Bring Interstellar to the end of the world

Chapter 183 Johnson

He picked up the paper airplane and smiled.

Dog meat whimpered over there, as if protesting Caiwei's breaking of promises, who would blink first as agreed?

The ghoul asked him what happened to General Wang.

Tang Yan briefly described what happened outside.

"Johnson? I really want to see what kind of person this Yankee who came to the Asian continent to find relatives is like."

"Okay then, you and I will go to the Wanderer Bar at eight o'clock in the evening."

"I'm going too." Caiwei looked into his eyes and said.

Of course Tang Yan couldn't bear to refuse her, so he nodded and agreed, then suddenly turned his head to look at the balcony, "You can't go, honestly stay here to watch the house."

Gourou whimpered, lowered his head and tail, as if he was being ignored.

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In the evening, Tang Yan took Tan Zhen and Caiwei into a modified pickup truck and left Maxim's Cannery and drove to Gem City.

They didn't go to the vagabond's bar immediately, but went to Xia Xin's residence to rest for a while, and talked about the reaction of various forces after Xia Jicheng's post, and a series of changes that occurred after Comrade Jiao took over Wang Ming's post.

Until 7:30 in the evening, he bid farewell to Xia Xin, and took Caiwei and Tan Zhen to the bazaar.

When he came to the entrance of Pink Paradise, Tang Yan stood there for a long time, convinced that the girl inside did have a big change.

Tan Zhen joked that he ate what was in the bowl and what was in the pot.

Before Tang Yan could speak, Caiwei stretched out his left hand to hold his right arm, and looked at the ghoul with warning eyes.

"It's so scary..." The corpse ghost said scary, but there was no sign of fear on his face.

Tang Yan said: "I have always been curious about one thing. You ghouls...can you...well, you know..."

The ghoul's face was so gloomy that it almost dripped with water: "I don't understand."

Tang Yan led Caiwei forward and said without looking back: "Why are you so excited? I don't want to get the answer from you."

Just after he finished saying this, the girl looked back at the ghoul, and stated the facts in an emotionless tone: "Tang Yan, Tan Zhen has an ugly expression, is he sick?"

There is only one disease that a ghoul can suffer from, which is to burn out the brain and turn it into a crazy ghoul (living corpse).

Tan Zhen felt that he was not far from that step.

He couldn't tell whether Caiwei was really worried about him, or if she said that on purpose to cause him [-] critical hits.

In short... a couple of dogs and men in front!

"You..." His teeth hurt from hatred, but he didn't know what words to use to fight back.

At this time, a person passing by recognized Tang Yan's identity, exclaimed in his mouth, and his eyes shot out.

"It's Tang Yan..."

"Look, it's Tang Yan..."

"And, oh my God! Is this the love of his life he said on the radio?"

"What a beautiful girl."

"No wonder he has no interest in the White Widow..."

"That's natural. Just imagine that you have a Yan Ruyu in your family, would you still go looking for rotten cucumbers?"

Under the night of the wasteland, in the street market of Gem City, Caiwei is like a crystal bursting with colorful light, very bright and pure, and the girls standing at the entrance of Pink Paradise are crushed by her.

Tang Yan's appearance can only be said to be ordinary among the crowd, but for people in Gem City.If Caiwei is the most beautiful crystal under the night sky, Tang Yan is the unpretentious throne next to the crystal.

Some people also noticed the ghoul with a hateful face behind the two.

"Ghoul..."

"Ghoul? He... is Tan Zhen?"

"Tan Zhen? The one who replaced the boss of the ship?"

"Who else could he be?"

"His expression is so unlovable."

"I'm curious about what Tang Yan told him just now?"

"..."

Amid the discussion of the people around them, Tang Yan and the others turned into the block on the left and walked into a building with bright lights.

The Vagabond Bar is actually just south of Pink Paradise. If the latter is a place to release physical stress, the former is a place to release mental stress.

Like the people who live at the bottom of Gem City, they can't spend extra money to find women, but they can still afford a drink or something.

As a result, the Vagabond Bar became the busiest place in the entire bazaar at night.

In the era before the nuclear war, there were no entertainment venues like bars on this continent, only restaurants and hotels where you could drink.

In fact, even in the current environment, bars are rare in this continent.

The most important reason why Gem City has bars as a remote town is that Johnson lives here.

Gem City is not big, and the living environment is relatively cramped. The relationship between residents can be described as "seeing up and seeing down".

According to traditional Chinese culture, drinking is usually done by inviting a few friends, buying a pot of good wine, ordering some delicious dishes, and everyone has a good time drinking and joking about things around them.

After the outbreak of nuclear war, ordinary people can't even afford daily food, clothing, and housing, let alone throw a banquet and invite friends to chat.

After staying in Gem City, Johnson moved the European and American world over and built a Western bar, where most of the drinks served were whiskey and brandy from the West.

Because it can be sold by the cup and no side dishes are required, it is much more cost-effective than eating in hotels and restaurants in terms of per capita consumption.

At first, many people were not used to drinking it. After all, it is not a local drink. Later, they got used to it after drinking it more often. The business of the Wanderer Bar is getting better and better, and the flow of people is getting more and more popular.

It was still early when Tang Yan and Caiwei entered the door, there were not many people in the bar, and a man wearing sunglasses was playing with a small square cup in the corner.

Tang Yan noticed the scar on the man's neck. If it were further forward, he might not be able to sit here and drink. Instead, he could lie down in the dark and cramped cave and feel the fragrance of the earth.

On the other side of the table sat a middle-aged man with a shaved head, and opposite was a young girl in a seductive dress. Judging from the chrysanthemum-shaped lipstick mark on her wrist, she should be a girl from Pink Paradise.

When he first came to Jewel City, Xia Xin once told him that there are two types of girls in Pink Paradise.

One is female slaves who have signed an agreement to sell themselves, and the other is female workers who have signed a share agreement.

Presumably the woman in front of me belongs to the latter, and has a relatively high degree of freedom.

Not far from the door is the bar, inside the bar is a mahogany wine cabinet, which is filled with drinks from the western world, but there is also local liquor in the corner.

The waiter, who was wearing a vest, leather boots and a bow tie, stood at the bar wiping the goblet on his hand. He smiled and nodded politely when he saw Tang Yan and the others entering.

There were three men sitting on the high stools in front of the bar, with their backs to the door talking about something.

When Tan Zhen walked in from behind, a waiter stepped over.

The corpse ghost didn't recognize the waiter, but Tang Yan knew him. He was the one who sent General Wang back early in the morning.

"You're here." The waiter greeted Tang Yan respectfully, and when his gaze swept across Caiwei's face, a stunning brilliance appeared in his eyes.

"Yeah." Tang Yan nodded.

The waiter quickly came back to his senses, and quickly led the three of them to sit down at an empty table on the right, then looked at the timetable opposite, and said apologetically, "Mr. Return to the bar before 8 o'clock, please wait a while."

It's 7:42, less than 8 minutes to 20.

Tang Yan nodded and said: "Okay, let's wait for him for a while, you go to work."

The waiter turned and left.

After a while, he came back again, dragging a plate with three glasses of wine in his right hand.

Tang Yan and Tan Zhen had square cups with amber liquor inside.

Caiwei's cup has a slender handle and a triangular mouth. There are two green olives inside.

The waiter made a slow gesture and turned to leave.

Tang Yan looked at the wine glass in front of him with a hesitant expression - he was wondering whether to drink it.

Although Johnson has some kindness towards Lei Na and General Wang, God knows what the so-called "big deal" is.

Back in the rolling mill, because Zeng Hua had a good relationship with Da Liu, he also regarded Da Liu as a friend, and the result of his carelessness almost turned his lifeblood into Zhou Wenxin's collection.

It is said that once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of snake bites for ten years, and you will not dare to eat or drink anything handed to you by strangers.

"Don't you understand? This is called bourbon, also called whiskey." Tan Zhen finally found a chance to win back the game. He picked up the cup and took a big sip. Then he pointed at the cup in front of Caiwei and said, "That's a cocktail." cup."

"..."

Tang Yan didn't want to be as knowledgeable as he was. Judging from the ghoul's reaction, the drink was fine. He lifted the glass and took a sip, a strong smell of peat burrowed into his throat.

Caiwei picked up the cocktail glass, drank it all in one sip, took out the green olive at the bottom of the glass, and put it into her mouth facing Tan Zhen's helpless gaze.

She smiled sweetly, like sparkling water with ice.

The ghoul quickly looked away, looking at the man in sunglasses drinking alone at the bar.

The vast majority of human women either looked disgusted or fled when they saw his face. No one would smile like her, without disgust or fear in their eyes.

This reminded him of a person, a person he didn't want to think of, someone he didn't want to touch.

He raised his glass and drank the wine inside in one gulp.

Tang Yan saw that his mood fluctuated violently, so he couldn't help asking: "What's wrong with you?"

Tan Zhen didn't share his thoughts with him, and cast a wink at the man in sunglasses who was drinking alone at the bar: "If my guess is correct, that person should be a mercenary from the Yunmeng Mercenary Group."

"Yunmeng Mercenary Group?" Tang Yan frowned and took a sip of wine, which reminded him of Tian Lei.

Because of the evil deeds of the Yunmeng mercenary group, that poor girl ended up in the hands of slave traders and was sold to Pink Paradise.

From the perspective of the current situation, the Yunmeng mercenary group is a mercenary group that operates between Jicheng and Langya inhabited areas, and it is much stronger than the black-handed mercenary group in Gem City.

The outside world said that the Yunmeng Mercenary Group is very trustworthy. As long as the customer pays enough money, they will try their best to meet the customer's needs. There has never been a breach of contract, delay, fraud, etc.

However, according to Tian Lei's narration, the Yunmeng mercenary group took her parents' research results, but instead of fighting with the Wuxi Federal Republic as agreed, they sold her to slave traders.

Is Tian Lei lying, or is the Yunmeng mercenary group deceiving the world?

Also, what are the people from the Yunmeng Mercenary Group doing in Gem City?This is not their area of ​​activity.

Just as Tang Yan was squinting his eyes and thinking about the Yunmeng Mercenary Group, a person flashed in at the door, said a few words to the waiter, and walked directly towards the location of the three of them.

"Mr. Tang?" The unauthentic Mandarin woke him up and he looked at the man standing in front of the table.

"I'm the owner of the homeless bar, you can call me Johnson." While speaking, the man stretched out his right hand.

Big nose, very eye-catching big nose.

It seems that Europeans and Americans have a sexy big nose.

A big beard, from the sideburns to the chin.

It seems that Europeans and Americans like to grow beards very much. They don't think it is sloppy at all, but they think it is sexy.

In short, the most memorable part of Johnson is his big nose and beard.

Of course, his voice is also very distinctive, very deep, thick and powerful.

"Tang Yan." Tang Yan stood up and shook hands with him, and then introduced his companion: "She is Caiwei, and this is Tan Zhen."

"Miss Caiwei, nice to meet you." Johnson didn't kiss the back of her hand like the foreigners in the movie, but touched her palm with his fingertips very politely, then turned to Tan Zhen, not caring about the ghoul Ugly skin, shook hands with him vigorously: "Hello."

Tan Zhen stared into his eyes for a while before releasing his right hand, and replied, "Hello."

After seeing the ceremony, Johnson looked behind him.

The waiter is talking to the new arrival.

He pondered for a moment and said, "This is not the place for talking. You three, come with me." After that, he opened a small door next to him and entered the rear corridor.

The three of Tang Yan got up from their seats and walked forward behind Johnson.

When the noisy vocal music was covered by the door, Tan Zhen said a word.

"Those ornaments outside are all from the Western world. I'm curious how you got them."

Bourbon, brandy, cocktail glasses, bar chairs, waist doors, green olives... These things were very popular in Qindao City before the nuclear war.

In the wasteland era after the end of the nuclear war, it is definitely not easy for Johnson to build such a bar with a European and American style.

thump...

The footsteps stopped at the entrance of the corridor.

Johnson looked back at the corpse: "I think... everyone in Gem City should know where I come from."

As he said, most of the residents of Gem City know who he is and what his story is.

Johnson is an American. The reason why he traveled across the ocean to the Asian continent was to find his relatives... Anyway, when people asked him why he came to a foreign country, this was his answer.

Johnson's great-great-grandfather (great-grandfather's grandfather) was an airborne soldier of the US military before the outbreak of the nuclear war. He participated in the war against China and parachuted in the inland area.

It's a pity that this operation was unsuccessful. The Chinese military defeated the American troops, and many paratroopers were captured.

　Special thanks to 罒丒罒 for the reward of [-] starting coins.

　　Thanks to Yiren's husband, Weird Wang Fenghuang, a Tanji, Causs, meigo001, Supreme Commander Fby, Heavy Tank Attack, OdaNobunachi for their rewards.

　　This is from last week.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)