The few people had just walked less than a hundred meters when another convoy of more than a dozen vehicles drove quickly towards Bergondo from the east.
Jack nervously picked up the telescope and looked at it, "It's the armed forces of another large settlement... What is going on?"
Qiu Yu shook his head, "I don't know, anyway, for us, the more people from different organizations, the safer we are."
After walking for more than ten minutes, we could already see a small town built on the seaside in the distance, as well as a large campground standing outside the town.
It seemed that in addition to the two convoys we had just seen, more people had arrived there, but for unknown reasons, they did not enter the town, but chose to camp in the wilderness a few hundred meters outside the town.
"What are you doing..." Qian Xiao stopped, "I always feel uneasy. How about we set up a tent here first and observe."
"It's faster to ask questions than to observe." As Qiu Yu spoke, he stopped, turned around and looked behind.
Coulomb also looked back. A small dot was getting bigger and bigger. After a few seconds, he realized that it was an oncoming car.
Jack, who had used the telescope, saw the situation more clearly than what he saw. It was a large truck, and the front part was severely damaged. It was reinforced with wooden strips and wire. Even so, the truck
During exercise, various joint parts also show signs of falling apart at any time.
"Is it dangerous? Is it dangerous? Should we avoid it, or should we attack first?" Qian Xiao shouted, grabbing two small pistols from his bag.
Jack hesitated for a moment, "They seem to be people from small organizations or settlements who have difficulty even protecting themselves. As long as we don't show hostility, there shouldn't be any conflicts."
Qian Xiao immediately put the pistol back and stood sideways with an honest look on his face, as if he was specifically making way for the truck.
"Say hello." As soon as Qiu Yu finished speaking, he already waved to the oncoming truck.
Jack and Coulun looked at each other with a wry smile and stood next to Qiu Yu. Although the muzzle of the gun was pointed at the ground, their hand was already on the trigger.
The truck started to slow down at a constant speed when it was about 100 meters away from the people, but stopped more than 20 meters away. This was not because the driver deliberately wanted to keep the distance, but because there was something inside the car.
A poor state to match the tattered exterior.
The driver of the car seemed to find this situation a bit embarrassing, and started the car several times in succession, but the car just whined lowly and was unwilling to move even half a step.
In the passenger seat, a strong man with well-developed muscles could still be seen even though he was wearing loose clothes. He took off his sunglasses and observed the people twenty meters away for a while.
Whether it's the weapon flashing with new light in Jack Coulomb's hand, or the fat man behind him with sharp eyes like a poisonous snake, they all illustrate their danger.
"Stop trying, leave two people to see if they can fix the car, and everyone else gets out of the car."
After giving orders to the people in the driver's seat, the strong man jumped out of the car and walked towards the people in front of him. Although it looked like he was simply walking, the center of gravity of the footprints left on the ground was tilted to the right.
As long as the people in front show signs of attack, he can save a few tenths of a second in evasion.
"Hey guys, how can we help you?" The big man stopped when he was a few meters away.
In just a few seconds, more than a dozen people had jumped out of the truck, but none of them looked like experienced warriors or hunters. Looking at Qiu Yu and the others who were blocking the road, not only did they not step forward to cheer the big man, but they seemed to have some
He was so frightened that he hid by the car and didn't dare to come up.
Qiu Yu pointed to the big bag behind him, "As you can see, we are traveling businessmen who plan to do small business in Bergondo, but now it seems that something happened in Bergondo, so I want to inquire.
, can we still go on?"
As Qiu Yu spoke, he took another sip of the Coke in his hand, and then threw the remaining half of the bottle to the big man.
After the other party took the Coke, he obviously hesitated for a moment, but still put it to his mouth and took a sip. As the Coke entered the mouth, a brief surprise appeared on the strong man's face, and at the same time, there was a sense of vigilance with hostility.
It was reduced a lot in an instant.
"No wonder, traveling merchants always have a lot of good stuff."
The strong man threw the Coke back at Qiu Yu. After seeing Qiu Yu shake his head, he quickly put the Coke into his bag, and the smile on his face became thicker, "It's really not true.
I know whether you have good luck or bad luck. However, I think you have more good luck."
"oh?"
"It's like this. Bergondo no longer exists. To be more precise, all the members of the Bergondo organization that occupied the small town in front have been killed."
Seeing the shocked look on Qiu Yu's face, the strong man continued with satisfaction, "I heard that the ones who killed them were some monsters that emerged from the sea..."
Hearing this, Qiu Yu's face showed real shock. You must know that he had "accidentally" gathered a lot of information to deduce the origin of those monsters, and people from this backward world could actually do it so quickly.
I discovered this, maybe...
In order to be worthy of the reward he had just received, the strong man told everything he knew, "Someone paid a large amount of reward to find someone to hunt and kill the monster that destroyed Bergondo. Those who are camping in front now are
Because you want these rewards, you have gathered from all over the place. Although you can no longer do business with Bergondo, you can now do business with other organizations."
"You're here for reward too?"
The strong man shrugged, "That's right, but the most we can do is join in the fun and see if we can get some bargains. Even if we can't kill the monsters, it would be nice to get something that others don't like."
"Who posted the reward information?"
"I don't know about that." The strong man shook his head and said, "It's all through letters from people in bars in various places, saying that the people who posted the rewards will also come when the time comes. As long as you kill the monsters and hand them over directly to them, you will be there immediately.
You can get paid. Because there are guarantees from bars and some big organizations, this should not be fake."
"Then how are you sure the monsters are still there? If they have all run away, wouldn't all these people run away in vain?"
"Hey, it's impossible to run away in vain. I heard that the town has completely changed. It's absolutely impossible to find something to kill." The strong man spread his hands, "But that's all I know.
, and for the rest, you can go to the front and ask about it."
"It looks like you are going to be delayed for a while longer, so let's go over there first."
Qiu Yu saw that everyone except the strong men were very defensive towards his side. Since he already knew everything he needed to know, there was no need to waste time here.
I had planned to hire this strong man just now, but firstly, he didn’t know the ins and outs like Coulomb and Jack, and he still owed me a huge favor, so I was afraid that something would go wrong at the critical moment. Secondly, besides the strong man in their car,
Hanwai doesn't look like they are better than themselves. Hiring someone will bring a lot of burden, which is obviously a loss-making business.
The strong man was also a smart man. Seeing that Qiu Yu was leaving first, after nodding goodbye, he immediately went back to rectify his motley team.
After walking a few dozen meters, Qian Xiao immediately whispered into Qiu Yu's ear, "Did Sima Tianzhi do it?"
What Qian Xiao was referring to was, of course, hiring people to kill monsters.
"Well... if you want to say it, it really sounds like something he would do."
"But if it's really Sima Tianzhi, what's the use of finding someone to kill monsters? Could it be that..." Qian Xiao thought for a moment and then asked, "Could it be that he used killing monsters as an excuse and then concentrated his efforts to fight into the sea?"
"It's very possible." Qiu Yu sighed, "When I just hired two people to make a small fuss, others have already thought of hiring thousands of people to do something big."
Qian Xiao curled his lips and said, "Tch, I don't believe you didn't think of this. It's just that you thought these people wouldn't have much effect, so that's why you didn't do it, right?"
"Not entirely." Qiu Yu sighed again, "To say that it has an effect, it definitely has it, and it's not small. But rather than letting them go to the sea to pave the way for us, I think letting them live and develop in this game will help.
It plays a bigger role.”
"Then...should we stop him?" Qian Xiao's tone was hesitant.
"That's not necessary. Just because I don't want to do it doesn't mean I don't want others to do it. What if I pay a price to stop someone who has the same goal as us, and finally find out that it was me who was wrong?"
Qian smiled and wiped his sweat, "It's really a cunning gamble. If you lose, others lose, but if you win, you keep the money."
Qiu Yu smiled bitterly, but made no excuse.
After approaching the camp, without the obstruction of all kinds of messy things, Qiu Yu finally understood what the strong man meant when he said that the town had completely changed.
Clusters of green plants are climbing on the shadows of the low walls of the town. Every time the sun shifts a little, the extra shadows are immediately occupied by new plants. However, the plants that are directly hit by the sun are not
It stayed in place waiting for death, but gradually curled back and shrank.
Some fist-sized insects were dormant under the leaves of the plants, staring coldly at these uninvited guests in the distance, as if they were calm and ready to deliver a fatal blow at any time.
Qian Xiao muttered in confusion, "Are these aliens here to help the earth improve the ecological environment?"
Qiu Yu pondered for a moment, "Improving the ecological environment is true, but it does not help us transform it."
These camps seemed to be connected together, but they were clearly divided into areas. After Qiuyu and the others passed through several areas occupied by different organizations, they finally attracted attention.
A man with similar attire to Jack waved to several people at the door of a large tent more than ten meters away and shouted, "Are you a traveling businessman? Come here, we need to change some things."