Last Totem Novel - Chapter 173
Chapter 173 Mission
The next morning, Wang Hu woke up all the team members as usual and led them to run around the camp.
Tie Zha put on his clothes and tied his shoelaces. Just as he was about to run a few laps, Giant Mulberry arrived. After two hours of discussion, they decided on the number of food and transportation personnel. Meanwhile, Giant Mulberry took out a notebook and recorded Tie Zha’s request in detail. Then, he said that the food and cooking utensils could be delivered tonight, but the transport personnel needed to wait until Giant Amu returned tomorrow before they could start gathering. He explained that Giant Ah Mu knew many of his peers in the town. He knew who was reliable and who wasn’t.
Tie Zha nodded and agreed to Giant Mulberry’s plan. After chatting about business, the latter stood up and said goodbye. Qin Ke’er and Mu Qian He had just left when they arrived. After entering the tent, they updated Tie Zha on the situation.
Just now, they ran to General Li Qi’s office and cried with rain. General Li Qi promised them that they would handle this matter impartially and severely punish the students who stirred up trouble. After they learned from the sidelines, the group of people who were beaten up by Tie Zha yesterday afternoon came from the Northern Military Academy. Their team was the “Black Knights of the North,” and their leader was called “McRowe.” Their family was doing business in the northern part of the Western Continent, belonging to a traditional small merchant family. Currently, Macro’s injuries were mild, only a few bruises and contusions. His nine team members were all seriously injured, either with broken hands or legs. They were currently lying in the hospital in Dark Night Town undergoing bone-setting surgery.
After listening to the situation, Tie Zha stood up and twisted his neck. He said that Macro’s strength was not bad. He punched him with all his strength, but he was only slightly injured. He looked a little unwilling, and his tone carried a deep regret, and he had the intention to make up for it with three punches and two kicks. Looking at his reaction, the two women hurriedly wrapped themselves around him, one on the left and one on the right, each mouthful of a sweet “Guild Leader ~”, gently persuading him not to cause trouble again.
Perhaps it was because he had been wronged in the academy for too long that Tie Zha’s hostility grew heavier and heavier. At this moment, the depths of his heart were restless, filled with desire for blood and violence. This desire came from the insecticide’s instinct. Like insects, they live by the laws of hunting, eating, mating. Facing this instinct, he had to constantly remind himself not to fall into the abyss of desire. He either tried his best to suppress it, or he tried to find the right way to release it …
At noon, the porcupine received 120 credits from Qin Ke’er and brought the match and Tuoba San to the temporary apron to wait for the passing aircraft. Afterwards, they would be transferred to Tieshan Town in the Northern Wilderness Continent from the Central Silver City Military Academy to perform an assassination mission.
Not long after Porcupine and the others left, a messenger arrived in front of the tent and informed Tie Zha to go to General Li Qi’s office to discuss the matter. A moment later, Tie Zha brought the two women to the command office of the rest center.
General Richie stood up with a smile, pulled the slag aside, and winked at him to suggest that he should talk alone. He frowned. Although he didn’t know what the general meant, he still asked the two women to wait outside.
After they left the office, General Li Qi closed the door and stopped smiling. He turned on the computer on his desk and played a short video. The video comes from a monitor at Cheryl’s bar, where Tie Zha fights with students.
After watching the video, Tie Zha crossed his hands in front of his chest and put on a look of disapproval. Seeing this, General Li Qi’s face darkened. He said in a deep voice, “Student Sa Jia Qi, are you too ruthless? They have already lost their ability to resist. You even went up and broke their bones. No matter what, they are all your classmates. Isn’t this a bit too much?”
Tie Zha grinned and said that he was also drunk at that time, so he didn’t know how serious his actions were. He paused for a moment and then analyzed the video. Judging from the video, it was obvious that the other party was the one who molested Qin Ke’er first, so he had no choice but to stop her. He repeatedly stressed that he was the victim, the passive party.
Hearing this, General Li Qi snorted coldly and said that the law was on his side, but his attack was too heavy and unreasonable. Tie Zha spread out his hands and shrugged. What should he do? Seeing him take a step back, General Li Qi said, “I can help you suppress this matter, but you must promise not to make similar mistakes in the future.”
Tie Zha frowned and said that he would not take the initiative to cause trouble, but if others came to provoke him, he would still fiercely retaliate, regardless of who the other party was or who it was.
Seeing this, General Richie sighed helplessly, and then gave a sincere hint to Tie Zha. A few days ago, the student union’s zither assistant greeted him and told him to “take special care of Sa Jia Qi.” To that end, he would do his best to help Tie Zha, but he hoped that Tie Zha would not cause too much trouble. After all, this was the territory of the Academy Alliance, and Qin Assistant’s influence was limited.
The iron slag nodded and said that it understood. Then, General Li Qi changed the topic, saying that there was an “urgent mission” recently, hoping that the iron slag could help deal with it. With that, he handed over a piece of information to the iron slag. The latter took it and looked at it. It said,
[Task Type: Emergency]
[Mission reward: 220 credits]
[Mission brief: The satellite communication node located at 135km southeast of the Night Lighthouse is in a disconnected state; At present, satellite communication equipment is no longer available within a range of 30 km with the node as the center; Please escort two maintenance personnel to the node to assist them in restoring satellite communications]
“Emergency missions will be rewarded according to the actual situation.” General Richie added. Tie Zha thought for a while and nodded in agreement. He clearly knew that the reason General Li Qi had asked him to accept this mission was to send him out as soon as possible so that he wouldn’t cause trouble in the base.
After returning to the camp, Tie Zha told Wang Hu about the mission and told him to get ready as soon as possible. When Giant Mulberry found all the transport workers, they immediately drove into the dark jungle.
Three days later …
Giant Mulberry brought Giant Ah Mu and fifteen transport workers to the tent.
“Brother Tie” Giant Ah Mu shyly shouted when he saw the iron slag. Looking at Mu Na’s young man, Tie Zha stepped forward and shook his hand. Giant Ah Mu seemed to be a little flattered as he stuttered, “Tie … Brother Tie, in the future … Ah Mu will mix with you … in the future.”
“Yes.” The iron slag nodded its head and asked him to lead the transport workers to load the supplies.
Three hours later, everyone was ready. Leaving Bai Xiaoyun and Qin Ke’er to guard the tent, Tie Zha led the troops into the dark jungle and headed towards the location indicated by the mission.
At present, the team consisted of 35 people, including three mecha pilots, including Mu Qianhe, 13 Marines, including Wang Hu, 16 transport personnel, including Ju Ah Mu, and two communications maintenance personnel. The carriers of the goods and mecha were eight woodland vehicles manufactured by the Great Wall Company. The car has six big wheels and adapts to the muddy terrain of the jungle.
After leaving the night lighthouse 10 km away, the vegetation in the jungle grew more and more luxuriant, and the speed of the procession became incomparably slow. There were no roads in the depths of the dark jungle. They could only rely on manual cutting of shrubs and clearing of roads to move forward.
In the evening, the sky suddenly started to rain. The ground became muddy and rotten, and the team’s speed of advancement once again decreased. Seeing that it was getting dark soon, Tie Zha ordered the troops to stop moving and fix up on the spot. They would leave the next day at dawn.
Moments later, everyone cleared out an open space and set up marching tents under the evergreen broad-leaved forest. The sky was still raining, and everyone’s clothes were wet. The tarpaulin uniform was sticking to his skin, wet and cold, making him feel particularly uncomfortable. Everyone hid in tents in twos and threes, baking clothes around the small kerosene lamp.
Before nightfall, Giant Ah Mu brought two transport workers and sent the dinner out in the rain. According to Wang Hu’s arrangement, tonight’s dinner was a box of automatically heated canned meat and two compressed biscuits.
At this moment, Iron Cinder was sitting alone in the tent, roasting himself with a small kerosene lamp. Giant Ah Mu sent over two cans of canned meat, but the iron slag refused. He just said one can. He ate compressed biscuits like everyone else. Giant Ah Mu said that Wang Hu had arranged it. If he wanted to change the canned meat into compressed biscuits, he would have to make another trip. Tie Zha could only reluctantly agree, and warned him that from now on, his meals were the same as everyone else’s, and he could not make any special arrangements. Giant Ah Mu replied and left.
When he finished eating the first can of meat, a corner of his tent was opened, and then a beautiful figure drilled in.
“Boss ~ Let’s have dinner ~” Mu Qianhe squeezed beside the iron slag and took out two cans of meat and said. Seeing her special treatment, Tie Zha couldn’t help but scratch his hair and sigh at Wang Hu’s meticulous thoughts. However, this was not good. Lena had once taught him that during a battle outside, the commander should share weal and woe with the soldiers. There should be no special treatment. Otherwise, his morale would be affected. Especially in the harsh environment, the commander had to eat and live with the soldiers, so that they could gather the hearts of the people.
So he stopped eating the first can of meat. He was going to stay and return tomorrow. He was a traditional evolutionary, and even if he didn’t eat for a few days, he was still in good condition. Of course, he had to replenish it later, otherwise he would be even weaker than the average person.
“I’ve already eaten.” Tie Zha said to Mu Qianhe. The latter responded “yes”, then opened the seal and heated the two boxes of canned meat at the same time. Soon, the aluminum lid on the can bounced off automatically. In an instant, an attractive fragrance of meat pervaded the small tent.
Actually, Tie Zha wasn’t full yet, and he felt hungry when he smelled the fragrance of the meat …
However, as the Guild Leader, he must abide by his principles. Thus, he watched helplessly as Mu Qianhe finished eating two boxes of canned meat.
‘”Eh ~” Mu Qianhe noticed that there was a box of unopened canned meat next to Tie Zha. He asked carelessly, “Why is there another box? Isn’t the boss going to eat it?”
“Yes.” Tie Zha nodded.
Without waiting for Tie Zha to reply, Mu Qianhe directly picked up the can and tore open the seal. He placed it aside and waited for it to be heated.
“Why didn’t I notice before that canned meat is so delicious?” She sighed.
A moment later, Tie Zha silently watched as she finished eating the third can of meat …
Mu Qianhe rubbed his slightly bulged lower abdomen and lazily said, “So full.”