Finally, it was decided that the outer wall would be built to a height of 8 meters.
The construction site would be near the guard room on the right side of the base.
The planned area was approximately 20,000 square meters.
This was roughly two hundred meters long and one hundred meters wide, about thirty mu.
Additionally, within these thirty mu,
the area near the base, roughly twenty mu, would be designated for planting and other processing.
The remaining ten mu would be for the non-staff personnel to reside.
A Weng City would also be built at this location, connecting to the Inner City.
This Weng City would be slightly larger, with a scale of over a thousand square meters, and Bai Jie's research lab would be moved there.
Since only the outer wall needed to be built, it only required about 400 meters of wall length.
With so many people available now, if they worked at the fastest speed, it wouldn't take more than a week to complete the construction.
Once the direction was set, Li Yu immediately began making arrangements, starting from today.
Because some building materials had been stockpiled earlier, Li Yu and his team could start work immediately.
Using Rejiang tank trucks for direct pouring significantly sped up the process.
Li Yu had his father, third uncle, and some workers supervise them, ensuring control at critical points.
Additionally, he assigned a dozen people to monitor them from the wall at all times, ready to shoot if there was any movement.
Li Yu watched the wall construction in full swing, pulled He Chao aside, and said,
"We might still be short on building materials. These next few days, take your men to collect materials, and while you're gathering supplies, collect some larger steel plates. We can use them to make a large iron gate."
Upon hearing this, He Chao had no objections; instead, he seemed somewhat excited.
So, he quickly contacted his brothers to go out and collect building materials.
Besides this wall, they also needed to build some houses for living, otherwise, just the wind and rain would make them miserable. Of course, these houses would be built quite simply.
The past two days had been sunny, and the progress of the project was decent.
But suddenly, on the night of the third day,
these Safe City civilians suddenly mutinied. Because they had been rushing to meet the deadline for the past two days, a few people had been worked to death.
However, they hadn't been given any food.
To ensure the wall was completed on schedule, Li Yu set up a large pot and cooked some food for them, otherwise, they wouldn't have the strength to last for a few more days.
Watching these civilians scramble for food, wolfing it down,
Li Yu felt a pang of discomfort. His innate kindness and soft heart made a thought flash in his mind: 'What if I give them a chance?'
However, Li Yu's experience from his previous life told him not to do so.
His family and friends in the base could not afford such a great risk.
He quickly lowered his head, muttering to himself, self-persuading.
A few minutes later, when he looked up again, only coldness remained in his eyes.
He was somewhat conflicted.
Being inherently kind, he couldn't bear to see tragic things, but after the apocalypse, especially before his rebirth, he had experienced five years of the apocalypse and countless tragic events.
Many of them had even happened to him.
He had to force himself to strip away that part of his kindness!
But he couldn't achieve a complete stripping, because his kindness was ingrained in his bones.
Yet, he was also selfish; he didn't want to risk the lives of his family and friends.
Struggling.
It was very real, but he was good at persuading himself.
Persuading himself to be cruel and ruthless towards enemies.
Some people might find him incredibly calm and ruthless, but he always managed to lead the base to make the most correct decisions.
When Li Yu was in the base, that feeling of being bathed in spring breeze, that genuine concern, made the people in the base believe that Li Yu was full of warmth.
However, whenever he went out, when he killed enemies, he was always so ruthless and merciless.
Towards enemies, he used every means possible.
Later, everyone understood that Li Yu did this for everyone in the base.
He was so ruthless and merciless for the sake of the people in the base. After realizing this, everyone trusted him even more.
For He Chao, he had also been feeling this recently.
He used to think Li Yu and his team were extremely ruthless and merciless, but after slowly getting to know them, especially after joining later, he realized how warm Li Yu truly was.
Bang~
Li Yu shot and killed a Safe City civilian.
Just now, that person had run towards the small forest, trying to escape!
The gunshot also deterred the other civilians.
This was already the sixth one.
Recently, to speed up progress and ensure these civilians had stamina, while also lowering their guard and resistance,
they were given some mushy food every day. The amount was small, but it seemed to give them hope.
It was as if, even though they had to do hard labor, at least they had food to eat.
Meanwhile, He Chao and his team were also busy collecting building materials, and Li Yu had exchanged grain with them.
Because with only four jin of rice distributed to them each month, they simply couldn't get through a month.
Exchanging with them served two purposes: first, it was part of the previous agreement.
Second, it reaffirmed the ownership of this Outer City, which belonged 100% to the base.
This point was undeniable.
Through these days of interaction, Li Yu was quite satisfied with He Chao and his team.
In fact, when he first cooperated with them, he had already inquired through his aunt, Yu Tong, Lao Xie, Lao Lü, Shang Xue'er, and others who had previously stayed in Liberation City.
He knew the background of each of He Chao's team members and knew that they were all honest and law-abiding.
They were merely victims of the later destruction caused by another group of people and wanderers in Liberation City.
There was no prior bad example, and they had the trust endorsement of acquaintances.
But Li Yu was still very cautious.
After these several cooperations, a certain foundation of trust had been established.
And later, two waves of people from Safe City arrived, and He Chao and his team discovered them in advance and warned them, playing a huge role.
Moreover, during this period, his shrewd second uncle and elusive third uncle had secretly observed them for a long time.
They found no problems with them.
It was just that Li Yu was too cautious; he thought that further in-depth investigation was still needed.
Once these people's families moved into the outer wall to live, he would bind them with common interests and continuously assess and test them.
Li Yu believed that people had gratitude, but he believed more in human fickleness.
He believed more that common interests would make trust stronger.
Although they performed well, Li Yu still dared not trust them easily.
Therefore, to access the interior of the base, there needed to be a Weng City.
And the guard room in this area also needed two people to constantly monitor.
He still needed to keep a few tricks up his sleeve.
It needed time, and deep binding.
They needed a baptism, a battle.
Li Yu, looking at He Chao and the others building houses together at this moment, began to calculate in his mind: in a few days, after this side of the construction was completed,
he would take them to Safe City to resolve the hidden dangers.
It didn't matter if they couldn't shoot, as long as they could drive. This was also a test.
Li Yu became lost in thought.
Meanwhile, He Chao and the others beneath the wall were filled with joy, looking at Li Yu with even more gratitude.
Among them, some were women, some were teenagers, and some were fathers like He Chao.
But without exception, they had all followed He Chao to this point.
They had experienced the chaos in Liberation City and the disaster of that winter, and they deeply knew how important a safe haven was.
Therefore, they were very grateful to Li Yu. Whenever they saw Li Yu, their eyes were filled with gratitude.
Li Yu had a high immunity to such gazes.
He just treated them better than before.
Today, my throat hurts, my neck is sore, and I feel uncomfortable all over. My condition is not very good. I've kept my brothers waiting.
