Chapter 460 Two Brothers with Ulterior Motives
After resting in the underground city for three days, Xia Xiaoman and his companions set out on their journey again.
Just after counting the supplies on the ship and preparing to set off, seven or eight speedboats came speeding from a distance, and the people on the speedboats kept firing at them from behind.
Xia Xiaoman hurriedly took out a telescope to check and saw dozens of mutants swimming quickly underwater, closely chasing the seven or eight speedboats.
Xia Xiaoman's face changed drastically, "Mutants are attacking! Everyone be on alert!"
Upon hearing this, Li Yu'e and others immediately took out their rifles and were on guard, while Xie Yi led his men to fire.
After a while, the speedboat drove up in front of them. Xia Xiaoman and others immediately aimed at the mutants and shot, and Xie Yi also found the right time to fire.
There were fierce gunshots, roars of cannons, and splashes of water. Many times, Xia Xiaoman did not see the mutant's shadow clearly, and just shot at the water surface based on his feeling.
When the soldiers on the speedboats saw that someone was helping, they drove to the front of the ship, stopped, and then turned around and fired at the water.
At the same time, the people in the underground city received Xie Yi's notification and sent people to support them. In about fifteen minutes, hundreds of soldiers floated up from the bottom of the water and climbed onto speedboats and ships to fight against the mutants who attacked them.
Half an hour later, all the mutants were driven away. Xia Xiaoman counted the supplies on the ship and found that more than half of the ammunition was missing.
"Xie Yi, go back to the dungeon and report to Yu Jie, replenish the ammunition you just used, and by the way, find out what happened just now and why the mutants chased here."
Xie Yi nodded in response, put on his diving equipment and jumped off the boat.
About an hour later, Xie Yi came back with a few people, all of whom were holding ammunition.
After replenishing the ammunition, Xie Yi sent those people away, and then said to Xia Xiaoman: "Those mutants just now were the ones who lived in the mountains before and were driven away by the military. They may have a grudge against the military, so they have been lying in ambush nearby."
"Today they saw a speedboat passing by, and seeing that there were not many people on the speedboat, they wanted to kill the other party to retaliate against our floating city."
Xia Xiaoman sighed, "Let's take a detour this time!" Although they had a large number of people and sufficient ammunition, there was no need to waste half of the ammunition on mutants as soon as they set out.
This time their destination was Jincheng, looking for an iron mine that had been mined. Although this iron mine had been mined, it had not been fully mined. During the mining process, the iron mine collapsed, killing many people, so the iron mine was sealed.
This iron mine has a long history. Yu Jie only knew about it from the older generation.
Xia Xiaoman got the address of the iron mine, planned the route, counted the supplies, and set off.
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After a period of rainfall, the water level rose again. This time, we didn't have to worry about the bottom of the boat hitting the mountain, and the journey was smooth.
On the twelfth day after their departure, they found the iron mine that Yu Jie had mentioned, and also found a brother and sister wearing shielding suits and oxygen masks on the mountain.
Li Yu'e looked at the brother and sister warily, "Who are you? Why are you here?"
Looking at Li Yu'e's gun, the man protected his sister behind him and said honestly: "We are from Jincheng. My name is Song Jingcheng and my sister is Song Jingle."
"My sister and I just escaped from Jincheng. We didn't know where to go for the time being. We saw a place to stay here, so we swam here to rest."
Worried that Li Yu'e and the others would do something bad to him and his sister, Song Jingcheng said again: "My sister and I have rested well and are about to leave. We won't disturb you." As he said that, he took Song Jingle's hand and walked towards the shore.
When he reached the shore and saw that there was water all around him, Song Jingcheng looked embarrassed.
After Xia Xiaoman and the others saw this, no one asked them to stay. Seeing this, Song Jingle rolled her eyes and said, "Brother, we came here first, why should we give them room? If you want to leave, you go. I won't." After saying that, she sat down on the stone next to her.
Xia Xiaoman ignored them and said, "Let's go and take a look over there."
She led Li Yu'e and others to a place with thinner soil and turned on the metal detector to check. The detector did not respond.
Xia Xiaoman asked someone to take out a shovel and dig one or two meters underground. Then he took out a metal detector and finally heard some movement.
Seeing the metal detector respond, several people swung their arms and dug hard. After digging for more than ten minutes, they finally dug out hard ore.
Xia Xiaoman scanned the stone with a metal detector and after making sure that there was no problem with the stone, he left with the ore.
As she left, she glanced at the two siblings still sitting on the rocks, walked over with her gun in hand, and asked, "Don't you two have anywhere to go right now?"
Song Jingcheng didn't understand what Xia Xiaoman meant, "What do you want to do?"
Xia Xiaoman smiled and said, "Since you have nowhere to go, are you interested in coming to our floating city?"
Song Jingcheng and his sister looked at each other and nodded, "Sure, but my sister and I don't have anything..."
"It doesn't matter. We in Fucheng don't need your two mouths of food." Xia Xiaoman made a gesture of invitation, "Then let's go now!"
Upon hearing this, Song Jingcheng stood up with his sister and followed Xia Xiaoman.
Li Yu'e saw Xia Xiaoman bringing Song Jingcheng and his sister onto the ship, so she walked over and pulled Xia Xiaoman aside, "Xiaoman, why did you bring them here? In such an environment, they appeared here inexplicably, there must be something wrong."
Xia Xiaoman smiled and said, "I know there's something wrong with them. They said they were survivors who escaped from Jincheng, but the labels on the shielding suits and oxygen masks they were wearing said they were from Yunhai City. That means they were most likely stolen."
"Then why did you bring them on board?" Li Yu'e looked puzzled.
"They saw us looking for ore with metal detectors. How could we catch them all in one fell swoop if we didn't trick them onto the ship?"
After hearing what Xia Xiaoman said, Li Yu'e suddenly realized, "Do you suspect they have accomplices?"
Xia Xiaoman smiled and asked, "If they don't have an accomplice, how can they deal with the Yunhai City fleet with just the two of them?"
Li Yu'e secretly gave her a thumbs up, then pretended nothing had happened and continued doing what she was supposed to do.
After getting on the ship, the two siblings became much more lively. Song Jingle kept talking to Su Ran, who was of the same age as her, while Song Jingcheng seemed to unintentionally ask Ye Xiaojie about the news of the fleet.
Seeing this, Xia Xiaoman thought that the two siblings were really good at picking people. They both chose people who were not very talkative to ask for information. It would be strange if they could get any useful information.
Seeing that the ship was about to leave Jincheng, the two siblings became anxious. Song Jingcheng covered for Song Jingle and asked Song Jingle to find a way to enter the cockpit.
Before Song Jingle could even get close to the cockpit, he was stopped by Li Yu'e, who had been secretly observing him. "No outsiders are allowed in the cockpit. If there is nothing else, please leave immediately."
Song Jingle was very angry when he was stopped, but he had no other choice. Seeing that the ship was getting farther and farther away, the two brothers and sisters decided to take a risk and secretly send a signal to their companions.
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