At nine o'clock in the morning, in the wilderness with only one sandy dirt road, the messenger Abu hurriedly passed by on his pack animal. From the age of sixteen to twenty-four, he had become so familiar with this road that he could no longer be familiar with it in three hours. Reaching his destination, he would be able to catch his breath by then.
Fortunately, the weather was nice today. If we had encountered the weird snowy and rainy weather in Londinium last month, the courier's life would have been difficult.
"Brother, stop for a moment and ask for directions."
Suddenly, a call came from not far ahead. Abu raised his head and saw a black motorcycle parked diagonally opposite, and a man in a black coat waving to him.
It stands to reason that when someone blocks the road in the wilderness, it's probably because they have bad intentions. Abu thought so at first, but after seeing the other person's face clearly, he felt that this person looked good and didn't look like a bad guy, so he slowed down the beast a little. The pace stopped just in time when he got closer.
Abu took a closer look and saw that the man was holding a map. He seemed to have bought it from the previous gathering point, but why hadn't he seen him?
"Brother, how far am I from the nearest mobile city?"
The nearest mobile city?
Abu frowned slightly. There was no mobile city nearby. He couldn't help but look at the map again.
The man was confused: "Is my map fake?"
Abu shook his head: "No, the map is real."
"and you……"
"You took it backwards."
"..."
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Zhou Jinru put the map away silently. He had been out of Londinium for a few days. At the beginning, the extreme speed of the Black Rose gave him an excellent driving experience, but it also brought a new problem.
It was very dark when he left the city and he didn't pay attention to the direction. He drove in whichever direction the car's head turned. When it got light, he was dumbfounded.
Blue sky, white clouds, sun, wilderness, Zhou Jinru.
He was caught in the eternal dilemma of where he was.
It is easy to distinguish between north, south, east and west, but it is not so easy to get the direction you want.
Even with this car, he couldn't find his way back to Rhode Island right away because the place was so wild! No! pull! shit!
Zhou Jinru felt that if he went to shoot a road movie, the journey of not only driving but also driving would be a black history. Fortunately, he found this dirt road yesterday afternoon and drove along it. In the evening, he came to the temporary gathering place and had some food. After picking up things, replenishing daily necessities, and having a peaceful sleep, we continued on the road.
"Mr. Aguang, you said you wanted to go to the southwest of Londinium, where your company is, but this is the southeast. You have to walk a long way back."
After a brief exchange, Abu and the man who called himself Aguang moved forward together. During the long and lonely delivery journey, he had a friend who could talk to him and could also relieve the emotional tension.
Zhou Jinru was driving the Black Rose, and Abu's beast of burden was riding side by side. He sighed: "Abu, you may not believe it, but I am testing whether this planet is round."
The cute little messenger said that there is a small land city at the end of this road. Not only is there plenty of food, but you can also exchange it for foreign currency. This is great news for Zhou Jinru. He doesn’t have much money with him, and he doesn’t have much money with him. There was nothing to sell, and the price of food in the temporary settlement was too high. He was not sure when he would find the Rhode Island operator.
At first, he thought this way. His operators were running around the world, and they could always find strange operators to return to. All he had to do was find a mobile city, and then stay at the inn where the couriers would go. It won't take long for him to meet a field operator with a ruler/compass/set square/eraser/pencil and other stationery sets, and then he can go home smoothly.
But the actual situation is that there is no messenger station at all in the temporary settlement. Unless he returns to Londinium, it will be difficult to find other mobile cities, so there is the previous scene.
"Is this planet round? What is a planet?"
Abu felt a sense of shame. He went out to work before graduating from high school. He had never been to a big city and couldn't understand what Mr. Aguang was talking about.
He looked at the black motorcycle from time to time. This thing is quite common, but the maintenance of the motorcycle is extremely complicated, and it is impossible to use it to go off-road. If it breaks down in the wilderness, the consequences will be disastrous...
It is better to have your own beast of burden, as it is not so easy to lose the ability to move, and you can still talk to it when you are lonely.
Zhou Jinru heard the unnaturalness in Abu's tone and immediately changed the subject: "Abu, I know a few couriers. People like you, in addition to delivering letters, also deliver goods, right?"
When talking about his job, Abu suddenly became interested: "Yeah, actually there are very few letters that can be sent. Usually they are delivery. Someone buys something from Mobile City, and then we deliver it to the buyer. It is definitely very convenient in mobile cities, but it is not so easy in land cities, so I became a messenger and I can make more money."
"Do you rarely have any letters?"
"There used to be a lot of letters, but then more and more young people left the land cities to find a way out in the big cities. No one wanted to come back. In addition, the number of letters we could send gradually decreased as the old people passed away."
Abu reached out and patted the package under his thigh: "But as a messenger, I will also deliver these letters to the corresponding addresses."
Out of curiosity, Zhou Jinru asked again: "What should be done if some letters have no recipients? It should be difficult to resend them, right?"
"If you really can't find the recipient, no matter how difficult it is, you still have to send the letter back."
The two people were chatting when they suddenly saw chaos on the road ahead. Several cars collided with each other, and one even overturned.
"I gonna go see."
Zhou Jinru drove the car very fast and rushed out with the turntable. Abu looked at it with envy, thinking that his beast of burden was not that fast.
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"Come on, come on, come on, help, someone is trapped underneath."
A young man shouted in a panic, and four or five people nearby hurried over and helped lift the car. They used enough strength to drag the trapped person out.
"How is it, how is the situation?!"
The person who was dragged out was already unconscious, and the wound on his left leg was still bleeding.
The young man said in a panic: "Doctor, doctor..."
Someone said nervously: "The doctor is rescuing you from behind, hold the wound first!"
Before he could take action, a hand pushed him aside, and a young man wearing a black coat squeezed in. He half-knelt in front of the wounded person, reached out and threw his backpack on the ground, and deftly pulled out the tourniquet.
"you are a doctor?!"
"Those who are passing by, please save others first."
