My Ability Pool is Superior - Chapter 459: Getting On Track

The staff member holding the megaphone noticed the young people standing at the exit and immediately urged: “Don’t stand there, keep moving forward.”

The young people acted as if they hadn’t heard, not even turning their heads.

If this had happened before Lu Bai took the stage, the gun barrel would probably have been firing nonstop.

But considering the efficient review and report mechanism, the staff didn’t dare to act too arrogant and could only guide according to the rules.

Fortunately, this Demonic Path Great Power had no intention of starting a big fight right now, so he thought about it and followed the staff’s guidance to the material collection point for registration.

Behind him, confused civilians were still emerging continuously from the civil defense project.

They didn’t even have time to marvel at arriving on the surface that their ancestors had longed for before their attention was drawn to the building complex in front of them.

That’s right, the building complex.

No longer just a solitary forward base, but a building complex extending outward from the forward base as the center, almost qualifying as a small city.

Moreover, the scale of this city was still continuously expanding, like a rapidly growing steel behemoth.

After all, with the existence of supernatural power, construction efficiency was no worry at all, not to mention the several heavy construction devices left over from previously building the forward base.

Tall buildings rose one after another, and the area around the forward base was changing almost daily.

Even people who had already been on the surface for a while felt as if years had passed, let alone these civilians who had just arrived on the surface.

“Ah?”

“This isn’t what they told us when we came up, right?”

“Can we live in those houses?”

The bustling construction scenes all around caught these civilians who had just returned to the surface off guard.

Most civilians had planned to return to the surface and live like primitives, never expecting to see such a scene.

“Alright, alright, don’t crowd. Specific situations will be explained to you after registration is complete.”

……

“No need to report the specific details to me. Handle the urban area planning yourselves; I only look at results.”

After seeing off a group of people in charge of urban area planning, Lu Bai breathed a slight sigh of relief.

With so many civilians returning to the surface, talent from all walks of life could be found among them.

He adhered to the principle of letting professionals handle professional matters, and had no need or intention to meddle in areas he didn’t understand.

The core of all management issues was people; he only needed to appoint the main person in charge for each aspect.

Taking a sip of water, he turned to the three people sitting in the office: “Sorry to keep you three waiting.”

Hearing this, the three on the sofa shot up as if springs were under their butts, responding with frightened expressions.

“No, no.”

“Mr. Lu, you’re too kind; we’re not worthy.”

Lu Bai pressed his hand downward, signaling them not to be nervous, and said with a smile: “You three are top economists. I’ll have to trouble you to clarify some things for me next.”

The two words “people’s livelihood” boiled down to clothing, food, housing, and transport, all of which involved economic issues.

If these aspects weren’t handled well from the start, even the most prosperous scene would be a castle in the air, and subsequent fixes would consume unknown amounts of energy.

“Could it be that Mr. Lu plans to directly copy the shelter’s economic system?”

Lu Bai thought for a moment and simply asked directly: “If we do that, what problems would there be?”

The three exchanged glances, and finally the oldest economist spoke to explain: “Doing it that way isn’t a big problem, but there would be many problems.”

No need to elaborate on the essence of the economy, because Lu Bai’s existence itself was a massive bug.

Perhaps Lu Bai hadn’t considered this aspect, but the actual influence he caused had substantially turned the current forward base into a unified purchase and sales system.

This meant that for the vast majority of civilians in the forward base, their consumption ability had been systematically compressed.

Economic systems strictly speaking had no superiority or inferiority; it was more about path choices.

Special times naturally required special means, but if Lu Bai wanted to be a hands-off manager responsible only for supervision afterward, he would have to redesign an economic system.

After listening quietly for a while, Lu Bai waved his hand: “I don’t understand. You judge how to do it and what consequences there will be. My requirements are only two points: efficiency and fairness. I’ll give you time, and you must show me results.”

Lu Bai took out a pre-written script and read earnestly: “We must find a new path to the future, where development no longer means bloodletting for some groups, but common benefit for all society, achieving harmony and unity between capital accumulation and social justice instead of opposition.”

The older economist’s mouth twitched.

If not for Lu Bai being unimaginably strong, all three would have wanted to quit and run away.

“Any other questions?”

“N-No… none.”

“Alright then, you’re dismissed. Get back to work.”

……

Watching the three economists leave with troubled expressions, the uniformed elder with white hair stood at the entrance, gave himself a pep talk, and then pushed the door open.

“Report! Mr. Lu, the low Earth orbit monitoring network has been set up.”

No matter how much helplessness the uniformed elder felt inside, his reporting voice was still as vigorous as ever.

Lu Bai nodded: “Good. Maintain twenty-four-hour surveillance from now on.”

In the end, whether it was city planning and construction or guarantees for clothing, food, housing, and transport, all could be slowed down a bit.

What truly hung over the forward base’s head like the Sword of Damocles was the Mona people who might descend at any unknown time.

Even though Lu Bai was confident he could resist or even destroy the Mona people’s fleet, he wouldn’t be careless enough to make no preparations.

After all, the Mona people’s technological level far surpassed humanity’s. Without considering Lu Bai, humanity had almost no chance of winning.

And Lu Bai was thinking that while resolving the Mona people crisis, he also wanted to minimize human losses as much as possible.

To achieve that degree naturally required extra effort.

“How are the comrades’ emotions?”

The uniformed elder hesitated for a moment and gave a perfunctory reply.

“Pretty good.”

“That means there’s still resistance.”

Lu Bai patted the uniformed elder’s shoulder: “Old Yuan, you need to work harder to quickly eliminate the military’s fear of the Mona people.”

……It wasn’t fear of sacrifice; mainly unwillingness to follow your command.

The uniformed elder barely swallowed the words on the tip of his tongue and nodded obediently instead: “Leave it to me. Rest assured.”