NOVEL WEB Chapter 265: Finally Revealing the Secret
Human nature dictated that the stronger oppress the weak, she didn't want such issues in their sect. Therefore, the rules set must be able to restrain superpower users and prevent them from exploiting or bullying the ordinary people.
"Do you have anything in mind?" Ye Xuan asked while still holding the girl in his arms.
"Yeah, I will write a rough draft later so that you can take a look at it before we finalize it." Chu Miao replied.
"How about the protection of the place where we build the sect? I don't think the current walls are enough to stop robbers and maybe they won't be able to stop the evolving zombies later. Do you have any ideas?" Ye Xuan asked again.
After encountering a few mutated zombies, he understood that zombies in the future will get even more complicated and sentient, thus, it was better to start planning early.
"I plan to set up protection and illusion arrays around the community to prevent people and other creatures who are not part of the sect from accessing it.
However, I don't know any complicated arrays and the protection of the ones I can set can only be to a certain extent. For instance, if the protection barrier set up is attacked continuously by a large group for a period of time, it would collapse.
But I don't have the ability to create something more sophisticated." Chu Miao explained her plan and also stated her fears.
After spending more than half a month working on combining arrays the last time, she had succeeded but could only create a low-level protection and illusion array. That was perfect for stopping normal humans and zombies, but if a large-scale attack was launched, it wouldn't be able to hold on for long.
"You don't have to worry about that. If the array can hold on for a while before it collapses, that's already good enough because it gives us enough time to evacuate." Ye Xuan reassured Chu Miao as he thought of the bunker in the mountains.
"But even if we evacuate, where could we possibly go? Are we going to build a secondary safe base for retreat in case something happens?" She asked again as an idea started to form in her mind.
She remembered hearing her grandfather once tell her that there was a hidden transmission array inside their ancestral grounds where the elders went into seclusion that could only be activated when their clan was in danger of destruction.
She was young at the time and didn't bother asking too much about it, so she didn't remember much, only that if their family ever faced the threat of total annihilation, that array could be activated using the blood of the Chu family and teleport some people away.
Now that she thought about it, such a thing could work for them too. She just needed to build a transmission array that could take people from their community to another designated place.
But then they would have to find another place that is safe enough to build a secondary base. She still couldn't think of such a place but maybe Ye Xuan or her family knew.
"Yes, I am talking about building a secondary shelter. Something more secluded and hidden from the current civilization. Even though modern civilization has collapsed, what is left of it could still be used to our advantage, and the enemy could do the same too.
Therefore, having a retreating space somewhere away from all the chaos would be the best idea." Ye Xuan explained what he meant in some details.
"Do you have a specific place in mind?" Chu Miao asked.
By now, she understood her boyfriend to a certain extent. If he didn't have a place in mind he would not have suggested building a secondary shelter with such fine details. Thus, she assumed that he must know of a place that met the conditions he just highlighted.
"Yes, I do have a place in mind. There is a bunker in a mountain not far from the city. It is outside the city and deep inside the mountain, so even if some people got lost and wandered off they wouldn't get that far.
My team and I stayed there before while on a mission and it had many rooms. However, when I noticed your family buying supplies in large quantities before the apocalypse started, I felt that something was wrong and filled the bunker with supplies.
So, if we want to turn it into our secondary base, we have to build more rooms. The stone of that mountain is quite hard and it won't be easy to carve out more rooms, but I think it is the safest place to retreat if we are in trouble." Ye Xuan finally got the chance to tell his girlfriend about the bunker and the supplies.
He knew that the Chu family didn't lack the supplies in the bunker after he had seen the farm and animals inside the sould ring, but he still felt that it was good to be able to come clean and not keep any secrets from his girlfriend.
"If you recommend it then it should be good. We can put the supplies you kept there in the space rings and also put the current rooms to use. Carving out new rooms won't be a problem for people with spiritual power.
But since the place is meant as a retreat when the sect is in danger, it can't be exposed to many people. We can only use a few people to work on it. Probably our family, your six brothers, and the Li family.
We can't let anyone else know about it. So, it's going to take time and secrecy. Moreover, we have to find the right place to build a transmission array that could help transfer people there.
It would have been easier to dig a tunnel, but that would be too risky. If it was found by the wrong people, it could expose the place and then it wouldn't be a safe retreat anymore."