The thick notebook with a brown cover was opened, and the old paper made a clattering sound. The hand wearing a finger guard turned to the last page of the record, which contained a transfer order.
The dim light shone on the short gray hair of the Mounted Police Captain, and a pair of pointed ears trembled slightly.
This transfer order transferred her from a remote county far away to a small mobile city near the border. The purpose was to escort a convoy. On the way here, she had already learned that this convoy belonged to the Swire Group.
Grani held her head in one hand and held the order in the other, carefully recalling her interaction with the Swire Group. That was two years ago. She and a young lady from the Swire Group once worked in the same pharmaceutical company. this point.
"team leader."
An accompanying mounted policeman came over and handed her a lunch box filled with boiling water.
Grani took the lunch box, thanked him, and then gently fiddled with the hot liquid with a small spoon while thinking.
Could it be that the eldest lady is looking for something to do with me?
Or is there something wrong with that team?
I heard that the border is not very safe recently. There are not only bandits but also rebels. Even her mounted police team is equipped with steam mechas, which was unimaginable before.
“How long until we get somewhere?”
A companion next to him looked at the map: "In about half a day, we can meet the convoy tomorrow morning."
Snapped.
Grani closed the notebook and ordered: "Get ready to rest. The guard will change in two hours. Call me when the time comes."
It's still a long night.
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"It's such a boring night."
Shi Huaiya, who was sleeping in the car, put her long legs on the seat in boredom. After closing the curtains on the car window, she began to become unscrupulous.
Chen and Xingxiong, who were also sleeping in the car, didn't have so many thoughts. The three of them had just chatted for a few words, mostly about the recent events in Longmen. When they were quiet, they didn't argue all the time.
"So now you have been kicked out by Mr. Wei?"
"Miss Shi, you don't need to be so heartless, Chen is just taking a temporary break."
Shi Huaiya's tail paused and she ground her molars: "How many times have I told you, don't call me Miss Shi!"
Star Bear ignored her.
Chen, who had been silent for a long time, couldn't help complaining: "Are you going to sleep or not?!"
Shi Huaiya pursed her lips toward the car window: "Look, there's no one sleeping outside."
"The doctor is playing with his children outside. How can this compare?"
"I don't want to sleep, I also want to play."
Shi Huaiya straightened her back and wanted to get up from her seat, but Xing Xiong stopped her first: "Miss Shi, if you get up like this, you will hit your head."
"Oh, thank you."
Shi Huaiya blushed. Fortunately, there were no lights on in the car, so no one could see her blush.
Chen turned over: "Remember to put on your clothes before going out."
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"...the Lupo people shouted, 'Why don't we go to the dragon gate together and seize the bird position!'"
Halfway through the story, a shout came from not far away: "Doctor, you are arranging the dragon gate again!"
This scolding was full of majesty, and as soon as he heard it, he knew it was Chen coming.
Zhou Jinru immediately shut his mouth and thought to himself, "Didn't the three of you go to bed? Why did you suddenly show up again?"
The trio of Longmen Superintendents were coming here. Their arrival made it impossible for the story meeting to continue. The children listening to the story had no choice but to go to bed. After all, it was getting late.
"The story can't be told now."
Zhou Jinru spread his hands to express his helplessness.
When the convoy walked to the wilderness, in addition to sleeping in the cars, some people also chose to set up tents. After arranging sentinel points, they could take turns to rest.
Chen frowned and said, "Don't tell those stories, they will teach bad things to children."
"Sir, do you want to call the police now?"
Zhou Jinru put on an exaggerated expression, clasped his hands and said: "The people who came to listen to the story are not all children. In addition to the reserve team that lacked the captain, there were also several people from Black Steel and the saints from the snow realm, Liu Demila is considered a child, but do you really regard her as a child?”
Chen didn't speak. He raised his eyes and took a few more glances, confirming that there was still a senior operator who hadn't shown up in the darkness. He should have been sent by the top management of Rhode Island to protect the doctor.
"Okay, what's going on with you three?"
Shi Huaiya's eyes shone brightly and she said, "Doctor, Sir Chen wants to consult you on life experience."
"No," Zhou Jinru said with a serious face, "My life experience will not make your time more or less than one second, even if you don't listen."
Chen pushed Shi Huaiya: "Don't listen to her nonsense about life experience and things that you don't have. I just think you are too bored and want to chat for a while."
"sit."
Zhou Jinru pointed at the short pier opposite.
Chen and the other three sat across from him, looking at each other. No one knew how to speak first.
"Say whatever you want, don't be so formal, we are all companions."
Chen hesitated again and again, but finally asked the question in his mind: "Doctor, what is the current integration movement like?"
how is it like……
Zhou Jinru himself was not sure about this issue. On the one hand, the huge casualties and disasters caused by the integration movement cannot be erased. In other words, if the situation needs to be calmed down, then someone must pay the price, or at least give an explanation to those who died;
On the other hand, the current integration movement, led by Tallulah, is moving in another direction. It seems to have drawn a clear line with the past image of thugs. It is producing food and recruiting more infected people, forming an infected person. base camp, if this continues, there will be more and more infected people supporting them.
Finally, quantitative changes will inevitably lead to qualitative changes, not to mention that there are still some troublemakers adding fuel and vinegar to it.
"The current integration movement is not something Rhode Island can handle. As long as they don't make any big mistakes or do anything harmful to nature, almost no country can touch them."
Zhou Jinru picked up a branch at his feet and gently fiddled with the campfire. Sparks shone on his face: "We all know that in order to alleviate the conflict that caused a large number of infected people after the eruption of the Siesta volcano, countries had to open fires in remote lands. Establish a community of infected people within the city. Except that they do not move into the city, they can almost be said to be independent existences. From a doctor's point of view, there is a big difference between infected people and their physical constitution. Some infected people's symptoms will be It deteriorates rapidly in a short period of time and eventually dies, but some infected people do not and can even live for more than ten years. What do you think will happen to these people?"
Chen was silent, and Xing Xiong beside her said: "A new center of power will be formed. This is the case everywhere. Even the gangs in the Longmen slums will elect a leader."
"The contradiction between infected and non-infected people has not been alleviated by the establishment of a community. The contradiction has been retained, waiting for the opportunity to really break out. Sometimes it only takes a trivial spark to ignite a dense forest."
When Zhou Jinru said this, he paused, smiled and shook his head: "Look at me, I become extremely serious when I talk about these things."
He casually threw the branches into the fire and asked: "Sir Chen, I heard that you graduated from the Royal Guards University in Victoria. Do you know any classmates who are free? I am really overwhelmed here and need some manpower. , you just introduce him, and I will pay him a salary, and I will definitely give him a figure that he cannot refuse."
Chen's face looked a little strange: "One hundred and eighty thousand Longmen coins?"
"That's more than that. If you think about how much money you took, it would be at least 700,000 in total."
Although 700,000 yuan is not as valuable as a piano from the Shihuaiya family.
Chen shook his head: "I don't know many people in school, and few civilians can enroll in Royal Guards University. For some people, seven hundred thousand is an astronomical number. For others, it may not be worth it." Mention it."
When Zhou Jinru heard this, he found that his thinking had entered a misunderstanding. He had always thought that hundreds of thousands of Longmen coins were a large number in everyone's eyes, because most Rhode Island operators thought so, but this The conditions would not work in Victoria because the latter was an extremely powerful state.
Almost all those who can go to the Royal Guards University are not ordinary people. Just like in the previous life, middle-class parents had to send their children to some aristocratic school in the West.
Zhou Jinru smiled implicitly and said, "Since you said that, I have no choice but to tell them about my life ideals."
"Well, these issues will have to wait until we get to Londinium."
It was already late at night, and they chatted about two more topics before going back to rest.
Zhou Jinru didn't have to keep vigil at night. He slept until dawn. When he got up, he saw that the changing operators were about to take a rest.
"breeze."
Breeze, who was carrying a staff and yawning, came over and said in a loud voice: "What's the matter?"
"What's our schedule today?"
Breeze glanced at him, as if to say, "You don't even know this?"
She rubbed her red eyes: "The first stop of our trip today is a land settlement more than thirty kilometers away. We will meet there with the mounted police team sent by Victoria, and then we will go to Londinium under their escort. , we have to get along with each other for more than ten days on the way."
"Okay, I understand, go and have a rest."
Watching Wei Feng leave, Zhou Jinru stopped where he was and fell into deep thought. Shi Huaiya once hinted that the captain of this Mounted Police team had something to do with Rhode Island. He thought the other party should be Glenny. Then the question came. When Glenny left In Rhode Island, it was Skadi who chased the ghost shark. Now that the Mountie has settled in Victoria and has been promoted to another level, where is Skadi?
He felt that Skadi was most likely also somewhere in Victoria, including the ghost shark.
More and more operators were gathering here, and Zhou Jinru felt something was wrong. It was certainly a good thing to get people back, but if there were more people, it meant something was going to happen.
He had some doubts about whether there was something wrong with his constitution, and something would happen wherever he went...
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"Captain, there is a land settlement ahead. This is an infected community. Because it is close to the business road, it has now become a rest stop when the motorcade passes by. According to intelligence, car repair services and catering services are provided here. , and a comfortable resting environment.”
Glenny listened to the report of his subordinates, looked at the settlement in front of him that was hidden in the light mist, hung his spear in the victory hook of the saddle, and said sideways: "This is also a well-informed place, repair it in place, and arrange sentinel posts. , the old rule is two lights and one dark."
She stretched out her hand to touch her shoulder straps. She was no longer the young mounted policeman who would challenge bounty hunters when they saw them.
"Captain, where are you going?"
"There may be old friends. I'll go there myself."
"go alone?"
Grani pursed her lips: "It's inconvenient to have too many people."
If she was alone and things went wrong, she could retreat at any time.
The mounted police captain rode forward, his horse's hooves kicked up mud spots, and his figure gradually disappeared into the light mist.
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"Is there such heavy fog every day in Victoria?"
Zhou Jinru looked at the fog outside and wondered where the water vapor came from. He got out of the car and walked around, and his eyebrows and hair were wet.
"The fog is already very light, doctor. In my hometown, once there is heavy fog, the lighthouse in the middle of the city must be lit, otherwise the nearby convoys will lose their way."
The breeze looks at the mist and feels a bit warm. This is the feeling of going home.
"Okay, just do as the Romans do."
Zhou Jinru pinched his nose and recognized it. Who knew this was a regional characteristic?
Seeing that they were about to enter the settlement, the convoy only walked by the roadside and did not go deep into it. Few people in the Swire Group's convoy would intercept them halfway, and there were not many armed personnel in this convoy who were not discerning. Come and rob.
Not long after, news came from the front of the motorcade that they had met with the Mounted Police Force.
"So fast?"
"only one person."
Zhou Jinru looked puzzled: "So cautious?"
Then the second news came back: "The name of the Mountie Captain is Granny."
It’s really Brother Ma.
Zhou Jinru was overjoyed and said quickly: "I want to meet her."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a horse rushing out of the fog that blocked his sight. The girl on the horse glanced over with a pair of sharp eyes. Her tall ponytail swayed up and down with the bumps of the mount. The moment their eyes met, they stepped on the horse. The metal boots in the stirrups were raised, and the female knight turned over and dismounted neatly. The short stature stood outside the car window, staring at the face inside through a layer of blurred water mist.
The car door opened and his heels hit the pedal. Zhou Jinru stepped out of the car step by step. Looking at the Mounted Police Captain opposite, she seemed to have grown up. Although she did not grow taller, her temperament changed a lot and she became calm. .
Her eyes were excited, but her expression remained firm.
"I thought about many scenarios, but I didn't think about it being a doctor."
Zhou Jinru looked around: "Maybe it's because Rhode Island's publicity isn't in place, and Victoria's news is so closed?"
Immediately afterwards, he opened his arms, and what greeted him was not the girl's arms, but a shining silver spear pointed directly at him.
"Grani!"
Chen shouted, but it was Matomaru who was the first to rush out of the car. The Oni girl rushed forward with her naginata raised high.
"It doesn't matter!"
Zhou Jinru stretched out his hand to stop Matomaru.
"well."
Grani had a complicated look on his face. He lightly stamped his metal boots, let out a sigh, dropped the spear in his hand, and rushed forward to hug Zhou Jinru.
