The earthquakes subsided. The Firestarter Spirits were killed off to the last one.

Shen Cong drove the Vajra Fortress back and forth between the Eastern Theater Command and the Provisional Government now and then. And so another week and more went by quickly, and it was October 12.

That day the Provisional Government's headquarters, the little Xiji Town oasis, was hung with lanterns and streamers.

The reason was simple. The Eastern Theater Command had sent two nuclear-grade iron people, Chen Xiuni and Zhang Changde, to escort an enormous convoy the whole long way from the Mushroom City to Xiji Town.

The convoy had not come only to exchange supplies. It was also escorting Liu Yiwu, Huang Caishan, Feng Weizhan and the other military standing committee members, come to discuss the founding of the new government with the Provisional Government and the China Rescue Team.

Over more than a month of talks on the Super-Thunder Wave stations, the arrangements for founding the new government had long since been settled.

And with Hu Wei, a nuclear-grade iron person, the Provisional Government had wiped out the Jingang Art's Buddha-Land on Earth outright once it lost Shi Jingang, and had leaned hard enough on the Great Manchu State that Lin Jianren came in of his own accord to abase himself and apologize. The Chengde theater and the Zhangjiakou theater were both restored to their original order and folded into the new government's system.

At the same time the whole population finished its Spilled Water Serum injections. You could no longer find a single ordinary person. Every one of them had become an evolved person.

Everything was ready.

The founding of the new government followed naturally.

Around half past eight in the morning, iron people's battle-trucks raced along Xiji Town's newly built broad roads, going up and down to keep order along the route. Both sides of the road were a sea of people. Everyone had put down whatever work they were doing to welcome the human compatriots who had come the long way from the Eastern Theater Command.

Before long.

The Eastern Theater Command's…