Chapter 1220 - The Grand Occasion (1/2)
AS Order docked at the airs.h.i.+p port in the Sixth Street.
When the army equipped in power armors and kinetic skeleton paraded through the main road in the Sixth Street, the survivors paid the highest respect and applause to the soldiers who returned from the expedition.
Flowers, cheers, applause…
Jiang Chen, inside the brand-new X-1 power armor, waved his hands at the excited crowd. He could feel people’s enthusiasm as a smile appeared on his face.
People’s wors.h.i.+p of heroes is eternal and lasted from ancient times to the present.
From time to time, a young girl came forward with a blush, and handed the bouquet in Jiang Chen’s hand, offered a hug, and then quickly ran back into the crowd. The guards and NAC Knights who followed Jiang Chen also enjoyed the same treatment, just not as frequently as Jiang Chen who was at the very front.
Because of this glory, many people specially came to partic.i.p.ate in this triumphant ceremony. After the expeditionary army’s dissolvement the second day, they must take an airs.h.i.+p back to Shangjing to report to the Fourth Division.
There were still people who could not make this trip, because NAC must maintain a minimum sense of military presence in Pingan Street. Many like Lu Fan were the ones who stayed behind.
In the very front, Jiang Chen smiled and waved as he led the army forward. They slowly advanced towards the central square of the Sixth Street.
“Look, look! The general seemed to have glanced at me just now,” A girl said as she pulled on her best friend.
“No. He was obviously looking at me!” The beautiful woman in the fallout shelter’s winter clothes straightened her chest and said, overjoyed.
Just as the two girls argued over who the general’s sight stopped on just now, a mercenary at the entrance of the nearby tavern patted his thigh and sighed with regret.
“Fu*k! if I knew there was such prestige, I would have gone when they recruited! I would never have went to that merchant fleet for just one hundred credits, and I almost got castrated by the mutated humans.” The mercenary-looking man looked enviously at the power armors that walked by as he couldn’t stop sighing.
“Come on, can you even survive for two seconds with your accuracy?” His colleague, who leaned on the side with a wine bottle, mocked while he burped, “I heard that our expeditionary force and the Russian Border Guards fought in the subway tunnel. Do you understand the concept of border guards? They are actual military troops! And we have won! If you can’t even win against mutated humans, aren’t you just going to be a deadweight?”
“Fu*k! How would you know if you didn’t try!” The mercenary argued with his face completely red.
As the mercenaries were causing a ruckus, the bank beside the central square was packed at this moment.
In the war mobilization stage, NAC issued war bonds as usual, and now it was finally time to cash them out. However, what really ignited people’s enthusiasm was not the two percent profit, but the auction of trophies and loots!
The a.s.sets that belonged to Ding Liwei, Wan Peng and other council members on Pingan Street would be auctioned at the Sixth Street Bank hundreds of kilometers away. Factories, real estate, resources, and even the franchise rights of a certain industry were all the darlings these merchants chased after!
It was an undeveloped virgin land. Although the weather was colder in the north, its development potential was much better than Hongcheng and Wu City!
Merchants in suits and leather shoes crowded inside the trading floor of the bank as they eagerly looked up at the information flas.h.i.+ng on the big screen. Their fingers were placed right above their EP screens and bid through the external “credit chip” on the EP.
“What the! Who bid 1 million credits already! Who is this rich!” A merchant exclaimed when he saw the auction price that jumped up ten times compared to the starting price.
“It’s probably someone from Zhao Group. They are determined to win the food trading rights. But NAC is really generous. It’s so good to keep this in their own hands. It’s a gold mine…”A another merchant sighed.
“Maybe the general hasother plans. However, having said that, the credit points were originally issued by the military government. No matter how much money they make, it is just a number after all.”