Chapter 173: Bounty Squad
The soles of the shoes slammed against the hard yellow mud floor, making a dull sound.
Shu Yungui seemed to be squatting on the ground and wiping the ground, but in fact, he had already clenched his hands into fists, listening to the sound of getting closer and closer behind him, just waiting for the other party to try to take down the enemy with one blow if he found that something was wrong.
The other party was getting closer and closer, and even the fine sand and gravel under his feet trembled with the other party's footsteps.
The people in the inner city basically know each other, Shu Yungui can't turn back, once he turns back, he will definitely be recognized, so he can't see each other, and he can't judge whether the person who comes has a gun or not.
As a circus guard, it was reasonable to be equipped with weapons, and Shu Yungui began to carefully imagine the time it would take to punch out and then draw the gun, as well as the extent of the damage of the musket.
The man stopped behind him, and a pair of big rough hands put on Shu Yungui's shoulder.
At that moment, the green tendons on the back of Shu Yungui's hand obviously burst out.
It was a pair of hands stained with yellow smoke, and the fingernails were stained with yellow traces of old smoke, and in the outer city, where there was not enough food to eat, the only place that could have spare time to grow tobacco and use it in large quantities was the Colosseum.
"You ......"
"Billy!"
The curtain was suddenly lifted again, and a gust of wind blew in as he moved.
"Billy! Why did you get here?! Come out! The Bounty Squad is back."
The hand on his shoulder was raised, and the other party walked outside while responding to "come immediately", the footsteps gradually faded away, and Shu Yungui finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He was about to stand up, but the man behind him suddenly stopped, turned back to him and shouted, "Oh! You!"
The muscles in his body tensed instantly, and Shu Yungui heard the other party take two steps back towards him, and then said in a loud voice, "Use the brush over there to brush the ground, when are you going to wipe it with your hands?"
Shu Yungui let out a vague "um", got up and walked towards the bucket next to him from the other party's gaze.
"By the way, hurry out to help after brushing the ground, the things brought back by the bounty team will take a long time to move each time."
After explaining this sentence, the other party left in a hurry, the curtain was lowered, and the Colosseum returned to a warm yellow hue.
Shu Yungui stood by the bucket, his eyes looked at the dirty sewage in the bucket that had not been replaced for a long time, and the spoiled blood and grease floated on the water, attracting a swarm of huge green-headed flies.
He immediately took two steps back and looked away, only to realize that it was a wrong decision to carry the genes of flies and mosquitoes in the biological gene pool of the immigration spacecraft.
But......
What is the bounty squad that the man just mentioned?
Shu Yungui walked lightly to the curtain tent and opened a gap to observe the outside.
There was a car parked in the yard, a dark green old-fashioned off-road jeep with thick mud wrapped in tires, and an open-top trailer behind it containing a lot of things wrapped in a rainproof cloth, and Billy, the man he had just spoken to, had climbed up and happily untied the rope with a cigarette in his mouth.
It turns out that the technology of the ninth star has already created vehicles, maybe far more than that, Shu Yungui thinks that it is very likely that the ninth star humans are retreating too quickly, and there is no large-scale heavy industry in the outer city, which will cause this place to look too backward in technology.
He knew that it was impossible for the first generation of immigrants who had come down from the immigration spaceship to regress the technology of the Ninth Star into this.
With the appearance of vehicles, it can prove that the Ninth Star at least exists in heavy industries such as mining, energy processing, and steel smelting, as well as rubber manufacturing, glass manufacturing, and chemical fiber industries, which can prove from the side that the level of human education on this planet will not be low.
With education, high-tech astronomical technology is possible, and the distress message from the ninth star received by the ultra-long-range astronomical telescope will not be a misdetection.
The question that had been hanging in Shu Yungui's heart finally had an answer, at least it clearly showed that he did not go through this experience in vain.
He continued to look out, the rope on the tarpaulin was unfastened, as if he saw something very good, Billy whistled, and raised his hand to lift the tarpaulin.
There are two medium-sized generators in there, which look very old
, There are obvious traces of climbing plants growing on it, so old that Shu Yungui is not sure if this thing can still be used.
But the crowd around the off-road vehicle was clearly agitated that electricity was an important thing, and that it could give rise to a variety of technologies, and that it could be an important sign that humanity would regain ownership of the wilderness.
"Good stuff."
Billy grinned, "Next time I'll get some light bulbs and wires, we'll be able to use the lights too."
The people below laughed along: "Pick a few good-looking women from among the infiltrators, hang a lamp in the beast cage and dance in the middle of the night, that taste, I'm afraid it will be even more popular than the orc performance."
Thinking about the scene, a group of people burst into laughter, and Billy moved the generator down, the two big guys took up almost all the space in the body, and the remaining crevices were stuffed with some canned food, Western medicine injections and other daily necessities, and they all moved away, regardless of whether they had expired or not.
"What's in this wooden box?"
Billy just stretched out his hand, but was held down by the man who had been smoking in the car.
"This is a good thing to honor Boss Harvey, don't be blind."
"What is so mysterious that you can't let you see it?"
Human curiosity is like this, the more you don't let you do something, the more you have to do it, Billy took advantage of the other party's inattention, quickly opened the wooden box, and when he saw what was in the box, his eyes were rounder than the Colosseum.
I saw a submachine gun and a layer full of bullets in the shavings and sawdust, which is a terrible thing, and if anyone has this gun, it is not a matter of minutes to dominate the outer city.
Although it is only an old-fashioned bullet-loading submachine gun, with firearms, other weapons will definitely not be disjointed, which means that there should have been at least one army on the ninth star.
Shu Yungui couldn't help but wonder, are orcs really terrifying to this extent? Even the army can be forced back, so wouldn't it have a fight with the vicious mutant of the Hope Star Field?
"Good guys, or your bounty team is so good that you can find Boss Harvey's favorite thing every time, and this time you will inevitably be paid a large sum, right?"
Billy closed the wooden box and said enviously, "When are you going to secretly find me a gun to come back?"
"Okay." The man took the last puff of his cigarette, threw it on the ground, crushed it with his foot, stretched out his hand, and said, "Fifty packs of tobacco, I'll get you a pistol back."
"Fifty packs? Why don't you plant me in the field? I don't grow fifty packs of tobacco in that tobacco field a year!"
"Then why don't you go out of the city and find it yourself?" I can tell you about it, but it's full of orcs, so I'm not sure you're going to be planted in the ground."
Billy gave him a middle finger and said unhappily, "You wait, I'll be sure to go out by myself next time."
The other party shrugged: "Okay, I'll wait, when the time comes, be surrounded by orcs, don't cry your nose like a little girl, hahaha!"
Billy was so angry that he scolded and walked away, and the man waited in place for a while, and after the goods were inspected, a young man with silver hair came over, took out a few bills from his pocket and handed them over.
"Why is there only so little? Before leaving, I said that a generator would be exchanged for 100 catties of flour, 100 catties of rice and 50 catties of beans, and I found two for you, so you only gave me 200 catties of rice tickets? Harvey, you're getting darker!"
This is Harvey, the owner of the Colosseum?
Shu Yungui took a slight half step forward and carefully observed their speech.
"You can't say that, I used to ask for a generator, it was a complete set, you just get me two machines back, there are no accessories, not even a light bulb, no battery, I ask someone to go out to find it, don't you have to pay an extra honorarium? And once the car is gone, do you know how much gasoline is worth?"
Harvey took out two more tickets and stuffed them into the other party's hand and said, "For the sake of you getting me a good gun, give you another hundred catties of beans, be content, you are already the richest treasure hunter in the entire outer city, I heard that your family made dumplings last time?" Oh my God, 99 percent of the people in the outer city haven't tasted dumplings in 20 years."
"Be reputable
? Harvey!"
The man stretched out his hand and said, "It's a matter of life to go to the wilderness to find something for you."
Harvey stretched out a finger and shook it, "No, no, no, you're not looking for something for me, you're looking for your family, your wife, your children."
"Think about it, there are so many people in the outer city who want to go out to hunt for treasures, and I don't necessarily have to choose you, but if you lose this job, can the rice, flour, grain and oil in your house fall from the sky? Did your son's round belly eat so much out of thin air?"
Harvey patted the shoulder of the blue-faced man and said, "Of course, if you don't use my car and gas, and go out and get back the accessories I want by your own ability, I will make up all the things I promised you, and I will give your son an extra packet of fruit candy."
In the man's pensive smile, Harvey smiled, "The child is about to turn ten years old, if Dad can bring back a packet of fruit candy, it doesn't seem so bitter to recall this difficult childhood in the future, right?"
The man's expression was tangled, but he quickly made a decision, he took Harvey's hand and asked him, "What you said is true?" Make it all up, plus a packet of fruit candy?"
"We've worked together so many times, when did I lie to you? As long as you bring back something as requested, when will I not give more?"
The man nodded emphatically and ran away with his legs clutched on the food vouchers under Harvey's gaze, while Harvey gently picked up the wooden box in the car and looked at the brand-new submachine gun inside with an intriguing smile.
Harvey didn't stay here for long, he took the generator and submachine gun and left, leaving the two people to clean the SUV, and no one noticed that Shu Yun was here.
Taking advantage of the fact that it was still safe, Shu Yungui began to explore the ground of the Colosseum, trying to find a passage to the underground, but after some searching, he found that all the ground was compacted, and only there was a square mark on the ground in the colosseum, but no matter how he tried to get it, he couldn't open it.
Also, orcs are an important money-making tool for the Colosseum, and they will never let outsiders find them easily.
Shu Yungui didn't linger any longer, he sneaked out quietly again, changed back into his clothes, and left the Colosseum quietly.