Chapter 276 Only the head is your own

"Does this really happen?"

As a professional responsible for special pollution cleanup, Lu Xin would not let go of any suspected pollution source.

So, he quickly started the car and followed the truck.

One after the other, they followed the weed-covered path in the wilderness and walked all the way to the main road.

It can be seen that the paths between the villages are complex and difficult to distinguish because of the weeds.

Even in normal times, you will go the wrong way if you are not careful.

The pollution source should have only exerted some slight influence on the people around it, distorting their ability to distinguish.

Just a little confusion at each intersection, this area has become a maze that cannot be escaped.

"Is the head-swapping thing in their caravan true?"

"If it was a serious pollution, the caravan should have been wiped out by now..."

"If it was simple pollution, it would be hard for ordinary people to detect..."

"..."

Lu Xin, riding on a motorcycle, thought silently.

He had just heard Uncle Zhou briefly describe the specific situation.

They are a caravan from Hongling City, specializing in transporting goods between various high-walled cities in the wilderness.

The two of them are the old drivers in the caravan. The middle-aged man's name is Zhou Dachang, and the young man is his nephew, Zhou Xiaomao.

Old Zhou has been running with the caravan for seven or eight years, and Xiao Zhou has been running for more than a year.

For a caravan like theirs, accepting employment and transporting goods is the main business, but sometimes, they also make some extra money, just like the uncle and nephew, who plan to take advantage of the caravan's overall rest and drive a truck to the surrounding villages to search for wasteland.

These abandoned villages may look inconspicuous, but you can always find some valuable things.

Of course, this time they were unlucky. They had already searched all the items, but encountered a wall of ghosts on the way back.

Uncle Zhou did not give a detailed introduction to the pollution they mentioned.

He only said that it was related to their head of the car.

This head of the car is actually a kind of title, which is equivalent to the person in charge of the team.

Looking at their hesitant look, they seemed to be full of doubts, but they didn't know how to explain it clearly.

In the end, he just said that Lu Xin would go back and meet the head of the car, and then he would understand.

Lu Xin didn't mind it. After all, he had been walking all night, and he needed to replenish both oil and water.

...

The red moon was hanging high, and the lights were messy. Soon, the truck and the motorcycle drove out of the wilderness and came to the main road. Both Lu Xin and the uncle and nephew were obviously relieved and continued to drive forward. Soon they saw the lights faintly.

It was located in an abandoned service area. From a distance, rows of tall trucks were lined up in two rows.

In the dark environment, it was like a creeping giant beast.

"The king of heaven and the tiger of earth..."

A few hundred meters away from the service area, a loud shout suddenly sounded in the dark weeds on one side of the road.

The sound was extremely loud, and it was shouted from a loud speaker.

"Squeak..."

The driver, Lao Zhou, was also startled, and hurriedly braked the car, then stretched his head out and shouted: "Go up the mountain to kill mice!"

Lu Xin was stunned when he heard it in the back: "What the hell?"

"Is it Lao Zhou?"

The sound of the horn disappeared, and two people jumped out on both sides of the road.

Both of them had guns in their hands, one was a sawed-off rifle, and the other was even more powerful, it was a black submachine gun.

They all held bright flashlights in their hands, standing on both sides, shaking them towards the sky.

"Oh, your uncle..."

Uncle Zhou stuck his head out of the cab and cursed: "What's wrong with you? You're shining the flashlight on me?"

"It's you, old man."

The man holding the submachine gun put away the flashlight and sneered: "You're unlucky. I told you that you were going to search the village next door and come back, but you were gone for half a day and the driver was angry at the time. You delayed the trip. I don't think she wants your life."

As he said that, another person saw Lu Xin following behind, and immediately raised his rifle and shouted: "Who is that?"

"Don't panic, it's a friend from Qinggang."

Uncle Zhou hurriedly shouted, "Damn it, you don't know what we just encountered. We were bewitched..."

The young man on the side corrected: "Uncle, that's pollution."

"Shut up."

Old Zhou scolded him and said, "If it wasn't for this guy, we two might have been hanging on the tree. He was also going to the central city. Let's get together and take care of each other. You don't have to worry about this. I'll go to the head of the car later to talk to him..."

After a simple explanation, he started the car again.

The two people who were like secret sentries saw that Lu Xin was alone, so they didn't say much and went back to the bushes on both sides.

Lu Xin followed the car and drove into the service area. He found that the scale of this convoy was actually quite large.

There were more than 20 tall modified trucks parked in a neat row.

These trucks were more than twice as big as the trucks they were driving now. This was the main body of their transportation.

The trucks driven by the uncle and nephew were actually the public vehicles in the entire fleet. They were usually responsible for transporting goods that needed to be adjusted between the major trucks, or when dealing with the surrounding gathering points.

When the big trucks stopped to rest, Lao Zhou and his team would drive the small car to search the surrounding villages.

In addition to these trucks, they also had a lot of motorcycles, which were also parked in rows next to them.

These were all driven by the security team and the pathfinder team.

After the red moon, the convoys each had their own duties, which were all indispensable.

Now, a bonfire has been lit in the open space of this service area, and rows of tents have been set up next to it. Some people are roasting unknown meats next to the tents, drinking and talking, and some people are lying in the cab and smoking cigarettes silently.

After Lao Zhou stopped the car, he was not in a hurry to unload the goods. He greeted Lu Xin first and walked towards the service area hall.

As soon as he entered the hall, he saw that it was empty. The things inside had been emptied, leaving only an empty shell. The long dining tables and benches were piled up against the wall. In the middle of the hall, a tent was also set up and a bonfire was lit.

At this time, a few people were discussing something in a low voice under the light of the fire.

"Hehe..."

Lao Zhou smiled, holding a half-man-high fitting mirror that he had just taken from the truck, with a big red "喜" character printed on the mirror, and greeted him: "Car... front of the car, look what good things I brought you..."

"..."

Before he finished speaking, a dirty and smelly towel was thrown over and directly smeared on his face.

In front of the tent, a woman with long and sturdy legs jumped up, holding a bamboo pole in her hand, and hit Lao Zhou on the head: "Fuck you, you still remember to come back, thinking about that broken thing every day, if something really happens, will everyone look for you?"

"If we look for you, the delivery time will be delayed, will you be responsible?"

"..."

"Hey hey...something unexpected happened, otherwise I would have come back a long time ago..."

Lao Zhou turned around, honestly took two hits on the back, and then continued to smile and handed over the fitting mirror.

"This is a gift to the driver. I checked it. It's not broken..."

As he said that, he moved aside again, revealing Lu Xin who was following behind him, and said: "There is something else for the driver. We got lost just now. It was all thanks to this little brother from Qinggang who helped us. Otherwise, we would have been possessed by a ghost... This little brother was on a business trip to the central city. It was inconvenient for him to travel alone. We brought him back and asked him to ride with us. Is that okay?"

"What ghost?"

The driver frowned slightly and looked at Lu Xin: "A wanderer?"

Lu Xin also looked up at her and saw that the driver was a woman with a figure of no less than 1.75 meters.

A pair of long legs in slim jeans with some gray cloth strips on them were extremely eye-catching.

She looked to be in her thirties, but her facial features were unexpectedly beautiful.

It was probably because she had been running in the wilderness for many years that her skin looked a little rough and there was a scar on her face.

"What do you do?"

The driver looked Lu Xin up and down, and seemed to think that he didn't look like a charlatan, so he frowned and asked.

"Hello, my name is Lu Xin, and I'm going to the central city to visit relatives."

Lu Xin answered honestly, with a smile on his face, took two steps forward, and stretched out his hand.

Crash.

Behind the long-legged driver, the two silent men immediately touched their waists, revealing the black handles of their guns.

The driver didn't shake hands with Lu Xin, and frowned and said, "You are going from Qinggang to the central city alone?"

"This..."

Lu Xin took back his hand embarrassedly and said, "Actually, it's not that. It's not just me, but also my father, mother, sister, and a puppy. We went to the central city to visit relatives together, and helped to deliver some documents by the way, but they are not here now."

Hearing this, Lao Zhou and Xiao Zhou were both stunned. They didn't hear Lu Xin mention his family just now.

The driver was also a little curious: "Lost?"

Lu Xin thought about it seriously and said, "I guess so."

He did not try to explain the situation of his family in detail.

Although he did not like to lie, he also knew that occasionally telling lies would avoid a lot of trouble.

People who run in the wilderness are very wary. If he told them about his family, they might be scared.

In order to gain their trust, he had prepared a story about a sister who got lost because of playing...

However, even he did not expect that the driver would be surprisingly straightforward.

She just pondered for a moment and did not ask more questions. She just looked Lu Xin up and down and said, "Everyone is running in the wilderness. In this broken world, it is only right to help each other. But I hope you understand that we are a group of people who run big trucks to earn hard-earned money. We don't want to cause trouble, but we are not afraid of trouble. If you want to follow us on the road, you can, and you can exchange some things, but don't cause trouble randomly..."

As he spoke, his narrow eyes stared at Lu Xin's face like an eagle: "Do you understand?"

Lu Xin was a little surprised and nodded honestly: "I understand."

"Okay."

The driver waved the bamboo pole in his hand: "Go out, Lao Zhou will tell him about the rules of our team."

"Okay, okay..."

Lao Zhou hurriedly agreed and pulled Lu Xin out.

It was obviously going so smoothly, but somehow, Lu Xin felt that the eyes of the people around him seemed a little strange.

Not only them, but even Lao Zhou and Xiao Zhou also had some flickering eyes.

After they left, the person behind the driver couldn't help but say: "It's not good to have an unknown origin?"

"It's okay, anyway, it's two days away. If there is really a problem, you can't hide, so it's better to stay by your side and watch."

The driver waved the bamboo pole in his hand and said: "Besides, Lao Zhou is as smart as a donkey. If there is really a problem, can he bring it back?"

The two people behind him looked at each other and said no more.

He just sighed slightly in his heart, as if he had guessed something.

"Did you see the problem?"

After Lao Zhou took Lu Xin out of the service hall, he saw that there was no one around, so he asked anxiously.

"Who?"

Lu Xin was stunned when he heard it.

"The head of the car, didn't you see it?"

Lao Zhou was obviously a little surprised, and Zhou Xiaomao next to him also came up.

"She?"

Lu Xin couldn't help but frowned when he heard it: "What's wrong with her?"

"She..."

Lao Zhou's face showed obvious hesitation. After a while, he seemed to have mustered up the courage and lowered his voice: "I suspect... It's not me, in fact, many people suspect... Our head of the car has been replaced by someone... or, in other words, replaced by a body... Let's put it this way, our head of the car, except for the head is still her own, the body is no longer..."

"?"

Lu Xin understood Lao Zhou's words with some difficulty.

The head is her own, but the body is not?

Why is this weird?

After trying to understand for a while, he frowned and asked, "What's going on?"

Lao Zhou and Xiao Zhou showed embarrassed expressions and shook their heads and said, "Just what I said just now... Don't you see the problem?"

Lu Xin suddenly felt a little guilty.

If there was really something wrong with that woman, but he didn't see it, he felt like he was not trusting her.

He turned around hesitantly: "How about I go and have a look?"

"No, no, no..."

Lao Zhou hurriedly stopped him: "The front of the car will hit you..."

Xiao Zhou thought carefully for a while, lowered his voice and said: "Why don't you wait a little longer, you will know later..."

Lao Zhou suddenly thought of something and looked at Lu Xin with some reluctance.

...

Back to the truck, Lao Zhou and Zhou Xiaomao unloaded the goods from the truck and loaded them into the truck they drove, and the other took out a simple tent from the car compartment and set it up next to the truck, and also spread two quilts on the ground.

Then he took a few steamed buns and bacon, roasted them by the big fire and generously gave Lu Xin two pieces.

Lu Xin did not refuse. Although he had already eaten a meal in the village, this was just a midnight snack.

The fire was quiet, and there were occasional laughter, singing, and snoring from people who went to bed early.

The atmosphere of this convoy seemed calm and free.

But about half an hour later, a long whistle suddenly sounded.

"Shua!"

Everyone immediately became nervous, hurriedly pulled down the curtain, stepped on the fire, and went into the tent with a whoosh.

Lu Xin was still sitting outside and didn't react.

Zhou Xiaomao in the tent had already hurriedly poked his head out and shouted nervously: "Come in!"