CHAPTER 334: CHAPTER 151: RECEPTION

The woman across fed the jerky from the porridge to the child in her arms and then answered:

"As long as we work, there’s food — cutting trees, making bricks, farming..."

"We should have come here earlier. If only we had known the adults would accept us, my child..."

The woman didn’t continue, and Jiang Yu didn’t press any further.

She turned back thoughtfully, looking at those "Huaxia Army" gathered together, seemingly celebrating something.

They were indeed accepting refugees.

Moreover, they provided refugees with decent treatment.

There was even meat in the porridge.

Though for residents of Qian Island Lake Town, this wasn’t considered as overly superior conditions.

Looking at the whole world, what these Huaxia Army were doing could be considered exceedingly benevolent.

It’s to be noted, those refugees who seek refuge with the Mechanical God Sect won’t get such treatment.

Most likely, they’d be stuffed into some factory and barely survive amidst dust and smoke.

The visible damage caused by such a harsh environment is evident.

Clearly, the refugees before her eyes haven’t been treated this way.

The woman looked rosy, the child’s face even had some flesh.

Seeing this was more than enough.

Most of her doubts had been answered, enough to explain to her people.

Maybe she should hurry back.

But Jiang Yu couldn’t help wanting to look more.

After all, what she saw in her eyes was indeed very different.

Huge machinery, hot steel, bright lights, towering buildings...

There were also many weapons that looked extremely powerful at one glance.

Even in the once-visited Jinling City, she hadn’t seen these things.

Jiang Yu wandered around the open space, and whenever she wanted to enter the "restricted" areas, the drone hovering above her would gently remind her.

"Ahead is a restricted area, explore later."

Jiang Yu obediently followed the instructions, not stepping into the restricted zone.

And once she had seen everything she could, she had already made up her mind.

She walked towards the man who had previously talked with her, and respectfully said:

"Sir, I have seen everything."

Chen Jian put down his chopsticks upon hearing, and asked in a tone of "nothing unexpected":

"When will you come over? Do you need help?"

"I will return to Qian Island Lake Town soon, it may take a few days to bring them over."

"We have 245 people. Though it’s quite a lot, we have some food ourselves, so you don’t need to worry about food for us..."

"No problem."

Chen Jian waved his hand to interrupt Jiang Yu, then said:

"Just bring people over."

"These number of people we can surely sustain."

"However, we have a lot of work here right now. Once you arrive, you won’t have time to rest, you need to immediately start production."

"Certainly."

Jiang Yu nodded solemnly, then replied:

"We are willing to exchange labor for everything, including the protection provided by the Huaxia Army."

"We will believe in Supreme Saint Eight One, and serve Supreme Saint Eight One as..."

"Hold on first."

Listening to the girl’s slightly "awkward" speech, Chen Jian laughed and asked:

"Supreme Saint Eight One’s name reached you already?"

"...Yes."

Jiang Yu nodded slowly.

"Interesting indeed..."

Chen Jian shook his head and said:

"No matter what doctrines or gods you believed before, I must tell you something."

"After arriving here, don’t mention your god again."

"The Huaxia Army doesn’t believe in gods, we ensure freedom of religion here but no preaching in non-religious places, okay?"

"Huh?"

Jiang Yu was stunned.

For a moment, her mind was filled with many chaotic thoughts.

But once all these thoughts converged, she only managed to squeeze out one sentence:

"Then in Jinling New City... where is... a religious place?"

"There isn’t for now."

Chen Jian casually replied, then continued:

"Maybe there will be in the future, but I cannot assure that."

"Anyway, first bring people over."

"But before you return... have you eaten yet?"

"If not, sit down and have a bite?"

Jiang Yu looked at Chen Jian blankly, after several seconds of silence, she finally said:

"Thank you, I need to return as soon as possible."

"Could you help me pack some?"

"I’ll eat on the way."

....

Two hours later.

The celebration party was over, Chen Jian sat near the stove outside the main channel door of the 011 facility, roasting the fire and gazing at the incredibly bright Milky Way in the night sky.

Not far from him, Huang Meng was doing extra training with the only refugee who performed well, had ideological compliance, and was just approved to join the Huaxia Army; the shouting and reprimanding slightly piercing in the quiet night.

Shen Yue, Lei Jie the two of them sat by Chen Jian’s side, watching with interest as Huang Meng trained the new recruit.

"Does it remind you of when you were a new soldier?"

Lei Jie asked.

"...I wasn’t like this when I was a new soldier."

Chen Jian clicked his tongue twice and answered:

"I had handled guns during high school military training; when I joined the troops later, I immediately adapted without having a transition period."

"...The military training at your place was indeed fierce."

Lei Jie was speechless, then asked:

"Do you think that young girl who came today can bring people over?"

"It’s a straight-line distance of over two hundred kilometers, carrying over two hundred people, she didn’t even ask for our assistance—isn’t it challenging?"

"Don’t know."

Chen Jian shook his head and said:

"Originally, I planned to offer high rewards for bones, arranging people to receive them."

"But now, since she didn’t mention it, I have no reason to actively say it."

"After all, there will be more and more refugees relying on us in the future, wave after wave if we go meet them, we might not handle it."

"But I do think her ability is good."

"Her mind is very clear, the personality quite open, as for physical strength... according to Shen Yue, adding the time we delayed in Jinling, just over four days to cover over 200 kilometers, surely her endurance is unquestionable."

"I suspect whether she has the Holy Blood’s gene, Shen Yue, do you think it’s possible?"

"I don’t know, at that time when in Qian Island Lake Town, I didn’t look carefully, just remembered she seemed indeed quite brave, even grabbed two people when running away."

Shen Yue sighed, then answered:

"Back then I was busy thinking about those two rocket rounds... but she might not necessarily have come purely by foot, that Qian Island Lake Town has abundant fishery resources, has trade with several surrounding large human cities, might have taken a ride with Mechanical God Sect?"

"That’s also good."

Chen Jian thoughtfully said:

"If she can open this route, the difficulty of subsequent migration will also be greatly reduced."

"Seems we still need to trust the masses’ power, isn’t this precisely a fine talent?"

"In any case, we should also prepare to receive."

"The equipment He Shuo wanted has started production, it can be put into assembly in about two days."

"The warehouse construction part, let the newcomers do it."

"Give them some work, also helps them settle down quickly."

"Understood."

"No problem."

Lei Jie, Shen Yue both answered one after another, Chen Jian then asked:

"Lei Jie, did you look at those two rocket rounds?"

"How’re they, are they in good condition? Can we use them?"

"I just went and took a quick glance."

Lei Jie replied:

"Should be usable, but the fuel surely is expired."

"If we find a way to get some fuel back, we should be able to fire them."

"But it’s not urgent, right? Do we have anything to hit?"

"No, not for now."

Chen Jian shook his head but quickly said:

"However, if we can indeed recover soon... I want to test fire one."

"Where would you fire it? Mountain City?"

Lei Jie frowned.

"I wouldn’t suggest hitting Mountain City, its situation is still unclear."

"If that’s really a city built by AI, already with complete industrial capacity, destroying it directly would be too regrettable..."

"Rest assured, I’m not that foolish."

Chen Jian stood up, patted the soil that stuck to his clothes, then said:

"What I want to hit, is that Whale Catfish."

"It’s a level-one monster, also an ideal ’demonstration specimen’."

"I want to use this missile to stage a performance battle before everyone in this world."

"I want them to see we have the ability to easily destroy level-one monsters."

"And, the ability to destroy them without harm!"