Gilded Road

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing!"

Facing Dalton's reminder, Liana nodded slightly and replied softly.

"Besides, Gavin isn't someone ordinary people can fool."

"Before the apocalypse, he was already an important figure in high society. He might have been young, but he'd seen everything worth seeing. He won't be easily fooled into becoming an idiot by some nobody from the apocalypse."

"After all, no matter how smart people in the apocalypse are, their numbers are far too small. Can the elite among a few thousand people really be more capable than the elite among billions?"

"So we just need to observe from the side and give him a reminder at the right time!"

With that, Liana waved Dalton away. Dalton nodded in understanding and left with Jonathan's people to build a settlement in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

This time, however, they would not be building a temporary shelter, but a genuine long-term settlement that could be used for a very long time.

Of course, asking a dozen or so people to build a base was asking too much.

But before they had set out, Gavin had already arranged an action plan for this group and designed a simple preliminary blueprint for the base they were meant to build.

This included plans for the location, scope, and size of the core construction area.

In the eyes of Gavin and the Alliance's command staff, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Base had to at least be a medium-sized base capable of accommodating more than a thousand people at once.

Its foundations had to be solid enough.

After all, this was the territorial dividing point of the Golden Road, an important node for the Alliance and the New York Council's initial territorial division in the future.

The Alliance and the New