Jiang Wan and Cheng Zhen followed Jiang Ling to the territory ruled by Zhu Sha City, where City Lord Zhang received them on the top floor of the administration building.
Zhang Hao was of medium height, but he had a very sharp appearance with deep features and piercing, intimidating eyes, making him look like a very ambitious person.
He sat at the head of the long conference table, seemingly unaware of their arrival, looking down at a document in front of him.
Jiang Wan sneered inwardly. This is already an oxygen-deprived apocalypse, who is this domineering CEO-like busyness for? Does he think this is before the apocalypse?
She thought this to herself, but her face remained impassive as she sat down opposite Cheng Zhen.
Cheng Zhen pulled out the chairs, but they didn't sit at the conference table. Instead, they stood some distance away from it, as if they were just tired from walking and wanted to sit down and rest. They didn't seem to care about Lord Zhang at all.
Jiang Ling tried to remind them, and gave them all sorts of hints, but they ignored them.
"You may all leave."
At this point, Zhang Hao, who had been acting as if he was very busy, finally spoke.
When all the subordinates and bodyguards around them had left, and only the three of them remained in the large conference room, Zhang Hao finally looked up at them.
His gaze appeared casual, but he was actually carefully observing them in secret.
"How dare you!" The moment he opened his mouth, he exuded an air of official arrogance.
On the one hand, they reprimanded him for sitting down in front of him without him saying a word.
On the one hand, he was also dissatisfied and angry that they had built city walls outside Zhusha City without his permission.
He is the true lord of the city. No one in Vermilion City dares to act recklessly without his permission. How could he not be furious?
Right now, he felt that simply rebuking the other party was already giving them face.
If it weren't for Jiang Ling's sake, he would have tied up these two arrogant people and beaten them to death long ago!
Jiang Wanqing clearly saw the various emotions in his eyes, and Cheng Zhen also noticed the fleeting look of amazement in his eyes when a man looks at a woman.
He suddenly turned around, hooked and swung his long leg, and moved Jiang Wan's chair behind him.
From Zhang Hao's perspective, his view of Jiang Wan was blocked by Cheng Zhen.
Zhang Hao closed his eyes briefly, and when he opened them again, he had concealed all the emotions in his eyes, and his face once again displayed the majesty of a superior: "I suppose you are also very curious as to why I called you here today."
Neither of them answered; they listened quietly to what he would say next.
Their dismissive and disrespectful attitude infuriated Zhang Hao.
Although the two cities had never interacted before, they were just commoners, while he was the high and mighty city lord!
What lowly commoner dares to be arrogant in front of the city lord?!
But thinking about what he was about to say, he had no choice but to hold back, comforting himself: stay calm, deal with them after the mission is complete.
He took a deep breath and said, "Dragon City has issued a mission. Since you are now part of Vermilion City, it is necessary for you to share half of it."
Has Dragon City issued a mission?
But they had no idea that this was happening. Not only in Xiangcheng, but also on Long Wanzhi's side, there seemed to be no movement at all.
So, does this mean that Longcheng has already given up on them?
Are they no longer worthy of receiving missions from Dragon City because they lost their city?
Jiang Wan and Cheng Zhen felt a sinking feeling in their hearts at the same time.
It must be said that they did indeed guess the truth. Ever since their city was destroyed and they abandoned it to flee, they had become refugees. The former city landmarks such as Kowloon City and Xiang City had completely disappeared. They no longer belonged to any city and were just homeless refugees.
After a moment's thought, Cheng Zhen asked, "Tell me what the mission is first?"
"1000 tons of bamboo: cold arrow bamboo, arrow bamboo without bracts, white bamboo, walking stick bamboo, bamboo shoot, bitter bamboo, akebia, Bashan bamboo, any of these are acceptable, in short, the quantity must be 1000 tons."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Wan immediately confirmed: "These are all bamboo that giant pandas love to eat."
Zhang Hao smirked and said, "That's right, you're right."
His gaze toward Jiang Wan carried a deeper meaning: "I didn't expect you to know so much."
Cheng Zhen disliked his excessive gaze towards Jiang Wan, so she stood up, placed her hands on the conference table, met his gaze directly, and said coldly:
"Before the end of the world, giant pandas were our national treasure, loved by everyone. Although people were not allowed to keep or breed giant pandas privately, we all knew some of the most basic common sense."
He interrupted Zhang Hao's attempt to uncover Jiang Wan's deeper identity and then asked, "If we're to be responsible for 1,000 tons, what is the total number of tons?"
Zhang Hao gave a cold laugh: "What do you think?"
"Heh, what if we refuse?" Cheng Zhen's eyes were icy.
With a task of 1,000 tons, he now has reason to suspect that this man surnamed Zhang has ulterior motives; perhaps the task is not 1,000 tons at all.
He deliberately exaggerated in order to make things difficult for them.
To complete the task of transporting 1,000 tons of bamboo within ten days would require a great deal of manpower and resources. So where would they find the manpower to build the city wall?
Zhang Hao curled his lips into a cold smile: "You should be able to guess by now that Longcheng has given up on you."
Now the entire southern region is under the jurisdiction of my Cinnabar City. All tasks issued by Dragon City in the future will be handled by our Cinnabar City.
This means the mission rewards also belong to Vermilion City. So what if you built city walls outside? Even if you blocked out the zombies and mutated plants, did you have a continuous supply of oxygen? Don't you want the mission reward, Ω?
Omega-3 is an important substance for building forest farms; without it, green plants cannot produce oxygen.
Even if they built city walls, what good would it do? Without a continuous supply of oxygen, they would still be doomed.
Zhang Hao thought that by controlling Ω, he had their lifeline in his grasp, and they would have no choice but to obey. For a moment, a confident smile unconsciously appeared on his face.
However, his smile froze before it could even fully open.
Cheng Zhen was not as panicked as he thought, nor did he accept the unfair task assigned to him by Ω under pressure.
Instead, he refused decisively and arrogantly: "Since this is a task issued by Dragon City to Vermilion City, it has nothing to do with us."
"We are just refugees living in Zhusha City. Let alone 1,000 tons of bamboo, we can't even provide one ton. We are just refugees; we don't have that kind of capability."
Zhang Hao was furious, not expecting him to refuse so decisively: "Cheng Zhen, I think you don't want to stay in Vermilion City any longer!"
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