Chapter 335, Acting Alone

“Then why don’t you send some more people,” Ren Xiaosu asked, “Isn’t that sending us to our deaths? Just send a large army to fight the bandits!”

“Do you know why that place has become a three-region zone?” Yang Xiaoguan said, “Because it is a transportation hub line in the northwest, four forked roads, three of which lead to the Zong Clan, Yang Clan, and 178 Barrier respectively, whoever sends an army into this area will attract the suspicion of the other two, back then, the three clans didn’t have much friction because of this, and everyone didn’t want to let the others control this line.”

“So everyone didn’t move, and gradually it became a zone where bandits gathered?” Ren Xiaosu curiously said, “No wonder the three families had to take joint action whenever it was said that bandits were being suppressed, and even Xu Xianchu made a special trip to Yang’s.”

“Yes, there are even large-scale bandit organizations that have settled there and robbed displaced women to live there,” Yang Xiaoguan said, “In order to use the army, the bandits must be fought jointly, no one can act alone. This time, everyone has moved against the bandits, this banditry is a must to eliminate.”

“Then let’s all send troops together ah ……,” Ren Xiaosu said breathlessly, “What’s the point of sending us over?”

“The terrain in the river valley area is complicated and strange, extremely convenient for bandits to hide there,” said Yang Xiaoguan, “Someone must first find out the situation of the bandits in the entire river valley area, to know where they are, and whether there’s a chance to kill them all at once, and then make plans.”

Now Ren Xiaosu understood, they were there to explore the road, and they didn’t need to bother fighting and killing, originally this plan didn’t even have anything in it for him and Yang Xiaoguan, the main task fell on those thirty nano warriors, as well as the Zong’s soldiers.

If the army pressed directly into the river valley area, many bandits might hide or run away, and it would be easy for the three parties to start conflicts.

“If you want to get rid of them, you should mainly want to get rid of Zong Seung, right?” Ren Xiaosu tried.

“Right,” Yang Xiaoguan nodded, “Because Zong is more familiar with the river valley area, Zong proposed that they lead the way this time, but this banditry was originally raised by them, and many of the forces within the bandits have not-so-small ties with them, so if they were to lead the way, or else we’d only be able to see some of the conditions that he wants us to see.”

Anyway, in the end, it was about avoiding Zong and not letting him lead the way.

Ren Xiaosu did not have any opinion, to say that Yang Xiaoguan is also a high artist, ordinary people who dares to break into the bandit’s den like this, Ren Xiaosu curiously said, “Aren’t you worried about what’s going on?”

“Not still have you?” Yang Xiaoguan glanced at him and said as she suddenly stepped on the gas at an intersection.

When she left the ledge Yang Xiaoguan had deliberately driven to the end of the line, at this point the convoy ahead had already turned into another fork in the road, so when Yang Xiaoguan suddenly changed lanes and drove towards the west, none of the vehicles ahead reacted!

By the time they realized that the buggy driven by Yang Xiaoguan had diverted, it was too late for them to make a U-turn, so they could only stop and watch Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaoguan drive all the way to the northwest, and watched as the buggy raised a huge cloud of dust on the road.

The wilderness in the south was still a lush green, just two barriers away, but the earth under the dome of this sky was suddenly overgrown from green to earthy yellow, filled with pale mounds.

From here to the north, it is difficult to see patches of forests, and the vegetation that can be seen is only low shrubs.

Originally, soil erosion was severe here before the Calamity, and the sandy soil had become an irresistible trend that had to take a lot of human and material resources and financial resources to hold back.

But the calamity came with it, and the entire land was completely desolate.

Zong Seung stood outside the car looking at the departing SUV with a calm expression.

Someone on the ground among the nano warriors asked, “Squad leader, what are we going to do?”

That squad leader thought for a moment and said, “We’ll continue the mission as originally planned.”

Originally, they were meant to go deeper into the northern river valley region, and Yang Xiaoguan’s joining them was something unplanned, so now, even if Yang Xiaoguan left, they wouldn’t be panicked and confused.

Zong Seung smiled and looked at the nano warriors and said, “Maybe they have a more important mission, but it doesn’t matter, I hope we work well together for the rest of the time.”

……

According to the established plan, Yang Xiaoguan and Ren Xiaosu were supposed to follow the team to the east, where it was the line of Shangying Mountain, Lianta Mountain, and Dingyuan Mountain, all the way to the core of the river valley region.

And after Yang Xiaoguan changed her route this time, she would pass through Daban Mountain, Tangwang Mountain, Guanshan Mountain, and finally join the team, which she had planned long ago, to see with her own eyes what the banditry in the river valley area was really like.

The vehicle didn’t travel for long before the two of them abandoned the vehicle and went on foot, so that even though it was slower, they wouldn’t be instantly recognized as being from the consortium.

Yang Xiaoguan even prepared slightly tattered clothes, making the two of them look like they had just escaped from Yang’s factory.

Yang Xiaoguan said, “Actually, there are many other small human settlements in the river valley area, all of them are some stragglers who couldn’t stand the exploitation of the consortium and fled to this area, barely plowing the land near the water source to live.”

“Then aren’t they afraid of bandits?” Ren Xiaosu asked.

“The bandits deliberately left quite a few stragglers in the river valley area,” Yang Xiaoguan said, “They won’t touch these stragglers, and I don’t know who gave them the trick, every time a consortium tries to encircle them, if it’s too late to hide, they’ll hide their weapons and hide in the straggler settlements, and pretending that they were also displaced people living there.”

Ren Xiaosu was surprised, “What’s the point of that?”

“For the consortium, people are also a resource,” Yang Xiaoguan said, “At first, when the Yang clan fought the bandits and saw a displaced person settlement, they escorted them back to the market town, so that they could continue to work in the factories and continue to create value. Then those bandits disguised as stragglers after a year and a half, they would take some of the stragglers and flee back to the river valley area again ……”

“It’s not easy for the bandits,” Ren Xiaosu sighed.

“I suspect that someone behind the scenes is giving them tips,” Yang Xiaoguan said.

“Or maybe it’s their own wisdom,” Ren Xiaosu said, standing on a mound.

“I’m not saying that the bandits don’t have wisdom, but there must be a power behind them that’s funding them,” Yang Xiaoguan said, “The ruins of those Calamity civilizations were dug up in the earlier years, and there wasn’t much left that could be left, and the traders were scared away from them, so what did they survive on all these years What did they do to survive all these years? We also found that these bandits often have more brand-new guns, and even brand-new motorcycles, and some of the forces are particularly well-informed, so to say that there is no consortium behind them, I don’t believe it.”