Published: February 9, 2025
The plan of the tree people was somewhat confirmed by Mina.
Although Mina didn't know much, the matter concerned their future and fate, so she had inquired in detail with those who contacted her before, which provided Ye Zhongming with additional information from another angle.
This allowed Ye Zhongming to lower most of his guard.
The survival rules of the apocalypse dictated that there were no completely good people; the slight badness exhibited by the tree people made it easier for Ye Zhongming to trust them.
What needed to be done now was to gradually bring the equipment down from the laboratory. Ye Zhongming knew that after this transport was completed, there were still many things to do before the feast day arrived.
To transport the equipment from the laboratory through the passage, all these devices needed to be gathered together and moved to a place near the city's edge, which was no small project.
First, the width and slope of the passage from the laboratory to the underground city had to be expanded, so that the equipment could be transported down smoothly. Then, the width of the transport route would need to be checked, and any impassable areas would have to be excavated. Next, new passages would have to be dug all the way to the city’s edge; even if they couldn't reach the outskirts, they needed to get as close as possible.
This was a project that, while not grand, was definitely on a considerable scale.
Fortunately, Ye Zhongming now had quite a few new helpers.
The forces that the tree people had painstakingly united became free labor for him.
The process of things would naturally not go smoothly, but with Ye Zhongming's strength and the reputation of having taken down the Black Cloud Team, combined with the promises and assurances from the tree people, the evolvers here gradually calmed down.
Faced with the deadlock that was Linhai, it wasn't even a matter of asking these survivors to do some physical work; even if asked to fight, they would be willing. Seeking survival among death was their only way out.
Their previous dissatisfaction stemmed from changing the commander of this plan; at such a crucial time before the feast day, this was a very taboo issue.
However, after learning a bit about Ye Zhongming, those worries were set aside. Of course, to put their minds at ease, Ye Zhongming revealed his identity as the boss of a significant force and assured them that there were people outside ready to support them.
Moreover, when Ye Zhongming easily combined some undesirable low-grade materials and ordinary tools into gray-level shovels, these people were even more impressed, looking at him with shining eyes.
There was no way around it; craftsmen and apothecaries in Linhai had all been recruited by Lin Xing, and except for a few colorful weapons obtained through the roulette from other forces, they had to endure Lin Xing’s exploitation at other times. Even so, a large number of people had now reached the three-star or even four-star evolution level, yet only possessed one piece of gray equipment, and some didn’t even have that!
A powerful, boss-level craftsman who had support teams outside was absolutely someone any apocalypse survivor would want to curry favor with.
Thus, on the first day when the initial version of the plan was completed and everyone started working, Ye Zhongming was directly approached by at least a dozen female survivors, some of the most daring even running up to him, pulling off their clothes to reveal their fair bodies, claiming it was to test Ye Zhongming's goods. They said that with just one piece of gray-level equipment, they could spend the night with him; with one white equipment, they could serve him for a year!
This was not to mention those who cast flirtatious glances his way...
Even with two lifetimes of experience, Ye Zhongming was quite unaccustomed to such situations. He had no choice but to maintain a cold expression all day, and when confronted with those who still persisted, he would switch to a beast-like sneer, claiming he was a pervert who played with and killed; only then did some women back off.