275 K1 Kinetic Skeleton Amphibious (1/2)

Chapter 275: K1 Kinetic Skeleton Amphibious

Translator: _Min_Editor: Rundi

After returning to his room, Jiang Chen closed the door.

Graceful hands circled his waist.

When he felt the coolness, Jiang Chen smiled and gently squeezed Liu Yao's hand.

”Don't want to do it?”

”Can you withstand it?” Looking at her bright eyes, Jiang Chen smirked.

When she recollected her desperate pleading last night, Liu Yao's face turned red, but she acted calmly.

”I can withstand-”

”But rather than withstanding it, I enjoy it more when you are also enjoying it.”

A glimpse of emotion appeared and quickly faded on her face. She lowered her head and pouted her mouth.

”Thank you.”

”Rest early tonight, it has been a long day.” Jiang Chen combed the hair in front of Liu Yao's forehead with a smile.

”Mhmm.” Her eyes turned teary for a second and she nodded.

Half because of his money, half because of his character. Regardless, she loved him. Although she knew Jiang Chen would only treat her as a mistress, she didn't mind.

She knew, him accepting her perhaps had nothing to do with love, or maybe even as a reminiscence to what didn't happen in the past, a recollection of his time. By the lake at Wanghai University, when she wore that white dress and appeared in front of him like a student. His lost eyes made her read the meaning behind them.

But none of those things mattered. Even if she was just a mistress, she could still feel his gentleness.

The only thing that made her afraid was, at the bottom of her heart, she wondered if she was just a tool to unleash his desire.

But fortunately, he is not like that...

...

After a shower, the two slept.

It was around midnight when Jiang Chen opened his eyes.

The breathing beside his ear was rhythmic. Due to spending too much energy during the day, Liu Yao was sleeping deeply.

After sneaking out of bed, Jiang Chen put on his shirt, went into the washroom, and locked the door before commencing interdimensional travel.

It was quiet in the mansion. Sun Jiao should already be sleeping.

Jiang Chen didn't go wake them up as he took a thick winter suit and covered himself up. He stood beside the living room, getting used to the drastic change in temperature. Then he opened the door of the mansion and walked into the snowy night.

Although it was already late into the night, the base still remained bright and noisy.

The heavy snow could not cover the orange flame shining from the factory window. The roaring sound inside the building diffused around the base. With the outdated production equipment, they could only make up the lack of speed through labor. The lack of sophisticated equipment meant that they had to operate through an around the clock shift schedule to reach the necessary volume.

But no one complained because this place was the wasteland. Being full and warm with the opportunity to work was almost a luxury.

The unmanned highly sophisticated factories from before the war had almost all turned into shambles during the nuclear explosions. Although Jiang Chen had thought about sending people to the ruins to dig through some ”garbage”, given that it was around ten something years into the apocalypse, he gave up on the thought.

Anything good was probably raided.

The snow removing vehicle modified out of a truck would occasionally drive by. The fully equipped soldiers patrolled the base.

When they saw Jiang Chen, the leading patrol immediately stood straight and saluted to the general.

”Don't mind me, you guys continue to patrol.” Looking at the young man with a red nose, Jiang Chen smile.

”Yes, sir!” The young man raised his head with rosy cheeks and saluted again before telling the soldiers behind him to walk forward.

At the young man's chest, Jiang Chen saw a golden emblem.

He just remembered that he seemed to have canonized two hundred something knights at the base. These knights were absolutely loyal to him and were the first batch of slaves he bought from the Sixth Street. They were the pioneers that dug the first shovel among the ruins. Now, these pioneers all have been promoted as the central force of the base, acting as management or mid to high-level military leaders.

The person following the young knight was an upper citizen. Although he was not implanted with the slavery chip, Jiang Chen still saw deep respect and worship from his eyes.

”The size of the base is beginning to grow?” Standing in the snow, Jiang Chen scanned the territory he ruled and a smile emerged on his face.

With the Fishbone base gradually growing in size, with the base as the core foundation, it began to expand into its fourth newly plotted area. New residential area meant that they could intake new immigrants. Combined with the survivors from Shenxiang town, Fishbone base had over 1000 in population.

But the growth on this side was stagnating. The materials gathered by the scavenger team could not satisfy the appetite of this industrial monster. Only if he managed to obtain his own land in the modern world could he move tons of aluminum, steel, or even rare earth metals to the apocalypse.

After staying a bit longer, Jiang Chen began to walk to the aerospace laboratory at the corner of the base.