Chapter 29 Since the Last Green Valley Town Incident

Since the last Green Valley Town incident, Lu Cheng and Overmar had formed a feud, and his Black Pine Outpost had suffered many attacks, resulting in significant damage. Overmar had turned to him, so Han Xiao helped Lu Cheng resolve this problem with a phone call.

"It's you." Lu Cheng's voice on the phone was wary. He had also received intelligence from Overmar about Han Xiao, which made him vigilant, suspecting Han Xiao's previous intentions in contacting him.

"Don't worry, Overmar won't bother you anymore," Han Xiao said bluntly, stating his position.

Lu Cheng was puzzled and said in a deep voice, "What do you mean?"

"Overmar isn't in my camp, at least not anymore. Now they've turned to me, and I've helped you resolve the dispute between you," Han Xiao chuckled. "Friends should help each other."

"...Okay." Lu Cheng's tone softened slightly. Thinking of their past friendship, he felt that Han Xiao wouldn't deceive him, nor was there any need. He was just a small warlord, while Han Xiao was now a legendary figure.

"After the war, the Six Nations will become dominant, and wanderers will become fewer and fewer. The warlord model will inevitably be liquidated in the future..." Han Xiao repeated Xiao Jin's words, roughly meaning that the business he was doing now had no future, and it would definitely collapse in the future. His, Han Xiao's, industry had better prospects, so don't blame him for not reminding him. Now there was an opportunity to pull him up, and everyone could get on the bandwagon and have fun together. How could he be so embarrassed as to let down his brother's good intentions?

Lu Cheng was a little tempted. "Let me think about it."

After talking about business, Han Xiao asked if Lei Zhenyu was still at the Black Pine Outpost. Lu Cheng replied that he had already left, and Han Xiao couldn't help but be moved.

Lei Zhenyu was a mechanic who manufactured PE-0 nanometer muscle fibers. Old Man Lu had entrusted him to help Lu Cheng. Once Lei Zhenyu left, it would be an opportunity for Old Man Lu to leave behind the four blueprints. Old Man Lu would find a way to pass the message to Lu Cheng, and Lu Cheng would send someone back to Xinglong to retrieve the blueprints from the repair shop.

Although the relationship between the two fathers and sons was very strained, Old Man Lu's paternal love was like a mountain. Han Xiao shook his head secretly, thinking of his own old man and the missed ear-slap fried meat... oh, not this Xiao Jinjin next to him.

Old Man Lu's four blueprints were rare items with a unique style, considered a set of early-game artifacts for the mechanic class, with a very low probability of knowledge fusion. Therefore, Han Xiao was quite envious. His current equipment tactical system had three types: a long-range kiting build with a ghost Gauss sniper rifle + electromagnetic roller skates, a comprehensive Teng Snake mech, and a mechanic warrior build with a magnetic chain split blade + electrothermal cutter. These three systems formed his current combat style.

Other miscellaneous mechs were not considered his regular tactics. For example, the firepower rush build with 2.5 generation Rangers + turrets and the primary pure gun remote build with a large number of gunpowder weapons were rarely used. Since the snake-series mechs (Viper, Teng Snake) were produced, Han Xiao had rarely gambled on new blueprints. He knew the knowledge combination of the blueprints, and unless he occasionally tried his luck, he would only spend experience to fuse specific blueprints when he confirmed that he needed a certain tactic.

And Old Man Lu's four blueprints belonged to an independent new tactical system, which was equivalent to a freebie, so Han Xiao would naturally not miss it.

...

The setting sun slowly approached the horizon, coating the Xinglong Western Capital with the color of dusk. A trace of loss floated in the air as the day was about to disappear. The crowds on the street hurried along, as if they wanted to rush home before nightfall, as if the night was a monstrous flood.

Han Xiao walked slowly on the street. After being away for nearly a year, he returned to the Western Capital. The city gave him a subtle feeling of change. There were more people, and anti-war protest graffiti remained on the corners of the walls. The giant screens of distant buildings rolled out news about the victory of the war and the impending climate deterioration. The city was shrouded in a heavy atmosphere, and citizens felt confused and worried about their future fate.

At this time, Han Xiao wore a simulation mask, changed his appearance, and wore a warm wool coat. It was already winter, and this outfit was very low-key and ordinary.

Returning to the long-lost repair shop, the layout was still familiar. His studio was still next to the shop. Han Xiao walked into the shop. The lathe was buzzing, and Lu Qian was focused on assembling a machine. She was the only one there. Old Man Lu, who usually sat at the door, was nowhere to be seen.

Lu Qian turned her head, saw a customer coming in, hurriedly put down the work in her hand, greeted him, and smiled: "Hello, what do you need?"

Lu Qian still looked familiar, gentle and beautiful, like a spring breeze. Han Xiao looked her up and down, and said calmly: "I want to customize a small thing."

"Customize what?" Lu Qian blinked.

Han Xiao took out a blueprint and handed it to Lu Qian. It was a sketch of a small metal sculpture, with no technical content. It only needed to be ground and welded, and any mechanical assembly shop could complete it. Lu Qian looked at it for a while, nodded and said: "No problem, you can come and pick it up tomorrow."

Han Xiao shook his head, "I'm leaving the city tomorrow, I want it tonight."

Lu Qian said embarrassedly: "It takes about two hours to make this sculpture, and I'll close up shop when it gets dark."

"Then I'll have to go to another shop." Han Xiao pretended to be sorry, and muttered in a low voice: "Is there a mod shop nearby that takes on a 30,000 credit order..."

Lu Qian's eyes lit up instantly, and her tone quickly turned one hundred and eighty degrees, "I'll delay closing today, you stay in the store and wait, and you can pick up the goods as soon as it's finished."

Hearing this, Han Xiao smiled secretly. He knew Lu Qian too well, and this trick always worked.

Staying in the shop would give him a chance to find the box left by Old Man Lu. Naturally, he couldn't ask Lu Qian directly, as it would arouse suspicion.

At this moment, a new customer came in. It was a short-haired man who poked his head in and said, "I want to buy some household appliances, do you have any in stock?"

"Yes." Lu Qian greeted the customer, pointed to the metal shelf next to her, and said, "Everything for sale is on it, sorry I'm busy, please take a look yourself."

Casually pulling a stool to sit down, Han Xiao suddenly felt something and looked to the side. He saw the man who had just entered the door looking at the goods on the shelf while secretly casting glances at him, constantly observing. Old Man Lu's identity was special. Before he left, he asked people from Bureau 13 to take care of Lu Qian. Someone had been stationed nearby to protect and monitor her, preventing anyone from plotting against Lu Qian. This newcomer was a resident field agent who came to investigate Han Xiao's background.

"A Bureau 13 person?" Han Xiao's level 70 senses were very sharp. He noticed that the man's footsteps had the characteristics of military training. After thinking about it, he guessed the other party's background. He remained calm and watched the situation. He had changed his appearance, so he was not afraid of being recognized.

As it gradually darkened, Lu Qian concentrated on manufacturing, Han Xiao sat on the side waiting, and the man kept picking and choosing on the shelf, always watching him.

Han Xiao raised an eyebrow. Being monitored, he couldn't move around easily. He shook his leg secretly, and a small reconnaissance spider crawled out of his pocket and sneaked along the shadow of the corner. Han Xiao took out a tablet, separated the monitor's sight with his body, and lowered his head to adjust a reconnaissance spider's control interface, switching to manual mode.

The screen in the lower right corner showed the picture of the small detector. From the small spider's perspective, it moved close to the ground, and the detector was specially equipped with a metal detection device, and the pipes hidden in the walls and floors glowed red and appeared. He remembered that Old Man Lu's safe was metal, so he used metal detection.

Half an hour later, the reconnaissance spider found the target in Lu Qian's room on the second floor. A portable safe was placed under the bed. Han Xiao's eyes rolled, and he stood up abruptly, "Excuse me, is there a toilet here?"

Lu Qian raised her head and wiped off some sweat, "It's upstairs, let me take you there."

"No need, you're busy, I can go by myself." Han Xiao refused, stepped upstairs, and after a few steps suddenly heard the field agent also making an excuse to go to the toilet and following him, monitoring him closely.

Han Xiao clicked his tongue, feeling quite troubled. It was not easy to act while being watched, and a sinister thought arose in his heart. Arriving at the toilet on the second floor, he suddenly turned around and slammed a friendship-breaking fist hard on the field agent's nose. The field agent couldn't react at all, only feeling a flash in front of his eyes, and an overwhelming stinging pain erupting in his nose. Without saying a word, he was knocked unconscious.

Supporting the field agent to lie down silently, Han Xiao walked into Lu Qian's room, pulled the safe from under the bed, and entered the password in his memory.

*Click.*

The box lid opened. Han Xiao glanced at it, and the panel prompted him that he had obtained four rare blueprints. After confirming that it was correct, he was immediately overjoyed. He rolled up the blueprints, stuffed them into his bag, took out the substitute from his bag, and put it in the box. Finally, he closed the box and returned it to its original position.

The substitute was also a mechanical blueprint, but it was a conventional blueprint. In the future, a player would experience many hardships to do this task, secretly replacing the beams and pillars. At least, that player would not get nothing. Han Xiao felt that his conscience was very good, and he was almost moved by the starry sky.

Carrying the field agent downstairs, Lu Qian was startled, "What's wrong with him?"

Han Xiao pretended to look disgusted, "This guy wanted to go to the toilet with me, which is heinous, so I knocked him unconscious."

Lu Qian's expression became strange, and her eyes rolled over the field agent's body, muttering, "Is it so exciting..."

Han Xiao sat down safely. He was not flustered at all after knocking out the people from Bureau 13. His confidence came from his strength, and besides, Lu Qian was an old acquaintance. He didn't want to disappear for no reason and make Lu Qian worry.

He chatted with Lu Qian, one sentence at a time.

...

"C156 please answer... C156 please answer!"

In a building room a few hundred meters away from the repair shop, a group of field agents responsible for protecting Lu Qian were standing by, and the captain kept repeating to the intercom, the object of which was naturally the field agent in the repair shop.

Having not received a reply, everyone's faces became serious.

"Damn, he's out of contact, something must have happened in the store, take action immediately!"

The captain stood up abruptly, put on a bulletproof vest and ammunition belt, and led the people out of the door.

ps: (WE is gone too, sad, let's just code tomorrow...)