In contrast, the patrol team was simply holding on out of a sense of responsibility.
Old Zhou frowned and said, "Basang, I have something to make clear. Although I don't like him, you're going to chase poachers. What if something happens to him? How will you explain it to his family?"
Basang replied, "It's only early spring, so poaching shouldn't be too rampant yet. We can handle it."
Old Zhou said, "That will also involve bloodshed. Last time you said there were some particularly powerful poachers who could jump three or four meters high."
Basang said, "What's there to be afraid of? No matter how high you jump, you can't be afraid of getting shot. Last time it was too far away. This time, as long as I hit him, he'll definitely die."
Actually, when Basang thought about that poacher, he was a little worried, but in order to make money, he could only pretend to be tough.
Old Zhou sighed and said, "The key question is, will you be holding this clueless young man back in the no-man's-land?"
However, Qing Chen didn't care about any of that. He tossed the gold bars to Basang and said, "Don't worry, I won't hold you back. I'll follow your orders. When are we leaving?"
"Let's go now!" Basang called to his teammates with a beaming smile, "Gawa, is the cargo unloaded yet?!"
From the other side of the pickup truck, the little boy shouted, "It's all unloaded, when are we leaving?"
Basang shouted, "Let's go now!"
Qing Chen asked curiously, "Are you short of money? Is someone withholding your patrol team's wages?"
Basang shook his head: "No one is withholding wages, it's just that our work is quite dangerous. Some teammates have sacrificed their lives, and their compensation is so small. The surviving teammates have to pool their money to support their families. Right now, more than twenty people are relying on us for food. Come on, you sit in the passenger seat, let's go. Ga Wa, you get out, you sit in the truck bed."
Qingchen smiled and said, "I can sit in the back of the truck; it'll give me more freedom."
Basang paused for a moment, then said to Gawa, "You sit in the back of the cart and take care of our guest."
As he spoke, he winked at Ga Wa and whispered, "Keep an eye on him. This kid is a bit reckless and doesn't think straight. He's probably just burning money. If we encounter poachers, you have to keep an eye on him and make sure he doesn't cause us any trouble."
Ga Wa nodded: "I understand!"
Basang was enthusiastic towards Qingchen because of the gold bars, but what they were doing was indeed dangerous, and Basang couldn't let Qingchen do anything foolish that would affect their important business.
The pickup truck rumbled off, and Qingchen's eyes glanced at the hunting rifle in Ga Wa's arms: "Can I take a look?"
To be honest, this was the first time he had ever seen such a rudimentary firearm. Looking at the wood veneer on the surface of the gun that had been worn smooth by countless strokes, Qing Chen even wondered if the gun would fall apart after just one shot.
However, Ga Wa held the hunting rifle tightly to his chest and said stiffly, "You, a city person, don't know how to use this thing. It's dangerous."
Ga Wa looked at Qing Chen with extreme wariness, as if he were looking at an enemy.
Qing Chen chuckled and asked, "How's your marksmanship?"
Ga Wa said, "My marksmanship is the best in the team. I can hit even a target as small as a coin within 10 meters."
“That is indeed very good,” Qingchen nodded.
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Countdown 111:00:09.
The patrol team ventured deep into the uninhabited inland area from the north slope camp, and it wasn't until the third day that they finally saw the oasis again.
In the past two days, Ga Wa and Qing Chen have become quite familiar with each other. Apart from still not letting Qing Chen touch the guns, they can talk about anything.
For some reason, after several months of intense battles, this occasional adventure in the open world actually made Qing Chen feel more relaxed.
He was almost done with his business in City 5. After leaving there, he would immediately head northwest to find an opportunity to infiltrate the other side of the Forbidden Sea.
At that time, Qingchen will once again have to live a life of danger and peril.
Since that's the case, let's relax with the patrol team and get our bodies and minds in order before the battle.
At this moment, Gawa looked at the familiar surroundings and said, "We'll be at Uncle Zaxi's place soon, there will be delicious food there."
"Who is Uncle Zaxi?" Qingchen asked curiously.
Ga Wa said, "He is the garrison commander here. He is responsible for living in the mountains all year round. As long as there is one person from the patrol team here, the poachers will not dare to be so rampant. Moreover, Uncle Zaxi has set up a tent here, so our patrol team can have a hot meal here after we go into the mountains."
"What good food is available here?" Qing Chen asked, intrigued.
"The milk skin, their milk skin and mutton are especially delicious," the boy said with a simple smile, his face red from the intense ultraviolet rays.
However, the next moment, Basang's shout suddenly came from the convoy: "Zaxi's tent has collapsed! Quick, speed up and see what happened!"
Looking into the distance, Qingchen saw a tent collapsed on the ground, with pots and pans scattered all over the ground outside the tent.
All the sheep they raised were killed in the sheepfold.
After Basang got out of the car, he ran over. The group pulled open the tent and were shocked to see Zaxi and his wife inside, beaten to the point of near death.
Basang asked urgently, "What happened? Who beat you up like this?"
Zaxi slowly opened his eyes: "It's Deji. He's out of prison. This time he brought more than twenty people into the mountains with him, and he even told me to tell you that if you chase after him this time, you'll surely die."
Basang frowned deeply; this meant the poachers had declared war on the patrol!
"And who is Deji?" Qingchen asked in a low voice from the side.
Gawa said, "Deji was someone that Uncle Basang arrested a few years ago. He was sentenced for poaching. His younger brother is very capable; he is also a poacher that we have been trying to catch."
No sooner had he finished speaking than someone popped up on the hillside dozens of meters away. Qingchen quickly grabbed the little boy.
But then, a cloud of dust rose up behind where Ga Wa had been standing, kicked up by a bullet.
Basang shouted, "Take cover! Take cover! Those bastards are lying in ambush here! Gawa, Gawa, are you alright?!"
The little boy looked panicked and said, "I'm fine!"
Basang shouted again, "Hey kid from the city, don't move! You'll get shot dead on the other side!"
But when he turned around, he found Qing Chen already kneeling on the ground, holding up the weapon and pulling the trigger...
Looking at the massive gun barrel of the "Invincible" weapon, the patrolmen swore in their hearts that this must be the most terrifying firearm they had ever seen in their lives.
Basang suddenly remembered that Qingchen had said earlier, "I came from the south slope," and then suddenly felt that the boy might not have been lying!
With just two shots, two poachers were killed. The other side was shocked by the gunshots, thinking, "Is that a gun? That's clearly a cannon!"
Ga Wa lay behind the bunker in the ravine, staring blankly at Qing Chen: "You..."
Qing Chen grinned and said, "It seems quite interesting for a max-level character to occasionally return to the newbie village. Stay here and don't move, I'll go and catch them all. The sooner we catch them, the sooner we can go to RKZ, my time is quite precious."
Before he could finish speaking, Qing Chen had already darted out. Ga Wa shouted, "Captain, he told us not to move! What do we do?"
Basang thought for a moment: "Then stay here and don't move..."
Chapter 783, It turns out he wasn't lying.
"Captain," Ga Wa lay flat on his back, quietly behind the bunker in the ravine, "Where did this person come from, and why did he hitch a ride with us?"
Basang responded, "He said he summited from the south side and then skied down from the top of Everest to the north side... At first I thought he was making up a lie, but now I'm starting to believe him."
Ga Wa suddenly said, “Captain, on the way here, I told him I was a sharpshooter, and he told me he was too. I said I could hit a coin within 10 meters, and he later said he could hit a coin within 3000 meters… At that time, I also thought he was making it up.”
Basang was taken aback: "Why didn't you mention this before?"
Ga Wa: "I'm telling you, but you have to believe me."
Basang asked, "What else did he say? Did he say what he did for a living?"
Ga Wa said, "He said he was a repairman. I asked him what he repaired, whether he could fix my tractor, and he said he repairs people, not tractors..."
"Repairing people? How do you repair them?"
"Return to factory for repair."
Basang was speechless. Why didn't you just say you killed someone and were reincarnated?
"Captain, there are still more than twenty people on Deji's side. Do you think it would be too dangerous for us to send him alone to hunt them down?" Gawa asked.
Basang, recalling Qingchen's speed that left afterimages in his vision, lay on the ground and replied, "I'm already wondering if Deji's wife will remarry after becoming a widow."
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The poachers had a grudge against the patrol team, and they gathered more than twenty people and came to Zaxi, certain that the patrol team would pass through here.
According to Deji, the patrol team was already small, and if they could wipe them out here, they could hunt without restraint from this summer to autumn.
However, everything changed after that black sniper rifle appeared.
The poachers, carrying guns, ran down the hillside. Just moments before, the other side had shot two of their teammates in the head, making the scene extremely bloody.
They scared these criminals, who lived on the edge of death, out of their wits.
Deji asked, "Didn't you notice someone carrying a sniper rifle?"
"I didn't notice. That person's clothes and appearance were completely different from Basang's. I thought he was a hitchhiker," someone said. "Now that I think about it, he was probably a helper that Basang had hired from somewhere else!"
The war between poachers and patrols has been going on for fifty years on this land, but the role of a sniper is a first...
At this moment, Deji looked at a middle-aged man in the crowd: "Hey, Zhang Cuo, what do we do now?"
But Zhang Cuo's expression was calm yet fierce: "What's there to be afraid of a sniper? There's a ravine ahead. We'll hide there and wait for him to catch up. Once he gets close, he'll be dead for sure."
Deji felt a little relieved. Yes, the fellow inmate he met in prison was indeed impressive. He had heard that he was a rather powerful 'time traveler'.
Time travelers, there are only a handful in the entire snow region.
After transmigrating, due to the geographical location of the federal cities, the time travelers mainly concentrated in the Central Plains region and didn't take the Snow Region and the Frontier Region with them at all. After all, in the inner world, the places corresponding to these two provinces had become Forbidden Land No. 001.
After Zhang Cuo was released from prison, he originally planned to work in an electronics factory on the southeast coast, tightening screws. However, as soon as he arrived in Guangcheng, he became a time traveler and even obtained a gene serum.
Without saying a word, he immediately bought a train ticket back, intending to return to this familiar place to expand his business and create new glories.
Zhang Cuo is not short of money. When he sells the hides abroad, he can also sell the imported and exported medicines of the Otherworld to foreign tycoons, especially the tycoons in the Middle East who offer exceptionally high prices.
But having money alone isn't enough; he also wants to build his own power base here.
"Quickly hide in the ravine and wait for him to catch up," Zhang Cuo said in a low voice.
However, as soon as they entered the ravine, they found Qingchen already waiting there.
No one knew how the other side could run faster than them.
The poachers frantically opened fire, but the bullets, once fired, hovered in front of Qing Chen, like something out of a science fiction movie…
In the blink of an eye, this max-level character had wiped out all the poachers...