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"Wow..."

After hearing the New York Speaker's entire hastily explained plan,

Gavin could not help letting out a sound of shock.

He turned to look at Thomas, and their eyes met at once. Thomas also opened his mouth in astonishment. "Sir, your new friend in distant New York really has an enormous plan!"

As he said that, Gavin and Thomas both placed their right hands on the table and could not help tapping their fingers against its surface.

After a brief assessment, Gavin softly said to Thomas,

"Although this plan is so enormous that our entire Alliance might not be able to bear the field-operation costs,"

"we have to admit that this plan... has real potential!"

With that, Gavin casually drew a circle on the table, then pointed at it and continued.

"Before this New York Speaker proposed his plan—no, even days or weeks ago—I had already raised some concerns about the Alliance's development. The Alliance's large-scale expansion has gradually begun to slow down, and it may even be heading toward stagnation!"

"After all, Texas is here, and distance limits ninety-nine percent of survivors. They simply cannot cross such vast distances to come here and join us! Even though the Alliance has been working hard to expand, increasing the range of our external patrols and even conducting perilous expeditions into dangerous zones we had always feared, it changes nothing. Even if we keep spreading outward like a spiderweb, our expansion will inevitably become more difficult as the apocalypse drags on! We must understand that asking a few hundred people to explore at least a million square kilometers of land is simply asking the impossible. And as the apocalypse continues, other survival camps become increasingly unwilling to join us!"

"On one hand, even without the limits of distance, survivors who have