Super Gene Hunting Ground

Chapter 198: Chapter 198: Nanmu City King (Five Updates, Please Subscribe)

Three days later, the people in the underground tunnel spontaneously organized themselves, recording everyone’s names and information, and handed it all over to Yang Xiao, including the inventory details of the stored supplies in the underground warehouse.

After Xie Jun and others fled, everyone suddenly felt a sense of relief. Yang Xiao, Xia Luo, and the others began to focus their minds on pacifying and recruiting members, building teams, and integrating the main urban area, Xianan University, Kongming Academy, and Star City.

Yang Xiao is currently in Xie Jun’s former room, along with Xia Luo, Xiao Zhe, Huang Wen, Zhao Gang, Zhou Qiang, and a dozen others.

Yang Xiao was looking at a new set of inventory data just received.

”Good, there are still 6,850 people in the underground tunnels, 2,603 of whom are women, and 456 have Hard Armor against the cold. This is a powerful force to reckon with.”

Xia Luo smiled and said:

”That’s right, adding the people from our three strongholds, our total number soon surpasses ten thousand people.”

”And including people from over a dozen strongholds in the northern suburbs, it should exceed 20,000.”

Huang Wen added.

”Yup, we are now just waiting for the update confirmation of the new owner of Nanmu City. Then we can open up three Genetic Store strongholds in the urban area and send people to the northern suburbs to slowly bring them under our banner.”

”From now on, Xiao Zhe and Zhao Gang will be jointly responsible for managing the newly recruited teams. It’s essential to be aware of their mood changes and organize them to go to Star River to dig for Ice Fish and obtain Fish Skin Armor. Just like the initial situation in Star City, as long as they get the Hard Armor to protect from the cold, coming out from the underground tunnels, they will genuinely accept our leadership,”

Yang Xiao said.

Xiao Zhe and Zhao Gang both nodded and accepted the assignment.

”Huang Wen, you will command all the Flying People Team, beware of patrolling the urban area.”

”Alright.”

Huang Wen happily accepted the assignment.

”Xia Luo, from now on, let’s command the entirety of Nanmu City together!”

Yang Xiao smiled and looked at Xia Luo.

Xia Luo smiled and said:

”I am honored! I’ll work as your assistant from now on.”

”Ha, what assistant? We’re all brothers here. We share our troubles and our joys,”

”Haha, good!”

”Zhou Qiang, go back and command the strongholds at Star City, Kongming Academy, and Xianan University. The main force of Xianan and Kongming Academy has already been relocated to the urban area. You are responsible for coordinating the two thousand people in Star City and the few hundred left in Xianan and Kongming, consolidating the three locations as strategic rear areas. If the ice and snow melt in the future, those places will be suitable for planting food and hunting Mutated Creatures to obtain Genetic Fragments.”

Zhou Qiang smiled and said:

”Don’t worry! I will manage the strategic rear well.”

”Long Yongjun will command all the Close Combat Beast Souls teams; Chen Fei will command all the Elemental Mage teams; Feifei will command all the Plant Soul System teams; Dai Yun will command all the archer teams.”

Long Yongjun and the others happily accepted the new assignments.

”To allow the people in the underground tunnels of the urban area to come out as soon as possible, everyone will have to work hard lately, helping them to dig Ice Fish in the Ice River and quickly acquire a sufficient number of Fish Skin Armor.”

”Yang Xiao, the nearby river section has already been dug out by us. If we continue to dig, it’s better to go further downstream, near the entrance to Star Moon Lake. The quantity of Ice Fish there must be very rich,”

Xia Luo suggested.

”However, that place is at least thirty kilometers away from here, which is a problem for daily commute, and it is impossible to reside there due to the severe cold.”

”Is there a Genetic Store stronghold nearby?” Yang Xiao asked.

”Looking at the map, there’s a Genetic Store about 40 kilometers away, called Star Moon Town, but that stronghold is not under Nanmu City. It belongs to Shanyun City nearby.”

”We can also send people to Shanyun City for discussions, to open up a Transmission Array with us. Worst case, we pay them a fee. With the Transmission Array at that stronghold, we can go directly to Star Moon Lake to dig for Ice Fish.

Star Moon Lake, spanning over eight hundred miles, was the second-largest freshwater lake in Xuanming Country before the apocalypse. The Ice Fish there should be stronger and of a higher Level than those in the Star River Basin, right?

Alright, it’s decided then. To obtain more Evolution resources, we must advance towards Star Moon Lake. Whether they allow us usage or not, if they don’t, we could just seize the Star Moon Town stronghold by force. It’s close to the eastern border of Nanmu City anyway.”

Yang Xiao was already feeling the pinch from resource scarcity.

Previously, he only managed over a thousand people in Kongming Academy, where scraping by with whatever resources were available was manageable. But facing over twenty thousand people in Nanmu City in the future, without more resources, how would it be possible to raise everyone’s Genetic Evolution Level?

”Yang Xiao, if we do that, it might lead to a war between Shanyun City and Nanmu City!”

Huang Wen cautiously said.

She suddenly realized that Yang Xiao seemed to have changed, with an increasing ambition for conquest.

Yang Xiao glanced at Huang Wen, walked over, patted her on the shoulder, and said:

”If you don’t improve your Evolution Ability, you’ll eventually be swallowed by others, just like Chen Jun from Star City yesterday and Xie Jun today.”

Huang Wen nodded silently, as she understood these principles all too well.

Chen Lu walked in from outside and said:

”Yang Xiao, I just passed the Genetic Store, and the old man asked me to call you over.”

”What’s the matter?”

”It seems to be related to the confirmation of the new owner of the stronghold.”

Everyone was pleased and quickly followed Yang Xiao out of the room, rushing towards the Genetic Store.

Now, everyone was waiting for Yang Xiao’s confirmation as the New City Lord. Only then could they open the Transmission Array and facilitate the transport between various strongholds.

”Old Mr. Gu, you wanted to see me?”

Yang Xiao asked politely, although he hadn’t asked the other person’s name yet, he knew it started with ’Gu’.

The old man smiled faintly and said:

”Let me introduce myself. My name is Gu Heng.”

”Hello, Mr. Gu Heng.”

Gu Heng nodded and said:

”The former owner of Nanmu City, Xie Jun, has been defeated and fled to a new stronghold more than 200 kilometers away, becoming the new lord of that place. According to my rules, his status as the lord of Nanmu City is hereby revoked. So, from now on, you are the New City Lord of Nanmu City.”

”Yay!”

Xiao Zhe, Huang Wen, and others exclaimed excitedly, hugging Yang Xiao one after another.

Gu Heng continued:

”The three strongholds in the urban area of Nanmu City are now yours to appoint leaders for; you have the power to enable the Transmission Array. Then, you can use the Transmission Array to conquer the dozen or so strongholds in the northern suburbs. If they all accept your leadership, combined with your control over Kongming Academy, Xianan University, and Star City, you will be granted the title of ’Nanmu City King’!”

Everyone cheered again upon hearing this.

This meant that Yang Xiao would break through from the Primordial Gene Intermediate Stage to the Advanced Stage in a very short time.

After all, Gu Bo once told him that whoever first earned the title of Nanmu City King would be awarded with a free upgrade of one Level in Genetic Evolution.