Under the interrogation of No. 4, the warrior leader completely gave up resistance and answered all questions.
They are similar to bounty hunters and mercenaries, and most of their members come from the same settlement, about a hundred kilometers away from the crash site of the rescue capsule.
That day, the rescue capsule was hit by a missile in the air and crashed into the mountains and forests in this area. They were the closest bounty hunters. When they saw the trajectory of the rescue capsule, they immediately organized three troops to search, hoping to see if they could find anything valuable.
The technological level of this settlement is mostly at the level of the planet. Anything that can fall from the sky is a treasure and can be brought to the city to exchange for money.
The so-called city, according to his description, is a larger settlement, with the largest trading market in the nearby area, where everything can be traded. The missile that shot down the rescue capsule may have been fired from this city.
On this planet, or at least in this area, there is no government or ruler. The scattered settlements have to make a living on their own and find ways to obtain the materials they need for survival. The largest force in the city, the organization that can obtain necessary survival supplies, is called the Blue Flag Army. And this city seems to be just one of the Blue Flag Army's strongholds, and they don't know where the Blue Flag Army's headquarters is.
Most settlements cannot survive independently. They require the input of external supplies, including energy, medicine, ammunition, and some high-tech items. In exchange for these, women, children, prey and minerals from various places were exchanged.
As for the whereabouts of other rescue capsules, these people know nothing. It seems that the crash site should be far away from here.
The leader's name is Orm, and the person being tortured later is called El, and she is his daughter. There are about three to four hundred people in the settlement where Aum lives, and they have lived here for decades.
It's summer on the planet, and further north, in the harsh highlands, the annual hurricane season is approaching.
After a brief discussion, Lin Xi decided to go to the settlement, occupy it first, and then decide on the next step after obtaining more information and resources.
Orm has no room for rejection, especially when Four is ready to inflict more wounds on his daughter.
The other hunters were picked up and escorted outside the forest, where their vehicles were parked. When a group of people walked out of the forest, they saw four all-terrain off-road vehicles parked in a clearing.
These cars have huge tires with anti-skid treads all over the surface. Li Ruobai walked around one of the cars, lay down on the ground and took a look under the car, then opened the engine cover and looked inside. Finally, he smelled the fuel and said, "I didn't expect to see this." Plant old antiques.”
"What?" Lin Xi asked.
"Diesel-combustion locomotives use biofuels, a technology that was developed on the home planet more than a thousand years ago."
"Can it be used?" Lin Xi was not concerned about the technical level.
Li Ruobai evaluated it and said, "It may not be faster than us."
"Then get in the car."
After a while, the four off-road vehicles started one after another and set off. No. 4 and Li Ruobai sat in the front car, escorting Aum to lead the way. The two cars in the middle are the surviving hunters. On the last car were Chu Jungui and Lin Xi, who were responsible for cutting off the rear and monitoring the hunters in the car in front.
On the way, a hunter tried to jump out of the car and escape. As soon as he jumped out, a bullet penetrated his head before he landed. After that all the hunters became honest.
The off-road vehicle was bumpy all the way and was not very fast. It could only drive at about 10-15 kilometers per hour on this land with few roads. Fortunately, the off-road ability is strong enough, and it can pass directly through most terrain types. Even when passing by a creek more than one meter deep, it can be driven directly through.
The only unpleasant thing is that the exhaust pipe of the off-road vehicle is emitting thick smoke, which is very choking. Lin Xi only tried to smell it, and then silently turned on the filtering function of the respiratory system. The hunters should have been used to it for a long time. It seems that the oil smoke on their leather hunting clothes should also come from this.
Chu Jungui had already scanned and analyzed the fuel of the off-road vehicle. Off-road vehicles use biodiesel, with some exotic substances added to it, mainly oxidants, to increase combustion efficiency and improve power performance. But the price is billowing smoke.
Behind the first off-road vehicle towed a suspended platform piled high with the necessary tools and equipment that had been dismantled from the camp.
A settlement with complete living conditions is better than their temporary camp.
On the off-road vehicle, Lin Xi whispered: "I hate the way they look at me."
She said this through a private communication channel, and naturally no one else would hear it.
Chu Jungui also agreed, "They look at you like they're looking at food."
"Looking at the food?" Lin Xi was puzzled.
Chu Jungui quickly found a few suitable words from the huge database: "It means greed, eagerness, impulsiveness, accelerated blood flow and heartbeat, significantly enhanced brain electrical signals, entering high frequency or even ultra-high frequency areas, which means obvious A state of excitement and impulsiveness. That's what happens when a person is half-starved and sees food and water. So I think they want to eat you."
Lin Xi was silent for a moment before saying, "Are you serious?"
"Of course not." Fortunately, Chu Jungui's tactical deception version was still manageable.
"These guys should have blood on their hands. This is why I didn't stop No. 4."
"If you mean killing, it should be yes. I saw the remains of human tissue on the sabers of some of them."
Lin Xi sighed, not noticing Chu Jungui's eyesight that was comparable to a scanning beam, and said: "In a strange planet environment, when facing someone approaching you, the first choice is to shoot and kill, and the second is to maim. And in a situation like ours, any stranger who moves should be shot immediately. Only the dead are safe."
"What regulations are these?" Chu Jungui had several versions of planetary survival rules in his memory, but none of them contained this article.
“There is no charter, that’s what my father and several personal tutors told me when I was a kid.”
"Does it work? I mean, where's the rationale for it?"
"I don't know if it's useful. But I heard that the thirteen families in the Ring of Roses in the Federation have similar family mottos, but no one will say it publicly."
"What about Shengtang?"
"The same is true for aristocratic families and national pillars."
"Did I tell you why when I was teaching you?" Chu Jungui asked.
"The instructors said that in the currently known star field, although there are only humans, the area we occupy is a very small area in the entire galaxy. We still don't know what the galaxies outside the Milky Way look like. Even if it has In the Star Domain, no one knows exactly how many planets we humans occupy and where our footprints have been distributed. Sometimes by the time a message is transmitted back to the home planet from the outermost planet, it is already decades or even hundreds of years later. And from one end of the star field to the other, the message will take longer to travel.”
"In other words, when we set foot on a strange planet, we have no idea what kind of people we may face?"
"We don't even know if they are still human," Lin Xi said.
