Hearing Old Man Zhu say this, the two young people, Xiao Wen and Xiao Guo, naturally had no objections and imdiately nodded to indicate their understanding.
Old Man Zhu smiled, encouraged the two a bit, then walked away with his hands behind his back and bending at the waist. He still had to check on the progress of the other research teams.
After reaching a consensus, Xiao Wen and Xiao Guo quickly began their search.
For most organizations, finding out the extent of casualties in each city during this Mutated Beings crisis was not an easy task.
The crisis with the Mutated Beings was not yet truly over. So cities hadn’t even managed to finalize their counts.
But for the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this was no problem. They had very high clearance and had the right to directly access non-secret military intelligence from each city.
Soon, the casualty reports from most of the cities were compiled by the two. As for those cities that hadn’t completed their counts, accessing their reports didn’t make much difference.
After all, if the Mutated Beings weren’t completely cleared out from within a city, the casualties were definitely going to be substantial.
Once the data was entered and the system automatically sorted it, the two looked from the top downward. The first few cities didn’t need any discussion, as they could all be considered super first-tier cities.
Cities like the capital, Magic Capital, Wide Capital, and Deep Capital had at least a standing force of 100,000 soldiers, and civilian casualties were very low.
However, when they looked at the city ranking fifth, both of them couldn’t help but let out a soft gasp of surprise.
"Where is this Yang City? I’ve never heard of it before, how co its casualty numbers are even lower than those of the vast majority of first-tier cities?" Xiao Guo couldn’t help but ask.
"It seems to be an industrial city near Yunshang City. It doesn’t have any notable tourist attractions, so it’s not very famous," said Xiao Wen as he clicked to view detailed intelligence.
But the more they looked, the more shocked they beca. Not only were there few casualties, but Yang City had also managed to clear out all the Mutated Beings within the city in just one day, ending its crisis.
"How did they do it? It took us in the capital city two full days to clear out all the Mutated Beings!" Xiao Guo couldn’t help but exclaim.
"And here, they even built defensive walls and have already constructed the foundations for a staggering 80 kiloters. That’s equivalent to building 40 kiloters in one day."
"Even though it’s just laying foundations, how could they possibly be this fast? This isn’t just a manpower issue anymore. Where are they getting so much construction material?" Xiao Wen was also full of question marks.
To know, in order to withstand the increasingly terrifying Mutated Beings, defense walls need to be sufficiently broad, requiring a substantial amount of building material.
Rebar and cent are one thing, perhaps they had reserves, but the most required material for building defense walls was rock, which had to be mined from outside!
Considering the level of danger in the wilderness currently, conducting safe mining operations would require deploying a large number of soldiers to protect the workers’ safety.
But according to the data, only one chanized infantry division was stationed at Yang City. Even counting newly recruited soldiers, they couldn’t possibly have such a surplus of manpower to spare, so how did they manage it?
"What’s going on? Have you made a new discovery?" Just then, an elderly voice rang out.
During the data collection process by the two young researchers, Old Man Zhu had completed his rounds with the different groups and had now returned, just in ti to catch their conversation, and his curiosity was imdiately piqued.
"Old Man Zhu!" Seeing Old Man Zhu return, they quickly called out with respect.
"Let have a look. What’s got you so surprised?"
Old Man Zhu walked to the computer, put on his reading glasses, leaned into the screen, and started examining the data of Yang City closely.
Very quickly, a look of surprise also appeared in his eyes.
"It’s truly... incredible!" Old Man Zhu exclaid.
"Alright, we don’t need to think too much about it. No matter how they did it, it doesn’t affect the result. Without a doubt, this is the lucky city we are looking for."
"For the next batch of blood samples, let’s choose from their city. Hopefully, we can also get so good luck," said Old Man Zhu with a chuckle.
In fact, with his clearance, he could investigate to find out what happened if he wanted to, but there was no need to use his authority just to satisfy his curiosity.
"Yes!" Xiao Wen and Xiao Guo responded promptly.
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Third Laboratory.
"Professor Xu, you have been working for a long ti. You should take a rest," Researcher Lu Ming said to Professor Xu Zheng’an, who headed the group.
"No worries, only two more days left, I’ll just push through," Professor Xu Zheng’an said, controlling the device without looking up.
"But Professor Xu, you’ve already been working for over 12 hours! Go take a nap anyway! Otherwise, the ntor’s wife is definitely going to call to check, and that puts in a tough spot," Lu Ming said helplessly.
Hearing Lu Ming ntion his wife, a warm smile couldn’t help but appear on the fatigued face of Xu Zheng’an, "I’ll take a rest after I do one more set of sample testing, how about that?"
After thinking for a mont and realizing a set of sample tests would take about 40 minutes, Lu Ming did not urge any further, "Alright then, I’ll go hurry the specin departnt to send over the next group of blood samples as soon as possible."
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