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Chapter 168 The Hunt Begins Prelude

Just now, after realizing that Yangguai stayed in place as if he had lost his soul, no matter how others called him from a distance, the three of them walked over together to prevent anything from happening.

After walking to the front, what caught the eyes of the three of them was the scene of Shura field.It also made them freeze in place first, and then their eyes quickly turned blood red!The mouthful of steel teeth clenched tightly together.The muscles at the jaw bone swelled up rapidly!

In this depression right in front, countless corpses lay in it!Men, women, old, young people of all ages crowded together densely, lying quietly on this piece of already bone-chilling cold land.The blood flowing from their bodies dyed the ground of the entire depression red!
"Leader, look what that is!" Zhu Shengzhong said, pointing to a row of shadows in the distance.

Ma Chao looked in the direction Zhu Shengzhong pointed, and under the dark sky, he couldn't see very clearly, so he could only walk forward!

"Ah... I, Ma Chao, swear here!!! If I don't take revenge, I swear I won't be human!!!" Ma Chao stepped forward, and after seeing clearly Roared! ! !
Then, his legs fell to his knees on the muddy ground, and he plunged his head deeply into the blood-soaked mud, covering his face and crying!It was a row of children who were supposed to be innocent and carefree. Now, all the damned little devils were strangled on this extremely cold land!
"Follow me! Go and avenge these innocent people!!!" After Ma Chao kowtowed three more times to these innocent people who had been murdered, he stood up, gritted his teeth, and held back his breath from the depths of his soul. After saying those words, he turned around and walked towards the main road.

The other three also suppressed the sadness in their hearts, and followed closely behind Ma Chao with hatred in their hearts, and walked forward.

When he came to the mainland, Ma Chao watched the surrounding environment like a falcon, not letting go of any possible clues.

Soon, Ma Chao found it beside the road.It was an empty matchbox and a few cigarette butts, which fell in the grass by the side of the road. They were so gorgeously packaged, so conspicuous in the withered grass.

"That's the direction, let's go!" Ma Chao said with certainty after picking it up and inspecting it.After explaining to the other three people, he rushed forward immediately.

The reason why Ma Chao is so sure of the enemy's tracks is very ridiculous now.But in today's era, there is sadness in the ridiculousness.

Who of you has ever seen the thing of buying matches by root, it seems very ridiculous.But this was precisely the daily state of the masses during the Republic of China.

The domestic match industry started not too late. In [-], the Shanghai Manufacturing Bureau produced China's first box of matches and named it the Monkey Horse brand.

However, in the ensuing time, Houma brand matches did not enter thousands of households, but disappeared in the long river of history.In the Chinese market, the matches produced by Japan appeared the most, which accounted for more than half of the domestic match market share at that time.The remaining share is occupied by other European and American companies, which is why matches are called matches.

Even if it blossomed everywhere in the country later, many match manufacturers appeared, but they were all foreign businessmen who set up production plants in China in order to reduce costs.

It was not until [-] that Liu Hongsheng founded Hongsheng Match Company in Suzhou, and hired Lin Tianji, a professor of chemistry at Hujiang University and a doctor of chemistry who had just returned from studying in the United States, as the chief engineer with a high salary.This ended the history of the Chinese being unable to produce matches.

In 52, Sweden's Phoenix brand matches, which monopolized the Chinese match market at that time, dumped them on China because of the low cost of their products, trying to crush China's national match industry.Faced with the aggressive situation of Swedish Match, Liu Hongsheng quickly took measures to form a joint venture with Yingsheng and Zhonghua to form the Greater China Match Company. Soon he joined forces with [-] match factories across the country to establish the National Match Industry Federation in Shanghai to jointly boycott Swedish Match. .

By 20.00, the products of the Greater China Match Company had occupied [-]% of the domestic market share. Since then, it has merged with Jiujiang Yusheng Factory, Hankou Xiechang Factory, Zhenjiang Yingchang Factory and other match factories to become China Match Trust. , Greater China Match repelled Swedish Match and occupied more than half of the Chinese match market. Liu Hongsheng became the match king during the Republic of China.

Although domestic matches have completely occupied the main position in the market.But the already poor people are still discouraged by the price of matches.But food is an indispensable necessity in life, so buying and selling matches by root has become a matter of course.

Then, in the general environment, the match buying and selling are all calculated according to the root, so the corresponding matchboxes will not have many opportunities to appear, and this thing will not be so common.

This, along with a few cigarette butts scattered around the matchbox, proved that at least one group of people had gathered here to smoke.Ma Chao took a special look at the cigarette butts, they were all of the same brand.Just ask, if it is ordinary people, who would buy this kind of packaged cigarettes?

Don't make trouble, although tobacco companies have already appeared in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.However, cigarettes are something that ordinary people cannot afford at all.Although hawkers selling cigarettes appeared very frequently in many movies and TV dramas of the Republic of China, but they sold them in whole packs, and the number of appearances was very small.If it is rare to buy and sell matches according to the number of sticks, then selling cigarettes by stick is a common thing in the life of the Republic of China.

Not to mention that a box of cigarettes is sold on the street. Anyone who dares to do business like that will definitely lose money and not even have any pants left.At some point, a whole pack of cigarettes can be used directly as currency.Ordinary people, on the other hand, buy ready-made shredded tobacco, use cigarette pouches and pans or roll cigarettes by themselves.

In addition, this time here is already a war zone.Ordinary people would not gather here to smoke at this time when they have nothing to do.Therefore, Ma Chao felt that there was at least a [-]% certainty that this trace was left by the little devil.

After confirming that this line is [-]% sure, it is enough to drive Ma Chao to move forward along this line.Big deal, just go back.

After all, what he was wearing at this time was the military uniform of a little devil.Coupled with the fact that I can speak Japanese, I am not afraid of the risk of exposure at all.

Having lived up to his hard work and continued to explore along this road, Ma Chao discovered a lot of traces, and the confidence in his heart became higher and higher.

(End of this chapter)