Qiao Sen sneezed, rubbing his red nose from the cold wind with his hands.
It was eight o'clock in the morning, and although the sky was already bright, the weather did not seem warm due to the arrival of day in the cold winter season. Sunlight is a product of the old era, but in the new era, people can only enjoy the skylight that diffuses from behind the thick radiation clouds to the earth.
Looking around, there is a vast white world outside Pavalici. Radiation clouds accumulated on the road, turning the entire land into a snowfield. The branches and leaves of the unusually tall mutant fir trees have been stripped off, leaving only the yellowish-brown skin. Without branches and leaves, fir trees do not have to bear the weight of radiant snow, and the fibrous roots that become straight and nearly kilometers long allow them to absorb water from some flowing groundwater deep in the ground, waiting for the next spring to grow branches and leaves Chance.
Looking at the almost endless silver frost forest outside the town of Pavalich, Qiao Sen couldn't help shivering. Under the seemingly quiet forest, if someone digs the ground, they will find that there is a country full of fibrous roots. In that country, you will see piles of bones. After all, plants in the new era no longer rely solely on sunlight and rain to survive, they have become some bloodthirsty existences.
That's why Qiao Sen is glad that he lives in Pava Ridge, even though it's a place that doesn't shit, even though he has to stand guard in the sentry tower before five o'clock every day. But at least in this small town, Qiao Sen has a job and can support his wife and children. With the efforts of the mayor Mensa and several big shots, Pavalic's life is getting better day by day.
In addition to the fact that the hunter union under Chairman Fred generates huge benefits from the town's fur income every year, it is also because Pavalich has an important client. Qiao Sen couldn't help but glanced at the dense forest to the southwest of the town. A group of magical beings lived in that forest. They built magnificent subterranean cities and controlled an oil well that seemed to have no limits.
oil!
One of the most lacking things in the new era, those alien races living underground use this fuel called "black gold" to barter with Pavalic. This business alone has benefited the whole town, young and old. Naturally, most of the benefits are in the hands of the big men, and ordinary people like Qiao Sen only get a small dividend every year. But even this little bonus can be regarded as Qiao Sen's salary for three months!
In this cruel age, there is bread to eat every day, clean water to drink, and doctors to consult when you are sick. Jossen believes that for many people, Pavalici is already a paradise.
The weather was so cold, Qiao Sen rubbed his red hands. He felt itchy on the back of his hand, and couldn't help scratching it a few times with his fingers. On the back of Qiao Sen's hand, there was a layer of not too thick callus. The cocoons are in a spiral shape, with dark red threads running through the cocoons like capillaries. Looking at this cocoon, Qiao Sen thought that he must find time to go to the hospital.
This is a mutated tissue, a kind of "skin disease" that almost every ordinary person living in a town on the surface will suffer from. The existence of mutated organizations will allow people like Qiao Sen to withstand the radiation on the surface, but they are double-edged swords. In addition to improving the physical ability of ordinary people to resist radiation, they will also desperately absorb the vitality of ordinary people, thus making them far shorter than those who live in underground cities and have a well-protected environment.
Fortunately, the only small hospital in Pava Riqili has the qualifications for excision of mutated tissue. It's just that there is no way to completely eradicate it. The residents of the town have to undergo such an operation almost every three years to slightly prolong their lifespan.
While thinking about whether his savings were enough to pay for a resection operation, Qiao Sen suddenly heard the engine of the car. He looked towards the snow field outside the town with some surprise, at first it was just a black spot, but after a while. A modified jeep smashed the snow on the ground through the snow removal system and sprayed it from both sides, so that it was able to drive out of the Silver Frost Forest and head straight for Pava Ridge.
There seems to be a cargo box behind the jeep, which is covered with a tarpaulin, and I don't know what it is.
Only after the initial surprise passed, Qiao Sen regained his composure. Except for this car, he couldn't see anything suspicious. He thought it was the Adventurer, even though it was rare this season. But there are also some desperate guys who risk their lives across the wilderness to make huge profits when roads are blocked in winter and prices rise.
People like this, Pavalich met two or three every winter. Usually, the adventurous faces are rarely seen in the next year. The wilderness is not safe, especially in winter. In an environment where the roads are difficult to pass, it is difficult to get rescue if you are in distress. However, this is also the reason why adventurous merchants make huge profits.
After all, profit always comes with risk.
You know what you know, but Qiao Sen still faithfully fulfills the duty of a gatekeeper. He first used the walkie-talkie to notify the guard, so that the soldiers of the city defense team should keep a certain level of vigilance. Following him, he pointed an old-time firearms rifle at the approaching vehicle under the sentry tower, and then shouted: "Hey, stop, buddy!"
After shouting this three times, the car stopped in the snow a few hundred meters away from the entrance. The door of the jeep opened, and a person jumped out of the car. Judging from his body shape, he should be a man, with a tall stature, but his body shape is not very strong, but rather slender. This one wraps itself in a hooded cloak to keep itself warm.
He reached out under the cloak and lifted the hood, revealing an Asian face. From the outside, this man is quite young, and his facial features are also very handsome, which makes people fall in love with him at first sight. It's just that he has a blindfold on his right eye, and for some reason, it makes Joson uncomfortable.
The young man said in a calm voice: "Hello, we are adventurous businessmen, we came from the far south. I heard that your fur here is of high quality, so I want to buy a batch. Besides, we brought some goods, you should would be interested."
Qiao Sen nodded, and introduced himself in a regular manner, nothing special. He pointed the barrel at the cargo tank and said, "Sir, please remove the tarpaulin on your cargo tank and accept our guard's inspection."
"No problem." The man was very cooperative, he waved towards the car, and then two more figures jumped out.
Judging from the figure, it should be a man and a woman. Although she couldn't see her face because of the hat, the woman's cloak was fluttering, and the curves of the woman's figure occasionally revealed from it made Qiao Sen's throat dry.
At this time, the alloy gate of the town was separated from both sides with the help of a hydraulic machine, and four or five guards ran out of the town quickly and jumped onto the cargo box to check. After a while, a guard shouted to Qiao Sen on the sentry tower: "No problem, most of them are food, and there are two boxes of rifles. They are wrapped in tarpaulins, and they look like high-quality goods."
After the guard jumped out of the car, the young man shook hands with him, as if saying thank you for letting go. Johnson smiled and put away his rifle. If the guard is lucky, he may even get a tip if he meets a generous businessman. Of course, for city guards like them, even if they get tips from generous merchants, they usually share the matter equally.
Qiao Sen no longer took care of the affairs of the city, and directly notified the gate to let him go. What he didn't know was that the guard did get a tip, and it was quite a lot.
The guard felt something hard against his palm, and when the young adventurous businessman in front of him withdrew his hand, he found that there was already a small piece of yellow gold in his palm. There was a burst of joy in his heart, this small piece of gold was almost equal to half a year's income. When he was happy, he heard the young businessman say in a gentle voice: "I don't know which shop in the town has the best reputation. You see, we have a lot of business to do, so we must find a reliable merchant to cooperate with."
The guard secretly hid the gold, nodded and said, "When it comes to reputation, you have to find the Owl Company. Their boss is the chairman of the chamber of commerce in our town, so there must be nothing to say about reputation."
The young businessman said again: "Then please tell me where this business is, sir?"
The guard took advantage of others, and saw that the young man was very polite, and he felt good about him, he patted his chest and said, "Well, I'll take you there."
"That would be great." The young man smiled.
When the guards left, the young man and two other companions boarded the car again. There was still a petite girl sitting in the back seat of the carriage. The four of them drove the car swaggeringly into Pavalici while the guards opened the way. These people were naturally Ling, Berrien, Su and Yeliu. As early as last night, the linked convoy of the three giants of Asgard arrived at the other side of the Silver Frost Forest. It was winter, the road was blocked by heavy snow, and there were no townspeople from Pavalici at all. Even the hunters in the town were resting at this time, so the convoy was not afraid of being discovered by the townspeople.
In this morning, Beyoncé provided a false identity for the zero-level person to enter Pavalici, that is, pretending to be an adventurous businessman. And in order to gain the trust of Pavalich, the food on the cargo box and even the guns were purchased from some factories on the southern coastline. Even a rigorous investigation of these goods by the people of the Pavalich Chamber of Commerce will only eventually find that they are from the South.
Regarding Beyoncé's carefulness, Zero naturally has nothing to say. When the sky was dim in the early morning, he and Berrien and the other three walked through the edge of the Silver Frost Forest to the small town. Now, they have driven into the town, which is half the success of the plan.
In the car, Su said: "The captain looks pretty good when he pretends to be a businessman."
Berrien, who was sitting in the back seat, said, "How can there be such a young adventurous businessman? If it were me, I would definitely grab an old man to play him."
Ling smiled and said: "The old man is always prudent, how many people dare to come here through the wilderness at this time. Only Lai Niao like me who seems to have just entered the industry will come from thousands of miles with a 'lust for profit'. Besides, As long as it is profitable, businessmen don't care whether their partners are young or old."
While talking and laughing, the car drove past the gate. The guard who received zero benefits did not break his promise, he drove a motorcycle to lead the way, and led a few people to drive behind him. It was getting late, pedestrians began to walk around in the small town, and the shops on the main street also opened one by one, and the small town gradually showed vitality.
Ling was driving on the main road of the town, and the residents of the town were curious about these early morning visitors, and cast all kinds of meaningful glances at their vehicles. Occasionally, when the tarp of the cargo bed was lifted by the wind, revealing the boxes containing the guns, the residents would have a small groan. Although the town's economy is good, the trade is mainly fur and the unknown "black gold".
And guns are undoubtedly another hard currency besides black gold. Restricted by the level of technology and backward production capacity, Pavarich does not have such a product as an arsenal. The firearms used by hunters and city defense guards were also purchased from other places, and their performance was much behind. Therefore, compared with other commodities, guns are more favored by merchants in Pavarich.
Among them, several businessmen were very interested in these two boxes of guns. When they saw Zero's vehicle parked in front of the gate of the owl business, these businessmen had no choice but to die. The owner of the owl business is Sharon, the chairman of the town's chamber of commerce. That profiteer will definitely not let go of such lucrative commodities as guns. If Sharon made a move, ordinary businessmen like them would have no place to intervene.
"Here, it's here." The guard jumped off the motorcycle, said to Ling, and then shouted into the shop that had opened to welcome customers: "Old Rob, get out quickly, there are big customers coming."
Zero let the three of Berrien stay in the car, and jumped out of the car himself. At this time, I saw a thin old man slowly coming out of the shop. The old man glared at the guard first, and said old-fashionedly: "I'm not afraid of making noise early in the morning, the boy from the Okta family. I haven't seen you for a few days, and I haven't seen any progress in other things." , the voice is much louder."
The guard laughed loudly, pointed at the old man and said to Ling: "Sir, old Rob is the director of the owl shop. If you have any business, just ask him. I've brought you the place, and then I'll go. There's a lot of work waiting for me to do."
"Thank you, may the Almighty God bless you, sir." Zero said crossing his chest.
Before coming here, Beyonce told him that because adventurous merchants usually travel through dangerous wilderness, they believe in the existence of gods more than anyone else. So if Zero can add some elements of this aspect to the conversation, it will make his identity look more credible.
Sure enough, after Zero said that, the old man looked at Zero with less distrust.
"Guest, since you are brought by the kid from the Octa family, come in. I wonder what business you want to do?" The old man beckoned to Ling, and walked into the store with his hands behind his back.
Ling winked at several people in the car, and the other three people, including Ye Liu, got out of the car and walked into the store with Ling. Old Rob took them to a quiet room, sat down, took out the list of goods he had prepared earlier in the morning, and handed them to the old man, saying: "This is the goods we brought, and they are all produced by the southern factory. Wait, I think Pavalic will need them."
The old man took it over and took a look. The list listed a series of different food cans, as well as some artificially raised fruits. These things are considered rare in Pavalici. But what really moved old Rob was the two boxes of excellent firearms and rifles. Although the firearms were imitated from the old era, they were much better than the old guns that Pavalic bought from other places, and the guns were still available. Comes with a fairly basic amount of ammunition, not many businessmen will not be tempted to see this place.
Old Rob was unmoved on the surface, and said lightly: "Since you can find our owl shop, I will naturally give you a good price for these goods. Wait a minute, our appraiser is not yet at work, or you are interested Go around our town?"
"No, in fact, we came here this time to resell some special products in Guizhen." Ling showed a meaningful smile.
Old Rob lowered his head, looked at Ling with his cloudy eyes, and said, "Please tell me clearly, we have a lot of specialty products, and fur is one of them."
"It's more valuable than fur, I want to buy some black gold." Zero said.
Old Rob said "Oh" and said, "Guest, you are well-informed, but black gold is not like ordinary fur, and we accept cash."
"I know that." Zero gestured to Berrien, who threw him a backpack. Ling opened the leeward, hung upside down, and immediately fell out of the backpack with a lot of gold bars.
Old Rob's eyes were dazzled by the gold immediately, he rubbed his eyes, and picked up a gold bar from the ground with the agility no less than that of a young man, bit it in his mouth, and said in surprise: "Good guy, purity good."
"The old man is very knowledgeable. I don't know how much black gold you can buy with these gold bars?"
The old Rob made a gesture to ask Ling to put away the gold bars, and then said: "The amount you want is beyond the scope of what I can decide. I have to inform my master that he should be interested in discussing this business with you. Everyone, please Wait here for a while, I'll come right away."
After all, old Rob said goodbye and left.
Berrien wanted to say something at this time, but Zero shook his head lightly, so he swallowed his words, and waited quietly in this small room with the others. Without keeping Lingji and others waiting for too long, old Rob opened the door and came in, beckoning to Lingji and saying, "Everyone come with me, my father, Lord Sharon, wants to see you."
Sharon stretched her waist, struggling to get up from the grass-covered big bed. He looked at the several jade bodies lying across his chest, and laughed contentedly. He is no longer young, but his energy has not degraded at all, on the contrary, he is more vigorous than before. Last night, he and these three beautiful young women almost fought all night. They played a lot of tricks, and they didn't fall asleep until the early hours of the morning.
Originally, according to Sharon's habit, he had such a carnival last night, and today he had to sleep for a whole day no matter what. But the old Rob, the manager of the firm, called just now, saying that an adventurous businessman came to buy black gold with a backpack full of gold bars, which was a big deal. Therefore, no matter how unwilling Sharon was, he could only leave this warm bed temporarily.
However, Pavalic's black gold transactions have always been secretive, and the source of customers is fixed, and there are few new faces. Especially according to old Rob's description, these adventurous businessmen are very young. Of course, only young people dare to make money desperately in this season, just like Sharon when he was young. But he is no longer young, time has given him mature and thoughtful thinking.
After thinking for a while, Sharon asked old Rob to bring the guests to his apartment, and at the same time he called in a guard of his own. He wanted to find out the details of this group of people. If they had malicious intentions, it would not be a big deal to kill people in Pavalich.
Sharon smiled, stretched out his big hand to grab one of the white buttocks, and left satisfied.