Chapter 1258

The meeting ended and the crowd filed out one after another.

Although it was only a short half‑hour, it gave everyone an inexplicable shock.

The meeting agenda was very simple.

Expand the army, expand the city, annex other safe zones!

Strengthen the troops, strengthen the military, fully enhance personnel strength!

Military armament, military reform, all supplies prioritized for weapons research!

Six major reforms, two major policies, unify the surrounding war zones, pursue maximum efficiency, integrate all usable forces.

As the detailed documents were distributed to everyone, people could faintly feel that a huge storm would begin from Long An and sweep across Huaxia.

And those with careful minds, seeing the preparations already made in advance within the plan, felt even more shaken inside.

Unbeknownst to them, Long An had actually stockpiled a large amount of food; moreover, some never‑before‑heard‑of psionic technology began to be delivered from the weapons research institute. A huge quantity of equipment and supplies was provided, and they had no idea where these things came from.

Looking back at how meticulously the upper echelons of Long An had arranged and prepared, many of the Awakened Ones who joined later couldn't help but start to suspect...

Lin An, who controls everything, did he perhaps already know that the apocalypse would break out?

All kinds of signs indicate that maybe some rumors are actually true...

"Captain Lin, are we really going to start expanding the army..."

In the core meeting room, the eight core members of Long An sat evenly around Lin An at the center.

For some reason, seeing Long An develop to this point gave them a somewhat dream‑like feeling.

A year ago they only wanted a place to survive.

Seven months ago they only wanted to hold the college, hold the safe zone, and scrape by.

Half a year ago, merely taking Linjiang was already a blessing; with over hundreds of thousands of survivors joining, they already felt immense pressure.

Four months ago, the three provinces were integrated, and Long An became the undisputed hegemon.

And now...

The new plan pushed forward by Lin An and Colonel Chu constantly revealed to them a terrifying vision.

If this continues, Long An might end up splitting the world with the military...

In just over a year... everything has happened too fast, too fast.

Speaking frankly, the Wangjiang Military Region's Commander Wang, who was once a military member and was allegedly forced by Lin An to join, now feels that the capital's original judgment of Lin An was correct.

Long An, are they really planning to stand on their own...

From a tiny safe zone, although it was the first safe zone to be built.

But ignoring Lin An, back then Long An could be flattened by just a few missiles, with a total population of less than ten thousand.

But now...

If it keeps developing this way, Long An unifying all of Huaxia is possible...

Looking back at Jing Tian, Lin An calmly nodded:

"We need more troops, we need to concentrate our strength."

"With the outbreak of the food crisis and the catastrophe, survivors from all over the Huaxia war zone will eventually flock to Long An."

"Rather than passively accepting, it's better to actively absorb."

"Starving mad survivors often have destructive power even greater than a zombie tide..."

Lin An gave Jing Tian a meaningful nod.

Compared to brainless monsters, human destructive power is unimaginable. Often a single person who has gone mad with hunger, throwing away everything, can cause massive destruction to an entire safe zone. Not to mention poisoning water sources, maliciously luring mutants to attack, or even stealing fuel from abandoned nuclear plants and directly polluting the land.

Such things happened far too often in the previous life.

Moreover, two important reasons lay before him.

First, after the Capital Military Region fell, what should Long An do?

As soon as war breaks out, both sides will surely pour out all their forces, fighting to the death.

Alien species control a large part of the military; Lin An might possibly be able to resist high‑rank aliens, but what about the lower troops? The Capital Military Region truly possesses over a hundred million people, plus the military regions under its control; combined, this force makes Long An look like an ant before it.

Especially since the alien species seem to have the ability to control or communicate with mutants, which he has already witnessed.

Once a decisive battle erupts, not to say Long An could organize a million Awakened Ones; even if that number were increased tenfold, the pressure would still be enormous.

This is still before the war.

If they lose after the war, then naturally nothing needs to be considered.

But if they win, what to do with the remaining troops? If Long An doesn't have sufficient size, how can it absorb nearly ten million soldiers?

Once these Awakened One soldiers are allowed to spread out, they can easily form thousands or even tens of thousands of big and small factions, which will spread like a virus across the Huaxia land, plunging it into endless slaughter until the disaster worsens, leaving only a few percent of the population alive.

But by that time, how many of the vast numbers of dead survivors will turn into mutants, and what about the three major events?

Compared to the "slow" progression of the previous life, Lin An knows full well that, under his interference, if control slips, the Huaxia war zone won't even last three years.

The Corpse Emperor has a saying that's not wrong!

Humans are the "mother" of zombies! Killing off a large number of people early isn't necessarily bad, and having more people survive isn't necessarily good!

The current situation is one of huge polarization!

Looking at the entire war zone, he is already about to reach the fourth stage, while most Awakened Ones are only at the first stage; below that, there are large numbers of ordinary people.

But the difficulty of the apocalypse has already matched that of the second year in the previous life!

The second point is...

"But Brother Lin."

"Our current control is insufficient; even if the management keeps expanding, as the scale grows, internal problems are likely to arise..."

"Moreover, by absorbing so many people, we are essentially taking the pressure upon ourselves."

With a worried expression.

Gao Tian furrowed his brow; he, who often went out these days, had seen too many forces already beginning to fight internally.

Now Long An is developing too fast; in the short term perhaps no factions will appear yet, the core members are of one mind. But what about later? A scale of millions, what great power... Moreover, the larger the population, the more zombie tides it attracts.

The current situation is that large numbers of Survivors are scattered in remote rural areas, or in their own gathering places; these people effectively check the zombie tide.

For example, Green Mountain, several Safe Zones are like meat, firmly attracting large numbers of Zombies that do not move.

Wouldn't slow development be better..

They just need to guard the riverside area; actually life is really "comfortable".

Chu An was absent; Lin An looked around and noticed that almost everyone present, the team members and core members, shared the same idea.

Although no one voiced opposition, deep down everyone felt a little heavy-hearted.

Seeing everyone's reaction, Lin An also didn't blame anything.

That's just human nature.

Having grown accustomed to comfort, they naturally don't want to change.

Especially for Wen Ya, Gao Tian and the like, they themselves had no great ambitions before the Apocalypse, just ordinary people. Moreover, nobody had experienced the terror of the late Apocalypse; staying under Long An, they naturally lost any sense of urgency, and could not even realize that stability meant doom.

Some things must be experienced firsthand.

It doesn't matter anymore.

The truly cruel Apocalypse is imminent; amidst blood and fire, he believes Gao Tian and the others will understand.

Before that, he only needs Long An to faithfully carry out his orders.

The meeting dispersed.

Just as Jing Tian, preoccupied, was about to leave, Lin An's voice suddenly rang out.

"Jing Tian, stay behind alone."

"I have something to tell you."