#345 - Chapter 345 The Box Contains a Gun
Liao Shen Province, Andong City, urban area.
Andong City is located in the easternmost part of Liao Shen Province, bordering Goryeo.
"Good heavens, to think I'd see such an antique these days!"
"Spare the useless chatter, is it going to work or not?"
"Mayor Que, how can you say that? We make our living doing this; failure is not an option!"
Mayor Que, Que Xin, Mayor of Andong City, head of the Andong City Five Dragons Mountain Resettlement Area.
"Stop being glib, get it done quickly!" Mayor Que urged.
"Alright! You guys, come with me!" The man waved and called to the people behind him.
Before them was a train. An old-fashioned train that required burning coal.
This train had more than a dozen carriages, all black carriages used for hauling goods.
The glib-tongued man from earlier was named Xiong Fei, a train driver.
However, he was no ordinary train driver; his father and his grandfather were both train drivers.
Under the influence of his family, Xiong Fei had shown a strong interest in trains since he was a child. He once bragged that there wasn't an old-fashioned train he couldn't drive.
Que Xin had called him here this time to try and start this train.
When Xiong Fei saw the train, he was happier than seeing his wife. He went up and down, climbed on top of the train, and then crawled under it, as if he was studying it, or perhaps checking for problems.
The others were arranged by him to find coal.
Coal is a very common thing in the Northeast region; every household needs it for heating, so there are many coal yards that stockpile it.
"Mayor Que, something's not right!" Xiong Fei said to Que Xin after looking at it for half an hour.
"What's not right?" Que Xin asked.
"This train wasn't made in our Hua country," Xiong Fei said.
"Indeed, it wasn't made in our country. What, can't you handle it?" Que Xin asked.
"Are you kidding? Is there anything I, Xiong Fei, can't handle? I was just curious and asked," Xiong Fei quipped.
"Good if you can handle it. Hurry up; we must drive the train back to the resettlement area before dark," Que Xin replied.
"Alright, leave it to me. Mayor Que, why don't you arrange for everyone to find coal? Many hands make light work," Xiong Fei directly made a request to Que Xin.
He had brought dozens of people with him this time, all resting in place not far away.
"Is there no coal on the train?" Que Xin asked.
"There is, but not enough. The little bit left probably won't even heat up the boiler," Xiong Fei replied.
"Alright!" Que Xin agreed.
The coal was found quickly.
Fortunately, they had driven a truck over when they came; otherwise, transporting the coal would not have been an easy task.
With the joint efforts of dozens of security team members, a truckload of coal was brought back in half an hour.
In the next half hour, Xiong Fei lit the fire, and the boiler finally boiled.
The train finally started. Que Xin assigned three people to Xiong Fei to do the physical work: adding coal to the furnace. Xiong Fei only needed to guide them from the side.
The others followed Que Xin and returned to the Five Dragons Mountain Resettlement Area ahead of time.
The Five Dragons Mountain Resettlement Area is not far from the city. Although the train was very slow, it arrived in two hours.
There was an abandoned train station here, and Que Xin was waiting on the platform overgrown with weeds.
"Mayor Que, you even specially waited for me at the station; I'm so touched!" After the train arrived, Xiong Fei got off the train and was deeply moved when he saw Que Xin standing not far away.
"You're thinking too much; I'm waiting for the goods," Que Xin glanced at him and replied.
"Hehe, it doesn't matter; in my opinion, it's the same thing," Xiong Fei replied with a smile.
"Alright, your mission is complete. Go back and rest. I'll call you next time the train departs," Que Xin instructed.
"It's okay, Mayor Que, I'm not tired," Xiong Fei shook his head.
"Go back!" Que Xin glanced at him again.
"... Oh!" Xiong Fei realized that Que Xin seemed unhappy, and he didn't dare to be glib anymore, and hurriedly slipped away.
"Go call them over and start unloading the train!" Que Xin said to the security captain next to him.
"Yes!" The security captain accepted the order and left.
Soon, about a thousand security team members entered the station in neat rows.
Under the arrangement of the security captain, everyone opened the doors of the train carriages and moved the heavy wooden boxes one by one from the train.
"Open it!" Que Xin walked to a wooden box and ordered the transporting security team member.
"Yes!" The security team member accepted the order and pried open the box.
"Hiss ~" The few people who saw the contents inside collectively sucked in a cold breath.
The boxes were full of wood shavings, and wrapped in the wood shavings were: guns!
The boxes in front of them were filled with K8 assault rifles.
Que Xin took out a gun, gestured with it, tested the feel, tested the aiming, and put it back. There were no bullets in the gun, so it couldn't be fired.
