"To prevent devastating damage should the gods invade again, and to prevent heavy casualties should outside invaders arrive, the United Government has decided to shrink the Safe Zone's defensive perimeter and designate one thousand new War Readiness Zones..."
"Following the redivision into War Readiness Zones, the United Government has also undergone restructuring. The renumbered Zones 2 through 100 will be merged into the new State No. 1, with Jonathan, formerly governor of State No. 14, serving as governor. Zones 101 through 200 will form State No. 2, with Chen Zhongming, formerly governor of State 13, serving as governor. Zones 201 through 301 will form State No. 3, with Lü Boming, formerly governor of State No. 12, serving as governor..."
Throughout the Safe Zone, screens along streets and alleyways played the United Government's restructuring announcement on a loop.
Meanwhile, the United Government launched a relocation campaign, moving large numbers of people from the former State 13 and State No. 14 into the interior regions, which were also undergoing extensive reorganization.
A thousand defensive strongholds, even on the broadest scale, amounted to only a thousand zones.
That meant that of the Safe Zone's fourteen thousand-plus zones, the remaining thirteen thousand-plus would all become uninhabited zones.
These uninhabited zones would become farmland for black sweet potatoes and other crops that offered exceptionally high yields for their cost.
Such vast tracts of farmland would inevitably produce enormous stockpiles of black sweet potatoes and other crops. Once accumulated, these would be stored by the United Government as strategic food reserves.
For those leaving those harsh, bitter lands, abandoning the zones where they had struggled to survive and moving to somewhere more comfortable and developed was a good thing.
Besides, more than half of them had awakened Sequence Abilities. They were no longer ordinary people at