"Can I go with you to meet him?" ......" While Jonathan was thinking in his head that he could contribute a propaganda strategy, the old man took off his glasses and asked, he had finished reading the text in his hand. He expressed his desire to go to Dubai to meet Dr. Neville in person.

As soon as the old man finished speaking, several young people behind him who played the role of bodyguards wanted to say something to stop them, but they were forcibly blocked by the old man's gestures.

"Of course, I can take you." However, I have a few places to inform later, so if you want to come along, I will take you to Dubai City when I return in the evening, and the Redevelopment Commission would like to meet you settlement leaders as soon as possible. ”

Jonathan didn't care about the attitude of the few young people behind the old man who wanted to stop it, and replied truthfully. In the original plan, he needed to bring a group of weighty survivor leaders back on the return trip.

The leaders of these settlements would meet and "negotiate" with several other important members of the expedition. The old man in front of him actually helped him say what he wanted to say.

"Can I bring some of my followers with me?" It's been a long time since we've seen a functioning city. The old man asked again when he heard that he could.

"Take only one with you as much as possible, we don't have much room for our aircraft." Jonathan saw that he was so polite that he allowed him to bring an entourage. Anyway, it doesn't matter how one more person looks at it, and Shen Chao didn't limit the details of the action when he gave him the task.

"Thanks, one will do." The old man was relieved when he heard this, he didn't want to bring any bodyguards with him, but he wanted to find a witness for himself, no matter what happened after he went, he had a third-party witness.

Seeing Jonathan's equipment level and the two unidentified aerial vehicles in the sky that were constantly circling around, in the old man's mind, he had already regarded the other party as a person from a certain big country before the war.

This big country, which should be China, the United States, and Russia, has now used their advanced scientific and technological achievements to survive the catastrophe of the crisis. It's starting to expand outward.

As the leader of a small regional power, all he can do is keep his profile as low as possible, hoping that the other party will accept the region as gently as possible from the standpoint of being a human being. and those who do good to him.

Under such a strange guess, it only took a few minutes for the old man to negotiate an agreement with Jonathan and determine the approximate time to pick him up in the evening.

After this. Jonathan couldn't wait to get back on the shuttle, waved goodbye, and hurried to a large number of locations behind. I continued to walk the announcement of the World Reconstruction Committee, and I didn't see the old man again.

That's not to say that there weren't other survivors wearing traditional Arabic white robes. After all, it was a perfect fit for most of the desert environments in the vicinity, but he had never seen a person as neatly dressed as the old man before.

He spent the rest of the afternoon navigating the nearby survivor enclave, making announcements and issuing invitations. As he traveled more places, he also discovered some interesting phenomena.

For example, people were afraid of him at the beginning, and later they were just surprised that he really existed. When he questioned the survivors, he knew why.

It turned out that after he left the first place, the leaders there sent a telegram to all the settlements they could contact, informing them of Jonathan and the existence of this strange world reconstruction committee. And keep everyone calm. Don't be afraid.

That's why everyone went from being scared at the beginning to being surprised now. Judging by the attitudes of these people and the coverage of the news, Jonathan realized that the old man he had met before was probably more than the leader of the ghetto.

It is likely that the influence of him, or the large human settlement he controlled, was much greater than the expedition had anticipated. This was confirmed by his subsequent questioning of the survivors.

When the old man was mentioned, the survivors in the neighborhood were obviously respectful, and there was a faint sense of obeying the old man.

But when he asked in detail, none of the survivors mentioned the old man's background. As if there was some hidden story in this.

This puzzled Jonathan. However, he didn't have time to investigate the old man's background in detail right now, and the old man's background was not a big deal. Even if he was the leader of the country before or something, it doesn't mean anything to them now.

Therefore, he continued his journey, visiting the places where the survivors had gathered. Make sure survivors in all areas get the message.

At 7 p.m., he finally informed the last small settlement and began to pick up people and return home. He brought with him all the settlement leaders who were willing to follow him to Dubai to visit.

To make sure there were enough vehicles, he also requested a few shuttles from his temporary headquarters in Dubai to help. Because most of the people who are willing to follow the situation directly are the leaders of small settlements, and there are quite a few small settlements.

At 20 o'clock in the evening, he finally flew back to the first stop he had arrived at with a small group of 7 shuttles, ready to pick up the old man and one of his attendants on the shuttle as agreed.

At this time, the airport where the survivors gathered was brightly lit, hundreds of people were waiting for him on the runway, and after the shuttle landed, the crowd slowly gathered around and stopped, and soon, the old man and a sturdy young man with a gun walked out of the crowd.

"You're punctual, friend. The old man smiled as he came with his retinue, still wearing the same white robe, but with glasses, and obviously not the delicate ones he wore at noon.

"We're on a tight schedule, Mr. Chief. Please come up. Jonathan reached out and pulled the old man onto the shuttle, which was still nearly half a meter above the ground, and then replied.

When the old man heard him say this, his body stiffened obviously, thinking that the other party already knew his previous identity. But he didn't say anything, and was still pulled up by Jonathan, as was his retinue.

In fact, Jonathan didn't have time to investigate the previous identity of the old man in front of him, he just heard the other survivors call this old man chieftain, so he learned to call it like this, completely out of polite considerations.

What he really wanted in his mind at this moment was to hurry back and have some dinner, he would come over to promote it without lunch, and if he went back later, he would have to make his own dinner.

At this time, the seven shuttles were carrying leaders from more than thirty different settlements and an equal number of followers, and they basically knew each other.

Seeing the old man appear, several survivors on the shuttle plane saluted, and their actions made Jonathan even more sure that the old man's identity was extraordinary.

But it was still that sentence, he was not interested in understanding, and Shen Chao and they would not care. So he was ready to let the shuttle take off after some tips on safety practices like sitting tight and holding it up.

Before the shuttle machine went to the hatch, the old man waved goodbye to the people outside, and that expression, if Jonathan saw it at this time, he must have thought that the old man had something to think of.

Because when the old man said goodbye to the crowd below, there was a mixture of sadness and despair in his eyes. It's like going to the execution ground.

Soon, the hatch closed automatically, and after making sure everyone was seated, Jonathan motioned for the pilot in the front cab to take off, and the shuttle quickly flew up, adjusting its direction and heading towards Dubai with six other shuttles.

A few minutes later, three shuttles entered the periphery of Downtown Dubai and slowed down considerably, reducing the speed to the level of a low-speed airliner.

Jonathan also reminded his guests at this point to take a look at the scenery outside. When the guests heard that they had arrived so soon, they were obviously not convinced, but they still leaned down to the small porthole to look out, and they were all shocked.

Because the night scene outside is exactly the same as in the photos, and even the coverage area of the lights is larger. The golden avenues and the dense silver lights on the buildings next to the avenues caught their eyes.

All they could see in the city was covered in street lamps and searchlights, and the whole city looked as bright as it was before the crisis. It's like millions of people have already moved in.

Seeing this, the guests are very excited, 2 years, in the past two years, none of them have seen such a scene, and now seeing the city lights that symbolize human civilization, these people are indescribably excited.

Of course, the beautiful night view here is not just for them to see. Shen Chao: They didn't have such an idea of pleasing or intimidating the guests.

The reason for supplying electricity to all areas of the city during these two days is to test the strength and stability of the power grid that remains in the city during this time. As well as adjusting the output power of their fusion reactors. It's all about engineering difficulty.

A few minutes later, seven shuttles landed steadily in a plaza near the Burj Khalifa that had been temporarily requisitioned as an apron. The landing area here is covered by several probe lights, which are very intensely lit.

After the shuttle settled, the hatch opened, and Jonathan walked out of the cockpit with the others in turn. As soon as they came, they saw several rows of gun-wielding security guards in front of them. The direction should be from the space-time portal not far away.

These security guards look very new, there are 200 of them, and they look quite imposing when passing by neatly in the night.

"Gentlemen, welcome to New Dubai. Please follow me. After the procession was cleared, Jonathan motioned for all the guests to come with him.

Under his leadership, the people walked out of the makeshift landing field towards the Burj Khalifa, where they encountered a number of armed planes patrolling the streets and drone squads whizzing through the low sky.

On the street corner near the Burj Khalifa, they also saw several hammerhead chariots. There was even a small cargo ship flying over their vicinity. (To be continued.) )