“Your ancient medicinal crops are ripe; please harvest them as soon as possible…”

Two full days had passed since the night of the beast tide, and South City had returned to its long-awaited calm.

Li Tianran had been busy as well. Since the arrival of the second Doom Era, he had harvested ancient medicinal crops twice. After keeping some for his own use, he exchanged the rest for points and had once again become wealthy.

Mall Points: 2,100,000!

Four days, two million points!

This level of gain was something Li Tianran couldn't have imagined before. Since expanding the planting area, the speed at which he earned points had increased dozens of times!

Li Tianran glanced at the mall.

At this rate, it would only take 2,000 days to exchange for the most powerful LV5 mech-class warrior. How delightful… bull!

Li Tianran was a little overwhelmed!

These damn LV5 combat warriors were just too expensive!

At his current growth rate of 500,000 points a day, it would take him almost six years to buy one…

With the Doom Eras arriving one after another, could Blue Star last for another six years?

"Steady your mind! Steady your mind!" Li Tianran forcibly comforted himself. His farm was only LV2 right now. As long as he continued to upgrade and expand the planting area and land level, the speed at which he earned points would only increase. Sooner or later, he would be able to build a mech fleet of his own!

As for cooperating with the Federation to promote planting across the country and get rich together…

Li Tianran hadn't considered that.

He currently didn't have the strength to negotiate with the Federation on equal footing and couldn't guarantee his own safety and interests. He was ninety-nine percent willing to trust his country, but he didn't dare gamble on that one percent chance.

Because that would require betting his and Hanhan's lives.

Before mastering absolute power, it was best not to place all your hopes on others keeping their promises.

It was better to play it safe!

With the points, Li Tianran's shopping desires were revived. He paid close attention in the points mall for a long time and selected a high-power water purification heater that could purify ninety-nine percent of the impurities in groundwater. Although it couldn't remove the V-shaped virus, it could make the water clear, odorless, and clean!

After replacing the old heater in the bathroom with the new one, Li Tianran smiled and said, "Finally, I can take a bath…"

Evolutionaries had long ignored the invasion of the V-shaped virus, but the odor in the groundwater was unbearable for Li Tianran. He hadn't showered for days, and tonight he could finally wash up properly.

He once again pulled up his stats to take a look.

After two days of madly devouring the beast king's meat, his base attributes, ability range, and power had all been improved.

Gravity: 110 times!

Range: 3.3 meters!

Field Expansion: 10 times!

Both his base attributes and awakened abilities had improved by a tenth.

This rate of improvement was extremely fast.

Li Tianran guessed that as his attributes became higher and higher in the future, this speed would likely slow down.

"South City has temporarily calmed down. In addition to farming, it's time to find some suitable candidates to become evolutionaries and truly bring them under my command…" Li Tianran stood in the steamy bathroom, wiping his well-defined, artistic-like muscles while muttering to himself.

…

"We just received instructions from above to start building a large-scale shelter! Hospitals, water towers, research centers, command centers, everything must be complete!" Miao Yu held a confidential document and said in a deep voice, "Prepare for a long-term war!"

Professor Nan looked at the document Miao Yu handed over and frowned. "According to the instructions above, it will take at least several months to build such a shelter!"

"We don't have several months, not even two." Miao Yu said in a deep voice, "The higher-ups have issued a strict order to complete the shelter in one month! We must invest all available forces and complete all the construction before the next beast tide arrives!"

Professor Nan didn't continue speaking, listening to the decisiveness in Miao Yu's words.

Although the beast tide had temporarily retreated, no one knew when it would return. They needed to seize the time.

"By the way, what is the supply situation in the shelter? Can it meet the normal needs of the people?" Miao Yu asked.

An adjutant walked over, looking somewhat troubled, and said, "Everything else is fine. The food has been transferred long ago, but the water source needs to be requisitioned from the 'Dragon-Leading Project' reservoir thousands of kilometers away. Even if it is transferred, the amount distributed to each person will be very small… Many people are complaining about the hardship of life."

Miao Yu muttered in a cold voice, "Let's consider survival first, then life!"

Professor Nan was silent for a moment, then walked over and said, "I also have something to say. The people evacuated too hastily last time. Many people have reported that some of their important supplies are still left at home and urgently need to be retrieved."

"…" Miao Yu frowned.

"Not to mention things like money, but the most important thing is some medicine and medical auxiliary equipment. Many elderly people have chronic diseases and need to use instruments for physiotherapy every day." Professor Nan said in a deep voice, "These things are difficult for us to apply for from the higher-ups in a short period of time."

"My suggestion is to take advantage of this period when the sea beasts have calmed down and allow South City to enter a semi-unbanned state so that people can return to retrieve their supplies in batches."

Miao Yu listened to Professor Nan's words, feeling somewhat worried.

"There is no better way. Our forces need to be immediately invested in construction. There is no time to count the residential locations and needs of the people one by one, then help them retrieve them and distribute them." Professor Nan said helplessly, "If tens of thousands of people's requests are all done by our two thousand soldiers, this process will take at least half a month!"

Miao Yu pondered in silence for a moment, then nodded and said, "You arrange this matter, and try to… ensure the safety of the people going out!"

…

On the third day after the beast tide invasion, the South City Central Shelter, which was originally under martial law, entered a semi-unbanned state.

A large amount of materials was transported from other places, and the repair work of the large shelter was in full swing.

People left the shelter in batches.

Among them, some people's homes were attacked by the beast tide and had already been razed to the ground; others were luckier, and their homes were not affected by the aftermath of the war that night.

The former sat in front of the ruins and cried, while the latter seized the time to retrieve the precious supplies stored in their homes and hurriedly returned to the shelter…

"There will be four more updates later, pushing a small climax…"