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Extra chapters today!! ٩( ᗒᗨᗕ )۶
This is the 2nd out of 2. Thank you to “LunaBunny”.
The person who came to the door was a member of the Panlong team, inviting the leader of Team 0246 for a discussion.
After some consideration, Yue Zheng said to Xu Song and the others, “You go ahead and work on the car stuff. I’ll go check it out, contact me if anything.”
Xu Song could only instruct, “Be careful.”
Watching Yue Zheng leave with the Panlong team members towards the villa of the Panlong team, Xu Song had no choice but to say to Luo Wen’an and the others, “Let’s go first.” The matter with the cars was urgent, and they needed to finish modifying them quickly to engage in more meaningful activities outside. Staying here undoubtedly meant getting involved in the power struggles within the base.
For those who were ambitious for power, now might be the best time. They might even take advantage of the chaos to grab a big piece of the cake and possibly vie for the highest authority in everyone’s eyes.
Unfortunately, Xu Song had no such ambitions, and Yue Zheng had no interest in these troublesome matters either.
Survival and rights—both of them undoubtedly chose the former. Exploring the secrets of the mutated creatures themselves had a much greater appeal than staying in the base to fight for power and profit.
Behind the RV, two parallel container trucks were being towed, heading towards Zone A. Xu Song was driving since he was more familiar with the peculiar giant vehicle compared to Luo Wen’an and the others. The vehicle was too large, and ordinary people were reluctant to drive it—afraid of accidentally hitting something.
Opening the warehouse door and checking the number of items brought in yesterday, confirming everything was in order, everyone started getting busy.
The first thing to be modified was the body of the vehicle itself. When Yue Zheng and the others entered the city this time, they happened to pass by a car exhibition center, where they found another RV on their way back.
Vehicle body modification, equipment debugging, instrument installation—all these tasks were numerous and chaotic. It was believed that completing them in a short time was impossible. Even with a conservative estimate, if they could finish everything within a week, it would be considered a very difficult achievement.
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While Xu Song and the others were busy in Zone A, Yue Zheng, who went to Panlong’s place, found that apart from the original Panlong members, there were also almost all the team leaders and deputy team leaders of several small teams in the living room.
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While Xu Song and the others were busy modifying the cars in Zone A, Yue Zheng and the other team managers entered Zone A, but in a different location.
In the spacious conference room, one side was the base management, and the other side consisted of representatives from various small teams.
The meeting continued from noon until evening. It wasn’t until three days later that an agreement acceptable to both sides was reached. During these three days, the modification of Xu Song’s team’s vehicles proceeded very smoothly. The vehicle bodies had all been modified according to the requirements, and they were now separating different usage areas and installing various equipment.
“Is the meeting over?” As the mission today was nearing completion, Xu Song noticed that Yue Zheng had come earlier than usual. In the past two days, Yue Zheng’s meetings always ended later than the time he spent modifying the vehicles here, so him coming this early today was a first.
“Yeah, it’s done. I’ll tell you more in a bit,” Yue Zheng looked at the several… vehicles that had been completely transformed, feeling somewhat impressed. “Is this how they turn out?”
He had only seen Xu Song’s drawings on paper before, and this was the first time he had seen the real thing.
Xu Song smiled and pointed to the vehicles, looking quite pleased, “Exactly! Do you want to take a look inside?”
Yue Zheng also smiled lightly, nodding, “Tomorrow, let’s come over together early in the morning.”
“Do we still need to go over there afterward?”
Shaking his head, Yue Zheng looked inside in the direction of the car window, “No need, we don’t have anything to do over there later. We’ll focus on things here.”
Luo Wen’an and the others, who had been busy all day, climbed out of the compartment, greeted Yue Zheng with a smile, “Is the boss here?”
“Let’s go back today. If there’s anything, come over early tomorrow morning to continue.”
Riding in the back of a pickup truck, Luo Wen’an and the others chatted and laughed all the way. Not far from Zone A, on the newly designated open space, things had become much quieter. The mid-range residential area had been completed, and capable teams had gradually moved away from here. Although the civilian area hadn’t been completely built yet, at least about half of the buildings were finished. Some strong individuals, relying on their strength, managed to move there ahead of others.
Now, mostly only the elderly and weak remained here.
Glancing out of the car window for a few moments, Xu Song whispered, “How was the meeting?”
Yue Zheng raised the corner of his mouth, wearing a somewhat scornful smile, “Their goals have been basically achieved. The base has been in turmoil for the past few days, and it has helped them a lot.”
The day before yesterday, there was another outbreak of conflict among the people left in the empty space of the East and West Zones. Ordinary people and ability users fought, causing many casualties. The base had to quickly send out soldiers who were working on construction, finishing touches, and guarding the perimeter to barely stop the spread of the conflict.
“Seems like things outside haven’t settled down either.”
Yue Zheng nodded, “The base’s original food consumption has been considerable, and the birds we killed before also provided a lot of food. So, the base sent out some people to hunt in the vicinity. If it weren’t for this reason, they wouldn’t have let things inside the base become so chaotic.”
“What about them…”
“All the teams reached an agreement. Tomorrow, they will send people to help the base maintain order and resume the earlier operation of collecting supplies outside.” Various teams had been preserving their strength all this time. Unfortunately, they didn’t have much in their hands. However, if they didn’t take the opportunity now to make requests and set conditions with the base, it would be difficult to exploit similar situations later.
“Oh, by the way, the ability teams will be renamed starting tomorrow.”
“Renamed?”
“Yes, they’ll be changed to ‘Guilds.'” Yue Zheng’s eyes flashed with indifference as he turned the car into the villa area.
In the base, ability users were allowed to establish the “Ability Users Association.” The various teams formed under the association were now renamed to “xx Guilds.” The Ability Users Association collaborated with the authorities but did not use the original mission release meeting’s staff. Instead, they used purely ability users as staff.
The Ability Users Association acted as an independent joint management organization for ability users and agreed to let some ability users from the authorities become managers. It unified the management of various guilds under it and handled daily tasks like issuing missions and managing guild reputation. Its main purpose was to separate the teams of ability users from direct management by the authorities.
“So, our team will also be renamed as a Guild?” Xu Song asked with some curiosity.
Yue Zheng shook his head, “The Guild has issued a series of requirements. The minimum number of applicants for a primary guild must be over ten. For C-grade or higher teams, the required number of members to apply is at least one hundred. For B-grade teams, it’s two hundred, and for A-grade teams, it’s five hundred or more. There is no upper limit on the number of members, but half of them must have abilities at Level 2 or above.”
Staring blankly at him, Xu Song opened his mouth wide, a sense of anger swirling in his chest, “So?”
“We are the 0246 Special Operations Team,” Yue Zheng turned to look at Xu Song. “An A-grade team.”
Since Yue Zheng brought back the equipment with the team the last time, they could have directly been promoted to an A-grade team. However, due to various issues in between, Yue Zheng didn’t have the chance to complete the procedures until this afternoon after the meeting.
He knew what the organizers of the Ability Users Association were thinking. The so-called restrictions on the number of people were actually preparations for their better development of their respective forces. Almost every team that could live in the villa area had at least fifty to sixty people, and small teams like Panlong’s had long exceeded a hundred, or even more.
They needed more manpower for development, and naturally, they didn’t want small teams with few people to progress alongside them, threatening their position.
Perhaps, when setting the number limit, they didn’t consider situations similar to their own team. However, after proposing this number standard and other conditions, undoubtedly, their 0246 team had quietly been “expelled” under the unspoken rules of the majority over the minority during the meeting.
After the meeting, those people were busy expanding their influence in the civilian area and recruiting new members. No one had much interaction with them – not enough members; just recruit enough and it’s fine, right? The ability levels were generally lower? Recruit some high-level ability users, and it’s good enough?
Unfortunately, Yue Zheng had no such intentions, and Xu Song and the others had no such plans either.
“Do we need to move out of the East Zone?” Hearing Yue Zheng’s words, Xu Song understood his meaning. “Now the West Zone should still be operating under a squad system, right?”
Yue Zheng nodded, “No need to move out. The buildings in the East and West Zones are constructed by the authorities. The villa belongs to us permanently, and there’s no need to move out.” They were ability users, and no other team could evict their squad. Even if those teams were renamed as “Guilds,” it would be the same.
“Let’s speed up the modification tomorrow.” They really couldn’t stay here anymore.
Early the next morning, the base’s thorough cleaning operation officially began. Each team—no, each Ability Users Guild, mobilized enough manpower for an in-depth investigation. Those who caused trouble in the past few days were arrested one after another.
However, after half a day, those who resisted to the death were either arrested or killed on the spot. The remaining more sensible individuals joined various guilds, transforming from being captured to becoming part of the capturing force.
The Ability Users Guild swiftly passed the proposal to inspect green-blooded individuals, and the base began a thorough inspection. In addition to members of various guilds, there was almost no room for resistance for teams in the West Zone. Almost everyone was forcibly subjected to blood tests to confirm the color of their blood.
A portion of green-blooded individuals hidden among ordinary people were thus discovered, sparking another conflict. In this large-scale inspection, the number of people who died due to the inspection itself reached two to three hundred, and countless others were injured.
Wow they really just be killing themselves off huh. Literally why humanity is trash. Just killing and more killing for power and for fear. I feel bad for the innocent people dying and suffering. I’m happy our team is getting out!! Thanks for the chapter
I agree. Just disgusting.
Interesting how the guild system really disadvantaged the most powerful team… Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🌳
Yep, time to leave and never coming back.