Chapter 437 - Fabricator

Back at the Blazing Sun Camp, Han Wu drove the women out of the mansion and started consolidating the camp’s resources inside it.

He discovered that the camp had managed to amass enough food through ordinary raids to last everyone three entire months. Yet Lie Yang had rationed it so harshly that the ordinary survivors received only enough to keep them alive.

Lie Yang had also forced those same survivors to venture beyond the camp in search of supplies. Only those who brought back enough were allowed to stay. Lie Yang would then store the resources and distribute them among the ability users.

Han Wu frowned at the camp’s management. If the camp were a kingdom, then Lie Yang had ruled as a tyrant, ruling for his own luxury and pleasure.

𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Now that Han Wu had taken charge, he swore to impose some measure of order. Even if he doubted the camp’s future, he would at least give its people clear rules to live by.

He quickly drafted several new rules aimed at ending the starvation that left most survivors too weak to fight. If they had the strength to battle zombies, they could earn more resources in return.

Items that once seemed worthless, like scrap metal, tires, and broken glass, would now serve as barter. Han Wu decreed that anyone could trade such materials for food.

The survivors’ spirits revived once they heard the new laws. They quickly rushed out from the camp to scavenge whatever they could find, thrilled that gathering scraps could earn them a meal lasting an entire day.

Han Wu also assigned several locusts to follow each team. That way, the teams of survivors would act as bait for the zombies, and the locusts would hunt and consume them. That was more efficient than sending his locusts to search blindly for zombies.

However, the ability users resented the new rules. The Blazing Sun Camp’s food supplies would soon run out if they were traded for mere junk like iron scraps and old tires. They had risked their lives just to collect that food; how could it be handed out to the useless survivors?

As such, they gathered their courage, went to Han Wu’s mansion, and demanded that he revoke those rules or they would abandon the camp altogether.

Han Wu didn’t even acknowledge their threats. He had his locusts supporting him and didn’t mind losing those ability users. In fact, he could run the camp just fine without them.

Still, Han Wu despised betrayal. Those same ability users had thrived on the camp’s resources to gain their strength, and now they wanted to leave without offering anything in return? Not on his watch.

He assigned each of them a mission based on their strength. The stronger the ability user, the harder the mission. That way, they would each pay a fair price for trying to leave. The most powerful among them had to deliver 1,000 ordinary zombie crystals to earn their freedom. The weakest one owed 200. Anyone who tried to escape without paying would find themselves hunted down by Han Wu’s locusts.

The ability users had witnessed Han Wu’s Locust Dragon unleash its frost breath before, freezing numerous zombies into frozen sculptures. None of them dared risk sharing the same fate, so they obediently paid their dues and ventured out to hunt zombies without complaint. Only by doing so could they hope to earn enough to leave the camp quickly.

Under Han Wu’s management, the camp regained its vitality. Since many people needed food, they worked nonstop collecting scraps and junk. Soon, mountains of iron, tires, glass, and other debris filled the camp.

Many ability users mocked Han Wu, convinced that he had made a foolish decision.

Han Wu had planned for this all along. He had gathered the crystals from the survivors and those gathered by his locusts, amassing a staggering 15,000 Energy Points. That amount was enough to unlock the Fabricator within his divine realm.

The Fabricator was the amalgamation of his Divine Power: Merge, Refinery, and his Transmutation Ring. By inserting a blueprint and the required materials, he could produce any item listed on it endlessly.

Han Wu had already collected numerous blueprints during his time in the Divine Civilization, so all he needed to do was load the necessary ones into the Fabricator. What he lacked were the raw materials, which was why he had ordered the survivors to gather junk.

He took out the Fabricator and examined its stored blueprints. He carefully selected the ones he needed. The first one he chose was the handgun, a simple weapon that could damage the ordinary zombies. As long as he had enough handguns, he would be able to enable the survivors in his camp to fight against zombie hordes.

Without hesitation, he shoved the raw materials into the Fabricator, which started churning out numerous handguns. At the same time, he fabricated the bullets. Since bullets required only a small amount of raw materials, the Fabricator could produce tens of thousands of them per minute.

When the survivors returned from scavenging, Han Wu told them that they could exchange the junk they had collected for guns and ammunition as well.

They rushed toward him at once. They knew too well how dangerous it was to venture outside in search of scrap. With handguns, they could take greater risks and earn more rewards. Even though the trade cost them large amounts of junk, they didn’t hesitate to offer everything they had.

In one exchange, Han Wu obtained a vast supply of resources and crystals.

Naturally, that wasn’t enough for him. He hadn’t forgotten why he came here, which was to defeat Huang Shengjun. Although his life seemed peaceful now, he never knew Huang Shengjun could attack him at any moment. That uncertainty pushed him to swiftly keep growing stronger.

He was thinking about creating more powerful weapons when a survivor burst into his mansion, panting in panic. “Boss, big trouble! A huge zombie horde is approaching our camp!”

Han Wu’s eyes widened. “Zombie horde? How many?”

“Millions! I think they were drawn here because so many of us went scavenging. If not, how could such a huge horde come after us? Boss, what should we do? Do we escape or fight?”

“Of course we fight. Let’s show them our Blazing Sun Camp’s strength,” Han Wu replied evenly.

“But how can we hold out? There are too many. They could easily surround our camp three times over!”

Han Wu patted the Fabricator with confidence. “Just wait. I’ll secure the weapons we need to protect our camp.”