144: Chapter 144: Changes in Haishi
The next day, Fang Yuan and his group, carrying a large bag of gifts, followed Li Changtian onto the teleportation array, preparing to return to Sea City, concluding their month-long trip to Tian Du.
Fewer than fifty people were returning to Sea City this time, including twenty-one new members who had joined Squad as Support Group, a significant reduction from the thousand people who had arrived.
The vibrant world of Tian Du attracted many, and it was estimated that many young people would choose to remain in Tian Du to strive for their futures.
This was an inevitable trend; in the future, many from Sea City would surely choose to relocate to Tian Du.
Compared to Sea City, Tian Du was an incredibly powerful city that could provide them with a sense of security, something a small corner like Sea City could not rival.
However, not many would likely be able to leave Sea City, as the cost of living in Tian Du was extremely high. Without tens of millions of energy points, one should not even dream of surviving there.
“Captain, we’ll be heading off first.”
As soon as they stepped off the teleportation array, Lin Zhizhi and Fang Yuan bid farewell to the others and hurried towards the residential area in the east of the city.
On the scene, Thank Rain and the twenty-one people from Tian Du stared wide-eyed, curiously observing their surroundings, eager to see what Sea City was like.
However, since the teleportation array was inside Manor No. 1, they couldn't see much. To see Sea City, they would first have to exit.
“Since you’ve just arrived in Sea City, I, as your Captain, will show you around.”
As the Captain, Li Xuefei decided to personally lead the Support Group to familiarize them with Sea City.
Thus, under her leadership, a group of twenty-four people appeared in various areas of Sea City. The sight of a group of beautiful women traveling together immediately attracted the attention of countless Sea City citizens.
After spending most of the day strolling, the group had roughly explored the Inner City.
“I never thought such a small city would actually produce a Transcendent True Spirit Talent Holder.”
After seeing the Inner City, Thank Rain exclaimed with great emotion.
Compared to the bustling Tian Du, Sea City truly was just a small town, lacking both skyscrapers and various advanced transportation methods, with cars on the streets still using technology from over fifty years ago.
“Xiao Yu, what did you say? What Transcendent True Spirit Talent…”
The speaker had no intention, but the listeners did. Thank Rain’s casual exclamation made the eighteen beautiful women, two young men, and one girl beside her all turn their heads to look directly at her.
If they hadn’t misheard, they should have heard that there was a Transcendent True Spirit Talent Holder in Sea City. Before coming, they had never heard of any Transcendent True Spirit Talent Holder here.
A Transcendent True Spirit Talent—if there was even the slightest news, they would absolutely not forget it.
“Captain…”
Being stared at by everyone, Thank Rain realized she had let slip, and not knowing what to do next, she could only turn her gaze to Li Xuefei beside her.
Her gaze was filled with expectation, hoping that the Captain could rescue her from these twenty-one burning stares.
“Fang Yuan is the Transcendent True Spirit Talent Holder she spoke of…”
Under Thank Rain’s hopeful gaze, Li Xuefei directly revealed Fang Yuan’s identity.
She thought that as long as they were together, these people would eventually notice something amiss anyway, so there was no need to hide it.
“This~.”
“Is that true?”
Upon hearing that the suddenly appearing Transcendent True Spirit Talent Holder was one of the individuals they were supporting, everyone in the Support Group was both shocked and delighted.
This was a Transcendent True Spirit Talent; anyone possessing such a Talent was invariably a Prodigy, immensely powerful.
To become the Support Group for such Prodigies was the dream of countless people from ordinary backgrounds, and they had, in such a muddled way, become one of them.
The delighted beauties cast immensely grateful glances towards their original target of scrutiny—Thank Rain, their eyes filled with thanks.
Thanks to her repeatedly persuading them to join Squad’s Support Group, otherwise they would have missed this heaven-sent opportunity.
Under the immense surprise, they looked at this ordinary Sea City with much more favorable eyes; originally, they had already harbored thoughts of regret.
Now that a Transcendent True Spirit Talent support target had appeared, the environment, no matter how poor, was no longer an issue.
With excited hearts, they continued to follow Li Xuefei towards the Outer City.
The closer they got to the Outer City, the worse Li Xuefei’s mood became. What if these Support Group members saw the dirty, messy, and garbage-dump-like Outer City and regretted it, directly leaving?
With a nervous heart, she, as the Captain, walked in front, leading the group out of the Inner City and into the Outer City.
“…”
After arriving in the Outer City, Li Xuefei herself could hardly believe her eyes.
In just over a month, Sea City had transformed into something she no longer recognized.
“The changes here are truly immense.”
Seeing that the formerly dirty and messy Outer City had disappeared, and residential buildings were rising from the ground, Gu Yue even doubted if she had seen wrongly, looking at this greatly changed Outer City.
The current Outer City showed no trace of its previous dirtiness and mess. Various new buildings with Tian Du-style architecture stood tall, looking much better than the Inner City.
Among the bustling crowds, the residents of Sea City’s Outer City all carried faint smiles, no longer living a numb existence as before.
“Not bad at all!”
Thank Rain and the others from Tian Du looked at the familiar surroundings, their moods becoming even more pleasant.
The Outer City had become even more magnificent than the Inner City. Although the Rank of the people living here was very low, they all carried an energy hand cannon.
Energy hand cannon—this was a technological weapon recently researched and developed by the Human Alliance, a single-soldier energy weapon whose maximum power could even threaten Gold Rank low-tier individuals.
As a member of the Human Alliance before, Thank Rain recognized at a glance that these people were holding the most basic energy hand cannons, which generally could unleash Silver Rank Five attacks.
If in a charging state, the power exerted by this basic model energy hand cannon could potentially reach Silver Rank 10.
“Come here for a moment…”
To understand why the Outer City had changed so dramatically, Li Xuefei directly called over a Defense Force member and asked him about what had happened in the past month.
“Young Miss Xuefei, what can I do for you?”
The Defense Force member who was called over immediately recognized Li Xuefei as the most famous person recently, the granddaughter most highly regarded by Mayor Li Changtian.
“What’s going on here?”
Li Xuefei asked, pointing to her surroundings.
“Oh, you mean this? This is a grand undertaking by the Alliance.
Ever since the people from the Human Alliance arrived, Chief of Staff Tian Dong actively introduced the Alliance to carry out a major transformation of Sea City…”
In response to her question, the Defense Force member poured out everything that had happened in the past month.
It turned out that ever since their group went to Tian Du, the high-ranking officials of Sea City had not relaxed their pace and had directly agreed to the Human Alliance’s transformation of Sea City.
Especially after personally witnessing various powerful technological weapons that could even threaten Gold Rank individuals, for the future of Sea City, the high-ranking officials of Sea City unanimously agreed to the Human Alliance’s stationing.
The Human Alliance acted swiftly, quickly establishing several complete weapon production lines in Sea City’s Outer City.
As for why the Outer City had changed so dramatically, it was because the Human Alliance had a basic law: to ensure the normal lives of residents.
Doing so had a very good advantage: it could acquire a large population capable of using energy weapons. Only by providing people with a sufficiently good life could they work wholeheartedly!
Given the previous environment of Sea City’s Outer City, if they had obtained energy weapons, the struggling residents might have caused some trouble.
Providing people with a good living environment not only allows them to become a part of this power but also avoids unnecessary trouble.
“So that’s what happened…”
After hearing about the changes in Sea City over the past month, Li Xuefei, who had always taken it upon herself to strengthen Sea City, was also very happy.
The better the place she had grown up in became, even if it wasn't her own doing, the Young Miss genuinely congratulated it...