Exchanging 20 pieces of junk for one level-one energy crystal that can be absorbed is certainly a worthwhile deal.
"The losses are indeed quite significant, but there should be ways to reduce them."
"The current shortage of energy crystals is not significant; we haven't even used up all the ones we brought back from Guangzhou."
"I knew you would be upset. Dr. Yuan also said that this is only a preliminary estimate, and further research can indeed reduce the losses."
"But we don't need to worry about all these energy crystals we've collected going to be useless, isn't that good news?"
Huang Zhao smiled and put his arm around Ning Chuxia, saying:
"Of course it counts. As expected of our Dawn City steward, he knows how to carefully manage our own resources."
Zhou Xindong stood to the side, watching the two with a smile on her face.
After last night, Ning Chuxia's estrangement had completely disappeared, and she and Zhou Xindong were like sisters.
Huang Zhao asked, "Do you also have good news to tell me?"
"Dr. Yuan's team needs to expand its manpower, but biological experts and assistants are not easy to find."
"There are many research projects now: zombie breeding, mutated beast breeding, mutated kapok tree fruit, mutated plants..."
Huang Zhao pondered for a moment and then said:
"The laboratory here in the shelter should be used to study the most critical projects. Construction in the outer city should be suspended. We can plan a research center later."
"Shanghai, where we are located, is the area with the most biology talents, but they are concentrated in other areas. Once we wipe out the zombies in Shanghai, the problem will be solved."
After saying this, Huang Zhao looked at the screen on the control panel next to him.
"How's the progress?"
"It went relatively smoothly, but there were quite a few accidental injuries caused by people not being familiar with the guns after they got them."
"However, Alice has already broken through to the fourth level, so this minor injury can be healed with almost no effort."
Huang Zhao also noticed this situation through his mental perception.
At the clinic run by Alice in the inner city, the constant stream of survivors kept her extremely busy.
The frequent flashes of white light were Alice using her restorative abilities.
While injuries would certainly affect their efficiency in hunting zombies outside the city, however...
"You have to go to the clinic for a scrape? With the strength of a level three ability user, it would have healed by now if you had arrived a few minutes later?"
In Huang Zhao's spiritual perception, he saw someone walking into the clinic while covering a wound on their arm.
Alice dared not be careless, seeing that he was seriously injured, and a white light enveloped him.
Alice then gives the other party the points they need to pay based on the amount of alien energy consumed, and an assistant will take the injured person to make the payment.
However, Huang Zhao could clearly see that the wound the man was covering was just a scratch.
Ning Chuxia covered her mouth and laughed from the side:
"There's nothing we can do about it; Alice is just so popular."
"Moreover, many members now have accumulated a lot of points but have nowhere to spend them."
"Most of the supplies can now be obtained from outside, and there is still a surplus after exchanging crystal energy every day. The points are only increasing and not decreasing."
Huang Zhao had already noticed this situation, but he didn't have a good solution.
As for the entertainment area under construction, it has also been suspended and has not yet been put into use.
If this continues, even though Dawn City possesses a safe environment and conditions that other places cannot match, the points system will still collapse.
Currently, besides crystal exchange, meat has become the largest source of points for Dawn City recycling.
The tens of thousands of points for properties in the inner city are not something that even a level three ability user can accumulate in a short time.
Huang Zhao stroked his chin and suddenly said:
What is the current ratio of metal-based and plant-based ability users in our arsenal?
AI Ellie immediately replied:
"11 Level 3 Metal-type Ability Users, 55 Level 2 Users, and 17 others."
"There are 7 Level 3 plant-type ability users, 63 Level 2 users, and 13 Level 1 users."
Huang Zhao asked this question suddenly because he was trying to find a way to speed up the recovery of points held by the members of Dawn City.
High-end customized weapons and equipment, and uniquely flavored post-apocalyptic mutated vegetables—these are all excellent local specialties.
Unfortunately, the effects of cultivating edible mutant beasts cannot be seen in a short time; otherwise, this would be the real killer weapon for reaping points.
However, mutated plants can be induced to grow using supernatural abilities, and they are almost indistinguishable from normally growing plants.
"Prioritize all metal-type and plant-type ability users and help them break through their ability levels as soon as possible."
Then Huang Zhao looked at Zhou Xindong and said:
"You know what to do next, right?"
Zhou Xindong laughed and said, "Received, my king!"
In fact, besides the method Huang Zhao mentioned of recovering points through the development of post-apocalyptic superhumans, Zhou Xindong had many other countermeasures.
The simplest approach is naturally to sell the properties in Dawn City.
She has already hinted that accommodations within the city walls of Dawn City will not be provided free of charge in the future.
After Dawn City clears out a certain number of zombies outside the city, many members will need to go outside the city to find accommodation.
This announcement immediately put many members of Dawn City on edge.
Moving out of the city to live? How will the water and electricity be guaranteed? And what about the unexpected events that could happen at any time?
Even if all the zombies are cleared out, what if some escaped?
What if there are survivors from other places?
No one can guarantee their safety.
No survivor who had lived in Dawn City wanted to live like that for even a single day.
They all started accumulating their points, not daring to waste them carelessly.
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