"In three days," Zhou Bai said earnestly, "Hope Village will be facing the Territory War, and the entire territory's attention will be on resisting other territories. We simply won't have the time to arrange employment for you all. Even if we could arrange something, it would not be possible to do it all at once, and the wages would not be sufficiently generous to allow you to purchase the freedom of your clan members long term."
"We have enough ore at hand to sustain us for a while," Mills hurriedly interjected from the side. "After that, any arrangement would be fine. No matter the job, our people will definitely complete it well, as long as you give us the chance."