"You can bully and bully me! Where do you want me to go in this place where a bird doesn't shit? I won't be eaten by monsters when I get outside! You heartless! I'm so angry!"
The woman was so angry that there was nothing she could do to the man, and in the end she whimpered in pain.
After hearing the conversation, Ma Tao was already sure that there should be a small family hidden in this cave, and it seemed that the family had been here for a long time and was full of resentment. Ma Tao was not in the mood to go. He wanted to end the lawsuit for them, but he was quite interested in the chariot that the man was talking about.
Chariot, it's something that many people dream of. Now that you've encountered it, how could you not find out more about it? Otherwise, it would be a pity.
"Let's go, put away the weapons, let's go in"
At that moment, Ma Tao was the first to put the sonar gun he was holding tightly behind his back.
"What are you doing? Are you still going to take care of this family's troubles?"
Su Lanyu looked at Ma Tao in surprise. She didn't think Ma Tao was the kind of person who liked to mess around. After all, it was nothing for them to get involved in other people's family affairs.
"Of course, since we are all together, it is definitely not good to quarrel all the time. Why don't we go and help mediate?"
Ma Tao looked at Su Lanyu with deep meaning and smiled.
"Yes, yes, let's go to mediation and have a good communication."
Xiao Jinzi was smarter this time and started wearing the same pants as Ma Tao.
Ma Tao looked at him. It was obvious that this boy had also heard what the man inside said about the chariot. Everything had something to do with the chariot. This boy couldn't leave anything behind. He had to step forward to find out. At this moment, when I heard Ma Tao talking nonsense to Su Lanyu here, I wanted to laugh, but I still held back. The chariot is still buried somewhere. Of course, it belongs to whoever finds it, and there is no need to prioritize it. As for whether you can find it or not, it depends on the results of your efforts.
“I really can’t deal with you.”
Su Lanyu glanced at Ma Tao and Xiao Jinzi. Now it was two to one. The two of them seemed to have discussed it. They were determined that they could not go back alone. After much deliberation, they could only agree.
Ma Tao and Xiao Jinzi looked at each other, and they both understood and walked straight towards the light in the cave.
"Is there anyone? Can you give me a drink of water?"
Before he could get closer, Ma Tao shouted over.
In this wilderness, if the three of them sneak in quietly, what if the monster inside accidentally breaks in? It's okay to scare people. If the people inside have weapons in their hands, they will give them to them as soon as they meet. If it collapses, wouldn't it be a huge loss? Therefore, it is correct to open your mouth first to explore the way to avoid being accidentally killed.
After Ma Tao finished shouting, they just walked to the light. There was a cave with a space of several hundred square meters in between. The cave was divided into left and right sides. There were three beds on the left, two were empty, and one was lying on top. Because the person's back was turned to them, they couldn't see the person's appearance. There was a gasoline barrel in the cave on the right, and there were several grass futons around it. It should be where they were eating. At this time, a gasoline barrel next to the gasoline barrel Sitting on the grass futon was a middle-aged man in tattered clothes, holding an old-style metal detector in his hand. This man was looking at Ma Tao and the other three people with the same surprised look. There is another woman with Ma Tao and the others. Her condition is quite miserable. Her face is dirty and she has no appearance. Her blue clothes are almost frayed and her flesh is exposed. The reason why she can be said to be She is a woman partly because of her female figure and partly because of her hair. It may also be due to the conditions in this place. Although this woman has long hair, she is too lazy to comb it. It is a mess and looks very sloppy.
"Who are you?"
The woman was working with a bowl in one hand. Unexpectedly, someone would suddenly appear. After asking, she wanted to grab the shotgun that was lying nearby. The man also reacted and threw away the detector. He picked up the short-barreled shotgun beside him.
"Um... don't get me wrong. We are all travelers. We escaped here unintentionally after being chased by those snake-like monsters outside. We don't have any harm, we just want a drink of water. We will leave as soon as it is safe."
Everyone had shotguns, and Ma Tao quickly waved his hand to indicate the identities of the three of them. Of course, it was inconvenient to say their true identities, otherwise the two people in front of him would have immediately thought of them when they heard that they were bounty hunters. Chariot, if this is the case, then their attempt to inquire about the chariot will be in vain.
Xiao Jinzi suppressed his laughter and even nodded in agreement. As for why he laughed, it was entirely because of the weapons in the hands of these two men, gunpowder guns. Such old weapons, they were still in the form of fillers. , the power is so pitiful that it may not even be able to damage the copper clothes they are wearing, let alone the steel helmets on their heads. They are not threatening at all.
As for Su Lanyu, although she didn't understand what Ma Tao was going to do, she could see that Ma Tao and Xiao Jinzi were cooperating here, and there must be something going on in the double act, so she didn't trouble them.
"Huh? People who are traveling? It's so rare."
Hearing Ma Tao's words, the woman suddenly grinned, and then looked Ma Tao up and down. She was very happy, but soon she saw Su Lanyu beside her. There was no smile on her face like an iceberg girl, but she still couldn't hide it. Compared with that charming beauty, the woman suddenly lost it.
"Mother, get them some water."
The man stared at Ma Tao and the others for a while, probably realizing that the equipment they were wearing was not a little bit more advanced than the broken gun in his hand, and the clothes they wore were a few blocks ahead of him, and he knew better. It would be absolutely easy for the three people in front of him to kill him. They didn't have to wait until now. It wasn't Tu Cai who was talking about sex. He had a woman, but when he looked at the woman standing behind Ma Tao, he couldn't be called a woman at all. At these two points, he immediately felt relieved. It was not for money or sex. The three people in front of him might have been chased by those laser earthworms and got lost before running to him. They were saying that they just wanted to give them a drink of water. Water is also useful. Not much money.
The man's wife stared at Ma Tao and Xiao Jinzi, then turned around and scooped out a ladle of water from the water tank on the side and brought it to Ma Tao.
Since I came here to ask for a drink of water, now that the water is here, it will be very suspicious if I don't drink it, but Ma Tao is not a careless person. From the time when the woman turned around to scooping up the water, Ma Tao was there. Staring at her hand, never letting the scoop of water leave her sight, Ma Tao, who came out of Rock Town, used her beloved life to understand a truth, that is, being on guard against others is indispensable. Being more thoughtful may not seem to be of much use in many cases, but it can really save lives at certain critical moments.
"Thanks"
Taking the water handed over by the man and his mother-in-law, Ma Tao thanked him, and then drank up all the water without leaving even a drop for Xiao Jinzi and Gao Han.
Ma Tao did this with extra care, because he knew that neither Su Lanyu nor Xiao Jinzi were thirsty. There was still a lot of water in the three tanks. Asking for water was just a reason. If there was anything else, If he can't take care of it, even if he drinks it, the two of them will be there to ensure that everything is safe. This is a plan to be prepared, but then again, Ma Tao feels really comfortable drinking the water from this scoop. , I feel like I can spit it out as soon as I burp.
'You...don't you want to drink...I'm going to get some for you'
The woman watched Ma Tao drink up the water and thought that Ma Tao was really thirsty. She took the water ladle and went to fetch water for Xiao Jinzi and Su Lanyu.
"No, we're not thirsty. Thank you."
Ma Tao couldn't speak about this kind of thing, so Xiao Jinzi quickly took over the words himself.
"I'm not thirsty either"
Su Lanyu raised her red lips and said something.
'"oh"
The woman nodded, then looked back at her man.
"Um... I'm a little impatient after drinking. Can you borrow a place to rest? Those snake-like monsters outside are too scary. We don't want to rest in vain. We can spend some money."
Ma Tao knew that he couldn't let the atmosphere become awkward. He had to let them start talking. As he was talking, Ma Tao actually took out twenty or thirty G's from his arms, and then spread his palms out so that both the man and the woman could see them. G in my own hand.
Sure enough, when I saw it, the woman's eyes lit up first, and she stared at the 30G in Ma Tao's hand with an excited look, as if she was fascinated.
It's also because the family has stayed here for a long time. They live in seclusion like a paradise and don't know what's going on outside, so they can show this kind of expression when they see 30-year-olds.
"This...that's okay"
As the saying goes, money can make the world go round. With the help of money, this trivial matter is nothing, and the man agreed.
The old man agreed, and the money was taken away by the woman as a matter of course. Seeing the woman's happy look, Ma Tao resisted the desire to laugh in his heart.
Now that you have spent the money, you can go and rest safely. After staring at the pink gasoline barrel table, Ma Tao turned his head and winked at Xiao Jinzi.
"Brother, I can't walk anymore. Let's find a place to rest."
For the sake of the chariot, Xiao Jinzi's brain had reached its limit, and Ma Tao's look immediately made him understand.
“There’s a place for this”
The man glanced at the grass futons around him and then spoke.
After all, people have spent money, so it is really not good to let people stand.
After getting what they wanted, the three of them sat directly next to the gasoline barrel table, perfectly close to the man.
As I got closer, I could see more clearly. This man was about forty years old. He had small eyes, a flat nose, and an unkempt beard. He didn't clean up his hair at all. After Ma Tao and the other three sat next to him, this man was still fiddling with things. The extremely old metal detector in his hand.
"Brother, is this a metal detector?"
They didn't say anything, so Ma Tao started to look for words.
"Um"
The man hummed without raising his head.
"You're wrong, you've even connected the electrodes backwards. It's impossible for this to work."
Xiao Jinzi stared at the metal detector in his hand for a while, and then suddenly smiled.
"You said...what did I do wrong?"
The unshaven man was stunned when he heard Xiao Jinzi's words, then looked up at the eighteen-nineteen-year-old child in front of him, then looked at the detector in his hand and said.
"Electrode, what you are connecting is reverse current, and there is no connection here or here. Of course this thing won't work."
Xiao Jinzi not only mentioned one problem, but also pointed out several other problems on the detector.
Mechanical repairs are actually pretty much the same. Although the detector and the tank are two different things, the mechanical principles are different. Xiao Jinzi can still understand the general things.
"Then...can you practice it?"
The man looked at the mistakes pointed out by Xiao Jinzi for a while and then looked at Xiao Jinzi with hope.
"This thing... I think there should be nothing wrong with it, right?"
A smile appeared on Xiao Jinzi's face after hearing this. He was about to say that it was okay to be petty, but he immediately noticed that his knee was pushed hard by Ma Tao, and he quickly changed his mind.
"If that's the case, then you try it."
Ma Tao smiled at the sloppy man, and then said to Xiao Jinzi.
"Then I'll try"
At this moment, the boy already understood what Ma Tao meant. He could do it himself, but he had to wait for Ma Tao to give him a hint when he could do it.
After encountering this dilapidated detector, Xiao Jinzi could see the problem with this thing at a glance. In fact, this detector had been dismantled by that man frequently and was in tatters. Various wires were connected. In fact, the working principle of the detector is very simple. Ma Tao bought one before, but he left it in the car without using it. Normally, Xiao Jinzi would go get it and study it. The reason why his detector didn't work was that he connected the wires wrongly. But in this situation, Xiao Jinzi naturally couldn't fix it directly. He needed to wait.
"I said, brother, I see why you are so fond of this detector."
Ma Tao had nothing to say, so he suddenly asked while the man was observing the detector in Xiao Jinzi's hand.
"He! He's obsessed with an unfounded lie!"
Before the man could speak, the long-haired woman who had been standing aside spoke.
"You know what the heck! There's no way the old man's words are false! Get out of here!"
Hearing this, the man couldn't help but got angry again, but this time he probably didn't save face for his wife because of the presence of outsiders like Ma Tao, so he roared at her.
"No, no, no, don't quarrel. Is there anything we can't discuss?"
Ma Tao began to act as a peacemaker and quickly stood up to break up the fight.
The woman stared at her man without saying a word for a long time, but after a while, the tears in her eyes couldn't stop flowing out. The woman still said nothing, covered her mouth and ran to the cave on the other side.
"Ignore her, that's what women are like, just keep doing it for me."
This man didn't care how angry he was with his woman, he still cared about his metal detector.
Su Lanyu on the side looked down on such a man very much. He had no ability and usually only bullied women in his own home. If such a man had been in her place, she would have gone to the knife long ago. How could he be saved? Hanging in front of yourself.
"What on earth could have made you two so angry?"
Ma Tao pretended to be confused with understanding in his heart, and asked in a tone of deliberately pretending not to know.
"Detect...detect...detect...detect...detect...detector~"
Suddenly, the cry of a rotten old man came from the cave on the other side. Because the shout was so loud, Ma Tao and the others were startled, and they subconsciously turned their heads to look at the cave on the other side.
"That's my father. He has some senile dementia. He can only lie in bed and be waited on by others. He often shouts like this, don't go out."
It seems that because Xiao Jinzi can repair the metal detector for him, the man's attitude towards Ma Tao and the others has softened a lot.
"Your father... is very angry..."
Ma Tao looked back at him awkwardly and could only say this.
"Alas~"
After listening to Ma Tao's words, the man looked at Xiao Jinzi, who was still working hard to repair the metal detector for himself, sighed and then said, "Actually, I also question my original decision, but I am not willing to accept it. Ten years later, I am here I’ve been looking for ten years, why can’t I find it???”
"Looking for...what? Have you been looking for ten years?"
Ma Tao knew that the topic was coming, and even Xiao Jinzi, who was concentrating on repairing the metal detector, pricked up his ears to listen.
"These all happened ten years ago. In fact, I don't know if they are true or not. It is rumored that this chariot was buried in a cave on the beach. It is said that the owner of this chariot was a very capable bounty hunter. , I don’t know what happened to him, but he gave up the chariot that he regarded as his life, buried his chariot and became anonymous. My father was one of the people who helped him bury the chariot."
The man's face showed an extremely depressed expression. Ma Tao understood it very well. Ten years, and there are several more decades in life. The old man in front of him has been searching for a chariot for ten years with no results. This day is like a prison. There was no difference. Ma Tao didn't know how this person could persevere for one thing in a place like this. He didn't know whether he should call this persistence stupid or strong.
"Ten years... wouldn't the chariot that was buried in the soil have been corroded by the soil long ago and become useless?"
Xiao Jinzi immediately had doubts about this matter. When he mentioned it, Ma Tao also frowned.
Indeed, a tank buried in the soil is different from a tank hidden. After all, the No. 1 tank tank hidden by Ma Tao's father is a closed space and an independent secret room. It is not directly buried in the soil. The decomposition of all objects is terrible. No matter what it is, as long as it is buried in the soil, it can take a few days, a few years, or even hundreds of years. Anyway, it can be decomposed for you. What will happen in the end? There is no one left. A tank is made of metal after all, but many parts are not, such as C devices, display screens, and circuits. These will all age. If they age a little, what can that tank do? There is really only an empty shell left, but such an empty shell is also very useful. Re-equip it with the engine, C device, and chassis, and it will become a tank again, but the impact resistance of the body is limited. It is unknown, and the safety of this kind of tank will be greatly reduced.
"No, the old man said that the chariot was wrapped tightly and buried. The sealing degree is no less than a vacuum state. Even if it is hidden for a hundred and eighty years, it should not be a problem."
The man shook his head. After saying this, he covered his head in great pain and muttered to himself, "Where is it..."
Looking at the look of the man in front of him, Ma Tao knew that this was the pain of pursuing something to the extreme but not always being able to do so. To put it bluntly, he was obsessed with it and was sick. Medically speaking, this condition is called depression.
"Brother, I believe you will find it."
Ma Tao didn't dislike how dirty this man was, so he reached out and patted his shoulder and said.
"By the way, your father didn't say whether there was anything special in the location where the chariot was hidden?"
Ma Tao asked this question in a very low tone, because he was afraid that the woman in the cave on the other side would hear it, because this sentence was somewhat suspicious of inquiring about the location, or had ulterior motives.
"There is nothing. The old man just told me to hide near this beach. There were hundreds or even thousands of people who came here looking for chariots. Now I am the only one left."
Loss, sadness, helplessness, hesitation, and doubts about his own beliefs almost pushed him to the edge of collapse.
Ma Tao looked at Xiao Jinzi, "Hey guys, the area on this beach is so huge. The area they saw alone is more than tens of thousands of hectares of island beaches. This is really equivalent to the ocean." It's like finding a needle in a haystack, no, it's bigger than a needle, it's like finding a cart in a haystack.
But Ma Tao didn't believe that the mysterious chariot owner would so hastily find a place to bury his chariot. There must be some special symbol at the place where he buried the chariot. As for what it was, he couldn't tell. I know, this old man's father who has Alzheimer's disease may know, but in the old man's current state, it makes no difference whether he knows or not, and there is no way to tell the result.
At this point, Su Lanyu also understood that the two of them were planning to inquire about the chariot. It was precisely for this reason that they had to come in to find out. However, this was really a big deal for their team. It's not a bad thing. If this buried chariot can really be found, it will really be a miracle.
"How's it going? Can things be fixed?"
After thinking for a while, Ma Tao looked at Xiao Jinzi.
"OK OK!"
The boy had already been waiting with the wires that had been remade. As soon as he heard Ma Tao's words, he immediately connected the two wires together, and the small green light of the old metal detector, which indicated normal operation, immediately lit up.
"It's really good!"
The man's eyes immediately showed an expression of joy, and he thanked Ma Tao and the others while checking the metal detector, without any doubt.
