"Brother Lu." Lin Yu pushed the door open and saw Lu Heng sitting in the living room, writing something. He habitually called out.
"Sit down for a moment, I'll be done soon," Lu Heng said, raising his hand.
Lin Yu found an empty spot on the living room sofa and then took out a laptop to get busy.
"Is this the accounting for the material distribution?" Lu Heng finished his work and turned to see Lin Yu busy on the sofa. He couldn't help but walk over.
"Yes, today's transactions. They organize the data every day, and I just need to reconcile the inventory and these accounts." Lin Yu's fingers flew across the mouse and keyboard. After hitting the last Enter key, he closed his laptop.
"Finished?"
Lin Yu nodded and looked up at Lu Heng with a smile.
"Alright, I called you over because I wanted to tell you something. Lin Xue and I went out for a bit earlier and discovered that zombies also evolve by absorbing energy from crystals..."
Lu Heng carefully explained what he had discovered in the woods to Lin Yu. Then he took out the paper he had been writing on and handed it to Lin Yu.
"Here are the mission rewards for killing zombies, as well as the plan to integrate the ability user teams within the base. The number of ability users and ordinary survivors in the base is not small now, and it's considered a lot compared to other refuge bases. I think we can form a team belonging to Wuming City.
It's impossible for small teams organized spontaneously by ability users to eliminate zombies. Moreover, the evolution of zombies has exceeded our imagination. After evolving to level five and above, these zombies will consciously devour their own kind to speed up their evolution. If this continues, in the near future, there will be more difficult-to-deal-with high-level zombies in the zombie hordes.
By then, survivor teams will only become stepping stones for those zombie evolutions. Don't forget, we humans also have a crystal in our brains, and I think zombies can absorb it as well."
Lin Yu listened intently, his expression gradually becoming serious. "However, Brother Lu, the ability users in the city who haven't joined us yet, we can't guarantee they won't have other intentions. If they're incorporated into our team, will it..."
Lu Heng had also considered the issues Lin Yu was thinking about. Not everyone would truly surrender to him. In this era where social order had collapsed, many people had the idea of becoming leaders themselves.
After all, as the leader of an organization, one would definitely receive the best resources, and they often had priority rights for upgrades compared to others. And when killing zombies, the ones who survived to the end were always the strongest.
"Starting now, Wuming City will no longer accept external survivor teams unless they voluntarily join Wuming City's team. The conditions for joining Wuming City have also been changed. The minimum requirement is to be a first-order ability user. This condition is already the lowest."
Zombies are constantly evolving. For those who have not become ability users by now, it can only be said that they have given up on themselves and become part of the eliminated. These ordinary people are far inferior to evolved new humans in terms of physical strength.
"How many ability users have we unified and upgraded to level six so far? These people will be the backbone of Wuming City's team in the future. Let's split them up and have them serve as captains of various teams. The previous team captains will serve as middle management. We will also select a separate group of people who will be solely responsible for Wuming City's defense work.
From now on, we will no longer provide free upgrades for newly joined personnel. To upgrade, they will have to kill zombies and find supplies themselves. Only by obtaining enough supplies or crystals will they be rewarded according to their contributions."
"Okay, I'll make the arrangements." Lin Yu closed his laptop. He had recorded everything Lu Heng had said. He needed to make arrangements for the specific matters.
"By the way, we originally planned to let the management staff live in the inner city. Let's change our location. I've marked a courtyard for us to live in. The remaining inner city, you can arrange for the middle management staff to live there, and select an office location for discussions within the inner city."
"Alright, but where are we moving to?"
The place where Lu Heng and the others lived was just a detached house they had randomly found initially. Lin Yu didn't have any particular concept of housing. After a busy day, when he returned at night, it was just a place to sleep, at most a comfortable bed.
"Where the planes were parked before. There's a lot of open space there, and the eagle-beaked beasts can roam around inside. As the city gets more populated, I don't plan to let the evolved animals go out anymore."
"Then I'll go arrange it first. I probably won't finish today."
"No rush. My plan is just a general outline. For some details, they will definitely need to be modified. You can handle it as you see fit. Also, these matters can be assigned to those selected middle management personnel."
Watching Lin Yu leave, Lu Heng finally got up and collected all the items in the building into his space. He was moving to the selected location to live.
It wasn't until nightfall that Lin Yu returned. The city gates had already been closed, so even at night, the city was safe.
"I've chosen a room on the fourth floor. You can pick a room, and I'll help you move out your previous furniture."
This time, Lu Heng also chose a building, but it was a five-story residential building with two units. Lu Heng chose to live in the unit closer to the courtyard gate.
For an entire afternoon, Lu Heng was busy in the building himself. He chose to live on the fourth floor, which had a good view and was not the top floor, so it was not greatly affected by the outside temperature.
"This used to be a residential building. Then I'll choose a house opposite on the fourth floor."
"Alright, but tomorrow we'll need to arrange for people to renovate this building. Add a main gate to the unit entrance on the first floor and install solar panels on the roof."
During the renovation of Wuming City, Lu Heng hadn't arranged for people to enter the inner city when he wasn't familiar with the people outside. Therefore, the inner city still maintained its original appearance. The original main gate of the unit entrance was long gone, or perhaps someone had dismantled it after the apocalypse, leaving only a door frame embedded in the wall.
"Yes, I'll also find people to tidy up the other houses in the inner city, and all the roofs will be installed with solar panels. It will be convenient for electricity later."
Regarding supplies, Lu Heng had not told Lin Yu about his spatial city. Lin Yu only thought that Lu Heng had a storage space larger than his own storage ring, and these supplies were collected by Lu Heng himself from outside.
However, he sometimes wondered why Lu Heng never seemed to worry about supplies. After all, they had to support a city now, and a lot of supplies were needed for the initial construction.
But whenever any kind of supply was lacking, Lu Heng could replenish it in time. Even for the crystals used for external exchange, Lu Heng never worried about running out of stock.