Of the forty-six villages in Ling County, except for the twelve villages along the foot of the mountain, the rest have not been cleared.

The growth rate of zombies began to slow down after the end of winter, and individual differences appeared. Most of them moved between walking and running, while a few were agile and flexible.

It's been too long.

No one knows where the zombies in the village have wandered off to, or maybe they ran to other places and were cleaned up by them?

Anyway, when Wei Xiyin and his men came excitedly, only an empty village was left.

The surroundings were desolate, with dilapidated houses and overgrown weeds.

Helplessly, she left a small team to enter the village to plunder supplies, and took the rest of the people to search for the monster.

After several rounds of extermination and cleanup, the number of monsters in Ling County decreased at a rate visible to the naked eye. Sometimes, you could walk outside for half a day without seeing a single monster.

Chang Ying and Qin Shan were capturing living zombies along the way.

As the number of zombies in the country decreases.

Wei Xiyin then gave the order to capture a few zombies now and lock them up in the county seat of Ling County, and then transport them directly there after the research institute was repaired.

This saves you from having to look for it specifically when the time comes.

As for why the research institute was not established directly in Ling County.

The county town is not far from the fort, and it takes less than half an hour to get there.

But Chu Yu had a lot of things to do and couldn't run back and forth all day. In addition, the research on zombies required day and night observation, so naturally the closer he was to them, the more convenient it was.

To the You hour.

After Wei Xiyin cleaned up an area, he led his men back to the fort.

The outline of the city can be seen outside the fort.

The construction speed was very fast. The rammed earth walls around it were about six meters high, enclosing hundreds of acres of ancestral land.

Starting from tomorrow, we will concentrate all our efforts on building a blocking wall and strive to encircle all of Crow Mountain in the territory within a month.

Wei Xiyin wandered around the fort.

All the ridges of the fields have been leveled, but the moat is still there, and a one-meter-high fence has been built along the river to prevent people from stepping on it and falling in.

Mingjingtang originally planned to fill the moat, but was stopped by Wei Xiyin.

"We can fill the moat, but we can't fill the entire river. Why not keep it to defend against the enemy?" As Wei Xiyin's status in the clan became higher and higher, her opinion could no longer be ignored.

After discussing it, the uncles and aunts decided to listen to her and keep the moat.

Now there are high walls outside, and the fort has become a "city within a city". Keeping the moat is also a way to retain a defensive force.

The world is in chaos, and the enemies may not be limited to zombies.

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Wei Xiyin didn't stay outside for long. She took her guards to the camp to ask Chang Ying and the others about their progress.

Everyone is busy, but Wei Ji, the clan leader, is very idle.

The two elders would either play chess and drink tea at home, or walk around to see the construction progress outside the fort.

Today, when Wei Ji heard that the city wall outside had been built, he came out to take a look for a while.

It's getting dark.

Wei Ji thought that his granddaughter would be home soon, so he turned around and walked slowly towards home.

Many people had never seen the patriarch of the Wei family, but they knew Uncle Wu.

Uncle Wu followed the old man respectfully, and the Wei clan members on the road were also bowing to the old man. The people reacted and subconsciously bowed and avoided him.

When he returned home, the servant bowed and said, "Master, the girl hasn't come back yet."

Wei Ji nodded lightly and walked back to his main courtyard.

Uncle Wu made tea for the master of the house, bowed and left, and took the servants to the public kitchen to get dinner.

The room was silent.

Wei Ji sat cross-legged on the couch and took out a pack of oil paper from the cabinet below. He opened the oil paper.

Inside was a crumpled, blood-stained letter.

This letter was given to him by Gong Liulang when he asked to see his granddaughter while she was out.

Kyoto fell almost at the same time as Yizhou.

"The letter was intercepted from a monster in Gaoyi. The people of Gaoyi were illiterate. After killing the monster, they were only focused on finding food and didn't notice the letter."

"The Crown Prince saw something was wrong and hid the letter..."

Wei Ji half-closed his eyes and tapped the edge of the table with his fingers.

My granddaughter is smart and she must have guessed long ago that the situation in Kyoto is not good. Whether she says it or not, it will only add to my worries.

Everyone just knows it tacitly.

The world is in chaos now, and all the talented people in the clan are stranded outside. As the clan leader, how can he only care about the eldest branch of the family?

The Kyoto people are protected by hundreds of troops, but what about the rest of the people?

I don’t know if Mingyuan woke up in advance after receiving the letter.

As for Gong Liulang's request...

"Master, the girl is back." The servant outside the house interrupted his thoughts.

As soon as he finished speaking, Wei Xiyin appeared at the entrance of the main courtyard.

She walked into the house and bowed, "Grandfather."

Wei Ji came back to his senses and asked gently, "What's the situation outside?"

"Most of the zombies have been eliminated. We're just waiting for the high wall to be built before we can conduct a sweep of the entire Ling County." Wei Xiyin said, "But because we have so few people, I'm afraid the progress will be very slow."

It will take at least a month to demarcate Crow Mountain. It will also require the construction of livelihood industries and the reopening of some of the former shops in the fort so that everyone's life can stabilize and become self-sufficient.

Wei Ji nodded and said, "It's okay if the progress is slow. We don't seek speed, but stability."

"My granddaughter knows." Wei Xiyin responded.

Wei Ji took a sip of tea and said, "After we finish the work at the granary, we should bring the Princess of Zhongshan to the fort. Her status is secondary. The Zhongshan Kingdom is within the territory of Yizhou. If the King of Zhongshan is still alive, he will definitely send troops to search for her."

The imperial court was destroyed, and these princes held real power. Not to mention whether they would have other ideas, if the clan wanted to find their relatives outside, they could not leave Yizhou with only these few troops. The best strategy was to borrow the power of King Zhongshan.

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