Embers Ad Infinitum

The jeep drove forward along the bumpy road with high cliffs on one side and reached a valley.

In the valley, the clean stream made a clear sound, flowing forward happily, moisturizing the vast fertile soil.

It's not too deep, or even a bit shallow. The jeep of the "old-tuned group" can directly drive over the pebbles at the bottom.

The road is broken here and connected on the other side, with a small settlement made of reinforced concrete standing in the middle.

On the high fence of the settlement, several men in the black uniforms of the "Salvation Army" were holding semi-automatic rifles, assault rifles and other weapons, and stared sharply at Jiang Baimian and others.

In the farmland surrounded by streams, men and women dressed as soldiers are working.

Jiang Baimian, who was in the position of the co-pilot, nodded slightly, knowing that this was a border military stronghold.

In similar strongholds, the soldiers take turns on duty, patrolling, farming, and hunting. Except for ammunition, clothing, etc., which require regular supplies from the rear, they are barely self-sufficient.

At the same time, Jiang Baimian swept his eyes and found some traces with rich experience. Based on this, he judged that there were many members of the "Salvation Army" lurking on the cliffs around the valley.

"This is to guard against attacks by the awakeners at the level of the'Spirit Corridor', and a powerful long-range firepower has been deployed a few hundred meters away..." Jiang Baimian looked back thoughtfully.

She turned to smile at the group members:

"It's getting dark. I will camp by the stream tonight."

"Okay!" Shang Jian Yao's answer was simply and neat.

He slammed the door and got out of the car, facing the military stronghold, stretched out his right hand and pressed his left chest, and shouted:

"For all mankind!"

The members of the "Salvation Army" on the walls of the settlements were a little silly for a while.

They decided to ignore this guy one after another, as long as he didn't take further action.

After getting out of the car, Jiang Baimian curled his lips behind Shang Jianyao, pretending not to know him.

Seeing that the "old tune group" did not intend to enter the settlement, but kept a certain distance to camp, the members of the "Salvation Army" all quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

"They are still pretty good!" Shang Jianyao sighed to Long Yuehong and others upon seeing this.

Long Yuehong was a little puzzled:

"Why do you say that?"

Shang Jian Yao replied confidently:

"When encountering a few of us who seem to have a lot of oily outsiders in such a remote and uninhabited border stronghold, shouldn't normal soldiers find faults and do things to satisfy greed?

"And they were relieved that we were not doing anything.

"What a show of kindness and kindness!"

Bai Chen agreed with Shang Jianyao's words:

"There have been many similar incidents in many wilderness strongholds in the'Initial City'. Later, relic hunters and smuggling caravans would rather take the risk of encountering robbers,'unintentional', deformed creatures and accidents and forcibly bypass those places. ."

If you really want to be targeted by the soldiers in the wilderness stronghold of the "First City", it is still a good thing to lose your property, and I am afraid that even people will not be able to keep it.

Moreover, if you fight back, wounding and killing a few regular soldiers, unless you kill all of them directly, making it impossible for people to find out afterwards, otherwise you will definitely be wanted by the "primary city".

Jiang Baimian ruthlessly pierced Shang Jianyao's beautiful fantasy:

"Maybe because our resume is so brilliant."

Being able to be wanted by the "First City" one after another, with a bounty of tens of thousands of Oleims, and running around alive so far, it really doesn't look like an easy team.

Seeing that Shang Jianyao's expression collapsed, without concealing it, as if he was still a child, Jiang Baimian sighed silently, and added two more sentences:

"No matter how the outside world says that the'Salvation Army' has fallen, I think they should still retain some bottom lines and will not do anything to innocent people at will.

"Well... How can it be possible for soldiers to work part-time as farmers in the military base of the ‘First City’?

"Yes." Bai Chen nodded.

At present, only part of the dusty soil has restored a certain degree of order, and the border or wilderness stronghold is obviously not within this range.

Shang Jianyao smiled again, hummed a song, and volunteered to go to the stream to test the water quality.

Just as the "old tune team" collected firewood, set up a bonfire, and prepared dinner, the steel gate of the military stronghold opened.

What came out was a man and a woman, a woman with a height of 1.65 meters, aged about 30, mature and charming.

She has black hair and brown eyes, thick eyebrows, not ugly features, and a skin color similar to that of Jiang Baimian, which is the healthy wheat color, but she is a bit darker.

She has clean, crisp, short hair and a black uniform. She is neither fat nor thin, but fairly standard.

At this moment, although this lady is walking side by side with the young man, her temperament and attitude indicate that she is the dominant one.

——The man is only seventeen or eighteen years old, with a faint hair on his lips. He is ordinary and looks rather green.

After approaching the "old tune group", this young man who still retains a little youthfulness took the initiative to introduce the lady next to him:

"This is Captain Ding of our border settlement."

"Ding Ling." The lady smiled and stretched out her right palm, frankly.

Hearing this slightly accented self-introduction, Jiang Baimian laughed:

"Are you the one who warned us on the radio just now?"

She also stretched out her right palm and shook the opponent lightly.

Ding Ling nodded:

"This is the responsibility of our border settlement, and we cannot allow suspicious people to pass.

"Xue Shiyue, right? Although I know you are mostly a pseudonym, it doesn't matter, the name is just a code name."

Then, she casually introduced the young people around her:

"Zeng Ping An."

"Good name!" Shang Jian Yao applauded, making the young man a little embarrassed.

"His parents have good expectations of him." Ding Ling explained briefly.

Jiang Baimian introduced his team members immediately.

Of course, all she gave was a pseudonym.

As for Gnawa, now he is playing an ordinary robot, without a name, only a code name, and no introduction is needed.

When the exchange between the two parties was over, Shang Jianyao asked Ding Ling with a sense of responsibility:

"If the'Initial City' chooses to use this as a breakthrough point, can you really stop this small settlement with dozens of people?"

He acted like a senior member of the "Salvation Army".

At this moment, Ding Ling had the feeling of encountering a superior inspection.

Can't we stop your ass? She smiled slightly and said:

"It's definitely unstoppable.

"We mainly do early warning, using several different methods.

"Last year, this settlement encountered a surprise attack on the'First City.' After we gave an early warning, we directly abandoned this place and retreated into the mountains as a group, and then looked for opportunities along the way to interfere with the enemy and slow their progress.

"As long as the people are still there, new settlements can definitely be established."

Ding Ling answered in more detail, mainly because he wanted to tell the opposing team that the strength is not weak, the "Salvation Army" settlements have mature plans for different enemies, so that they don't want to take risks.

"It must be very difficult and dangerous to withdraw into the deep mountains, right?" Shang Jianyao looked concerned.

Ding Ling was stunned for a moment before saying:

"right."

The expressions of her and Zeng Ping'an beside her were floating, as if recalling all the hardships and dangers at the time.

After a few seconds, Ding Ling asked actively:

"You guys, why do you want to go to the ice field?"

I felt that you cared about Bing Yuan a little before... Jiang Baimian organized the following words:

"Before the destruction of the old world, part of the ice sheet was still a place with relatively normal weather. There were many human cities. Later, the climate changed drastically and the ice sheet expanded and swallowed those areas.

"Because of the climatic restrictions of the ice field, there is not much arable land. There are not many wilderness wanderers and relic hunters there. Many urban ruins are still in relatively good condition, allowing us to return with a full load."

"That's true." Ding Ling nodded, "Even if we're the Salvation Army, most of the time we organize teams to collect resources in the summer. Well, you are going all the way now, just in midsummer."

She opened her mouth, hesitated to speak, and then hesitated after a while and said:

"You have reached the ice field, can you help me keep an eye on someone?"

"Who?" asked Zen Master Purdue, who was compassionate and happy to help others.

Ding Ling lowered his head and smiled:

"My husband~www.readwn.com~ his name is Ji Qiang, a researcher.

"We could get together twice a year, but the year before last he joined an expedition team and went to the ice field. He said that he would perform a secret mission. If he succeeded, he would be qualified to transfer me back to Wubei. After that, I lost his news, and his unit has been obstructed by the confidentiality regulations and cannot give me a detailed answer."

Perhaps it was unexpected that the captain said in such detail that when it comes to work assignments and transfers, the young man next to her, Zeng Ping'an, was quite embarrassed.

"So..." Jiang Baimian thought for a while, "It's okay to pay attention, it's just a matter of effort."

Ding Ling showed a sincere smile:

"I have a picture of him here.

"We will take pictures in Wubei when we are just married."

Wubei is one of the core cities of the "Salvation Army". The Wubei 6 and Wubei 7 produced there are quite common pistols on the dust.