Lu Wen looked at Bai He Zi and Ma Mi, asking: "How have you arranged things these past few days? Who will be in charge of the base after we leave?"
Ma Mi felt a little embarrassed. She was already Lu Wen's subordinate, but couldn't wholeheartedly help him, instead choosing to help the survivors of this world.
Bai He Zi and Lu Wen had a closer relationship and understood him better. She said confidently: "We will divide the base into several departments, selecting capable people for each department. These department heads will then form the base's management team."
"We'll gather all the survivors and announce this tomorrow before we leave."
Bai He Zi believed she had arranged everything well for after their departure.
But humans are creatures of extreme contradiction. Whether this base ultimately thrives in the apocalypse or crumbles shortly after, it was something she couldn't predict after leaving.
Ma Mi sighed and said with a hint of relief: "After we eliminate those troublemakers, this base should be able to survive a little longer, right?"
Lu Wen thought for a moment, feeling unsatisfied with his Soul Reserves of only 60,000. He wanted to collect more before leaving.
He said: "I want to collect more souls. Let's leave the base today, and go gather all the survivors to announce this."
The decision was sudden, but the women did not object.
Bai He Zi and Ma Mi got up to gather the survivors and prepare to announce the matter.
Takajo Saya also went to prepare for their departure.
The survivors were quickly gathered. Their numbers had increased over the past few days, as they had found more while collecting supplies outside.
Lu Wen summoned over a hundred Yinling warriors, who stood silently. They had slain a large number of zombies in this time, and their original dark gold armor was now stained with a faint red.
The survivors felt as if they were looking at battle-hardened war gods when they saw the Yinling warriors. The invisible killing intent that surrounded them made their hair stand on end.
The square where they gathered the survivors was oddly silent.
Lu Wen ascended the platform, but had no intention of speaking. He sat down on a chair that had been prepared in advance.
The other women followed him onto the platform, but only Bai He Zi stepped forward and said: "Fellow survivors, Mr. Lu Wen will be leaving soon. From now on, the base will be jointly managed by the Combat Department, Logistics Department, and other departments."
As soon as she finished speaking, the survivors below immediately showed a variety of expressions: confusion, surprise, fear, excitement, all appeared one after another.
The expressions on the faces of the department leaders were even more spectacular. They were filled with the joy and excitement of soon taking power, but they could not show it in front of Lu Wen and the others, so they could only suppress their joy and act as if they were worried.
However, there were also intelligent people who thought that if the base no longer had Lu Wen's armor warriors, they would have to fight the zombies themselves.
Moreover, if Lu Wen was no longer around, the base would be controlled by the several department heads. In that case, there was a high chance of disagreements arising.
Some of these intelligent people were quite ambitious, already scheming in their hearts how to seize control of the base after Lu Wen left, becoming a supreme being above all others.
Others simply felt it was a hassle. With Lu Wen, a strong figure, around to suppress all the demons and ghosts within the base, they only had to do their jobs well and didn't need to rack their brains to play political games.
The former retainers of the Takajo family were brimming with excitement. They all lowered their heads, afraid that the excited expressions on their faces would be seen by Bai He Zi and the others on the platform.
They were already beginning to fantasize about taking control of the base again after Lu Wen left.
But Bai He Zi, who was on the stage, looked at these people and said: "Seize those people."
The members of the base's Combat Department were puzzled, but they still immediately rushed forward to apprehend the individuals that Bai He Zi had named.
As Bai He Zi gave the order, these retainers, seeing that they were the targets, turned pale. They knew that their plans had been discovered.
Now that Bai He Zi had ordered their capture, it was clear that she wanted to eliminate the unstable elements in the base before leaving.
These retainers immediately collapsed to the ground. In the current apocalyptic world, they didn't even try to argue or defend themselves. They simply hoped to die a quick death later.
Bai He Zi revealed their plots and directly sentenced them to death. Before the eyes of the numerous survivors, their heads were severed.
Most of the survivors were filled with glee, but a few people expressed pity and reluctance.
Lu Wen, with his powerful mind and vision, saw these people. He sighed inwardly: "Indeed, in the apocalypse, the first to be killed are the saints. These people are quite smart to have some self-awareness and not jump out to argue or resist."
After handling the last matter of the base, Lu Wen and the others didn't stay long, directly driving away from the base.
A multitude of survivors watched as Lu Wen and his group left, their hearts filled with complex emotions. The majority were still grateful for his protection.
On the armored vehicle, the driver, Nanri Xiang, asked: "Lu Wen-kun, where are we going next?"
"Drive towards the school across the river. We've been cleaning up around the base these past few days, and there should still be quite a few zombies clustered together on the other side of the river," Lu Wen said.
Tokushima City was a city with a million people, but by the sixth day of the zombie outbreak, there were likely only a few tens of thousands of survivors in the entire city.
And the zombies were also distributed throughout the thousands of square kilometers. There were still hundreds of thousands of zombies that could move.
But Lu Wen was in the Tokushima City main district, where there were only a few thousand survivors in the Takajo family's base, and only ten to twenty thousand zombies.
Moreover, many of these zombies were in high-rise buildings. Few were able to gather in large groups.
As they drove across the bridge in the armored vehicle, they looked at the scenery outside. Although it had only been six days, the buildings along the street were already very dilapidated, looking like they had been abandoned for a long time.
Lu Wen had cleaned up a large number of zombies on the bridge. A few days later, they had gathered again.
"Turn on the speakers to attract zombies. We'll clear them as we go," Lu Wen said.
Takajo Saya turned on the speakers, and Lu Wen summoned over a hundred Yinling warriors, commanding them to clean up the zombies within a hundred meters.
The three hundred Yinling warriors were divided into three groups that rotated. Once their energy was depleted, Lu Wen would retract them into the Emperor's Banner and recharge them.
Lu Wen and his group advanced toward the areas where people had gathered before the apocalypse, cleaning up zombies along the way.
Nakagawa Ma Mi observed the situation all along the way and said in disappointment: "There are no large gatherings of survivors here, no bases for them to survive?"
"There may still be a lot of survivors, but they are probably hiding carefully at home. Most people haven't reached their breaking point and haven't faced the courage to deal with zombies. They are all hoping and waiting for the Japanese government to rescue them," Bai He Zi said calmly.
"Faced with this kind of zombie disaster, most countries in the world are in a state of anarchy. Few are able to maintain order," Lu Wen said.
The women all agreed with Lu Wen's statement, and their hearts were filled with a little worry about their world.
However, thinking about the fact that they could leave this world tomorrow and no longer face hordes of zombies, their moods improved.