"Lao Li, I'm completely useless."

Yan Jin's face was full of depression. He was a high-level military leader and a third-level peak fire-type superpower. Now his legs were all gone, and he couldn't even walk. All his ambitions were empty.

"Don't say that, Xibu City needs you."

Li Ba comforted him kindly. The battle against the corpse tide was too tragic. Many of his surviving employees were also disabled. For example, Yuan Dong lost his left hand. Hua Wenhao's back was burned by venom. Zhao Hongyun's right arm was torn off by zombies. Liang Jing's entire piece of flesh and blood on his right chest was torn apart, losing the woman's most proud half. Jin Yingyu's face and ears were disfigured, and so on.

He can feel the depression of his disabled employees these days, and he also understands the mood of Yan Jin, Wang Feng and Geng Wensheng.

"No matter how much we make, it is worth it."

Wang Feng spoke. His left arm was torn apart by a zombie and now he has become a one-armed man. However, his mental state is much better than Yan Jin, and he speaks very calmly.

"Old Wang is right, let's discuss the important matter."

Li Ba said this. Afterwards, Zhou Yan directly handed over the list of the number of crystal nuclei types harvested in this war, and each person got one.

There is no falsehood on this list. In this war, the military's losses were even heavier than the Harvest Trading Company. The resources received by thousands of soldiers with their lives were not despicable, and Li Ba would not be so despicable, and secretly embezzled and occupied.

Even if he wants to take the big head, he will put it on the table. Those shameful means will be disdainful.

After reading it, Wang Feng and others nodded. The number of crystal cores listed in detail on the list was more than they thought. Therefore, it can be judged that Fengshou Trading Company did not do any tricks.

"Take out some of the low-level crystal cores to compensate the forces participating in the war."

Wang Feng looked directly at Li Ba and slowly spoke: "All the crystal cores left, Lao Li, all of them will be assigned to you. Our military only has two requirements to ensure that the crystal core resources needed for Zheng Jun and Han Xue to break through to level 4. Also, give each surviving soldier in the military a chance to evolve, and give priority to the arrangements."

In the battle to resist the corpse tide, the two military Evolutionary Brigades were almost completely injured and killed. Now, their biggest wish is to reorganize the Evolutionary Brigade. Therefore, they would rather give up the huge number of crystal core resources than make this request to Li Ba.

"Okay, I will arrange for all active military personnel to receive evolutionary pharmacy injections in batches. All of them will be completed within half a year."

Li Ba nodded and agreed, turned his eyes to Zheng Jun, and said, "The crystal core resources you and Han Xue need to break through level 3 will also be solved by our Fengcheng Trading Company."

Zheng Jun nodded. A hint of joy flashed in his eyes.

"Lao Li, as for the remaining surviving combatants, each of them has an evolution opportunity... I hope that after these survivors enter the official role after they enter the awakening and evolution, they can enter the official role." Geng Wensheng spoke. His face was intertwined with scars and an eye mask, which looked very ferocious and terrifying.

"Good evolutionary personnel must be in the hands of the official. Otherwise, once they gather, it will bring hidden dangers to the peace and order of Xibu City."

Wang Feng also agreed. Even Yan Jin, who had been silent, expressed his consent at this moment.

Their meaning of Li Ba is very clear. The official does not represent the military. If all these survivors who awaken evolutionary abilities are allowed to join the military, Wang Feng and the other two expected that Li Ba would not agree. Therefore, they retreated and asked to join the official. The official management committee will govern this team of unformed evolutionists.

Li Ba smiled and said only: "The evolutionary potion they need is exclusively provided by my Fengcheng Trading Company."

Without further ado, just stop. Fengcheng Trading Company spent such a huge amount of manpower and material resources, and in the end, Li Ba refused to do so.

Although he is the leader of the management committee now, who can know the future situation? The kingly way is to hold the armed forces in the hands of his own business.

Wang Feng and the other two looked at each other, and then proposed to let Li Ba officially serve as the chairman of the Xibu Management Committee. They made concessions, hoping that this would make Li Ba change his mind and make every effort to strengthen Xibu's official power, rather than the Harvest Business Company that Li Ba had privately affiliated.

Because Fengshou Commercial Bank's foundation is already strong enough, if it continues to develop like this, it will replace the official. This situation is something they do not want to see.

"Let's do this. When it comes to the specific implementation stage, the official can send personnel to the headquarters of Fengshou Trading Company and give those awakened personnel the right to choose. They are willing to join the official, but I will not stop them. Similarly, if they are willing to join the Fengshou Trading Company, the official must respect their wishes."

Li Ba also made concessions. This is his bottom line, allowing those awakened people to choose for themselves.

"good."

Wang Feng nodded. He saw that this was the biggest concession that Li Ba could make, so he no longer insisted and agreed with Li Ba's proposal.

That night, Li Ba met Zhao Min in the Botanical Garden villa. The latter brought him to stay overnight. According to Li Ba's idea and combined with his own design, he created the construction map of Xibu New City.

The drawings unfolded, and a bird's-eye view of a magnificent city appeared in front of Li Ba.

"... With the inner city as the coordinate, it extends westward until it borders the provincial highway, covering 200,000 acres of nearby land. Nine city walls are built in the middle, connected to the north and south, with distinct ranks. A large number of mutant plants can be planted around the city walls as needed, plus garrison guards. With the strong defense of these nine-linked city walls and the weakening of mutant plants, even if a tide of millions of corpses attacks, you can't get close to the inner city."

Zhao Min explained in detail. Li Ba kept nodding after hearing this. He read it right. From the design and perfect layout of this drawing, it can be proved that Zhao Min is not only a garden designer, but also an outstanding talent who is well versed in architecture.

As Zhao Min said, after the new city is built, it will be enough to prevent the invasion of millions of corpses after it is built.

Half an hour later.

Li Ba was very satisfied after reading the drawings. He asked Zhao Min: "If you were asked to serve as the commander-in-chief of the construction of the new city, how long would it take for you to complete the construction."

Zhao Min thought about it and said, "If the materials are complete, give me 10,000 people and ensure the completion in one year."

“It’s too long”

Li Ba shook his head, thought for a while, and asked Zhao Min again: "I have prepared all the building materials for you, and in addition, I will give you 40,000 people. Do you have the confidence to complete the construction in three months?"

Zhao Min pushed his glasses and said loudly: "Please ensure that the task is completed. If it is delayed for a day, come and see you."

After hearing this, Li Ba showed a satisfied smile on his face.

the next day.

Li Ba made an announcement as the chairman of the Management Committee and mobilized the whole city. The content of the announcement was just a few simple sentences, "We need to build the strongest city wall, we need a home where we live and work in peace and contentment. All of this requires us to work together to create with our hands to build a Xibu New City that belongs to us."

As soon as the announcement was released, it immediately attracted response from tens of thousands of residents in the city. Men, women, young and old, they began to flock to the official temporary call-up site to sign up to establish a new city.

There are too many people who died. They need a safe haven. Compared to facing those hideous zombies, what is the point of labor?

What's more, the official does not requisition labor for free. In addition to three meals a day, there is also wages to get.

With the enthusiastic response of the residents in the city, in just half a day, 40,000 laborers were recruited and prepared. A vigorous construction movement began to take place.

At the same time, Li Ba sent an evolution team of 30 people. This team has gathered all the evolutionists left by the official and Fengcheng Trading Company, led by Shi Tou and Feng Xiaoyang to search for supplies in Liyang County.

The tide of corpse came from Liyang County, and zombies almost emerged in the city, and even groups of corpses from nearby towns were dispatched. After being destroyed, they were scattered around the provincial highway. Therefore, there were no large-scale groups of corpses in Liyang County. There were a large number of daily necessities in the county, which could definitely solve the urgent needs of Xibu City.

Of course, Xibu City is not short of food. Nowadays, what is scarce are oil and various building materials. Liyang County is not small, and the amount of various types of materials is absolutely huge. In addition, there is a private cement factory nearby, which is enough to solve the various daily necessities that Xibu City lacks, as well as the materials needed to build the city.

On the other hand, Li Ba was eager to send an evolution team and gave them an important task, which was to collect jade, the more the better.

After experiencing the tide of corpse, the stone trough spiritual spring in the bracelet space was extremely consumed. Now, Li Ba's earlier inventory of jade has been used up, and only a shallow layer of spiritual spring in the stone trough is left.

After the establishment of the new city, he needed to plant a large number of mutant plants, and the demand for spiritual springs was huge and unimaginable. Therefore, he had to seize the time and collect enough jade to implement the planned plan. It will not be continued.

ps: The second update...

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