CHAPTER 316: CHAPTER 316 MEDIEVAL APARTMENT BUILDING

Tirion Star, within the destroyed camps.

A soldier asked, "I was just wondering... where did all the bodies go?"

"Maybe they were dragged away as scrap, or hidden somewhere to avoid attracting zombies."

The soldiers advanced cautiously along the roads and alleys, ready to deal with any ambushes from enemies at any moment.

There were signs of battle everywhere, including engine oil, and in some places, there were bloodstains.

"It must be the work of hostile Horu people," Lin Yi said when he saw the bloodstains.

He arrived in front of one of the giant buildings, which was obviously the main battle site.

There were incomplete mechas everywhere, along with remnants of explosions and holes in the walls.

But Lin Yi decided not to go in. Melanie said it was time for his meeting in Düsseldorf.

After returning to the shelter and grabbing some food, Lin Yi teleported to Earth.

He saw something... surprising.

"It seems you two have made up?" Lin Yi asked when he saw Lainer hugging Leia.

"It’s all thanks to you. What’s the point of holding a grudge when the world is on the brink of destruction? We don’t know how much time we have left."

The big guy happily announced, "After talking with you yesterday, I went to find Leia, and we talked... "

"He barged into my office, drunk, begging me to hear him out and forgive him."

"Leia! That’s not what happened at all! You’re making me look like a complete coward!" Lainer protested, patting Leia’s buttock.

She didn’t seem to mind at all: "Anyway, we talked, and this time we’ll understand each other better..."

"Congratulations to you both. By the way, what were you fighting about before?"

"It was because we couldn’t reach a compromise, and... well, maybe it was my fault..."

Leia looked a bit embarrassed.

Lainer was rather shocked.

Leia used to be not just uncompromising, but she downright refused and tried to trample him!

"...She had her own ideas about how to develop her city, and I had mine..."

"Looking at the situation in Düsseldorf, maybe I was a little... wrong..." Leia said, lowering her head.

When she saw Lainer’s city, she was truly shocked; his city... was better than hers.

"Okay, back to the main point, my schedule is packed today."

"No problem, everything is ready. The vending machine has been installed, and..."

This meeting was brief but productive.

Lin Yi agreed to open an office, but the location was chosen to be an abandoned base between the two cities.

As it turned out, the edible biomass factory was actually there.

At the beginning of the apocalypse, Leia and Lainer set up a survivor camp in Cologne and decided to help their neighbors.

Lainer went to Düsseldorf and quickly succeeded in merging the entire camp there into one.

Then, with Cologne’s assistance, they cleared out all the zombies in the area.

They defeated a Zombie Lord and got a box containing a biomass factory.

They installed the factory between the two cities and guarded it together.

When relations between Cologne and Düsseldorf broke down, they stopped guarding the factory.

Whenever they needed food, they sent soldiers there to clear out zombies and deal with the zombie bodies.

Lin Yi also learned that this factory didn’t just use zombies to make food; it could utilize any biomass, even soil!

But this food was very expensive per pound in gold coins.

They traded equipment for more advanced versions.

Basically, they traded wooden sticks for nail-headed hammers and crossbows, with the difference paid out from the treasuries of both cities.

Overall, Lin Yi earned 400,000 gold coins and obtained 899 empty Second Level energy cores.

These two German cities had no skill books at all; every time they got one, they used it immediately.

But they were eager to buy Flame Skill Books!

They spent 1,000,000 gold coins to buy 1,000 copies.

Lainer’s people had already tested the Skill Book Lin Yi gave him, and the copies worked perfectly.

Once the vending machine was activated, both camps started buying ammunition in large quantities.

The demand for shotgun ammunition was extremely high.

Düsseldorf’s warriors often guarded the city and buildings, and shotguns were very effective in narrow corridors, even against mutants.

The two cities didn’t have many coins, as the factory consumed coins like crazy,

but they kept repelling zombie attacks, clearing nearby areas, and absorbing smaller camps.

If they really needed coins urgently, they could always resell the food.

There were some other details to iron out, but Solomon suddenly contacted him via intercom.

They found the dead half-mechanical people.

The Horu people dumped all the bodies in a building at the spaceport.

It’s unclear why they did this, but the shelter obtained about 2,000 tons of half-mechanical corpses from these bodies.

There was a workshop in the camp for repairing mechas and assembling vehicles, as well as a large solar power plant.

The power plant was destroyed, and it was clearly not accidental; the workshop’s goods were stripped clean, and all the vehicles were gone.

The Horu people took everything they could and then destroyed the rest.

As expected, the camp was thoroughly looted and left with no survivors.

Lin Yi returned to Tirion Star and gathered 400 plunderers.