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"Is that so? It seems this Boss Niu is aiming for something big!" Zuo Wenshan exclaimed.

"Indeed! I never imagined the council would speak up for him. That was unthinkable in the past. Times have changed, and we're both a little out of touch with the situation," Mayor Gong said.

"I don't know how the council could agree to do such a thing, it's simply unbelievable. What happened after that? You didn't agree, so Boss Niu shouldn't have given up on his plan to build a headquarters, right?" Zuo Wenshan asked.

"He told me at the time that he planned to establish branches nationwide. I thought he was overthinking it, but now it seems he was completely confident. When I didn't agree, he planned to return to Binjiang and build an underground base there," Mayor Gong said.

"Binjiang? Isn't that place full of zombies?" Zuo Wenshan said.

"Since he said so, and judging from the current situation, he must have his own plans. Let's just wait and see."

Zuo Wenshan nodded.

......

Mozhou City, Suiyang Settlement.

"Have you found it yet?" a person wearing a bright red cloak asked.

"Holy Envoy, we haven't found it," the man replied.

"How could this be?" The Holy Envoy was puzzled.

"I don't know either, it's very strange," the man replied.

"Find it again! Dig three feet into the ground and find it!" the Holy Envoy ordered.

"Yes!" the man replied.

......

Binjiang City Underground Base.

"Xiaolin, how is the progress?" Dongfang Chen asked.

"Commander, 573 of the distributed queen bees have been activated," Xiaolin replied.

"How many were sent out in total?" Dongfang Chen asked.

"612," Xiaolin replied.

"Then what about the remaining 39?" Dongfang Chen asked.

"According to the location data, 7 are in Yundu City, 16 are in Kyoto, 12 are in the Northwest region, and they are moving. 4 have already self-destructed," Xiaolin said.

"Good job. As soon as any abnormality is detected, immediately activate the self-destruct program," Dongfang Chen said.

"Yes, Commander."

"Okay, open the monitoring panel," Dongfang Chen said.

"Yes, Commander."

Soon, the large screen refreshed.

The screen displayed a huge satellite map, with the borders of Huaguo (China) specially marked.

Within the borders of Huaguo, there were hundreds of small red dots densely distributed.

Each small red dot represents a settlement or military region.

"Indicate settlements in red and military regions in green," Dongfang Chen said.

"Yes, Commander, the colors have been adjusted," Xiaolin replied.

The screen refreshed, and the map was mostly red dots, with a few scattered green dots.

It was easy to see from the map that there were almost no settlements south of the Yangtze River, and all the red dots were concentrated in the north.

"Rank the queen bees' development level from largest to smallest and display the list next to the map," Dongfang Chen continued, looking at the map.

The queen bee's development level is directly related to the resources it can obtain.

Because these queen bees only had a small amount of crystal cores pre-installed inside the disguised launchers during deployment, their development completely depends on collecting materials and crystal cores themselves.

To ensure the queen bees' energy supply, it was set during production that the priority task is to obtain crystal cores. Otherwise, once the crystal core energy is exhausted, the queen bee will be directly scrapped, and no one will be able to find it underground. Therefore, queen bees hardly develop if they cannot obtain crystal cores.

As for resources, that's simple. The minerals in the soil contain all the elements needed for the queen bee's development, which can be said to be inexhaustible.

The only problem is the crystal cores.

Under what circumstances can the queen bee obtain crystal cores?

That is when there are zombies in and around the settlement within a certain range.

In other words, in settlements that are attacked or have a potential risk of attack, the queen bee obtains a relatively large number of crystal cores and develops relatively quickly. In settlements where there are no zombies nearby and are relatively safe, the queen bee obtains very few crystal cores and develops very slowly.

Therefore, the danger level of the settlement can also be seen from the development level of the queen bee.

"Yes, Commander," Xiaolin replied.

The screen refreshed again.

"Suiyang Settlement?"

Dongfang Chen was a little surprised to see that Suiyang Settlement was ranked first.

You must know that the Jiangning Settlement in Jiangning City had just experienced a zombie rat plague. But the Jiangning Settlement was only ranked second.

This is a little unusual.

He had been to Suiyang Settlement before, and he had cleaned up Meiwenhua there. (没文化 is likely a name)

At that time, he didn't find anything strange there.

"Xiaolin, send instructions to the queen bee in Suiyang Settlement to create some monitoring nanobots. I want to know what exactly happened in Suiyang Settlement!" Dongfang Chen ordered.

"Yes, Commander."

......

Mozhou City, Suiyang Settlement.

"Holy Envoy, something bad has happened!" a man ran in in a panic.

"What's wrong?" the Holy Envoy asked.

"The rats we raised are all gone!" the man replied.

"What do you mean gone?" The Holy Envoy frowned.

"Just... disappeared!" the man replied.

"How could they disappear? Each breeding room is built with a 20-centimeter-thick reinforced concrete frame. It's impossible for those rats to dig holes," the Holy Envoy didn't believe it.

"They really disappeared!" The man still insisted.

"Go, let's go take a look," the Holy Envoy turned and went out.