15.
When Chengdu Airport landed, a dirty Wrangler Jeep was already waiting on the side of the runway. A man who looked about 30 years old was lying in the car, not caring about the huge noise and the angering wind at the airport. Seeing Zuo Lin get off the boarding ladder, he immediately drove up to meet him.
"Old Yan, come to pick you up and get in the car." The man said that he took Zuo Lindi backpack by himself, and was still in the back seat, "My name is Xu Weidong."
"Now, go directly to Dujiangyan City?" Zuo Lin asked.
"Yes, it will take a few hours on the way. I'll tell you the situation first." Xu Weidong glanced at Zuo Lin, not very trusting, "I don't know why Mr. Yan asked you to come, but I will try my best to cooperate."
Xu Weidong is not a native of Sichuan, but he first participated in outdoor activities when he was 20 years old when he was a freshman. His main scope of activities was in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. Later, he worked as a guide for outdoor sports and mountaineering activities, and a coach for expansion sports. Later, he was employed by Yanbeizhai to conduct research on agricultural products and animal and plant specialties in Sichuan Province. It was under his guidance that Chen Jianzong set out to purchase agricultural products near Dujiangyan City.
Xu Weidong had a deep understanding of Sichuan Province. After seeing the photos, he carefully compared some of his notes and judged the locations and general routes of Chen Jianzong's photos. During the two days when Chen Jianzong deviated from the scheduled route to purchase agricultural products to track, he followed him to a very remote place. Even if one or two strangers appeared in a small village on the edge of the mountainous area, it would attract the attention of many people, and it was unlikely that he would escape the attention of those extremely alert criminals. Later, the express delivery sent in Dujiangyan City had no documents saved in the express delivery company. According to the person in charge of the business at that time, the express delivery was oral, and the person who sent the express delivery was very standard in Mandarin and had a very ordinary appearance. It was hard to tell whether it was Chen Jianzong himself.
If saving Chen Jianzong is the priority, then the last place called Yingxiu that Dujiangyan City and Chen Jianzong appeared in Dujiangyan City and Chen Jianzong are the key. If tracing smugglers is the priority, then Dujiangyan City and even Chengdu have relatively convenient transportation areas.
"Do you need to prepare weapons?" As Zuo Lin was thinking about how to start, Xu Weidong suddenly asked, "Those are all outlaws. I know where to get weapons. Although they may not be very handy, they can barely use them."
"After Dujiangyan City, take me to find a sports equipment store and a pharmacy." Zuo Lin replied.
Confidence comes from strength. Xu Weidong didn't know where Zuo Lin's confidence came from, but Zuo Lin's tone was unquestionable. As an ordinary consultant hired by Shennong Group, Xu Weidong naturally wouldn't know about Zuo Lin's ability. But he intuitively felt that Zuo Lin's confidence was not unreasonable.
Although Dujiangyan City is not a big city, the supporting facilities are still very complete. Zuo Lin easily bought a composite bow for competitions of carbon fiber and fiberglass in sports equipment stores, and quite a few arrows equipped with high manganese steel arrow clusters and synthetic materials. After removing the devices that provide athletes with additional counterweight, balance and watch scales, Zuo Lin felt that the bow felt quite good. There were buckles for fixing on both sides of the wide 80-liter backpack, which just fixed the bow and quiver. Usually the buckles on both sides are used to carry skis and hiking poles. No one dared to blatantly install the unused weapon of bows and arrows on it.
When Zuo Lin borrowed the equipment from the pharmacy in a traditional Chinese medicine store to make a series of drugs including insect prevention, bleeding, external application and internal injury medicine in less than an hour, Xu Weidong was already very impressed by Zuo Lin. Zuo Lin was very strange in Xu Weidong's eyes, but he was indeed a talented person.
"Brother Xu...Brother, you can take these medicines. I am not very familiar with Dujiangyan City. Please investigate here. Just meet those people and don't do it. I'll go to Yingxiu. If it goes well, I'll be back in about a day." Zuo Lin said.
Xu Weidong looked at him in surprise and said, "Are you alone?...those people, those people..."
Zuo Lin smiled and said, "It's not necessarily possible to meet it. Even if it happens, it's not certain who is in trouble." Zuo Lin knew very well that ordinary people could not threaten him. Even if the other party had someone who was equally proficient in unconventional powers, he would grind the other party to death with his characteristics of a plant-based druid. And people with such ability seemed to be able to pick it up everywhere.
Seeing that Zuo Lin had made up his mind, Xu Weidong was not very persistent. "This is my pda, can you use it?" Seeing Zuo Lin nodded, Xu Weidong continued: "I have marked the location of the photo taken. Pda has GPS function, just go according to the coordinates. Yingxiu is not big, and the map is also in the pda. If it really doesn't work, you can use Googleearth at any time..."
At this moment, Xu Weidong was as long-winded as an old man.
On the grounds that he did not have a driver's license, he refused Xu Weidong's intention to leave his jeep for him. The taillights of Xu Weidong's car, who were dumbfounded, disappeared at the end of the road.
I rented a room in a small hotel on the street. After paying for 3 days in advance, Zuo Lin hid in the room. He took off his clothes and put them in his backpack. He chanted the transformation spell gently and turned into a wolf again. This time, he did not penetrate every trace of muscles and nerves from his bones, but simply felt the powerful force flowing in his body like boiling water. From the inside to the outside, he is now like the master of this world.
It is a little troublesome to wrap the backpack around the body with the wolf's body, but it is not impossible. After all, the soul of a powerful druid is inhabited by the giant wolf. Compared with ordinary wolves, the gap in knowledge and experience is even greater than the gap in physical strength.
Jumping out of the window, Zuo Lin drilled into the darkest alley and ran towards Yingxiu.
As a druid, it is obvious that Sichuan's mountainous and watery geographical environment is more suitable for him, but now he is also used to the convenience of living in a metropolitan city like Shanghai, knows the role of material and money, and understands the strengthening of the druid's abilities by technological products. He begins to know how to deal with people and lie when necessary. He gradually faces the material enjoyment he has gradually become accustomed to and regards it as a part of his life... These are also the lives of a druid.
However, sometimes, he still likes to run in the mountains and forests like this.
When he arrived at a mountain that was only a short distance from Yingxiu's urban area, Zuo Lin stopped and looked down at this not-so-large and not-so-broad place. The wolf's body had a flexible back and strong claws, which made him run along the way very easy and almost no physical energy was consumed.
He shook his body and turned back into a human form. He put on his clothes, walked down the hill with a big backpack like an ordinary traveler, and walked down to the edge of the town.
Following the guidance of the electronic map in the pda, Zuo Lin quickly found the place where Chen Jianzong pressed the first shutter. It was a semi-aborted warehouse next to a comprehensive trading market. Yingxiu is located on the side of a waterway, not far from the national highway, and various materials are traded frequently here. The so-called comprehensive trading market basically pays management fees and can be put in and set up stalls. As long as it is not obviously illegal, managers usually turn a blind eye. It is really appropriate to purchase various items here. Chen Jianzong met those people here to purchase agricultural products.
Since it was already late at night, there were only a few large light bulbs in the trading market, and these lighting was a bit powerless for such a huge area. Zuo Lin bypassed the trading market and came to the warehouse.
The warehouse is empty and the building looks a little deserted. In the three tall but rough frame buildings that are arranged side by side, only ordinary water and electricity pipes and a small cold storage can operate normally. The doors of the warehouse are tightly closed, but one of the warehouses can see the lights on inside. After getting close, you can hear clear voices of people coming from inside, as if several people are playing cards.
Zuo Lin did not approach him rashly, nor did he have any intention of asking. He approached the abrupt old locust tree in the middle of the plain covered with weeds behind the warehouse. He put his hands on the trunk, and catered to the rustling of leaves. Zuo Lin sang a very short spell. This spell only has two overlapping characters, but it is the most basic spell mastered by all plant-type druids. Basically, most animal-type druids can use this spell to a limited extent, because this spell symbolizes one of the most basic abilities of Druids - communicating with nature.
The old locust tree shook its branches up and down like a friend. A bunch of extremely clear natural power spread into the trunk of the old locust tree, and the waves spread to the old locust tree without a single leaf and every vein. This is a reward for it, because only through it can Zuo Lin understand what has happened around here.
What happened? All animals and plants may not be able to understand such expressions in such languages, but they quickly understood Zuo Lin's intention. Through the trembling sound of the branches and leaves of the old locust tree, the problem is like the whisper of moonlight, like a drop of water falling into a calm and lonely lake, passing it out in circles.
No matter what the answer is, listening to the sound of nature is always a peaceful and joyful thing. Zuo Lin's power can only affect a circle of more than 200 meters. Perhaps for ordinary people, the little bit of life is limited. However, for Zuo Lin, the sounds coming from this area are already quite complicated. The simplest fungus can only send a simple tribute. Those birds, those cats and dogs living in rooms or under the eaves with owners or without owners will tell Zuo Lin what they see and hear. The flowers, plants and trees will express the things they remember in their bodies in a subtle sway. Their ubiquitous roots faithfully record the impact of every living creature crushing over them... The sounds are too many and so mixed, so that there is a very light buzzing sound in the air.
When he learned that a large convoy that had settled here a few days ago had left, only a few people stayed, and there was no dispute here, Zuo Lin understood that Chen Jianzong was not here. He approached the warehouse, climbed up the warehouse from the metal ladder outside, and looked in from the ventilation windows of nearly two floors. There was a square table in the middle of the warehouse, and a floor lamp with a long wire was used as lighting. A few young men covered in anger gathered on the table to play cards. In the corner of the warehouse, a container truck was parked in the shadow.
The empty warehouse itself is an excellent sound-gathering structure, allowing Zuo Lin to hear those conversations without having to worry about it.
"...Old Peng and the others will be back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."
"What I mean is that Lu Yi's Taibazi is good. It's enough for me to have a few of you to stay in for a year."
"In the past, Lao Peng had no way, and Xiao Xiao didn't like this kind of business. Although he earned a lot, the risk was great enough. If he was caught, he would be shot, so he didn't say anything."
"The price difference between slaughtering and selling alive is too much, 20 times the difference. It is normal to have a higher risk. The risk is not big, so who will pay this price?"
"...It's really strange. I heard from the boss who introduced Lu Yi that Lu Yi was not doing business in Taiwan and Fujian? That is, it's better to transport people to Japan or Southeast Asia. Why did you come here this time?"
"I heard that Lu Yi was appointed by the boss who received the goods, otherwise Lao Peng would have contacted another way to prepare for the attack."
"It turns out that Lao Peng has a way?"
"It's about 5 million, US dollars. After taking it, Lu Yi ran over and flipped the price by 4, 20 million. Old Peng Lima agreed and offended the original buyer and ignored it. He looked like he was preparing to go ashore with the money and enjoy the happiness."
"20 million, beloved, those rich guys are really willing to do it. One business is worth 10 years for Xiao Xiao to fight for it."
"Xiao Xiao's life is not easy. Fur is worthless after all."
"It's not what we said if it's worth it. No matter how valuable it is, the big thing will not fall on us. After Taiping finished this order, he took the money home and saw if he could buy any other business. If he did another order, he didn't know if he had the life to spend money."
"Yes, yes, that heartbeats so hard. If you come this time, you should pay tribute to the hospital."
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Listening to the few people playing cards and laughing, it might be those people who stayed here. No matter what they were going to transport out or where they were the final destination, they probably had to pass Yingxiu once. Otherwise, these people would not stubbornly leave such a few people here at the risk of being suspected of being discovered.
20 million US dollars is indeed a very amazing number. Before leaving, Zuo Lin had browsed the current list of international wildlife smuggling prices. A golden monkey costs only 200,000 US dollars, a red panda costs 100,000 yuan, and most snakes do not exceed 50,000 yuan. However, the prices of butterflies and insects are relatively high, perhaps because of the harsh living conditions. What can you buy for 20 million US dollars?
In any case, Zuo Lin decided to see if he could find Chen Jianzong first, and then he would use this warehouse to set up a killing game. The people in the warehouse should be glad that he could live for a while.
Chapter completed!