Chapter 1023: The New Year, the End of the Wasteland!

The riots in Qinggang City came much earlier than expected.

December 17th of the wasteland calendar year.

Following Commander Edmund's order, the underground must open the level within twelve hours and convene an awakening voting meeting for the manager Hades.

The relationship between the ground and the underground began to deteriorate rapidly, and in just half a day, it evolved into a situation of imminent civil strife.

More and more soldiers wearing exoskeleton armor stood in front of the checkpoint.

Hundreds of armored vehicles also surrounded the area, and as soon as the checkpoint opened, they rushed into it to extinguish the rebels.

Whether above or below ground.

Separated by an alloy firewall more than ten meters thick, no one expected that the situation would evolve into this situation.

"Edmund, are you crazy? If you dare to order them to attack the firewall today, this is rebellion!"

Through the communication device, Tang En's face on the screen was already ashen.

Bold can no longer describe Edmund's current operation.

To be more precise, he just wants to rebel!

"Little guy, when I was running around in this wasteland, you were still a puddle of liquid, and yet you dared to talk to me like this."

Edmund sneered, a disdainful smile appearing on his tense face.

The other party knew the news temporarily.

But this scene had been rehearsed in his mind for a whole week.

He was thinking all the time, what kind of expressions and surprise would these stubborn guys in the underground look like when they suddenly found themselves trying to forcefully break the firewall.

Now, he sees it.

As expected, these guys are essentially no different from the wanderers.

They all have the same greed for life and fear of death, and the same fear of the unknown coming.

"To tell you the truth, if you don't open the firewall today, you have to open it. We are ready to fight to the death!"

"Do you believe that as long as I give the order, they will start attacking?"

"Crazy, Commander, you are absolutely crazy."

Tang En's face moved away, and an old man with an old face and white hair appeared in front of the screen.

He raised his hand tremblingly and pointed at the screen:

"Edmund, you actually selected those damn bugs and wanderers to enter our sanctuary. You also issued them weapons and trained them to become soldiers. Do you want to divide our sanctuary, just like the damn tiger hunter? Replace Lord Hades?"

"Oh? Let me tell you, old guy, you are almost losing all your teeth, but you haven't lost your ability to criticize people at all, right?"

The disdain on Edmund's face was even more obvious.

These methods are simply too childish, and I can’t even imagine what a sixty-year-old person could say.

Do they think this is still a "peaceful" Blue Star?

After staying in that strong fortress for a long time, my brain has deteriorated so much that I forgot that the outside world will change.

"Back then, I should have taken the people out of the industrial area and let you have good contact with the undead."

"Don't worry, when Lord Hades wakes up, he will understand the purpose of what I am doing now."

"You are dreaming."

Seeing that Edmund seemed determined to open the firewall and go underground to hold a vote for managers to wake up.

A group of old antiques who had been kings of the underground for a long time finally started to panic.

In the long years, from the bottom to the current position, what they want is to enjoy themselves in their later years.

If Hades, the manager, doesn't wake up immediately, they still have more than ten years to slowly deal with the mess outside.

Retrieve that extremely important industrial core, rebuild the above-ground industrial area, and completely take Qinggang City into our hands.

But if Hades wakes up now

If you think about it with your buttocks, at least half of them in high positions must be responsible for the chaos outside.

Who will be responsible?

Who dares to take responsibility?

Who can take responsibility?

The three questions were raised by Tang En in the previous meeting on "Should the Firewall Be Opened?"

No one can answer, and no one can afford the price.

"Edmund, I know what you want. Now retreat. I will send someone out immediately to deliver a large amount of supplies."

"And we can forget about the things you did before, or even pretend that they never happened."

Tang En pursed his lips, and under the "pressing questioning" of dozens of pairs of old antique eyes, he could only stand up and negotiate terms.

Regardless of how fierce Edmund is yelling now, in fact, if the manager Hades wakes up, he will never escape punishment.

At the most extreme, they may be dragged out and shot, at most, they may be tortured to death.

But the key point is that Edmund now knows in his heart that he will never escape, and he has to drag the people below him with him.

This is a bit uncomfortable.

None of the people below are willing to be buried with Edmund, so now they can only hold their noses and beg for peace.

"Hey Tang En, I thought you would continue to be arrogant for a while."

I didn't expect it to go so smoothly.

The smile on Edmund's dark face became more and more unrestrained, and finally he couldn't hold back and burst into laughter.

And when he finished laughing, he saw that the face of the person opposite the video was almost dripping with tears.

This is how he said:

"Okay, Mingren won't tell secrets. Since you are so straightforward, I won't hide it.

"The materials, equipment, and manpower on these lists are ready for me to send up. I will continue to help you block the commotion outside."

After the words fell, a document was transmitted along the communication device.

Tang En clicked to open it, and after reading only a few lines, he shook his head and refused: "This is impossible. You have already lost an industrial core. If you lose another one, we will definitely not escape responsibility when Lord Hades wakes up."

"We will find the lost one, and this one is just temporarily borrowed from you."

"No, unless you find it first."

The two began to pull back and forth.

There are only five industrial cores in the entire Qinggang Shelter, three of which are underground and two are above ground.

And among these five, only the lost one and the one buried in the bottom of the underground box are used for construction.

"If we can't get it, the industrial zone can't be rebuilt."

"If we can't rebuild it, we can't stop the next riot."

"If we can't stop it, we might as well hold a manager awakening meeting now. Anyway, we have to die sooner or later."

Edmund started to play rogue.

Tang En subconsciously wanted to refuse, but when he glanced at the old stubborn people around him who didn't say a word, he suddenly fell silent.

Perhaps, this is the price everyone pays for supporting him to become the first in line for management.

Edmund has already stated that he will take all the responsibility for the losses above ground.

Then, there must be someone underground who will take the blame.

Obviously, he is the youngest, the least experienced, and the highest in status among all.

All in all, he is the best choice.

"Have you thought about the consequences if you fail in the end?"

"Consequences?" Edmund shook his head repeatedly, his tone softened inexplicably: "Boy, when you see with your own eyes that those damn radioactive beasts will learn from humans to snatch our planes and learn our knowledge, the consequences are completely unimportant."

"You should know better than me what will happen to this shelter if no one stands up."

"What are you going to do?"

"Rebuild the industrial zone and conquer all the shelters. Only our voices will remain in this city."

Tang En's eyes lit up, and then quickly dimmed: "Rely on those wanderers?"

"Of course not, agree to my conditions, and you will soon see that reality is moving in a good direction."

"Okay, although your persuasion method is rubbish, I agree to your conditions."

The industrial core has been given, and it doesn't matter whether the following materials are given or not.

Over the long years, the resources stored in the Sunny Harbor Shelter have reached a terrifying level.

Even if the industrial zone on the ground is destroyed three more times, there will be enough materials for reconstruction.

In addition, only a negligible amount of electricity is needed to solve the problem of food, clothing and daily necessities for the residents.

Rather than leaving the resources and materials to rot in the warehouse, it is better to give them to Edmund and see what kind of big news he will make.

"Hey, kid, it seems that you are not just lucky to be the first choice of manager."

"I, Edmund, sincerely wish you can become a real manager."

Having got what he really wanted, Edmund sincerely sent his blessings.

At the last moment when the video was hung up, he could see that the old stubborn people behind the screen all breathed a sigh of relief.

Undoubtedly, this is a win-win situation.

However.

This win-win situation means that he won twice!

"Announce it and tell everyone."

Edmund looked at his deputy and straightened his chest.

"Starting tomorrow, the industrial zone will begin reconstruction. We have enough materials to recreate the glory of the Qinggang Shelter on this land. We will rebuild our home on this broken ruin!"

"Yes, tell those vagrants by the way."

"Damn it, starting tomorrow, everyone can have three meals, unlimited supply."

"The premise is that they can find the toilet by themselves and don't just poop in the corner."

"A bunch of bugs!"

There was no real fighting in the Qinggang Shelter, but a new round of construction began.

Other shelters in the city breathed a sigh of relief, and even Su Mo, who was far away in the underground city, was relieved.

Good construction.

Enemies without constraints and weaknesses are the most terrifying.

If these people don't rebuild the industrial zone, but set their sights on others.

That will undoubtedly be a nightmare for millions of people in the entire Qinggang City.

And now.

Su Mo threw the letter sent by Qinggang New City into the trash can without thinking about it.

I don't know what's wrong with Edmund, the supreme commander of the new city.

The letter actually wants Tianyuan Shelter to "pay tribute" and exchange a large amount of precious materials for a fictitious guarantee.

When foreign enemies invade, will they lend a helping hand according to the situation?

What a joke, who in this city doesn't know that you are the biggest enemy and the source of unrest.

He dares to guarantee that even if the letter asks for only a bag of starch.

There will be no mole man in the entire Qinggang City who will bow his head and obediently send tribute.

However,

This guy probably didn't think he could really get the tribute, otherwise he wouldn't have such a harsh request.

What he wants is probably just an excuse.

A person who can send troops at any time?

"Don't care about them, we just follow our own pace. Anyway, if the war breaks out, it won't hit us first."

"By the way, have the people who went to the deep sea to spread the news set off?"

Chen Shen, who was sitting across from the table, nodded.

"I left with the supplies yesterday. If everything goes well, I can reach the border of the New World before the New Year. I don't know if I can deliver the news to every corner of the deep sea before the migration tide starts completely."

Su Mo's heart moved.

"It doesn't matter. There won't be much time left before the fog disappears. When the fog that blocks the signal ends, the speed of transmitting information on the sea will be faster."

Ordinary people may not have equipment to receive electromagnetic wave signals, but those sea stations probably have them.

Compared with the efficiency of carrier pigeons, electromagnetic waves can be transmitted tens of thousands of kilometers in minutes.

To spread the news, you just need to find a channel.

"That's right. The fog lasted too long. I'm used to it."

Chen Shen touched the back of his head embarrassedly and continued to report the detailed development of the village step by step.

Near the end of the year, the recent reporting work is almost changing people.

One moment it is Shen Ke who is responsible for the supplies of the logistics department, and the next moment it is Qiao Yuansheng who is in charge of the villagers' union.

Today, just as Li Hu, who was in charge of public security, was sent away, Chen Shen followed him in.

Not bad!

As Chen Shen read out more and more data that represented the good development momentum of the territory, Su Mo nodded in affirmation.

Since he became a hands-off shopkeeper, he really didn't care about these things anymore.

But in fact, after laying a good foundation, it is still difficult to grow crooked.

"If there are no other unexpected situations, start preparing for the New Year ceremony."

"I think everyone must be looking forward to this day."

There is less than half a month left before the New Year.

The players who were selected for the handicraft enthusiast route have become workaholics, stepping on the sewing machine on the third and fourth floors of the dungeon to produce sparks, and hundreds of finished clothes are put into the warehouse every day.

Such an important matter naturally cannot be hidden from his smart residents.

Although everyone in the chat channel suppressed the urge to discuss the New Year ceremony, Su Mo knew it very well.

The more suppressed, the more expected.

At this moment at the end of the year.

Just like the Tianyuan Territory that has been suppressed for a long time, it is finally time to be released!