Chapter 169: The Jenkins
I don't know how long he soaked in the water, until there were no more deadly bullets on the water, and the water tremor caused by the sound of horses' hooves finally calmed down, Shu Yungui pushed aside the various aquatic creatures around him, leaned out of the water with his body, and lay on the bank of the embankment panting.
If that group of patrolmen didn't leave, his lungs would explode, and Shu Yungui felt that he would definitely be able to rank first in the army assessment with the breath-holding time just now.
Finally catching his breath, he tore off the aquatic weeds wrapped around his body and climbed ashore, and poured out the fry that had been buried in his clothes, and the small fry that was no longer than the length of his hand were tumbling in the mud, splashing him with muddy water on his trouser legs.
He lifted his foot and pulled the fry back into the pond, and checked his backpack again, fortunately, the high-tech materials of the Hope Star Field were fireproof and waterproof, and they quickly became dry after shaking casually.
It's just that I don't know if the gun on the tactical belt has entered the water, although the guns have a certain waterproof ability, but Xu Wenzhao's gun is a little old, and it has been soaked in the water for so long, it is really hard to say whether it will enter the water.
Of course, water ingress is a minor problem, Shu Yungui came to the ninth star with this gun, and originally didn't plan to use it for self-defense, compared to weapons, it is more like a belief, a belief that supports Shu Yungui to move forward alone.
Just like Xu Wenzhao has been alone in the Xingliu Aviation Reserve Station for 20 years.
According to Shu Yun's original plan, he should enter the inner city, find the king of the ninth star, ask about the distress signal, and then ask him for permission to collect human genes.
But all this was disrupted by Kony, and more importantly......
Kony's bastard boy is gone!
Shu Yungui stood on the street of the town where the windmill stood with a backpack on his back, accepting the curious gaze of the people in the outer city like a traverser.
Not only is the clothing out of place, but in this place where the Western blood of the ancient earth is the main population, Shu Yungui's typical oriental appearance has also attracted the attention of many people.
This is not a good thing, Shu Yungui is not here to travel, this closed town does not need sightseers, people's curious eyes are mixed with a little vigilance, obviously they have been frightened by the continuous harassment of the orcs.
Although the wind and waves were calm on the surface, Shu Yungui saw that the women had carried the children into the house, and the adult men seemed to be talking together, but in fact they were holding farm tools in their hands, and their eyes glanced at him from time to time.
As a soldier with professional anti-reconnaissance training, Shu Yungui soon found that a few older boys on the street were not wandering aimlessly, they always kept a distance from him, and in order not to attract attention, they even changed groups of people to follow him at a distance.
Shu Yungui didn't know their identities, maybe it was the eyes of the patrol, or it could be that he was an outsider who wanted to rob, or some kind of militia defense organization of the villagers.
He pretended to tie his shoelaces and crouched down, and the afterglow swept back, and several half-grown children quickly hid into the houses on both sides of the street, while the owner said nothing and let them come and go.
It seems that the residents of the outer city are quite xenophobic, if Kony did not deceive people, the outer city has only been built for 20 years, and it is very likely that there are still humans in the wild land who have not entered the city, but due to the limited resources, the number of people who can feed the town is also limited, in order to keep their own one-third of an acre, it is reasonable for them to resist outsiders entering.
Shu Yungui quickened his pace, his outfit was too conspicuous, it was very likely that he would be captured by the residents of the outer city and sent to the patrol, and before the mutation ability was restored, he must hide as much as possible in order to survive in the ninth star for a long time.
Another very important thing is to find Kony, the runaway boy, and beat him up.
Shu Yungui changed the exoskeleton assistance system on the backpack to running mode, then tightened his shoelaces hard, and rushed out with a stride under his feet.
How can a child who grew up in the outer city lack food and clothing be as fast as him, Shu Yungui dodged and ran into the alley, jumped on the wooden cart, jumped on the roof with both feet, raised his eyebrows at the teenagers who were panting and chasing him, and then disappeared on the roof in a few jumps.
Most of the buildings in the outer city were built of two-story wooden planks mixed with straw, and probably all the stones were used to build the city walls, which caused the houses in the city to look extremely thin
The special star will definitely not be able to stop the claws of the malignant mutant.
He was thinking about it, the military boots stepped on the thatched roof, who knew that there was no wooden plank to support it below, Shu Yungui stepped out of a hole in the roof with one foot, and when he reacted, his body had already fallen halfway, he quickly grabbed the only beam and hung it in the air and shook it.
What the hell, how could someone directly use thatch as a roof, and when it rains, it can't leak into a river?
He tried to climb up, but his shoes were suddenly grabbed, and he suddenly looked down, only to see an elderly couple in poor clothes holding his military boots and examining them carefully.
The old woman seemed very interested in his high boots, and she touched the leather and said to her husband, "Look, my father also had a pair of leather boots like this when he was young."
The old man touched his head, which had few hairs left, and said very angrily, "But now everyone can only wear cloth shoes."
"Uh......"
Shu Yungui was really not used to someone holding his shoes to look left and right, and jumped off the beam of the room with his hand loose, the old woman was startled, squinted at him with highly presbyopic eyes, and finally reacted after a while, and suddenly said, "Ah! You also escaped from the wilderness, right?"
The old man nodded in agreement, and added, "Those who come in the wilderness have no identity documents, and the patrol will be exiled if they are caught."
The old woman was shocked: "Then let's hide in our house first, and the patrol will release some places for identity registration during the open day outside the city."
The old couple seemed to be immersed in their own world, and they couldn't help but press Shu Yungui on the stool and asked him curiously, "Where are you from in the wilderness?"
Shu Yungui didn't know that the wilderness was divided into regions, and after thinking about it, the old couple should be referring to the name of the town when the ninth star was not occupied by orcs, but he knew there, so he had to make up one casually: "Varian City."
Unexpectedly, the old couple did not doubt it at all, but said enthusiastically: "The two of us came from Sleiberg, just a few years before you."
Shu Yungui felt a little strange when he heard it, and couldn't help but ask, "So you are also ......."
The old woman did not hide it: "We also climbed over the wall to get in like you, hid for several years, and registered our identities when the population of the town expanded."
It turned out to be two seniors, no wonder he didn't react when he saw him falling from the sky, he must have seen a lot of people who climbed over the wall.
Shu Yungui's vigilance was slightly removed, he took a cup of hot water from the old woman, looked around at the dilapidated and cramped house, and asked, "How often will the patrol open for identity registration?"
The old man was already very old, and it was hard to imagine how he had brought his wife over such a high city wall to come in, he tilted his head and held his pipe, and thought for a long time before saying, "I don't know, anyway, the last time was ten years ago."
Shu Yungui squirted out without swallowing a mouthful of water, ten years, he wants to mix his identity for long-term development, and he has to be a black household for ten years first?!
The road to identity is completely blocked, Shu Yungui decided to find Kony as soon as possible, and the hope of catching this kid into the inner city is much faster than racking his brains in the outer city.
However, looking for Kony to find Kony, he still has to survive temporarily in the outer city, anyway, with Kony's ability, it will be difficult for him to go from the outer city to the wilderness for a while, and it is safest to settle down first and then slowly sneak into the town to find him.
The style of painting changed abruptly, Shu Yungui instantly changed into a pure and pitiful appearance, and asked with tears in the corners of his eyes: "The wilderness is full of man-eating monsters, I really don't want to go back, can you help me?"
The old couple readily agreed to Shu Yungui to live in their own house, and their defenseless appearance made Shu Yungui feel guilty in his heart, and it was also difficult to imagine how the old couple was so kind and survived in the outer city.
"You can live with us in peace, for when we fled from the wilderness, a kind man took us in."
The old woman brought Shu Yungui a plate of fried beans with a smile, and said gently: "That kind person told us at the time that if we meet people who have fled in the future, remember to help them too, we are old, and we thought that we would never meet refugees again, but we didn't expect to be able to pay them back
It's a great kindness."
It turned out that there was this cause in it, Shu Yungui held the bowl and asked, "Then what should I call you?"
"Jenkin, you can call me Jenkin the Mason, and she's Lady Jenkin, and we make a living by the masonry craft in the east of the city."
Sure enough, Jenkin, the mason, had white plaster on his trousers and cuffs, a medieval building material that was hard to clean when it came to his clothes.
"What about you? Young people."
There was no tobacco in the mason Zhan Jin's pipe, Shu Yungui could feel that the pipe was some age, it may have been passed down from the family, the land in the outer city was scarce, and the tobacco was expensive, which was not something that a mason could afford.
So he held an empty pipe in his mouth and asked Shu Yungui, "What's your name?"
The pronunciation of "Shu Yungui" is a little difficult for the old man who is used to speaking to the emphasis of the West, but this is not important, the important thing is that he finally has a place to stay.
Jenkins and his wife gave him the second floor attic, which was originally a utility room, not even a bed, even if he could sleep with a layer of straw mats, the height of the floor was very low, and there was not even an oil lamp, Shu Yungui had to bend down and bow his head to avoid hitting his head.
Through the thatched roof, Shu Yungui can clearly see the sky outside, and he can enter and exit freely when he comes and goes on the roof at night.
Shu Yungui stayed at the house of the masons Jenkin and his wife, and in the evening they helped to re-pave the roof that he had stepped on, and received a burst of praise from Mrs. Jenkin and a plate of boiled beans for dinner, and the first day of reaching the ninth star was hastily over.
As night fell, the town without electricity fell into darkness early, and Shu Yungui, an outsider with no identity documents, peeled off the thatch and disappeared silently in the darkness under the cover of night.