In the apocalypse, I hoarded goods and handed over my storage space to the government.

Su Ran concluded her trip to the Great Lakes, and the entire process went more smoothly than she had imagined.

Old Luke humbled himself to the dust, giving whatever was asked for without any bargaining.

There were no unexpected complications, and no foolish local bullies jumped out to provoke us.

The civil servants in the Strategic Analysis Department had calculated correctly this time: these members of the Free Federation were more eager than anyone else to receive the protection of Great Xia.

The detailed register of 200,000 people, the ability data of 142 awakened individuals, and the coordinates of several underground ancient material storage depots they discovered were all revealed.

Ye Xiao spent most of the day verifying all the data and entering it into the Great Xia's administrative system.

The process is complete.

The Xuan Nu fighter jet took off directly, its crimson tail flames tearing through North America's air defense identification zone as it crossed the Pacific Ocean to return.

……

A few hours later.

The Xuan Nu fighter jet, which had traveled halfway around the world, landed smoothly on the helipad at the Kunlun base.

Without lingering, Su Ran descended the gangway and headed straight for the core experimental area of ​​the Academy of Biological Sciences on the second basement level.

The North American underlings were just there for show; the real strategic core of this transoceanic business trip was the high-tech equipment installed in the space.

Chen Changhe, wearing a white lab coat, frowned as he stared at the latest output data.

"Old Chen." Su Ran strode in.

Chen Changhe turned around abruptly, his eyes bloodshot. When he saw that it was Su Ran, he threw down the report in his hand and rushed over.

"Xiao Su! You're back from your trip to North America? Where are your things? Did you bring them back?"

The old man skipped all formalities; his eyes were practically gleaming with greed.

Without wasting any words, Su Ran walked straight to a huge, vacant area that had been cleared out in advance behind the experimental area.

With a surge of spiritual energy, the boundary of the infinite space opened instantly.

"boom!"

Spatial fluctuations and ripples.

Hundreds of high-precision devices, gleaming with metallic luster, firmly occupy an open space of over a thousand square meters.

Fully automated gene sequencer, high-magnification electron microscope, ultra-clean workbench, sterile culture chamber...

Even the spare reagents and consumables from the Boston laboratory were moved over by Su Ran intact.

A dozen researchers in hazmat suits stopped what they were doing and stared in disbelief at the scene.

"This...this is the NMR spectrometer of the Alpha-7 supercomputer in the Boston Center?"

With trembling hands, Chen Changhe quickly walked to a silver-white instrument that was as tall as two people and stroked its outer casing.

"Perfectly intact...not even the slightest scratch! What a treasure! Truly a treasure!"

The old man's voice trembled.

"Before the disaster, our Chinese Academy of Sciences submitted several reports trying to import this sequencer, but they held onto the technical barriers and refused to budge."

Now it's all ours!

"I've brought the stuff back. Now it's up to you guys." Su Ran brushed the dust off her sleeves.

"We've made quite a few breakthroughs recently!"

Chen Changhe's eyes lit up, and he immediately yelled for the researchers to come and move the equipment.

"With these devices, we can make progress even faster!"

Hurry up! What are you all standing there for?!

Clear out Lab One, quickly move the equipment in, and immediately have an engineer connect the power and start testing!

Su Ran looked at the old man who had fallen into a frenzy and took half a step back.

"Mr. Chen, just make a list of anything else you need. As long as it's still available on Earth, I'll be responsible for bringing it back."

"Enough! That's enough!"

Chen Changhe waved his hand and his voice boomed.

"Xiao Su, you've been a huge help! I can't talk to you anymore, everyone, get to work on the equipment setup and installation immediately!"

Seeing the research enthusiasts in full combat mode, Su Ran smiled, shook his head, and turned to leave the laboratory.

Take the elevator directly to the central command hall.

The heavy alloy door was pushed open.

Li Guodong was standing in front of a giant tactical sand table, holding a thermos cup in his hand.

Hearing the noise, he looked up, paused for a moment, and then glanced at the clock on the wall.

"How come it's so fast?"

Li Guodong put down his cup, somewhat taken aback.

He glanced at the electronic clock on the wall and said,

"All told, excluding flight time, you spent less than half a day in North America?"

Logically speaking, even if things go smoothly, going to North America to negotiate, establish files, and receive supplies should take at least two days.

"Those civil servants in the think tank were right."

Su Ran pulled up a chair and sat down, casually picking up a bottle of mineral water from the table and opening it.

"The Freedom Beacon Federation of the Great Lakes region of North America is extremely cooperative."

Ye Xiao, who followed behind, pursed his lips with a strange expression.

"Director Li, you have no idea how outrageous those foreigners are."

He pulled up a chair and sat down, then began to speak.

"To curry favor with our Great Xia, guess what that so-called president, the 'beacon of freedom,' promised Su Ge in private?"

"What did you say?"

Li Guodong handed over two bottles of water.

"He wants to venerate Su Ge as the 'Father of the Nation' who is the beacon of freedom."

Ye Xiao unscrewed the bottle cap and said with difficulty, "They even said they would write it into their constitution."

"Pfft! Cough cough cough!"

Li Guodong spat the mouthful of tea he had just taken a sip back into the cup.

Several staff officers operating terminals in the command center turned their heads, clearly stunned by the weighty keyword "Father of the Nation".

"The Father of the Nation?"

As Li Guodong wiped his mouth, he looked Su Ran up and down with an extremely strange gaze.

After a brief moment of surprise, he burst into laughter, almost laughing until tears streamed down his face.

"I haven't heard such interesting news in a long time."

He tapped his finger on the table, beaming with delight.

"The Father of the Nation? These foreigners are experts at speculation and profiteering than anyone else."

But Xiao Su, you've really pulled off a high-profile performance.

Once this catastrophe is over, humanity rebuilds civilization, and North America reprints banknotes, your portrait will be on US dollar bills.

Upon hearing this, a burst of hearty laughter erupted in the command hall.

The tense and oppressive command center was unusually filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

"They really don't care about selling their father's land."

Li Guodong lit a cigarette and asked, "Can Washington really handle this?"

Su Ran was speechless for a moment, her lips twitching.

This is completely irrelevant.

"Alright, stop talking nonsense."

Su Ran raised her hand and tapped her fingers twice on the metal tabletop.

Tap. Tap.

The crisp sound gradually quieted the laughter in the hall.

Su Ran composed herself and her tone became serious. "Old Li, let's get down to business."

Li Guodong also stopped smiling, stubbed out his cigarette, and walked to the opposite side of the sand table.

"Recently, I've been leading my team all over the world, busy suppressing troublemakers in other regions and promoting the global Awakener system."

Su Ran glanced at the constantly flashing global nodes on the holographic projection.

"The situation on the outside has basically stabilized."

He paused slightly, then shifted his gaze to the vast territory of the Great Xia Dynasty.

It is now September.

The severity of the situation has not diminished at all, and the rate of evolution of the mutated creatures is increasing every day.

"How is the battle situation on the Great Xia mainland?"

Su Ran cut straight to the heart of the matter, "It's been almost half a month since the 12 million ground troops were deployed. Has the pace of the clearing and advance met the target?"