"Damn... where did all these people come from?"
Standing on the ruins of broken arms and broken walls, Zhu held a monocular telescope wrapped with tape in his hand, looking at the direction of the construction site not far away.
There seemed to be three or five people there, transporting stones and hardened cement blocks with a wheelbarrow.
They moved quickly and would not stay here for long. They would leave after shoveling enough cement for a cart.
Zhu racked his brains but could not figure out where those people came from, and they even built a base right under their noses.
In his impression, Linghu Wetland Park was clearly a barren forest with no birds or shits, and there was only an abandoned sanatorium in the middle of the forest.
Except for some birds, beasts, insects and snakes that would move there, even hyenas looked down on the prey there.
But this was not important.
Those large and small shelters were like cockroach eggs, and a batch would emerge every now and then. All he needed to consider was how to eat this group of fat sheep.
"Boss, when do we start?"
Standing next to Zhu was a man with a bandage on his left eye. There were more than ten knife scars on his chest, which looked like a centipede.
At least half of these were left in the fight, and the other half were secretly cut by him with a knife.
"No hurry, we are just investigating now, and it is not time to attack yet."
Zhu handed the monocular telescope to his comrade standing beside him.
Unlike Badger, no matter what kind of opponent he faced, he would not be careless and underestimate the enemy.
Even if the opponent had only three or five people and did not even have a gun in his hand, he would carefully observe for a long time until he was sure that there was no danger, and then launch a sudden and swift attack, trying to defeat the enemy with one move and make the opponent lose the ability to resist in the shortest time.
"How about we send a few slaves to test it out? They have been moving stones for the whole morning... I am worried that they will carry stones back to reinforce the bunker."
The hunchbacked man with a steel helmet on his head approached Zhu and whispered.
He had a large shovel hanging on his back.
If you look closely, the shovel not only has a blade on one side and a sawtooth on the other side, but also has a simple receiver structure behind the tube eye, which is a breech-loading smoothbore rifle.
Zhu thought for a moment and nodded.
"Okay."
"Find a few cannon fodder to test their strength."
There are many captives in the dungeon of the Blood Hand Clan. These slaves are not only their playthings for enjoyment, but also livestock in captivity, and they are also cannon fodder on the battlefield.
For livestock and cannon fodder, the Blood Hand Clan's plunderers usually don't give them special food. Instead, they lock them up in the collapsed waterway, regularly pour a bucket of swill into it, and let them fight with mutant cockroaches and rats, and endure the torture of mosquitoes, fungi, and viruses all day long, and keep them in captivity like raising poisonous insects.
Until their humanity is wiped out, they go completely crazy, and become animals dominated by instinct. Then some of them are selected, given sticks and daggers, and promised that as long as they capture the stronghold, they will be allowed to join the carnival after the war and accept them as companions.
It's called the baptism of blood.
Zao sent one of his men back, and the rest waited in place.
On the other side, Fang Chang, who was ambushing in the unfinished building near the abandoned construction site, stared at the cart that was gradually moving away outside and frowned.
Old Bai, who was squatting at the door, couldn't sit still and couldn't help asking.
"Why hasn't anyone come yet?"
Fang Chang answered impatiently.
"Don't ask me, ask Ye Shi."
Ye Shi also had a sad expression.
"No... I can't sense it, but there are two mutant cockroaches in the basement. Should we go and clear them?"
Kuang Feng shook his head.
"No need."
Fang Chang bit his thumb nail and fell into deep thought.
"The other party is more cunning than we thought. I'm sure they have discovered this construction site, but they are not in a hurry to do it... What are these people waiting for?"
According to his assumption, the predators should have been eyeing this place for a long time, and they would definitely not let go of those brick movers who didn't even bring weapons.
Even if it's for revenge, they must rush in!
So, the Niu Ma team ambushed nearby, using those brick movers as bait, ready to wait for a wave of rabbits.
However, I don't know why.
Yesterday they squatted here for a whole day, and today they came early in the morning, but the other party seemed to be blind and indifferent to the movement on this abandoned construction site.
"Could it be that they didn't find this place?" Kuangfeng asked.
"Impossible! As long as they are not blind, they can't fail to find this place!" Fang Chang said firmly.
While talking, Ye Shi, who was closest to the window, suddenly became alert and raised his right fist.
"Shh, don't make a sound... There seems to be movement nearby."
The three of them immediately quieted down.
Time passed by, and this time it was not only Ye Shi who heard the footsteps, but also Fang Chang and the others.
The four of them exchanged glances tacitly, moved carefully along the wall, and went around to the window on the other side of the unfinished building.
Not far from them, downstairs, six shirtless men were leaning against the wall behind another unfinished building, along the narrow alley, carefully approaching this side.
Not only were they dressed in rags, but the weapons they held were also varied.
There were rusty machetes, wooden sticks with nails, and saws wrapped around baseball bats with wire, which looked quite wasteland.
But these were all cold weapons, not a single gun!
From the route of these predators, they should be planning to follow the alleys between the unfinished buildings, go around to the entrance of the construction site, wait for the next wave of survivors transporting stones to come, and suddenly rush out to kill the bricklayers by surprise.
However, they did not realize that their plan had already been predicted.
Fang Chang was delighted, and while taking out an arrow and putting it on the string, he gave his teammates beside him an excited and affirmative look.
Lao Bai immediately understood and tightened his javelin.
Ye Shi and Kuang Feng took out Molotov cocktails and lit them with matches.
"Three...two...one, start the fight!"
"Kill them!"
With the order from Elder Fang, javelins, bows and arrows, and burning bottles were thrown down from the third-floor window, catching the looters off guard.
The worst was the strong man in the front, whose chest was pierced by a javelin. He stood up like a deflated ball, with his legs propped up for a while, and then fell backwards into the fire without a sound.
Another looter was hit by an arrow in the arm, which was not a big problem, but soon another arrow shot directly into his mouth.
The looters downstairs were smashed into a mess by the weapons that fell from the sky, and they shouted and yelled, and their morale was obviously shaken.
But thinking of the miserable fate after escaping and the verbal promises of those people, they still howled and overcame their fear, and rushed into the unfinished building in front of them, facing the arrows and javelins falling from the sky.
However, after a while, they learned what a real nightmare is.
These players have no martial ethics at all, and they can think of all kinds of fancy and coquettish operations.
Seeing that they rushed to the second floor, there was only one staircase away from the third floor.
Before they shouted to charge, a smoking can rolled down from the upstairs...
With a delay of less than two seconds, a bang echoed in the corridor.
The rolling white smoke exploded instantly, and the pungent smell of gunpowder wrapped in metal iron sheets flew around in the narrow corridor, a hell on earth!
The smoke has not yet completely dissipated.
The predators who were still alive and well a second ago, all wailed and lay on the ground.
The worst guy couldn't even wail, half of his body was blown into a bloody mess, and only his legs were still twitching.
"Fuck... This, this thing is so powerful?"
Old Bai, who was holding a javelin in both hands and was about to rush, was stunned at the entrance of the stairs. He was dumbfounded when he saw the situation inside.
"Nonsense, don't you think about how much gunpowder was stuffed in."
Fang Chang pushed his shoulder.
"Don't stand there stupidly, tie him up quickly..."
If it's a little later, the corpse lying on the ground will probably be dead.
Even if the final outcome of these predators is to be hanged on the gallows of justice, they have to wait until they get the bounty!
...
Hundreds of meters away.
The sound of explosions in the building drifted far away.
Zhu, who was standing on the ruins holding a monocular, had a heavy face.
Although he could not see the situation over there from the moment those cannon fodders rushed into the building, he could guess some things even without seeing them with his own eyes.
Sure enough, it was just as he thought.
The whole construction site was a trap set by the group of blue coats!
They deliberately sent people to move stones. On the surface, they were defenseless and harmless, but in fact, they sent people to ambush around.
How cunning!
"Boss, what should we do now?" The man with a scar on his chest asked anxiously.
Zhu had a gloomy face and did not speak. The scarred man continued.
"I suggest that we just kill them!"
"They all use bows and javelins, and they have revealed their position! We have so many guns, why should we be afraid of them!"
The hunchbacked man glanced at him and said with contempt.
"Are you deaf? Was the explosion just now fake? They obviously let people in to kill! God knows how many are hidden inside."
"Then what do you say? Others are begging for money in the north, and we are just wasting time here? I think we should either rush them or go north! Now if we are lucky, we can catch two fat sheep going east, but when the snow falls, there will be nothing left!"
It is unrealistic to waste time.
Zhu knew very well that the brothers also needed spoils to survive the winter, and no one wanted to be hungry and cold.
But it is not realistic to leave here and go north.
The leader threw this piece of fat meat to him to chew, which was an affirmation of his loyalty, trust and reward for him. If he messed up this matter like that idiot named Badger, the leader would definitely not let him off easily.
"Wait."
Hearing the leader's words, the scarred man was stunned and couldn't help asking.
"... How long do we have to wait? It's already noon."
"Wait until the evening, wait until they get into bed," Zhua looked gloomily at the thin man next to him and ordered, "You go back again, bring ten fast-running slaves over, and prepare some Molotov cocktails and needles."
"The rest of the people rest on the spot and get enough energy."
"Wait until midnight and give them a surprise!"
...
Outside the north gate of the outpost.
The Niu Ma Squad walked back from the construction site with three captives tied up, amid the envious eyes of the players.
In addition to the three captives, there were three dead bodies stuffed on a cart.
One of them was blown to pieces by the bomb, and the other two were simply burnt, emitting a foul smell.
"Fuck! Fuck!"
"It's a hardcore game indeed! But I don't know why, I don't even dare to kill a fish in real life, but I don't seem to panic at all when I see blood here?"
"Maybe this is the next-generation technology based on the principle of dream interference. Visual filter? Emotional blunting? I don't quite understand."
"Big brother is awesome! This wiped out a team."
"Except awesome, I have nothing to say!"
Chu Guang, who heard the noise from a distance and walked to the north gate, looked at the captives and corpses pushed back by the Niu Ma Squad, and his face was also full of surprise.
The four-man team beat the six-man team, which was OK.
These little players are quite capable!
However, the shock only lasted for two seconds. Chu Guang walked over and took a look, and soon understood what was going on.
These six people were not real looters. There were no bones on their bodies that symbolized their identities. Instead, there were words engraved on their faces or foreheads.
"...Badger?"
Although there were a few strokes wrong, it should be read as this word.
As expected, these captives were all slaves of the Blood Hand Clan.
But so what?
The accomplices of criminals are also criminals. Since they have picked up weapons, they must have realized something.
After confirming the identities of each of them, Chu Guang said nothing extra and took out a bag of silver coins from his pocket and handed it to Fang Chang.
Faced with these happy little players, Chu Guang nodded and said in an encouraging tone.
"The shelter will remember your contribution. Here are 106 silver coins and 5 copper coins. In addition, there are a total of 1,200 contribution points. Each of you will get 300 points equally."
"Now, send these criminals to the gallows of justice."
"Death will forgive them!"