At 10 pm on August 26, 2049, in the suburbs of Nanjing, Long County, fifteen escort employees had arrived.
The express delivery industry in this world is a bit back to nature. The modern high-end express delivery industry is now more like its predecessor - the ancient escort agency.
"Escort" teams generally come in two forms. One is a company that specializes in this type of business. The entire escort team is equipped with standard equipment. The team members often practice simulation training and have a high degree of tacit understanding. The company will also have a dedicated department responsible for route planning, vehicle selection and modification, and even management along the way.
The second is the situation of Yun Ming's team. They are a team organized by their employer, and everyone does not know each other. The vehicles and driving routes are provided by the employer. Compared with the professional ones above, they are indeed much grassroots. Of course, the cost will be much lower.
Although it is the escort team of "Yeluzi", the team lineup is still luxurious: Let's talk about the personnel first. Yun Ming has observed that the 14 people except himself are also industry insiders, and there are a few familiar faces in the crowd, all of whom he has some knowledge of. A well-informed expert in the industry.
The vehicle equipment is not weak either. It starts with a "Growler" vanguard vehicle, followed by a light armored vehicle, and then a truck carrying the transportation target, followed by a logistics support vehicle.
The above is the escort force for this mission. Let me give you a very fair evaluation: Not bad.
The destination is Shanghai. According to the employer's arrangement, the team will transfer to other vehicles in Kunshan. Yun Ming silently calculated. Based on the driving route, it would take more than six hours to reach Kunshan. It was close to five o'clock in the morning. The employer's arrangement should be to transfer to a lower-key means of transportation to enter Shanghai.
Yun Ming sat in the back row of the "Growler", with the submachine gun "Viper" lying across his lap. Looking at the wilderness outside the bulletproof glass, he recalled the world of his hometown.
Yun Ming was also from Nanjing, Yanhuang, before traveling through time. He had been to Shanghai several times, both by car and train. After coming to this earth, all my past experiences have no effect.
There is almost no concept of "highway" in this world, and cars are not the most important mode of transportation. Communication between cities is connected by high-speed trains. The developed railway network squeezes the living space of cars. Cars are now mostly used for Traveling in the city.
There are two reasons for this situation, technological progress and global urban and rural demographic changes. Nowadays, humans can almost build bridges and pave roads regardless of terrain, weather and other factors; the innovation of high-speed rail technology has brought amazing speed improvements, huge transportation volumes and considerable economic benefits. Cars were gradually phased out.
After the War of Fire, the massive loss of population made the large cities before the war become the main gathering places for humans. Small and medium-sized cities were left empty, and the highway network was also severely damaged during the war.
Today, the high-speed train from Nanjing to Shanghai has only two stations along the way - Zhenjiang Station and Suzhou Station. Wuxi and Changzhou, which were once the four cities in southern Jiangsu, have been merged.
Every city can be said to be vast and sparsely populated, and people generally live in urban areas, so even if there are "Growlers" and armored vehicles in the convoy, they will not attract attention - no one sees them at all along the way. But it's different when driving into Shanghai. Even though three-fifths of the city was destroyed in the Battle of Fire, the rebuilt Shanghai is still one of the most populous cities on the planet. It is necessary to change cars in order to keep a low profile. In this way, Yun Ming analyzed everything about his employer's arrangements.
He continued to dismantle and smash the mission in his mind, hoping to get more information. This information may be useful, or it may never be used. Although most of them are useless, Yun Ming likes to do this. People in this industry generally don't like to use their brains. They just rely on their bravery and get it done. Yun Ming has never been that kind of person. When he first traveled through time, he had not inherited all the fighting skills of his predecessor Yun Ming, and the gap could only be made up with intelligence.
Yun Ming was still chewing on the existing information, and inferred a lot of things:
"Many details of this mission, such as the route and destination, were conveyed to us by the captain after we gathered." He glanced at the middle-aged man sitting on his left who seemed to be concentrating with his eyes closed.
The captain is a rugged and burly man, forty-five years old, from Snow Bear County. His appearance fits the public's traditional impression of a fighting nation: he is 1.9 meters tall, weighs 250 pounds, has a bald head with tattoos, a beard that hangs down to his chest, and his arms and legs are as strong as an orc's.
"Iron Tong" is the man's name. As the name suggests, he has no left arm, and the flesh and blood parts are replaced by a metal arm. The end of the arm is not five fingers and a palm, but a huge iron pincer with an iron-green luster extending from the forearm.
Iron Clamp is a Cyborg warrior. He was originally a federal soldier and became a free mercenary after retiring. He lost his left arm during a mission and obtained the metal arm through connections he had made in the military.
The federal military certainly has this technology. In fact, the technological content of prosthetics in this world is really high, and prostheses that are purely decorative or have too basic functions almost no longer exist. Of course, things like iron pliers will definitely not appear in the civilian market.
He was from outside the county, came from the federal army, was a Cyborg warrior, and had many labels. Of course Yun Ming recognized him. This man is powerful, has senior qualifications, and is in his prime. He is indeed the perfect candidate for the position of captain.
He also knew the person sitting in the co-pilot seat directly in front of Yun Ming, and he even suspected that there was no one among the free mercenaries who didn't know him. Because she is a rare young woman in this industry.
Jiang Yao, a native of Longjun, whose age is unknown and looks younger than Yun Ming (Yun Ming's physical age is 28 years old and his soul is 24 years old, refers to physical age here), is a newcomer who has emerged in the past two years.
Jiang Yao can be regarded as a sporty and energetic girl, with a slender figure, slender legs, healthy wheat-colored skin, and good looks. It is strange that such a person is unknown among mercenaries.
But she is definitely not a flower vase. Yun Ming has never worked with her, but he has also heard that Jiang Yao has great fighting skills and is good at close combat and hand-to-hand combat.
The man driving the car was the only one in the team who had experience working with Yun Ming. Wenke, thirty-nine years old, mixed race, is also an experienced old man. Yun Ming had cooperated with him several times before and after time travel, but he was not familiar with him. The two Yunmings had the same evaluation of him: one word - stable.
Tieqi, Jiang Yao, and Yun Ming are all top industry leaders, and Wenke's business level is also above average. There are several armored vehicles on the same level as Wenke.
This kind of all-star lineup is relatively rare, Yun Ming settled the score. The commissions of the four people in this "Growler" alone can be used to hire a team of the same size from a professional company, and the price is very uneconomical.
Iron Clamp is good at face-to-face combat and is the favorite hired thug of gangsters; Jiang Yao is a master of assassination and an assassin-type talent. Let them take on the task of guarding because they are not specialized in their profession.
When Yun Ming saw the team members at the gathering place, he felt something was wrong. After thinking about this clearly, he realized that the eighth achievement of this mission was a trap. He would not optimistically explain those doubts with the reason that "the employer is a layman and got taken advantage of."
What he prefers to believe is that the target of this shipment is of great value, and that the employer's possession of this precious thing has been exposed. If you keep the jade in hand, you will never be able to escape the crime. The employer is anxious to get rid of it! The mysterious employer may have known that this was a dangerous trip!
No wonder this team is strong, no wonder there are fighting mercenaries like Iron Clamp Jiang Yao, no wonder the mission commission received is unclear.
Yun Ming thought he figured it out, but it was too late. He glanced at Captain Iron Clamp again. If the reality was as bad as he speculated, he would consider hugging his thigh now.
