Freeze the entire population, activate my Superman system?

After Yang Xiuming and his men left, a large group of people remained standing in the open space outside the property management hall, and no one moved.

Guo Yueshan held the marker in his hand, his knuckles clenched so tightly they turned white.

He didn't speak, and the people around him didn't dare to speak either.

Shen Yuan walked over from the side, took the pen from Guo Yueshan's hand, and put it into the slot under the whiteboard.

He lowered his voice and said, "Director Guo, take a break first."

Guo Yueshan snapped back to reality, rubbed his face vigorously, turned around and said to the outside,

"Neighbors, please go home first. The management office will not abandon any of those who stay."

This time, we need to requisition some of everyone's achievement points to allocate buildings.

"We'll determine the specific choices once the management office has compiled the statistics, and then we'll visit each household one by one."

He was met with approving glances.

"Director Guo, we're not heartless people; we wouldn't do something like letting our neighbors feed monsters."

"Old Guo, everyone sees how hard you've worked."

Zhao Tiejun leaned against the composite crossbow and said with a smile,

"If we're really talking about contributions, President Ling is the one who should be the most selfish. What is Yang Xiuming compared to him?"

Even General Manager Ling supports the management office, so what else is there to worry about? Without him, our entire community would be wiped out.

The surrounding crowd nodded in agreement.

"Yes, yes, let's all go home first and wait for the management office's notification..."

The crowd then dispersed, heading towards their respective buildings in twos and threes.

Grandpa Zheng Jing walked at the very back, leaning on his cane.

He stopped abruptly as he passed Ling Shuang, patting her arm with his withered hand. "Little Ling, we old bones won't eat for nothing."

"Master Zheng, please don't overthink it." Ling Shuang helped him up.

Only Guo Yueshan, Shen Yuan, Ling Shuang, and Zhao Tiejun remained in the property management lobby.

Guo Yueshan sat down on a plastic chair against the wall, took out a crumpled pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took one out and put it in his mouth without lighting it.

He took the cigarette from his mouth and twirled it between his fingers.

"There's one thing Yang Xiuming said today that I actually agree with."

He paused, noticing Zhao Tiejun's darkening face, and raised his hand to explain.

"It wasn't that beastly thing to say."

These are the remaining resources in the community, which cannot be distributed equally.

His mistake was trying to get rid of his burdens.

Shen Yuan had already spread the notebook on the table and said, "The Freemasons took away fifteen lords and sixty residents, almost all of them young adults."

We've cut our actual available manpower and resources by a significant margin.

Guo Yueshan remained silent for a moment, then tapped his knee twice with his fingers.

From now on, only spend achievement points on three things.

First, all heating furnaces in areas where the elderly and children are concentrated should be upgraded to primary level to ensure that no one freezes to death.

Secondly, the defense line along the artificial lake still needs to be established, even if Yang Xiuming and his men don't contribute.

Third, at least two medical warehouses should be built.

He stood up, walked to the window, and looked out at the gray dome.

"Emergency rice, flour, and cooking oil will be distributed to each household in rations to stabilize morale."

Zhao Tiejun said with dissatisfaction, "Why aren't they contributing to the artificial lake defense line? If they don't build it, I'll lure the monster there next time."

Seeing Zhao Tiejun's fiery temper, Guo Yueshan was at a loss for words, both amused and exasperated.

At this moment, Shen Yuan, who was recording half of the event, suddenly spoke up, "The trigger condition for passing on the torch is fifty ordinary heating stoves."

"If the number of basic heating furnaces is upgraded to twenty or fifty, is it possible to trigger another milestone reward?"

Guo Yueshan's expression turned serious.

"Shen Yuan, the point you made is crucial, so upgrading the heating boilers should be our top priority."

The "Passing on the Torch" event gave every lord a generous welfare package.

"Everything is too unfamiliar to us, and we still have to figure it out."

......

After the meeting, Ling Shuang went to the vicinity of the artificial lake alone, took off her coat, and plunged in.

He wanted to verify a hypothesis.

Ling Shuang deftly bypassed the interception net and barriers, arriving at the gap in the boundary of the safe zone.

Sure enough, just like Lin Yue,

He also had no way to overcome this barrier.

But the next second, dark gray scales covered Ling Shuang's entire body.

When he opened his eyes, his pupils had turned dark red.

He tentatively reached out beyond the barrier.

The dark gray left claw emitted an extremely faint buzzing sound the instant it made contact with the barrier.

The patterns on the surface of the scales lit up, as if countless tiny veins of light were flowing simultaneously.

really,

Just as Ling Shuang had guessed,

The Night Demon's mimicry of itself

You can also freely enter and exit this place.

There must be an underground river outside; Ling Shuang could feel the flow of water with her hand.

He didn't rush out blindly, but withdrew his hand.

After returning to the row house, Ling Shuang sat alone in the study, closing her eyes in deep thought.

When Liu Yun called him to dinner, it was already getting dark.

Liu Yun brought over a bowl of hot white noodle soup, with a few pieces of dried vegetables and chopped salted meat floating in it.

The mutated blackfish had already been identified as edible, so she made it into crispy dried fish and placed it in the center of the table.

Besides Ling Shuang and the other five core members, the row house also houses six elderly people and a four-year-old child who had been previously taken in.

The elderly people sat quietly next to the heating stove, holding their bowls, and ate.

An old man surnamed Sun finished a bowl of food, and Liu Yun wanted to give him more, but he refused, saying that he had a small appetite and couldn't eat much more.

It seems they heard about what happened at noon.

They were terrified of being abandoned.

After dinner, Ling Shuang pulled Zhang Mu into the study and closed the door.

Ling Shuang leaned against the desk, toying with the alloy rod in her hand. "I tried it at the artificial lake today. In Night Ghost form, I can leave through the gap."

Zhang Mu remained silent for a while.

"What if you travel through time but can't come back? What if you die?"

Ling Shuang was stumped by the question. He hadn't really thought about it before, but it suddenly brought back a memory.

"Back when we were in high school, before we moved out of the military compound, did you forget what Uncle Wu told us?"

Zhang Mu knew Ling Shuang had made her decision, so he pretended to be relaxed and said...

"Isn't it just... death isn't scary, but never bow down to fate?"

I asked casually, and then they started lecturing me.

He snorted coldly and continued speaking.

"If you really don't come back, you better wait for us for 20 days!"

But you definitely won't find iced cola outside, haha.

Zhang Mu's voice suddenly turned somewhat melancholic.

"So...when do you plan to leave?"

Ling Shuang patted his shoulder. "I think we should hurry. I'll call Guo Yueshan over later."

When Guo Yueshan arrived, Ling Shuang was sitting in the living room waiting for him.

He sat down on the sofa, took the hot water Liu Yun handed him, and his expression was even more solemn than when he was in the meeting in the property management lobby earlier that day.

"Was what they said on the walkie-talkie just now true? Have you thought it through?" he asked directly.

Ling Shuang sat cross-legged on the carpet, her tone calm.

"My activated Night Demon mimicry can pass through the safe zone barrier."

Guo Yueshan was silent for a moment, looking down at the steam rising from the cup. "You want to go after that Night Demon Mother?"

"That's not all." Ling Shuang waved her hand.

"The safe zone will remain under protection for nearly twenty days."

"Director Guo, the protection is for ordinary people," Ling Shuang interrupted him, raising her left hand.

Silver-black scales instantly covered his entire forearm, the sharp edges of the scales gleaming coldly in the firelight of the heater.

"I'm different. In the whole neighborhood, only I have the right to take risks."

I don't want to live only 20 days.

How confident are you that you'll come back alive?

"I wasn't sure, and I might die if I went out, so I called you here."

Ling Shuang's tone was calm and collected, but Guo Yueshan felt as if he were listening to her last words.

Guo Yueshan put the cup on the coffee table, stood up with a serious expression, and squeezed Ling Shuang's right hand tightly.

"Don't worry about the row houses. I'll have the defense team set up two more permanent guard posts near Building 90, which Old Wang and Little Zhao will take turns guarding."

He paused, his voice lowering, "But there's one thing you must promise me."

"you say."

"Your going out is only known to your own people. As for the management office, it's only known to two people."

I informed Shen Yuan, but I didn't notify anyone else.

If anyone asks about your people, you have to tell them that you're living in seclusion in your terraced house and need time to rest.

Yang Xiuming and his gang are no pushovers. If you weren't here, I'm afraid order here would completely collapse.

Ling Shuang nodded, "That's what I thought too."

Guo Yueshan looked at Ling Shuang's calm face, hesitated, and finally left with a single sentence.

"Take care of yourself."