It's just an ordinary lamp with a moth in it, so it doesn't require difficult materials. Some ordinary raw materials plus the [moth] attribute core and Xu Zhi's [moth] can make it successfully.

Xu Zhi made dozens of them in one go, then called Zhong Lingfan and asked him to take her to personally set up these [moth] lamps in the most critical locations in the central circle of the residential area and at the entrances and exits.

Zhong Lingfan was obviously curious about the origin of this lamp. Xu Zhi also said frankly: "It is my extraordinary ability. It probably serves a similar purpose as a warning. However, I can't get too many of them. Just keep them in the most important place."

Zhong Lingfan couldn't tell the truth in the words, but she couldn't question Xu Zhi either.

After the arrangement was completed, Xu Zhi added: "If you encounter a problem that you feel is extremely urgent and you can't handle it, and I'm not here, just break a lamp."

She will sense it immediately and send the fastest clan member back, and can immediately activate the ability of [Moth] to cause chaos in that area, which should be useful in an emergency.

When setting up the moth lamps, Xu Zhi and Zhong Lingfan met many people along the way. They would greet Zhong Lingfan when they saw him, but their eyes would involuntarily fall on Xu Zhi. Most of them could guess Xu Zhi's identity, and even if a few did not realize it, they would have more respect for Xu Zhi because they were people who followed Zhong Lingfan.

"Are there so many people now?" Xu Zhi was a little surprised.

In fact, she had never had much idea about the changes in the residential area, but now as she walked around with Zhong Lingfan, she found that it was indeed different from the past.

Except for the hazy sky and fog during the day, the residential area now looks a bit like that of peacetime.

Of course, this is only limited to residential areas.

"Is there anyone here who can't even pay the rent?" Xu Zhi asked.

"Yes." Zhong Lingfan nodded.

With so many people, it is inevitable that some waste will appear.

"Then how did you solve it? Drive him away?"

Xu Zhi felt that Zhong Lingfan would not just drive people away.

As expected, Zhong Lingfan shook his head: "Of course, let him sign a contract and use his own labor and extraordinary abilities to pay off the debt."

Zhong Lingfan said this simply, but this contract was obviously not comparable to the contracts in peacetime.

If you think about it carefully, you will realize that instead of signing a contract that completely surrenders yourself, it is better to grit your teeth and try to hunt mutant animals to obtain the core to pay the rent.

“Is there really anyone who signed it?”

If one has normal thinking ability, this shouldn't happen. But once you sign this, you have no control over your fate.

Zhong Lingfan smiled and said, "Not a few."

"What if they break the contract and run away? Wouldn't that mean they've lived there for nothing?" Xu Zhi asked again.

There are no laws in Yuncheng today. No one dares to violate the rules in the residential area, but if someone escapes, the residential area will not be able to spend manpower to capture an unimportant "criminal" in such an environment.

"There are people with extraordinary abilities who can be located. Moreover, leaving residential areas is not necessarily a good thing. They choose to sign the contract because they don't want to go out and face danger."

Zhong Lingfan said meaningfully, "As long as we catch one escapee and show the others what will happen to him, the rest will naturally not dare to escape at will."

"I'm still a child and can't bear to listen to these things." Xu Zhi shook his head repeatedly to indicate that he was a minor and couldn't listen to bloody and violent things.

Zhong Lingfan was a little speechless: "What kind of child are you?"

"Don't worry about it. My federal ID shows I'm a minor."

Even though he still has one month left to become an adult.

"Okay." Zhong Lingfan changed the subject. She knew that Xu Zhi just didn't care about the previous topic at all. She didn't care much about how the residential area managed the residents or what punishment measures were in place. She just needed to ensure that the residents would continue to provide her with cores.

Those who are interested have asked questions, and those who are not interested will naturally stop listening.

Since she had just been upgraded, Xu Zhi specifically asked Zhong Lingfan whether there were any extraordinary people who had broken through to level 5 in the residential area during the time she left for the Second Ring Road.

But the answer is: No.

"How can it be so easy to upgrade from level 4 to level 5?"

"It's estimated that by the Chinese New Year this year, it's unlikely that anyone will break through level five."

And it’s not even summer yet.

".So difficult?" Xu Zhi was a little surprised.

She actually didn't have a very accurate idea of ​​the promotion speed of ordinary extraordinary people, and now she didn't deliberately hide the surprise in her words. Anyway, Zhong Lingfan knew that she was different from ordinary extraordinary people. As long as she didn't know the most critical point, everything else didn't matter to Xu Zhi.

As expected, Zhong Lingfan didn't make a fuss about it. He just smiled and explained, "Do you think it's easy for a Transcendent to be promoted?"

"It's easy to upgrade from level one to level two, but from level two to level three it takes at least a month, or two or three months at most. From level three to level four it takes about half a year, and even faster it takes several months."

Now that Cloud City has been sealed off for over half a year, level four is considered a fast advancement due to exceptional talent.

"It takes at least a year to get from level 4 to level 5. How can it be that easy?"

"Even if it's fast, it will take seven or eight months."

It's so difficult

If it takes so long inside Cloud City, wouldn't it be even more difficult outside Cloud City?

Before, the Federation almost had an archbishop. If Xu Zhi had not interfered, the archbishop would have been a dimensionality-reducing blow to the Federation's extraordinary people.

Now she has unexpectedly given the Federation some breathing space.

However, looking at it this way, the number of fanatics in the Federation is probably unusually large. It is even estimated that some fanatics have already reached the top of the federal political system, or that the top leaders have become believers but no one knows about it.

No matter how you look at it, the Federation is in a precarious position today. Now we can rely on modern technology to temporarily suppress the believers, but once they cause something big, such as the next archbishop, it will be a problem that technology cannot solve.

On the contrary, Yuncheng has become more stable with the existence of residential areas. Of course, the premise is that the alien species in the city center are ignored.

Xu Zhi thought that if he gained something at midnight tonight, he would probably have to leave the residential area again and head to the city center soon.

She had no idea about the city center, so naturally she didn't want to tell Zhong Lingfan. She just told him before they parted that she might be away again for a while soon.

Zhong Lingfan was already quite used to Xu Zhidong running around and never coming home, so she just nodded indifferently to indicate that she would manage the residential area well.

After setting up the moth lamp and saying goodbye to Zhong Lingfan, Xu Zhi returned home. He asked Yu Shenwei to go back to his room and not go out, and then he quietly waited for midnight to come.

When night falls, the clock hands jump over a certain dividing line, and an invisible mysterious residence descends into this world. Xu Zhi lights a gray lantern, opens the door, and walks into the midnight.