Gu Wenzhong held a megaphone and kept shouting at the disciplinary team to maintain order at the scene, while the remaining people in the camp were pulled out one by one.

Soon, the camp was completely emptied, and those who had been sleeping in were all gathered in one place.

Gu Wenzhong walked around these sleepy-eyed people with his hands behind his back and a megaphone in hand.

"You like sleeping?"

No one paid any attention; everyone kept their heads down.

"Alright! Since you like sleeping, then I'll give you a chance to sleep! Listen up, all of you! From today until three days from now, you are not allowed to sleep. If you get through this, you can sleep all day long! Do you understand what I mean?"

Immediately, some people in the group objected.

"Getting up at four in the morning! That's way too early! I don't agree!"

Gu Wenzhong frowned and walked up to the other person.

For a moment, the entire square fell silent. No one spoke, and the only sound was the "tap tap" of Gu Wenzhong's footsteps on the ground.

"What's your name? Which group are you in?"

The other party was stunned: "Didn't you say we could voice our opinions? You're depriving us of our human rights!"

"Hahaha!"

Gu Wenzhong suddenly burst into laughter, a laugh that sent chills down one's spine: "Human rights? Heh! You're talking to me about human rights now that we're in the underground fortress? Fine! I'll give you human rights! Now, pack your things and you can leave!"

As Gu Wenzhong was about to leave, the man swallowed hard.

You can't do that!

A gunshot rang out, and the entire square erupted in chaos. Most people crouched down, while the man who had been relentlessly challenging Gu Wenzhong fell in the midst of the bloody fight.

His eyes revealed confusion, fear, helplessness, and a hint of anger.

"You're overestimating yourself! Trying to negotiate with me! Once we're in the underground fortress, if you want a good life, you'll have to prove it with your work!"

Gu Wenzhong practically shouted those words.

He watched as everyone lowered their heads, not daring to utter a sound, and then contentedly put his gun back into its holster.

"Great! Does anyone else have any objections?"

None of the people who were singled out dared to speak again.

Gu Wenzhong waved to his assistant, who immediately understood and walked over to the dead man, pulling out a nameplate.

"It's from Group Seven!"

"Hmm! Group Seven! Okay, where's the group leader for Group Seven?"

A person with slicked-back hair walked out of the crowd tremblingly. Lu Yuan glanced at him and recognized him as the same person who had mocked him yesterday.

Gu Wenzhong glanced at the other person: "As the team leader, why didn't you wake him up?"

"I...I...Boss Gu, I promise I'll wake everyone up next time!"

The other person's tone carried a hint of humble pleading.

Gu Wenzhong gave the other party no chance at all: "Since it has already happened, we have to face reality! Add an hour to today's workload! Understand?"

The other party breathed a sigh of relief when they heard it was only an extra hour.

"Understood!"

Then the remaining people who were sleeping in were sent to the construction site to work ahead of time.

Lu Yuan also stepped forward to collect his work manual, task schedule, and some production tools and instruments.

However, when Lu Yuan opened the manual, he couldn't help but curse under his breath.

"Holy crap! Level 500 square meters of land in one day?" Lu Yuan could hardly believe the task assigned to him.

Zhou Tong and Xi Wen also came over. Seeing that Lu Yuan's expression was not right, they leaned over and glanced at the mission manual.

"What? Level 500 square meters of land in one day? There's no way a hundred of us could do that!"

"Holy crap! This is just today's task! There's more tomorrow!"

Lu Yuan utterly loathed the management system here. Although 500 meters wasn't a lot of land, one had to understand that after the temperature plummeted, the ground had endured months of severe cold, forming a hard layer of permafrost, some of which was hundreds of meters thick.

This kind of work should normally be done using machinery, but Lu Yuan was dumbfounded when he looked at the pile of shovels and spades in his hand.

"How the hell is it possible to dig this up? Are you sure there's no mistake?"

This situation wasn't limited to Lu Yuan's group; protests were also heard in other groups as well.

Liu Dafa crept over, carrying a mission manual in his hand.

"Brother Lu, what's your mission?"

Lu Yuan handed the mission manual directly to the other party.

"What? You're also 500 square meters? That's it! Our people just went to check out the site, and the ground is so hard it's like it's been welded together from sheet metal! We can't dig at all! And look at these shovels, they're as thin as paper, how could we possibly dig them?"

Lu Yuan sighed, "Damn it! They're really pushing people to their deaths! These damned bastards!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Dafa quickly put his finger to shush him: "Keep your voice down, brother! You can't just say things like that! If the disciplinary team hears you, they might give you trouble!"

Lu Yuan nodded slightly, thanking the other party for the reminder.

"Alright, enough talk! Let's get to work on the construction site! Let's finish as soon as possible and come back as soon as possible!"

So everyone picked up their tools and went to their assigned work areas.

The construction site was very large, with only a few searchlights illuminating the uneven ground. There were all sorts of rocks everywhere, and the ceiling was untouched. It was clear that this place was intended to be excavated again to build a new fourth-phase fortress.

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