When Shen Qi and the others returned to the Test Site 49, they were amazed. In just a few days, the entire area of land had been purified and properly cultivated, with seeds sown.
Shen Qi: "It seems... Miss doesn't need large agricultural machinery here."
Song Xiaozhu: "We don't need it for now."
Shen Qi glanced at the high-grade hoe and exclaimed repeatedly, "As expected of you, as expected of you!"
Song Xiaozhu asked him, "How are the contacts with the other Testing Ground going?"
Shen Qi said solemnly, "Miss, rest assured, the Dharma City has already chosen to submit, and the other Testing Ground are merely..."
It's just a matter of time. The tools you've synthesized are incredibly attractive to them. If you add the land purifier and seeds... everyone in the 99 Testing Ground will be completely devoted to you!
Song Xiaozhu shook her head. "No need, as long as they can successfully develop their own industry, that's fine."
Shen Qi: "The group's experts will help them."
Song Xiaozhu: "Mm."
With Shen Qi and the New Han-Tang behind him, Song Xiaozhu could easily take control of the surrounding Testing Ground.
If the contact is made in the name of Liu Family Village, most of the survivors of the Testing Ground will be suspicious. After all, as fellow refugees of the Testing Ground, they will find it hard to believe that the people of Liu Family Village can help them.
The New Han-Tang are different. Even though they have only recently become independent, they still have a strong enough deterrent effect on the people in the Testing Ground.
With the addition of Shen Qi's comrades and the well-established organizational structure of the group, along with Song Xiaozhu's synthetic materials, the survivors of the Testing Ground were quickly brought together to begin rebuilding their homes.
Unlike Li Shihai, Song Xiaozhu did not simply and crudely replicate the Testing Ground. Instead, she provided a large number of high-quality tools, basic light meals, and clean water.
The survivors had to do everything themselves.
A month passed in the blink of an eye.
The first batch of vegetable seeds have sprouted and grown. The villagers stand in the thin sunlight, looking at the patches of green on the brown soil, their faces beaming with bright smiles.
That smile was so infectious; it seemed to make even the sky bluer.
Looking through the drone, Song Xiaozhu felt a mix of relief and emptiness.
The sun, the sky, and the land.
Tender, vibrant green vegetables grew in the breeze, many of which Song Xiaozhu recognized.
These were foods that Song Xiaozhu originally disliked, but now she couldn't wait to rush over and take a big bite.
But...
Song Xiaozhu could only watch through the drone patrol aircraft.
The Quantum Light Shield and Quantum Anti-Aircraft Cannon protected the "base," protected Song Xiaozhu, and seemed to imprison her as well.
The villagers were afraid to let her out.
She herself became increasingly afraid to go out.
Since Fan Cang's death, the ranking of those God-Favored in Today's News has remained unchanged, as if it had been paused.
The Slaughter Value of Shang Xiaoyue, Gao Mingshu, and Su Wenjun all stopped.
And that Blank number 199, it's still hanging at the very end.
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What changed was another ranking.
Song Xiaozhu's Leadership Value soared every day, from 18 million to 36 million, then to 80 million, and finally to over 100 million.
This is no longer the Leadership Value contributed by the villagers of the Test Site 49, but comes from the 99 Testing Ground and from an increasing number of beneficiaries.
They had never met Song Xiaozhu, but they felt grateful because they used the tools she made and ate the food and water she purified.
As shops opened one after another, Tian Man and Luo Liuzi each had their own teams. They reported back to Song Xiaozhu every day, bringing back countless Leadership Value.
Occasionally there would be some Transaction Value, but since Song Xiaozhu did not choose to profit, this Transaction Value was so small as to be negligible.
Everything is moving in a positive direction.
But Song Xiaozhu remained uneasy. She knew that the hunter lurking in the shadows was watching her menacingly.
Song Xiaozhu can establish a new "base," but only if she moves to the next survivor settlement to deploy a new Quantum Light Shield and install a new Quantum Anti-Aircraft Cannon.
Just like in Test Site No. 49, if Song Xiaozhu wants to establish a new "base", she needs to go to the Scavenger Community to complete it.
But the short distance of just a few miles from Liu Family Village to the community, a distance that has been reclaimed into farmland and planted with crops... is a distance that Song Xiaozhu finds difficult to cross.
He knew the rules of "Al-Qaeda" very well.
He was waiting for her to leave.
When she could no longer bear it, she left the "base".
--This is a silent battle.
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Meeting room in Liu Family Village.
Xiao Tong: "I'll take Miss out for a walk. It's safe outside now!"
Xiao Yunjie frowned.
Liu Xuangang also said, "If the entire Guard Team follows, there shouldn't be any problem, right?"
Song Xiaozhu never mentioned it, but everyone present could sense her sullenness.
That's something you can't hide no matter how hard you try; anyone who cares about her will definitely notice it.
As the weather gets colder, vegetable seeds can no longer be planted, but crops are in the process of building up their strength. When the temperature rises in spring, they will be able to harvest their first batch of grain.
Life is getting better and better, and everyone's life is becoming more and more hopeful, but the person who gave them all this is trapped in a "cage", with a faint cloud of sorrow between his brows.
Song Xiaozhu was only sixteen or seventeen years old; no matter how mature she was, she was still at an age where she was naturally carefree.
She also wanted to go out and see the world, to walk on the cleansed land, to smell the fresh scent of the soil, and to see the beautiful scene of sunlight falling on tender buds, adding a touch of golden light to the green.
Xiao Tong had been holding back for a long time, but Xiao Yunjie had been keeping him in check.
"The struggle for God-Favored has only been paused, not ended."
"If they don't move, we don't move either. When will this ever end?"
"Let's wait, let's wait a little longer."
Xiao Tong was anxious, but he knew that his young lady's safety was the most important thing. He clenched his fists and sighed heavily, "If only... if only my young lady had that mechanical sword!"