"Everyone stays on the trucks. No moving!" Captain Liu climbed down from the sedan and shouted at all the prisoners. He then instructed the guards behind him, "Full alert. If any prisoner dares get off and run, be ready to shoot at any time."
The armed guards on the trucks jumped down one after another, glaring like tigers at the prisoners. Captain Liu trudged through the thick snow to the broken-down truck. "What's wrong with it? Can it be fixed?"
The driver shook his head. "I only know how to drive. How would I know how to repair a vehicle? If we want it fixed, we'll have to bring in one of the veteran mechanics from the Agricultural Machinery Station in Loulan City."
"In snow this heavy, how are we supposed to bring someone here? Even if I use my sedan to fetch them, without the ruts pressed out by the trucks, the sedan won't get very far at all." Captain Liu was frantic. The sky was already darkening, and if the trucks had to spend the night out here, it would surely become a serious incident.
Seeing Captain Liu pacing in circles in desperation, utterly at a loss for the moment, Zhang Chen opened his eyes in the vehicle and said to Captain Liu, who was circling before it, "I might be able to give it a try."
Though his voice was soft, it carried with remarkable force, piercing through the goose-feather snow and reaching Captain Liu and the driver.
Zhang Chen had studied mechanics in university in his previous life. Coupled with his command of the Five Elements Authority and the power of electromagnetism, he was incomparably familiar with how engines worked.
"You can do it?" Captain Liu followed the voice and looked toward Zhang Chen, squeezed onto