Chapter 192: Zhenyuan Sword and Zhenyuan Ship
On the second night after New Year's Day, the Wu Kee Teahouse was full again. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoBecause the whiteboard outside the door of the teahouse is written clearly in black letters, the content to be talked about tonight is the pledge meeting of the Far Salvation Association.
Although almost all the residents of the island were present last night to witness the pledge meeting, the endless stream of listeners who came to the teahouse still broke the threshold of the teahouse, and it was crowded three times inside and out, squeezing like a subway during rush hour, and there was no gap - everyone still wanted to re-experience the feeling of that time from another angle through Lao Wu's famous mouth.
This time, the storyteller Lao Wu changed his normal state, and no longer used the Spring and Autumn Lecture to explain the details of the oath meeting, but explained in detail, repeatedly accentuated, and spoke for three hours before coming to an end. However, Lao Wu was eloquent, and after a three-hour speech, it was interlocking and fascinating, so that many listeners were dry but did not dare to drink the tea provided by the teahouse, for fear that they would miss the excitement if they couldn't hold their urine.
At this time, Lao Wu Zheng said that Yu Qian, the vice president, cast a sword alone, lifted the startling wood and slapped it the table.
"Zhenyuan Sword!"
"This name has a lot of origins, and I will tell you about it from Lao Wu."
Lao Wu picked up the teacup, dipped some tea with his lips, and took a sip of water to moisten his throat, but he didn't dare to drink more, he was also a member of the army of holding urine, to be precise, he was the only one who had to hold back.
"In the mid-to-late 19th century, Li Hongzhang, a former famous minister and leader of the Westernization Movement, ordered people to supervise the construction of two Dingyuan-class ironclad ships, namely the 'Zhenyuan Ship' and the 'Dingyuan Ship'. This is the first class of modern warships in the history of China's modern navy. Among them, this Zhenyuan ship is just homophonic with our Zhenyuan sword. ”
"At that time, the Zhenyuan ship was the most important weapon of the country, defending our territorial waters. Now, won't the Far Rescue Club also defend us in this Yuanjiang like the Zhenyuan Ship? ”
"Zhenyuan Zhenyuan, Zhenyuan, guarding Yuanjiang, it is those martyrs who left their names on the monument to incarnate this sword, Yongzhen Yuanjiang, Vice President Yu named it after this, which has great meaning, great knowledge, and is admirable."
The person sitting on a square table to the left of Lao Wu suddenly burst out laughing, shaking his head while laughing.
Lao Wu glanced at the man, didn't say a word, and continued to speak his own words, he had to face thousands of listeners every day, and it was impossible to satisfy everyone in everything. If someone expresses dissatisfaction and ridicule and sarcasm immediately responds, how can it be said? Uncooperative listeners like this can only ignore it.
The other lady sitting at the square table was very dissatisfied, frowned and asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”
The man who laughed earlier lifted the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, coughed and asked, "Do you know what happened to the Zhenyuan ship?" ”
"What?"
The man with glasses picked up the teacup reservedly, and only then said in the tone taught by the history teacher: "After the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Zhenyuan ship and the Dingyuan ship fought against the main force of the Japanese army in Dadonggou on the Yalu River, and severely damaged the Xijing Maru, but they were injured in thousands of places and had nowhere to repair them, and finally they were taken away by the Japanese invaders, incorporated into the Japanese army, and served in the Japanese navy for 17 years, and finally were dismantled and sold. In the end, the iron anchor and anchor chain left behind by the Zhenyuan ship were displayed by the Japanese government in Ueno Park, Tokyo, and nakedly humiliated our country. It was not until 1947 that General Zhong of the Nationalist Government went to Japan to pick him up and return to China. But at that time, it was not like now, when the national government was corrupt and unprovoked, and the 300-ton iron anchor and iron chain of the Zhenyuan ship were sold as scrap iron. ”
"You say, Lao Wu, he compares this Zhenyuan Sword with the Zhenyuan Ship, can I not laugh?"
Only then did the lady understand that the person in front of her was laughing angrily, gritting her teeth and hating: "The Japanese are hateful, compared with the zombies, if there is a chance in the future, I really hope that the Far Rescue Association can release the zombie mutants to the Japanese island, so that they can fight ghosts." ”
This is not a serious angry word, the man with glasses smiled and shook his head slightly, without saying a word. Neither of the two people talking noticed that a strange teenager who was drinking silently in a teahouse next to them was watching them.
"I didn't think so much about the name when I came up with it, because they could think so far." Yu Qian smiled, shook his head and poured wine. Yu Qian usually lives alone in a small cabin by the sea, not to mention the people on Jiangxin Island, and even most of the internal staff of the Far Rescue Association can't recognize his face.
Although Yu Qian finally appeared on the high platform last night, not many people saw his face clearly, and most people's memories of this vice president were his miraculous means and the demeanor of a sword fairy dressed in white, so when Yu Qian walked into the teahouse wearing a cotton jacket and carrying an iron kettle full of wine, no one could recognize him.
This is also the reason why Yu Qian chose to come to the teahouse, he found that he recently liked more and more like the feeling of being in the crowd, but there are only a few interesting places on Jiangxin Island: Wu Ji Teahouse, Zero Point Bar, and Drama Theater. Yu Qian was not interested in the stage play, there was not much conversation in the theater, and he did not want to go to the Zero Point Bar - because the regulars of the Zero Point Bar on Chinese New Year's Eve the night before knew Yu Qian - so he had to come to the Wu Ji Tea House.
Hiding his identity, sitting quietly on the sidelines, listening to others talk about what he did with a kind of admiration and admiration, this feeling makes people's hearts flutter, when the big white floats, Yu Qian does not leave his cup, and pours wine again and again.
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As lively as the teahouse, there is also the No. 1 Fortress.
True to its name, Fort One is a truly armed war fortress where registered corpse hunters can accept or post quests, redeem feats and bonuses, and purchase weapons and equipment.
Among all kinds of weapons and equipment, the most popular except for guns is the rune bracelet, which has become the standard for good corpse hunters, and if you don't have a silver bracelet with a brain core on your wrist when you go out, you are embarrassed to say that you are a corpse hunter.
Now, there's one more piece of gear that is highly sought after by corpse hunters: the Rune Dagger.
There are ready-made templates and detailed information sent by the corpse front finger, and the processing team that made rune bracelets in the Far Rescue Society processed dozens of rune daggers overnight in two days, most of which were supplied to the two teams of Dawn and Judgment, and the remaining small part was transported to Fort One for sale.
Wang Li had proposed that the rune daggers and serums be sold in the form of auctions, so that the redundant wealth of the corpse hunters could be maximized by various means, so that they could participate more actively in the corpse battlefield. But Yang Xiaoqian rejected Wang Li's proposal, because in Yang Xiaoqian's opinion, the wealth of all people on the island is his wealth, and the most precious of them is the lives of the soldiers.
Yang Xiaoqian believes that the ruler who will use tricks to plunder the property of his subjects is undoubtedly the lowest and most incompetent. Regardless of whether this idea is objectively correct or not, Yang Xiaoqian hopes that the corpse hunters can use every silver coin to arm themselves and strengthen their strength, so that they will have more chances of survival in the future hunts.
As a result, the Rune Dagger was transported to Fort 1 for public display in the exhibition hall, and it was selected to go on sale at 8 p.m. on the 2nd, along with the T-virus serum.
Compared to the Rune Dagger, the appearance of the serum makes the corpse hunter even more crazy.
Because corpse hunters rarely fight zombies, and the dangers they face are often hordes of corpses or mutants, rune daggers have a great but limited meaning to corpse hunters, but serums are different, who can be sure that they will not be infected? If you are not careful, serum is a life-saving medicine.
At this time, all the corpse hunters on Jiangxin Island gathered in the No. 1 fortress, waiting for the rune daggers and serum to start selling, ready to rush to buy them with all their might.
When Cheng Xu came to Fort No. 1, there was already a long queue in front of the door that meandered and folded like a snake.
"Expected." Cheng Xu sighed, he led the team to come as soon as he received the news, but it was still a lot late, and now the No. 1 fortress was crowded with hundreds of people, and it was even more difficult to grab the rune dagger and serum.
On the way here, Cheng Xu expected this meeting. Two days ago, the pledge meeting of the Far Salvation Society told everyone very clearly: The Far Rescue Society is about to set out on an expedition to level the Black Domain. Nine out of ten corpse hunters are ready to go with them, there are no blaws among the corpse hunters, hunting zombies is their profession, not to mention that if they hand over all the zombies and mutants to the Far Rescue Society and the corpse front finger, what do they corpse hunters rely on to make a living?
Now that you are ready to go on the expedition, you naturally have to arm yourself as much as possible to improve your combat ability and survivability. Cheng Xu, like other corpse hunters, had such a plan, as soon as he heard the news of the rune dagger and serum, he immediately led the team to the No. 1 fortress without taking a break, but it was still too late.
"Captain, don't sigh." A tall and thin man spoke out of relief, "We don't necessarily have no chance, we have a lot of money." ”
Cheng Xu heard what he meant, his eyes lit up, and he nodded and gave him a thumbs up. As a quasi-A-level squad, the "Rising Sun" squad is indeed wealthy, it doesn't matter if you don't catch up with the queue, you can buy it at a high price, there will definitely be guys who are unwilling to rush to the battlefield to run here in advance to wait for the sale and then sell it at a high price, and the Rising Sun squad can wait until the end of the sale to buy rune daggers and serums from such "scalpers".
Of course, in this way, it is likely that the harvest of going out to hunt zombies is not comparable to the cost of high-priced acquisition, but Cheng Xu and they did not hunt zombies to make money. They are one of the oldest group of corpse hunters, hunters with a sense of professional honor, for them, corpse hunting is not only a profession to make a living, but also a responsibility that cannot be shirked.
"It's on, it's on!"
There was a shout in the distance, causing a commotion, and people rushed forward, both men and women here, were bloody, and they would fight if they didn't agree with each other, and if it weren't for the team of the Far Salvation Society next to them to maintain order, there would have been chaos in an instant.
Cheng Xu squinted his eyes and looked at it, as if he saw the beginning of a new round of war.