The warehouse where extraordinary materials are stored in the Natural City is located at the other end of the "Home Tree" in the inner city.

A huge space was hollowed out inside the thick tree trunk with a diameter of hundreds of meters.

"When this tree was alive, did it also have self-awareness?"

Meng Yi stood at the door with his back to the light, looking at the dark interior of the "warehouse" and asked casually.

Zhang Zimin nodded slowly, "Yes, this elm tree is also the core of the city's formation network.

When we designed the formation, we incorporated the special features of the Nature Walker... In this aspect, it is the divinity that Yuan Zhongqing possesses.

When this tree was alive, it was quite powerful. With the help of the city's formation network, it could exert a strength close to that of the second level."

As golden-red light lingered inside the hollow tree trunk, the place became brighter.

The two of them glanced at the neatly arranged shelves, where a large number of various extraordinary materials were sealed using special means.

“When the Natural City formation was first constructed, this Homestead tree was still very small.

Zhong Qing even joked with me, wondering if Xiaoqing… this tree, would grow into a world tree in the future.

Zhang Zimin waved his hands randomly. "Just like in those fantasy novels."

Meng Yi, who had been looking at the storage rack, turned his head in surprise when he heard this.

After all this fuss, the tree Zhang Zimin had killed… was it considered his… “ripe tree”? To put it inappropriately, it was… the kind of tree he’d hugged as a child.

Facing Meng Yi's inexplicable gaze, Zhang Zimin chuckled softly. He understood the meaning of this look, so he simply said, "I'm used to making this kind of choice."

He pointed to the empty warehouse and said concisely, "There are no materials above level four. They must have been consumed by Zhong Qing.

45 pieces of fifth-level materials, 643 pieces of sixth-level materials, 2103 pieces of seventh-level materials, 7543 pieces of eighth-level materials, and 16721 pieces of ninth-level materials."

The golden-red light that enveloped the interior of the warehouse suddenly shrank at the top and began to serve as lighting.

Meng Yi nodded slightly. To be honest, the situation was much better than he expected.

The quantity Zhang Zimin mentioned includes materials and auxiliary materials. If calculated at a ratio of one-fifth, the reserves of the Natural City are enough for him to shelter more than 100,000 people.

Adding to that some of the materials "extorted" from Li Ancheng, even without consuming divinity, it should be enough for him to upgrade himself to a second-level apostle.

Fortunately, after all, divinity is his only second-level combat power at present, so he can keep it for one more day.

Well... to be on the safe side, I'll give Ning Xingxiu a new task and ask him to organize the apostles in the Holy City to go hunting in the wilderness.

Meng Yi began to think about how to ask for all these things. At the very least, just the wood would be fine.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Zimin casually said, "I'll leave these things to you guys to deal with."

He turned his head to glance at Meng Yi, who was slightly surprised, and said with a smile: "Don't you want it?"

Are you kidding? Meng Yi immediately replied, "Yes!"

I have to say that Old Zhang is very decisive. As someone who is used to making choices and trade-offs, he did not hesitate at all.

"There are a few more things I need to tell you."

Zhang Zimin stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes wandering around the warehouse.

"First of all, recently, the major fortress cities have been asking me about the specific situation outside Li'an City. They are very concerned about the transformation of the alienated city into the Holy City of Redemption.

I've temporarily withstood this pressure. Next, you need to prepare in advance for how the Redemption forces will fight against the major human fortress cities."

Meng Yi nodded randomly. He looked at the huge amount of extraordinary materials on the shelf and thought with some distress:

After the materials were completely devoured, the remaining auxiliary materials were of limited use. In the future, the Holy City would need a trade team to travel to various major cities to exchange and trade materials...

It is also unknown whether the "passive" state of the apostles automatically sacrificing extraordinary materials when hunting mutants can be turned off by the Kingdom of God.

Otherwise, when the number of apostles increases in the future, wouldn’t it mean massive “trading activities”?

What an obvious tail...

The golden light quickly converged, and the interior of the warehouse fell into darkness, leaving only Zhang Zimin's voice ringing:

"Secondly, the God of Wisdom likely possesses more than one kind of authority, so...