Data Wasteland

When Bona walked into the noisy bar, Chen Xing had already ordered her meals, including steak, toast, cream soup, fruit salad and red wine.

"Please sit down." Chen Xing invited. But there was still a trace of anxiety in Bona's eyes.

"It's just asking you to have a meal, no other meaning." Chen Xing said with a slight smile.

Bona hesitated for a few seconds, pulled the chair away gently, and sat down. Holding both hands, he looked a little nervous.

"Eat." Chen Xing said, then raised his wrist and entered a series of instructions on the black watch.

"Didi..."

With a soft sound, a hundred gold coins were credited to Bona's account. The latter stared at the former, staring blankly, obviously not understanding what he meant.

"These money can be regarded as compensation for you." Chen Xing said.

"Compensation?" Bona asked puzzledly.

"You didn't complete the task, should you pay a certain amount of liquidated damages?" Chen Xing asked.

Bona was silent for a while, then nodded and said, "Yeah, but only 10%."

The commission fee is five hundred gold coins, and ten percent is fifty gold coins.

"The rest, even if you are rewarded." Chen Xing said pointedly.

Bona couldn't understand, two red clouds rose, her cheeks were burning like fire, and finally nodded, and said in a faint mosquito voice, "Thank you."

After eating, Chen Xing let Bona go back. Before leaving, she asked her to tell the caravan leader Charlie, hoping that they could stay in the town for one more day, waiting for him to go back together.

Charlie sent a message soon, saying that there was no problem. Although the businessman's time is precious, every minute and every second is a gold coin, but successful businessmen are often better at investing. The friendship of a strong guardian class in the future was obviously more valuable than a day's time, so he stayed.

The next day, Chen Xing's recruitment information was on the list. Since there is no "reserve garrison" recruited this time, the quality of the applicants is obviously lower. Few of them have more than ten individual attributes.

However, compared with the refugees, citizens with black forms are still a lot more reliable. On the moral bottom line, there are still fundamental differences between the two. People with black watches are still afraid of a decline in their credibility.

The higher the social credibility, the more privileges, the greater the proportion of government subsidies, and the higher the price of employment. Conversely, the lower the social credibility, the less likely it is to be seen and the harder it is to make money.

Under such a social mechanism, the path of the former will go wider and wider and enter a virtuous circle, while the path of the latter will go narrower and narrower and enter a vicious circle.

Chen Xing spent most of the day choosing five candidates, four men and one woman. Then they bought two sets of tarp uniforms, a military dagger, a black star pistol, and a marching backpack.

When it was just getting light, he took people to the grain exchange in Longshi Town, got on the truck, and returned to Lanhua Town.

On the third day after leaving Longshi Town, the convoy suddenly encountered heavy rain.

The raindrops the size of soybeans were also mixed with small hail, which made the windshield crackle of the front of the car. Fortunately, Charlie didn't save money, all he used was tempered glass. If it was normal, it would have been smashed through.

The wasteland is muddy, water and red mud are everywhere, and the world is vast. The wheels slipped in the mud, and the convoy could no longer move forward, so it had to leave the main road and camp in a circle.

"Wow..."

The rain was so heavy that there was no shelter at all. Everyone was wet, stepping on muddy water, and surrounding the kerosene stove to keep warm.

The rain in the Western Wilderness is very terrible. Either it will not fall, and there will not be a drop of rain for half a year, or it will be overwhelmed and poured for more than ten days. It seems that the whole year of rain will be concentrated in one place.

The drenched clothes stuck to the body, very uncomfortable, and the cold wind made it worse. Charlie asked the accountant to ask Chen Xing to take shelter from the rain in the big tent, which was regarded as a special treatment for the distinguished guests. But Chen Xing hesitated and refused. He now leads his team members and needs to set an example before he can convince the crowd in the future. This was also what he learned from Tienuo when he was in Leiguang regiment in his last life.

Take the lead, share joys and sorrows.

This is the basic quality of a team leader, but anything that can't be done will soon be eliminated. Unless it is the "spring outing group" of rich children, aristocratic young masters, and royal ladies who were born with a golden spoon, wandering around and spending several times more than earning money.

Chen Xing had seen him several times in his previous life. There was a lot of artillery fire, life and death, and there was a small umbrella, flirting while drinking coffee. Although it is also full of artillery fire, they have completely different meanings. In my eyes, there is really a kind of indescribable heart.

If it is only about the charisma of the leader, even if he is the third generation, he has never seen a few better than Tieno. It's really the kind of person who raised his arms and responded with a thousand responses. It's a pity that Tienuo had a humble background. Like him, he was so poor that he had to exchange every gold coin with his life.

But the social rules are like this. It must be that someone in the front has shed blood, and the people in the back can sit back and enjoy it. Therefore, Chen Xing's heart was unbalanced, and it was only a short while before he was relieved.

He doesn't have a father who sits on Jinshan, he doesn't have the talent of amazing talents, and he doesn't have a prominent family, so he has to walk step by step.

"Boss, how long will it take to rain?" a reserve team asked.

"It will be three days soon, and half a month slow." Chen Xing said.

"Ah..." The player's expression became extremely painful. The first day was a bit overwhelming, and there were so many days to come, I really don’t know how to endure it.

"Xiao Qiu, we are not here to enjoy." Another team member taught. The two came together and are said to be cousins.

"Yes." The female team member agreed. She is young and has freckles on her face.

"Pay attention to keep warm, and change your socks when the rain drops, otherwise your athlete's foot will kill you." Chen Xing said.

"Yes." The players responded in unison.

At one o'clock in the morning, the rain finally reduced. Everyone hurriedly cleaned up the stagnant water, and then some people rested, and some people watched the night.

Chen Xing is the captain, so he has priority to rest. A tarp tent was fixed on the side of the truck, and after laying a blanket, he put his hands on his chest, closed his eyes and fell asleep. Although he was clammy and uncomfortable, he still forced himself to fall asleep as soon as possible. Only if you have enough rest can you cope with the dangers that may occur at any time.

I don't know how long it took, Chen Xing was suddenly awakened by a commotion.

"Truck, there is something on the truck!" "Oh my God, what is that..." "Be careful, don't go there!" "Gun, get the gun!"

Outside the tent, the sounds of people, rain, and footsteps were all messy.

"Crack quack!"

Suddenly, there were a few more animal calls. It was so loud that it overwhelmed all the sounds in an instant, and it shook people's eardrums.

Chen Xing was shocked, fully awake, and rushed out of the tent.

Turning his head and looking at it, on the opposite truck, there was a huge creature lying prone, with its cheeks stirring, it turned out to be a giant toad.

"Hey!"

At this moment, the door of the truck's cab was kicked open, and a driver rolled out in a panic, calling for help while running.

"Wow, help!"

Seeing that the giant toad turned his head, his wheel-like eyes blinked and opened a big mouth. With a "shoo", a scarlet tongue shot out like lightning.

The driver's cry stopped abruptly, and his body rose in the air and was caught in Toad's mouth.

"Cracking..."

"Gudong..."

The toad yelled twice, raised his head, and swallowed the driver into his stomach. Those who saw this scene were all treacherous and frightened, all lying on the ground for fear of being discovered by it.

Chen Xing leaned against the truck and backed slowly, then twisted the door from the other side and got into the cockpit.