128: Chapter 128 Abnormalities in Suiyang Resettlement Center

“There’s such a thing? It seems Boss Niu has big ambitions!” Left Wen Shan exclaimed.

“Indeed! I never imagined the Council would even speak up for him; that would have been unthinkable before. Times have changed, and both you and I are a bit behind the curve,” Mayor Gong said.

“I don’t know why the Council would agree to do something like that; it’s simply unbelievable. What happened next? Since you didn’t agree, Boss Niu wouldn’t have given up on building his headquarters, right?” Left Wen Shan asked.

“He told me at the time that he planned to establish branches nationwide. I thought he was overthinking it then, but now it seems he was completely confident. Since I didn’t agree at the time, he planned to return to Binjiang City and build an underground base there,” Mayor Gong said.

“Binjiang City? Isn’t that full of zombies?” Left Wen Shan said.

“Since he said so, it seems he must have his own plans. Let’s wait and see.”

Left Wen Shan nodded.

…

Mos, Suiyang Anbu.

“Have you found it?” asked the person wearing a bright red cloak.

“Your Eminence, no, we haven’t,” the man replied.

“How can this be?” His Eminence wondered.

“I’m not sure either; it’s very strange,” the man replied.

“Go look again! Dig three feet down if you have to, but find it!” His Eminence commanded.

“Yes!” the man replied.

…

Binjiang City Underground Base.

“Xiao Lin, what’s the progress?” Oriental Chen asked.

“Commander, 573 Bee Queens that were distributed have been activated,” Xiao Lin replied.

“How many were sent out in total?” Oriental Chen asked.

“612,” Xiao Lin answered.

“What about the remaining 39?” Oriental Chen asked.

“From their locations, 7 are in Yun Du City, 16 in the Capital, 12 in the Northwest region and are currently moving. Another 4 have self-destructed,” Xiao Lin said.

“Well done. As long as an abnormality is detected, immediately initiate the self-destruct sequence,” Oriental Chen said.

“Understood, Commander.”

“Mm, open the monitoring panel,” Oriental Chen said.

“Understood, Commander.”

Soon, the large screen refreshed.

The screen displayed a massive satellite map, with the borders of China specifically marked.

Within China, hundreds of small red dots were densely distributed.

Each small red dot represented a Settlement or Military Sub-district.

“Represent the Settlements in red and the Military Regions in green,” Oriental Chen said.

“Understood, Commander, colors have been adjusted,” Xiao Lin replied.

The screen refreshed, and the map was mostly red dots, with a few scattered green dots.

From the map, it was clear that south of the Yangtze River, there were almost no Settlements remaining; all the red dots were concentrated in the north.

“Rank the Bee Queens by development level from largest to smallest, and display the list next to the map,” Oriental Chen continued, looking at the map.

The development level of a Bee Queen is directly correlated with the resources it can acquire.

Because these Bee Queens were only pre-loaded with a small amount of crystals inside their disguised launchers during deployment, their development entirely depends on them collecting materials and crystalss themselves.

To ensure the Bee Queen’s energy supply, it was set during production that the priority task is to obtain crystalss. Otherwise, once the crystals energy is depleted, the Bee Queen will be directly scrapped, and no one will be able to find it underground. Therefore, if crystalss cannot be obtained, the Bee Queen will barely develop.

As for resources, that’s simple; minerals in the soil contain all the elements needed for the Bee Queen’s development, so they are practically inexhaustible.

The only problem is crystalss.

So, under what circumstances can a Bee Queen obtain crystalss?

That is when zombies are present in the Settlement and within a certain surrounding range.

In other words, in Settlements that are under attack or have a potential risk of attack, the Bee Queen obtains a relatively large number of crystalss and develops faster. In contrast, in safer Settlements with no zombies nearby, the Bee Queen obtains very few crystalss and develops very slowly.

Therefore, the danger level of a Settlement can also be inferred from the Bee Queen’s development level.

“Understood, Commander,” Xiao Lin replied.

The screen refreshed again.

“Suiyang Anbu?”

Oriental Chen was a bit surprised to see that Suiyang Anbu was ranked first.

It was known that Jiangning Resettlement Center in Jiangning City had just experienced a zombie rat infestation. Yet, Jiangning Resettlement Center was only ranked second.

This was a bit unusual.

He had been to Suiyang Anbu before, where he had dealt with the uncultured ones.

At that time, he hadn’t noticed anything strange there.

“Xiao Lin, send an instruction to the Bee Queen at Suiyang Anbu to create some monitoring nanobots. I want to know what exactly is happening at Suiyang Anbu!” Oriental Chen commanded.

“Understood, Commander.”

…

Mos, Suiyang Anbu.

“Your Eminence, something bad has happened!” a man rushed in frantically.

“What is it?” His Eminence asked.

“All the rats we were raising are gone!” the man replied.

“What do you mean ‘gone’?” His Eminence frowned.

“They just disappeared!” the man replied.

“How could they disappear? Every cultivation chamber is built with 20-centimeter-thick reinforced concrete frames; those rats couldn’t possibly dig holes,” His Eminence disbelieved.

“They really are gone!” the man insisted.

“Come, let’s go see.” His Eminence turned and walked out.