Inspectors from the First-Phase to the Fifth-Phase came to visit one after another, wave after wave, with an absurdly grand spectacle.

And more critically, there's no harm without comparison.

What kind of treatment did Garcia get next door?

Hospitalized for half a month, apart from a Third-Phase Inspector sent by Harlem for a symbolic appearance, nothing followed.

On one side, stars gathered like a moon, on the other, not a soul paid attention.

No wonder that Wei Zhou and the people he gathered agreed so decisively and enthusiastically.

"But that's alright, a beautiful misunderstanding saved me a lot of trouble."

Cheng Ye shook his head; this inexplicable halo turned out to be a lucky mistake.

Once the medicine of the day was finished, he stretched his body, feeling refreshed, and strolled out of the medical center.

As soon as he reached the entrance, he suddenly felt a sinister gaze from behind.

Cheng Ye paused, abruptly turned his head, and just happened to lock eyes with Garcia at the fifth-floor window.

Garcia leaned against the window edge, his face expressionless, but his eyes were almost overflowing with venom.

The two of them silently stared at each other for four or five seconds.

Only then did Garcia pull out a faint, even somewhat twisted smile, disappearing from the window.

"Such a mangy dog, if you can't kick it to death, it will always cling to your foot..."

Cheng Ye squinted his eyes.

The rules of the inspection station protected his weak self two months ago, and they protect Garcia now.

But ultimately, there was no deep-seated hatred between him and Garcia, just like with Zhang Can back then.

But it's precisely this baseless hostility that is the most unsolvable.

Garcia now is probably much the same.

It initially started due to camp issues, but now it might also be 'jealous of his recovery speed', 'discontent with others' admiration', or 'insulted him as a sick dog'...

Grudges accumulated more and more, utterly impossible to resolve.

"But such a small man, as long as I rise to higher ranks, he will naturally slink away."

The bus heading to the city slowly approached.

Cheng Ye found a window seat, and soon threw all distracting thoughts about Garcia out of his mind.

There are more important things to do now.

Yesterday, he received a large sum of money and intended to go to the Resource Trading Point that day, but since Ding Yishan's meeting and training with Wang Kang disrupted the plan, it was all messed up.

"Master, seems not many people left today?"

"Most of those to leave in the first wave are gone; around seventy to eighty thousand people have left over these three days." The bus driver responded without turning his head while holding the steering wheel, "The second and third waves probably will wait for this round of rain to completely end."

"Oh."

Upon reaching the city district, he got off the bus.

Now Zone A was still clearing debris, and the former Great Wall Resource Trading Point and the Super Material Store were directly blown away.

The latest large trading point had been moved near the Happiness Bank.

Cheng Ye entered, showed his badge, and the person in charge immediately led him to a private trading room in the back hall.

"I wonder, Inspector Cheng, your purpose for coming here today is..."

"I have a Happiness Third-Class Merit; how many regulated items can I buy?"

"Third-Class Merit..." The person in charge was momentarily stunned, then smiled even more, "Inspector Cheng must be joking, the permissions for Third-Class Merit are not limited to 'buying a few items'. According to regulations, the Third-Class Merit allows you to directly exchange for one A-level strategic regulated item."

"If you wish to split the permissions for purchases, you can also exchange it for three A-level permissions, which would allow you to buy three A-level strategic regulated items."

"Can't I buy S-level?"

The person in charge quickly waved his hand: "That's not possible, the permissions for S-level regulated items are extremely strict, only First-Class Merit or Special Merit can apply for a purchase; Third-Class Merit doesn't reach that level yet."

"Alright, let me see what I can exchange for."

Cheng Ye took the tablet handed over by the person in charge, and as the screen lit up, a dense list of items came into view.

Sure enough, there were quite a few things that could be exchanged, divided into seven major categories:

Extraordinary materials, weapons and equipment, medical resources, technical documentation, energy vehicles, special services, and miscellaneous items.

The first three didn't need much explanation; the name already sums it up.

When it came to technical documentation, Cheng Ye tapped several times, raised his eyebrows slightly, and found the content completely different from what he expected.

The most prominent item on the screen was a sectional map of the Wasteland, covering areas extending from within a hundred kilometers of Happiness City all the way beyond Stone Province, with a precision scale down to five hundred meters. Even abandoned highway ramps and dry riverbed tributaries were clearly marked, along with different colored danger levels indicating where infected bodies and mutant creatures were active.

Next up was a supporting resource distribution map, with each location accompanied by a brief exploration report and risk assessment.

Scrolling further down revealed the technical documentation for establishing private factories in parts.

Cheng Ye scanned a few glances and found most of it was about parts processing, fertilizer synthesis, and mechanical repair.

These things had long been spread among the public through handwritten copies and verbal transmission, not considered secrets.

But the remark at the end of the documentation made it clear: "The above technologies, if used for commercial production within the jurisdiction of Happiness City, require the purchase of this licensing document; otherwise, it will be treated as illegal operation."

To put it bluntly, it's a "patent fee."

Happiness City, in this way, incorporated technologies spread among the public into an official regulatory system. This enabled the unified control of factory production specifications, materials, and safety standards, thereby avoiding resource waste or safety incidents caused by haphazard construction or small workshops.

On the other hand, it also established an implicit threshold; after all, an A-level permission is not easy to acquire. Thanks to the infection tide giving an opportunity, otherwise ordinarily, its value was basically equivalent to one thousand contribution points.

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