Kuronuma Wilderness, in a mountain to the northeast.
Gao Yuan, the leader of the Wildfire Bandits, was nestled in the room with a stove, wrapped in a fur coat, roasting over the fire while turning over the sweet potatoes on the coals.
"This dog day winter!" He shook his legs and expressed strong dissatisfaction with the weather.
With the resources he had, he could actually enjoy the treatment of turning on the air conditioner to blow warm air, but he felt that with the conditions on the mountain, it was not as comfortable as a coal stove.
Gao Yuan, who was extremely energetic by the cold wind that seeped into the room, couldn't help but think of the experience of going to a powerful city a few years ago - the group on the top floor lived in a place as warm as early summer in winter, and only needed to wear a single coat.
Gao Yuan inquired at the time, and was dizzy by a series of terms, only to know that the heat comes from the hot water burned by the large boiler, which flows along the pipes and flows in different areas of the room, bringing fairyland-like warmth.
After returning to this place called Tongshan, he tried to renovate his residence, but unfortunately failed, so he could only plan to go to a certain city to kidnap a few people who knew how to do it later.
At the same time, he also thought that when he got older, he was no longer suitable to be a robber, so he would take the accumulated resources, a few children and a beautiful slave girl to settle down with a big force.
It was comfortable and stable.
Just as Gao Yuan was baking sweet potatoes, his deputy Chi Qingliu knocked on his door.
"Boss, boss!" Chi Qingliu shouted while patting.
Gao Yuan stood up, adjusted his posture, and asked majestically:
"What's the matter?"
He is now less and less like a robber leader, but closer to those city lords and governors.
The wildfire bandits also go out to rob several times a year, mainly to plunder the population and enrich the miners, and the focus is completely on the copper mountain.
There is an abundance of copper mines here!
If it weren't for the remoteness of this place to a certain extent, the harsh environment to a certain extent, and the distance from the major forces enough, Gao Yuan would not have felt that such a bandit group could occupy the mountains as kings, and they would have almost developed into a small force.
Of course, he himself was an Awakened One, and the bandits later recruited several Awakened people, which was also one of the very important reasons, otherwise, even if they were not worried about the expansion of the big forces, they would encounter the fire of other bandit groups.
Every year when the "rootless people" drive their cars to transport away the copper mine, Gao Yuan is happy and scared.
What he was happy was that those copper mines had been exchanged for a large amount of resources, and what he was afraid of was that any strong person or large force suddenly became greedy, or knew the situation on the copper mountain side and made up his mind.
Chi Qingliu, who considers himself a military strategist, responded loudly to Gao Yuan's question:
"Guys found a good thing!"
"Come in." Gao Yuan looked at Chi Qingliu who opened the door and asked, "What is it?"
Chi Qingliu was a man in his early thirties, an awakened person recruited by the Wildfire Bandits after discovering the copper mine.
Hearing the boss's question, Chi Qingliu waved outside the door:
"Bring it in."
Several robbers took hunting nets and brought in items.
It was a small speaker with a black side on a blue background.
"That's it?" Gao Yuan raised his eyebrows.
Chi Qingliu hurriedly explained:
"This should be a prop involving the awakened person of the 'Mind Corridor'.
"After a few of them met, they cried and laughed, sang and danced, just like crazy, but fortunately, they were woken up by the people next to them in time, so they didn't freeze to death in the snow."
Items involving the Awakened "Mind Corridor"...... Gao Yuan became solemn all of a sudden.
This is a good thing!
If he hadn't been to a powerful city before and had come into contact with some nobles and merchants, he wouldn't even know what a "spiritual corridor" was and what a prop was.
"Where did you find it?" Gao Yuan asked.
One of the robbers smiled:
"Boss, I have nothing to do in this winter, except for eating, sleeping with women, gambling money, and being idle.
"We left the mining area today, planning to go to the nearby river, chisel the ice, and fish, but on the way, someone slid down the hillside and found this thing in the ruins of a village.
"We can't control it as soon as we touch it, and when we think about what you said, we think it should be a good thing."
Gao Yuan nodded:
"Put down your things, you go out first."
He thought for a while and added:
"Don't worry, it really needs to be useful, and your rewards will not be missing."
Only then did the robbers happily exit Gao Yuan's room, leaving behind the small speaker wrapped in the net.
When they were gone, Chi Qingliu looked at the prop on the ground and said to himself curiously:
"What power will this thing have......
"You have to try it to know." Gao Yuan recalled the knowledge he heard, "The price should be to let the person you encounter go crazy.
What does it mean that I won't have any problems? Chi Qingliu was stunned for a moment before he understood that the boss meant to let himself test what the item's ability was, after all, ordinary people couldn't use props.
He took a breath secretly, cursing in his belly, and squeezed out a smile and said:
"Okay."
Seeing him walking towards the small speaker with a black face on a blue background, Gao Yuan's heart moved:
"Wait a minute."
"Huh?" Chi Qingliu set his sights on the boss.
Gao Yuan walked towards him, crossed him, and moved away from him.
Seeing that the boss left the room, he was twenty or thirty meters away from himself, shivering in the cold wind, Chi Qingliu asked blankly:
"So far?"
"You can't go wrong with being careful!" Gao Yuan responded loudly, "Don't worry, you won't die when you enter a crazy state, I have time to wake you up!"
Chi Qingliu gritted his teeth, did a while of psychological construction, and slowly squatted down.
He stretched out his hand to the small speaker with a black face on a blue background, followed his understanding of electronic products in the old world and the method of using props that the boss said, spread his breath over the past, and pressed the switch.
With a bang, the voice that had already hit the loudest broke out:
"Come on, be happy, you have a lot of time anyway
"Come on, love, there are a lot of desires anyway......"
This song spread throughout the small half of the mining area, and every robber who heard it unconsciously smiled, twisted his body, and became happy.
They set their sights on their women or companions, with a yearning for love and burning desire in their eyes.
"Come on, wanderer, there are many directions anyway
"Come on, it's artificial, there are a lot of scenery ...... anyway" (Note 1)
Gao Yuan suddenly had an impulse, turned his body, and ran out of the mining area.
He wanted to go wandering.
He is going to be contrived.
A large number of robbers followed their bosses, left the mining area, and prepared to wander far away.
The place suddenly became empty, and only Chi Qingliu was left dancing to the music alone.
Bang!
A gunshot rang out, and Chi Qingliu fell.
Bai Chen, wearing a military exoskeleton device, put away the "Orange" rifle and followed Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong into the Tongshan mining area.
All four of them wore earplugs that blocked their singing.
After turning off the small speaker and cleaning up the scene, Jiang Baimian took off the earplugs, looked at Shang Jianyao and said:
"Why make things so troublesome and design so many links?
"With our strength, we can openly 'visit' the door."
Shang Jianyao smiled, pointed to the small speaker and said:
"As a member of our group, it's time for it to make meritorious contributions this time!"
After he explored the depths of the "Spiritual Corridor", he used his own breath to transform his beloved small speaker, making it a prop.
Jiang Baimian was speechless.
Long Yuehong looked around, and then asked the team leader:
"Why do we have to deal with this gang of robbers?"
"To save the miners here!" Shang Jianyao answered first.
Jiang Baimian exhaled and said:
"Let's get some supplies."
"Our supplies are enough to go back to the company, but we have to calculate the usage of high-performance batteries." Bai Chen responded.
Jiang Baimian laughed:
"It's not enough, we're not in a hurry to go back to the company next."
"Huh?" Long Yuehong's first reaction was that the team leader was going to defect.
However, what Shang Jianyao said was empty-handed, and he believed that Jiang Baimian would not be so impulsive.
Jiang Baimian pointed to the south and said:
"I plan to go back to the company and go to the ruins of Swamp No. 1 to confirm whether it is Dajiang City and whether it is the last Buddhist holy place.
"The written materials collected by Wang Beicheng and others before did not clearly indicate what the name of the ruins was in the old world, so we can only find them ourselves."
Moreover, she suspected that the company might have concealed information in this regard, so after hearing Shang Jianyao say those things, she made a quick decision and planned to take advantage of this training to explore the ruins of Swamp No. 1 again.
"But we didn't bring much equipment this time." Long Yuehong said hesitantly.
Because it is just training, the focus is on survival in the wild, the "old tune team" only applied for a military exoskeleton device and a set of black swamp iron snake bionic intelligent armor this time, and Long Yuehong had to admit that he suffered from under-equipment phobia.
Jiang Baimian smiled and said:
"That's enough, one for each of you, I don't need it for the time being."
"Hmm." Bai Chen nodded.
At this time, Shang Jianyao was fascinated:
"Maybe Xiao Chong hid there again."
Note 1: Quoted from "Itch", Huang Ling
(End of this chapter)