During a break from his alchemy, Wang Jixuan discussed with Zhou Zhengde. Since recruiting one is still recruiting, and persuading three to return is also persuading, might as well call them all together.
Only by first letting them understand the Fortress, using Fortress 76 as a microcosm of the surface ecology, could he ask them if they wanted to join him.
Wang Jixuan changed into clean sportswear and, wearing the sneakers brought by Peony at so unknown ti, he jumped out of the residential building’s window with a fresh and cool deanor.
Zhou Zhengde wondered, "Why don’t I see your wingman?"
"I let her to take care of the shell instructor," Wang Jixuan said as he took a seat next to the sincere and kind-hearted Tree Man Beta.
The Tree Man Beta, honest and good-hearted, fished out a box of milk he had secretly saved from breakfast and presented it to Master Wang like a treasured gift.
"Thank you."
Wang Jixuan accepted with a smile:
"Let’s go, today Captain Zhou will take us to tour the inside of the Fortress, I just happen to need to survey so positions for setting up defensive arrays later."
The Shaman, who adored long dresses with a desert style, couldn’t help but mutter under her breath:
"Why do I feel like you have an ulterior motive today? Where’s my captain?"
"They’re still hidden in the D3 combat zone."
Wang Jixuan consoled:
"It’s a chaotic ti now, their hiding is actually the safest option. They can directly tell the Investigation Team that they’re injured or that the pursuit from D5 is too intense. Don’t worry, as soon as we get in touch with her, I will let you talk to her. Zhengde, have the casualties been tallied?"
"One thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dead, roughly eight thousand injured, but most of the injuries are minor."
Zhou Zhengde sighed and drove the tour car smoothly towards the central elevator.
He muttered softly:
"You were tinkering with stuff in the studio before, we didn’t dare disturb you. Grandfather has already sent over other Second Generation Half-human chas, hearing that the shell instructor was saved by you, he wanted to express his gratitude on his behalf."
"He’s grateful too soon."
Wang Jixuan replied simply:
"Let him co to thank at noon, I’ve managed to preserve a precious combat force for him."
Zhou Zhengde was stunned for a mont and after pondering deeply, he exclaid in surprise, "Shell instructor can still fight? It’s not just about saving his life?"
"Yes, it’s not a big problem, he can continue with the overload a hundred and eighty more tis."
Wang Jixuan changed the subject:
"The compound they are using, get so of it, I want to see if I can make a lifesaving thod out of it."
Shen Qionglin raised his hand to push up glasses that weren’t there and reminded, "That compound is designed to stimulate the brain into excitent; the price is the risk of causing brain tissue damage. It’s specifically developed for Half-human chas; you probably don’t need it."
"Let’s try it... I’ve looked at so of the notes you wrote."
Wang Jixuan took out Shen Qionglin’s notes and began discussing the content of the first few pages with great interest.
Shaman and Tree Man Beta were listening but were utterly confused.
The Shaman began to focus on enjoying the scenery inside the Fortress, while Tree Man Beta listened intently, eager to learn so precious knowledge. A progressive Tree of Kindness.
The tour car first reached the Thirteenth Floor, made a round from Central Circular Park, and took them to the Thirteenth Floor’s factory area to visit the insides of the factories here.
They browsed the capillary routes, went to so simple lounges, and also encountered so workers who had woken up late and were rushing to work. Most of these workers hurried along, casting curious glances at the tour car but not approaching to talk.
Wang Jixuan only looked at a few pages of notes, and after a brief exchange of thoughts with Shen Qionglin, both gained so inspiration.
Shen Qionglin felt it was a kind of "Rule Power";
Wang Jixuan, however, believed the mysterious characters of Spirit Cultivators were just "thods" without involving the essential rules themselves.
The two had a minor debate on this.
However, by the ti the tour car erged from the central elevator and reached the forty-fifth floor, descending along the spiral highway, Shen Qionglin’s gaze began to be drawn to the crowds on both sides.
She said softly, "I’ve seen similar scenes before?"
"Hmm?"
"In the propaganda films shown to us in the Spiritual Ability City."
Shen Qionglin, looking at the debauched scene on the forty-sixth floor, said softly:
"They say, this is how deplorable and degenerate humanity is here, requiring the guidance of the Spiritual Ability City."
Zhou Zhengde wondered, "Their internal propaganda is that bad? Not ntioning the Middle City and Upper City?"
"Why ntion them?"
The Shaman leaned over the edge of the car, curiously surveying the outside, murmuring:
"They just want to prove that the Energy City is the only paradise for humanity. Then they implent their reign of terror in the Energy City. This is the kind of education we received as children; if it weren’t for joining the Investigation Team, I would still be in the dark. This is an information cocoon, understand, Young Master Zhou?"
Zhou Zhengde laughed and shook his head.
A dozen wild-looking electric motorcycles appeared before and after the tour car, still the Silver Party Gang enforcers. Zhou Zhengde is now too well-known in the Fortress Lower City to be approached carelessly by anyone.
They stopped for a long ti on the forty-seventh and forty-eighth floors. This is the place that best represents the ecology of the Lower City, filled with ordinary people lost in darkness with empty stares.
Tree Man Beta frowned and asked, "Can I ask presumptuously? Why, when you have the ability to change the environnt here, do you let so many people in the Lower City live without hope?"
"In order to live."
Zhou Zhengde answered simply:
"Lately I’ve been working on this, and I’ve found that no matter how hard I try, I can’t directly change this ecology. Essentially, we are feeding eight hundred thousand people with the food rations of six hundred thousand. We can only ensure that four hundred thousand live a decent life, one hundred thousand are high-consumption fighters, and the remaining three hundred thousand, they need to survive near the baseline of existence with the rations ant for one hundred and fifty thousand people."
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