Doomsday Calendar, April 26, the sixth day since the heavy snowfall began.
Although the disaster had not completely passed, the small cafeteria in the village had already begun bustling with activity at five in the morning.
This time, Su Mo would be taking more than a hundred people into the mountains, and the trip would last at least half a month.
If everyone had still been scattered as before, they might have found a way to make up some excuse and conceal the truth.
But now, whether they were ordinary villagers or the Guard Team's militiamen, everyone lived together.
Lying and keeping it hidden would be far too difficult! So—
Chen Shen had abandoned that idea as well. After the meeting ended last night, he had begun publicizing the trip openly and enthusiastically.
After putting a favorable spin on it, Su Mo was no longer taking the team into the mountains to search for Wang Yuanshuai and the others, who had vanished without a trace.
Instead, they had received some information and were heading into the mountains to rescue the refugees there.
They would also see whether they could bring a group of people back to the territory, expand the village, and contribute together to humanity's revival on the New Continent.
Upon hearing that they would be bringing back fellow humans—and apparently quite a few of them at that—
the villagers' enthusiasm soared.
It completely drowned out their lingering worries, and quite a few people even suffered from the rare experience of being unable to sleep for half the night.
Who knew whether they were imagining that more people meant they might be able to marry a wife—
or whether they were thinking of the refugees coming in, using their first-mover advantage to turn their own resources into more valuable