District 9

At noon the next day, the sun rose three poles.

When the two young men who were unpacking the truck were sleeping with their heads covered in the room of the hotel, there was a violent knock on the door.

After a while, the young man near the window yelled angrily: "Who is it?"

"Brother, do you want to have lunch?" the owner of the boarding and lodging shop asked outside the house.

"I'll call you if you want to eat." The young man frowned and replied, "Don't let anyone knock on the door. I'm sleeping."

"No, I just went outside and saw that the truck you were driving seemed to be on fire." The owner of the hotel and restaurant reminded him kindly: "Did you two forget to put out the fire yesterday? Go and have a look quickly, it will cost you a lot of gas. .”

When the young man heard this, he sat up with a thud and stared blankly out the window, his face turning pale.

After the boss finished reminding him, he turned around and left. The young man sat on the broken wooden bed and froze for a few seconds before he pushed his companion in a panic: "Quick, quick, get up quickly, don't fall asleep."

"What...what's wrong?" Another young man, who was sleeping soundly and had ear plugs in his ears, opened his eyes in a daze.

"Did you get out of the car without turning off the ignition last night?"

"What did you say?"

"Say hello!" The young man reached out to take off his companion's ear plugs and asked with his eyes wide open: "Did you forget to turn off the car when you got out of the car last night?"

The young man was stunned for a few seconds, then immediately sat up: "Damn it, it seems like it's not closed."

"Hurry up and get dressed and go out for a look." The young man jumped out of bed in a hurry. He was so panicked that he didn't even put on his own boots. He only stepped on a pair of dirty public slippers and ran out immediately.

…

About three or four minutes later, two drivers rushed to the side of the road and saw that the van was still idling on fire, and the snow under the exhaust pipe had melted away, leaving a large pool of black water.

"groove!"

The young man cursed, rushed to the driver's seat in his slippers, looked down at the instruments connected to the control panel, and said with an even more panicked expression: "The heater is not turned off either, I'm really in trouble."

"Is it okay?" The young man under the car shouted and asked.

"Are you stupid after taking medicine?" The young man turned around and yelled: "How can you forget to put out the car fire when you are running on the road?!"

"Don't blame me. You didn't take your medicine?" The young man argued with his eyes wide open: "Last night, we didn't know whether the boarding and lodging shop was full or not, so why didn't we go and ask about the situation first? Who knows? After opening the room...I forgot about the car turning off the engine."

The young man pulled out the crowbar from under the car seat and shouted with a gloomy face: "Hurry up and open the box and take a look."

The young man heard the sound and ran to the back of the car, took a bunch of keys from his waist, stepped on the small ladder with his left foot, and pulled the door of the box with his right hand to open the lock chain.

Under the car, the young man stood on the snow, holding a solid crowbar in both hands, and kept prying open the bottom gap of the box door. This is done because the temperature difference between the inside and outside of the car is too large, so the warm air blows out of the car and the snow outside melts and freezes into ice lumps.

After working on it for about ten minutes, the two men pulled the iron chain and struggled to open the door.

"Squeak!"

As soon as the door opened, the two of them felt the warm air coming from the shop floor inside the box. They glanced inside the car and froze on the spot.

At the entrance of the hospital, the boss shouted loudly: "How is the car? Is it okay?"

"Ah?!" The young man came to his senses after hearing the sound, and immediately turned around and shouted: "It's okay, it's okay, the fire is turned off."

"Ah, it's time to eat here." The boss reminded him, turned around and went back to the house.

The two turned to look at each other, and after a long silence, they almost said in unison.

"Walk?!"

Half an hour later, the van was less than 30 kilometers away from the District 9 checkpoint, and only then did the two young men realize that there was not enough gasoline in the van. They were so panicked just now that neither of them expected that the fuel consumption of the car after being left to dry outside for such a long time was also very alarming.

…

Seven or eight hours later.

Four trucks came from the south and slowly stopped at an intersection not far from Songjiang.

Qi Lin opened the door, jumped out of the car, stretched his waist, and took a long breath.

"Are they coming soon?" In the passenger seat of the car behind, a man wearing a black military uniform asked Qi Lin after lowering the window.

"Yeah, right away." Qi Lin smiled: "I'm going to the toilet, you guys wait a moment."

"Okay." The man nodded.

Qi Lin turned around and walked towards the fork in the road. He found an open space and squatted on the ground for convenience. At this moment, he suddenly noticed a truck parked on the left, at the end of the fork road, with no headlights on and no fire.

However, this kind of dead car is not uncommon on the road, because many drivers don’t want to stay in a hotel, and when they are tired from driving, they can just find a place out of the way to rest.

A few minutes later.

Qi Lin put on his belt and started to walk back.

"Dong dong dong!"

At this moment, two muffled sounds suddenly came from the side of the dead car.

Qi Lin turned around and looked at the truck curiously.

The dull and drum-like sound sounded again. Qi Lin frowned and stepped forward. Just when he was about to call out to ask about the situation, the sound disappeared again.

"Where are you banging?" Qi Lin turned his head and spit, turned to leave.

"Boom!"

The "drum roll" sounded again.

"What's wrong? Do you want help?" Qi Lin turned around and shouted.

"Brother Lin, people are here."

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted on the road.

Qi Lin stood by the snow and saw no response from the direction of the car, so he turned and left.

…

on the road.

Ma Laoer led seven or eight strong men and was giving smoke to the people in the truck. Without exception, this group of people all wore black military training uniforms, and some even had armbands of Jiangzhou Yaoguang Security Company on their arms.

This Jiangzhou Yaoguang Security Company is the same company that sent people to help Ma Laoer and Qi Lin go to Taizhuang to rescue Lao Mao. But they were not the people Qi Lin found himself, because Qi Lin had no local connections in Jiangzhou and was completely unable to recruit such a team.

This company was introduced to Qi Lin by Ke Ke. Its main purpose was to ensure that the goods were safer during transportation. After cooperating with the other party several times, Qi Lin also found that these people were efficient at work and of high quality, so he discussed it with Qin Yu and officially launched a long-term cooperation with them. Every time you hire them, the cost will also be included in the shipping cost.

Next to the motorcade, Qi Lin came over and asked Ma Laoer, "Can we enter Songjiang tonight?"

"Yes." Ma Laoer nodded: "Our people are on duty at the checkpoint tonight. Just take a break and give me the goods later."

"Yeah." Qi Lin nodded.

"When will the next batch arrive?" Ma Laoer raised his head and asked.

"It will take half a month."

"Okay, then go back and be safe, and call if you need anything."

"Okay, let's rest for a while and then return." Qi Lin nodded.

…

About two hours later.

As soon as Ma Laoer arrived at the customs exit, the phone in his pocket rang.

"Hello? Uncle."

"...When will you come back? Several of our brothers were detained by Pei Deyong." Liu Zishu frowned and said.

"Defined? What does he mean?" Ma Laoer asked back with a sullen face.