As a wandering mercenary, John did not have a fixed residence, took money from his employer, acted as the employer's driver, and then followed the employer to a place, if the contract expired and he was no longer employed, he would stay in the local area to find the next business, this time it was the same, he had just taken a job before, sent the employer from another city to Hakan City, and then the task was complete, and he parted ways with the employer, and he stayed in Hakan City to wait for a new employer.

According to John himself, there are not many wandering mercenaries like him in country L, and most of the market here is monopolized by companies, although these companies do not overlord to restrict wandering mercenaries from taking jobs, but living in the shadow of these companies, wandering mercenaries are really not good to survive unless they are very strong or have a good reputation, which means that the orders received by these companies are big business, and they don't bother to fight for some odd jobs, so that the wandering mercenaries will not go hungry.

In comparison, wandering mercenaries do earn more, especially the strong and famous wandering mercenaries, because the money they earn can be put into their own pockets, unlike those mercenaries in the company, part of the commission is actually into the company's pocket, but the mercenaries belonging to the company have more protection and less danger, even if there is an accident, they will not be on the streets, and the wandering mercenaries may even be in the wild, and there is no one to collect the corpse.

As for why John wants to be a wandering mercenary, instead of choosing a company to join, in addition to being able to earn more, that is, his personality problem, John is not very good at communicating with others, He Ping and the three of them also saw a little at this time, among the four of them, ninety percent of them were He Ping and the three said, John did not take the initiative to speak, but if others asked him, his answer was very complete, but it was still a little difficult to let him take the initiative to start the topic, or follow the topic to join the conversation.

After negotiating the commission with John at the bar, the four of them went out of the bar together, and John also returned his previous room in another hotel and moved to the same hotel as He Ping and the three of them, so there was nothing to say all night, and soon the next day's day came, He Ping's arms business was about to officially begin, and the first business object he chose was the Fire Brigade located near Hakan City, which was quite a good scale!

Hakan City has a small oil refinery, the oil pipeline runs through the border of Hakan City, the refinery belongs to the jurisdiction of the government army, which is not accessible to all civilian armed organizations, but the suburban oil pipeline, the government army is no time to manage, so it is divided into several sections, occupied by several civilian armed organizations, the government of country L wants to transport oil, but also needs to pay tolls to the civilian armed organizations that occupy the oil pipelines, and these civilian armed organizations often intercept and sell oil to make money.

Of course, such a good errand cannot be without conflict, in fact, the ownership of oil pipelines is often changed, and the fighting between civilian armed organizations is continuous, and the result is also that there are losses and wins, and if the civilian armed organizations guarding a section of the oil pipeline are defeated, then they can only withdraw from this area and hand over the ownership to another winning organization, and when the conflict is fierce, it is not impossible for a section of oil pipeline to change hands every day, and sometimes it is not uncommon for several sections of oil pipelines to change owners at the same time.

The situation in country l is very helpless, the strength of the government army is not enough, not enough to bring all the oil refineries, oil fields and oil pipelines into its own defense range, which gives a lot of loopholes to the civilian armed organizations, and the civilian armed organizations are also justified in doing this kind of thing, their reason is that they are also helpless, because if they don't do this business, they will be hungry, and if they want to make money to feed their families, the fastest way is to form a civilian armed organization, and then work oil.

In addition to oil, country l itself does not have any valuable material reserves, and its agriculture is not developed, and under the economic offensive of some countries, they have no industry that can support more troops, and as for the incorporation of those civilian armed organizations, they cannot be carried out because of various reasons such as ethnicity and religion.

The Agni Brigade is a fairly good civilian armed organization in this area of Hakan City, and according to John's account, in addition to competing with other civilian armed organizations for the ownership of the oil pipeline over the years, the Agni Brigade has not had major conflicts in other places, nor has it killed innocent people in this troubled era, and has never done anything double-faced when cooperating with other civilian armed organizations, which is considered a civilian armed organization with a good reputation in this area.

And the most important thing is that John witnessed the process of doing business between the Agni Brigade and the foreign ** fire merchants, at that time, the Agni Brigade paid the bills in cash, and there was no arrears and defaults, and there was no use of poison. The boss of the Fire Brigade is very clever and understands who can be offended and who cannot be offended, obviously, here the arms dealers belong to the kind of big people who cannot be offended.

After all, every arms dealer has some background, where can people without background get so many weapons, people like this are very energetic no matter where they are, there is no need to offend them for a little profit, in case they annoy the arms dealers, they only need to sell a few batches of powerful weapons and equipment to the opponent of this civilian armed organization, and they can completely eliminate this civilian armed organization that offends them by driving the wolf and killing people with a knife.

As far as these civilian armed organizations are concerned, combat effectiveness is the number and quality of their armed personnel, and in fact the number and quality of their armed personnel are about the same, then the only difference in combat effectiveness is the quality of the equipment, and if they can get good weapons, they will be able to win the battle for oil pipelines, and they will be able to obtain more benefits, so as to form a virtuous circle.

With John, the full-time driver, He Ping and the three handed over the driving work to him, the co-pilot position of the big truck was large enough to easily accommodate He Ping and Li Yutang, and the largest Watara sat in the back, John was obviously very familiar with the roads in this area, coupled with satellite navigation equipment, and soon left the core area of Hakan City and came to the vicinity of the oil pipeline.

The strongholds of these civilian armed organizations are, to put it bluntly, villages and small towns, and the armed personnel in them are actually ordinary villagers, but the land here is barren and cannot grow many things, and the current situation is so chaotic that even if they plant something, they can't wait for the harvest, maybe the land is no longer their own, so the villagers have no choice but to arm themselves to start the idea of an oil pipeline.

The Fire Brigade is no exception, their stronghold is also a village, if outsiders don't know, they can't see anything unusual when they enter this village, there are dilapidated houses, old people basking in the sun, children chasing and frolicking, and cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and other domestic animals and poultry, on the surface, it is an ordinary village, as for not seeing young people, it can also be interpreted as young people either going to the field or working.

The small road in the village was not enough for the big trucks to enter, and after bumping to the outside of the village, the four of them got out of the car and walked towards the village on foot, of course, the four of them were all fully armed, if they didn't know what place this was, it would be fine, now they knew that this was the stronghold of the Fire Brigade, even if the reputation of the Fire Brigade was good, they had to take some precautions to avoid any accidents, and in the same way, such a car, such a group of people came to the village, and it had already spread throughout the village.

The four of them walked into the village, the villagers were very calm, for them the main enemy was the locals who fought for the ownership of the oil pipeline, as for the foreigners, there was nothing to fear, ordinary foreigners came here, either they were lost, or they came to do business, even if they were children, they were not afraid to see the four people who were fully armed, but they were curious to circle around them, and the old people were also familiar with it, and did not stop these children, this courage alone surprised He Ping.