Resurrection Empire

Ten minutes later, Ren Zhong quietly slipped back into the villa.

The matter was resolved even more easily than he had anticipated.

Qi Mountain is not a solitary peak, but an entire mountain range, covering an area of nearly two hundred square kilometers.

If Zheng Tian and the others were stripped of their equipment and lost communication, it would be nearly impossible for him to locate the underground wild tribe in such a complex mountainous terrain all by himself.

Therefore, on the way to the store, Ren Zhong first sought out Wang Zhaofu to understand the situation.

What he heard was shocking.

Initially, Ren Zhong only inquired about the Qi Mountain wild tribe's armed state, population size, and historical background from Wang Zhaofu, as knowing your enemy is crucial.

Old Wang informed him that the Qi Mountain wild tribe was not small, with a population of over seven thousand, making it the largest tribe within the surrounding county areas.

Due to the lack of administrative registration and the fact that most of the wild people do not have temporary wrist watches, once caught by Hunters in the wild, it would spell certain death. Therefore, wild tribes typically establish themselves underground.

The tribe is extremely exclusionary, rarely interacting with outsiders, creating a self-contained system.

Within Liao Yuan County, there are over forty such Underground Cities, with a total population of approximately sixteen thousand. Most are located in areas far from Starfire Town, which is all thanks to Yang Bingzhong's "contribution."

The Qi Mountain tribe has a long history of establishment, at least a hundred years old.

However, this Underground City alternates between prosperity and desolation, never continuously populated.

It has often been destroyed due to various reasons such as being overrun by Ruined Beasts, discovered accidentally by Hunters, and reported by Citizens leading to massacres by Hunters.

Yet, due to the stable structure of the Underground City, even if everyone dies, wild people will gradually gather here again and slowly develop over time.

The people inside are constantly replaced, and the underground architecture is destroyed and rebuilt.

The only constant is change.

If Starfire Town were truly obliterated, after some years, once no more Ruined Beasts emerge in the abandoned pit, the abandoned pit would likely develop into the next underground wild tribe.

The network of tunnels in the abandoned pit is practically a natural underground city complex.

The most recent reconstruction of the Qi Mountain tribe was twelve years ago.

At that time, nearly a thousand wild people from an original town were completely destroyed by a Beast Tide and fled here under the leadership of a Fourth Level professional.

After twelve years of development, many wild people, homeless for various reasons, slowly gathered here.

The formerly Citizen Fourth Level professional indeed managed well, was responsible, had decent strength, and developed the scale of the Qi Mountain tribe to slightly above average in the nearby region.

When discussing the strength of the Qi Mountain tribe, Wang Zhaofu said this.

"The tribe has two Fourth Level professionals. One is a Fourth Level Mechanical Warrior, who in his youth was stronger than Lin Wang and weaker than Captain Ma. Now at over thirty-eight years old, without an Anti-aging Potion, his strength has somewhat declined, but he should be on par with Lin Wang. The other is a Fourth Level Armored Soldier, a young man with extraordinary talent. Hmm, he survived as a volunteer from Mengdu Group's Yangsheng City Biological Laboratory, reportedly enduring a full twenty rounds of genetic fusion at the age of just eight. This person now should be able to match Song Qianlian, the Armored Soldier in Lin Wang's team."

"Additionally, there are about eleven or twelve Third Level professionals. Overall strength is relatively weak. Even excluding Captain Ma, they cannot compare to Starfire Resources. Currently, although Starfire Resources' strength is impaired, they still have ten Fourth Level professionals and use official equipment. People in the Qi Mountain tribe don't receive such treatment; most use cobbled-together spare parts without a systematic approach. Ahem, previously, the buyers of those two sets of Level One and Level Two modified exoskeletons you gave me were from the Qi Mountain tribe."

"I see," Ren Zhong frowned, "That's quite strong, not easy to deal with."

He was not being deliberately modest.

At this moment, his parameters had not reached their peak.

He was also completely unaware of the combat style of the professionals in the Qi Mountain tribe.

He had no confidence in overpowering them, especially since there were hostages in their hands.

Wang Zhaofu seemed puzzled, "Why deal with them? I was still thinking that once our Resource Company is up and running, we could consume their entire Ruined Beast production capacity at once."

The brothers finally aligned their statements fully.

It turned out that due to the absence of an official supply chain, military weapon stores, or large canteens, trade of supplies between the wild tribes and the outside world was mainly conducted through smugglers taking remote paths.