Her name was Xu Yulan. She was a level-three explorer in the second production base of the Green Valley Fortress in the South Hill District on the Green Dragon Planet.
The so-called 'explorer' was a profession that was responsible for the construction of bridges, roads, mountains, and oceans with the large-scale pioneering magical equipment and even the multi-functional civil Crystal Suit. They were responsible for transforming the areas with harsh environments into areas that were suitable for the survival of human beings and agricultural production.
As a 'hominoid' whose spiritual root had not been awakened, it was not easy for her to be qualified as a 'level-three explorer' by using seventy-seven kinds of large-scale civil magical equipment and having the courage to deal with the apocalyptic beasts for a while after putting on the half-armed Crystal Suit.
Back in her hometown, Xu Yulan had already made a name for herself. She had worn out many pairs of iron feet and traveled to every corner of the Azure Dragon Star. Even the trenches on the three moons of the Azure Dragon Star were soaked in her sweat.
It was a pity that …
Xu Yulan's head suddenly hurt. Pictures made of blood and fire popped up in her memory again.
It was the last scene that she saw in the Green Valley Fortress before she left on the rescue starship of the military.
The entire Green Valley Fortress was enshrouded in an ocean of fire. The hills and valleys that they had built after decades of hard work had all been burnt into ashes. Countless hominoids raised their hands and shouted at the sky in desperation, including her white-haired old father.
The puppets of the Holy League, on the other hand, seemed to be wearing masks. They were shrinking the encirclement emotionlessly and destroying everything indifferently.
Xu Yulan used the little bit of power she had just gathered to shake her head vigorously, suppressing all these useless images.
There was no time for her to be sentimental right now.
She remembered that before they entered the hibernation state, the captain had warned them sternly that the prolonged hibernation might cause certain damage to the brain, such as edema and cerebral hypoxia. The hibernation cabins of the hominoids were naturally not as delicate and safe as those of the Immortal Cultivators. They had to count on themselves and a little bit of luck.
When they just woke up from hibernation, they had to try to remember as many things as they could. If they did not remember them now, they might forget them forever.
Xu Yulan racked her brains and tried to recall the operation methods of the seventy-seven large-scale pioneering magical equipment.
This was what she had relied on to survive since she was young.
To the civilians of the Empire, life was always as unbearable as the cold wind of winter. However, if they mastered one or two special skills, it would be like putting on a thick cotton coat, and they could even shelter the entire family from the wind and rain.
Xu Yulan was born in an ordinary peasant family. The life of her ancestors for hundreds of years was like an unchanging cycle. They had to risk their lives to reclaim and plant in the places where the Imperium and the Holy League were at loggerheads. They might not necessarily be planting food, but they were more likely to be planting fast-growing forests that were necessary for war, or even vines and thorns that could slightly hinder the advance of the enemy's ground troops.
Putting aside the raging flames of war, these strange plants that could grow from seeds to seven to eight meters tall in a week or even three to five days were all extremely dangerous existences.
More than one of Xu Yulan's ancestors had been swept away by the vines, sucked into a pile of bones, or pierced by the thorns, dying after a few days of high fever.
Her fate was supposed to be like that, too, but everything changed when she accidentally revealed some mechanical talents when she was five years old.
The Imperium was cruel, but it was also fair. Whether or not one's bloodline was noble, as long as one showed the slightest talent in a certain aspect, they would be given the opportunity to be trained and tested regardless of whether they were the children of nobles or peasants.
Xu Yulan was taken away from her family when she was five and sent to the corresponding school in Angry Dragon City, the capital of the Azure Dragon Planet. She spent fifteen years in the cage that looked like an isolated island. Although her spiritual root was not awakened, the certificate of 'Level-5 Pioneer' was enough for her and her family to move out of the living hell and live in the Green Valley Fortress, which was just developing and had a slightly better environment.
Even in the end, when the Green Valley Fortress was drowned by the army of the Holy League, and countless hominoids were either killed in the fire or captured by the Holy League for refinement, it was still her certificate of 'Level-3 Pioneer' that played a major role.
The space on the escape starship was limited. The military could only take away the useful people. When the order was in chaos and everybody was in chaos, countless residents of the Green Valley Fortress were kicked away or even shot to death by the Immortal Cultivators mercilessly. But she managed to escape with her husband and her daughter. It was a pity that her old father had died …
Xu Yulan wiped away the wetness at the corner of her eyes and tried to concentrate on the structure and usage of the fifty-seventh piece of pioneering magical equipment.
The years of setbacks and tribulations had sharpened the nerves of the woman of the Imperium into the toughest. She understood the truth that suffering was the essence of life, but one could survive it as long as they gritted their teeth.
Compared with her neighbors in the past, they were already very lucky. Although the old man was dead, the child was still alive. Also, her brain did not seem to have been damaged after a long hibernation. Her foundation for life was as clear as ever, which was the most important thing.
Have we come to a new world?
No. Let's not get too excited yet. Let's recall the structure and usage of all the pioneering magical equipment again!
Even if this is a new world, we may still be faced with the shortage of resources, the shortage of food, the harsh environment, and so on. Chances are that countless hominoids will be abandoned.
I cannot be abandoned. My daughter cannot be abandoned. Then, I must try my best to become a useful person. Only the useful people can survive!
Having grown up in a bunch of cold machines since she was five, Xu Yulan was a very opinionated person.
Although she could hear the noisy atmosphere around, which was very different from the unfreezing session that the captain had mentioned, she still did not open her eyes immediately. Instead, she dismantled and assembled the virtual components in her head again and again while she recited the key points of operation of all the magical equipment.
"Mom! Mom! "
Perhaps it was her imagination, but Xu Yulan heard her daughter Yan Jinzhi's cheerful cries as if she were a lark.
Xu Yulan was slightly dazed. She thought that she had misheard and that it was a side effect of the long-term hibernation.
There was no reason for her daughter to appear on the starship.
Before they entered the hibernation state, the civilians from the five Sectors had been divided into 'colonization brigades' according to their identity, age, and profession. They were all led by the Immortal Cultivators and managed in a quasi-military way.
For the convenience of management, the names of the hominoids were meaningless in the colonization brigades. They were all given a number. Her number was 28347764545. The first two digits represented her place of birth, the middle was her blood type and other physical information, and the last five digits were the most important ones. They represented her profession and skill level.
According to the captain, once the Black Wind Fleet found a new world, they would all be unfrozen. However, in the first one to three years, they would still be under a semi-military way. They had to work hard for survival. Only when the environment was stabilized could they resume the social structure based on family as a unit.
"Mom! Mom! Xu Yulan! Xu Yulan! "
The cries were getting closer and closer. It did not seem to be an illusion. Xu Yulan's eyes shivered. She raised her swollen eyelids and couldn't help but be slightly surprised.
The hibernation zone that she was in was still under a military way, where the immigrants were unfrozen and woken up for comprehensive physical examinations.
However, the rest area outside of the hibernation zone was an ocean of joy. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was decorated with lanterns and decorations. Countless people, old and young, were hugging each other, crying, shouting, laughing, jumping, and dancing, releasing their feelings that had been sealed for a hundred years without any concern.
It was a scene that Xu Yulan had barely seen and was not used to. She had never thought that there was so much energy hidden inside the bodies of the countless hominoids that they could be so excited and … unrestrained.
"Where are the Immortal Cultivators?"
Xu Yulan subconsciously shrank her neck and looked around for the solemn, cold 'lords'.
Usually, the 'true human beings' did not like the hominoids shouting and screaming like that, not to mention that they had just woken up and were in dire need of 'iron order'. Was it not a rebellion?
She did not find the Immortal Cultivators, but she found her daughter first.
Yan Jinzhi climbed up a temporary fence and waved at her. Her face was red as if it was on fire. She didn't look like she had hibernated for decades or hundreds of years. Instead, she looked like she had just taken a comfortable hot bath.
Xu Yulan's heart suddenly tightened. She seemed to see an electric whip whipping her daughter brutally, teaching the wild girl who did not know the rules a lesson.
However, before she stepped forward to stop her daughter's recklessness, she was already invited to one side by two female doctors in white coats who looked very friendly.
When warm brilliance spread out from the palms of the two doctors, Xu Yulan's heart began to tremble as if it were a conditioned reflex. They were two Immortal Cultivators!
She rubbed her rough fingers, not knowing how she should explain her daughter's recklessness to the two true human beings. But out of her expectation, the two 'true human beings' simply turned a blind eye to Yan Jinzhi's behavior and examined Xu Yulan carefully from head to toe.
Xu Yulan was so flattered that she could not move at all as if she had been electrocuted.
The two 'true human beings' were extremely gentle. With smiles on their faces, they spoke softly and patiently, too. After hearing that she was a 'level-three pioneer', they even expressed their heartfelt admiration for her astonishing perseverance. They also helped her take care of her hands carefully and asked her to rest for a few more days without worrying about her work.
What was going on exactly? Xu Yulan was completely dumbfounded.
She was just an insignificant hominoid, and the two strangers were high and mighty true human beings. When had true human beings ever been so patient and respectful to hominoids?
Xu Yulan still remembered that before she went into hibernation, she had undergone a comprehensive physical examination. But that time, she was treated like a piglet. After a simple and rough scrub, she was thrown into the hibernation pod. That doctor's fierce face and cold hands were still fresh in her memory.
Xu Yulan looked at the chests of the two 'true human beings' in fear and saw something wrong.
The badge on their chests was neither the lightning trident emblem of the Imperium nor the emblems of the Black Wind Sector, the Hard Rock Sector, the Wild Wolf Sector, or any of the other Sectors. It was a brand-new symbol that Xu Yulan had never seen before.
A giant dragon that was baring its fangs and brandishing its claws was hovering above a glittering ball. Inside the ball, there were also nine pentagrams floating.
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