Chunzhao Road, Laowu Barbecue Restaurant.
After completing the mission, Yue Heng planned to return to Taijiang on the same day.
However, Captain Duan asked Yue Heng to change the train ticket to the next day even though he had already booked the train ticket.
He invited Yue Heng for barbecue at night to thank Yue Heng for his help and to be a good host.
The owner of Laowu Barbecue Restaurant also had the surname Duan. He was Captain Duan's cousin. The restaurant's signature dish was roasted whole lamb.
They killed around 40 catties of sheep from the grassland of Inner Mongolia, removed their fur and skin, added seasonings such as onions, ginger, pepper, and salt, and roasted them on top of an almond fire.
They roasted until the surface was golden red and oily, emitting a fragrant aroma. They were crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.
It took a total of three hours.
The roasted lamb had crispy skin and smooth meat. It was golden yellow and delicious. It was fatty but not greasy. It was crispy and delicious!
After Yue Heng tasted it, he felt that it was right to go back tomorrow.
"Come!"
Captain Duan raised the beer bottle in his hand and said with a hint of drunkenness, "Consultant Yue, let me toast you again!"
He had a good tolerance for alcohol, but after finishing half a box of Dengsu, he was a little tipsy.
Yue Heng smiled and clinked bottles with him. "Cheers!"
With the help of his transcendent body, Yue Heng's metabolism was far better than ordinary people. He would not lose to anyone in drinking.
"Good tolerance."
After Captain Duan finished the beer, he could not help but give Yue Heng a thumbs up. "Consultant Yue, I've never admired anyone in my life, but I admire you. You're the best!"
Although he was drunk, he said it from the bottom of his heart.
Captain Duan put the empty beer bottle on the table and smiled bitterly. "We should have asked for help earlier. If you came a day earlier, Da Qiang would not have …"
He did not finish his sentence, but the atmosphere in the small private room suddenly became depressed.
The few members of the transcendent forces next to him all looked sad.
Da Qiang was the transcendent force member whose body was hung on the iron fence. He was their colleague and comrade!
Although he was not the first member of the transcendent force to be sacrificed after the transcendent force was established in Hongzhou.
As for those who chose to become a member of a super battle team, they were all prepared to give up their lives.
However, everyone still felt extremely regretful.
One of the team members whispered, "Da Qiang's son just celebrated his third birthday. His parents are not in good health either …"
Yue Heng thought for a moment, then took out a check from his pocket and placed it in front of Captain Duan.
Captain Duan was stunned and asked in astonishment, "This is?"
"This is the fee your bureau gave me for my hard work."
Yue Heng said, "Please give it to Da Qiang's family as a token of my appreciation."
Yue Heng wasn't a member of the Taijiang Otherworldly Affairs Bureau, so he wasn't here for free.
After confirming that the mutated rats had been wiped out, the Hongzhou Heterogeneity Administration quickly wrote out a check for 500,000 yuan as the reward for Yue Heng's adventure.
"No way!"
Captain Duan's face turned red when he realized what was going on. He quickly refused and said, "We have pensions, and the bureau will also arrange for the family's living conditions. How can we take your money?"
Yue Heng smiled and said, "This is for the family, not for you."
In his previous life, Yue Heng had distributed his bonuses and spoils of war to the families of the members who had sacrificed themselves countless times.
This amount of money was really nothing to him.
However, it could make the lives of the families of those who had sacrificed themselves for the country better.
That was why it was meaningful.
In the end, Captain Duan accepted the check.
He wiped his face and said in a hoarse voice, "Consultant Yue, I thank you on behalf of Da Qiang's family!"
Yue Heng waved his hand.
There was no need to thank him.
The next morning, Yue Heng stepped on the high-speed train back to Taijiang.
He was sitting in the first-class seat. When he saw that the seat next to him was empty, he took out his laptop from his storage space.
He surfed the Internet to kill some time.
However, as soon as he connected to the 5G network, a news window popped up.
Headline: China has officially launched the new city construction plan. It is estimated that five trillion will be invested in the next five years to increase the country's urbanization rate to more than ninety-nine percent!
The core of this grand plan was to move the villages into the cities. The rural people in the remote, poor, and mountainous areas would all move to the cities to live and work.
At the same time, the country would completely stop the afforestation project that had been in place for decades.
The funds would be invested in the construction of large farms and food factories!
Looking at the news over the past few days, Yue Heng felt like he could see the beginning of a new era.
Since ancient times, China had more people than land. The number of farmers living in the remote areas and mountainous areas was huge. Although the pace of urbanization had been accelerating after entering the New Century, there were still many farmers who stayed in their homes.
Although China's urbanization process would eventually reach its goal, time was of the essence.
However, the problem now was that time waits for no one. As more and more mutated lifeforms appeared in the wild, the lives of these people were in grave danger.
Just relying on the Foreignland Administration alone was not enough to ensure the safety of the areas outside the cities.
The mutated creatures that appeared in the cities and the Supers that went out of control had already made them do their best to deal with them.
As a result, giving up on the rural areas and mountainous areas, and even some small towns, became an inevitable choice!
In fact, in the future, many small and medium-sized cities would disappear and be replaced by large metropolitan areas with hundreds of millions of people relying on large farms and food factories.
When the Star Family descended, this historical process was triggered, and it could not be reversed!
However, Yue Heng knew that this was not a bad thing for mankind.
The golden three hundred years of human civilization on Earth had come from this!
However, as a witness to history, Yue Heng had an indescribable feeling in his heart.
He, who had returned from the Galaxy, was both a witness and a person who had experienced it.
He was even the driving force!
In addition to this big news, Yue Heng also saw a few small pieces of news.
One of them was that unless there were special circumstances, there would no longer be any official rescue for tourists who broke the rules and entered unsafe tourist areas.
In other words, those backpackers who secretly went to dangerous areas in the wild could no longer count on the country to rescue them.
The backpackers' families also had a way to save them. They could pay for a private rescue team themselves!
This news seemed cold and heartless, but it was actually reasonable.
Everyone had to be responsible for their own choices.
Especially adults, if they made irrational decisions, they could not count on the country to help them.
It had to be known that the wilderness, forests, and mountainous areas would be the world of mutated creatures in the future. Rescuing a few idiots might require a huge sacrifice.
Such a price was not worth it and should not be paid!
The last piece of news was that the country would start a new census.
Everything was being prepared for the future!
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