327 The Crowd
After a long journey of forty-two hours, the camp of Hellfire finally arrived.
Experience in most of the time shows that when a doomsday disaster strikes, the mountains must be safer than the plains. Although the living conditions in the mountains are relatively poor, in the face of safety needs, the level of living requirements such as food, clothing, housing and transportation will decline. After all, living is the first priority.
The camp of Hellfire is built on the edge of the Sierra Nevada as close as possible to the Sierra Nevada. It belongs to the shallow mountain area, with a flat central valley to the west and a gradually rising Sierra Nevada to the east. There are many deserted people on the plains of the Central Valley to rob. If you encounter a strong enemy, you can retreat east into the mountain area.
Chuck chose the relatively best position to build his lair. Of course, this is also the limit that the Hellfire Gang can do. That is, when he approaches the Central Valley, he is worried that he will be attacked by enemies of the Sin City and enter the mountainous area eastward. Although safety is guaranteed more security, if he wants to go out and rob, he needs to go further.
The best thing is that the camp is built near an artificial lake called Chenggong Lake, so that the bandits can not only have sufficient water supply, but also better that they can play in the water and even fish.
"I like this place, I like this place so much. Wherever I see, the Sierra Nevada, I can see the mountain view here, and here is a lake with very good water quality, I can swim, fish, and hunt."
The car drove along the highway by the lake, but it didn't go far. After about two or three kilometers, Gaoqi saw a scattered house.
This is Hellfire Camp. The most conspicuous one is two ten-meter-high wooden mail towers. There are people on duty on the mail towers. After seeing the convoy, the people on the mail towers began to wave.
Gao Qi looked at Chuck who was driving and said, "Do you rely on these two towers to provide warning?"
Chuck smiled reluctantly, and then he whispered: "Of course not, when we drove over, I passed a hill, remember? There were our sentinels on the top of a hill, and if someone came in along Highway 190, they would have discovered it very early."
There is no door to the camp because the entire camp is the original luxurious mountain community, where all the houses are built on both sides of the road, and there will be a swimming pool behind almost every house.
Not far along the road, Chuck stopped, and then he said to Gao Qi, "We're here."
It is obvious that this camp is different from what Gao Qi thought. He thought it would be a heavily guarded copycat, but he did not expect it to be an abandoned community.
The bandits lived very scattered, and at this time, not even many people came out to welcome their leader back from the war.
Chuck's parking space was in front of a large house, and after his car stopped, only a few people walked out of the nearby house and gradually gathered next to Chuck's car.
It is obvious that the Hellfire Gang is not very strict and lacks vigilance.
"How to gather your men? Let everyone gather here as soon as possible."
Chuck sighed, and he walked out of the car, first pointing to a large iron plate hanging on the tree, then he walked to the iron plate, picked up a hammer placed next to the iron plate, and started knocking on the iron plate.
The iron plate was still loud, and then people began to rush out of nearby houses quickly and ran towards the convoy.
Niu Lidong couldn't help but say, "How did they live until now?"
In Niu Lidong's view, living in such a scattered manner would have no time to react if he encountered a strange beast or an invasion of foreign enemies.
It took ten minutes before all the Hellfire people gathered in place. The number of people seemed to be quite large, but there was no formation at all. Everyone stood in the open space next to the convoy. Because the people talking were too loud, the sound still sounded very loud.
Finally, Chuck said to Gao Qi a little unnaturally: "Basically everyone is here. If you have anything to announce, you can say it now."
Gao Qi didn't know how many people there were in Hellfire, because Chuck himself didn't know very well. He only knew about six hundred people, but it seemed that no one knew at all and no one cared about the specific number.
Unbelievably loose. Although everyone was carrying guns, Gao Qi doubted how powerful these people were.
What should I say?
Gao Qi had already made a draft of the script, and he wanted to give an exciting speech to these people, but now, he felt that there was no need for this.
It seemed like a group of mobs, Gao Qi couldn't help but say, "Do you usually do this? Tell me, what can they do?"
There are men and women, but there are more men and fewer women, and there are many children among them, and the youngest ones are even held in the arms of women.
Is this a bandit gang? It is clearly a large refugee camp or a large desert village.
Gao Qi now hopes that the people in front of him may look loose, but in fact they are very united, cohesive, and combat power, because the combat power of the deserted people is not bad. If this is a bandit gang, the combat power must be at least stronger.
Chuck hesitated for a moment, then he spread his hands and said, "Uh, they can do anything in fact."
As soon as he said he could do anything, it means that he was not professional in anything he was doing. Gao Qi was too lazy to ask more. He waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I probably understand what the situation is. Let them be separated now, and only let all the captains stay."
Anna translated Gao Qi's words, and Chuck said in surprise: "I have to tell them your identity and status, and tell them that you will be the boss here in the future."
Gao Qi waved his hand, shook his head, and said boredly: "No, I need to learn everything here again, so let them go. Now I don't want to tell them to change the boss, because if I'm not satisfied with the place, I might leave. Congratulations, you are likely to keep your position. Just tell them."
Just because of his poor performance, not only did he save his life, but he could even save his boss status. Chuck began to doubt his life.
But Gao Qi then said, "Also, call the person who transformed your car for you, and I want to talk to him."
Chuck nodded and said, "Okay, I get it."
He exhaled high, feeling that he didn't have to hide his true thoughts, so he said to Anna: "Now I think it might not be a good idea to conquer Hellfire. It's too bad. I just want to do experiments here and then leave here because I really don't have the patience to train a group of mobs into a qualified army, which is a waste of time and energy."
Chapter completed!