The lively New Year banquet concluded in a joyous atmosphere.
Lu Heng left the banquet hall early.
Lin Yu also intended to leave with Lu Heng, but he was enthusiastically held back by several people and had to stay to continue socializing with them.
Throughout the winter, people had not truly been idle, especially the personnel of Wuming City.
Besides the combat personnel training daily in the attached city, the research center also delivered much good news.
The scientists at the aerospace base, led by Liu Guodong, had already skillfully mastered various data obtained from aliens.
However, the resources of Blue Star were not compatible with this technology, making it impossible to produce similar physical objects.
Nevertheless, Liu Guodong and his team, based on the aliens' early data, had explored a set of technologies suitable for Blue Star's development.
These technologies were soon applied to Blue Star's existing equipment. Lu Heng provided them with a considerable amount of equipment resources from his space, allowing them to conduct practical operations.
It could be said that over the winter, Wuming City's technology had broken through bottlenecks that had persisted for a long time before the apocalypse, truly positioning it to lead the technological development of the entire Blue Star in the future.
The anti-zombie virus antibody researched by Chen Dong and his team had successfully completed human trials.
After being experimented on the people captured by Wuming City, those individuals, when subsequently attacked by zombies, were 100% immune to assimilation and mutation into zombies.
Upon seeing the report, Lin Yu instructed Zhao Youcheng to disseminate the news that Wuming City had developed an anti-zombie virus medicine.
Wuming City also planned to make the antibody available at the trading center for exchange by travelers after the spring.
However, the crystals required for the exchange would undoubtedly take some time for ordinary people to accumulate.
Wuming City was not a charity. Even though this medicine was life-saving for the survivors on Blue Star, they did not intend to provide it for free.
Given Wuming City's strength, it was unlikely that any other factions would dare to express dissatisfaction. In this era of the apocalypse where strength reigned supreme, these bases combined could not defeat Wuming City.
"I plan to establish a mercenary team in addition to Wuming City's own forces. In the future, we can assign tasks that are inconvenient for us to handle to these mercenaries."
Lin Yu reported his thoughts of the past few days to Lu Heng. He felt it was necessary to mention such matters to Lu Heng.
"You handle this as you see fit, but personnel selection is crucial, especially for the leaders of each mercenary team. If necessary, you can bring the Director along."
"Alright, I'll look into it. If needed, I'll bring the Director."
This idea was still a preliminary plan and had not yet been implemented or announced to the public.
"Have you discovered any ability users with special abilities among the ability users in the apocalypse?"
This was a question Lu Heng had pondered for a long time. Abilities like his, which allowed him to contract mutated animals and acquire their abilities, might also exist in others.
Perhaps, because he had been reborn, he had very little contact with others when he was not yet powerful in the early stages, allowing him to escape the most chaotic period and avoid being eliminated by other ability users in their nascent stages.
"Special ability users?"
Lin Yu was momentarily stunned. Ability users after the apocalypse were simply those who mastered natural abilities or enhanced physical abilities. He had never heard of any other types of abilities.
At most, like him, one person might evolve two or more abilities, but he had never heard of any other categories of abilities.
Seeing Lin Yu's confusion, Lu Heng smiled.
Lin Yu managed Wuming City, which had over a hundred thousand registered personnel. Logically, there should be people with special abilities.
Could it be that someone had not reported their abilities, fearing that their special abilities would bring them trouble?
This was not impossible.
Perhaps those who exposed themselves early had died, or had been captured and controlled by some organization. Those who had survived were likely very good at hiding.
Having figured this out, Lu Heng shared his thoughts with Lin Yu.
"My ability is a type of special ability. I feel that I cannot be the only one in this world with such an ability."
"Also, Lin Xue, whom I contracted, has healing abilities. You were asked to pay attention to such individuals before. Perhaps in the past, people were afraid to reveal themselves, but now that Wuming City's various systems have been clearly publicized, if you look for such people now, someone might be willing to step forward."
With the promise of significant benefits from Wuming City, many people with special abilities would likely come forward.
Lu Heng's intention in finding these people was not to conduct research on them, but rather to reasonably utilize their abilities to better contribute to the development of Wuming City.
In fact, if these individuals pledged their allegiance to Wuming City, it would also serve as a form of protection for them. It was unlikely that any other place in this apocalypse possessed the strength of Wuming City to protect such special individuals.
Lu Heng informed Lin Yu of all the special abilities he could think of, so that Wuming City would have some direction in searching for these individuals.
"We are currently facing another problem.
We originally planned to conduct another large-scale clearance of zombies nationwide in the spring, intending to launch a surprise attack on them before they fully recovered their activity.
However, the situation reported from various regions is not optimistic. Many bases have low ammunition reserves, and resupply is also an issue.
Relying solely on ability users, the strength of those bases is not sufficient."
"Have you considered promoting energy-replenishing elixirs?"
The inadequacy of ability users was not only due to their inability to heavily suppress zombies at higher levels, but also because ability users consumed internal energy when using their abilities. The energy of these individuals was also limited, preventing them from continuously outputting power.
Therefore, at this juncture, the elixirs consistently sold by Wuming City played a crucial role.
"Promote them, have them all come to buy some elixirs. If there isn't enough, I'll get you ready-made ones from my space."
Lu Heng said, waving his hand, and a pile of bottles and jars appeared before Lin Yu.
These were replicated from the ancient city in his space. He could guarantee an ample supply of these.
Lin Yu's mouth twitched as he looked at the pile of small bottles in front of him.
He picked up a bottle, poured out the pills inside, and sniffed them.
"These elixirs have been improved from the previous ones. Let me try one to see the effect."
Saying that, Lin Yu swallowed the elixir in his hand and felt its effects.
"It has indeed improved a lot."
Although it was still not as good as the elixirs he personally refined, perhaps it was due to the materials used in refining these elixirs not being as good as his own.
However, he did not mention this; there was no need for him to be arrogant in front of Lu Heng.
"Really? I hadn't noticed that. Then you should sell off your current stock first, and then sell these. I'll get you more to keep."
It was likely that these elixirs would soon become hard currency in the apocalypse, bringing a considerable amount of crystals to Wuming City.