He turned to Gao Hu and whispered, "Our team is expanding, and in a few months we might run out of manpower. Let's keep this kid here. When we go to plunder the production base, we can have him lead the way. Then we can have him go back to the 1129 production base and help us shut down those Metal Storm machines."
Gao Hu pondered for a moment: "Brother, you make the decision."
Gao Long pondered again: "But we can't trust strangers too easily. What if they are federal spies?"
“The Federation is at war, who has time to care about us?” Gao Hu said. “Those conglomerates are too busy taking care of themselves.”
“That won’t do either. Better safe than sorry,” Gao Long said. “The reason we brothers have survived this long is because of this.”
Then, Gao Long said to the leader of the Liu family, "Liu Kun, I'm entrusting this child to you. Make him one of our own within three months. He will be of great use when we go to plunder the Federation's production base three months later."
The old man named Liu Kun nodded: "Understood. I will take care of him personally. If he doesn't know any better, I will beat him until he does."
Gao Long shook his head: "How you manage him is your business. Just make sure he listens to you. All the troops rest here. Send out scouts to investigate that settlement and keep an eye on their movements. If you encounter their scouts, don't engage them in direct combat. Those people are quite formidable... I don't know where these hundreds of people came from, but their tactics are even better than the Federation Army Group."
Gao Long was referring to Qing Ling, Li Cheng, and others. These intelligence agents were once the elite of the elite, so it's normal that the wilderness people couldn't defeat them.
At this moment, Gao Hu said, "Brother, when are we going to the fire pit?"
“Take this settlement, integrate it, and then we’ll go,” Gao Long laughed. “I know you’re eyeing that goddess at the Fire Pit, but the Fire Pit is too mysterious, and it has a lot of hidden treasures. We need to be careful. Once we’ve incorporated the troops in the settlement, we can go and take her as a concubine. At that point, the Fire Pit won’t be able to object. Alright, the meeting’s over. Go ahead and fire. Let’s see how it goes today.”
Gao Hu nodded, then took out a revolver and shot himself in the temple.
Xiao Tu was shocked when he saw this scene out of the corner of his eye!
The next moment, a gunshot rang out, but a firework bloomed in the sky.
It was early morning, but the fireworks were as dazzling as if it were night.
Xiao Tu was stunned. The forbidden substance ACE-055!
We've come to the right place!
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Return countdown: 40:03:09.
The boy, Xiao Tu, was taken away by the Liu clan. They came to a forest where hundreds of brown horses were tied to the trees.
The Liu clansman said imperiously, "Go cut hay for the horses. If you don't feed them well before sunset, you'll get a beating."
Xiao Tu nodded and said honestly, "Okay, I'll work hard as long as I have something to eat."
The Liu clan members burst into laughter: "Damn it, you're quite obedient! Fine, we'll do it your way. You won't go hungry. Once we conquer that settlement in the west, maybe we can even give you a woman to play with."
Xiao Tu took a sickle and went to cut grass, just like a real farmer.
Liu Kun, the leader of the Liu clan, observed for a while. Standing outside the woods, he asked, "They do look like farmers at work. Federation spies can't learn these skills. By the way, is this kid carrying a weapon?"
“No!” the Liu clan member said, “This kid only had a string of Buddhist prayer beads on his wrist, which he said was a keepsake given to him by someone before they died, a token of a life-and-death friendship.”
"Buddhist prayer beads?" Liu Kun asked suspiciously. He walked towards Xiao Tu and said, "Let me see your Buddhist prayer beads."
Xiao Tu said "Ah," took off the prayer beads, and handed them over.
Liu Kun glanced at it and said, "It's just ordinary chicken wing wood, nothing special. Kid, in this wilderness, even gods and Buddhas can't protect you. If you want to live, you'd better behave yourself, understand?"
Liu Kun threw the Buddhist beads back.
Xiao Tu chuckled and said, "Yes, you have to be obedient."
These members of the Liu clan had no idea that they had just escaped death. The last time these Buddhist beads were taken from Xiao Tu's hands, the No. 20 city garrison was wiped out...
That's terrifying!
Xiao Tu is Qing Chen, and there are still more than half a month before the best time for him to enter the snow mountain.
Originally, he only wanted to come to the wilderness settlement to see for himself how hard life was there, and to see how the Freemasons, Qingling, Yangyang and others were doing. However, on the way, he encountered a spy from this huge wilderness family who was carefully spying on the settlement.
He secretly followed this wilderness family for two days and found that they were not in a hurry to make a move, and the settlement was also very wary of them.
Qing Chen knew the strength of the people in the settlement. The fact that they were so feared by everyone in the settlement clearly showed that there was something fishy going on in this wilderness family.
So he came.
Initially, Qingchen's plan was to snipe the two brothers from a distance. However, after searching for a long time, he discovered that the two brothers were extremely cautious. They always stayed in the complex woodland area, using the environment to obscure the sniper's line of sight.
Qing Chen originally planned to infiltrate and control the two brothers with puppets, which would have easily solved the problem and given him access to a large wilderness army.
But Gao Long was extremely cautious and refused to give him any chance to get close.
It was all for nothing.
Or... why not just take off the prayer beads and unleash a direct attack?
No, Qingchen felt that this Wilderness Family was a bit strange, so he decided to observe first.
Just then, a voice came from outside the camp: "We've caught two more refugees. They both say they escaped from the 1129 production base. The Chen family is capturing people over there to explore the forbidden land."
Upon hearing this, Qing Xiaotu thought to himself that these two refugees had indeed confirmed his statement, making his identity even safer.
Gao Long said, "That's strange. What on earth is the Chen family up to? There's a war going on at the front, and it's one thing for them not to participate, but why have they suddenly started exploring forbidden lands on such a large scale? Could it be that some treasure has been found in a nearby forbidden land? Bring those two people to me!"
Qing Xiaotu curiously looked outside the camp, but immediately lowered his head after only a couple of glances...
Holy crap!
The two people brought in were none other than Zard and Huanyu.
Everyone had the same idea: to assassinate Gao Long and Gao Hu. After all, if they killed these two, the newly acquired family would naturally fall apart!
The next moment, Gao Long looked at Qing Xiaotu: "Hey, you also fled from the production base, do you know them?"
Xiao Tu quickly shook his head: "I don't know him!"
Huan Yu and Zard looked at him, and everyone immediately fell silent...
The 1129 production base is the closest to here, so everyone says they escaped from here, but it turns out they don't know each other...
The two of them didn't recognize Xiao Tu either; they just felt incredibly embarrassed to have their lie exposed on the spot.
It wasn't that Qing Xiaotu was deliberately trying to expose them; it's just that these two didn't look like farmers or refugees at all.
These two people did change their clothes and darken their faces, but they didn't manage to disguise their true demeanor at all.
Especially Huan Yu, it was as if she came to offer the wilderness people a meal...
"It's good that you don't know them. You're the real one, and the other two are fake. If you say you know them, I'll lock you both up," Gao Long said with a sneer as he looked at Huan Yu and Zard. "Trying to infiltrate my team?"
Zard said, "What are you saying? We're refugees."
Gao Long laughed angrily: "What kind of spies are you? You can't even fake it properly! Lock them in the wooden cage! Send six men to keep an eye on these two spies. Interrogate them tonight and see what kind of skills the experts in the settlement possess!"
On more than a dozen pickup trucks next to the camp, the wilderness people had placed more than a dozen huge wooden cages. Half of the cages contained women they had captured from somewhere, while the other half contained men covered in wounds.
Qing Xiaotu was both amused and exasperated. These two's infiltration operation was far too frivolous! They'd barely infiltrated and were already being imprisoned?
However, he was a little curious as to when Huan Yu had changed his nature and would actually take action for the civilians in the settlement.
Or perhaps the other party also knew there were rare and forbidden items here, so they came to steal them?
Inside the wooden cage, Zard and Dayu were locked up with two strange men. Zard even greeted the two men politely: "Hello."
The other two people in the wooden cage were beaten black and blue, their fates unknown, and they showed no sign of responding to him.
Zard didn't give up and even greeted the woman in the wooden cage on the pickup truck next door: "Has everyone had breakfast yet?"
Da Yu said irritably, "Can't you keep a low profile? We'll leave as soon as we find a chance to steal the forbidden item! Those two brothers seem to think we're just ordinary spies, they didn't expect we're two A-level spies, this is our chance. After they fall asleep, you control the earth element to steal the item, and once you've stolen it, we'll go back to the settlement to call for reinforcements, understand?"
“Oh,” Zard said, remaining silent.
At this moment, Gao Long sat by the campfire, looking thoughtfully at Da Yu and Zard: "That guy called Xiao Tu also came from the 1129 production base. I've assigned him to guard the prisoners in the wooden cages. I want to see how he reacts and whether he secretly communicates with the prisoners."
Liu Kun accepted the order and left. He led Qing Xiaotu toward the pickup truck, instructing them as they walked: "Your job is to keep an eye on them. If anyone tries to escape, shout loudly. If anyone makes any small movements, shout loudly too."
Xiao Tu nodded: "How do they manage to eat and use the restroom?"
Liu Kun sneered, "Just let them defecate in the wooden cage. When we get to the river, they can clean it themselves. As prisoners, they expect to go to the toilet in a secluded place? What a dream!"
“I understand,” Xiao Tu said. He could feel a gaze fixed on him from behind, watching his every move.
He understood why Liu Kun had entrusted him with the task of guarding the prisoners.
But the person watching him probably didn't expect that he was an A-level, capable of sensing gazes.
After all, what legitimate A-rank would be so idle as to act as a scout? There are so few A-ranks in the wilderness, and the Gao brothers have been fighting for so long without ever encountering a single one.
As a result, of the three A-level individuals in his camp, two are now prisoners, and one has become a errand boy...
Who would have thought of that?
Da Yu stared intently at the approaching boy, Xiao Tu, through the wooden cage. He hadn't recognized him before, but now that he was closer, he suddenly said, "That person... why does he look so familiar?"
"Hmm?" Zard looked over as well, then his eyes lit up.
The idea of smearing dirt on your face might fool strangers, but forget about fooling people you know.
Da Yu said in a low voice, "Does he look like Qing Chen?"
Zard: "Yeah, it's like he grew up eating Qingchen. I feel like even their poop is the same. I never thought there was someone in the world who looked so much like Qingchen. I have to tell him when I get back."
Da Yu: "...This is Qing Chen!"
Liu Kun left, and Xiao Tu sat down next to the pickup truck as if nothing had happened.
Da Yu said coldly, "What are you doing here? Since you're here, why don't you attack those two?"
Xiao Tu ignored him completely, not even moving his mouth, knowing that someone was watching him.
Furthermore, Da Yu's question is a bit ridiculous. It's obvious that you know the Gao brothers' strength better. Even you two A-levels had to infiltrate in disguise, so why should I have to rush in? We definitely need to find the right opportunity!
Da Yu continued, "That guy named Gao Long has a silhouette of a forbidden object on him, and his brother has a forbidden revolver. You should know what those effects are. Gao Long is equivalent to two A-levels, and his brother could become a demigod at any time. We must launch a preemptive strike. We'll prepare to make our move tonight. The three of us will work together, kill them both, and then leave!"
At this point, Da Yu couldn't care less about the rift between them. Only by killing these wilderness people could he feel at ease taking Xiao Yu away.
Da Yu continued, "Tonight, Zard and I..."
Before he could finish speaking, Xiao Tu suddenly stood up, pointed at the wooden cage, and shouted, "Report! Those two are trying to trick me into opening the cage and letting them go!"
Da Yu: "???"
Zard: "???"
My brother is with you heart and soul, and you're trying to outsmart him?!
Gao Long, who was watching from a distance, laughed and said, "Three nobodys."