Chapter 68 Nowhere to Escape
The three of them sat at the newly replaced solid wood dining table, chatting and laughing. The broken marble dining table was put into Yu Miaomiao's space and placed next to the garbage heap. The villa had also been cleaned by Yu Miaomiao with her mental abilities. Except for a few pieces of paint that had fallen off the ceiling, everything else was the same as before.
The vegetable garden outside the door was completely destroyed, but the last wave of vegetables had been harvested two days before the disaster, so they didn't suffer any losses. In a few days, they would remove the stones from the ruins, tidy it up, and it would still be usable.
"An'an, after this period of turmoil ends, I want to send Weiwei to school."
At Xu Nanwei's age, she should still be in school learning, so that next time she won't come to them crying and saying she can't understand the letter.
Although both she and Lu An could teach, in addition to studying, she also needed to interact more with her peers at school. A couple of days ago, when she heard her mention that the other children in the villa were going to school, Yu Miaomiao realized that she had never considered that Xu Nanwei was also a child who should still be studying.
"Go ahead, I support you." All three little ones are going to school, so children should go to school even more.
"Can I really go to school?" Upon receiving an affirmative answer, the little girl smiled like a flower. "That's great! Then Ni Menglu next door won't laugh at me for being uneducated anymore."
Upon hearing this, Yu Miaomiao and Lu An both had a slightly cold look in their eyes, but it was fleeting, and they still maintained their smiles when they looked at the little girl.
"Then I'll take you to the mall tomorrow to see if there are any suitable backpacks and stationery."
"Okay, thank you, brother and sister." Mua~ She kissed her sister and then her brother, and the little girl happily went to wash the dishes, in a very good mood.
After finishing her meal, Yu Miaomiao went to the research institute to hand in her task. After much deliberation, she prepared to submit three computers.
The little girl was sleepy right after finishing her meal, so Lu An stayed home to keep her company while Yu Miaomiao went to the research institute to hand in her assignment.
It was still just Ye Jian and Hang Song in the research office. Yu Miaomiao even began to doubt whether Ye Jian and Hang Song were the only two people in the research institute, because it was eerily quiet inside the building. The entire building was pitch black, except for the room where Ye Jian and Hang Song were, which emitted a faint green light.
"Excuse me, I'm here to turn in a mission."
Hang Song opened the door. When he saw Yu Miaomiao, he couldn't hide his smile: "Thank you for the herbs you sent last time. They saved me from an emergency."
"Of course, I'm here to hand in my computer assignment today. I have a complete computer here."
Upon hearing this, Hang Song couldn't help but want to give Yu Miaomiao a hug. They urgently needed a working computer. People from the base were coming to hand in their tasks, but they were all handing in spare parts or broken and damaged machines. Two days had passed, and they still hadn't gathered enough parts to make a complete computer.
Ye Jian also stopped what she was doing and turned around to take a deep look at her.
When she placed the three computers side by side on the desk, Hang Song even wanted to bow to her. Ye Jian also stood up and thanked her. Yu Miaomiao thought to herself, "It's done, the boss's favorability +1."
"These are all computers that my friends and I used before, but don't worry, they'll work perfectly. These are the power cords, and I'll also give you two external hard drives."
"Ms. Yu, we will issue you sub-crystals after testing." Ye Jian stood in front of the three machines and said in a low voice. "Even if it is unusable, we will still issue you sub-crystals according to the value of the recycled parts."
Yu Miaomiao listened to him with a smile, then nodded in understanding.
"No problem. We don't need the computers anymore, so we might as well let you researchers use them to contribute your remaining energy."
Hang Song had already connected the power to one of the machines and tried to turn it on. It worked perfectly. He was so moved he almost cried. Heaven knows how he and Ye Jian had been doing lately. Their hands were numb from writing, and they were shaking uncontrollably while holding chopsticks. But only he was like this; Ye Jian remained incredibly steady.
Leaving the research institute and walking back, Yu Miaomiao marveled at how quickly the base was being rebuilt; in less than ten days, everything was back to normal.
However, it seems that the excavation work at the entrance and exit is still not progressing. When you walk to the central square, you can see robots constantly moving stones back and forth. Although they are far away, you can see that the heavy gate of the base has been exposed.
I heard that no matter what you do, you can't open it, as if there's another force outside blocking the door from the inside.
The base was unwilling to carry out a violent demolition because if such a demolition were to occur, and if other disasters were to occur, repairs could not be completed in time, which would then be another disaster for the entire underground city.
Then, Yu Miaomiao discovered that new bounty missions had been added to the mission hall.
Since she was already out, she figured she might as well check out the mission lobby, and that's when she saw this mission.
[Dungeon Entrance/Exit Opening Project]
[Task Priority: High]
[Mission Requirements: Due to an earthquake, the entrance to the underground city has been blocked. Excavation work is basically complete, but it cannot be opened from the inside. A team of superhumans is needed to cooperate with the base's military to open the underground city gate from the inside.]
[Task Reward: 1000 Sub-Crystals/person]
[Task deadline: End of July, Year 1]
There are only three days left until the mission deadline, and the mission was only recently issued. It seems the base urgently needs to resolve this issue, and they have at most three days. After three days, the base will likely resort to other breaching methods.
Yu Miaomiao wasn't confident about this task and didn't accept it rashly. She needed to go back and discuss it with Lu An.
Strange knocking sounds kept coming from the hospital morgue.
"How many days has it been?"
Standing outside the morgue, Chu Bai could clearly hear the knocking and pounding sounds inside. Chen Haohua wanted to open it directly to check, but Chu Bai stopped him and turned to ask the doctor who had first discovered it.
"It was after you came to see the body yesterday and left. I was on night duty last night, and when I came to do the routine check this morning, I heard a knocking sound. I was really scared and didn't dare to open the door. That's why I contacted you as soon as I handed over my shift." The doctor steadied his trembling body. "That's how it is in horror movies. If you open the door, something terrible will rush out. So I didn't open it at all and even put a lock on the door."
He pointed to the iron lock on the door, indicating that he had just added it.
"You have a strong sense of risk avoidance." Chu Bai wanted to give him a thumbs up after hearing this.
"You flatter me, but I'm really too scared. If you're going in later, I'll be going now."
The doctor broke out in a cold sweat upon hearing the knocking sound, and his legs trembled as he backed away.
At this moment, the door was already somewhat deformed from the force of the knocking and pounding, and the soldiers loaded their guns, ready to fire at any moment.