Chapter 192: Another Team
Unlike Shu Yungui's team, the group of people wore regular uniforms and were obviously better armed, even though it was difficult to move forward in the mud, no one complained, and under the encouragement of the team leader, they worked hard without saying a word.
It is clear that this is a much more specialized team, and they appeared here, and it is difficult to say whether the purpose of which was not a metallurgical machine in the Lacroning alchemy yard.
As the owner of the bounty team, Harvey frowned at them the whole time, but the other team didn't notice that there was anyone else beside them, and quickly distanced themselves from Harvey.
It wasn't until their backs disappeared into the reeds that Shu Yungui let go of the hand covering Vincent's mouth, Qi Yan got up slightly and observed for a moment, making sure that the other party had gone away, and then gently beckoned everyone to stand up.
"What's going on, there are other bounty squads out there?"
Shu Yungui asked Harvey, "Do you know those people?"
Harvey shook his head and said, "I don't know, the bounty team that went out of the city before has never met another team in the outer city."
He was very confident in himself, in the entire outer city, he was the only one who could support the bounty team out of the city, even if there were several teams in the field at the same time, it was 100% his people.
But the team that passed just now had never seen it before, so who would have the strength to explore the wilderness?
Harvey looked at Qi Yan and asked, "You've been in the wilderness for a long time, have you ever seen someone wearing that kind of uniform?"
Qi Yan pondered for a long time, and finally touched his chin and said, "If I remember correctly, it should be a reconnaissance team from the inner city."
Someone from the inner city?!
Including Shu Yungui and Kony, everyone was surprised.
"The reconnaissance team regularly patrols several important cities to ensure smooth traffic, and when I was serving in the navy, I saw the reconnaissance team come out to clear the shipping lanes."
"Touring the city? What's the use of that?" Billy asked, puzzled, "Could it be that the royal family in the inner city wants to reclaim the wilderness?" Aren't they afraid of orcs?"
Qi Yan didn't understand the inner city's approach very well: "Maybe they want to prepare for a counterattack in the future, but in fact, they don't come out very often, and I have only seen them once in more than ten years of service."
"Didn't the army follow with them into the inner city?" Shu Yungui asked, "The royal family threw the most important military force outside the city?"
"It can't be said that at that time, the establishment of the inner and outer cities was only a temporary refuge, and there were no preparations for long-term use, and the number of troops was too large to fit in the area of the inner and outer cities alone, so we were ordered to stay in the garrison temporarily."
Qi Yan said helplessly and regretfully: "At that time, no one thought that the city gate would be closed for twenty years, and the major garrison bases would fall one after another, and we were on the island, and the orcs could not cross the sea, so it only lasted for more than ten years."
"Then why did you choose to leave the island? Isn't the island safer?"
Kony asked curiously.
"I used to think the same way, but then I learned that there is no such thing as a safe place in the world."
Qi Yan sighed: "On a stormy night, an orc drifted dozens of kilometers along the waves to the island, and it alone killed everyone.
"There was no way back to the island, so we decided to go ashore and go to the outer city, my comrades died on the way to the outer city, and I was the only one who managed to climb the city walls, meet the patrol, and finally take refuge with Boss Harvey."
Qi Yan's story is a tragedy, but as everyone knows, such a tragedy has been staged countless times in the wilderness, and as long as the orcs still exist, such a tragedy will never stop.
"What do you think the purpose of the inner city scouts is here?"
Shu Yungui asked, "According to what you said, almost all the garrison bases in the wilderness are occupied by orcs, and the soldiers have become outcasts, and it is completely unnecessary and impossible for the inner city reconnaissance team to enter those military bases to patrol."
"What else could it be for?! It can't be here to protect seabirds, right?!"
Harvey clenched his fists and seemed angry, his back molars creaking, "This is the Sisar National Wetland Park
! One more step further and you'll be in the city of Coper! That's what used to be the ninth-star capital! What is the most famous place in the capital? La Croning Alchemy Field, of course! That's a landmark in Coper!"
He stomped his foot, muddy water splashing Kony in the face.
"Yes! They must have come for the metallurgical machine! Bah! A bunch of shameless things! Hiding from eating and drinking spicy food in the inner city, he actually grabbed resources with the people in the outer city!"
Harvey was anxious and angry, pushed Shu Yungui away and walked forward with his own steps, if it weren't for the mud, he was afraid that he would have to run.
"Hurry up! Don't let that brute steal the metallurgical machine!"
Sure enough, the vital interests can arouse the fighting spirit of the businessman the most, a group of people followed Harvey and snorted and gasped, and when the adrenaline was surging, Harvey's speed was faster than Shu Yun's return, and everyone was still wading in the mud, and he had already taken the lead on the plank road.
The weathered and rotten wooden plank road was "crackling" by his stepping, and there was a mess of mud footprints on the ground that had not yet dried, indicating that the inner city reconnaissance team had just passed by this place not long ago.
Vincent climbed up the plank road hand and foot, and there were still vaguely legible words on the roadside signs—
"Go straight ahead of the parking lot for 5 km".
The plank road in the Sisar National Wetland Park is a one-way passage in the shape of a "man", follow the signs all the way, there will be no forks in the middle, in order to conceal their whereabouts, they can only judge the distance according to the wetness of the footprints left by the reconnaissance team, with the help of dense reeds as cover, far behind them.
Harvey was so anxious that he couldn't do it, but the other side was outnumbered, not only with an official name, but also with more advanced weapons than his own, on the other hand, they only had one rifle left, and they would definitely not be able to get good if they really wanted to fight.
Soon, as they approached the exit of the boardwalk, the footprints of the reconnaissance team disappeared, and Raymond brushed aside the dense reeds and left the boardwalk, in front of the main building of the Xisar National Wetland Park, a cultural exhibition hall with a mottled façade.
"Look! There are a few cars parked there!"
Next to the cultural center, there is a small gas station, which is specially used for tourists who come by car to refuel and eat, and it is not difficult to see from the scattered parking of vehicles that the attack of the orcs must have come very suddenly, many people abandoned the cars and fled, and these abandoned vehicles never waited for their owners to return.
Qi Yan and Billy hurriedly stepped forward to check one by one, the gas station was still sheltered from the wind and rain, and the vehicle was not seriously weathered, Qi Yan tried to clean the fuel tank and refill the fuel, and ignited it again, one of the cars really made a "woo" sound in a puff of black smoke.
Harvey was overjoyed, and felt that if he had God's help, the metallurgical machine must be in his pocket.
He strode forward and reached for the backseat doorknob, just then, with the silence installed. The dull sound of gunfire rang out, and a bullet grazed his cheek and hit the rear door, bursting into a string of bright fire.
The bullet almost hit Harvey's palm, and he quickly withdrew his hand in fright, grabbed his rifle and fired it back in the direction of the cold gun.
The other party was not shot, but there was an obvious figure moving rapidly behind the corner of the cultural center, Shu Yungui pulled out his gun to guard, and signaled the others to hide on the other side of the vehicle with his backhand.
"Looks like they want the car too."
The corners of Shu Yungui's lips hooked slightly, and he said with a smile: "It seems that the conditions of the inner city reconnaissance team are not better than those of the outer city bounty team, no wonder the nobles have also begun to go out of the city to search for resources."
He spoke loudly, deliberately telling the group to listen, and as he expected, the figures were visibly stunned, and he took the opportunity to "rewrite the coordinates" to step forward, grabbed the person closest to him, and threw them out.
There was a "poof" sound in the wetland, and the man probably fell face down and ate, and he couldn't get up for a long time.
The other members of the reconnaissance team swarmed up and surrounded Shu Yungui, led by a thin, narrow-shouldered man who pointed his gun at Shu Yungui and asked sharply, "Where are you from?!"
In the face of countless guns, Shu Yungui stood still, and asked rhetorically, "You shoot indiscriminately without even knowing where we came from or what we are here for, why, the royal family of the inner city no longer regards the people of the Ninth Star as their own people?"
The other party's eyes widened, and he shouted, "How can you be a pariah?
Discussed?!"
Shu Yungui sneered: "What if I'm just talking about it? And you have done tyrannical things, and no one is allowed to talk about them? Doesn't the Ninth Star even have the right to freedom of speech?"
The captain of the reconnaissance team was furious when he heard this, and no longer said anything to Shu Yungui, he waved his hand fiercely, and the team member immediately pulled the trigger!
There were countless gunshots in his ears, and Kony, who was hiding behind the car and peeking out, covered his eyes in fright, but Shu Yungui was not afraid, a gust of wind rose from the soles of his feet, forming an indestructible shield around him at the last moment.
The Wind Elemental Mutation Ability "Wind Shield" blocked all those deadly bullets, and the bullets "crackled" to the ground, and all the members of the reconnaissance team widened their eyes in disbelief at the scene in front of them.
"What's going on?!"
The other team's leader looked at this strange hurricane, and felt strange in his heart, and he was unwilling to let Shu Yungui go like this, he pushed away the team members in front of him and personally shot the magazine at Shu Yungui.
But the wind that he thought was a coincidence did not dissipate, all the bullets were swept into the wind, and with a snap of Shu Yungui's fingers, all the bullets involved in the wind were thrown out of the wind by the centrifugal force that rotated at high speed, and impartially hit the bodies of the other members of the reconnaissance team.
The members of the reconnaissance team who surrounded Shu Yungui wailed and fell down, the bullet did not hit the fatal part, but the severe pain still made them temporarily incapacitated.
"You ......"
The captain took a few steps back in panic and ducked behind his teammates.
"Who the hell are you?! Orcs?!"
Shu Yungui ignored him, he gestured to Harvey and the others, signaling them to hurry up and get into the car, the car was very large, more than enough for seven people.
The reconnaissance team obviously wanted this car too, but with Shu Yungui in front, no one dared to act rashly.
The two sides were at a stalemate, and it was not until Qi Yan was about to leave the scope of the Xisar National Wetland Park that Shu Yungui flashed blue light in the shocked eyes of the reconnaissance team and disappeared in front of their eyes.