Chapter 268 Orderly Development
"I didn't steal it, I caught it myself!"
The child argued in a slightly hoarse voice, and his two little hands couldn't help but use force to pinch out the mole's tongue.
Colin was about to comfort her, but suddenly he was stunned:
"You... um? You're a girl?"
The child was less than 1.2 meters tall, underdeveloped, and dirty. Both times Colin met her, he thought she was . He didn't expect that she was a little girl when she opened her mouth.
"Okay, fine. Sorry, I misunderstood you..."
"Ah..." The little girl who was about to say something was stunned. She was prepared to be beaten, but she didn't expect that the other party would actually apologize to her.
You know, for a "big shot" like this, no matter if he is right or wrong, he may be beaten to death if he dares to talk back!
"Haha, I know it's not a pleasant feeling to be wronged. I had that experience when I was a kid. Okay, I sincerely apologize to you. This is my apology gift."
Colin said kindly, took out a White Rabbit candy from his pocket and stuffed it into the little girl's mouth before she could react.
He actually always hated brats, but the kind of well-behaved and sensible ones were different...
The little girl just reacted and felt the sweetness melting in her mouth, and her entire jaw felt sore - it was the first time she had eaten something so sweet!
The milky fragrance and sweetness that I have never experienced before...
"Okay, the injuries aren't that serious."
After roughly treating her major injuries, Colin stood up and pointed to his current territory in the direction of the town:
"Will you come with me over there? I will give you food and a place to stay. As long as I am alive, I will save more children like you who have nowhere to go, teach you some knowledge, raise you, and then, you can choose your own future."
This time, unlike just making big promises to his employees, Colin really decided to do it. Looking at these children, he couldn't help but think of his own childhood.
From a broken small family to the old dean's big family...
Colin considered himself lucky.
Now he plans to continue his luck.
The little girl looked in the direction he pointed. She could only vaguely see some mountains several kilometers away, and nothing else. She then looked away and looked at Colin's profile, staring at him blankly.
After a while, she suddenly became depressed:
"But we have no money..."
She looked awkwardly at the two moles in her hands.
Although they are indeed fat, they obviously cannot afford such a price, not even the money for the sweet stuff in their mouths.
This kind of "good thing" made her very scared...
However, feeling the tone in Colin's words, she did not run away as she had done before.
"Your growth is your reward to me."
Colin smiled and reached out to touch her head. All along, he had been doing tasks numbly since he came to "World No. 13". After having something he wanted to do, he suddenly felt that his mood had improved a lot.
At this moment, he turned his head and looked behind him:
"Are those your companions?"
At this moment, the children seemed to be closer, holding stones in their hands, as if they were ready to give him a hard blow.
"Although he is young, he is quite courageous."
Colin murmured in his heart.
"Well...can you take them with you?" the little girl asked.
"Of course, ask them to come over."
Hearing this, the little girl's eyes lit up, and her black pupils seemed to turn a little red due to her emotional changes. However, she seemed to realize something, and quickly shifted her gaze, tilted her little head, and secretly glanced at Colin. Seeing that he didn't seem to notice, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"There's something really wrong with this kid, those eyes."
Colin felt doubtful, but since he had just calmed her down, he didn't rush to ask questions to avoid provoking her.
"By the way, what's your name?" Colin asked the question again.
The little girl shook her head and whispered, "I don't have a name, but they all call me 'Hong'..."
There is no name, so this should be a nickname, right?
Colin was not surprised by this situation, because many refugees and disaster victims did not have names, nor were they qualified to have names. Only some of them had nicknames.
"Then I'll call you Xiaohong."
She didn't dwell on it. At Xiaohong's call, the children who wanted to "rescue" her all jumped out. After explaining the misunderstanding, Colin took out the "Smiling Corpse Mountain".
The next moment, the corpse on the ground melted and a huge black meat ball rose from the ground.
After calming down the shocked and frightened children, Colin led them up the pile of corpses and headed towards the territory:
"Pippi Ball, let's go!"
The mountain of corpses stretched out its sturdy hands to replace its feet, carrying everyone towards the territory. And because Colin used the "Badge of Humble Knight", it did not cause much reaction along the way.
I just always feel like I'm missing something.
"oops."
Suddenly, Colin slapped his head and remembered that he had not taken the "Brave" sack that he had just thrown on the ground. So he drove the Smiling Corpse Mountain back to the original place to take them up, and then returned to the territory.
After more than a day's journey, everything in the territory seemed normal except that there were more people.
However, Colin soon discovered that in addition to the refugees, there were also hundreds of soldiers he had never seen before...
After Colin came back, Li Ming quickly received the message and temporarily put down his work to come over.
"Those soldiers were brought by Calder's nephew. They said they were here to help, but I feel like they have bad intentions. Should we drive them away?"
"Drive away? Why?" Colin was surprised.
"This... is a traitor."
"It doesn't matter. Anyway, there is a real shortage of labor right now, especially those who can understand what is said. I guess these 'traitors' are more diligent than ordinary soldiers in order to obtain intelligence."
Colin waved his hand to indicate that it was no big deal, and his strength was the confidence behind his words.
The so-called traitors in Li Ming's eyes were just laborers in his eyes...
"Okay." Li Ming nodded, and looked at the children following Colin, as well as the sack of people that Colin had handed over to several "money slaves" to hold.
"These are the 'brave men' I just rescued..."
"Those unlucky guys you are talking about are them." Li Ming exclaimed in surprise.
Colin had told them the story of those unlucky "brave men" before. He didn't expect that they went out for this matter.
But on second thought, Li Ming rubbed the dark circles under his eyes and suddenly became excited: "Then are they..."
After all, I have gone through nine years of compulsory education, so there will be no problem for me to contribute myself as a high-level laborer here!
"Don't worry about it for now. They didn't come here through formal channels, and they are not Bonfire Company employees. They have problems with language communication, and they are also injured. Oh, their injuries need to be treated, and I'll ask Lin Yilan to come over later."
"All right."
Li Ming was depressed, then he looked at Ke Lin's side, "By the way, who are these?"
"You don't want them to help you, do you?" Colin looked strange.
"No, just a casual question." Li Ming shook his head.
Noticing his gaze, Xiaohong hid behind Colin awkwardly and nervously pulled at his clothes.
As if due to the change of emotions, her eyes turned red again.
Although there was no evidence, Colin had a hunch that if her eyes continued to turn red, something bad would probably happen.
"It seems that I have to take care of her myself, otherwise it will be bad if something goes wrong." Colin thought secretly, and said expressionlessly:
"Well, some homeless children, let's arrange for them to live in the church first."
Colin reached out and touched her head to comfort her. After making arrangements, he took the opportunity to ask about the other people's situation.
Lin Yilan and the nun worked together to rescue people, while Tang Ken took a group of people to make some basic props and then went out to try to reclaim farmland and develop wasteland.
There are actually quite a few people in this world who can reclaim land and cultivate crops, but most of the time they are unable to do so.
Because reclaiming land in that era was hard labor, if there was not enough food, protein or something to support it, if a thousand refugees went out to reclaim wasteland, without food and tools, it would be estimated that most of them would be exhausted or starved to death in a few days.
Food and everything else were in the hands of the nobles, and ordinary people could only reclaim the wasteland when they were willing to do so.
Colin was also short of food, but with hundreds of 25-year-olds whose physiques were several times stronger than those of ordinary people, it was not a big problem.
After briefly understanding the situation of the territory, Colin nodded with satisfaction.
Over the next few days, just as he had expected, the 25s worked much harder than the average person. With their selfless dedication, the entire territory was finally able to regain some order from the chaos.
Three consecutive days passed, and everything was developing in an orderly manner...
Just looking at the dark circles in the eyes of Li Ming and others, Ke Lin suddenly felt a little guilty, and then some thoughts came to his mind -
“Is there any way to allow them to work for seven consecutive days without losing their work efficiency due to fatigue?”
While thinking, Colin probably had some ideas.
"Now they actually need to rest. It's time to improve their strength. If they can inject the F-level gene compensation potion and combine it with the 'colorless crystal', they should not have dark circles under their eyes even if they work for seven consecutive days."
This way, his conscience will feel much better.
However, just when Colin was thinking about going out to improve the strength of his employees, Sister Vanessa suddenly ran over excitedly and told him a big news -
Soon, Her Majesty the Saint of the "Light" Church, now the highest-ranking person in the "Light" Church, the first person under God, the saint walking on the earth, may pass by here!
