Star of Civilization

v2 Chapter 16: Brave New World (4)

Joyner jumped out of the car and went straight to the tanker where the prisoners were being held, picking up the broken angle iron to put it back on. This was not to stop the prisoners from running away, but rather, it was Joyner's assurance of their safety, or some kind of test.

The prisoners saw Joyna again and began to scream again in panic. But this time Joyner turned a deaf ear, and her cold emotions were not disturbed.

Although she didn't have any elaborate plans, she had already thought about it, and the next step was to go to the place where these people should have been - the settlement called Hidden Sand Castle.

When she gets there, she will let these people go, and it has nothing to do with her as to whether they can survive or not.

Joyna was about to break the angle iron, when she accidentally saw the child, she thought for a moment, she shook her body, and reached out and snatched the child from her mother's arms.

The mother was completely unable to resist Joyna's power, and the child in her hand disappeared in a trance, her face was stunned, and then she began to scream frantically, biting the iron net like a crazy she-wolf, but it was did not follow.

Joyna sneered, hugged the little boy and walked away without looking back, her steps were firm and steady, and she came out of the car.

When passing through the iron net, Joyna deliberately stared into the mother's hideous eyes. The sense of coercion emanating from her body was suffocating.

The woman's whistling stopped abruptly, and in her dull eyes, she seemed to realize something.

She slumped to the ground with a thud.

Joyna strode back, jumped directly into the cab of the fuel tanker, and found a rope, trapped the little boy firmly in the seat, tidied her hair, and waited for a while.

As she expected, the woman who lost her child did not catch up.

It was as if the inherent fear was entrenched in her heart at all times, as soon as she left the iron cage, she would encounter some danger, or encounter a terrifying beast.

Joyna jumped out of the car again with a blank face, thinking about preparing to scavenge the supplies on the other cars. She turned back and glared at the little boy fiercely, the warning in her eyes was obvious.

The little boy's eyes were clear, but his eyes were full of fear, and his body was shaking. He didn't know what the devil who killed all the sand bandits was going to do to him, so he huddled in the corner and said nothing.

Joyner chose this boy because she saw that he was more sane than the others, and his eyes were more sensible. So it is guessed that he has not been eroded by giant hemp grass juice for too long. More importantly, he probably knew the way and how to get out of this barren land.

After Joyna got out of the car, she kept on shuttle in the convoy, and several other cars had some compressed dry food in reserve. The food was made into lumps, like the sticky food she had eaten before.

In addition, there are some bottled water and blankets to keep out the cold. She also found some fuel in other cars. After thinking about it, she quickly gathered these things and put them all on the truck.

In another car, she easily found the cooked leather armor, the battle axes, javelins, knives, daggers and other weapons used by the sand bandits.

Joyna picked up the dagger and took a closer look. Judging from experience, it was made of fine steel, and the level of smelting was not low.

From the point of view of forging technology alone, the level of technology in this era is not as low as imagined.

This kind of steel may have undergone secondary or tertiary smelting, melting, dephosphorization, decarburization, and other metals. Then, the primary molten steel is subjected to deoxidation and desulfurization treatment in a container of inert gas or reducing atmosphere to remove impurities and fine-tune the composition.

"Whoosh—" She waved it a few times, the dagger was heavy, and the wooden handle was rough, but comfortable to hold. The blade of the dagger is plated with a nickel-manganese coating, and the lethality of its seemingly simple appearance is amazing.

Joyna kept two daggers on her body and picked a short knife on her back. In these savage, chaotic times, having a few weapons in hand means staying alive.

She couldn't help but think of the pictures of the "ancient" army that could only be seen in books. In the past, these weapons could only be placed in museums, but now they seem to be equivalent to the afterimages of the ancient army.

Joyna looked at the relics of the sand bandits at random, and from the scattered wooden boxes, she found some sour and dusty clothes, as well as several pieces of body armor. The appearance of those armors can't be said to be similar to that of the sand bandits, it can basically be said to be the same.

The material of the clothing is a bit like linen, with a tough texture, and the stitches of the fabric are very wide, and the overall production process is rough.

She hesitated for a while, but she tore off the original rags on her body, put on these clothes against the strong smell, and moved around a few times. She knew that the scent would allow her to more thoroughly integrate with the era. Perhaps, this is what will always be with her body in the future.

After getting dressed, she took the cooked leather armor and compared it to herself. The broad shoulder pads were decorated with various savage and primitive ornaments, which felt very heavy. She estimated that with the strength of ordinary people, it would be difficult to cut scratches on it with cold weapons, let alone cut in.

Joyna looked at the rest of the material, then looked at the high bulge on her chest, sighed slightly, and simply stitched together two cloth strips with a pimple in the middle, making an uncomfortable wipe for herself. chest.

Then he picked up the rivet-encrusted belt, straddled it diagonally across his chest, and imitated the appearance of a sand bandit, tying three two-finger-wide rawhide leather around his waist as a belt, with buckles interspersed at the joints. Then he chose a set of armor that was the smallest size, but still didn't fit, and wrapped himself.

In fact, these armors are superfluous to her at all, they are at most accessories, but the effect of wearing them is obvious, at least they will not make her look too alien in this era.

Joyna finally couldn't help laughing after seeing herself in the mirror.

—No matter how she was disguised, she could still see the smooth and delicate parts of her body under the armor, her skin as pale and smooth as ivory. That kind of weird texture is completely different from the gritty skin texture of other people under the scorching sun and wind.

At the same time, UU reading www.uukanshu.com also exposed her incompatibility with the people of this era.

"Maybe in a settlement with many humans, there should be people like me?"

Joyner thought to herself, comforting herself.

She threw away the **** that she didn't need to take away, and went to fill up a few large buckets of water, turned around and put it in the back of the truck, ready for the prisoners to drink on the road.

At this time, Joyna slapped her forehead, suddenly remembered something, and immediately walked to Brother Hui's body, picking up his gun with her toes.

She wiped away the blood, took the gun in her hand, and at a glance it turned out that it was an earthen weapon, not a standard one.

From the parts of the gun body to the grip and trigger, traces of other weapons can also be seen. Such a weapon should be easy to imitate if blueprints and specialized craftsmen are found.

Joyner stared at the gun, thought for a moment, and strode away.

Then he started hanging out around other cars, looking east and west.