Wow...
It seemed that he was ready. As soon as the village chief shouted, chaotic footsteps immediately sounded in the distance.
The women and children who had gathered in front of the door and watched the excitement hurriedly moved away, leaving the open space at the door. Then from several corners of the village, a dozen young and strong young men crowded over, each holding a submachine gun in their arms, with rounds of bullets wrapped around their bodies. They stood in a neat row in front of the door, with simple smiles on their faces, looking at Lu Xin with enthusiasm and expectation.
The village chief smiled and said, "Guest, take a look, how is this specialty?"
"Our village has nothing but guns and a lot of bullets."
"..."
"This... looks very good..."
Lu Xin took a serious look at the guns and ammunition wrapped around those young people, and couldn't help but praise them.
Who would have thought that such a small arsenal was hidden in this small village?
The village chief smiled and narrowed his eyes, as if he was satisfied with Lu Xin's reaction. With the wrinkled corners of his eyes, he began to scan all the things in front of Lu Xin that he had eaten or had not eaten but had served. At the same time, he took out an old small abacus from behind.
"But I actually have something like this."
Lu Xin didn't wait for the village chief to start calculating, he answered with a smile, and then picked it up in the bag he had brought with him.
He took out a revolver and placed it on the table.
The village chief glanced down and said with a smile, "Not bad, but your specialties are much less than ours."
"I still have it."
Lu Xin answered with a smile, and then took out the newly equipped electronic remote control key that his off-road vehicle was equipped with before setting off.
He waved it in front of the village chief, and then pressed a red button on it.
There was only a "woo" sound. The Steel Monster, which had just been washed clean with the help of enthusiastic villagers, revealing its original black and thick background, suddenly started automatically and quickly retreated to the door.
The next moment, only a few clicks were heard.
On the roof and front of the car, steel plates bounced off, and several dark cluster gun barrels stuck out.
It seemed like weird eyes were staring at the people around them.
Especially the trunk, which actively bounced open. A silver electronic mechanical dog stood up, with a gun barrel ejected from its body, and turned left and right. The black barrel kept sweeping around the faces of the people around it, as if looking for an angle to aim at.
Wow...
The crowd watching the excitement suddenly disappeared, and they were looking behind the wall.
The young men holding the guns were suddenly frightened. They all raised their guns and aimed at the car as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
It's just that his face looks very weird. I don't know who will suffer the greater loss if he shoots at this car...
"This..."
The village chief, who was nearly two meters tall, was also frightened, and the age spots on his face were trembling slightly.
Lu Xin looked at him and smiled, "My specialty, looks pretty good, right?"
He was really a little proud.
Even he didn't know that in just one day, Special Purity Department had decorated his off-road vehicle like this.
I have to admit that in this situation where there is a knowledgeable audience and I have something worth showing off, it feels really good to show something unexpectedly and then appreciate the envious and a little scared eyes of others...
"Very good, very good..."
The village chief was stunned for a few seconds before he came to his senses and said with an awkward smile, "The guests' things are much better than ours."
Then he lectured the young people. "Hurry up and put your things away. Isn't it shameful to make gestures?"
A group of young people suddenly felt as if they had been granted amnesty. They hurriedly put away their guns and trotted toward the village.
"Anyway, thank you so much."
Lu Xin looked at the village chief with gratitude and said, "I asked you to help me lift the car, wash the car, and repair the car. Look at this, you are so enthusiastic and entertained me with so much food. This is really one of the most welcoming places I have ever seen."
"But it's not easy in the village. Please accept this little thought..."
"..."
As he said that, he took out two fifty-yuan notes from the bag. He was about to hand them over, but after thinking about it, he took back one.
"This..."
The village chief glanced at the banknotes Lu Xin took back. He was a little dazed, but he quickly reacted and said with a smile:
"No, no, no."
"What's the value of a little help?"
"No, no, I must accept it, otherwise I will feel bad."
"Oh, guest, you are too polite..."
"It should, it should..."
"..."
After some pushing and pushing, Lu Xin insisted and put the fifty yuan into the village chief's hand, and suddenly his worries were gone.
When we started to eat again, there was nothing to worry about. We also laughed and chatted about our daily life, "The roads here are not easy to walk, and the map seems to be messy. I originally wanted to go to Kindling City, but I don't know why, so I ran along the road for dozens of miles. Looking at the map, it seems that it is still further. Village Chief, if you want to go to Kindling City, which road do you usually take?"
"Kindling City? That's the inner city, you have to go through the goods lane."
Upon hearing this, the village chief pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "You are indeed on the wrong road. If you come from Qinggang, enter the A-line cargo lane directly, follow the cargo lane, and go straight to the big cities in the east district, you can go to Kindling City smoothly. Now that you are coming to us, you are already in the wasteland of the west. It is not easy to walk on the trail. Your car is too big. I can show you the way to the cargo lane."
"Cargo lane?"
Lu Xin was slightly startled and hurriedly asked carefully.
The village chief explained, "The cargo roads are the main roads built by Kindling Company. They are specially used for transporting goods. They are very flat and suitable for large trucks. They are fuel-efficient and fast. However, ordinary people are not allowed to use them. You need to go to the agent to declare, pay the toll, and get the approval slip before you can pass the checkpoint and enter the cargo road. Then you can go directly to Kindling City."
"Is there such a good road here?"
Lu Xin thought to himself and asked carefully.
After listening to the village chief's explanation, I realized that Land of Chaos was also roughly divided into Seed Mining Company.
With the skyscraper of the Fire Group as the center, Kindling City, the core of Land of Chaos, is delineated. The large and small gathering points and towns around Kindling City are divided into four major regions, southeast, northwest and northwest, similar to the four large branches. Outside the four major regions, there is a large area of "wasteland", which is a place that although it is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Fire Group, the people of the Fire Group usually don't bother to pay attention to it.
Land of Chaos actually refers to the wasteland outside these four regions.
In such a wasteland, there is no so-called regional division and administrative structure such as town mayors. Instead, it is divided into small areas. Each small area has an agent who is responsible to the four major areas, purchasing materials, distributing supplies, etc. for them.
And this so-called cargo lane is Huozhong's exclusive internal transportation network, a long and wide main road.
"In this case, it's really a problem to go to Kindling City smoothly..."
Lu Xin has seriously considered this issue.
In fact, I was very lucky today. I met such a sensible village chief and avoided a lot of trouble.
But if you continue to walk on the small road, firstly, you may still fall into a pit, and secondly, there may be many similar extortions and robberies.
I may not always encounter people as sensible as the people in this village. If someone wants to kill me, for the sake of fairness, I have to kill them. However, if I encounter too many people along the way, wouldn't I have to kill a lot of people?
Lu Xin doesn't want to kill too many people, he doesn't like it.
In this case, the only way to go is to go find an agent as the village chief said, right?
In order not to give those people a chance to be killed by me, I paid the toll that could have been saved...
... Oh, just think of it as your own compromise with this world!
"In that case, I can also go to an agent?"
Lu Xin thought for a while and asked this question.
"Okay, the agent takes care of everything. As long as you have money, I can do anything for you..."
The village chief said, "Whether it's the usual tolls on the goods lane, the usual tax collection, or whether there's a fight between the two sides, all things in the wasteland are under his control. Hey, here, because we lost the fight with the gathering point next door last time, a lot of things and wives were robbed, so now we don't even know how to pay the taxes for the next season..."
"Well..."
Lu Xin was thoughtful and suddenly said, "Is that why you want to rob me?"
"How can this be..."
The village chief said confidently, "In terms of technical means, what we are doing is extortion at most, but it is not a robbery."
"..."
Faced with such a detailed division of work types, Lu Xin could only admit that what he said made sense.
Shaking his head slightly, since the other party was so honest, Lu Xin also said, "But, this is not very good after all, right?"
"Whether it's robbery or extortion, it's illegal..."
"..."
"Guest, what you said is wrong."
The village chief actually directly refuted Lu Xin's words, saying, "We can't live anymore, why are we afraid of breaking the law?"
Then he glared at the door. "You idiot, you are eating rocks again, put it down."
Lu Xin turned around and saw a child with a runny nose squatting at the door, holding a stone and licking it there. While licking, he looked at the sausage on his table. His eyes shone, as if he tasted the sausage at a glance, and he licked it even more happily.
Lu Xin looked at it, feeling a little unbearable, and took a sausage and handed it to him. "Here you can eat."
"Hey..."
The village chief immediately wanted to stop him, but the child was already surprised and happy, and came over with a "swish" sound and snatched away the sausage.
Seeing him wolfing down the food, Lu Xin felt very good.
"You..."
The village chief didn't know what to say, as if what Lu Xin did was embarrassing.
Lu Xin also quickly discovered that something was wrong. After the three idiots took away the sausages, a short while later, a small crowd of black heads crowded at the door, looking at him pitifully. He was slightly startled, turned his head, and saw that the village chief had carefully put away the sausages on the table, not only the sausages, but also the steamed buns and thick flour pancakes.
"Stingy like that..."
Lu Xin gave the village chief a dissatisfied look, walked to his car, took out a box of canned beef and noodles, and placed them at the door.
"Get it yourself!"
Seeing the children swarming up, holding them in their hands and carrying them in their arms, he felt very good.
The village chief looked at this scene and didn't know what to say. He seemed to feel that Lu Xin was dissatisfied with him. He put down the steamed buns and dry flour pancakes and said, "This is how the village is. No one wants to let Kid go hungry, right?"
As he spoke, he shook his head. "But you don't know how ruthless the agents are in collecting taxes. The knights come to rob things, but they don't care. They turn around and say that they can collect as much tax as they want. There is not enough food to grow such things in the field. I leave it all to them, but when I look back, I still owe them a lot. What should I do if I can't survive? Of course I have to find a way to get some food..."
"But once we talk about it, we still abide by the rules."
"..."
Lu Xin was almost ready to understand him, but suddenly he was startled. "You have started blackmailing, and you still abide by the rules?"
"Of course..."
The village chief even said with some pride, "When guests come to our village, we will help them as much as they need to, take care of them as much as possible, and provide food and drink as much as possible. Even if they want to entertain themselves with a show, we will do our best to provide them. In the end, no matter how much money the guests have, we are not greedy. We neither kill nor hurt others. After robbing, we always leave some traveling expenses for them, so that they can go back alive..."
"Tell me, are we a decent person?"
"..."
"Huh?"
Lu Xin felt a little brighter in his mind.
Let me tell you why I feel that what the village chief said makes sense...
It's understandable if you can't survive anymore, so you grab some points and extort some points, right?
Being able to keep some boundaries aside from robbery and extortion seems to be a rule-abiding person...
I felt like I accidentally heard a profound philosophy of life. Lu Xin, who usually doesn't like to talk very much, gradually started to chat. The two of them chatted happily, and soon they became very good friends.
The village chief not only told Lu Xin about the situation and rules here in detail, but also pointed out the way to the agent.
Because of his enthusiasm, Lu Xin even left an extra fifty yuan when he left.
Before leaving, many people in the village enthusiastically came to see him off, waving their hands to Lu Xin in a friendly way and seeing him off from the village.
The village chief personally took people to escort Lu Xin for a while to prevent him from getting stuck in the surrounding ditch again.
After all, they dug these trenches themselves and know the location better.
When it was time to say goodbye, he warned Lu Xin with great concern, "Guest, remember, when you go to an agent's place, you must abide by the rules. Don't say things you shouldn't say, and don't do things you shouldn't do. Your specialty is nothing to others. We are all honest people. We must not try to be clever by others. Only by following the rules can we live longer..."
"Okay, okay, don't worry, go back!"
Lu Xin smiled and assured him, "I have always followed the rules..."
After saying that, he waved goodbye to them and rushed towards the agent's office in a good mood.