Chen Niu’s face, filled with sharp angles from his muscles, turned red as he said uncertainly, "That woman said, she... she..."
"Damn, I feel like hitting you now, can you finish in one breath?"
A few teammates were furious.
"She said she’s willing to marry out..." Chen Niu said, his face flushed.
"!!!"
Dai Changlin and the others were shocked.
Then everyone fell silent, the atmosphere froze for a moment.
"What does the Volcano Race mean?"
"So those women from the Volcano Race treating us that way before... wasn’t any kind of scheme, but was genuinely willing to engage with us... that thing?"
Someone regretted quietly.
But more people looked solemn.
"Could it be that the Volcano Race wants to infiltrate the Earth Alliance this way?"
"So insidious... doing whatever it takes for victory!"
"Is this what racial war is? Too cruel!"
Even now, they still felt uneasy about the intentions of the Volcano Race, as they couldn’t understand why the Volcano Race would suddenly become so warm and friendly.
Their imagination was limited by the information channels.
Dai Changlin frowned, initially thinking they might receive rewards for returning to the safe zone this time, but with Chen Niu’s matter, he no longer knew what would happen.
No one spoke on the road ahead.
Chen Niu felt somewhat guilty, though he wanted to argue, he couldn’t bring himself to do it, because wrong was wrong, and he’d even left his bloodline with the Volcano Race, equivalent to giving them leverage.
In this situation, if it were wartime, he’d likely be considered a traitor.
Everyone’s steps were less light, weighed down with heavy hearts... carrying large bags of gifts on their return journey.
Finally, as the sky was about to darken, they reached the safe zone of the Alliance Headquarters.
The sky was overcast, heavy rain continued relentlessly, though the rain couldn’t reach the ground, evaporating and taking away toxins and dust from the air, it also carried away temperatures unbearable for ordinary people.
But such an environment wasn’t liked by anyone, at least Earth people didn’t like it.
At the entrance of the safe zone with nearly a million people, it was already crowded.
Seeing ten Alliance envoys safely return, Chen Tianzhi and other high-level leaders of the Earth Alliance were initially excited, but seeing those guys carrying large bags back, they showed confused expressions.
"What are they carrying?"
"Why did they bring back stuff?"
"Could it be some important information?"
"Information packed in such large bags?"
"That box Chen Niu’s carrying is bigger than a standard shipping container, what information could fit in such a huge box?"
Don’t even start with others.
Even acting president Chen Tianzhi looked bewildered, feeling like Dai Changlin and the others weren’t out gathering intel but went for a shopping spree?
However, despite the doubts in his heart, he was relieved knowing the people safely returned, and believed they must’ve gathered some useful information.
Even a little useful info could bring hope for victory in the upcoming war.
"Everyone welcome our heroes safely back!"
Chen Tianzhi led the applause.
"Clap clap clap clap..."
Instantly, a loud applause erupted at the entrance of the safe zone.
However, the applause was somewhat disorganized, as everyone felt like they weren’t welcoming heroes returning from enemy lands, but villagers coming back from a market.
The scene turned awkward for a moment.
Finally—
Dai Changlin and the other ten returned to the entrance of the safe zone.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Bang—"
The ten placed down the bags and boxes they were carrying, causing the ground to shake.
Especially when Chen Niu’s box hit the ground, everyone truly felt the earth tremble, as the ground reinforced by Superpower Users sunk a bit.
Dai Changlin braced himself and shouted, "Gladly accomplished the mission, Dai Changlin leads the team back with all members safely!"
"Good!"
Chen Tianzhi said happily, "It’s good to have you back safely!"
Dai Changlin immediately returned the Celestial Marvel ’Absolute Defense’ to Chen Tianzhi, "President, there was no need to use this time."
"It’s good we didn’t need it."
Chen Tianzhi took back the Celestial Marvel, eager for the ten heroes to report the information gathered, but couldn’t help a glance at the bags and boxes on the ground, "These... are all the information gathered?"
"Reporting back to the president, these are gifts from the Volcano Race." Dai Changlin said, biting the bullet.
"What?"
"Gifts from the Volcano Race?"
"So many gifts given?"
"Could it be some kind of bomb?"
"The Volcano Race is indeed up to no good!"
At the entrance of the safe zone, all high-level Earth Civilization leaders felt a sinking heart.
Even Chen Tianzhi couldn’t help but frown; was it intimidation?
Dai Changlin didn’t explain, instead, he directly let people open the bags and boxes.
"Bang bang bang..."
As one box after another was pried open, one bag after another revealed.
Instantly, dense Heaven and Earth Energy surged forth, almost creating an energy storm here.
"That’s... Fire Spirit Stone?! So many? A whole box?"
"Wait, what’s that? Rice? No, seems like those rice grains are infused with dense Fire Element..."
"Sss..."
"Why does it feel like all of them are treasures?"
"What’s that? Why does it look..."
All the Earth Alliance leaders present were bewildered.
Initially, they thought even if the boxes weren’t bombs, they must contain something unpleasant.
After all, they couldn’t imagine the Volcano Race would send them gifts.