"Everyone, it's been a long time."
Origin Hall was exceptionally spacious, allowing Lincon's voice to echo clearly amid the rustling of countless spirit plants.
He faced the crowd with a smile at the corners of his mouth, as though greeting old friends he had not seen in a long while.
"City Lord, it's been a long time!" Zhang Rui took a deep breath, suppressing the excitement in his heart.
At that moment, sincere smiles appeared on everyone's faces.
With Lincon back, it was as if they had found their backbone again, and they could look forward to everything with greater hope.
"It's good that you returned safely. Everything in Longwind City is well—better than before, even."
Zhang Rui was right. Before leaving, the Hive Legion had nearly wiped out all the higher-level dark creatures in Jiangzhou. It would not have been an exaggeration to call Jiangzhou the safest region in all of Divine Land now.
"I saw it all. You've done very well."
Lincon gave Zhang Rui an approving look, then sat in the seat of honor and opened the meeting agenda placed before him. It listed the topics for this meeting.
He was actually rather helpless about this routine of holding a meeting as soon as he returned.
But as the leader, if he wanted to quickly understand Longwind City's affairs and meet the managers under his command, a meeting was the fastest way.
"Let's get to business first."
Lincon folded his hands on the table. "There are around seventy thousand people in the group I brought back from the Great Wall Defense Line. Most of them are families of frontline soldiers and research personnel, while some are camp residents who followed us from Capital Province."
"I won't ask too much about their resettlement, but one principle must be