A few days later, Leandre Ralph, the principal elder in charge of the exploration operations of No. 65 Underground Survival Center, arrived in Orchid Town. Leander is a typical hawk elder, strong, capable and resolute. As soon as he settled down, he summoned all relevant personnel, announced the start of the operation, and then led his entourage to the underground survival shelter overnight to conduct on-site surveys.
The current detector can only detect twenty or thirty meters underground and cannot go deep, but it is still no problem to figure out the general distribution. After a night of work, Leander divided the underground survival shelter into six areas, and then assigned them to different families through drawing lots.
Because the survival shelter is very large and very old, it is full of various unknown dangers, such as mutated organisms, toxic substances, bacterial infections, explosions, landslides, etc...
In order to clarify the responsibilities and benefits of all parties, it is usually divided into several areas, which are accessed by digging exploratory tunnels from the ground. In this way, they can each do their own thing without interfering with each other, and conflicts can be effectively avoided.
Next, each family's troops stationed in the area they were responsible for, and the preliminary work of exploration began in full swing.
Zhang Meng and Chen Xing discussed a plan. Chen Xing would provide a hundred young and middle-aged workers to be responsible for the excavation and partial exploration of the tunnel, and share 5% of the proceeds from the exploration. Although the proportion is not large, considering Chen Xing's current situation, it is already a very favorable condition.
The area that the Zhang family is responsible for is located northwest of the entrance to the underground survival center and is called Area C. Judging from the distribution and structure of the rooms, the residents should be middle-level technical personnel.
Over the long years, the social structure of underground survival shelters has also been divided into upper, middle and lower classes. The bottom level is mainly workers and soldiers, the middle level is technicians, because the operation of the survival shelter relies on such people, and the upper level is usually the descendants of the family or organization that built the survival shelter.
The place assigned to the Zhang family is neither good nor bad. The middle-level personnel usually have many souvenirs from before the catastrophe, or some precious books, research notes, etc. During hundreds of years of closed life, some scientific researchers discovered new technologies, but due to various reasons, they were buried underground.
Exploring lost underground survival shelters can not only gain wealth, but also technology, which is why people are so keen on it.
A few days after the construction started, one afternoon, Chen Xing was directing the workers to dig a tunnel, when a young girl suddenly came from a distance.
The figure is graceful and the steps are brisk. A section of thigh was exposed under the black culottes, which was dazzlingly white in the afternoon sun. The iconic short red hair looks like dancing flames, and like a rose in the wilderness, full of wildness.
Seeing her and the old man walking slowly behind her with his hands behind his back, Chen Xing felt bad. He pressed down the brim of his sunhat, stood up and walked towards the dune buggy in the camp, pretending not to see anything.
But Ye Yang Qingyan chased after him and shouted to him from hundreds of meters away, "Chen Xing, don't leave, I have something to talk to you about!"
Chen Xing had no choice but to stop and wait for her to come closer. Then at her signal, he entered the command tent. The old man stayed outside the tent with his hands behind his back.
"Won't you invite your third uncle to come in for a cup of tea?" Chen Xing looked outside and asked somewhat flatteringly.
Ye Yang Qingyan tilted her neck, glanced at him, and said with a bit of disdain, "You don't need to be pretentious. Third uncle likes peace and quiet, just let him stay outside."
"Okay." Chen Xing pulled out the chair and sat down.
Ye Yang Qingyan sat down opposite him, put her hands on the conference table, and stared at him without saying a word.
Chen Xing was so frightened by what she saw that he thought why this woman from Ye Yang's family always liked to stare at others, as if he had flowers on his face. But in this case, he cannot have stage fright, otherwise he will be at a disadvantage in the subsequent conversation.
Could it be that he has been a man for three lifetimes and still cannot handle a fifteen or sixteen year old girl? He immediately returned the favor, looked directly into the other person's eyes, and then gradually moved downwards, past the red lips, small chin, and white neck, with a hint of playfulness, and stopped at the swollen chest.
Ye Yang Qingyan, who was opposite him, quickly realized where he was looking. She was immediately embarrassed and annoyed, her ears turned red, and she cursed, "What are you looking at!"
"Look at you." Chen Xing said seriously, with a very candid attitude.
"Be careful, I dig out your eyes!" She said bitterly, almost breaking her silver teeth.
Chen Xing withdrew his gaze and said calmly, "If you have anything to do, just tell me, I'm still busy."
"Leave my sister." Ye Yangqingyan said straight to the point.
"What do you mean?" Chen Xing asked, his tone a little colder.
"I don't know how you charmed her, but you have to leave. You are not from the same world, and you are not worthy of her at all!" Ye Yang Qingyan's face was cold, and her tone was extremely stiff, like an ultimatum.
"Why?" Chen Xing asked.
"I can kill you right now." Ye Yangqingyan glanced outside the tent and threatened.
"No, you misunderstood..." Chen Xing shook his head and said, "I mean, why do you say that I am not worthy of your sister?"
"Ha~"
Ye Yang Qingyan sneered, as if looking at a fool, and said in a cold voice, "Do you even need to ask? You are a country bumpkin who can't even support yourself. What qualifications do you have to be with my sister!"
She said aggressively, "My sister is a rich man, which is not what a villager like you can expect. Her fiancé is a prince of the principality. She is of noble birth, tall and handsome, knowledgeable and polite, and has great strength. Gao Qiang is much more powerful than you!"
Ye Yang Qingyan's words were like a knife, piercing Chen Xing's heart. If it were an ordinary man, his self-esteem would be shattered to pieces at this moment, and he would either become furious or hide his face and run away.
But Chen Xing is not an ordinary person. In his three lifetimes, he has developed a thick skin and a heart made of granite. Although he did feel a bit of unspeakable sadness and pain at the beginning, he quickly calmed down and remained unmoved.
Is there anyone in this world who didn’t start from the bottom? Could it be that the foundations under the feet of these children of aristocratic families came out of thin air? It’s not because their ancestors worked hard and struggled.
Seeing Chen Xing's silence, Ye Yangqingyan thought she had touched his sore spot, so she didn't say any more and just looked at him quietly.
At this time, Chen Xing suddenly grinned and asked her, "How do you know that I am not as good as Finn Maris?"
"Hmph, you are a postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Academy of Ice Blue City, you have the strength of a great guard, and you are the second son of a duke's family. Who are you?" Ye Yang Qingyan looked at Chen Xing with contempt in her eyes.
"So what?" Chen Xing said disapprovingly, as if he didn't take the other party seriously at all.
"You!" Ye Yang Qingyan was angered by his attitude, "Why are you so shameless!"
"Let's do this, I won't argue with you..." Chen Xing said indifferently, "You go and inquire about our Chen family in the Eastern Continent first, and then come back and tell me this, okay?"
Ye Yangqingyan was stunned for a moment. The amount of information in this sentence was too much. She had not yet digested it. Her little head was filled with new words such as "Eastern Continent" and "Chen Family".
"Do you think your sister is a fool?" Before the other party could think clearly, Chen Xing continued, "Your sister is a graduate student at an aristocratic college. After studying for so many years, is she not as good as you, a junior high... no, high school student? Student?" He frowned, as if he hated iron and steel, "You don't even think about it, if I am not as good as that person, will she follow me?"
"Ah!" As if a word surprised the person in his dream, Ye Yangqingyan couldn't help shouting, her eyes sparkling, as if there was something extra.
