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"Oh, what is that?" When Caifeng and Bai Yu were whispering in front of the sightseeing window, the communicator buzzed, and the voice came from Guiying in the cockpit, "Sir, it seems that a conflict broke out among the people below. I'll lower my voice. high?"

Lu Ming pressed the communication button next to him, "Okay."

The airship slowly descended again. It was about 100 kilometers southeast from the beast's town lair when it first descended.

Seen from a high altitude, it is a black-red hilly area. Looking from a distance, those hills are like small bubbles. At this time, in the gaps between the bubbles, small black dots move quickly, and occasionally there is a faint and imperceptible white color. The fog disappeared in a flash, it should be the smoke from the musket.

Lu Ming only had to turn his head to see the sightseeing window. As the airship got lower and lower, he could already roughly see the conflict situation on the ground.

They were like black spots moving like ants. There were more people on one side, like a dozen, but on the other side there were only two or three.

But the side of two or three people had muskets, so the side with more people moved very cautiously. Using the mound as a bunker, they were divided into several small teams and approached the side with fewer people from different directions.

Lu Ming heard from madman Ya Heng that the settlement that competes with the Ya Heng settlement but has a tacit agreement to divide the scope of activities also has dozens of people. Although all the people are soldiers, not to mention women, even minors are child soldiers. , but the real fighting power is probably the dozen or so strongest adult males, the main force who usually explore, hunt and defend their settlements.

In a settlement of dozens of people, the main fighting force usually only has seven or eight people, and no matter how many more there are, it will be more than ten people.

Therefore, the conflict that occurred in the rolling hilly area below was not considered a platoon-level dispute in the imperial mainland, but in this land, it may determine the life or death of a small settlement.

I don’t know which party is the settlement party that I was originally looking for and had contact with the Yaheng settlement.

"Hmm..." Jiuwei murmured first and opened her beautiful clear blue eyes. She saw Lu Ming smiling at her and her face turned red. However, she was reluctant to leave Lu Ming's arms. She lowered her head and changed her position to continue lying on Lu Ming's arms. Chest.

Lu Ming smiled and said, "There's a fight going on down there, but there's nothing interesting to watch! Just keep sleeping."

"Ah?" After hearing this, Kyuubi quickly sat down and gently pushed Shizuku, who was curled up on the other side of Lu Ming's chest, and whispered: "Wake up quickly, sir, he has to do business."

Come to contact a strange settlement, and if there is a conflict between the settlements, your Majesty will definitely take action. Kyuubi still understands this.

"Oh..." Shizuku suddenly opened her eyes and reluctantly left Lu Ming's arms. Her face was so red that she didn't dare to look at Lu Ming. It turned out that she woke up out of nowhere and had been pretending to sleep.

Lu Ming smiled: "Don't look down." These two little princesses had better not be exposed to the ugliness of the apocalyptic land.

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The airship did not land directly at the location where the conflict was occurring. After all, it had musket weapons. Although the airship had a multi-airbag structure, theoretically it was almost impossible for muskets in this world to cause serious damage to the airship, and it was even impossible to break through the wall of an airbag. Today The musket's warhead has insufficient impact, and its paper-cased warhead or even the more suitable iron sand will split along the air bag, not to mention penetrating multiple air bags and causing the airship to crash, but after all, it may still be possible.

Therefore, the airship slowly descended a thousand meters away from the battlefield.

Both sides, who were engaged in a life-and-death contest on the hilly battlefield, also noticed this suspicious and terrifying behemoth.

The muskets were silent, and presumably the attackers who were surrounding the side with the muskets also temporarily stopped.

After the airship landed on the ground of the black and red desert, Wheelrunner Jack was the first to jump off. He held a loudspeaker and said loudly: "Mr. Three, the lord from the third city-state, wants to ask you a question. Each of you will send an envoy." come over!"

Jack Wheel's status has now been elevated to that of a diplomat. He is the first to come forward to negotiate with the people in the settlement.

Several slave watchmen in the city-state have been trained to perfection.

Hedong Town is known as the "Third City-State" to the outside world. It was also Jack's idea. It echoes the name of Mr. Three. It is also very mysterious, causing uninformed people in the settlement to guess whether there is a first city-state and a second city-state in the third city-state. This kind of ally, but in reality, the Lu Ming team that came to explore the third continent could have been considered to have the entire Southern Territory as its backing, with a population of several million.

The area of ​​the Third Continent may be hundreds of times that of the Southern Territory. Even the Extreme South, which Lu Ming defaulted to be the temporary range of the airship's activities, is much larger than the Southern Territory, but the population of the Extreme South is definitely no more than [-].

According to some rumors that Jack got, as well as the recent observations of the airship going out for reconnaissance.

In the extreme south, there should be two large settlements with a population of three to four hundred people, and more than a dozen small settlements with dozens of people.

Adding in some families and lone travelers living in inaccessible areas, it would be great to have a population of two to three thousand.

It can be said that humans in the third continent are already on the verge of extinction based on the situation in the extreme south.

Intermarriage was not easy, food and water supplies were inadequate, let alone medicine, which was completely non-existent. The resulting nutritional problems and resistance to viruses are serious, and the child mortality rate is extremely high. In addition, conflicts often break out between settlements and manpower is lost. Most of the settlements' populations are experiencing negative growth.

There are very few settlements with growing populations like Tom's House.

Of course, this is inferred from the situation in the extreme south of the third continent. No one knows what the actual situation is in the central and northern regions.

Jack shouted with a loudspeaker, but received no response from both sides of the conflict.

Next to the airship, there is already a grass green armed off-road armored vehicle.

Jack was already used to this.

Shizuku and other four beautiful girls naturally did not let them get off the airship.

Lu Ming, Jack, Maxim, Yuan Ba, two slave musketeers, and two slave commandos (gladiators) boarded the armored vehicle.

This is the "Predator", a standard all-terrain 4X4 wheeled off-road armored vehicle of the Tianhan Empire. The dual engines provide extremely powerful power. Including the observation window, the bulletproof level is the Empire's level 3 standard, which means that the bulletproof level is not the highest. , mainly mine protection, high chassis, and fast maneuverability. Even so, it can withstand the armor capability of 30×7.62 mm armor-piercing bullets at a distance of 51 meters. In this desert continent, except for the corrosive ability of the ferocious beasts, it can be said that there are no natural enemies.

The internal layout of the Predator armored vehicle. Behind the cockpit is a troop transport cabin. There is no partition between the two compartments. There are two rows of riot-proof seats facing each other in the troop transport cabin. It can seat 8 people or transport 4 tons of cargo. The passengers pass through the rear There are rectangular bulletproof glass windows on both sides and the tail hatch, with opening and closing shooting holes on the windows.

A weapons platform can be mounted above the troop transport compartment, but what Lu Ming summoned was a mobile version that only carried a small-caliber machine gun.

Yuanba and Jack are in the cockpit.

Maxim, wearing a full-body body armor and a bullet-proof helmet, and grass-green camouflage bullet-proof clothing, looked like a modern assault infantryman from the Northern Territory armed to the teeth. He leaned half of his body out of the troop transport compartment to control the light machine gun on the turret.

However, after the armored vehicle drove slowly, Maxim was called back to the troop transport cabin by Lu Ming.

After all, they were not trying to shoot the opponent with machine guns. Since they did not want to use force, Maxim became an easy target for them to attack.

The armored vehicle drove towards the battlefield between the conflicting parties, and Jack shouted over and over again through the loudspeaker: "Stop the conflict, stop the conflict!"

The situation on the battlefield is that the side with more people has actually surrounded the side with fewer people.

The first thing the armored vehicle came into contact with were three ragged men holding iron axes and crossbows behind the black mound.

There were no distinctions between soldiers and civilians in the settlement, and everyone was as dusty as a beggar. At least that was what Lu Ming had come into contact with so far.

These three people are the party with more people. Now they are divided into several teams to surround their target. These three people are one of the teams.

The armored vehicle had just passed through a mound and sank into the recess of the hill. The three people who were lying in the low-lying area were startled. There was a look of despair on their faces. They shouted and rushed forward, attacking with crude weapons in their hands. This scary steel thing.

However, it was obvious that they had a lot of combat experience. Even if they saw something terrible that they had never seen before, the guy with an ax still had a very keen sixth sense. He took the ax and struck hard on the wheels of the armored vehicle.

The two slave musketeers had their muskets lined up at the end of the cabin. They were holding tranquilizer shotguns. Under Lu Ming's gesture, they quickly opened the shooting hole, and there was a soft "pop" sound.

The three settlement thugs outside turned a deaf ear to Jack's warning, and roared and smashed the giant steel object. However, their bodies gradually fell into a state of disobedience. The three people's movements became slower and slower, and they all staggered to the ground.

Jack threatened on the loudspeaker: "Mr. Three has no ill intentions towards you. The three thugs who are attacking my vehicle are just anesthetized and their lives are not in danger. If they attack my vehicle again, we will respond with force!" Believe me, you will be killed instantly!"

The door on the troop transport cabin was pushed open and then quickly closed, and a grenade was thrown out far away.

"Boom" with a loud noise.

"This is the least powerful bomb in my city-state!" Jack announced through a loudspeaker. When he said "my city-state", it sounded complacent no matter how he sounded.

"City people? You have occupied the town of ferocious beasts? I want to talk to you, but if I show up, I will definitely be shot through by the crossbows of those predators. City people, can you guarantee my safety?" The voice that shouted was a woman's, but it was very rough.