Todd led three teams of people and rushed to John's farm. When they arrived at the farm with murderous intent, John Senior and John Junior, father and son, sat outside the house and stared worriedly at the scorched prairie in front of them.
In the spring, when Andy was drawing up the contract, he signed a flexible rent. The rent was 1,800 bushels for 50 acres of land. When the yield was less than 40 bushels per acre, the rent was 1,700 bushels.
Later, due to the population surge in Puduo County, the gospel team asked the farm to expand its production capacity, so they signed a supplementary agreement, and John's farm would replant all the other 50 acres of land that had been left fallow.
Because the replanting was delayed for some days, the gospel team waved their hands and only charged them 1,500 bushels in rent for the 50 acres of land.
Calculating this, the total rent for 100 acres of land is 3,300 bushels.
Although wheat production has certain fluctuations, except for the unprecedented drought in 2002, when the yield per mu was only an unprecedented 35 bushels, at other times it generally remained at 45 bushels per acre (about 400 kilograms per mu).
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The total rent of the land is 3,300 bushels. Even if there is a thousand-year drought and the harvest is only 3,500 bushels, and they pay a flexible rent of 3,200 bushels, they still have a surplus of 300 bushels (about 15,000 catties).
This is an extremely cost-effective deal. As long as the yield is slightly better, John's family can become a well-known large farmer in this season.
I really don’t know whether it’s because people are not as good as God, or because the four horsemen of the apocalypse are out together. This year is a severe drought that has not happened once in 1200 years, and it is worse than the one in 2002.
What's more serious is that due to the lack of electricity, John's farm is unable to pump water for irrigation. He can only watch the wheat slowly turn yellow during the filling period. It is really like watching the wheat scorch and burn like a fire.
Just now, John and his son cut a small piece of wheat with a measuring tape and weighed it. They calculated that this year's yield may only be 20 bushels per acre (about 175 pounds per acre).
This is the third time I have measured it, and the results are almost the same.
This is not a problem of production reduction, it is almost equivalent to no harvest.
John and his son were really in tears. All the wheat they harvested was only 2,000 bushels. Not only did they have no surplus, they also owed 1,200 bushels of rent.
Now, John and his son can only cheer each other up. They feel that after all, this is a natural disaster that cannot be prevented by human power. The previous chairman of the gospel team is relatively easy to talk to. Maybe they can intercede with them and discuss whether the rent can be reduced further, or
Just take it slow.
Anyway, now that there is so much wasteland, only your own family can plant it. If you work hard next year, act early, work hard, and open more land, you can make up for the losses.
Just when the father and son were at a loss what to do, the gospel team's motorcade came over in a mighty manner.
Seeing the convoy coming, John and his son quickly stood up to greet them. It seemed that the owner was ready to receive the goods.
Three cars stopped in the open space of John's farm. Before the car could stop, the car door was pushed open and more than a dozen heavily armed security personnel got out of the car.
John and his son were stunned. They didn't owe rent yet, so why didn't they send security to arrest them?
Old John took a look and saw that the leader was the security captain Todd.
Speaking of which, Todd is also an old acquaintance of John's family. After all, John's farm is an important asset of the gospel team. Todd often leads the team to inspect the farm. During the peak period, there are not only eight trips a day, but two or three trips a day.
But this time there seemed to be something different. Before old John could speak, Todd said to him first: "John, call all your family members to gather together. Father Egger has sent an oral message that there is a big disaster happening here."
When he heard that it was Father Egger's oral message, Old John was a little panicked.
The evangelical church has been gaining momentum recently. I heard that Father Egger is not just an ordinary person, and now his various miracles are being spread all over the world.
But as soon as he heard the word "catastrophe", Old John became energetic again. He thought, yes, the wheat field in his home was like this due to drought. It was not a disaster.
Is Father Egger going to bring rain to his land?
However, the grouting period has been missed, the harvest is a foregone conclusion, and there will be no use for rain again.
Or maybe Father Egg wants to reduce the rent for his own home.
Thinking of this, Old John took his son and hurried back to the house to call for help.
After a while, John's whole family came together in the yard.
Todd glanced at it and asked Old John: "Where's Jenny?"
Jenny is the youngest daughter of John Sr., she is just 19 years old this year.
As soon as Todd mentioned Jenny, Old John showed an expression of embarrassment and embarrassment on his face. He said to Todd: "Captain Todd, Jenny eloped with a young man from out of town some time ago. I'm still wandering around."
Find her."
After hearing John's words, Todd gave his men a look, and two teams of security personnel rushed into John's farm like wolves and tigers.
"What is this?" Old John asked Todd in confusion.
"Don't worry, you can just watch from here." Todd said kindly to Old John.
In front of four armed security guards, Old John had no choice but to let those people break into his home.
Carpet search is a very skillful art.
Ordinary people will only make a mess in the house if they conduct a blanket search, and they are very likely to miss some very important places. But these internal staff will not do that. They have received Erica's systematic training and are professional.
The search was very efficient. Within a few minutes, a security guard quickly ran out of the house. He said to Todd: "Captain, we found something that is difficult to describe."
"Lead the way." Todd left John and his family behind and followed the security personnel into the house.
The two of them went all the way to the second floor and entered a master bedroom. They saw that the bed in the master bedroom was lifted up by the security team and leaned against the wall.
Search Rule 1: In the bedroom, check under the bed first, and in the living room, check the sofa first.
After the bed was opened, a huge wardrobe was seen lying upside down under the bed. After Todd passed by, the security personnel guarding next to him opened the door of the wardrobe.
There was a tied person stuffed in the closet, her mouth was wrapped with layers of tape, and her body was tied with ropes.
This person is none other than Jenny.
Upon seeing Todd, Jenny tried to struggle to sit up, but she could only writhe around in the closet like a chrysalis.
"Oh, God!"
Captain Todd looked at Jenny and let out a sigh, and several security team members nearby quickly made the sign of the cross on their chests.
"Close the door and carry it away," Captain Todd ordered to his men.
These security personnel re-closed the wardrobe and fastened the buttons. The four of them used their strength to lift it up.
John's family, who were waiting anxiously in the yard, suddenly turned pale with fear when they saw the security personnel carrying out a large black wardrobe from their home.
"Here, here. Listen to my explanation." Old John said hurriedly to Captain Todd.
"I have no right to listen to your explanation, get in the car with me." Todd said to Old John.
Afterwards, their family was put into two cars, and the two cars drove towards Jixi Town under the leadership of Todd. Another team of security personnel guarded the big closet in the farm yard, waiting for the captain to leave Jixi Town.
The town will send the truck over.
The black wardrobe placed on the open space kept making "dong dong dong" sounds from inside. Listening to the sound, four armed security guards looked at each other. One of them kept crossing himself on his chest and mumbling something.
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After a while, the truck arrived. It was a dilapidated closed van. The field team used to drive it to haul fertilizer. After a tire burst, it was left on the road. It took a long time for the truck to be repaired again and then used.
Drive back to Jixi Town.
Now this van is still old and strong, and it is still running around delivering goods every day.
After several security personnel opened the compartment of the van, they lifted up the large wardrobe and threw it into the compartment of the truck, and then closed the tailgate.
The security personnel patted the car hard, and the driver drove the truck away. The four security personnel sat in the car and slowly walked behind the truck.
Judging from the nervous expressions on their faces, they were afraid that some monster would suddenly burst out of the carriage halfway along the road.
The van did not enter Jixi Town. It drove towards the residential area outside Jixi Town.
Later, the van drove outside a house with a green roof.
As soon as the car stopped, several strong men who had been waiting for a long time opened the truck compartment and carried the black wardrobe, which was still shaking slightly, into the house like a coffin.
This is a prayer point specially set up by the Evangelical Church in Quick Creek Town. When Maria heard Captain Todd's report, she did not dare to let the big closet enter Quick Creek Town.
Only God knows how much impact such a thing will have on the people who come and go in Jixi Town.
Maria was so desperate that she found Sister Alison.
After all, this matter was ordered by Father Egger. Egger has a dual identity, so it makes sense to take this matter in any direction.
So with a slip of Mary's hand, the handling of this matter slipped from the evangelical team to the evangelical church.
In this large living room converted into a prayer room, there is now a circle of people around. In addition to Maria and Sister Alison, even Vance is also present.
In addition to these three people, there were also John's family and some believers who were already in the prayer room.
Captain Todd had already taken the security personnel to withdraw the votes. Today's matter was a matter for the Evangelical Church. Before the official news was announced, he knew how to discipline his subordinates.
As for the male and female believers in the prayer room, Sister Alison believed that they would not talk nonsense, at least they would not say anything detrimental to the evangelical church.
It can "open people's eyes", maybe this is not a bad thing.
The four male believers placed the black wardrobe on the ground and silently stepped aside.
Maria handed the phone to Sister Alison. After operating it for a while, Sister Alison sent a video call request to Iger.
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Just now, Egger used ultra-high projectiles and used his squad machine gun to kill three special infected people beyond visual range. He felt that these three special infected people should all be brute force, slow in movement, and not bulletproof because of their size.
This is definitely true. How can a flesh and blood body withstand dozens of 5.56 bullets falling from the sky?
Over-the-horizon shooting rarely appears in movies and TV shows. It just looks like a machine gun shooting into the sky, but its killing effect is extremely terrifying.
During World War I, the Germans relied on this technique to kill 50,000 British troops in one day. In the following three months, the British and French allied forces suffered a total of 790,000 casualties, most of which were killed by this thing.
This kind of machine gun ejection, in addition to achieving beyond visual range killing, further raises the angle of the machine gun. As long as the angle with the horizontal does not exceed 80°, the bullet can still maintain sufficient kinetic energy when it falls.
Bullets ejected from such a high angle fall almost vertically to the ground. Whether the soldiers on the opposite side are crawling, lying down, digging foxholes or hiding in trenches, they cannot avoid the rain of bullets falling from the sky.
This even led to an important invention, the soldier's steel helmet.
Egger didn't need to raise the gun so high, he just needed to let the bullet just hit the hill in front of him.
Under Egg's sudden attack, the three special infected people left the stage before they even appeared.
Egg, who felt refreshed after the shooting, threw the machine gun in his hand to the original shooter. He clapped his hands and walked back to the command car, sat down on the co-pilot and continued beeping.
But Dududu didn’t respond this time, so all the specially infected people were probably really dead.
While the team members were patiently and meticulously watering the tree, Iger's cell phone rang. He picked it up and saw that it was a video call request from Maria.
Maria actually knows how to use video software, which is great.
After Iger clicked on the call, the video connection was successful, and what he saw was Sister Alison.
Later, the mobile phone was placed on a table, and Iger saw a seemingly empty living room filled with people, with a large black wardrobe placed in the middle of the living room.
Later, John's family of four were pushed by several strong believers and walked to the camera. Egger immediately understood what had happened.
"Found it?" Iger's voice came from the phone that had the speakerphone pressed.
"Yes, Father Egger." Sister Alison stood in the distance just enough for the camera to see, and she said into the mobile phone: "According to your instructions, we indeed found an extremely evil thing in John's farm.
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As soon as Sister Alison turned around, she waved her hand, and a believer next to her opened the black wardrobe. Everyone saw Jenny contained in the wardrobe, a special infected person who was trying hard to break free.
