Chapter 927: Look How Happy They Are Smiling
"They're here!" The spaceship slowly landed on the ground, and the surrounding reporters immediately surged forward, holding up their cameras, clicking away at the spaceship's hatch.
"They're coming out, they're coming out!"
"Oh my God, the aliens actually look like that!"
"Is that person male or female?"
"Look at how tall that alien is, at least over two meters, right? What do they eat to grow so tall?"
"Hey? Do you think they eat century eggs?"
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"Brother Zhang, long time no see!" Ireel stepped forward and gave Zhang Menglong a big bear hug.
The two could almost say they were mere acquaintances, but his unintended act of kindness actually led him to meet someone like Zhang Menglong. The day the spaceship from the Izek civilization docked at the port was undoubtedly the luckiest day of his life!
Although the Izek civilization was still only a Level Two civilization, now their civilization possessed a fleet stronger than the entire Twin Whales Cosmic Empire.
The last time Ireel got married, hundreds of life forms beyond Level Six attended to celebrate, giving him plenty of face, even now the king of the Twin Whales Cosmic Empire has to give him face.
All of this was thanks to Zhang Menglong.
"Long time no see!" Zhang Menglong responded enthusiastically to Ireel. As his first friend in the cosmic civilization, nobody could replace Ireel's status.
"Menglong, who is this?" Earth's representatives looked curiously at Ireel.
"Oh, his name is Ireel. He was my first friend I met in the cosmic civilization, and he helped me a lot back then, otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get a fleet so quickly."
"I see!" Many of Earth's representatives secretly noted down this person. It was clear that his relationship with Zhang Menglong was very unusual. They would definitely need to be mindful of this in future communications and exchanges.
"Welcome everyone to our Earth from so far away, please introduce yourselves. I am Li Ensheng, chairman of the Earth Civilization Administrative Center." Mr. Li was also a highly respected figure. During the construction of Huaxia, he was considered a great leader who weathered many storms.
He was originally retired and enjoying his twilight years, but for the sake of human diplomatic affairs, he stepped up once again.
With the help of the translation system, those representatives from extraterrestrial civilizations could easily understand Mr. Li's words.
All the representatives of different civilizations also introduced themselves, followed by a round of compliments.
"Mr. Li, your Earth is a very outstanding civilization. We hope to establish closer cultural, economic, and trade exchanges with you in the future."
"Mr. Li, we hope to establish a long-lasting friendship with Earth, which represents the highest sincerity from our civilization."
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"Hahaha, the reason we invited you all here is also with beautiful visions in mind," the attitude of these representatives made Mr. Li very happy, "To establish multi-faceted connections with more civilizations, we humans are also constructing an exchange center."
"What is the purpose of this exchange center..." a representative from a Level Two civilization asked.
"This represents a bridge of communication between our Earth and extraterrestrial civilizations. We warmly welcome representatives from all civilizations to reside here long-term, hoping that through this exchange center, more excellent values and knowledge can be brought to Earth, and we will also share our achievements."
"Can you take us for a tour?"
"Yes, Mr. Li, we would like to see it."
This exchange center represents what kind of relationship they can establish with Earth in the future, and also helps them understand how to better latch onto this connection.
"Our construction is still underway, but if you representatives are interested, we warmly welcome you all to visit."
"Let me introduce it to everyone," given Mr. Li's old age, it was indeed inappropriate for him to do such things, so Zhang Menglong simply took on the task.
This exchange center was established in the heart of the Sahara Desert, which, for humans, was no longer a forbidden area.
Once some details were finalized, the construction of the exchange center began immediately. Of course, for the sake of efficiency, Zhang Menglong pulled a group of people from the Antila Civilization to do hard labor.
Construction had only begun a few days ago, but the exchange center had already taken shape.
"Who would've thought that we, the elite warriors of a dignified Level Three civilization, would actually be doing this kind of work here!" Some prisoners from the Antila Civilization were complaining quietly while working.
"It's all because of those bastards from the Durando civilization. If it weren't for their false reports, how could we end up in this place?"
"That Earthling is simply a devil!"
"Hmph, what can we do? We can only complain here; prepare to grow old and die in this place for this lifetime!"
"Shh, that devil is coming!"
The appearance of Zhang Menglong made those prisoners shiver, and they immediately stopped whispering because they knew very well that being noticed by him was definitely not a good thing.
"Everyone, this is our exchange center." Zhang Menglong introduced, "According to our current plan, the entire exchange center will cover 2 million square kilometers, mainly divided into external economic exchange areas, cultural exchange areas, political exchange areas, etc."
"Our worker team consists of 20,000 Level Four life forms and 50 Level Five life forms," Zhang Menglong shouted at the prisoners, "What's wrong with you all? So lifeless? Didn't you see guests coming? Put on some positive attitudes!"
"Where's the overseer?" Zhang Menglong shouted dissatisfiedly.
"Director, here, I just went to the toilet!" A student from Super God Academy came running over while pulling up his pants.
"What's wrong with you? Is this how they work? Looking so down, are they not happy working here? I have so many guests from other civilizations here, and you let them watch a joke like this?"
The student from Super God Academy felt quite aggrieved after being scolded by Zhang Menglong, but there was nothing he could do; he couldn't beat Zhang Menglong and could only take out his grievances on those workers.
"Snap!" He whipped one of the prisoners. "What are you all doing? Where's your spirit? Be energetic, don't look like you've lost your mothers, and who are you putting on this face for?"
The prisoner screamed. The Super God Academy student was just a Level Three life form; under normal circumstances, how could they allow someone to bully them like this?
But they knew that in the shadows of this construction site, there were overseers who were Level Six life forms, all slaves to the demon Zhang Menglong. If they dared to resist, they didn't dare imagine the consequences.
So no matter how these overseers humiliated them, they could only endure in silence.
But their hearts were bitter. As captives, they would have to work on this Earth for life. Could they be happy? Could they put on a positive attitude?
However, the whipping on them was a pain only they knew, pain not just from the physical damage but also a mental blow.
"All of you, put on a smile. If anyone shows a gloomy face again, you'll move 200 more loads of bricks tonight!"
To avoid demerits and punishment, they had no choice but to put on smiles.
"This... Mr. Zhang, where are these workers from?"
"Oh, they're all from the Antila Civilization," Zhang Menglong said, "They previously tried to invade our civilization. In the end, under our reasoning and emotional persuasion, they recognized their wrong decision and voluntarily dedicated themselves to the great cause of our Earth's civilization construction."
"Bullshit!" The prisoners cursed internally, but on the surface, they still had to pretend that was indeed the case, and under threats and temptations, they all had to smile.
"Look at them!" Zhang Menglong shamelessly said, "How happy they are smiling!"