You two are a perfect match

Zhou Ruoxi turned and looked coldly at Zhao Hu, "As a captain in the enforcement team, what have you been doing, leading so many people to guard this place?"

Zhao Hu turned pale with fright. He glanced at Ye Rou and stammered, "I...I...I went down with my teammates and Instructor Ye to rescue more than two hundred people."

After saying that, he glanced at Ye Rou guiltily.

Ye Rou used to be a girl who couldn't tolerate any nonsense, but now she is both a wife and a mother. Thinking that Zhao Hu might be her husband's boss in the future, she quickly nodded.

"That's right, Governor. Zhao Hu and his men reacted in time. I was responsible for stopping the White Walkers, and they were the ones who escorted the students and staff up here."

"More than 500 people have died, including many instructors from the Workers' and Peasants' College. We cannot explain this to the Empire. Zhao Hu, you will lose your captain rank and be demoted to lieutenant."

Zhao Hu had no choice but to accept it. A lieutenant was just an ordinary squad leader, with a monthly salary of around 30,000, less than half the income of a captain.

This means he doesn't have any more money to buy cultivation resources and has to start from scratch.

Then Zhou Ruoxi looked at all the law enforcement officers and said, "Your bonuses for this year are all cancelled."

"Yes, Governor." The 750 law enforcement officers answered in unison, and no one dared to raise any objections.

Zhou Ruoxi beckoned to the five earth-elemental ability users, "Could you five please lift the building quickly? There might still be survivors."

"Yes, Governor."

These five S-level earth-type ability users are on par with Zhou Ruoxi in terms of cultivation level alone.

However, given their status and positions in Jiangling City, they also had to obey the governor's orders.

After everyone left the rooftop, five S-class earth-type ability users went up, four of them standing at the four corners and one in the middle.

They both squatted down at the same time, pressing their hands to the ground, veins bulging on their foreheads, their faces flushed.

A miraculous scene unfolded: the massive fifty-story building actually loosened and then rose from the ground.

The 50th floor is exposed above ground.

The 49th floor is exposed above ground.

The 48th floor is exposed above ground.

……

The building is roughly estimated to have a volume of one million cubic meters, and even with the use of special high-tech materials, it would weigh hundreds of thousands of tons.

The spectacular sight of pulling something out of the ground by human labor is something that ordinary people in the pig farming department of the College of Engineering and Agriculture could never imagine unless they saw it with their own eyes.

Hu Feng didn't realize how ordinary he was before, but now he does.

In this era, ordinary people who cannot awaken are indeed no different from pigs, merely food.

Yang Ding stood beside his wife, looking up at the slowly rising skyscraper, and was also deeply impressed.

Zhou Ruoxi walked to his side. "How are you feeling?"

"That's amazing."

"Your wife belongs to this level of awakened being, and may even surpass them by a great margin. Do you, an ordinary man, deserve to be her husband?"

After Zhou Ruoxi finished speaking, she looked at Yang Ding with a mocking gaze, waiting for his shameful and self-conscious reply.

Unexpectedly, Yang Ding calmly replied, "Reporting to the Governor, I am worthy."

Zhou Ruoxi: "..."

"Pfft!" Ye Rou almost burst out laughing.

Zhou Ruoxi was completely speechless, looking at the two of them as if they were idiots.

"Yes, you two are a perfect match."

She said this from the bottom of her heart.

The Jinglong Empire has a strict hierarchy. Even if Yang Ding is shameless and arrogant, no ordinary person would ever be interested in someone of Ye Rou's status.

The truth is, this girl thoroughly enjoyed it.

Zhou Ruoxi felt that this was because she had no parents or family constraints. If her older sister Ye Ke were in Jiangling City, she might not agree to her younger sister's marriage.

As long as Ye Rou herself disagrees, the Zhou family and the ruling class of Jiangling City will put pressure on the Empress.

Therefore, it is possible that this marriage proposal can be withdrawn.

"Governor, watch out!" Zhao Hu, who was standing to the side, suddenly shouted.

At this moment, the building had been pulled up to the 35th floor when suddenly seven or eight Otherworldly beings broke through the windows, brandishing their claws and lunging at Zhou Ruoxi.

Just as Ye Rou unleashed her Soul-Severing Spear, Zhou Ruoxi made her move.

With a wave of her hand, she drew moisture from the eight Others, causing them to fall to the ground and become eight light, dried corpses.

Holy crap!

Yang Ding couldn't help but speak up.

The other students from the pig farming department looked at Zhou Ruoxi as if she were a devil.

This was the first time everyone had seen such a terrifying ability. They had originally thought that water-type ability users didn't have much combat power, which made Yang Ding want one too.

Zhou Ruoxi looked smugly at her long, beautiful hands and asked Yang Ding, "Are you scared?"

Yang Ding was always stubborn; even though he had already retreated behind Ye Rou, he shook his head.

"I have a wife, I'm not afraid."

Zhou Ruoxi no longer wanted to deal with this shameless, gigolo.

She silently watched the building, and when it was almost at the first floor, she reached out her hand and called out, "Wait."

Zhao Hu immediately shouted at the top of his lungs toward the rooftop, "The governor has ordered you to halt."

Five earth-elemental ability users stabilized the building and prevented it from moving.

Although the building was pulled out from underground, there was a 200-meter-deep pit below, so Zhou Ruoxi needed to pump out groundwater to form a 10-meter-deep layer of solid ice to temporarily stop the building from falling.

Five earth-elemental ability users continued the backfilling work. Although the S-class ability users had strong mental power, they were still unable to stabilize the 20-ton building while filling the million-cubic-meter pit below.

Zhou Ruoxi pressed her palms to the ground, closed her eyes, and soon beads of sweat began to seep from her fair temples.

Extracting groundwater and freezing it into ice layers to support a giant building weighing hundreds of thousands of tons is an incredible feat.

Yang Ding finally understood how the Great Wall of the North, which was thousands of meters high and 30,000 kilometers long, was built.

Five earth-elemental ability users slowly descended from a height of 300 meters. They did not need to rely on stones or bricks because the mud and dust on the soles of their shoes allowed them to fly while avoiding the dust.

"Governor, the building is now stable. You can rest. Leave the rest to us."

Five S-level masters simultaneously pressed their palms to the ground and unleashed their power together.

"Honey, where did they get the soil to fill such a huge pit?"

"Draining it horizontally is definitely not an option, as there are tall buildings all around. We could extract one million cubic meters from underground and then mix it with the surrounding soil and compact it."

"It's like moving mountains and filling seas!"

Yang Ding saw this amazing ability and wanted to have it too.

It's hard to imagine how amazing it would be for one person to possess all these abilities.

"Looks like I'll have to take the initiative and win over a few more powerful wives from now on."

Thinking of this, he glanced at Zhou Ruoxi.

Is this woman even a possibility?

Soon, the five earth-elemental experts filled in the giant pit.

Although many parts of the building were damaged, they were easily repaired, and the broken concrete was restored to its original condition.

"I'll trouble you five. Zhao Hu, take your men inside and search the area to see if there are any survivors or White Walkers. It would be best to capture a few White Walkers alive."

"Yes."

Hu Feng gently nudged Yang Ding. "Do you think Instructor Xiang is still alive?"

"With his level of cultivation, there's no way he could have survived."