Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 283 War Preparation
Holding He Yuying's gift, Li Wei returned to his room on the fifth floor, only to find Li Yue waiting for him as soon as he entered.

These days, Li Yue and Liang Yuzhi have been keeping a close eye on things. How could Li Wei's little schemes escape their notice?

Therefore, Li Wei directly took out a four-star conspiracy card and activated it, entering the conspiracy state.

Then Li Yue laughed happily, "Got friend-zoned? Haha, He Yuying is still too timid. She didn't even dare to take such an opportunity that was delivered to her door. Serves her right!"

Li Wei smiled and didn't take it seriously. That's how things are; you can't be 100% successful. You have to try every possibility.

Li Yue looked at him carefully for a while, then nodded with satisfaction. "I will be settling accounts and leaving the month after next. I have a few words to tell you. Next spring will be the most dangerous time for you. After Thomas, Lyon, and Zhao Xuanxuan, your three trusted confidants, settle accounts and leave, the only thing you can rely on may be the Free Citizens. But if the Free Citizens suffer too many casualties, it will also cause instability in your foundation. You should know that there are still two years of challenges ahead."

"Of course, the situation shouldn't be too serious. Your boss will probably send you two more capable assistants. In short, I still have high hopes for you."

"Once you get through this difficult time, it's time to plan for the second year's development. You need to cultivate more farmland, at least fifty acres, but not as extreme as fields number 4 and number 5."

"In addition, you need to do two things in the second year. One is to build a larger city wall with a circumference of at least five kilometers. It doesn't need to be level 3, level 2 city walls will be fine, as long as they can stop ordinary mutated creatures."

"Because the large-scale appearance of mutated creatures is common during the month when the radiation storm breaks out, the crops in the fields have been harvested and the resources have been collected, so the defensive space can be contracted and the outer city walls can be abandoned at any time."

"The second thing I need to warn you about is relocating the civilians from the small town base here. This is very important. Because there are some guys who really like to raid other people's bases, and they will definitely be watching this step to ambush you, making you hesitant to act and putting you in a very passive position."

"So, I should try to improve myself."

"Finally, there's something you need to know. A level 5 scavenging camp can unlock a building, but there are triggering conditions. The first condition is that you must cultivate 50 acres of farmland and store enough food to feed 500 people for two years. The second condition is that you can provide housing for 50 families. But there's a catch: you must build these houses on the surface. Once the territory is completely yours, the Expansion Card you have will form a magical shield to protect your territory from radiation storms. However, without radiation storms, the soil fertility within the territory will decline year by year..."

“Li Wei, believe me, managing a territory is not easy. You must plan ahead in the next two years, instead of waiting until you win the victory and acquire the territory before planning. By then, it will be too late.”

"Do you still have any questions?"

"What if the radiation storm breaks out next month and that special BOSS goes on a killing spree in the small town base in the west?" Li Wei asked. He couldn't possibly reach the rescue in time, given the distance of 160 miles.

"No, special bosses will only target the pioneer card on your body. In addition, the worst thing when the radiation storm breaks out is the radiation toxin corrosion, which can easily lead to infection with level 2 blood plague, or even level 3 blood plague."

"The people at the small town base are all hiding in the underground base. Unless they are extremely unlucky, the chances of it being breached are very small. However, after the radiation storm ends, some new and powerful mutated creatures will take up residence there. You will need to lead a team to hunt them down. Of course, these are things you are good at, so I won't say anything more."

"Also, stop plotting with me and Widow Yang. You're already too outstanding now."

After saying this meaningfully, Li Yue got up and left.

After closing the door, Li Wei's eyes flickered, but her emotions remained stable.

The next second, he opened the Prestige Card system, and instantly a huge table appeared before his eyes, covering the entire room. On it were all the free citizens who had bound their cards to the network and activated their accounts, including those who were still nursing babies.

Of course, these little ones won't get any extra points. Free citizens under the age of 13 don't have the right to get extra points, so Li Wei has to give them those extra points.

The only direction Li Wei allocated points to for them was to increase their health, until they reached level one awakening.

This will greatly enhance their ability to resist external risks, make them less susceptible to colds, improve their health, and give them some resistance to blood plague infections caused by radiation storms.

As for the remaining free attribute points, they will be able to allocate them themselves after they turn 13; that's up to them.

At this moment, Li Wei was looking at the attributes of those 108 free citizens. Overall, there was no situation like Mark's, but the basic attributes had also increased slightly, probably by 5 to 10 points more than ordinary free citizens.

This is, of course, a huge advantage.

At this moment, Li Wei directly adjusted his thoughts and selected thirty men with the best overall attributes from these 108 free citizens. Their average age was between 30 and 35.

Ten of them were assigned to the first patrol squad in San Diego, bringing the total number of men to 15.

Ten more men were reassigned to Benjamin's second patrol squad, bringing the total to 15.

The last ten men formed the third patrol team, led by Javier, the former warehouse manager of Warehouse 4, plus Mark.

Because so far, this 55-year-old man can be considered a mainstay of the fighting force, with a professional card level of 3+3+2, which is in no way inferior to Benjamin and Santiago. It's a waste of his talents to be a warehouse manager. Moreover, there are quite a few warehouse management talents among the newly joined free citizens.

"These three patrol teams can be uniformly named tactical squadrons. From now on, they will adopt a full-time work mode, not participating in labor, but only responsible for training and combat. They will temporarily be stationed in Zone D on the first floor."

After careful consideration, Li Wei issued the message through the Prestige Card system. It was necessary to reorganize and reorganize all the free citizens to clarify the authority of each department, so that the entire camp could operate more efficiently.

At that moment, all forty-two people received several messages simultaneously.

Subsequently, Li Wei highlighted Nelson's name and, directly as the Free People's Steward, assembled a small team. The team members were: Lenos, the Engineering Team Supervisor; Henry, the newly appointed Warehouse Manager of Warehouse No. 4; Allen, the Head Chef; Jenny, the Marketing Supervisor; Havel, the Transportation Team Supervisor; Ash, the Deputy Head of the Medical Team; Delphine, the Education Team Supervisor; Caroline, the Deputy Head of the Tailoring Team; Sam, the Deputy Head of the Blacksmithing Team; Lucas, the Deputy Head of the Armor Making Team; and Alexander, the Deputy Head of the Miners Team.

These people, in principle, must obey the management of Nelson, the free people's supervisor. Of course, major matters require a vote by the committee members, and for even more important matters, Li Wei will intervene...

The above-mentioned team members will generally lead some group members.

The 208 newly arrived free citizens, except for the children, were all divided up immediately. Who wouldn't want to have enough manpower for the tasks they are responsible for?
This marks the fourth time Li Wei has adjusted personnel in the past two weeks.

For example, Nelson, the freeman overseer, has five specialized staff members under him: one responsible for coordination, one for record-keeping, and three for review and evaluation. A project cannot be decided simply by saying how much material or manpower is needed; it requires evaluation by more authoritative professionals.

Nielsen himself is an outstanding engineer, and the three people assigned to review and evaluate him are also top-notch in the field, science elites, who can understand most things at a glance.

What pleased Li Wei even more was that these three evaluators were all chosen by Nelson himself; they had a keen eye and were very capable.

In short, Nelson is a good freeman overseer.

The engineering team in Lenos basically included most of the technical personnel. From the development of underground space, the construction of underground pipelines, the maintenance of heating pipelines, the steam engine power generation, to the construction of future city walls and residential buildings, the engineering team was needed to solve all of these problems.

Currently, there are fifty people in the team, making it the largest task force.

It is worth mentioning that the engineering team is strictly divided into the blacksmith team, the tailor team, and the armor-making team.

The former is only responsible for the basic needs of ordinary free citizens, while the latter specializes in crafting equipment with attributes.

Just like the blacksmith team led by Zhao Xuanxuan, more than a dozen blacksmith apprentices have been eliminated in the past few days. It's not that they weren't smart enough or hardworking enough, but that they weren't suitable to be enchanted blacksmiths.

Zhao Xuanxuan has gone completely mad; she insists on collecting the blood of superhumans to add to molten iron...

At this moment, Li Wei looked at the camp's inventory.

Currently, there are 1500 units of the One-Star Blood Resistance Potion in stock, and another 1000 units can be produced in the next month, which is quite a large quantity.

Li Wei didn't understand the principle behind this thing, but according to Liang Yuzhi, it was a kind of inhibitor. The source of the radiation blood plague was the out-of-control magical particles. While causing destruction, it also brought new life. Many plants mutated as a result, and by utilizing their own advantages, they formed an inhibitory effect during the mutation process. As long as they were properly mixed, blood resistance potions could be obtained.

That's about right.

The reserve of two-star blood resistance potions is 150 units, and another 50 units can be reserved for next month. It is worth mentioning that Liang Yuzhi earns 100 family contribution points for making one two-star blood resistance potion, so her current family contribution points are 24000. If this continues, she may be able to take away Li Wei's position as the head of the family...

Of course, for the two who have now established a strategic partnership, this is no big deal!
Food reserves are not a problem; even with more than two hundred people, we can easily last until next autumn.

All the wheat harvested this year will be kept as seeds, because Li Wei plans to plant 100 mu of land next year.

Then came firewood, coal, and iron ore. The reserves of these supplies were also steadily increasing. Lyon was the leader of the mining team. Every day, he led more than 20 miners to the small town in the northern valley to mine like crazy. Area A on the first floor of the camp could no longer hold coal, so now they had to rush to build a coal warehouse and an iron ore warehouse outside.

Thomas was appointed by Li Wei as the captain of the tactical squadron, and He Yuying was the vice captain. Their only task was training.

Meanwhile, Zhang Jinjun, the leader of the Heartless Pit, was assigned by Li Wei to log. Every day, he drove an electric bus with the mining team, with few requirements, just one truckload of wood a day.

Li Yue was in charge of the tailoring group and the armor-making group.

After such a unified and coordinated inspection, Li Wei couldn't think of anything that had been overlooked, so he went to bed. For him, it would soon be the seventh month since he came to this world, and he was very pleased with the progress he had made.

(End of this chapter)