As the night grew darker, a mist filled the wilderness, and a black tin cart sped by, alarming the animals that inhabited the bushes, causing no movement.

The four pairs of eyes were hidden in the bushes, and they saw it clearly, led by Zhou Jinru.

"This is the fifth car to pass by, and it seems that there is no movement in Huang, and all parties in the rust belt are very concerned."

He had already learned from Amiya that Huang had returned, and that of the four agents of the covert operation, two were seriously injured, one was unharmed, and one was missing.

The operatives who rushed to the stronghold in Tenan Prefecture joined up with the mercenaries of Darksteel International and temporarily coalesced into a force to be reckoned with.

So far, only Walton has contacted Rhode Island, who told him not to act rashly, and that Colombian officials are concentrating their efforts on the Rust Belt, but they are too far away to rely too much on them.

When Zhou Jinru heard Amiya relay this, he almost dropped the lunch box in his hand, this guy can't do anything else, and he is very diligent in giving blank checks.

Zhou Jinru knew that he couldn't count on them, and the Rhine Life Mobile Combat Force on the other side was even worse, the target they investigated was the deep sea, which did not overlap with Zhou Jinru's goal, and the two sides exchanged intelligence at most.

Everything is on your own.

Zhou Jinru grabbed the binoculars hanging on his chest and looked into the distance, their current position was very close to the location of Huang's attack, out of caution, he did not choose to approach at the first time, but hid his off-road vehicle in the bushes, and the four of them squatted to observe.

"Huang hasn't woken up yet, and we don't know exactly what happened, but the only thing that is certain is that the Rust Belt is very focused on it."

Zhou Jinru was half-kneeling on the ground, surrounded by three cadres.

As a representative of combat effectiveness, the undertaker didn't know much about this place, and the breeze of the medical team didn't know anything about the rust belt, Zhou Jinru looked at the gravel.

"I left my hometown a long time ago, and I'm new to the Rust Belt, but I think something should happen here, there is not much contact between the various settlements, unlike the frequent exchanges between mobile cities, they are so nervous now, it's not normal." ”

Zhou Jinru let out a sigh of relief, and the words were exactly what he was thinking.

"Since there are so many pairs of eyes watching, we won't go over and join in the fun."

The four men got back into the car, bypassed the scene of the incident, and headed north, where they saw a town in the wilderness at dawn.

"The wind and sand are so big."

Zhou Jinru jumped out of the car, reached out to wipe off a layer of sand and dust on the car window, and took out the source stone fuel from the trunk to replenish energy.

"The Doctor wants to rest here?"

Breeze buttoned up her goggles and came to his side with her staff to watch him finish filling.

"I've seen the map, this town is the gateway to St. Aral, a wasteland hundreds of kilometers to the north, but this place has been abandoned for a long time, and only a few people who can't go to the big city to work are still guarding it."

Syllable.

Closing the trunk, Zhou Jinru also put on goggles: "I'll go first with Breeze to have a look, you take your time." ”

Gravel asked aloud, "Doesn't the Doctor need my protection?" ”

"We're not here to fight."

Zhou Jinru coped, and walked towards the town with the breeze.

Most of the wind and sand were blocked by the buildings on the outskirts of the town, but the rest of it was unbearable, especially when a strong wind blew and hit the face with the sand grains.

"There are no electric lights on the road, not even power lines."

Zhou Jinru's eyes swept over, and he only saw a few scattered lampposts, and the bulbs were still damaged.

Where there is no electricity, I am afraid that the living conditions will not be much better.

"From the point of view of interests, the Colombian official choice to abandon this place is the right one, it will take at least 40 years and three generations of efforts to change the environment here, but under the influence of the source stone disaster, it is impossible."

Zhou Jinru saw everything in his eyes, and in the end there was nothing more.

A straight road, there are also a few shops on both sides of the road, most of the doors are very shabby, and a considerable number of shops have been closed for a long time, and only a few are still open.

"There are many towns like this in the world, some are deep in the mountains, some are near the water source, and they are basically places where the source stone disaster is not easy to affect, they don't have to get on the boat, and they won't leave their homes."

With a gentle breeze, she casually pushed open the wooden door of a store that was open, which was a grocery store.

Zhou Jinru followed into the door, he glanced at it, and couldn't help frowning, theoretically there should be a lot of miscellaneous things in the grocery store, including simple food, daily necessities, and a small amount of entertainment books, after all, it is facing the traffic of a whole town.

But the store is a bit quirky, with the owner of a pot-bellied middle-aged Mediterranean man sitting behind the cash register reading a magazine, while most of the cupboards in the store have been emptied, leaving only a handful of merchandise behind.

The town is located on a major transportation route, and as long as you don't want to struggle with running out of supplies in the wasteland, most travelers will choose to resupply here before embarking on their journey, which means that the store will not be particularly short of stock, let alone be emptied.

"Boss, I want to buy some canned food, these are not enough."

Breezy took a sip of Colombian-style lingua franca and held two cans in her hand, the only two left in the cupboard in front of her.

"No, there are only these two canned peas left, you can buy canned beef, or something else."

"How can this be ......"

Breeze grabbed two cans, brought a few more cans of meat and put them on the cash register, and asked as he took out the money, "Boss, didn't I have a lot of goods when I last walked here?" ”

"Last time?"

The boss looked at the breeze suspiciously, she was really hard to recognize with goggles, but when he looked at the coins that were twice the amount of consumption, he finally "recognized" the breeze.

"Oh, it's you, I remember, I still have a few canned peas in stock, do you want it?"

"Yes, let's bring it together."

Leaning against the cash register, Breeze pulled out another large bill, and complained, "Who the hell emptied this place so I couldn't buy anything?" ”

The boss grabbed three cans from the cabinet under the cash register and put them in front of the breeze, and said casually: "A group of mercenaries came over yesterday, they took away a lot of goods, there is no way, it will take a few to replenish the goods." ”

A few minutes later, Zhou Jinru walked out of the grocery store with a bag of cans, and instead of returning, he and Breeze walked deeper into town.

The grocery store owner rested in the abandoned courtyard of the town, and now he doesn't know if he has left Sakura

"From the description, it looks a lot like the integration movement, some of the mercenaries are wearing white coats, a striking white coat in the Rust Belt of Colombia, Ursatian, and a cartes woman who sounds a lot like the Snow Monsters, I don't know if Tallulah is walking with this team."

The Carters woman is most likely Froststar.

Zhou Jinru's heart was beating wildly, he had been thinking about the white rabbit for a long time, but he didn't expect it to be close at hand.

"Doctor, are you taking a fancy to the Frost Star of Integrated Movement?"

The breeze's words made his heart tremble, and he said quietly: "How is that possible? ”

"You've written all the things you think on your face, and I'm not stupid."

Zhou Jinru was stunned, he was wearing goggles, even if he had an expression, it shouldn't be so obvious, could it be that Breeze is also a master of face reading?

He quickly changed the topic: "I want to know if Frost Leaf is among them, Frost Leaf and Frost Star have met, what happened between them, Frost Leaf has always been thinking about the Snow Monster Princess, I think they may be together now." ”

The abandoned courtyard is located on the other side of the town, walk a few more steps, and when Zhou Jinru came here, the courtyard was already empty, empty, and there was not even a single figure

Squeak.

Pushing open the courtyard door, Zhou Jinru stood next to the fire that had been extinguished, he turned his head and looked twice, there were no electrical facilities around, so in the dark night, the people who temporarily lived here could only light the fire.

"At least 30 people have lived here temporarily, and they have built makeshift bathrooms out of discarded furniture and wood, and I found this."

The breeze went around, and there was one more thing in his hand, a slender branch that seemed to have broken off from a tree not far away.

"What's so special?"

"It was thrown on the ground in a grid jumping game, which adults shouldn't be interested in, so the mercenaries took some children with them when they acted."

Zhou Jinru pinched the branch and gently opened the fire, and a wisp of green smoke came out of it.

"There is a high probability that we will collide head-on with the Snow Monsters who integrate the movement now, but unfortunately there are only four of them now, otherwise I would really like to try."

"Let's see if we can get Froststar back? You've already captured a monarch killer, isn't that enough? ”

Zhou Jinru's eyes were a little confused: "Of course it's not enough." If I can catch Froststar, then I have the chips against the Patriots. ”

"Patriots?"

"It's nothing, I'll just think about it, don't care."

They stayed here for twenty minutes, and the mourners arrived late in the off-road vehicles, and the four of them met again to describe the current situation, and the undertaker shook his head and said: "It is not wise to find the integration movement now, we are not strong enough, and it is very likely that we will be eaten by the other party in one bite." ”

"That's right."

Zhou Jinru clapped his hands: "They are obviously on the same road as us, the same to St. Aral, they also have children, I am curious about what they are going to do." ”

Gravel walked around the courtyard and turned back: "I just found some fruit rinds, vodka glass bottles in a nearby garbage heap, no food scraps and no empty cans, and this. ”

Gravel pinched a slender strand of hair with two fingers, and if you looked closely, you could see that it was a pale pink hair, and the back half of the hair was grayish-black.

The undertaker judged: "This is Sister Frost Leaf's hair, it seems that she did spend the night here, and now she is following the integration movement all the way north, she should now be a prisoner." ”

Zhou Jinru glanced at his watch: "It's almost, let's catch up, don't follow too quickly, disguise yourself as a local gang in the rusty belt, and 'send' our old friend." ”

The four of them quickly took out a tarp from the trunk and pulled a layer on the outside of the off-road vehicle, they drove out of the town, and tracked all the way in the rising sun, with the good hand of the funeral person, plus Zhou Jinru drove the Fu scan emotional source, and soon found the target.

……

"Big sister, we have tails behind us."

A member of the Snow Monster team retracts his head from the window and reports to Froststar, who is sitting in the passenger seat.

"We're extremely new to the rust belt, and the previous incident has attracted a lot of attention, since they can track it down, let them follow, and someone will naturally dispose of the tail after entering the area under our control."

Froststar's eyes closed, her will was quickly carried out, the convoy stopped guarding, and moved forward at a constant speed, and the car behind them didn't seem to have any intention of catching up, and followed unhurriedly, all the way to farewell.

……

"It's interesting, they don't want to do it, they've all been discovered anyway, so let's follow."

Zhou Jinru put down his binoculars and said seriously: "They don't want to make too much trouble for the time being, it seems that I have to thank Huang instead, the follow-up brought by her big fuss is affecting the decision-making of the cadres of the integration movement, but this also proves that the integration movement has a certain influence in St. Arral, at least near St. Arar, and they want to clean up us on their territory." ”

The mourner, who was driving, frowned and said, "So the integration movement has taken control of St. Jarral? ”

"No, it won't."

Li shook her head, and she looked at Zhou Jinru.

Zhou Jinru said with satisfaction: "Go on." ”

"Controlling St. Aral is the godfather of the Rust Belt, Russell Timos, who, though a complete bastard, will never stand with the integration movement."

Breeze said strangely, "You know him well?" ”

Gravel gritted his teeth: "Yes, for the past twenty years, he has manipulated the population business of the Rust Belt, selling a large number of disadvantaged young people to factories around the world, siphoning off some of their hard-earned money, I heard that he comes from an old Victorian family, now that the family is broken, he still has the pride of the nobility, and will not be in the same league as an organization like the Integration Movement." ”

Breeze thought for a moment and shook her head: "I don't remember that there was a family of Timos in Victoria, maybe he abandoned his surname, like Penguin Logistics' Texas. ”

Zhou Jinru sensed that Li's emotions were mixed with anger, and Russell's behavior made her feel angry, perhaps because of empathy.

Not so long ago, a significant portion of the workers who fled St. Martin came from the Rust Belt, and the agreement between Russell and Brave New World included a provision for the transportation of quality workers.

So the description of gravel is basically accurate.

Next, the convoy in front of them advanced, Zhou Jinru also followed, they stopped to rest, Zhou Jinru scalded canned food to eat and sleep, this situation lasted all night, but in the early morning of the second day, a sudden sandstorm disrupted all the rhythm.