In the north of Jiangnan Base City, several hundred kilometres away, there was a military district station.
“rumble rumble.” The train slowly came to a stop at the military district station.
A group of fully armed warriors stepped down from the train one after another. There were more than twenty of them. These twenty plus people naturally divided into four small teams.
“Luo Feng, normally when we warriors go out to hunt monsters and need to resupply midway, we enter a military district.” Chen Gu pointed to a tall structure ahead, a high speed rail tower standing fifty or sixty metres high. “See that tower? In any military district across the whole of China, and even the whole world, a special area is set aside as a warrior resupply base. It is built specifically for us warriors to rest. These warrior resupply bases usually have such a lighthouse built in them. It symbolises lighting the way home for us warriors.”
Luo Feng nodded.
The warrior resupply base was inside the military district. It had rows of quiet small buildings with a very good environment.
“Fire Hammer team, you will stay and rest in building e6.” An officer at the resupply base handed a key to the Fire Hammer team captain Gao Feng. He smiled and patted Gao Feng on the shoulder. “Old Gao, how long do you plan to hunt this time? If you get any good stuff, feel free to sell it to my underground alliance. I will definitely give you a high price.”
Although many of the service staff in the resupply base wore military uniforms, in reality the service personnel came from the Limit Dojo, Thunder Dojo, government army, and underground alliance. They provided services and also bought precious monster materials from the warriors.
“Haha, okay.” Gao Feng laughed. “Quickly arrange lunch for us.”
The area of this resupply base was not too large.
“e6 is over there.” The Fire Hammer team soon found the three storey small building marked e6. The key with the chip swiped across the door and the door of the three storey building opened. Before the Fire Hammer team left the resupply base, the use of this small building belonged to them.
“Lie down and sleep for a while. I did not sleep well last night.” Chen Gu put down the two large iron boxes on his body, jumped straight onto the sofa, and stretched lazily on it.
“Rest now while you can. We will officially set off tonight, so everyone stay sharp then.” Captain Gao Feng instructed.
“Understood.”
Iron Spear Zhang Ke and the Twin Moon Blade brothers all smiled and agreed. They clearly knew the rules already.
“Set off at night?” Luo Feng was somewhat surprised.
“Luo Feng, look at the weather now. It is the end of August, the hottest time of the year. Travelling in the big heat carrying hundreds of kilograms of gear? No matter how much water you bring it will not be enough. You would end up drinking river water.” Chen Gu smiled at Luo Feng. “It is cooler at night, so travelling is more comfortable and saves water too.”
Luo Feng smiled awkwardly.
Although he had read many posts, he really had not paid attention to this point.
“Hmm?” Luo Feng looked through the floor to ceiling window and saw figures in the resupply base. “Brother Chen, look, is that not Zhang Zehu?” Zhang Zehu had bandages wrapped around his body at this time, with faint bloodstains on the gauze. He was clearly injured and recuperating in this resupply base.
Chen Gu also turned to look. “Yes, it is Zhang Zehu!”
“Hey!” Chen Gu walked to the doorway and shouted proudly. “Mountain Splitting Tiger, what happened to you? You were fine last time. How did you end up injured like this in the blink of an eye?”
Zhang Zehu, who was walking and chatting with his companions outside, turned his head. He saw Chen Gu, Luo Feng and the others at the small building doorway at once. He was so angry his teeth itched. He forced down his rage and instead sneered loudly. “Chen Big Cannon, your Fire Hammer team counts as an elite team. How come you brought a rookie? Haha, you are not afraid your whole team will be dragged to death by this burden!”
Generally, well coordinated elite teams rarely wanted to bring rookies. Even if the rookie’s physical fitness was good, without experience they could easily drop the ball at critical moments and drag down the old members.
Zhang Zehu and Chen Gu exchanged a few sarcastic insults. Because team captain Twin Wind Hammers Gao Feng shouted a reprimand, Zhang Zehu did not speak again. Although he sometimes dared to compete with Chen Gu, he did not dare to compete with Gao Feng. This was because Gao Feng used cold weapons while Chen Gu used hot weapons.
Even at the top, users of hot weapons could at most reach entry level warlord level. This was because firearms and other hot weapons could generally only threaten entry level beast general level monsters at most.
Zhang Zehu was only a small step away from the warlord level.
“Damn it. I did not expect Luo Feng to mix into the Fire Hammer team.” Zhang Zehu walked along the road with his teammates, still cursing. “I thought he would join an ordinary warrior team. That way I could teach him a harsh lesson and let him know the consequences of offending me. But he actually entered the Fire Hammer team!”
Zhang Zehu was so angry he ground his teeth.
“Tiger, the young man next to Chen Gu earlier, is that the Luo Feng who cost you one billion?” The one eyed middle aged man beside him spoke.
“Yes, it is him.”
A fierce light flashed in Zhang Zehu’s eyes. “That little brat, I thought he would not go too far. After that negotiation, the security bureau rushed straight to my nephew’s house! This kid actually reported it directly to the security bureau. I was forced to immediately donate one billion in my nephew’s name to the state, so my nephew got the one star citizen title. But even so, my nephew still has to be detained for several months.”
Thinking of his elder brother’s anxiety at the time and the terror on Zhang Haobai’s face when the security bureau took him away, Zhang Zehu felt even more furious.
Before that he had promised his elder brother and nephew confidently. Although he later spent one billion to protect his nephew, Zhang Haobai still could not escape being detained for several months and suffering some hardship.
“Forget it, do not think too much. It is good for your nephew to suffer a bit.” The one eyed middle aged man smiled faintly. “Focus on resting well. Your injury should be mostly healed in another three days. Then we can set off and continue dealing with that old fellow. Once we kill that old fellow, our team will be rich.”
“Yes.” Zhang Zehu nodded heavily. Then he glanced at the distant e6 building and sneered. “I bet that on this first trip into the wilderness area, Luo Feng will either die or be badly injured!”
“Haha, you really hold quite a grudge against him. But it is normal to get injured on your first trip into the wilderness area.” The one eyed middle aged man said with a smile.
In the evening, the fully armed Fire Hammer team of six people left the resupply base and entered the wilderness area.
“Chen Gu, give me one of your iron boxes.” Captain Gao Feng spoke.
“Haha, sorry to trouble the captain. I can manage carrying these two boxes for a short time, but not for long.” As he spoke Chen Gu handed one of the large iron boxes from behind him to captain Gao Feng. Gao Feng easily caught it with one hand and carried it on his back. This weight was nothing at all to Gao Feng, the strongest in the Fire Hammer team.
“Click!”
Chen Gu opened the other box. Inside was a machine gun with a silver grey body. The muzzle gleamed with a metallic shine. Besides this machine gun there were large ammunition belts. At a glance they were densely packed and filled the entire large iron box. One could imagine how many bullets there were.
“Brother Chen, what gun is this?” Luo Feng asked curiously.
“m81 model, 12.7 millimetre calibre. It can fire between 50 and 300 rounds per minute, adjustable speed.” Chen Gu said proudly with a smile. “The whole gun body even mixes in some level three Kro alloy. Even if it fires continuously, the heating of the barrel will not affect bullet accuracy.”
Luo Feng asked in confusion. “Brother Chen, why do you not use the Vulcan cannon? Is the power of the Vulcan series machine guns not publicly recognised as big?”
“You rookie!”
Chen Gu glared.
Iron Spear Zhang Ke beside him also smiled and said, “Luo Feng, the Vulcan series heavy machine guns do have big power. But the Vulcan series consumes bullets too crazily. 7000 rounds per minute, and some high end ones are even faster. Do you know what that means? 7000 rounds per minute. And the bullets that can threaten entry level warlord level monsters generally weigh at least 50 grams each! Ten thousand rounds of bullets would weigh 500 kilograms!”
“You carry 500 kilograms of bullets and travel hundreds of kilometres. Then when it is time to kill monsters, in just over a minute the Vulcan cannon uses up all the bullets.” Zhang Ke smiled at Luo Feng. “So tell me, is the Vulcan series good or not?”
Luo Feng suddenly understood.
He really did not know about this. Yes, the weight of the bullets was indeed a big problem. 7000 rounds per minute meant how many bullets would you need to carry to use it?
“Except for the army or when specially dealing with a certain monster and specially transporting large amounts of bullets and Vulcan machine guns, normally people like us cannot use that kind of machine gun. There simply are not enough bullets to consume.” Chen Gu smiled self mockingly. “This time I brought a total of 10,000 rounds of bullets. The captain still has to help me carry some.”
Chen Gu had ammunition belts wrapped around his body and held the machine gun in his hands. Together with Luo Feng, these two were in the central position of the team, protected by the others.
The Twin Moon Blade brothers were at the very front of the team.
Captain Gao Feng and Zhang Ke were at the rear.
“We follow this motorway. In about three days we can reach our destination, county city number 0201.” Captain Gao Feng said. Luo Feng could not help but look at the motorway ahead. For humans living in base cities, motorways only existed in legends.
The motorway underfoot was already badly damaged, with several large cracks in the road surface.
Looking into the distance, on this long stretching motorway there were abandoned or shattered cars, lorries, trucks and so on everywhere. Even some burst tyres lay scattered about. Blackened bloodstains could occasionally be seen on the ground.
“Let’s go!”
The reddish light of the setting sun shone on this motorway that had been silent and dilapidated for decades. The Fire Hammer team of six people advanced steadily along this motorway.