I have to say that after changing to the new equipment, the combat effectiveness of their combat team members is really very strong, at least it is as easy to eliminate mutants as shooting targets at the shooting range.

And because of the large number of drones accompanying them, many times the people in the cleanup team didn't even have time to hit the target, and the mutants in front of them were beaten into a puddle of debris by the dense firepower of the drone swarm.

And after most of the day of fighting and searching, they finally found some traces left by the survivors. Some of the new traces of life in nearby cities are still relatively new.

Determined by the traces of Tongguò, the clean-up team determined that a group of survivors had entered the city in the last few days and ransacked a supermarket and a pharmacy in the city.

Knowing that there were traces of survivors nearby, Shen Chao immediately asked the clean-up team to put down the follow-up city clean-up work, and first went to investigate the survivors nearby to find out how many people there were on the other side and what kind of armed and mental state they were.

He then spent a day in Dubai inspecting the city's underground power grid and the city's many power transmission nodes. Found all the places that needed repairs.

After that, it was repaired, and Shen Chao set maintenance goals for the people who installed the engineering software, and provided the required tools, and then he basically just waited for the acceptance results.

It took them two days to repair the broken power nodes inside the city, and in the meantime, they built a small fusion power station outside the city in the southwest, not far from the water station. and connected to the power grid.

The main thoroughfare of the city's water supply system has also been maintained, and the equipment at the waterworks has been upgraded.

The desalination capacity of the waterworks outside the city has increased by 300% compared to before, and the water quality standard of the factory has also been upgraded to the drinking water safety standard of Starlink.

As a result, the main main electricity and water supply networks in the city have been repaired, and more than 20 per cent of the city has access to water and electricity.

These areas can support the electricity and water needs of at least 1.2 million people, and with the large amount of food and daily necessities they have already transferred, the city of Dubai is already equipped to receive a large number of "refugees".

And outside the city. After several days of investigation, the clean-up team was able to find out the status of all the survivor gathering areas in the nearby area. They used satellites and drones to meticulously scan the land in the surrounding area.

This work is in charge of Jonathan, who is currently one of the most insensitive people on the team. He volunteered to lead the team on this mission. Not for anything else, just to prove what I can do.

At the current rate of expansion of the expedition, there will only be more and more talents under him, and he wants to achieve a higher position and enter the decision-making level. You can only continue to prove your ability.

The task given to him by Shen Chao this time seemed simple, to search every inch of land within a radius of 500 kilometers in the vicinity and find out all the survivor organizations within this range. And within 10 days persuaded at least half of them to move to Dubai, which they controlled.

Now, Jonathan has completed the first half of his mission, which is to investigate the total number of survivors and the gathering of survivors within a 500-kilometer radius. Preparations are underway for the first meeting with the survivors.

The numbers they had collected were based on a double scan of the Guò drone and the satellite network they had deployed, and all human settlements and groups of survivors with more than five people in the scan area were marked on an electronic map.

Combining these numbers, they determined the exact number of survivors in the vast territory that included the former United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and southern Iran.

The result is dismal, with only over 10,000 survivors now living in this million-square-kilometre area. The population density is only about 1/10,000 before the crisis!

And the gathering areas of the survivors are basically in the desert. Far from the city, the organizational structure and technology have regressed significantly. The only good thing is that the hundreds of survivor settlements in the desert are basically connected to each other.

The survivors formed a network of communication networks via radio to communicate with each other and help each other, exchanging supplies, information and personnel from time to time in order to enhance the overall viability of their teams.

And further communication monitoring also showed that they had several radio communication centers. It is responsible for long-distance communication, and the farthest end of the communication network can even reach Italy more than 2,000 kilometers away.

It seems that the survivors of this world are not as helpless as they thought. At the very least, the level of communication and mutual aid is much higher than they had previously estimated.

Jonathan breathed a sigh of relief at this new discovery. Because then he didn't have to run to every settlement to inform the survivors.

All he had to do was visit a few important settlements, and he would be able to reach most of the survivors in the vicinity. And it's much easier to get in touch with survivors who are farther away in the future.

Returning to the task at hand, after identifying the human settlement, Jonathan arranged several clean-up teams to airdrop communication equipment to the human settlement that had no radio signal in the area.

On the other hand, he also prepared two shuttles for himself and took a small number of personnel to negotiate with the survivors. Of course, the word negotiation is not accurate, and it would be more appropriate to say that sovereignty is declared.

He would be the first to convey to the survivors of this world that the expedition was determined to rule the plane. Oh, by the way, it's no longer called an expedition, it's a space-time exploration council, or space-time council for short!

This seemingly good and powerful title was recently bestowed on their own organization by the members of the expedition, in order to justify their outward development.

With the concrete implementation of their plan to conquer the plane and the expansion of the scale of the organization, it is no longer possible for them to maintain the status of not having an organization name before.

Their expansion, recruitment, and rebuilding in this dimension all require a beautiful name for the organization. And given that there is almost no government power in this world, they do not need to hide their development.

As an important logistical plane for the future, they decided to operate completely openly in this world. Show some of the survivors their ability to travel through time.

Of course, they don't just have a name, they also need a logo or logo that can represent them, and this logo must express the essence of their organization and the characteristics that transcend a single face.

After a period of repeated discussions, the expedition team finally reached an agreement on what pattern to use. The final style of the logo was finalized.

The overall structure of the final logo is very simple, only two colors, silver and black, the pattern is composed of three parts, the first part of the center is a circular black background and a silver starry sky pattern on the background.

The second part is a silver ring with a central motif. The ring symbolizes the space-time gate and the steady dìng. Taken together, these two parts symbolize the space-time council's control of the space-time passage and the possibility of the space-time gate leading to the infinite universe.

The last part is the two symmetrical silver ears of rice around the ring, symbolizing that the products of each plane are to serve the space-time council that controls the space-time gate.

The design of the whole pattern is simple, and it is also quite beautiful. Now it has been pasted on their shuttles, drones. Military humanoid aircraft qì people and other qiē vehicles.

Even Shen Chao had a small piece of this pattern on the chest armor of their armor. Show that they are an organization. Jonathan's armor is no exception.

At this time, he was taking five or six soldiers and a combat squad of military aircraft to a survivors' settlement in Qatar, 340 kilometers away from the city of Dubai, in two shuttles.

The envelope is built on an airport away from the city and has over 700 survivors, making it the largest survivor settlement in the range currently explored. It should be their lunch time.

Through the small window on the cabin door, Guò looked at the scenery that flashed quickly, first the city, then the fleeting beach, then the sea, and then two minutes later the beach and land.

The speed of the shuttle was fast, six times the speed of sound, but the person sitting inside felt no acceleration due to the Mass Effect weakening field.

Eventually, it took them 4 minutes to reach their destination. The shuttle slowed down rapidly near its destination and finally landed firmly outside the gate of the target airport.

Now, they are about 20 meters above the ground. The soldier in charge of the driver took a few seconds to stop the shuttle and immediately informed him that he could jump.

After the hatch opened automatically, Jonathan first glanced at the airport not far away, which was already busy, the airport was blaring sirens, the people inside were gathered to distribute weapons, and a large number of men and women quickly rushed to the concrete wall, pointing their guns in his direction.

Seeing this, Jonathan felt like he couldn't cry or laugh. He knew that the other party was treating them as aliens. Remembering the Arabic he hadn't practiced in years, he put on his helmet and jumped straight out of the hatch.

A normal person jumping from such a high height is completely looking for death, but Jonathan, who is wearing an armored version of the nanosuit, is not in any danger, and he doesn't even feel any big impact when he lands.

After landing, he first stepped out of the dust he had raised when he landed, put away his weapon, and then waved to the people behind the fence to show that he was not hostile.

And the shuttle he was on just now flew to the side as soon as he landed, flying around the airport, maintaining a maneuvering speed. In order to support or dodge possible attacks at any time.

"I'm going to talk to your leader," Jonathan called out a megaphone to the people in front of him. At least 20 automatic rifles were pointed at him, but he didn't feel any pressure. (To be continued.) )