Chapter 1764 - 960: The City Lord Truly Has Foresight

In addition, another twenty-five Outer City personnel were arranged to guard on the outer wall, using a rotating shift system: every hour they could come into the duty room to rest, and every eight hours they could return to the Outer City.

Once the plan was finalized, Li Yu had Xiao Jun and the others come up and start taking turns on duty.

Li Yu then explained to Xiao Jun how to use the Mobile Switch Blade, making sure he understood under what circumstances it needed to be opened.

He also told him some precautions. Second Uncle, off to the side, wrote all of them down, then printed them out on a few sheets of paper and pasted them up in the duty room.

Standard operating procedures—what to do in each situation—were all written on them.

That way they didn’t have to train everyone one by one anymore.

Seeing Xiao Jun and the others take over the positions from He An and the rest, Li Yu stared blankly through the curtain of rain.

The rainwater roared down.

The Mountain Pond in the Inner City, which had previously been pumped dry to relocate the fish and shrimp, was now rising at an astonishing speed.

In the drainage pipes of Big Camphor Tree Base, water was rushing through with a loud clatter, all converging at the cliff on the eastern side.

Cascading straight down: the dozens, even hundreds of meters of cliff formed a waterfall.

Chirp chirp—

Just as Xiao Jun stepped out of the duty room, a turtledove flew in from outside through the torrential rain.

Seeing so many people in the duty room, the turtledove panicked a little and flew around inside.

"Leave it alone." Li Yu said to Li Hang, who had picked up a rag, ready to smack it dead.

"Let it stay here." Li Yu looked at the turtledove and spoke to the others.

Li Hang scratched his head, then put the rag down, staring intently at the bird.

The turtledove seemed to sense that no one was going to hurt it. Soaked all over, it had probably been flying for a long time and was quite tired.

So it flew onto the table, shook the water off its feathers, and watched Li Yu and the others warily.

Suddenly it spotted a few leftover grains of rice on the tabletop, hopped over in a hurry, and pecked them into its belly.

Everyone only glanced at it for a few seconds, then stopped paying attention and went back to their own tasks.

.......

Big Camphor Tree Base, Inner City.

Villa district, second building.

Third Uncle lay in a recliner with a thin blanket over his legs. A fat orange cat was sprawled on the blanket.

The fat orange cat’s eyes were half closed, purring as it dozed.

Third Uncle reached out and gently stroked the orange cat’s fur. This orange cat had been picked up outside over a year ago.

Back then Third Uncle had noticed how sensitive it was to danger, and since fate had brought it to him, he took it in.

At first the orange cat was skin and bones, its fur dry and rough, as if it might die at any second.

He hadn’t expected that feeding it some leftovers would fatten it up this much.

After that, Third Uncle kept it by his side and raised it.

Third Uncle stroked the fat orange cat’s fur and scolded it with a smile: "You’re way too fat. Next time we go out on a mission I ought to take you along for a walk, otherwise you’re just freeloading all day!"

The fat orange cat gave a lazy meow, opened its eyes to glance at Third Uncle, then rubbed its head against his palm as if begging for mercy.

Third Uncle couldn’t help laughing.

This cat was practically becoming a spirit. Then he slapped the orange cat’s butt.

Smack!

The fat orange cat woke up at once, cast a somewhat resentful look at Third Uncle, then nimbly jumped down and went to lie in the corner by the wall to keep napping.

Third Uncle patted the hairs left on the blanket, clasped his hands behind his head, and squinted at the fierce wind and rain outside.

It’s raining, huh...

...

Oil City.

After several days of overcast skies, a torrential downpour finally came this day.

The rain was coming down in sheets.

The work on reinforcing the perimeter wall stopped immediately.

Ju Tianrui hurriedly called Dong Tai over. "The Mobile Switch Blade’s been tested and there’s no problem, right?"

"No problem, we’ve tried it out."

"Everyone’s clear on how to use it and under what circumstances, right?"

"He Bing and the others left us a user manual and explained it to us; we’re fine."

Ju Tianrui nodded and said, "Good. From now on, we implement four rotating shifts and step up security."

"Understood." Receiving the order, Dong Tai ran out into the rain.

Ju Tianrui looked at the sky, pouring as if it had split open, his gaze flickering, then suddenly turned his head toward the oil wells.

"Good thing the oil wells were repaired. Good thing the wall was reinforced. Good thing..."

After the downpour began, Ju Tianrui was somewhat surprised to realize that everything they seemed to need to prepare for had already been done.

Even the drainage system had been upgraded; they no longer had to worry about flooding inside.

"The City Lord really did have foresight."

At this point, Ju Tianrui couldn’t help feeling impressed.

Meanwhile, Zuo Ruxue and the others were busy in Oil City, urgently protecting the small patch of crops planted there and a few piglets brought over from the base.

Under the driving rain, somehow the fence had come open, and two piglets inside had run out, dashing wildly around Oil City.

Zuo Ruxue and the others, helpless, had no choice but to chase the two piglets in the rain.

The piglets squealed madly on the slick ground.

They ran toward the central building’s conference room.

Suddenly, a pair of big hands grabbed the remaining piglet and scooped it up.

"How’d you get out?" Ju Tianrui asked Zuo Ruxue, who had run up behind.

Zuo Ruxue was soaked through, panting hard with her hands on her hips, gasping as she said, "I don’t know either. Anyway, good thing you caught it. Hand it over to me, thanks."

Ju Tianrui passed the piglet to Zuo Ruxue, watched her walk away, and smiled.

Then he went over to the military radio and, as usual, reported the situation to Big Camphor Tree Base.