Su Han had thought that Zhu Xiong, like himself, had only brought back a few people, but unexpectedly, it was an entire construction crew, over thirty strong, more than half of whom were Contractors.
According to Zhang Dahai, these were all people from so construction teams and subcontracting companies under him.
In the post-apocalyptic world, many people had transford into creatures like flesh corpses, but at the construction sites, almost everyone's hand was either on steel rebar and shovels or hamrs and pliers—everyone was ard.
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In the early stages of transformation into monsters, indeed many were overwheld and killed in panic, but once they regained their composure, a group of hardened construction workers, muscles brimming and with weapons in hand, managed to kill quite a number of the creatures.
With everyone being either friends or fellow townsfolk, their unity was strong, and with so of the smaller leaders organizing, a small team was ford.
They took over a building with its fra already erected, making use of barricades and other tools to protect themselves.
After more than a month, this many had survived.
Zhang Dahai hadn't lied; the boy hadn't really withheld wages and still had so prestige in front of these people. Plus, with the number of people and strength Zhu Xiong's group had brought, they smoothly incorporated this group.
They were all people who made their living on the construction site, mostly honest and straightforward, simply seeking to survive.
Now that such a strong team was ford, naturally, no one opposed.
Once Zhang Dahai organized them, roughly sixty people got to work together, cleaning out the monsters from the Nanwan Residential Area construction site, then the steel rebar, cent, dump trucks, and excavators were all brought back like ants carrying food.
When Su Han returned, Yan iyu was busy registering these people and assigning living quarters, activating villas number 8, 11, and 12.
Seeing Yan iyu occupied, he didn't bother to ask about the current situation. After instructing Xu Wenqian and the others to report for duty, he headed back to villa number 9.
The Human-faced Tree had taken root between villas number 9 and 10, extending its root system just as before.
Compared to before when its roots could only stretch about three hundred ters, the extent of its roots had now experienced significant growth, reaching approximately four hundred ters.
Although still insufficient to cover the entire villa area, several villas on the side of Yunling Lake nearby were already within the coverage area.
The Radiance of the Lamp Tree shone bright, the fog gradually dispelled, making everything much clearer.
Compared to the previous few Lamp Trees, its illuminated range was undoubtedly much wider.
After dealing with the Human-faced Tree, Su Han, controlling the Demon Spider Warrior, arrived where the steel rebar was.
The steel rebar had been completely unloaded, piled up on the open ground outside villa number 9.
The tens of tons of steel rebar might sound like a lot, but when stacked up, it didn't seem particularly conspicuous.
The Demon Spider Warrior's Interdiate tal Control activated, and then about two tons of steel rebar were extracted.
Within ten ters in front of the Demon Spider Warrior, the tal continuously compressed and reshaped, gradually forming two cubic-shaped prisons.
After reaching Interdiate tal Control, both its ability to control and to strengthen tal had improved sowhat, and the reshaping process was much faster.
In no more than three minutes, both prisons were ford, with gaps and holes finer than those of the at Mountain Demon's barrier-style prison.
The Clawed Giants were not only massive in stature but could also extend countless tentacles.
Without such a design, their tentacles would likely be able to reach out and cause trouble.
By the ti the Clawed Giants were captured, they were both still in a semi-paralyzed state.
The Human-faced Tree's paralyzing poison was quite effective—it would do the job.
......
Early the next morning, Su Han sought out Zhu Xiong and Gan Xinglei.
"Su Han, are we going fishing?"
Zhu Xiong appeared sowhat excited, even eager to try, as he had smashed more than ten ordinary monsters with his flesh corpse's hamr at the construction site yesterday.
That battle had beco a catalyst for mutation, making him feel like he was only a wall away from becoming a First Order Upper Grade.
Therefore, he was anxious for more combat to achieve his breakthrough.
Su Han glanced at him and said, "I'll handle the fishing. There's sothing else for you and Zhang Dahai to do."
Zhu Xiong was taken aback and asked, "What? Besides fishing, what else do we need to do?"
"You'll go to the comrcial area, take the trucks over. I've mostly cleared the monsters there; you clean up the remainder and bring back the goods," Su Han replied.
???
Zhu Xiong and a few others widened their eyes, seeming not to believe what they heard. Clear an entire comrcial street?
Even if there were few monsters, that would still an starting from a few hundred.
Are two Second-Rank Apostles really that fierce?
"Su Han, I haven't read much, don't fool ," soone said.
Su Han rolled his eyes and replied, "Making jokes will cost you points. No kidding, we need to move everything out of the underground parking lot at Sumr Garden Mall. I haven't cleared the upper floors, but you can take people to deal with that."
He briefly described the process of clearing out the monsters on the comrcial street, with special emphasis on the Tentacle-faced Monsters.
Upon hearing this, Zhu Xiong's face took on a more serious expression, and he nodded, "I'll bring more people."
There are over ninety people at the camp, with many Contractors among them, so Zhu Xiong could bring quite a number.
"Take a few non-Contractors as well, let them get their hands dirty."
Zhu Xiong understood what Su Han ant: "Rest assured, I know what to do."
After a brief eting, Zhu Xiong left to lead people on their salvage operation.
With the comrcial street almost cleared, if they didn't head over soon, who knew if soone else would beat them to it and start a fight, which would just waste ti.
"Here, this is for you."
Not long after Zhu Xiong had left, Bai Qilan handed Su Han two sketches.
One was a simple map of Yunling Lake, with red crosses marked on three bays; the other was a hand-drawn diagram of a hand crossbow.
Su Han was sowhat surprised as he asked, "What's this?"
"A map of Yunling Lake. The marked places are where Half-Fish Monsters are most active; I suspect that one of them is their nest."
Bai Qilan pointed to a bay near Yunling Mountain on the map and said, "This spot is the most likely, but there's no way to actually go and investigate."
"As for the hand crossbow, I had Sister Kailing draw it. Your Angel Envoy can control tal, so with a blueprint, you should be able to make crossbow arrows, right?"
Bai Qilan looked at Su Han, waiting for his answer.
"I can," Su Han said.
Hearing Su Han's affirmative reply, Bai Qilan's lips curved into a smile, and she said, "That makes things much easier. As long as we make the crossbow arrows and combine them with the Interdiate Corpse Poison that iyu is concocting, we can definitely create bait to lure and anesthetize the Half-Fish Monsters that get attracted."
Bai Qilan's plan was succinct: use high-level monster flesh as bait at three locations to lure Half-Fish Monsters and Fish Monsters ashore.
Then, people would ambush and attack with poisoned crossbow arrows, which would paralyze them.
This idea had already been tested using two captured Half-Fish Monsters, and Yan iyu's Rot Poison had proven quite effective.
However, Su Han couldn't help but smile and said, "The crossbow arrows can be used for camp defense, but for this school of fish monsters, we don't need to go through all that trouble."
Bai Qilan looked at Su Han in astonishnt and asked, "What do you plan to do?"
"Anglers may need to chum the water for fishing, but we can just scoop up the fish."
If it were yesterday, Su Han would indeed choose the baiting thod, but now it was unnecessary.
The vines of the Human-faced Tree had further extended in length, and their number had increased.
Although Yunling Lake was not small, as an artificial lake, the longest diater was only about four hundred ters, and the nearside was just two hundred ters away.
This distance was completely manageable for the Human-faced Tree to do the fishing, and together with the paralytic toxin of the Man-eating Vine, it was entirely capable of dealing with the swarm of fish monsters.
Moreover, it wasn't just about Yunling Lake—if the Human-faced Tree continued to grow, eventually the entire Shanhu Villa would inevitably be under its protection.
At that ti, if there was any sign of trouble, the roots and vines could strike, capable of handling most problems.
The only drawback was that they might have to control how often they used the Human-faced Tree in the future, and that was it.
Bai Qilan's mouth hung open in surprise for a mont; she had actually forgotten about the vines of the Human-faced Tree.
Then she said, "If that's the case, then things are much simpler. I'll go tell people to get ready right now."
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