Since The Red Moon Appeared

"Name?"

"Lu Xin."

"Where did it come from?"

"Qinggang."

"What identity?"

"Qinggang No. 2 satellite city, the youngest director of the business department of the deep business city west branch."

"Hmm...where are you going?"

"Tinder City."

"do what?"

"...The closing payment and, visiting friends."

"..."

When he came to the agency in this chaotic place, Lu Xin realized that it seemed to be different from what he thought.

He thought that an agent was just an agent, just say something, pay some money, and get the approval slip to go on the road.

Unexpectedly, the scale is not small.

In a dilapidated town, there is a brand-new building with whitewashed walls. A group of gunmen are here to criticize people. Next to the town is a tall and fortified checkpoint, through which there is a flat and spacious "cargo lane".

Pay the money and get the approval slip, and you can go straight to the road.

So he lined up honestly, came over to pay money honestly, and answered questions honestly.

"Closing payment and visiting friends?"

The person who was in charge of checking Lu Xin's car was a middle-aged man with his hat on askew, a gun in his arms, and a cigarette in his mouth, whom Lu Xin respected just now. I don't know if the button on the chest is intentional or what, it just doesn't align up and down, it's crooked, and the temperament is very precise. While lazily asking Lu Xin various questions, he looked at his car.

Hearing Lu Xin's answer, he was also slightly surprised.

Such reasons seem to be seldom heard.

But he didn't ask too much, just squinted at Lu Xin, and then continued to ask, "Do you have an official identity?"

"Official status?"

Lu Xin was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head: "No."

In Qinggang, he belongs to the Special Pollution Cleanup Department, which can be regarded as an official status.

However, the existence of this special pollution has not been really made public. So this identity is more or less unconventional. In addition, his coming out this time is a private matter, not a business, and of course it is not an official capacity.

His identity is the youngest director of the business department of the deep business city west branch of Qinggang No. 2 Satellite City.

"Without official status..."

The other party glanced at him again and said, "Then do you have any faith?"

"Belief?"

Lu Xin was a little stunned again, how to answer this question.

He understood that what the other party asked should be similar to the real church or something.

The chaotic place is originally a complex and diverse faction. Looking at it now, it seems that believers have become an identity.

But strictly speaking, I have dealt with the believers in my real hometown, but I am not familiar with them, let alone believe in them, so I pondered for a while, and I can only honestly admit to the other party: "No what belief..."

After answering these words, the other party was also a little surprised, and looked Lu Xin up and down again.

After a while, he said, "Are there any acquaintances here?"

"this……"

Subconsciously, Lu Xin wanted to say yes, wouldn't he be an acquaintance with the village chief who was two meters away?

But on second thought, what was his name?

Seeing that he was at a loss for words, the other party already agreed, and a strange smile appeared on his face.

Looking down at the record on the list, he looked up at Lu Xin again, and said, "You have no official background, no belief, and you don't even have an acquaintance here, and you didn't follow the convoy, you drove alone. Did the car run over?"

Lu Xin was stunned for a moment, and said, "Breaking the law?"

"Don't break the law, don't break the law..."

The crooked hat smiled happily, and said, "We welcome you."

As he spoke, he lightly kicked Lu Xin's modified off-road feet, and said, "There are no contraband inside, right?"

"No no."

Lu Xin immediately denied that he was not that kind of person.

There are a lot of guns hidden in the modified off-road, but guns are not considered contraband in the wilderness, so this is also true.

The other party seemed to have judged from Lu Xin's expression, and felt that he was not lying.

Or, in other words, I didn't really care.

So after going around for a while, he stopped checking, but raised his chin slightly, and said directly to Lu Xin, "Three thousand."

Lu Xin didn't react for a moment: "What?"

The other party laughed, blew out a smoke ring, and said, "The toll fee is three thousand."

As he spoke, he spread out his palms, shook them up and down, and said, "Pay the money, get the note, and go on the road."

"What the hell?

Lu Xin's head buzzed, he couldn't believe it: "What's wrong, it's only three thousand?"

"I'm alone..."

"I didn't bring any goods, and I didn't do any business. It's just one person and one car. The toll is so high?"

"..."

"yes."

The other party looked at Lu Xin anxiously, narrowed his smiling eyes, and said, "Because you are alone, have no official background, don't belong to any sect, and don't even have any acquaintances here, I am I'll charge you three thousand..."

"But next time you come over, even if you have acquaintances, you can find me directly, and you can get a discount..."

"..."

"you……"

Lu Xin also heard what the other party meant, and felt angry, but suppressed it.

Keeping calm, trying to reason with the other party, he smiled and said, "Isn't this in line with your regulations?"

Since Tinder has regulations for agents to approve notes, Lu Xin believes that they must have a set of standards for how much tolls they charge and how to charge them. A single bicycle is just for the road, how could it be possible to pay such a high fee all of a sudden?

But in response to his doubts, the other party immediately put on a straight face: "What I say is the rules."

Lu Xin stopped talking, he didn't like this kind of unreasonable dialogue.

After pondering for a while, he still retreated a step, took another cigarette and let him come over, saying: "Captain, please forgive me..."

"I really don't have that much money..."

"..."

"Hehe, you said you don't have any money with you when you drive such a car?"

After listening to Lu Xin's words, the crooked hat laughed twice, then took another look at Lu Xin's off-road vehicle, and said, "The car is not bad."

"?"

Lu Xin obviously didn't understand.

The crooked hat sneered, nodded his chin in the distance, and said, "Did you see that over there?"

Lu Xin looked over and saw dilapidated cars piled up by the wall.

Some tires are all dry, and some are only an empty shell.

The crooked hat smiled and said, "If you insist on saying you have no money, we won't make things difficult for you."

"Leave this car of yours, and pick one that can be driven from there, and it will be considered as your toll.

"..."

"How can this work?"

Lu Xin frowned slightly, took back the cigarette he handed over, and put it in his mouth.

Then from his bag, he took out the antique lighter that his friend in Central City gave him with a scalpel, and slowly lit it. That crooked hat was obviously someone who knew something. When he saw Lu Xin's lighter, his eyes were slightly straightened.

"Captain, you are going too far..."

Lu Xin was also lighting a cigarette, while thinking slowly: "I can't cross the road, I still need my car..."

The crooked hat sneered, and cast a sidelong glance at Lu Xin: "What do you want?"

"I hope to follow the rules..."

Lu Xin said to him with his last hope.

"I'm talking about the rules."

The face of the crooked hat suddenly became a little cold, and he pulled the muzzle of the gun on his chest, aimed at Lu Xin, and said with a sneer:

"The opportunity is given to you, but you pretend not to understand, if you insist on not handing it over..."

"Where do you think those unwanted cars by the wall came from?"

"..."

Lu Xin understood, and looked up at the muzzle of the gun without avoiding it.

His face also became serious, and he said slowly: "If you insist on doing this, then I have to complain to your leader..."

"?"

The expression on the crooked hat was obviously a bit confused.

They were stunned for a moment before laughing, glanced at Lu Xin, then suddenly turned around and shouted: "Captain."

Not far away, on a hill where a pile of goods were piled up, a man wearing sunglasses and playing cards looked over.

The crooked hat smiled and said, "Someone wants to report me."

Lu Xin also looked up at him, and said, "Boss, he charged me 3,000 tolls, otherwise my car will be confiscated."

The man wearing sunglasses was also stunned for a moment, and glanced at Lu Xin, but didn't answer his words, but looked at the crooked hat, spit out the cigarette butt in his mouth with a puff, and said, "Don't fucking talk nonsense. , you know the rules, you will bring two thousand over later."

"Okay, okay, Captain."

The crooked hat nodded and bowed, then looked at Lu Xin, and said, "Did you hear that?"

"With your report, my three thousand has become one thousand, so your toll is only three thousand, and it has become five thousand."

"..."

When it came to the end, the bloodshot eyes with some hangovers had already narrowed.

rustle...

Seeing that there was something going on here, several people wandering around with guns came over with a smile on their faces. Some people played with pistols, while others searched around, picked up a wooden stick, and blew on the rusted iron nails on the wooden stick.

It can be seen that there is some dark red powder on the iron nail, maybe it is blood that has dried up.

The atmosphere changed as soon as it was said, under such a big sun, there seemed to be a dangerous atmosphere floating.

"In this case……"

There was no expression on Lu Xin's face either, he just lowered his head and pondered, as if he was going through some difficult thinking.

Then he said: "Can I not go this way?"

He looked at the crooked hat, as if making a final prayer to him.

The face of the crooked hat was full of impatience, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he was about to curse, but Lu Xin suddenly raised his hand, stopping him.

"Needless to say, I understand."

As he spoke, he pointed to his off-road and said, "Is it okay if I go up and think about it?"

The crooked hat glanced at Crossroads, thinking he was going up to get money. In addition, with so many roadblocks around, he was not afraid of what he would do, so he nodded indifferently. It's just that the submachine gun hanging on his chest was clenched tightly, and the muzzle was aimed at Lu Xin's back.

Lu Xin was not afraid that he would shoot him in the back, so he opened the car door calmly and sat on it.

...

...

"Hehehehe, the rules can't go on, what are you going to do?"

In the back seat of the car, the father's cold and gloating voice rang out, looking at Lu Xin with some excitement.

"Rules are the crystallization of human wisdom. If people obey the rules, they can live well..."

Lu Xin sighed, inserted the key, and said in a slightly puzzled voice, "But why don't they cherish such a good thing?"

"I can't live anymore, it's not too much to grab some..."

"Then, it's reasonable not to abide by the rules of not giving people a way to live, right?"

"..."

While talking, he suddenly started the car, pulled the gear, and stepped on the accelerator hard.