Seeing the faint smile on Egger's lips, Nicholas was furious. He still didn't believe that he had fallen into the hands of a stupid kid.
This time, he was ready to take the initiative and win the game.
Now it's Nicholas' turn.
"Reporting to Captain Egger, there are no members of the third detachment yet. I apply to join the third detachment."
Nicholas believes that the third detachment is the easiest among the field teams, or at least the safest. Its main task is patrolling, and there should be few situations that trigger combat.
This kind of thing didn't need to be discussed at the conference, but Nicholas said directly and loudly that he also wanted to embarrass Iger in public.
Egg agreed to his request, so that's okay.
As long as Iger dared to say half of the word "no", Nicholas could use the words he had prepared to express freely and ruthlessly. He even thought of nine types of accusations from three aspects, which would definitely make this brat unable to step down.
Unexpectedly, Iger made the third choice when he had only two options. He turned to Fran and asked: "Do you want this person?"
Fran refused without thinking: "No."
Egger turned to Nicholas and shrugged.
Nicholas lost another game.
Egg prepared for today's meeting all night long. This is called calculating mentally but not intentionally, preparing but not planning. By the time Nicholas came back to his senses, the overall situation was decided.
Iger's operation immediately convinced Thomas.
You can't beat such a person, nor can you scold him. His family is powerful, and now someone has a gun, so why fight?
Quickly, he knelt down, hugged his thighs, called me, and wagged his tail a few times to act like a dog. This was the wisest thing to do.
Don't look down on dogs. Dogs are man's best friends. In American black slang, calling your closest friend "dog" is definitely not an insult.
People will betray others, but dogs will not.
Finally, Egger's reorganization of the field team was completed. Next, he proposed to the board of directors the need for temporary secondment of Lane and transport vehicles.
"That's it. There are too many infected people, and we can't let them get close to Jixi Town." Egg said to everyone: "But with just a few guns, it is too difficult to annihilate them. We
We need to make fertilizer explosives, the more the better.”
"Ryan, you know where the fertilizer and seeds are, right?" Egger asked Ryan.
"Yes." Ryan, who has been extremely low-key since joining the team, replied affirmatively.
"Do they have that kind of nitrogen-containing fertilizer?" Egger asked Ryan.
Ryan replied without thinking: "Yes. It is a fertilizer storage point, and fertilizers from nearby farms are transported from there. It mainly contains various compound fertilizers. Although there are not many of the fertilizers you mentioned,
There are always a few tons."
"Very good." Egg said to Ryan.
Afterwards, Egger said to Father Locke: "The field team applied for the temporary deployment of a van. We will go to a certain point this time and bring him back several hundred kilograms of fertilizer for use first, and then hand it over to the internal team for transportation.
"
Father Locke agreed to Egger's application.
Afterwards, Egger did not attend the rest of the meeting on the grounds that the field team needed to race against time, and took his team members and Ryan to prepare for departure.
When Fran saw Iger running away, he felt envious because he didn't have to attend meetings anymore.
Suddenly, Fran remembered that he was also in the field team, so he slipped away with joy in his heart.
Let's go, let's go on patrol.
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Egger and several team members worked with Lane to add fuel to the vehicle and inventory and replenish the supplies on the pickup truck.
The van was the one that originally belonged to the Gospel Community, and Iger and Joanna also drove it to load flour.
This van only has a single row of seats. It is probably older than the Egg, and its condition is not very good. The owner of the van is probably taking it one day at a time, even if the hand-operated window lifter is broken, he is too lazy to do it.
Go and change.
In any case, the cargo capacity of this van is much larger than that of a pickup truck, and for transporting materials such as fertilizer over long distances, Iger thinks it is best to use a closed truck.
After the preparations were completed, Egger asked Nicholas: "Can you use a gun?"
Can you use a gun?
Nicholas felt a little unhappy about being underestimated. How about removing the word "?".
Although Nicholas thinks that he cannot compete with a marksman like Egger, he is still quite confident in his shooting ability.
"Oh, that's good." Iger said to Nicholas, "Get in the pickup truck and sit in the back seat."
Ryan drove the van ahead, and Iger asked Thomas to accompany him. Thomas didn't know anything anyway, so it was of no use staying in the pickup truck. Accompanying Ryan could at least embolden him.
Iger didn't publicize the fact that Ryan cried in the middle of the night that day. Ryan also knew that Iger kept it a secret, but when Ryan saw Iger, he was always a little evasive.
People always have sudden emotional breakdowns, and it will be fine if they calm down.
Iger was about to get in the car when Nicholas stopped him.
"Captain." Nicholas was not used to humiliating a child, so he said, "Where is my gun?"
Egg turned around and pointed at the car and said, "You can choose any of these three shotguns."
"No." Nicholas felt that Egger didn't understand, so he said to Egger: "Captain, you and Joanna are both equipped with pistols."
"Oh, this." Egg knew what Nicholas wanted.
Iger once made suggestions at a meeting, one of which was to implement gun control for new members.
Regarding the importance of gun control, everyone knows it without Iger’s reminder.
Although the gospel team did not collect firearms from new members, it did not issue new firearms or ammunition to them.
Nicholas envied the old members who all had pistols. Unexpectedly, after he made this reasonable application, Egger rejected it immediately.
"Don't worry." Egg said to Nicholas, "It will be there when needed."
Nicholas asked Egger with a hint of dissatisfaction: "What is the time of need?"
Egger ignored Nicholas's emotions and said to Nicholas: "When you need it, you need it."
There seemed to be some kind of trick in Iger's words. This time Nicholas was wise and did not continue the in-depth discussion with Iger. Now that Iger was his immediate superior, he was afraid that if he said a few more words, he would be unlucky, for example, he would be demoted from an observer to a cannon fodder.
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Some of Iger's understandings are quite different from others, so that his words and deeds can easily lead to misunderstanding by others.
For example, why Iger thinks Nicholas doesn’t need a pistol? It’s because Nicholas really doesn’t need one.
As a close-range self-defense weapon, a pistol can save a life in the most dangerous moments.
The American army's habit of equipping pistols on a large scale was formed during the battle with the Ointment Army, because the Ointment Army liked to play onboard charges, which really scared the American army to death at first.
Facts have proven that once pistols are assembled on a large scale, a mindless charge in an attempt to engage in hand-to-hand combat is equivalent to delivering food.
But the problem comes again. As a close-range self-defense weapon, a pistol is useless in most cases.
As far as field missions are concerned, the only time you might need to use a pistol is when exploring unfamiliar houses.
However, if the current field team really needs to explore the room, Iger will definitely be the first one, and Joanna will cover behind him. Nicholas will be on guard at the outside at most, so there is no need for him to be equipped with a pistol.
It is impossible for Egg to let inexperienced new members do dangerous work.
When attacking the enemy's position, aren't the squad leader and deputy squad leader rushing to attack first? How could they let the new recruits be used as cannon fodder?
We don't have this argument.
But in Nicholas's understanding, in the tradition of the American army, the guy sent out to attack the enemy's position with explosives has always been the stupidest fool in the class.
Such a fool is called "nut" in slang, and this has caused the word nut to gradually change from a positive connotation to a derogatory connotation.
This meme was eventually used by Plants vs. Zombies.
Every infantry squad has a nut like this.
In "Forrest Gump", there is a plot specifically mentioning this.
When Forrest Gump went to join the army, his best friend told him, you are stupid, don't worry about anything else when something happens, just run away, the faster the better.
My best friend knows that if Forrest Gump is in the army, he must be the nut who wants to die.
Because of this understanding, Nicholas saw that Iger had been carrying Thomas with him, and he believed that Thomas was the cannon fodder prepared by Iger.
Of course, for a waste like Thomas, being cannon fodder is his most valuable use.
Nicholas adjusted his breathing and said to himself, he couldn't make Egger angry.
If Iger gets angry and puts himself before Thomas, it's not the end of the world.
