Chapter 23

"Squeak The screech of the brake pads rang throughout the inspection station.

At this time, Simon has driven the pickup truck to the checkpoint, only to see that the toll gate has been transformed into a small military fortress.

Originally, there were six passageways, but now only two in the middle are open. The other four passageways are blocked by sandbags. Behind the sandbags are heavy machine guns controlled by two soldiers.

Behind the heavy machine guns are heavily armed soldiers, similar in equipment to Kent's soldiers crossing the former world.

Desert camouflage uniform, light bulletproof vest, external armed belt, helmet and mask.

But if you look closely at these soldiers, there are a variety of pendants. There is a small display in the front of the right eye of the helmet, which can display the number of bullets left in the clip and the health status of the soldiers.

There is a microcomputer on the wrist of the officer's right hand, which can directly know the real-time information of the whole team.

It can be said that at first glance, the dress and equipment of these soldiers are not much different from those of the soldiers before Kent crossing. However, a closer look reveals that there is a qualitative difference.

...

While Kent, sitting in the co pilot's seat, was observing the soldiers, the officer like soldier stepped forward slowly, went to the window of the pickup driver's seat and knocked.

When Simon lowered the window, the officer frowned slightly when he saw Kent and Simon's equipment and said, "gentlemen, please get out of the car for inspection."

"Good."

Simon waved his hand, and then everyone in the pickup opened the door and came down.

The officer also waved behind him, then jogged over to the three soldiers, saluted the officer and said, "sir!"

"Well." The officer nodded slightly, pointed to Kent and his party and said, "one of you will search the pickup truck thoroughly, and the other one will search the three ladies."

"Yes! Sir Three soldiers together, and then ran out of two people, one opened the door of the pickup truck into the car to start searching.

The other went up to the girls and began to search them after giving them a military salute.

Because of the characteristics of zombie virus, it can assimilate into zombies within 10 minutes after being bitten, so the soldiers did not ask the girls to take off their clothes to check whether they had been bitten.

But the soldiers who were left behind the officers were on guard, looking at Kent, Simon and quell.

Then the officer began to speak. He looked at Kent and Simon and asked, "who are you two, please?"

"..." Simon did not speak.

Kent, on the other hand, smiles and says, "Hello, my teammates and I are mercenaries, hired to protect (pointing to quill next to us) this Oxford professor."

As soon as Kent's voice fell, quell took out his ID card and handed it to the officer in time. "Hello, my name is quell Sears, a professor of history at Oxford University and an archaeologist.

My students and I are going to visit the prehistoric sites in the city of Western Donia. Considering the reasons of the armed groups in grad, the school has provided funds for me to hire some security personnel. "

At this point, quill's eyes were reddish, his nose took a hard breath, and then he said, "without these two people around me (pointing to Kent and Simon), my students and I... Would never have survived."

The officer, after taking quail's identification, frowned, gave it back to quail, looked at Kent and Simon, and asked, "you... Have nothing to do with grad?"

"No Kent and Simon spoke in unison.

Just then, the soldier who searched the pickup truck came up to the officer with a black travel bag and saluted

"The report found no suspicious items, only night vision devices and a large amount of food and water, but found a large bag of cash!"

"Oh?" Hearing the soldier's report, the officer, who had frowned tightly, finally stretched his brow a lot, bent over to open his travel bag, confirmed that there was a lot of cash in it, got up and said, "what's the cash?"

"Ha ha." Kent chuckled and said, "Mr. officer, you should know that we mercenaries always like to receive cash. As for those who transfer money by Swiss bank, they are all big military contractors."

"Well, it is." The officer pinched his chin in one hand and said sarcastically, "you are a group of Desperado who work for money. You can only be at ease when you hold money around."

Kent didn't care what the officer said. Instead, he said with a smile, "ha ha, you're a regular army. We're just second rate fish. Without your protection, the south of Mars will suffer"It was." The officer was very pleased with Kent's words. He looked up at Kent and Simon with an air of complacency.

"..." Simon said nothing, but he clenched his fists and squinted at the officer.

Kent just glanced at Simon with his spare light to see why he was so upset. After all, Simon was from the special operations department. He was ridiculed by a petty sergeant and was a little annoyed.

However, the sergeant officer did not mean to let Kent pass. Instead, he rubbed his right index finger and thumb back and forth, as if to indicate something.

Kent, of course, noticed the sergeant's small move. He went to the bag full of cash, took out three stacks of banknotes and put them into the other side's hands

"You see, on a hot day, you have to inspect the vehicles and ensure the safety of the rear. These 30000 cash will be treated as brothers. I reward you, Look at this pass... "

"Oh?" The sergeant took the money secretly, pinched it with his hand, and immediately put it into his pocket. Then he said with a smile: "yes, yes, you mercenaries are not fools."

"It was." Kent continued with a smile: "after all, are you also protecting us? Is this pass

"Of course!" With a wave of his hand, the sergeant glanced back and said in a loud voice, "soldier! Get them a pass! "

"Yes A soldier saluted, turned and ran to the simple shed.

But in half a minute, the soldier handed a document to Kent.

At this time, the sergeant officer smile, said: "with this, from here to poliscka can be said to be unimpeded ah, your 30000 is not in vain."

"Thank you." Kent also laughed back, and then he took the people to the car.

Kent sat in the co pilot's seat, still laughing at the officer through the window.

But when Simon drove his pickup truck away from the checkpoint, Kent said with a smile on his face and no expression: "well, if he had absolute strength, he would have solved those crooked melons and cracked dates."