On the Wasteland, the most precious thing isn't human life, or the regime of a Special Zone, or those political figures.

It's a safe zone!

The establishment of a safe zone truly demands an enormous expenditure of manpower and resources.

During the establishment process, one must constantly guard against attacks from the creatures on the Wasteland.

One could say, the establishment of every safe zone nearly costs the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

Preserving the city is more important than anything else.

As long as the city walls remain, this safe zone has a chance to be reclaimed regardless of any military coup, a chance to establish a new political system.

But if the city walls are destroyed, all efforts are in vain.

This is a lesson written in blood.

The City Defense Army used to obey the commands of the council, and historically there have been many times when the council arbitrarily deployed the City Defense Army into matters other than defense, leading to hollow defense.

Corpse tides and radiation creatures from beyond the Wasteland took the opportunity to launch large-scale attacks on the city walls. Once the city fell into ruin, the true misery began — mountains of corpses and seas of blood!

The Fourth Special Zone today has been virtually destroyed, owing to such destruction.

An internal military coup occurred in the Fourth Special Zone, and at the time, the general of the City Defense Army was the brother-in-law of the President of the Council. To consolidate his brother-in-law's regime, he led the City Defense Army to fight in the Lower City.

As a result, during this period of hollow defense, a migrating corpse tide just happened to arrive, and the city was ruined.

More than a million people perished in the corpse tide, and the Fourth Special Zone has now become a literal dead city. The Night Empire considered recapturing the Fourth Special Zone, but the difficulty was too great, and they reluctantly gave up.

This incident not only caused the Night Empire immense losses but also shocked other nations.

The Iron-blooded Prime Minister of the Great Xia Federation then proposed such a terrifying city defense law.

He reformed the construction of city walls, which could defend against outside threats and incarcerate from within.

The City Defense Army was not allowed to participate in any internal affairs, and once involved, all leaders of the City Defense Army were executed.

The sole duty of the City Defense Army is to defend the city!

Besides this, they are forbidden from doing anything else!

The general of the City Defense Army is independent of the city's political system, governed by the national headquarters, even if a massacre occurs within the city, to get involved they must report directly to the national leader.

Only with authorization can they act, otherwise they can only watch everything unfold helplessly.

As long as the city remains, there is still a chance for everything!

Countries, after their initial shock, began to imitate this.

The safety of the city is more important than anything else.

Under such iron-blooded laws, the tragic event in the Night Empire's Fourth Special Zone never occurred again.

...

When Chen Che learned about everything regarding the city defense law from Xia Na, he couldn't help but be astonished.

This Iron-blooded Prime Minister of the Great Xia Federation indeed measures up to the name "iron-blooded."

After all, in the apocalypse, the city walls of a safe zone are more important than anything else.

And... this truly achieves a step towards centralization of power.

All leaders of the City Defense Army were directly governed by the Central. If the political system within a special zone had thoughts of independence, they would first have to consider whether they could win over the City Defense Army.

If they couldn't, even if they launched a coup and controlled the entire city, as long as the City Defense Army remained on the walls, they could turn the entire city into a prison at any time, allowing no one to enter or exit.

Walls 50 meters high, almost as solid as structures resistant to nuclear blasts, make it a fool's dream for those inside to scale the whole wall.

As long as the City Defense Army held on until the headquarters dispatched troops, everything would be resolved.

Almost no fear of rebellion breaking out anywhere.

It greatly increased centralization of power.

Killing two birds with one stone.

This Prime Minister's methods are truly clever.

The troops from the Special Operations Department moved out of the city from the north, and An Nishang also mobilized her private forces.

Crows circled overhead, countless black crows soared in the sky, escaping into the distance.

Chen Che opened his eyes, sitting in a modified off-road vehicle, looking at the towering city walls, unable to help but marvel: "It's unbelievable to build such walls in the apocalypse..."

"The walls of the Ninth Special Zone were built using a new technique, deploying thousands of Alchemical Catastrophes to continuously refine materials. These walls can withstand even the impact of a nuclear explosion.

How could it not be safe?"

Chen Che looked up to see the City Defense Army on duty atop the walls.

The entire Ninth Special Zone has a total of 20,000 City Defense Army troops.

They are responsible for guarding 30 kilometers of city walls.

These 20,000 City Defense Army troops are equipped with the most advanced weapons, with heavy artillery and various firing ports set up on the walls.

Able to withstand assaults from corpse tides numbering in the millions.

On the brink of leaving the safe zone, Chen Che's heartbeat quickened; he was about to witness the true post-apocalyptic world.

Inside the walls and outside them are two different worlds; inside the walls, these nobles can still vie for power, endlessly contesting.

But outside the walls, you can only find ways to avoid all dangers to survive.

Various unknown, bloodthirsty mutated creatures are hard to fend off.

Encountering a corpse tide basically means waiting for death.

These radiated corpse tides, with some corpses even being centuries old, their bodies uncorrupted by radiation, their muscles dehydrated and turned black, able to resist bullets.

Enormous strength, with even a casual swing of an arm wielding hundreds of pounds of force.

Also known as living corpses, living bodies.

Different from zombies.

Meeting even a single living corpse without a suitable weapon is hard to withstand.

The key is these living corpses gather in groups, appearing in tides of hundreds of thousands to even millions.

It's said in the far north, a country discovered a corpse tide exceeding ten million.

That is truly a most terrifying apocalyptic force.

So many living corpses, while they can't destroy a city, they can climb the walls over the bodies of their companions.

The magnificent walls of the Ninth Special Zone can only withstand corpse tides numbering in the millions.

Exceeding a million... better be ready to escape.

The city gates opened, and the City Defense Army let them pass.

Chen Che exhaled a heavy breath, and a swath of green appeared before him.

It seemed somewhat different from the desolation he had imagined...

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