Dare not to say anything (v1c37)
She had not revealed her true identity when she tricked them yesterday. Besides, the person Wang Li had dragged along was Zhou Lin, so they barely noticed Ye Sheng and dismissed her as a random passenger on the truck.
It didn't matter.
Wang Li's face was full of resentment as she frowned and checked the injuries on her son's face. She cursed, "What rotten luck to meet a lunatic who mistook me for his wife. Little Qiang, your wound is okay, right? Wait until your father's issue is settled. I'll make sure you get your revenge."
"Sure, sure, you don't even know who that person is, how are you going to take revenge? This beating was for nothing. Mom, you should stop messing around outside from now on, so you won't run into such shameless people."
Compared to Wang Li's constant ranting, Li Qiang's face was full of impatience.
Their conversation reached Ye Sheng's ears, and she almost burst out laughing.
She saw the people sitting next to them also perk up their ears. They seemed bored and eager to hear some gossip. But when Wang Li mentioned the words "getting involved with women", her face turned red and she dared not say anything more.
She looked guilty.
Li Qiang got a look of disdain, and he tried to sneer, but he pulled the wound on the corner of his mouth and winced in pain, making his bruised and swollen face even more ridiculous.
He gave up and folded his arms, leaning against the wall of the truck with his eyes closed, ignoring everything.
Wang Li and her son stopped talking, but the others seemed to have opened their chat boxes and started talking animatedly.
"Da Ya, I remember you dug more than a hundred kilos of potatoes last year. How many are you going for this year?"
"My neighbor found a new fruit grove in the wilderness. He got a lot of fruits every time, but it was a shame that they were so well hidden."
"This is your third boy, right? Long time no see. He's grown up so much!"
Suddenly, the carriage turned into a vegetable market, and the noise was deafening.
Ye Sheng glanced outside the carriage. They had just left the safe zone. Large trucks were moving forward one after another, escorted by mercenaries sitting in open four-wheelers, holding weapons and aiming at the surroundings.
They were always on guard against sudden attacks by polluted creatures.
That was why the people in the carriage chattered without fear.
But the excitement didn't last long. Soon some mercenaries jumped into the carriage, looked around coldly, and impatiently banged the wall of the truck with their weapons, making a loud noise.
"What's all this fuss about? Don't you know you're in the wilderness now? It's not your first time going to the plantation. Do you need to be taught the rules again? If you don't want to go, get off the truck right now and stop making noise here."
The mercenary who jumped on the truck was tall and muscular, wearing the standard uniform of his mercenary group, with the group emblem on his chest and a red cloak on his back. He looked imposing.
Not only did his physique resemble that of a double-door refrigerator, conveying strength and power, but he also exhibited remarkable speed. Jumping onto the car with such ease, it was clear that an average person would find it challenging to match his agility.
As soon as the mercenary spoke, the carriage went silent, not daring to make a sound.
People looked at the mercenaries with envy and fear.
The members who were recruited by various mercenary groups were all strong people with good skills. They were said to eat well and drink in the mercenary group every day, and have enough low-radiation food. The points they earned from killing polluted creatures were theirs to keep.
The mere fact that they were not hungry made the people in the mitigation zone envious, but they didn't want to replace them.
Besides not meeting the physical fitness requirements, the most important point was that being a mercenary was not easy. It was okay to encounter weak polluted creatures. But once they faced powerful ones, they would die in minutes.
Therefore, mercenaries were a profession that earned special points, but had a very high mortality rate.
Very few mercenaries survived to old age and retired...
That was why most mercenaries had bad tempers. If they were annoyed, they would beat people with their fists. In more serious cases, they would kill them.
They would be imprisoned by the mercenary group, but they would be released again within two days and resume their activities.
They were lifted high and put down gently.
However, mercenaries were busy all day long, either training or completing tasks, and they didn't have much time to bother ordinary people.
Therefore, only a few unlucky ones suffered. The rest of the people rarely saw the mercenaries, only once when they patrolled. Now when they saw the mercenaries jump into the truck, they turned into trembling chickens.
They didn't dare to make a noise.
After seeing that his intimidation had worked, the mercenary snorted coldly, but he didn't get off to change trucks.
He just found a place nearby to sit down, and then waved to the outside of the truck, and soon another mercenary with the same build jumped onto the truck.
"Ah Mu, you're smart. It's really uncomfortable to be crowded with those old men."
The mercenary who jumped into the truck later smiled and punched Ah Mu on the shoulder, and then sat down next to him casually. Ah Mu rolled his eyes at him angrily, and slapped his shoulder in disgust.
"Lan Zhang, calm down, I'm not a polluted creature."
"Haha, aren't you used to it? I'm not a little girl, so don't be so coy."
The two mercenaries were patting each other's backs and laughing, but Ye Sheng, who was sitting next to them, was speechless.
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She had to admit that she was really lucky, being so close to the mercenaries.
The eyes of the other people in the carriage fell on Ye Sheng from time to time, with the word 'poor' clearly written on them, and they obviously sympathized with Ye Sheng for being so 'lucky'.
Ye Sheng didn't want to be in this situation either, but the space in the truck was not big, and there was no room for her to move to the side.
She could only continue to listen to the conversation between the two.
"I was really busy some time ago. Something happened to a big shot. He was even exempted from patrol duties and was sent to various areas of the safe zone to look for someone. This is something that has never happened before."
"They're a mess, those noble families in the central area. One moment they say the person is missing, the next moment they say she's been found. They even postponed the official activities for a few days, or else we would have dug the potatoes by now."
The two mercenaries spoke as if no one was listening, not caring if they were overheard by others.
Ye Sheng perked up her ears in amusement, thinking that since she was already so close, she might as well listen to some gossip news. In that case, even if the mercenaries beat her up later, she would have gained something.
"I heard something happened to that adult. Is it true?"
"Hmm, they're inseparable, those two. I don't know what the Gu family is thinking. They're using her and fearing her at the same time, pushing the most outstanding person in their family away. It's really..."
"Are you talking about Lady Erensu of the Gu family?"
"Who else but her."
Ye Sheng blinked in confusion, and a foreign name suddenly popped up, which puzzled her.
But she remembered that Erensu was the god of slaughter in mythology, so it must be her code name.
After the mercenary named Ah Mu finished speaking, he sighed and then said with admiration on his face: "I was lucky enough to meet Lady Erensu once, and she was judged by the base to be a super-dangerous S-level polluted creature. No one could match her."
"I'll never forget that day. Among the countless corpses of mercenaries, Lady Erensu was wearing a half-demon mask, with her long pink hair flying in the wind, and the mountain-like super-dangerous S-level polluted creature was standing in front of her, powerless to resist."