Chapter 585: Suppressing with a Backhand, Freya Louise's Breakthrough

Gwen Gail and Marcus Lindsay's mom were just a small interlude, although it was somewhat unexpected for Jack Clark.

As Jack Clark suddenly returned, the two middle-aged women greeted him nervously and then took the excuse of going back to cook dinner to leave.

Walking into the courtyard, Jack casually asked, "Mom, wasn't Tiger going to South City to participate in the national competition? Didn't you go to cheer him on?"

"No time."

Doris Clark shook her head: "Metal Company has been very busy recently, with the workshops below running three shifts non-stop for twenty-four hours. I have to help down there."

The metal refining company she worked for was a semi-state-owned enterprise, primarily producing and refining special steel materials used to build the shells of inscription missiles.

Following two intense battles and the upcoming Civilization War, departments across the Blue Star were frantically producing supplies.