Chapter 1. Road movie
At nine o'clock in the morning, in the wilderness where there was only one dirt road, the messenger Abu hurried by on a pack beast, a road he had been so familiar with from the age of sixteen to twenty-four, that he would be in three hours before he could catch his breath.
Thankfully, the weather was good, and if it had been the strange snow and rain of the previous month in Lentinium, the Courier's life would have been very difficult.
"Little brother, stop and ask for directions."
Suddenly, there was a call not far ahead, and Abu looked up, only to see a black motorcycle parked diagonally opposite, and a man in a black coat was waving to him.
It stands to reason that when someone blocks the road in the wilderness, most of them are ill-intentioned, and Abu thought so at first, but when he saw the other person's face clearly, he felt that this person had a good face, not like a villain, so he slowed down the pace of the pack beast a little, and when he came closer, he just stopped.
Abu looked closer, and the man was holding a map in his hand, which seemed to have been bought from the previous gathering point, but why hadn't he seen him?
"Little brother, how far am I from the nearest mobile city?"
Nearest mobile city?
Abu frowned slightly, how could there be a mobile city around here, and he couldn't help but glance at the map again.
The man was confused: "My map is fake?" ”
Abu shook his head: "No, the map is real. ”
"Then you ......"
"You're taking it the other way around."
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Zhou Jinru silently put away the map, he came out of Lentinium for a few days, at the beginning of the Black Rose's extreme speed gave him an extremely good driving experience, but also brought a new problem.
When he went out of the city, it was very dark, and he didn't pay attention to the direction, and he drove in whichever way the head of the car went, and when it was dawn, he was dumbfounded.
Blue sky, white clouds, sun, wilderness, Zhou Jinru.
He's caught up in the eternal problem, where is he?
It's easy to tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest, but it's not so easy to get the direction you want.
Even with this car, he couldn't immediately find his way back to Rhode Island, because this place is a bird! No! Pull! Excrement!
Zhou Jinru felt that if he went to shoot a road movie, then this journey in addition to driving is simply black history, fortunately he found this dirt road yesterday afternoon, and drove along it, and came to the temporary gathering place in the evening, ate, replenished the living materials, and slept peacefully and continued on the road.
"Mr. Aguang, you said that you are going to the southwest of Lentinium, and your company is over there, but this is the southeast direction, and you have to walk a long way to go back."
After a brief exchange, Abu and the man who called himself Ah Guang moved forward together, and it was possible to have a friend to talk to during the long and lonely delivery journey, and also to relieve emotional tension.
Zhou Jinru drove the Black Rose, Abu's pack beast side by side, and he sighed: "Abu, you may not believe it, I am testing that this planet is round. ”
The cute little messenger said that there was a small land city at the end of the road, which not only had plenty of food, but could also be exchanged for foreign currency, which was great news for Zhou Jinru, who did not have much money with him, and had nothing to sell, and the food prices in the temporary settlement were too high, and he was not sure when he would find a Rhode Island operator.
At first, he thought that his own operators were running around the world, and he could always turn to strange operators to go back, as long as he found a mobile city, and then stayed at the post station where the messengers would go, and it would not be long before he could meet the field operators with stationery sets such as rulers/compasses/triangles/erasers/pencils, and then he would be able to go home naturally.
But the reality is that there is no messenger post in the temporary settlement at all, and unless he returns to Lentinium, it will be difficult to find another mobile city, so there is the same scene as before.
"Is the planet round? What is a planet? ”
Abu felt ashamed, he didn't even graduate from high school and went to work, he hadn't been to a big city, and he couldn't understand what Mr. Abu was saying.
He looked at the black locomotive from time to time, this thing is quite common, but the locomotive is extremely complicated to maintain, and it is even more fantastic to want to take advantage of this off-road, in case it breaks down in the wilderness, the consequences are unimaginable......
It's better to be your own beast of burden, not so easily incapacitated, and you can still talk to it when you're lonely.
Zhou Jinru heard the unnaturalness in Abu's tone, and immediately changed the subject: "Abu, I know a few messengers, like you, in addition to delivering letters, you also have to deliver goods, right?" ”
Speaking of his own work, Abu suddenly became interested: "Yes, in fact, there are very few letters that can be sent, usually delivery, someone buys something from the mobile city, and then we send it to the buyer, the mobile city must be very convenient, but it is not so easy in the land city, so I became a messenger, and I can make more money." ”
"Are there few letters?"
"In the past, there were a lot of letters, but later there were more and more young people who left the land cities to go to the big cities to find a way out, and no one wanted to come back, and the old people passed away, so the number of letters we could send gradually decreased."
Abu reached out and patted the package under his thigh: "But as a messenger, I will also deliver these letters to the corresponding address." ”
Out of curiosity, Zhou Jinru asked again: "If there is a letter that has no recipient, what should I do, it should be difficult to send it back again, right?" ”
"If you can't find the recipient, no matter how difficult it is, you still have to send the letter back."
The two were chatting when they suddenly saw chaos on the road ahead, with several cars colliding and even one overturning.
"I'll take a look."
Zhou Jinru drove fast, pulling the turntable and rushing out, Abu looked at it enviously, thinking that his pack beast did not have such a fast speed.
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"Someone, someone, hurry, help, someone is being crushed underneath."
A teenager shouted in a panic, and four or five people nearby hurriedly ran over and helped carry the car, and it took all their strength to drag the person out of the room.
"How's it going, what's going on?!"
The person dragged out was already unconscious, and the wound on his left leg was still bleeding.
The young man said in a panic: "Doctor, doctor......"
Someone said nervously: "The doctor is in the back to rescue, hold down the wound first!" ”
Before he could make a move, a hand next to him had already pushed him away, and a young man in a black coat was squeezed in, half-kneeling in front of the wounded, reaching out and throwing the backpack on the ground, skillfully pulling out the tourniquet.
"You're a doctor?!"
"If you pass by, save people first."