The mountains on the north bank of the Red River Wasteland are vast, with a variety of aberrant creatures and old world military bases and research centers, and something of value can always be found.
Because many roads here have been destroyed and cannot be repaired, and the environment is very complex, it is difficult for the army of the "prime city" to enter on a large scale, and can only be explored in small groups and small teams, so it has become a paradise for relic hunters.
Every year, I don’t know how many people come and go here, trying to survive. Several places in the mountains naturally form forward camps of different scales, providing food, water, weapons, ammunition, bandages, fuel, batteries, etc. necessity.
At the same time, these forward camps also provide a safer resting space for the returning relic hunters, so that their common diseases and minor injuries can be treated in time.
As long as you give enough materials, even if you are seriously injured, a helicopter will take you back to the original city for emergency treatment—the resources in this regard are said to be related to the military.
The camp that the "Old Tune Team" arrived at is the one that goes deepest into the mountains, and many places in front of it are already impassable for vehicles and can only be walked on foot.
Jiang Baimian glanced at it and took the general appearance of the camp into his eyes:
It was built on the basis of an ancient castle in the old world. The outside is a circle of stone walls, and the inside is divided into a five-story main building and annexes scattered around.
This has a relatively spacious square. In the old days, it should have been used to train soldiers, but now, it is full of cars.
Jiang Baimian noticed that in addition to the lush green plants on the outer walls of the castle, there were also a large number of bullet holes and obvious traces of fire.
All this shows that this place is not so peaceful.
After driving into the castle and looking for a place to stop, Jiang Baimian led Shang Jianyao and the others through the sparse relic hunters and entered the "Kos Bar" on the first floor of the main building.
It is said to be a bar. Most of the time, there is no alcohol here. Occasionally, if you are lucky, a caravan will bring some private brews to sell.
Long Yuehong just observed it casually, and found that most of the relic hunters used this place as a restaurant. The only man sitting in front of the bar was holding a mug that was not drinking and was sticky.
The man looked in his early thirties, with a messy beard on his face, and it looked like he hadn't shaved for several days.
And they are not dense enough, which also shows that the man has also sorted out his appearance in the past.
At this time, while drinking the contents of the cup, he made chewing noises from time to time, and looked down at the broken watch in his palm, his face full of grief.
"What happened?" Shang Jianyao walked over, pulled a stool, and asked familiarly.
The man glanced at him sideways, twitched the corners of his mouth and said:
"Are you new here
"For that white giant wolf
"I advise you to give up. There are opportunities in the mountains. Don't be blinded by high rewards."
Jiang Baimian also sat down and asked as if thinking:
"Is this your lesson?"
The man with brown hair and green eyes slightly changed his expression and fell silent.
After a few seconds, he sighed and said:
"It's an obvious thing.
"If you want to seize opportunities in the mountains and ensure your own safety, hunters need to form a team. Just like you, there are very few loners here. They are often too powerful."
Without waiting for Shang Jianyao to ask questions, the man drank the contents of the cup again, chewed it twice, and said:
"And I'm out of company..."
When he said this, his voice was low and deep.
Bai Chen pursed his lips and asked softly:
"They died under the claws of the white giant wolf?"
The man put down the cup, covered his face between his palms, and said after a while:
"We determined the behavior of the white giant wolf, and we thought we could hit it with a sedative gun outside the range of its weird charm.
"But, but, when it discovered our existence, it temporarily diverted its route and took a detour to the place where we were hiding...
"And then, can you imagine the result?"
Speaking of the back, the face of the man with his palms down was full of panic and fear, as if he was still immersed in that "nightmare" and could not wake up.
Seeing that there was no response from the "Old Tune Group", he twitched the corners of his mouth, and said in a frenzy and panic:
"I don't know how I escaped, maybe the white giant wolf's appetite has been satisfied.
"I will never forget the way they looked at me, strange, hateful, indifferent, like becoming the servant of the wolf."
Huh... The man sighed and said:
"Later, I gathered my courage and went back there and found this watch. It was Saatchi's most precious possession, and it had fallen like this..."
He didn't say any more, as if he didn't want to admit that his companions might have been wiped out.
Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and the others looked at each other, and a thought popped into their minds:
Could that white giant wolf be able to sense human consciousness
Therefore, the ambush of this group of relic hunters was easily cracked.
"It's not fair." Shang Jianyao said suddenly.
This time, Jiang Baimian probably understood what he meant:
Awakened human beings cannot sense beasts, but aberrant creatures can detect human consciousness.
The man was startled when he heard:
"What's not fair?"
"It's unfair to human beings." Shang Jianyao answered truthfully, but only said the second half of the sentence.
The man actually agreed:
"Yeah, why can a beast be so strong and have such weird abilities?"
He glanced at Jiang Baimian and others again:
"Those who really encountered the white giant wolf and came back alive have given up, but there are a steady stream of confident newcomers, such as you."
At this time, he saw Genava, and said in a daze:
"You brought a robot... I wish you luck."
It is common knowledge among some relic hunters that robots can fight against similar specialties.
Jiang Baimian did not answer this sentence, and instead asked:
"Can you share with us the rules of activity of the giant white wolves that you summed up
"We'll pay for it."
"This is a good business." The man laughed at himself, "We'll talk about it later, there are many people here."
"Okay, what's your name?" Jiang Baimian asked.
She put on makeup hard to make herself look ordinary.
The man replied indifferently:
"Wait."
This is as common as a pseudonym... Long Yuehong slandered in his heart.
At this time, Shang Jianyao asked curiously:
"What are you drinking? It's delicious."
Waite pointed to the boss in the bar:
"Meat stuffed here."
The boss is an elderly man with gray hair. Hearing this, he raised his head and said:
"The most common harvest in the mountains is all kinds of prey, delicious, characteristic but not dangerous, all of which have been taken away by the nobles. The remaining ones are either bad in quality, sour and smelly, or have some problems themselves. , It is not suitable for eating often, and it is not worth the price.
"But why is it all meat? I bought it, made it into a paste, and added some plants in the mountains to boil it. It smells very good, and it doesn't taste so good, so it will satisfy my cravings."
Jiang Baimian asked thoughtfully:
"There should be some people who buy this kind of meat specifically, right?"
"When there is a choice, there are very few, but many people have no choice." The boss answered succinctly.
In the short silence, Long Yuehong remembered something and asked quickly:
"Is there an office of the Hunter Guild here?"
When Waite heard this, he laughed:
"How come?"
"Why not?" Long Yuehong expressed puzzled.
Waite pointed outside:
"In the past ten years, this place has been destroyed twice, and I don't know how many people have died. The reason is the attack of a large number of 'Mindless' and the migration of aberrant creatures.
"How dare those clerks in the guild come? Anyway, it only takes a long time to get out of the mountain from here. You can relax when you go to the first city to hand over the task and take over the task."
Thinking of the various traces on the outer wall, Long Yuehong didn't ask any further questions.
Waite pointed to the boss again:
"It's not impossible, who would be willing to come here to open a bar?"
"Anyway, I'm old." The boss responded calmly.
Waite turned to look at Shang Jianyao and them:
"A man of gray soil... Just got here recently? No wonder you don't know these things."
"Yeah, yeah." Shang Jianyao didn't hide it at all, and asked directly, "Have you ever seen a relic hunter named Felintong? He is as tall as him, with gray hair and dark brown eyes. He likes to use Shotgun."
"He" refers to Long Yuehong.
Ferrinton was the relic hunter who knew the situation of the Mirror Sect according to Terence, the second boss of the Blackshirt Party.
While Waite shook his head, the bar owner replied:
"He went after the white giant wolf. I don't know if he can come back."
"Well." While Jiang Baimian nodded lightly, a person walked in at the door of the bar.
The man was thin and black, about 30, less than 1.7 meters tall, wearing a long black T-shirt with stitching marks and dark blue canvas pants.
This is actually an acquaintance, the first to tell the "Old Tuning Team" the relic hunter:
Wang Fugui.