Although Marcus Monroe wasn’t entirely at ease about the situation in Southreach, for now, it was better to wait and see than to act rashly. He simply ordered his subordinates to stay alert, gather intelligence from all sources, report back promptly, and maintain a constant watch.
He had far more pressing matters to attend to back at the base.
During the time he was away, the base had gained quite a few people. All in all, the total count was over five hundred.
This number wasn’t huge, but it wasn’t small either.
More people meant more problems. Furthermore, it was impossible to know everyone’s background, so having everyone live together in the residential area like before was no longer appropriate.
Besides, the base also needed recreational areas. People couldn’t just work all day, go home, and fall straight to sleep...
Also, with people now coming and going to buy things, and their own members wanting to trade amongst themselves, establishing a trade district had become necessary.
In short, after some consideration and discussion with Paige Summers and a few of the captains, Marcus Monroe decided to implement some changes.
First, the living quarters would be separated into an East and a West District.
The East District would be for him, Paige Summers, Sean Raines, Andy, and the other captains and veteran members. The housing there mostly consisted of single-family homes. This area would obviously be a top priority for protection, with loyal and reliable members stationed to guard and patrol it.
The West District would be for the newcomers. Except for members of The Guard, who would be housed together, everyone else could be guaranteed a private room.
The administrative district would remain unchanged for now, still located in that small building.
It had plenty of rooms, more than enough for offices, especially since none of them spent all day sitting indoors anyway.
Next was the factory district.
Smelting, of course, was centered around the blast furnace, with a workshop built to house the equipment.
But now, other industries were emerging.
For example, weaving.
Originally, everyone had just been experimenting, managing to build two old-fashioned wooden spinning wheels and looms to process the harvested cotton into cloth. But as it turned out, one of the newcomers actually knew the trade. After talking with Paige Summers, they started adding treated mutant plant fibers to the cotton thread. The resulting cloth was countless times stronger than before and could even be simply dyed.
Everyone was ecstatic.
This way, the base could become self-sufficient in clothing for its members, no longer needing to scavenge for such supplies!
After the successful experiment, they naturally had to scale up production, and the small space they had been using was definitely not going to be enough.
Marcus Monroe decided to just build more spinning wheels and looms, construct a small workshop to house them, and put a dyeing room next to it.
Besides this, there was also Artifact Making.
This was the top priority.
If they ran out of clothes, they could still buy more, but weapons were another story.
Besides, no one could match Paige Summers’s skill.
Although she was pregnant and couldn’t craft them herself, some of her apprentices were getting the hang of it. They couldn’t make complex items, but simple ones were no problem. Paige Summers didn’t need to lift a finger; verbal guidance was enough.
Of course, the base had enough weapons for its own use at the moment; they were mainly being made for sale.
So, Marcus Monroe decided to build another workshop and assign more people to it. However, he wouldn’t have Paige Summers do the teaching; her senior apprentice would take over for now.
In addition to these, a food processing plant also needed to be built.
This was Paige Summers’s suggestion.
She had been thinking about this for a while.
Besides growing grains in her space, she also grew a lot of vegetables.
Unlike grains, vegetables weren’t easy to store and would rot over time. Rather than letting them take up space, it would be better to make them into pickles, which were also convenient to eat.
Besides, they were close to the sea in the south, so there was no shortage of salt.
Once made into pickles, the surplus could be sold, and they could fetch a good price.
’Very profitable!’
Marcus Monroe thought it made a lot of sense.
He was beginning to assess the new Superpower Users and found that far too many of them were low-level.
In fact, many of them had a lot of potential, with excellent superpowers. Their progress had stalled simply because they lacked Crystal Cores and found it difficult to Promote.
To train these people, Crystal Cores were indispensable.
They could do more than just make pickles. They had beans, so they could also brew soy sauce. Once the rapeseed and peanuts were grown, they could press them for oil, so they wouldn’t have to rely on animal fat.
Improving their food and drink was a matter of public welfare.
These factories alone would take up a lot of space. Once built, they would form a factory district of a considerable size.
Additionally, the trade district had to be built along with everything else.
This trade wasn’t just about people from other bases coming to Bloodfall to buy things; they would sometimes bring things that Bloodfall lacked. Moreover, with more people in Bloodfall, internal trading was naturally starting to happen as well.
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