Monarch of Evernight: The next four harvests

bsp;"Of course! But no one with a little knowledge would dare to touch this kind of motor vehicle exclusively used by the Imperial Ministry." Song Hu chuckled.

"You know you are from the military, but you still dare to recycle their things. Are you afraid that I won't cause enough trouble?" Qianye smiled half-heartedly.

A flash of light flashed in Song Hu's eyes, and he still said with a smile: "These troubles now will be nothing when you have money, guns and people. Besides, you are still on Tianxuan Spring Hunting." I don’t worry about offending the Zhao family, but do I care about a few little guys in the military department?? I’ve seen too many of these guys who don’t know what the world is like and act recklessly without having the strength to match it. ."

Qianye's eyes narrowed slightly, and then he asked: "What should I do with this car now? Will anyone take it?"

"Of course I'll accept it, why not? For underground channels, you don't recognize the person but the product. As long as it's good, who cares about its origin? Besides, it's not difficult to find a craftsman to modify it."

Qianye nodded and said: "Okay, I'll leave all the things here to you first. I plan to go further and have a look at the Black Mud Swamp."

Qianye was originally planning to go out of the city to explore the surroundings of Heiliu City, but he changed his mind after meeting Gu Liyu. He had a strong premonition that the war with the dark race might be just around the corner, leaving him little time to slowly explore the wilderness.

In addition, the mercenary group now has everything in place, but the biggest bottleneck is the lack of money. With their current combat power, if they want to block the dark warriors coming out of the swamp, they can only rely on their numerical and firepower advantages. The mercenary group's current equipment is still conventional. If they want to get some heavy firepower or make more ammunition reserves, None of them can be separated from gold coins.

So Qianye decided to go directly to the Black Mud Swamp. On the one hand, he would explore the way for the upcoming war, and on the other hand, he would hunt down the dark races there, so as to alleviate some pressure on future defense.

Song Hu obviously quickly realized why Qianye suddenly changed his itinerary. He thought for a moment and said, "That's fine. The war is about to begin. The dark race will definitely send out many outposts. If they can remove more, maybe Let them retreat and take the easier route. But don't force it, sir, your safety is the most important." As he spoke, he pointed at the map and explained the situation of the Black Mud Swamp in detail.

As Qianye was about to go out, Song Hu stopped him and took him to the row of bungalows behind the school grounds that were used as warehouses. Song Hu forcefully opened one of the iron doors, revealing a powerful-looking two-wheeled motorcycle in the warehouse.

The seat of the car is half the height of an adult man from the ground, with its head and tail more than three meters, like an elegant and dangerous cheetah lying down. The smooth and beautiful lines are full of the toughness and texture of metal, and are full of tension, as if something will happen at any time. Leap from the shadows and pounce on your prey.

"Where did this come from?" Qianye's eyes lit up and he asked. Such individual mobile machinery is rare in Yongye, and heavy-duty trucks are the mainstream.

"I bought it second-hand after selling the hound. But this little guy is not cheap, especially since it only consumes fuel and energy when running."

This motorcycle is painted in black. The exhaust pipe was originally a striking bright silver. Now one craftsman is painting it with lead-gray non-reflective paint, and another craftsman is adding weapon racks.

Judging from the worn bullet hole-shaped rims and the obviously dented front fork, this is indeed a second-hand car. But the two-wheeled motorcycles all use Force array engines, and they are all handmade, so none of them are cheap.

Qianye's heart moved slightly. He calculated that the time it took Song Hu from selling the stolen goods to buying the goods would not exceed twenty hours at most. This shows how huge the hidden power of the transaction left by Song Zining was.

"The transformation will take some time, but it should be ready to use when you come back from the Black Mud Swamp."

Qianye circled the motorcycle several times. He was very fond of machinery when he was in Red Scorpion. After arriving in Yongye Continent, he rarely came into contact with these things. For a moment, he had the urge to take it out and try the motorcycle immediately. Hearing what Song Hu said at this moment, he thought of business again and couldn't help but patted the leather seat with regret.

Before the two of them walked out of the warehouse, they suddenly heard the roar of an engine overhead through the ceiling, shaking the entire row of houses.

Qianye and Song Hu looked at each other and walked out quickly. As soon as he arrived at the school grounds, he noticed a large shadow appearing in the sky. They looked up and saw an aerostat floating in the sky tens of meters above their heads. The several black gun muzzles protruding from its belly and the heavy armor plates on the boat showed that it was a military aerial gunboat. .

On the other side of the school grounds, in the direction of the gate of the mercenary regiment base, several Wei family guards were walking quickly. Qianye recognized the tall bodyguard at the head as the old man who often followed Wei Potian.

The Wei family guard came over, saluted and said hello to Qianye first, then pointed to the sky, and said loudly amidst the deafening roar: "This is the gift the prince gave you before he left! I hope you like it!" ”

Qianye was stunned for a moment before asking: "A gift? You mean, this military aerial gunboat?"

"That's right!" The Wei family guard was very proud.

"But there must be a captain and a gunner, right?"

"It's all set up. Now I'm driving over to show you. It will stop at the airship base soon."

After saying that, the Wei family guards waved their hands vigorously in the air and made a gesture. The airship slowly turned, pulled up, and headed towards the airship base in Black Current City.

The guards of the Wei family did not stay long and left in a hurry. Only Qianye and Song Hu were left standing there.

There was no joy on Qianye's face, but Song Hu next to him said with a smile: "Congratulations, young master!"

Qianye looked a little calmer and said calmly: "Congratulations for what?"

"Of course it's a new weapon! In addition, the young master will have to work harder to make money in the future."

Qianye let out a long breath and showed no intention of picking up Song Hu's words. He was born in the Empire's elite legion and had extensive knowledge of ordnance and weapons. Naturally, he knew that things like aerostats were money-burning gadgets.

The floating gunboat left by Wei Potian was regarded as his own private property, so it was quite small. Even including the cockpit, it could only carry no more than thirty people at full capacity. It only had two ground-to-air dual-purpose guns. . But no matter how small an aerostat is, it is still an aerostat. Its daily maintenance, power and ammunition consumption, as well as professional captains and gunners all cost a lot of money.

In Qianye's impression, the lowest monthly total of various expenses for a military aerial gunship like this starts at at least five or six hundred gold coins. In other words, the consumption of this big guy alone exceeds the cost of the entire mercenary group, not counting the price of replacement parts.

It can only be said that on the Evernight Continent, military-grade aerostats are indeed powerful weapons, but they are of little use to Qianye. If the mercenary group grows to thousands of people in the future and can garrison Blackstream City, owning a gunboat will be even more powerful.

Qianye could only smile bitterly in the end. He really didn't know how to evaluate today's gains.

As for Wei Potian, sometimes his intuition is sharp, but sometimes he is so careless that it makes people laugh. Qianye looked at Song Hu, who also looked helpless and spread his hands towards him.

Qianye immediately packed up his luggage and equipment without wasting any more time, put them all on a light off-road vehicle, and then drove out of the city.

The Black Mud Swamp is vast and full of bottomless swamps. Outside of the sludge, poisonous insects, various native beasts, and even hook-scaled crocodiles are deadly threats to humans. Only high-level warriors can Traveling through the swamp.

However, the dark races can avoid these dangers through various means. The dark aura exuded by demons and vampires can drive away vicious creatures lower than themselves, including swamp creatures of course. Among the servant spiders of the spider demon, there is even a category of swamp spiders. Only werewolves are not very adaptable to the swamp environment, but they can ride on swamp spiders through the swamp area.

So the Black Mud Swamp has always been almost a one-way passage between humans and the dark territory. The army of the dark race can attack human territory from here, but the human army is rarely able to attack through the swamp.

It was almost evening when Qianye drove to Heini Town. On the Yongye Continent, night had already fallen at this time. He bumped through a forest with almost no obvious lanes. According to the map, there should be a small town at the other end of the forest.

However, looking from a distance, Heini Town is dark, with almost no lights visible. There are only one or two dim and faint flickers, which can easily be mistaken for the phosphorescence in the wilderness.

Qianye stopped and used dark vision to carefully observe the town ahead, but found nothing unusual. That should mean that Heinii Town has entered a state of combat readiness in advance, so it has implemented night control, which is understandable.

Since Black Mud Town is the border town of the war zone and is close to strategically important areas such as Black Mud Swamp, there is a fairly large outpost where about a hundred expeditionary force soldiers are stationed all year round. Although they were under the jurisdiction of Black River City, they were actually quite marginalized in the Seventh Division. Therefore, not only were they not affected by Wu Zhengnan's incident, they were also very enthusiastic about Qianye's arrival.

After Qianye handed over the authorization letter, he entered Heini Town accompanied by several garrison officers. According to convention, when a mercenary group assists in the defense of settlements at the town level or below, they will obtain the highest command authority. In other words, these defenders will be under the command of Qianye from now on, and the level of Qianye's sixth-level soldiers is also far away. Surpassing everyone present, the attitude of these officers towards Qianye was almost flattering.

Qianye did not go directly to the mayor's house. Instead, he parked his car on the main street of the town and walked around first.

The city wall of Heini Town is five meters high and quite strong, indicating that this place has been an important place for many years. The town has a much larger population than Beacon Town, but its area is only half the size. The houses in the town are densely built, and the roads are extremely narrow. There are only two main roads in the town, one horizontal and one vertical, that can barely pass Qianye's light off-road vehicle.

Qianye walked into the town and discovered that some low-mounted light sources close to the ground were still working, and the suppressed light shone heavily on the road. Although it prevented the person from being blind, it made people feel even more uncomfortable. At the same time, the air was filled with an indescribable stench that was so strong that it made people sick. The smell here is stronger and more pungent than the musty smell of the swamps outside the town.

No matter the streets or open spaces, there are scavengers lying everywhere. They lay on the floor and slept soundly, taking up the already crowded and cramped passage without even a place to stay.

Looking at such a scene, Qianye frowned slightly. From what I can see, there may be one or two thousand scavengers and homeless people in the town. Compared with registered permanent residents, this is a very considerable number.

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