After hearing this, the old man Xiuning said: "The company sent a total of 10 guys to follow the mercenary group from the base, driving two carriages and loading a lot of supplies. It has been four days today, and they have not come back yet.
If you plan to come back a week before departure, you may have to wait a few days for news."
As soon as the old man finished speaking, there was a burst of noise from the iron gate of the square. Several people turned around and saw the iron gate being opened. Two two-wheeled carriages rushed in, followed by several people.
Mud people, they came to the middle of the square noisily and stopped the carriage.
One of them shouted towards the wooden building next to the warehouse: "Call the doctor! There are wounded here!"
The old man immediately stood up and ran towards the carriage in the middle of the square. Many people also ran out from other houses and surrounded the square. Steven and Kate quickly tied the horse's reins to the wooden pillars of the porch, and then
He ran after Xiuning.
Old man Xiuning separated the crowd and came to one of the carriages. The two of them squeezed in. They saw a man covered with cloth lying in the carriage box. He was unconscious. It looked like one of his arms had been damaged.
It was broken, and blood seeped out of the cloth strip wrapped around the wound. His chest and abdomen were also covered with cloth strips. It seemed that the wound was not limited to the arm.
At this time, a group of people also ran out of the wooden building in the middle. The leader was a tall middle-aged man wearing a shirt, vest and sun hat. He was followed by a group of people. One of them was wearing a high-collared white shirt and carrying a
The doctor in the suitcase followed closely.
The middle-aged man who took the lead walked through the crowd and came to the carriage. He looked at the wounded lying on it, turned back to the doctor behind him and said: "This is Mr. Erte, the leader of the mercenary group. Please try your best to save his life."
!”
After that, he said to the people next to him: "Help Dr. Mullen carry the wounded to the infirmary, and a few more people from the mercenary group will come to my office."
After saying that, he turned around and walked back towards the wooden building. Two of the muddy people walked out and followed him into the house. The other workers found a stretcher and, under the command of Dr. Mullen, lifted the unconscious regiment leader.
He was carried onto a stretcher and followed into the wooden building.
At this time, the crowd began to disperse. Old man Xiuning turned around and asked the two people's names, and then said to them: "Two gentlemen, please come with me to the warehouse porch to sit for a while and have a cup of black tea. Maybe there will be something to do later."
I need to trouble you both."
The two of them nodded and followed him to the porch. The old man pulled out two wooden chairs and asked them to sit down. Then he shouted a few times into the warehouse, and a young man came out with two tea cups and gave them to them.
The two poured two cups of black tea. Old man Xiuning asked them to wait and then hurriedly walked into the wooden building in the middle.
Steven took a sip of black tea and said to Kate: "It seems that the mercenary group's operation did not go well this time! I hope nothing happened to his team members."
Kate shook her head and said: "I'm afraid they are in some trouble! Only the leader came back, and he was so seriously injured, which means that his team members may not be able to come back. The dangers that the mercenary group faces now are all unknown.
The dangerous monsters that are born with the elemental tide have elemental abilities. Their abilities vary greatly depending on the type of elemental power and biological characteristics. Fighting them rashly without mastering key information may be in danger!
"
Steven said: "Those mercenaries should be carrying long guns! I would like to know if their flintlock guns are useful against those lions?"
Kate shook her head and said: "It's obviously useless. In a humid tropical climate, a heavy rain can make a flintlock less reliable. The best way is still to use bows, arrows, swords and spears."
The two were chatting about fighting against the monsters. Old man Xiuning ran out of the wooden building, came to the porch panting, and said to them: "Mr. Patterson, the chief engineer, wants to see you two. Gentlemen, you can accept the invitation."
?”
The two looked at each other, and Kate nodded in agreement: "Okay! Mr. Xiuning, please take us there."
Then, under the leadership of old man Xiuning, the two entered the wooden building, passed the stairs in the foyer and came to the door in the middle of the second floor. Xiuning knocked on the door a few times, then opened the door and let the two in.
There is an office of about tens of square meters. There is a large wooden table by the window with various messy drawings and documents on it. There are also a few wooden chairs scattered around the table. Behind the table stands
The man who was wearing a shirt and vest in the square just now was not wearing a hat. He was wearing silver-rimmed glasses. His blue eyes were looking at the two people who entered the room behind the lenses.
"Please sit down! Gentlemen, although you have an enviable healthy complexion due to the tropical sun, I am still sure that these two gentlemen are not immigrants from the New World, but graduates from a certain Grant College!
Oh, please allow me to introduce myself, I am Gray Patterson, the person in charge of the Yorktown to Pawnee Railway Project of the New Westin Company of the Southern Railway Company."
After saying the above words, Patterson leaned down slightly to greet the two of them. Steven nodded in return and said: "Nice to meet you, Mr. Patterson! I am Shi from the Principality of Götland.
Steven Lancelot, this is my companion and friend Kate Hopson, we are travelers who came to the New World together."
Patterson nodded and continued: "It's a pleasure to meet you two gentlemen, so let's get straight to the point. You two must already know about the man-eating lion, right?"
Steven replied: "We passed the work shed in Section C yesterday. Mr. Lerman has roughly told us the situation. Today we also saw injured members of the mercenary group in the square."
Patterson nodded and said: "Very good! You already know the general situation before. This mercenary group has a total of 7 people and set out four days ago with 10 construction site workers as logistics and two transport carriages loaded with supplies.
We followed the traces left by those lions deep into the grassland. The latest situation now is: the mercenary group and those man-eating lions encountered each other last night, but only the group leader Ert was injured and rescued by our workers.
After returning, the rest of the mercenaries may have been killed by those lions, and now the situation has become very difficult! It would take too much time to go to New Westin to find a new mercenary group! Although our people have stopped construction,
But as long as those man-eating lions still roam the grasslands, everyone in this area will face a huge threat!"
Steven nodded and said: "This is indeed a very difficult and urgent situation! How is Mr. Elt's situation?"
"He has woken up and is no longer in danger after being treated by doctors. However, one of his arms was torn off by a lion, which also ended his mercenary career. I am very sad about this!"