With the increased manpower of the reconnaissance team, all the zombie distributions within the area have been marked on the map.

There are still 114 existing markers with tens of thousands of points, and 23 new special markers have been added.

Looks like tomorrow will be busy again.

However, Huang Zhao did not have too much burden in his heart. The development of Dawn City had entered the right track, and the level 4 energy crystal that Chen Run needed had also been obtained.

The zombie clearing speed will increase, and the special markers will mostly contain level two or three zombies and mutated beasts.

Once the members of Dawn City have improved their strength, they will be able to form elite teams to carry out hunting missions, and Huang Zhao will no longer need to go and kill them himself.

Speaking of killing zombies, Huang Zhao remembered that Qingfeng hadn't contacted him all day.

It seems that making 300 titanium alloy daggers in one day is still too difficult for two people who are only at the second level.

'Hopefully, among the survivors rescued today, there will be some who have awakened metal-type abilities, to continue replenishing the forging team's manpower.'

Currently, the most significant way to enhance the strength of Dawn City members is by improving their weapons for killing zombies.

Therefore, metal-based abilities are the type of superpower that Huang Zhao is most concerned about at this time, and he will give priority to cultivating them once he discovers them.

There's no rush to watch the exploration team's videos of the special markers to confirm the level of the marked creatures.

Huang Zhao looked at the report from Brother Jie regarding the progress of the task of nurturing seeds, as reported by Xu Qilan, a plant-type ability user.

Progress was smooth, and with the continuous infusion of Xu Qilan's supernatural abilities, the activity inside the original crop seeds greatly increased.

Once Xu Qilan breaks through to level three the day after tomorrow, she can start trying to plant.

'Soon we'll be able to enjoy post-apocalyptic mutated crops.'

Huang Zhao was also looking forward to it, even though there were still many delicious foods in Chen Run's supernatural space that he hadn't tasted yet.

However, those dishes were only considered to be of high quality before the apocalypse.

According to Chen Run's memory, the dishes made from mutated crops have a unique flavor.

Huang Zhao will be the first human to experience this after the apocalypse!

......

Next, let's look at the construction progress of the Shuguang City construction team:

The construction of the incineration pits, which was prioritized today, has been completed. Next, the finishing touches will be put on the buildings within the city.

Within Huang Zhao's mental perception area, members of the construction team were still continuing interior decoration and water and electricity installation, working hard to earn more points.

'Will there still be a King of Scrolls after the apocalypse?!'

Huang Zhao was somewhat surprised.

"Give me a dozen more of these 'King of Rolls'! Don't try to save crystals for me!"

Human survivors who absorbed crystals to enhance their physical abilities after the apocalypse are incredibly resilient; perhaps we could extend their working hours?

Huang Zhao thought to himself, preparing to discuss this issue with Brother Jie.

As the saying goes: It's a coward not to earn points!

At this moment, Brother Jie was in his suite discussing the design blueprint for the outer city with Duan Jianzhong, the chief engineer of the construction team.

The plan will be finalized tonight and submitted to Huang Zhao for confirmation. Construction of the outer city should begin around tomorrow!

In addition, there's the cost of Dawn City today:

Of the points spent, the majority still went to the hunting and rescue teams, but Huang Zhao undoubtedly reaped the greatest rewards.

There is a limit to the number of crystals that can be exchanged each day. Today, only 2891 level zero energy crystals were consumed throughout the entire day.

This also includes the promise to feed the King Kong outside the city 100 pills every day.

However, the teams that went out on missions today have already turned in more than 10,000 crystals, and there is still a large surplus after expenditures.

Thinking about the suggestions Brother Jie had given him that morning—building a cafeteria and a place for reward points—Huang Zhao decided to put these two things on the agenda.

A simple renovation of a tenement building would suffice; Dawn City currently boasts three earth-elemental ability users.

They are experts in this kind of interior renovation without damaging the structure of the house.

Once their ability levels are upgraded, Huang Zhao will issue high-value reward points, and they won't be afraid of not being tempted.

There's also the situation regarding survivors in Dawn City exchanging supplies:

Huang Zhao was surprised to find that the most redeemed items were no longer food, but purified water, after collecting a total of 8,848 points.

Huang Zhao suddenly realized that he seemed to have received a message on his terminal advising him to avoid drinking tap water.

Because polluted water reduces the physical condition of survivors, affecting the upper limit of daily absorption of crystal energy.

Therefore, all members of Dawn City exchanged bottled water from the warehouse for drinking water.

Dawn City now has over a thousand survivors. Even if Huang Zhao has hundreds of thousands of tons of purified water, it certainly won't be enough to keep up with their numbers.

Huang Zhao immediately decided to start recruiting water-based ability users to purify water at the Dongcheng District waterworks and supply it to the city's residents.

Chen Run had already thought about this when designing the water and electricity systems for Shuguang City.

Every residence in the city has two water valves: one for unpurified tap water, sourced from Dongjing Lake outside the east city wall.

The other source is purified water separated separately from the East District Water Plant in Dawn City.

At this time, the pipeline was not yet open, and no pure water flowed to the residences in Dawn City.

Compared to directly condensing drinkable water, purifying polluted tap water consumes far less supernatural energy.

It is not necessary to have many water-based ability users performing purification tasks at the water plant to meet the needs of nearly a thousand people at this time.

After noting this matter down to Brother Jie, Huang Zhao looked at the last person to handle it:

Ning Chuxia spent a busy day integrating various systems and resources of Shuguang City.

At this point, the mission release module, resource exchange table, and other information available to Dawn City members have all changed drastically.

It's no longer the hastily produced game Huang Zhao created before, nor is it as crudely made as the web games of decades ago that only involved text clicks.

According to Ning Chuxia, this is only the initial stage, and there are still many areas that can be improved.

Huang Zhao was fairly satisfied with Ning Chuxia's work. In fact, even if Ning Chuxia hadn't done a good job, Huang Zhao wouldn't have really criticized her.

He had indeed been suppressing his feelings for too long, and had no one to confide in. Therefore, this was just an excuse to take care of Ning Chuxia.

But now...

Looking at Alice, who had fallen asleep in his arms again, Huang Zhao felt that his heart had found its home.

You can confide in her without any reservations.

She only has me, and she already considers me her only one...

Huang Zhao felt that with such a daughter, what more could a husband ask for?

Huang Zhao couldn't possibly predict what might happen in the future; human ambition is never truly satisfied...

With this matter settled, Huang Zhao decided to continue with his sudden decision: to speed up the process of clearing out the zombies.

Even if it's impossible to completely eliminate all the tens of millions of zombies in Shanghai.

However, we should at least focus on Dawn City and clear out as many zombies as possible.

By leaving a sufficiently long buffer zone for Dawn City, defenses can be deployed in advance.