binnovel Chapter 496 2 becomes 1
Chapter 496 2 becomes 1
On the afternoon of the day the Harvest Festival ended, representatives from the five bases held a meeting in a small conference room on the 8th floor of the Dawn Tower. The topics of the meeting included some of the current difficulties facing China, as well as the issue of the merger with the New Human Empire. The most important issue concerned the New Human Empire.
Liu Tao, representing the Huaxia headquarters, spoke first: "Commander Chen Guoqiang and most of the senior leaders at headquarters still believe that we should do our best to unite as one, especially in the current environment. Uniting as one is definitely much better than fighting alone. Currently, there are 9 large bases and 8 medium bases on Huaxia territory. We currently have 5 large bases and 6 medium bases."
Feng Tian then asked, "I'd like to know if there has been any communication or exchange between the Yanjing headquarters and the New Human Empire. If so, what stage are they at?" Upon hearing Feng Tian's question, the others all looked in Liu Tao's direction.
Liu Tao nodded and said, "I'm sure everyone wants to know about General Feng's question, so let me explain. At the beginning of last month, we made some initial contact and communication with them. After a month of negotiations, Zhao Wuji expressed his willingness to join, but of course, he also made many demands."
He paused for a moment, then continued, "Representatives from all the bases are here today, so I'm just giving you a heads-up. Today is the 11th, and the Yanjing headquarters will be holding the Chinese People's Congress and the Chinese People's Representative Conference in Yanjing on the 16th. The New Human Empire will also send someone to attend. We'll have a detailed discussion and study at the conference. But the overall direction is the same: return."
Because it was just a briefing, it went quickly and ended at 5 PM. Liu Tao had to return to headquarters that day, so after saying goodbye to everyone, he boarded the X2 passenger spaceship and left under the escort of two Tyrannosaurus Rex fighters. When he left, Li Chenglong filled fifty storage capsules with the goods ordered by headquarters and gave them to him to take with him.
Dawn City now uses storage capsules to deliver smaller orders, while larger weapons and equipment such as the S1 land-based mech or the S2 transformable land-air mech are delivered to the door by large air cargo ships.
After Liu Tao left, Li Chenglong hosted a banquet for representatives and their entourage from the other three bases at the Qingfeng Hotel, which is not far from the Dawn Tower. He also inquired about the situation on Liu Xuehua's side from the Shenyang base.
After Liu Xuehua's son, General Liu Zhigang, heroically sacrificed his life in a special operations operation in March, the Shenyang base was thrown into chaos. It was only through the efforts of Liu Xuehua and General Wang Wenjie that the base overcame the initial period of chaos and gradually regained its combat effectiveness.
A few days ago, when four groups of special forces attacked China, the Shenyang base did not encounter many special forces. Thanks to the efforts of Liu Xuehua's youngest son, Liu Zhiming, a level 12 water and fire type ability user, and Wang Wenjie, a level 12 speed, strength, and earth type ability user, they quickly repelled those special forces.
In fact, just two years ago, after research by An Qingyuan, Li Qinghe and others, and with so many real cases, people discovered that people with superpowers seem to be showing a family-based trend. If a family has one person with superpowers, other family members are also likely to become people with superpowers.
Just as Liu Xuehua and her two sons are superhumans, Xu Qingming, his father, and his second uncle are also superhumans, as are Wei Huasheng and his father Wei Jing. Some of these people became superhumans after being infected with the zombie virus, while others naturally became superhumans after the apocalypse broke out. They did not become superhumans by consuming crystals or even psionic apples, unlike some others.
While this phenomenon is still under investigation, the most plausible explanation is that the zombie virus has undergone a high degree of fusion with certain humans possessing special genes. Such individuals would neither become zombies nor become superhumans or awakened beings with special abilities.
At 9:10 AM on October 16th, the headquarters conference at the Yanjing base officially commenced, with representatives from all major and medium-sized bases within China in attendance. The attendees from Shuguang City included Li Chenglong, Zheng Yong, Feng Tian, Ma Tiancheng, Shen Menghua, and 15 others, while Yun Lan and Yun Qian remained in Shuguang City to oversee the proceedings.
On the New Human Empire's side, Dongfang Yunbing, Nangong Yanran, Marshal Zhuque, Marshal Qinglong, and four of the eight guardians participated in this meeting.
On October 25th, the 10-day conference concluded successfully. The most important decision made at the conference was the establishment of the Southeast Autonomous Region, with Zhao Wuji as its supreme leader. Other officials would be appointed by him temporarily, and all other benefits would be the same as those of the Dawn Autonomous Region.
From then on, the New Human Empire became a thing of the past, and the Southeast Autonomous Region, covering three provinces—East Guangdong, West Guangdong, and Fujian—was officially established.
However, there is a major problem: although China already has so many superhumans, ordinary humans still make up 90% of the total population. Now that these new humans have equal status with ordinary humans, contact is inevitable. If the zombie virus were to spread among ordinary people again, it would be difficult to handle.
In response, Li Chenglong proposed his idea at the conference: the zombie virus vaccine in Dawn City has now been developed to level 10. All ordinary citizens within China should be vaccinated in sequence from level 1 to level 10, with a one-month interval between vaccinations. In this way, even if some contact occurs in the future, there will not be a significant danger.
Headquarters readily adopted Li Chenglong's suggestion and decided to immediately begin vaccine production and nationwide vaccination starting early next month. Meanwhile, Nangong Yanran and Dongfang Yunbing also stated that they would definitely discipline their subordinates, especially those at level 7 and below who lacked intelligence.
In addition to discussing this main topic, Dawn City, as the core entity, also signed a new round of trade contracts with all the bases at this conference. The contracts included weapons and equipment such as the Type 27 super-powered rifle, the Type 25 combat suit, ion battle knives, and various mechs and beam weapons, as well as civilian goods closely related to people's lives, such as storage capsules, crystal generators, and crystal mobile phones.
After the conference, Li Chenglong and the people from Dawn City returned to Dawn City aboard the X2 passenger spaceship. Because there were still some matters to discuss, Nangong Yanran and Dongfang Yunbing, along with some guards, came along, while the rest of the team returned to the Southeast Autonomous Region earlier.
The two women's main purpose in coming was to strengthen scientific research cooperation between the two sides and to purchase some high-grade Dawn Rice, super potions, and super-energy recovery potions. They had suffered heavy losses in their last battle against the special forces, but having heard that Dawn City possessed these items and that they had greatly enhanced their overall combat capabilities using them, they came specifically to establish a long-term cooperative relationship.
Li Chenglong agreed, because both the New Human Empire and Zhao Wuji had made significant contributions in the battles against aliens and special forces, which he greatly admired and even respected.
After Shen Menghua and Yun Qian negotiated with the two, the two parties agreed that in addition to the orders previously signed at the Yanjing headquarters, Dawn City would sell an additional 500 Super Potions and 120 Super Recovery Potions every month, as well as 1000 tons of high-grade Dawn Rice every month.
It's important to know that Li Chenglong and Yun Lan's combined spiritual energy space alone covers 12.5 square kilometers of advanced Dawn Rice, which translates to 18750 mu (approximately 12,867 hectares). With the improved advanced Dawn Rice yielding 1.2 tons per mu, this means the two of them could produce 22500 tons of advanced Dawn Rice per month.
The process of refining premium Dawn Rice into premium Dawn Rice yields 800 kilograms per ton. Therefore, the spiritual energy space of two people can produce 18000 tons of premium Dawn Rice per month.
In addition, Erica, Cecily, Rena, Marina, Sitros, and Keltilan all possess psionic spaces of varying sizes, allowing the space fleet and the Setan aliens to become self-sufficient.
It is worth mentioning that although the Setan aliens are mechanical life forms, they can also eat high-grade Dawn Rice or Flame Fruit, which contain a large amount of energy.
Although Dawn City currently has a population of 65, the amount of ordinary grain, plus high-grade Dawn Rice and ordinary Dawn Rice, is enough to feed these people for several years. In addition, they can obtain so much grain every month, so Li Chenglong is still willing to sell some high-grade Dawn Rice in exchange for crystals.