Jiang Huaisheng called Jiang Shenglin over, intending for Jiang Shenglin to go with her.

Gu Mingyue politely declined.

She's heading to the Dark Domain for the Crystal Source. There's only one Crystal Source, so how to divide it between the two of them will be a problem.

Hopefully, since the base was established by higher-ups, she doesn't intend to have any disagreements with them.

Seeing her resolute attitude, Jiang Huaisheng had no choice but to give up.

When Gu Mingyue was about to leave, he personally walked out of the impregnable inner city to see her off.

He unconditionally gave away the Black Domain data that Zhou Yanli sold to him.

"Lord Gu, the Black Domain is fraught with danger, you must be careful!" Jiang Huaisheng, with a full head of white hair, admonished him like an old father.

Although he had heard that only one in ten thousand people who went to the Black Domain came out alive, he felt that a powerful superhuman like Gu Mingyue was one in ten thousand, so he wasn't too worried.

"How about we let Jiang Shenglin go with you?"

“Father, Miss Gu is so capable that she doesn’t need my protection.”

Jiang Shenglin spoke with some helplessness. Although his ability level had also been trained to the early stage of level three when the Mingyue Base was expanding its territory.

However, compared to Gu Mingyue and Xinghe, she is still far inferior.

Jiang Huaisheng glanced at his eldest son and shook his head. "Heh, does Lord Gu need your protection?"

He hoped that no one from the base had entered the Black Domain yet, and he just wanted to send him there to learn about it. Unfortunately, his son took himself too seriously and misunderstood his intentions.

Ignoring the argument between the father and son, Gu Mingyue continued walking, and the group slowly made their way to the outer city.

In the past two days, the humanoid monsters have not attacked this place, and new people have migrated here. Men and women are carrying cement and steel bars to start repairing the outer city wall.

The monsters gave them little time to catch their breath, so everyone, regardless of age or gender, had to contribute.

They all had sallow complexions, dry lips, and were dressed in tattered clothes.

Gu Mingyue recognized several familiar faces, including Zhang Yi and others.

Back at the Bright Moon Base, they were clean-cut, had fresh food, and had rosy complexions.

In just two days, their new clothes were stained with cement and the cuffs were worn out.

Because they were eating black worm cakes, they felt nauseous and couldn't eat anymore, so they didn't have the strength to work. All the grown men could only carry a bag of lime in pairs.

Seeing Gu Mingyue arrive in the outer city under the escort of four guards, he immediately burst into tears, put down the bag of lime, and ran over.

"Boss, we were wrong! Please take us back to Bright Moon Base. We'll even let you take weapons and go kill monsters, just don't leave us here to die! Please!"

When Jiang Huaisheng saw them approaching, he ordered the guards to stop them, preventing them from actually reaching Gu Mingyue's feet.

"Shh!" Gu Mingyue put her index finger to her lips. "Now, the Hope Base is your last lifeline, so you must cherish it."

After saying that, he left without hesitation.

Zhang Yi and the others regretted their actions, as they were stopped by the guards and could only shout Gu Mingyue's name from behind.

Upon hearing this, a man covered in dirt, who was mixing cement, put down his shovel and hurried over.

Were you calling for Gu Mingyue just now?

"Get out! Get out of here, you scoundrel!"

Zhang Yi and the others frowned in disgust upon smelling the man's excrement-like stench.

They knew this man; although he was quite old, he had thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a fair complexion, with the features of a handsome man.

I heard that when he first arrived at Hope Base, he hooked up with some older female superhumans to exchange points for food. Later, when new young and handsome men came to fill the gap, he had to find some older men with superhuman abilities.

The easy job of mixing cement was arranged for him by an old man with superpowers.

Zhang Yi was old and had outdated ideas, so he looked down on him.

Gu Jianshu was scolded, but he wasn't angry. After the apocalypse, he had experienced all kinds of suffering.

The former boss's airs are long gone. In order to make a living and find a way to earn a living, his self-esteem has long been exhausted.

"Please don't be angry, gentlemen. Gu Mingyue is my daughter's name. I recognized the name, so I came over."

Zhang Yi and the others originally planned to go back and continue carrying cement, but upon hearing this, they stopped in their tracks.

The foreman in charge came to call them, but they ignored him.

"Are you even going to work or not? If you don't do this work, I'll assign it to other ordinary people. You're all skipping work without reason, and you think you're some kind of superhuman lord!"

"This lousy job, give it to whoever you want, we're not doing it anymore." Zhang Yi and the others put down their work badges, dragged Gu Jianshu, and chased after Gu Mingyue ahead.

"Boss, don't go, we've found your father."

They were quickly stopped by the guards whose gazes were as cold and hard as eagles.

"How dare you stop us? Do you know who this is? This is our boss, your manager Jiang's friend, Gu Mingyue's father. Can you really afford to take responsibility if anything happens to him?"

The guards' scrutinizing gazes fell on Gu Jianshu.

Gu Jianshu nodded nervously, "I... my daughter's name is Gu Mingyue."

The guards exchanged glances; even in the apocalypse, there were cases of missing relatives and being separated from each other.

With that in mind, they each took one arm of Gu Jianshu's shoulder and caught up with Gu Mingyue.

Gu Mingyue's steps were stopped, and she turned around to look at the middle-aged man behind her, who was dressed in tattered clothes and was extremely thin.

A cold smile appeared on his lips, and his eyes narrowed into a dangerous arc.

Jiang Huaisheng looked at her and asked, "Lord Gu, is this really your father?"

Before Gu Mingyue could answer, Gu Jianshu excitedly tried to break free from the guards' grasp, his eyes full of affection as he said, "Mingyue, my precious daughter, I'm your father!"

"Get me out of here! This is no place for a human being!"

Upon hearing this, the guards who were helping him looked somewhat embarrassed. They hoped that the base had done everything in its power to protect ordinary people like them.

Sometimes, when monsters invade, you have to fight to the death, only to be told that it's not a place for humans to live. It's truly disheartening.

Gu Mingyue found it even more ironic that Gu Jianshu rarely used any word other than "beast" to describe her.

He shook his head indifferently: "I don't know this person. My father, Gu Chusheng, has already been eaten by a monster."

"Damn it, you unfilial and disobedient beast, you good-for-nothing! I'm your father, I'm your father! How could you abandon me?"

Gu Jianshu went berserk, cursing and struggling, but was firmly held down by the burly men of the guard team.

Gu Mingyue parted her thin lips and looked at Jiang Huaisheng: "Manager Jiang, I think this person has probably been driven crazy by the apocalypse."

When Jiang Huaisheng heard her say that, he really thought Gu Jianshu was crazy, so he had someone take him back.

When Zhang Yi and the others returned to their original workstations, they found that the cement-carrying work had been assigned to someone else. They hadn't received any points for the day, and would only be able to do dirtier and more tiring work from now on.

Seeing Gu Jianshu cursing Gu Mingyue in a crazy manner, she was immediately enraged and beat him severely, only feeling relieved when he was half dead.