"Say that again, and I'll beat you up!"

The old man raised his hand, intending to hit Bai Jiu, but Bai Jiu grabbed his hand.

"Hey, cannon fodder, stop showing off. You won't admit you're cannon fodder? Are you convinced now? I can easily take you down with one hand, believe it or not."

Seeing the tension escalating between them, Bai Shuang feared they might actually start fighting. "Bai Jiu, that's enough, let go, the cannon... Oh, Wang Yuantu knows you're doing this for his own good."

Several researchers nearby also tried to persuade him.

"Old Wang, if that kid really confused you, it's for your own good."

"Exactly, with your build, honestly, you really have the potential to be cannon fodder."

"Alright, that kid saved us, so stop making a fuss."

From then on, Academician Wang was nicknamed "cannon fodder".

Seeing that everyone was speaking up for him, Bai Jiu looked at the old man defiantly.

Academician Wang's anger, which he had just suppressed, flared up again, and he looked up and glared at Bai Jiu.

Speaking of Wang Yuantu, he also has the personality of an old playful child, which makes him a perfect match for Bai Jiu.

Bai Shuang quickly changed the subject, "The culprit who harmed you is still alive; he's outside right now."

Upon hearing this, the men got angry immediately, grabbed their weapons, and headed outside.

Seeing that Old Man Wang was still in a daze, Bai Jiu called out, "Pao Pao, hurry!"

Academician Wang rushed over with a "whoosh," it was unclear whether he was rushing over to beat up Bai Jiu or to fight the villain.

Bai Shuang shook her head as she watched, while Lu Yu and the others watched with great interest.

With Bai Jiu and the others with them, Bai Shuang felt reassured.

She believed that those unconscious villains wouldn't need Bai Shuang to wake them up; she was sure they would be beaten awake in a few moments.

In the hall, those who had been enslaved were confronting those who had been disarmed and spared from death.

These days, I've been locked up, beaten, and humiliated. I've been treated like a slave, stripped of all human dignity, and have witnessed one tragedy after another. If I'm even slightly unlucky, I could die a horrible death...

They had the opportunity and the backing of others, so they wanted to have a big fight with them.

However, since Bai Shuang and the others have participated, they won't be allowed to fight amongst themselves.

Bai Shuang: "The government will handle their affairs. You've finally been given a new lease on life, so live well from now on and don't lose your lives here."

If a fight really breaks out, those slaves are all skin and bones, pale and emaciated. How could they possibly be a match for those thugs?

They used this time to check the supplies of the evil forces.

Upon opening the door, we saw that they had quite a lot of grain, easily thirty or forty thousand catties, along with several hundred catties of salt, compressed biscuits, pork jerky, beef jerky, at least five or six hundred catties, several boxes of instant noodles, three diesel generators, and more than twenty barrels of fuel oil, etc.

The bags they brought in when they escaped contained various kinds of beef jerky, pork jerky, and ham, weighing at least 100 pounds. Another bag was filled with various machetes, long knives, small knives, steel pipes, and stun guns.

"I'll only take one-third of these supplies; the remaining two-thirds are a donation to your military camp."

Those people still need to eat, and those scientists still need to be settled; Bai Shuang won't really take everything away.

"You conquered Yangling City, and you're only keeping a third of it? Isn't that a bit too little?"

Bai Shuang: "That's enough, there aren't enough of us."

"Thank you, Shuangshuang."

After dealing with this place, when Bai Shuang and the others left, several researchers had also tortured those bad guys beyond recognition.

Seeing Bai Shuang and the others approach, one of the older men said to the others, "Alright, that's enough. We've avenged those dead children. Let's kill them."

Now that I've taken care of these things, it's time to go back.

When Lu Yu and his group arrived, they only used two boats. This time, they need to carry those scientists and supplies, and even with Bai Shuang's boats, it won't be enough.

As for those who were enslaved, they agreed to live locally and were given some food.

Those who were disarmed and spared execution were Lu Yu's business; Bai Shuang didn't care.

At this moment, Lu Yu has already sent people back to bring ships and men.

For lunch, with so many people, we could only eat the instant noodles and beef jerky we had seized that day.

But for the few researchers who were starving, it was an unparalleled delicacy. They hadn't eaten food in a long time, and when they picked up their bowls, tears streamed down their faces.

After the meal, the scientists packed up, as they were leaving and had some things to take with them.

Bai Shuang and the others, together with Lu Yu, took a boat to visit several buildings in Yangling City that had emerged from the water. Before the water receded, only the rooftops of these buildings should have been visible.

Bai Shuang recalled how prosperous Yangling was before the natural disaster, but now it had become a body of water. She wondered if any of the little dogs she had seen back then were still alive.

I wonder how that saleswoman Feng An is doing now? And that interesting old gatekeeper, I remember her encounter with Lu Yu.

"Lu Yu, is that friend who was with you when you came to Yangling last time still alive?"

"He's fine. He was rescued during the first rescue attempt."

Why did you suddenly ask about him?

"Remembering what happened last time I was here, I thought I'd ask?"

Lu Yu: "You're here, but where's the snow leopard?"

"We've arranged for someone else to take care of it; it was injured last time and is still recovering."

Lu Yu: "Preserve as many of those seeds as possible. Who knows what the situation will be after a natural disaster? Seeds are the spark for humanity."

Bai Shuang nodded.

They entered the first building, where all the usable furniture had been moved away. Apart from the walls, there was nothing there. After they had left, the group took a speedboat to the second building.

The second building was probably farther from the crowd than the first, and the situation inside was better; at least the floor hadn't been torn up. The rest were no different from the first building.

Lu Yu: "Are we still going to Building 3?"

"Go ahead, since we're already here, let's treat it as sightseeing."

The third building is shorter, and you can tell from the mud plaster on the walls that only the roof should have been left before the water receded.

A few people went in through the window. This place was rather secluded, and it seemed that few people had been here before. The group looked through almost all the rooms.

Just as they were about to turn around and board the boat, a figure swiftly passed by, followed by another.

The men became alert, immediately grabbed their guns, and searched in the direction where the shadow had disappeared.

Bai Shuang's intuition told her that the two figures she had just seen were animals, and judging from their fleeting movements, they were herbivores. If they were carnivores, they would have given off a sense of oppression.

But this one doesn't.

Since they are herbivores, during natural disasters when food is extremely scarce, they should be very hungry and crave grass.

Thinking of this, Bai Shuang took out a handful of grass from her pocket, which was actually her spatial storage. The grass, which she watered with spiritual spring water, was very fragrant.

Curious, Lu Yu asked in a low voice, "Where did you get that grass?"

Bai Shuang: "I just pulled it from a flowerpot on the balcony."

The group continued walking, and finally, they heard a noise, like the footsteps of an animal...