Chapter 648 - I Will Save You! (1/2)

In the end, Meng Chao managed to persuade Su Mulian to take up the task.

After all, Leprosy Village had suffered the worst damage in the disaster. One-third of its buildings had been affected by the flames, and the remaining two-thirds had been enveloped by smog, causing the poison to enter the walls. Thus, the structures had entirely become really brittle.

Instead of trying to repair them, it would be more worthwhile to demolish them and reconstruct them.

During the reconstruction period, the villagers would have to appear in front of the public.

Su Mulian promised Meng Chao that the villagers would first appear before Broken Star Club and Blue Home, which were two small groups compared with the whole of Dragon City. That was because Meng Chao was hoping to gather some reconstruction funds for Leprosy Village.

At the same time, many of the villagers in Leprosy Village were skilled craftsmen who worked in forgeries that made dangerous weapons. They had plenty of experience and were willing to work hard. Some of them had awakened to all kinds of strange skills, and they were the best labor force in the city.

On top of that, quite a number of members in Broken Star Club and Blue Home were owners of middle or small private businesses, or they were self-employed individuals who worked in their own workshops. If they could win the pitched battle at the borders of Dragon City, everyone would definitely want to expand their business scale and territory. They would not reject good workers.

In the past, small or medium firms and grassroots workers had been sandwiched between the mega corporations and gangs. As such their work had been introduced to them by the mega corporations and gangs.

If Meng Chao introduced these people to the members, the members would not have to pay an extra fee for the middleman, and he believed that everyone would be able to find business opportunities together.

If they had a good time working together, Broken Star Club and Blue Home could serve as promoters. Then, they could spread the story of Leprosy Village to the entire city. In fact, Su Mulian would have the chance to stand in the Survival Committee’s meeting hall and ask the supreme politicians to take care of the grassroots citizens.

Right then, Blue Home politicians were taking up more seats in the Survival Committee.

The reconstruction of Leprosy Village and the lair was a good starting point for the Home Party to get more fees and power from the Colonization Party.

Meng Chao believed that the Home Party politicians would not miss this God-given chance.

Once Su Mulian finished listening to Meng Chao describing the situation to her, Su Mulian felt happy for the villagers as well.

She thanked Meng Chao once again. “I-I don’t know how I can thank you. Everything that has happened over the past forty-eight hours seems like a dream that still makes me want to faint. I… Mr. Meng, I will definitely save you!

“That’s right, it doesn’t matter what the future looks like, I will do everything I can to save you!” she mumbled.

As if she thought that she did not sound polite enough, she even nodded.

Meng Chao smiled. “I told you, I’m just feeling a little weak. Plus, I drank too much gene medicine, so I’m having digestion problems. You don’t have to say something as over the top as doing everything you can to save me, right?

“Also, I remember telling you before that we’re in the same age group, so you don’t have to call me Mr. Meng. It sounds too serious. You can call me Meng Chao, Chao, or be like A’Ji and call me Big Brother Chao. Mr. Meng sounds strange. It’s as if you’re deliberately keeping your distance from me.”

“N-No, of course not.” Su Mulian nodded obediently. “I will remember it, Mr. Meng.”

Meng Chao scratched his head and still could not hold back from asking, “From the moment we first met, I’ve always wanted to ask you a question. Are you scared of me?”

Su Mulian’s muscles tensed, and she stuttered, “H-How can that be? I’m not afraid of you at all. Th-There’s no reason for me to be scared of you at all.”

“That’s right.” Meng Chao could not figure it out either. “We’ve never known each other before this, and reviews about me in the circle might not be perfect, but at the very least, they say that I’m full of justice, I’m considerate, kind, and basically a model for thousands of young adults in Dragon City. Why would you need to be scared of me?”

However, Meng Chao soon pushed the question to the back of his mind.

His eyelids started falling.

Over the past forty-eight hours, he had drained too many brain cells and used up too much energy. Any other normal superhuman brain would have burned out a long time ago.

As Su Mulian treated him gently, Meng Chao fell asleep before long.

He had a good sleep and did not have any nightmares about the apocalypse or dreams about him “making friends” with girls of the other races.

It was as if he was a fetus in his mother’s womb, and he was being nurtured and allowed to grow without having to worry about anything.

When he woke up, it was as though a gauze that surrounded his body had been lifted, and his vision was so clear that it felt like his world had been renewed.