Chapter 1763 - 960: The City Lord Truly Has Foresight

The wind howled fiercely.

The pitch-black sky seemed to collapse, torrential rain relentlessly pounding on the sun panels above the greenhouse shelter, making a crackling sound.

Noble Consort and Old Huang placed their belongings in the far left of the greenhouse; the rain outside was too loud, causing them to barely hear each other even inside. They had to lean in to make out what the other was saying.

"Did you just see Zhong Chuchu and the others?" Old Huang asked.

Noble Consort lowered the towel she was holding, wiped her hair, and shook her head regretfully, saying, "No, I went to the neighboring greenhouse, and there were many people on that side, much more than here. It was too crowded, and I couldn’t find them."

Old Huang nodded, looking at this less than two-thousand-square-meter greenhouse, which accommodated hundreds of people. After deducting the aisle in the middle, each person has four to five square meters of space, relatively spacious compared to the neighboring one.

In the neighboring greenhouse, each sleeping place was almost lined up, forming six parallel rows.

If they weren’t arranged so neatly, they probably wouldn’t have been able to accommodate so many people.

"They should have come in too. We can find them later when there’s a chance. By the way, we haven’t exchanged points for food at the base; we should exchange some when we get the chance, as we don’t have much food left," Old Huang said.

Sitting next to him, Noble Consort nodded and said, "Okay, I’ll talk to the management when I see them later. But they might be busy right now."

Having just gone out and gotten wet, Noble Consort felt uncomfortable in her damp clothes and went into the tent to change into dry clothes.

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Meanwhile.

On the Big Camphor Tree Base wall, He An and Li Tie were steadfastly holding their ground in the pouring rain, drenched to the bone.

Their combat uniforms had become much heavier due to the soaking.

Buzz buzz buzz——

Li Tie suddenly heard Li Yu’s voice through the earpiece:

"Tiezi, come over to the duty room first."

Upon hearing this, Li Tie shook off the rainwater on his body and headed to the duty room.

He thought to himself: I should really wear a raincoat next time, even if it’s a hassle; it’s much better than being soaked.

Quickly arriving at the duty room, Li Yu said to him, "Come over and turn on the mobile switch blade. I’m going out to check its operational status."

Li Tie nodded, then took a towel from the door to wipe the rain from his hands.

Li Yu put on a raincoat, slung an automatic rifle, and walked out of the duty room.

Li Tie pressed the button for the mobile switch blade.

Instantly.

The sound of clanging was heard from outside.

The rain was shredded by the sharp mobile switch blade, droplets falling onto the ground.

Li Yu circled the wall, carefully observing the operational status of the mobile switch blade in the rain.

Meticulously, not missing a single spot.

When Guo Peng and the others encountered that zombie, it sounded an alarm for Li Yu; there could be no laxity in the face of zombies in the torrential rain, or the consequences would be unbearable.

Walking around the wall, duty personnel were seen almost every few sections.

Li Yu had no time to greet them and was solely focused on inspecting the mobile switch blade’s operation.

After nearly half an hour, he completed the inspection around the wall.

Returning to the duty room, Li Yu finally relaxed.

Seeing Li Tie soaked and shivering, Li Yu frowned and said, "Tiezi, go and rest. Let Xiao Jun and the others take over the duty."

"But...."

"Go quickly; it’s unreasonable to let them rest while you’ve been on the wall for ten hours. Go and rest."

Previously, the personnel on duty on the wall were mainly Inner City Personnel.

Except in special situations, Outer City Personnel were rarely allowed on duty.

Gradually, Li Yu also began to let some Outer City Personnel take on duty, but it didn’t become a system; mainly, Inner City Personnel were on duty.

After all, the wall was a crucial barrier, and Li Yu valued it highly.

However, currently, there are factories, farms, research rooms, medical rooms, and so on in the Big Camphor Tree Base that need personnel.

And there were not many people in the Inner City, so there was some shortage.

Li Yu planned to thoroughly change this approach.

Now, apart from the cliff on the east side, the Big Camphor Tree Base was surrounded by Outer City on the other three sides, with a new wall also outside the expanded Outer City.

Li Yu planned for the Outer City personnel to primarily handle duties outside the walls, except for the duty room.

Inner walls would be guarded by a small number of Inner City Personnel, which would significantly reduce the personnel burden.

Li Yu then discussed this idea with Second Uncle, who agreed but added a suggestion:

"Assign Inner City Personnel to sit in five duty rooms, keeping at least two Inner City Personnel at the main gate duty room, while the others are tightened by Outer City Personnel."

This suggestion did not conflict with Li Yu’s plan, so he accepted it.

Soon.

Xiao Jun and others were brought up for duty.

Apart from them, the old duty rooms on the Inner City Wall were not dismantled; they were kept as rest rooms.

This would also allow Inner City Personnel to take shelter from the rain inside, providing a warning against the outside while taking shelter.

The walls of Inner and Outer City had a total of ten duty rooms, occupying the most critical positions on the wall.

With the rainstorm, eleven Inner City Personnel occupied these duty stations, monitoring through cameras.