Chapter 1705 - 937: The Terrifying Oil City (Part 2)

Xiao Jun quickly said, "No need. Anyway, the people from Southern Paradise haven’t come close yet. It seems they too plan to come at twelve o’clock."

"Alright." Dong Tai nodded.

Throughout Oil City, after this period of recovery, the previous devastation from the flood had been swept away.

Outside, people like Chen Er waited quietly a kilometer away.

Wu Li felt utterly speechless inside.

They had said to rest before setting out, wait until almost twelve before coming over, but now that they were here, they weren’t in a hurry to discuss matters.

Insisting on waiting until twelve.

He couldn’t understand what all this was for.

So he spoke up: "Captain Chen, why don’t we go over and talk with them now? We might as well, it won’t make much difference."

Chen Er shook his head and said:

"No, arriving early is to avoid being late. If we go too early and they haven’t agreed yet, we’ll be very embarrassed.

We agreed on twelve o’clock, so we’ll go promptly at twelve.

Spirit of contract: we must uphold this, only by attending to these details can we earn Oil City’s trust."

"Uh..." Wu Li felt rather helpless, he couldn’t understand all these intricacies.

He had no choice but to wait until twelve o’clock.

Chen Er looked toward Oil City. He had long suspected there was another force behind it.

Xiao Jun certainly had a hidden boss behind him.

Therefore, he came early to see if at noon, vehicles would arrive from outside Oil City.

By noting the direction vehicles came from, he could roughly determine the direction of the power behind Oil City.

"Keep your eyes sharp. Tell the brothers to stay alert and see if any outside vehicles enter Oil City before twelve." Chen Er observed the listless Wu Li and reminded him.

Wu Li waved a hand and said, "Alright."

Thus, they spread out, wide-eyed, watching the surroundings for any incoming vehicles.

Time passed minute by minute, quickly reaching half-past ten.

The drowsy Wu Li almost fell asleep, but a hard pinch on his thigh woke him up.

Wu Li muttered, "There’s nothing here, Captain Chen, are you overthinking this?"

"Shut up and focus on observing the surroundings."

As soon as he finished speaking.

They heard a loud buzzing noise from the south.

???

They all looked southward.

The plain stretched far and wide, and there were no vehicles on the ground.

Did they hear wrong?

Chen Er felt there was a problem with his hearing.

"In the sky!"

Someone suddenly exclaimed.

Everyone raised their heads to look into the sky.

Only to see a helicopter appearing, flying towards Oil City.

The helicopter flew over their heads.

They used telescopes to look; they could even see the people inside the helicopter.

"Tssk! Captain, they’re not coming by car, they’re coming by helicopter!"

"So terrifying! They actually have a helicopter!"

"Captain Chen, you guessed right, there is indeed another power behind Oil City, and the people in the helicopter might belong to it."

Wu Li’s eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.

Suddenly, he seemed to recall something.

He said to Chen Er, "Two or three months ago, I seemed to have seen a helicopter flying over Southern Paradise’s skies, didn’t I mention it to you then?

Could it be that the people in the helicopter were the ones behind Oil City?"

Hearing this, Chen Er immediately remembered.

At that time, they were very worried the helicopter would attempt to do harm, but it merely circled overhead a few times before leaving.

Now hearing Wu Li say this, Chen Er indeed considered it a possibility.

With a thoughtful look, he nodded and said, "It’s possible.

If that’s the case, it means Oil City or the power behind Oil City has long known about us, perhaps even knows us well."

A chill ran down their spines.

Everyone inexplicably felt a mysterious fog enveloping Oil City, becoming obscure and enigmatic.

They watched as the helicopter flew into Oil City.

Confirming their earlier suspicions.

"What kind of background does Oil City have!?" Wu Li scratched his head in shock, saying.

"As we collaborate with them, will they value us?"

"Yes, yesterday they had artillery with such destructive power, and now it’s a helicopter. If they want to strike at us in Southern Paradise, do we have any means of fighting back?"

Everyone fell silent at these words.

It was Chen Er who was the first to pull away from the terror-filled emotions.

"If they were indeed the ones that appeared over Southern Paradise before, they would have acted against us already, why wait until now?"

"Moreover, for this cooperation talk, they’ve dispatched a helicopter, which certainly carries some important person."

"Don’t overthink, if we’ve come, then we should be at ease. Southern Paradise has developed to this extent, we’re no weaklings, and besides, we’re here to seek collaboration. What’s there to fear!?"

Upon hearing Chen Er’s words, the terror within everyone’s hearts gradually dissipated.

...

Thud!

The helicopter landed in the designated helicopter landing area in Oil City.

They even used fresh white lime to mark around it.

Ju Tianrui, Zuo Ruxue, Dong Tai, and others gathered around, watching as Li Yu and others disembarked from the helicopter.