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The Uniformed Elder, who had just brushed past the gates of hell, saw his subordinates on both sides successively yielding, and no longer dared to keep resisting stubbornly.

He suspected that if he remained stubborn, Lu Bai would absolutely not mind making him shut up for good.

With this thought, the Uniformed Elder hurriedly spoke up: “I agree too.”

With the highest-level leader in the Forward Base having bowed his head, the remaining Senior Officers and Staff had no reason to persist, and they all expressed willingness to obey Lu Bai’s command.

Pu Xueli, standing in the corridor, did not say much at this time, but looked at Lu Bai with a complex gaze, as if just getting to know him.

Lu Bai had actually also noticed Pu Xueli standing among the Staff, but he glanced at him and then shifted his gaze away.

Since he had decided to become a dictator of humanity in a substantial sense, no matter what identity, status, or connections the other party had with him, it held no meaning for him.

It was worth mentioning that, compared to the somewhat unwilling attitude from the City Association side, the Rebel Army and ordinary civilians in the Forward Base were instead glad to obey Lu Bai’s command.

On one hand, Lu Bai had indeed demonstrated unmatched power; on the other hand, these civilians relocated to the surface were originally from the bottom of society, and any change was a good thing for them—things couldn’t get much worse.

As for living worse under Lu Bai’s rule than under the City Association’s rule?

They had experience anyway; worst case, they could raise the flag and rebel again—it was just death at most.

The vast majority of the Rebel Army and ordinary civilians held such resolute ideas, basically staying put honestly, waiting for Lu Bai’s further Arrangement.

Of course, the fact that the situation settled so easily and smoothly was also partly because this so-called Rebel Army had not existed long enough and inherently lacked any resistance manifesto.

In a certain sense, it was no different from some idea guy popping up in a tavern; they had never considered what to do after overthrowing the City Association.

In the end, it was just someone stepping forward to deliver an engaging opening speech, critiquing current politics, civilian hardships, future roads, and so on, then asking, “Do we want to continue like this?”… and thus rallying a force.

Under such premises, these ordinary civilians naturally harbored no hostility toward Lu Bai.

“Very good.”

Lu Bai looked around and added: “Then let’s start changing the world from now on.”

……

The night was still long.

Several exits of the Civil Defense Project still had civilians continuously lining up to come out.

The road to the Forward Base was brightly lit, with Armed Forces maintaining order and armored vehicles on both sides of the road, and grassroots staff holding megaphones to command the crowd every certain distance.

“Don’t crowd, everyone proceed following the light guidance. You there, Bald Man, don’t stop, move faster.”

After this grassroots staff shouted, he put down the megaphone and muttered worriedly: “Why is everything still the same as usual…”

The staff standing next to him kindly reminded: “Don’t sleep too soundly tonight; I feel the big one hasn’t come yet.”

After Lu Bai seized control of the Forward Base with absolute military force, he made no adjustments to the original Return to the Surface work, merely improving the treatment of ordinary civilians, with no changes to the work content of many personnel.

Thanks to this, the entire Forward Base’s operation showed no chaos and smoothly completed the handover of top-level power.

Original Unified Management Committee Forward Base branch, inside the rebuilt office building.

Under normal circumstances, the surface Forward Base had to report to the City Association every ten minutes.

But now even the Forward Base had changed surname to Lu, so reporting naturally stopped.

“The City Association has sent another inquiry.”

The white-haired Uniformed Elder walked up to Lu Bai holding it, and asked somewhat unaccustomedly: “How should we reply from our side?”

Lu Bai calmly checked the information on the desk without even lifting his head: “Reply truthfully, and by the way ask about the City Association side’s choice.”

“This…”

The Uniformed Elder was speechless for a moment, but in the end silently nodded in agreement.

For Lu Bai, the City Association side’s ideas were actually unimportant.

He just needed to find time to demonstrate his own mighty power; he wasn’t afraid the City Association’s councilors wouldn’t bow their heads—even if they had ulterior motives, they wouldn’t dare oppose him openly.

The Uniformed Elder adjusted his emotion and then said: “Mr. Lu, there’s one more thing.”

“Speak.”

“According to your planned allocation Plan, the Base’s current supplies reserves are far from enough; there will be a supplies shortage before tomorrow nightfall.”

Originally, each civilian returning to the surface was allocated food and drinking water sufficient to last seven days.

This seven-day standard was the minimum limit, basically only barely lasting seven days by rationing tightly.

It couldn’t be said that the City Association side was stingy.

After all, the quantity of civilians was indeed too great; even giving each person just one bottle of water would require depleting reserves from several large warehouses.

And Lu Bai had raised the share for each civilian, ensuring civilians could eat and drink their fill.

On this basis, the Forward Base’s current reserved supplies probably wouldn’t last even a day.

Hearing the Uniformed Elder’s report and finishing the supplies information, Lu Bai finally lifted his head.

The order that seemed utterly absurd to the Uniformed Elder, he did not take to heart.

“No need to worry.”

Lu Bai reactivated the Heartstream Network, ensuring the entire Forward Base including surrounding civilians could see what was happening here.

Because his next action could to a certain degree boost civilians’ confidence.

He extended his index finger and pointed to an empty corner in the room.

“As long as you obey laws and disciplines, your daily food and drink will be granted to you every day.”

The next second, several pieces of fresh meat food appeared out of thin air in the corner, each weighing about a hundred pounds.

Before the Uniformed Elder could recover from his daze, Lu Bai spoke first to add: “As for drinking water, opening up a few large rivers should suffice.”

“Creating matter out of thin air.”

The Uniformed Elder murmured.

He had encountered similar abilities in Deathmatch Duels before, but this ability to produce food was too niche for Deathmatch Duels, providing little auxiliary effect, so few Death Fighters chose such abilities.

“Alright, next, it’s time to deal with those guys who broke the law during this period.”

Lu Bai handed the newly drafted list to the Uniformed Elder.

Since the Heartstream Network ability was called a network, it was naturally bidirectional; besides serving as a live broadcast camera effect, it could also conversely obtain what targets encountered.

This effect used for supervision was exceptionally effective, ensuring no lawbreaker would be wronged or overlooked.