Duan Lingzi listened to Lin Qiang's question, and although she wanted to give a positive answer, she still told the truth, shook her head and said, "The robber didn't say anything. ”

When Lin Qiang heard this, he sat down on the chair dejectedly. After a long time, he reacted, looked up and said sorry to Duan Lingzi, and then asked Duan Lingzi to do his own thing first, he needed to be alone now.

Lin Qiang just sat in his office for hours. Until there was no more noise outside, everyone was asleep. He was accompanied only by a dim incandescent lamp, and the sizzling sound of the filament when it was heating and shining.

He sighed and pulled open the drawer, which contained a slap-sized tin box. When I opened it, it was a neatly stacked box of cigarettes.

The cigarettes were made by Liang Shuopeng. Before the crossing, he and Liang Shuopeng would both smoke, but after the crossing, they couldn't find a cigarette for a while, and they were very uncomfortable for a while. People in this world also smoke, but they all smoke cigarette pouches and pipes. It's not easy, it's not as easy to smoke as this paper cigarette.

Lin Qiang took out one, turned it upside down and knocked it on the table. Then he pulled out a match, lit the cigarette with a "snort", and took a deep breath.

He knows that smoking is not good, and he also knows that smoking is easy to get lung cancer, but now the pressure has made him unable to care about anything else, not to mention that this difficult night, although it has set off waves, it has finally fallen into silence.

The circles under his eyes spat out, and then the thick smoke swirled in the air and dispersed. It's like some kind of memory from the past, fluttering in the air like hair.

Lin Qiang stared at the smoke, as if he saw Rod's old face, saw the wrinkles on it, and the kind smile that was all absent.

There is no doubt that Rod is trying to save the mine with himself anyway. But Huey still came, and Rod's end was self-evident.

A cigarette burned out, accompanied by the extinguished fire, and Lin Qiang's face was gloomy in the smoke. He sat there until the morning sun rose and dispelled the darkness again. He sat in his office all night, and this was not the first time he had become a mine manager.

After dawn, Lin Qiang got up and put on the coat handed by the guards of the People's Salvation Army who entered the house as he usually reported. Then he instructed the guards on duty at the gate: "Someone will come in a while, and they will say that I will go out to do some errands and come back about one o'clock in the afternoon." ”

The guard nodded yes, and Lin Qiang paced out of the house, out of the small courtyard, and walked towards the mine village, where he would patrol around the mine every day.

Along the way, he met many people from the mines, some of whom got up early in the morning to go to work, some who were exercising in the morning, and those who had been busy all night last night and had just rested. Without exception, these people took the initiative to greet him, and he responded one by one.

With the development of the mine, more and more people live in the village, and they are becoming more and more mixed. There used to be the management of the mine that has been living in the village and has been living in the village. There were also the original workers, who moved in after the mine staff was greatly reduced. There are also some ink-eyed youths who are willing to live in this part of the village. After explaining his demands to Lin Qiang, he arranged them one by one, and asked Robin to build them if he didn't have a house, in short, everyone is now living in the place they want to live according to their own ideas.

There are few people in themselves, so it is natural to arrange them properly if they can arrange them.

Sometimes Lin Qiang thought that he didn't look like a mine manager, or the nominal commander of the current People's Salvation Army. He is more like a village chief, usually faced with some trivial matters. It's only occasionally that I can see something that I want to happen, but I can't control the direction.

After walking through the village, he went to the construction site again. The current construction site is no longer the bustle of Rhodes's time. The majestic scene of the noisy workmanship of the eight mines is estimated to never exist again. Because most of the mines are stocked with grain.

It's just that now the excavation of the mine caves, even if there are only two mines left, the output is much higher than before. The reason is simple, and that is efficiency.

The steam engine has been improved several times, and now Lin Qiang can't remember whether it is the fourth or fifth generation. The digging speed and stability are much stronger than before. In addition, now when Liang Shuopeng makes gunpowder, he comes with explosives, and when he encounters difficult bones, he will also try to blast them with a small dose of explosives. It's just that whenever it needs to be blasted, the miners ask Robin, who is good at construction, to help see if the structure will cause a collapse.

In the end, Lin Qiang finally slipped to the hospital, and most of the people in the hospital were black-eyed people. These Moyan people were very friendly to Lin Qiang because of the food, and they all listened to the relatives and friends of the tribe that after Lin Qiang made a deal with Thompson, the tribe had never starved.

In the eyes of these simple young people, Lin Qiang, who gives food, is naturally a good person, and of course he must be friendly to a good person.

They greeted Lin Qiang one after another, and the enthusiasm of their attitudes made Lin Qiang a little embarrassed. He could only wave his hand and say what he meant: "That, the robber who sent you to the hospital before, is he still there?" ”

When he said this, Li Xueyuan happened to push the door in, and when he saw Lin Qiang, Li Xueyuan asked with a smile: "Why did you remember to come to me and get sick?" ”

Lin Qiang turned his head and smiled bitterly: "Sister Xueyuan, look at what you said, can't I come if I'm not sick?" ”

Li Xueyuan stared at him, his face became more serious, and asked, "I said, did you not sleep all night?" Look at your eyes with black circles and red eyes. ”

Lin Qiang shook his head and said, "How can I sleep." Seriously, I'm here to find the robber, are you still in the hospital? ”

Li Xueyuan sighed, of course she knew how much pressure it was to catch the ducks on the shelves and let Lin Qiang coordinate the work of the mine and be the mine manager. Seeing that there was no way to persuade him, Li Xueyuan had no choice but to say: "Unfortunately, I was dragged away by Han Xu last night and imprisoned." You go to the prison and look for it. ”

Lin Qiang nodded and walked outside the hospital. Li Xueyuan stopped him behind his back, and when he turned around, Li Xueyuan looked at his blue and black eyes, blood-red eyes, and thinning hair, as well as purple lips, and sighed: "Be careful, don't kill yourself." ”

Lin Qiang also looked at Li Xueyuan, squeezed out a bared tooth and grinned, "Don't worry." ”

When Lin Qiang arrived at the prison, the head of the prison guard hurriedly came over and handed over the cigarettes. Lin Qiang didn't shirk either, took it over, and chatted with the guard chief.

This person, Lin Qiang, recognized that he was one of the few survivors after the accident in the No. 2 mine at the earliest. With a big life, he followed Tsuneishi and Hal over the stone and saved people. Huey didn't die on that massacre night, then joined the Mine Guards and now joined the People's Salvation Army.

But to be honest, strength, as well as command and management talents, this person is too ordinary. So even if he is old, he only became the chief guard of a prison. This place doesn't need to be competent, as long as it's firm enough.

Lin Qiang took the last puff of his cigarette, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stomped it out with his foot, and then asked, "I heard that the robbers arrested yesterday, including the one in the hospital, have all been transferred to you now?" ”

The guard nodded, "Yes, they are all in the innermost cells. Director Han from the logistics department and Ms. Duan from the psychological hut often come here, and we all cooperate with them in their interrogations. ”

Lin Qiang nodded. Han Xu and Duan Lingzi are engaged in intelligence, outsiders don't know, even if they do interrogation every time, outsiders don't know that it's for intelligence work.

If there are people in this world who have a sense of intelligence, it will never be the old workers in the mines, this is a world that they cannot touch.

Lin Qiang patted the head guard on the shoulder, and the head guard also nodded, took out the key to open the door, and let Lin Qiang enter the area where the prisoners were held. Just in case, two prison guards were sent to follow the whole process, and the guards both had short swords hanging from their waists.

The prison environment is good, with iron fences, and there is no problem for seven or eight people in a cell. The outermost prisoners are the guards who will be pulled out to do all kinds of labor at any time, and they used to be under Huey's hands.

These people are almost transformed. But after all, he has committed heinous evil deeds, and he is not a person who can be released.

These guards looked at Lin Qiang and didn't feel afraid, because they knew very well in their hearts that as long as they were obedient, these people in the mine would not do anything to them.

After a turn, there was a single cell. The prisoner inside was eating, but when he looked up and saw Lin Qiang, he was so frightened that the wooden bowl in his hand fell to the ground with a "snap", and the rice in the bowl was scattered all over the world. This person is none other than the once invincible third young master of the Hussein family, Huey.

At this time, Huey was no longer so fat. The prison gave so much food, starved to death, and no one cared about it. Plus no matter who you are, everyone is equal. When there was a shortage of manpower, Huey and other prisoners would go with him. Over time, he turned out to be a lot thinner.

Lin Qiang and the trembling Huey looked at each other, shook their heads, and didn't say anything, just walked deeper into the cell.

It wasn't until Lin Qiang walked far away that Huey realized that Lin Qiang was not looking for him. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and picked up the rice bowl in the place with a bitter face, and the things that were spilled could be picked up and picked up. Even if it's mixed with dirty dirt.

This was something that could never have happened to Huey in the past, and now it is so natural. Prison can change a person, but it can also smooth out everything about him.

Two more cells were passed, and there were two people in each cell, all of whom were robbers. Lin Qiang knew that these four people were all pulled over temporarily. This is in the record that Duan Lingzi handed over to him. Only in the last single room, the crazy robber, Yan Xiaohuan and Tsuneishi have confirmed that he is the leader of the robbers. He was also one of the people who came to the mine with Brad and captured Rhodes.

"Hopefully, there is still one, maybe I can find it." Lin Qiang thought silently in his heart.