Apocalyptic Reincarnation: Start with a 30-million Bonus
Chapter 396 - 387: Too Cautious, Right?

The final decision was to build the exterior wall at a height of 8 meters.

The location of the wall was set near the duty room on the right side of the base.

The planned area was about 20,000 square meters.

That is, it was approximately two hundred meters long and one hundred meters wide, covering about thirty acres.

In addition, within these thirty acres.

The area closer to the base was planned to be about twenty acres for planting and other processing.

The remaining ten acres were designated for the accommodation of extra staff.

Another Weng City was to be constructed in this location and within the Inner City.

This Weng city would be slightly larger, approximately a few thousand square meters in size, where Bai Jie's research room would be relocated.

Since only the exterior wall needed to be constructed, only approximately 400 meters of wall were required.

With so many people available, if we work at full speed, the construction could be completed in less than a week.

Once the direction was set, Li Yu began to make arrangements, starting today.

Since construction materials had already been stockpiled earlier, Li Yu and his team could start work right away.

Using the Ruijiang tank trucks for direct concrete pouring greatly increased the speed.

Li Yu had his father and Third Uncle, along with some workers, supervise them, taking control at critical positions.

Additionally, over a dozen people were assigned to monitor everyone on the wall, ready to shoot and kill at any sign of trouble.

Watching the construction of the wall in full swing, Li Yu pulled He Chao aside and said:

"We might still be lacking some building materials. Over the next few days, you take people to gather materials, and while collecting supplies, gather some large steel plates for making a big iron gate later."

Upon hearing this, He Chao had no objections but instead seemed somewhat excited.

He quickly got in touch with his brothers to go out and collect building materials.

Aside from the wall, they also had to build some houses for living; otherwise, just the wind and rain would make them miserable. Of course, these houses were to be built more simply.

The weather was sunny these past two days, and the progress of the project was decent.

But suddenly, on the night of the third day.

The civilians of Safe City suddenly rioted, as in their rush to meet deadlines over the past two days, several people had been worked to death.

Yet they were given no food.

To ensure the wall was built on schedule, Li Yu had a large pot prepared to cook some food for them, otherwise, they would have no strength to last a few more days.

As civilians scrambled to get the food, devouring it voraciously.

Li Yu felt uncomfortable; the kindness in his heart and the softness inside made him contemplate giving them a chance.

But, Li Yu's experience from his previous life told him not to do so.

The family and friends in the base couldn't risk such a great danger.

He quickly bowed his head, muttering to himself, persuading himself.

A few minutes later, when he looked up again, his eyes were only filled with coldness.

He was conflicted.

His naturally kind-hearted self couldn't bear to see tragic events, but especially before his rebirth, after five years of apocalypse, he had experienced countless tragedies.

Even many had happened to him.

He had to force himself to peel away the kind part of himself!

But he couldn't completely detach it because the kindness was deep-rooted in his bones.

Yet, he was also selfish as he didn't want to risk the lives of his family and friends.

Torn.

Very real, but he was good at convincing himself.

Convincing himself to be cruel, ruthless, and merciless towards enemies.

Some people might find him incredibly calm and cruel, but he always managed to lead the base to make the most correct decisions.

When Li Yu was in the base, his warm and genuine concern made everyone believe he was full of warmth.

However, whenever he went out and killed enemies, he always did so ruthlessly.

He used every means possible against enemies.

Later, everyone understood that Li Yu did this for the sake of everyone in the base.

For the people in the base, he had to be ruthless and heartless, and realizing this, everyone came to trust him even more.

For He Chao, he too has felt this way of late.

Previously, he saw Li Yu and the others as extremely ruthless, but as he got to know them gradually, especially after joining them, he realized that Li Yu had a warmth to him.

Bang～

Li Yu shot and killed a person from Safe City.

Just now, this person had tried escaping towards the grove!

The sound of the gunshot also intimidated the other civilians.

This was already the sixth one.

Lately, to accelerate the progress and to ensure these civilians remained physically capable, while simultaneously lowering their guard and resistance,

they would feed them some mushy food each day. The portions were small, but it seemed to give them hope.

It was as if, although they had to do heavy labor, at least they had food.

And He Chao and the others were energetically collecting building materials, which Li Yu exchanged for food.

Because with just the four kilograms of rice they received each month, they could barely survive.

This exchange was first and foremost a prior agreement.

Secondly, it was to once again reaffirm the ownership of the Outer City, which belonged entirely to the base.

This was beyond doubt.

Through these days of interaction, Li Yu was quite satisfied with He Chao and his team.

In fact, when they first collaborated, Li Yu had already inquired about them through former Jiefang City residents like Aunt Yutong, Old Xie, Old Lü, and Shang Xue'er.

He knew every detail about He Chao's team, knowing them to be honest and straightforward.

They were ultimately victims of disruptions caused by other groups and vagrants from Jiefang City.

There was no precedent, but there were acquaintances' endorsements of trust.

Nevertheless, Li Yu remained extremely cautious.

After a few collaborations, a certain level of trust had been established.

Later, when people from Safe City came in two waves, He Chao's team discovered them early and warned the others, playing a significant role.

And during this time, the clever Second Uncle and elusive Third Uncle had secretly observed them for a long time.

They found nothing out of sorts.

However, Li Yu was overly cautious; he thought it still necessary to conduct a deeper investigation.

Once these people's families moved into the exterior walls and started living there, binding them with shared interests, continual assessments and tests would be implemented.

Li Yu believed in human gratitude, but he trusted even more in the fickleness of human nature.

He believed more in shared interests to fortify trust.

Although they had performed well, Li Yu still dared not trust them easily.

Thus, the path to the inside of the base required Weng City.

And in the duty room of this place, two people needed to be vigilant at all times.

They still had to be prepared for multiple scenarios.

Time was needed, a deeper bond was required.

...

They needed an initiation, a battle.

Li Yu, watching He Chao and others building a house together, was already scheming in his mind; in a few days, once the construction here was completed.

He would take them to Safe City to eliminate future troubles.

It didn't matter if they couldn't shoot; being able to drive was enough, this was also a test.

Li Yu thought and thought, and became somewhat trance-like.

Meanwhile, He Chao and others under the wall were overjoyed, their gazes towards Li Yu filled with gratitude.

These people included women, teenagers, and fathers like He Chao.

Without exception, all had followed He Chao all this way.

Having experienced the turmoil of Jiefang City and the disaster of that winter, they deeply understood how important it was to have a safe haven.

Thus, they were profoundly grateful to Li Yu, their eyes filled with gratitude whenever they saw him.

Li Yu was relatively immune to such gazes.

But his attitude towards them was somewhat better than before.

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