57: Chapter 57 Huangfeng County

Following this, Li Changqing moved to forcibly subdue four small nearby settlements, bringing the total population to over 1,500 people.

After consolidating all personnel, vehicles, and Materials, the several settlements were plunged into a bustling, feverish state of activity.

Li Changqing divided the group into several teams: Captain Xia Dong led a batch of strong and robust Evolvers, responsible for clearing the small number of zombies and mutated beasts around the site of the new city, and he temporarily assigned Little Black to his team.

At the same time, he dispatched the majority of the Evolvers to use vehicles to transport construction Materials like steel bars, cement, and bricks from the ruined towns, while also searching for usable mechanized equipment. The elderly, weak, women, and children were responsible for processing food and sewing clothes.

Li Changqing was the busiest during this period. Every day, he would either go to survey the terrain around the construction site to plan the city's layout, or go to help everyone clear out mutated beasts. After careful consideration, he decided to first build a smaller inner city, and only after things had stabilized would he slowly build the outer city.

Under Li Changqing's leadership, the construction of the inner city progressed rapidly.

Two months later, a miniature city wall five miles long and three miles wide rose from the ground.

The city wall was cast from concrete and crushed steel bars, about five meters high. The entire wall was a gray-green color with a pitted and uneven surface.

Inside the city walls, houses built of brick, gravel, reinforced concrete, and wood were arranged neatly. The streets were spacious and clean, and in the central square, there was a well one hundred meters deep from which clear water gushed out continuously.

In the Changqing City conference hall, more than a dozen Evolvers above Rank 4 took their seats according to their status and position.

As the number one combat force under Li Changqing, Captain Xia Dong stood up to report: "City Lord, as of October 1st, our inner city construction is basically complete."

"Currently, there are 2,130 people in the city, of which 730 are Evolvers, and 16 Evolvers have reached Rank 4 or above."

"In terms of firearms, we have 256 Beretta 92F pistols, 68 AK-style assault rifles, 30 AK-12 assault rifles, 16 Remington M880 machine guns, and 3 Barrett M108 sniper rifles."

"In terms of supernatural weapons, we have three Rank 1 Low Grade supernatural weapons and one Rank 1 Medium Grade supernatural weapon."

"As of now, the city warehouse has about 30 tons of food collected from various searches, which can support the current population for one month."

After listening to Captain Xia Dong's report, Li Changqing began to deploy the plans for the next phase. During these two months, Li Changqing had reviewed a large amount of data about this world and had gained a certain understanding of every aspect of it.

"Captain Xia Dong, Iron Weld."

"Subordinate is here." Captain Xia Dong and Iron Weld replied immediately, standing straight.

"For the next month, I want you to organize and establish the City Guard. Captain Xia Dong will serve as the Commander, and Iron Weld will serve as the Deputy Commander."

"The initial number is set at 200 people, all selected from the Evolvers. Ten people will form a small squad, fifty people will form a medium squad, and we will build four medium squads first. They will be mainly responsible for the city's defense and security."

"In addition, starting from tomorrow, Changqing City will no longer expand its population arbitrarily. We will only recruit Evolvers and special talents. Every person who joins Changqing City must undergo strict screening."

"Yes, City Lord."

Li Changqing's move was also to avoid some unnecessary trouble in advance. This world was not simple. It had been less than fifteen years since the path of evolution opened, and among humans alone, more than thirty Rank 2 creatures comparable to the Foundation Establishment Stage had already been born.

During these two months of building the city here, they might have already been noticed by some larger forces within a radius of hundreds of miles. He needed to be cautious in his actions in this world.

"Night Owl."

"Subordinate is here."

"I appoint you as the Commander of the Intelligence Department. First, select fifty people from the Evolvers to train directly under your jurisdiction. You need to focus on doing the following things next."

"First, external intelligence gathering: form reconnaissance squads to explore the areas outside the city. I will grant you a Psychic Dog to assist you."

"The goal is to search for potential resource points within two hundred miles, including weapons, food, medicine, fuel, and construction Materials, as well as to observe the movements of other survivor groups or threatening forces. All intelligence must be objective, timely, and accurate."

"Second is to search for the specific location where the Yuexi Provincial Military Region military base fell at the beginning of the apocalypse. After confirming the location, report it immediately."

"Because the Yuexi Provincial Military Region was close to the Ten Thousand Mountains, it was breached by natural disasters and a large number of mutated beasts at the beginning of the apocalypse. According to intelligence, before the troops evacuated, there were still many modern weapons in the base that were not taken away."

"Since the world's surface area increased tenfold in the first ten years of the apocalypse and only gradually stopped changing until now, buildings in cities are easier to find, but locations in mountain villages are extremely difficult to search for."

"Third is to monitor and pay attention to rumors, abnormal emotional fluctuations, and potential unstable factors within the city."

"Yes, City Lord."

"Sniper Leader You Tong."

"Subordinate is here."

"Your task is to select ten Evolvers with shooting talent to train and organize an elite-level sniper team."

"Yes, City Lord."

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After the meeting, Li Changqing opened the myriad worlds disk from his room in the newly built City Lord's Mansion and returned to Xuanling Lake.

After returning to Xuanling Lake, Li Changqing had two things to do. The first was that he was about to go to the Huangfeng Market in Huangfeng Prefecture with Clan Leader Li Huaming to purchase supplies for the Family.

At this time, it was about two months until the outbreak of the beast tide. Originally, according to the plan, Li Xuanji and Clan Leader Li Huaming were supposed to go to Huangfeng Prefecture.

However, because of the few two-leaf purple lingzhi that Li Changqing had brought out, the other three Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivators of the Li Family were currently utilizing the purple lingzhi to try and rush a Breakthrough of their current Realm, so this task fell on Li Changqing and Clan Leader Li Huaming.

Clan Leader Li Huaming had just achieved Foundation Establishment not long ago, so he took Li Changqing with him to Huangfeng Prefecture.

The second thing was to slowly transform Xuanling Island into four clearly defined areas: one was a Spirit Beast farm specifically for raising various Spirit Beasts, one was a spiritual field and medicinal garden area for planting Spirit Medicine, Spiritual Plant, spiritual flowers, and spiritual rice, one was an area for large-scale Martial Artist training in the future, and another was a residential and living area.

Li Changqing entrusted Li Wencheng to lead the Martial Artists to be responsible for the construction of this.

Two days later, before the morning mist on the Qingfeng Mountain range had completely dissipated, a cyan flying boat about nine zhang long quietly rose from the Family's takeoff and landing pad on the mountain peak. Its entire body shimmered with a pale cyan light, and the two characters "Cloud-breaking" were engraved on the hull.

Qingfeng Mountain was 66,000 li away from the city of Huangfeng Prefecture, and at the flying speed of the cloud-breaking boat, it would take about five to six days.

Li Changqing and Clan Leader Li Huaming stood on the cloud-breaking boat, flying smoothly for six days. When their gaze crossed the last mountain pass, a majestic city rushed into their field of vision like a crouching giant beast.

That was the "Huangfeng Prefecture City," which most Cultivators preferred to call the Huangfeng Market.

The Huangfeng Market was a medium-sized immortal cultivation market jointly built by the three major Golden Core Stage forces in Huangfeng Prefecture.

The reason the three Golden Core Stage forces cooperated to build the market was for their mutual benefit.

Because only by reaching the scale of a medium-sized market could they attract some large chambers of commerce or forces to settle in the market, thereby driving the surrounding Cultivators and promoting the healthy development of the market.

And the minimum standard for a medium-sized market was that the number of resident Cultivators in the market reached over ten thousand, and there were three Cultivators with Golden Core Stage cultivation or above stationed in the market year-round.