Chapter 286 - 250: A Single Spark

Chapter 286: Chapter 250: A Single Spark

With these booklets in hand, they were now Reborn.

Song Jinchuan’s strategy shifted. He stroked his neat beard and asked the group:

"Since we’ll all be splitting up to prepare soon, we should take this chance to speak openly. Let’s discuss the resources we currently have, where we should set up our future bases, and who will be responsible for gathering what."

Fan Zhenyu, who had just been called out by Yu Dong, was a little annoyed at first. But then he thought about it... ’Damn, that really does sound like something I’d say!’

When he messed up, he’d literally slap himself across the face.

Thinking about it this way, Yu Dong’s identity as a Reborn seemed even more credible!

’If my future self didn’t trust him, there’s no way he’d share something so personal.’

So, he joined in on the next phase of the discussion.

"We don’t need to pick a new spot. Let’s just use the cruise ship. I just looked at our bases from the last life, and none of them were better than the ship. I really like my new house... but for the greater good, I’ll join you guys on the cruise. My brother and I have been all over the place since we graduated from martial arts school, done all kinds of work. We’ve saved up some money over the years, but not a lot... maybe about a million or so on hand."

Yu Dong immediately shook his head. "The cruise ship won’t work. You can’t go to the cruise ship."

"Huh? Why not? I saw that by day 138, everyone near Binhai Avenue had boarded the cruise ship... Are you worried we won’t have enough supplies? We can just prepare more this time! Food isn’t hard to buy, is it? I know a few bosses who deal in beef from Brazil. It’d be easy to get a few dozen tons of beef out of their cold storage."

Fan Zhenyu said, puffing out his chest.

"No, you misunderstand. With so many of us preparing in advance, food and drink will be easy to arrange. That won’t be a problem."

"The real issue is... area of influence. This is a pattern I’ve observed: non-combatants at the cruise ship base have a limited range of activity. Even when there were very few zombies outside, they wouldn’t wander far. They only operate within a few hundred meters of the base, using whatever tools they can find within that safe zone to develop and restore production."

"I don’t know if you’ve played strategy games, but Yanhai City has resource points."

"If we don’t establish our bases near those resource points, we won’t be able to use them."

"For example, in our past life, our three separate bases all had fisheries. Before the sea froze over in the deep winter, none of us lacked for fish. But after we merged... we only had one fishery."

"A base isn’t better just because it’s bigger. Within the scope of our abilities, we need to build multiple bases to cover enough key resources and trapped survivors. That’s the only way we can all live well, be productive, rescue more people, and fight the zombies!"

"We need people working on fisheries, people making explosives, people researching a vaccine, people raising pigs..."

"Don’t just think about getting on the cruise ship together. You are the Reborn! You need to use your own resources and connections to build your own apocalyptic bases!"

"When the apocalypse comes... we will sound the horn for the counterattack against the zombies from different locations, all at the same time!"

"Each of us will light a fire, and when we converge... we can illuminate everything."

Yu Dong spoke of his observations, his thoughts, and his vision for the future. He waved his arms, spittle flying from his lips, his whole being filled with passionate energy.

Everyone was immersed in the future Yu Dong described, as if they could see specks of fire being lit all across Yanhai City...

At that moment, they all understood Yu Dong’s meaning and began discussing the locations for their own apocalyptic bases right then and there.

In their past life, they had no choice but to find the nearest defensible spot.

This time, they had ample time and strategy to choose a better location.

Song Jinchuan: "Our villa complex is too small. It would be a tight squeeze even for 500 people... I need a bigger place."

Fan Zhenyu: "Hmm... the conditions at my residential complex are just average, but there are four complexes right next to each other. There must be a lot of living people there. I need to find a place nearby and rescue those people as soon as possible. People are the greatest resource."

Zhang Yihuai: "I’m very familiar with the Olympic Sports Center, and its location is pretty good, so I won’t change it. There’s a sky bridge on the second floor that connects to the shopping mall across the street. If I prepare in advance... I can rescue the people in the mall right from the start, then connect the mall and the Olympic Sports Center to form a dual base."

If Yu Dong had ordered them to obey... these people might have resisted, or wondered if it aligned with their own interests.

But when Yu Dong laid out the situation and let them plan the future of their own bases, each person was motivated to use all their strength to build their own apocalyptic fortress.

The feeling of being manipulated was gone...

Ji Luo, on the other hand, had it easy. She didn’t need to worry about a location, only about how to best prepare the research institute.

Of course, they weren’t the only ones making plans.

Far out on the ocean, an independent woman was also using a satellite phone to remotely direct her sisters’ preparations.

"What do you mean you can’t build a fully automated chicken farm in seven days? Can’t you just acquire one, Sister Yun? We’ll buy a ready-made one!"

"I told you to ask how greenhouses are built, not why that jerk Da Peng is such a jerk! Why are you even talking to him?! What, a new movie? I don’t have time for that!" ⅇ

"You found the pigs, right? You’re the reliable one, Qiqi. Huh? What do you mean ’is it okay to leave them at my front door?’ Holy crap... Why did you have them drive the pigs out of the pig farm?! We need the *entire pig farm*! Right! Call Sister Yun, quick! Don’t you two go and buy me two separate farms that aren’t even next to each other!"