Chapter 188 - 130: A Leader’s Resolve! Integrating the School’s Personnel! Half the Time Has Passed

Chapter 188: Chapter 130: A Leader’s Resolve! Integrating the School’s Personnel! Half the Time Has Passed

Although dealing with the Stone Claw Eagle, which could summon Rock Armor Eagles at any moment, was an urgent matter, the school’s internal issues were clearly more severe.

Whether for his own safety or for the ultimate rating at the end of the one-month deadline, the Bloodthirsty Vines that had invaded the school had to be completely eradicated!

Even if they couldn’t be completely wiped out, he had to do everything in his power to suppress them, to stop their parasitic spread...

This was also the perfect opportunity to consolidate the school’s population.

The school’s power structure was a chaotic mess. Despite having just over a thousand people, there were nearly a hundred factions and teams, large and small.

Every day, these teams went out in search of resources. Besides those who died to wild beasts in the jungle, a not-insignificant number were lost to infighting.

If he didn’t consolidate the entire population, the school’s numbers would continue to plummet at an alarming rate.

Besides, the Secret Card hinted that the transmigration was designed to treat each transported structure as an independent territory. It would then arrange for these territories to clash, letting the superior eliminate the inferior.

For a territory to become strong, it needed someone to lead its people.

Therefore, the school needed a leader.

Chen Chong didn’t trust anyone else to be that leader.

’Then I’ll just have to do it myself...’

In the beginning, Chen Chong had believed numbers were crucial. After all, everyone was just an ordinary, unarmed person back then.

Even with weapons, the gap in strength wouldn’t have been too large.

To vie for control and completely take over the school, one needed the support of enough people.

But now, Chen Chong had long since understood...

’Extraordinary Power is the true foundation of strength!’

He was already a Transcendent, and he had personally trained his trusted confidants to become Transcendents as well.

At this level, sheer numbers were no longer important.

The value of ordinary people joining the team was now more about providing logistical support for survival, creating a self-sustaining system, and dealing with the ultimate rating at the end of each month.

With his current strength, taking control of the entire school would be a simple matter.

Any threat was insignificant in the face of absolute power.

But Chen Chong had never been a tyrannical dictator.

Even if he took control of the school, he wouldn’t use his strength to force everyone to obey him.

He would lay all the benefits of following him on the table, including the protection they would receive.

He would welcome anyone willing to join his team with open arms.

As for those who were unwilling, he couldn’t be bothered with them. He wouldn’t strip them of their right to survive in the school; they would just have to fend for themselves against the dangers of the outside world, as long as they didn’t interfere with his group.

Of course, all of this only applied to the normal people in the school.

As for those who had been parasitized by the Bloodthirsty Vine...

No matter what choice they made, there was only one outcome for them... to receive "treatment."

This so-called "treatment" meant either being temporarily used as "test subjects" to research a way to remove the Bloodthirsty Vine, or being killed on the spot to eliminate the problem for good.

There was no other option.

"Brother Chong, how should we go about consolidating the people in the school? And how are we going to completely eradicate those Bloodthirsty Vines?"

Zhang Meng’s voice broke the silence.

Chen Chong looked up and said calmly, "I already have a rough plan. Once the members of the Fishing Club are all here, I’ll go over the details with you. This will require their cooperation, after all."

Then, he changed the subject.

"Actually, you two should move out of the dorms and into the faculty apartments, if you can."

’The faculty apartments?’

Zhang Meng and Huang Mao were both stunned, clearly not expecting Chen Chong to bring this up so suddenly.

Seeming to see through their confusion, Chen Chong asked nonchalantly, "Is there anything in your dorms that you can’t afford to leave behind?"

Huang Mao snapped out of it and quickly shook his head. "Not really. Over the past ten-odd days, our ratings haven’t been that high. We only managed to get a Farmland Card and a D-rank birdcage. The rest are basically just Resource Cards."

Chen Chong nodded. "Then moving won’t be an issue."

"You are core members of the team. Moving into the faculty apartments is for your own safety, first of all, and secondly, it will make it easier to relay orders at a moment’s notice."

"Once we’ve consolidated the entire school, our team will swell to an incredible size."

"I definitely can’t manage that many people on my own. When the time comes, I’ll need to delegate management tasks and assign different teams with different objectives: combat, logistics, and resources."

"Zhang Meng, Huang Mao, and anyone else who might be brought into the leadership in the future—each of you will be in charge of a portion of our people. The people under you will be further divided into more tiers, each with their own managers."

"Layer by layer, we’ll form a pyramid-like management structure."

"As for me, besides focusing on dealing with the Extraordinary Creatures and other dangers from the outside world, I will only need to listen to your consolidated reports and make the decisions that best benefit the survival of the entire school."

He paused, his gaze sweeping over the two of them.

"Do you understand what I’m saying?"

Zhang Meng and Huang Mao were stunned for a moment. Then, an irrepressible excitement washed over both of their faces.

’This was more than just understanding.’

’This was Chen Chong clearly accepting them, placing them within the ranks of his core leadership!’

’It meant they had become some of the people Chen Chong trusted most in this entire school!’

This immense, weighty trust was exactly what the two of them craved most at that moment.

A warm feeling washed over them. They looked at each other, their faces filled with emotion.

"Brother Chong, I... I definitely won’t let you down!"