Shelter, west wall.

Lin Yi walked towards the forest, just in case, he also brought a weapon.

"Look at these trees! Just one of them could provide us with enough wood for a lifetime..."

He muttered to himself, stopping in front of a trunk with a diameter of ten, maybe even fifteen meters.

"Here! Over here, Boss!" came Solomon's voice from the other side.

Lin Yi walked in that direction, glancing around this extraordinary forest.

It was quite dark here, so there wasn't much vegetation underfoot, just a little grass and some moss.

He saw trees bearing berries and fruits, and countless mushrooms.

He walked leisurely until he reached a group of soldiers.

"Boss!" All the soldiers saluted in unison.

Lin Yi nodded, noticing several other small groups of soldiers searching the forest, so he estimated there were at least a hundred of his men in the forest at the moment.

"How's the situation?"

"Things didn't develop the way I initially expected..."

Solomon said, glancing angrily at an excited-looking soldier.

"We quickly eliminated the first wave of enemies, then set off the bait, and right after that... a swarm of mutant bats flew out of the forest. That fool who was supposed to protect the doctor missed one, causing the doctor to be seriously injured..."

"Was he wearing the protective bracelet?"

"Yes, Boss! Although the doctor is fine, it'll be at least half a day before he can get back to his duties..."

"Well, at least he's still alive. What about those foreign survivors? How did they manage to survive?"

"They're up there."

Solomon said, pointing upwards.

Lin Yi followed the direction he pointed.

He saw... a city in the trees!

He could see a place resembling a watchtower above the city, with a group of little elves.

"Have you talked to them?"

"Yes, but that Sun Priestess..."

Solomon trailed off, some soldiers at this point could barely contain their laughter.

Solomon didn't blame them, he laughed himself.

Not only do they have a High Priest, but they also have a Sun Priestess, how peculiar!

"She requested to speak with our leader."

"So... you called me here to introduce me to this... Sun Priestess?"

The group walked another hundred meters before arriving near the largest tree in the area.

The soldiers all tacitly kept a distance to avoid making the "Priestess" uncomfortable.

"This is my leader!" Solomon said through a translator, his translated voice sounding like birdsong.

Lin Yi burst into laughter, finally understanding why the soldiers could barely contain their laughter—

Solomon looked tall and sturdy, but now sounded like a chirping sparrow, it was hilarious!

...

Meanwhile, on the 0th floor.

The Priestess declared firmly, "I must go down and talk to this young leader!"

"No, Mistress! It's too dangerous!" said one of the surviving Sun Maidens.

The warrior stood nearby, his green armor covered with blood.

It was a mix of his own blood, monster blood, and zombie blood.

He had already killed nearly twenty enemies.

His cat, also injured, was beside him but showing signs of life.

He also opposed, "This is too dangerous!"

"My decision is not to be questioned."

The Priestess replied, then leaped to the ground.

Her golden wings spread wide, trembling as she descended like a parachutist.

The warrior watched this and jumped after her in the direction she was falling.

Lin Yi watched, muttering to himself at the sight of the two little figures before him, "They're so small... Solomon! Give everyone a translator."

"Yes, Boss!" Solomon sprang into action.

The Priestess hovered in the air, meeting eye to eye with the young leader.

"Allow me to introduce myself, I am the Sun Priestess Raya."

She said, lifting her skirt and curtsying like an Earth noble.

Lin Yi nodded, replying helplessly in birdsong.

"I'm Lin Yi, but you can call me Boss... Damn it! Shut up, or you'll be doing a thousand push-ups later!"

He shouted at the laughing soldiers behind him but almost couldn't help laughing himself in the end.

Priestess Raya looked puzzled, not understanding why this group of people was laughing.

"First, I'd like to thank you for saving us."

"We didn't rescue you."

Lin Yi chuckled, then asked.

"I discovered this fragment in the Sea of Space-Time and pulled it over so that my people could hunt the zombies, and you just happened to be on this fragment? How exactly did you come to this desolate land?"

"I will tell you..." Raya said, digesting this new information.

At the same time wanting to tell Lin Yi about the invasion and the messages she had received.

Fifteen minutes later

Lin Yi had figured out the situation.

"I see, so time was frozen until your fragment came into contact with the Ark. It seems your situation is not a good one. I have a proposal..."

"I'm listening, please go ahead..." Priestess Raya stared into the other's eyes, scrutinizing closely.

Lin Yi tried to make himself look as friendly as possible.

"You have two choices: either remain in a frozen state forever until someone else discovers you..."

He paused, letting her think it through, then continued.

"Or I can take you back to my place, but in that case, you'll have to follow my orders and work for my Shelter."

"We are the proud Forest Faru people! I am the Sun Priestess! Even the King does not dare to order me!"

Priestess Raya's face turned red, stomping in anger.

Lin Yi simply smiled.

"Then I wish you and your proud, freedom-loving Forest Faru people all the best. At dawn tomorrow, I will sever the connection with your fragment, as I do not need any extra burden."

He said this, turned around, and started to walk away, but added one more thing with his back turned.

"And don't think about sneaking onto my territory. Anyone who tries that ends up dead. If you change your mind and accept my proposal, wait by the fence and give me a signal... Let's go!"

The humans quickly left this fragment and regrouped at the command post in the barracks.

Hubert thought it over and asked, "Are you really planning to abandon this fragment, boss?"

"What's the point of keeping it? Although I wouldn't mind having an aerial reconnaissance squad, other than that, those little guys are almost useless... Unless we're attacked by a group of zombie elves."

Lin Yi's words made everyone laugh.

They wouldn't even need weapons to kill zombie elves, just like swatting mosquitoes.

Solomon, somewhat influenced by the boss's greed, asked, "What about their system equipment?"

"The differences between our races are too great, I can assure you, there will be system incompatibility issues. Besides, I doubt they even have skill books in the usual sense."

The group chatted for another half hour, then decided to collect some plant samples from this fragment, as the mushrooms and berries here were quite interesting.

After the meeting, Lin Yi returned to Lille City.

Immanuel, as cunning as ever, successfully persuaded the King and his men.

The first thing Lin Yi did was send over a second Vending Machine.

But later, he found out the King also wanted a third one!

It turned out Immanuel convinced the King, telling him it would be better to purchase goods from three Vending Machines.

This way, they could choose from nine products instead of six.

Moreover, Lin Yi sold them six sets of Power Armor and fuel at three Coins per pound.

The fuel for the Power Armor they could also use, but in that case, the performance would only be three-quarters of normal.

So Lin Yi gained another ten thousand Coins.

This time, the Shelter earned two hundred and sixty thousand Coins in this transaction.

Including the three Vending Machines, that was an additional one hundred fifty thousand Coins in pure profit.

The ammunition the King had promised also arrived in time, making Hubert happy because the Shelter only had 9mm bullets and a few boxes of 12-gauge and .40 caliber left.

Lin Yi tried to purchase two million more bullets, but the King only agreed to sell him one million.

The King decided to use the Vending Machines cleverly—

The first Vending Machine would sell Power Armor, limited to ten sets per day, along with fuel and spring water.

The second Vending Machine would sell potatoes, meat, and vegetables.

The third Vending Machine remained unused for some reason.

At sunset, they delivered quadcopters, reconnaissance drones, and construction equipment as Louis requested, including some parts and vehicles that needed repair.

Immanuel submitted a recruitment advertisement to a special department, which would be published the next day at the adaptation center.

But he also needed to establish some form of evaluation center to screen out spies, saboteurs, addicts, murderers, and all types Lin Yi disliked.

This task was entrusted to Blaise.

Because for some reason, strangers just trusted this brown-haired guy.

Immanuel also persuaded officials to agree to give a small piece of land for Lin Yi to do business.

They found an ideal location near the castle, with a large parking lot and a large building with plenty of space.

Goods and vehicles would be delivered there.

Lin Yi temporarily assigned thirty soldiers to guard the command post and ordered over twenty workers to quickly get everything ready and refurbish the place.

At this moment, Hubert and a few others wanted to ask for some time off, saying they had a friend who used to live in Lille City and they wanted to find him or his family.

Lin Yi agreed, already having an idea in mind.

He called over Chen Youyou and suggested, after their conversation, that all the residents of the Shelter make a list of people they wanted to find in Lille City.

Thanks to the public database in Lille City, it wasn't difficult to find specific people there.

Everyone was quite interested in this idea.

After entrusting this task to Chen Youyou, Lin Yi returned to the Space-Time Beacon.

He was in the Sea of Space-Time, looking for his next "target" fragment.

His goal was to level up the girls to level 5 and the two Doctors to level 10.

He also wanted to figure out how to distinguish between ordinary fragments and those with survivors...

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