Fu Xin Ci looked at the captain and replied with a smile, "The teleportation will begin shortly."
As a dazzling light enveloped them, the onlookers outside the trading hall couldn't help but raise their hands to shield their eyes from the bright glare, or simply close them.
It was too blinding, they were afraid they'd go blind if they kept looking.
After more than ten seconds, when they slowly opened their eyes, they found that all the people who had been sitting there before had vanished.
Fu Xin Ci's eyes were fixed on each button, watching them light up one after another.
Although the process only took a few minutes, Fu Xin Ci's heart felt like it had endured ten thousand years.
It was only when the stop button lit up that she seemed to awaken from a daze and flashed out of the space, shouting loudly towards the tranquil green valley:
"Captain, Xin Jie, Xiao Ai, Ru Yi...?"
"..." The waiting time felt like burning fire, even an instant was an ordeal.
"Xin Ci."
"Xin Ci."
"Xin Ci."
The voices calling out to Xin Ci were both male and female. Fu Xin Ci turned her head. Behind five sturdy green willow trees, the captain led the way, running out.
"Captain," Fu Xin Ci, like a small cannonball, pounced towards him without regard for the consequences.
"Ah," the captain knelt on one knee in the knee-high tall grass, enduring wave after wave of cannonball impacts.
He mumbled as he counted, "One, two, three, four, five..."
It was indeed wise of the captain to embrace each of the rushing小伙伴s in this manner.
Until a slightly greasy gust of wind blew over, the captain was prepared and rolled to the side with a few people.
Pang Dun'er "splashed" and fell onto the grass, stuffing his mouth with green grass blades. He frowned and complained to the captain, "Captain, how can you play favorites? You caught them but not me?"
The captain looked at his size helplessly and spoke the truth bluntly, which was quite cutting.
"How many pounds do the other five weigh, and how much do you weigh? Don't you have any idea?"
Pang Dun'er: ...
"Pang Dun'er, if you don't know your own weight, let me ask you, can you imagine the force with which you charged over?"
Pang Dun'er could imagine it and nodded somewhat sheepishly.
"If we hadn't dodged, we would have been smashed into meat patties by you."
Pang Dun'er: "I'm ashamed, I was too careless."
The expressions of the小伙伴s were again unusually uniform, all feeling a sense of having survived a disaster.
Others didn't have time to listen to the captain lecturing Pang Dun'er. They all hugged the nearest tree or blade of grass, breathing deeply.
Uncle Sun: "I never thought I'd see a blue sky and green grass in my lifetime. It's worth it, it's worth it."
"Yes, we are worth it." Uncle Xu simply lay on the tall grass and rolled around, just like the children with Little Shuai.
Zhang Ning also sat on the grass, hugging her son, and did the same as everyone else. The words of Uncle Sun and Uncle Xu made her, a weak woman, want to cry too.
With her reason still intact, her husband wasn't here, so she wanted to save her tears to cry with her husband.
Yang Xin Jie and the others also sat on the ground, surrounding Fu Xin Ci in the middle. Each person held a handful of green grass or a branch, softly recounting their years of longing.
They dared not speak loudly, for fear of waking themselves from their dream.
Calm and composed was always the captain's alias. After lecturing Pang Dun'er, he discussed with the two oldest uncles in the team: "Uncle Xu, Uncle Sun, Xin Ci will be teleporting the others over shortly. We need to use this advantage of time to quickly select the best and most advantageous terrain."
"Mm," the two uncles agreed and quickly got to work.
The captain glanced at Zhang Ning and added, "We need to leave a space next to us for Xiang Tong and the others."
"Xiang Tong?" Uncle Xu asked, and then remembered that was the base leader's name.
After the captain sent all the小伙伴s to help, he pulled Fu Xin Ci aside and said in a voice only they could hear, "Xin Ci, can I enter your space and speak with the base leader and the others?"
Fu Xin Ci's trust in the captain was still the same as it was back then. She immediately said, "Of course you can."
"Thank you for your trust, Xin Ci." The captain was also very happy. Even though they had been separated across different time and space for so long, the young girl's trust in him remained as it was at the beginning of the apocalypse.
The base leader and all the staff from the official headquarters were staring at the screen.
When the captain's figure appeared on the screen with Fu Xin Ci, the base leader led the cheers.
Lan Tian Yao's lips moved, but in the end, he changed his words to, "It's good, it's really good."
"Yes, even if the climate in Liaodong is harsh, we can still survive."
"Even if it's harsh, it's still the natural phenomenon of seasonal changes. Can it be compared to this place?"
As a few people muttered, they heard Long Teng's prompt from the screen, "Everyone must bring their cotton clothes and quilts."
The base leader, upon hearing the captain's words, asked with some confusion, "Long Teng, is the weather in Liaodong cold now?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? It's normal summer."
The captain then began to describe the scenery he had seen before, "The clear blue sky, washed as if by water, and the white clouds. I guarantee that when you see them, you'll want to lie down on the green grass and not get up, just like I do."
The captain's words instantly inspired everyone. They all shouted loudly, "We want that too!"
The female city lord of Phoenix City also murmured softly, "That would be so wonderful." Her only wish in the past few years was to lie on the green grass and sleep for a day.
The captain was still loudly reminding everyone present, "I asked everyone to bring cotton clothes and quilts to prepare for winter. To put it bluntly, if we don't have houses, we can find a cave, or even dig a hole in the ground to survive for a few days. But in winter, without cotton clothes and quilts, we're just waiting to freeze to death."
"But isn't there Fu Xiao Niu?" someone mumbled.
The captain heard it and couldn't help but sneer inwardly. These guys really wanted to be parasites to the end.
However, before the captain could speak, the base leader got angry first. "Is Fu Xiao Niu your mother? To take care of you for your whole life."
"Even if she were his mother, shouldn't children first show filial piety to their elders? Furthermore, remember this, Fu Xiao Niu helping us is a favor, and not helping us is her right."
The two mercenary teams, Qun Lang and Wu Shuang, both considered themselves Dragon City people, so their words always put Fu Xiao Niu first.
"We cannot forget our roots. If Fu Xiao Niu hadn't supported us these past few years, I dare say some people's bones would have rotted away."
"Exactly. Just like this time, Fu Xiao Niu wants to move us all to Liaodong so we can survive. But some people not only don't appreciate it but also harbor inappropriate thoughts. What, do they think Fu Xiao Niu is easy to bully, or do they think we brothers are easy to bully?"