CHAPTER 202: CHAPTER 202: NINE AT ONCE?

Adaptation Center, in front of the auction stage.

A familiar military policeman came to Lin Yi.

"Lin Yi, we just met a few hours ago, and you’ve already caused trouble again!"

It was the military policeman who escorted Lin Yi to find Dante. It seemed he held quite some authority and rank.

Lin Yi laughed heartily, "What can I say? It’s just a talent I have."

"I can see that!"

The three of them laughed.

Lin Yi recounted the events that had happened.

He showed this military policeman the auction video, and another policeman refused and destroyed the video evidence he provided, among many other things.

At this moment, the Red Wine Commander, Raphael, spoke up.

"So everyone is talking about your formidable soldiers? Where have they gone?"

"I can transport more than just items!"

"I see... Lin Yi, I’d like to introduce you to the King. You still have food, right?"

"Of course, but does Lille Camp City really have a food shortage problem?"

"It didn’t before, but it does now. Too many people have come in..."

"Then at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning, come to my place. If you don’t know, just ask that guy."

Lin Yi said, pointing to the military policeman who was just questioning a girl and was walking over.

The military policeman smiled.

"Lin Yi, those girls said they want to go with you. They said you promised to rescue them."

"I only promised to save one of them... well, the more, the merrier. Let’s go."

Lin Yi said, walking toward the nine girls in pretty dresses.

Before he could speak, one of the girls started crying and pleading.

"Can you get us out of here? We beg you! If not, we’ll still be kidnapped and sold..."

"Do you have family?"

"My dad is an addict who sold me for drugs, so no, I don’t have a family."

One of the girls said, then burst into tears.

The other girls started crying as well.

"My dad works at a biomass factory."

"My parents..."

In the end, only three girls had parents or hoped Lin Yi would also take their parents with them.

He talked with the military policeman, and the two reached an agreement.

The people Lin Yi was looking for would be found and sent to the hotel suite, and in the official records of Lille, they’d be registered as having escaped the city.

After handling the matters in the slums, also known as the Adaptation Center, Lin Yi returned to the hotel.

He needed to tell Dante the good news about finding Diane; he also needed to return to the Shelter,

It was getting dark, and he hadn’t had dinner yet.

He and the nine girls took a ride with the soldiers,

The soldiers promised that the parents would be brought over in about an hour.

"Look at those... nine beautiful girls."

When Lin Yi walked into the hotel lobby with the nine girls, a guest wandering around stared.

Another guest said, "They’re just kids, your thoughts..."

"That’s how things are now; you either adapt or die..."

"I understand, but... nine all at once!"

These nine beautiful girls inevitably caught people’s eyes. Everyone thought Lin Yi was some kind of pervert, which really irritated him...

Dante was thrilled to see Lin Yi back because the boss had promised to find his family.

But when he saw those nine young girls, he was stunned, doubting and staring at his new boss.

Weapon Smith Dante stammered, pointing at the girls.

"What’s... going on here?"

"I saved them while looking for your family. Make yourself at home, just like it’s your place."

After Lin Yi spoke, he led the Weapon Smith to the room.

"Where are you taking me? Don’t tell me..."

Dante stopped, tears welling up in his eyes.

Damn!!

"What a day has it been... who’s going to cry in front of me next!"

Lin Yi yelled, pushing Dante into a bedroom, venting his pent-up anger.

Dante looked timid, but soon it changed.

The Weapon Smith’s daughter appeared in the room.

After an emotional scene of the family finally reuniting, they signed the usual contract and discussed its terms and conditions.

Then, the father and daughter were sent to the Shelter.

When Lin Yi returned to the living room, those nine girls were hiding like mice.

Lin Yi walked to a large table.

He began to perform "magic"!

Food appeared on the table, and it wasn’t ordinary food; it was the kind they could hardly eat even before the apocalypse.

"Eat up, don’t bother me, and you won’t go hungry again."

Lin Yi said coldly.

Then he returned to the bedroom and locked the door.

He transported to the Shelter.

There, a sumptuous dinner awaited him.

In the room, the nine girls stared wide-eyed at the food for about five minutes,

Finally, one girl decided to try it.

And after she tried it...

She couldn’t stop!

The other girls, worried their gluttonous friend would eat all the food,

Immediately started to gobble down as well.

The blonde girl in a tight-waisted blue dress asked the person she was dining with, "Why are you crying?"

"This is the most delicious food I’ve ever had in my life. I wish my mom could be here to taste it, but... it’s already too late..."

The crying girl replied.

Then... this triggered a chain reaction.

Nine girls sat at the large table, eating delicious food, and crying uncontrollably...

And the more they ate, the more they wanted to cry!

...

The difficult day finally ended.

Everyone gathered together to enjoy dinner.

The cook Giselle had also hired an assistant who had previously worked in a high-end restaurant in Paris.

The dinner was sumptuous and exquisite.

Lin Yi looked at the old mechanician with a sorrowful expression.

"How do you feel, Louis?"

"Much better, boss."

Louis, slightly intoxicated, poured a glass for his boss as well,

Lin Yi nodded, and took a sip.

"I heard you gained experience points in that tank, does that mean you earn experience from monster kills?"

"Yes, the team members do too, but I earned the most experience points because I was in charge."

"Got it. So, to build another tank like that, or even a batch of such tanks, what kind of experts do you need? I mean, tanks that really work, not just a prototype."

"Metallurgists and mechanics! The more the better!"

Louis suddenly became spirited; he originally thought the boss would stop funding his project...

"I believe the Lille Camp can find talent, isn’t that how Dante found it?"

Lin Yi turned to his beautiful assistant.

"Chen Youyou, have Immanuel make a list for me tomorrow morning of the experts we need to recruit. Also tell me what kind of parts are required. Lille must have a lot of construction equipment and scrapped military vehicles."

"Okay, boss! ...And thank you!"

"I hope you express it through enthusiastic actions."

Upon hearing this, Chen Youyou’s face turned red, as there were still so many people here...

Lin Yi looked at the red-haired girl.

"Sylvie, I’ve hired a Weapon Smith today named Maurice Moria. Help him get familiar with the work and start manufacturing power armor, the more the better. We might be able to sell them for a good price."

"No problem."

"Professor, how is Maurice’s wife doing?"

"Oh, she’s doing okay. But she needs to stay in the hospital for at least two weeks, she has late-stage pneumonia, with more than 90% lung damage. Once she recovers and regains consciousness, I suggest making her a Professional. I’d like to observe her recovery speed before and after becoming a Professional."

The exhausted professor, having to care for patients and conduct research, was incredibly busy.

He is currently studying the unusual tree transplanted from the Moving Island.

"I understand, but you must discuss it with her family, and if they agree, Solomon will arrange everything. I guess the patrolling soldiers are constantly facing invading zombies, right? Solomon?"

"That’s right, boss! Since you purified that island, the number of zombies appearing from the mist has increased by dozens of times. We’re starting to recruit civilian recruits."

"Then help these girls and your wife become Professionals and reach Level 5."

"Yes, boss! By the way, Hubert asked me to remind you about the expansion of the shelter boundaries..."

"Oh... I forgot... I’ll go in a bit!"

Lin Yi said, remembering there was still an important task.

He smiled mischievously at the lively Annie, who looked tired and uncharacteristically silent.

"Annie, have all those rewards been opened?"

"Yes... I’ve opened them all, boss... The rewards are in that... room..."

Annie’s tone when mentioning "room" made it sound like it was the ninth level of Hell.

Lin Yi nodded, then thought for a moment.

"I’ll take a look once I’m done with things in the city. If I make some money tomorrow, I’ll have to start building a castle..."

"Boss, sorry, may I ask a possibly silly question... I want to know why don’t we merge the Zombie General’s island with the shelter?"

Little Natasha looked at her boss.

Lin Yi, drinking grape juice, shook his head.

"Teruo told me that Moving Islands can be anchored in one place. Then they’ll stop moving in the Sea of Space-Time, so that answers your next possible question:—

The islands can serve as neutral trade zones, but you need to be very strong to defend one.

We don’t have the capability to do that right now. Let’s eat now."

After a fulfilling dinner.

Lin Yi walked to his laptop,

prepared to expand the shelter.

He had to increase the distance between the walls, neither too big nor too small.

After five minutes of "agonizing," he finally completed all the necessary calculations.

He had to expand the shelter by about 800,000 square meters, which would cost him 48,000 coins, or 240,000 units of biomass.

Needless to say, he chose biomass.

The mist walls moved back about 300 meters.

This time, there was no earthquake because the distance moved was relatively small.

Sparse forests appeared on the newly expanded land.

Lin Yi originally planned to use the system to remove all the trees and bushes, but then he remembered what Immanuel had told him about the shelter’s wood shortage.

[Shelter]

Level: 14

Experience Points: 74478/81920 (91%)

Balance: 332,405 coins, 709,800 units of biomass, 40,936 tons of material.

Area: 3,000,000 square meters

Scale: Small

Space-Time Detection Radius: 1031 (6031)

Current Speed: 5 space-time units per hour

External Device:

Space-Time Harpoon (Activated)...