Interstellar Number One Farmer: I Only Want To Farm!-Chapter 167 - 56: Imminent Evacuation (Part 2)
"I am not suitable; I only know how to hit where it hurts. For instance, you are the unfilial disciple, stealing my chicken leg. Don’t call me master anymore. You’ve hardly ever given me anything, but you’re quick to snatch my food." Su Xiaocai swatted away Wu Qingqing’s sneaky fork.
The environment on Huangyang Star is harsh, and the food supply is scarce. If you can’t fill up, you can only eat nutrition pills.
Each person is allotted one chicken leg, no more, even if you’re willing to pay.
Wu Qingqing was disappointed, "You have Xiao Wanzi’s vacuum-packed braised beef. What’s wrong with giving me a bit of your chicken leg?"
"Nothing wrong." Su Xiaocai picked up the chicken leg and took a big bite of meat.
Wu Qingqing turned her head to look at the chicken leg on Feng Wansha’s plate, "Instructor, we just killed an Insect Man together; how do we calculate the score?"
"The Insect Slayer’s score doesn’t matter. We’re just giving the students left on the Mechanical Planet a bit of encouragement."
Student: "..."
The students still training on the Mechanical Planet saw the score changes of the team on Huangyang Star.
The change wasn’t very big, it seemed like if they put in the effort, they could catch up.
Looking at those fake numbers, they worked even harder to overtake them.
With a sigh, loneliness was as steady as snow.
That bit of pride was gone; coming to Huangyang Star was really just like new recruits training.
What a cunning instructor.
"It’s better to be prepared to evacuate at any moment." The instructor advised them, so they wouldn’t get carried away.
Student: The scores shown outside are fake, what do we have to be proud of?
Given the current situation on Huangyang Star, they couldn’t even execute the live broadcast trial in the last three days.
At night on Huangyang Star, the students here hadn’t yet felt the tense atmosphere and were sleeping soundly.
Over on Admiral Bai’s side, they were already considering evacuating everyone from Huangyang Star.
They were negotiating with the Merchant Guild and government officials, applying to carry out the evacuation work.
During the video conference, everyone looked displeased, dragged up for a meeting early in the morning, and hearing it was about an evacuation plan made them even grumpier.
Due to the recent occurrence of Insect Men infiltrating Capital Star and then finding parasites, the relevant government departments were reluctant to accommodate people from Huangyang Star.
Firstly, they had to inspect everyone’s health, and secondly, they needed to find places for them, as many of the Planet Masters of the remote planets resisted people from other planets entering.
The procedure was complex and couldn’t be handled carelessly, for fear that Insect Men might be mixed in. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂
Nobody in the Merchant Guild was in favor of retreating.
If they had to retreat, all merchants should withdraw from Huangyang Star.
No one should earn money from Huangyang Star anymore.
The impromptu meeting turned into a marketplace brawl, with people banging tables and yelling profanities, spitting at the camera, each insisting on their view.
Annoyed by the buzzing arguing, Admiral Bai didn’t want to bicker, "In two days, I need to know your decision. In two days, all my subordinates will be withdrawn."
He expressed it clearly; the Military Department wasn’t interested in that bit of money, preserving the lives of soldiers was more important.
The government members had headaches, wondering what was the point of the meeting when the decision was already made.
"That old stubborn Bai, always so tough. Be careful, one day we might not listen to you anymore."
"Yeah, yeah."
"Yeah what, get back to work."
It’s not possible not to listen. For Admiral Bai to reach his position today, he sacrificed a lot of blood and sweat. If he notified them in advance, they had to cooperate.
If it got out that they left the citizens unattended, they would be criticized again.
The most important thing was to come up with a plan to accommodate the evacuating people.
The military and government would act together.
The Merchant Guild was different. After the meeting ended, the merchants who sensed danger signed up for evacuation privately.
Some merchants were willing to take the risk.
"Huangyang City is still there. If the military and government leaders leave, wouldn’t we essentially take over Huangyang Star by deploying mercenaries now?"
"What kind of pipe dream is that? Once the military and government folks leave, how much power do we merchants have? What about weapons, where do we get them? And the shield, do you know how much it costs just to activate it once?"
"If we remaining band together, wouldn’t we have the funds?"
It’s not like there haven’t been large-scale disappearances on Huangyang Star before. Every time, it got through it; profit and risk coexist. Their people haven’t detected many Insect Men traces.
Maybe it’s another ploy by the Military Department, an excuse to abandon Huangyang Star. With fewer and fewer people, incurring annual losses, if they were the Military Department, they wouldn’t want to stay, either.
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After waking up, Su Xiaocai received a message from Instructor Fan on his communicator, saying they should assist in evacuating the masses. Persuade those willing to leave, those unwilling to cooperate—just leave them be.
