Last Totem Novel - Chapter 39

Chapter 39 Borrow Troops
“I want money” Iron slag thought for a long time before finally saying this.

Lena was stunned for a moment, then her black jade-like eyes slid back and forth in her slender eyes. She looked left, right, up, down, and looked at the youth in front of her with interest.

Time seemed to have returned to the day they first met, and that was how she looked at him, who was filled with explosives. It was just that there was an extra layer of seriousness that day, and an extra layer of ambiguity that day.

Tie Zha couldn’t stand such a gaze, so he stood up and said, “I’m leaving.”

“Big sister has 2786 gold, is that enough?” Lena held his hand and asked softly.

Wilderness Heavy Industries’ Sandsea Flying Fish is priced at 680 gold, while Harley Industries’ Blazing Fire Eagle and RC’s Divine Wind Warriors are priced at at at least 2,000 gold. Lena has enough money, but Tie Zha can’t take all her money.

“Lend me 500 gold.” The iron slag said straightforwardly.

Lena took out a gold card from her jacket pocket and placed it in Iron Cinder’s palm. “Here’s 2,500 gold,” she said.

“I want to go hunt for sand worms. It’s breeding season, so I should be able to find a lot of sand worm eggs.” Tie Zha put away his gold card and said.

Lena smiled as she slowly said, “Oh, for the sake of hooking up with the goddess, I’ve risked my life.” Helplessly, Iron Cinder could only explain the background of the matter to her, in case she misunderstood again.

After listening to Tie Zha’s narrative, Lena thought for a while and then analyzed the situation.

Sandsea Flying Fish can be bought directly, but RC Company is not in Northern Wilderness Continent, so we can only consider the Harley industry. Meanwhile, the Blazing Fire Eagle locomotive needs to be customized and can only be delivered in three months. Lena had a Lightning Leopard from Wilderness Heavy Industries, and she asked Tie Zha to drive back and scan Alice to see if she could replace it.

The Lightning Leopard is much more advanced than the Sandsea Flying Fish, but Tie Zha is reluctant to accept the suggestion. This Lightning Leopard was Lena’s car. If anything happened, it would be equivalent to losing half of its life without a motorcycle.

Tie Zha’s plan was to go to the Endless Sand Sea to try his luck, then go to Sand City to buy a car, and finally rush back to Tieshan Town before winter arrived.

“Take Old Niu and Old Di with you this time. I’ll send someone to help you take care of the house.” Lena said seriously.

Old Niu usually guarded the repair shop and Tie Zha’s stronghold, so he rarely went out. Old Di was Lena’s omnipotent assistant and would not leave Iron Mountain Town. Although Old Di looked skinny, he was also a traditional evolutionary. However, his evolution was the lowest of all. According to the general algorithm of the Northern Wilderness Continent, he only had a 16% evolutionary rate.

The calculation of evolutionary power came from a man named Alexander Lattimore 200 years ago. At that time, Alexander was recognized as the strongest traditional evolutionist in the world, so this calculation method was based on him. 16% means–16% of Alexander Lattimore’s overall ability.

Of course, traditional evolutionaries tend to have different abilities, Tie Zha and Lena tend to be agile evolutionaries, while Old Di tends to be perceptual evolutionaries. Old Niu was a peculiar kind of person. He could not be said to be inclined. He could only be said to be a complete strength-type evolutionary.

Lena’s arrangement was based on the fact that Old Di was more stable, less impulsive, and had a strong early warning ability. He could do a good job of scouting for Tie Zha and come up with some bad ideas when necessary. Old Niu was the best candidate for logistics. He was loyal and reliable.

Tie Zha did not agree with Lena’s plan. He felt that Old Niu was better. Old Flute was just a drag bottle. In short, it was inconvenient to bring them along.

“Alright … I understand.” Lena said. Tie Zha was just about to nod when he heard her continue, “Big sister will accompany you personally …”

“How about this, I’ll bring Old Di with me, and then give me twenty more guards, two tiger mechs, and four rattlesnake sand trucks. Forget it, Old Niu, his speed is really too slow.” Tie Zha said sincerely.

“You …”

Lena was stunned for a moment before she came back to her senses and hugged him fiercely. She gritted her teeth and said, “It’s getting worse and worse now. I know I’ve set up a trap for my sister. With so many people, what do you want to do? Do you want to fight?”

“There are more than a thousand people in the garrison. I only want twenty.” Tie Zha argued.

“The entire garrison only has five Tiger mecha. What do you want? Tell me honestly!” “Two hyenas will do as well …” “Two hyenas.”

“What do you want to do?” Lena asked as she increased the strength of the bear hug.

“I want to go hunt for the Golden Sandworm” Iron Cinder said.

“Golden Sandworm?” “Yes.” “Sandsea Berserk Bug King?” “En …” “No!” “Huh?” “It’s too dangerous!”

“If you don’t give it to anyone, I’ll go by myself.” Tie Zha threatened. He knew that if he said that, Lena would definitely compromise. Indeed, Lena quickly let go of him, then found paper and pens, and began to calculate the costs of personnel, ammunition, vehicles, and equipment.

After calculating, Lena showed him the list.

Wild Wolf mecha (commonly known as hyena), the market price of about 850 gold, fuel and maintenance costs of about 20 gold, mecha pilots pension of about 360 gold.

Viper Sandtruck (commonly known as rattlesnake), the market price of about 160 gold, fuel and maintenance costs of about 2 gold, Sandtruck driver’s pension of about 180 gold.

Garrison member of the Autonomous Society, fully equipped with approximately 30 gold coins, with a pension of approximately 150 gold coins.

Apart from the big items above, there are also ammunition, medical treatment, food …

“Suppose the entire army is annihilated, we don’t have enough money to fill this hole.” Lena analyzed.

“It is said that a Golden Sandworm egg is worth several thousand gold.”

“Yes, I saw one at the auction in Sand City. It sold for more than 3,800 gold.” Lena said.

Tie Zha’s eyes immediately lit up when he heard the 3,800 gold taels. Then, he changed his tone and said, “Sister, I want the Tiger Mech.”

“How bad ~” Lena scratched the iron slag’s hair, then pushed him, and said with a straight face, “I knew I was going to pretend to be pitiful.”

Tie Zha grinned and said a few more nice words. He couldn’t do such a thing, but he could put down Tieshan Town’s bully posture and pretend to be pitiful with his eyes. In the end, Lena agreed to give him twenty fully armed garrison members, two Wolf-type mechs, four Viper Sandtrucks, and related pilots, a total of twenty-six people.

Lena explained to Tie Zha that there were two reasons why she didn’t give him the Tiger Mech. First, the Tiger mecha had been put on record in Sand City. If it was damaged, it could not be replaced by a mecha from outside. Second, the market price of the Tiger Mecha was too high. Even if they could find a replacement, the price was still not cheap.

“If you really are in danger, you and Old Di can just run back.” Lena whispered as she approached Tie Zha. She was prepared for the worst, assuming that the squad was completely annihilated and the mecha and vehicles were completely destroyed, it would cost about 7,000 gold to fill the hole. She could sell her mother’s relic-an elven stone ring. The starting price of the ring at the auction is between 8,000 and 12,000 gold, with prices ranging from high to low, reportedly ranging from 8,000 to 20,000 gold.

However, auctioning this ring, my lord father might be very sad …

After making the arrangements, Tie Zha took a detour back to the repair shop. After that, Lena called Old Di to the office to discuss the selection of his entourage. Amongst the more than 1,000 garrison members of the Autonomous Society, there were also direct and collateral branches. The so-called direct descendants were the people that Lena had brought from Sand City, or the people who had been loyal to her and had gone through the trials afterwards. These people were all people who could risk their lives and rebel together under Lena’s orders. As for the collateral factions, they had limited loyalty, limited ability, or the personnel of Sand City or other local factions.

The question that Lena and Old Di were discussing was whether to choose from the direct line or the side line. If so, which group of people would they choose from? Lena had about eighty direct descendants, and the rest were collateral descendants.

If the direct descendants were sent, the safety factor of the iron slag and the old flute would be relatively higher. However, in the event of an accident, the direct descendants could not be easily abandoned. Moreover, if they lost more than twenty direct descendants, Lena would be tantamount to severing one of her arms. These direct descendants were all junior officers in the garrison, which would increase Lena’s control over the garrison. The loss of more than twenty direct descendants meant the loss of effective control over a portion of the garrison.

Old Di suggested sending his direct descendants instead to restrain themselves. If something really happened, the danger factor would rise because they couldn’t let go of each other. The iron slag’s combat strength was formidable, and its escape ability was first-rate, so there was basically no danger. In addition, the iron slag had a vicious name. Even if they sent out collateral personnel, no one would dare to resist his orders. After all, once they arrived at the Endless Sand Sea, their lives would be in danger at any moment. Under such circumstances, the inherent superior-subordinate relationship would become blurry. At this time, the most useful thing was to see who had a hard fist and whose prestige was high.

Finally, Old Di suggested that the entourage select one or two members from each of the factions to disrupt their established factions. After entering the sand sea, he used his fists to speak and immediately executed those who were disobedient. As for the pilots of the mecha, they could only use their direct descendants. This was the highest military symbol in the army and could not fall into the hands of others. The rest of the drivers of the sand truck would choose people who were honest and had average abilities, regardless of which faction they belonged to.

At the end of the discussion, Lena felt that Old Di’s plan was not bad, so she let him carry it out.

As soon as Old Di came out of his office, he headed straight for the garrison camp of Tieshan Town’s Autonomous Society and began to search the list of garrison members.

Although Tieshan Town wasn’t big, it still had a population of over a million, which was equivalent to a small city. As a result, Tieshan Town’s garrison had over a thousand men. Old Di was nominally the vice captain of the garrison, but in reality, he was the real captain of the garrison.

Under normal circumstances, Sand City would send one chief and two deputy chief police officers to Tieshan Town. The chief chief police officer would also serve as the chairman of the autonomous council, and the deputy chief police officer would also serve as the captain of the garrison.

However, the deputy sheriff who came to work with Lena was an honest man who was close to fifty years old. He originally didn’t have much ambition, and coupled with his age, he had long since lost his ambition. Moreover, when he saw Lena’s iron-blooded wrist, he didn’t have any ideas. Over the past three years, he had basically retreated behind the scenes and had few stewards. Right now, he was sitting in the second floor of the Autonomous Society, drinking tea and reading newspapers every day, or being a good person, trying to make things right everywhere. He was basically in a semi-retired state.

As for the other office on the second floor of the Autonomous Society-the former Blade Fang Society, now the Blacktooth Society-was the representative of the local rogue forces.

As the police chief of Tieshan Town, Lena would never allow such an organization to exist. However, Tie Shan Town had too many people and things to deal with, so she could only take such violent measures.

There were strong and unruly people everywhere. These people could not be absorbed into the regular army and were difficult to control. The simplest and most brutal way to deal with these people was to set up organizations like the Black Tooth Society and the Ghost Horn Society, and then absorb them into their unified management. They could throw out their bones and let them bite their dogs, but they could also use the regular army to wipe them out at once, so it was quite convenient to manage.

For three years, Lena had managed Tieshan Town in such a simple and crude manner.

In the meantime, the only surprise was that Knife Fang actually asked Lena to be his girlfriend. Lena didn’t understand why Saber Fang had such a suicidal idea after thinking about it for several days. In fact, Lena had underestimated her appearance. After looking at her for three years, Saber Fang was finally unable to resist her charm. He thought that Saber Fang would have a few hundred people in size and could sit on equal footing with her.

However, Dao Ya had forgotten that these hundreds of people were rogues and ruffians. Not to mention the level of unity, the will to fight, training, and other issues, even in terms of equipment, only Earth Spear, Earth Cannon, and Iron Cinder could kill them in a scattered manner, let alone a regular army like the Autonomous Guild Garrison.