Several squad leaders, along with Wendy, Lillian, and a few others, gained more from Elijah’s hands-on teaching.


    Feeling the changes in themselves and the others, they all respected Elijah even more.


    Even Ian, who was previously indifferent to everything, now looked at Elijah with a hint of approval.


    The people Elijah paid special attention to were actually those he had contracted.


    Elijah knew that after the Matthew incident, they were currently more sensitive and resistant to hypnotic suggestions, so he only applied a certain level of hypnotic suggestion to Wendy.


    He wanted to dispel these people’s doubts through practical benefits.


    Seeing the changes in everyone now, he felt that he could perhaps gradually hypnotize them to increase their loyalty.


    Elijah went to such lengths because he believed that since he had taken control of the YLK group, he should maintain a firm grip on it.


    Moreover, the group’s location was not far from thergest logistics warehouse in Neoville City.


    He could have these people clear the road to the warehouse and upy the storage base.


    This way, whether it was the YLK group or Azure Isle, they wouldn’tck food and many important supplies for the next five or even ten years.


    So, he didn’t care what these people had done in the past; as long as they weren’t a threat to him or showed remorse, he kept them around.


    He was now making every effort to stabilize people’s hearts and teach them body-strengthening techniques.


    He even nned to start nting one of Azure Isle’s most important resources, Red Fruit, here.


    During lunchtime, Wendy called over the person with nt-based abilities.


    To Elijah’s surprise, it was a woman!


    He remembered her, not because she was particrly attractive—on the contrary, she was quite ordinary-looking with amon face.


    There were only a few female awakeners in the YLK group, so it was hard not to remember them.


    She probably had a rtively better fate because of her ordinary looks and her critical ability to provide fruits and vegetables for everyone.


    Elijah had heard that the other female awakeners had also been subjected to hypnotic suggestions simr to Wendy’s by Matthew.


    The purpose was to ensure the men in the group had entertainment.


    Matthew had even prepared female zombies for them to y with, and it was mandatory.


    After Elijah lifted the hypnosis, these women actively and aggressively participated in suppressing the stubborn supporters of Matthew.


    When they attacked Matthew, they were the most active and ruthless, even castrating him—not in one go, but with one woman cutting the left side and another the right.


    Yvonne was both lucky and unlucky.


    As a girl from a small ce who came to work in the big city of Neoville, she managed to establish herself despite not being pretty, thanks to her hard work.


    Unfortunately, the zombie virus outbreak threw the world into chaos.


    She was lucky not to be infected andter encountered Matthew’s group while they were collecting supplies.


    They brought her back, providing her with good food and drink, though she didn’t know at the time that she was eating zombie meat.


    Heaven smiled on her again when she awakened her ability, gaining importance and only needing to tend to a vegetable garden to provide fresh produce for the higher-ups.


    Initially, under the influence of hypnosis, she didn’t find eating zombie meat odd.


    When the hypnosis was lifted, she felt disgusted but was d she had mostly eaten her own ripened fruits and vegetables after awakening her ability.


    Now, with a new leader and no more zombie meat, Yvonne felt good and had a premonition that she would be important.


    Sure enough, after learning body-strengthening techniques in the morning, she was called over at lunch!


    Elijah sensed her lively mental activity and smiled. Well, it’s pretty good!


    Red Fruit, being a strategic resource, had to be controlled by trusted individuals.


    Elijah contracted Yvonne and then performed some hypnotic suggestions on her before she led him to her cultivated vegetable garden.


    This garden was actually a green belt by the river that Yvonne had converted into a vegetable patch with the help of some ability users, nting various seasonal fruits and vegetables.


    There were also some off-season crops that Yvonne’s abilities had ripened.


    Elijah selected a plot of soil that had been loosened, buried a corpse core at a certain distance, then sowed the seeds of Red Fruit No. 2.


    After watering, he used his ability to elerate the growth of Red Fruit No. 2, mimicking Yvonne’s power.


    In no time, lush seedlings sprouted.


    The first-tier nt-based growth ability could only mature nts to this extent.


    Unlike spirit nts that could only be elerated once, Red Fruit No. 2 could be ripened again every one or two days, depending on the nt’s subsequent growth and absorption of the corpse core.


    Elijah exined the details of cultivating Red Fruit No. 2 to Yvonne and instructed her to keep it a secret, especially the part about needing corpse cores as nutrients.


    Upon seeing the effect of the corpse core, Yvonne immediately recalled the past practice of people eating zombie meat.


    How simr this new method was!


    Only now, it was nts instead of people, and corpse cores instead of zombie meat.


    But the principle was the same!


    So, if people ate these nts, would they have the same effect as eating zombie meat?


    Well, with the nts processing it, eating them wouldn’t be as disgusting, she thought.


    Yvonne also remembered a time when Matthew had her try to cultivate a magical nt, which she didn’t know where he had obtained it.


    That nt had even stronger effects than zombie meat; a single nt could awaken or even advance a person without any side effects or turning them into a zombie.


    Unfortunately, she never seeded in cultivating or propagating it.


    Could the nt the boss was cultivating now be that one?


    Yvonne became excited at the thought and looked at Elijah with admiration, nodding to his instructions.


    Elijah saw her thoughts but did not exin.


    After giving his instructions, he took her back to continue practicing body-strengthening techniques with the others.


    In the afternoon, everyone’s enthusiasm increased significantly.


    Many even approached Elijah on their own, addressing him as "boss" and asking for guidance. Elijah, of course, obliged.


    After another afternoon of training, some had fully mastered the techniques, while others were nearly proficient.


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    Before dinner, Elijah announced the future ns.


    He divided the group into several teams ording to the designated squad leaders from earlier.


    Theodore’s team would continue transporting supplies from therge supermarket they had previously upied. Ian’s team would continue clearing the road to the warehouse storage base.


    Hayden’s team would be responsible for the safety of the YLK group’s hotel and its surroundings.


    Finn’s team, mostly neers, would handle basic cleaning and transport tasks within the group.


    Wendy was temporarily appointed by Elijah as the head of finance for the entire group, responsible for managing and distributing all group supplies, as well as monitoring everyone.


    Being given such an important position signified Elijah’s trust in Wendy.