Chapter 457: Everyone Awakens

In the Long'an Base meeting room, the team members sat separately.

After four hours of rest, everyone had basically recovered to full health.

Awakened Ones, speaking of them, are also ill-fated.

The faster they recover, the longer they naturally spend working.

As for the other base personnel, Lin An gave them time off to rest properly.

Mo Ling, Wen Ya, Gao Tian, Jing Tian, Huang Haitao, Liang Shaoguang, Yun Tian, Chu An.

Plus Lin An, making nine in total.

These few people basically belong to the high level of Long'an Base, each fulfilling their duties.

Looking around, the lights were bright.

At the main seat, Lin An glanced somewhat wistfully at the only empty seat, then suppressed his emotions and spoke:

"Everyone, the city defense mission is already completed."

"Long'an Base will, starting today, formally expand outward, recruit survivors, and resist the apocalypse."

"I don't like to waste words; I'll keep it short."

"First, our current goal is to annex the Wangjiang Military Region as soon as possible to increase our troop numbers."

"Although the future means of resisting disasters will certainly be Awakened Ones and psychic technology, conventional weapons can also be quite effective."

"Especially the population issue."

"The Wangjiang Military Region has several million people; annexing them would be equivalent to gaining nearly a million Awakened One reserves for us!"

"If things go smoothly, even if we can only screen out a 100,000-strong Awakened One force, that would be enough for us to resist the zombie outbreak half a year from now, as well as future major catastrophes."

"Second, we will speed up the Awakened Ones' leveling, rather than just training them as before."

"Awakened Ones! They should go out and fight mutants; ordinary players must also battle zombies!"

"The safe zone is the rear of safety, the last resort against the apocalypse, but it is certainly not a place for retirement!"

His words were stern.

"We established the safe zone to gather the survivors' strength. If the force is just dead weight, what's the point of building the safe zone?!"

The voice echoed; one could tell Lin An was actually somewhat dissatisfied.

Although the zombie tide's difficulty was too great, exceeding normal bounds.

But Long'an Base's performance was still somewhat lacking.

After hearing Lin An speak like that,

Jing Tian's face showed some shame as he nodded heavily.

Lin An had handed over soldier training to him, but since Lin An went to the Ameba Worm Instance these past days, the base members actually hadn't gone out much to hunt mutants.

Most of the time they were engaged in military drills, or sent out small teams to scavenge supplies.

On one hand, he still feared encountering powerful mutants, which would cause too many personnel losses.

On the other hand, he actually also felt reluctant.

Whenever there is battle, accidents are bound to happen.

The base members were all students or a few outsiders; he actually found it hard to steel himself.

But after this battle, he realized that the members lacked combat experience and couldn't level up, which was truly harming them.

If in this city defense battle all Awakened Ones could be promoted to first level, and even produce a second level...

Even delaying just one minute, or even thirty seconds,

would not have resulted in such heavy combat casualties.

Moreover, before the defense line fell, everyone also deeply felt the plight of insufficient strength among their Awakened Ones.

Seeing Jing Tian take in his words, Lin An nodded slightly, his tone easing a bit.

"The safe zone has problems; this is inevitable."

"After all, you all lack experience."

"Apocalypse... monsters... disaster, this is a challenge humanity has never faced before."

"At least in this battle, the base members didn't retreat; discipline was strict, they dared to fight and struggle."

"That's not bad."

"Students, young people, compared to middle-aged people, are undoubtedly easier to manage."

"With a little guidance, they won't perform poorly."

"After cooperating in annexing the Wangjiang Military Region, scattering and disrupting the troops, I believe we'll quickly form combat effectiveness."

Seeing everyone's expressions ease, Lin An no longer dwelled on this topic, turning his gaze to Gao Tian:

"Next, I intend to re-establish the rank system issue for Long'an Base."

Upon hearing this, Huang Haitao couldn't help but prick up his ears.

Long'an Base currently implements wartime military governance, prioritizing efficiency.

Aside from the core management, all other survivors, whether Awakened or not, receive uniform management with no privileges.

And as an Awakened One, he is also, on one hand, the nephew of the former principal Huang Zheng.

For such matters involving changes in authority, he is especially concerned.

Lord Lin An, what do you plan to do?

Redraw the leadership hierarchy, change the system?

In doubt, Lin An pondered for a moment then slowly spoke:

"The original system is no longer suitable for us."

"It's not that I want to separate Awakened Ones from ordinary people, but rather Long'an Base cannot accommodate that many people."

Everyone should know that in this city defense battle, the Land of Rules was damaged.

Although it can be repaired, essentially Long'an Base can accommodate at most 300,000 people.

Whether limited by the spiritual energy core or the Land of Rules, we can only provide overflowing spiritual energy to 300,000 people to assist their upgrades.

But annexing Wangjiang, recruiting survivors, and allowing members' families to join the base...

It is expected that in the near future, Long'an Base will expand to at least 2 million people!

So, an urgent matter lies before us.

What should we do with the remaining 1.7 million people?

Of course, privileges and ranks remain unchanged; those who have participated in the Amoeba Worm dungeon should have a deep sense of this.

If early Awakened Ones oppress ordinary players, later when those ordinary players become Awakened Ones, the entire faction will fall into a disaster of vicious retaliation.

Gao Tian understood Lin An's implied meaning, his thoughts stirred, and he continued along Lin An's line:

"Captain Lin, do you mean you want to build an inner city and an outer city?"

"Awakened Ones, or those with potential, will join the inner city, which is the current scope of Long'an Base."

"Ordinary people, or those who struggle to manifest combat power, will be placed in the outer city?"

"As for privileges..."

"That's correct."

"Even at this stage, there is a qualitative gap between ordinary players and Awakened Ones; to put it bluntly,"

"The strength of ordinary players before Awakened Ones is hardly better than that of a dog."

"We have such good conditions; most people have a chance to become Awakened Ones, so there's no need to store up hidden dangers."

Lin An nodded, indicating that Gao Tian was correct.

"Yes."

"Furthermore, I plan to implement a credit point system."

"The residency quotas in the inner city can also be exchanged for credit points."

"This idea is modeled after a very well‑established system from my past life."

"In my past life, even Huaxia's largest A‑grade Safe Zone could not accommodate many Awakened Ones, let alone assist their upgrades."

"Thus, it's like buying a house."

"If Awakened Ones want their dependents or subordinates to gain faster upgrade efficiency, they must desperately complete missions to earn credit points."

"On one hand, this ensures relative fairness; on the other, it builds an economic system."

"Otherwise, stronger Awakened Ones would earn credit points they couldn't spend."

"Or, even if one is strong but one's family is weak, you surely wouldn't let them live in the outer city, would you?"

"Surface privileges and ranks must be curbed, but those who are strong and dare to fight mutants should still receive preferential treatment."

Huang Haotao felt a chill run through his heart upon hearing this.

"Is it that only through screening and credit points can one stay in the Safe Zone?"

"Although this issue hasn't been announced yet, it is foreseeable."

"Long'an Base will surely do this in the future."

"This will affect millions, even tens of millions of people."

"Perhaps I should remind my uncle whether he needs to cooperate on some work."

"In the midst of thought, Lin An lightly tapped the table with his fingertip, dropping a bombshell."

"Tomorrow, I plan to implement the Million‑Legion Plan."

"First, using the current members of Long'an Base as a pilot, everyone will be promoted to Awakened One!"