By one o'clock in the morning, the outside temperature had dropped to more than ten degrees below zero.
Lying on the snow, Chen Shen should have been cold.
Not only could he not feel the slightest bit of cold, but instead he had a burning feeling of anxiety and irritability gathering in his heart.
"How long does it take for Captain Li Hu to bring someone here?"
After hearing Chen Shen's question, the soldier who had just finished contacting him with his mobile phone quickly said: "Village Chief, there are about ten minutes left."
"good!"
Upon hearing that there were still ten minutes left, Chen Shen could only suppress his thoughts for the time being and force himself to calm down.
While he was telling people to go back and get the telescope, he had already determined a fact with the simple telescope in his hand.
Someone.
There are people in this mysterious building complex.
And there are quite a few of them!
The confirmation of these three points is almost certain.
This is probably one of the most difficult situations that anyone has encountered since arriving in the New World!
Four or five minutes passed with such anxious waiting.
The soldier who had gone to the rear vehicle to get the telescope finally came back and rushed over with a box half as tall as a man.
What is contained here is the treasure of Hope Village.
An ultra-long-distance telescope with a physical magnification of up to fifteen times was won from a lucky man's lucky bag.
Under the extremely large light entrance of this telescope, even if there is very little light in the wilderness at night, it is far from enough for observation.
But it is far better than the optical zoom that manufacturers in the civilized era used to promote mobile phones.
In a few clicks, I set up the tripod of the telescope and quickly assembled the lens barrel.
Chen Shen couldn't wait to raise his head, put his eyes on the observation port, and began to carefully observe the mysterious building complex falling from the sky for the first time.
"hiss"
Looking inside from the outside, with just a quick glance, Chen Shen took a deep breath.
The previous vague observations could only confirm that the other party's architectural structure must be much more advanced than the village, at least on par with the earth in the civilized era.
Looking at it now, I am afraid that it is not only the same, but even worse.
Go beyond something!
For the outermost gate, the village used ready-made stones as the foundation, cast steel as the skeleton, and a wooden sign on the top as the village's signboard.
As for the door of this mysterious building complex, the entire door is made of unknown materials. The entire door looks like one piece, and there is no trace of splicing at all.
Especially on its signboard, there are many weird-shaped decorations hanging.
"It's so strange. This architectural style looks like a human handiwork."
"But this little detail, why is it just so Cthulhu?"
Staring at the dried tentacles on the sign and looking at the carapace of various creatures hanging next to them, Chen Shen murmured and shuddered all over.
The practice of hanging a sign on the door to show one's identity is widely used in human gathering places, and it is difficult to see foreigners imitating it.
corresponding.
Hanging some prey heads or corpses on the gate is an alien style, and few fools in human gathering places would be so ostentatious.
But when it comes to hanging both a sign and a head, such a fusion, few people have ever seen it.
After all, until now, there are no human beings who can truly integrate with alien races, and there is no alien group that allows humans to occupy half of the sky.
I didn't find what I wanted in the place where I could best get the information.
Chen Shen pursed his lips, swallowed saliva to moisten his dry throat, and continued to look at the most conspicuous place in the building complex.
Central bonfire!
Under the firelight here, Chen Shen used his portable binoculars before and could roughly see a figure flickering among them, but he could not see the figure's specific appearance or appearance.
Nowadays, with a large telescope, although the distance is still blurry due to the light.
But it is much better than before!
Chasing one of the figures that had just appeared, Chen Shen stared at it carefully without blinking, waiting patiently for it to pass by the light of the fire.
About ten seconds later.
A figure flashed past.
Seeing this, Chen Shen immediately felt relieved.
Then, I became inexplicably nervous and excited.
"Chen Yu, tell Captain Li Hu not to alert the enemy first."
"Let him park his car three kilometers away and come here on foot like us."
"There are people in the buildings where this group came, and there is a high probability that they are us humans."
"Their strength looks pretty good. If they have weapons in their hands, they are no match for us in a hurry!"
It was clear that the people walking through this mysterious building complex were indeed human beings.
Walk on two legs.
Two arms hold supplies.
Chen Shen turned his head, thought for a while, and carefully arranged a few sentences.
As long as they are not aliens and are human beings, it doesn't matter what the other party's identity is.
Being from the same clan, there is always a chance to talk.
At that time, if the other party is unwilling to negotiate, with the buffer time and the home field advantage, it will not be a big problem.
But if the other party is willing to negotiate.
"This is an opportunity!"
"If the other party is willing to join our territory and become a subsidiary village."
"I'm afraid the director will be extremely happy when he comes back!"
Thinking of this, Chen Shen secretly clenched his fists and became a little more determined.
As the village chief, Chen Shen knew clearly.
What exactly was Somo doing when he went into the mountains this time?
For other management, Sumo went in to find out the details of the mysterious enemy, and also to find the missing Marshal Wang and others.
Those words told to the villagers in order to rescue more survivors were just excuses to comfort everyone.
It cannot be taken seriously.
After all, it is so difficult to bring hundreds of people back all the way from a mountain thousands of miles away that it gives people a headache just thinking about it.
But only Chen Shen knew that speaking these words to the villagers was probably Somo's real purpose!
There are too few people in the village, which is not enough to support the recovery of science and technology in the civilized era, nor is it enough to support the further improvement of productivity!
Population, if we don’t grab it now.
After waiting for two months or three months, humans spread out further and hid deeper.
Waiting for three disasters and five disasters, the number of humans in the New World continues to decline sharply due to natural disasters.
By then, I’m afraid it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack!
"Village Chief, Captain Li Hu has already notified us and they will be here soon."
Chen Shen nodded quickly: "Sure, go and pick them up. Make sure they are careful and don't expose our whereabouts!"
The instructions are completed.
Arranged properly.
Watching the soldier who reported the news go away, Chen Shen turned his head and continued to focus his attention on the direction of the building complex.
Different from the anxious mood before, now that he knew that the other party was a human being, Chen Shen suddenly calmed down a lot.
Even while observing, he still thought about how to communicate and negotiate with the other party.
"First of all, we must not expose the identity of the director and the location of the territory. This is our last trump card. We must know it well."
"Secondly, if we really can't reach an agreement, we can delay it as long as possible. Finally, wait until the director comes back to talk again. We must not easily break out into conflict with them."
"The most important thing at the moment is to understand their identities. It is best to know where they come from, whether they are human beings, where they come from, and what their purpose is."
After being put in a suitable position by Sumo and developing his potential, Chen Shen's code of conduct began to be more and more in line with his position.
He lost a lot and gained a lot.
The impetuousness, passion, and aggressiveness that I once had are no longer visible.
Instead, he was filled with caution, alertness and shrewdness.
In the wasteland, Chen Shen gained a wonderful life that he would never have on earth.
On the other hand, Li Hu, who was originally just an ordinary retired soldier, gradually gained his second life in the position of Minister of the Armed Forces.
"Stop right there!"
Driving the truck captured from Zeus Sanctuary, Li Hu frowned and gave instructions after spotting the spot where Dihu was parked in the distance.
On the way here, through the mobile phone, he already understood the identity of the other party.
After hearing that another group of humans arrived.
Unlike Chen Shen who was thinking about how to talk to the other party, Li Hu had only one idea in his mind.
Conquer!
Conquer by force!
In peaceful times, Chen Shen was just a top law student who had just graduated from college.
Even though the wasteland has changed him a lot, gentleness and elegance still dominate his mind.
But Li Hu is different.
He knew very clearly that the other party was in his territory, leaving him with only two choices.
First, life and death.
The integrity of territorial sovereignty must not be infringed, even if the other side says it is just using local development.
One is that the distance between the two sides is too close. Once the other side changes its mind, it will suddenly launch a surprise attack.
Hope Village can easily be caught off guard, and without any preparation, end up being wiped out.
Second, there are many secrets and resources in the village.
If the other party pushes further, he will be like Uncle Liu Huang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Borrow the place first, then borrow the resources later.
In the end, once you cannot subdue them, this behavior is tantamount to endangering the enemy and raising a tiger to cause trouble!
Second, completely conquer.
Just like the first point, only one person can survive in the second option.
But the difference is that it is not one of the two villages that survives, but the sovereignty of the territory.
If the other party is willing to hand over all weapons and reveal his secrets unconditionally, then for the people of Hope Village.
Their identities are no different from ordinary survivors, and they can be broken up by various means and slowly conquered.
This is what Li Hu wants to achieve.
For this reason, when the truck stopped, he tightened his grip on the rifle in his hand, his gaze firmer than ever before.
Open the door and get out of the truck.
The forty-five soldiers pulled in the carriage at the rear also began to jump out of the vehicle one after another, checking the weapons in their hands and the equipment on their bodies.
About a minute passed, when everyone had finished checking and assembled in formation.
Li Hu strode to the center, clenched his right fist, and struck his heart with a thud.
This action made everyone who saw it suddenly become very nervous.
You must know that Li Hu failed to make this gesture when he attacked the mysterious building before.
But now, when Minister Li Hu makes this move, it has only one meaning.
For the battle that will happen next, everyone must be ready at any time:
For all the villagers, for Hope Village, and for Director Somo.
Give your life!
"Everyone is here, follow my instructions."
"Current combat readiness level: Red Level 1"
"The current enemy is all creatures other than our own, including strange humans, including strange alien races."
"I have only one request. Once a conflict breaks out, except for our own people, all other creatures will be our enemies. What you have to do is to reduce their number as much as possible!"
When Soma travels to the Treant territory, the combat readiness level set by the village is light yellow level four.
This means that the probability of conflict breaking out is about 5%-10%, and the probability of village annihilation is 0%.
Before the heavy snowfall, when the village attacked the Dwarf Blackstone Camp, the combat readiness level was bright yellow level three.
This means that the probability of conflict breaking out is between 20% and below 50%, and the probability of the village being destroyed is still 0%.
But now, red level one combat readiness level.
This means that the possibility of a conflict breaking out is as high as 90%, and the possibility of the village being wiped out is also a full 50%.
"promise!"
They also raised their fists and hit them on the heart. Everyone responded with actions.
At this time, they also understood that the village was very likely to reach a critical moment of life and death.
If you cower like this all the time, you can survive for a while, but you can't survive for a lifetime.
You can only charge fearlessly and tell the enemy your attitude with the steel gun in your hand.
Only then can we gain that glimmer of hope!
"The intelligence team will leave first, and the remaining people, in teams of ten, will follow me and move forward silently!"
Among forty-five people.
The five of them were scouts. After receiving Li Hu's order, they moved away from the flanks and aimed directly at the point of light.
The remaining forty people were divided into four teams, and under the leadership of the joint warriors, they quickly went to where Chen Shen was hiding.
After six minutes and forty seconds, the two teams finally connected.
"Let's talk to each other, if it's them."
"I'll take people in first and see if it works."
When they met, Li Hu and Chen Shen almost wanted to express their thoughts in unison.
But just after the conversation was over, the two of them stopped talking tacitly, looked at each other, and signaled the other person to speak first.
After a pause, he looked at Chen Shen's slightly younger face.
Li Hu couldn't hold back the fighting spirit in his heart, and thought of a compromise method and spoke first:
"Village Chief, regardless of whether this group of people is an enemy or a friendly force, we must always say hello to each other and let them know that their current location belongs to us."
"In this way, whether the other party is willing to talk or has a tough attitude and tells us to get out, we can come back and discuss it in the future."
When I just finished speaking.
The so-called "greeting" in Li Hu's mind was to use his own force to sneak in first and catch a person talking.
In this way, if you have the upper hand, you can at least ensure that you get enough information and will not fall into passivity.
But within the next half minute.
After being led by Chen Shen and observing the opponent's buildings through the telescope for a while, Li Hu quickly gave up the idea.
"Since the opponent's force may be higher than ours, it is indeed rude to make such a rash advance."
"In this case, village chief, you take three people to call the door, and forty of us will cover you from behind."
"Once the opponent launches an attack, you get down quickly and we will directly launch a counterattack!"
It's okay to rashly go to the opponent's territory, kidnap its members, and crush them with force.
But if they are equal, or the other person is taller than you.
It's easy to break up and start fighting directly.
This is not what Chen Shen wants to see, nor is it the result Li Hu wants.
"Okay, Brother Hu, don't be nervous, maybe the other party is not as bad as we thought!"
Smiled and comforted Li Hu.
Chen Shen adjusted his collar and patted the snowflakes stuck to his body.
When the two armies are fighting, the envoy will not be killed.
This is an unspoken rule in the civilized era, but it will not be feasible in the apocalypse.
In this business, knowing that he was taking huge risks, Chen Shen miraculously calmed down.
He casually nodded to three people, and under everyone's gaze, the group of four began to move forward slowly.
On the way, I was afraid that the other party would not see me.
Chen Shen also took out a long-abandoned torch in the village, lit it, and held it high in his right hand.
At one kilometer, the four-person team, like fireflies in the dark night, was not noticed by the people inside.
At 800 meters, the figures inside were still flashing, but they still turned a blind eye to Chen Shen and the others coming slowly outside.
Chen Shen and the others were fine with such an anxious test, but Li Hu and his party, who had been following Chen Shen two hundred meters behind, were sweating nervously.
Keep moving forward.
Always close.
As Chen Shen and the others finally slowly approached within 500 meters of the mysterious building complex.
The figures inside finally discovered the traces of the four people.
And this time, it was like poking a hornet's nest, with bursts of sound coming out.
"Oops, they are not human at all, they still have guns in their hands!"
"Quick, be ready for battle at any time and prepare to rescue the village chief!"
At this distance, in just a moment, Li Hu used his telescope to clearly see the true appearance of the figure emerging from the opponent's building complex.
Where are the humans that Chen Shen talks about, they are obviously a group of aliens!
Although they are like humans, they walk on two feet and hold weapons in their hands.
But just like the first wave of aliens that descended on the wasteland, they were all mutated animals.
And these animals.
"It's a fish man!"
Looking at the fins on the opponent's head that had not completely degraded, Li Hu's whole body began to tremble nervously, and his right hand holding the rifle kept shaking up and down.
When human beings face alien races, their greatest reliance is on the modern technological weapons in their hands.
firearms!
With it.
Human beings can completely make up for their physical weakness and kill enemies hundreds of meters away without being seen.
A single person can exert dozens of times of individual combat power, enough to fend off dozens or hundreds of people with one person!
No matter how powerful the alien race is, if you have a gun, you can still kill it.
This is the greatest confidence for human beings when facing the unknown, and it is also the spiritual pillar that gives them the confidence to survive to the end in the wasteland.
But now, Li Hu was shocked.
Because at the first moment, he could clearly see the weapons in the hands of this group of fishmen.
"Oops, the guns in their hands look more advanced than ours."
The murlocs rushed out of the mysterious building complex very quickly, and in just a blink of an eye, hundreds of people surrounded Chen Shen.
At the same time, their tactical literacy is also terrifyingly high, and they are even better than most trained warriors.
Not only were the murlocs responsible for coming forward to contact Chen Shen, there were also murlocs who lay down on the spot and set up gun lines.
Stuck at the awkward distance of 200 meters.
Li Hu could only ask everyone to lie down on the ground and reduce the movements of himself and others as much as possible to reduce the risk of being discovered.
"Never fire the first shot until the last moment."
"Hurry up and tell the villagers to be on alert and be ready for battle at any time."
"This time, we are in big trouble!"
Seeing Chen Shen being put in the middle, looking like he was in a dilemma, Li Hu ordered and silently turned on the safety of the rifle.
The battle is almost on the verge of breaking out!