Apocalypse: Hero of Potato Fields

Inside the shelter.

Lin Yi looked at the little girl Natasha, who was about to check some of his parts, and quickly dodged.

"Hey... tell me, how much did it cost me to repair the shelter, hmm?"

"Not too much, just 330,000 Coins."

Natasha said, sitting down by the table with some dissatisfaction.

Lin Yi looked pained, shocked by the number.

"Just 329,000 Coins?! That's enough to feed a small town for at least a week! Or build twenty apartment buildings!"

"Well, at first I thought it would cost at least a million. This is an ideal result."

"Ugh, don't say unlucky things!"

Lin Yi looked at this sweetly smiling little troublemaker with some helplessness.

"By the way, suggesting the Child of the Sun live in the earthen house, that was your idea, right?"

"It was me."

"Well done. How much can each earthen house save?"

"Ten Coins."

"You truly are my good treasure!"

"Hmph, then why don't you let me 'care' a little!"

Lin Yi didn't want to respond, so he started cooking.

Soon after, others came dragging their feet into the dining hall.

They were pleasantly surprised to see the boss.

Rein and Zoe's eyes were a bit red.

But Louis and the professor were the happiest.

They had heard about the newly explored Fragment World, inhabited by Half-Mechanical People, which amused them greatly.

These two old men pushed the women aside and started asking Lin Yi a series of very specific questions, but they were waved off.

Lin Yi planned to give them all the documents and data he found, along with the translation equipment, after breakfast.

He really didn't want to talk about those boring professional topics, which made him feel like an illiterate.

He told the two old men to shut up.

Then, he began to sweep through the food.

Lively Annie, full of curiosity, started bombarding him with questions as soon as he put the spoon down.

"So, boss... what were the girls like there? Are they all Half-Mechanical too? What kind of clothes did they wear?"

"Ask Melanie, but... can our surveillance switch to that world?"

"No, boss." Melanie shook her head.

She had tried yesterday, without success.

Lin Yi sighed. For now, it seemed the surveillance could only follow his perspective to move.

Annie called out, "Boss! You..."

"We'll go back there, maybe I can take you for a spin... provided you behave well."

"I've got your word, boss!"

"Yes, yes..."

Lin Yi repeatedly surrendered and then looked at Chen Youyou.

"Did anything happen while I was away?"

"There were some issues, but they've all been resolved. However, there are a few matters that need your attention."

Chen Youyou smiled somewhat tiredly.

A week ago, almost the entire shelter was destroyed, especially the industrial area.

Then there was restructuring, repairs, cleaning, restoring daily life to normal, and getting production and other work running again...

All this was truly exhausting.

Lin Yi noticed the dark circles under Chen Youyou's eyes.

"Shouldn't you... take some time to choose a few assistants during this period?"

"The girls helped me..."

"That won't do. You need professional assistants, at least three or four people. Actually... no... hmm... I've got an idea, Chen Youyou!"

"What!?" Chen Youyou was startled.

"I want to upgrade your level to Level 5 to improve your physical condition, and then set up a mature management team. Like... a shelter prefecture. And appoint some people to handle specific tasks."

"But we're already doing that..."

"No, I'm talking about a fully organized government-like structure. You assign tasks and then break them down into sub-tasks, distributing them to your subordinates.

Because you can read minds, you can easily tell who is doing their job well and who is slacking off.

Hehe... a boss who can read minds... this will make them get their work done!"

"Then... I'll surely be fired!" Louis chuckled.

The professor also nodded and commented, "Indeed, my lab's chief researcher is an idiot. If only I could read minds too..."

Lin Yi didn't want to get deep into the shelter's daily operations at this moment as he planned to handle it at a more appropriate time.

Everyone calmly finished their breakfast and then went about their business.

He decided to start with matters on Earth.

Lille Camp City was his main client, and he had many grand plans for Lille.

He also intended to make a trip to the market in the city and have the King help him with something.

Additionally, he wanted to buy many skills related to throwing, vision, and reaction speed.

The key was, he couldn't forget the taste of those mutated crab legs, they were just too delicious...

The soldiers started preparing after breakfast, and the army was ready by 9 a.m.

Sailan was filled with red zombies, evidently arriving overnight from elsewhere.

Lin Yi rode the "Dagger", immediately flying up, appearing right above the center of the zombie crowd.

Most of the buildings in the small town were only one or two stories high.

He flew to the rooftop of a nearby building, summoned the mages, and ordered them to create a sea of fire.

Then they flew to the next building and repeated the trick.

It turned out this tactic was quite effective.

He moved from rooftop to rooftop, creating one localized "hell" scene after another, as if playing hide and seek.

The red zombies were infuriated by this tactic and began frantically trying to catch the humans.

They smashed down the building doors, running up the stairs at the fastest speed towards the rooftops.

But as they crowded at the door, their speed was actually slowed down, eventually forming a mass to burst through the doors.

When Lin Yi was on the rooftop of the seventh building, the red zombies had already reached the rooftop before the mages could start the "Flame Massacre."

He had no choice but to end the operation and fly away.

Lin Yi, tired of this "hide and seek" game, stationed himself on a large rooftop and summoned a considerable number of forces.

Beastmen and armored infantry guarded the path to the stairs, while archers and mages attacked the enemies outside the building.

The Da Chuan Dragon was put to use at this moment as well.

It appeared on a flat rooftop, surrounded by numerous beastmen to protect it.

After all, it was considered a Dharma Dragon.

Soldiers, having occupied several rooftops, began to attack the enemies.

The red zombies were smarter than ordinary zombies.

The passages and stairs were blocked by corpses, yet the red zombies dragged the bodies away to move more freely.

But this evolved into an endless cycle!

The red zombies dragging the bodies were killed by humans, becoming new corpses, and more red zombies arrived to drag the bodies...

Are they stupid?

No!

Lin Yi noticed they were dismantling the building,

The zombies on top were bait, while those below had already started destroying the foundation.

They wanted to bury the humans alive.

"These cunning fellows..."

Lin Yi, after gathering everyone, including the dragon, immediately flew to another part of the small town.

Outside Sailan, there were too many red zombies.

Who knew what else they could do?

After finding a new position, Lin Yi summoned his soldiers once more.

This building was no sturdier than the previous one.

He summoned more archers, along with many soldiers wielding submachine guns and laser rifles.

Their goal was to prevent the red zombies from dismantling the building before the mages could burn them to death.

The dragon acted independently, flying from rooftop to rooftop, using flames to attack the enemies.

The battle lasted a long time, leaving everyone exhausted.

As the red zombies continued to demolish the occupied buildings, Lin Yi needed to change positions from time to time.

But he had to remain vigilant and command the entire battle because the combat awareness of these red zombies was constantly evolving.

Lin Yi wanted to abandon the sea of fire tactic and summon the beastmen to chop all the red zombies into pieces.

But there were still too many zombies.

It was too risky!

If there were a large number of well-trained warriors, the situation might have been different, but...the Child of the Sun, while numerous, were almost not up to standard.

Of the ten thousand Children of the Sun he could command, only two thousand were first-level professionals, and almost none had useful skills.

Perhaps at some point, they could be transformed into armored infantry, but currently, there was neither the time nor the equipment.

The number of red zombies gradually began to decrease.

Their single-minded goal to eradicate Lin Yi's forces ironically led to their own doom.

They gathered so densely that the effect of area attacks was shockingly good.

Once their numbers dwindled to an acceptable level, the battle shifted to the ground.

The pace of the battle began to accelerate.

After two hours of intense fighting, the group killed about 21,000 red zombies, obtaining 603 white rewards and 105,000 coins.

"Boss! We found something strange in the basement of an underground parking lot, like...some kind of red zombie manufacturing factory!"

Melanie reported anxiously.

Hearing this, Lin Yi immediately teleported to her side.

He stared at the screen in amazement — countless red zombies were emerging from corn-like flesh sacs.

"Record it; I think our human allies will want to see this."

"Yes!" Melanie nodded.

Lin Yi teleported back to Sailan and sent troops to the parking lot.

There was a large group of red zombies there, but they were easily eliminated.

When they reached that incubator, or as the soldiers called it, "the nest,"

Lin Yi summoned the Da Chuan Dragon.

The Da Chuan Dragon immediately incinerated everything in sight and then evacuated the building.

The soldiers, as they left, threw burning agents at the supporting pillars. Minutes later, the parking lot collapsed in an explosive inferno.

"Search the small town. Take anything of value, and look for more nests.

Solomon, set up a perimeter around the town. We don't want the red zombies getting too close, but we also don't want to provoke them."

"Yes, boss! If you ask me, the Lille Prefecture should search all nearby small towns for their nests as well — or pay us to do it."

"You're a genius for sure!"