Bring Interstellar to the end of the world

Chapter 184 The Broker
Before the outbreak of the nuclear war, the two countries reached a consensus on the exchange of prisoners, and planned to set up a life channel to exchange soldiers who fell into the hands of the other side during the war.

However, just before the official start of the hostage exchange plan, a nuclear war broke out, the whole world fell into chaos, radioactive dust enveloped the world, and nuclear winter came.

The hostage exchange plan was difficult to produce...

The time has come to a certain spring more than 100 years after the nuclear war.

Johnson landed from Area 21 and came to this land where his ancestors fought, with the purpose of finding the remains of his great-great-grandfather and bringing them back to the North American continent for burial.

Anyone with an online IQ heard his story and probably wondered if his brain was burned out by excessive radiation.

Risking many dangers and traveling across the ocean just to find the remains of the ancestors and return them to their hometown for burial?Not to mention whether he can go back alive, just looking for the target is difficult.

Who knows where the American prisoners were kept before the nuclear war broke out?
Even if he knew where the American captives were being held, who would have figured out which skeleton was his great-great-grandfather in the past few years?Who can guarantee that the corpse will not be crushed by the mutant dog or blown away by the storm?
So what Johnson did sounds stupid and idiotic.

However, no matter how others persuaded him to give up, no matter how much he was ridiculed as a stubborn bull, he never gave up his original intention. After leaving District 21, he headed west all the way, entered the inland area where his great-great-grandfather fought, and searched for the prisoner-of-war camp where the American paratroopers were held. .

Later, I moved to the Western Alliance area, and with the help of some high-level figures, I found some documents about the exchange of prisoners of war, and then learned that the military transferred the US paratroopers who were originally imprisoned in the prisoner-of-war facilities near Xijing in order to ensure a fast and smooth passage of life. Detained in the peninsula area.

It was under such circumstances that Johnson left the Western Union and entered the peninsula.

It has been four or five years since he landed in Asia.

Because the coastal area of ​​China is the key target of the enemy's nuclear bombs, the degree of damage is higher than that of the inland area.Johnson's search for his great-great-grandfather's remains hasn't made much progress since he came to the peninsula.

He only vaguely learned that the US paratroopers were being held in a secret military facility near Qindao City, but he had no clue as to the exact location.

If there is no relevant information to look up, the only way left is a blanket search.

However, he has only one person, and if he wants to turn the area around the ruins of Qindao City upside down, he will not be able to complete it in 100 years.

So he can only give up halfway?

In the end, Johnson did not give up and chose to run a bar in Gem City, making money and collecting information at the same time.

You must know that the people who know the ruins of Qindao City best are those scavengers and merchants.

This kind of people are accustomed to finding a place to have a drink to relieve their fatigue and relax their spirit after going in and out of Gem City.In addition to providing them with drinks, the bar is also a place to share information.

This is the original intention of Johnson to run the homeless bar.

It's a pity that six or seven years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Johnson still hasn't found the remains of his great-great-grandfather. However, he has adapted to life in this land and has become a celebrity in the gem city.

There is also news that Johnson is not an honest person. In the matter of Luo Zuoming's collusion with the Western Alliance and betraying the interests of the people of Gem City, Johnson was suspected of being a broker at the beginning.

But...how many people who are notoriously famous in the wasteland sky have a clean back?
Some people are more interested in the details of Johnson's experience. After all, he crossed the Pacific Ocean as a North American, landed in the Chinese Wasteland from Area 21, then went to the inland of West China, and then went north to Xijing, and finally came to the peninsula.There will be absolutely no peace along the way.

How amazing is this guy's luck that he was able to safely escape from the pursuit of predators, beasts, bandits, and even evil mercenaries, evil scavengers, and mutants, and came to the peninsula area safely!

It's a pity that Johnson never detailed his experience, so no one knows what kind of magic weapon he has to overcome the difficulties along the way.

In the eyes of the residents of Gem City, Johnson is a very kind foreigner. He will greet people with warm words and will take off his hat to show respect when talking to others. When he sees the old, weak, sick and disabled, he will help them as much as possible. Sometimes employees cannot pay. He would also generously donate protection money... For example, Carrot Ding, who left the homeless bar in the spring of last year to find a way to redeem himself, would have starved to death in an abandoned building outside the city without Johnson's help.

On the other hand, he is also a very talented person. At the top, he can exchange cups with Wang Ming and Hui Liancai, at the bottom, he can call ordinary people brothers and sisters, and in the middle, he can chat with cultural people.

Johnson also has a good craft - people often come to the homeless bar to ask Johnson how to take care of his image.Like the high-cut, carved mohawk, and Reina's new hairstyle, Johnson's hands.

In addition, Johnson has another ability that people talk about.He can always get a lot of overseas products, such as shampoo, bourbon sold in bars, green olives in cocktails, and parts needed for imported cars... It is said that Wang Ming's machine is The statuette's luxury car once broke down two kilometers away from the manor, and it was thanks to Johnson who rushed to repair it overnight that it was prevented from being reduced to steel garbage in the ruins of Qindao City.

Of course, except for the little golden man on the roof, the rest of the car has not escaped the fate of being turned into garbage.

This is why Tan Zhen asked him where he got many foreign goods, and Johnson answered that he was North American.

Since he can travel across the ocean to the Chinese Wasteland, he can naturally introduce products from the North American Wasteland to Gem City.

Tan Zhen didn't ask for more detailed inside information, or that this was not his focus at all, but just wanted to use Johnson's answer to lead to another question.

"What is your relationship with the prophet of the Black Saint?"

Boom!
There was the sound of footsteps stopping at the stairs on the second floor.

The owner of the homeless bar looked back, with a mysterious smile on his face: "Guess."

you guess……

This shows that he is unwilling to answer this question directly, and he doesn't care how Tan Zhen views his relationship with the prophet.

Johnson had a calm demeanor, and Tang Yan over there looked surprised and glanced at the people behind him, thinking that the news of the ghoul is very well-informed, and the power of the boss of the ship is in the southern sea area, and he did not expect to have a considerable understanding of third-rate bandit groups like the Black Saints.

And he doesn't think it's pointless for the ghoul to ask Johnson whether he has anything to do with the Prophet. It is very likely that the two parties really have insider trading.The American Army Jeep he drove from the Black Saints base to the rolling mill was a good example.

Tan Zhen looked at Tang Yan, then at Johnson, and snorted.

At this time, the four of them had come to the second floor of the homeless bar.

Johnson pushed open a door not far from the stairs and invited the three of them in.

In the center of the room is a combination of coffee table and sofa, and two wine cabinets are placed further inside. In the middle of the wine cabinet is a fireplace for heating, and some firewood is built inside.

"Sit anywhere."

Johnson let the three of them sit on the sofa, opened the side wine cabinet and took out a bottle of bourbon and four glasses. He poured some wine into three of the glasses, added a few cubes of ice, and mixed the last glass with soda water , and then handed the cups with ice cubes to Tang Yan and Tan Zhen, and the cups mixed with soda water to Caiwei, and finally sat down on the single sofa with his own cup.

Unlike the image of American soldiers in the pre-war brochures, Johnson gives people the impression that he is a standard Uncle Sam, steady, decent, mature, and down-to-earth...

He picked up the cup and took a sip, his eyes fell on Tang Yan's face, he paused for a moment and then looked at the ghoul who was leaning forward, with his back away from the sofa, and grinned.

"I'm so sorry, I was supposed to visit..."

Tang Yan smiled and said, "I would also like to thank Mr. Johnson for sending someone to send General Wang back to the cannery."

"You're welcome, this is what I should do." Johnson said: "I deeply regret what happened to Mr. Wang."

Sure enough... the cook talked about his affairs under the influence of wine.

"Heh..." Tang Yan smiled and put the half-empty cup back on the table: "I wonder what kind of business Mr. Johnson wants to discuss when he invites me over this time."

"Wait." A voice interrupted Tang Yan's question, and the ghoul looked into Johnson's eyes and said, "What's going on with that man wearing sunglasses in the corner on the first floor?"

Johnson took a deep sip of his wine, put the glass back on the table, and leaned back into the depths of the sofa.

"The man called himself Wu Meng, a mercenary from the Yunmeng Mercenary Group. He came to Gem City to deliver a letter to someone."

Tan Zhen didn't speak.

Tang Yan didn't speak either.

Caiwei got up from the sofa, walked to the rear window, and fixedly looked at the neatly stacked American flags on the small case next to her.

The American flag on the Chinese mainland...

Even if they are stacked neatly, it is difficult to conceal its dilapidation.

The fabric was badly faded, with large and small holes, and some stains that couldn't be washed out.

Johnson looked back at her back and said, "I found that in the prisoner-of-war concentration camp in the north of Xijing. It was stuffed in the gap in the wall behind the bed board, and it was hidden very deep."

Tan Zhen squinted his eyes when he heard this.

Johnson noticed the change in the corpse's expression, and without further explanation, turned the topic back to the man in sunglasses.

"Of course, sending letters to people is a trick to cover one's eyes. Wu Meng has been inquiring about the situation in the Gourd Valley in the north for the past few days in Gemstone City."

"Gourd Valley?"

"Well, Gourd Valley."

Hulu Valley is located in the north of the ruins of Qindao City, and most people regard it as a restricted area.Only some mercenary groups and bounty hunter groups will go to Calabash Valley to perform tasks.

It is said that there is a military facility hidden in Calabash Valley, which is a backup command post of the peninsula military system, and advanced pre-war armed forces may be sealed inside.

From the perspective of collecting resources, Calabash Valley is likely to be a treasure land.But this treasure land is now haunted by mutant bears and mud crabs.According to a bounty hunter who went to the outskirts of Calabash Valley many times to hunt mutant two-headed deer, he once encountered a very special large-scale living corpse there.

The Yunmeng mercenary group, which was active between Jicheng and the area inhabited by Langya, went deep into the peninsula and became interested in the dangerous Calabash Valley?What element is there that draws them in?
The Yunmeng Mercenary Corps is not comparable to the Pandaren Legion and the Warrior Company, which are not popular in the environment of the entire continent. Its number exceeds 700 people.

Tan Zhen took a look at Tang Yan and said, "I thought that man came to Gem City to trick you."

The ghoul's worries are not unreasonable. After all, the Yunmeng mercenary group is active between Jicheng and Langya inhabited areas. It is definitely not unacceptable to accept the entrustment of Jicheng to intervene in the struggle of Gem City.

Tang Yan said: "You seem very disappointed."

"Of course." The ghoul said, "I'd love to see them come to provoke you and get their legs broken."

"Uh, did you have a problem with those people?"

"A long time ago..."

Seeing that he didn't want to talk, Tang Yan didn't force it, and his eyes returned to Johnson's face: "You can continue talking about business."

Johnson nodded: "Actually... I am not the one who wants to do business with you."

Tang Yan frowned: "How do you say that?"

"Let's put it this way, I... am a middleman, and I only want to facilitate the meeting between the two parties. As for the content of the transaction and the outcome of the meeting, I am not qualified to know, and I don't want to know."

Broker...

Tang Yan said in his heart, maybe it was Johnson who facilitated the cooperation between Luo Zuoming and the Western Alliance, just like the outside rumors.

"Tell me, who is the person who wants to discuss business with me?"

Johnson straightened up and cast a burning gaze on his face.

"The Lord of Yuan City...Fei Xiang!"

Fei Xiang, the lord of Yuan City?

The lord of Yuan City, Fei Xiang, wants to negotiate a big deal with him?

Not only Tang Yan was stunned when he heard the name, Tan Zhen also stared in surprise when he heard the name.

Caiwei stood in the night in front of the window, looking at the neon-flashing billboard of Pink Paradise in the north, her expression unchanged, and she didn't respond to that name.

Tan Zhen quickly came back to his senses, and looked at Tang Yan with a questioning look in his eyes.

He knew what the wight was trying to say.

"Yuan City... Yuan City..."

Those teenagers who came to swindle the regeneration potion were probably from Yuan City.

What will the city lord of Yuan City do after he gets the regenerative potion?Should it be used as a political article, or distributed to the people in the city suffering from radiation sickness?

He believes that Fei Xiang is more likely to choose the former.

What happened next confirmed his thoughts from the side - when attacking Wang Ming's manor, it can be concluded from the conversation between Borodin and Wang Ming that the foreigner's master sent him to Gem City with the purpose of investigating himself.

As the deputy head of the Pandaren Legion, his area of ​​activity has always been centered on Gemstone City, so of course it is impossible to pose a threat to the country of Ross militarily.

Since it cannot pose a threat militarily, why did the other party send people to investigate itself.

Could it be that you have damaged or are about to damage their economic interests?

So in what aspect does the country of Ross's economic interests in the Chinese mainland manifest itself?
The answer is simple - disinfectant/anti-radiation drugs.

(End of this chapter)