My Ability Pool is Superior

The Uniformed Elder took the list handed over by Lu Bai, glanced at the quantity, and confirmed, “All of them?”

“Temporarily just these for now. I’ll notify you if there’s a new list.”

Lu Bai waved his hand, signaling that the Uniformed Elder could go down and get busy first.

The list he gave naturally contained personnel who had committed crimes during this period.

In fact, in the Return to Surface Plan, the official measures taken were basically carried out according to the [Return to Surface Plan—Emergency Management Guidelines] jointly formulated by the City Association and the Unified Management Committee.

This newly drafted guidelines included contents such as work processes, organization command systems, and also covered the principles and regulations that needed to be followed.

No matter what the actual operation situation was, at least the contents written on the surface and announced were sufficiently upright and rigorous, or could be said to be pompous and grandiose.

Under normal circumstances, these contents were all nicely said, and no one would strictly comply with them.

However, this actually made things convenient for Lu Bai.

After all, the contents of the guidelines had been discussed countless times at City Association meetings, and were quite perfect in various details.

Lu Bai didn’t even need to formulate new rules; he could simply maintain the operation of the Forward Base according to the rules and regulations in the guidelines.

Humans, this kind of creature, often suffer not from scarcity but from inequality.

In the end, it boiled down to the word fairness.

If fairness could be guaranteed, the difficulty of management was actually very low.

As long as Lu Bai did a sufficiently thorough job in the supervision aspect, there naturally wouldn’t be any major problems.

The beginning of any regime’s decay was always when supervision went wrong.

But supervision was the area that Lu Bai needed to worry about the least.

With all sorts of abilities that could flexibly switch, any illegal behavior was like happening right under his nose; criminals could not escape punishment and would eventually be brought to justice.

Watching the Uniformed Elder leave with the list, Lu Bai stretched lazily, then continued to review various internal information of the Forward Base.

Not being affected by negative emotions ensured that he could make rational judgments in any situation.

But while rational, he was not mechanically cold to the point of being inhumane.

Perhaps because he was already accustomed to it, Lu Bai himself found it hard to realize that he was actually very suitable for the position of supervisor.

And the fact was indeed so.

In the blink of an eye, two days passed, and the Forward Base had not seen a riot like before.

Although due to the sheer number of civilians returning to the surface, some minor disturbances were inevitable during this period, but with the Armed Forces strictly enforcing according to regulations, even if the civilians involved had resentment, they wouldn’t vent it at the enforcement personnel.

Moreover, Lu Bai was constantly maintaining the [Heartstream Network], ready to perform [Scene Replay] at any time.

Emphasizing complete openness and transparency.

It could clarify the truth, and any civilians with normal universal values would not be bewitched by rumors.

With no worries about food and drink, and personal dignity guaranteed not to be trampled, only someone full and idle would risk their head on their belt to cause trouble.

As such, the Forward Base instead presented a thriving scene.

Therefore, in these two days, there had even been many incidents of people fighting over spots to stay in the Residential Area.

……

Lu Bai flipped through the documents on the desk, checked the signature box at the bottom, and added, “The earliest batch of civilians to reach the surface can be recruited into the Construction Team.”

This Construction Team had actually just been formed not long ago.

In reality, the Unified Management Committee side had not even considered at first where most civilians would live after returning to the surface.

In their view, the civilians returning to the surface would find places to live on the surface themselves.

Whether in those settlements or building houses in some uninhabited place, it was fine; after all, the living space on the surface was so vast that they could settle down casually, no need to consider personnel losses during this period.

Nicely put as, life would find its own way.

But after Lu Bai took power, he clearly did not intend to sit by and watch this happen.

As more and more civilians returned to the surface, the Forward Base also began to expand accordingly.

And the arrangement of recruiting ordinary civilians into the Construction Team was something Lu Bai had considered before deciding to step forward.

In his view, these civilians returning to the surface were, in a sense, no different from refugees.

After guaranteeing basic living conditions, using work-for-relief could also avoid raising a bunch of idlers.

After all, human nature could not withstand testing.

He would give the bottom-level civilians a chance to live like humans, but he wouldn’t nanny them with food, drink, and every possible care.

It wasn’t out of stinginess or other reasons, but rather a hope to bring out people’s subjective initiative.

Pursuing a better life was human nature, and it was precisely because of this that human society could progress.

The Uniformed Elder made no evaluation of Lu Bai’s decision, nodded to indicate he understood, then asked in turn, “The City Association hasn’t sent any inquiry today yet; they should already know what happened in the Forward Base. Do we need to make any preparations?”

Incidentally, those original official personnel in the Forward Base had almost all bowed their heads out of fear of Lu Bai’s power, with no real loyalty; even if they saw any concealment in Lu Bai’s arrangements, they wouldn’t remind him.

Especially the Staff Officer and Think Tank members who relied on their brains—even openly slacking off couldn’t be called wrong.

Lu Bai was well aware of this.

However, he didn’t take these matters to heart; at least, they weren’t high priority.

In the end, with Greatness Belongs to Oneself, his error-correction ability was far stronger than that of a normal bureaucratic system.

“The City Association has finally reacted.”

Lu Bai looked up towards the Uniformed Elder: “Is the Escape Elevator still transporting civilians?”

“Still operating normally.”

“Then no need to worry about it.”

The Uniformed Elder hesitated for a moment, but in the end nodded without saying more.

Lu Bai waved his hand: “If there’s nothing else, go ahead first. Find a few experts in economic aspects to see me.”

……

Residential Area, Canteen.

Strictly enforcing the rules and regulations, these canteens would naturally open to ordinary civilians.

Therefore, no matter the time, every canteen was packed with people.

This noisy environment vaguely made people think they had returned to campus life.

“What’s wrong with you exactly? This isn’t like you.” Li Shan waved his hand in front of Feng Yixuan’s eyes.

Ever since Lu Bai stepped forward to take over the Forward Base, Feng Yixuan had become silence.

Li Shan shrugged helplessly, picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth, then shoveled another bite of rice; soon a single-person meal was completely devoured by him.

Seeing that Li Shan had already finished eating, Feng Yixuan finally asked with some difficulty: “Aren’t you surprised at all? Your Junior Schoolmate turned out to be a big villain.”