Resurrection Empire

Wang Zhaofu, being a professional trader frequently visiting several neighboring counties, has quite a lot of dealings with the Qi Mountain Tribe.

He himself accounts for more than 30% of the total trade volume in and out of the Qi Mountain Tribe.

Upon hearing Ren Zhong say that Zheng Tian and others were captured, Wang Zhaofu immediately said nonchalantly, "I thought it was something major. Isn't this just like the great flood hitting the temple of the Water Beast King? The reason the Qi Mountain Tribe wants to capture townspeople who accidentally learn of their existence and specific location is because they are afraid that the information will be sold and lead to an army of Hunters. I have a great friendship with the Qi Mountain Tribe and we depend on each other. They trust me. I'll just say a word to them, they know it's one of their own, and naturally, they'll release the people."

Sure enough, within less than two minutes, Chen Hanyu contacted Ren Zhong again, saying it was just a misunderstanding and the other side thought they were wounded wild people they picked up.

Now that the people are fully awake, they realize they came to save people. With just a few words, they turned foes into friends, and even returned all the equipment.

Ren Zhong's eyes darted, and a new plan quickly formed. He simply asked Zheng Tian to spare some of the unused military supplies to gift to the other party, and they would head straight back in the afternoon instead of hunting.

Although Zheng Tian was puzzled, she still complied. The other party was quite surprised and felt even more ashamed.

Ren Zhong then had Zheng Tian connect a communication with the leader on the other side and made an agreement.

He asked the Qi Mountain Tribe leader to stay up tonight, saying there was an important matter to discuss.

...

At ten fifteen in the evening, the fully armed Ren Zhong rode a Navy Type IV jetski out of the gates of Starfire Town, racing towards the 470 kilometers away Qi Mountain.

About an hour later, he arrived at Qi Mountain and turned off his wrist watch.

According to the location provided by the tribe leader, Ren Zhong found a giant rock about six meters high on the mountainside of Qi Mountain's main peak.

Upon reaching the rock, Ren Zhong grabbed the vine in the crevice beside the rock and tugged it three times.

Moments later, the giant rock rumbled and sank underground, revealing a four-meter-high entrance on the stone wall behind.

Ren Zhong lifted his steps and entered.

A tall and a short man stood side by side at the entrance.

"Captain Ren, visiting late at night. What's the matter?"

The tall man in armor asked in a slightly raspy tone.

Undoubtedly, this person was Shi Xuan, the leader of the wild people's tribe.

The shorter one must be the agility-type Armored Soldier, Shi Xuan's adopted son Shi Lin.

Ren Zhong glanced inside, "Let's talk inside."

"Alright."

Ren Zhong followed the two inside for about a hundred meters when the space suddenly opened up before him.

Inside the massive stone chamber, there was a rail car shaped like a bus parked there.

Six men in tattered clothes were armed and guarded the side.

Ren Zhong and Shi Xuan boarded the car, and Shi Xuan pulled the control lever inside the car. Only a series of clicks were heard, and the car slowly descended.

Occasionally, the car wheels made a bumping sound against the joints of the spliced iron rails.

Ren Zhong's gaze drifted out the window, looking at the receding stone walls outside, and asked, "Wasn't this a mining area before?"

Shi Xuan nodded, "It shouldn't have been. I don't know where the courage came from for the first generation of residents to hollow out the mountain and build this city."

Ren Zhong chuckled, "Just the will to survive, what courage do you need."

The rail car traveled inward for about five or six minutes, covering nearly two kilometers, and finally slowly came to a stop.

Ren Zhong got off the car, and before his eyes was a huge hall over fifty meters high.

The hall covered at least a thousand square meters, with houses built into the stone walls all around, and passageways leading in every direction.

The ceiling of the hall was supported by a twisty network of giant wood and metal pillars.

Shi Xuan proudly said, "When we first came here, this hall had collapsed. It took us eight years to repair it to its current state bit by bit."

"Over there is our Ruined Beast dismantling area, over there is the residential area, over there is the equipment maintenance area..."

Shi Xuan pointed in direction after direction, enthusiastically introducing.

Clearly, he trusted Wang Zhaofu very much, which extended to trusting Ren Zhong, who Wang Zhaofu vouched for.

Ren Zhong nodded, "Indeed remarkable."

Shi Xuan lowered his voice, "But I think Mr. Ren, you are even more remarkable. Did you really become a Mechanical Warrior just two months ago? Did the butcher Lin of Starfire Town really die at your hands?"

Ren Zhong shook his head.

Shi Xuan was startled, "But that's what Boss Wang told me."

Ren Zhong smiled, "To be exact, today marks the fifty-fourth day since I embarked on the path of a Mechanical Warrior. As for Lin Wang, he died at my hands on the forty-fifth day of my being a Mechanical Warrior."