My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 83: Let’s Conduct an Assessment

These three followers all have decent strength.

Among them, Shay and Winnie had both reached the peak of the Fifth Tier and were stuck at the bottleneck of the Foundation Realm, while Kong was a Seventh Layer Awakener at the Body-shaping Realm.

Among the three, Tang Yu planned to assign Shay and Kong to the Patrol Team, and once they became familiar with the operations, they could lead their own team and expand the territory clearance projects.

As for Winnie, being a valuable Healing Series Priest, she was naturally needed wherever there was a demand.

In fact, they could set up a medical team with Winnie... From what he knew, aside from Healing Series Spells, her medical skills were also extraordinary.

Healing Series Spells required specific qualifications to learn, and though medical skills were not easy to learn either, there still was hope.

After the welcoming party,

On the first day, Tang Yu did not assign any specific duties to the three new followers and let them get acquainted.

Winnie walked hand in hand with Eileen.

Shay was also very curious about the new world.

Finding out that the training camp had training facilities, Kong went straight there.

It seemed that in the future, he would need to make a chart for the followers, detailing professions and strengths, to better assign work.

Only, he was not good at this.

Tang Yu stroked his chin, deep in thought.

Having dealt with these matters, he finally had time to catch up with Luo Zhe about the recent changes in the territory.

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"The number of survivors has broken through three hundred as of yesterday. We have collected plenty of supplies other than food, including daily necessities and medicine, enough to support the current population of the territory."

"Additionally, the construction of the villa district is essentially complete. As the number of survivors increases, the focus of the territory's construction has shifted outside the city. However, most of the survivors prefer to cram inside the city walls rather than live outside."

"For the specific details of construction, Lord, you could ask Chen Haiping; he has detailed statistics."

In these past few days, after Tang Yu had left the territory, he had mostly left everything to Luo Zhe and Chen Haiping.

From what he could see now, the two of them had handled the affairs of the territory very well, making it feel almost as if his presence was not needed.

A tinge of subtle sadness struck him.

"Eh, wait, the population has actually broken through three hundred? I remember when I left, it had just surpassed one hundred."

He had only been away for a short time, how could the whole territory have undergone such earth-shaking changes?

When he was stationed in the territory, was there ever so much change in three days?

"Mainly because the survivors from one Sanctuary joined, increasing the number of survivors significantly."

"Oh? An entire Sanctuary's survivors moved here?"

There were several large and small Sanctuaries around, of course, none as significant as those like Green Shadow Sanctuary or Creekwood Sanctuary. Most smaller Sanctuaries had only a few hundred survivors.

A Sanctuary was just a place of refuge, far from meeting the true standards of a Sanctuary.

The number of these survivors wasn't enormous, but it was not insignificant either.

The Sanctuary Director stood at the pinnacle of power, controlling the life and death within the Sanctuary. Although, in Tang Yu's view, the life of such Sanctuary Directors was not necessarily better than that of the ordinary survivors on his side, for some people, it was better to be a big fish in a small pond.

Getting them to abandon their power and integrate into another Sanctuary was not something everyone was willing to do.

"Because their Sanctuary was about to be eradicated by the Demonized Beasts, they had no choice."

Luo Zhe slowly explained the situation, "This Sanctuary was located in a county only ten kilometers away. I had led teams to search a few times before, and we never found it. This time, it was their survivors who went out to look for food but were discovered by the Demonized Beasts, and the entire Sanctuary fell into crisis."

"... After the issue was resolved, those survivors were transferred to our Sanctuary."

Luo Zhe put it simply.

However, some of the wording hinted at Tang Yu that the process was not so smooth.

Perhaps, when that small Sanctuary was about to be breached by the Demonized Beasts, Luo Zhe and his Patrol Team rushed in to rescue those people, and the survivors were grateful.

Yet, when Luo Zhe wanted to bring these survivors to the territory, it would inevitably be resisted by the former Sanctuary's authorities... Even though the Sanctuary was no longer safe after this Demonized Beast attack.

Some still did not want to give up their power.

The apocalypse is a world where limited resources are contested, not limited to food and medicine, but survivors are also a resource.

Men were forced to go out to collect food, sometimes even used as bait to attract Demonized Beasts, while women, needless to say, could be taken advantage of.

This was all seen as resources, and Luo Zhe wanted to take them away, which would inevitably lead to obstruction.

Conflict was unavoidable.

Of course, Tang Yu guessed that the Sanctuary Director and those high-ranking obstructions were probably already buried with grass three feet tall on their graves by now... This was not surprising, given that plants grew rapidly after the apocalypse; it might even be taller than three feet now.

"Mm, that's feasible, simple and crude."

In the apocalypse, why bother with reasons when you can use fists?

Efficiency is what mattered most.

Luo Zhe continued, "Lord, there have also been quite a few survivors recently who want to join the Patrol Team. Since you haven't returned yet, this matter has been paused. How should we handle it now?"

"How many people want to join the Patrol Team?"

"There are about twenty or thirty people, at least. Before, there weren't many who wanted to join, but now that they see the benefits, they all come flocking!"

He snorted coldly.

Tang Yu pondered.

The Patrol Team was indeed short-staffed and needed new blood, but it wasn't a public restroom that anyone could just enter on a whim.

After all, the Patrol Team was the Sanctuary's public defense force, and it needed to maintain enough prestige.

"In that case..."

"Let's hold an assessment, including a written and a physical test. Only those who pass can join the Patrol Team."

Luo Zhe nodded and immediately went to prepare for it.

...

In Green Shadow Sanctuary, although there were only a few hundred survivors living there,

as the Patrol Team continuously expanded outwards, the reputation of Green Shadow Sanctuary gradually spread.

A number of nearby Sanctuaries, including some Freelance Awakeners, heard that Green Shadow had strength, resources, and equipment.

Many Awakeners even came due to its fame.

"I think they're just blowing it out of proportion!"

Two survivors arrived at Green Shadow Sanctuary that day.

One was tall and skinny, and the other short and chubby. It was the tall skinny man who spoke.

"Big brother, you can't say that. Green Shadow must have good equipment; otherwise, our trip here would be in vain," the short chubby man spoke reassuringly.

"It's your fault! Why did you have to provoke that Mutant Beast? Otherwise, we wouldn't have lost our weapons there!"

The short chubby man looked as wronged as a 200-pound little boy.

As they entered Green Shadow Sanctuary, they saw many busy survivors.

The tall thin man had already found out the ways to obtain equipment in Green Shadow Sanctuary.

You could either buy it with Source Crystals or earn it by completing tasks issued by the Sanctuary.

He stopped an Awakener who was passing by.

"Excuse me, how do I get to the Employment Center?"

The Awakener, initially somewhat impatient, suddenly felt the aura of the tall skinny man, turned pale, tightened his legs, and involuntarily pointed to a distant area, "It's in the eastern section of the villa area. Go straight ahead, it's the third villa in. Or maybe I should take you there?"

The tall skinny man declined and left with the short chubby man.

The Awakener who had been asked for directions and his companion looked in the direction of the two, shocked.

"Those two just now, they were the Iron Hammer Brothers, right?"

His companion nodded, "Yes, the Iron Hammer Brothers—one of the strongest Freelance Awakeners around here. They're named after their weapons, two large iron hammers. It's said their strength surpasses many Sanctuary Directors."

"Not just that." The Awakener who was asked for directions continued, "They even went to Lindong Sanctuary, but to grow stronger, to hone themselves, they chose to leave and live in the wilderness every day. Those are real powerhouses."

"Such powerful figures coming to the Sanctuary; they must be here to buy weapons. We've had many of such visitors these days, but I never expected even the Iron Hammer Brothers to come. Our Sanctuary must be developing really fast."

He spoke with a bitter expression, "Had I known, I would have joined the Patrol Team back then. Perhaps by now, you and I would also possess considerable strength."