As for the palace itself and also the affairs of the women, Yue Zhong left it all to Zhuo Yatong. After all, she was a strong woman who had handled her own business prior to the apocalypse, therefore managing the affairs of the palace naturally wouldn’t be an issue to her.
(TN: in this case, the ‘palace’ can also be interpreted as the ‘harem’. Just think of it as all the affairs related to the villas and women~)
Under Yue Zhong’s orders, Chen Ming divided the remaining survivors into groups to strengthen the defences of the camp; at the same time, the survivors dug pits around the perimeter of the camp.
All those who were willing to participate in the digging could fill their stomachs. Under those attractive conditions, a huge number of the survivors joined the digging troops. Outside Clear Wind Camp, other than upon the main roads, huge pits were being dug out all over the place.
Back when Yue Zhong was at Qing Yuan County, Chen Jianfeng had made use of this tactic to great effect. At the time, there were at least a few thousand zombies that had fallen into the deep pits, never to rise again. Against intelligent humans, the pits were of no use, but they were extremely effective against zombies.
In the process of digging the pits, those survivors were engaging in strenuous physical activity- combined with the satiating meals, it was a form of training for their bodies as well.
Yue Zhong was building up a whole battalion of soldiers and adhered completely to military rules for their training. At the same time, he set unbelievably high levels for their training, which caused them all to be rather unhappy, except for the fact that Yue Zhong himself took the lead to do training 6 times more difficult everyday. In addition to the fact that they could eat their fill and even consume some of the delicious Type 2 Black-scaled Ferocious Boar meat, they would not have been able to continue.
Although the Type 2 Mutant Boar meat could not suddenly transform them into strong Enhancers, it was able to let them quickly recover their vitality, which had been greatly diminished by hunger and exhaustion. This gave their faces a little more colour and even their bodies began to recover their original strength.
After the high intensity training that lasted for 10 days, the soldiers of the battalion had completely recovered their original vitality and they even had a small increase in physical strength compared to what they had before the end of the world. Following this, the training intensity was reduced to a normal level, with the focus now being on the formation of troops and standing at attention..
It wasn’t that Yue Zhong did not want to carry on with the intense training and churn out a few elite troops. The reason was that there was the issue of rations. After continuing with the high-intensity training for almost 10 days, the original 20+ tonnes of meat kept in Yue Zhong’s storage ring had been reduced by 4 tonnes. This was done by just that battalion alone.
On top of that, with a huge number of survivors participating in the pit-excavating or the repairs of Clear Wind Camp, the original amount of rations in Clear Wind camp was rapidly running out just like flowing water.
Lie Tianyang had not chosen every single male to join his troops for the very same reason. It was not that he did not want to, but rather that he did not have enough rations to support the food consumption of the army. After creating the elite Green Wolves Mount and even using human meat as a food source, it could be seen that the problem of food was starting to worry him.
“If we maintain this rate of consumption, in a month’s time, our food source will be completely depleted.” Chen Ming was holding a document in his hands as he stood in front of Yue Zhong and presented his report.
He then suggested to Yue Zhong, “Master, should we stop the excavation and repair works? That way, our food supplies can be conserved for a longer period of time.”
Yue Zhong pondered a while before saying to Chen Ming, “Bring Xiong Zheng over.”
Chen Ming withdrew and brought Xiong Zheng over very quickly.
Xiong Zheng, whose skin had become darker due to the long hours he’d spent under the sun, was led by Chen Ming up to Yue Zhong. He immediately asked in a boisterous manner,
“Boss Yue, did you want me for something?”