Chapter 462 Understanding Grudges
In this world, there are two types of mercenaries.
One is a formal organization like the Southwest Mercenary Union.
Such organizations have been officially registered, have legal operating procedures, and have a clean corporate background, or at least appear clean on the surface. Everything they do is legal and will not overstep the mark in the slightest.
In this kind of organization, the background of every registered member is normal.
Some of them are retired soldiers, some are retired boxers, and some are Sanda masters. All of them are very strong, and most of them have practical experience. They are good mercenaries worthy of trust.
Of course, it is not ruled out that some people falsify their background information and join such an organization under a different guise.
This is a chaotic era after all. From the war years to the present, how many powerful people have not had innocent blood on their hands?
Some members, although they seem to have a clean background, may have been wanted fugitives. After all, during those years of prolonged war, many prisons were broken into, and a large number of prisoners escaped, with no one to care.
After the war, every city and region began to recount their local populations and re-register every living resident, abandoning the previous system and giving a large number of fugitives the opportunity to change their identities.
"You have the chance to start a new life, but you don't cherish it. Instead, you become a group of bandits who kill and burn people." Su Xia thought of the many wandering mercenaries in the wilderness, and his eyes gradually turned cold.
Those people are the second type of mercenaries.
They could have become normal people with new identities when the residents were recounted in various cities, just like everyone else, and lived an ordinary life from then on.
But they didn't do that.
Their choice was to continue to be a group of roving fugitives, committing murder and arson and all kinds of evil, attacking passing caravans at any time, and even frequently looting small towns on the outskirts of various cities.
Luoxing Town was originally looted by a group of bandits like that.
The whole town was shrouded in the flames of sin, as if it had fallen into hell. If Su Xia had not taken action, most people would have survived.
The evil of human nature is ingrained into the bones of those wandering mercenaries.
Moreover, in those wandering mercenary organizations, in addition to the criminals who escaped during the war years, there are also new criminals who have committed serious crimes in recent years. They are basically death row prisoners with heinous crimes, otherwise they would not have fled to the wilderness far away from the city.
Even if not all of them deserve to be killed, at least 99% of them deserve to be killed!
At the beginning, Su Xia destroyed an entire mercenary town, and in the end only saw a few people who still had kindness in their hearts and were forced to become mercenaries.
"Auntie, which channel did you hear that news on?" Su Xia got up from the rocking chair and asked the woman.
"Listen for yourself. You can find it if you look around." Wu Hongyu casually threw an old-fashioned radio to Su Xia.
"good!"
Su Xia immediately caught it, held it in one hand and put on headphones with the other.
The structure of this old-fashioned radio is very simple. There is a rotating button on the top. By turning it slightly, you can hear the sounds of different channels.
At first, all Su Xia heard was some "hissing" noises, which were very confusing and she couldn't make out anything.
He placed his hand on the rotation button and twisted it a little bit.
Soon, amid the crackling noise, a mellow male voice emerged.
"…This is the third news channel. After a commercial, we will continue to report today's city news to you…"
As the twisting continued, the noise gradually disappeared and the sound of the advertisement became clear. It was a car wash advertisement.
This is from the Coral City Radio Station, not the mercenary news that Su Xia wants to hear.
His expression remained unchanged as he continued to turn the button. A crackling noise gradually began to appear in his headphones, similar to the noise that appeared when snow streaks appeared on those old color TVs.
Not long after, the noise became quieter and a gentle female voice appeared.
"...Dear drivers, it's rush hour again, please pay attention to safety..."
It was still from the city radio station, and it wasn't what Su Xia wanted to hear.
Su Xia looked calm and patient as she continued to turn the buttons, listening to the sounds of one channel after another.
Two or three minutes later, as the noise became smaller again, a sharp voice appeared in Su Xia's headphones.
"Masked Stranger, I'm in Coral City, where are you?"
"You're not even in Coral City!"
"Haha, Masked Stranger, are you scared? If so, just give me your head. I can consider leaving you an intact body..."
“…”
This is it, the radio station belonging to the wandering mercenaries!
It is said that Wang Teng was the king of the wilderness and made all the mercenary towns recognize him as their king. Those mercenary organization leaders who were dissatisfied either died or disappeared inexplicably.
After that, he set up private radio stations in every mercenary town and had people broadcast to the outside world 24 hours a day.
The message on the broadcast was simple, nothing more than mocking the masked man in different ways.
"This should be one of those private radio stations." Su Xia adjusted his headphones, expression unchanged, and continued listening.
Broadcasting such sarcastic words to the outside world can not only damage the reputation of the masked man, but also shape Wang Teng's own reputation.
After all, everyone knows that the masked man is a ruthless person who kills people without scruples.
If provoked, the masked man would kill the other party overnight even if the other party was in another city.
But so much time has passed, why didn't the masked man kill Wang Teng?
The more similar questions there are, the more famous Wang Teng becomes.
"Masked man, I know you are scared!"
"If you really have the guts, come and compete with me. It's not that easy to just destroy the mercenary town and leave."
In the earphones, that sharp voice kept saying things like this.
As long as you have a radio, you can hear his words.
Radios are a must-have for almost every organization in the wilderness, no matter if it's an expedition team, a mercenary organization, or a resistance organization. Not every person has a radio, but it's almost the same.
In Su Xia's Beifeng organization, many people carry small radios with them.
Listening to the radio before going to bed every day has become a habit for many members of the organization. After all, there is not much entertainment in the wilderness, life is not as colorful as in the city, and a lot of time is filled with boredom.
As long as those wandering mercenary organizations hear these radio stations, they will know about the masked man and Wang Teng. If they are afraid of being killed by the masked man, there is a high probability that they will defect to Wang Teng, allowing Wang Teng's power to continue to grow.
In this way, Wang Teng's power grew larger and larger, and he became a warlord-like figure.
Even the Southwest Mercenary Union was considering incorporating Wang Teng's forces.
A few times before, when various large forces were engaging in a war of words on the Internet platform, Luo Xi, the president of the Southwest Mercenary Union, expressed his disgust for the Masked Weirdoam and belittled him from every angle.
Some people speculated that the reason why Luo Xi said that was to convey goodwill to Wang Teng and to facilitate the subsequent incorporation of Wang Teng's forces.
"I just don't know, can Luo Xi alone represent the will of the entire Southwest Mercenary Union?" Su Xia thought of what happened before, while listening to the words on the radio, he analyzed the current situation in the southwest region.
The power of Wang Teng and his men is already a huge force.
If the power of the Southwest Mercenary Union is added, the two combined will completely turn into a behemoth.
"Masked Stranger, I heard that you founded the South Wind Organization yourself?"
"Nanfeng, this name is quite good. Do you want to emulate the Beifeng organization of Commander Beifeng?"
"Haha, it's a pity you don't have that ability!"
Finally, news related to the Nanfeng Organization came into the headphones.
There was a hint of gloating in that sharp voice.
"This organization is always against the great king of mercenaries. They really don't know how to live or die!"
"Two days ago, we only used a little trick to capture more than a dozen people from the South Wind Organization."
"These people are still stubborn and refuse to tell us where the others are hiding. However, we like stubborn people because they feel most comfortable to torture them..."
"Masked man, can you hear me..."
“…”
Su Xia's face gradually darkened. She held the headphones tightly, said nothing, and continued to listen.
Next, the mercenary from the private radio station talked about how they captured the dozen or so members of the South Wind Organization.
It's nothing more than setting up a few baits, luring the passing caravans, releasing the news that they are going to attack the caravans, and then waiting for the members of the Nanfeng organization to take the bait.
During this period, the Nanfeng organization and Wang Teng's people have been confronting each other, and have disrupted more than ten of their large-scale operations, even destroying two mercenary towns.
Their actions made Wang Teng furious, and many mercenaries began to question Wang Teng's strength.
It is for this reason that Wang Teng wants to completely destroy the Nanfeng organization.
In addition to the bait operation, he also formulated more than ten plans, almost all of which were related to the Nanfeng organization, if for no other reason than to get rid of this major threat in one fell swoop.
On the radio, the mercenary with a sharp voice continued to broadcast: "Three days later in the evening, we will hold a public trial ceremony in Town No. 7 to try the dozen or so people from the Southern Organization. At that time, it will depend on whether they are tougher or our knives are more powerful, haha..."
"Masked man, don't you like to cut people into pieces?"
"Your organization members will also go through the same thing, pray for them, haha..."
His laughter was so unbridled that one could seem to see an arrogant face through the sharp sound.
"Brothers from other mercenary organizations, if you can hear my broadcast, you are welcome to come to Town No. 7 to watch. This trial will last a long time, maybe two or three days. We don't want those tough guys to die too easily..."
In the end, he sent invitations to all mercenary organizations in the wilderness, asking them to come and watch.
Su Xia guessed Wang Teng's intention.
These words on the radio were not only spoken to him, but also to the other members of the South Wind organization.
As long as they heard these words on the radio, they would inevitably formulate a rescue plan and risk their lives to rescue the dozen or so captured members.
At that time, Wang Teng only needs to set the trap, open his pocket, and wait for the members of the Nanfeng organization to get in one by one.
How could the members of the Nanfeng organization fail to see such a simple trap?
Of course they could see it.
But the problem is that the dozen or so arrested members have relatives and friends, and even if they knew there was a trap, they might still go.
In the end, there is a high probability that this incident will turn into the story of Calabash Brothers saving his grandfather.
This is an open conspiracy.
I believe that at this moment, the members of the Nanfeng organization who heard those contents on the radio would be in extreme confusion.
The Nanfeng organization is different from Suxia. They live in the wilderness all year round and are much more likely to use radios than Suxia. They must have known the news early on.
They might have started quarreling now.
This kind of thing is most likely to cause internal division.
To save or not to save?
This is a problem!
"Town No. 7..."
Su Xia looked deep in the eyes. He clicked on the system map and began to check the location of the town.
The adventurous players have already explored almost all of the fog surrounding Coral City.
Many temporary gathering points, supply points, mercenary occupation locations, high-level monster habitats, etc. in the wilderness were all marked.
Among them, Town No. 7 is located southwest of Coral City.
【Town No. 7】
On the map, there is an icon of a miniature town model.
The location of this town was provided by a player who joined a mercenary organization.
This type of mercenary town originally had no number, but after Wang Teng occupied it, in order to facilitate management, he gave each town a number and reorganized the town’s management personnel.
You can see that there are many places with the same signs in the wilderness around Coral City.
【Town No.1】
[Town No. 2 (destroyed by the South Wind Organization)]
【Town No. 3】
【……】
These mercenary towns are like cancers.
They not only exist around Coral City, but also outside many southwestern cities such as Fish Scale City, Swordfish City, Starfish City, etc.
Originally they all fought on their own, but since Wang Teng came along, they have become more organized.
"No wonder many businessmen have been complaining about the difficulty of doing business recently. The frequency of the Chamber of Commerce's transport vehicles being robbed is much higher than before." Su Xia looked at the map and thought slowly.
In order to protect their goods, merchants have to spend a lot of money to hire security companies.
However, many security companies in the southwest region are controlled by the Southwest Mercenary Union, and even the security personnel are officially registered members of the Southwest Mercenary Union.
Therefore, some people have always suspected that the Southwest Mercenary Union may have already allied with Wang Teng.
One of them is responsible for protection and the other is responsible for robbery.
The two of them working together are a natural pair!
As the frequency of robberies increased, merchants had to hire more security personnel. In the long run, the Chamber of Commerce in various cities was like working for the Southwest Mercenary Guild, and most of the money earned went into the pockets of the Mercenary Guild.
This situation has already been reported to the managers of various cities.
However, relying solely on the city defense departments of each city, it is impossible to completely wipe out Wang Teng and his forces.
Those wandering mercenaries gathered and dispersed like the wind in the wilderness, and were well-informed. As soon as they heard the news of a bandit suppression operation, they would immediately disperse without giving anyone any chance.
【Who can get rid of Wang Teng? 】
This question was on the front pages of news in many cities.
The bounties on the wanted lists of major cities were added together, and with the bounties from many chambers of commerce and individuals, the bounty accumulated on Wang Teng reached an astronomical figure.
Even Wang Teng himself offered him a reward of tens of millions.
Because he felt that the bounty on him was not enough and could not compare to the masked stranger, which made him feel very embarrassed, so he directly added tens of millions of bounties to himself!
