Chapter 790

That form of address is quite distinctive.

Generally speaking, an adjutant is just an adjutant.

Very few people would tack on "my lord" when addressing an adjutant!

That Mount Dajiao officer said proudly, "Right. Adjutant Liu by City Lord Su's side is very strong!"

"Then City Lord Su didn't make a move?"

"Our City Lord Su was away on business!" the officer said with a smile. "A seaquake of this level doesn't need our City Lord to act personally — his adjutant alone is more than enough!"

"I heard this seaquake was a skill of a deep-sea emperor-class sea beast!"

"Our Adjutant Liu blocked it!"

A deep sense of pride seeped through the Mount Dajiao officer's words.

The personnel who migrated over from Xicheng had to undergo identity screening first.

For civilians it wasn't too bad — the inspection wasn't overly strict.

Beast tamers, especially military beast tamers, were vetted far more strictly.

Xicheng was destroyed too quickly, and the military beast tamers' files were lost along with it…

This meant these military beast tamers had to first vouch for one another before being assigned into the Mount Dajiao City Guard.

Then Mount Dajiao would re-verify their identities against the Southeast General Command.

The General Command had backup files on every soldier under the Southeast Military Region.

The vetting lasted about a month.

After the initial inspection, the people from Xicheng, upon entering Mount Dajiao and seeing the city almost completely intact, the shops open for business and pedestrians on the streets, couldn't help feeling that their own group didn't quite fit in.

"That's the City Lord's Hall!" the officer said, pointing at the tallest building atop Mount Dajiao. "Our City Lord and the adjutant both live there!"

Seeing that imposing grey rock building, the civilians who had migrated from the old Xicheng felt a powerful sense of security well up inside them!

Haicheng, Southeast Military Region.

Most of the Southeast Military Region's senior officers had gathered once again.

The topic of this meeting revolved entirely around the seaquake.

The survivors from the three cities weren't many — the surrounding cities could easily absorb them.

Deputy Captain An had already handled it all; now they were just being informed of the outcome.

What remained was disaster relief.

The seven cities hit by the seaquake had heavy civilian casualties, vast tracts of fertile farmland destroyed, and urban districts in need of rebuilding — they needed relief from the General Command.

In this era, food was always a scarce resource.

Still, the problem wasn't too big — the southeast was already a major grain-producing region.

Saving money in times of plenty, hoarding grain and gold in times of chaos — that had always been the traditional skill of the Chinese people.

Back in the Early stage of the Cataclysm, the Huaxia Federation had barely held on thanks to the grain reserves stockpiled during peacetime.

Now, in this era, grain was an even more vital strategic resource.

The Southeast Military Region naturally had its own strategic reserves!

And the afflicted cities each had their own grain storage warehouses.

The Southeast Military Region didn't need to allocate too much grain.

"Next is the matter of Mount Dajiao!" Qian Hailong said in a low voice. "In this seaquake, suspected to have been caused by an emperor-class sea beast, the first city struck was Mount Dajiao. Mount Dajiao should have been the one most likely to be destroyed, yet this time it actually survived the seaquake — its losses are almost negligible… Deputy Captain An, why don't you tell everyone about it!"