Lu Yuan shook his head: "No, firstly, this is a mysterious place, and I don't plan to reveal too much. After all, there are too many secrets in this space, and even I haven't studied them in depth yet. If this space suddenly disappears one day, will the people inside also disappear? I can't take this lightly. So, this place can only be a temporary survival location! It's fine for storing things, but it's really not suitable for long-term survival. Secondly, this space is only a relatively safe place for you for a quarter of the year, but there are so many life forms on Earth, we can't just abandon them all! So, I plan to use this space to support all the survivors!"

Hei Zi stared at Lu Yuan in shock: "You...you actually have such a grand ideal!"

Lu Yuan chuckled self-deprecatingly and shook his head gently: "I don't have such grand ideals, nor do I want to be a savior, but holding something so important in my hands, if I don't do something, I would really be letting down all of humanity. Perhaps God gave me this space so that I could preserve the flame of humanity!"

Kuroko nodded: "You've grown up! You're no longer that pretentious kid you used to be!"

"Get lost! When did I ever show off!"

"Tch! You haven't even started showing off yet! Back in District 5, everyone was starving, but you guys kept providing food! I was wondering where you got all this food from! You've been keeping this from me all this time! You're such a bad brother!"

Lu Yuan sighed: "What would you think if I told you that everyone who knows about this space only found out about it recently?"

"Huh? What do you mean? You mean... all these years, you've never told anyone outside about this secret?"

"That's right! Including my family, and my wife!"

Upon hearing Lu Yuan's words, Hei Zi couldn't help but look towards the wooden house, then pulled Lu Yuan aside and whispered, "Damn! You really have a wife?!"

"Yes! I told you so!"

"But... but why the hell were you flirting with Chen Zhongzheng's niece back in District Five?! You ruined my precious time!"

"Huh? What do you mean? When did I hold you back?"

"Still denying it! Chen Yan was so devoted to you back then, and you didn't even mention you had a wife! She's still waiting for you!"

Lu Yuan immediately remembered what happened in Zone 5, so he quickly asked, "By the way, tell me about Yuanfang Company! How did you get in? How did you become middle managers? And who were the people who were with you back then?"

Hei Zi sighed, patted his pockets and found he had no cigarettes, so he reached out to Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan quickly took out a cigarette and tossed one to the other person: "Tell me quickly! I almost forgot about what happened over there!"

Kuroko lit a cigarette, took two deep drags, and said, "This is a long story! It all started when you left District Five!"

"Okay! Then let's get straight to the point!"

"Can't you even give me a moment to build up my emotions?! Damn it! I finally managed to get a little bit of emotion into place and you've ruined it all!"

Hei Zi glared at Lu Yuan, but Lu Yuan immediately glared back. The two had a great relationship back then, so there was nothing to hide.

Hei Zi took another puff of his cigarette and said, "After you left, there was a major earthquake, right? Our people started building a protected area. The country had anticipated the earthquake and had begun constructing underground fortifications years ago! We didn't expect it would actually be used. But as you know, most of the underground fortifications are hundreds of meters underground, making excavation extremely difficult! So when we entered in batches, we had a large number of people, and since we were considered a charitable organization in Zone 5, we naturally obtained management rights for the middle-level zone!"

"Later, more and more people joined in. Powerful forces and families from various regions began to fight over the rights to a small piece of land. We were also forced into conflict with these forces. Fortunately, we had relatively strong manpower and the support of the higher-ups, so we haven't had any major problems. Our main goal has been to protect the Phase III Fortress and control this area as much as possible!"

Then, Hei Zi stubbed out his cigarette, looked around, and could only put the extinguished cigarette butt into his pocket: "Forget it! Let's not pollute this pure land!"

Lu Yuan sighed: "It seems you guys aren't having an easy time either!"

"Who says otherwise! It's not easy for anyone to survive in the apocalypse! We're lucky! And thank goodness you started this company! Otherwise, we'd all be long gone by now!"

Then, Hei Zi looked at Lu Yuan and asked, "When are you going back to inherit your company?"

"Huh? Holy crap! What's going on? Going back to inherit the company's owner? Who's managing it now?"

"Chen Zhongzheng is temporarily in charge of managing things over there. He's been fabricating your identity all along, implying that you're the big boss behind the scenes! Uncle Chen isn't in good health right now, he's getting old, you know what I mean!"

Lu Yuan sighed: "Now I'm a wanted criminal in the urban area! How am I supposed to get back! By the way, what's the deal with the Long Group? They seem to have a lot of influence!"

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