Chapter 228: Getting What You Want
Gaspar was slightly stunned and shook his head, as if he was a little hurt by being misunderstood.
"I said I would repay you, the Corps taught me a lot of things, including honor."
The Extralegal Corps still has this thing? Jack was in his heart.
There is no basis for words, although this guy seems to be quite sincere, but it needs to be verified by facts.
The reason why Jack brought him with him was because he liked his combat effectiveness, and secondly, he wanted to watch him personally, otherwise if he broke out in the back team, Jiejie might not be able to cope with it even if he had weapons.
"Almost, let's go around to the hill over there." Jack pointed to a small hill not far to the north.
The sun had fully risen and the temperature had risen, and it was about 10 a.m., and it was a painful trek through the hot and humid tropical jungle, especially when the person leading the way didn't even have a machete.
Thankfully, this is not strictly a primeval jungle, but rather a predominantly secondary forest, presumably similar to a tropical rainforest that has been set on fire and then abandoned after a brief period of crop planting.
Although it has gradually degraded back into the wild, there are still many paths left behind in the forest.
The team of more than a dozen people marched silently through the jungle, with the men and women in the middle of the group, supporting each other in pairs.
Although there are paths, it is still very difficult for ordinary people to walk in such places, and although the dense vegetation blocks out the blazing sun, walking in the forest and the sultry environment make people sweat all the time.
But everyone is tightly wrapped, no one dares to show excess skin here, all kinds of poisonous insects are eyeing each other, constantly harassing these delicious meals delivered to the door, DEET seems to have completely lost its effect in this environment.
At first, people would occasionally whisper and chat with each other as they walked along the main road, but when they turned into the path, everyone lost interest in talking and their movements gradually became numb.
Each of them had a stick in his hand, which he used to pluck the branches above his head, or to strike the grass and shrubs around him from time to time, and every now and then there would be a sound of a sway, and he would rush into the depths of the forest, not knowing whether it was a poisonous snake or something else.
Suddenly the words from the front of the line loosened everyone's tense nerves.
"Climb up this hill in front of us, and we'll get to the top of the hill and take a rest."
Captain Torrance kicked away Jack's small stone marker on the side of the road, pointing to a small hill not far away, where Gaspar was standing and waving at them.
There is not much vegetation on the hills, only a few unknown trees, like parasols, stretching out the huge canopy, and the breeze blows, finally bringing some coolness to the sweaty passengers.
"We've cleaned it up here, so you can rest for a while."
Jack didn't say anything when he saw the crowd, just hugged Jiejie, took the pistol and magazine she handed him when others were not looking, and then turned around and disappeared into the jungle with Gasparé.
No one noticed that it had only been more than an hour since they set off.
"Isn't that our plane over there?"
Someone finally sensed that something was wrong and pointed to the dirt road down the hill that was facing the small hill, where it was the wreckage of the plane that had broken half of its wings after a forced landing.
How do you look at the small mountain bag where these people are, the straight-line distance from the starting position is only four or five hundred meters, so after so long trekking in the jungle just now, is it all a detour?
The smart people had already guessed something, and they all cast questioning glances at Captain Torrance.
"Everyone is resting here, Officer Tavol and the man have gone back."
Captain Torrance explained.
"It's the best plan we've come up with, if it's a terrorist here, we'll just be safe to hide here, and if it's an ordinary islander we can talk to, Officer Tavol will try to negotiate with them."
"But the three people left behind will know where we are, if they are caught."
The beautiful female college student's original delicate makeup has been turned into sweat at the moment, but she obviously does not belong to the type of big-breasted and brainless, showing a worried look.
"If there aren't many people coming, Jack is sure to save them, and our real plan is not to go to the town in the southwest, but to the southeast, where there is a port, which is our real destination."
Jiejie also helped explain that the whole plan was basically proposed by Jack, she made some corrections, and the captain and crew were responsible for all the details.
The passengers exchanged their heads one after another, and it was clear that most of them were quite satisfied that the leaders of this temporary self-rescue team could come up with such a seemingly impeccable plan.
Most of the time, ordinary people don't mind being directed or led, especially in this kind of self-help collective, they are more concerned about the ability of the leader or organizer to be enough.
It didn't take long for Jack and Gasparre to return to where they had started, hiding in a bush and waiting.
The couple from the great powers of the universe were chattering and talking to the bald old white man in the shade of the tree, until the other party couldn't bear it anymore and picked up the stone on the ground and wanted to throw it, and the two hurriedly sat aside.
Nearly an hour had passed, and Jack had been bitten by the little insects and wanted to cry, and he had learned from Gasparé to pick a lot of leaves of Artemisia Asteraceae, crush and apply them to his body, but the effect was mediocre.
Gasparre's skin seemed to have some magical bonus, and after applying herbal juice, it was exposed like nothing.
Finally, at one end of the dirt road, billowing smoke and dust kicked up, and six or seven old pickup trucks cleared the way, followed by a battered bus, heading in the direction of the wreckage.
The couple who were originally sitting under the tree suddenly became excited, raised their hands high, waved excitedly, and shouted loudly.
The bald old white man seemed to hesitate, and also stepped forward and waved his hand.
"Are they blind?" Gaspar was so nervous that he didn't dare to move, muttering to himself, one of these war-damaged Toyota pickup trucks, one of which clearly had an M2 old godmother behind the compartment.
Several pickup trucks formed a half-circle, and a small man in a headscarf and camouflage pants jumped out of the car without waiting for the car to stop.
"Bang Bang Bang"
The little man pulled out the pistol behind his waist and fired several shots at the feet of the three men.
Coming for a monthly pass?
(End of chapter)