Chapter 218: Vehicle-Mounted Military-Industrial Base

“What are you laughing at!” Hu Lushou shouted sternly. He looked at the train on the tracks, tilted his chin at Lin Xian, and grinned, revealing a gold tooth. “Alright! You’re the one who said it’s fine. You’d better bring out all your assets. Don’t just fire one shot and move on. I’m being polite to you this time. Next time, it might not be the same.”

Lin Xian nodded, looking with great interest at the large truck full of supplies. He smiled and said, “Then I’ll reluctantly help you restock.”

He then turned back. “Da Lou, Lu Chang, get on the train and load up for this big client!”

As soon as Lin Xian said this, everyone on the Infinity immediately understood. KIKI and Chen Sixuan couldn’t help but chuckle, and Shasha’s little face turned red from holding back her laughter.

At this moment, the faces of the survivor convoy members who had come to trade all fell. Normally, they would be the ones benefiting from trading goods for fewer supplies. Now, they had been intercepted, and they were suddenly disappointed and annoyed. Many shook their heads, preparing to leave.

Seeing this, Lin Xian called out before getting on the train, “Don’t you all leave. Wait until I’m done selling to this Boss Hu, then I’ll trade with you.”

As his voice fell, not only were the survivors who were about to leave stunned, but even Hu Lushou was taken aback, thinking he had misheard. “Hey, what do you mean? You think the stuff I brought isn’t enough to clear out your stock?”

Cao Hong of the Night Charm convoy was standing behind the crowd. Hearing this, he was also extremely surprised, and his subordinates began to whisper among themselves.

Lin Xian, however, showed no reaction. He pretended to frown and calculate, then said with some difficulty, “I don’t know how much you brought. How about this? I’ll prepare what your little truck can trade for first. If it’s not enough, you can go back and get more?”

Hu Lushou’s face turned green upon hearing this. He pushed down his toad-style sunglasses and shouted with wide eyes, “Good kid, you think you’re running a military factory? You’ve got a big mouth. Fine! I have dozens more truckloads at my camp. Let’s see if you can stuff me to death today!”

Lin Xian said no more. He gave KIKI and Chen Sixuan a signal, then led Da Lou and the others back to the train.

Chen Sixuan had her team members bring up several boxes of weapons. “This box has 20 Spark-26 fully automatic tactical rifles, semi-new condition. You can count them first.”

Hu Lushou glanced at them disdainfully and snapped his fingers. At that moment, his underlings brought a set of tables, chairs, and a tea set from the car and placed them in front of him with practiced movements. Hu Lushou sat down nonchalantly. The rest of his underlings began to inspect the guns one by one. Then, the people behind them brought the supplies from the truck, box by box, and placed them in front of Chen Sixuan.

Both sides began to get busy. Watching the boxes of supplies being loaded onto the Infinity, some of the onlookers had already given up and left. Most were still waiting with the hope of picking up some scraps. Some were even thinking of buying from Hu Lushou after he was done. After all, it wasn’t easy to make a trip, and they couldn’t let a basic need like weapons be held up by price. Anyway, the prices of the Fu Lu Shou convoy were acceptable to them.

The red-haired woman stood behind Hu Lushou like a bodyguard, her gaze fixed on the key members of the Infinity.

She seemed to be able to tell that there were definitely Espers among them, and their strength was not trivial.

Weapon crates were brought down from the Infinity one by one. At first, they were all semi-new or old guns. The underling in charge of inspection on Hu Lushou’s side even picked out some old goods he didn’t like. But before long, the automatic rifles brought down from the Infinity started to become brand new. Even the weapon crates were new.

The underling in charge of inspection’s expression became increasingly strange, because he found that not only were these guns new, but they even had a residual warmth when he touched them…

On the Infinity, Lin Xian was rapidly manufacturing automatic rifles with the preparation factory in his left hand and mechanical manufacturing in his right.

The manufacturing difficulty of this Spark-26 fully automatic tactical rifle was extremely low for him, and the material cost was not high. It was just that the bullets weren’t as fast.

Making so many automatic rifles was actually meaningless for Lin Xian. They were useless on the train and could only be used for trade. These weapons were fine for fighting zombies or some C-class Aberrations with ordinary defense, like the Mist Spiders or the Three-Headed Ghosts. Against those with strong defense, heavy weapons were necessary.

However, the other party had come with the intention of crashing the party. His Infinity “Military-Industrial Base” couldn’t lose face on its first day of business. Moreover, the other party’s supply reserves were clearly very abundant, which was perfect for him to stock up for the train.

As box after box of brand new automatic rifles were brought down from the Infinity, and watching the people opposite silently carry supplies, with the woman in charge of the trade, Chen Sixuan, calmly counting and recording, Hu Lushou, who was drinking tea, began to feel that something was wrong.

Because those weapon crates and brand new automatic rifles looked as if they had just come out of a military factory. The only strange thing was that a new box would only be brought out after a while, but the people on that train seemed to be endlessly carrying out weapon crates.

The onlookers were also dumbfounded, watching this large-scale transaction. They had never seen so many weapons being brought out. Cao Hong, the leader of the Night Charm, hiding behind the crowd, was now staring wide-eyed. He never expected that train to have so many good things. His eyes were filled with fervent desire.

“I’ll be damned…”

Hu Lushou stopped halfway through his tea, pushed down his toad-style sunglasses, and stared intently at the train’s entrance.

Every time he thought no one else would come out of that train entrance, two more people would walk out carrying a weapon crate…

It was as if someone was spawning them.

He quickly turned his head and found that less than 1/3 of the supplies he had brought in his truck remained. His expression began to turn grim.

“Damn it, Sun Chang, they don’t really have a whole train of military supplies, do they?” Hu Lushou lowered his voice and said to the woman behind him.

The woman named Sun Chang also felt that they had probably underestimated the strength of this train group. She slowly said, “These weapons are so new. They must have gotten their hands on a batch of military supplies.”

Hu Lushou frowned upon hearing this. “Damn, for real?!”

The woman didn’t speak.

Hu Lushou’s face darkened. He looked at the heavy train with a subtle gaze and muttered under his breath, “I’ll be damned if I believe you…”

However, the scene of weapon crates being carried out continued to unfold before Hu Lushou’s eyes like an infinite loop.

Thud!

The last weapon crate was placed in front of Hu Lushou’s team. The man in charge of inspection on Hu Lushou’s side turned around, and all his underlings behind him shrugged with a bewildered expression. Their truck’s supplies had been emptied and replaced with a pile of weapon crates filled with automatic rifles, neatly stacked in the corner of the truck.

“Is that all?” Chen Sixuan finished counting the last batch of supplies, looked up, and frowned at them. “Why is it so little?”

Hu Lushou was so startled that the tea in his hand spilled. He shot up, his hand holding the teacup trembling. He looked back at his truck, then at another crate of guns being carried off the train, and felt completely numb.

At this moment, Lin Xian walked down from the train. KIKI followed beside him, looking at Hu Lushou with amusement. “I thought it was such a big deal. We haven’t even filled half a carriage.”

A truck and a train carriage were naturally incomparable. Hu Lushou’s truckload of supplies was loaded into storage carriage number 7, filling only a small 1/3 of the space.

Lin Xian walked over and said faintly, “Weren’t you going to clear out the stock? Do you want to wait for you to go get more? We had a deal. You can’t leave until it’s all cleared out.”

“Hey, you guys!?”

Hu Lushou’s face was a mixture of colors. He realized he had definitely stepped into a huge pit today. Just as he was about to lose his temper, he saw a sharp gaze looking over.

Lin Xian looked at him with great interest. His Mechanical Heart activated. Suddenly, two of the train’s automatic blast doors opened. The weapon station top hatches of car number 2 and car number 11 also retracted, and two terrifying death cannons slowly rose up on the train.

Whirr~ Vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom~

In an instant, a seemingly ordinary, heavy train suddenly transformed into a mobile battleship.

Hu Lushou and his underlings’ faces turned black as the G3 electromagnetic railgun and the 1130 close-in weapon system’s bases rotated and rose. Everyone’s pupils contracted at the same time. The survivor convoy members’ faces all changed drastically, and they unconsciously backed away.

Facing the dark muzzles of the two ‘big cannons’, Hu Lushou was completely stunned. His toad-style sunglasses slid down to the tip of his nose, revealing two terrified eyes.

He stammered, “No… no, b-big… brother, what are you trying to do??”

Hu Lushou’s heart pounded. He had almost lost his temper just now, but the other party seemed to have anticipated his move and acted it out for him in advance.

“Oh, it’s nothing.” Lin Xian looked back at the electromagnetic railgun. “You don’t have to be afraid. It’s just routine maintenance of the train system. Don’t mind the large caliber of these cannons. They don’t hurt at all when they hit you.”

Everyone: …

Seeing this, the woman named Sun Chang’s face also changed drastically. These weapons could be used to fight not just beasts, but monsters. But how could they appear in two ordinary passenger carriages?

At this moment, Hu Lushou felt like he had seen a ghost. He had had people watching this train since it entered the city. Although the Infinity was covered in armor, it looked like ordinary civilian passenger carriages. In this apocalypse, unless you had a military-industrial system, who could install two great killing machines into ordinary train carriages??

Cao Hong, the leader of the Night Charm, his female team members, and the hundred or so people on the green train all fell silent. The sound of gasps could be heard throughout the train. The rows of machine guns and cannons on their train now seemed like child’s play in front of the two heavy weapons that had risen from the Infinity.

Whirr~

As if unintentionally, the two ‘big cannons’ retracted again.

“Boss Hu, don’t mind this stuff.” Lin Xian looked at Hu Lushou with a smile. “Let’s continue talking about the trade.”

“Right, right, right, trade, trade!” Hu Lushou was cursing inwardly, but his face was all smiles. His previous arrogant attitude was completely gone. He swallowed his saliva constantly and said to Lin Xian, “May I ask what to call you, big brother?”

“Lin Xian.”

“Brother Lin, hello. It’s really a bit much to buy so many of your guns at such a cheap price. How about this? I’ll count them, and for every two boxes of guns, I’ll add an extra box of jerky. How about that?” Hu Lushou’s eyes revealed a shrewd and smooth look. Knowing that he had hit a steel plate, his face changed with astonishing speed.

“Hey, didn’t you say you had dozens more truckloads of stuff to trade?” KIKI crossed her arms and slowly flew up, her hair floating, her eyes glowing, and her tone threatening.

Lu Xingchen had squatted on the roof of the car at some point, his hands burning with flames, a rebellious smile on his face. “I seem to have heard that too. He said he would clear out our stock and then tell us to get lost. The stock isn’t cleared out yet. Is the boss going to break his word?”

Seeing this, the crowd at the station gasped in unison, looking at the two in shock.

Even a fool could see that these two’s Esper abilities were of a very high level. The display of their power was awe-inspiring!

“No, when did I say that!” Hu Lushou’s face turned pale. How could he not see that this group was something he couldn’t afford to provoke? He immediately unleashed his survival instinct, his skin thickening by a factor of 10. He turned to his underlings and shouted, “Did I say that to Brother Lin just now?”

“No, no!!!” All the underlings shook their heads in terror, breaking out in a cold sweat.

“A misunderstanding, a misunderstanding.” Hu Lushou walked up with a fawning smile, lowered his voice, and said to Lin Xian, “I thought you guys were in retail, Brother Lin. I never would have thought you were in wholesale. How about this? You can have me act as an agent to sell the rest of your guns. Our Fu Lu Shou convoy travels between cities to trade supplies. We have many outposts and many routes. Brother Lin, your guns are of such good quality. I guarantee I can sell them at a good price. How about it?”

Lin Xian frowned, looking at the skinny man with the gold tooth in surprise. He thought to himself that this guy was really a talent. Even when he had lost face and his life was in danger, his first reaction wasn’t to beg for mercy or apologize, but to shamelessly cozy up to him, even acting as if he had discovered a business opportunity and wanted to cooperate. It caught Lin Xian a little off guard.

“So all your goods are earned through speculation, buying low and selling high?” Lin Xian said directly.

Hu Lushou immediately straightened his back and replied righteously, “No, absolutely not. The prices of our Fu Lu Shou convoy are definitely lower than the official exchange price of blood essences. It’s just that people die every day in this world, and every survivor convoy and camp needs different things, so we can make a profit on the price difference based on demand. You also know that the night is dangerous, and trading everywhere is not without risk for us. So… we’re really just earning some hard-earned money.”

“Hard-earned money?” Lin Xian almost laughed. “You’ve already established a monopoly. Is that still a small profit? Didn’t you just say you had dozens more truckloads at your camp?”

Hu Lushou’s face changed slightly. He looked around, then leaned closer and said to Lin Xian in a low voice,

“Not dozens of truckloads, just a dozen or so, and they’re all small cars. This truck has the most of our goods. If you trade for all our food, the seventy or eighty people in our convoy will have to gnaw on their guns tonight. Also, the zombies and monsters are getting more and more numerous and powerful. Small-caliber automatic rifles are not as valuable as they used to be. I collected a lot before, so when I heard your price on the radio, I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to sell my stock, so I…”

Hu Lushou had a pleading expression. He had originally planned to buy up Lin Xian’s batch of automatic rifles and then slowly trade them out. Otherwise, with the decreasing value of small-caliber rifles, he would definitely lose money. He never expected to take such a big fall this time, trading for several hundred automatic rifles. He was suffering in silence. And with so many other survivor convoys on the scene, plus Lin Xian’s convoy that he couldn’t afford to provoke, he could only admit defeat.

So, smart as he was, he quickly adjusted his strategy and began to shamelessly latch onto Lin Xian’s thigh. He thought that even if they couldn’t cooperate, it would be good to be able to retreat in one piece. If he had to continue trading, he would cry himself to death.

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