173: Chapter 173 No need to thank me, call me Lei Feng

High in the air.

After seeing the warships appear, Jiang Chen did not immediately feel relieved.

Instead, he cast his gaze toward some areas in the suburbs.

Currently, 99.999% of the people had already gathered at transportation hubs like subway stations, high-speed rail stations, and airports.

However, that did not mean everyone had arrived in time.

Much like the annual college entrance exams, there are always some people who cannot make it to the exam hall on time due to factors like traffic jams.

Just at this moment.

Those 500 Heavenly Soldiers and Generals returned, ready to begin the third round of transport.

"Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, listen to my orders!"

"Split off two hundred, follow me."

Jiang Chen issued the command to the mechs.

Very quickly.

More than two hundred mechs appeared around the small fishing boat.

"Activate the life scanning system!"

"Search for civilians who have not yet arrived at the transportation hubs in time."

Jiang Chen issued the order again.

After receiving the electronic signal, the mechs immediately activated their life detection systems.

Then, they scattered in all directions across Zhujiang City.

Sure enough.

It was just as Jiang Chen had expected.

Less than two minutes after one of the mechs flew out, it scanned a dozen or so white-collar workers trapped in an office building ten miles away.

It seemed they had wanted to return to the company to retrieve documents, but by the time they came back out, the floodwater was already knee-deep.

Coupled with the seawater backflow, the powerful current made it impossible for them to move.

Thus, they had no choice but to retreat back into the office building and rush toward the upper floors.

However, by this time, civilian communication signals had started to become intermittent, and for a while, they were trapped in the high-rise office building, unable to send out distress signals.

Just as they were in despair.

Boom!

A dozen or so mechs converged, using their bodies to smash through the building's steel and glass.

"Longke Academy's Heavenly Soldiers and Generals are here!"

"Everyone, please climb onto our backs."

"I will take you away from here!"

The mechs stood at the edge of the building and said to the stunned white-collar workers.

"Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, are these the black-tech mechs that were reported on the news?"

Everyone was surprised.

At this moment, a man gathered his courage and stepped forward. The mech immediately turned around, carried him on its back, and then flew straight out amidst the man's screams.

"Bro, slow down, I'm afraid of heights."

Another man with glasses said, trembling.

This high-rise was over a hundred meters tall; flying straight out was too terrifying.

When it was the turn of the girl behind him.

There was a girl who was a bit bolder. She wrapped her arms around a Heavenly Soldier's neck and said with a bit of infatuation: "Big Brother Heavenly Soldier, do you have a girlfriend?"

"Why?"

"The kindness of a hero cannot be repaid; this young lady is willing to offer herself to you."

"I heard that you human women require a dowry?" the Heavenly Soldier asked.

The girl shook her head hurriedly: "No, I don't need you to pay a dowry."

The Heavenly Soldier continued: "Then, can you afford the maintenance fees?"

"Huh?"

"My construction cost is 50 million, and the monthly maintenance fee starts at several hundred thousand."

The Heavenly Soldier said.

Although the current Heavenly Soldiers and Generals series had dropped from a cost of several hundred million to several tens of millions, it was still an astronomical figure.

"????"

The girl was stunned.

When she realized, looking at the precise camera rotating inside the Heavenly Soldier's eyeball, she suddenly understood.

This was high technology.

"Alright, sorry to bother you."

"I'm not worthy!"

The girl covered her face in self-abasement.

Her annual salary was only a little over 100,000, yet this thing's monthly maintenance fee was as high as several hundred thousand.

To hell with offering myself.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

The mechs carried this group of white-collar workers on their backs, flew straight to the transportation hub, and placed them on a nearby aircraft carrier.

"11 people from Guofu Building have been successfully rescued."

"22 students from XX Vocational University have been successfully rescued!"

"3 patients from the People's Hospital have been successfully rescued!"

"..."

Listening to more and more people being rescued over the radio, Jiang Chen breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Just at this moment.

Another radio message came through.

"Report to General Manager Jiang, there are thirty-nine vital signs at the Happy Orphanage."

Jiang Chen was taken aback.

Thirty-nine?!

This was the first time Jiang Chen had heard of so many people failing to arrive in time.

And it was an orphanage, at that.

Jiang Chen immediately started the small fishing boat and sped over at twenty times the speed of sound.

At this time.

Inside the Happy Orphanage.

The floodwater had already submerged the rooms on the second floor.

A group of children were currently in the hallway above the third floor, crying loudly.

But as the seawater kept rising, they could only cry while moving up the stairs.

This orphanage only had four floors; there was no more space to go higher.

"Stop crying! The uncles and aunties have already abandoned us."

Just at this moment.

A slightly older girl, holding a bear, said to the others.

She was more mature and wasn't crying; although she was very scared, she remained stubborn.

However.

As soon as she said this, the other children cried even louder.

Just as the children were crying loudly.

A small fishing boat appeared out of thin air above the orphanage.

Because it arrived so fast, some children didn't even notice and just kept crying.

Only a few individual children noticed it.

They widened their eyes, watching Jiang Chen open the cockpit.

They were stunned.

"What is this?"

"Are they aliens?"

A strangely shaped fishing boat, plus floating Horse Terracotta Warriors—if this wasn't aliens, then what was?

Bang!

A bolt of lightning struck down.

Lighting up the evening sky.

Jiang Chen leaped through the air and landed on the stairs.

"Children, don't be afraid, come with me, I will take you away safely."

Jiang Chen said, reaching out his hands, holding a girl in his left arm and a boy in his right.

Both of them were dumbfounded and forgot to cry.

Instead, they let Jiang Chen carry them, leaping across two or three meters and landing on the deck.

After going back and forth a few times.

Jiang Chen carried all thirty-seven children onto the deck.

He placed a few of the smaller ones inside the cockpit.

Finally, only two children remained on the stairs.

One boy seemed to have cried until he was exhausted; his head was resting there, and he was fast asleep, unaware of anything.

There was also a girl who wasn't crying or making a fuss; she was just holding a bear and was currently curiously sizing up Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen, with one in his left arm and one in his right, was just about to leap back onto the fishing boat.

The little girl in his right arm suddenly asked: "Uncle, are you an alien?"

Jiang Chen was taken aback, looked down into the girl's eyes, and replied: "Do you think I look like an alien?"

"Not really... Then you must be a god."

The girl said with her eyes shining.

Everyone else had left, but only he had come.

Plus, with such a sci-fi fishing boat, he must be a god who descended from the heavens.

Jiang Chen smiled lightly, leaped across the two or three meters, and landed in the cockpit: "I'm not a god."

"Then what are you?"

Looking at the sci-fi-like cockpit interface before her, the girl asked persistently.

Jiang Chen started the fishing boat while turning back to say.

"You can call me Lei... Feng."