big boss, not to mention that An An has never expressed interest in you. The little ghost nodded in agreement with the master's persuasion on the surface, but it was not so easy to really turn the corner in his mind.
Hu Zi got up and cut two large pieces of meat from the half roast sheep on the bonfire, and handed them to An An and Chi Hua first.
Because he was embarrassed to always let An An feed, the splint on one of Chi Hua's arms had been removed, and some slight activities had not had much impact, and this recovery speed really scared all the evolutionaries and guards in the caravan.
At that time, Chi Hua was seriously injured, and the old ghost and the bearded people had seen it with their own eyes, and they couldn't get out of bed for a month if they were placed on an ordinary evolutionary, but Chi Hua was almost no longer in trouble after only a week, which was also one of the reasons why the old ghost and others had great respect for Chi Hua on the surface.
As the captain of the caravan escort who has been roaming for nearly a year after the apocalypse, the old ghost and the beard are both experienced masters of the rivers and lakes, and they naturally know in their hearts that this young man who always has a faint smile on his face must be an evolutionary with super combat power before he is injured.
"Oh, it's so fragrant, even my gluttonous worms have been hooked out." Huber also stepped out of the truck.
The old ghost and An An all got up, let Hu Bo come over to sit, and Hu Zi politely handed over a piece of barbecue meat as soon as possible.
The old man was not polite, took it and put it in his mouth and said with a smile: "Don't worry about me, you young people continue to talk." ”
"Why did the old man suddenly get out of the car?" Chi Hua, who was sitting on the side, thought suspiciously, and then An An solved this puzzle for her.
"Is Sister Jing better?"
"Well, I just fell asleep, so I just smelled the fragrance. Leave me alone, old man, and keep talking about yours. ”
"No, we'd like to hear from you! How long will it take for us to get to Haixi? An An leaned over to Hu Bo and said a little coquettishly.
"Tomorrow we will arrive in Haiyan Town, if there is no accident, our caravan will be successfully completed in 7 days. But in the next few days, we will enter the border area where the government of the Qinghai Special Autonomous Region and several other forces meet, so you should be very careful! Huber's last words were addressed to the old ghost and the bearded men.
"Has the Qinghai government recovered?" Hu Bo's words were so shocking that Chi Hua couldn't help but interject with curiosity anymore.
"Hey!" Hu Bo sighed heavily, "If only the government could really recover, the world would not be as chaotic as it is now, and what is in the name of the government may not be recognized by the people!" ”
None of them spoke, and they all wanted to hear Huber continue.
"Except for the old ghost and the beard, the rest of you may not know very well, the buyer of our batch of goods is Tian Ziming of Haixi, this Tian Ziming was originally the local public security chief, before the end of the world, black and white had some means, after the end of the world, he took the lead in establishing the Qinghai Special Autonomous Region Government, he considers himself the chairman, and several cities in the west of Qinghai are now his sphere of influence. As for whether or not to be worthy of the word 'government', you should judge for yourselves when you get to the place! ”
"!" Beard spat fiercely, "If he can afford it, he won't be beaten so embarrassed by Shan Xiongzhong's Doomsday Salvation Army!" ”
Hearing the name of the Doomsday Salvation Army again, Chi Hua's face was full of shock.
Or seeing the surprised expression on Chi Hua's face, Hu Bo continued to explain: "A year after the nuclear war, Qinghai formed four great forces to divide one side, in addition to the Tian Ziming just mentioned, there is also Shan Xiongzhong of the Doomsday Salvation Army, this Shan Xiongzhong was originally a division commander of the People's Liberation Army, and his division was unscathed in the nuclear war because it was performing the task of maintaining stability, and the strength of the army quickly tripled after the end of the world, and he gave himself the rank of army commander, and now it is the most powerful force in the entire northwest region, occupying the central part of Qinghai. If he hadn't been forced by Shan Xiongzhong to be in a hurry, Tian Ziming would not have spent such a big price to buy this batch of goods from us. ”
"Huber, who are the other two forces?" An An was also curious, urging Hu Bo to continue.
Hu Bo smiled, "The other two forces are not specific people, one is the Heaven's Gate Church, which has risen rapidly after the end of the world, they have recruited a large number of believers in the name of the Lord, and they have developed especially rapidly in the surrounding areas of Xining recently, the terrible thing about these gods is that their soldiers don't want to fight at all, and they can't wait to take the initiative to hit your gun to die, these people think that they will enter the Gate of Heaven when they die." Huber shook his head.
"The last remaining force is a small and medium-sized force alliance called the Bright Alliance, which has only recently emerged, which is said to be united by sixty or seventy forces, and the number of new forces that have joined recently is still increasing rapidly, especially the small and medium-sized forces between the two forces of Tian Ziming and Shan Xiongzhong. But according to our own intelligence, this alliance seems to be controlled by foreigners behind the scenes, otherwise according to the character of the Chinese who do not obey each other, such an alliance would not have been established at all! ”
Chi Hua looked at the bonfire and fell into deep thought, the advent of the end of the world, on the surface, seems to have flattened the distance between everyone, but those who have the advantage before the end of the world still have the advantage, An Jiacheng, Tian Ziming, Shan Xiongzhong, which of these people who have risen rapidly after the end of the world is an ordinary person? It seems that the pattern of Beidou in the past is still too small, and the road to revenge is far from being as simple as imagined!