325: Chapter 325 The first batch of personnel should be arriving soon.

"Is this the... what city you mentioned?" en own asked.

"Dawn City," Zhao Hu said. "It's not finished yet; it's only the sixth day."

en own turned his head to glance at Zhao Hu.

"The sixth day?"

"Yes. Six days ago, this was just an empty space, exactly like the wilderness outside our Cang City—there was nothing at all."

The car drove into the edge of the construction area.

en own rolled down the window—Zhao Hu had taught him how to do it.

The sound reached him first.

The roar of engines, the hiss of hydraulic pumps, the clanging of metal components colliding, the gurgling of concrete mixers, and the shouting of people; all the sounds blended together and poured into the car window, making en own's ears ring for a moment.

Then came the smell.

The scent of burning diesel, the charred smell of cutting metal, the lime scent of concrete, and the sweet fragrance of Spiritual Qi that always permeated the plateau—these smells mixed together, forming an odor that en own had never smelled before.

The car drove slowly along the temporary road at the edge of the construction zone.

en own looked out the window.

An Engineering Mecha was hoisting a huge wall panel.

The wall panel was six meters long and three meters wide, suspended in mid-air by steel cables. The mecha's hydraulic clamps supported the bottom of the panel as it was slowly moved toward a building under construction.

Another mecha was installing roof panels on a nearby building.

A mechanical arm over ten meters high extended, precisely placing a large translucent panel onto the frame, and then tightened the connecting bolts with its mechanical hand.

On the ground, hundreds of transport trucks were lined up, waiting to unload.

The truck beds were filled with various shapes of building components, each sprayed with a black serial number.

Workers in orange safety suits and hard hats moved between the vehicles and machinery.

Some were directing cranes, some were welding, and some were driving stakes into the newly poured ground.

en own watched for a long time.

He was a Fourth-Stage Grandmaster. In Cang City, he was the person at the very top.

He had seen the process of building Cang City—that was in his great-grandfather's generation. It relied entirely on manual labor, stacking stone by stone, taking thirty years to complete the walls of Cang City.

Six days.

They built all of this in six days.

"Zhao Hu."

"Yes."

"How long did it take to build the walls of Cang City?"

Zhao Hu thought for a moment. "According to the elders, thirty years."

en own didn't say anything more.

He leaned his head against the window frame, watching those Engineering Mecha, over ten meters tall, moving back and forth through the construction site. Behind them were rows of residential buildings that had already been topped out, while in front were skeletons and scaffolding still under construction.

Thirty years and six days.

The car continued to drive further in.

The further they went, the denser and more complete the buildings became.

The outer areas were still steel frames, but in the middle zone, finished buildings with exterior wall panels and windows could already be seen.

Then they entered the Cultivation Zone.

It was different from the residential area outside.

The buildings in the Cultivation Zone were shorter but occupied a larger area.

Each Cultivation Field was an open space covered by a massive transparent roof. From the outside, one could see the ground inside divided into squares.

People were already inside.

Dozens of people in training uniforms sat cross-legged on the floor of the Cultivation Field, eyes closed, motionless.

en own could tell at a glance—they were Cultivating.

He could feel the Spiritual Qi fluctuations emanating from inside the Cultivation Field.

It was unnaturally thick.

He sent out his Divine Sense to probe, and the result left him stunned.

The concentration of Spiritual Qi inside the Cultivation Field was about three times that of the outside.

And the outside was already at least ten times more concentrated than Cang City.

In other words, these people were Cultivating in an environment where the Spiritual Qi concentration was thirty times that of Cang City.

The effect of a Cang City Martial Artist Cultivating for an entire day could be achieved here in just one hour.

en own pulled his head back into the car.

Zhao Hu glanced at him. "City Lord?"

en own leaned back against the seat, looking at the car's ceiling.

After a long while, he said one thing.

"Can our people from Cang City come here to Cultivate as well?"

Day seven.

The first batch of three hundred residential buildings in the Living Zone were all topped out.

The interior decoration followed a minimalist route—walls painted white, floors finished with self-leveling cement, and each apartment having its own bathroom and kitchen hookups.

There was no furniture yet, but beds, tables, chairs, and storage cabinets would be delivered uniformly the day before move-in.

Water and electricity were connected.

Dawn City's power supply System used Crystal Core Energy Conversion Devices—crystal cores transported from the Zombie World were converted into electricity in the devices and delivered to every building through underground cables.

The water supply System was even simpler—there was an underground river on the plateau. The Engineering Corps had drilled eight deep wells, the pump station was built on the northern edge of the city, and after purification, water was sent to various areas through pipes.

Day eight.

The three Experimental Buildings in the Research Zone were all completed.

Equipment began to move in. Precision instruments transported from the Main World—spectrum analyzers, Supercomputing Terminals, material analysis equipment, and Spiritual Power Detection Equipment—were unloaded box by box from the transport trucks and installed one by one by technicians according to a checklist.

The Skyfall Steel Processing Workshop was built at the easternmost end of the Research Zone, right next to the road leading to the Victory Pit.

The workshop was equipped with ten specialized skyfall steel cutting machines and eight forging furnaces, all powered by crystal cores.

The first batch of skyfall steel raw Ore transported from the Victory Pit was already piled in the open-air warehouse outside the workshop.

The greyish-black Ore blocks were stacked like small mountains, glinting with a dull metallic luster in the sunlight.

Day nine.

Fifty additional Cultivation Fields were added to the Cultivation Zone, bringing the total to one hundred and fifty.

Twenty of them were "Special Breakthrough Rooms"—sealed and soundproofed, with the spiritual power shielding layer thickened to three layers to prevent the spiritual power fluctuations during a Cultivator's Breakthrough from affecting the surroundings.

Another ten were "Beast Taming Training Grounds"—occupying three times the area of a normal Cultivation Field, with no roof and surrounded by a five-meter-high skyfall steel alloy wall.

These were for coordinated training between Martial Artists and Yao Beasts after beast taming.

Chen Rong had already tried one of the Beast Taming Training Grounds.

He was doing basic coordination with Xiang in the training ground—passing commands through a Soul link, having Xiang perform movements like moving, attacking, defending, and dodging.

Xiang's reaction speed was faster than he had anticipated.

Many people gathered outside the training ground to watch.

It was the first time the people at the base had seen someone directing a Fourth-Order Monster Beast to perform tactical maneuvers.

Day ten.

Su Mingyuan stood at the highest point of Dawn City's central passage—a temporarily built Observation Platform.

Below him was a panoramic view of Dawn City.

Ten days ago, this was an empty plateau covered in dark red moss.

Now, the outline of a city was clearly spread out before him.

In the center was the Cultivation Zone—one hundred and fifty Cultivation Fields arranged in a neat phalanx, their transparent roof panels sparkling in the sunlight.

Ten Beast Taming Training Grounds were distributed on the outskirts of the Cultivation Zone, their five-meter-high walls enclosing plots of open ground.

To the east of the Cultivation Zone was the Research Zone—three six-story Experimental Buildings, plus the Skyfall Steel Processing Workshop and several auxiliary buildings, occupying an area of about ten square kilometers.

Surrounding the Cultivation Zone and Research Zone was the ring-shaped Living Zone—three hundred twenty-story residential buildings, along with a cafeteria, medical center, logistics warehouse, and communication center, arranged along three ring roads.

The outermost layer consisted of defensive facilities—automated sentry posts, underground missile silos, and radar stations.

These were replicated from the Forward Base's defense System, and installation only took two days.

The road network was already laid out.

The main roads had eight lanes, the branch roads had four, and the streetlights were all lit. The underground pipe network—cables, water pipes, and communication fibers—was all in place.

Su Mingyuan looked down from the Observation Platform and could see vehicles already running on the main roads.

Transport trucks, command vehicles, engineering vehicles, and several civilian buses transported from the Main World—those were the shuttle buses prepared for the first batch of personnel to move in.

He glanced at his watch.

Afternoon, two o'clock.

The first batch of personnel should be arriving soon.