Super Gene Hunting Ground

The City of Hope is bustling with activity.

With the reconstruction and expansion of the city, everyone is busy and in high spirits, full of hope.

Yang Xiao’s victory over the Vulture Chamber of Commerce and his subduing of the Dark Web have greatly boosted everyone’s confidence, after all, strength determines survival in the Central Continent.

Following a strong leader can grant you more resources, a better and longer life, with dignity.

Hundreds of thousands of people are involved in the city construction, turning the entire City of Hope into a massive construction site, with new houses springing up like mushrooms after the rain.

Yang Xiao acquired five billion crystal disks from the Vulture Chamber of Commerce, and after giving a portion to the families of warriors who died in battle, a large part of the money remains,

plus the billions of crystal disks collected previously, and the ten billion crystal disks received as prepayments from new immigrants,

Yang Xiao is now, if not the richest in the Central Continent, certainly among the very wealthy.

With money, everything can be done more easily.

Under the leadership of new city lords, Titan City, Shuize City, Firebird City, and Cold Wind Valley have fully implemented Yang Xiao’s new policies, with some people wanting to migrate to the City of Hope, while the rest plan to stay where they are.

According to Yang Xiao’s vision, these cities can become satellite cities of the City of Hope in the future, enjoying the benefits of its prosperity.

Yang Xiao is now well-known, and people from many cities come to see what the City of Hope is like.

Once they experience the prosperity, stability, and new welfare policies of the City of Hope, many also desire to move there.

Currently, the number of people registered to immigrate to the City of Hope exceeds five hundred thousand, which is a gigantic figure.

Everyone is waiting for the new city expansion houses; once they are built, they plan to bring their families over.

On this day, Yang Xiao held a meeting with Flying Tiger, Ma Kui, Fan Chen, Chen Peng, Wanyan Bai, and Le Ting to summarize the work situation of the last month.

Le Ting said,

"Boss, the first batch of one thousand houses is expected to be ready for use soon, and the second batch of one thousand houses is under construction. At the current pace, they should be ready in a month."

Fan Chen said:

"One thousand houses, calculated on an average family of four to five people, is four to five thousand people, two thousand houses is ten thousand people,

Boss, I suddenly remembered a problem, with the increasing number of immigrants, how do we resolve the food supply?"

Chen Peng also said:

"Yes, boss, in the past, everyone could hunt demon beasts, but since your agreement with the demon beasts not to hunt beyond two hundred kilometers,

many demon beasts have migrated beyond two hundred kilometers, and now, the demon beasts we can hunt are smaller and of lower level,

they lack crystal cores, and even their weight is much less than before, drastically reducing our primary source of meat. Now, the meat prices in the market have risen quite a bit, which could become a problem over time."

The rest also realized this issue and expressed their concern.

At last, everyone looked at Yang Xiao.

"Boss, if according to your vision, the City of Hope becomes a large city with a population of five million, how do we resolve the food problem?"

Yang Xiao smiled slightly and unfolded a 3D map on the table, enlarging it.

"Alright, your concerns are valid, but rest assured, I naturally have a way to resolve this matter. I have two methods,

In the short term, primarily purchase more food from outside the Central Continent; Ma Kui will be in charge of this task,

Ma Kui, since you were an elder in the Vulture Chamber of Commerce and responsible for purchasing and transporting goods for the trade union for a long time, there shouldn’t be any problem, right?"

Ma Kui immediately said:

"No problem, as long as there is money, you can buy as much food as you want."

"Hmm, Ma Kui, take a guard team of two thousand people and go outside to purchase food in bulk. Once these are transported back, they can only be sold to the residents of the City of Hope, Titan City, Shuize City, Firebird City, and Cold Wind Valley,

all residents should register to purchase; the food price will be at cost, with appropriate transportation fees, and we won’t earn a penny from the food."

Ma Kui was stunned for a moment, then understood and said excitedly:

"Lord Yang, you are truly benevolent; just this alone makes you more merciful than all the city lords of the Central Continent. With you as the city lord, it’s a blessing for everyone!"

Among those present, except for Fan Chen who didn’t have a family, the rest had families or even hundreds of clansmen who needed to be fed every day.

Everyone was very moved by Yang Xiao’s words.

The Vulture Chamber of Commerce had previously monopolized the grain trade, pricing it more than ten times that of the market outside the Central Continent.

Flying Tiger said:

"Boss, just this will have all citizens cheering and raising their spirits; it will feed so many people. I estimate that hearing this will cause people from other cities to immigrate massively again."

Yang Xiao laughed and said:

"Buying food is just a temporary solution, what if one day we can’t buy food from outside, or they sell to us at a high price? Don’t we end up being constrained?

Therefore, I have a long-term plan to fundamentally solve everyone’s food issue."

Everyone was shocked to hear this, looking at Yang Xiao.

"Boss, quick, tell us, don’t keep us in suspense, we’re all anxious, what’s the plan?"

"Haha, it’s actually quite simple, it’s about opening up wild lands, producing, and growing our own food."

"Reclaiming land? Growing food?"

Everyone was astonished, looking at Yang Xiao.

"Why didn’t you grow food before?"

Yang Xiao posed a question.

Chen Peng laughed and said,

"Boss, in the past, our city population was small, the Dark Forest had endless demon beasts, each weighing hundreds or thousands of pounds, then we’d buy a bit of grain sold by the Vulture Chamber of Commerce, mix the two, and it solved the food problem,

besides, we are surrounded by the Dark Forest, how could we grow food?

We did try growing some grain, but the demon beasts in the Dark Forest could destroy it overnight,

so, across the Central Continent, no city has the habit of large-scale grain agriculture, maybe some people just grow a bit of vegetables in small yards."

Yang Xiao said:

"Exactly, I have considered all these issues, which is why I advocated for peace with the demon beasts,

now that we’ve reconciled with the demon beasts, we can convert the forested area within tens of kilometers of the city into farmland and grow crops,

as long as I inform the demon beasts, I assume they won’t dare to destroy our crops,

this way it benefits both, we have grain, and no longer need to hunt demon beasts."

Everyone nodded in agreement, feeling very excited.

Flying Tiger said:

"Boss, if we can successfully carry out the agricultural activities, everyone in the city will have something to do, including women and children, they can all participate in daily farming work, people will live peacefully and happily, it’s great!"