After the military meeting ended, Ye Fan had two days of leisure, then once again entered a busy state.

The city's planning map was completed, the engineer troops began laying foundations, installing pipes, etc., and Ye Fan was responsible for constructing the walls.

The original Ice City Wall was quickly dismantled, replaced by the No. 3 Wall, ten meters high and four meters thick.

This time, the entire Dawn City expanded southward.

The expansion extended two kilometers to the east and directly pushed sixteen kilometers to the south.

All the small hills beyond ten kilometers were incorporated into the city to build an inner-city park.

The previous Dawn City was a horizontal rectangle, four kilometers long and two kilometers wide.

Now it is a vertical rectangle, eighteen kilometers long and six kilometers wide.

The entire city's area reached one hundred and eight square kilometers, with the core zone, inner city district, and outer city district built.

The core zone covers six square kilometers, being the core military area of the Dawn Army, where ordinary people are not allowed to enter.

The inner city district covers twelve square kilometers, which was the most prosperous area of the former Dawn City, and the survivors lived in the inner city district before.

Meanwhile, the outer city district is quite large, covering ninety square kilometers, prepared for the arrival of future survivors.

Currently, everyone is restricted within the inner city district and not allowed to come to the outer city district, so people in the inner city district are temporarily unaware of the outer city's construction.

In these few days, all field troops went out to collect funds everywhere. The efficiency of four field regiments with ten thousand people is amazing, with roughly two hundred thousand funds coming in daily.

Ye Fan's money had reached 2.7 million, and he immediately started building the walls.

This time the walls were quite long, with the new section totaling forty-two kilometers.

The normal cost for each meter of the No. 3 Wall is 500 gold, but if one provides the building materials, the cost is 50 gold.

One kilometer is a thousand meters, and the cost is fifty thousand gold.

Just the cost of this perimeter wall reached as high as 2.1 million gold, and this doesn't even include the cost of the city gates.

Ye Fan didn't concern himself with so much now, and in just one day, he surrounded the outer wall with a solid circle.

Thirteen gates were built altogether, including one Water Gate and twelve land gates.

This time, the eastern district became the place with the most gates, totaling eight, providing convenient access for people from various places.

Constructing the city gates cost another 6,500 gold, then began the construction of defense works.

Over a hundred machine gun bunkers were laid out, and there are also dozens of watchtowers.

The soldiers that come with these things were directly incorporated into the City Guard.

After finishing these, the money in Ye Fan's hands was almost spent.

He moved the Light Prism Tower and Giant Cannon from nearby the original Ice City Wall over, fortunately, the engineer cooperated with the engineer to achieve this, otherwise, it would have needed to be sold and rebuilt, costing more.

The thirty-meter high Light Prism Tower and the dozen-meter long Giant Cannon were very conspicuous, but Ye Fan didn't care; according to his design, every five hundred meters there must be a Light Prism Tower, ensuring the connection of the lasers.

As for the Giant Cannon, a total of twenty were deployed, ensuring the striking power within several tens of kilometers around.

There's also the air defense missile system, which also needs to be deployed, and not just surround the core zone; the entire city needs to be included in the protection and defense.

Although the funds were insufficient, it didn't affect Ye Fan's planning. Once enough funds were collected, construction began, and the new Dawn City was gradually built like this.

Meanwhile, the engineering troops within the city were also busily working, at one point Ye Fan even increased two engineer companies, assisting in completing the construction within the city and at the border checkpoints.

Other departments also took urgent action, with banks, police stations, and other units all working on construction.

The shoreline of the Seven-Star River soon became a new construction site.

As time passed, the climate gradually warmed, though it was still cold, but because Dawn City is surrounded by mountains and has a unique climate zone, the overall temperature was still acceptable, generally between minus fifteen to twenty degrees during the day, and construction could proceed.

The entire city resembled a busy and bustling construction site, with countless soldiers coming and going every day, transporting various collected materials back, and many building materials were used on the spot.

Compared to the soldiers, ordinary people in Dawn City were allowed to go out to collect materials after the outer city district's wall construction was completed.

The survivors gaped in amazement when they saw the new city.

They were shocked at the Dawn Army's astonishing efficiency in building such a large-scale wall in such a short time.

But these things were prohibited from being asked about, so they could only quickly focus on the work of material collection.

With the addition of survivors, the efficiency of collecting materials rapidly increased, and those adventurer squads, cooped up for a long time, began working outside, investing in the unique survival environment of the apocalypse.

The Dawn Trading Market in the inner city district had now become the most bustling area.

According to Chief of Staff Zhongjing's suggestion, Mutant Beast Meat, Crystal Cores, and armaments were placed on the shelves, and were heavily advertised on radio and television.

However, it took time for outsiders to arrive; the first wave of buyers mainly consisted of the adventurer squads within Dawn City.

To maintain stable prices, the Dawn Army did not release too many products at once but sold them little by little, which could ensure stable revenue while not allowing market prices to fall.

In just the first day, these three commodities brought in a profit of 1.3 million gold from the market!

These survivors, seeing the brand-new firearms, grenades, night vision devices, rocket launchers, and other equipment, their eyes practically turned red.

They immediately opened their wallets generously, bringing out the gold and silver they had collected to purchase armaments.

With military resources, they could acquire more supplies, kill more zombies, and then come back to resell, entering a virtuous cycle, allowing the team to grow continuously.

In Dawn City, guns are not prohibited, but shooting them indiscriminately is not allowed. Anyone who fires will be punished.

Not only are arms selling well, but mutant beast meat and crystal cores are also extremely popular. Such strategic resources are rarely obtainable by them; for example, that crystal core can be obtained only by killing a Level 2 Mutated Zombie.

To kill a Level 2 Mutant, a team needs at least a few Level 2 Mutants and powerful firepower, which ordinary adventurer teams find difficult to achieve.

But now, it's fine. With crystal cores available for purchase, they don't have to take that risk.

For a time, the strength of adventurer teams in Dawn City surged, and now there are more than three hundred registered adventurer teams in the city, with adventurers numbering over ten thousand.

The majority of these adventurer teams have at least one Level 1 Mutant. An adventurer squad without a Mutant can only be considered an unexceptional team.

However, some adventurer teams have emerged abruptly, becoming top-tier among adventurer teams.

For example, Feng Qi of the Snow Mountain Eagle, Qiao Lie of the Jiangbei Tiger, You Sisi of the Five-step Snake, and the Deadly Clown Wang Buhuan, all established their own adventurer squads.

These veteran Level 2 Mutants undoubtedly became objects of pursuit, becoming peers of top-tier adventurer teams such as Zhao Xiaoman, Qin Yumo, and Dai Yu.

With the emergence of many adventurer teams, maintaining order in Dawn City became a demanding task.

These individuals have considerable skills and weapons, gradually forming a sense of the underworld, with the embryonic form of some clandestine gangs beginning to appear in Dawn City.

Time quietly slipped away, quickly reaching the end of February.

......

Ice City, Jiangnan District.

Ice City Train Station.

An old man zombie, dressed in a suit, was sitting in the waiting room, staring blankly at the icy and snowy scenery outside the window.

Behind him stood countless Advanced Zombies, motionless like a group of soulless wooden stakes.

The old man zombie could clearly remember when he first started having thoughts.

It was more than a month ago, after an armored train passed through the train station and he consumed too much advanced flesh, leading to the awakening of his consciousness.

However, awakening is one thing, but he didn't know what he was supposed to do.

The formidable armored train left the old man zombie apprehensive and timid, even unwilling to step outside the train station, despite his ability to control many zombies.

Recently, the sound of gunfire and cannons rumbling from the north reminded him of the fearsome armored train, making him even more reluctant to venture out.

He could only stay in the train station daily, pondering what he ought to do.

Until today, when he suddenly felt the approach of a powerful presence.

It was not human but came from his own kind.

The old man zombie, possessing his consciousness, not only had a sense of territory but also preferred cleanliness, donning a suit for the occasion, and upon sensing the intrusion of his kind, decided to step out and take a look.

He was followed by a few Level 2 Zombies and a large group of Level 1 Mutated Zombies as he reached the train station platform.

In a section without a roof, he looked up at the sky.

Above, two giant owls were flying over.

The old man zombie immediately exerted spiritual control, attempting to dominate the two intruding mutated birds.

But he failed. The two owls were unexpectedly not under control.

Not only did he fail to control them, but they were also heading straight toward him.

The old man zombie felt danger but couldn't back down.

Retreating would mean losing the train station and possibly endangering himself.

He could only brace himself, watching the owls come close.

Two of his kind descended from the owls.

One was a young boy, who felt extremely powerful to him, at least much stronger than himself.

The other, a bald man, seemed weaker than himself, but his eyes were lively, appearing rather clever.

The two Corpse Kings thus stood before the old man zombie.

At this time, the bald corpse king spoke: "Xiaobu, though this place is already quite far from Ye Fan's base, we can develop here first, organize a team, and then continue southward."

"Okay, I'll follow your lead."

The bald zombie glanced at the old man: "This old man isn't bad either; though his evolution is not as advanced as yours, it's much higher than mine. Let's take him in to make our team stronger."

Xiaobu nodded, his eyes flashing with a red light.

The old man zombie felt a wave of dizziness, and he was subsequently completely dominated by Xiaobu.

This might be the first time since the apocalypse that a Corpse King controlled another Corpse King.

Xiaobu, the old man, along with the bald man, formed a unified alliance of three powerful Corpse Kings, temporarily settling in Ice City.

No one knows what will happen next, but undoubtedly, the alliance of the three Corpse Kings will incite a bloody storm.

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