Cheng Zhen didn't press the matter further and agreed immediately.
Jiang Ling kept his word and quickly arranged for a large number of laborers to help them build the city wall. They were all able-bodied young men from Zhusha City without any special abilities, which showed that he was very sincere in his cooperation.
She urged Cheng Zhen, "We only have ten days to complete the mission. When are you leaving the city?"
“We can set off immediately.” Since it was a transaction between the two parties, he was very sincere.
Because he refused to complete all the tasks, Zhang Hao had to arrange for people to go out of the city to cut bamboo.
Cheng Zhen had seen the direction they were heading, so he chose a direction where no other group was going.
As luck would have it, it was in the same direction as their former Xiangcheng.
Cheng Zhen entrusted the safety of the camp to Long Wanzhi, and then set off with his team and Jiang Wan.
The twins naturally accompanied them, and their group consisted of more than a dozen off-road vehicles, with Jiang Wan's RV in the middle.
Compared to the teams that went to other directions to cut bamboo, they traveled very lightly, without even a truck.
Jiang Ling stood on the city wall, watching them leave into the distance, her gaze deep and unfathomable.
Someone next to her asked, "Are they trying to fool us? Not a single truck has left. How are they going to transport 200 tons of bamboo back?"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Ling gave a lukewarm snort, "Country bumpkins! Do they even need a truck?"
Her gaze fell in the direction of the refugee camp, her tone low, and if you listened carefully, you could hear a hint of bitterness in her voice:
"Don't underestimate these people. There are quite a few space ability users among them. It's just 200 tons of bamboo. Do you really think we need a dozen or twenty trucks?"
The people below fell silent.
Although they did not refute it, they couldn't help but think to themselves: Didn't the team sent out by Lord Zhang just drive a lot of trucks? They even fought over the few oxygen storage trucks, and the scene became quite ugly.
Jiang Ling remained silent, her expression unreadable. With so many spatial ability users, she wondered how much supplies they had stored up.
With Jiang Xiaoxin accompanying them, they quickly pinpointed the exact location where bamboo thrived. Furthermore, Cheng Zhen and Jiang Xiaoshu released their purifying abilities along the way, isolating the mutated plants from their intrusion, so they arrived at their destination in no time.
This whole hillside is covered in bamboo.
Yu Fen's eyes lit up as he looked at the bamboo: "So much bamboo! It must weigh more than 200 tons. We're lucky; we can complete the mission in just one place."
His thinking was simple: finish the 200-ton task as soon as possible and then hurry back.
Cheng Zhen then asked Jiang Xiaoxin, "Besides this area of mountains where bamboo grows abundantly, where else can we find it?"
They don't need all kinds of bamboo; it has to be one of the types listed on the Dragon City task list, the kind of bamboo that giant pandas like to eat.
Jiang Xiaoxin issued the sensing task and then said to Cheng Zhen, "It will take a little time."
Cheng Zhen wasn't in a hurry anyway, so he told Jiang Wan to stay in the car with the children, and then went up the mountain with Yu Fen and the others to cut bamboo.
This place is not far from the former Xiangcheng; it takes about half a day to drive here.
The twins had slept the whole way here and were starving, so Jiang Wan used the small electric stove in the RV to cook them a meal.
There is fragrant white rice, braised chicken with perfect color, aroma and taste, and fresh green vegetables.
She also steamed some white flour buns and corn for Cheng Zhen and the others. Because the kitchen space in the RV was limited, she could only steam and cook them in batches. Fortunately, she had a tree hole space, so she put all the cooked buns and corn in the space and wasn't worried about the food getting cold.
After finishing a bowl of white rice, Jiang Xiaoxin still wanted to try some golden sweet corn.
Jiang Wan couldn't help but chuckle when she saw how greedy the twins looked. The corn being steamed on the stove wasn't cooked yet, so she casually took out two ears of corn from the tree hole space and gave one to each of the twins.
The sweet corn was still steaming hot from being cooked, and it burned their two small, fair hands, making them slightly red. It was so hot that the two children couldn't hold it. They put the corn on the small table and blew on it, trying to cool it down quickly.
Jiang Wan smiled as she watched their childish actions.
However, the peaceful atmosphere inside the RV soon disappeared.
Jiang Wan suddenly heard a strange sound outside, like birds pecking at the roof of their RV.
"Duh, duh."
The sound wasn't loud, but it was quite frequent.
The twins looked up at the same time, no longer paying attention to the fragrant and tempting sweet corn.
Jiang Xiaoshu frowned and said, "I sensed murderous intent."
Jiang Xiaoxin had not activated her sensory abilities before, so she did not know what was outside.
Jiang Wan stood at the window and looked up at the mountain. There were large patches of green bamboo that had been cut down. There was no danger in sight, either in the sky or on the ground.
"Mommy, it's a monster!"
Jiang Xiaoxin had just given an order to the mutated plants in the vicinity when she received a response. The response only said that they were monsters, but she herself did not know what kind of monsters they were.
But soon, they saw what the monster looked like.
The monster that had been pecking at the roof of the RV suddenly flew down and appeared in front of the window. It was very large, about the size of a square table when its wings were fully spread. It looked like a large bird, but also resembled a bee. It had a thick, long and sharp stinger at the end of its tail, which gleamed with a blackish-purple luster in the sunlight.
If Jiang Wan hadn't noticed anything unusual when she encountered the Xingxing before, upon seeing this bird-like monster outside the window, she instinctively blurted out, "Qin Yuan!"
"What Qin Yuan?" The twins sensed danger the moment they saw the Qin Yuan and asked in unison, "What kind of monster is it?"
After asking the question, Jiang Xiaoshu activated her purification ability, enveloping the entire RV and blocking the monster's invasion.
Jiang Wan swallowed hard, suppressing her tension and fear. After confirming that the Qin Yuan posed no threat to their safety, she said:
"It's the ferocious beast Qin Yuan recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The needle at the end of its tail is highly poisonous; whatever it stings—birds, beasts, people, or even plants and trees—will die!"
The twins were still young and hadn't read the Classic of Mountains and Seas yet, but Jiang Xiaoshu flipped through a picture book based on the content of the Classic of Mountains and Seas and saw a portrait of Qin Yuan in it, which looked very similar to the monster in front of him.
He couldn't help but wonder, "Didn't they say that all the creatures recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are extinct? Why are they still appearing?"
Jiang Wan couldn't explain this either. Most importantly, how did they survive without oxygen outside?
"Not only that, but the Xingxing mentioned earlier was also a creature recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas."
Jiang Wan was filled with questions and couldn't figure out what was going on.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Xiaoxin became very anxious and pointed to the distant mountains, exclaiming, "Wouldn't they be in great danger?"
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