Huo Li’s proud expression stiffened for a moment, but he immediately put on a gentle smile and said: “Look at how smart this child is! It knows that I don’t look handsome and can even curse! Hahaha!”
However, the other survivors in the cave didn’t know that Huo Li felt like there was a knife being twisted into his heart. They were instead amazed by the high IQ of this smart cabbage! A cabbage that could curse at people! How intelligent!
At this moment, the female leader Claire completely believed in the abilities of the smart cabbage. She said to Huo Li and Xiao Yi: “I support your plan. I will notify the entire valley base to vote on this matter together!”
Half an hour later, more than 400 people gathered in the open space of the valley, waiting for the female leader Claire to speak. These 400 people made up a tenth of the valley base population, acting as representatives for decision making. Among them, 150 belonged to the valley’s guard team, 60 or so were part of the anti machine resistance team led by the male leader Mister Claire, and the remaining 200 people represented the women and children who grew the algae and made other life necessities.
They saw the female leader Claire climb onto a boulder and say to everyone in a clear voice: “These two beside me are the new saviours sent to D planet from the Salvation Alliance.”
The audience below booed in displeasure when they heard the word ‘saviours’. Claire raised her voice to suppress the sounds of disapproval and explained for the two people: “They are different from those robbers and wastes from 50 years ago. This Mister Yi and Mister Huo have used the smart cabbage’s food transformation ability to provide a wealth of food for the survivors at the mine base. Not only does the smart cabbage have this ability, it can even control the surrounding mechanical soldiers when it has reached a certain quantity! Now, the mine base has already used all the purple algae they have stored to transform into this smart cabbage. They have enlisted all their manpower to grow and protect it. As the leader of this valley base, I will make a proposal. I think that we should follow the mine base and use our stored provisions……”
“Boo!!”
“Don’t trust those two liars!”
“What smart cabbage? We also have smart purple algae!”
“Even if you want to swindle away our food, this excuse is too unbelievable!”
“Has this old woman gone mad?!”
“I’ve said long ago that the leader position should have been given to Alexander……”
The audience all made sounds of disapproval. The ones that jeered the most belonged to the valley’s guards. They even shouted for Claire to step down. It was obvious that they had a long-standing grudge against the Claire siblings. The next loudest were the woman and children who were unwilling to hand over the purple algae they grew.
The black-haired youth looked at the female leader who could no longer suppress the angry valley people standing below the boulder. He directly took out 20 kilograms of the smart cabbage’s ‘black roots’ from his space and threw them onto the open space below. The ‘black roots’ quickly spread out in the soil and within a few seconds, they sprouted a field of lush green cabbages in front of the valley representatives.
This green area that suddenly appeared before their eyes instantly quelled the representatives who had never seen the colour green before! The noisy scene just now suddenly quietened. Everyone looked at this novel green plant with curiosity.
Then, one of the cabbages that was growing at the very front shook its body. It used its own roots to crawl out of the ground. Proudly standing in front of the cabbage field, it opened its mouth and said:
“Hello everyone! I am the smart cabbage that Leader Claire has just mentioned!”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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The crowd gasped in shock.
Then, with the secret cooperation of the black-haired youth, the smart cabbage performed talents such as speaking, hard arithmetics and forward rolls for the 400 people. This time, everyone who had still been cursing has basically been convinced. However, just when things were heading in the right direction:
“Wait a minute! Leader Claire, don’t try to change the concept!” A representative of the guards loudly opposed: “This so called ‘smart cabbage’ indeed has its own consciousness and it can also do arithmetics, but what about it?! Don’t tell me that just because of this, we have to give up all our food and change the way of life we’ve had for several decades, and then let the purple algae growers and guard team soldiers go protect this cabbage?”
When this guard team member finished shouting, everyone below began to get stirred up.
“This is the only opportunity to change our fate. Don’t tell me that you guys……” Before Claire could finish speaking, she was interrupted by a male voice in the audience.
“Claire, you think this is ‘an opportunity to change our fate’? You are too naive! Indeed, this cabbage has wisdom and can count numbers. Oh! It can also dance!” This was clearly sarcasm from the guard team. The guard representatives looked at each other and then let out exaggerated laughs.
“Well said, Mister Alexander!”
“We support Alexander!”
There were some who took advantage of the chaos and loudly shouted.
Mister Alexander paused for a second and then made a gesture to silence everyone. He continued to say: “Who can’t count numbers? Who can’t dance? We also know how to fire a gun and can manufacture weapons! Aren’t we smarter than that cabbage? Before the end of the world, we had hundreds of billions of people with higher IQs living on D planet than that smart cabbage. However, we were still slaughtered by the D system and its mechanical soldiers until we were almost extinct!”
The words of this guard team leader Alexander were extremely provocative. When everyone thought of the several hundred billion people who were massacred by the machine, they all became pessimistic. Right, we humans weren’t able to defeat the D system and the mechanical soldiers. What’s the use of pouring all our strength into cultivating these cabbages?
The black-haired youth looked at this overwhelmingly one-sided situation and was about to control the black strands in the cabbage field to make some food and prove the cabbage’s strength. However, Huo Li’s voice sounded in his mind. “Wait, there’s no need to do anything right now. They’ll be a better opportunity in 5 minutes.”
Hence, the black-haired youth put away the root system that had just begun to stir and silently watched the power seizing performance of the guard leader Alexander.
“So, our leader Claire wants to convince us simply by making this cabbage count numbers and perform somersaults? This kind of cabbage can help us defeat the D system with its several hundred million mechanical soldiers? Hahaha! In order to make us hand over all our stored provisions, you actually make such a big claim about this cabbage.” Alexander pointed his finger at the lone cabbage standing in front of the cabbage field. “Such a small thing can control the machine? How will it control it? Wave its leaves and make those vicious armed helicopters land? Then make the mechanical soldiers walk out in a line and give it a salute?”
“Ahahahahahahaha!” The surrounding guards roared with laughter, setting up the female leader Claire to look more and more like a lunatic.
Huo Li’s voice sounded in the black-haired youth’s mind again: “Alexander actually raised a pretty good suggestion.”
The black-haired youth silently stood to one side and watched the power struggle farce of the valley base. He asked in his mind: “How many kilograms of brain power do you need?”
Huo Li: “1500 kilograms of brain power. That is, 3000 kilograms of black strands is more than enough.”
The black-haired youth: “Okay.”
At this moment, the female leader Claire standing on top of the boulder was already hard-pressed by the shouts of ‘step down Claire’ coming from the audience. She tried to say something to stabilise the situation, but her voice was completely drowned within the shouts spurred on by the guards.
Just at this moment: “The death squad led by Mister Claire is back from the oil field!” A guard member stumbled as he ran in and shouted to everyone: “A dozen brothers are dead and there are many wounded!”
“All guards and anti machine resistance members immediately go and provide support!” As soon as the female leader Claire heard news of her own brother, she put aside the power struggle at the scene and shouted to everyone below.
“No! Fleeing back like this, there’s definitely mechanical soldiers pursuing them!” The guard team leader Alexander shouted in disapproval. The survivors who were originally prepared to follow orders and hurry outside instantly hesitated, halting in their steps. “There are still more than 4000 people in this valley. We can’t take risks and implicate everyone here for the sake of those 300 death squad members! Attacking the oil field controlled by the D system was already their mistake. For the sake of everyone’s lives, they should draw away the mechanical soldiers! They should be responsible for their own mistake!”
“Right! We can’t let them in!”
“We can’t let them lead the mechanical soldiers back!”
Even the people responsible for growing algae and making life necessities were incited by Alexander’s words.
On the boulder, the female leader Claire was so angered by the guard leader inverting black and white that her voice trembled: “Weren’t the fuel and guns previously used by the valley base obtained because my brother and the death squad risked their lives for them?! If it weren’t because we lost nearly 700 brothers and sisters in stealing from the oil field for the past 10 years, do you think my brother would make a desperation decision to attack the oil field? You! You……”
However, her voice was once again drowned by the crowd below.
“Secure all entrances to the valley cave! We can’t let them come back!” Alexander loudly shouted. Everyone started taking action in response! They each ran to the entrances were they were usually stationed.
At this moment, Mister Claire was leading more than 300 people who were supporting each other as they ran towards the valley base. Some of the seriously injured members were even carried on the backs of their teammates. Everyone’s physical strength had already been pushed to the limit!
“Are there any drones following us?” Mister Claire shouted to the recon scout following closely behind him.
“Negative! Mister Claire, we specially hid in the Tara mountains for 3 days and have long escaped the surveillance aircraft tailing us. I have just surveyed our surroundings through the binoculars and there’s no trace of an enemy plane.”
Mister Claire finally let out a sigh of relief and continued to lead the wounded soldiers back. 2 minutes later, the troops at the very front finally arrived outside the entrance halfway up the mountain. However, what waited for them was an entrance that was tightly blocked with a boulder!
“Open the door!” Mister Claire shouted. “Our death squad will all be here in 5 minutes. There’s no enemy plane following us!”
However, the hot-headed guards who had been bewitched by Alexander pressed tightly against the boulder inside the door. It was just like if the door opened, the pursuing mechanical soldiers would also swarm in with the wounded death squad members.
By this time, the 300 wounded and exhausted soldiers had all gathered in front of the mountain entrance. But no matter what they did, they were unable to push open the entrance that was blocked from the inside!
“Hurry up and open the door!” The wounded soldiers outside anxiously shouted. “We haven’t been spotted by any mechanical soldiers, but we must enter the valley before the daily patrol drones arrive!”
Within the valley, the anti machine resistance team as well as the female leader Claire were extremely anxious. They directly drew their guns to confront the guards, but because they were outnumbered, they were easily subdued.
Misfortune never comes by itself. At this moment, two surveillance drones appeared in the sky to the north!
“There’s a drone! Let us in!”
“The drones are still far away, they can’t see us! Hurry up!”
The guard leader Alexander had only wanted to create panic and take advantage of the situation to seize power. When he heard that there really were drones outside the cave, his heart trembled: His originally intention was to wait for the coup d’etat in the valley base to end and have all power firmly seized in his hands before letting those subordinate wastes of Claire inside. But now, they could only blame their own bad luck! He could use this opportunity to get rid of the root of the problem!
Thinking this, Alexander made up his mind and shouted to his subordinates: “They really did draw over pursuing forces! The valley base must not be exposed! In order to ensure more people’s lives, we can’t open the door!”
As the two drones flying from the north came closer and closer, the death squad led by Mister Claire had already given up pounding on the door. At this moment, they must not expose the entrance of their homeland. Instead, they scattered in all directions, pretending to flee in panic to draw away the drones!
Several minutes later, just when the squad was about to die under the drone’s gunfire!
Bang! Broken pieces of rock flew out from the entrance of the cave! Two slender figures slowly walked out side by side……
Ugh this Alexander guy is truly scummy, he just wants the position and not the good for the people. 😾💢
Thank you for the update~
Thought of making him a stripped bare-naked bait running around?
Alexander is garbage
Thanks for the great translation ♥️
Thank you for translating! <3
Cliffie aaaaahhhhhh