Chapter 467: Looking to the future

After being full of food and drink, it was natural to announce important matters. Zhang Su was just putting on a portable megaphone when he was pulled aside by Li Zongkai.

"Mr. Zhang, the eight brothers from before... they found me and said a lot, especially regretting their previous impulsive behavior. What do you think?"

Before eating, the eight people who chose to leave Civilization Guardian collectively found Li Zongkai, expressed their regret and apology, and hoped to follow Civilization Guardian to rejoin Tianma Island.

"Right, I almost forgot about them!"

Zhang Su slapped his forehead. From the statistics of the numbers, it could be seen that those eight people were willing from the bottom of their hearts, or rather, eager to join Tianma Island. After all, in this area north of Qincheng now, if they couldn't join Tianma Island, they would have to go far away...

It was impossible for eight people to start a small force on their own. Not to mention whether others could tolerate it, there was basically no room for their survival.

"Those guys were also very hardworking during the battle before. It can be seen that there is nothing wrong with their essence. However, those eight people are easily incited. Even if they come back, they cannot be arranged together. We will adjust them later, two to each family. If their performance is fine, they can just be 'passerby A, B, and C' in the future!"

Zhang Su was too lazy to think carefully. As the population grew, he needed to delegate some power to his subordinates, and Li Zongkai was the best person for that.

Li Zongkai nodded gently after hearing Zhang Su's words: "Okay, then I'll discuss it with Officer Liu and the others. However, who should we look for on the Survivor Alliance side?"

"Survivor Alliance?" Zhang Su patted Li Zongkai's shoulder with a half-smile: "Didn't I say that before?"

Having said that, Zhang Su left the restaurant, leaving Li Zongkai confused.

"Hey, hey, *ahem*!"

Zhang Su stood at the window on the second floor of Little Lucky Homestay to test the microphone. The small courtyard below was crowded with people, packed to the brim. Those who couldn't stand there just stood at the courtyard gate; they could hear anyway.

"Brothers, I believe you all know one thing: dense populations attract zombie hordes. The more people gather, the larger the zombie horde attracted. The specific data is unclear, but it is definitely positively correlated. Perhaps you didn't feel it very clearly in the city before; that's because other survivor camps on the periphery blocked the disaster!"

Zhang Su began to speak, paving the way and preparing to subdue the four forces.

Everyone nodded, half-understanding. They had indeed heard similar sayings, but not everyone believed it. Since the Yama King was talking about it now, they would just listen to it as if it were true.

Zhang Su could see that some people were skeptical, so he shared some things he had experienced during his three months in Qingxian, as well as the encounter of the Green Dragon Legion. These things were worth warning everyone about.

"Yama King..."

After listening to the cases one by one, a diligent member raised his hand slightly timidly: "I have a small question, can I ask it?"

Everyone looked at the speaker, an ordinary member from the Tianqi Group.

Yang Xin rolled his eyes. He knew his own men; this guy loved to ask questions, but now with so many people, it wasn't his turn to speak. Just as he was about to stop him, he heard Zhang Su nod.

"If it's about zombies, you can ask." "Hmm... I can understand what you said about humans releasing magnetic fields to attract zombies, but where did the large number of zombies in the city go?"

Qincheng, including its subordinate counties, is about 7,800 square kilometers, with a total population of over 3 million. However, more than 1 million people live in the Harbor District, and the Harbor District has an area of only 700 square kilometers. 35% of the population lives in 9% of the area.

According to this ratio, the zombie density in the city should be very high, but the current situation is that there are no large zombie hordes in the city.

"In the early days of the disaster, we also drifted in the city for a while and saw huge zombie hordes passing through, moving toward unknown directions. I think... they must have their own goals, but we don't know them. There is one more point that cannot be ignored...

The environment in the city is complex, and many zombies are trapped in closed environments and have not been discovered. The proportion of those zombies should also be quite large. I can only answer you this much; the zombie situation is complex and diverse, and there are still many places waiting to be studied."

Everyone nodded slightly after hearing Zhang Su's explanation. Nowadays, no one has been able to fully study zombies, and there are many unknown aspects.

"Continuing from my previous topic! To deal with the characteristics of zombies, our Tianma Island adopts the Satellite Village method to disperse the population. These are all things for later. The primary task at present is to complete the integration of personnel, which is to bring back the news of the merger of our five forces and tell the brothers who don't know yet!"

Zhang Su said it was a merger, but everyone knew that it was actually their forces being merged into Tianma Island.

Regarding this decision, Li Zongkai and the other original leaders had no objections.

Yang Xin saw that his own men dared to ask questions, so he also raised his hand, indicating that he wanted to speak.

Zhang Su held back his laughter and raised his hand to signal: "Commander Yang, what do you have to say?"

"It's like this, Yama King. I see that Tianma Island has obvious geographical advantages, with rugged mountain roads that are easy to defend and hard to attack. If we add some modifications, we can completely build it into an impregnable city. Can we consider developing in this direction?"

The mode of living scattered is destined to be unable to grow strong. Once the population reaches a certain level, it is easy to become scattered. He felt that concentrating would have more advantages.

Zhang Su nodded, not denying Yang Xin's proposal: "I know that Tianma Island has the potential to develop into a large-scale safety camp. To put it broadly, even if we take Tianma Island as the core and enclose land in the vicinity to build a new city-state, it would be completely fine. But there is a prerequisite...

It's freezing cold now, and it's not a good time for large-scale construction. We can use this winter to stabilize the situation, strengthen the troops and the people, and perfect the system. After spring, we can start building city walls and create our own steel city!"

"When that day really comes, let alone zombie hordes of 30,000 or 50,000, even 100,000 or 200,000, we can deal with them. Moreover, in this process, we will not stop our steps to exterminate zombies. Looking at the bright side, survivors in other places are also sparing no effort to kill zombies. Perhaps when spring comes, the threat of zombies will no longer be a concern!"

It wasn't that Zhang Su was painting a pie for everyone, but his plan for the future. It didn't mean that once the zombie threat was eliminated, they could sit back and relax. Once the external threat was weakened, internal conflicts among humans would escalate.

Peace is a dream that everyone pursues, but this dream is destined not to be realized for a long time in the future—so long that everyone present might not see the day of peace in their lifetime.

Now is the time to compete for population, territory, and basic materials. Once the day of stability and peace really comes, production resources will become hot commodities, and all resources that can accelerate industrial recovery will be highly sought after.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 468 =====