Intensive work is being carried out in Fallen City, with everyone working with full vigor. Under the leadership of several squad leaders, they are engaged in the city's renovation. At this moment, they all realize that they are the first wave of survivors accepted by Lu Heng, which means they will be the initial residents and builders of this city.
With this understanding, coupled with the ample food Lu Heng distributes daily, the progress is remarkably fast. Fallen City undergoes visible changes every day.
As a week draws to a close, Lu Heng stands on the city wall, surveying the city's layout using a drone.
Solar panels are installed on the roofs of every house, connected to the battery packs mounted on each building's rooftop. Lu Heng has no intention of selling power like other bases. This power, like the houses, will be provided to everyone for free trial. The condition is that they must kill zombies outside and pay the required amount of crystals per person daily.
In reality, the number of crystals Lu Heng demands is not high. It's just that these people are too weak. Perhaps before, they couldn't obtain enough food and other supplies, so their primary focus when venturing out was searching for resources, and killing zombies was something they had to do only when they encountered them during their resource hunts.
But the situation is entirely different now. They only need to go out and kill zombies. Once they obtain enough crystals, they can get all sorts of desired supplies from Lu Heng.
Lu Heng arranged for electronic screens to be installed in the task hall. Everything is transparent, allowing them to clearly see the points corresponding to each resource, and the crystal grades and quantities corresponding to the points are also readily visible to everyone.
For the current level of these people, Lu Heng has only posted a very limited number of tasks on the screen. Even so, it is estimated that very few will be able to complete them. To accomplish these tasks, they will need to spontaneously form squads, as it is impossible for them to complete these tasks alone at their current levels.
The tasks marked by Lu Heng are also simple, such as: searching for some top-secret documents in certain medical institutions or original control areas.
Lu Heng doesn't know how the zombie virus actually appeared, and currently, various military bases have not disclosed any useful information. This is why Lu Heng decided to encourage people to kill zombies while also searching for the reasons behind the zombie outbreak.
"Have someone hang this on the outer city gate," Lu Heng said, pointing to a large iron plate that suddenly appeared on the city wall.
This iron plate is very smooth, with nothing on it. The few people accompanying Lu Heng exchanged glances. One of them finally asked, "City Lord Lu, there's nothing written on it. What's the point of hanging it on the city gate?"
After a few days of interaction, someone had called Lu Heng this way a few times. Seeing that Lu Heng didn't object, the title spread, and everyone started calling Lu Heng "City Lord Lu."
In fact, this is somewhat related to the booklet Lu Heng distributed. The booklet, containing everyone's information, always reminds people who have been influenced by movies and TV shows for years of some ancient form of clearance documents.
"Yes, just hang it up like this. From now on, this place will no longer be called Fallen City, but will be renamed Nameless."
Therefore, since it has no name, there's no need to specifically write a few words. Hanging a blank board is more eye-catching.
Lu Heng also made arrangements above the city wall. Cameras are installed at intervals, all equipped with night vision capabilities, so there's no need to worry about not capturing the situation outside at night.
All images are transmitted to a room above the city gate. A small monitoring room has been set up inside, with several screens clearly displaying the surrounding situation. This way, Lu Heng only needs to assign a small number of people to patrol the city walls. If the monitoring room detects any anomalies outside, they can dispatch people to converge on the area.
Those responsible for patrolling the city walls are people specifically chosen by Lu Heng. Before the apocalypse, some were retired soldiers, and some were active police officers. They had all handled firearms before, and these individuals are more reliable than ordinary people in terms of responsibility and justice, as they have received good disciplinary education.
Perhaps some of them have never used the heavy weapons on the city walls, but with the guidance of some retired soldiers, they quickly became familiar with how to use these weapons.
Lu Heng specifically formed a special team for these people. These individuals will henceforth be the law enforcement officers within the city. With these people maintaining order within the city, Lu Heng can allow the mutated animals to rest.
However, these mutated animals are not completely resting and doing nothing. Lu Heng has selected those with long-range attack capabilities. They are assigned in pairs of two, responsible for patrolling the city walls in rotation.
"City Lord Lu, there are several vehicles approaching the city gate," someone in the monitoring room informed Lu Heng via walkie-talkie.
"Understood," Lu Heng replied, walking to the top of the city gate and looking down at the approaching vehicles.
It seems that a barbican needs to be built outside. Once the city's population increases, the zombies will be attracted by the scent of humans. A single city gate will not be convenient for managing incoming and outgoing vehicles.
After a few people cleared the nearby zombies using machine guns mounted near the city gate, the vehicles were allowed into the city.
Lu Heng descended to the city gate and looked at the people getting out of the vehicles.
It turned out to be soldiers from the base where he used to live, along with Leng Tian and his group.
"Hahaha, Mr. Lu seems determined to develop this place. It's only natural for the capable not to bow to other forces," Leng Tian said with a smile, looking around at the busy people.
In this era where strength is paramount, Lu Heng's power far surpassed that of other ability users. He knew back then that Lu Heng would definitely not stay in the base for long.
In Leng Tian's opinion, if Lu Heng had been ruthless enough, he might have even seized that base for himself.
However, he didn't expect Lu Heng to ultimately flatten the original forces of Fallen City and claim it for himself.
"It was a coincidence. I found this place displeasing at the time and cleared it out incidentally. But it can't always be empty; we still need to accept some survivors."
"Do you still need people here?" Leng Tian suddenly leaned closer to Lu Heng and said seriously.
Lu Heng raised an eyebrow and smiled at Leng Tian, "You want to come over?"
Leng Tian nodded.
"How many people do you have now?"
"About five hundred people, but I only accepted ability users of Tier Five. I didn't take anyone weaker."
Lu Heng watched a few people walk by carrying iron frames. The group he had just accepted were not very strong, and they all brought many burdens. However, those who are sentimental and have families often have many concerns, and their families are the weaknesses of those people.
Lu Heng provided them with safe housing, which was also a way to control these people through their families, preventing them from harboring any disloyalty.
However, if they were all unburdened ability users, managing them would be relatively more troublesome.