Chapter 2920: Town Infrastructure Construction Proceeds Happily 45

In less than ten minutes, Huo Zhaoye and the two others rushed over.

When they arrived, the scene had changed again.

Some resident first noticed the commotion outside.

"Teacher Jin?"

"What are you doing!"

Jin Chen sighed slowly, "They kidnapped me."

In the blink of an eye, the dozen or so people from the Five Elements Base were instead surrounded by the angry Peace Base residents.

Numerous and fierce-eyed, even though many held only farm tools, their united hostility was enough to intimidate.

Chu Ge's face turned bluish.

His subordinates also became tense involuntarily.

Aren't these people afraid of death? They all have weapons!

"Step back! All of you step back, or I won't be polite!" Chu Ge shouted harshly, pointing his gun at the crowd.

Now then, the residents who were busy in the nearby fields, repairing houses, or playing with their children grabbed hoes, spades, and sticks and came rushing over in a clamor.

But in just a few minutes, the twenty-plus people from the Five Elements Base were actually surrounded by over a hundred Peace Base residents, layers upon layers, completely sealed off.

Chu Ge's forehead began to sweat.

The turn of events completely exceeded his expectations; these people… how dare they? Don't they fear that I might really strike at Jin Chen?

Just then, Huo Zhaoye and the two others pushed through the crowd and walked in.

Huo Zhaoye glanced at Jin Chen, who was surrounded in the core, squatting on the ground seemingly still studying the crystal stone, then looked at Chu Ge and his group, surrounded by residents and looking grim, and almost burst out laughing.

"Recently the area around the base has been peaceful, and the Patrol Team and security brothers complain their hands and feet are clumsy."

He gave Chu Ge a cold, icy glance: "Using you to stretch our muscles is quite good."

"No, wait!"

Chu Ge was completely bewildered, shouting urgently, "Don't you fear that I might act against Jin Chen..."

Before the last few words were fully out, an abrupt change occurred.

The usually laid-back Jin Chen suddenly swayed.

The Five Elements Base member nearest him, who had been pointing a gun at him, felt his wrist go numb and painful; before he could see the movement, his gun vanished, and he immediately collapsed uncontrollably to the ground, unable to move.

After doing that, Jin Chen leisurely swayed over, walked straight to Huo Zhaoye's side, lifted his eyes to him, shielded his eyes from the sun, and said, "Hey, the sun's making me dizzy."

Chu Ge: "..." This damn weakling teacher? Is he some monster in human skin!

On this side, Teng Gu had already stepped forward, facing Chu Ge directly.

Chu Ge hastily raised the sealed metal box in his hand, which contained the notes and letters he had found, "Yan Tenggu! Look well! This is what you left at the base back then! If you don't want these efforts destroyed, then..."

"Then burn it."

Teng Gu interrupted him, not even glancing at the box, and continued: "It's just useless stuff."

It's unclear whether he meant the papers recording past research efforts, or the limp-as-mud Chu Ge and his group before him.

"As for you, if you've harbored the thought of harming Jin Chen, you should prepare to never leave this place."

Chu Ge: "...?!"

He simply couldn't understand; wasn't Yan Tenggu the one who valued these research materials most? Back then, to keep those notes, he could even...

Now, how could he react like this?

Before he could figure it out, the Peace Base people rushed over.

The ensuing scene was less a battle and more a one-sided crushing.

The Five Elements Base people had already been terrified by Jin Chen's move, their souls scattered; trapped in layers of encirclement, morale gone, they hardly formed any effective resistance before being swiftly subdued.

Chu Ge was especially singled out by Huo Zhaoye personally; a few punches left his nose blue and face swollen, collapsed on the ground only able to groan.

This isn't over yet.

Under Teng Gu's few seemingly bland questions that actually struck vital points, the mentally near-collapse Chu Ge and several of his subordinates, in order to survive, stammered out the dangerous research the Five Elements Base had recently been conducting in secret.

After spilling the news, Chu Ge's face turned ashen, knowing that returning would also be a dead end.

Teng Gu, as if trying to anger them to death without killing them, also took advantage of the Peace Base folks being all gathered, turning to face all the Peace Base residents assembled here.

"Since everyone's here today, I'll announce some good news."

"After repeated verification over this period, the method for purifying the soil has basically been confirmed effective; we expect to start putting it into use in batches on our fields next month."

After a brief silence, cheers erupted, dispelling the previous hostility, echoing across the twilight wilderness.

Being able to purify the land means a longer-term future and a more secure homeland.

Chu Ge lay on the ground, hearing the deafening cheers, seeing Teng Gu surrounded by the crowd with a smile, and not far off Jin Chen having his shoulder gripped by Huo Zhaoye, lowering his head to say something, his vision went dark in waves.

【Detected Villain Blackening Value -10, total 0!】