Things didn't go quite as planned, and the process hadn't been perfect, but with the Orks' help, Bai Yue Kui—Boss Bai—had successfully taken the Lighthouse.
The brain she'd once longed for, an AI robot she hadn't seen in ages, and even her original battle armor had all returned to her hands. The outcome couldn't have been better.
For the next several days, Mark and his group, along with the people of Dragonbone Village, were busy making arrangements. They were rarely seen all day.
The work involved safely and systematically moving the more than ten thousand people aboard the Lighthouse down to the ground, then establishing a town and settlement near the Lighthouse—which still couldn't fly—as well as setting up defenses and handling all sorts of other complicated tasks.
Meanwhile, the growing number of Orks in Dragonbone Village finally had a town to settle in. Boss Bai and Ma Duo assigned them to the area around the Lighthouse residents' settlement, where they could guard the humans and build fortifications.
After all, only the warlike, bloodthirsty Orks could stay up around the clock to defend against and fight off the Grim Beasts that often broke into the shielded zones. Dragonbone Village certainly didn't have enough Awakened to take on the defense work. Boss Bai and the others didn't even have enough people to guard Dragonbone Village's own borders.
As for the captured city defense soldiers, Law Enforcers, and Wilderness Hunters, forget about them!
They could probably be trusted to maintain order themselves in the short term, but Boss Bai certainly wasn't comfortable handing them weapons and letting them protect themselves.
Besides, the Orks had already swept up most of the Lighthouse's weapons. Even Boss Bai and Ma Duo couldn't easily get them to return the weapons and equipment they'd taken and modified