Site 721 had no cafés or restaurants, but it did have a library.
Not only that, it held quite a few books and had been built rather grandly. It was practically the largest "concrete building" in town.
Normally, school-age students attended classes in the morning while workers labored with the drilling crews, so the three "Academy people" who had returned home to visit family chose to meet there.
Ye Shi from The Alliance was there as well.
Jiang Xuezhou had originally planned to make everyone coffee, but Wu Xiaoxiao took the coffee pot from her as soon as she brought it out.
"I'll do it." The girl smiled shyly, faint dimples appearing on her cheeks.
Jiang Xuezhou did not refuse. She politely thanked her, then pulled out a chair and sat at the table.
Before long, four cups of coffee sat on the table.
Seeing all those expectant eyes turn toward him, Ye Shi, who had just taken a sip of coffee, immediately understood their meaning and gave a light cough.
"Where did I leave off last time?"
Li Xiang answered with shining eyes.
"The decisive battle on Bette Street!"
"Oh, right..." Ye Shi suddenly remembered, and old memories came flooding back with it.
Though, could that thing really be called a decisive battle?
Still, he had been the one telling it. Ye Shi cleared his throat, slipped back into the mood of that time, and continued.
Including Wu Xiaoxiao, who was still a surveyor back then, everyone listened with rapt attention.
However, just as he reached the beginning of The Alliance's industrialization, Li Xiang suddenly raised a hand and interrupted the story.
"Wait, there's something I don't understand... You said that most of The Alliance's earliest residents were wastelanders and liberated slaves. They had received no education at all