"Your thinking is too conservative, and with the city walls you have outside, once a large number of zombies migrate here, they won't be able to withstand a siege."
"But the nearby base will not accept ordinary people from our place."
Having a safer place is certainly better, but the ability users here also do not want to abandon their families.
"Therefore, your people must change, and you cannot remain in a passive state of being protected."
"But even if some people want to go out and kill zombies now, their levels are not high enough."
"Is that the reason? If you give them the crystals you obtain to absorb, won't they be able to fight zombies after evolving?"
In the end, it's probably because those ordinary people are afraid to face zombies and are already accustomed to being protected.
"A zombie horde is when you will perish. Can you withstand the trial of a zombie horde?"
The few people in the room fell silent. Lu Heng was stating facts, but the current situation was indeed difficult.
But, must everyone really be dragged down and killed by ordinary people?
"Think about it, if the ordinary people in the city can change their minds and bravely face zombies, I can help you talk to that base."
"But the premise is that you must change first. In the apocalypse, we don't keep useless people!"
Everyone understood the logic, but execution would not be quick.
Just to make ordinary people evolve into ability users and reach a level where they can face the zombies outside.
Then letting them face the real combat experience of fighting zombies, this process would definitely take a considerable amount of time.
"I will stay here for two days. As for upgrading, you must hurry. Within two days, it shouldn't be too difficult to upgrade the ordinary people in the city to the fourth-tier level."
"This, upgrading to the fourth tier in two days, we have many ordinary people here, so it might be a bit difficult."
There aren't many zombies outside the town, so it's difficult to get enough crystals for everyone to upgrade.
"Are your crystals managed centrally, or are they kept by families?"
"Both. Everyone will hand over a portion for the base's basic construction, and we also need to go out to exchange for some supplies."
"Then organize people to first count everyone, and then concentrate all the crystals. If there are not enough, I can supplement them for you."
"But the principle remains the same: those who become ability users must go out and collect crystals themselves."
"If you cannot meet this requirement, you can either die with those cowards, or abandon those people and relocate to that large base."
"As for whether they will take you in, as long as your levels are all improved, I believe no base will refuse so many ability users joining."
The population of this town is not small now. If most of them can become ability users, and these people dare to face zombies, I believe no base will refuse.
Lu Heng can help them lobby that base, or bring everyone back to Wuming City directly.
In any case, Wuming City needs to expand its population during this expansion.
After hearing Lu Heng's words, Zhao Guodong and the others discussed it and finally decided to follow Lu Heng's suggestion.
After all, no one wants to die. They have finally endured until now. Even if those ordinary people are their relatives, they don't want to be dragged down and killed by them.
And they felt that Lu Heng's point about high-level zombies migrating with large numbers of zombies was very likely.
Since these zombies have evolved intelligence, they can be considered a new type of organism on Blue Star.
Every species will have the desire to strengthen itself and allow its species to continue to reproduce.
These are probably imprinted in their genes, just like humans. Human genes have enabled humans to continuously reproduce on Blue Star.
Afterward, Zhao Guodong led his people to start counting the information of the town's population and informed everyone of the town's decision.
For a time, the town became a bit noisy.
Some people wanted to change, but more were ordinary people who did not want to face zombies.
"The mayor said that if those who don't want to change are not willing to change, we will eventually abandon them."
"The zombies outside have evolved into intelligent high-level zombies, and they are very likely to migrate to us."
"You don't want everyone to be buried with you, do you!"
"But we don't have that many crystals, and many crystals have been handed over before."
"You don't need to worry about this. Everyone should concentrate their crystals. We still need to unite so that everyone can continue to survive in the apocalypse."
The person who came to notify and mobilize encouraged everyone and also informed everyone about the town's decision to collect all crystals.
But there are always some people who are selfish and cowardly.
"Why are we suddenly doing this? Wasn't it fine before? You haven't even seen any high-level zombies!"
"Yes, at my age, can I still kill zombies?" a middle-aged man said, crossing his arms and looking at the person making the announcement.
"Evolving into an ability user not only grants various elemental abilities but also makes your physical fitness hundreds of times stronger than ordinary people. You don't know, but before I evolved, I couldn't lift much weight, but now I can easily lift hundreds of pounds."
This person was not a strength-type ability user. Being able to do this was entirely due to the significant improvement in physical fitness after evolution.
"Then everyone come to me to register your information. This must be completed within two days. One person from each family should hand over the crystals and register your family's situation. It's estimated that we will start upgrading everyone after we finish the statistics this afternoon."
"Then if I don't upgrade, you will really abandon me?"
"After everyone upgrades, they will have to go out and kill zombies individually to prove they have the ability."
"After that, we will relocate to the largest nearby base. They don't accept ordinary people, so it's not that we want to abandon you, but you don't want to drag your own relatives to their deaths, do you?"
After glancing at everyone again, the mobilizing person began to set up a table and register information for people nearby.
Zhao Guodong had divided the town into several areas, and each area had people doing the registration work.
Therefore, the work was done very quickly. Within a few hours, the town's population information and crystals were collected.
They quickly finished the statistics and calculated the number of crystals that were still lacking.
"Here, this is all the crystals we can provide, and we are still short by a lot."
It's possible that some people privately kept crystals without handing them over, but they didn't have Lu Heng's mind-reading ability, so handing them over depended on everyone's conscience.
However, Zhao Guodong did indeed take out all the crystals collectively stored by the town.