Three Hundred and Sixty One, There Is a Ghost
Rebuilding after a war is a very painful thing, because it means you have to clear the ruins before you can build new buildings.
You have to experience pain before you can gain new life.
Ren Xiaosu took the lead in burying his dead companions. Originally, he wanted to give these people a monument, but later he discovered that some of these bandits didn't even have names.
If Ren Xiaosu hadn't established this community, I'm afraid these people would be forgotten after their death.
He took out a notebook and a pen from the storage space, and when Ren Xiaosu handed them to Yang Xiaojin, he said, "Register the living people, this is our future roster."
A regular army should have a roster first, which means that everyone will be recorded, and it also means that everyone on the roster will be recognized.
But when Yang Xiaojin started to record, she had a headache. These bandits didn't let her remember her real name, but asked her to remember nicknames, such as mouse, crow, earth pit, rotten egg...
It's not a serious person when you hear it!
Yang Xiaojin said patiently: "This roster needs to record real names, and your nicknames..."
Jin Lan laughed happily and said, "Sister-in-law, you can just give them nicknames. If you call them by their real names when you roll the roll, they may not be able to understand it themselves. Everyone is a bandit, and bandits are called nicknames. "
Yang Xiaojin thought for a while and smiled, "Okay!"
However, at this moment, Xu Jinyuan, who was leading the team to deal with the ruins, suddenly came to Ren Xiaosu and said, "Brother, we found something under the ruins."
Ren Xiaosu looked at the thing in Xu Jinyuan's hand, and it turned out to be a satellite phone!
Seeing that the satellite phone was broken, he asked Xu Jinyuan curiously: "Where did you find this?"
"It's under the ruins of our brick house, hidden under the bed," Xu Jinyuan said. "There are twenty people in the shop in one room. I recalled that the bed was slept by a bandit named Lao Diao."
"Where's this old trickster?" Ren Xiaosu said, "Call him here for questioning."
"He's dead," Xu Jinyuan said, "That's why I secretly came to ask you, brother, what to do."
Ren Xiaosu frowned. The satellite phone is definitely not something that bandits can own. The owner of the satellite phone must be using it to communicate with the outside consortium and report information.
I just don't know which consortium this satellite phone is contacting?
Qing? Or Zong?
It's all possible.
These two consortiums have coveted the River Valley area for a long time, and they may have planted many informants.
"Don't say anything, if it doesn't belong to Brother Lao Diao, it will ruin his reputation after his death if it gets out," Ren Xiaosu said, "This satellite phone may belong to someone else."
At this time, Ren Xiaosu even suspected that the call belonged to Xu Jinyuan. He had read a detective book in Fortress 88, which said that more than 40% of the witnesses and discoverers of the murder were the real murderers.
But Ren Xiaosu didn't say anything, and let Xu Jinyuan continue to work.
Yang Xiaojin came over and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I'm afraid we can't stay in this place," Ren Xiaosu said, "When we go back to pick up Yan Liuyuan and the others, we'll go northwest and find a hiding place before settling down again. I'm afraid the situation here has already been leaked." Well, it's okay if the Qing clan is here, but if the Zong clan has placed chess pieces here, we won't be able to resist the Zong clan's army when it sweeps over."
"Well," Yang Xiaojin agreed with this view, she didn't think there was anything wrong with Ren Xiaosu being more cautious.
Zong's beating the bandits was a headache because the bandits were running around. If they settled here, the Zong's would be very easy for them, so Ren Xiaosu wanted to go to the mountains to find a new settlement.
That night, Jin Lan went to find Ren Xiaosu, but when he came up to him, he heard Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojin say in a low voice: "The bandits in the north killed our brother. I have already contacted Lao Xu, and he will lead the team next week." Come here, then we will liquidate the northern bandits together!"
Jin Lan has a big mouth. He knows this, basically everyone in the settlement knows.
Ren Xiaosu looked at Jin Lan: "What do you want from me?"
"Aww," the sluggish Jin Lan came back to his senses: "Brothers want to ask you... I forgot what I wanted to ask!"
"Then you go back and think about it before you come back," Ren Xiaosu said angrily.
After Jin Lan returned, news spread that Xu Xianchu would lead the team over tomorrow.
The bandits were all stunned when they heard this, and they all started discussing loudly, saying that Master Xu must have brought people from Barrier 178, and that bandits like them must perform well tomorrow, and they must not embarrass big brother Ren Xiaosu!
The days of post-disaster reconstruction are very ordinary. No one will always indulge in sorrow and pain, and the days will continue.
Jin Lan and the others worked harder than before, and everyone was still thinking about those motorcycles.
Just three days later, in the middle of the night and early morning, when everyone was asleep, a figure sneaked out of the settlement.
The settlement was not quiet, the bandits snored one after another.
When this person was about to leave the settlement, he suddenly looked back at the settlement, his eyes seemed to be a little nostalgic, but after struggling for a minute, he continued to run north, he was going to leave here and go north!
However, before taking two steps, the figure saw Ren Xiaosu sitting in a shadow and looking at him with a smile.
Ren Xiaosu laughed happily: "So it's you, what's your nickname, Mouse?"
The bandit named Mouse knelt down on the spot: "I...I have no other choice."
"Whose family are you from?" Ren Xiaosu asked curiously.
The mouse said in a low voice, "Originally in the bandit's lair in Dingyuan Mountain in the north, the leader of the Dingyuan Mountain village ordered him to come to Daban Mountain. Later, he came here with the bandits from Daban Mountain, but there are other people behind him."
"You are quite honest, you can explain everything," Ren Xiaosu sighed.
The mouse was a little anxious: "I don't want to leave either, but even if I stay, if people in Dingyuan Mountain spread the news that I'm a traitor, I won't be able to survive."
This is the embarrassment of the traitor. A wrong start leads to a wrong end. The mouse has also been tempted these days and wants to live a good life here, but can he stay? At that time, I am afraid that neither side will let him go.
"Is that thing yours?" Ren Xiaosu asked, but he didn't mention anything: "What are you doing with that?"
The mouse said: "The satellite phone was issued by the leader earlier to deliver messages."
Ren Xiaosu nodded, it was right.
But how should I deal with this mouse? Let him go? Ren Xiaosu was not so kind.
But thinking of the time they spent together these days, Ren Xiaosu felt a little melancholy.
Ren Xiaosu said softly: "If you don't leave and don't betray, I may not do anything to you when things happen in the future. Xu Jinyuan also came to be a traitor before, but he made the right choice. Mouse, we will be bandits together in the next life Well, this life is over."