Chapter 176.1: Many Thanks For Nature's Gift

On the way back, Yin Fang held the holographic video tape tightly in his arms, with a solemn expression, as if he was holding his own child.

Moreover, his right hand was also stroking it repeatedly, almost making the object lose its luster.

Geez...

Fortunately, I remembered the password.

Chu Guang felt so cringy that he couldn't help but turn his face away. However, at this moment, Yin Fang suddenly looked at him with bright eyes. "If I bring this thing back, do you think the Academy will let me go? You can have that box, I don't want anything."

Chu Guang rolled his eyes at him. "Just because I'm kind to you, you think I'm really a fool?"

Yin Fang was taken aback for a moment.

Chu Guang stretched out his hand casually, and took the box from Yin Fang's arms without much effort.

"You know what? I'm already very benevolent that I didn't kill you immediately."

Looking at the young man whose face was gradually turning pale, Chu Guang did not continue to frighten him but patted him on the shoulder with a smile. "You know when I just came to this world...

Ahem

, I mean... Do you know what happened when I just woke up?"

Yin Fang swallowed, his voice trembling slightly. "What happened..."

"I encountered a dog with two heads. It was like it came straight out of hell to take me away from this world," Chu Guang said casually, stuffing the holographic video into his pocket, "If I was a little slower, maybe I would've been already dead. In fact, I later found out that if I ran either east or north, I would also be dead. I was able to survive all due to my luck. I cherish my life greatly, so I’ll give you some advice... It is best not to make me think you are a threat."

To the west was the lake, so it was a dead end. Going to the north meant that he would bump into marauders. As for going east, he would most likely end up being cooked by mutant humans. No matter which one was them, it was an ending that was worse than death.

Even in retrospect, Chu Guang still couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat for himself.

Yin Fang's mouth was wide open, his expression looked a little blank.

Chu Guang ignored him, folded his arms and closed his eyes, arranging the information he had obtained from the videotape earlier, and thinking about how to edit it later to update the holographic image on the official website.

The few players sitting in the truck looked at each other with confused expressions, feeling like they were watching a foreign movie without subtitles.

Spring Water Commander beckoned to Battlefield Cheerleader, signaling him to come closer, and said in a low voice. "Do you know when the administrator will give us the reward?"

"I don't know... Shall we ask him?" Bro Battlefield Cheerleader was also confused.

Both of them were embarrassed to speak first.

At this time, Darkest, who had been silent for a while, spoke up. "Dear administrator, is our mission completed?"

Seeing the expectant eyes of players, Chu Guang suddenly realized that he seemed to have forgotten to give the money.

With a dignified expression on his face, he nodded calmly and said. "You guys have done a great job."

After thinking about it, Chu Guang finally chose an appropriate reward to give the players. He selected a pre-edited mission reward on the VM and clicked send.

[Notice:

Triggering a hidden branch plot

]

[Reward:

10 silver coins, 100 contribution points

]

As for the nurturing cabins on the truck, sorting them out would be the job of the warehouse manager, and Chu Guang was not responsible for helping them calculate how much the trash they picked up was worth.

Seeing the prompt pop up on the VM screen, the players started to become excited.

Not to mention 10 silver coins, there was also a 100 contribution points reward after the cut scene!

This is so awesome!

Seeing them so happy, Chu Guang was also pleased.

If only everyone in the wasteland were as easy to please as his players.

The truck drove straight in the direction of Longevity Town.

However, at this moment, there was a sudden sound of gunshots in the distance. The bullets whizzed past the truck, and one of them actually hit the front window.

"Enemy!"

"It's marauders!"

There were a lot of people on the opposite side. There were at least 30 gunshots in that round of salvo, but these people were obviously not trained. With bad equipment and firing at such a distance, they actually didn't hit anyone.

The player driving the truck was very calm. Seeing the bullets coming from the front, he didn't panic at all.

While preventing the engine from being damaged, he pulled the handbrake and slowly slid the truck on the snow until it came to a full stop. Then he grabbed the rifle and jumped out of the truck.

"Those with bolt action rifles stay at the back, and the brothers with the assault rifles follow me! Let's flank them!”

"

Awoo, awoo, awoo!

"

"Here we go!"

The eyes of the players on the truck were red with excitement, and they jumped out of the truck, leaving Spring Water Commander behind.

Although he also wanted to join the fight, sadly, he only had a pistol on him. He wouldn't be able to hit anyone at such a long distance, and he was afraid of losing his equipment if he was too close. He could only shout loudly. "Don't worry guys, I'll guard the truck!"

After saying that, he symbolically fired a shot in the direction of the enemy. Regardless of whether he hit anyone or not, he was with them in spirit.

Bullets were whizzing through the air, and Yin Fang, who stood up from the truck covering his head, looked around nervously. "What's going on?!"

Is it the people hired by the Academy?!

"Don't worry, it's just a small problem." Chu Guang held the hammer in his right hand, but after seeing the situation on the opposite side, he smacked his lips and took out the Gauss Rifle.

It had a magazine containing the inferior version of the original ammunition, which might be a little bit difficult to penetrate armor, but it was more than enough to fight soldiers like that

...

Meanwhile, behind the snowdrift 300 meters away in front of the truck, there were about thirty men in dark blue uniforms lying on their stomachs.

They held uniform iron-barreled rifles in their hands, and at first glance, they were squad leaders of the Army, but they didn't seem to be leading any soldiers, and they all looked exhausted and malnourished.

The bald-headed man with tattoos on his face held a loudspeaker made of rolled iron in his hand, and shouted loudly from behind the cover. "The people in the truck! Listen up! You are surrounded by the Army! Drop your weapons and surrender immediately! Otherwise, you will be punished severely by the Army!"

However, after shouting for a long time, there was still no response. And as if the other side didn't hear him, the bullets were still whizzing over their heads, or repeatedly hitting the cover before them.

The man with the mohawk hair looked nervously at the bald-headed leader beside him, and said in a panic, "Boss! These people... They are not easy to deal with!"

The opponent's morale didn't seem to be affected by their attack!

He even felt that as soon as his leader yelled, the other side counterattacked even more fiercely.

The bald head slapped him on the head and cursed, "Useless coward! What's there to be scared of!? Including the driver, there are only nine of them. We have thirty-two people with guns here, but you are doubting that we can't take them out?! Shoot them! Don't let them run away!"

After saying that, he added, "By the way, don't kill them all! We need to keep two hostages, so we can ask the people in their camp for ransom!"

The bald man was called Tu. He was originally a marauder active in the middle of the River Valley Province. As to why he came to the southernmost part of the River Valley Province, that was a long story.

The Army fought with the people of the Great Rift Valley in the north for a whole year, and the progress had not been very smooth. A few days ago, it even suffered a major defeat. Many of General Klaas's men had died. The rest who hadn’t suffered wounds of varying degree and they fled. The entire force was routed like a mountain slide.

According to a guy who fled from the north, the remnants of the Army were like locusts; everywhere they went would become a barren land, and even mutants were scared of them.

Tu naturally didn't believe in that kind of nonsense. He just thought that the idiot didn't want to be eaten by him and made up the lie to fool him.

Army?

Oh, isn't that the force defeated by the Great Rift Valley?

Even if they came here, they will just end up giving me all their equipment!

However, what Tu didn't expect was that on the third day after he bragged about making the skull of the army commander into a chamber pot to his men, the deserters of the army really came to the small town near his camp.

There weren't many people who came at first, just nine squad leaders and none of their clone slaves. Those people may have been driven crazy by the war or lost their minds due to the amount of losses they suffered. In short, their eyes were bloodshot and they would shoot anyone they saw without a word of warning.

Having over a hundred brothers under his command, Tu naturally wouldn't be afraid of them, so he surrounded the remnant members of the Army, and sure enough, he dealt with the other side in no time.

However, something that made Tu angry happened. They were fighting against nine people with more than a hundred people, but they ended up losing nine people as well. He was so angry that he killed the only prisoner he caught on the spot, completely forgetting about the ransom!

But it was far from over. After two days, another wave of deserters came. This time, there were a few more squad leaders. There were around twelve squad leaders and seventeen or eighteen clone slaves. They didn't kill anyone they saw, like the previous batch of lunatics, but picked a place where the survivors lived and occupied it.

That was a settlement which regularly paid Tu a protection fee. Seeing that his free laborers were gone, Tu was unable to accept his loss and summoned his men to attack the settlement.

However, the losses he suffered were even worse. He was stunned by the fact that he lost nearly one-third of his men, and if it weren't for the fact that his opponents ran out of bullets, he would've lost.

Tu was really frightened because of that and he finally realized the horror of the locust that was the Army. Within a week, nearly forty of his brothers died, and many were wounded.

Even if they lived by looting, they couldn't bear such exaggerated losses.

So when he heard that there were more Army's deserters coming, Tu was so frightened that he didn't dare to fight again. He simply took his men, packed up his stuff and ran south.

After going through many bumps along the way, half of the people had been scattered on the road. But they finally found a survivor's stronghold that seemed to be rich in resources.

However, the people there didn't look very easy to mess with. The soldiers standing on the wall all held uniform rifles, and the smoke floating in the camp never stopped. They could only see that there were a hundred people living outside, but they couldn't tell how many people were inside.

Tu didn't act rashly. He didn't even dare to get too close. He just found a high place in the north and looked at the survivor stronghold with his binoculars.

After waiting for two days, when his brothers almost ran out of patience, they finally got an opportunity.

A truck left the stronghold and headed for the abandoned city to the north. There were not many people on the truck.

Tu did not hesitate. He immediately seized the opportunity and led people to lay an ambush on their way back. He wanted to take them out in one fell swoop.

However, to Tu's surprise, things didn't seem to go as smoothly as he expected. After those people were hit head on, not only did they not panic as expected, but they even flanked them.

The next second, something suddenly exploded beside him, making a "pop" sound, startling Tu, who was about to stick his head out of the cover to open fire.

"Fuck, what the fuck was that?!" Tu turned his head abruptly. But what he saw next stunned him silly.

As if being hit by an artillery shell, one of his men's brain was blown away, leaving only blood gushing out of his neck.

Before he could react, another explosion came from the side.