One thousand six hundred kilometers north from Zhanzhou Port is the Langya City base located in Fengwei Mountain, Shashi, Dongshan Province.
In the base council hall, Lang Hua was holding two summonses in his hands.
The first message was an invitation, which contained only one sentence: "On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, at the Qinchuan Base in Gansu Province, we sincerely invite the Lord of Langya City to attend a meeting to discuss the clan's plans."
The second one was a briefing compiled by Fu Lianhe of the Ministry of Information. The content roughly stated that the Guangdong Province's Hong Kong troops had repelled the beast tide and had made some gains in the battle for Jiaorong cores. However, the number, grade and quality of the cores obtained were The purpose is unknown.
When these two pieces of news were received, a short meeting had just been held in Langya City. When people saw the deputy city lord closing his eyes and thinking after reading the message, they closed the door and quietly left.
Lang Hua is indeed thinking, to be precise, he is recalling and comparing information from the past and present lives.
The first thing is nothing. It should be said that Lang Yacheng's invitation to participate in the meeting was already within Lang Hua's expectation.
Looking back on his previous life, Lang Hua remembered that such a meeting was held at the beginning of the second year of the end of the world. In the name of the coalition government, major base lords in the East Asian theater were invited. As for the other big state bases, they participated in the meeting through remote video.
Apart from this invitation, everyone can see the details of this meeting on the public channel of the FS community, so it is not a secret. The global conference in the previous life focused on discussing the origin and development of this disaster as well as the response measures that the human race should take. Lang Hua glanced at the webpage a few times not long ago, but didn't find anything different from his previous life.
Except for one thing, no one invited Langya City in the previous life.
Of course, this sentence is a false proposition. Because at this time, Langya City was still a black-hearted base where Chao Sandao was dominating. There are only 800 privately built small and medium-sized shelters in the country, so naturally they will not be noticed by many big shots.
The reason why Langya City was invited to the list was only because of its reputation during the previous Black Corpse Siege. Lang Hua had been planning for several months, and eight thousand people had shed their blood. With all their efforts, they could only earn this ticket for Langya City, nothing more.
Otherwise, a "mud-legged" base like Langya City, which has no military, political or commercial influence, has poor equipment and a small population. It is estimated that no one will pay attention to it if it is quietly destroyed one day, let alone have the opportunity to participate in a battle that can have an impact. An international conference on the pattern of the end of the world.
As for the second thing, it involves the tide of black beasts.
From the perspective of a person from the future, Lang Hua knew that the more than ten thousand black beasts appearing along the coast of the port city were just the tip of the iceberg. The real beast tide will come sooner or later, but it is not yet.
In his previous life, Lang Hua didn't know what was happening along the coast of the port city 1,600 kilometers away.
He had not yet joined the army at that time, but the beast disaster became more and more serious in the third year of the end of the world. Lang Hua heard people talk about it when he went out to fight with the army. As early as the beginning of the second year of the end of the world, the Gangcheng Base had issued a solemn warning to all parts of the world to be vigilant. Black beasts are causing chaos.
However, the coalition government at that time was being troubled by the "Human Corpse War" that was spreading around the world. The matter was temporarily suppressed and ignored, and therefore gradually disappeared.
Thinking about it now, maybe this can be an opportunity for Lang Hua to make a move in the plate.
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Many people from the base management committee have been away from the city recently, so the four-story building of the city lord's mansion is often as empty and silent as it is now.
Lang Hua propped up his arms and leaned sideways on the Grand Master's chair in the parliament hall. His legs were shaking, and his eyes were almost narrowed into two thin lines.
Before Yang Bensheng led the team out of the city, there was a secret conversation between the two of them.
The reason was that after the siege, the base management committee spent a lot of manpower and material resources searching for the remains of the Corpse King, but they only found the big-headed Corpse King with half of its head missing.
As for the "mutant" Corpse King who looked exactly like "Xing Lili", had the ability to "mind control", and controlled this wave of millions of corpses behind the scenes, his body has never been found. People dug deep and searched every corner of the battlefield, and finally found only half a fragment of the gray robe that had been burned to the size of a palm.
When an evolved creature reaches the fourth level, and in a battle at the same level, the body is not so easily annihilated. Although Yang Bensheng's "gathering of momentum" stunt that day was amazingly powerful, Lang Hua still didn't believe that they wouldn't be able to find even a broken limb.
The only possibility, and the possibility that Lang Hua was never willing to believe, was that this mutated corpse king escaped and survived using extremely special means. He cut the grass but couldn't get rid of the root. Lang Hua only felt a sharp and cold thorn hanging on his back.
He concealed this matter, whether from Yang Xiaoxiao or Xing Wutian, who was kept in the dark. Perhaps for these two people, the price they have to bear to know the truth is much greater than Lang Hua imagined. As for Lang Hua now, he still doesn't know how to explain this bizarre incident.
After all, everyone's knowledge of this apocalypse, regardless of past or present life, is extremely limited.
Lang Hua hoped that he had seen it wrong that day.
A similar-looking zombie monster arrived.
Lang Hua also hoped that his judgment was wrong. In fact, the cunning and difficult mutant corpse king had already turned into ashes and escaped into reincarnation under Uncle Yang's ranged attack.
"call……"
Exhaling a breath of turbid air, Lang Huashu opened his eyebrows and sat up from the chair with great effort.
He stood up and stretched his muscles. Taking the note on the table, Lang Hua planned to go to the back mountain for a long-lost visit, or to do a small business.
The base council hall is located on the second floor of the city lord's palace. After walking down the stairs and passing through the service hall, Lang Hua came to the square in the inner city.
The stars are sparse at night, and the gate of the gate tower is brightly lit. From here, you can see Zheng Yueying leading a few clerks from the registration office to set up seven or eight tables, and methodically carry out the work of accepting the new wave of refugees.
Further out of sight, when the people of Langya City were repairing the defense line of the outer city star castle, they preserved a section of the city wall covered in a mixture of flesh and blood. This shocking blood-walled city will become the landmark building of Langya City in the future to commemorate the great victory of the first black corpse siege in the history of humankind.
For those who unfortunately died in battle, the Logistics Department compared the previous registration lists and carved all their names on stone tablets to comfort the spirits of the victims in heaven.
As for those people from Langya City who survived the war, Lang Hua fulfilled the promise he made. After the war, everyone's past was wiped out, and all those who survived were automatically converted to "first-class citizens" status. Now they receive the best welfare benefits and are assigned to work at all levels of the base.
A group of old barracks under the city wall have been demolished. Based on the lessons learned last time, the City Lord's Mansion stipulated that only core members can live in the inner city. The reason is that there are many key facilities in the inner city, and even if there are people living there, it is not suitable to move around casually.
As for others, they can choose to move to any residential area in the outer city. Not only are rent, water and electricity free, the management committee will also provide a batch of daily necessities as rewards...
The registration office worked very quickly. It didn't take long for a group of thirty refugees to complete the registration and a series of inspections.
Led by a group of city defense troops, they turned back to the outer city. There they will receive a month of military training, and then they will have to voluntarily choose to join the army or become other types of workers and return to various strongholds in Shashi.
The city defense army rescued many survivors like this during the process of recovering the city after the war.
Most of them hide in the city's sewer system, competing with mutated rats for food and living space. Knowing that there are still only a few smart people hiding in the basements of community civil defenses, many people who have a glimmer of hope for government rescue ignore radio warnings and stay in the nearby high-rise buildings.
In the following months, they either died outside while searching for food, starved to death inside the building, or froze to death on the rooftop. Many people even kill each other and cannibalize themselves before death, so their deaths are generally extremely miserable.
There are also those who are lucky enough to stay in restaurants or large supermarkets, or families who are accustomed to buying large quantities of New Year's goods in the middle of winter. Relying on sufficient food reserves, they lived frugally and carefully until the day of salvation.
The people of Shashi were undoubtedly lucky because they lasted until the moment when the Langya City army returned to support the city. But in other corners of the world, such good fortune is not always available.
Whether large, medium or small, few cities can be liberated in the early years of the apocalypse like Shashi. Compared to those cities at the same level that were still troubled by millions of black corpses, Shashi's fate was changed the day the dust settled on the siege.
According to the continuous statistics of the Logistics Department, many survivors were rescued from Shashi after the war. The population under the jurisdiction of Langya City soon returned to the 8,000 mark, and there is a trend of further increase.
But Lang Hua didn't want to keep too many people at Fengwei Mountain Base this time.
These people are a rare labor force in the last days. According to his opinion, it would be best for them to resettle in Shashi and restore the production capacity of factories everywhere. After obtaining the necessary weapons, they will return to live in Shashi, which will also become the rear area of Langya City and become a small capital for Langya City to survive in the apocalypse.
By the way, after the war, the secretariat where Duan Qing worked also improved the previously immature military merit system.
For war preparation materials, Langya City will implement an open system of both public and private ownership in the future. The Ministry of Information will create a personal network file for each survivor on the central computer of the city lord's mansion, recording the points earned by each person in Langya City.
The army, garrison team, and search team at all levels in the city use military merit as the criterion for promotion. The more military merits you have and the higher your military rank, the more privileges and preferential treatment you can enjoy, including but not limited to priority distribution of new weapons and medicines, and the qualification to purchase military supplies with stronger firepower and lower prices.
For those who are unwilling to join the army, after hunting for crystal cores and collecting materials through spontaneous battles, they can also obtain city resources by selling crystal cores and materials to the base.
integral.
Points have two key data in the network system of Langya City. One is the existing points, which are used for consumption. One is the total accumulated points since registration, which is similar to a symbol of military merit.
The existing points are the common currency in Langya City, and they are constantly increasing and decreasing in the process of sales and consumption. The total points are a measure of a person's contribution to the base, and their effectiveness is equivalent to military merit. The higher the score, the faster the promotion, and the greater the discounts obtained when trading with the official.
This idea actually coincides with the port city thousands of kilometers away.
In fact, the person who first proposed this system was not Duan Qing, but Lang Hua. It's not that the heroes all think alike. The first person to do this in the previous life was the Jiuge Mountain Traveler in Hong Kong City. At this time, he was just picking up people's wits.
With chaotic plans in his head, Lang Hua took two steps and three steps, walking like a streetwalker. Not long after, the back mountain was already in front of him.
He came here not to see Zhang Cheng. Although he always ran here every three days some time ago, it was for official business, and the past few days have been special.
Not long ago, Company Commander Li Yishan of the Southern Qi Military Region sent someone a message to Zhang Cheng. It was said that the two soldiers who had been arranged to escort the survivors had not returned yet, so it seemed that something unexpected had happened.
Lang Hua learned that the survivor An Ran was actually Zhang Cheng's female companion during the disaster, and she was a person who had experienced life and death together and had gone through many hardships together.
Having stayed on the battlefield for thirteen years in his previous life, Lang Hua could best understand this feeling and Zhang Cheng's low mood these past two days.
The considerate Dean Chen Xinyan naturally saw that now was not the time for frolics. But you still have to be sulky when you should, and you can't be so angry that your body is broken. So Lang Hua, who was used to not knocking when he came in, obviously became a good target to vent his grievances.
"What should come doesn't come, and what shouldn't come comes every day, really."
It was late at night, but the biology laboratory was still brightly lit. In front of the experimental table, Chen Xinyan, who was wearing a white coat, pinched her waist and said to Lang Hua angrily: "Do you hear me buying tickets next time?"
"Sister Xinyan~ You are so heartless~" Lang Hua acted like a delicate princess, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, look, Brother Zhang has no time to accompany you, why are you so sad? Don't you still have me? Are you here~"
"Go away, stay away from me." Chen Xinyan sidled away from Lang Hua, then crossed her arms with a look of disgust, "Your little girlfriend is not here, why are you showing off to me?"
"Woooooooo..."
"Get out of here, get out of here. If you don't get out of here, I'll do it."
After chatting for a while, Lang Hua casually took out a neatly folded piece of white paper, waved it in front of Chen Xinyan's eyes and placed it on the experimental table.
"Here, let's take a look."
"What is it?" Chen Xinyan's eyebrows moved, "I don't want to look at strange things."
"Okay, I asked knowingly. I promise there will be no conditions this time, okay?"
Staring at Lang Hua angrily, Chen Xinyan grabbed the paper, opened it hurriedly, and read it word by word in front of her face.
"The beast disaster in the Chen family has been resolved. The news just came in the evening." Lang Hua said softly from the side.
He noticed that Chen Xinyan's face relaxed significantly after reading it once, and then she tightened her face and read it again carefully. After confirming that there was no problem, she held the note tightly in her hand.
Chen Xinyan warned Lang Hua with a straight face: "Next time something like this happens, just tell me over the communicator, you are running too slow, you know?"
Lang Hua rolled his eyes when he heard this.
Shrimp? I am a mid-level fourth-level ability user and one of the best masters in Langya City in Fengwei Mountain. I am working as an errand boy for nothing, but you still think it’s too slow?
Is this request a bit too high?
"I……"
Just as Lang Hua was about to argue a few words, he was violently interrupted by Chen Xinyan and kicked out.
While pushing back, he lowered his eyebrows and lectured Lang Hua in an inconsistent manner: "You are so big! Get out of here quickly. This is my laboratory, no, this is a girl's private space, do you understand?"
Um? This laboratory obviously also has him as the deputy city leader, okay?
Lang Hua, who was pushed out of the door and driven away, didn't recover for a long time.
The air was cool in the winter night, and Lang Hua couldn't help but shiver when a small breeze blew.
Finally, he figured it out. Are you afraid that the news will be delayed, or are you afraid that others will see you lose your composure?
"Why bother? Life is so tiring..." With a long sigh, Lang Hua walked away.
After an unknown amount of time, a dull explosion quietly appeared. A huge fireworks suddenly bloomed in the sky above Langya City. After one sound, followed by two, three, seven or eight sounds, the gorgeous brilliance splashed everywhere, frequently lighting up the sky in the winter night.
The thin black mist surged with the wind, and the little bits of light passed through it, instantly reflecting in the eyes of every city defense army or refugee who looked up.
Late at night has arrived, and the Spring Festival has arrived.
Amidst the laughter and laughter, the second year of the end of the world slowly arrived.
