Looking at the monsters receding like the tide, Luokas/Ge Zhao's face showed both the joy of victory and the mourning of heavy losses.
But no matter what he thought in his heart, he was still very skilled and began to perform his duties as the leader of Hope City:
"Everyone, please allocate your manpower. One team will repair the tower, and the other team will collect materials from the corpses. A collective promotion ceremony will be held in a few days."
The reason why they did not repair the two city walls and only repaired the most basic tower was because Hope City had already made up its mind to make do with the tower in the past few days.
After all, although the monster tide has receded, there is no guarantee that there will not be a few hiding in the ruins somewhere in the city, so to be on the safe side, cleaning up the ruins should wait until later.
It is not a matter of life and death now, so there is no need to force children who can move into combat positions like before.
Therefore, according to the current arrangements of Hope City, children under the age of twelve, regardless of whether they are injured or not, must stay in the tower to recuperate.
However, a young boy with firm eyes, burning with unyielding fighting rage, walked up to Luokas/Ge Zhao and asked:
"Master Leader, since we don't need to work, can we hold the promotion ceremony in advance? I want to fight, like my father."
Luokas/Ge Zhao squatted down so that the other person could see his face without raising his head, and he looked at the boy with a kind face:
"No, we have just experienced a big war, and your mental state is generally not stable. You have to wait at least a few days before talking."
The boy wanted to say something else, but was finally dissuaded by Luokas/Ge Zhao. His will had always been firm and would not change because of other people's words.
The cleaning work of the tower was completed in a few days, so when it came time for collective promotion, this would be a watershed in the city-state's combat effectiveness.
During the collective promotion ceremony, only a handful of people lost control. After all, the continuous encounters these days made their mental state very unstable.
But after all, more people survive. After all, those who have persisted in this kind of doomsday for so long and can survive until now can be said to be mentally strong.
After the collective promotion ceremony was over, the ruins in the city began to be cleaned up, and the two city walls abandoned in the previous battle needed to be rebuilt.
Looking at the cleaning team gradually moving away, Luokas/Ge Zhao, who had always shown a determined expression, finally had a trace of confusion on his face.
The reason is very simple. Although Hope City has survived this monster wave, it has also paid a lot of price. There are too few people now.
And Luokas/Ge Zhao clearly knew that there was no way to sustain it for a long time with just this few people. After all, what about the intermarriage problem of the next generation?
Intermarriage between close relatives will cause instability in the bloodline, making it easier to lose control when taking potions. However, if there are only a few people, intermarriage between close relatives is inevitable.
Some of the viewers who watched Ge Zhaodu's live broadcast realized this, but Ge Zhaodu didn't care at all and directly solved the mystery to them:
"Don't worry, this is the early and middle stages of the game. You won't be faced with this problem. Just wait and see. The solution will be delivered to your door in a few days."
The team from Hope City spent a few days clearing out the second city wall. Now Hope City finally has a city wall, and people can gradually return to their houses to live in part.
At this moment, a warning bell suddenly sounded from the tower, but the frequency of the bell was not as urgent as an urgent call, but only relatively short.
This means that the sentries guarding the tower saw some strange sights on it and were not sure whether it was safe for Hope City, so they sounded the bell to summon people with enough experience to judge.
During the past few days of cleaning up the ruins, Luokas/Ge Zhao had been living in the tower, so not long after the bell rang, he came to the top floor.
When the sentry saw that it was Luokas/Ge Zhao who had arrived in person, he saluted and told what he had discovered. In fact, there was no need to say anything, just look at it with your eyes.
Luokas/Ge Zhao looked in the direction of the sentry's finger and saw a string of leaping flames in the distance, slowly approaching Hope City.
First of all, it was definitely not a monster's flame. Some monsters in the wild would indeed use fire as bait, but the fire was just a little bit, not a long string like now.
So if you see a long line of fire, there is obviously only one reason, it is a group of humans walking in a queue in the dark night.
Seeing this scene, Luokas/Ge Zhao suddenly became excited. You must know that in this doomsday, the most precious thing is the population.
"Light the brazier," Luokas/Ge Zhao ordered the sentry, and soon the flames on the top of the Hope City tower suddenly magnified several times.
In order to avoid causing panic to the city-state, Luokas/Ge Zhao directly announced this discovery to everyone. There is a human team approaching in the distance, and we need to show them the way.
After the news spread, everyone in Hope City immediately became excited, because seeing other human beings in the apocalypse made people feel a sense of joy for some reason.
The other side was obviously aware of this. After the fire at the top of the Hope City tower amplified, Luokas/Ge Zhao keenly noticed that their advance speed had accelerated a lot.
After a while, even the guards on the second city wall were finally able to see with their naked eyes another human team slowly approaching in the distance.
"They are coming!" When the guards on the city wall said this, everyone felt very excited. The population of the city-state would increase.
The team finally approached Hope City, a brand new team of refugees. When the other team saw them walking under the city wall, they also cheered excitedly.
Of course, Luokas/Ge Zhao did not lose his mind due to excitement. On the one hand, he provided food to the team, and on the other hand, he still sent people to conduct inspections.
The brief inspection was quickly over, and the team was put into Hope City. At this time, the entire city-state fell into a sea of cheers, and the sound was even louder than when they repelled the monster wave a few days ago.
Luokas/Ge Zhao seemed to be feeling happy because from this escape team, they learned that there were other cities.
This team originally established a city-state, but suffered heavy losses in the monster wave. The leader judged that they could no longer exist independently, so they had no choice but to defect to other city-states.
As a result, they were attacked by monsters on the way, causing them to deviate from the original route, but they didn't expect to find another city-state as a result.
If Hope City is willing to take them in, they don't want to continue wandering in the wilderness. After all, this is a very dangerous thing in the doomsday.
Luokas/Ge Zhao and the others are naturally willing to take in this group of refugees. What makes them even more excited is that they are not the only ones who are still surviving tenaciously in this doomsday.
