Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 714 The New Capital

The Undying King dutifully took a portion of the Source of Order and incorporated it into itself, successfully achieving its goal for this expedition. Although it roughly understood Zheng Fan's nature, it was still fortunate that it wasn't made things difficult for him.

After marking the place of origin, Zheng Fan prepared to leave.

Although this place has a very good feel to it, he finds most of the places more interesting now.

They got back onto the subway.

The Zero Subway Fantasy World is currently in a very tense situation. Originally, it could be considered to have hitched a ride on Eliadodike's coattails, having been raised by him until now, and was expected to escape to the new world with Eliadodike.

Now Eliadosci is dead, leaving it here to face several "big men," and it's afraid.

Niu Qianliu, Bai Shi, and Xu Leyang were not idle while Zheng Fan and the others were fighting outside; they were working on reversing the effectiveness of the Zero Subway.

Although Zheng Fan could certainly take them back, there were still so many people on the carriage. Even if they were all people who fit Eliado Dix’s understanding of the capital and held pure white ideals, many of them were simply incited.

Given their personalities, the three of them couldn't bring themselves to simply leave the people Eliadodike had kidnapped there to fend for themselves.

Anyway, there will be plenty of trouble back in Dadu when I get back, so one more won't make a difference.

By the time Zheng Fan and his group returned, the three of them had also completed their adjustments.

As Zero Metro prayed it wouldn't be discarded after its usefulness was over, it began its return journey.

In the subway car, Zheng Fan was leaning against Shang Xia on his left and stuck to Binary Girl on his right.

All three of them closed their eyes as if they were asleep, but Zheng Fan was just pretending. Everyone was exhausted today, especially Lin Yilin, who had been busy running around these past few days. Without her, the chaos in Dadu today would have been pure chaos, and it's unknown how long it would have lasted.

Now, with the situation developing so rapidly, it has been preliminarily concluded in less than a day, leaving only the follow-up work to be done.

The Undying King's armor made sitting in a hard seat too uncomfortable, so it could only stand. However, due to its large size, it had to bend over to avoid its head breaking through the carriage. At the same time, it obediently stretched out one hand to grab the hanging handrail.

Despite being an immortal king, he somehow managed to project the image of a typical office worker commuting to and from get off work on the subway.

Xu Leyang, Bai Shi, and Niu Qianliu were not in the carriage but at the front of the train; they still needed to keep things under control to prevent the Zero subway from going crazy.

Fortunately, perhaps in order to at least secure a reprieve from death, Subway Line 0 was very obedient.

The three chatted idly at the front of the car about what had happened in the past thirty years. Bai Shi and Niu Qianliu did most of the talking, while Xu Leyang listened and occasionally made a joke, as if they had returned to the time when the three of them would hang out in the club and find fun for each other when they had nothing to do.

Carrying this weight, Metro Line 0 accelerates along the reconstructed time-space track, heading towards Dadu (Beijing).

……

Reconstruction has begun again and again in most places.

This disaster was far more severe than the impact of an earthquake, and the damage extended far beyond the gray neighborhoods; the white city and even the central district suffered more than one nuclear strike.

This has led to the forced decentralization of most of the city, because now many peripheral areas of the city have not become the primary targets of attack and have lived in peace, with many people going to these places for refuge.

The newly appointed bureau took over the handling of most of the current situation in the capital.

The Lighthouse and the Pure White Society took full responsibility for the disaster; many people fled, scattered, or were arrested. Despite his reluctance, Niu Qianliu returned to the chaotic Pure White Society at Bai Shi's urging and began helping to manage the society's troubles.

Meanwhile, on the Lighthouse side, the new symbolic leader, Red Ja, and the supreme advisor, Pharos, took office.

The people who lit the lamps had no objections to this.

Because at least outsiders dare not have too much objection to the Lamplighters, and at least those Lamplighters who are still alive are mostly those who chose to stop because of Hong Yijia's influence. The central interest groups have been purged, and all their assets have been confiscated by the now reorganized central government of Dadu. The Bureau is even considering reforming the central government to prevent interest groups from banding together again and extending their reach into the central government to control the government.

In the short term, a government controlled by the Bureau can maintain stability for decades, but in the long run, changes are inevitable, and these are left to the geniuses to figure out themselves.

But frankly speaking, in most places like these, it would be more efficient to create a Damocles' sword hanging over people's heads than to study ideology and politics. At least there are definitely more people willing to study the latter than the former.

At the request of various parties, Zheng Fan did some work to help absorb the violent radiation from the nuclear bomb.

Knowing that most of them were created because of me, I started to put a little more effort into doing these things, instead of just finding them troublesome and too lazy to do them.

Once the situation had largely stabilized, the central meeting was reconvened.

The threat from the Black World and the awakening of the Tree have not been resolved, but they must first stabilize the situation in Dadu and restore hope and confidence to its people.

On a macro level, the tree's revival is not in a hurry; there is still a long time to go, long enough for at least this generation to have nothing to worry about.

However, the Black Spokespeople are still eyeing the multiverse and planning to take it over as soon as possible to prepare for their own future.

However, given the current situation in the White World, it's difficult to penetrate deep into the Black World, let alone fight a group of Black Spokespersons in their own territory.

Aside from Zheng Fan and Luo Ye, if most of them don't hold their ground, they have absolutely no chance of going out to fight the Black Spokesperson.

Therefore, we have no choice but to consider strengthening our defenses.

If this central assembly is not easily erased from history but remembered, it will undoubtedly be hailed as a significant turning point for Dadu.

The central government has been almost completely transformed. Even those who don't follow most of the politics still have some impression of the last makeshift central government meeting that just ended.

At the meeting, Niu Qianliu was appointed as the chief designer of the defense and security of Dadu, and he was put in full charge of issues related to the defense against foreign invasion.

This had been agreed upon long ago, and Niu Qianliu, having resolved his inner conflict, readily agreed.

Although he would prefer to go back to teaching, that would have to wait until the emergency was over.

The remnants of the Prism Force and the Tide Army, some of the most fiercely resisting were purged, while the rest were scattered and reorganized into the Capital Lighthouse Guard.

The appointments and assignments ensured that the central assembly proceeded smoothly.

As for the chaos in Dadu, it is bound to continue for some time.

Thanks to Jian Banxian's intervention, the white barrier set up by Eliadodike became ineffective.

The white world has become indistinguishable from the gray neighborhoods, which undoubtedly overturns the preconceived notions of countless city dwellers. This issue was also raised at the meeting.

After discussion at the meeting, it was decided that the white ban would not be reinstated.

This part of the work is also in Niu Qianliu's mission, and is more excellent and complete, rather than relying on a brand-new defensive structure that sacrifices land and people to obtain a buffer.

Although this decision has been made, for most people, the turmoil will not simply end.

After a major reshuffle, achieving stability is not easy.

The metropolis is taking steps toward a new era amidst confusion and unease.

Zheng Fan and his friends left the central district and embarked on their return journey.

(End of this chapter)