The Four-Line LinkUp, on the Eve of Absolute Darkness!

Doomsday Calendar, May 11—the 131st day since humanity arrived in the wasteland, and the third-to-last day before the Great Cooling disaster descended.

After returning from investigating the two mountains belonging to Origin Territory and confirming the basic premise that they had to "save" people,

Su Mo got dressed and lay back on the bed, closing his eyes to rest while carefully considering the means of breaking the current deadlock that he still possessed.

Given the situation, saving everyone was clearly an unrealistic proposition.

First, supplying thirty thousand people would require far too many resources. Even for just five days, they would need a full 150,000 jin of grain to barely get by.

And that did not include the costs of settling them afterward.

Second, not all of those thirty thousand people were kindhearted, ordinary folk who simply wanted to survive peacefully in the apocalypse.

Among them were scum like the ones yesterday who had embezzled hot soup meant for ordinary refugees. They were not worth saving.

If he could screen such people out and exclude them from the rescue,

he would not only be able to make preliminary preparations for bringing the others back to the territory, but also greatly reduce the difficulty of the rescue and the resources required.

"How can I obtain the list of these people while also getting a batch of supplies?"

After thinking it over again and again,

he eliminated the options one by one.

He brought out every method available on paper and carefully selected among them. Just as Su Mo was beginning to form a plan, the commotion outside the window suddenly grew louder.

After all, Three Source Inn was located away from the center.

If even this place was noisy, there had to be quite a few people outside.

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