Huang Zhao arrived at the control center to check the message that Brother Jie had sent last night:
Dawn City now has 2,478 people, and the increase in strength has greatly reduced the casualties when Dawn City goes out to carry out missions.
Moreover, there's Alice, the healing-type ability user from Dawn City, to fall back on. Even if you get injured, you can be healed quickly, so there's no need to worry about being abandoned.
As a result, the number of people choosing to go out on missions has increased significantly, and the number of people hunting zombies and rescuing survivors has also increased.
Currently, the teams from all four directions have advanced to a position about three kilometers outside Dawn City, and there is still a long way to go before the exploration is fully completed.
But this is the best that can be achieved through everyone's joint efforts.
The further out you go, the larger the area that needs to be cleared becomes, and the more zombies there are. You can only push forward little by little.
Otherwise, you could easily get surrounded by zombies and suffer casualties.
At this time, Dawn City had 64 hunting teams and 50 search and rescue teams, totaling 624 people who chose to leave the city to carry out missions.
The number of family visit teams has increased to 15, with all members having a level 2 or higher qualification, ensuring their safety even if they are more than 10 kilometers away from Shuguang City.
The reconnaissance team remains unchanged and no further additions are needed. Most members are rotated, as the gains from missions outside have led them to choose to go out on missions again.
There are a total of 24 special markers today, including the secondary markers that Huang Zhao did not process the day before. Among them, there are only 4 tertiary markers that he needs to process.
Huang Zhao added a note to the message requesting the formation of an elite hunting team and sent it to Brother Jie, asking him to select suitable people to form the team.
They are specifically responsible for killing marked level 2 creatures and are rewarded with priority access to absorb level 3 or higher energy crystals.
However, Huang Zhao also required the members who accepted the mission to assess their abilities and establish a standard for evaluation.
In addition, Huang Zhao agreed to open the sparring area of the training ground so that the members of Dawn City could familiarize themselves with and practice their superpowers, but the sparring needed to be kept within acceptable limits.
In a few days, the number of Level 3 ability users in Dawn City will begin to increase, and Huang Zhao will also need to change his policies towards the members of Dawn City.
Even a level 3 ability user with a talent of 5 needs to absorb 45 level 0 energy crystals per day.
If all two thousand people in Dawn City break through to level three, they will consume nearly 100,000 level zero crystals on average every day.
With the incineration pool, Dawn City can sustain its consumption, but Huang Zhao will begin to reduce the number of crystals that can be exchanged.
In the first year of the apocalypse, even if you reach level three, 99% of people will be stuck before reaching level four and unable to break through.
Before all injuries break through to level four, level four energy crystals are a scarce resource even in the second year after the apocalypse.
Huang Zhao's crystals didn't come easily; they haven't made a significant contribution to Dawn City, so it's not worth investing so much effort in cultivating them.
When Huang Zhao mentioned the large number of quaternary crystals, he couldn't help but think of his Golden Fertilizer Cultivation Project.
He shifted his mental focus to the safe room in the adjacent laboratory to observe the condition of the four zombies.
The level-three poison-type zombie has stopped eating and seems to be asleep, while the other three zombies are digesting the energy they have eaten and are not making any other movements.
"We need to expand the scale. Collecting data slowly is too slow, and it's not like we can't afford to maintain it now."
Huang Zhao assigned Jie a task: capture a large number of level one zombies alive, as long as they can still eat.
Because the laboratory has enough safe houses, it can fit as many people as it captures!
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Of the survivors rescued yesterday, 28 were awakened superhumans, 22 were flesh-type, and 22 were beast-type.
Among the elemental types, there were 7 fire type, 2 earth type, and 2 water type. There were no plant or metal type individuals, which disappointed Huang Zhao. He continued reading.
Construction of the outer city of Dawn City has begun, and the internal planning areas have been basically divided.
Some people are clearing vegetation in the park, while most are building city walls on the north side.
After Huang Zhao cleared out the aquatic mutant beasts yesterday, he encountered no further obstacles, and the construction progress is normal.
By this time, the construction team had grown to over a thousand members, building a three-meter-high wall around the four-square-kilometer Fusen Country Park.
Joining the construction team doesn't require exceptional skills. All survivors who have absorbed the crystals are physically strong and can perform tasks on the construction site as long as they have the strength.
The incineration pool has been burning for nearly a day, from yesterday to now, five times, yielding a total of zero-level energy crystals and 985 first-level energy crystals.
"The proportion of Level 1 zombies has increased again."
A shadow fell over Huang Zhao’s heart. At present, the hunting and reconnaissance teams in Dawn City have only expanded to an area of about 4 kilometers in radius.
The speed of expansion will slow down as it goes outwards, and it will take a long time before the entire 10-kilometer radius is searched.
Even though Dawn City already has Alice, a healer, who can ensure they receive treatment after being injured.
However, only about 20% of the members are willing to go out to carry out missions, and most of them are relatively young.
"We need to put some pressure on them. Dawn City is safe, but we can't let them get too comfortable."
Huang Zhao began editing a notice:
"Due to the surge in the number of people in Dawn City and the increased maintenance costs, it has been decided to raise the exchange price of goods in the city by 10%, and increase the reward for going out to perform missions by 10%."
As a benefit for early adopters of Dawn City, they can prioritize redeeming properties in Dawn City at a 50% discount.
Installment loans are allowed, with the initial points required being only 30% of the property value. After purchase, no further points are needed for staying in Shuguang City or for housing.
Furthermore, it can significantly increase Dawn City's contribution points, promoting one from an unofficial member to an outer city staff member.
Huang Zhao believed that this announcement would encourage more people to leave the city to hunt zombies and earn more points.
After all, the Chinese people have a strong attachment to owning their own house, as if it were engraved in their DNA.
Moreover, the allure of a safe place to live after the apocalypse is far greater than before.
......
Huang Zhao was reviewing other information when Ning Chuxia and Alice arrived at the control center hand in hand and stood behind him.
"Senior brother... have you already decided to head to Guangzhou?"
After Alice told her that Huang Zhao was about to go to Guangzhou, she couldn't help but come and ask Huang Zhao about it.
"Yes, I will break through to level four ability user tomorrow, and I will set off immediately after the breakthrough!"
Huang Zhao replied without hesitation that the apocalypse had been going on for ten days and he felt guilty every day in Dawn City.
He could empathize with Ning Chuxia's urge to go back.
Ning Chuxia felt a surge of warmth in her heart, but Huang Zhao's next words immediately extinguished that thought.
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