binnovel Chapter 483 The Monster Is Growing Too
Chapter 483 The Monster Is Growing Too
The next morning, the various units of the Dawn Army boarded troop transport ships and left Black Gold City. Shangguan Jingyun and others came to the Dawn Army's encampment to see them off and expressed their gratitude once again.
Li Chenglong was staying here temporarily because he had a meeting with Hei Jincheng and representatives from the Anxi base who were on their way. All the members of the Second Special Support Section for Information Processing were also staying; they would leave together on the Dawn after the meeting.
Currently, the Second Section still consists of eight members, all of whom are women. They are Zhao Liying, Han Xiaoling, Qin Mengyao, Pei Lijuan, Wang Xiaoxiao, Sun Menghua, Fan Xiaoxuan, and Cui Xiaoxia. Except for Zhao Liying, who also serves as the deputy section chief and is a level 12 Awakened, the other members are either level 11 Ability Users or Awakened.
Members of Section Two are generally not responsible for handling daily affairs in the Information Management Department of the Center. Sometimes they will act with the Special Forces, and sometimes they will act alone according to the instructions of Li Chenglong or Yun Lan.
As for the members of Section One, they spend most of their time on duty on the 8th floor of the Dawn Tower. Currently, their working hours are from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM and from 8:00 PM to 8:00 AM. There are four people working during the day and three people working at night. However, since there are many members in Section One, they can have a paid day off after working a day, and the day and night shifts are adjusted every two weeks, so it is relatively easy.
Because the work in Section One was easy, the salary was high, and it was very safe, plus they often got to eat various fruits distributed by Li Chenglong. When they were expanding recruitment, they were only supposed to recruit two more people, but over 400 female ability users applied. Seeing so many applicants, Li Chenglong decided to let Yun Lan and Zhao Liying make the selections; he wasn't going to get involved, haha.
Since the representatives from Anxi Base had not yet arrived, Li Chenglong put the Dawn into his psionic space and chatted with the members of the Second Division in an office in Black Gold City.
He invited Sun Menghua over and carefully inquired about the circumstances surrounding the sacrifice of her father, General Sun Tianlong. General Sun Tianlong had three children, and Sun Menghua was his youngest daughter, only 22 years old this year. She was a freshman at Tsinghua University in Beijing the year the apocalypse occurred.
When Li Chenglong first visited the Qianyun Base, General Sun Tianlong suggested that his youngest daughter go to Shuguang City to study and gain experience. After consideration, Li Chenglong agreed. Subsequently, Sun Menghua studied for a considerable period in the Shuguang City Logistics Department, Industry and Information Department, and Agriculture and Water Conservancy Department before being transferred to the Second Section by Li Chenglong.
She is currently an 11th-level triple ability user with speed, water, and wind abilities, and her strength is quite formidable. She also ranks among the top students in the second department.
Sun Menghua said she was not very clear about the specific circumstances of her father's sacrifice. She only heard from her elder brother that when he was personally commanding the battle on the front line, his command post was attacked by dozens of void creatures. In the end, he was outnumbered and died a heroic death.
Li Chenglong sighed, “Since I joined the army, General Sun Tianlong has been my old leader. Especially after joining the special forces, he visited our unit many times. He came when I was promoted to captain and when I received my first merit award. Since the apocalypse, whether it was at the beginning of the Qianyun Base, or later in the Eastern Theater Command, and then at headquarters, General Sun Tianlong has always been our most reliable friend and steadfast ally, and has provided us with a lot of help. We should all remember him and those soldiers who sacrificed their precious lives to fight against the apocalypse.”
Two hours later, representatives from Anxi Base arrived. The three parties sat together and talked for a long time. Li Chenglong, representing Shuguang City, signed a new round of military orders with Anxi Base. At 3 p.m., Li Chenglong and the members of the Second Section boarded the Shuguang and slowly flew towards Shuguang City.
The members of Section Two were busy working at their respective workstations in the forward cockpit. Li Chenglong sat in the captain's seat, chatting with Zhao Liying beside him. After a while, Han Xiaoling stood up and said, "Section Chief, there's been a message from the Dawn City Research Department."
Li Chenglong stood up. At this point, the communication must mean there was a result on the items sent yesterday. He immediately said, "Transfer to the big screen right away."
Initially, the research and medical departments of Dawn City were combined because there were few relevant personnel at the time, and the main conflict was between zombies and zombie beasts. Therefore, An Qingyuan, Liu Mingchang, and Li Qinghe, three experts in infectious diseases and virology, jointly served as the main leaders.
Later, with the continuous development of Dawn City and changes in the external situation, in order to adapt to the development needs of Dawn City and the Dawn Army, Li Chenglong separated the research department and the medical department. Currently, the three people are serving as the leaders of the medical department, while the leader of the research department has become Zhao Haiming, a leading authority in physics and mathematics in China, and the deputy minister is Jet from the planet Meral.
Although the Dawn City's Research Department and the Dawn Army's Science and Technology Department have similar names, their responsibilities differ greatly. The Dawn Army's Science and Technology Department generally focuses on researching various new weapons and equipment, while the Research Department's research direction is more focused on daily production and life.
Han Xiaoling transferred the communication from Dawn City to the main display screen, where Zhao Haiming and Jet, dressed in protective suits, immediately appeared.
Zhao Haiming is usually focused on academics and doesn't like to beat around the bush. He said directly, "Lord Li, after joint research by our Dawn City Research Department and the Dawn Army Science and Technology Department, we have found that these crystals that fell from the void creatures are not fundamentally different from the crystals we obtained before. On the contrary, their energy is even higher."
Jet continued, "According to our calculations, under the same level of crystals, the crystals dropped by these void creatures have 15% to 20% more energy than crystals of the same level. There's nothing else to it, and they can be used normally like ordinary crystals."
Li Chenglong nodded and said with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work. To get the results so quickly, you must have been working on the research overnight. On behalf of everyone in Dawn City and the Dawn Army, I would like to express my gratitude to you."
After reporting the results, Zhao Haiming ended the communication. Li Chenglong was very happy to hear the news, as it meant that there would be another way to obtain crystals in the future, and these void creatures dropped level 11 or 12 crystals, which were extremely valuable.
Han Xiaoling asked curiously, "Section Chief, why didn't we get any crystals when we killed so many void creatures before, but we were able to get some this time? Have these void creatures mutated?"
Li Chenglong felt he knew the reason, so he had someone display images of the previous Void creatures and the Void creatures from yesterday's battle on the big screen, and then said, "Everyone, you can see that there is no difference between the two."
After watching for a while, Han Xiaoling was the first to exclaim in surprise, "The size and patterns are quite different. Although they are all monsters like Void Spiders, Void Centipedes, and Void Earthworms, the ones we fought yesterday are obviously larger, have more patterns, and the patterns are more vibrant."
Li Chenglong affirmed, "Yes, I feel that's why the void creatures yesterday could drop crystals, but the previous ones couldn't. Here's my guess: I feel that as the void creatures absorb more energy, they will become stronger and stronger, and crystals will be produced in their bodies as a result."
Zhao Liying continued, "This also means that the void creatures we face in the future may be stronger than before. So the sooner we solve this problem, the less pressure we will face. Otherwise, if we let them grow indefinitely, the consequences will be unimaginable."
Hearing her say this, everyone agreed. Li Chenglong took a sip of water and sat back down in the captain's seat: "We must take this issue seriously. It's time to put the three-step strategy we proposed earlier into practice."
At 4 p.m. that day, Li Chenglong and his men returned to Shuguang City, marking the successful conclusion of this support operation, which took less than two days.