Chapter 558: Disband? (Part One)
Noticing Chris and the others standing there in a daze, Luo Yi shoved them. “What are you guys waiting for? Hurry up and pick up the guns and ammunition.”
The roles suddenly reversed. The ones getting robbed were now doing the robbing, and they picked up almost all the things they could use and then left to regroup with the main fleet.
At that time, the other two cars were also done repairing.
They looked into the distance, and the place where the bandits once stood on horses was now just the barren sand; no one ever stood up again.
When the engineers saw Xu Cheng’s return, they all couldn’t help but feel a chill.
When driving, Lin Dong asked abruptly, “Those bandits…”
Chris was driving as he replied, “All dead.”
The engineers on his truck all shivered, not daring to say another word.
At this time, Chris didn’t even know how to feel. That capability was indeed approaching legendary.
Would he still continue to stay here?
After a full day of driving, they finally arrived at the so-called territory that Luo Yi and the others were staying at.
When Xu Cheng arrived, all he saw were some clay houses, and the really run-down kind, some couldn’t even provide any cover anymore.
Mr. Hawking, who had already put on a skin mask, ran over to Xu Cheng angrily and shouted at him, “How the fack am I going to live now? Even if I don’t die from the endless war here, I will be tormented to death by the bad weather!”
“Be patient, right now we only have this as a base.” Xu Cheng bitterly smiled.
“What about the grand plans you were talking about?” Hawking scorned him. “And then? You are letting me live in this kind of sh-thole that’s even worse than just pitching a tent? Let me tell you, you better get me at least a decent house. I haven’t been able to enjoy much in my life before, I just recovered, and you are making me stay in the desert for the rest of my life? Then I rather go back and stay in my wheelchair.”
Then, after looking at the engineers, he continued on with Xu Cheng, “And these guys won’t get used to staying here either. You better get us somewhere better.”
Xu Cheng was also having a headache. Seeing Li Wei walking over to welcome him, he gave him a hug and then began scolding him, “This is the territory you guys talked about? How are we even going to sleep here? Why didn’t you find someone to renovate this place a bit?”
At this time, the experienced mercenary Chris said, “That’s the safest. The moment we renovate this place, we would be visited by refugees and bandits. There would even be other mercenaries that come to kill and loot. That would be the most dangerous situation.
“Even if this is the case, the basic living conditions still need to be improved.” Looking at the surrounding ruins, Xu Cheng subconsciously asked Luo Yi, “Who’s the leader of the nearest camp around us that has a decent city?”
Luo Yi said, “It’s the Falcon mercenary clan, ranked 35 on the world ladder with about 300 members. Their territory has a city that could accommodate about 200 people.”
Xu Cheng glanced at Li Wei and Luo Yi. “They have 300 people and you guys are already scared?”
Li Wei said, “They are in an alliance with the Grizzly Mercenary Corp, and behind Grizzly is the R Nation. In fact, Falcon is just responsible for finding crude oil for Grizzly. If it weren’t for Grizzly, we would have been thinking about doing something.”
“Scouting for crude oil?” Xu Cheng’s eyes lit up. “Then that means, they have a lot of drilling equipment?”
Xu Cheng was quite delighted. They were just in need of drilling equipment and couldn’t import them from outside, but now that problem has been resolved. Looking around at the members around him, he said, “Who dares to go with me?”
The others all looked at each other in silence. Luo Yi and Li Wei obviously came forward without a word to support Xu Cheng.
Chris and the others thought about it, and some also came forward.
The other guys thought these guys had gone crazy. “That’s the Grizzly’s minion! What’s the difference between going up against them and committing suicide? We are indeed outlaws that aren’t afraid of death, but we don’t want to die that early.”Chapter 558: Disband? (Part Two)
This guy wasn’t being unreasonable, but he was also finding excuses for his cowardness.
Xu Cheng said, “Today, I will just declare war against them. This would’ve happened sooner or later. In the future, if we want to expand, we would fight them sooner or later. It’s very normal. If you guys are scared, you can each come forward and get 30 thousand dollars and leave.”
Those guys looked at each other. Some people decided to take the out and walked over. “Give me money, I will leave.”
Li Wei went over to the safe and took out a lot of cash. After one person came forward, many others also followed.
In the end, there were just 30 or so people left that chose to come forward for Xu Cheng. They all looked at each other awkwardly, and Hawking found it hilarious. He laughed. “This is the gap between ideology and reality, you know now? Brat, there’s a big difference between saying something and doing something.”
After just the first time of probing these 80 people, already more than 40 left. It was indeed a bit demoralizing.
Li Wei and Luo Yi bitterly smiled, feeling that they didn’t do a good enough job.
“Big Brother Cheng…” Seeing Xu Cheng not say anything, the two of them felt something was wrong.
On the side, Chris shrugged his shoulders and said, “Great, even less people. Are we still going to Falcon’s territory?”
“Yes!” Xu Cheng said immediately. “Why not?”
“Are you crazy? The boss of Falcon is at the S-level, and his several confidantes are at least at the A-level. What can we do against them?”
“Then are you being a coward?’ Xu Cheng turned around and looked at Chris and asked, “Let me tell you, it would be far from your turn to be the boss here. I don’t like people pointing fingers at what I do. If I say go south, then we are going south. You either obey, or you get the fack out, or. Die.”
Chris looked right into Xu Cheng’s eyes and said, “When I first ventured into this field, you were still probably in school. Let me tell you, just with my 8 plus years of experience here, I’m more than capable enough to help everyone here gain a foothold in this land.”
“Who doesn’t know how to be a p-ssy-azz turtle?” Xu Cheng looked around at everyone and sneered contemptuously. “You know why you guys ended up joining our camp and couldn’t get a foothold or be valued at other camps? Don’t pull out some excuses from your azz, it all comes down to you guys not having big enough b.a.l.l.s. Since you are already on this land, then just give it your all and thrive or die, but don’t live like useless pieces of trash! My bro told me that they found a group of people that are pretty good and pretty reliable, and I was quite pleased. But today, all I can see from you guys can only be described with a few words, and that is, you’d rather live like a coward forever than to live like a man for a few days. Right, if it’s about survival, then you guys are all c.o.c.kroaches, all unkillable. But please remember, this is the Land of Mercenaries, the capable ones live a lavish life, but the incapable cowards could only roam around and wander aimlessly all day while bragging. We are just going up against some 2nd tier mercenary group with a couple hundred people and you guys are already scared sh-tless, then if we are up against some real deals in this land in the future, wouldn’t you have already packed up and ran before the enemies even got close? Do you guys even feel qualified to call yourselves mercenaries? I don’t feel any hot blood in you. Today, when those bandits surrounded us, I saw all of you wanted to hide in the pickup truck and not come out. Chris, including you. You were tightly holding onto the steering wheel. Your intention was, if a fight were to break out, you would start the engine and drive off as fast as you can. There’s no need to hide those details, you can’t hide them from me.”
Chris became a bit angry out of embarra.s.sment and said as he looked at Xu Cheng, “So what?”
Xu Cheng directly said to him, “Then my Deviant Corp doesn’t need trash like you. I want people that can one day become a pillar alone, we would only have more and more territory in the future.”