Chapter 152 Global Changes
Ye Feng, who was in the Sunset Valley at this time, did not know the content of the meeting.
But he knew very well how much disturbance the spiritual fruit he took out would cause.
Ye Feng was not worried about this, and he was quite confident.
On the one hand, this came from his strength.
On the other hand, he believed that the senior officials of Yangcheng were smart people and knew how to choose the most beneficial to both parties.
Of course, he was not lacking in caution. After Bai Yinghui went back, Ye Feng sent a message to Chen Dalong, asking him to keep an eye on the military's movements.
At the same time, he would also send mutant sparrows to conduct high-altitude detection from time to time to ensure that no matter what the other party did, he could find it in the first time.
After explaining all this, Ye Feng's attention turned back to improving his strength.
Although his personal strength is almost invincible at this stage, this world has never been a one-man show.
Compared with his peak combat power, the overall strength of the Dragon King Palace is a bit lame.
If we put aside his own factors, and compare the Dragon King Palace with the defenders of Yangcheng City, there is at least a gap of two levels.
Apart from other things, if it weren't for his "Control of Heaven and Earth" to help, the Dragon King Palace could only use their lives to fill the dense fire bombardment.
Even the top combat forces such as the mutant king cobra would be injured even if they didn't die in the face of large-scale fire coverage.
What's more, among human weapons, artillery is only one aspect, and firearms are an unavoidable problem.
Even the third-level mutant buffalo with the strongest defense at this stage can only withstand the attack of ordinary firearms.
If the heavy machine gun is combined with armor-piercing bullets, it can still break the defense.
As for anti-material sniper rifles, let alone.
A sniper, combined with a high-powered sniper rifle, can definitely pose a fatal threat to the third-level mutant creatures.
As long as they are hit in the vulnerable places such as the eyes, they will be seriously injured even if they don't die.
Therefore, next Ye Feng plans to mainly improve the strength of his subordinates.
He can now harvest more than 7,400 spiritual energy points per hour, and as he adds points, the roots continue to grow, and the spiritual energy he can harvest per hour will continue to increase.
Therefore, he plans to take out at least 5,000 spiritual energy points per hour to improve the strength of his subordinates.
Although it may take him five or six days to break through a small realm by doing this, he feels it is still worth it.
Because the third and fourth levels are a watershed, when these subordinates break through to the fourth level, their strength will usher in a qualitative leap.
Ye Feng has such a judgment, because when he reaches the fourth level, he has the ability to "control the world".
Therefore, Ye Feng feels that after reaching the fourth level, creatures can tap into their own potential and form a unique ability, or superpower.
If the animals under his command are powerful, they may be able to awaken and solve the superpower of missile attacks.
Of course, what makes Ye Feng more depressed is that even if there is spiritual energy, it does not mean that these subordinates can be directly upgraded.
Even the most powerful mutant king cobra has only reached the middle stage of the third stage after several days, and is still a little short of breaking through the late stage of the third stage.
Although this is mainly because Ye Feng was anxious to break through to the fifth stage in the past two days and did not continue to inject spiritual energy into them, it is also a fact that these mutant creatures are slow to improve.
Like the mutant king cobra, it can only absorb 40 points of spiritual energy per hour, so it is impossible to improve quickly.
How can he be like this? As long as the spiritual energy is enough, absorbing 40,000 points of spiritual energy per hour is not a problem.
Ye Feng looked at the time and muttered: "It's time to harvest spiritual energy again."
As he spoke, he controlled 505 tree roots to move, and soon collected 7432 points of spiritual energy.
As he added points and the tree roots lengthened, the amount of spiritual energy harvested per hour increased.
Then he condensed all 5,000 points of spiritual energy into spiritual energy fruit.
Most of these spiritual fruits were directly delivered by him using tree roots to the tigers, lions, elephants, hippos, and other mutant animals brought from the zoo in the valley.
For the rest, he summoned a group of mutant bats to deliver them to his contracted subordinates.
As for the remaining spiritual energy, all of it was used to add points.
After doing all this, Ye Feng used his mental power to control the mobile phone to float in front of him.
"It's time to pay attention to the situation outside." Ye Feng said as he opened the news page.
These two days, he was either busy breaking through or dealing with the restricted area, which also led to him not having time to pay attention to the outside world.
As Ye Feng browsed the news, he could say that he didn't know until he saw it, and he was shocked when he saw it.
"Is it so exaggerated?"
The impact of the mutant biological crisis brought about by the revival of spiritual energy on humans far exceeded Ye Feng's previous imagination.
Before, Ye Feng had always used Yangcheng as a reference, and found that he had misjudged the situation.
The defense work of Yangcheng was done quite well.
The military took strict precautions at the beginning, and when they found that they were short of manpower, they immediately chose to lead the people to evacuate. Every decision was made decisively, minimizing the losses.
But even so, the death toll from this mutant biological crisis was as high as 2,000, and the number of injured exceeded 10,000.
Originally, Ye Feng thought that such casualties were not few, but now he found that most of the casualties in other cities were more than four or five times that of Yangcheng.
The main reason why the casualties in other cities were so much higher than those in Yangcheng was the subsequent cleanup work.
According to statistics, during the period when the mutants just broke out and attacked, the number of casualties actually accounted for only a quarter of the total casualties at most.
Although the mutants were attacking frantically at the beginning, that period was also the time when the defenders had the most guns and ammunition.
In addition, they were fighting a defensive battle, and there were means such as flamethrowers and poisonous water that could be used. As long as the defense line did not collapse on a large scale, they could actually exchange the maximum casualties of mutants at the lowest cost.
On the contrary, the subsequent cleanup work became extremely troublesome.
Because when these mutants hide in the alleys, dark corners and even sewers of the city, finding them and killing them is equivalent to changing from a home game to an away game.
Those mutant mosquitoes, mutant goshawks and mutant cockroaches are not so bad. Even if they are not dead after being sprayed with strong insecticide, they basically lose their combat capability.
But the second-level mutant rats are not afraid of this thing.
When you search for them, perhaps a mutant rat will jump out of a trash can, an open door or window, or even a corner you pass by and bite you.
Maybe once or twice, you can stay alert and avoid it, but as the number of times increases, there will always be a time when you miss, which will cause casualties.
And such troubles are not only seen by the soldiers who are searching.
Because of the large-scale elimination of mutant creatures, a large number of troops need to be dispatched, and the rear defense line will inevitably be empty.
Often at this time, some mutant rats will do the opposite and return to attack ordinary people.
It is precisely because of these reasons that the number of injured people in the process of mutant creatures later is even higher.
Even now, three days have passed, but some fourth- and fifth-tier cities have not completed the elimination of the entire city and need the assistance of other cities.
It is estimated that it will take at least 2 to 3 days for all cities across the country to complete the elimination of mutant creatures.
Therefore, compared with other cities, Yangcheng is undoubtedly lucky.
When the mutant group stopped attacking, Ye Feng immediately asked the mutant rat king to drive all the mutant rats in the city to the Dongling Mountains.
The difficulty of the subsequent elimination work has been reduced by more than 10 times, and there are very few people injured.
Ye Feng looked at the domestic situation and immediately opened the international news to read it.
"No way! Another city has been destroyed." Ye Feng was surprised.
The casualties in foreign cities are at least ten times that of Yangcheng.
Especially for some small countries, this mutant crisis is simply a disaster for them.
According to the latest statistics, more than 50 cities have been destroyed worldwide in this crisis.
Although the destroyed cities are only small cities with a population of more than 100,000, this situation is enough to cause panic worldwide.
"I didn't expect that compared with foreign countries, even the situation in fourth- and fifth-tier cities is actually relatively good." Ye Feng looked at the international news and sighed.
Because even in fourth- and fifth-tier cities, after the country has made sufficient preparations, important materials such as guns, ammunition, and powerful insecticides are not lacking.
So even if the subsequent elimination of mutant creatures in the city is not smooth due to manpower problems, it is definitely no problem to hold the original position.
But those cities abroad are different. They can't withstand the impact of the first wave of mutant creatures and are destroyed.
In the subsequent elimination work, there are many cities that were forced to abandon the city and relocate because of too many casualties or shortage of guns and ammunition.
Looking at the large number of displaced people abroad, Ye Feng was also a little silent, because with the recovery of spiritual energy, this is likely just the beginning.
Now is only the third spiritual energy recovery, so what about the fourth and fifth times?
Will humans lose their dominant position on the earth at that time?
Ye Feng shook his head and stopped thinking about these things. "In the future, I just need to protect my family and my hometown, Yangcheng, and I will have a clear conscience."
"If the Dragon King Palace is strong enough, maybe I can try to protect the surrounding cities, so I still have to improve my strength quickly!"
Evening!
The largest conference room in Yangcheng once again ushered in a high-level meeting.
"There are three things to discuss in this meeting. The first thing is about the spiritual fruit."
After Bai Yinghui made an opening statement, he looked at Jian Yi and said, "Chief of Staff, please tell me the details!"
Jian Yi nodded and stood up. He looked a little tired. "After a day of searching, we did not find any tree around Yangcheng with crystal clear fruits. Therefore, no suspected "spiritual tree" was found."
He was personally responsible for this matter. For this reason, he mobilized nearly a thousand information personnel to distinguish every area and even every tree, but found nothing.
After hearing Jian Yi say this, everyone in the room didn't know whether to sigh or be thankful.
But no matter what, a conflict was avoided, and they did not suffer any losses.
Jian Yi continued: "Since we can't find the spiritual energy tree, then we will implement plan No. 2. Zhang Ji, you are more familiar with the Dragon King Palace, so the next negotiation work will be handed over to you, is that okay?"
"No problem!" Zhang Ji immediately stood up and said.
"Okay! I will ask the staff to make a negotiation plan for you later." After Jian Yi finished speaking, he sat down and said no more.
Bai Yinghui, who was sitting in the first seat, continued: "Next, let me talk about the second thing, which is the restricted area."
"Today, after we reported the intelligence of the restricted area to the country, the country attached great importance to it and immediately mobilized various cities to explore the surrounding areas. After a day of searching, two more restricted areas were found in our country."
Hearing this, everyone in the field was shocked. These restricted areas are so strange, one is enough trouble, and now there are three at once.
And this is just the one in China, so how many restricted areas are there in the world?
"Of course, we don't have to worry about the two restricted areas. The local garrisons will naturally deal with them."
"In addition, the restricted area issue has risen to the national level, so the issue of thermobaric bombs has been taken over by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. If everything goes well, we will be able to get the improved version of thermobaric bombs tomorrow. This is one of the few good news."
Everyone was relieved after hearing this.
"As for the third thing, it is also the focus of our meeting. That is the city merger plan." Bai Yinghui looked at everyone and said slowly.
Hearing this, except for Liu Zaoxin who had already received the news, everyone's face showed shock.
"City merger? Each city has a shortage of hundreds of thousands of people, and a maximum of millions of people. With such a large population, how big a project it will take to migrate!" Secretary-General Cao Guangzhi couldn't help but say.
This kind of thing, he felt his scalp tingling just thinking about it.
"It's really troublesome, but I'm sure you've noticed the situation abroad. We've managed to survive the third spiritual energy revival, but what about the next spiritual energy revival?"
"The current situation abroad is a lesson for us, so we need to prepare in advance. It's imperative to merge cities and gather all the forces together." Bai Yinghui said.
"How do we merge? Does our Yangcheng need to merge into other cities?" At this time, Zhang Ji couldn't help asking.
Everyone in the field held their breath and waited for the answer. This was the key point. They didn't want to leave their hometowns and live in other cities.
Bai Yinghui smiled and said, "Don't worry, everyone. No matter what, our Yangcheng is still a top second-tier city. Especially in this mutant biological crisis, we performed exceptionally well, so the country has divided our Yangcheng into a key support city."
"In the future, there will be a lot of resources allocated. If we seize this opportunity, we can even develop quickly into a first-tier city."