Chapter 317: Extremely Hot. Obvious Frame-up
An hour later, a Hummer and a Grand Cherokee stopped outside the wall near the north gate of the base. Further up the road was a bumpy mountain road with the steepest slope of at least 50 degrees.
Chu An took out his phone and looked at the meeting point given by Yin Tianlin. It was still more than 900 meters away. There were too many things and the weather was too hot. The two of them couldn't move them up there by walking.
"Go." She told Gu Ye on the intercom that it was time to try out the performance of the modified car.
After Gu Ye replied, he drove the Hummer in front to clear the way, and Chu An followed closely behind. As expected, they were two land overlords, and they got on as soon as they said they would, and it felt like riding a roller coaster.
Ten minutes later, the two cars stopped at their destination, which was a gentle slope that had been temporarily opened up. The surrounding trees had been cut down and the earth had been flattened, covering an area of about 500 square meters.
In addition to the two of them, there were two cars parked in the dead woods not far away, an off-road vehicle and a scrapped Shenpai van. The latter should have been parked here for many years, and its frame was rusted. As for how it got there in the first place, no one knew.
There were five men in the car opposite, setting up a canopy at the edge of the woods. The car door was wide open, and there were many things inside, making them look like middlemen.
A few of them looked a little wilted, and were almost sticking out their tongues from the heat. I was also surprised to see them.
One of the tall guys pushed the fat guy next to him. The fat guy reluctantly opened his umbrella and ran towards the Hummer.
Gu Ye asked Chu An to stay in the car and he jumped out first.
"What do you do?" the person on the other side asked first.
"Send something to a friend." Gu Ye replied.
Chu An looked around in the car. This place was close to the mountains and there were no refugees stationed outside. The wall was not very high, only reaching Gu Ye's shoulders. The thermometer currently showed that the temperature was 56 degrees, 3 degrees lower than the city.
It seems that not all the trees in the mountains are dead. Humans have their own laws of survival, and nature has its own laws of survival.
She sent a message to Zhuona and Yin Tianlin, asking them to come out now, as she was afraid they would get heatstroke if they came out too early.
This is indeed a good place for transactions. If nothing unexpected happens, these people should be one of the three families: Li Fu, Yue Qianshan or Lucy.
The man on the other side obviously didn't believe Gu Ye's words, so he pulled out the dagger from his waist and threatened, "Do you know whose territory this is?"
Gu Ye was surprised, "Who?"
"This is Uncle Fu's territory." The man on the other side showed a fierce look, trying to scare Gu Ye, "Only we can do business here, get down quickly."
Gu Ye didn't know about Li Fu and Yue Qianshan, and frowned, "We are not here to do business, we are just here to send something to a friend."
"That won't work either. You guys gave us something, so what else can we sell?" Seeing that Gu Ye was just explaining, the man became a little pushy, "Ershun, Dayang, come and see what's in their car."
The two people who were called over wore straw hats and walked over carrying sticks. None of them was tall.
Gu Ye stretched his arms and legs. He hadn't fought for a long time and didn't know if his skills had deteriorated.
Three minutes later...
It seemed that there was no retreat. The three people who had wanted to check the car earlier and the two who came in later were all knocked to the ground by Gu Ye.
The tall man got up from the ground and asked, "Who are you?"
Without waiting for Gu Ye to answer, a figure jumped down from the wall, stood beside Gu in an attacking posture, and asked with concern, "Are you okay? Why did you start a fight?"
Gu Ye smiled and said, "It's okay, Brother Rong."
Then, Huo Sisi's voice came from the other side of the wall, "Xiaoan, Xiaoye, are you okay?"
Tang Xiao had already jumped onto the wall, and Yin Tianlin wanted to go up too, but he failed after two attempts, so he had to give up. Huo Sisi, Zhuona, and Zhuo's mother could only stand on tiptoe, clinging to the top of the wall, sticking their heads out to look over here.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Chu An got out of the car and opened the big black umbrella, "We are fine, but can you guys get out of here?"
In the previous life, the base had very strict control over entry and exit. If there was a situation like today, anyone would be caught and expelled from the base.
Yin Tianlin smiled and said, "It's okay. The base now allows the exchange of items for other items. It's just that the prices of the middlemen who can enter the base are too high. Sometimes we come out here to exchange some. I didn't expect that this would cause a conflict between you two."
The reason he gave was not wrong, but the bigger reason was that after the new base manager came, many new systems were introduced. For example, owners were not allowed to go out privately to meet or receive people outside the base; the approval authority for temporary cards was transferred to the head of the human resources department, and this head was brought in from another place and was very difficult to talk to.
So far, the only ones who can get temporary cards are Yue Qianshan and the middlemen under Sister Lu, and everyone knows the reasons.
The five men had already retreated to the scrapped car, but their eyes never left them.
Chu An didn't chatter away. Even though the temperature here was three degrees lower than in the city, it was still 56 degrees, so he had to get down to business.
Gu Ye, Li Rong and Tang Xiao carried the supplies from the car down, and the others continued inside. All the items were wrapped in cardboard boxes or black cloth, and it was impossible to tell what they were from the outside.
Yin Tianlin felt that some were light, some were heavy, and some were like water, and water was too precious.
The price of water at the base has now risen to a sky-high price. Excluding food, the points they earn can only be exchanged for a maximum of 150 ml of drinking water a day.
Although it is called drinking water, it contains a lot of impurities and is not enough for one person to drink.
"Xiao An is bothering you again." Zhuo's mother felt a little sorry, "I said I would treat you to a meal last time, but you didn't get to eat."
Chu An walked up to Zhuona and Zhuo's mother. Maybe he was in a good mood, so he smiled and said, "We will have it. After this period is over, I will treat you to a meal together."
There were a lot of stuff, but with more people, the two cars were empty in a short while. Chu An asked them to go back quickly and to talk to him over the phone if they had anything to say.
Before leaving, the man who scrapped the van asked them who they belonged to?
Chu An heard their conversation with Gu Ye clearly in the car, and said a name - "Yue Qianshan."
Although the frame-up seems a bit fake, given the level of intrigue among these people, it will still be annoying for a while.
On the way home, Chu An received feedback. The first person to send her a message was Zhuona, who put a cool patch on her forehead and blew her a kiss.
She had already put the Grand Cherokee back in a deserted space and was now sitting in the passenger seat of the Hummer.
Seeing Zhuona still being able to act funny, I felt relieved and replied, "Don't go out after the temperature reaches 60 degrees. If there is anything you can't solve, call me immediately."
After a while, Huo Sisi called and asked mysteriously, "Xiao An, where did you get so much water?"
Chu An remembered that he gave them two boxes of snake grass water and four boxes of mineral water, while everything else from Zhuona's place was half the price.
There are 24 bottles of mineral water per box. One bottle a day is enough for 24 days. Together with the water allocated by the base, it should be enough to get through the hottest days.
"The Qing Gang brought it, so you can use it without worry."
In addition to using Li Qing as a cover to cover up the situation, Chu An also hopes that these people can remember Li Qing's kindness. Maybe one day they will become the superior people, which will be beneficial to Li Qing.
Who can predict what will happen in the future?
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