At dawn, Lin Dong returned to his home.

In the living room, Maya was sitting upright on the sofa. She was wearing a white shirt from Lin Dong. Her figure was taller than Lin Dong. Her short shirt could only cover her upper body. Her two round and slender thighs were exposed, which looked very attractive.

After washing his face with cold water, Lin Dong sat opposite Maya, "Did you sleep well?" Lin Dong asked, his eyes staying on Maya's hot figure. The alien girl did not shy away from Lin Dong's gaze, and it seemed extremely natural.

Maya shook her head gently and said, "No, there are some humans around the yard all night, which makes me unable to sleep peacefully."

Lin Dong lit the pipe, took a deep breath and said, "Those people are responsible for protecting you, you don't have to care about them."

Maya said in confusion: "Do I need protection?"

Lin Dong smiled and said, "I know you are very strong, but this is my intention. I don't want you to be hurt, and it won't work at any time."

Maya lowered her head and thought for a while, saying, "Why do you care so much about me? I am not a member of your tribe."

Lin Dongdao: "It's true that I'm not your tribe, so what? Can't people from the same tribe become friends? Pibo is a robot, and in name he is your servant, but in fact? Are you a servant or a friend of him? What you need to do now is to throw away all the rules in your head. The rules are like a cage, the people who trap you but cannot trap your heart. If you try to live on your own heart, you will find that the world is very different."

"Life with your heart..." Maya murmured to herself, she raised her head and looked at Lin Dong with bright starry eyes, "If your thinking is placed in our Hobbits, you will definitely be executed, but I think there is nothing wrong with your thinking. I will try to survive as you said."

Lin Dongdao: "It's not survival but life. These are two different concepts. Survival exists for existence, and life lives to find the meaning of existence."

Maya held her head with her hands and said in pain: "Survival? Life? My mind is so chaotic. Why am I alive?"

Lin Dong hurried to Maya and gently stroked her hair with his hands. Maya shivered suddenly, and then she was as quiet as a virgin, and an indescribable feeling surged into her heart.

...

A shuttle car full of laughter set off from the imperial capital and headed south. Ye Zi, Jessica, Maya and Pibo, and Xiang Nan and her daughter were sitting in the back seat. Pibo was like a child. Ye Zi and Jessica liked this little guy very much and kept teasing him all the way. Maya sat quietly by the car window and looked at the beautiful spring scenery on the roadside, with a rare smile on her face.

"Xiangbei, you don't have to go back to the military camp tonight. Go to your house to guard your sister and your mother." Lin Dong said to Xiangbei who was driving. Xiangbei was very military-like. It has been almost half a month since he was transferred back from the Black Wind Valley Fortress. He has not entered the house once. Xiang Nan asked about Xiangbei several times, and Lin Dong felt very sorry, so today Lin Dong specially transferred Xiangbei out and gave him two days off.

"General, everyone is training hard, I can't do special things. I'll go back to the military camp after completing the mission today." Xiangbei said. He had just learned how to drive, and his eyes were staring at the road, looking very nervous.

Lin Dong said seriously: "Soldiers regard obedience as their duty. I order you to go home tonight and go to the military camp the day after tomorrow!"

Xiangbei shouted: "Yes, General!"

Xiang Nan held his mother's hand and smiled at each other. They actually wanted to see Xiangbei, but they were embarrassed to say it. Lin Dong ordered Xiangbei to go home today. How could they be unhappy? They were thinking about making something delicious for Xiangbei.

From a distance, I saw a simple house. These wooden houses were built against the mountain. They looked just built, and only a winding path led to the village.

The car stopped at the entrance of the village, Lin Dong and everyone got out of the car, and Ye Zi asked, "Brother Lin, what is this place?"

Lin Dongdao: "This is a residential area, living with residents who have moved from the grassland to here. I have a few acquaintances who live here and take a look."

The group walked along the muddy path towards the village. Looking at the low and dark rooms, Lin Dong was very dissatisfied.

The Ministry of Finance gives each household a 20,000 pesos to settle the house, and the land is provided free of charge by the empire. Although 20,000 pesos is not too much, it will not be so miserable. There must be some tricks in this.

The villagers were dressed in shabby clothes, with pale faces and thin skin. They looked at Lin Dong and his group with vigilance and humility.

Xiang Nan said: "Brother Lin, these people look so pitiful. I always think that our village is poor enough. This place is not as good as our village."

Jessica said angrily: "This is the refugee resettlement plan promoted in the newspaper? I think it's just a slum."

Lin Dong's face turned pale. He never expected that the immigration area would look like this. Before summer, the mosquitoes and flies in the village were already in groups, and the dilapidated wooden house would be poured out when the wind blew. It was for people to live there.

There is an open space in front of the road, with two large iron pots standing on the open space, and rows of residents are receiving free food.

Lin Dong pointed ahead and said, "Let's go there and have a look."

The officials in charge of distributing food were several officials from the Civil Affairs Department. They saw Lin Dong and his group coming from afar and didn't care. Lin Dong and Xiangbei were not wearing military uniforms. The group was dressed in civilians. Even Miss Jessica was dressed casually.

Lin Dong likes simplicity, so Jessica and Ye Zi were naturally deeply affected. Xiang Nan's family was originally a hunter and didn't care about wearing it. Therefore, these officials and men in the Civil Affairs Department regarded Lin Dong and other people as ordinary passers-by.

Lin Dong came to an iron pot, and a pot of rice porridge like water was boiled in the pot. There were not many grains of rice, but there were many corpses of flies floating on the rice porridge.

A little boy with a yellow face and a thin skin walked in the team with a bowl that was missing. His face was dirty and an arm was missing.

"Little brother, what's your name?" Lin Dong squatted down and asked.

The little boy turned his head and looked at his mother behind him. His mother was not old, but her face was already covered with wrinkles, her gray hair was thorny, and her eyes were dull.

Seeing that his mother nodded slightly, the little boy said, "My name is He Zhamu. I am nine years old and I am from the grassland."

"Do you eat these things every day? Can you eat enough?"

He Zhemu shook his head and looked at his shriveled belly.

At this time, an official with a beard walked up to Lin Dong with a bad expression. When He Zhamu saw his face turned pale, he lowered his head and dared not speak.

The bearded man slapped He Zhamu's head, "Little bastard, I'll tell you nonsense!"

Bang!

Lin Dong raised his hand and grabbed his wrist tightly, "Sir, how can you do anything to a child?"

The child's mother hurriedly knelt on the mud, hugged the official's legs tightly, and said with tears in his eyes: "Sir, He Zhamu is still young and he is ignorant. I beg you, if you want to beat me, you should hit me."

The bearded official was grabbed by Lin Dong and his wrist was so painful. What kind of force did Lin Dong do? It was easier to pinch him to death than to pinch an ant to death. "Get out of here!" He raised his foot and kicked his mother to the side. The woman was thin and was kicked far away by him. She hit her head on a wooden stake, and her head was bleeding.

"Sir, please spare him, he is still young." The woman was still begging for her son regardless of her safety.

The crowd around was mostly old, weak, sick and disabled. Seeing that the official was violent, he did not dare to resist. He knelt down and begged for the poor mother and daughter.

Lin Dong looked at the bearded official coldly, and there was murderous intention in his heart.

"Your Excellency is mighty." Lin Dong said coldly.

At this time, four other officials from the Civil Affairs Department walked over with great swagger. Lin Dong winked towards Xiangbei. Xiangbei had long been unable to control his anger. When he saw Lin Dong's instructions, he immediately rushed forward and punched the two officials and ate them.

Jessica was even more angry. She grabbed an official's arms and gently pulled them back. The two seemingly dull strokes made the official's arms dislocate immediately. Jessica felt unsatisfied and kicked him hard according to the official's crotch. The official immediately knelt there, and his white and fat face turned like a pig's liver.

There was also an official with a sharp-mouthed monkey cheek. He ran away when he saw that the situation was not good. Xiangbei and Jessica wanted to chase him, but Lin Dong stopped them.

Maya frowned and said, "Pipo."

Pibo jumped on Maya's arm and suddenly stretched out a black muzzle from Pibo's body. Maya pointed the muzzle at the escaped official, and Lin Dong reached out to stop her.

"What are you going to do?" Lin Dong asked.

Maya said calmly: "Kill them." Her words were extremely relaxed, as if a giant was about to kill ant.

Lin Dong shook his head, "I have other uses for letting him go."

Although Maya didn't understand it very well, she did not refute it. He put Pibo back on the ground, Pibo put away the barrel and went to play with Ye Zi like a child.

Jessica blushed, "Lin Dong, why do these people let them go because of your mischief?"

The Xiang brothers and sisters and Ye Zi also looked at Lin Dong curiously.

Lin Dong smiled and said, "These are just small minions, and killing them will be useless. I want to see who is instructing these people."

Xiangbei suddenly realized, clasped his fists and said, "General, think carefully, do you think about these guys?"

Lin Dong's eyes coldly swept over the four officials who fell to the ground and said, "Closing them, breaking them all your arms."

"So cruel! I asked for eight arms in one sentence. Is this a human or a devil?" The four officials from the Civil Affairs Department shouted for forgiveness, their faces turned yellow and cold sweat broke out.

Lin Dong dealt with these dog officials who bullied the people, but these people seemed extremely depressed. Jessica said to Lin Dong with a calm face: "Look at how unhappy these people seem to be? Are they willing to be bullied?"

Lin Dong sighed and said, "These people are afraid that the dog officials will deal with them more severely once we leave."

Jessica suddenly realized and secretly admired Lin Dong's meticulous thoughts, and her face turned red without feeling like this.

At this time, a little fat man came over with a trembling old man, "Master Lin! Master Lin!"

Lin Dong looked up and saw that it was Jiao Baikun, the village chief of Shuteng Village, and his grandson Jiao Yang.

Lin Dong hurriedly met and said, "Old man, have you always been good?"

Jiao Baikun said: "For the blessing of Empress, most of the people in Shuteng Village escaped. Jiao Yang, why don't you thank Empress?"

Lin Dong patted Jiao Yang's head. This little fat man was not simple. He made several predictions in the desert. Although he predicted that he would pee his pants in the future, the predicted things were not bad at all. If he could bring him into the army, it would definitely be a big help.

Lin Dong ordered Ye Zi and the others to get the food and distribute it to the villagers, and then followed Jiao Baikun and his wife to their hut.

The father and his father's residence was dark and humid, with only a straw bed and a few simple pieces of furniture.

Jiao Baikun said with some embarrassment: "My benefactor, wait a moment, I'll borrow a chair."

Lin Dong hurriedly stopped him and said, "Mr. Don't be busy, I'll just sit on the bed."

Jiao Baikun was not willing to accept it, so he asked Xiaopang Jiao Yang to borrow a small stool, tea cup, kettle, and a little moldy tea powder. Even though these things that were ordinary had already been traveling all over the village, it was obvious how poor this place was. Lin Dong was extremely moved. He drank the musty tea leaves in his mouth without any bitterness.

"Old man, where have the young and middle-aged people in the village gone?" Lin Dong asked.

Jiao Baikun said, "Hey, everyone who can move went to a quarry fifty miles away to earn two meals, and they can only come back once a month. You have also seen that relying solely on the empire's relief, you can't get enough."

Lin Dong couldn't help but feel angry. Although the funds allocated by the Empire to the Civil Affairs Department were not enough for everyone to eat well, there was no problem with eating and clothing. These hateful dog officials dared to deduct even this money.

Lin Dong said: "Old man, don't worry, give me a few days to make the whole village change. I have something to ask you for this time."

Jiao Baikun hurriedly said, "My benefactor, you cannot repay the kindness of saving your life. If you have any instructions, you will be sure to listen to your orders. There will be no complaints."

Lin Dong nodded and said, "Old man, I want to call your grandson to the army. I wonder if you are willing?"

After saying that, Lin Dong glanced at Jiao Yang, a little fat man standing in the corner of the wall. When he heard that he wanted to join the army, he couldn't help but be ecstatic, and his fat faces were squeezed into a ball.

"My benefactor, this is a great thing. The old man is reluctant to ask for it. Jiao Yang has no future if he stays here. He is willing to enter the army to serve the country. Jiao Yang, come and thank you.

Jiao Yang trotted and knelt in front of Lin Dong, kowtowing three times.

Lin Dong helped him up and said, "Since your grandfather agrees, I will accept you into the Imperial Army. It's just that it's very hard to join the army. Are you afraid?"
To be continued...