Let's suffer a little longer, fellow Blue Star folks.

Chu Tianming was quite surprised at first when he saw Li Shan with a serious expression.

He deliberately gave Li Shan the right to act at his own convenience so that he could have a little rest today. However, he did not expect that the connection request would be sent to him not long after he left the camp.

Could something have happened at the gathering place?

"It's not a surprise." Li Shan shook his head seriously, "But there are indeed special circumstances that I need to report to you."

"Special circumstances..."

Chu Tianming raised his eyebrows.

"Go ahead, I just have time."

Hearing this, Li Shan immediately recounted the scene he had just seen outside the gathering place, as well as the general conversation between him and Tang Yi inside the gathering place.

"Um……"

"No wonder there was a report from the border yesterday afternoon saying that a low-level, almost high-level, wood-attributed demon had broken through the border. It turned out to have come from here."

Chu Tianming waved the feather fan in his hand, thought for a while, then looked at Li Shan and said:

"Remember to share this information with Chief Tang. Tell them that no low-level, mid- to late-stage demons will appear near the gathering place in the short term."

"Yes!"

Li Shan nodded immediately.

"How many people are there in their gathering place now?" Chu Tianming asked.

Li Shan paused and recalled for a moment.

"There should be dozens, but no more than a hundred."

"Chief Tang said that many of their fellow villagers are on their way here."

Chu Tianming nodded slightly, but the smile on his face seemed to be mixed with a hint of suspicion.

"There are fellow countrymen..."

"Did they say where they came from?"

"I didn't ask about that." Li Shan shook his head. "But judging from their accent, they don't sound like people from around Yunhe Town."

"It doesn't look like they're from Shaling either. Maybe they migrated from farther away."

"Okay, I understand." Chu Tianming didn't seem to be bothered by this matter anymore.

He placed the feather fan in his hand on the table and continued:

"The pensions given to them will be paid at the second rate."

"But they..."

Li Shan seemed a little anxious when he heard this.

"The military isn't doing well these days." Chu Tianming knew what Li Shan wanted to say, and his tone became heavier. "And the second-class pension isn't low either."

"Many soldiers who were killed or injured at the border can only receive third-class pensions."

"……Yes."

"The number of people will be seventy as you said. The corresponding number of air stones will be delivered this afternoon."

"Is there anything else to report?" Chu Tianming picked up the feather fan again and put a smile on his face again.

"Gone."

"Okay, that's it." Chu Tianming nodded.

"You will be personally present for the subsequent calculation of new personnel at the gathering place, as well as the number of casualties. This is one of your responsibilities."

"I hope you can do well."

"Yes! I promise to complete the task!"

……

Meanwhile, somewhere underground in the valley.

[Rice dumplings are more delicious] He and the bald man were carrying a large basket of ore each and walking towards the mine entrance.

Since being brought here by people from Fangjia Village the day before yesterday, she and Uncle Li and others have been digging in the gas stone mine for two days.

Although she was very tired, she had basically figured out the situation here.

First of all, the location of this mine is more than 100 meters below the ancestral tomb of Fangjia Village. To go down into the mine, one needs to use a rope to descend dozens of meters, and then walk to the deepest part through the mine tunnel.

In addition to their group, there were about thirty miners inside.

Because the people of Fangjia Village prohibited miners from communicating with each other and encouraged reporting. If anything was discovered, the informer would be rewarded, while the person who spoke would be whipped.

So she had to put in a lot of effort to find a middle-aged man who was willing to talk to her.

According to the other party, they did not even make a deal with Fangjia Village, but were just walking normally on the road, and then they were robbed by Fang Wu and his men. The man was thrown here to mine, and his wife and children were held hostage by the people of Fangjia Village.

Of course, he hadn't seen his children for a long time, and he didn't know whether anyone in Fangjia Village had killed them.

Now we can only hope that the people of Fangjia Village will keep their promise and still retain a little human conscience.

According to Rouzong's observation, there were not many people from Fangjia Village in the mine, definitely no more than ten people, and most of them were near the mine entrance.

After all, there are almost no protective measures in this mine, and they are also afraid that if a mine accident occurs, they will not have time to escape.

Mai Men Yong Cun: Then why didn't anyone resist? There are almost fifty of you now. It should be easy to defeat these less than ten people.

The rice dumplings are more delicious: "I asked about that too."

"That old man said that someone had tried to rebel before, and that person was even a Yellow Rank master. However, not long after the rebellion began, it was ruthlessly suppressed by the people stationed here in Fangjia Village."

"All the miners who participated in the resistance were killed, so they have been arresting people everywhere during this period."

"Hearing the names of the people in Fangjia Village, he should be called Fang Er. They all call him Second Brother."

Yu Wenbobo: Does this Fang Er also live in the mine?

Rice dumplings taste better: No, he lives outside the mine. When we first came here, I noticed there was a wooden house in the middle of the cemetery. He should live there.

Alps: Then be a gravekeeper.

Phantom Tank: Tsk, they are just using the tomb-guarding business as a cover-up, probably to prevent any unrelated people from coming here.

Mai Men Yong Cun: Oh, right, aren't there still Yunhejun? Didn't they notice anything unusual about Fangjia Village?

I'm not a traitor: "What a coincidence! I just had a chat with that Yunhejun general who was repairing the house."

"They said that Yun Hejun knew where the ancestral tomb of Fangjia Village was, and they also knew about the existence of Fang Er."

"If we have time, we can go and communicate with him. After all, that area is basically looked after by people from Fangjia Village, so it can be considered as helping to reduce our burden."

Phosphorus pentoxide: Damn! It’s dark under the lamp!

Dian Chong, please take me away: It’s such a great relief that it has brought all the demons home.

At this time, Tang Yi, who was greeting players and driving to the research institute, suddenly had a new idea when he saw the new post by Rouzong in the forum.

According to the information provided by Erwuzai, those demons would rather expose the ambushes of the two low-level demons than attack their gathering place. They probably want to ensure that there is only the force of Fangjia Village in this valley.

In this way, there are high-level demons lurking in the Yunhe army, and Fangjia Village has the strongest military force in the valley.

It is entirely possible to work together inside and outside to create a false illusion of peace here.

The demon side doesn't even need to take the risk of secretly letting low-level demons in from the border. They just need to wait for the inferior demons in the valley to be promoted, then help them cover their tracks and slowly cultivate them.

Maybe high-level combat power will appear later. Isn’t that wood-attributed ape-like demon a vivid example?

If there hadn't been this war, it would have been able to advance to a higher level in two years at most.

At that time, a hidden force will quietly appear on the side of Yun Hejun.

Although this force may only have two or three high-level combat forces, if used properly and combined with the disguise of Fangjia Village.

Maybe it can inflict heavy damage to Yunhe Army at the critical moment!

and so……

Did their presence disrupt the demons' growth rhythm? Did they indirectly help Yun Hejun?

Now I can feel more at ease about getting those resources and compensation.

"Chief! Everything has been moved!"

Fat Tiger's voice sounded from not far away, and then he quickly ran over and stood up in front of Tang Yi.

"Okay." Tang Yi also closed the forum and nodded.

"Then let's go."

The cart was loaded with the ten tons of iron that Yun Hejun brought over this morning. It sounds like a lot, but in fact its volume is less than two cubic meters. On the cart, it doesn't even take up one twentieth of the space.

Moreover, rewards will be distributed to players in the afternoon, so the Alliance Coins need to be printed more quickly.

Fortunately, the guns, ammunition, and cannons allocated by the Yunhe Army are all in place, otherwise, with all the money printing, the gathering place would probably have suffered from inflation.

From this perspective, it seems that always having gathering places sell things to players is not a very healthy business system.

I feel like we should let the players do some business on their own.

It would be best to earn some foreign exchange.

……

Because the road clearing work has been ongoing, the road from the gathering place to the research institute has become easier to drive.

In less than an hour, the truck stopped outside the institute. And because Tang Yi had told Xiaoxing in advance, they did not trigger the detection system outside the institute when they arrived here.

"Brothers! We're here!"

Fat Tiger jumped directly out of the cab, then walked to the back of the car and pulled the door open.

Several players jumped out on the spot like the Monkey King had been born.

"Wow! We're finally here."

"I've almost finished watching a movie in there. Brother Hu, your driving skills are a bit poor, can't you drive faster?"

"Is this the research institute? It really doesn't look like anything special."

"Indeed, it's even a little ugly."

Xiaoxing silently marked the player whose ID was [Big Fish].

"Go, go, go!"

"What the hell." Fat Tiger grabbed the newbie who wanted to rush into the research institute, and pointed at the big iron boxes in the carriage and said.

"We haven't even moved anything down yet!"

"Oh."

Several players could only suppress their excitement temporarily and began to move the ten tons of iron into the research institute little by little, just like they had moved it into the car little by little.

Fortunately, Yun Hejun gave them iron ingots, otherwise they really couldn't move them.

After confirming the location of the iron ingot with Fat Tiger, Tang Yi took the lead and walked to the door of the core area. Then he walked through the passage and saw a familiar figure again.

Just like the first time I came here, the little robot was standing outside the passage, still in that classic standby position, swaying gently from side to side.

As soon as it saw Tang Yi, its eyes were instantly filled with spirit.

"Director! Welcome back!"

Chapter 108 Cell phone?

"How many robots do you have in this institute?"

Tang Yi skillfully picked up Xiaoxing, and walked towards the control room while looking at its smooth head and asked.

"If we count the robots in use, there were five before and four now," Xiaoxing replied immediately.

"It's not in use?" Tang Yi was a little curious.

"There are a total of 1145 unused ones, all on standby in the warehouse," Xiaoxing continued.

Wow, it turns out you have so many clones.

He had been very careful with Xiaoxing when he held her before, but now it seems he was worrying too much.