Doomsday Totem

Chapter 39
"I want money..." Tie Slag thought for a long time, and finally said this sentence.

Lina was startled for a moment, and then her black jade-like eyeballs slid back and forth in her slender eyes.She looked left, right, up, down, and looked at the boy in front of her with interest.

Time seemed to go back to the day when they first met, she was looking at him covered with explosives in this way.It's just that there was more solemnity that day, and more ambiguity today.

Tie Slag couldn't stand such gazes, stood up and said, "I'm leaving."

"Sister has 2786 gold, is it enough?" Lina asked softly, holding his hand.

The market price of Wilderness Heavy Industries' Sand Sea Flying Fish is 680 gold, while Harley Industries' Blazing Eagle and RC's Kamikaze Warrior cost at least 2000 gold.Lina's money is enough, but it is impossible for Iron Slag to take all of her money.

"Lend me 500 gold." Tie Slag said bluntly.

Lina took out a gold card from her coat pocket, put it in Tie Slag's hand, and said, "Here is 2500 gold."

"I want to hunt sandworms. Now is the breeding season, and I should be able to find a lot of sandworm eggs." Tie Slag Jinka said.

"Yo~ I've risked everything to get the Priestess~" Lina said with a smile.Helpless, Tie Slag had no choice but to explain the ins and outs of the matter to her clearly, so as not to cause her to misunderstand again.

After listening to Tie Slag's narration, Lina thought for a while, and then analyzed the situation.

Shahai Flying Fish can be bought directly, but RC company is not located in the Northern Wilderness Continent, so Harley Industries can only be considered, and the locomotive of Agni Eagle needs to be customized, and it will take three months to get the goods.Lena has a "Lightning Leopard" from Wilderness Heavy Industries. She asked Iron Slag to drive it back and scan it for Alice to see if it can be replaced.

The Lightning Leopard is much more advanced than the Sand Sea Flying Fish, but Iron Slag is unwilling to accept this suggestion.This Lightning Leopard is Lina's car. If something happens, not having a motorcycle means losing half of your life.

Iron Slag's plan is to go to the Endless Sand Sea to try his luck first, then go to Sand City to buy a car, and finally rush back to Tieshan Town before winter comes.

"This time you take Lao Niu and Lao Di with you, and I'll send someone to look after the house for you." Lina said seriously.

Lao Niu usually has to guard the stronghold of the repair shop and iron slag, so he seldom goes out.Lao Di is Lina's all-round assistant, and he will never leave Tieshan Town.Don't look at Lao Di's skinny appearance, in fact he is also a traditional evolutionary, but his evolution level is the lowest among all.According to the general algorithm of the Northern Wilderness Continent, he only has 16% evolution.

The calculation method of the degree of evolution is mainly derived from a person named Alexander Lattimore 200 years ago.At that time, Alexander was recognized as the strongest traditional evolutionary in the world, so this calculation method was made with him as a reference. 16% means-equivalent to 16% of Alexander Lattimore's comprehensive ability.

Of course, traditional evolutionists have different abilities and tendencies. Tie Slag and Lina tend to be agile evolutionists, while Laodi tends to perceive evolutionaries.Lao Niu is a different kind. It cannot be said to be an inclination, but it can only be said that he is a complete power-type evolutionary.

Lina's arrangement is based on the consideration that Lao Di is more stable in handling things, not easy to be impulsive, and has a strong early warning ability.He can do a good job of scouting for Iron Slag, and can come up with bad ideas when necessary.Lao Niu is the best candidate for logistics, he is honest and reliable.

Tie Slag disagreed with Lina's plan, he thought Lao Niu was better, and Lao Di was just a drag bottle, and it was inconvenient to take both of them with him.

"Okay... I see." Lena said.Tie Slag was just about to nod, but she heard her continue, "Sister will accompany you personally..."

"How about this, I'll bring Laodi, and then I will be equipped with [-] defenders, two Tiger mechas, and four Rattlesnake sand buggies. Forget about Lao Niu, his speed is really too slow." Iron Slag said sincerely.

"you……"

Tie Slag suddenly opened his mouth like a lion. Lina was stunned for a while, then came back to her senses, hugged him fiercely, gritted her teeth and said, "It's getting worse and worse now, I know I'm setting my sister up. With so many people, what do you want to do, do you want to fight?"

"There are thousands of people in the defense team, I only need 20 people." Tie Slag argued.

"There are only five Tiger mechs in the entire defense team. What do you want to do? Tell me honestly!" "Two hyenas are fine..." "No!" "Two hyenas."

"What do you want to do?" Lena asked, increasing the strength of the bear hug.

"I want to hunt golden sandworms..." Iron Slag said.

"Golden sand worm?" "Hmm." "Sand sea storm worm king?" "Hmm..." "No way!" "Huh?" "It's too dangerous!"

"If you don't give someone else, I'll go myself." Tie Slag threatened.He knew that by saying that, Lena would definitely compromise.Indeed, Lina quickly let go of him, then found a pen and paper, and began to calculate the costs of personnel, ammunition, vehicles, and equipment.

After doing the calculations, Lena showed him the list.

The wild wolf mech (commonly known as the coyote), the market price is about 850 gold, the fuel and maintenance fee for the expedition is about 20 gold, and the mech driver's pension is about 360 gold.

Viper sand buggy (commonly known as rattlesnake), the market price is about 160 gold, the fuel and maintenance fee for the expedition is about 2 gold, and the pension for the driver of the sand buggy is about 180 gold.

Self-government garrison members, the whole body equipment is about 30 gold, and the pension is about 150 gold.

In addition to the above major items, there are ammunition, medical treatment, food below...

"Assuming the entire army is wiped out, we don't have enough money to fill the hole." Lina analyzed.

"It is said that a golden sandworm egg is worth several thousand gold."

"Well, I saw one at the auction in Sand City, and it sold for more than 3800 gold." Lina said.

When Tie Slag heard that it was more than 3800 gold, he immediately looked at Lina with bright eyes, and then changed his tone and said, "Sister, I want a tiger mech."

"It's really bad~" Lina scratched Tie Slag's hair, then pushed him, and said with a straight face, "I know how to pretend to be pitiful."

Tie Slag grinned, and then said a few nice words.He can't do coquettish and cute things, but it's okay to put down the airs of the bully in Tieshan Town and pretend to be pitiful with his eyes.In the end, Lina agreed to give him 26 fully armed guards, two Wild Wolf mechas, four Viper sand buggies and related drivers, a total of [-] people.

Lina explained to Iron Slag that there were two reasons for not giving him the Tiger Mecha.One is that the tiger mecha has a record in Sand City, and if it is damaged, it cannot be replaced by an outside mecha; the other is that the market price of the tiger mecha is too high, even if a replacement can be found, the price is not cheap.

"If you are really in danger, you and Lao Di can escape back." Lina lowered her voice and said close to Tie Slag.She had already prepared for the worst. Assuming that the entire team was wiped out and all the mechs and vehicles were destroyed, it would cost about 7000 gold to fill the hole.She can sell what her mother left her - a ring of elfstone.The base price of this kind of ring at the auction is between 8000 and 12000 gold, and the transaction price varies from high to low, and it is said to fluctuate between 8000 to 20000 gold.

It's just that my father might be very sad to auction off this ring...

After making arrangements, Iron Slag detoured back to the repair shop.After that, Lina called Lao Di to the office to discuss with him the choice of entourage.Among the more than 1000 garrison members of the self-government association, there are also direct descendants and collateral descendants.The so-called direct line refers to the people that Lina brought from Sand City, or the people who later loyal to her and experienced the test.These people are all people who can go through life and death and rebel together under Lina's order.The collaterals are people with limited loyalty, or limited abilities, or people from other factions in Shacheng or the local area.

The question that Lina and Lao Di discussed was whether the candidates should be selected from the direct line or from the collateral line, and if they were selected from the side line, which wave of people would they choose from.There are about eighty members of Lina's direct lineage, and the rest are collateral lines.

If the direct descendants were dispatched, the safety factors of Tie Slag and Lao Di would be relatively higher.However, in case of an accident, the direct line members cannot be easily abandoned, and if more than 20 direct line members are lost, Lina will cut off her own arm.These direct descendants are all low-level officers in the garrison, which can increase Lina's control over the garrison.Once more than 20 direct descendants are lost, it means losing actual control over a part of the garrison.

Lao Di proposed to send direct descendants, but his hands were tied. If something happened, the risk factor would rise sharply because they couldn't let each other go.Iron Slag is powerful in combat and has top-notch escape ability, so there is basically no danger.In addition, Tie Slag had a bad reputation, even if he sent collateral personnel, no one would dare to resist his orders.After all, in the endless sand sea, life will be in danger at any time.In this case, the inherent superior-subordinate relationship will become blurred. At this time, the most useful thing is to see who has a strong fist and who has a high prestige.

In the end, Lao Di suggested that the entourage choose one or two from all the factions of the side line, and disrupt the inherent factions of these people.After entering the sand sea, they would speak with their fists, and those who disobeyed would be executed immediately.As for the pilots of the mechs, they can only use direct descendants. This is the highest symbol of force in the army and cannot fall into the hands of others.For the rest of the sand buggy drivers, just choose honest people with average abilities, no matter what side faction they belong to.

At the end of the discussion (in fact, Lao Di was talking alone), Lina felt that Lao Di's plan was good, so she asked him to implement it.

As soon as Lao Di came out of the office, he went straight to the camp of the garrison team of the Tieshan Town Self-Government Association, and began to check the list of garrison members.

Although Tieshan Town is not big, it has a population of over one million, which is equivalent to a small city.Therefore, the garrison team of Tieshan Town also has a scale of thousands of people.Lao Di is nominally the deputy captain of the defense team, but in fact he is the real captain of the defense team.

Under normal circumstances, Shacheng will send a chief, a deputy, and two sheriffs to Tieshan Town for management. The chief police officer also serves as the chairman of the self-government association, and the deputy police chief also serves as the captain of the garrison team.

However, the deputy sheriff who came to serve with Lena was an honest man who was nearly 50 years old.He didn't have much ambition in the first place, and as he got older, he had already lost his ambition.Moreover, after he saw Lina's iron-blooded wrist, he had no more ideas.In the past three years, he has basically retreated behind the scenes and seldom managed things.Now he sits in the office on the second floor of the self-government association drinking tea and reading newspapers every day, or being a good old man, smoothing things out everywhere, basically in a semi-retired state.

As for the other office on the second floor of the self-government association - the former Blade Tooth Association, now the Black Fang Association, it is a representative of the local gangster forces.

As the sheriff of Iron Mountain Town, Lena would never allow such an organization to exist.But there are too many messy people and things in Tieshan Town, so she can only take this kind of measure of violence for violence.

Everywhere there are strong and unruly people.These people cannot be absorbed into the regular army, and it is difficult to control them.The simplest and most brutal way to deal with these people is to set up some organizations like the Black Fang Society and the Ghost Horn Society, and then absorb them for unified management.It can not only throw bones to make them bite dogs, but also use the regular army to wipe them out at once, which is quite convenient to manage.

In the past three years, Lina has used this simple and rude method to manage Tieshan Town in an orderly manner.

During this period, the only surprise was that Daoya actually asked Lena to be his girlfriend.Lina thought about this matter for several days and couldn't figure out why Daoya had such suicidal thoughts.In fact, Lina underestimated her appearance a little bit.Dao Ya watched her for three years, and finally couldn't stand her charm, and thought that Dao Ya would have hundreds of people, so he could be on an equal footing with her.

But Daoya forgot that his hundreds of people are all hooligans, not to mention the degree of unity, fighting will, training and other issues, even in terms of equipment, there are only earth guns and earth cannons, and Iron Slag can kill seven of them by himself. It's scattered, let alone a regular army like the self-government garrison.

(End of this chapter)