Chapter 338, Internal Conflict in the Bandit’s Den

“Pay attention to your breathing,” Yang Xiaoguan said, “Your lung lobes will rapidly change your posture after taking in air, it may not be obvious, but to a sniper, every detail that fails will be fatal.”

“The falcon flies too high, so you have to wait for it to hover downward and seize that opportunity to close the distance, which is fleeting.”

For snipers, the time when the opportunity arrives is the time when a decision must be made, not a single moment of hesitation.

With a booming shot, Ren Xiaosu pulled the trigger at the falcon high in the sky, the huge recoil of that sniper rifle and the air wave discharged from the chamber of the rifle lifted up the loess ground around him in a huge cloud of smoke and dust.

This was Yang Xiaoguan’s firearm, which she had materialized and given to Ren Xiaosu to use.

Today was Ren Xiaosu’s actual combat training, hitting the falcon in the sky, but from the beginning Yang Xiaoguan gave him the highest level of difficulty, making him hit the falcon’s head.

After a shot, the falcon didn’t have any trouble, and was scared by the sound of the gun and flew away ……

The corner of Yang Xiaoguan’s mouth curled slightly, “Still think your firearms ability is okay?”

Ren Xiaosu pretended to be puzzled: “Obviously hit its brain ah, why nothing, maybe because it mutated?”

“Come on,” Yang Xiaoguan bristled, “No matter how mutated it is, it’s still just a falcon, not a genetically edited product controlled by the Fire Seed Company, it can’t block sniper bullets. You said you hit its head, why is it fine?”

Ren Xiaosu mused, “Maybe it doesn’t have a brain.”

“Hehe,” Yang Xiaoguan put the sniper rifle away, “You can’t shoot it if you go further, the sniper rifle is too loud and will attract the bandits’ attention.”

“Hm,” Ren Xiaosu nodded, he had listened to a lot of advanced knowledge about firearms in the past two days, and still needed a lot of practice.

He had already been delayed on the road for a day because he had to practice with his gun, and Yang Xiaoguan didn’t seem to be in a hurry, not rushing at all, patiently accompanying him as he practiced with his gun.

But now that the bandit eradication mission was obviously a bit more important, he didn’t really need to rush his gun practice for this moment.

“If we encounter a colony of stragglers, will they welcome us?” Ren Xiaosu wondered.

“Not to welcome, but not to exclude either,” Yang Xiaoguan said, “Everyone is barely farming with the water, you plant yours, I plant mine, many of the stragglers have just escaped without food, they will use the money saved in the factories to buy some food to buy seeds, after all, it will take a long time for the crops to grow! After all, it would take a long time for crops to grow, which is what the exiles in the settlement would like to see. Moreover, new stragglers joining will also bring information from the outside world.”

“We didn’t run into a single bandit along the way either, how strange,” Ren Xiaosu frowned.

Not seeing bandits in a place where banditry was rampant was like not seeing fish in the sea, there was bound to be an unusual event happening in this river valley area.

“Look,” Yang Xiaoguan said, pointing in front of her as she crossed a hill, but she saw a small river meandering across the land in front of her, while many stragglers were digging ditches by the river, in order to dig new ditches that could irrigate their crops in time for the arrival of spring.

When the stragglers saw Yang Xiaoguan and Ren Xiaosu and realized that they were dressed as stragglers, they put their hearts at ease.

These people were smart, if you were a wallflower pretending to be a wallflower, they would be able to tell at a glance. Like Ren Xiaosu said, it’s all in the details.

When Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaoguan approached, before they could speak there was an older woman who wiped her sweat and said, “Sorghum seeds, buy? Just in time for spring sowing.”

“Buy,” Ren Xiaosu pulled out a cloth bag from his pocket, flipped open a number of layers to see some of the broken change inside, the stragglers saw this scene will be more at ease, the big shots in the barriers can not pretend to be so?

But there are still people who are uneasy: “Where did you escape from?”

Ren Xiaosu cursed and said: “The mine, originally said to carry a ton of coal to 21 yuan, the result suddenly dropped to 20 yuan and 60 cents, and also want to deduct what the material fee, simply do not let people live.”

A straggler laughed out loud, “It’s not as good as when I was in the mine.”

As a result, right at this moment, an older woman suddenly said, “But it’s not the right time for you couple to escape.”

Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaoguan both froze, they had set each other up for half a day before, just to fight over who was older and who was younger, and in the end, Ren Xiaosu suffered as the younger brother, and Yang Xiaoguan as the older sister.

But the discussion is quite good, to here the identity changed at once ……

The stragglers are married quite early, early to have a child, the child grows up can also help the family work, everyone thinks so, so the two of them in the barriers appear young, to here looks just right for marriageable age.

And these days, who would flee together if they weren’t a couple, in case someone fleeing was reported by someone else, that someone else could get a reward.

This let two people a little off guard, Ren Xiaosu secretly glanced at Yang Xiaoguan, do not know how Yang Xiaoguan will react, if Yang Xiaoguan insisted on explaining to cause the suspicion of the stragglers, then they should retreat, and then find a way into the river valley area is not a problem.

But Yang Xiaogen smiled and did not explain her identity, instead she acquiesced, “How come it’s not the right time for us to come, is there something wrong?”

“I’ll tell you, this period of time in the north of the bandit nest is chaotic it, killed a number of people it,” the aunt said in a serious tone: “We have this big guy are quite panicked, I do not know whether it will affect us.”

“What’s wrong with the bandit village,” Ren Xiaosu said curiously, “We’re just farming, who can do anything to us?”

“I heard that the three groups in the north don’t get along with each other, and they all want to consolidate all the bandits in the river valley area, two of them are especially fierce, and they seem to have Transcendents, and they will kill those who don’t submit to them,” the aunt explained, “I’ve made it clear to you in advance, it’s no problem for you and your husband to stay here, and we’ll farm together. farming together, but if any bandits come and ask if you submit to them or not, everyone has to say submit, don’t go against them.”

“Okay,” Ren Xiaosu agreed, “Then what if this group leaves and another group comes?”

Auntie waved her hand, “We’ll submit to whomever comes, as long as they let us work the land.”

This is the rule of survival of the displaced people, to be soft and not to cause trouble, you bandits can fight each other as you want, whoever comes to submit to who ……

Anyway, those bandits can’t look at their seeds and crops now, and I don’t know how, obviously there’s no one to rob, but as a result, those bandits are getting richer and richer, and their equipment and instruments are getting better and better.

Last year, Zong’s regular army came to the river valley area and was beaten by several groups of bandits!

How is this something that ordinary bandits can do? The bandits that can beat the regular army are still bandits!