Chapter 529 - Savior (1/2)

But now, Wang Ergou was saying that her power was controlling sand?

Ren Xiaosu had to ponder this matter.

As Ren Xiaosu and Wang Ergou chatted, everyone in the entire tour group looked at each other in bewilderment. They did not understand what was happening.

He even met someone he knew out here in the wilderness?

Li Ran wanted to get up and go over to listen to what they were saying, but the ten guards stopped her. “You shouldn’t go over. Those people are clearly outlaws with blood on their hands. Not even we can do anything about them.”

“Aren’t you guys elites troops?” Li Ran frowned.

The guards said awkwardly, “But they have a heavy machine gun while we only have pistols.”

Zhou Yingxue started laughing from the rear. “At this range, the heavy machine gun can turn all the vehicles into Swiss cheese within ten seconds. But you guys don’t have to worry. With us here, everything will be fine.”

Zhou Yingxue could already tell that this “repair team” had a very good rapport with Ren Xiaosu. There would definitely not be any conflict happening here, so she took the opportunity to brag.

At this moment, they saw Wang Ergou and Ren Xiaosu come back towards their convoy while they chatted. Wang Ergou said to everyone with a smile, “Since I bumped into Ren Xiaosu here, I’ll take back the prices I offered just now. We’ll repair your vehicles for free.”

Suspicious, Li Ran asked, “Does Ren Xiaosu have such a great reputation?”

“Haha,” Wang Ergou laughed. “When we got lost in the wilderness after a heavy snowfall in the mountains, it was Ren Xiaosu who led us back to town while searching for food to fill our stomachs. He’s basically our savior.”

At that time, Wang Ergou and the others had not hit it big yet. They did not have any heavy machine guns and were not skilled at carrying out their scams, nor were their legs lame.

But later, Ren Xiaosu rarely met Wang Ergou and the others anymore as their group was rumored to have gone to the vicinity of the Yang Consortium’s strongholds to be bandits for a while. After that, their whereabouts became unknown.

As such, Ren Xiaosu did not expect they would actually come to the Central Plains and go back to plying their old trade.

Wang Ergou asked, “But, Xiaosu, why have you come to the Central Plains, and what’re you doing with them?”

“Oh, I took a mission to provide protection for their concert tour,” Ren Xiaosu answered.

Wang Ergou looked at Li Ran. “You people are really lucky to be able to get Ren Xiaosu to protect you. There’s nothing in the wilderness that he can’t handle. If you’re going south, what’s the place y’all’re heading to?”

“We’re heading straight to Stronghold 81.” Ren Xiaosu recalled the route.

“It isn’t exactly peaceful in the South anymore. Back when the Wang Consortium was dealing with the Zhou Consortium, many refugees moved into the mountains and even received funding from the Wang Consortium. As such, things are pretty chaotic there now. However, if y’all mention my name, that usually proves rather useful.” Then Wang Ergou turned around and beckoned, saying, “I need two bros with a car jack to patch up their tires.”

In fact, mending tires wasn’t a particularly difficult task to handle and neither was it costly at all. So Wang Ergou decided to waive the fee for Ren Xiaosu’s sake.

The other men of the “repair team” greeted Ren Xiaosu. It seemed they all had a good impression of him as well. After all, it was Ren Xiaosu who saved them back then.

Ren Xiaosu asked, “When you say that it isn’t peaceful, do you mean that the people who moved into the mountains have turned to banditry? It shouldn’t be that bad, right?”